Liu Xiu

Biodata

Power Progression

Background / History

Liu Xiu came from the same mountain village as Wen Zhi and was more than ten years older than her. As a child, he led the village children and once rescued Wen Zhi from bullying, wiped mud from her face, and told her she could seek his help. An immortal from the Profound Heaven Sect later selected him to enter the sect. Wen Zhi’s admiration for him helped inspire her own determination to cultivate 63.

Within the sect, Liu Xiu became the Medicine Hall’s deputy hall master. A fleeting encounter with Liu Xian, leader of the Glazed Sea, left him regarding her as an unattainable goddess. When he reunited with Wen Zhi in Flying Kite City, he noticed her resemblance to Liu Xian and planned to mold her into a replacement while using her pills to advance his own reputation 63 130.

Appearance

• Human form: Delicate, handsome features and a gentle, refined manner; wore blue or blue-green robes 56 70.
• Physique: Pale, thin, and lacking visible muscle definition 70 74.
• Resurrected form: A human-shaped mass of black mist with blurred features 82.
• Paper form: Approximately the size of a sheet of rice paper. Even after regaining a human shape, the multicolored turtle Qiaoqiao painted on him remained visible on his back 82 130.

Personality

Liu Xiu cultivated an image of a considerate gentleman. He addressed Wen Zhi affectionately, offered assistance, and presented himself as someone who could introduce her to medical and pill cultivators. Behind that manner, he intended to exploit her affection and alchemical work 60 63 130.

He was status-conscious and deeply concerned with public dignity. He resented the Ethereal Peak disciples for questioning him and struggled to maintain his composure when Xiao Tingyu produced a treasure superior to his own. Although tempted to seize her Pure Sage Pearl, he preferred obtaining what he wanted without leaving incriminating evidence 62 63 64.

His relationships were similarly self-serving: he juggled lovers for benefits and allowed Elder Liu to perform their shared work while splitting the credit. Yet he was shocked when his former lovers attacked him. After resurrection, resentment dominated his actions; he targeted Wen Zhi for witnessing his humiliation and blamed Qiaoqiao for his downfall 71 76 82 130.

Abilities & Skills

Cultivation and Spiritual Qi

• Reached late Golden Core in less than a hundred years 130.
• Used Spiritual Qi to defend himself against Elder Liu, though the attack’s spillover destroyed his covering 72.
• Could not withstand Protector Cheng and Commandant Feng’s combined assault; their remaining affection initially kept them from killing him 77.

Gu Insects

• Released a swarm of gu insects at Qiaoqiao after she exposed his booklet’s incriminating contents 74 76.
• Treated the insects as a last resort. Qiaoqiao dealt with them, leaving his escape routes blocked by his former lovers 76.

Resurrection and Devil Form

• Returned from death through the Immortality Pill with increased power, but suffered substantial memory loss. His identity and the events immediately preceding his death remained clearer than his earlier life 128 129.
• Could move as a black shadow, reshape himself into an arrow-like form, and eventually escape the seal in Wen Zhi’s storage ring 127.
• Intended to kill Wen Zhi and turn her into a puppet; the attempt was interrupted before he reached her 82.
• Was vulnerable to A-Qi, a Fuxi whose sun-derived nature countered evil entities, and to Fu Fengyuan’s Radiant Dragon Flame 82 130.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Water-Avoiding Pearl — A sixth-rank Earth Grade law treasure exclusive to the Glazed Sea. He offered it to Wen Zhi for visiting the epidemic’s patients, but she refused it 63.
• Personal booklet — Recorded scheduled meetings with his lovers and criminal instructions, including abducting three Envy Fish City residents for the Spirit Transformation Cauldron. Some entries used specially made spiritual ink that he did not expect Qiaoqiao to read 74.
• Sleeping incense — Used to knock out two Glazed Sea disciples guarding Elder Bing’s courtyard 65.

Relationships

• Wen Zhi — Younger acquaintance from his home village and intended substitute for Liu Xian. Her childhood admiration ended after Qiaoqiao’s warnings and the exposure of his conduct; she later restrained and silenced his paper form 63 84 130.
• Liu Xian — Object of his idealized devotion. His final recollections became uncertain over whether he had truly loved her or Wen Zhi 130.
• Bing Yan / Elder Bing — Lover and accomplice in the Envy Fish City scheme. He turned to her for rescue after being exposed, but she cut his throat instead 65 77.
• Elder Liu — Medicine Hall colleague and accomplice whom he burdened with work while sharing the credit. Elder Liu attacked him after discovering the deception 71 72.
• Protector Cheng — Former lover who helped block his escape and severely beat him after learning that Liu Xiu had used them all 72 76 77.
• Commandant Feng — Former lover who joined the assault and suspected Elder Bing had killed Liu Xiu to silence him 72 77.
• Elder Lin — Named in his schedule of secret meetings; later examined his painted paper body alongside Cheng and Feng 74 127.
• Qiaoqiao — Exposed his schemes, prevented his attack on Wen Zhi with A-Qi’s help, and repeatedly thwarted his escape and revenge 70 74 82 127.
• Fu Fengyuan — Received the demon core Liu Xiu tried to steal and ultimately destroyed him while protecting Qiaoqiao 127 130.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Envy Fish City Epidemic

• Presented himself as assisting with the epidemic and claimed that capturing a rat demon would resolve the crisis 61 63.
• Worked with Elder Bing on a trap intended to frame and kill the rat demon, with Liu Yu arranged as a witness 66.
• Remained at the inn under the pretext of guarding it and caring for patients, then secretly entered Elder Bing’s courtyard 65.
• Qiaoqiao’s Zhaowu Mirror recording exposed both their affair and their discussion of blaming the rat demon 70.

Public Exposure and First Death

• Elder Liu interrupted his encounter with Elder Bing. The resulting confrontation exposed Liu Xiu before his former lovers and more than a hundred disciples 72.
• Tried to flee after getting dressed, but slipped on a watermelon rind and dropped his booklet. Qiaoqiao read out its tryst schedule and abduction order 74.
• Attacked Qiaoqiao with gu insects, failed to escape, and was beaten nearly to death by Protector Cheng and Commandant Feng 76 77.
• Elder Bing killed him with a fine thread across his neck. Commandant Feng immediately questioned whether she was concealing their shared crimes 77.
• His booklet survived him as evidence: Song Wuya accepted a proposal for the four great immortal sects to seal and investigate it 79.

Resurrection and Captivity

• Returned as a Devil Creature and approached Wen Zhi from behind, intending to kill her and keep her as a puppet replacement for Liu Xian 82.
• A-Qi intercepted him and drained his mist, leaving him in paper form. Qiaoqiao then threatened to let A-Qi eat him if he caused trouble 82.
• Wen Zhi rolled him into a scroll, bound him, applied a Silencing Technique, and placed him in her storage ring 84.

Demon Core Attempt and Final Death

• Escaped his seal to seize Nangong Gua’s demon core, hoping its power would let him kill his enemies. Qiaoqiao took it first and fed it to Fu Fengyuan; the resulting dragon Qi flung Liu Xiu into the air 127.
• Tried to persuade the gathered elders to act against Qiaoqiao for taking the core and Bing Yan’s possessions, without success 128.
• Charged at Qiaoqiao in a final revenge attempt. Fu Fengyuan intercepted him with Radiant Dragon Flame, destroying both his body and soul 130.
• Recovered his lost memories while burning and looked to Wen Zhi for her former affection, finding only disgust. His destruction prevented further questioning about the Immortality Pill 130.

Alternate Future

• In the disastrous future witnessed through Qiaoqiao’s dreams and an illusion, Liu Xiu gained renown by using Wen Zhi’s epidemic prescription, while Envy Fish City’s tunnels and Immortality Pill operations remained undiscovered 139.
• Qiaoqiao’s earlier foreknowledge described Wen Zhi becoming his contracted Dao companion, discovering that she was a substitute, and eventually perishing together with him. This outcome was averted in the main timeline 63.

Trivia

• Qiaoqiao’s painting on his paper body was called “Cupping on a Spring Night.” Liu Xiu feared it depicted his encounter with Elder Bing; its eventual reveal showed a multicolored turtle receiving cupping treatment 84 127.
• Qiaoqiao later replayed the recording of his rendezvous to stun Ning Xuan’s battle beast with a mental attack 105.
• He kept his incriminating booklet because he had too many lovers to remember their scheduled meetings without written reminders 77.