Gu Xuanjin

Biodata

Power Progression

Background / History

Transmigration and the Villain System

Gu Xuanjin transmigrates into the body of the Immortal Gu Family’s forbidden divine son while his predecessor is cultivating in seclusion. He inherits the Supreme Sword Bone, substantial treasures, and the authority of the clan’s most exceptional young prodigy. The Destined Great Villain System binds to him and offers rewards for hunting protagonists blessed with Heavenly Dao providence 1 4 32.

His newcomer gift pack contains the Human Emperor Banner, sword immortal essence blood, and the forbidden ability Ten Thousand Swords Return to the Origin. While preparing to refine the blood, he learns that his cousin Gu Xiaoya’s broken engagement has triggered Xiao Han’s protagonist fate 1.

Destruction of the Xiao Clan and Su Lineage

Gu Xuanjin takes Ji Song and more than a hundred Divine Martial Guards to the Xiao Clan in the Youxuan Dao Domain. Publicly presenting his intervention as retaliation for insults against Gu Xiaoya and the Gu Clan, he surrounds the estate and orders its destruction 2 4 5.

He refuses Liang Chen’s request to withdraw with Su Xueying, reasoning that her attachment to Xiao Han would make her a future threat. During the confrontation, he exposes the Divine Flame Venerable’s remnant soul inside Xiao Han’s ring and reveals that “Xiao Xueying” is actually Su Xueying, who entered the Xiao Clan with an ulterior motive 5 7.

After Gu Beimo kills Su Xinghe and Su Xueying, the Heavenly Dao intervenes. Gu Xuanjin’s system shatters its avatar, allowing him to kill Xiao Han and collect his divine soul with the Human Emperor Banner. He then sends Gu Beimo, Ji Song, and the guards to eradicate the Su Lineage without survivors 7.

Jade Pool Gathering

At the Jade Pool Holy Land, Gu Xuanjin invites the assembled prodigies to attack him together and breaks their combined assault with a giant sword formed from Sword Qi. He also faces Li Xuanji, the Supreme Purity Palace’s Dao Child, whose challenge ends without forcing him to draw his carried sword 12 13 14 18.

Xu Lingxi offers him Sword Dao laws as a gesture of goodwill. Although he initially rejects her proposal of friendship on the grounds that her strength is insufficient, he accepts the gift and reciprocates with a subordinate wisp of Red Lotus Karmic Fire 13.

With Xu Lingxi’s assistance, he seeks out Lü Yifei, the crippled inheritor of Demon God Marquis Wen. He offers to restore Lü Yifei’s cultivation and enable him to personally avenge his childhood sweetheart. After testing Gu Xuanjin’s strength, Lü Yifei becomes his first follower 15 16.

Gu Xuanjin subsequently defeats Beigong Yan, Ye Chenzhou, and further challengers. The gathering is extended by two months, and he leaves with first place on the Wind and Cloud Ranking. His reputation spreads throughout the Three Thousand Dao Domains 18.

Quasi-Emperor’s Inheritance

After detecting Fang Lingtian’s God-Level Lottery System, Gu Xuanjin spends three million Villain Points to locate him near the Azure Cloud Ancient Kingdom. He instructs Dugu Yunyan to watch for Fang without risking his life 19.

He enters the nearby Quasi-Emperor’s inheritance with three objectives: hunt Fang Lingtian and seize his system’s origin, help Lü Yifei kill Lu Jun, and obtain the Yin-Yang Mystic Gang Bottle if possible. Four peak Quasi-Emperors secretly accompany him inside, while a Great Emperor ancestor remains in his traveling palace 21 23.

Gu Xuanjin prevents the Demon Race prodigies from interfering in Lü Yifei’s duel with Lu Jun and kills them with divine swords. His concealed protectors eliminate Lu Jun’s Dao protector, allowing Lü Yifei to complete his revenge 24 25.

He also opens an ancient coffin, annihilates its weakened foreign occupant with Sword Dao Pagoda, and obtains corrupted world origin power. Purifying it costs 39 million Villain Points 27.

When Fang Lingtian summons an incarnation of Nether Prison Heavenly Venerable, Gu Xuanjin counters its pressure through his system and produces a trial card containing the World-Saving Great Handprint. Their immortal Dao clash causes destruction across multiple Dao domains, despite Gu Xuanjin himself still being in the Dao Integration Realm 29 30.

War Against the Myriad Demon Divine Court

Lu Jun’s death brings Demon Emperor Lu Jue to the Gu Clan seeking revenge. After the Ninth Ancestor repels him, Gu Xuanjin advocates attacking first rather than waiting for further retaliation. The ancestors approve, and he enters seclusion before the campaign 25 31.

Gu Xuanjin deploys the clan’s ancestors, Great Emperor experts, immortal weapon, and elite armies against the Myriad Demon Divine Court and its allies. While the strongest combatants fight beyond the battlefield, he directs the armies below and confronts the enemy’s younger successors 32 34 36 37.

Against Lu Chen and the other Supreme Realm successors, he draws Moxie and unleashes Ten Thousand Swords Return to the Origin, breaking their combined assault. His killing of two Supreme Realm Demon Race experts with one sword strike is later recalled by the sword tomb’s guardians 37 41.

After the Divine Court falls, Gu Xuanjin proposes destroying its four allied strongholds as well: Divine Firmament Mountain, Five Rampancies Temple, the Abyssless Cave Ruins, and Ten-Thousand-Li Cloud and Mist Ridge. The ancestors agree, and the resulting annihilation alarms major powers throughout the Three Thousand Dao Domains 40.

Sword Tomb and Qin Clan Preparations

With Moxie no longer able to fully bear his power, Gu Xuanjin enters the Gu Clan’s sword tomb to find a replacement suitable for reforging with the Primordial Chaos Sword Embryo. He subdues Purgatory Blood Slaughter for Dugu Yunyan and encounters the divine sense of the Primordial-era ancestor who founded the tomb 41 42.

The ancestor tests him after questioning his ability to wield the immortal sword Abyssal Blowing Snow. Gu Xuanjin’s counterattack forces the ancestor to reveal immortal Dao power, earning his approval and a protective mark. Gu Xuanjin then collects additional swords and commissions Gu Qingming to reforge his weapons and strengthen his sword formation 43 44 45.

He next arranges a birthday visit to his maternal grandfather in the Longevity Qin Clan. Before departing, he dispatches three peak Quasi-Emperor assassins from Heavenly Tribulation to kill Qin Lingkong during the ongoing war, with instructions to conceal their identities 46.

Xu Lingxi’s Previous Timeline

Xu Lingxi remembers a previous life in which Gu Xuanjin suppressed the geniuses of his era, entered the depths of the starry sky in his twenties, swept through the Immortal Ancient Battlefield, and fought his way into the Immortal Realm. These are events from her remembered timeline, not milestones already reached by his present incarnation 10.

She also recalls that Gu Xuanjin and Li Xuanji eventually crossed endless ages together to reach the age of myth 13.

Appearance

• Features: A handsome, youthful face and sword-shaped brows 2 42.
• Clothing: Magnificent white-and-gold brocade robes 6 18 34.
• Weapon: Commonly carries a longsword on his back 17 34.
• Aura: Surrounded by sharp sword intent, silver-white Sword Qi, and circulating laws; observers repeatedly compare him to a sword immortal descending into the mortal world 4 18 34.

Personality

Gu Xuanjin is calm, aloof, and openly confident in his superiority. He considers individual challenges from weaker prodigies a waste of time and refuses Xu Lingxi’s initial offer of friendship because her strength does not meet his standards. Even before an immortal ancestor, he maintains that a Quasi-Emperor-level opponent might not defeat him 12 13 43.

His ruthlessness is preventive as well as retaliatory. He orders entire lineages exterminated to eliminate future avengers, rejects pleas based on Su Xueying’s visible hatred, and favors destroying the Myriad Demon Divine Court before it can pursue further revenge 5 7 31.

He values loyalty in subordinates and rewards useful service. He offers Ji Song help with his cultivation bottleneck, supplies Lü Yifei with high-quality resources, and honors his promise to let Lü Yifei personally kill Lu Jun 9 21 26.

Abilities & Skills

Destined Great Villain System

• Detects changes in Heavenly Dao providence and identifies emerging protagonists 1 12.
• Rewards protagonist hunting with abilities, cultivation resources, artifacts, and Villain Points 1 7 8.
• Locates targets, including Fang Lingtian and Lu Jun; Fang’s location costs three million Villain Points 19 23.
• Purifies corrupted world origin power, at a documented cost of 39 million Villain Points 27.
• Provides exceptional protection: it destroys a Heavenly Dao avatar and cancels the pressure of Nether Prison Heavenly Venerable’s incarnation 7 29.
• Supplies the World-Saving Great Handprint through a trial card; this is a system-provided trump card rather than evidence that Gu Xuanjin has reached the Immortal Realm 29 30.

Supreme Sword Bone and Sword Dao

• His Supreme Sword Bone releases silver light and extremely sharp Sword Qi from his chest. He uses it to sever the ancient coffin’s divine chains 27.
• Shapes Sword Qi into barriers, a silver-white dragon, and enormous divine swords without drawing a physical weapon 12 16 18.
• Forms a thirty-thousand-meter divine sword against Beigong Yan and Ye Chenzhou 18.
• Reaches 82% mastery of the Law of the Sword Dao, with his mastery already compared to some Quasi-Emperors at 80% 32 41.
• Uses Sword Dao Law to suppress the resisting immortal weapon Purgatory Blood Slaughter 41.

Ten Thousand Swords Return to the Origin

• A forbidden divine ability that condenses countless swords from magic power to blanket the battlefield 1.
• Breaks the combined attacks of Lu Chen and other Supreme Realm successors and damages Lu Chen’s Soul-Slaying Flying Dagger 37.

Sword Dao Pagoda

• A forbidden ability that creates a Sword Qi barrier to seal space, restrict movement, and annihilate targets within it 8.
• Destroys the severely weakened foreign being sealed in the ancient coffin; that being had formerly been a peak Quasi-Emperor 27.

Cultivation Arts

• True Understanding of the Northern Nether Sword Dao: His original top-grade heaven-tier cultivation method 1.
• Haotian Creation Art: A supreme-quality heaven-grade art capable of seizing others’ power to increase cultivation. He circulates it alongside his Northern Nether method during his Heaven-Reaching breakthrough 8 32.
• Heaven-Burning Divine Art: A growth-type art that refines exotic flames into cultivation and improves Fire Law mastery. He initially regards it as impractical because suitable flames are exceptionally difficult to locate 8.

Red Lotus Karmic Fire

• Can separate subordinate wisps from the flame, one of which he gives to Xu Lingxi 13.
• Completely refines the fire during his month-long seclusion before the Demon Race campaign 32.

Evil Thought Avatar

• Receives an avatar formed from his negative emotions, initially at the first layer of the Divine Bridge Realm, and names it Dugu Yunyan 8 9.
• The avatar has independent consciousness but remains absolutely loyal and can be controlled by Gu Xuanjin 8.
• The system conceals their karmic connection, preventing others from directly deducing their relationship 8.
• Entrusts it with demonic arts, the Haotian Creation Art, and the Human Emperor Banner to act under a separate identity 9.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Moxie: His carried divine sword, used against the Divine Court’s successors. By his eighth Heaven-Reaching level, it can no longer fully bear his power 37 41.
• Northern Nether Sword Diagram: A top-grade profound weapon listed among his initial treasures 1.
• Human Emperor Banner: Collects souls, including those of Liang Chen and Xiao Han. Later entrusted to Dugu Yunyan, it reaches imperial-weapon rank after the Demon Race campaign 5 7 9 41.
• Nine-Bend Hell-Burying Sword Formation Diagram: Requires nine longswords of the same grade. Its formation restricts magic power and divine sense while attacking bodies and souls; stronger component swords increase its power 8.
• Abyssal Blowing Snow: An immortal sword obtained with its former master’s approval and later submitted for reforging 43 44 45.
• Purgatory Blood Slaughter: A vicious immortal sword selected for Dugu Yunyan, with plans to reshape it into a saber to suit his preference 41 45.
• Azure Clouds Reflecting Shadows: Another immortal sword collected from the sword tomb 44.
• Primordial Chaos Sword Embryo: Intended as material for reforging a weapon capable of bearing his growing power 41.
• Great Emperor secret fragments: Holds two of the five fragments needed to open a Great Emperor’s hidden treasure; the second comes from Dugu Yunyan 8 41.
• Identity jade pendant: Bears his name and the highest level of authority within the Gu Clan 2.
• Traveling palace: A white-jade palace drawn by nine black dragons, containing a Sword Dao throne 2.
• Ancestor’s protective mark: Left by the sword tomb’s founder to save his life in a moment of danger 44.

Relationships

• Gu Xiaoya — His fourth uncle’s daughter and cousin. Her broken engagement alerts him to Xiao Han’s protagonist fate; his subsequent massacre frightens her 1 2 8.
• Ji Song — Trusted subordinate and deputy commander of the Divine Martial Guard, whom he addresses as “Uncle Ji.” Gu Xuanjin arranges guidance that helps him reach Half-Step Quasi-Emperor 2 9 21.
• Dugu Yunyan — His absolutely loyal Evil Thought Avatar, operating independently under a fabricated demonic-inheritor identity 8 9.
• Lü Yifei — His first follower. Gu Xuanjin restores his prospects, funds his cultivation, and enables his revenge against Lu Jun, earning wholehearted loyalty 15 16 21 26.
• Xu Lingxi — Reborn Jade Pool Holy Maiden who seeks his friendship because of his achievements in her previous life. They exchange gifts, and she helps him find Lü Yifei 10 13 15.
• Li Xuanji — Rival prodigy and Supreme Purity Palace Dao Child. Challenges Gu Xuanjin at Jade Pool; in Xu Lingxi’s previous timeline, they later travel across ages together 13 14.
• Gu Beimo — Gu Clan Ninth Elder who intervenes against the Su family and serves among his concealed peak Quasi-Emperor protectors 7 21.
• Gu Suizhi, Ninth Ancestor, Gu Tianheng, and Gu Qingyou — Senior clan protectors who support and fight in his campaign against the Divine Court and its allies 31 32 40.
• Gu Qingming — Artifact-refining ancestor commissioned to reforge his swords and improve his formation equipment 44 45.
• Xiao Han — His first identified protagonist target; killed after the system defeats the Heavenly Dao’s intervention 1 7.
• Fang Lingtian — Host of the God-Level Lottery System, hunted for his system and its origin 19 23 29.
• Lu Jue — Demon Emperor and Lu Jun’s father. His retaliation leads Gu Xuanjin to initiate the Divine Court’s destruction 25 31 34.
• Qin Wusheng — His maternal uncle, belonging to his grandfather’s clan-head branch of the Qin Clan 46.
• Qin Lingkong — Member of a collateral Qin branch whom Gu Xuanjin targets through a covert Heavenly Tribulation assassination order 46.

Notable Quotes

“There's no need to come at me one by one. That's too much of a waste of time, and the result will be the same anyway. Come at me together.” 12

“Cultivation can be restored once it's been crippled, as long as the person himself hasn't been broken.” 15

“If Lu Jun could kill others, then others could naturally kill Lu Jun.” 34