Li Lin

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Li Lin (小林)
Alias(es)	Basil Granger; Silver Spirit; Wutian; Peach Blossom Sword God; “Immortal Li” 441 634 643 693
Species/Race	Human, with numerous adopted identities, bodies, and divine forms across worlds
Gender	Male 634
Affiliation	Four Symbols Sect, Kun Yuan Valley; disciple of Doumu Yuanjun 712 714
Occupation/Role	Time traveler; cultivator; martial artist; Grotto-Heaven Lord 424 716
First Appearance	Chapter 356

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Grimoire Level 180	440	His Grimoire reaches level 180 after absorbing cards from the Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils world, greatly expanding his available cards and allowing him to create Library Tickets.
Nascent Soul	709	Upon descending into a new body, he has already lit Xuanyuan Fourteen and cultivated to the Nascent Soul stage.
Primordial Spirit	712	By analyzing the Dark Magic Fairy’s Great Dark Magic Curse as information, he achieves the Primordial Spirit stage.
Profound Yellow Realm	714	His cultivation transforms into the Profound Yellow Realm, described as equivalent to Primordial Spirit; he enters Kun Yuan Valley.
Dao Master	726	An unusual tribulation grants him a Dao Body equal to the universe and a realm beyond Nine Tribulations and Buzhou.
Battle Immortal	728	He states that his first tribulation made him a Battle Immortal.

Background

Li Lin is a traveler between worlds who seeks System Components while taking on identities suited to each setting. Although most people know him as Basil Granger, only Wang Yuyan and Huang Rong are told that his original name is Li Lin. 424 441 708

In the Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils world, he arrives at Mandala Villa, uses spells and the Time Curse, and studies martial arts by tracing temporal remnants on Huang Rong. His observation of martial arts from different eras leads him to draft the Taiyi Initial Chapter, the foundation of a larger self-created supreme art. 424 426

During his time in the jianghu, he becomes regarded as an immortal-like martial arts ancestor. He protects the Lin family and Qingcheng Sect, teaches Li Renyong the Heart-Shattering Palm, alters the Bixie Sword Manual into the paired Yang and Yin Meridians, and defeats Chongxu and Fangzheng. 689 690 691 707

In the Jingwei Fills the Sea world, he operates under the identity Silver Spirit, acquires the Bright Demon Beast’s existence, and intervenes in the conflict between Celestials, humans, and demons. He later helps install Tathagata as Heavenly Emperor while Wutian remains Buddha. 634 635 643

After descending into the Four Symbols Heaven, Li Lin joins Kun Yuan Valley under Doumu Yuanjun. His rapid cultivation, unusual Dao, and connection to the Dark Magic Fairy make him a central figure in the Three Sects Martial Arts Competition. 712 714 724 728

Appearance

Li Lin’s appearance changes with his bodies, identities, and worlds, but he is consistently described as exceptionally handsome and possessing an attraction that affects others at a near-instinctive level. 435 721

• Appears as a black-haired youth during his Virtual Universe battle with Fleur. 356
• Uses a golden-haired, blue-eyed appearance while visiting Huang Rong and Wang Yuyan. 440
• Adopts the appearance of a fair, beardless scholar during the Fuzhou arc. 685
• As Silver Spirit, wears dark black heavy armor with the Blue Spirit Pearl embedded at its center. 637
• His inherent charm is described as potent enough to influence the natural world even if his memories and powers were sealed. 435

Personality

Li Lin is intensely observant and treats abilities, cultivation systems, and supernatural phenomena as things to be analyzed, understood, and repurposed. He can rapidly grasp unfamiliar techniques, but often deliberately limits himself for novelty, difficulty, or “playability.” 356 643

He presents himself as calm and low-key when possible, avoiding conspicuous methods such as Phoenix Apparition. At the same time, he is ambitious about cultivation and readily chooses paths that will let him reach higher realms faster. 356 712

His romantic behavior is expansive but not indiscriminate. He acknowledges broad preferences, yet later establishes a personal restriction: only fictional characters who moved him when he was an ordinary mortal can genuinely move him across countless worlds. 438 704

Li Lin can be compassionate and protective, particularly toward companions and family, but he is also capable of calculated cruelty. His treatment of Tian Boguang and his willingness to manipulate opponents’ emotions demonstrate that his mercy is selective. 356 695

Abilities & Skills

Complete Formula Solver

Li Lin’s analysis system can perceive and directly learn magic through sight or other senses.

• Instantly analyzes a perceived spell’s composition, form, properties, and power. 356
• Can learn a spell even if the caster stops before completing it. 356
• Allows him to memorize complex magic circles under combat pressure. 356
• He combines this analytical aptitude with the Human Body Library to learn abilities and martial arts from observation. 356

Spellcasting, Time, and Spatial Manipulation

Li Lin is an accomplished wizard whose magic remains effective alongside martial arts and cultivation systems.

• Uses the Petrifying Charm precisely enough to paralyze Wang Yuyan while leaving her able to speak and see. 424
• Operates the Time Curse and uses temporal traces on Huang Rong to study martial arts across eras. 425 426
• Lifts Mandala Villa and its island into a suitcase. 424
• Uses the Grotto-Heaven Core to manifest avatars at distant locations. 723

Martial Arts Synthesis

Li Lin studies martial arts as principles rather than fixed schools, allowing him to reconstruct, alter, or surpass established techniques.

• Drafts the Taiyi Initial Chapter by reducing innumerable sword variations into a single, uncounterable thrust. 426
• The incomplete Taiyi art is dangerous enough that observers other than Li Lin would have their internal energy dry up and die without his permission. 426
• Demonstrates and explains the true speed-based principles behind Bixie Swordplay. 686 687
• Alters the Heart-Shattering Palm so Li Renyong can use its ninth and highest hidden force. 690
• Reconstructs the Bixie Sword Manual into the Yang Meridian and Yin Meridian methods, removing its original self-castration requirement. 691

Qi Manipulation and Self-Created Arts

Li Lin’s martial arts can function beyond ordinary meridians and bodily limits.

• Uses the Crane Cry Nine Heavens Divine Skill to circulate qi through his bones and achieve an anti-gravity state beyond the art’s founder’s conception. 686 687
• Practices the Formless Divine Skill, converting tangible true qi into imperceptible Spiritual Energy through extreme willpower. 643
• Separates his qi from his body and meridians, allowing it to appear anywhere within his perception and preventing Yu Yan from absorbing it. 644
• Creates the God-Demon Unity Chapter; its Demon Body represents his emotional and desire-driven aspect. 435

Shift of Stars

A Great Divine Ability that copies opponents’ techniques at a superior level.

• Replicates both the form and spirit of observed techniques, rather than merely imitating their outward movements. 727
• Reproduces abilities such as Void Assassination Technique and Eight Phases Qi at a slightly stronger level. 727
• Can strip fortune from a target and expose the Dark Magic Fairy’s residual Dao power. 728
• Li Lin claims the ability has no true flaw; perceived weaknesses are part of opponents’ misunderstanding. 731

Clones and Dao Manifestations

Li Lin can project himself through his Grotto-Heaven and generate numerous manifestations.

• Acquires Divine Light Illuminates Body, Casting Shadows, Shadow Transformation Clone, One Shadow Manifests Ten Thousand through spiritual insight. 723
• Deploys six distinct manifestations with separately adapted divine abilities during the Three Sects Martial Arts Competition. 731
• Possesses a Dao Body described as equal to the universe and indestructible through ten thousand tribulations. 726

Divine Forms

Li Lin can assume or integrate powerful supernatural identities.

• Transforms into a yellow dragon to counter Bu La and transfers his consciousness into the dragon after his body disintegrates. 710
• Integrates the Bright Demon Beast identity as Silver Spirit using the Art of Freedom. 635
• Chooses the Candle Dragon’s Immortal Blood Essence, granting a temporary form capable of contending with Immortals. 722

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Grimoire — Stores Li Lin’s cards; reaches level 180 after absorbing cards from the Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils world. 440
• Grotto-Heaven Core — Allows his consciousness to enter his Grotto-Heaven and manifest avatars at designated coordinates. 723
• Phoenix Feather Fan — Gift from Doumu Yuanjun, intended to protect him from external and internal threats. 718
• Blue Spirit Pearl — A mobile source of dark power embedded in Silver Spirit’s armor after Li Lin claims it. 635 637
• Immortal Blood Essence: Candle Dragon — A chosen tribulation-avoidance resource that grants a powerful but time-limited divine form. 722
• Embryo of Creation Immortal Artifact — Obtained from the Time Immortal and Artifact Immortal before the tournament. 727

Relationships

• Wang Yuyan — Initially attacks him at Mandala Villa, then becomes a close companion and one of the two people entrusted with his original name. 424 441
• Huang Rong — Fellow time traveler and companion in the Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils world; helps him navigate the jianghu and openly shows affection for him. 424 441
• Wu Xingyun — Lingjiu Palace Mistress who becomes romantically attached to Li Lin; she accepts his proposal for a shared relationship with Li Canghai, Wang Yuyan, and Huang Rong. 435
• Li Canghai — Wu Xingyun’s junior sister; her suppressed desires and childhood mindset resurface after meeting Li Lin. 435
• Yue Lingshan — Martial arts student and romantic companion; Li Lin teaches her, travels Fuzhou with her, and later returns with her to Mount Hua. 687 690 699
• Yi Lin — A reserved admirer whom Li Lin protects; Monk Bujie publicly treats him as his son-in-law. 693 707
• Chenxiang — His daughter. He gives her Lotus Lantern armor and worries that his indulgence has made her reckless despite her kind heart. 634 708
• Doumu Yuanjun — His master in the Four Symbols Sect. She favors, protects, and supplies him with cultivation resources, though Li Lin remains wary of her possessiveness. 712 716 722
• Buola / Bu La — Initially an Integration Stage opponent whom Li Lin defeats; she later resides around his Grotto-Heaven and warns him about Doumu Yuanjun’s intentions. 712 716
• Fleur Delacour — First encounters him as an opponent in the Virtual Universe. After initially resenting him, she resolves to cultivate harder to match him. 356 721

Story Role / Major Arcs

Virtual Universe Duel

Li Lin faces Fleur in the Interstellar Federation’s Mecha game. He analyzes her Divine Buster with Complete Formula Solver, counters her techniques, and defeats her after she realizes she has already reached Ultimate Liberation. 356

Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils Arc

He arrives at Mandala Villa, allies with Huang Rong and Wang Yuyan, studies the world’s altered martial arts and spellcasting, and develops the initial framework of the Taiyi supreme art. 424 426

Jianghu Immortal Arc

As an “Immortal Li” figure, he reshapes the fates of Qingcheng, Mount Hua, the Lin family, and the Five Peaks Sword Sects. His teachings create new martial arts paths, while his strength forces figures such as Yue Buqun, Ren Woxing, Chongxu, and Fangzheng to reconsider their positions. 689 691 706 707

Jingwei Fills the Sea Arc

Under the Silver Spirit identity, Li Lin seizes the Blue Spirit Pearl, confronts the Celestial civil war, and helps determine the new order of the Three Realms. 635 637 643

Four Symbols Sect Arc

Li Lin enters the Four Symbols Heaven as a Nascent Soul cultivator, rapidly reaches Primordial Spirit and Profound Yellow stages, accepts Doumu Yuanjun as master, and establishes himself within Kun Yuan Valley. 709 712 714

Three Sects Martial Arts Competition

Targeted by cultivators including Merlin and the Dark Magic Fairy’s agents, Li Lin suppresses his full Dao to avoid provoking the Incomplete Component. He uses Shift of Stars, clones, and Ultimate Annihilation Divine Light to eliminate the remaining contestants and win the competition. 724 726 727 731

Trivia

• Li Lin avoids Phoenix Apparition when possible because he considers it too ostentatious for his preferred low-key image. 356
• His original name is known only to Wang Yuyan and Huang Rong among the people present when he reveals it. 441
• Li Lin’s reputation as the Peach Blossom Sword God refers both to his swordsmanship and to the many romantic entanglements surrounding him. 643 644