Di Tian
Di Tian is the distant power who shaped much of Su Ming's early life before becoming one of his most persistent enemies. He rules through projections, seals, reincarnations, and plans measured in millennia. To Su Ming, he first appears as the hidden hand behind missing memories and the false life at Dark Mountain; later revelations identify the soul within Di Tian as a former Sublime Paragon who took the body of the Immortals' Di Tian and sought the special nature of an Abyss Builder for himself. (Chapters 164, 687, 1111)
His imperial bearing and repeated insistence that the world obey him make him an embodiment of imposed fate. That image is only part of him, however. The last stages of the story reveal a man driven by survival, loyalty to seven companions from prior aeons, and a promise to restore the people he lost. His bond with Su Ming consequently changes from one-sided control, to open enmity, to a dangerous mutual dependence, and finally to a melancholy recognition between two people who choose different answers to illusion and loss. (Chapters 1364–1375, 1457–1477)
Biography
Dark Mountain and the Berserker awakening
Di Tian enters Su Ming's story as a name associated with fear, deception, and erased memory. The dying Han Kong calls out to him with both reverence and terror, accuses him of lying, and leaves Su Ming wondering whether Di Tian was responsible for the gaps in his past. The question becomes central to Su Ming's emerging refusal to let any outside will dictate his actions. A later account reveals that Di Tian had also defeated and sealed Hong Luo inside the body called Destiny, making both Hong Luo's awakening and Su Ming's incomplete memories consequences of a much older design. (Chapters 164, 354, 392–393)
When Hong Luo awakens through Su Ming and tries to reach the Immortals' realm, Di Tian intercepts him with a projection. Di Tian's purpose is not merely to defeat an enemy: he wants to restore the arrangement he made, force Hong Luo back out of Destiny, and return Su Ming to the path prepared for him. His calm claim to sovereign authority contrasts with Hong Luo's rage. Even after recognizing each other as senior and junior brothers of the Immortals' royal line, Di Tian refuses to explain his design, invokes punishment, reverses Hong Luo's recovery, and tears Hong Luo's soul from Su Ming's body. The victory costs him more than his expression admits; his robe and crown dim, wrinkles cover the projection, and Hong Luo still succeeds in passing the Path to Life to Su Ming. (Chapters 399–403)
Hong Luo's final intervention brings Su Ming to a stone coffin and helps his own will awaken. Di Tian calls Su Ming his son and claims to have raised him, but his actions expose the relationship as coercive: he orders Su Ming to kneel, intends to seal his memories again, and says that physical submission is sufficient even if Su Ming's heart remains defiant. Su Ming opens Hong Luo's Gate to the Void and answers with power left by the first God of Berserkers. Di Tian can briefly interfere with the gate and meets that power with Soar to the White Sky, but the clash ruins his regalia and dissolves the projection. Su Ming escapes injured, carrying both proof of Di Tian's overwhelming reach and a vow to surpass him. (Chapters 404–410)
The Shamans and the World of Nine Yin
Years later, Di Tian sends two more clones into the Berserkers' lands. One protects Great Leaf Immortal Sect and watches the powerful Immortal presence in eastern Eastern Wastelands; the other searches specifically for Su Ming. The hunting clone kills nearby Berserkers simply through its descending pressure, turns their headless corpses into search vessels, and waits for Destiny to reveal himself. When Su Ming does appear, Di Tian addresses him as his son and moves to correct his path, confident that the years outside his observation have not been enough to ruin the plan. (Chapters 580–585)
This time Su Ming chooses the battlefield and prepares layered traps. The first God of Berserkers' presence momentarily shakes Di Tian, but he recovers from illusions, soul attacks, summoned creatures, and seals, repeatedly showing how far a projection still stands above Su Ming. As Su Ming's Destiny state overlaps past and future, however, Di Tian loses his composure. He decides that preserving the plan is no longer worth the danger and tries to erase Su Ming's consciousness altogether. Their second collision between Soar to the White Sky and the remaining power of the God of Berserkers badly injures Di Tian's clone, shatters a protective jade, and leaves Su Ming unconscious, yet the old xun maker's relocation removes Su Ming before Di Tian can finish him. Di Tian's failure turns his usual coldness into open fury. (Chapters 585–594)
Di Tian nevertheless continues to press the seals established across Su Ming's many lives. His purple- and gold-robed clones use a greenish-black stone marked with Su Ming's outline to strengthen the mental seal just as Su Ming attempts to enter the Berserker Soul Realm. In the subsequent conflict, Di Tian's larger design finally becomes visible: his Reincarnation Art is meant to return Su Ming to oblivion, erase the development of one life, and begin the next controlled cycle. Su Ming wakes inside the imposed Dark Mountain life, reconstructs how Di Tian had taken and used the dead infant, and rejects the illusion. The black-robed projection burns away, the final heavenly punishment fails, and Di Tian recognizes that Su Ming can no longer be made to reincarnate according to his will. (Chapters 639–689)
Divine Essence and Ecang
Although the visible clones fail, Di Tian retains a deeper bond with Su Ming. While Su Ming struggles to possess Ecang, he reasons that Di Tian has hidden a seal or part of himself inside his soul and that ordinary resistance will never expose it. Di Tian, meanwhile, watches over Su Ming's original corpse in the Immortals' galaxy. Their souls have been uniquely fused, and Di Tian needs only another three hundred years for his attempt to use that connection to seize an Abyss Builder's body; Su Ming's death would also gravely injure him and permanently halt the growth of his cultivation. (Chapters 807, 830–831)
Su Ming turns that dependency into a contest of resolve by burning almost his entire soul. Di Tian initially waits, unable to tell whether the danger is real or a trap, because withdrawing would abandon a plan pursued for countless years. When Su Ming is reduced to his last remnant, Di Tian finally strikes his own brow and pulls a golden light out of Su Ming's soul. The withdrawal preserves both lives but gives Su Ming the victory: Di Tian loses direct control of his soul, while Su Ming gains the freedom needed to complete his possession of Ecang. The price nearly destroys Su Ming, and Di Tian still possesses his physical body, which remains both bait and the foundation of a second plan. (Chapters 831–843)
Di Tian's continued custody of that body shapes Su Ming's return strategy. Rather than approach openly, Su Ming seeks power in Morning Dao Sect and plans to conceal his identity until he can take the body back. Even after breaking the soul seal, he understands that Di Tian will use the corpse to draw him into another controlled confrontation. Thus Di Tian remains a decisive pressure during the Divine Essence period even when he is physically absent: Su Ming's new caution, long planning, and insistence on owning his fate all develop in answer to him. (Chapters 835, 918–940)
The Fifth Furnace and Morning Dao
Contact with his physical body's eyes inside the Fifth Furnace shows Su Ming that Di Tian is still guarding it. Later, Su Ming reconstructs the larger history: the soul of True Morning Dao Sect's Sublime Paragon survived the loss of its original body and possessed the Immortals' Di Tian, then preserved Su Ming's corpse through repeated reincarnations while studying the weakness and potential of Abyss Builders. Su Xuan Yi recognized that interest and allowed Su Ming to serve as bait, turning Di Tian's long experiment into part of a second, competing scheme. (Chapters 1019, 1111–1113)
As leader of the Immortals' Union, Di Tian negotiates with Saint Defier's representatives for the Life Changing Art. He offers his knowledge of Su Ming's body and the Union's resources in exchange for transformation into an Abyss Builder, believing his preparation gives him a chance even without their aid. He destroys his aged physical body, burns his Nascent Divinity, briefly restores his golden soul to the power of a Sublime Paragon, and enters what he believes is Su Ming's preserved body. The apparent success is a trap: it is a body formed from one billion corpses as part of Su Xuan Yi's plan. Di Tian cannot escape before it explodes, and the soul involved is wiped away while cursing Su Xuan Yi. (Chapters 1123–1137)
That death is only the loss of a soul fragment. The true Di Tian rests in a coffin inside a fiery world in Yin Death Vortex, holding a crimson pearl and allowing Su Xuan Yi to believe the rivalry has ended. His ten-thousand-year injuries have healed, and he has reached a basic understanding of Avacaniya, though he explicitly says he still needs more time before he might truly qualify to enter that realm. The failed possession was therefore a test with limited risk, while the true self remains hidden for a later strike. (Chapters 1144, 1207–1208)
Ancient Zang and the final truth
Di Tian ultimately emerges as the leader of the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, survivors or wills associated with earlier aeons. Seven companions—among them his senior brother, best friend, master, and lover—give him their lives and souls so that he can pursue their shared chance of survival. He solemnly promises to resurrect them if he succeeds. Their sacrifice creates seven additional presences within him, while the last companion becomes a third eye. Beneath his ambition is therefore a private obligation: he cannot accept failure after those closest to him entrusted their continued existence to him. (Chapters 1230, 1358–1364)
His method is to fuse his Life Matrix with Su Ming's, learn from Su Ming's path, copy him, and eventually possess him. That parasitic design also makes Su Ming's survival necessary. During the destruction of Harmonious Morus Alba, Di Tian spends his cultivation, soul, life force, and the stored lives of his companions to keep the joined Life Matrix intact. His body withers, his legs shatter when Su Ming's do, and the overlapping pupils representing the seven souls vanish one by one as he rebuilds Su Ming repeatedly. The aid is self-interested, but it is real: the former archenemy preserves Su Ming because neither his own promised resurrection nor his path can continue if Su Ming fails. (Chapters 1367–1375)
After the old cosmos ends, Di Tian appears sealed inside a young man's right eye and insists that he was born during Harmonious Morus Alba's 967th aeon. He recognizes the new world as a result of Su Ming's possession of Xuan Zang, warns Su Ming not to accept its apparent reality, and is suppressed for speaking. He later reverses that captivity, seals the second prince's soul in his own right eye, and takes control of the prince's body. This survival is linked to the Life Matrix he shared with Su Ming, but his triumph leads him toward the very loss of self he had warned against. (Chapters 1389, 1457)
Di Tian chooses to believe that an ancient dead city is real because he hopes to resurrect the companions whose corpses he has arranged around a rune. He knows that only his own sincere belief will let them return without doubting the world, and he accepts being lost as the price. Su Ming refuses the offered wine and walks a different path, but he leaves with a new understanding of his enemy's resolve. At the endpoint, Di Tian sits among the people of his sect in the world he chose, laughing with them and privately looking skyward with a blessing in his gaze as Su Ming departs. (Chapters 1457–1477)
Appearance and personality
Di Tian is most often represented as a middle-aged man in an Emperor's robe and distinctive crown. His projections may wear different colors—gold, purple, or black—but retain the same sovereign presence. When seen later in the Immortals' Union, he is an older, white-haired man in gray or white robes, without the crown, whose dignified gaze seems deep enough to contain the universe. His true hidden self again wears imperial regalia and looks older and more imposing than the soul fragment sent outside. In the recreated world he inhabits a different body, but Su Ming identifies his presence immediately; a vortex in his right eye serves as a seal for the displaced second prince. (Chapters 399–400, 639, 1123–1144, 1457)
For most of the story Di Tian is aloof, authoritarian, and almost unnaturally controlled. He speaks as if his commands are laws, advances without haste, and treats other lives as expendable pieces: nearby Berserkers die from his descent, corpses become his search tools, and Su Ming's memories and incarnations are resources to be reset. He is also patient and highly calculating, willing to let a soul fragment die to test Su Xuan Yi's plan and to hide for ten thousand years rather than force an unfavorable confrontation. His calm breaks when Su Ming escapes the structure he built; failed control brings out rage, disbelief, greed, and fear. (Chapters 399–405, 580, 687, 1130–1144)
The sacrifices of the seven companions reveal emotion beneath that severity. Di Tian weeps for them, accepts their warning not to act wrongly, and binds his survival to the promise that he will restore them. His final choice is tragic rather than simply tyrannical: he deliberately lets himself believe an illusion so the people he loves might experience it as life. Even there, he retains pride and grief, offering Su Ming a feast as an old acquaintance before allowing him to leave, and later watching the sky with a silent blessing. (Chapters 1364, 1457–1477)
Abilities and cultivation
Di Tian's abilities come from several distinct layers: the cultivation and soul of a former Sublime Paragon, Arts practiced through the Immortal body he possessed, replaceable projections and soul fragments, and a small number of external treasures. The corpus shows him in already-established states rather than narrating a complete sequence of formal advancements. A projection is assessed by Su Ming as being around Life Privation rather than Life Palace, while Di Tian's temporarily restored soul is explicitly that of a Sublime Paragon. His hidden true self later says he has only grasped the basics of Avacaniya and still lacks confirmed attainment of the realm. (Chapters 584, 1111, 1134, 1144)
Projections, soul fragments, and possession
Di Tian can send projections or clones across the boundary into the Berserkers' world, operate several separately, and assign them different purposes. These bodies retain his techniques, will, and memories, but are materially weaker and expendable: the destruction of a projection does not kill the hidden true self, and the soul fragment destroyed in Su Xuan Yi's trap only deprives him of a test piece. His clones still exert lethal pressure over ordinary cultivators, cross space without being detected by Hong Luo's divine sense, and can contend with forces associated with the Gods of Berserkers. (Chapters 399–406, 580, 639, 1144, 1208)
Possession is central to his long strategy. The Sublime Paragon's soul first took the body of the Immortals' Di Tian, later attempted to enter an Abyss Builder body through the Life Changing Art, and eventually displaced the second prince after being sealed within him. The Life Changing attempt demands the destruction of his current body and the burning of his Nascent Divinity; it raises his soul to its former strength only briefly and exposes him to catastrophic injury if the target is false. His eventual reversal against the second prince is demonstrated, but the precise technique by which he takes control is not explained. (Chapters 1111, 1134–1136, 1389, 1457)
Divine sense, seals, and imposed will
His divine sense can search enormous regions, monitor Su Ming's preserved body, and impose physical pressure strong enough to force a resistant target toward kneeling. More subtly, Di Tian seals memories, reinforces a Brand across repeated lives, and establishes a fusion between his soul and Su Ming's. The bond lets him sense danger to Su Ming and makes Su Ming's death capable of crippling his cultivation, but it is not absolute: Hong Luo's Path to Life hides Su Ming from his perception, the old xun maker can relocate Su Ming beyond his search, and Su Ming can force the embedded golden seal out by risking near-total destruction of his own soul. (Chapters 405–407, 580–593, 639, 830–835)
At the end of Harmonious Morus Alba, the soul bond develops into an interwoven Life Matrix. Di Tian can maintain and reconstruct Su Ming through it, even after destructive attacks break Su Ming's body. This is neither effortless nor unlimited. Every reconstruction consumes Di Tian's life force or one of the seven souls fused with him; his own body mirrors Su Ming's damage, and repeated rebuilding exhausts the stored lives until only Di Tian's own portion remains. The technique therefore creates survival through mutual dependence rather than invulnerability. (Chapters 1364, 1367–1375)
Heavenly authority and destructive Arts
Di Tian's direct combat Arts are framed as acts of imperial or heavenly authority. Simple gestures can tear four enormous spatial cracks, gather the power of the world, repair a damaged sky, or produce an invisible impact across thousands of feet. Heavenly Deprivation of Souls suppresses soul-bearing attacks and strips the spirit from a weapon or technique. His golden sleeve can overwhelm a sea of blood, but the glow of his robe fades and his body ages slightly, showing that the apparently casual act consumes power. (Chapters 400–401, 586)
His Heaven's Punishment replaces the visible sky with that of the Immortals and invokes graded torments. Against Hong Luo it produces nine Dragons of Yin, foul Illusory Pus, black spirit-insects, and threads that enter the target and pierce the organs. A related planetary punishment projects light from nine cultivation planets over vast distances. These attacks can inflict decay, spiritual torment, and large-scale destruction, yet they can be resisted or escaped by sufficiently powerful relocation, world authority, or a target who breaks the imposed state before completion. (Chapters 401–403, 592–593, 689)
Soar to the White Sky creates a white sun, changes day and night, and concentrates power between Di Tian's hands until the surrounding world trembles. Even a projection can use it to meet power from the first God of Berserkers, but the cost is visible and severe: his robe and crown burn, his skin withers, and a failed clash leaves the projection broken or dispersed. Reusing it while already injured worsens those vulnerabilities and can consume protective resources. (Chapters 406, 591–592)
Restoration and Reincarnation Arts
An ancient Art associated with the Immortals' royal blood lets Di Tian reverse a target's recovery, recreate destroyed punishments, expel an occupying soul, heal the underlying body, and return events toward the state he defines as order. The dossier establishes the effects but does not name the Art or fully explain whether its temporal appearance is literal reversal. Hong Luo's sacrificial Path to Life can interfere with it, and using it after prolonged combat contributes to the projection's worn state. (Chapters 403–405)
The Reincarnation Art is the core learned method behind Su Ming's controlled lives. It makes the target sink into oblivion and experience another apparently real existence, allowing Di Tian to erase resistance and resume the planned cycle. Its reach is enhanced through prepared seals and the starry face manifested above the Berserkers' world. Its limit is the target's will and insight: Su Ming preserves himself through the Candle Dragon's more profound Undying and Imperishable World, recognizes Di Tian's illusion as a lesser mirror within a mirror, and wakes. Once he does, Di Tian's clone cannot restore control even by casting the Art again. (Chapters 687–689)
Equipment-derived and prepared power
Several effects depend on external objects rather than Di Tian's inherent cultivation. A greenish-black stone bearing Su Ming's outline lets the purple-robed clone reinforce the existing seal from afar. An unnamed jade sustains a golden protective light during the Dead Sea battle, but it is consumed and crumbles after blocking combined attacks. The Immortals' Enchanted Vessel and nine cultivation planets provide the range and destructive force for Destiny's Heavenly Punishment; Di Tian activates them, but their power is anchored outside his projected body. His crimson pearl can cover his hidden world with seas of fire, though the source does not explain whether it attacks, conceals, sustains the environment, or performs all three. (Chapters 592, 639, 689, 1144)
Relationships
Su Ming
Di Tian treats Su Ming first as Destiny: a rare body and life to be observed, reincarnated, sealed, and eventually possessed. He sometimes calls him his son, but the relationship is based on imposed identity rather than care. Every escape pushes Su Ming toward greater self-determination, while every failure makes Di Tian abandon another layer of restraint. Their later fused Life Matrices invert the balance. Di Tian must preserve the man he once tried to erase, and Su Ming understands that self-interest will make his enemy protect him. After the old cosmos, they meet less as master and subject than as two survivors. Su Ming rejects Di Tian's chosen illusion but finally understands the love and promise behind it. (Chapters 405, 687, 830–831, 1364–1375, 1457–1477)
Su Xuan Yi
Su Xuan Yi is Di Tian's principal rival across tens of thousands of years. Each tries to use Su Ming and each expects the other's scheme to create an opening. Di Tian studies the Abyss Builders partly to find a means against Su Xuan Yi, while Su Xuan Yi feeds that interest with a false body constructed as an explosive trap. Di Tian anticipates deception well enough to risk only a soul fragment, yet he still acknowledges Su Xuan Yi's ability and uses the rivalry to deepen his understanding of Avacaniya. Their relationship is neither alliance nor simple opposition; it is a prolonged contest in which both men knowingly make use of the other's plans. (Chapters 1111, 1134–1144, 1208)
Hong Luo
Hong Luo calls Di Tian his senior brother and identifies both of them with the Immortals' royal family. Di Tian fears Hong Luo enough to seal rather than kill him, placing him inside Destiny until the intended release. When Hong Luo wakes early, Di Tian restores the seal's order and destroys him, but Hong Luo uses his death to pass Su Ming the Path to Life and reveal that Di Tian's plan can be opposed. Their final battle therefore removes an old rival while creating the first durable breach in Di Tian's control of Su Ming. (Chapters 392, 403–406)
The seven companions
The seven figures who join Di Tian at the end of Harmonious Morus Alba include his senior brother, best friend, master, and lover. They entrust him with their lives because he has advanced furthest along their shared path, but their consent comes with a pledge: if he succeeds, he must resurrect them. Their souls become both the emotional reason he refuses failure and a finite reserve consumed to keep Su Ming's Life Matrix whole. In the recreated world, Di Tian's willingness to lose himself is his attempt to honor that promise. (Chapters 1364–1375, 1457–1477)
Immortals' Union and Saint Defier
As leader of the Immortals' Union and progenitor of Great Leaf Immortal Sect, Di Tian commands sects, dispatches clones, and can order a large-scale lockdown. His cooperation with Saint Defier is transactional: he offers the Union's position and his knowledge of an Abyss Builder in exchange for Life Changing. Bai Feng joins the arrangement for her own ascension, while Saint Defier's experts increase Di Tian's chance of success. The alliance ends in Su Xuan Yi's trap, demonstrating that institutional power can amplify Di Tian's plans but cannot protect him from a false target. (Chapters 580, 1123–1137)
Items
Emperor's robe and crown
The robe and crown are Di Tian's recurring imperial regalia and make his separate projections immediately recognizable. They react during major Arts: the robe shines and fades when he submerges the sun and moon, both garments burn during Soar to the White Sky, and the crown shatters when a projection is overwhelmed. The corpus does not establish them as independent sources of power, so their behavior is best treated as part of, or equipment affected by, Di Tian's techniques rather than a separate innate ability. (Chapters 399–401, 406, 668)
Coffins and the crimson pearl
Coffins repeatedly support Di Tian's long preparations. A hidden black coffin houses a specially prepared fourth clone in the Berserkers' world, while his true self sleeps in another coffin inside a sealed fiery dimension of Yin Death Vortex. In the latter place, he holds a crimson pearl that unfolds into seas of flame and withdraws them when he returns to rest. The pearl's exact limits and the coffin's mechanism are not explained, but together they mark the protected refuge from which the true Di Tian survives the destruction of his outside soul fragment. (Chapters 660, 670, 1144, 1230)
Seal stone and protective jade
The greenish-black stone used by the purple-robed clone carries an image resembling Su Ming and strengthens the seal on him from a distance. The unnamed jade used by another clone supplies a golden defensive screen, but the defense is consumable: combined opposition shatters the jade into powder and removes the light. Both are prepared aids with narrow demonstrated functions, not evidence that Di Tian can reproduce the same effects innately without them. (Chapters 592, 639–640)