Su Xuan Yi — Pursuit of the Truth

Su Xuan Yi is an Abyss Builder survivor whose plan to restore his people spans tens of thousands of years, several True Worlds, and the lives of both Su Ming and his own son, Lei Chen. Initially presented as Su Ming's absent father and the hidden identity of Dao Chen, he is later revealed to have adopted Su Ming's broken soul as a tool for maturing the Seed of Life Extermination. His genuine devotion to the Abyss Builders and Lei Chen coexists with ruthless exploitation, culminating in a self-sacrificial attempt to make his son Possess Old Man Extermination.

Biography

Divine Essence and Ecang

Su Xuan Yi is introduced through the history of the fifth kiln. He is described as the Abyss Builders' second-strongest warrior, surpassed only by their Progenitor, and as the kiln's second master. The account calls him the Progenitor's grandson, while Su Xuan Yi later speaks of the Progenitor as his father; the supplied corpus does not resolve that wording. What remains consistent is that the Progenitor was his predecessor, left him an unfinished chess game, and expected him to continue a struggle the older generation could not complete. (Chapters 973, 1000, 1368)

When the four Great True Worlds destroyed the Fifth True World, Su Xuan Yi escaped with his pregnant wife by opening an All Directions Seal with the fifth kiln. They took refuge in Divine Essence Star Ocean, where the Dust Burners recognized him as their master. The infant appeared to bear a curse placed by a Sublime Paragon, and Su Xuan Yi preserved a trace of life in the child instead of accepting the extinction of his bloodline. A much later revelation corrects the early account: the condition was the infant Lei Chen fusing with the Seed of Life Extermination, not an ordinary curse. (Chapter 973; Chapter 1371)

The destruction changes preservation into obsession. Su Xuan Yi learns that the Abyss Builders and their Progenitor were created and manipulated by Old Man Extermination. He refuses to remain a piece in another being's game and spends his entire life trying to make his race the player. (Chapters 1000, 1368)

His reach is already visible before he appears directly. A third clone arrives outside the fifth kiln on a golden chariot, and the possibility of his high-level Possession hangs over both Dao Chen and Dao Kong. Su Ming discovers that Dao Kong's arrival, the body offered for Possession, and the hidden Seed were parts of Su Xuan Yi's counterattack against the will in the Yin Death Region. At the time these arrangements resemble distant parental aid; later evidence establishes that Su Ming is a substitute heir and nourishment for a Seed intended to return to Lei Chen. (Chapters 991, 1010–1033; Chapters 1136–1137)

The Fifth Furnace and Morning Dao

Su Xuan Yi's most important disguise is Progenitor Dao Chen. After Possessing Dao Chen, he fought True Morning Dao World's Sublime Paragon in a battle that destroyed the opponent's body but left Su Xuan Yi's possessed body gravely injured and effectively confined to Morning Dao Sect's isolation grounds. He uses clones and disciples while recovering, maintaining control without exposing his real condition. When he finally identifies himself to Su Ming, his voice trembles and he speaks as a father who watched from afar, but Su Ming rejects both the title and the claim that the plans were made for his benefit. (Chapters 1096–1112)

Their confrontation exposes the difference between Su Xuan Yi's idea of kin and Su Ming's. Su Xuan Yi argues that there can be no home without the race; Su Ming answers that family creates the home worth protecting. Su Xuan Yi admits that his actions were for all Abyss Builders. Even a proposed purple sword containing his will would protect Su Ming while changing his personality and destiny, so Mo Sang refuses to deliver it. (Chapters 1097–1112)

The sealed memories inside Su Ming later reveal the fraud beneath the paternal story. Su Ming is the surviving soul of Su Zhan's child, recovered from a battlefield after Su Zhan sacrificed himself for the race. Su Xuan Yi declares the infant his son, adds his blood, and removes what he needs despite his wife's protest, reasoning that the child must finish the duty his biological father could not. He had already extracted the Seed from Lei Chen and placed it in Su Ming so that the adopted child could nourish it. His wife flees with the baby out of guilt and protection, creating the image that later lets Su Ming mistake her for his mother and Su Xuan Yi for his father. (Chapters 1135–1137)

Su Xuan Yi also advances the first stage of his racial plan on a cosmic scale. He uses a body made from one billion corpses to trigger an explosion that destroys True Morning Dao World and opens a gap to outside camps, forcing Dark Dawn and Saint Defier into immediate war. He then emerges with Sublime Paragon-level power, turns Morning Dao cultivators and their souls into multiplying crimson swords, and erases Morning Dao Sect in retaliation for the Fifth True World's fall. Mo Sang's intervention prevents him from taking all of Su Ming's remaining life. Su Xuan Yi extracts the matured half-Seed but leaves a sliver of life force, then transfers the Seed to Yu Xuan, sacrifices an independent clone of his younger brother to feed it, and arranges her as the second furnace and eventual partner for Lei Chen. (Chapters 1133–1176, 1193)

Arid Triad and the dying aeon

Su Xuan Yi's next objective is to Possess True Morning Dao World itself. He has weakened its will over tens of thousands of years under the declaration that the world will be built for the Abyss. When Su Ming begins the same Possession first, Su Xuan Yi acts before his preparation is complete, splitting his soul among sixty-three burning oil lamps and forcing his will into an Antecedental Spirit-like state. The state is conditional: every clash extinguishes lamps, and the complete Eternal Candle Flame and Imperishable Soul require all seventy-two lamps. Su Xuan Yi can occupy large portions of a True World, sacrifice millions of prepared cultivators to strengthen the lamps, and cast an Abyss Fire seal, yet the true Antecedental Spirit Su Ming drives him out. He severs part of his soul to escape, ages into a skeletal old man, and loses the world he meant to pass to Lei Chen. (Chapters 1209–1224)

He retreats to the Emperor of Abyss' True World, where he has subordinated its rulers and prepared another will in its Essence. He treats his alliance with the Sovereign of Dawn as mutual exploitation, then forces a wedding between Yu Xuan and the third prince—Lei Chen's concealed identity. When Mo Sang tries to remove Yu Xuan, Su Xuan Yi reverses time across the ceremony and its crowd. Su Ming's arrival collapses the design. He destroys Su Xuan Yi's network of clones and leaves only the body before him because Lei Chen asks that his father live, dropping Su Xuan Yi to Heaven cultivation. Suspecting that even this frees Su Xuan Yi from an engineered predicament, Su Ming parts from him as a stranger. (Chapters 1291–1301)

Before the aeon's end, Su Xuan Yi resumes the plan that mattered most. He refines Lei Chen with black needles, seals, and the fifth kiln, preparing a shared bloodline connection. At Old Man Extermination's direction, Su Xuan Yi becomes a palm that absorbs the resentment of Dark Dawn and Saint Defier as their universe dies, then divides that force: one portion goes to seal Su Ming, while the other carries him to Extermination. He knows he is too weak to win direct Possession, so he deliberately becomes bait and a medium. Extermination's attempt to Possess him opens the channel by which Lei Chen enters instead. (Chapters 1364–1371)

The Seed completes the trap. Su Xuan Yi has made Lei Chen Possess parts of him in advance, while the altered Seed makes Lei Chen share Extermination's origin. Extermination is therefore made to Possess what counts as himself and cannot erase the younger will. Su Xuan Yi succeeds in securing a portion of Extermination for his son, but the victory costs everything: Extermination destroys Su Xuan Yi, his wife, and the fifth kiln. His plan survives only as Lei Chen's hostile, indestructible presence inside its intended target. (Chapters 1371–1372)

Ancient Zang and the final truth

Su Xuan Yi has no confirmed independent agency through most of the Ancient Zang phase. His consequences remain visible in the jumbled existence made from Lei Chen, Old Man Extermination, and Lin Dong Dong, while Di Tian's survival recalls the ten-thousand-year contest in which the two strategists repeatedly tried to use one another. These continuities establish his legacy, not his personal survival after Extermination erased him. (Chapters 1457–1459)

He nevertheless appears again in the final restored world, seated quietly beside a lake. His expression shifts between complicated emotion, dejection, and madness while he murmurs words no one can understand. The text does not explain whether this is resurrection, restoration, or another form of continuity, and it does not show that his former cultivation or plans remain accessible. His endpoint is therefore presence without resolution: the man who justified every sacrifice is returned with his inner conflict still visible. (Chapter 1481)

Appearance and personality

Su Xuan Yi's third clone is an extraordinarily handsome middle-aged man with an ancient air, an icy gaze, and a face compared to metal; its aloofness appears almost devoid of human emotion. When the wounded Dao Chen body stands, he is tall and strongly built with an awe-inspiring countenance. He later favors white robes, and the collapse of the oil-lamp Possession visibly ages him from a middle-aged man into a gaunt old one. Because he operates through multiple clones and possessed bodies, these descriptions belong to particular vessels rather than a single immutable form. (Chapters 1011, 1112, 1223, 1291)

He is patient, calculating, proud, and capable of sustaining plans across millennia. His loyalty to the Abyss Builders and Lei Chen is real, yet it becomes a justification for domination. He labels exploitation as destiny and expects others to hand him their lives. His restraint is strategic: he can abandon a failed objective immediately, but hates anyone he considered controllable for taking it from him. (Chapters 1111–1142, 1223, 1294)

Su Xuan Yi is not emotionally empty. His wife, son, fallen friend, and Su Ming provoke grief, pride, affection, and brief remorse. During his confrontation with Su Ming, he asks himself whether he was wrong, then deliberately rejects the question and declares that even the sacrifice of his wife and friend was necessary. This refusal to let love alter his objective is the core of his personality: the feelings survive, but he repeatedly subordinates them to revenge and racial revival. (Chapters 1097–1132, 1300, 1368)

Abilities and cultivation

Su Xuan Yi is established as one of the greatest Abyss Builders and later demonstrates Sublime Paragon-level force, but the corpus does not dramatize a complete formal advancement sequence. His most important capabilities are bloodline Possession, clone networks, time manipulation, soul refinement, and large-scale preparations that borrow lives, artifacts, and cosmic conditions. Those sources must be separated from his personal cultivation.

Abyss Builder Possession and clones

Possession is Su Xuan Yi's innate bloodline art. He can seize a body, integrate his real self with a clone, and survive through other clones even when a principal body is destroyed. He uses it to become Dao Chen, preserve influence across True Worlds, and field independent vessels such as the armored third clone. His many bodies provide surveillance, authority, and continuity, while their shared connection lets his will act across enormous distances. (Chapters 991, 1011, 1096–1111, 1301)

The art has structural risks. Clones exposed to the Heavenly Incense Rune can develop independent wills and become targets for a second Possession; Su Xuan Yi destroys one such clone of his brother to feed the Seed. More critically, his network is a vulnerability once an opponent can follow the connection: Su Ming's sword and will travel through it and destroy every linked body. With only one body left, Su Xuan Yi's cultivation plunges to Heaven cultivation. His later final plan also confirms that his Possession is weaker than Old Man Extermination's, forcing him to use Lei Chen and the Seed rather than contest Extermination directly. (Chapters 1173–1176, 1301, 1371)

Time, command, and soul vessels

Su Xuan Yi can reverse time across a battlefield or bounded region. He cancels the self-destruction of Morning Dao Sect's experts, reverses the attempted Relocation of Mo Sang and Yu Xuan, and restores an entire wedding scene involving nearly a million cultivators. The effect can halt selected people while rewinding others, showing precise control. Its known limitation is scope: the wedding reversal is described as astonishing despite not covering a vast region, and events outside its sealed dimension continue beyond his perception. (Chapters 1140, 1292)

His Art of Serendipity turns victims' flesh and blood into an offering and seals their souls into crimson wooden swords. Those swords fight for him and multiply when they kill, transforming new victims into additional weapons. He uses the art to destroy Morning Dao Sect, but the resulting power is inseparable from the captured souls and is not an innate army he can summon without victims. His ability to kill the sect's spirit beasts and manipulate surrounding time demonstrates the Sublime Paragon-level force of the Dao Chen body after recovery. (Chapters 1139–1140)

True World Possession and oil-lamp state

The declaration “This World shall be built for Abyss” functions as an Art or Curse through which Su Xuan Yi spends tens of thousands of years weakening True Morning Dao World's will and planting his own will to make the Abyss grow. Once the world's resistance falls below a threshold, he can spread his soul through its galaxies so occupied regions obey him as the will of heaven. This is an extension of Abyss Builder Possession applied to a cosmic life form, not ordinary territorial rule. (Chapters 1209–1222)

The sixty-three oil lamps temporarily raise his will to an Antecedental Spirit-like status, but they burn out under strain. He can sacrifice millions of prepared cultivators to intensify them, and his strongest achieved state occupies four-tenths of True Morning Dao World. He never completes the required seventy-two lamps, Eternal Candle Flame, or Imperishable Soul. Against a true Antecedental Spirit, the borrowed state fails; severing it destroys part of his soul, ages and weakens his body, and prevents permanent Possession. His Abyss Seal can feed its fire from the target cast as its wick, but an outside counter freezes and breaks the last lamp. (Chapters 1220–1224)

Su Xuan Yi's control of the Seed of Life Extermination is learned, engineered work supported by the hidden properties of the Yin Death Vortex. He extracts it from Lei Chen beyond Extermination's sight, implants it in Su Ming, removes it after it matures, and places it in Yu Xuan so her lineage and position between life and death can alter it. He then returns the completed Seed to Lei Chen. Its survival and shared-origin effects belong to the artifact and hosts, not to Su Xuan Yi's personal body. (Chapters 1032–1033, 1136–1176, 1301, 1371)

He combines that work with formations, black needles, bloodline links, and the fifth kiln's fire to refine Lei Chen for the final transfer. The preparation lets Lei Chen's will, soul, cultivation, and bloodline appear through Su Xuan Yi, but it consumes the son's body and requires years of immobility. Su Xuan Yi can serve as the medium because Lei Chen has Possessed parts of him beforehand; he cannot produce the same result without the familial bloodline, Seed, target, and ritual preparation. (Chapters 1364, 1368, 1371)

Resentment palm and final sacrifice

For his attack on Old Man Extermination, Su Xuan Yi accepts a conditional form prescribed by the target: he becomes a palm bearing Su Ming's palm lines and gathers the resentment released when Dark Dawn and Saint Defier are destroyed. This borrowed environmental force divides into two hands, one carrying Extermination's will toward Su Ming and one carrying Su Xuan Yi back toward Extermination. He uses the latter to initiate Abyss Builder Possession while making his accumulated resentment too valuable for Extermination to destroy immediately. (Chapters 1368–1371)

The art is a trap, not proof that Su Xuan Yi can overpower Extermination. His own presence disintegrates during the clash, and success depends on Extermination being distracted by Su Ming, choosing Possession, and unknowingly taking in Lei Chen. Once the connection is established, Su Xuan Yi has no protection from retaliation: Extermination destroys him and the fifth kiln outright. No personal abilities are demonstrated by the version of Su Xuan Yi seen in Chapter 1481, so his latest level of access remains unknown. (Chapters 1371–1372, 1481)

Relationships

Lei Chen: Lei Chen is Su Xuan Yi's biological son, intended heir, and the focus of his life's plan. Su Xuan Yi shows genuine love and pride, but refines and sacrifices his son's independent body to secure a future inside Old Man Extermination.
Su Ming: Su Xuan Yi adopts Su Zhan's surviving child, alters him with Abyss Builder blood, and presents himself as his father while using him to mature the Seed. Their relationship passes from false kinship to rivalry and ends with Su Ming choosing estrangement.
Mo Sang: Mo Sang is his devoted disciple and principal caretaker of Su Ming. Loyalty fractures when Mo Sang realizes his master will consume the young man's soul, and his plea is what preserves Su Ming's remaining life.
Old Man Extermination: Su Xuan Yi identifies Extermination as the creator and manipulator of the Abyss Builders. Revenge against him is the true endpoint of Su Xuan Yi's plan, achieved only through self-sacrifice and Lei Chen's Seed-altered will.
Di Tian: The two wage a ten-thousand-year contest of possession, clones, and hidden plans. Each repeatedly mistakes a partial victory for the end, and both treat worlds and people as pieces in their struggle.
Yu Xuan: Su Xuan Yi removes Yu Xuan from Su Ming, uses her as a furnace to alter the Seed, and attempts to marry her to Lei Chen. His occasional gentleness does not change the coercive purpose he assigns her.

Items

Seed of Life Extermination: The central instrument of Su Xuan Yi's plan. He transfers it through Lei Chen, Su Ming, and Yu Xuan so that it can return altered to his son and prevent Extermination from erasing him.
Fifth kiln: Su Xuan Yi is its second master. He uses it to escape the Fifth True World, shelter his wife's body, command the Dust Burners, and refine Lei Chen; Old Man Extermination destroys it with Su Xuan Yi and his wife.
Purple wooden sword: A vessel containing Su Xuan Yi's will, designed to protect Su Ming while also changing his personality and destiny. Mo Sang refuses to deliver it.
Oil lamps: A prepared array used to divide and project Su Xuan Yi's soul during the attempted Possession of True Morning Dao World. The incomplete set grants only temporary, deteriorating access and is consumed in defeat.
Rattling drum: Made by Su Xuan Yi for Lei Chen and used as the symbolic and ritual counterpart to the drum Mo Sang made for Su Ming.