Ling Tai Xu

The 11th Sect Master of the Great Han Dynasty’s High Heaven Pavilion, Ling Tai Xu is introduced as a relatively famous and powerful figure within the Great Han Dynasty. Serving as the Honored Master to Yang Ying Feng, and at one point as a teacher, mentor, and protector to Yang Kai, Ling Tai Xu holds the eternal respect and appreciation of the latter two, regardless of how their cultivation soars above his own.

## Appearance

Ling Tai Xu appears as a simply dressed old man with a friendly appearance.

## Personality

Befitting his status as Yang Kai’s respected ‘Grand Master,’ Ling Tai Xu normally maintains a calm, calculating, and perceptive state of mind.

## Background

Ling Tai Xu has always maintained a good friendship with Meng Wu Ya, the immeasurably deep cultivator he allowed to serve as Treasurer within High Heaven Pavilion. As one of the few people who knew that Meng Wu Ya was actually a supremely powerful cultivator from a higher world, Ling Tai Xu always gave serious consideration and respect to each of the latter's recommendations.

## Past

Ling Tai Xu had two disciples in the past in Yang Ying Feng and Yang Bai. Yang Bai, jealous of Yang Ying Feng’s superior talent and apparent treatment from Ling Tai Xu, would eventually fall on the Devil Path before significantly injuring Yang Ying Feng. Due to this, a furious Ling Tai Xu would not only defeat Yang Bai, he would also both cripple his cultivation and imprison him within the Coiling Dragon Stream of High Heaven Pavilion.

However, the shame and regret from these events would weigh heavily on Ling Tai Xu, and were said to be the only reasons he hadn’t broken through past the peak of the Immortal Ascension Boundary for so many years despite his relatively outstanding aptitude and talent.

## History

### Grand Master

Ling Tai Xu introduces himself to Yang Kai as the mysterious "11th Elder" of High Heaven Pavilion. After later witnessing the latter’s abnormal breakthrough to the Initial Element Stage, in which he skipped many small realms, Ling Tai Xu would reveal to Yang Kai that he is actually High Heaven Pavilion's famous Sect Master as well as Yang Kai's Grand Master. For a while after Ling Tai Xu would briefly take Yang Kai under his wing, and eventually brings him along on a trip to Nether Mountain, one of world's Forbidden Areas. This experience would allow Yang Kai to grow even further.

### Yang Bai Escapes

Unfortunately, Yang Bai, the excommunicated former disciple of Ling Tai Xu, would one day break free from the Coiling Dragon Stream with his cultivation not only restored, but far more powerful than what Ling Tai Xu could possibly contend with. In this incident, Ling Tai Xu suffers a significant injury, and Yang Bai goes on to briefly wreak havoc in the Great Han Dynasty before departing.

Though Ling Tai Xu is miraculously healed by Yang Kai upon the latter's return to the Sect, the Qin Family of the Eight Great Families sends emissaries to shut down High Heaven Pavilion over the outrage stemming from Yang Bai's actions. Ling Tai Xu remains behind to deal with the top powers of this group as Yang Kai and the disciples of High Heaven Pavilion make their escape. After this, Ling Tai Xu would mysteriously disappear.

### Central Capital War

Around the time when the Eight Great Families directly moved against Yang Kai in the Inheritance War, Ling Tai Xu, now a 1st Order Transcendent, would eventually join Yang Kai's Mansion. After teaching the Transcendent Realm Elders of the Eight Great Families a lesson alongside Meng Wu Ya and Old Demon, Ling Tai Xu would later promote to the 2nd Order Transcendent Realm within the Mansion.

Later, when Yang Bai, revealed to be a 3rd Order Transcendent, arrives with his sights set on the Central Capital of the Great Han Dynasty, Ling Tai Xu is forced to suppress the impulse to charge out and face his former disciple directly. Later, however, Yang Bai would self-destruct in defeat at the hands of Yang Kai, Meng Wu Ya, Ling Tai Xu, and Old Demon before he could reach his goal of traveling to Tong Xuan Realm.

### Higher Worlds

Over the course of the next several decades, Ling Tai Xu would travel along with rest of Yang Kai's friends and family every time he returned from a higher world to bring them along. This includes following the latter from their original world to the area outside of Nine Heavens Holy Land in Tong Xuan Realm, to High Heaven Sect on Shadowed Star, all the way to High Heaven Palace in Star Boundary. In High Heaven Palace, Ling Tai Xu would be one of the now Dao Source Realm elders of Yang Kai to greet the latter on his return from Demon Realm.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Chapter 3616
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Chapter 212
3. ↑ Chapter 63
4. ↑ Chapter 44
5. ↑ Chapter 35
6. ↑ Chapter 550
7. ↑ Chapter 572
8. ↑ Chapter 1555
9. ↑ Chapter 3119