Si Kong Yang — Lord Xue Ying

Si Kong Yang is the head of the Water Daoist Faction, one of the Xia Clan's three leading human Transcendents, and a principal supervisor of its most promising young cultivators. His severe judgment of Dong Bo Xue Ying's unconventional path demotes and isolates the younger man, but it is driven by fear of losing a rare future Demigod rather than indifference. When Xue Ying proves that path has produced a grade-two True Meaning, Si Kong Yang openly reverses himself, restores the disciple's standing, and helps protect the talent he had nearly constrained. The supplied EPUB becomes severely fragmentary after Chapter 238, so his later battles and fate are described only where surviving openings establish them.

Biography

Faction head and steward of new talent

Si Kong Yang enters the story as the fifth-ranked Demigod and head of the Water Daoist Faction. He has condensed a True Deity Heart, a distinction held by only four Demigods across the human race, Transcendent natives, and Beast Clan, and his standing makes him one of the three human overlords of the era. He nevertheless remembers obligations from before he reached that position. Chao Qing supported him when he was young and weak and once saved his life, so Si Kong Yang greets the older Demigod with genuine veneration rather than treating factional rank as a reason to forget that debt. (Chapters 110–111)

He first approaches Xue Ying at the Transcendent Battle of Life and Death because the youngest new Transcendent in a thousand years has drawn the attention of many Demigods. Si Kong Yang enjoys the young man's success, but tempers public praise with warnings that early talent does not guarantee lasting achievement. His immediate hope is comparatively conservative: if Xue Ying can turn his intertwined water and fire comprehension into the corresponding True Meaning and eventually become a Demigod, that alone will justify the Water Daoist Faction's investment. This blend of pride and caution shapes his later reaction when Xue Ying moves beyond the path Si Kong Yang recognizes. (Chapters 110–128)

After the contest, Si Kong Yang brings Xue Ying into the Scarlet Cloud Mountain World and presents him to the other Substitute Elders as their youngest disciple brother. His purpose is institutional rather than ceremonial. The Xia Clan spends rare resources there to produce Demigods—the backbone of the clan—and Si Kong Yang allocates those resources according to combat power, comprehension, and future potential. Gong Yu manages daily instruction, while Si Kong Yang returns roughly every year and a half to observe live tests, reorder the rankings, diagnose weak applications of a Profound Mystery, and answer cultivation problems. His presence intimidates the disciples, but the system makes his expectations and the consequences of slow progress explicit. (Chapters 130–135)

The path he tried to close

Ten years into Xue Ying's training, Si Kong Yang discovers that the disciple has fused wind into the previously stable combination of water and fire. To him, this is not a harmless experiment: Xue Ying had a historically supported route to the True Meaning of Water and Fire, whereas no Xia Clan predecessor was known to have attained greatness through the exact threefold combination. He fears that an understanding once altered cannot simply be forgotten and that a talent expected to succeed him as faction head has traded a likely Demigod future for an untested dead end. His anger is therefore joined by disbelief and sadness, although the resulting reprimand places the weight of the clan's hopes on Xue Ying without accepting the younger cultivator's own reason for training—the perfection of his spear art. (Chapters 132–136)

Even after declaring Xue Ying's original road ruined, Si Kong Yang does not initially abandon him. He offers to visit more often, design a new cultivation direction, and guide him step by step along a precedent that could still lead upward. Xue Ying refuses because a prescribed goal would sever cultivation from the spear practice that gives him motivation. Si Kong Yang responds by dropping him to last place, reducing the resources attached to his ranking, and telling him to bear the consequences of his belief. The demotion produces a wider social cost as other disciples dismiss Xue Ying, but it also forces the disagreement into clarity: Si Kong Yang prioritizes the probability of producing a clan defender, while Xue Ying accepts institutional disapproval to preserve a personally coherent path. (Chapters 136–138)

For nearly fifteen years, Si Kong Yang regards the experiment as a failure. Xue Ying's persistence eventually yields the embryonic form of the True Meaning of Extreme Piercing and completion of the Mountain Road mission. Si Kong Yang first seeks an explanation because he cannot understand the penetrative effect, then reacts to the answer without defensiveness. He calls Xue Ying's success a worthwhile slap in the face, acknowledges that he had almost destroyed a grade-two True Meaning, and moves him directly to first place. The reversal changes more than a number: Si Kong Yang asks the elders to conceal Xue Ying's real combat power, calls for protective treasures beyond what the Water Daoist Faction alone can supply, and supports giving him the resources attached to a talent unique in Xia Clan history. (Chapters 154–159)

Xue Ying later defends the elder's earlier conduct to Yu Jing Qiu, explaining that Si Kong Yang reprimanded him because he genuinely feared the younger man was ruining his future. That interpretation does not erase the harm of the demotion, but it captures Si Kong Yang's development: once evidence disproves his judgment, pride does not prevent correction. He accepts embarrassment, restores material support, and treats the very result that contradicted him as something the clan must protect. (Chapter 160)

Demon war and the cost of stewardship

When demons threaten the Xia world, Si Kong Yang orders the Water Daoist Faction's Transcendents and Legend rankers to prepare for systematic pursuit. His leadership extends beyond deployment. At the remains of a dead Xia Clan Transcendent, he honors every cultivator who sacrificed for the clan and contrasts them with Demigods who preserved themselves by joining the Demonic Faction. He also responds personally when Xue Ying encounters dangerous Demon Generals, arriving with Chao Qing and Chi Qiu Bai, assessing the enemy's True Meaning, and questioning how the otherwise cautious Xue Ying was exposed. When the operation against the demons' minor Transcendent Worlds begins, Si Kong Yang accepts secrecy about Xue Ying's grade-two True Meaning, then urges the team onward before missing communications can warn the remaining enemies. (Chapters 168–208)

The campaign makes his strictness toward students more costly and personal. Pu Yang Bo, whom Si Kong Yang had repeatedly criticized for failing to turn potential into discipline, dies during the war. Si Kong Yang's grief reveals that his dissatisfaction had always concerned cultivation rather than the student's worth. The same losses accumulate across the Water Daoist Faction, giving urgency to his demand that the hidden demon positions be destroyed quickly. Situ Hong later claims that Si Kong Yang valued Xue Ying above him, but the surviving record also shows the elder trying to direct each disciple according to the future he thought still available; it does not establish that Si Kong Yang knew of Situ Hong's eventual betrayal before it happened. (Chapters 208 and 234–237)

The supplied Chapter 289 preserves only the opening of a later battle. It shows Si Kong Yang charging Lord You Lan's side with an aura like a dazzling sun and raging inferno, after which Nuo Nuo An is ordered to stop him and divides into more than a hundred mist-like evil spirits. The fragment establishes Si Kong Yang's direct commitment to the fight, but not the mechanics of his attack, the way he answers Nuo Nuo An's transformation, or the outcome. Those details cannot be inferred from his Demigod ranking or flame-related Deity Heart. (Chapter 289)

Later fragments place Si Kong Yang among the Xia Clan leaders confronting two painful reversals. He sends a body projection to Chi Qiu Bai and can barely voice his grief when the man once expected to become the clan's strongest sits without an aura. By Chapter 392, Si Kong Yang watches Xue Ying erase a World Deity avatar with a shout and credits him with crushing the spatial-passage calamity of the Sorcerer God and Great Demonic God. His praise carries a sober limit: the strongest Transcendent in Xia Clan history can save the clan yet still cannot save his own wife at that moment. A later fragment places Si Kong Yang among the old Xia Clan friends gathered with Xue Ying at the Black Fog Sea, confirming his survival through Chapter 673 without preserving a newer cultivation state. (Chapters 382, 392, and 673)

Appearance and personality

Si Kong Yang is shown in azure robes during a Water Daoist Faction mobilization. His defining visual trait is supernatural rather than anatomical: his aura resembles a great sun, radiating such intense light, heat, and pressure that weaker observers struggle to look directly at him. When departing the Scarlet Cloud Mountain World, his body becomes golden before he vanishes into the sky. The corpus supplies no stable details about his age, face, hair, or build, so the solar imagery should not be expanded into physical features. (Chapters 110, 131, 134, and 168)

He is proud, overbearing, and demanding, especially when clan resources and a disciple's future are at stake. His rebuke of Xue Ying is severe enough to alter the young man's status, yet he offers increased personal instruction before resorting to demotion and later admits his error without evasion. He reserves deep respect for loyalty and sacrifice: gratitude toward Chao Qing survives his own rise, fallen students grieve him even when they disappointed him, and betrayal of the Xia Clan provokes open fury. These traits make him a harsh steward rather than a detached one—his central weakness is confidence that proven precedent should govern another cultivator's path, while his corrective strength is willingness to change when results overturn that confidence. (Chapters 111, 136–160, 194, and 235)

Abilities and cultivation

Si Kong Yang is a Demigod who has condensed a flame-related True Deity Heart. His fifth-place Demigod ranking and faction leadership establish his standing, but the corpus gives more evidence about his cultivation pressure, avatars, and judgment than about a catalogue of named combat techniques. Later damaged chapters preserve the opening of one confrontation without its resolution, so no missing attacks, defenses, or progression beyond Demigod are supplied.

Condensing a True Deity Heart places Si Kong Yang half a step from Deity level and makes him one of only four known Demigods in the Xia world to reach that state. Xue Ying's later assessment identifies the Heart as flame-related and oriented toward offense rather than a domain. Its observable manifestation is consistent with that description: Si Kong Yang appears like a sun, and while charging Nuo Nuo An he resembles a dazzling light and raging inferno. The text does not explain its activation requirements, attack range, fuel, duration, or named techniques, so these visual effects cannot be converted into a complete flame-combat system. (Chapters 110, 134, 236, and 289)

The Heart does not make every aspect of him unsurpassable. Xue Ying tests his Mirage concealment from several hundred kilometers away and Si Kong Yang cannot sense him, while Mountain Lord He's spell- and domain-oriented True Deity Heart does detect the intrusion. This comparison establishes a sensory limitation of Si Kong Yang's offensive specialization; it does not imply weak overall perception or that every concealment technique would defeat him. His latest confirmed cultivation remains Demigod with the True Deity Heart, because the supplied corpus never records a Deity breakthrough. (Chapters 235–236 and 392)

Qi avatars and body projections

Si Kong Yang maintains a Qi Avatar within the Water Daoist Faction, allowing Xue Ying to seek him out without requiring his true body to be locally present. He and other Xia Clan leaders also send body projections to distant scenes, including Chi Qiu Bai's final gathering. These manifestations support communication, observation, and institutional availability, but the text does not state their independent combat power, duration, creation cost, or whether the Chapter 382 projection can physically intervene. They should therefore be treated as remote embodiments with unspecified mechanics rather than full duplicates of his Demigod body. (Chapters 235 and 382)

Cultivation assessment and instruction

As a supervisor, Si Kong Yang evaluates Profound Mystery comprehension through demonstrations and controlled exchanges rather than rank alone. He pairs students with suitable opponents, watches how a mystery enters a weapon technique, identifies effort or application problems, and adjusts a resource ranking that can change as combat power and comprehension develop. His instruction is intermittent—Gong Yu handles ordinary guidance—and he explicitly tells the students that even the best teacher can only point toward problems, because direct understanding of the world's nature must remain their own. (Chapters 130–135)

His misreading of Xue Ying shows the limitation of this expertise. Si Kong Yang correctly recognizes the risk of combining paths without a historical model and the difficulty of returning to an earlier understanding, but assumes that this general risk proves Xue Ying's personal direction is wrong. Once Extreme Piercing appears, he cannot initially identify its mechanics from the woundless spear effect and needs Xue Ying to demonstrate it directly. He then accurately recognizes that the technique penetrates ordinary profound mysteries and exceeds known grade-three True Meanings. His teaching skill is therefore strongest in tested frameworks; novel paths can defeat his predictions, though he is capable of learning from the result. (Chapters 136–158)

Relationships

Dong Bo Xue Ying: Si Kong Yang first treats Xue Ying as the Water Daoist Faction's best prospect, then demotes him for rejecting a historically safe route. Extreme Piercing forces a complete reassessment, after which Si Kong Yang restores his rank, protects his secret, and supports the operations through which Xue Ying saves the Xia Clan. (Chapters 110–160, 168–237, and 392)
Chao Qing: Chao Qing supported Si Kong Yang in his youth and saved his life. Si Kong Yang continues to venerate him after becoming faction head, and the two later serve together in the demon war. (Chapters 110–111 and 193–208)
Mountain Lord He: A fellow human overlord and one of the only other human Demigods with a True Deity Heart. They jointly assess young cultivators and support Xue Ying's anti-demon operations, while their differently oriented Hearts provide a useful contrast in perception. (Chapters 110, 203–236, and 392)
Gong Yu: Si Kong Yang's co-supervisor in the Scarlet Cloud Mountain World. Gong Yu provides ordinary instruction and reports the disciples' progress; Si Kong Yang conducts periodic reviews and determines rankings and resource levels. (Chapters 130–159)
Chi Qiu Bai: A leading Water Daoist Faction Demigod and wartime peer. Si Kong Yang trusts his combat support, once expects him to become the Xia Clan's strongest member, and is visibly shaken by his death. (Chapters 147–208 and 382)
Palace Head Chen: A senior institutional partner who protects sensitive intelligence about Xue Ying. Si Kong Yang accepts the need for secrecy even when it excludes him, while pressing Palace Head Chen to provide protection beyond the Water Daoist Faction's means. (Chapters 156–159 and 198–236)
Pu Yang Bo: One of the Scarlet Cloud Mountain disciples Si Kong Yang criticizes for insufficient discipline. Pu Yang Bo's death reveals that the criticism coexisted with a teacher's attachment and grief. (Chapters 130–149 and 234–235)
Situ Hong: Another disciple whose stalled cultivation disappoints Si Kong Yang. Situ Hong later interprets the elders' greater confidence in Xue Ying as neglect and uses it to rationalize joining the Demonic Faction, but the corpus does not make Si Kong Yang responsible for that choice. (Chapters 130–149 and 237)

Items

No qualifying notable item is assigned to Si Kong Yang in the scoped inventory. His documented authority and combat standing derive from cultivation, faction resources, and collective Xia Clan operations rather than a persistent signature artifact.