Little Tiger

Little Tiger, also called Dong Hu or Little Hu, is one of the four youths taken to the Reliance Sect alongside Meng Hao. Resourceful, secretive, and fiercely loyal to his family, he later becomes Meng Hao’s ally in the struggle against Shangguan Xiu’s blood spell.

Biography

Arrival at the Reliance Sect

Little Tiger is introduced as a feisty and intelligent village youth among the four people carried away to the Reliance Sect with Meng Hao. The abduction gives none of them meaningful choice, but their responses quickly diverge. Little Tiger and Wang Youcai are assigned to the Southern Servants’ Quarter, beginning a cultivation life separate from Meng Hao and Li Fugui. (Chapter 1)

Outer Sect

Little Tiger later reaches the first level of Qi Condensation and enters the Outer Sect. When he meets Meng Hao and Li Fugui again, he reports that Wang Youcai fell from a cliff and appeared to have been eaten. He refuses Li Fugui's invitation to join their small alliance. Meng Hao recognizes that the refusal is not simple hostility and suspects Little Tiger has found a private opportunity he does not wish to expose. Little Tiger chooses secrecy and independence in a sect where visible resources attract predation. (Chapter 19)

Return as Dong Hu

Little Tiger reappears under the name Dong Hu while fleeing a sixth-level Upright Evening Sect cultivator. He is weaker in open cultivation, so he builds the fight around deception. Poisoned arrows slow and distract the pursuer; an aqua-blue pearl gives him another means of resistance; a feigned collapse draws the enemy close enough for a poisoned dagger to become lethal. The victory demonstrates a survival style based on preparation and timing rather than exchanging stronger magical attacks head-on. (Chapter 71)

After recognizing Meng Hao, Little Tiger asks whether he has come to Mount Daqing to save everyone. He explains the three sects' arrest order and Shangguan Xiu's blood spell, which places his parents and the local people in immediate danger. His secrecy now has a concrete purpose: he has been trying to preserve the means to help his family. He also reveals that Wang Youcai survived, correcting the apparent death he reported at the Reliance Sect, and agrees to wait for Meng Hao's signal. (Chapter 72)

Fighting the blood spell

When the confrontation begins, Little Tiger uses his pearl to restrain Shangguan Xiu's Blood Globe. He warns Meng Hao that the restraint will last only one incense stick, giving the alliance a precise and unforgiving window. Maintaining it requires his own blood and draws on a treasure linked to his life. He lends that power to Meng Hao even as the strain drives him unconscious, choosing a chance to save his parents over preserving his own safety. (Chapters 74–75)

Little Tiger awakens near death after Meng Hao breaks the immediate threat. Meng Hao returns the pearl rather than claiming it as the price of victory. The act secures more than gratitude: Little Tiger vows never to betray him, then looks toward his parents before leaving. The Mount Daqing arc turns their childhood connection into a chosen loyalty founded on shared risk and Meng Hao's refusal to exploit his weakened ally. (Chapter 76)

Southern Domain War and Dao Seeking

Years later, Little Tiger rises in the Northern Reaches as a cold Blood cultivator and seizes control of a small sect. The role shows how far he has traveled from a first-level Reliance disciple. His methods and public demeanor have hardened, while the blood-path identity connects his later cultivation to the life-linked and blood-sacrifice methods seen at Mount Daqing. The supplied chapter establishes the new status but does not provide a complete account of the intervening training or name the sect he takes. (Chapter 683)

Meng Clan and the Mountain and Sea War

The name Little Tiger resurfaces during Meng Hao's destruction of the First Heaven, connecting the remote war to one of the four youths present at the beginning of his cultivation journey. The reference confirms that Dong Hu's identity remains part of Meng Hao's remembered circle across the intervening ages. The scoped passage does not give Little Tiger a new on-page duel or clearly explain every transformation between the Northern Reaches blood cultivator and this later context, so those missing stages remain unresolved rather than reconstructed from genre convention. (Chapter 1340)

Appearance and personality

As a youth, Little Tiger is described as headstrong, feisty, and clever. His later conduct confirms that intelligence: he withholds a private opportunity in a predatory sect and uses deception, poison, and timing to defeat a stronger pursuer. He does not confuse openness with loyalty; he keeps secrets when exposure would endanger his plans, then commits fully once Meng Hao shares his goal of stopping Shangguan Xiu. (Chapters 19 and 71–76)

His strongest motivation is family. He risks the life-linked pearl and his own blood to stop the Blood Globe because his parents are among those threatened. Gratitude toward Meng Hao becomes an explicit vow only after Meng Hao both fights beside him and returns the treasure that could have been taken from him while helpless. His colder later reputation suggests hardening through cultivation, but the source does not show that he abandoned those earlier loyalties. (Chapters 72–76 and 683)

Abilities and cultivation

Qi Condensation and later blood cultivation

Little Tiger enters the Reliance Outer Sect at the first level of Qi Condensation. By his Northern Reaches reappearance he is known as a Blood cultivator powerful enough to seize a small sect, but the corpus passages used here do not state his exact later stage or give a complete cultivation method. The evidence supports a major rise in status and blood-path specialization, not a guessed sequence of breakthroughs. (Chapters 19 and 683)

Poisoned weapons and feints

Against the sixth-level Upright Evening pursuer, Little Tiger coats arrows and a dagger with poison. The arrows pressure the enemy at range, while his apparent collapse creates the opening for the concealed dagger at close quarters. Poison lets a weaker cultivator convert even a small wound into a decisive advantage, but only if he can land it; the strategy depends on the pursuer believing Little Tiger is already unable to resist. (Chapter 71)

Aqua-blue life-linked pearl

The aqua-blue pearl is linked to Little Tiger's life and can project enough restraining power to hold Shangguan Xiu's Blood Globe in place. It does not destroy the Globe. Little Tiger estimates the restraint at one incense stick, so the pearl functions as temporary control that creates an opportunity for Meng Hao to act. Extending its use requires Little Tiger's blood and rapidly exhausts him, making the treasure powerful but personally dangerous. (Chapters 74–75)

Because the pearl is life-linked, lending its power exposes Little Tiger himself. He collapses and approaches death after supporting Meng Hao. The treasure is returned once the battle ends, and no later passage in the scoped evidence demonstrates an upgraded form or removes its blood cost. (Chapters 75–76)

Tactical judgment

Little Tiger's most consistently demonstrated skill is selecting methods appropriate to a stronger opponent. He conceals opportunities, uses poison rather than force, gives Meng Hao an exact time limit for the Blood Globe restraint, and coordinates instead of competing for the finishing blow. This is learned survival and battlefield judgment, not a named supernatural art. (Chapters 19 and 71–75)

Relationships

• Meng Hao: Fellow abductee and later ally; Little Tiger pledges never to betray him.
• Li Fugui: Fellow abductee whose invitation he declines.
• Shangguan Xiu: Enemy whose blood magic threatens Little Tiger’s family.
• Wang Youcai: Fellow abductee; Little Tiger eventually reveals that he survived.
• His parents: Their danger under Shangguan Xiu's blood spell is the immediate reason Little Tiger risks his life and pearl at Mount Daqing.

Items

• Aqua-blue pearl: Life-linked treasure capable of temporarily restraining the Blood Globe at severe cost to Little Tiger. The finalized item manifest does not provide a separate page for it. (Chapters 71 and 74–76)
• Poisoned arrows and dagger: Prepared weapons used together with a feigned collapse to kill a stronger pursuer. (Chapter 71)