Dai Hao

Biodata

Background / History

Military Service and Household Neglect

Dai Hao served on the Star Luo Empire’s border, spending long periods away from the Duke’s Mansion. Among his sons, he primarily paid attention to Dai Yueheng. He regarded Huo Yun’er as a lowly servant and her twins, Dai Lingfeng and Huo Yuhao, as illegitimate sons unfit for public recognition 7 8.

After discovering Dai Lingfeng’s extraordinary talent and the abuse he had suffered, the White Tiger patriarch held Dai Hao responsible for failing to manage his household. Clan elders forcibly retrieved him from his military camp 3 7.

Recognition of Dai Lingfeng

Upon returning, Dai Hao was ordered to kneel before the patriarch. He failed to recognize Dai Lingfeng, even guessing that the boy was Dai Luoli. The patriarch slapped him and revealed that Lingfeng had awakened the White Tiger and Hell Spirit Cat as Twin Martial Souls 7.

Dai Hao immediately attempted to repair their relationship, blaming his neglect on his duty to defend the country. He accepted the patriarch’s declaration that only Lingfeng could inherit the White Tiger Duke title. He also proposed elevating Huo Yun’er’s position, but his enthusiasm for Huo Yuhao vanished when he learned that Yuhao possessed only rank-one Innate Soul Power and had not awakened the White Tiger 8.

At the patriarch’s direction, Dai Hao obtained defensive and flying Soul Tools for Lingfeng. Although initially excluded from knowledge of the divine inheritance, he later learned that his son was undergoing a Divine Examination and rejoiced at his prospects of becoming a god 8 9 16.

Intervention at the Duke’s Mansion

Dai Hao returned to find Dai Huabin and his guards attacking Huo Yuhao and Huo Yun’er. He ordered the assault stopped; the patriarch killed the guards, and Dai Hao slapped Huabin and forced him to apologize to Lingfeng, Yun’er, and Yuhao 9 10.

His intervention did not become lasting support for Yun’er or Yuhao. After observing Lingfeng’s apparent rejection of them, Dai Hao joined in scolding Yuhao and departed with his favored son 10 11.

Dai Hao subsequently dragged the duchess before Lingfeng and beat her until she apologized for her abuse. To discourage further retaliation, he hinted that Lingfeng’s primary Martial Soul was the Hell Spirit Cat, allowing her to infer that he also possessed the White Tiger 12 13.

Political Ambitions and Imperial Marriage

Learning that Lingfeng could independently perform Hell White Tiger revived Dai Hao’s ambition to reclaim the Star Luo throne for the White Tiger Lineage. Nevertheless, he worried that publicizing such talent would attract enemies, including rival families and the Sun Moon Empire. He accepted the patriarch’s publicity plan after receiving assurances of protection 14.

Dai Hao helped organize a banquet to establish Lingfeng’s reputation and suggested inviting Shrek Academy’s leaders, along with Dai Yueheng’s teachers and friends. He also intended to seek additional protection from Shrek and the imperial family 16.

During his audience with Emperor Xu Jiawei, Dai Hao presented Lingfeng as another son born to his wife who had been raised within the clan because of poor health. He disclosed Lingfeng’s Twin Martial Souls and Self Martial Soul Fusion Skill, requested Princess Xu Jiujiu’s hand for him, and repeatedly asked to resign as marshal. Xu Jiawei approved both the marriage proposal and his retirement 17.

The emperor then offered the imperial palace as the venue for an engagement celebration, giving Lingfeng public imperial backing 18.

Engagement Banquet Scandal

Dai Hao helped oversee the palace preparations, but again failed to recognize Huo Yuhao when the boy interrupted the ceremony. After Yuhao identified himself as Dai Hao’s son and Lingfeng’s twin brother, Dai Hao became furious at his disruption and public assertion of their family ties 30 34 35.

Yuhao’s accusation that Lingfeng had caused Huo Yun’er’s death threw the family into crisis. Dai Hao crushed his chair’s armrest in anger and despaired when Lingfeng accepted responsibility publicly. His attention later shifted to Lingfeng’s sudden cultivation breakthrough, which he praised while dismissing Yuhao’s challenge 35 36 38.

The Duchess’s Murder and Attempted Reconciliation

When Dai Huabin murdered the duchess and fled with treasures from the mansion, Dai Hao personally led the pursuit, accompanied by Dai Yueheng. He demanded that Huabin be captured and executed before the ancestral tablets. The killing threatened a continent-wide scandal because the victim was the duke’s legitimate wife 66.

After Huo Yuhao’s Twin Martial Souls and Ultimate Ice became known, Dai Hao sought his return to the clan. Dai Yueheng conveyed his offer of compensation, but Lingfeng opposed assistance to Yuhao before their ten-year pact was settled. Yuhao rejected the invitation and insisted that his surname was Huo, not Dai 74 75.

Conflict over Shrek Academy

Dai Hao was alarmed when Lingfeng withdrew from Shrek Academy and publicly mocked it. A Shrek graduate himself, he viewed the academy as both a longstanding institution for White Tiger Dukes and a strategic pillar against the Sun Moon Empire 82.

He waited with Xu Jiawei for an explanation and confronted Lingfeng over the danger his actions posed to the three kingdoms. Lingfeng answered that he could oppose the Sun Moon Empire himself 82.

Appearance

• Build and bearing: Tall and imposing, particularly in contrast with the worn-down Huo Yun’er 10.

Personality

Dai Hao’s affection is strongly tied to perceived talent and usefulness. The narration describes him as viewing his sons more as investments than objects of affection. His discovery of Lingfeng’s potential prompted immediate favoritism, while learning of Yuhao’s rank-one Innate Soul Power led him to dismiss the boy as unworthy 8.

He invokes military duty to explain his absence, but his attempts at reconciliation also serve to secure Lingfeng’s favor. He readily punishes the duchess and Huabin to distance himself from their abuse, yet joins Lingfeng’s apparent rejection of Yun’er and Yuhao rather than protecting them independently 8 10 11 12.

His political ambition coexists with caution. Lingfeng’s potential renews his interest in the Dai family’s former throne, but he recognizes the risks of exposing a vulnerable genius. His later opposition to Lingfeng’s break with Shrek reflects his concern over the empire’s existing military and political balance 14 82.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

Soul Tools Supplied to Dai Lingfeng

• King’s Shield — Level 7 Defensive Soul Tool: Activates automatically and can withstand a full-strength strike from a Soul Saint. It can be charged in advance without consuming Lingfeng’s Soul Power during use 9.
• Wind-Gathering Wings — Level 2 Flying Soul Tool: Provides the speed of a level-29 flight-type Soul Grandmaster. Dai Hao warns that Lingfeng must practice to avoid crashing 9.

Relationships

• Dai Lingfeng — Son and designated successor. Dai Hao shifts from neglect to intensive support after discovering his Twin Martial Souls; Lingfeng privately distrusts his attempts to win affection 7 8 9 11.
• Huo Yuhao — Neglected son and Lingfeng’s younger twin. Dai Hao rejects his public claim to the family at the engagement banquet, then later seeks his return after his exceptional abilities emerge 35 74 75.
• Huo Yun’er — Mother of Lingfeng and Yuhao. Her longing for Dai Hao is not reciprocated with comparable affection; he responds to their reunion with little warmth 8 10 11.
• The duchess — Legal wife from the Zhu Family. Dai Hao violently forces her apology to Lingfeng, but also warns her against provoking him further. Her murder leads him to pursue Huabin personally 3 12 66.
• Dai Yueheng — Eldest son and initially the son who received most of his attention. Yueheng joins the pursuit of Huabin and later conveys Dai Hao’s reconciliation offer to Yuhao 8 66 75.
• Dai Huabin — Son whom he punishes for attacking Yun’er and Yuhao. After Huabin murders the duchess, Dai Hao demands his execution 10 66.
• White Tiger patriarch — Clan authority who reprimands Dai Hao for household neglect and directs his support of Lingfeng 3 7 8.
• Xu Jiawei — Emperor and political associate. Their families become connected through Lingfeng’s engagement to Xu Jiujiu; they later jointly question Lingfeng’s actions against Shrek 17 18 82.

Trivia

• Dai Hao and Dai Yueheng both failed to earn recognition from the clan’s inherited seventy-thousand-year White-Eyed Demon Tiger King Right Arm Soul Bone. It subsequently accepted Dai Lingfeng 3.