Li Clan

Biodata

Feature	Information
Name	Li Clan (李家)
Alias(es)	Moon Gazing Li Clan; Li Jing Clan
Affiliation	Moon Gazing Lake
Occupation/Role	Cultivator clan; territorial ruling house and military power
Status	Active 1412
First Appearance	Chapter 18 18

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Cultivation breakthrough	18	Li Tongya breaks through into cultivation two months after Li Changhu's death, giving the family another cultivator. 18
Qi Cultivation Fifth Layer	109	Li Tongya is a fifth-layer Qi Cultivator when Mountain Yue seeks allegiance. 109
Foundation Establishment	214	After twelve years in seclusion, Li Tongya forms an Immortal Foundation; the clan is thereafter regarded as an aristocratic clan. 214
Purple Mansion representation	697	Li Ximing appears as a True Person at the Purple Mansion Dharma Assembly, marking the clan's entry into Purple Mansion-level affairs. 697
Eleven Foundation Establishment cultivators	724	The clan counts eleven Foundation Establishment cultivators and retains cultivators of several different lineages. 724
Middle Stage Purple Palace	1098	Li Zhouwei breaks through to Middle Stage Purple Palace and displays the strengthened Red Severing Arrowhead divine ability. 1098

History

Rise at Li Jing

The clan developed from Li Jing Village into the regional center of power. Land taxes from surrounding villages funded craftsmen, who rebuilt the village with bluestone roads, blue-brick residences, and a main road leading from the clan gate to the village entrance. 30

Li Tongya personally tested local children for spiritual aptitude and accepted Ye Chengfu's son into the main family after finding that he possessed a spirit aperture. The clan also placed affiliated households under close supervision to preserve control over lineage and cultivation resources. 24

As its population expanded, the clan's Small Branches and Sub-Branches reached roughly four thousand people. Li Mutian established the Clan Head Courtyard to monitor them, preventing the branch descendants from openly abusing their privileged status despite their frequent petty excesses. 127

Mountain Yue expansion

Mountain Yue first approached the Li Clan with offers of trade, tribute, and intermarriage, seeking protection while asking Li cultivators not to cross its borders. Li Tongya and Li Xuanxuan instead treated the weakened territory as a potential source of markets, influence, and resources. 109

The clan later crossed into Eastern Shan Yue under the banner of restoring a descendant of the former royal house. Li Yuanxiu led troops into Mulu Town, while Li Tongya directed the larger political settlement. 184

After defeating and reorganizing the Six Great Clans, the Li Clan secured Eastern Shan Yue's Spirit Fields, Spirit Objects, witchcraft artifacts, and tribute. Li Yuanxiu rejected a proposal to eliminate the Mountain Yue royal heir and establish direct Li administration; Li Tongya instead made the royal house a nominal vassal and practical puppet. 191

The clan later extended control into Northern Shan Yue. Li Zhouwei ordered the destruction of twenty-one local noble clans, recruited their followers into new manpower, and raised Di Li Youjie as a local collaborator. Northern Shan Yue subsequently fell under Li Clan and Eastern Shan Yue control, with Di Li Youjie named its lord. 504 511

Consolidation around Moon Gazing Lake

The Li Clan rebuilt Huaqian Mountain, improved the four towns and two mountains under its rule, and cultivated Yellow Jade Spirit Rice as a high-value crop. 148

Following the conflict with the Yu Family, the clan acquired Hua Zhong and Jade Courtyard Mountains, blocking the Ding Family's route into Moon Gazing Lake. 253 It later absorbed Huo Luo'e's lands, making the whole South Bank of Moon Gazing Lake bear the Li surname. 511

The clan also took responsibility for civilian works. During prolonged flooding, Li Chengliao personally inspected the bluestone embankments protecting nearby towns and supervised the cultivators assigned to their upkeep. 476

Later growth

By the time of its Purple Mansion Dharma Assembly, the Li Clan had become a major regional power whose White Qilin, Li Zhouwei, received formal deference from visiting cultivators and Xuan Yue Sect leadership. 697

The Xiao Family later ceded seventy-nine East Shore families to the clan. Li Zhouwei ordered the installation of guards, restrictions on blood essence and Rice Meat consumption, the opening of marketplaces, and a system through which affiliated families sent disciples for cultivation and service. 707

The Jade Court Guard became capable of rapid external deployment. Under Li Jiangqian, it departed Moon Gazing Lake aboard the Qu He Great Ship after news created an opening at Qun Yi Island. 1012

Governance and Law

Clan Head Courtyard

The Clan Head Courtyard stands at the foot of Li Jing Mountain. Originally the clan's large estate, it faces south and is flanked by two smaller courtyards; its stone-brick front court was built by Li Changhu, Li Tongya, Li Xiangping, and Li Chijing themselves. 171

The courtyard serves as the clan's central administrative and disciplinary institution. Its officers supervise towns, investigate cultivators, punish criminal conduct, and monitor conflicts among the branches. 171

Li Yuanxiu used internal rivalries among outside-surname cultivators to identify loyal, treacherous, capable, and unreliable figures before those disputes could threaten the clan. 171

Discipline

Li Yuanxiu publicly executed the operator of a gambling den and punished clan members involved in it, using the incident to reaffirm clan law amid pressure from both internal factions and neighboring families. 162

During a later purge, the Jade Court Guard executed more than a thousand people for violating military and clan law, stripped others of the Li name, and sent them into Mountain Yue. 348

The clan's rules are particularly strict toward its own branches. Li Xicheng's death left no surplus wealth because he had distributed his resources to impoverished cultivators, a reputation later preserved in Clan History. 530

Known officeholders

Member	Documented role	Chapter
Li Mutian	Early patriarch; established the Clan Head Courtyard	127
Li Tongya	Ancestor; Foundation Establishment cultivator	191, 214
Li Xuanxuan	Clan Head; later Grand Elder	109, 476
Li Yuanxiu	Young Clan Head	162
Li Yuanping	Clan Head	281
Li Xicheng	Clan Head	476
Li Chengliao	Chief administrator	476
Li Zhouwei	Clan Head; later Wei King	733, 1266
Li Ximing	True Person	697

Territory and Administration

• The clan's estate system includes sixteen estates, two peaks, and one mountain. Peak heads of the sixteen estates wear red; Green Azalea, associated with clan rectitude, uses green-and-white attire; Jade Court, associated with inspection, uses pale white and gray. 648
• Dense Forest remained too important to assign lightly, leaving its designated purple official robes unused. 648
• The reorganized West Shore contained fifty-seven families, fourteen Qi Refining cultivators, thirty-one small peaks and valleys, thirty-two towns, and more than 610,000 people. 630
• The Li Clan maintains a distinction between direct descendants, collateral branches, outside-surname cultivators, retainers, affiliated families, and military personnel. Conflicts between these groups are a recurring administrative concern. 281 710
• Li Chengliao distributed Spirit Objects and grotto residences to talented juniors and disciples from the Sixteen Estates. 649

Military Forces

• Clan Soldiers — Local armed force used for village security, campaigns, discipline, and ceremonial guard duties. 78 191
• Jade Court Guard — Elite force employed in purges, territorial seizures, and external expeditions; it could field more than twenty Qi Refining cultivators during the Yu Family campaign. 348 480
• Peak Guardians and residence stewards — Officials selected from the Immortal Registry to supervise ceded territories and affiliated families. 707
• Jade Court Guard expedition force — Led by Li Jiangqian during the campaign toward HeLin County. 1012

Defenses and Resources

• Liu Changdie completed the clan's Mountain Protecting Great Formation using the White Feather Purple Catalpa Banners, producing a golden formation that covered Li Jing Mountain. 129
• At one point, the clan held five mountains and more than twenty formations, with over a hundred if Spirit Field arrays were included. Li Jing Mountain alone had formations for three Spirit Fields, the Ancestral Hall, and the treasury. 354
• The clan possesses inheritances in formations, talismans, and pill refinement, though its formation specialists historically lagged behind Liu Changdie's expertise. 383
• Its recorded spell collection included twenty-seven ungraded spells, fifteen first-grade spells, seven second-grade spells, three third-grade spells, and a limited number of pupil and movement techniques. 587
• Li Jiangqian later prioritized the construction of a new grand formation; Li Suihuan estimated that it would require three to five years, or two years with greater resource investment. 1203

External Relations

• Mountain Yue — Began as a weaker neighbor seeking allegiance through trade, tribute, and marriage; Eastern Shan Yue became a Li-controlled vassal, while Northern Shan Yue was later placed under Di Li Youjie's rule. 109 191 511
• Xiao Family — Political ally and negotiating partner. The Xiao Family supported Li annexation of Moon Gazing Lake while preserving its own interests in Yu territory, and later ceded East Shore families to the Li Clan. 511 707
• Xuan Yue Sect — Associated sect ally. The clan received safe passage toward the East Sea through Xuan Yue, later granted defeated Xuan Yue cultivators refuge in the wilderness while refusing them entry to the continent. 417 733
• An Family — An Zheyan sought Li protection, surrendered his inheritance, and was used to resume mining at the Azure Crow Ore Grotto. The An Family later became deeply embedded in Li Clan offices and marriage networks. 210 916
• Chen Family — Longstanding trusted aide and marriage-connected family whose bloodline and cultivators became closely tied to the Li Clan's four branches. 916
• Yuan Clan — Once connected through marriage negotiations and shared interests, but the Yuan Clan later severed an engagement with Li Yuexiang and shifted toward the Song Clan. 495 496
• Cui Clan of Chongzhou — A fellow Wei-descended clan. Li Zhouwei sought its cultivation arts while offering pills and a spirit artifact, treating the relationship as one of alliance and restoration of shared inheritance. 1025