Li Xiao Bai

Li Xiao Bai is Fang Yuan's information-path split-soul clone inside Profound Literature grotto-heaven. Soul Replacement gives him an ordinary scholar's body and identity, while memories of famous poetry let him exploit a world where literature produces cultivation rewards. He becomes the Poet Immortal, receives rank-seven Poem Wall Gu while remaining personally rank six, and later serves as a hidden agent inside a Heavenly Court-aligned force.

Biography

An ordinary scholar with another world's poems

After a rank-eight defender blocks direct entry into Profound Literature grotto-heaven, Fang Yuan embeds a split soul in the native Li Xiao Bai. The original body has ordinary talent qi and literary qi, so the clone cannot safely reveal masterpieces without inviting investigation. He chooses poems close to the body's apparent level, accepts Teacher Jiang's tuition, and builds a reputation through effort, tact, and apparently honest flashes of inspiration. (Chapters 1822–1825 and 1855)

Li Xiao Bai studies the Imperial Court's route from great scholar to Gu Immortal but initially lacks background and resources. His encounter with Su Qi Han gives him an influential partner, and her support places him among the ten great scholars. He tells Teacher Jiang enough to turn their sincere teacher-student bond into political backing, preserving both gratitude and the practical value of a mentor tied to his reputation. (Chapters 1870 and 1877)

World poetry setbacks and the Book House inheritance

After the Fate War, damaged luck makes Li Xiao Bai miss his expected appointment and suffer repeated setbacks. In the world poetry competition he uses famous poems carefully, yet their rewards and competitors' weakness keep drawing attention. When repeated pairings force him to choose between advancement and defeating Teacher Jiang publicly, he accepts elimination, protecting the moral reputation on which his local identity depends. (Chapters 1975–1978 and 2008)

Hua Song rewards that conduct with the Book House inheritance, a complete mortal information-path system. Reunited with Su Qi Han, Li Xiao Bai changes his vital Gu to rank-five Poetry Gu and develops poem, emotion, gathering, wall, and boundary methods. By Chapter 2081 he is regarded as Profound Literature's foremost mortal Gu Master and a rare immortal seed, even though Fang Yuan no longer needs immediate conquest of the grotto-heaven. (Chapters 2008, 2023, and 2081)

Poet Immortal and Heavenly Court sleeper

Li Xiao Bai's immortal ascension is sabotaged by envious rivals who strengthen the tribulation. His ordinary defenses fail, so he uses poem walls and the grotto-heaven's Assisting Literary Talents arrangement to turn several recited poems into protection. The three qi form an information-path aperture, and his public refusal of office is read as transcendent purity rather than the strategic overexposure he considers it to be. (Chapters 2119–2120)

He trades the captured Heaven's Envy Gu through treasure yellow heaven and receives rank-seven Poem Wall Gu from Fang Yuan, covertly arranged as a transaction so local observers cannot trace their relationship. Li Xiao Bai remains a rank-six junior, performs information-gathering missions, and retains Old Immortal Hua Yu's trust. After Profound Literature joins Heavenly Court, he observes the star array calculation formation and secretly receives Fang Yuan's contact, becoming valuable intelligence access and a serious liability if captured. (Chapters 2121, 2220, and 2282)

Appearance and personality

Li Xiao Bai is a young human scholar commonly dressed in white. His original body has unremarkable literary and talent qi, an important part of the cover that makes sudden brilliance dangerous. After his rise, the same restrained scholarly presentation supports the image of a cultivated poet rather than a combat-focused infiltrator. (Chapters 1822–1825 and 2119)

He is socially perceptive, cautious, and skilled at turning awkward accidents into credible virtue. He performs honesty, loyalty to teachers, romantic devotion, and indifference to office while privately calculating how each reputation affects infiltration. Unlike the main body, he cannot overpower scrutiny: his separate soul and rank-six body make patience and local relationships essential defenses. (Chapters 1825, 1870–1877, 2008, and 2282)

Abilities and cultivation

Poetry-branch information path

Poetry Gu becomes Li Xiao Bai's rank-five vital Gu and anchors methods involving poetic Gu, emotion poetry, gather poem, poem wall, and poem boundary. Poems can encode attacks, defenses, battlefield boundaries, or information effects. Their performance depends on Gu rank, primeval or immortal essence, the quality of the verse, and the local Assisting Literary Talents arrangement; borrowed poems also create a risk that displayed talent will contradict his body and history. (Chapters 1825, 1976–1977, and 2023)

Assisting Literary Talents

Profound Literature grotto-heaven's foundational killer move rewards outstanding literature with Gu, cultivation increases, recovery, or situational power. Li Xiao Bai uses those rewards to advance and survive immortal ascension. It is environmental support rather than his own unrestricted ability: it depends on the grotto-heaven, recognizes qualifying human literary work, and can force him to reveal poems whose excellence raises suspicion. (Chapters 1825, 1976–1977, and 2119–2120)

Poem Wall Immortal Gu

Rank-seven Poem Wall Gu is Li Xiao Bai's principal immortal core. Fang Yuan refines and transfers it covertly after the clone reaches rank six. The Gu can anchor strong defensive and information-path poem-wall methods, but its rank does not make Li Xiao Bai a rank-seven immortal; his essence quantity, other supporting Gu, and incomplete combat experience limit what he can sustain. (Chapters 2119–2121 and 2220)

Infiltration and information gathering

Soul Replacement supplies native memories and a body that passes the grotto-heaven's monitoring. Fang Yuan cannot freely transmit conspicuous support without risking information-path detection, so Li Xiao Bai gathers intelligence through local office, missions, scholarship, and personal trust. If his soul is searched or the clone link is deduced, the same separate body becomes leverage against the main body rather than inheriting Fang Yuan's rank-nine protection. (Chapters 1822, 1855, 2081, 2220, and 2282)

Power progression

Relationships

Fang Yuan

Fang Yuan creates Li Xiao Bai to obtain information-path access that force cannot secure cheaply. He monitors the clone, adjusts luck, and supplies Poem Wall Gu through an anonymous trade, but limits intervention to protect the cover. Their shared soul aligns objectives without transferring the main body's cultivation rank to the scholar's body. (Chapters 1822, 1869, 1978, 2081, and 2121)

Su Qi Han

Su Qi Han becomes Li Xiao Bai's partner after a politically dangerous encounter. She nominates him among the ten great scholars, offers Su clan's cultivation route, guards his advancement, and sincerely regards him as a lifelong companion. Li Xiao Bai values the protection and performs the relationship convincingly, while continuing to make strategic choices she does not understand. (Chapters 1870–1877, 2023, and 2119–2121)

Teacher Jiang and Profound Literature grotto-heaven

Teacher Jiang's instruction turns Li Xiao Bai's ordinary foundation into a credible record of improvement. Li Xiao Bai preserves the teacher's dignity during the world competition, and that public loyalty earns support from Hua Song. Profound Literature's immortals later regard him as their most promising junior, giving the hidden clone access that direct conquest never achieved. (Chapters 1824–1825, 1855, 1975–2008, and 2220)

Items

• Poem Wall Immortal Gu — a rank-seven information-path Gu covertly supplied by Fang Yuan to the rank-six clone.
• Book House — a mortal information-path Gu House and inheritance covering several literary branches.