Xing Yao

Biodata

Power Progression

• Copying a Second Tier clone’s abilities did not establish a personal Second Tier breakthrough: Clones No. 1–4 subsequently stood ahead of Xing Yao in cultivation 43 44.

Background and History

Missing Family

Xing Yao’s parents disappeared, followed later by his older brother. Before leaving, his brother asked him to play hide-and-seek one last time; when Xing Yao finished counting, his brother was gone. A family photograph became a focus of his determination to find them 17.

His brother had left to take Abyss Suppression Academy’s entrance examination. Xing Yao consequently aimed to enter Azure Dragon Academy and use it as a route toward the otherwise elusive Abyss Suppression Academy, his only substantial lead on his family 2 16.

Founding the Playing Card Organization

Seven days before the college entrance trial, Xing Yao lived in a sparsely furnished home in an old residential complex on Qingning City’s outskirts. Researchers investigating his supposed Omnipotent Talent had nearly discovered Clone No. 1, reinforcing his decision to conceal his true powers 1.

He and No. 1 devised aggravating pranks to generate Resentment Points. To disguise the clones and organize future groups, Xing Yao created numbered playing-card masks and formally founded the Playing Card Organization 2.

The resulting resentment financed new clones, talent awakenings, and rapid cultivation gains. Xing Yao established rules requiring concealment, training, resentment collection, and avoidance of unnecessary attention 5 6.

Card Business

Xing Yao and his clones developed disposable ability cards powered by resentment. Their useful effects came with deliberately troublesome punishments, allowing sales to produce both money and further Resentment Points 8 9 12.

His first public sale became a rush after a customer demonstrated using the cards to defeat a Tier Two monster. Xing Yao sold all 64 sets and earned 64,000 Huayuan net, then delegated sales and investigation duties to the clones 12.

He subsequently arranged both public and black-market sales and discovered that completed cards could be duplicated cheaply. The proceeds eventually allowed the group to move into a suburban villa 13 14 16.

College Entrance Trial

The announcement of a nationwide livestream forced Xing Yao to abandon plans to rely openly on his clones. He prepared personal combat skills instead, then revealed his First Tier aura to his astonished classmates on examination day 16 18.

Inside the realm, he built a commanding points lead with his black spear. During the hidden-boss battle, he remained invisible, recovered before engaging, and attacked weak points through spatial movement. He dealt 35% of the damage to the first boss, exceeding Lin Chen’s 18% and Lin Yue’s 15% 21 23 24.

After defeating the Gloomy Black Shadow Demon, he killed a Dark-Patterned Shadow Leopard through combined spatial and dark powers. His performance attracted public admiration—and enemies who arranged to kill him outside the exit 26 27.

Qingning City Monster Invasion

When monsters overran the area outside the trial, Xing Yao charged into battle after witnessing civilians being slaughtered. He ordered Clones No. 5 and No. 6 to provide masked support and fought alongside the students and Cloud-Soaring Squad 28 29.

The Red Lotus Demon General targeted him with an enormous rain of fire. His own teleportation could not carry him beyond its reach, and his elemental defenses were insufficient to guarantee survival. Clone No. 1 appeared in the Great King mask, evacuated him and nearby students, and killed the general 30 31.

Li Haoran’s death left Xing Yao grieving his inability to save everyone despite his powers. He resolved to become stronger, then spent his resentment reserves treating the severely wounded Clones No. 5 and No. 6, who had exhausted themselves protecting civilians 35 36.

Academy Preparations and Law Discoveries

Qin Lie informed Xing Yao that a secret realm test roughly two weeks after enrollment at Azure Dragon Academy would determine eligibility to advance to Abyss Suppression Academy. Xing Yao planned to use his three days off to prepare 37 39.

He later learned that Clone No. 1’s fusion with the Law of Space had removed its previous ability and resentment-based advancement restrictions. After confirming that these law abilities remained copyable, he watched the other three elemental clones also reach Second Tier 40 41 42 43 44.

The clones’ demands for computers created a more immediate problem: the villa purchase had depleted their money. Xing Yao proposed recycling unsold cards into earth-skill cards for city reconstruction, then assigned Clone No. 3 further production work 46 49.

Appearance

• Face: Described as sunny and handsome, with sharp eyes and a clean-cut jaw 12 15 18.
• Everyday clothing: Wears practical casual clothes and carries a backpack when heading to school 18.
• Personal mask: Pure black with cold blue patterns around its edges, forehead, and eyes; distinct from the clones’ ordinary card-face masks 2 15.
• Combat bearing: His relaxed demeanor becomes sharp and imposing when he takes up his black spear 19.

Personality

Xing Yao is secretive and calculating about his safety. He considers public recognition less valuable than quietly developing enough strength and support to protect himself. His invented talent explanation and strict concealment rules reflect his fear of being studied, controlled, or confined by powerful organizations 1 6 16.

He enjoys mischief, profitable schemes, and comfortable living. He lounges while selling cards, trades sarcastic remarks with his clones, and tries to preserve his authority even when they expose his own lack of cultivation. His insistence that he dislikes childish entertainment collapses when he joins No. 1 in making mud figures 11 40 43 44.

His caution does not prevent him from acting when others are threatened. Civilian deaths drive him into the monster tide, while Li Haoran’s sacrifice and his clones’ injuries deepen his determination to protect people rather than merely survive himself 28 35 36.

Abilities & Skills

Resentment Manipulation

Resentment Points serve as Xing Yao’s resource for creation, enhancement, and copying 1 5.

• Creates clones, awakens their talents, and raises cultivation levels 5 18.
• Forms small objects and ability-bearing cards 1 8.
• Copies completed cards rapidly and cheaply; unused cards can be remelted into resentment 14 46.
• Repairs injured clones, replenishes their strength, and restores damaged meridians 36.
• Limit: Major copying operations can consume his entire stockpile 42.

Clone Creation and Ability Sharing

Xing Yao can create unlimited clones in principle, with each clone capable of awakening an independent talent. Six clones are documented by Chapter 15 1 15.

• Copies clone talents and skills onto himself, and redistributes individual skills among clones 5.
• Maintains remote mental communication and issues commands through their link 6 18.
• Uses clones for cultivation, reconnaissance, sales, production, guarding, and combat 12 16 18 29.
• First Tier clones merge with his mental world and gain resurrection there after a twenty-four-hour cooldown 14 15.
• Limit: The documented resurrection belongs to the clones; Xing Yao himself still faces lethal danger 30.

Mental World

His internal world functions as storage, a refuge, and the foundation for the clones’ law development 1 14 40.

• Stores equipment and allows clones to enter or emerge from it 1 6 11.
• Strengthens as upgraded clones merge with it and reinforce its laws 14 15.
• Supports cultivation and law comprehension independently of activity in the outside world 16 18.
• Limit: External disturbances can draw Xing Yao’s consciousness back into reality 37.

Spatial and Dark Powers

His principal trial fighting style combines spatial mobility and defense penetration with dark-element concealment 24 26.

• Teleportation: Repositions him for evasion, travel, and close-range attacks 26 27.
• Space Slash / Spatial Blade: Cuts through enemy defenses; can be delivered through spear movements 26 42.
• Spatial Wormhole: Provides alternate attack paths and approaches to targets 23 24 42.
• Invisibility: Conceals his movement and enables repeated weak-point attacks during group battles 23 24.
• Limit: His teleportation did not escape the full area of the Red Lotus Demon General’s fire rain 30.

Elemental Origins

Xing Yao distinguishes origins, the innate foundations of talents, from laws, complete systems of power 16.

• Earth and wood: Copied skills include Ground Life Drain, which draws vitality while grounded, and Verdant Wood Mystic Armor, formed from soil and vegetation 5.
• Fire: Uses fire transformation, including turning himself into a man of flame 34.
• Combined defense: Activated fire, wood, and earth origins against the demon general 30 34.
• Limit: Simultaneous origin activation can cause excessive drain and backlash. After the invasion, he resolves to use them separately or combine only nonconflicting abilities 34.

Law Copying and Skill Creation

Xing Yao can turn copied origins and laws into personal skills rather than relying solely on inherited techniques 16.

• Copies the available Law of Space ability of an advanced clone directly through their mental link 42.
• Gains the clone’s current spatial insights, including Teleportation, Spatial Blade, and Spatial Wormhole 42.
• Limit: Copying a law is extremely expensive, and acquiring another’s available abilities does not grant every theoretical higher-level technique 41 42.

Spearmanship and Perception

• Precision attacks: Targets brows, joints, vital points, and sensitive nerve centers rather than wasting movement 20 24.
• Spatial reinforcement: Channels spatial power through his spear to overcome tougher defenses 24.
• Enhanced senses: Perceives surrounding spiritual energy, vegetation, and distant beasts’ heartbeats 20.
• Combat discipline: Recovers energy before major engagements and avoids unnecessary fights with other examinees 21 23.

Equipment & Items

• Black spear — Found by Clone No. 6 in the black market. Has a cold-jade-like shaft and an edge capable of piercing metal, stone, and demonic-beast spiritual armor 19.
• Personal black-and-blue mask — His distinctive organizational mask 2 15.
• Playing-card masks — Interchangeable disguises used to conceal identities and distinguish planned clone sets; Xing Yao also wears ordinary card masks during operations 2 3 11.
• Aura pistol — National Talent Research Institute reward. Applies an aura exempting his future Rune Secret Realm resources and items from taxation; the benefit also covers unlimited subordinates and accompanying personnel 10.
• Ability cards — Products granting effects such as teleportation, flame form, earth armor, and invisibility, accompanied by troublesome side effects 8 9 11.
• Family photograph — A keepsake tied to his missing family and determination to enter Abyss Suppression Academy 17.
• Walkie-talkies — Used before seamless remote communication with his clones became available 3 6.

Relationships

• Parents and older brother — Missing family members whose disappearance drives his academy ambitions. His brother left after a final game of hide-and-seek 16 17.
• Clone No. 1 — First clone, planning partner, space specialist, and frequent verbal sparring partner. Saves Xing Yao from the demon general and later supplies his copied Law of Space ability 1 30 31 42.
• Clone No. 2 — Shadow specialist involved in concealment, investigation, and black-market sales; reaches Second Tier through law comprehension 5 12 14 44.
• Clone No. 3 — Earth specialist and card producer. Reaches Second Tier through fusion with the earth law and is assigned further production to finance computers 43 49.
• Clone No. 4 — Blazing-flame specialist who contributes business ideas and later reaches Second Tier 5 8 12 44.
• Clones No. 5 and No. 6 — Physique and strength specialists entrusted with covert assignments. Xing Yao urgently treats them after they are gravely injured protecting civilians 15 18 36.
• Lin Chen and Lin Yue — Classmates and trial competitors who later fight alongside him during the monster invasion 18 24 29.
• Qin Lie — Cloud-Soaring Squad captain who helps defend him and reveals the test leading toward Abyss Suppression Academy. Xing Yao recognizes that Qin Lie conceals his full reason for approaching him 27 29 37.
• Xing Hui — Arranges Cloud-Soaring Squad protection for Xing Yao at the trial exit without Xing Yao’s knowledge 27.
• Li Haoran — Classmate whose death while saving another student strengthens Xing Yao’s resolve to prevent further losses 35.

Notable Quotes

“We won't do anything dangerous or illegal. We'll focus on cursed tricks that do nothing but disgust people, send their blood pressure through the roof, and leave them nowhere to vent.” 1

“For this college entrance trial, I can only rely on myself. I absolutely cannot depend on any clones!” 16

“Even if I, Xing Yao, cultivate until the heavens and earth go dark today, even if I go out and slay a hundred Rock Demon Generals, I will never play with this childish stuff!” 40