Long Aotian

Biodata

Feature	Details
Name	Long Aotian (龙傲天)
Alias(es)	Child of Destiny; Li Fen, an assumed identity; Lin Mietian, his identity after rebirth in a subsequently undone timeline 2 173 340.
Species/Race	Human cultivator with the True Dragon Bloodline 93 170.
Gender	Male
Affiliation	Long Family; formerly the Azure Origin Sect; later the Myriad Treasures Pavilion and Water Moon Sect 147 173 304 540.
Occupation/Role	Destined male protagonist; cultivator; temporarily employed as an alchemist at the Myriad Treasures Pavilion 3 304.
Spiritual Root	Heavenly Spiritual Root in his original body. His temporary incarnation as Lin Mietian possesses five spiritual roots 2 340.
Status	Alive; seeking a way to escape Bai Lan’s influence in his latest documented appearance 562.
First Appearance	Spirit Testing Assembly 2.

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Qi Refining, level one	2	Has completed Qi Induction before the Spirit Testing Assembly, giving him an immediate advantage over the still-mortal Bai Lan.
Qi Refining, level two	19	Already possesses numerous life-saving methods and a small teleportation array despite his low cultivation.
Improved body-refining physique	136	Strengthens his body during confinement at Meditation Cliff. His improved durability troubles Bai Lan’s spear attacks, but depleted spiritual energy limits his endurance. No technique layer is specified.
Foundation Establishment, unspecified level	332	Confirmed as a Foundation Establishment cultivator. His Heavenly Tier cultivation method and powerful divine abilities support exceptional combat strength, although his cultivation speed is criticized as unusually slow.
Foundation Establishment, first level	446	Long Yanran identifies his exact realm when locating him in the Boundless Sea Region. Five hired Foundation Establishment cultivators overwhelm him.
Foundation Establishment, seventh level	532 533	Advances from the first to seventh level while temporarily free of Bai Lan’s direct interference, supported by abundant cultivation resources.
Qi Refining, unspecified level — regression	540	His cultivation has fallen back to Qi Refining when he joins the Water Moon Sect under Xun Yang Zi’s guidance.
Late Core Formation	562	The latest passage places him at late Core Formation. Xun Yang Zi nevertheless considers their combined strength insufficient against Bai Lan.

Background / History

Long Aotian comes from the mortal Long Family and was previously engaged to Bai Lan. After the Long Family lost its political standing, Bai Lan broke off the engagement. He interpreted this as betrayal and resolved to destroy the Bai Family and punish her once he acquired the means 3.

The Long Family’s fall resulted from factional disputes: its members were demoted and exiled. Long Aotian’s emergence as a gifted cultivator later secured the family’s pardon and return to the Southern Kingdom’s court. Its renewed influence and apparent ambitions against the royal family made Nan Xianshi, a princess, hostile toward him 147.

His principal early advantage is Elder Fu, a fallen Divinity Transformation expert whose remnant soul resides in his sea of consciousness. The elder teaches him techniques, advises him, and intervenes when his life is threatened. Elder Fu originally chose him as a disciple in hopes that Long Aotian would eventually help reconstruct his physical body 93 332 370.

Personality

Long Aotian is proud of his aptitude and initially treats spiritual-root quality as proof of superiority. At the Spirit Testing Assembly, he dismisses Bai Lan’s five spiritual roots, demands a public apology, and orders her to become his personal maid. His anger makes him susceptible to provocation, allowing her to secure a three-month delay before their duel 2.

His resentment frequently extends beyond his immediate opponent. He plans to take Bai Lan’s parents hostage, force her to cripple her dantian, and then kill her family. He also displays possessiveness toward romantic partners, ordering Di Wu Yin to remain beside him after taking control of a strand of her divine soul 142 322.

He is capable of tactical deception and occasional restraint. He redirects assassins toward another disciple through disguise, and later follows his mentor’s advice to endure Bai Lan’s provocations rather than immediately accept a deadly confrontation 53 147.

Repeated impersonations, thefts, and betrayals transform his confidence into paranoia. He comes to fear that any beautiful woman approaching him may be Bai Lan or one of her agents. By his later appearances, his determination to rise again coexists with a conviction that Bai Lan’s reach is inescapable 447 534 540 562.

Abilities & Skills

Cultivation and Insight

Long Aotian combines exceptional natural aptitude with techniques supplied by his remnant-soul mentor 2 332 370.

• Chaos Yin Yang Art: Cultivated under his Elderly Grandfather’s guidance; the method has no restriction on spiritual-root attributes but requires substantial spiritual energy in its early stages 16.
• High-tier inheritance: His cultivation method is identified as Heavenly Tier, while his divine abilities are described as at least Earth Tier 332.
• Higher-realm combat: Fighting stronger opponents is one of his specialties, aided by his mentor’s guidance 157.
• Long-term potential: Elder Fu considers him a genius with the talent and insight to reach Divinity Transformation 370.

Swordsmanship and Lightning

His early fighting style combines rapid sword attacks, movement techniques, and lightning-attribute spiritual energy 35.

• Uses a black sword containing lightning spiritual energy 35.
• Moves quickly enough that Bai Lan initially struggles to follow his figure 35.
• Releases lightning bolts against formation flags while attempting to escape a sect flying ship 173.
• His speed does not prevent Bai Lan from repeatedly anticipating and evading his attacks 36.

Body Refining

Long Aotian learns a nameless body-refining method associated with Meditation Cliff 136 161.

• Develops a physique durable enough to resist some of Bai Lan’s spear attacks 136.
• Erases the method’s inscription from the wall after learning it, attempting to prevent others from obtaining it 161.
• Remains vulnerable to a concentrated, spiritual-energy-enhanced strike from the Soul Severing Spear 161.
• Physical durability does not solve his shortage of spiritual energy and replenishment resources during confinement 136.

Disguise Technique

His mentor teaches him a rare Disguise Technique capable of changing his appearance 53 332.

• Evades pursuit by adopting different faces 53.
• Impersonates enemies to redirect blame and hostility 53.
• Frames Ling Shizu during the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion’s pursuit 53.
• Assumes Li Fen’s identity before Bai Lan exposes him 173.
• Later takes Bai Lan’s appearance to approach Di Wu Yin 322.
• Disguises are not inherently undetectable: the Truth-Revealing Mirror is stated to expose both Disguise Techniques and Disguise Pills 211.

Dragon Transformation Art

The Dragon Transformation Art is an Earth Tier divine ability requiring dragon blood as a cultivation aid. Long Aotian’s True Dragon Bloodline satisfies this otherwise restrictive condition 170 321.

• Can manifest a dragon from spiritual power once mastered 288.
• Cultivation speed depends on the purity of the dragon blood used 321.
• His blood becomes a resource for Bai Lan, who extracts four bottles and later successfully uses it in her own cultivation of the art 259 320.

Demonic Wings

Long Aotian reveals a demonic divine ability that produces enormous black wings marked with faint blood-colored patterns 259.

• Flies at a speed comparable to a Foundation Establishment cultivator 259.
• Rapidly travels more than a hundred meters while attempting to escape Di Wu Yin 259.
• Bai Lan intercepts him and severs the wings, leaving him severely weakened 259.

Alchemy, Talismans, and Formations

His technical knowledge extends beyond combat and includes methods unavailable in the sect’s ordinary libraries 93.

• Draws talismans and sets formations 93.
• Possesses the formula for the Pill for Gathering at the Apex and attempts to use it as leverage with the Cheng Family 300.
• Accepts work as an alchemist at the Myriad Treasures Pavilion to obtain Spirit Stones and connections 304.
• Maintains spiritual grasses, formations, and materials for Foundation Establishment Pills in his cave dwelling 332.

Dual Cultivation

Zi Yu uses a cultivation method stolen from the Fox King with Long Aotian. The method rapidly increases cultivation through dual cultivation and binds them together until she reaches the seventh stage 256.

• Repeated dual cultivation and personal interactions lead Zi Yu to fall in love with him 256.
• Her attachment prompts her to release him despite the Fox King’s intention to imprison and eventually kill him 256.

Destiny and Romantic Influence

As a Child of Destiny, Long Aotian repeatedly receives opportunities, allies, and rescues despite apparently fatal circumstances 3 93 340.

• Survives repeated Heavenly Secrets Pavilion assassination attempts, including pursuit by a Foundation Establishment assassin 93.
• Benefits from romantic supporters who protect him or connect him to powerful factions 93 256 308.
• Receives new opportunity routes when earlier ones are disrupted; Bai Lan likens this to the Heavenly Dao continually recalculating his path 340.
• His influence over women draws accusations of a Charm Technique, but the supplied passages do not establish that accusation as fact 304 308.
• Destiny does not prevent resource theft, damaged relationships, capture, or cultivation regression 337 533 540.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

Documented Possessions

• Black lightning sword — Used in his early duel with Bai Lan 35.
• Storage bags — Repeatedly stolen or searched by Bai Lan; an early bag contains seven low-grade Spirit Stones and two ordinary short swords 7 108 300.
• Small teleportation array — An early escape measure, later lost during the assassins’ pursuit 19 54.
• Swift Wind Talismans — Applies seven or eight while fleeing the Azure Origin Sect 173.
• Soul Nurturing Wood — Obtained to support his remnant-soul mentor; later seized from his cave dwelling 157 332.
• Armor and Wind-Riding Shoes — Removes these alongside his robe and storage bag when attempting to appease Bai Lan 300.
• Heaven Destroying Finger — A Heavenly Tier divine ability acquired during his Boundless Sea Region travels 532.
• Southern Bright Leaving Fire — A spirit fire obtained among his later opportunities 532.
• Ancient gourd containing Qing Hu — Suspicious of the artifact spirit, he seals the gourd away. Xun Yang Zi subsequently delivers it to Bai Lan 540.

Opportunities Taken by Bai Lan

• Soul Severing Spear — A blood-absorbing, evolvable magical artifact found in his early storage bag. Bai Lan takes it before he appears to have bonded with it 7.
• Ancient Cultivator’s Cave Mansion inheritance — Its treasures and cultivation legacies were intended for him, but Bai Lan reaches them first 3.
• Purple Firmament Seal — A lightning-type magic treasure worth 87,000 contribution points, identified as his original sect-treasury opportunity and selected by Bai Lan instead 171.
• Art of Condensing Ice and Transforming Qi — A prerequisite for his intended connection with the Lan sisters; Bai Lan’s possession of it disrupts that route 192.

Relationships

• Bai Lan — Former fiancée and principal enemy. She steals his resources, impersonates him, turns his allies against him, and repeatedly prevents his recovery. His initial contempt eventually becomes intense fear 3 108 258 533.
• Elder Fu / Elderly Grandfather — Remnant-soul mentor, strategist, and emergency protector. Originally hopes Long Aotian will restore his body, but eventually submits to Bai Lan and disavows his former disciple 108 173 370 385.
• True Lord Changle — An early sect backer identified among his sources of protection 19.
• Long Yanran — Cousin and trusted companion who secretly works for Bai Lan. Uses a staged rescue and false account of the Long Family’s destruction to gain his trust, then reports his opportunities and poisons him 426 446 447 534.
• Di Wu Yin — Former rescuer and romantic associate. Accuses him of taking advantage of her while she was drugged; later swears enmity toward him, becomes Bai Lan’s agent, and helps frame him in Tiandu City 211 238 323 336.
• Meng Xue’er — Devoted admirer whose trust is damaged by promises made by Bai Lan in his name. Secures a Heart Demon Vow of love and loyalty from him and keeps him under the Myriad Treasures Pavilion’s protection and confinement until his escape 82 83 337 425 426.
• Le Mingyue and the Le sisters — Romantic connections broken by accusations arising from impersonation. Le Mingyue rejects his denials and leaves in disappointment 108 308.
• Zi Yu — Fox King’s daughter and dual-cultivation partner. Falls in love with him and releases him, but later sides with Bai Lan 256 258.
• Fox King — Intends to use Long Aotian for Zi Yu’s cultivation, imprison him, and eventually kill him 256.
• Li Qiao’er — Romantic partner who agrees to elope with him after his rejection by the Cheng Family. They initially shelter at the Myriad Treasures Pavilion 302 304.
• Hong Gu — Myriad Treasures Pavilion supporter who shelters him, encourages his ambitions, and helps secure his protection after Qingxia’s attack 304 308.
• Hong Ru — A source of romantic and political support. Bai Lan threatens to expose his other affairs to her, exploiting his fear of losing her affection 310.
• Ning Yan — Azure Cloud Sect disciple whose apparent devotion to him is used in Bai Lan’s framing scheme. The real Long Aotian denies knowing her when confronted 304 306 308.
• True Monarch Qingxia — Attacks him for allegedly bewitching Ning Yan. Although forced to spare him during the confrontation with the Myriad Treasures Pavilion, she intends to eliminate him later 308.
• Li Fen — Victim whose identity and storage bag Long Aotian takes. Long Aotian admits throwing him into Yin Feng Ravine, where he is forced into demonic cultivation 173 174 259.
• Cheng Tianfeng — Develops an obsession with him and consumes a poisoned Foundation Establishment Pill intended for him 300 301.
• Qing Wan — Daughter of Vermilion Bird Island’s master and a later romantic companion. Captured when Long Aotian flees Bai Lan; he subsequently includes her in his revenge threats 532 533 534.
• Xun Yang Zi — Former Core Formation cultivator who guides him into the Water Moon Sect and later urges him to flee Bai Lan 540 562.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Early Rivalry and Lost Opportunities

• At the Spirit Testing Assembly, Long Aotian accepts Bai Lan’s challenge to fight in three months, confident that her five spiritual roots cannot compete with his aptitude 2.
• Bai Lan uses the System’s plot information to seize the Ancient Cultivator’s Cave Mansion inheritance intended for him 3.
• She steals his early storage bag and supplies assassins with information about his backing and escape methods 7 18 19.
• His first duel against Bai Lan ends in defeat; during the fight, he cannot reliably strike her despite his speed 35 36 136.
• He redirects pursuit toward Ling Shizu through disguise, but Bai Lan discovers the deception and leaks updated information to the assassin 53 54.

Impersonation and Meditation Cliff

• Bai Lan operates under his identity in Black Harbor, making romantic promises to Xue’er and provoking powerful cultivators. Long Aotian receives a year’s confinement at Meditation Cliff for offending True Person Qing Xuan 82 83 87.
• His mentor identifies impersonation as the source of his damaged reputation. Long Aotian suspects Bai Lan and resolves to cultivate more diligently 108.
• His improved physique cannot overcome Bai Lan’s resource advantage: she uses a Wind Bag to create a storm while remaining protected inside her Golden Bell Shield 136.
• He plans to use Bai Lan’s parents as hostages, but temporarily accepts his mentor’s advice to endure her provocations 142 147.

Sect Competition and Defection

• Competes while seeking Soul Nurturing Wood for his mentor, whose soul urgently needs stabilization 157.
• Bai Lan uses the same body-refining method he believed exclusive to himself and his master, provoking doubt before striking him 161.
• After Bai Lan exposes his disguise as Li Fen, True Lord Lingxiao orders his capture. His mentor’s soul force allows him to flee, and the sect declares that its disciples need no longer treat him as a fellow disciple 173.
• He heads toward the mortal realm to pursue revenge through Bai Lan’s relatives, while commissioned assassins follow his trail 174.

Broken Alliances and Demonic Flight

• Di Wu Yin and Zi Yu become targets of Bai Lan’s efforts to dismantle his romantic support network 238 256 258.
• During a clash involving Nascent Soul cultivators, he attempts to escape with demonic wings. Bai Lan intercepts him, severs the wings, and extracts four bottles of blood 259.
• Under questioning, he reveals Li Fen’s fate in Yin Feng Ravine 259.

Hongyan City and the Myriad Treasures Pavilion

• Rejected and beaten out of the Cheng Family, he attempts to bargain with a valuable pill formula and vows revenge 300.
• Takes Li Qiao’er away from her family and accepts alchemist work at the Myriad Treasures Pavilion for money and connections 302 304.
• Bai Lan impersonates him during her scheme involving Ning Yan, then imitates Xue’er’s voice to lure him into the resulting danger 306.
• True Monarch Qingxia severely injures him before a Nascent Soul expert from the Myriad Treasures Pavilion intervenes 308.
• Bai Lan subsequently threatens his romantic support by exposing his other affairs 310.

Tiandu City and the Undone Rebirth

• Di Wu Yin leads him to Tiandu City and gives him Wang Tianba’s jade pendant. It serves as apparent evidence of crimes Bai Lan committed under his identity 336.
• Xue’er obtains his vow of love and loyalty in exchange for protection from the Wang Family 337.
• In one timeline, the Wang Family ancestor crushes his divine soul, after which he awakens in Lin Mietian’s body. Bai Lan reloads, undoing that outcome 340.
• In the revised sequence, his mentor kills the pursuing cultivators, after which Bai Lan’s agents collect their storage bags and take Long Aotian’s possessions 340.
• Elder Fu later abandons his allegiance to Long Aotian and joins Bai Lan 370 385.

Boundless Sea Region and Long Yanran’s Betrayal

• Escapes the Myriad Treasures Pavilion and is eventually located by Long Yanran in the Boundless Sea Region 425 426 446.
• Long Yanran engineers a rescue and falsely claims that the Long Family has been massacred. He accepts her as a companion and blames Bai Lan without confirming either the massacre or its perpetrator 446 447.
• During his renewed rise, he reaches Foundation Establishment level seven, acquires valuable techniques and resources, and develops connections with Qing Wan and True Person Yu 532.
• Flees immediately upon seeing Bai Lan, but is captured with Life-Binding Silk and dragged to North Nether Island 533.
• Long Yanran reveals her allegiance and admits administering a poisoned Spirit Replenishing Pill that activates when he exhausts his spiritual power 534.

Water Moon Sect

• With his cultivation reduced to Qi Refining, he joins the Water Moon Sect under Xun Yang Zi’s guidance 540.
• Distrusts the artifact spirit Qing Hu and seals her gourd away, losing another opportunity when Xun Yang Zi delivers it to Bai Lan 540.
• Later reaches late Core Formation, but remains convinced that Bai Lan and her agents leave him nowhere safe to go 562.
• Reacts suspiciously to a woman offering escape from the Water Moon Sect after its ancestor demands the disciples’ life-bound divine souls 562.

Original Intended Destiny

• The System’s original plot identifies him as a destined protagonist who would ascend to immortality, turn evil because he could not bring his harem with him, and ultimately destroy the world. This is a projected storyline, not a completed event in the supplied chapters 3.
• His intended harem includes dozens of consummated partners and dozens of additional admirers 90.
• Planned routes include rescuing Jin Yao and Jin Qianze, treating the Lan sisters, and taking Long Yanran as a personal disciple after reaching Core Formation. Bai Lan intervenes in these opportunities before they can develop as intended 64 192 248 414.
• A later planned revelation would identify him as the young master of a hidden family after he reached Nascent Soul. Bai Lan explicitly intends to prevent that connection from emerging 385.

Notable Quotes

“Thirty years east of the river, thirty years west of the river—never bully a poor young man!” 48

“My fate is mine to control, not heaven’s! Even if heaven sends that woman to torment me, I will face the challenge head-on!” 304

“Run, where can I run to... That woman is everywhere, her people are everywhere. I have no secrets in front of her!” 562