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Si Ma Xin

Freezing Sky prodigypractitioner and inheritor of the second God of Berserkers' Artscompletion of the Awakening Realm before his final transformation

Si Ma Xin is a prodigy of Freezing Sky Clan and one of Su Ming's earliest sustained rivals. His Great Art of Heartless Berserker Seed turns talented children and emotionally vulnerable adults into instruments of his advancement, making his ambition inseparable from the lives he controls. His contest with Su Ming grows from a dispute over Han Mountain Bell into a struggle over the inheritance of the second God of Berserkers, and his death leaves both liberated victims and dangerous divine abilities behind.

Biography

Dark Mountain and the Berserker awakening

Si Ma Xin enters the story first through reputation. Cultivators who hear that he has intervened react with a mixture of reverence and fear, while the Chief of War tells Su Ming that the two men resemble one another. That comparison makes Si Ma Xin an unseen measure against which Su's talent is judged, but the respect surrounding him is already compromised by what his methods do to weaker people. Freezing Sky authorities know that he cultivates an Art which uses other lives and nevertheless treat his victims as an acceptable price for the possible birth of another God of Berserkers. (Chapters 170, 199)

The source of that fear is the Great Art of Heartless Berserker Seed, created by the second God of Berserkers. The Art promises that, once perfected, the power accumulated in every planted Seed will be offered to the caster. Si Ma Xin cannot simply follow its premise, because he is described as originally passionate rather than truly heartless. He therefore divides its principle in two: the Berserker Seed is planted in one person, while love is planted in another person's heart, an attempt to remove love from himself and manufacture the Heartlessness the Art demands. (Chapters 170–174)

Fang Mu becomes one of those Seeds, and Han Cang Zi bears the corresponding planted love. Si Ma Xin's influence blocks Fang Mu's life force and leaves him unconscious even after Si has departed; healing the child is understood as openly offending a man whom senior figures prefer not to confront. Han Cang Zi's hatred and helplessness show the actual human cost of the system: the children are cultivated as future offerings, while those carrying planted love are made emotionally dependent on a stranger's ambition. Su Ming's decision to intervene begins a conflict that neither institutional deference nor Si Ma Xin's prestige can contain. (Chapters 170–174)

Si Ma Xin's promise as a cultivator is genuine, but it does not make him an ideal heir to every Freezing Sky tradition. An elder who once considered him concludes that Si's heart is not the kind of defiant “vice” he seeks, but something closer to a fiendish disposition. This judgment establishes the division that will define Si Ma Xin's later rivalry with Su: both are exceptional and both possess the Snow Mark, yet talent alone does not make their motives or treatment of other people equivalent. (Chapter 199)

Freezing Sky and the Ninth Summit

Before Si Ma Xin returns to Freezing Sky, his will encounters Su Ming inside Han Mountain Bell. Si had previously made the bell sound three times and regards it as his possession, with his will occupying two of its heads. Su instead wins the contest and takes the bell, turning a relic Si assumed would confirm his precedence into the first concrete proof that the new disciple can displace him. The defeat is personal as well as material: Su has entered a domain associated with Si's prior achievements and claimed what Si could not fully awaken. (Chapters 203, 319)

Si Ma Xin returns in white robes on the Seven Colored Mountain, outwardly handsome, gentle, and smiling. His elevated entrance and the acclaim it draws express how he understands his position in the clan. He speaks down to Su and initially considers him an inferior who can be defeated without his Berserker Mark or Origin Vessel. Su answers within Freezing Sky's own rules, forcing the celebrated prodigy into a public confrontation whose stakes include not only prestige but Fang Mu's sealed Seed and the people Si has bound to himself. (Chapters 319–323)

The battle exposes how carefully Si Ma Xin combines cultivation, artifacts, and manipulation. His Snow Mark freezes emotion and desire; his Seven Colored Mountain produces armor and weapons; and he uses an ice spear, a white wolf manifestation, and a recently acquired piercing insect when ordinary divine abilities cannot break Su's protection. Most dangerously, he considers calling on the whole network of Berserker Seeds. Doing so could give him overwhelming power, but it would kill the planted children and interrupt the long cultivation needed to perfect the Art. His reluctance is therefore not mercy: it is the calculation of someone protecting an investment in future power. (Chapters 321–325)

Si also tries to make Su himself into a Seed by creating an emotional opening through Bai Su, whose resemblance to Bai Ling can stir Su's buried attachment. He treats Bai Su as a means to gain both that opening and access to Freezing Sky Cave, not as a person he loves. The plan fails because Su recognizes and resists the imposed connection. Si Ma Xin is gravely wounded, while the emotional manipulation that was supposed to enlarge his control instead sharpens Bai Su's break from him and deepens Su's hostility. (Chapters 356–379)

Bai Su's father nevertheless arranges for the defeated Si Ma Xin to enter Freezing Sky Cave, where survival is the condition for obtaining what lies within. When Si emerges years later, the ordeal has magnified his power but not resolved his obsession. He joins Heaven Gate and uses his position to suppress the Ninth Summit while Su is absent. The earlier courtly image has by then been stripped away: humiliation, physical suffering, and hatred have made the rivalry the axis around which he interprets his own destiny. (Chapters 379, 523–540)

The Shamans and the World of Nine Yin

When Su Ming returns, the struggle shifts from status inside Freezing Sky to the legacy of the second God of Berserkers. Si Ma Xin has fused himself with that legacy through the Brand in the God's left arm and declares himself the true successor. The arm continually supplies life force, allowing him to recover and wield divine abilities beyond his former state, but it is not an unlimited personal reserve: the amount he can absorb is constrained, even as rising cultivation lets him draw more. The inheritance also has a psychological cost. Its power spreads through his body while scattering his mind, in contrast to Su's attempt to absorb the dead God's soul and consciousness without surrendering his own. (Chapters 541–559)

Si Ma Xin uses God of Berserkers' Seven Steps and the first of the Alterations towards the Stars, Sun, and Moon. When the arm's life supply is severed and his normal resources can no longer sustain the fight, he destroys his own Berserker Bones, Awakening foundation, and thoughts of his Berserker Soul to force the later Shift in Moon. The act demonstrates both the inheritance's scale and its limit: he can reach a transformation he could not ordinarily perform, but only by consuming the structures that keep him alive. He then loses limbs and decays under Su's curse rather than achieving the invulnerable divine status he imagined. (Chapters 559–563)

As defeat becomes certain, Si Ma Xin activates the Five Direction Seal connected to the second God's arm. The seal is an existing formation fused to the site rather than a divine ability belonging to him, and it suppresses everyone linked to the second God without distinguishing ally from enemy. Even this last use of borrowed authority cannot reverse the battle. Su Ming destroys Si Ma Xin's body, and the Berserker Threads inside his victims fall inert, ending the immediate mechanism by which Si could seize their fates and accumulated power. (Chapters 563–564)

A red wooden puppet then flies from the destroyed body. It bears Si Ma Xin's appearance, dried blood, and an infant's white hair, and its connection to altars in Bright Yang Emptiness places his career inside a wider Immortal arrangement. The revelation complicates how he reached the second God's inheritance, but it does not establish that Si Ma Xin survived: later narration treats Su as having killed him. What remains is a dead rival whose ambition was useful to forces operating beyond South Morning, not a restored individual acting through the puppet. (Chapters 564, 590–591)

South Morning and the Immortal conflict

After his death, Si Ma Xin continues to shape events through people whom Su freed from his control. Heaven Gate survivors whom Su had allowed to make the Ninth Summit their home later give their lives defending it. Their repayment turns one consequence of Si's coercion into a voluntary bond with Su: people once reduced to extensions of another man's Art choose their own loyalty after the Berserker Threads cease to govern them. (Chapters 617, 673)

His second enduring legacy is technical. Su Ming inherits the second God's Arts during the final confrontation and later recalls Si Ma Xin when burning his blood and cultivation to use the God of Berserkers' Transformation against Di Tian. Alterations towards the Stars, Sun, and Moon likewise becomes part of Su's own path. Si Ma Xin therefore fails to monopolize the divine inheritance; the techniques he treated as proof that fate selected him pass to the rival he could neither seed nor defeat. (Chapters 678, 731, 761)

Later encounters with Immortal projections, ancient seals, and altars also cause Su to revisit the strange familiarity he felt around Si Ma Xin and the second God's arm. These echoes do not rehabilitate Si's choices, but they broaden their context. His pursuit of divine status took place inside arrangements connecting Berserker legacies, Immortal designs, and Di Tian's interference, while his own pride kept him focused on personal supremacy over Su. (Chapters 590–591, 731–740)

Arid Triad and the dying aeon

More than a thousand years later, Fang Mu is still alive. He is no longer the unconscious child around whom Su Ming and Si Ma Xin first came into conflict, but a middle-aged man with family ties and unresolved estrangement. The narrative still identifies him by the fact that Si planted a Berserker Seed in him, showing how long the memory of that violation outlasts the caster even though the controlling Thread itself became inert at Si's death. (Chapter 1231)

Fang Mu's survival also marks the boundary of Si Ma Xin's achievement. The promised harvest of all his Seeds never occurs, and his victims are not extinguished to complete the Art. What persists is consequence rather than mastery: lives shaped by fear, blocked power, political silence, and later liberation continue into an age Si Ma Xin never reaches. (Chapter 1231)

Appearance and personality

Si Ma Xin is introduced in person as an extraordinarily handsome man dressed in white. He has sharp brows, bright eyes, and a gentle, elegant bearing, with a smile that seems never to leave his face. His refined presentation accompanies an innate, bone-deep pride: he prefers a position above others, whether literally standing upon the Seven Colored Mountain or rhetorically defining Su as someone beneath his notice. (Chapters 319–321)

That composure deteriorates when his plans fail. After his defeat and entry into Freezing Sky Cave, he is described through suffering, shivering, hatred, and ugliness rather than serene elegance. The second God's inheritance later makes him seem apathetic and emptied of ordinary feeling, but this condition is produced through power entering his body and scattering his mind; it should not be confused with proof that he perfected true Heartlessness. His final appearance is mutilated and decaying as the cost of forced divine abilities and Su's curse overtakes him. (Chapters 379, 541–564)

Si Ma Xin is ambitious, calculating, possessive, and unable to accept a rival who undermines his belief that he has been selected by fate. He is patient enough to cultivate Seeds over years and cautious enough not to consume them prematurely, yet he repeatedly mistakes control for devotion. His treatment of Fang Mu, Han Cang Zi, and Bai Su shows that his charm is instrumental: affection, fear, and institutional respect are all resources to be arranged around his advancement. His final self-destruction reveals the other side of that calculation—a pride so absolute that he will destroy his own foundation rather than concede that the inheritance chose no exclusive master. (Chapters 170–174, 319–379, 559–564)

Abilities and cultivation

Si Ma Xin is explicitly at the completion of the Awakening Realm during his early struggle with Su Ming, while already able to threaten fighters through an unusual Berserker Mark, an Origin Vessel, and divine abilities. Later power comes from the second God's arm and inheritance rather than a fully documented sequence of ordinary realm advances. Because the corpus confirms powerful states but not a complete formal advancement history for him, these states are explained here without inventing intermediate realms. (Chapters 321–325, 541–564)

Great Art of Heartless Berserker Seed

The Art plants a Berserker Seed in gifted children so their cultivation can eventually be offered to its practitioner. Si Ma Xin's adaptation splits Seed from love: Fang Mu carries the Seed, while Han Cang Zi carries implanted love, and he uses similar bonds across many targets. He can manifest his soul through a Seed, obstruct a victim's life force, render the victim unconscious, and use Berserker Threads to influence fate. The network promises enormous accumulated power if perfected. (Chapters 170–174, 321–325)

Its limits determine Si Ma Xin's strategy. He has not achieved genuine Heartlessness and must manufacture its conditions through other people. Fully activating the network before it matures would kill the Berserker Children and end further cultivation of their power, while creating a new Seed requires an emotional hook that a target can resist or sever. His failed attempt to seed Su leaves him seriously injured. When Si dies, the Threads become inactive, so the system does not remain a self-sustaining curse independent of its caster. (Chapters 356–379, 563–564)

Snow Mark and Freezing Sky Arts

Si Ma Xin's Berserker Mark is the Snow Mark, an affinity that once shocked Freezing Sky Clan and made him exceptionally suited to its Arts. It can impose cold not only on the body but on emotion and desire, supporting his attempt to present himself as detached. In combat he combines ice flowers, an ice spear, a white-wolf manifestation, and a Seven Colored Ice Armor of his own creation. These techniques restrain and damage opponents, but Su Ming breaks through their combinations, demonstrating that the Mark's emotional and elemental suppression is powerful rather than absolute. (Chapters 199, 321–325)

Second God of Berserkers' inheritance

Through the Brand and left arm of the second God, Si Ma Xin gains life force, God of Berserkers' Seven Steps, Alterations towards the Stars, Sun, and Moon, and the God of Berserkers' Transformation. The transformation burns blood and cultivation to stimulate the inheritance's strongest force. The Alterations change celestial conditions in sequence, but Si normally commands only the earlier stage; forcing Shift in Moon requires him to shatter his Berserker Bones, Awakening foundation, and Berserker Soul thoughts. This is a fatal expenditure, not lasting mastery. (Chapters 541–564, 678)

The arm is both source and constraint. It can replenish him while the connection remains intact, yet he can absorb only a limited quantity of its life force, and taking the legacy into his body causes his mind to disperse. The Five Direction Seal he activates at the end is still more conditional: it belongs to the sealed environment around the second God's arm and works through that connection, rather than proving Si can create or carry the formation elsewhere. (Chapters 559–564)

Artifact-assisted combat

The Seven Colored Mountain is Si Ma Xin's Origin Vessel and strongest enchanted treasure during the Freezing Sky battle. It forms armor and separates colored light into weapons, including a scarlet sword whose force is amplified by the God of Berserkers' Transformation. His rod-shaped insect specializes in piercing protection and is precious partly because conventional attacks struggle against Su's armor, but Si has only recently formed a small mental connection with it. These tools broaden his offense without removing the risks of his cultivation or protecting him from defeat. (Chapters 321–325)

Relationships

  • Su Ming: Si Ma Xin first treats Su as a lesser reflection of himself, then as a threat to his relic, prestige, Seed Art, and claim to the second God's inheritance. His attempts to manipulate and seed Su fail, and Su ultimately kills him while inheriting the divine Arts Si sought to monopolize.
  • Fang Cang Lan / Han Cang Zi: She carries the love Si Ma Xin separated from Fang Mu's Berserker Seed. Her hatred and fear expose the coercion behind his cultivated elegance, while Su's intervention eventually destroys the planted love.
  • Fang Mu: Si Ma Xin plants a Berserker Seed in him as a child, blocks his life force, and treats his future cultivation as stored power. Fang Mu survives Si by more than a millennium after the controlling Thread becomes inert.
  • Bai Su: Si Ma Xin uses Bai Su's resemblance to someone from Su Ming's past to create an emotional opening and secure access to Freezing Sky Cave. He does not love her, and his manipulation helps turn her away from him.
  • Second God of Berserkers: Si Ma Xin practices the God's Heartless Seed Art and later fuses with the Brand and power in his left arm. The inheritance grants great strength but supplies limited life force, erodes Si's mind, and ultimately passes into Su Ming's hands.
  • Di Tian: Si Ma Xin is indirectly entangled in the Immortal arrangements surrounding the Berserkers. After Si's death, Su uses the inherited God of Berserkers' Transformation against Di Tian and traces related seals and altars into the wider conflict.

Items

  • Han Mountain Bell: Si Ma Xin made it sound three times, lodged his will in two of its heads, and considered it his. Su Ming defeated that will and took the bell.
  • Seven Colored Mountain: His Origin Vessel and principal enchanted treasure, used for flight, protection, colored weapons, and amplification of his divine transformation.
  • Second God of Berserkers' fan: A legacy item taken by Su Ming. Si Ma Xin could not use its Man Barrenness ability, while Su later could, further undercutting Si's claim to complete inheritance.
  • Rod-shaped insect: A rare piercing creature or treasure with which Si had only a limited mental connection; he risked it when other attacks could not penetrate Su's defense.
  • Red wooden puppet: An object released from Si Ma Xin's destroyed body, shaped like him and connected to distant altars. It suggests outside design around his life but does not establish his survival.