Lin Xuan

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Power Progression

Background / History

Starfall Peak’s Decline

Lin Xuan transmigrated into the cultivation world and reached the Tribulation Realm through his own efforts before obtaining a system twenty-seven years later 1.

He devoted himself to nurturing Nangong Yaoyue, once his proudest disciple. Her departure for the Chiyao Heavenly Palace devastated him and became a heart demon, causing his subsequent King Realm breakthrough to fail. Healing consumed most of his time and depleted his wealth 1 2.

During the following three years, Starfall Peak fell from thirteenth to thirty-third among the Azure Yang Sword Sect’s thirty-six peaks. Its former population of over ten thousand disciples dwindled to five people, including Lin Xuan 1.

System Awakening and New Disciples

The Investment Rebate System awakened as another disciple, Yang Hao, left Starfall Peak. Its inspection function revealed that Su Lianxin’s apparently ordinary aptitude concealed crippled Su Ancestor’s Thearch Blood. After questioning her, Lin Xuan concluded that the Su Clan’s main lineage had stolen her bloodline and altered her memories; he suspected Su Ditian had received it 1.

Lin Xuan formally accepted Su Lianxin and gave her phoenix sparrow essence blood. The resulting returns—Ice Phoenix True Blood and the Innate Primordial Sword Physique—transformed both disciple and master. He subsequently accepted Qu Youmeng despite discovering the Heavenly Venerable soul concealed within her, and distributed the first level of the Azure Emperor Scripture to all three disciples 1 2.

When the Heavenly Origin Peak Master threatened his position unless he supported Lu Tianxing, Lin Xuan refused. He later joined Li Fufeng’s faction after its representative approached respectfully and agreed to provide a Dao Comprehension Pill 4 5.

Heaven-Burning Mystic Realm

On the journey to the mystic realm, Lin Xuan killed the Purple Scorpion Demon King and consigned its remains to the Dusk Moon Auction House. At the auction, he killed King Mingkong and the Linyue City Lord with two sword strikes. The proceeds and seized possessions increased his funds to over ten million Spirit Stones 9 14.

Before entering the realm, he helped Wang Yan locate his father and transported Wang Fu and the accompanying travelers safely through the Moon-Reflecting Mountain Range. He also gave Su Lianxin and Wang Yan protective jade tokens containing his clones 15 17.

Inside, Lin Xuan claimed a spirit spring and used it to enter the King Realm. Although the tribulation left him severely injured, his clones defended the remaining spring against a growing group of attackers. More than thirty King Realm cultivators fought the clones before Lin Xuan personally intervened 19 20.

He later answered his sect’s distress signal and demanded that the Divine Firmament Hall’s retreating deputy hall master leave behind the contested spirit fruits. At a withered tree, he killed Ming Gu, advanced to the King Realm’s second layer, and became the first participant in the Ancestral Tree Trial. His one-strike victory earned the Star Sea Sword Array Diagram, which he later invested in Su Lianxin to obtain the Immortal-Slaying Sword Array 21 22 23 24 26.

Tournament and Departure from the Sect

Lin Xuan’s disciples overturned expectations in the sect tournament. Su Lianxin defeated Qu Youmeng and Lu Tianxing with single strikes, while Wang Yan revealed true Sword Intent against the Holy Son. Starfall Peak ultimately won the tournament 28 30 32 34.

Afterward, Lin Xuan reinvested gifts and tournament rewards to obtain pills for bodily reconstruction and Wang Yan’s physique awakening. He also revealed that he had always known about Heavenly Venerable Yunli’s presence within Qu Youmeng. Rather than retrieve the secret-realm treasure Yunli sought, he offered a Source Reformation Spirit Pill to reconstruct her body 34 35.

The sect later faced demands from the Spirit Jade Sect over a cultivator Wang Yan had killed in self-defense. When its leadership refused to stand by his disciple, Lin Xuan quit rather than surrender Wang Yan. Li Fufeng also left and followed them 26 37 38.

Spirit Jade Sect and the Heron Empire

Lin Xuan set his disciples the goal of taking the top three places in the Seven Kingdoms Grand Competition and planned to establish the Sword Pavilion. He sent them toward the Heron Empire, then confronted the Spirit Jade Sect alone. Before attacking, he gave its ordinary disciples one incense stick to leave; he subsequently destroyed the sect 39 40 42.

After reuniting with his disciples in Zhencang City, he traveled toward Yunli’s surviving faction, the Jade Balance Sword Palace. Learning that it faced an attack, he sent Chen Xiong to the Illusory Feather Sect with a clone-bearing piece of black jade. The clone killed its sect master and demanded ten million Spirit Stones each from the Illusory Feather Sect and Spirit Firmament Sect as an apology 42 44.

Lin Xuan later accepted an invitation to the Immortal Ascension Ceremony at Silver Heron Sacred Mountain. With only three of his ten disciple slots occupied, he hoped to recruit more exceptional talents 50.

Appearance

• Wears white robes and is described as a “white-robed sword immortal” during his confrontation with the Spirit Jade Sect 40.
• Looks younger after entering the King Realm, whose increased lifespan contributes to Ye Han mistaking him for a junior disciple 21.

Personality

Lin Xuan is fiercely protective of his disciples. He reassures Wang Yan after the latter kills an attacker, refuses to surrender him to the Spirit Jade Sect, and leaves his own sect rather than abandon him. Against enemies threatening his disciples, he is decisive and merciless 26 38 40.

He is also pragmatic about cultivation and resources. He favors Su Lianxin for investments because her aptitude produces better returns, while consciously compensating Wang Yan in other ways. His initial relationship with Qu Youmeng is more transactional: he accepts her for the cultivation-speed benefit but withholds complete trust 2 3 7 14.

Empty prestige interests him less than useful rewards. He ignores the Ninth Peak Master’s repeated mockery and initially wants no part in the sect’s succession struggle, but accepts Li Fufeng’s offer when it provides a valuable pill 3 5 30 31.

Abilities & Skills

Investment Rebate System

The system rewards Lin Xuan for investing resources in his disciples, with better disciple aptitude producing more valuable returns 1.

• Shared cultivation speed: His cultivation speed equals the sum of his disciples’ cultivation speeds 1.
• Inspection: Reveals names, ages, cultivation, identities, destinies, and recent events. It exposes Qu Youmeng’s concealed cultivation and resident soul 1 2.
• Disciple capacity: Ten slots, with three occupied as of the Immortal Ascension Ceremony invitation 50.
• Return patterns: Rewards are usually superior versions of the invested item, though this is not absolute 9.
• Reinvestment: Returned resources can produce further returns when bestowed on disciples. However, simply returning Su Lianxin’s own offered Mysterious Dragon Pill to her would not trigger a reward 2 34.

Notable investment returns include:

Innate Primordial Sword Physique

A red first-grade destiny obtained through a critical investment return 1.

• At minor accomplishment, increases Sword Dao comprehension speed by 1,000% 3.
• Increases Sword Dao Divine Ability power by 1,000% 3.
• Immediately enables Lin Xuan to comprehend third-level Sword Intent upon integration 3.

Sword Intent and Great Daos

Lin Xuan reaches fourth-level Sword Intent and comprehends twenty-two Great Daos before entering the King Realm 3 17.

• Elemental sword Daos: Documented examples include Fire Sword, Water Sword, Ice Sword, Wind Sword, and Thunder Sword 3 6 17.
• Ice Sword: Produces a colossal frost sword that pierces and freezes the Purple Scorpion Demon King 9.
• Sword-formation Daos: Azure Dragon, White Tiger, Vermilion Bird, and Black Tortoise Sword Formations 5.
• Cross-realm combat: Kills a King Realm first-layer Demon King while still at Tribulation Realm ninth level 9.

Azure Emperor Scripture

A Saint Grade cultivation method with an intact beginning but incomplete later portions 2.

• Lin Xuan cultivates it himself and grants its first level to all three disciples 2 19.
• Prohibits his disciples from sharing it with others 2.
• Its benefits to his disciples also increase his own system-linked cultivation speed 2 6.
• Qu Youmeng and Yunli initially identify it as Emperor/Thearch Grade, underestimating its actual Saint Grade 28 35.

Heavenly Demon Shadow

An Emperor-grade escape technique that also creates combat-capable Demonic Shadow Clones 14 17.

• At the fourth level, produces ten clones, each possessing 20% of his true body’s combat strength 17.
• Clones can be sealed inside black jade and released by crushing it 17 44.
• A clone created before his breakthrough retains his pre-breakthrough strength until he can update it 19.
• Provides protection while his true body recovers from tribulation injuries 19 20.

Immortal-Slaying Sword Array

A complete Saint Grade method that converts spiritual power into Immortal-Slaying Swords within an array 26.

• Its power and number of manifested swords depend on the grade of the sword used as its foundation 26.
• His fifth-grade sword supports a little over one hundred manifested swords 26.
• A sixth-grade sword would support a thousand or several thousand stronger swords, motivating his search for an upgrade 26 36.
• The method’s theoretical scale reaches hundreds of millions of swords, but Lin Xuan cannot yet achieve that 26.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Fifth-grade spirit sword — His highest-grade sword during the mystic-realm expedition. Forged by a renowned Tangqing Empire swordsmith using materials Lin Xuan purchased at great expense 26.
• King-grade flying boat — Carries his disciples, Wang Fu, and other travelers to the Heaven-Burning Mystic Realm 17.
• Clone-bearing black jade — Protective tokens given to Su Lianxin and Wang Yan; another is entrusted to Chen Xiong 17 44.
• Spirit spring remainder — Collected after his breakthrough with the intention of investing it in Su Lianxin 19 20.
• Jade Balance Sword Palace token — Accepted for his visit to the Immortal Ascension Ceremony 50.

Relationships

• Su Lianxin — Personal disciple and his most productive early investment recipient. He restores her prospects with Ice Phoenix True Blood and tasks her with surpassing Su Ditian; she responds with gratitude, loyalty, and tournament victories 1 2 30 34.
• Wang Yan — An existing disciple when the system awakens. Lin Xuan nurtures his swordsmanship, gives him a physique-awakening pill, and protects him against both sect pressure and the Spirit Jade Sect 2 3 26 34 38 40.
• Qu Youmeng — Initially a nominal disciple accepted for her cultivation-speed contribution. Lin Xuan knows about her hidden soul from the beginning and later requires genuine discipleship, with Yunli’s consent, before offering further scripture levels 2 7 35.
• Heavenly Venerable Yunli — Qu Youmeng’s concealed mentor and later Lin Xuan’s associate. He offers a pill to reconstruct her body and helps defend the faction she founded 35 42 44.
• Nangong Yaoyue — Former prized disciple whose departure causes his heart demon and failed breakthrough. By the aftermath of his successful King Realm breakthrough, he has let go of their former bond 1 19.
• Li Fufeng — Political ally within the Azure Yang Sword Sect. She thanks him for Starfall Peak’s tournament contribution and later leaves the sect alongside him 5 34 38.
• Lu Tianxing — Hostile Holy Son whose recruitment attempt Lin Xuan rejects. Lin Xuan’s disciples derail his succession ambitions, and Lu Tianxing later vows to kill them if they meet again 4 30 32 46.
• Yunyi — A prospective disciple who travels to the Heron Empire seeking Lin Xuan as her master despite her clan’s opposition 50.

Notable Quotes

“Rest assured. If the sky falls, your master will hold it up. Don't worry about this. Cultivate diligently, and above all, don't let this matter delay your cultivation.” 26

“Not bad, but remember this: a swordsman must press forward courageously, for a single stroke can shatter mountains and rivers. Even the slightest hesitation is taboo.” 26