Xu Ling Gong

Manhua

Xu Ling Gong starts off as the Inner Sect Elder of Yin-Yang Heaven who serves as the Honored Master of Qu Hua Chang, Qing Kui, and Su Ying Xue. After numerous events, Xu Ling Gong becomes good friends with Yang Kai, and later even risks his life for him on Ink Battlefield.

## Personality

Outwardly, Xu Ling Gong has a fiery and demonstrative personality. Inside, he has a soft and kind heart, especially towards his friends and family.

## Background

Xu Ling Gong is first seen as one of the most prominent and stronger Inner Sect Elders of Yin-Yang Heaven. Later, on Ink Battlefield, he would become even more powerful as he promoted to the 8th Rank Open Heaven Realm.

## History

### Son-in-Law

Xu Ling Gong would be infuriated when he learns that not only did Qu Hua Chang get in trouble for going to help Yang Kai against other Cave Heavens and Paradises, but also by the fact that Yang Kai doesn't seem to want to compete in the Dao Theory Assembly for the right to be her husband. After getting his disciples to use a seduction technique on Qu Hua Chang and Yang Kai, Xu Ling Gong pretends to angrily barge in on them when they are about to make love.

Having forced Yang Kai, who is surprisingly actually 6th Rank Open Heaven instead of 5th as reported, to enter the conference and expose his strength, Xu Ling Gong forces the other Cave Heavens and Paradises to send their 6th Rank Core Disciples into the conference as well. Later, as the Conference concludes, Xu Ling Gong would have to protect Yang Kai from the fury of Thousand Crane Paradise Elder Zuo Quan Hui, whose disciple, Zhao Xing, was killed by the latter. Xu Ling Gong would subsequently be shocked to learn that Yang Kai actually won the conference by a massive margin, and is likewise his new Son-in-law.

While Yin-Yang Heaven negotiated with Thousand Crane Paradise, Xu Ling Gong protects Yang Kai by allowing him to stay in Yin-Yang Heaven for awhile, even giving him access to one of the Sect's Small Source Worlds, Divine Weapon World, to quickly improve his strength. After Yang Kai departs, Xu Ling Gong makes sure to send his other disciples to guard his return to Void Land.

### Center of the 3,000 Worlds

Later, Xu Ling Gong receives word from Qing Kui that not only has Yang Kai killed Zuo Quan Hui, but that Star Boundary has a World Tree Subtree. Xu Ling Gong invites several of Yin-Yang Heaven's closest Cave Heavens and Paradises to head to Star Boundary. After negotiating terms with Yang Kai, Xu Ling Gong helps the other Cave Heavens and Paradise members to come to a deal with his Yin-Yang Heaven half-person. Due to his relationship with Yang Kai, Xu Ling Gong ensures that Yin-Yang Heaven gets the sweetest deal among the 108 influences by gaining access to 10 elite disciples every 100 years in exchange for a full set of 6th Rank resources, or their equivalent, per disciple.

### Universe Temple

After setting up an Yin-Yang Heaven Dao Temple at the site of the former Azure Sun Temple, Xu Ling Gong eventually manages to get approval from Yin-Yang Heaven's Headmaster to allow Yang Kai, being a master of Space Principles, to inspect and possibly even fix one of it Universe Temples. As Xu Ling Gong escorts Yang Kai to a heavily guarded Universe Temple in disrepair, he informs Yang Kai of a test he must subject himself to before being allowed entry to the Temples deepest parts. Xu Ling Gong then departs with Su Ying Xue and Qing Kui.

### Yin-Yang Pass

The next time Xu Ling Gong sees Yang Kai is after the latter's promotion to 7th Rank at Blue Sky Pass. He then sees him again after the latter arrives at Yin-Yang Pass, where he is unknowingly already in the presence of the Mountain Pass's 9th Rank Open Heaven Realm Old Ancestor, Smiles. Xu Ling Gong then leads his team along with Yang Kai as the latter performs the first step of his infiltration mission by purposefully appearing to be turned into a Ink Disciple by the injured Ink Clan Territory Lord, Black Abyss. Unable to inform Qing Kui or Su Ying Xue of Yang Kai's true intentions, Xu Ling Gong simply orders them to head back to Yin-Yang Pass with the mistaken thought that Yang Kai is actually sacrificing himself.

## References

1. ↑ Chapter 4810
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Chapter 4984
3. ↑ Chapter 5120
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Chapter 5297
5. ↑ Chapter 4473
6. ↑ Chapter 4477
7. ↑ Chapter 4628
8. ↑ Chapter 5055