Lin Xiao

Biodata

Power Progression

Background / History

In his previous life, Lin Xiao’s parents divorced when he was three. His grandparents raised him until their deaths when he was six, after which he attended boarding school. Although others considered him aloof, he regarded himself as an ordinary shut-in who struggled with communication and spent his free time on games and anime 1.

He arrived in his new world before birth, retaining his former memories. He does not know whether this should be called transmigration or reincarnation. His mother died after using her body heat to protect him during an unnatural midsummer snowstorm shortly after his first birthday 1.

Her death caused him to withdraw for several years. At six, he began reconnecting with his family and neighbors after Lin Dayou broke his leg gathering mountain produce to provide winter clothes for his sons. Lin Xiao came to value Xiushui Village as the community where he had grown up 1 63.

At twelve, he persuaded his father to build a thatched shelter on North Mountain. The shelter became the starting point of the Lingxian Sect when he activated the Myriad Realms Sect Construction System 1 3.

Appearance

• Early adolescence: Estimates that he has grown to at least 1.65 meters by comparing himself with his uncle Lin Dashan 56.
• Youthful appearance: Liu Chun initially judges him to be no older than fifteen; Su Yaoguang likewise recognizes him and Jiang Youfu as boys in their early teens 186 341.
• Maturing features: During his Nascent Soul seclusion, his formerly childish face develops sharper, more defined lines 419.
• Adulthood: By twenty, he has a fully matured build and a handsome face with distinct contours. Many outsiders assume that his apparent youth conceals years of cultivation 598.
• Study habits: Becomes increasingly unkempt while dividing his time between Great Wind Valley’s library, teaching, and nightly cultivation-craft practice 679 680.

Personality

Lin Xiao is playful and informal with people close to him. He teases his father, drags Jiang Youfu out of bed rather than suffer an early morning alone, and secretly flashes his friends a V sign during a formal sect welcome. His family considers him unreliable in small matters, despite his position and cultivation 7 255 432 438.

He is deeply attached to his family and hometown. He repeatedly urges his father to cultivate so that they will not be separated by mortal lifespans, welcomes his extended family into the sect, and makes emergency arrangements for Xiushui Village. When developing Xiushui City, he deliberately preserves an additional protected place for the original villagers 41 63 196 530.

His generosity is tempered by caution. He initially refuses to judge Liu Chun’s dispute with the Wu Household without evidence, prepares extensive supplies before entering the Immortal Cultivation Realm, and keeps escape tools ready when confronted by a much stronger cultivator 150 160 647.

Lin Xiao values character over pedigree. He requires prospective disciples to have good dispositions, refuses to mock Shen Yingzi’s feminine presentation, and gradually stops treating aptitude ratings as reliable measures of future achievement 94 95 396.

His cultivation ideals extend beyond personal strength. He seeks longevity, freedom, and the ability to help vulnerable people, while explicitly rejecting the idea that weakness is a moral failing. He also recognizes the danger of becoming intoxicated by power and eventually resolves to change the world’s rules rather than merely survive under them 183 390.

Abilities & Skills

Myriad Realms Sect Construction System

A system that supports sect development, cultivation, item production, and the creation of techniques 3 4 31 83.

• Sect administration: Displays members’ aptitude, cultivation, status, and positions; allows Lin Xiao to assign offices and change disciple classifications 30 95.
• Private storage: Stores rewards, materials, and equipment. Its capacity later accommodates supplies that exceed the sect’s storerooms 3 524.
• Item synthesis: Converts ordinary materials into cultivation items, including storage bags, agricultural tools, and weapons 31 91 113 115.
• Item appraisal: Unlocks at 50 sect prestige. It can inspect only items placed in his private storage 63.
• Construction synthesis: Combines three fragments into the Yaoguang Floating Island and provides a control console and access platform 361.
• Automatic cultivation: Progresses without continuous manual practice, but consumes Spirit Stones; Foundation Establishment costs five per day 83 143.

Cultivation Scriptures

Lin Xiao initially cultivates the Peach Blossom Spring Myriad Void Instruction and later creates the Original Essence Heart Sutra 4 53.

• The Original Essence Heart Sutra begins at S-rank, equivalent to low-grade Heaven Rank, and rises to SS-rank, equivalent to middle-grade Heaven Rank 53 105.
• It is a growth-type scripture whose grade can rise or fall according to each practitioner’s understanding 118.
• Its exceptionally high conversion efficiency, combined with Lin Xiao’s access to Origin Qi, supports sustained cultivation and travel 613.
• Understanding cultivation as a means of creating prosperity prompts the scripture to circulate rapidly and draws him into a two-day cultivation session 183.

Technique Creation and Automatic Learning

The system allows Lin Xiao to create Law Techniques and martial methods from supplied materials and concepts 50 83.

• Automatically masters the Law Techniques and Cultivation Methods he creates, without needing conventional practice to learn them 50 83.
• Creates Swordsmanship in the Clouds after entering Foundation Establishment 83.
• Develops additional techniques before traveling, judging his existing repertoire too limited for safety 150.
• Mastery does not remove cultivation requirements: some techniques remain unusable until his realm is sufficiently high 50 60 128.

Movement and Concealment

His movement repertoire includes aerial stepping, higher flight techniques, concealment, and sword flight 50 102 612.

• Cloud Soaring Technique: Contains Air-Stepping, Spiritual Power-wing flight, and true cloud-riding tiers 50.
• Concealment Technique: Uses it to enter a forest unnoticed and to walk through Xiushui Village without attracting attention 102 255.
• Sword flight: At Nascent Soul, can undertake long-distance travel on his bonded peachwood sword 612.
• Qi-trace removal: Removes traces of Qi from himself and Jiang Youfu and changes his disguise after purchasing assembly tickets 292.

Formations and Spatial Engineering

Lin Xiao develops from practicing basic array engraving to designing intricate spatial communication formations 120 454.

• Insect-Killing Formation: Practices engraving it, improves his technique, and copies nine diagrams for field testing 120.
• Restrictive formations: Sets one up before privately examining a boat ticket with Jiang Youfu 292.
• Lock Ring communication: Develops super-miniature sound teleportation patterns capable of locating and selecting a recipient 454.
• Source-Tracing Talisman Array: Learns Liu Chun’s technique through instruction and diligent practice. Initially locates targets accurately only three or four times in ten attempts; failures can indicate entirely wrong directions 382.
• Execution-Binding Treasure Formation: Is asked to activate an ancient formation that prevents Execution Cultivators from escaping through Execution, Spiritual, or Origin Power. He delays committing because exposing his unusual power could endanger the sect 499 500 508.

Agricultural and Utility Techniques

Many of Lin Xiao’s techniques address ordinary work rather than combat 115 120 128.

• Irrigation Technique: Produces localized rain and is shared with the sect’s field workers 120.
• Water Absorption Technique: Removes water; capacity increases with cultivation 128.
• Object Control Technique: Can straighten his family’s crops simultaneously, though manipulating many objects carries a considerable Spiritual Power cost 128.
• Heavenly Net and Earthly Snare—Every Thread in Place: Uses its first tier to catch more than a dozen fish for a farewell meal 63.
• Fire Control Technique: Produces a small flame on his fingertip 63.
• Other recorded techniques: Purification Technique, Hundred Beasts Spirit Speech, and Body Immobilization Technique 82.

Alchemy, Refining, and Purification

Lin Xiao studies and practices multiple cultivation crafts rather than relying exclusively on synthesized products 150 679.

• Refines healing and restorative pills, draws talismans, and prepares formations before traveling 150.
• Uses the Heart Purification Technique to treat the Yuan Household ancestor’s inner demon while Jiang Youfu reads the Doctrine of the Mean. After the second overnight treatment, the ancestor’s facial sores begin disappearing 348.
• Can personally refine a peachwood sword at ordinary Law Treasure grade, but prefers the system’s superior product 563.
• Practices pill refining, artifact refining, array carving, and talisman drawing at night during his Great Wind Valley studies 679.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Myriad Realms Unified Peachwood Sword — Initially a high-grade Heaven Rank Law Artifact made from the Ten-Li Peach Blossom Tree. Particularly effective against demons, devils, ghosts, and monsters; when properly wielded, its power rivals an ordinary Law Treasure. Lin Xiao later refines a peachwood sword into his bonded Law Treasure 90 91 612.
• Peach Leaf Pendant — Conceals cultivation so effectively that cultivators below Void Return cannot see through it, making it central to his disguises 674.
• Lock Ring — Used for communication, information storage, and exploration recording; incorporates his miniature spatial transmission formations 454 612 640.
• Storage bags — Synthesizes them from waistbands and Spiritual Power. His first pouch holds five head-sized stones despite its small exterior 31.
• Sect robes — Among his earliest equipment; he prepares to appraise them before entering the secret realm 63.
• Myriad Realms Iron Bucket — Can contain materials of any attribute; investigates its use at a lava fissure 74.
• Star and Moon Hammer, Purple Gold Cauldron, engraving knife, and formation plate — Purchases to equip the Artifact Refining Hall and Formation Hall, exhausting his private Spirit Stone reserves 117.
• Teleportation and Location Sound Transmission Talismans — Distributes escape talismans to protect relatives and sectmates, and synthesizes communication talismans for the sect storehouse 197 198 207.
• Heaven and Earth Shift Disc and World Bamboo — Keeps ready as escape options when Lu Xunfeng sees through his age and cultivation 647.
• Silver Moon Longbow — Receives it unexpectedly from Lu Xunfeng after the latter removes his ownership mark 647.

Relationships

• Lin Dayou — Father and eventual disciple. Their teasing relationship coexists with strong mutual concern; Lin Dayou supports his choices, while Lin Xiao persistently pushes him to cultivate 41 94 255 406.
• Lin Yun — Older brother, two years his senior. Helped keep him warm during the fatal snowstorm and later serves as the sect’s Farming Elder. Lin Xiao recognizes his administrative talent and considers him for management of the Mortal Realm Trade Center 1 30 520.
• Lin Xiao’s mother — Died after protecting him from the unnatural cold. Her loss caused his childhood withdrawal 1.
• Jiang Youfu — Close childhood friend, early sectmate, and frequent traveling companion. Lin Xiao encourages his cooking talent and brings him on journeys into the cultivation world 7 292 309.
• Sun Yigao — Trusted sectmate and Teaching Elder. His recitation helps Lin Xiao settle into study, and the two cooperate during their secret-realm travels 13 30 71.
• Liao Pantu — Senior adviser, traveling companion, and one of Lin Xiao’s closest elders. Provides cultivation knowledge, guards his breakthrough, and later undertakes railway-related research 116 152 406 560 605.
• Liu Yunan — Entrusted with managing sect affairs. Lin Xiao also guides him toward trusting dependable outsiders rather than keeping all authority within their existing circle 198 543.
• Liu Chun — Rescued by Lin Xiao and later joins the sect. Receives responsibility for important trade work and teaches Lin Xiao the Source-Tracing Talisman Array 163 186 286 382.
• Yuan Qing — Chooses to follow Lin Xiao personally, then asks to join the Lingxian Sect as his disciple after learning his identity 337 359.
• Xiaoluan — Sect companion whom Lin Xiao supplies with powerful resources, including a demon core and the Mystic Ultimate Azure Flame. Also repeatedly reminds him of a promised peachwood sword 117 562.
• Li Zhanying and the Li Imperial Clan — Cautious political partners. Lin Xiao promises noninterference while their court serves the people and later supports extending trust to the clan in trade matters 255 542 543.
• Shen Yingzi — Befriends him without judging his feminine presentation, encourages him to cultivate for his father’s sake, and invites father and son to the sect 396 401.
• He Yi — Discusses the Execution Cultivator threat with Lin Xiao and requests his help activating the Execution-Binding Treasure Formation 499 508.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Founding and Equipping the Lingxian Sect

Lin Xiao establishes the sect around a thatched shelter, plants the Ten-Li Peach Blossom Tree, and begins creating its cultivation methods. He recruits locally and assigns responsibilities according to his companions’ strengths, including teaching, finance, construction, and farming 3 30.

He refuses recruitment into another immortal sect because he already considers himself a sect master. As the Lingxian Sect grows, he acquires a Spirit Stone mine, equips specialist halls, and develops tools and techniques for agriculture 37 113 115 117 120.

Entering the Wider Cultivation World

Traveling with Liao Pantu introduces Lin Xiao to the Immortal Cultivation Realm beyond his village. He explores Yuanling City, rescues Liu Chun, and returns home as a Foundation Establishment Middle Stage cultivator 152 162 163 188.

He later helps treat the Yuan Household ancestor and earns Yuan Qing’s personal loyalty. On returning to the sect, he synthesizes the Yaoguang Floating Island to provide additional space 348 359 361.

Open Recruitment and Sect Education

Lin Xiao ends the sect’s earlier secrecy and opens recruitment to candidates who pass the Heart-Questioning Road. He delegates daily affairs before entering seclusion and later formally welcomes a new generation of disciples after attaining Nascent Soul 198 208 432.

To broaden instruction, he assembles Liao Pantu, Yang Jinshu, Sun Yigao, and Mo Yuanjiao into a Teaching and Research Group. Their task is to learn the first levels of more than a thousand methods so they can teach disciples and help them overcome bottlenecks 469.

Politics, Execution Cultivators, and Mortal Development

Lin Xiao negotiates a conditional understanding with Pusi Kingdom’s imperial clan and becomes involved in Huanyou Nation’s conflict. He seeks to protect ordinary people while keeping the sect from being drawn unnecessarily into warfare 255 375 387.

He Yi’s request concerning the Execution-Binding Treasure Formation forces him to weigh public responsibility against the danger of revealing his Origin Power. Meanwhile, the Lingxian Sect gains the wholehearted support of twenty Mortal Realm sects and additional support from more than fifty 499 500 508 596.

His development plans include Xiushui City and scheduled trains for transporting people and goods through the Mortal Realm. He argues that improving ordinary lives will also create a broader foundation for future cultivators 530 597.

Chongxiao Domain and Great Wind Valley

On a later journey, Lin Xiao gathers resources and records unfamiliar regions, eventually hiring Jiang Qu to guide him through Chongxiao Domain’s second layer. When Jiang Qu suffers disaster while working for him, Lin Xiao considers himself responsible for looking after him 612 614 640 648.

In Great Wind Valley, he studies the library’s records and teaches East Village cultivators, extending his lessons to Foundation Establishment practitioners. His research leads to a Nascent Soul Middle Stage breakthrough, after which he continues studying and practicing the four cultivation crafts 674 679 680.

Notable Quotes

“I'm the master of a sect now. How could a sect master go and become someone else's disciple in another immortal sect?” 37

“I have only one requirement: they must have good character. We don't want anyone with a crooked disposition.” 94

“As long as the court led by the Li Imperial Clan continues to act for the good of the country and its people, and does right by the people and the realm, my Lingxian Sect will absolutely not interfere in the slightest.” 255

“Your focus and the bearing you have when you do something you love and are good at are wonderful to see.” 309

Trivia

• Despite being a Golden Core cultivator and sect master, he is assigned to catch the pig’s blood during his family’s New Year preparations—and gets splashed in the face 243.
• He avoids initially placing relatives in charge of major departments because he does not want the sect to become an institution controlled entirely by the Lin Household 520.
• To resolve the sect’s tangled family and disciple seniority, he declares all founding old-timers to belong to the same generation. This places his father and grandfather in the same formal sect generation 599.
• Outsiders sometimes mistake his genuine youth for a cultivated disguise, even privately criticizing him for supposedly pretending to be a boy 396 598.