Xu Xiao

Biodata

Power Progression

Background and History

Scavenger and First World Crossing

Xu Xiao survives seven years after the apocalypse as a scavenger outside Vanguard City. Ordinary people without abilities occupy the bottom of his world’s hierarchy, giving him a powerful incentive to obtain supernatural strength. A USB drive found while scavenging awakens the Heavens World-Crossing Gate 1.

His first destination is Chronicle, where he has thirty days to gather enough energy to return before the world rejects him. He steals a Chevrolet and supplies from two strangers, identifies the story’s starting point, and seeks the Superpower Crystal before its original recipients can obtain it. Absorbing it alone awakens his Telekinesis 1 3 4 6.

Taking Control of Great Song

In the Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils world, Xu Xiao initially lacks even basic knowledge of meridians, acupoints, and traditional martial texts. Duan Yu helps him overcome these deficiencies. Xu Xiao subsequently trades permission for the Duan Clan to practice the Northern Darkness Divine Art for access to martial artists whose Internal Energy he can absorb 13 20.

He forcibly takes A Zhu and Wang Yuyan, brings A Bi into his household, and invades the Great Song imperial palace. After overwhelming its defenders, he compels Zhao Xu to cooperate and receives the office of Military Command Commissioner, placing him above the Three Offices and Six Ministries with command over the empire’s troops 26 28 30 34 40 41.

Xu Xiao defeats the army besieging the palace, recruits Qiao Feng, suppresses Shaolin, and destroys foreign royal houses. His victories make him a popular hero among Great Song’s Han population, while his military supremacy allows him to extend his reforms into government. By his grand wedding, Zhao Xu has moved out of the imperial palace and Xu Xiao openly wears black imperial ceremonial robes 48 59 75 83 86.

Entering the Dao and Developing Telekinesis

Xu Xiao uses Wang Yuyan’s reunion with Wuyazi to obtain guidance from the Carefree Sect’s elders. Their instruction helps him correct his neglected martial foundations and complete Carefree Wind Riding’s Innate breakthrough 64 65 85 86 99.

Returning to Vanguard City, he discovers that crystal cores contain Spiritual Qi usable for cultivation. In the Return of the Condor Heroes world, he gains Li Mochou’s affection, investigates the Ancient Tomb’s hidden martial inheritance, and unleashes a battlefield-scale wind attack. However, the attack consumes all his Spiritual Power, and his cultivation lacks a clear route beyond Innate 87 95 99 103.

This limitation pushes him toward systematic research. He studies microscopic Telekinesis, consults Doctor Otto about nuclear reactions, and recognizes that knowledge—not merely treasures and conquered characters—is a major resource of every world 111 112 113.

World Will, Konoha, and Godhood

In the Great Tang Twin Dragons world, investigating the He Shi Bi awakens the World Will. Xu Xiao deliberately tests it, survives its lightning by retreating beneath the sea, and discovers that surrounding Spiritual Qi refuses to enter his body 152 153.

After forming his Golden Core, he takes control of Konoha through its major clans and Root’s redistributed personnel. He replaces Danzo’s consciousness with a fragment of his own, then kills Naruto when Naruto attacks him to avenge the Third Hokage. Killing the protagonist draws the World Will’s attention 173 184.

Xu Xiao subsequently extracts the Seven-Tails from Fū, destroys Kumogakure, and brings Orochimaru to confront Akatsuki. Consuming a Chakra Fruit and awakening the Golden Pupil give him new means of integrating different powers and pursuing World Authority 195 209 210.

In the Cabin in the Woods world, he distributes power-bearing Seeds of Desire before reclaiming the bestowed strength and consuming the surviving Ancient Gods’ essence. With the world emptied of living creatures, he absorbs its World Authority and creates the divine avatar Xu Xuanpin. Xu Xiao is later explicitly described as having attained godhood 221 237 238.

Multiversal Expansion

Xu Xiao’s expanding activities bring him into direct conflict with Galactus, whose full energy form reaches the size of a medium-sized star. Xu Xiao answers by producing a near-identical figure to continue the battle; the supplied account does not establish the outcome 260.

He also experiments with independently traveling clones and discovers that the World-Crossing Gate has developed the ability to transport living beings. Later, Nüwa catches him stealing the Fire Qilin, prevents his escape, and grants him insights that shape his intended route toward Daluo: establish his presence across vast universes, strengthen his true body, and develop his separate powers into higher paths that can be united 278 321 335.

Heavenly Court and the Journey West

Xu Xiao’s inheritance from Guangchengzi brings him under the protection of the Three Pure Ones’ lineage. Zhenwu guides his cultivation, while Grand Master Xuandu recruits him as a variable in the approaching Journey to the West Calamity. Xu Xiao negotiates clear duties, protection from powerful opponents, and exemption from Tianpeng’s reincarnation into a pig 359 361.

After becoming a Heavenly Immortal, he receives a Heavenly Court register, divine seal, and duties patrolling the Three Realms for variables. His interference with the Western Sect makes Guanyin an enemy, but also earns him support within the Daoist faction 366 371 380.

Xu Xiao later attains Golden Immortal in Tushita Palace. He travels through other worlds with Wukong, seeks to make Martial Dao broadly accessible on Dragon Ball’s Earth, and develops Arcane magic through a true-spirit reincarnation in Runeterra. In the latter world, he negotiates with Noxus and searches Ionia’s Spirit Realm for Wukong 405 411 414 431 433 445.

During the scripture journey, Xu Xiao alters Xuanzang’s fate and restores his Buddha heart. His escalating conflict with the Western Sect culminates in a variable-powered rise to Daluo and the slaying of Lingji. At Spirit Mountain, Zhunti severely damages his Dao foundation; Xu Xiao survives by burning Small Chiliocosms before the Jade Purity Primordial Heavenly Venerable intervenes on behalf of his grand-disciple 470 488 491 494.

Appearance

• Initial appearance: Lean, grime-covered, and dressed in dirty, tattered clothing consistent with his life as a scavenger 1.
• Early facial features: Described as ugly or fierce enough to frighten Zhong Ling. Duan Yu learns to avoid drawing attention to his face 15 38.
• Golden Pupil: Possesses a golden vertical third eye that can be opened and closed 210.
• Ceremonial clothing: Wears black imperial robes for his Great Song wedding; later receives an azure Daoist robe from Zhenwu 86 358.
• After Golden Immortal: Appears outwardly ordinary in a white feather robe. His concealment makes his face difficult to retain in memory 405.
• Runeterra incarnation: Bears luminous magic patterns used to channel Arcane Energy 424 427.

Personality

Xu Xiao is a self-interested survivor who treats strength as the foundation of freedom. His early caution reflects years in the apocalypse: he deliberately calms himself before approaching the Superpower Crystal, but responds to provocation with lethal retaliation 3 4.

His treatment of others is sharply unequal. He acknowledges a basic moral obligation toward acquaintances such as Duan Yu, yet readily kills strangers, manipulates followers, and uses threats against families to force submission. His pursuit of women includes abduction and sexual coercion; the narrative explicitly distinguishes his possessiveness from love 18 27 28 55 142.

He is practical rather than uniformly reckless. He changes recruitment plans when a more useful subordinate becomes available, avoids emotional attachment to the politically expendable Zhao Xu, and immediately adopts a respectful manner when Nüwa demonstrates overwhelming superiority 46 60 321.

His outlook broadens as his power grows. He comes to regret neglecting scientific and philosophical knowledge, begins studying the principles behind his abilities, and accepts the need for a principal cultivation path. His children remain among his few tender attachments, motivating him to improve the bloodline they inherit 113 238 277 359.

Abilities and Skills

Telekinesis

Xu Xiao’s original combat ability is an invisible extension of mental power awakened through the Superpower Crystal 6.

• Object manipulation: Controls weapons, redirects arrows, restrains enemies, and lifts large structures 18 35 48 87.
• Flight: Propels himself and carries passengers; crosses hundreds of kilometers in an hour during the Western Xia campaign 29 80.
• Direct killing: Can crush heads or snap necks within range without relying on external weapons 87.
• Microscopic applications: Penetrates bodies, interferes with neural signals, creates lightning, and accelerates tungsten-alloy projectiles 111 112.
• Limits: Initially constrained by sight, force, and mental expenditure. Nuclear explosions remain a research goal rather than a demonstrated technique 36 111 112.

Divine Sense and Mental Techniques

Divine Sense removes the visual blind spots that initially restrict his Telekinesis 86 111.

• Perceives targets behind him, underground, and inside bodies 86 90 111.
• Improves memory, thought speed, and observation down to microscopic particles 113.
• Enables brief control of ordinary minds and emotional interference against weaker subjects 95 112.
• Supports consciousness replacement, demonstrated by erasing Danzo’s mind and installing a fragment of his own 184.
• Sound-based mental interference is less effective against strong minds or targets protected by internal energy 111.

Martial Arts and Immortal Cultivation

Xu Xiao combines Carefree Sect martial arts with Guangchengzi’s cultivation inheritance 99 170.

• Northern Darkness Divine Art: Absorbs and refines others’ Internal Energy 58.
• Carefree Wind Riding: Provides his route from martial cultivation into the Dao and initially allows wind manipulation through resonance 85 86 172.
• Life and Death Talisman: Uses a Spiritual Power version to impose control on multiple targets precisely 96.
• Mount Tian Six Yang Palms: Forms part of the refined Carefree Sect repertoire he learns under the Three Elders 99.
• Air Shield: Combines spiritual power and wind-based principles for defense 152 186.
• Cultivation distinction: His combined combat strength can greatly exceed what his immortal realm alone suggests 211 356.

Golden Pupil of Myriad Phenomena

The Golden Pupil supplies direct observation and analysis of powers, world laws, desires, and faith 210.

• Converts his existing energy into forms whose essential principles he has mastered, including Magic Power, Chakra, Telekinesis, and pure spiritual power 210.
• Supports research into unfamiliar forces and the integration of different power systems 210 211.
• Makes desire and faith directly perceptible rather than subjects of inference alone 210.
• Cannot penetrate the deeper nature of the Heavens World-Crossing Gate 210.

Dao of Desire and Avatars

Xu Xiao uses the Dao of Desire to influence others and connect their spiritual activity to his own power 209 210.

• Seeds of Desire: Carry powers to recipients and provide a means of controlling them 221 285.
• Power reclamation: Recovers strength previously bestowed through his seeds 237.
• Xu Xuanpin: An Innate divine avatar created from thirteen Ancient Gods’ essence and animated by part of Xu Xiao’s true spirit 237.
• Divine-blood clones: Can create bodies using divine blood and a sliver of true-spirit origin 278.
• Travel restriction: Bodies sharing the same essence initially pass through the Gate together; independent travel requires slight differences between them 278.

Space and World Authority

Xu Xiao develops spatial power through studying the World-Crossing Gate and uses World Authority as a further source of strength 210 354.

• Opens spatial rifts and uses marked coordinates or spatial seals 195 321.
• Absorbs a world’s authority through the Gate, as demonstrated in the emptied Cabin in the Woods world 237.
• Can temporarily employ World Power through the Gate, but Nüwa identifies his broader power development as incomplete 335.
• Stronger beings can interfere with his spatial coordinates, as Nüwa demonstrates 321.

Cause, Effect, and Variables

Changing established destinies produces Power of Variables that supports his Dao and cultivation 364 401.

• Reversal: Silently dispels Wang Lingguan’s Samadhi True Fire through the Dao of Reversing Cause and Effect 369.
• Concealment: Hides his karma and prevents divination without his consent after attaining Golden Immortal 405.
• Fate alteration: Uses the Tribulation Cause Sword to restructure Xuanzang’s fate and restore his Buddha heart 470.
• Combat empowerment: Raises his cultivation through Taiyi to Daluo with Variables Empower the Body—Reverse Effect into Cause 488.
• Limits: Before that elevation, he judges that his Golden Immortal cultivation permits only one chance to injure Daluo-level Guanyin 474.

Arcane Magic and Alchemy

In Runeterra, Xu Xiao reconstructs its magic system through patterns carved with mental power 424 429.

• Simultaneously controls wind, earth, and water spells with precise targeting 427.
• Draws nearby magic through his markings to replenish spent Arcane power 454.
• Enters the Spirit Realm physically and uses spiritual perception for rapid movement within it 445.
• Brews an alchemical potion intended to grant strength beyond that of an ordinary person 433.
• Requires further study of Runeterra’s distinct powers to complete his magic runes 431.

Equipment and Items

• Heavens World-Crossing Gate — His primary treasure, awakened after finding a USB drive. Initially transports only him and requires energy; later transports living beings, briefly manifests physically, and can admit other things if sufficiently powered 1 46 278.
• Tribulation Cause Sword — Acquired Numinous Treasure supported by Ziwei, Zhenwu, and Laojun. Amplifies his power over cause and effect and his Power of Variables 381.
• Crystal cores — Portable sources of Spiritual Qi used to nourish cultivation and bodily transformation 87 125.
• NZT-49 — Assists rapid memorization and analysis of martial texts 138 142.
• Star God Guide — Gift from Great Emperor Ziwei that lets him sense the stars and contact its giver 369.
• Azure Daoist robe — Water- and fire-resistant feathered robe bestowed by Zhenwu and woven by the Heavenly Court’s weaving maidens 358.
• War God Temple Grotto-Heaven — Domain intended for reconstruction into a divine kingdom; his Divine Kingdom of Desire later houses the stolen Fire Qilin 238 321.

Relationships

Family and Companions

• A Zhu — Woman he sexually coerces and subsequently keeps as a companion. He reveals her parentage and expects obedience rather than an equal partnership 26 28 55.
• A Bi — Companion brought into his household alongside A Zhu and Wang Yuyan; formerly attached to Murong Fu’s household 29 55 60.
• Wang Yuyan — Forcibly taken from Mantuo Manor; later explicitly introduces him to Wuyazi as her husband 30 66.
• Li Mochou — Romantic companion who asks him to remain in her world. He promises to return and seek a way to bring her with him 95 101.
• Xiaolongnü — Becomes the target of his possessive interest when they meet at the Ancient Tomb; later shares Li Mochou’s distress over his departure 99 101.
• Li Xiuning and Fu Junzhuo — Women he pressures into submission by threatening the Li family and invoking Goryeo’s possible destruction 135 138 141 142.
• Xu Tianci — Son who inherits an Innate Pure Body and the ability to materialize mental constructs 277.
• Sun Wukong — Companion and younger-brother figure who guards his breakthroughs. Xu Xiao deliberately deepens their bonds across worlds to secure Wukong’s allegiance against the Western Sect 401 411 460.

Teachers, Allies, and Subordinates

• Duan Yu — Martial instructor in all but name. Xu Xiao repays his help by rescuing Duan Zhengchun and refusing to kill Duan Yanqing at Duan Yu’s request 13 18.
• Wuyazi and the Three Elders of Carefree — Teachers who help him understand martial principles and repair gaps in his training 64 65 85 99.
• Zhao Xu — Puppet emperor and political partner. Xu Xiao protects him while deliberately avoiding a deeper familial bond 40 43 46.
• Qiao Feng — Recruited subordinate whose family history Xu Xiao reveals and whose service he secures through promises of justice and political integration 53 59 60.
• Orochimaru — Research collaborator interested in powers such as Itachi’s eyes; later participates in work on replicating the Ten-Tails 195 354.
• Nüwa — Superior being who catches his theft, spares him, and provides guidance on his future cultivation 321 335.
• Zhenwu — Senior Daoist brother, teacher, and Heavenly Court sponsor; later comes to retrieve him from Spirit Mountain 359 369 494.
• Grand Master Xuandu — Martial uncle who recruits him for the journey west and negotiates the conditions of his participation 359 361.
• Jade Purity Primordial Heavenly Venerable — Recognizes Xu Xiao as his grand-disciple and intervenes when Zhunti attacks him 494.

Enemies

• Murong Fu — Rival Xu Xiao resents for his importance to A Zhu, A Bi, and Wang Yuyan; becomes expendable once Qiao Feng agrees to serve 60.
• Guanyin and the Western Sect — Principal opponents during the Journey to the West conflict. Xu Xiao obstructs their plans, battles Guanyin, and kills Lingji 371 405 474 491.
• Zhunti — Attacks Xu Xiao at Spirit Mountain, forcing him to burn Small Chiliocosms to survive and leaving his Dao foundation damaged 494.

Notable Quotes

“Whether it's martial arts or technology, they're all applications of accumulated knowledge. I really have been too shortsighted.” 113

“So, it's better to rely on myself than on others. I need to forge the road ahead with my own hands.” 335

“Yes, I succeeded. I'm finally qualified to contend with the Western Sect in the future.” 405