Zhao Xin

Zhao Xin is a Hidden Dragon Institute scout whose Golden-Eyed Eagle bloodline and map-projection skill make him more valuable for reconnaissance than direct combat. He maps the Goldwater Ruins, locates scattered students, and later helps Su Chen in Clear River City. (Chapters 288–630)

Biography

Scouting the Goldwater Ruins

Zhao Xin meets Su Chen after losing a one-on-one fight with a Ferocious Race youth. He openly admits the defeat rather than exaggerate his strength, allowing Su Chen to assess the danger correctly. From a mountain vantage point, Zhao activates his eagle sight through the obscuring fog and projects what he sees onto paper, giving them a detailed partial map. He then guards Su Chen while medicine is prepared and uses his vision to search for allies and enemies. When another Ferocious Race warrior approaches, Zhao deliberately draws the opponent away; his attacks cannot penetrate the warrior's hardened body, but flight, speed, defensive preparations, and persistence keep him alive long enough for the ambush plan to proceed. (Chapters 288–293)

Zhao subsequently travels through the ruins notifying students of the new headquarters. His reports allow Qi Weiyan and others to converge, while his progressively expanded map becomes detailed enough to guide the planned assault on the northern mountain. He also serves as an elevated lookout during later fighting. After the expedition, he joins several classmates in Clear River City, where he remains for another year after older students return to graduate. A later reunion confirms that he survived those assignments, though the corpus does not state his subsequent post or final realm. (Chapters 297–422 and 630)

Appearance and personality

Zhao Xin is described by a Ferocious Race opponent as small and bean-sprout-like. He is candid about weakness, has a good attitude, and accepts a support role without embarrassment. During the decoy fight, he continues provoking a much stronger enemy despite grave injuries because abandoning the diversion would expose Su Chen. His later careful mapping and patient search for other students reinforce a methodical, team-oriented temperament. (Chapters 288–315)

Abilities and cultivation

Zhao Xin is a Qi Drawing cultivator during the ruins expedition with a Golden-Eyed Eagle bloodline. Golden Blazing Eagle Eye drastically sharpens his sight, penetrates thin obstacles, and sees through the mountain's grey fog. Its observed limit is distance: even from elevation it cannot map the entire isolated space. Combined with his agility and Eagle Spreading Its Wings, the bloodline supports aerial evasion and scouting, but it does not let him defeat a stronger Ferocious Race warrior head-on. (Chapters 288–289)

His second utility Origin Skill projects everything he sees onto a sheet, rapidly producing a detailed map and later a near bird's-eye rendering of the northern mountain. He also uses Sudden Rain Needles, a numerous-projectile attack whose individual needles carry roughly thirteen bears of force. The attack threatens exposed weak points but fails against Burke's hardened body, establishing its armor limitation. Zhao can also release a palm light attack and accelerate sharply while airborne, though the text does not name those techniques or clarify whether the burst depends on medicine. No later realm or skill progression is recorded. (Chapters 288–315)

Relationships

• Su Chen: Su Chen treats Zhao's injuries, relies on his reconnaissance, and gives him the central task of mapping and contacting the scattered students. Zhao in turn guards and acts as decoy for him. (Chapters 288–297)
• Gan Haoli: Gan Haoli's long-distance consciousness connection works when both parties can see each other, making him Zhao's recognized ideal scouting partner. (Chapters 288 and 316)
• Qi Weiyan and Zhu Anyi: Zhao's messages bring these senior students to the headquarters, allowing the search-and-recruitment network to expand. (Chapter 297)

Items

The finalized notable-item inventory for Zhao Xin contains no entries. The maps, paper, Windspeed Medicines, and Recovery Medicines are operational supplies or consumables rather than enduring signature possessions. (Chapters 288–297)