Jianxin

Biodata

Power Progression

Appearance

• Initial appearance: A handsome young man in white robes, carrying a longsword. His bearing suggests that he and his sword are inseparable 181.
• When fighting: Becomes sharply focused upon gripping a sword; during the Sword Sect assessment, his gaze is described as capable of blinding someone with insufficient cultivation 262.
• Later appearance: Has long hair and a resolute face. During his seabed cultivation, his left arm is missing and only his right arm remains; the supplied passages do not explain the loss 715.

Personality

Jianxin pursues swordsmanship with intense enthusiasm. At their first meeting, he sincerely asks Su Chen for a duel and becomes more eager to fight after discovering the enormous gap between them. Even serious injuries can intensify his determination rather than frighten him into submission 181 266 267.

His attachment to others outweighs personal advantage. He initially refuses the Light Scar Sword because his original weapon has accompanied him for eighteen years. He also defies Su Chen’s orders to save Lin Fan and later risks his body and soul to protect Bai Luo Xue 182 200 533 534.

Despite his talent, Jianxin can acknowledge defeat. He uses an ordinary sword against an assessment opponent to avoid an unfair weapon advantage, credits stronger geniuses rather than boasting, and thanks Zhou Qian’er for showing mercy after she defeats him. His humility inspires one opponent to reconsider his arrogance and gain an epiphany 262 309.

His greatest weakness is reckless persistence. He refuses to seek Su Chen’s help against a Golden Immortal beast because he believes he must resolve the trouble he has accepted. Bai Luo Xue later observes that he treats his own life as expendable and often retreats only because she can no longer continue 269 528.

History

Meeting Su Chen and Receiving an Inheritance

Jianxin grows up under the care of the Ten Thousand Swords Sect’s master and elders, eventually becoming its strongest disciple—even stronger than its elders. While exploring a secret realm, he encounters Su Chen and challenges him, only to have his opening strike caught between two fingers 181 209 214.

After becoming Su Chen’s disciple, Jianxin initially rejects the Light Scar Sword out of loyalty to his original weapon. During his subsequent duel with Lin Fan, that weapon cracks and shatters. Its final message urges him to accept a better sword and pursue his ambition. Jianxin then continues with the Light Scar Sword, eventually conceding because Lin Fan has not yet used his special physique 182 183.

Inside a scroll, a mysterious black-clad man transmits the memory of a sword strike to him. Jianxin tests it by splitting a mountain and tearing open space-time, naming the technique Formless One Sword. He and Lin Fan agree to exchange sword techniques, and Jianxin subsequently reaches the peak of the False Immortal Realm through the wooden hut’s inheritance 192 193.

From the Ten Thousand Swords Sect to the Sword Sect

Jianxin intervenes when Lin Fan faces death, despite Su Chen’s order not to help. He defeats Wang Hui and Elder Bai, but Xia Jiuyou later overwhelms him. Jianxin refuses Xia Jiuyou’s offer to spare him in exchange for the Light Scar Sword and allegiance to the Purple Mansion Holy Land, suffering a near-fatal beating 200 201 202.

He later brings Su Chen to the Ten Thousand Swords Sect and introduces him as his master. When Tang Yan recruits him for the Sword Sect, Jianxin thanks the sect master and elders for raising him and promises never to forget them 209 210 214.

At the Sword Sect assessment, Jianxin defeats a True Immortal Realm Ninth Stage Peak woman and a Heavenly Immortal youth. His subsequent trials include protecting Wang Teng from a Golden Immortal beast and practicing on Star Spirit Peak after Su Chen becomes a Sword Sect elder 262 269 274 285.

Cross-Realm Battles and a Lesson in Humility

Jianxin kills He Qingfeng after the latter openly admits intending to kill him. His growing strength also draws hostile attention from the Setting Sun Sect, whose leaders fear what he may become 291 302.

At the Profound Immortal Realm Third Stage, he fights a Golden Immortal Realm Fifth Stage elder associated with the Fire God Sect. Jianxin burns his body to unleash a thousandfold Return to One. Although the clash destroys his physical body, he burns his remaining soul and kills the wounded elder 302 303.

Su Chen later arranges a duel with Zhou Qian’er to curb Jianxin’s growing confidence. Even after two breakthroughs, Jianxin loses and accepts responsibility for his own shortcomings. Further battles reinforce his limits: Xu Yuan leaves him unconscious and dying, while Immortal Saint opponents overwhelm him despite his ability to threaten much stronger cultivators 308 309 318 319 320 335.

Barbarian Continent Trials

After Bai Luoyao draws him into conflict with the Barbarian Clan, Jianxin fights its experts and receives a spatial ring from her as compensation. Against an Immortal Saint Barbarian, he burns his body and soul, temporarily reaching the Immortal Lord Realm Sixth Stage and nearly landing a decisive strike before an outside force stops him 363 364 365 366.

Su Chen then orders the Barbarian Continent’s factions to hunt Jianxin as training. He explains that constant reliance on protection would blunt Jianxin’s potential and prevent him from surpassing his master. Jianxin promises to face future crises without calling for help 372.

By the later trials, Jianxin travels with Bai Luo Xue and has reached Immortal Saint Realm Ninth Level Peak. Their relationship becomes intimate, and he burns his body and soul to protect her against Chu Yu and hundreds of golden-armored Immortal Venerable experts 528 533 534.

Seabed Cultivation and the Genius Battle

Jianxin later cultivates beneath the sea and battles fierce beasts, appearing with his left arm missing. An inheritance subsequently confines him inside a hall until he comprehends a stone stele. His desire to return to Bai Luo Xue drives him to resist the confinement and eventually break out 715 771 790.

Fearing she has married someone else, he forces his way into the Bai Household and battles its Immortal Sovereign elders. He deliberately spares them because killing her relatives would hurt her. Bai Zhenyue reveals that Bai Luo Xue has waited decades for him and is cultivating at Yingtian Academy. Learning that Su Chen has secretly helped him also leaves Jianxin remorseful 790 791 792.

During the Genius Battle, Jianxin fights Shen Chuzhao and later battles Lin Fan to a standstill before conceding first. A subsequent enlightenment significantly strengthens his Sword Dao 797 798 803 805.

God Realm and the Destruction of His Sect

During the later conflict, Jianxin and Lin Fan jointly resist a fish-headed Transcendence expert. After entering the God Realm, Jianxin is forcibly accepted as a disciple by the Sword God, a patriarch of the Heavenly Evolution Sword Sect. A hundred years later, he defeats every contemporary prodigy who challenges him 822 832.

When the Heavenly Evolution Sword Sect is destroyed, the Sword God forces Jianxin to escape, insisting that survival gives him a chance to avenge the sect. The Nether Ghost Hall, Imperial Court, and Heavenly Ruins Sword Pavilion continue hunting him because they fear his future strength 920.

Jianxin burns his body and soul while fleeing their experts, killing several pursuers before reaching his limit. Lin Fan arrives just before the killing blow and stabilizes him with a healing pill 921 922.

The three factions later place a bounty on Jianxin and Lin Fan. After another twenty years, Jianxin learns that the Heavenly Pivot Academy’s Saintess has destroyed all three. Although their destruction removes his enemies, he regrets losing the opportunity to avenge the Sword God and his sect personally 938 946.

Abilities & Skills

Sword Intent and Sword Qi

Jianxin can project vast quantities of Sword Intent and wield Sword Qi without drawing a weapon 181 262.

• Forms an enormous sword of intent during his first duel with Su Chen 181.
• Defeats an assessment challenger with a two-finger sword gesture 262.
• Creates a defensive Sword Qi barrier and precisely deflects Chu Yu’s incoming blades 532.
• Reaches a state of unity with the Light Scar Sword while attacking a God Realm enemy 822.

Formless One Sword

A technique learned from the black-clad man’s transmitted memories and named by Jianxin himself 192.

• Splits a mountain and tears open space-time in its first test 192.
• Can be condensed sevenfold for a stronger attack 364.
• Remains limited by Jianxin’s strength: both Su Chen and Zhou Qian’er break it directly 266 308.

Return to One

One of Jianxin’s principal techniques for fighting opponents above his cultivation realm 202 302.

• Unleashes a thousand sword swings within an apparently single, ordinary stroke; this is his limit during the Fire God Sect elder battle 303.
• Later reaches fourteen hundred swings against Xu Yuan 319.
• Cannot automatically overcome major realm gaps: Xia Jiuyou and Xu Yuan shatter the attack 202 320.

Burning Body and Soul

Jianxin sacrifices his body, soul, or life force to obtain explosive increases in power and speed 303 365 921.

• Temporarily raises his cultivation to Immortal Lord Realm Sixth Stage and, in a later battle, Immortal Venerable Realm Fifth Stage Peak 365 533.
• Continues attacking as a soul after losing his physical body 303.
• Carries extreme costs: the borrowed strength fades, his life force drains, and he can be left unable to resist further attacks 534 921 922.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Original longsword — Accompanies him for eighteen years. It shatters during his duel with Lin Fan, leaving a final message encouraging him to accept a stronger weapon 182 183.
• Light Scar Sword — A gradeless sword gifted by Su Chen. It becomes Jianxin’s main weapon and saves his life when he uses it to block Xia Jiuyou’s attack 182 183 202.
• Ordinary longsword — Used during the Sword Sect assessment because Jianxin considers the Light Scar Sword an unfair advantage against his opponent 262.
• Spatial ring — Given by Bai Luoyao as compensation; contains resources and treasures worth over ten times everything Jianxin previously possessed 364.
• Sword Intent scroll — A first-meeting gift from Qin Zixuan, obtained from ruins. Opening it can assist him in battle 794.

Relationships

• Su Chen — Master and the standard Jianxin hopes to surpass. Combines gifts and guidance with dangerous trials designed to make him independent 182 343 372.
• Lin Fan — Senior martial brother, trusted ally, and friendly rival. Jianxin defies orders to save him; Lin Fan later returns the favor during the three factions’ pursuit 200 803 822 922.
• Sword God — God Realm master and Heavenly Evolution Sword Sect patriarch. Forces Jianxin to survive the sect’s destruction so that he can eventually avenge it 832 920.
• Bai Luo Xue — Lover and traveling companion. Refuses to abandon him during the Barbarian Continent trials and waits decades while he is trapped pursuing an inheritance 528 533 534 792.
• Bai Luoyao — Companion in the earlier Barbarian Clan conflict. Carries the injured Jianxin while fleeing and compensates him for involving him in danger 364.
• Li Boshan and the Ten Thousand Swords Sect elders — Raise and nurture him. Jianxin leaves with gratitude and promises to remember their kindness 214.
• Wang Teng — Fellow participant whom Jianxin protects from a Golden Immortal beast after Wang Teng eats its egg 269.
• Zhou Qian’er — Sparring opponent chosen by Su Chen to humble him. Jianxin accepts her superior strength and thanks her for showing mercy 308 309.
• Bai Zhenyue — Bai Luo Xue’s father. Appreciates Jianxin sparing the Bai Household’s grand elder and expresses confidence in his daughter’s future with him 791 792.
• Ye Lingxi — Su Chen’s younger sister, whom Jianxin addresses as his junior martial aunt. Explains the Genius Battle’s rules to him 798.

Notable Quotes

“As long as a sword is in my hand, even if its grade is very low, I can still make it the most powerful sword! I’ll take this sword with me and become the strongest sword cultivator in the world!” 182

“As for my injuries, I can only blame my own lack of strength and skill.” 309

“But I wanted to take revenge with my own strength.” 946