Li Ye

Biodata

Feature	Details
Name	Li Ye
Alias(es)	Lord of Tomorrow; Alliance Leader of the Tomorrow Alliance; first-generation Head of Tomorrow Civilization 3 397
Species/Race	Human 296
Gender	Male
Affiliation	Tomorrow → Tomorrow Alliance → Tomorrow Civilization 1 397
Occupation/Role	Mobile City lord, military commander, civilization founder and leader 1 193 397
Status	Alive; after founding Tomorrow Civilization, he intends to yield leadership to future outstanding successors and become an observer of its growth 397 406
First Appearance	Chapter 1

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Level 1 Mobile City — Tomorrow	1	Leads a slave rebellion aboard the Level 1 city Mole, takes control, and renames it Tomorrow.
Tier 2 Mobile City — Tomorrow	68	Tomorrow is upgraded to Tier 2, gaining more internal space and improved living conditions for residents.
Level 3 City Alliance — Tomorrow Alliance	226	Li Ye is recognized as the lord of a Level 3 City Alliance while negotiating assistance for the Ice Dome Research Base.
Level 4 Mobile City — Tomorrow	250	Oversees Level 4 infrastructure, including a Level 4 City Simulation Training Pod with a 1:72 time ratio, and begins planning a nuclear power plant.
Level 5 Mobile City — Tomorrow Alliance	305	Having just entered Level 5, the alliance begins producing Level 5 blueprints and pursues higher-level combat platforms.

Background and History

Founding of Tomorrow

Li Ye enters the wasteland as a slave aboard the low-tier mobile city Mole. He leads the former slaves in a revolt, removes the previous lord’s remaining loyalists, seizes the city, and renames it Tomorrow 1.

His first priority is survival: Tomorrow lacks food, water, iron ore, and ammunition. After activating the Intelligence System, Li Ye uses its reports to identify nearby resources, convoys, and threats, then directs the city’s first mining operation at a medium-sized iron mine 1.

Unlike the lord he overthrew, Li Ye explicitly refuses to treat recruits as slaves. New members are given rooms, food, water, and manageable work in exchange for becoming part of Tomorrow 7.

Building a Mobile City

Li Ye sets the goal of upgrading Tomorrow to Level 2 within three months and leaving the Wasteland Zone. He recruits and develops specialized personnel rather than relying solely on immediate combat power, including helmsman Tang Fang, mechanic Lin Wu, and artilleryman Ning Wen 4 13 14.

He prefers the Nomad Faction’s mobile way of life over settling permanently as a fortress, valuing exploration, resource access, and the uncertainty of each new journey 12. His early diplomacy includes trading with kobold merchants, forming temporary partnerships, and joining the Azure and Conqueror cities to hunt the Lava Spider Queen 5 14.

After Tomorrow reaches Tier 2, Li Ye expands its administration: Lin Wu becomes deputy, Old Zhou becomes combat captain, and the city’s residents receive improved water, furnishings, and living conditions 68. He later establishes an elected City Committee, a Public Security Bureau, public kitchens, a farmers market, and pensions for fallen combat personnel 100 197.

Alliance Expansion

As Tomorrow’s strength grows, Li Ye develops it from a single mobile city into the Tomorrow Alliance. He prioritizes production projects, air and naval power, special forces, advanced weaponry, and personnel training. During the battle involving Silent City and Lone Sail, he personally boards Lone Sail to secure seven Level 2 production projects despite the danger 83.

Li Ye’s command style becomes increasingly large-scale. He coordinates tanks, aircraft, submarines, speedboats, artillery, and mobile cities through detailed battlefield micromanagement, using his all-seeing view to exploit enemy weaknesses and secure battlefield superiority 165 193.

He also treats civilian development as a strategic necessity. The alliance creates simulated education and entertainment programs, city-scale housing plans, satellite communications, internal agriculture, and transportation systems rather than focusing solely on military expansion 181 252 319.

Wasteland Gods and Interplanetary Exploration

Li Ye leads the Tomorrow Alliance beyond Weilan Star’s familiar zones, exploring Guixu Continent, the Floating Island Zone, Rock Abyss, Wayne Star, Salandis, and Armat Star 241 261 296 315. His investigations reveal that Wasteland Gods are imprisoned on planets and that humanity may have been cultivated as a tool in their conflict with monsters 272 319.

At the Mechanical World Tree, Li Ye works with Loloqi to retrieve Tianzhi’s legacy. He obtains the blueprints for the Seven Deadly Sins weapons and a Mechanical World Tree seed capable of creating a new continent, while resolving to prevent Tianzhi’s corpse from being exploited by either humans or monsters 294.

He later warns the Nahas Emperor against the Thorn God’s Ascension system, arguing that the civilization should abandon its dependence on the imprisoned deity. The warning is rejected, and the conflict culminates in the destruction of the Nahas royal capital and the Thorn God’s forced retreat 317 318.

From Alliance to Civilization

Following the defeat of the Lord of Bones, Li Ye obtains the means to activate a super-giant Stargate and helps lead humanity’s exploration of the Macallan star system 344. The Tomorrow Alliance subsequently develops light-speed navigation, dimensional travel, a Level 7 City Simulation Training Pod, advanced gene technology, and interstellar construction capabilities 389 394 399.

The alliance settles in the Burnley Star System and is formally recognized as Tomorrow Civilization. Li Ye establishes a modern political structure with a Senate, House of Representatives, Supreme Court, and Supreme Military Council, while declaring that leadership should not be inherited by his descendants 397.

Under his direction, Burnley develops industrial, agricultural, financial, and military zones across hundreds of planets. He also authorizes the absorption of the Shadow Leopard and Shuojin civilizations to broaden Tomorrow Civilization’s knowledge, labor base, and long-term prospects 398 400.

By the finale, the Burnley Star System has completed its industrial and agricultural foundations, established Tomorrow Coin and a central bank, and begun building a self-sustaining economy. Li Ye steps back from the role of perpetual pioneer, allowing the civilization he founded to continue without him at its center 402 406.

Personality

Li Ye is pragmatic and decisive, particularly when survival or strategic opportunity is at stake. He is willing to take personal risks for technology and resources, such as infiltrating Lone Sail to obtain production projects, but generally evaluates danger through intelligence, reconnaissance, and force comparisons before committing his people 83 206.

His rule is shaped by his experience as a slave. He rejects inhumane treatment of recruits, invests in housing and public services, and builds legal and welfare systems as Tomorrow’s population grows 7 197. He also listens to advisers such as Lin Wu, Old Zhou, Fang Yong, Zhou Xing, and Yang Zheng, though he retains final authority over major decisions 168 251 284.

Li Ye’s curiosity repeatedly pushes the alliance into unknown territory, from wormholes and elemental planes to alien planets and higher dimensions 56 261 394. At the same time, he remains uneasy about technological progress that outpaces human ethics, particularly genetic modification, accelerated maturation, and consciousness-based immortality 391 399.

Abilities & Skills

Intelligence System

Li Ye possesses an Intelligence System that provides refreshed reports on resources, threats, locations, factions, and major world events 1 56.

• Identifies nearby mines, convoys, wild BOSSes, wormholes, safe areas, and resource fields 1 56.
• Supplies Epic and Legendary intelligence that influences alliance-level strategy, including information on City Crystals, Wasteland Gods, and interstellar threats 242 294 333.
• Lets Li Ye make decisions with information unavailable to other mobile-city lords, leading his crew to believe he can foresee events 5.
• Lower-value intelligence can be incomplete or too vague to act on without additional investigation 170.

Mobile-City Command

Li Ye is an accomplished commander of mobile-city, land, sea, and air forces.

• Organizes mixed-unit operations involving tanks, aircraft, submarines, speedboats, artillery, special forces, and Mobile Suits 165 193.
• Uses real-time battlefield information to assign specific targets to each unit type and systematically disable enemy mobility and defenses 165.
• Prioritizes air superiority and high-value targets during major engagements 193.
• Adapts tactics to unfamiliar enemies, including vampires, demons, building-type monsters, and elemental-plane creatures 206 242 262.

Administration and Development

Li Ye combines military expansion with institution-building.

• Establishes public elections and delegates daily administration to the City Committee 100.
• Creates the Public Security Bureau, legal planning, public food services, and pensions for combat personnel 197.
• Uses the City Simulation Training Pod to accelerate education, professional training, research, and civilian entertainment 181 250 354.
• Oversees the transition from a mobile-city hierarchy to a civilization-scale government in the Burnley Star System 397 402.

Diplomacy and Negotiation

Li Ye builds alliances where mutual benefit outweighs isolation.

• Forms a three-city alliance with Azure and Conqueror against the Lava Spider Queen, including a negotiated division of spoils and exchanged hostages 14.
• Trades natural gas, resources, and blueprints with the Apocalypse Church and other human organizations 146 153.
• Cooperates with figures such as Bishop Heath, Bishop Albert, Cardinal Victor, Fang Ying, and Loloqi when their objectives align 239 261 294.
• Attempts diplomacy even with foreign civilizations, including the Nahas Civilization, before resorting to force 317.

Key Assets and Technology

• Tomorrow — Li Ye’s original mobile city, seized from its former lord and developed from Level 1 into a Level 5 mobile city 1 305.
• Tomorrow Alliance — His multi-city human force, operating mobile-city combat clusters, fleets, special forces, Mobile Suits, and planetary infrastructure 271 394.
• City AI Novy — Initially a highly capable but non-self-aware city AI; after ascension to Level 7, Novy develops emotions and intelligence indistinguishable from a living being 277 389.
• City Simulation Training Pod — A core training and research asset. At Level 7, one day inside equals ten years outside and consciousness can be stored within it 389.
• Seven Deadly Sins weapon blueprints — Wasteland God-grade weapon blueprints recovered from Tianzhi’s legacy; Li Ye adapts their designs for Mobile Suit use against Wasteland Gods 294 343.
• Mechanical World Tree seed — Tianzhi’s legacy seed, capable of growing into a new Mechanical World Tree and creating a new continent if controlled by a sufficiently powerful AI 294.
• Level 6 Space Folding Device — Obtained following Azgoth’s defeat and intended for installation on the Pacifier 332.
• Level 7 Light Speed Navigation Power Engine — Enables vehicles to perform light-speed navigation 389.

Relationships

• Tang Fang — Former slave and Li Ye’s first chosen helmsman. Li Ye recognizes Tang Fang’s exceptional piloting talent, later offering him training as a second Mobile Suit pilot 1 4 272.
• Old Zhou — Early deputy and one of Li Ye’s most trusted veterans. He later serves as combat captain and head of the Public Security Bureau 1 68 197.
• Lin Wu — Recruited as a mechanic despite illness and limited mobility; becomes Li Ye’s deputy, City Committee chairman, and a principal adviser on administration and genetic policy 7 68 100 399.
• Lin Xia — Daughter of Roland Fortress’s former lord, later a City Committee member and Li Ye’s romantic partner 3 100 271.
• Ning Wen — Inexperienced artilleryman recruited by Li Ye; later becomes a core member of the War Council 14 391.
• Zhou Xing — Core ally and adviser who becomes Minister of Industry for Tomorrow Civilization 251 398.
• Fang Yong — Core ally and military adviser who becomes Minister of Defense and establishes the Galactic Defense Force 251 398.
• Yang Zheng — Core ally and firepower specialist who becomes Minister of Finance and manages Tomorrow Company 193 398.
• Bishop Heath — Apocalypse Church commander and recurring battlefield ally; coordinates with Li Ye during major naval operations 239.
• Bishop Albert — Apocalypse Church intermediary who provides intelligence, trade access, and guidance on high-level zones and mobile-city warfare 253 271.
• Loloqi — Mechanical Princess and Tianzhi’s daughter. She assists Li Ye in entering the Mechanical World Tree and retrieving Tianzhi’s legacy despite opposing the destruction of her mother’s corpse 293 294.

Notable Quotes

“We will definitely bury you.” — Li Ye, confronting the Lord of Bones 344

“The future of the Tomorrow Alliance belongs to everyone, and it should be led by the most outstanding individuals, not my descendants.” — Li Ye 397

“Enough, it’s enough.” — Li Ye, choosing to settle after a lifetime of exploration 397