Li Ye

Biodata

Power Progression

Background / History

Transmigration and Recovery

Li Ye was an ordinary Blue Star office worker until an out-of-control truck killed him outside his residential complex. He awakens in the body of a Purple Profound Sect disciple whose injuries, unstable cultivation, and depleted savings leave little room for safe recovery 1.

His predecessor had entered the sect through family connections and pursued dangerous opportunities despite poor aptitude. After escaping a disastrous assignment, he took a secret healing medicine left by his father and fell unconscious; Li Ye transmigrated into the body during this collapse 1.

Unable to ignore the sect’s compulsory task quota, Li Ye pays Senior Brother Luo five Spirit Crystals to secure spirit-farming work. His initial assignment is five fen of Jade Sprout Rice, with a required payment of 100 jin to the sect. Farming unexpectedly activates a panel that rewards successful cultivation with experience and Plant Spiritual Essence 1 2 4.

Establishing Himself as a Spirit Farmer

Li Ye’s rapidly improving skills turn his first field into a thriving crop. To explain the change without exposing his panel, he credits lessons learned while farming alongside his father. He also shares advice with neighboring disciples, building friendships and a reputation among the spirit farmers 3.

His first harvest weighs 287 jin, allowing him to retain 187 jin after fulfilling the sect quota. Grateful disciples give him additional rice, and Xiao Qiang grants him a wooden token authorizing planting tasks in the spirit medicine garden 20.

Old Man Luo recommends a better opportunity: tending the fields at Elder Ji Qing’s cave abode. Li Ye competes with Yao Shaohui, Gu Daojin, and Xiong Yinxiu, demonstrating his ability with Blood Li Rice and second-tier Blazing Sun Flowers. He eventually becomes a spirit-plant disciple at Ji Qing’s fields and earns responsibility for the flowers’ daily care 10 23 25 27 35 39.

Dispute with the Li Household

When his Third Uncle demands that he support Li Zongyin’s advancement, Li Ye confronts the family over its treatment of his father’s branch. He refuses appeals to clan loyalty and instead negotiates a transaction involving access to Cai Shiwei 12.

The settlement gives him 200 low-grade Spirit Stones for his family’s spirit fields while preserving his right to farm them if he returns. He also obtains first-tier talisman, pill, and artifact-refining inheritances, swearing not to transmit their contents. In exchange, he introduces Li Zongyin to Cai Shiwei and declares his obligations to the third branch settled 14 18.

Sabotage at Elder Ji’s Fields

Xiong Yinxiu arranges an ambush against Li Ye and later attempts to sabotage the spirit fields with bloodsucking worms. Recognizing her involvement, Li Ye reports the danger to Elder Ji rather than confronting her alone 32.

Ji Qing exposes the sabotage and destroys the worms with the field formation. Xiong Yinxiu dies from her internal injuries, and the elder gives her Storage Bag to Li Ye 32.

Cai Shiwei’s Betrayal

Li Ye repeatedly refuses to rejoin Cai Shiwei’s circle, suspecting that Cai uses companions’ sacrifices to build his own reputation. He nevertheless avoids a public break without evidence and lets Li Zongyin become the more conspicuous family connection to Cai 6 16 18.

After Cai attacks High Person Purple Profound and escapes, the Law Enforcement Hall questions Li Ye about their relationship. He truthfully explains the introduction as a transaction and details his repeated refusals to join Cai. His testimony matches the evidence, and Ji Qing’s support secures his release 42 43.

The incident changes the Li Household’s assessment of him. Its ancestor orders the family to support Li Ye rather than dismiss him, recognizing the value of a clansman who has earned a sect elder’s protection 44.

Departure for the Front Lines

Before leaving for the battlefield, Li Ye completes a four-mu Blood Li Rice harvest yielding nearly 2,400 jin of rice. His panel then holds 21,437 experience and 2,000 strands of Blood Li Spiritual Essence. Ji Qing also supplies gifts and a token intended for a Foundation Establishment elder at the front 48.

Li Ye improves his alchemy and reaches the White Armor level before departure. During an ambush on the sect’s flying boat, he kills a middle-stage Qi Refining attacker with his Blackwood Sword and talismans. A late-stage enemy then pursues him into the forest, where Li Ye draws him close and kills him with an armored punch 49 50.

Appearance

• Ordinary features: Initially pale-faced and unobtrusive enough to blend into a crowd 1.
• Improved complexion: Spirit rice restores color to his face as his health recovers 4.
• Stronger physique: Body cultivation gradually makes him more robust; the White Armor breakthrough leaves him taller and considerably more muscular 36 49.
• White Armor: When exerting himself, his ivory-white skin hardens into plates with the texture of ivory 49.

Personality

Li Ye prioritizes survival over prestige. Unlike his predecessor, he willingly accepts muddy, labor-intensive farming work and refuses dangerous expeditions even when others mock him as cowardly. Tang Xiaohan’s beauty and Cai Shiwei’s promises do not outweigh the risks of being exploited 1 2 6.

His caution includes practical preparation: concealing his sudden improvements, excavating an underground room, evading possible followers, and keeping experience in reserve for emergencies. He prefers complete, dependable cultivation methods over gambling on damaged inheritances 3 14 15 35 48.

He values reciprocal cooperation rather than indiscriminate isolation. He teaches fellow farmers, maintains friendships, and accepts Old Man Luo’s apology. At the same time, he firmly resists family coercion and responds to lethal threats with calculated force 5 10 12 20 32 50.

Abilities & Skills

Farming Panel

Li Ye’s panel links spirit-plant cultivation to skill growth and resource production 2 4 19.

• Experience: Successful planting, tending, and harvesting provide points that can raise registered skills 2 3 21.
• Knowledge consolidation: Skill breakthroughs transform remembered lessons and practical observations into usable expertise 3 28.
• Plant Spiritual Essence: Healthy plants yield essences that can support cultivation or serve as crafting ingredients 4 35 45 49.
• Harvest traits: Consolidating a crop’s spiritual essence through harvesting can permanently enhance Planting 19 48.
• Delayed feedback: Plants taken over from another caretaker may require prolonged tending before the panel establishes a connection 36.

Spirit-Plant Cultivation

His first-tier upper-grade Planting skill supports both rice farming and the care of more demanding spirit plants 21 25 39.

• Spring Wind Transforming into Rain Technique: Waters and nourishes seedlings with pale green rain 1 2.
• Vitality, level one: Plants he personally grows and tends are more likely to survive and develop vigorous, tenacious vitality 19.
• Absorption, level one: Gives his plants a chance to exceed their normal nutritional habits and absorb nutrients from a wider range of substances 48.
• Second-tier plants: Successfully plants and tends Blazing Sun Flowers despite his lower cultivation realm 27 28 39.

Plant Spiritual Essence

Alchemy

Li Ye reaches first-tier upper-grade alchemy and develops pill sales into a dependable source of funds 39 49.

• Refines Qi Condensation Pills, Wood Essence Pills, and Qi and Blood Pills 36 49.
• Uses Wood Essence Pills to advance his own Qi Refining cultivation 37 45.
• Replaces conventional Qi and Blood Pill ingredients such as Demon Beast meat and Essence Blood with Blood Li Spiritual Essence 49.
• Produces a batch containing ordinary, substandard, and patterned pills without ruining a single pill 49.

Talisman Making

His first-tier upper-grade talisman skill supplies expendable attacks and defensive options 28 36 45.

• Produces Fireball and Cold Breath Talismans after entering the art 28.
• Gains the expertise needed for more difficult designs, including Golden Bell Talismans 36.
• Creates Blazing Sun-enhanced Fireball and Fire Serpent Talismans as stronger reserve weapons 41 45.
• Uses multiple talismans alongside his sword in actual combat 50.

Elephant Armor Force

A three-layer body-refining method recommended for his wood Spirit Root, Elephant Armor Force combines movement, Law Power circulation, physical tempering, and medicinal support 34 35.

• Blood Li Spiritual Essence supplies the Qi and Blood needed for training 35.
• White Armor allows him to harden his limbs for stronger strikes or reinforce vital areas 49.
• In a self-test, his repaired Blackwood Sword cuts the armor plates but is caught by the tough flesh beneath 49.
• His armored fist penetrates a late-stage Qi Refining attacker’s defenses at close range 50.

Gu Technique

Li Ye studies an incomplete inheritance and reaches first-tier lower-grade Gu Technique 45.

• Nurtures new Gu insects and attempts to complete unfinished insects left by Xiong Yinxiu 45.
• Uses insects to sense nearby creatures and cultivators while traveling 49.
• Reconnaissance range is limited by his spiritual sense, which is only slightly stronger than that of comparable cultivators 49.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Blackwood Sword — Combat Law Artifact later repaired to preserve most of its power; used against the flying-boat ambushers 41 50.
• Green-leaf flying boat — Personal flying conveyance used for travel within and around the sect 1 17.
• Small shield Law Artifact — Purchased at the Hundred Treasures Pavilion after selling pills 38.
• Pill Furnace — Used for refining his cultivation and body-strengthening pills 36 49.
• Talisman brush and paper — Crafting tools; higher-grade beast-hide paper supports the Blazing Sun Fire Serpent Talisman 28 45.
• Cultivation Jade Slips — Include the Li Household’s three craft inheritances, Elephant Armor Force, and Ji Qing’s Qi Refining insights 14 35 40.
• Xiong Yinxiu’s Storage Bag — Awarded by Ji Qing after her sabotage is exposed 32.
• Ji Qing’s token — Intended to help him approach a Foundation Establishment elder at the front lines 48.

Relationships

• Ji Qing / Elder Ji — Employer, cultivation adviser, and protector. Values Li Ye’s competence and character but declines to accept him as a disciple because of his poor aptitude and incompatible attributes 39 40 43.
• Old Man Luo / Senior Brother Luo — Initially accepts payment to arrange his farming task. Later apologizes for spreading damaging rumors, recommends Ji Qing’s fields, and helps him obtain a body-refining method 1 10 34.
• Zhang Liangfu — Neighboring spirit farmer and close friend. Receives Li Ye’s advice, thanks him with rice, and continues meeting him after their assignments change 3 5 20 39.
• Yao Shaohui and Gu Daojin — Fellow candidates for Ji Qing’s farming post. Apologize after seeing his ability and become regular associates 25 27 39.
• Boy Xiangyang — Fellow worker at Ji Qing’s cave abode. Reassures him during the Cai Shiwei crisis and assists with his final harvest and departure preparations 42 48.
• Yue Quan — Pill buyer and prospective recruiter. Li Ye refuses to join the Yue Household but preserves their business relationship; Yue Quan intervenes when Li Zongyin harasses him 38.
• Cai Shiwei — Leader of the predecessor’s expedition group. Li Ye distrusts his manipulation, repeatedly refuses recruitment, and is later cleared of involvement in his betrayal 2 16 18 43.
• Tang Xiaohan — Former object of the predecessor’s infatuation. Her attempts to draw Li Ye back into dangerous expeditions fail after his transmigration 2 6.
• Li Zongyin — Younger clansman whom Li Ye introduces to Cai in exchange for family resources. Later treats Li Ye condescendingly and unsuccessfully tries to implicate him after Cai’s betrayal 18 38 43.
• Third Uncle — Representative of the family branch demanding Li Ye’s support. Their negotiations secure compensation and craft inheritances for Li Ye 12 14.
• Xiong Yinxiu — Rival caretaker who escalates hostility into ambush and crop sabotage. Li Ye defeats her scheme by informing Ji Qing 23 32.

Notable Quotes

“Farming it is, then. Compared with all those risks, staying alive is what matters most for now...” 1

“If it does me no good, what difference does it make if she’s a beauty? … She’s not half as lovely as my field full of seedlings!” 6

“I no longer have any interest in living under someone else’s roof... Many benefits come with many troubles. I’d be more at ease farming in the sect!” 38