Xiao Fan

Biodata

Power Progression

Background / History

Childhood and the Dog King

Xiao Fan has lived two lives and was orphaned in both. In his current life, his parents died in battle when he was seven. Having experienced their affection, he grieved for a long time before recovering 12.

He began killing exotic beasts and people at thirteen and spent five years frequenting Green Leaf City’s black market. Under the identity of the Dog King, he ambushed Beast Mountain adventurers with a club and stole their beasts and storage rings to fund expensive martial arts. He also earned money hunting wanted criminals, sometimes paying more to locate them than their official bounties were worth because their rings contained additional wealth 1 5 35 49.

Despite his hidden strength, he maintained an inconspicuous school life. Exceptional martial-theory grades and Shao Yan’s assistance helped him enter the top class while he publicly presented himself as a low-stage Martial Apprentice 13.

Meeting Lin Xianhuo

Xiao Fan initially approached Lin Xianhuo because her expensive motorcycle and storage ring suggested valuable loot. Their confrontation on Beast Mountain became a joint escape when the Fire Sparrow King attacked. He carried her through the burning forest, used the beast’s blast to reach a river, and escaped underground into Green Leaf City’s sewers 1 3 4 5.

After leaving the unconscious Lin Xianhuo beside the sewer pipes, he took her storage ring and photographed her as insurance against exposure. The ring’s restriction prevented him from opening it. He nevertheless obtained enough money from a Fire Sparrow part to buy the Wind and Lightning Art 5.

Black Tiger Sect Conflict

While protecting Little Dingdong, Xiao Fan killed Black Butcher and opposed Huang Meng and Pang Hu. He used Elemental Overlap to hold them off while Lin Xianhuo escaped with the girl, then asked Shao Yan to help resolve Huang Meng’s pursuit 10 11.

The conflict escalated into a sewer ambush. Xiao Fan underestimated Pang Hu’s Divine Ape Golden Body and suffered a pierced abdomen and damaged heart, but killed him before collapsing. As his consciousness faded, a surge of green vitality enveloped him 20 21.

After Little Dingdong was badly injured, Xiao Fan massacred the pursuing sect members, killed Liu Tianguang, and attacked the Black Tiger Sect headquarters. Huang Meng surrendered the surviving fragment of Divine Ape Golden Body before falling to his death from the building. Xiao Fan escaped the surrounding Public Security Bureau officers and sought help for Dingdong 22.

Choosing the Super God Class

Xiao Fan initially refused Shao Yan’s offer to help him enter Emperor One Academy. He feared that his impossible achievements with one-star talent would attract dangerous scrutiny and did not trust powerful patrons to preserve his freedom indefinitely 7 17.

Little Dingdong’s departure for treatment changed his plans. After she asked to meet him in the Super God Class, he committed to entering it himself. He subsequently defeated Zhou Qiong and Wang Lou when they came to seize his possessions, awakening All-Round Walker during the confrontation. Chen Changsheng then revealed himself as the King Star God, who had come at He Yao’s request to assess him 23 24 29 30 31.

Fire and Flame Mystic Realm

Xiao Fan entered the Fire and Flame Mystic Realm with three objectives: help Lin Xianhuo unlock the Fire God Saber’s second stage, reach Lesser Grandmaster, and acquire a powerful flame. He gathered fire seeds, consumed enemy essence blood, and guarded Lin Xianhuo during her tempering 40 41 42 44 45.

He later helped defeat a group of foreign-race fighters and received compensation from Wang Guangyi. By the time he reached Lesser Grandmaster, the foreign races had sealed the realm and begun hunting its human entrants. Xiao Fan and Lin Xianhuo headed toward Li Qingqiu’s gathering, diverting when they heard a plea to save Old Yi 48 50.

Appearance

• Build: Slightly thin rather than broad or burly 28.
• Dog King disguise: Uses a dedicated outfit and mask to conceal his identity 1 5.
• Demon Man Transformation: Covers his body in black and produces a sinister, intimidating appearance 30 31.
• Temporary injuries: Suffers extensive burns during the Fire Sparrow King escape and treats them with medicinal ointment afterward 5.

Personality

Xiao Fan is ambitious but deliberately cautious. Rather than measuring himself against local students, he compares himself with history’s greatest geniuses. He tolerates ridicule to protect his secrets, rejects arrangements that might restrict his freedom, and generally prefers calculated risks over reckless displays 1 7 11 18.

His resourcefulness often takes an unscrupulous form: robbery, ambushes, deception, and blackmail are acceptable tools when they serve his survival or cultivation. Nevertheless, he pays for Dingdong’s grandmother’s cremation, comforts the newly orphaned girl, and becomes fiercely protective of those close to him 1 5 12 22.

Shao Yan describes him as stubborn and emotionally guarded—talkative when approached, but capable of remaining silent all day otherwise. His distress when she leaves exposes feelings he had previously kept ambiguous 17 33.

Abilities & Skills

Infinite Martial Dao Cultivation System

Automatically cultivates recorded martial arts, allowing Xiao Fan to devote much of his time to practical combat 1 2.

• Battle rewards: Difficult victories over stronger enemies can increase progress across his martial arts and award selectable manuals 21 31.
• Martial-art fusion: Combines three same-tier arts into one art a tier higher. Using three arts of the same type preserves that type in the result 25.
• Mission continuity: Fused enhancement arts retain their contribution toward talent-upgrade requirements 25.
• Reward restriction: A higher-realm opponent does not qualify automatically; Wang Lou yields no additional reward because defeating him is too easy 33.

All-Round Walker

A Venerable-tier talent earned by completing the system’s twenty-art mission 31.

• Raises his base strength sevenfold and greatly accelerates automatic martial-art cultivation 31 33.
• Provides intermediate affinity for every kind of talent, supporting development beyond physical enhancement 40.
• Its next upgrade, All-Round Great Sage, requires thirty fourth- to sixth-tier enhancement arts 31.

Physical Enhancement and Defense

Combines broad enhancement arts with transformation and defensive techniques 25 31 38.

• Demon Man Scripture: Seventh-tier transformation art that improves toughness, strength, speed, and reactions while granting penetrating power to attacks 25.
• All-Round Enhancement Five/Six: Consolidates numerous enhancement effects into a single art; advances to Six after further fusion 25 38.
• Divine Ape Golden Body: Learns an incomplete fragment of its first move. It protects him from Wang Lou’s attacks and falling rubble before being fused into All-Round Enhancement 22 31 38.
• Limit: Enhancement bonuses diminish under the laws of heaven and earth; stacking more manuals does not produce unlimited growth 31 33.

Elemental Techniques

Develops wind, lightning, and fire alongside his physical abilities 26 42.

• Elemental Overlap: Combines Lin Xianhuo’s supplied flames with his wind and lightning for explosive speed and power 10.
• Instability: Elemental Overlap threatens his meridians and internal organs with an explosive loss of stability 44.
• Divine Meridians: Introductory Volume: Fourth-tier enhancement art acquired to stabilize his meridians and potentially make Elemental Overlap more usable 44.
• Heavenly Soaring Fire: Strengthens his flame through same-element fusion and tempering 42 45 50.
• Fire Dragon Token: Uses Heavenly Soaring Fire with a forceful descending punch against two noble-blood demons 44.

Combat Awareness and Hunting

Possesses combat awareness described as SSS-rank, developed through years of frequent fighting 2.

• Uses ambushes, misdirection, terrain, and unusual combinations of inexpensive techniques and equipment 3 4 20.
• Detects killing intent with exceptional sensitivity; Slaughter Instinct warns him of a powerful nearby threat 45 49.
• Exploits demonic anatomy with One Thousand Years of Death, targeting a vulnerable point discovered while fighting Sada 41.
• Trains Lin Xianhuo and Lin Lianshen to create openings, control their powers, and fight ruthlessly rather than rely on superior talent alone 29 38.

Movement, Concealment, and Senses

Uses a wide assortment of utility arts, later consolidating many of them through fusion 1 25.

• Heaven-Ascending Earth-Entering Art: Fifth-tier movement art supporting flight, burrowing, rapid underwater movement, and bodily lightening; later panels use the name Flying and Earth Escape Technique 25 38 44.
• Turtle Breathing Technique: Supports underwater escape and suppresses breathing during ambushes 4 20.
• Divine Elegance Art: Grants a highly sensitive sense of smell for tracking 1.
• Thousand-Mile Eye: Helps him observe distant fighting 1.
• Weightlessness: Makes his body light enough to ride the force of the Fire Sparrow King’s blast 4.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Vibration Mahogany Club: Second-tier weapon worth 100,000 federation coins, used during his early Dog King activities 2.
• Stone Boots and Bone-Piercing Blade: First-tier equipment used in his confrontation with Lin Xianhuo 3.
• Golden Horn Knuckle Duster: Black Butcher’s fourth-tier weapon, used in the ambush on Pang Hu 20.
• Storage devices: Carries supplies in storage equipment and routinely loots enemies’ rings for money, manuals, and cultivation resources 1 2 25.
• Wind-Chasing Boots: Receives Lin Xianhuo’s boots during their escape from the Fire Sparrow King 4.
• Lin Xianhuo’s motorcycle: Borrows it to reach Shao Yan in Dongyang City 35.
• Ultimate Origin Force Liquid: Receives it from Lin Wugui before the mystic-realm expedition 39.

Relationships

• Lin Xianhuo — Initially a robbery target and adversary; becomes his companion, training partner, and romantic partner. She supports his search for Shao Yan despite their rivalry 1 3 29 33 35.
• Shao Yan — Teacher, first confidante to discover his Dog King identity, and romantic interest. After she leaves a farewell letter, he tracks her down and insists that they face her problems together. She later leaves for training with Yun Jinyu 7 33 35 36 38.
• Little Dingdong — A girl he protects and temporarily shelters after her grandmother’s death. Her request to reunite in the Super God Class motivates him to pursue admission 12 13 23 24.
• Lin Lianshen — Lin Xianhuo’s protective brother. Their first confrontation develops into an amicable relationship involving repeated sparring and Xiao Fan’s instruction 33 35 38.
• He Yao — Powerful elder who arranges Dingdong’s treatment and challenges Xiao Fan to stop hiding. He confronts her over Dingdong’s condition and recognizes her attempts to provoke him 23 24.
• Chen Changsheng — The King Star God; assesses Xiao Fan at He Yao’s request and intervenes in the aftermath of the Public Security Bureau confrontation 31 33.
• Wang Qingtian — Rival over Lin Xianhuo and a bearer of the Hegemon-King of Western Chu talent. Xiao Fan eventually wants him to become strong enough for a genuine contest of strength 39 45 48.
• Wang Guangyi — Apologizes for his side’s conduct and compensates Xiao Fan with royal-blood essence and the sixth-tier Vajra Five Viscera martial art 48.
• Liu Tianguang — Attempts to humiliate Xiao Fan publicly and later joins the sewer pursuit. Xiao Fan kills him after he discovers the Dog King’s identity 15 20 22.

Notable Quotes

“Only the sea of stars is our limit!” 12

“A power you can't control is a power that doesn't belong to you. Remember that!” 38