Diviner

Biodata

Power Progression

Background / History

Jian Cunyi deduced that Leng Jing was an orphan, probably had no surviving blood relatives, and originated somewhere in northern China. Yanjing was a rumored birthplace, but Jian explicitly cautioned that his information might not be accurate 1375.

Leng Jing knew White Sand before either entered the Death game. Their longstanding friendship later gave White Sand unusual standing within the Marauders despite his lack of an important organizational position 1171.

After entering the Death game, Leng Jing founded the Marauders and advanced rapidly. Gu Mo, who joined around the same time, repeatedly sought him out to measure her own strength against his rising Divine Rank. He usually avoided these encounters until his advancement to Tier 4 gave him an opportunity to turn one into a lethal ambush 1558.

His pursuit of power included massacres committed to strengthen himself and forge an Item. Jian Cunyi named 147 victims from the White Crane Martial Arts School, 45 from the Six Qin Martial Arts School, 19 from the Taichu Daoist Sect, and numerous others. Some had been close to Jian Cunyi or had shown him kindness, making the Diviner his sworn enemy 1374.

Appearance

The Diviner appears as a silver-haired young man in Taoist robes, looking younger than the age Jian Cunyi calculated for him 775 1375.

• Characteristic equipment: Commonly carries a Long Banner and Compass 1838.
• After the Prison Mountain operation: Appears with blue cloth covering his eyes and uses a bamboo staff instead of his usual equipment 1838.
• Possessed appearances: Uses Max’s body on Mist Island; this appearance is not his own 351.

Personality

The Diviner treats personal survival, power, and advancement as overriding priorities. Witnessing ordinary people’s lives through Jian Cunyi’s techniques does not awaken a desire to protect them; instead, it strengthens his refusal to remain individually insignificant. He seeks a higher form of existence, greater longevity, and enough power to stand apart from the collective suffering of others 1752.

His cruelty is calculated rather than dependent on anger. He casually explains Max’s soul extraction as a practical solution to needing a Tier 1 identity and cannot understand Zao risking herself to avenge someone she barely knew 351. Lin Yu consequently regards him as dangerous not merely because he is powerful, but because he will use elaborate, vicious methods even against weaker opponents 1718.

He can postpone revenge when immediate retaliation would undermine a larger objective. After White Sand’s death, he remains willing to discuss cooperation with Schreiber, while explaining that destroying a disposable doppelganger would only alert his enemy 1831 1838.

His confidence in his own reasoning is exploitable. Lin Yu supplies selected clues about Director and Schreiber, allowing the Diviner to construct a convincing but false explanation that their souls are intertwined. The Diviner’s deduction then becomes useful cover for Lin Yu’s identities 1837.

Abilities & Skills

Divination and Danger Intuition

The Diviner casts hexagrams to investigate people, relationships, and future dangers. His intuition is itself part of his ability 353 355 775.

• Detects that Lin Yu and Robin are significant before fully understanding why 353.
• Investigates direct connections to a target when that target’s broader Destiny is concealed 775.
• Recognizes divine concealment surrounding Director and Zhu Ming 786.
• Limits: Revelations require interpretation. His readings can expose a real connection while leading him to an incorrect explanation, as with Director and Schreiber 1837.
• Cannot precisely predict every battlefield or guarantee a safe location once Shenzhen’s strongest combatants begin acting 1840.

Fate and Karma Manipulation

His Fragment of Fate supports methods involving Destiny and karma, including resistance to other Authorities 1431 1960.

• Redirects the God of Desire’s influence toward desires he had already fulfilled in the past, allowing him to recover from an illusion in less than a second 1815.
• Temporarily projects complete Fate and appears to be merging with it, excluding the effects of Desire, Game, and Rule without actually completing that merger 1960.
• Returns after Data Deletion as projected Fate becomes fragmented again; his disappearance becomes false while his reappearance becomes true. His Heart Domain persists throughout 1961.
• Countermeasure: The Karma Substitute Death Calamity Body can transfer effects of destiny- and karma-based methods onto a puppet, making it particularly troublesome for him 1431.

Heart Domain

His Heart Domain distorts reality through inversion and disorder. Its activation reverses heaven and earth, black and white, and the order of life and death; these environmental distortions are only its passive effects 1750.

• Transfers an effect applied to himself onto an opponent, demonstrated through Life-enhanced Flesh Erosion against Jian Cunyi 1751.
• Concentrates its distortions on himself to become seemingly illusory and escape an attack 1817.
• Works in conjunction with projected Fate to resist hostile Authorities 1960.
• Limits of known information: Jian Cunyi’s extensive research initially failed to establish how either this ability or the Diviner’s Exclusive Item functioned 1375.

Daoist Arts and Formations

His repertoire includes Daoist Arts, sorcery, martial arts, cultivation methods, and numerous Daoist Items 1375.

• Summons destructive cyan-white lightning through his Compass and hexagram symbols 351.
• Uses a Qimen Formation to draw on powers from different Ten Realms, including the Barren Realm and Nether Void Realm 1749.
• Constructs spatial passages and layered formations; destroys a passage formation rather than risk Jian Cunyi deciphering and pursuing him through it 1813 1814.
• Uses threads to block escape and interfere with Mental Power perception 1913.
• Employs Witch Gu Curse Technique and Qin Siyu’s blood in an attempt to corrupt the Great Rui emperor serving as a sealing formation’s array eye 1811.

Borrowed Authorities

The Diviner supplements his own abilities with higher-order powers obtained through external arrangements 1749 1961.

• Life: Restores himself after a nearly bisecting sword strike and inflicts flesh-dissolving erosion 1749 1751.
• Unformed Life: Uses a planted soul fragment to transmit power that overwrites another person’s consciousness. Fang Qing’s [Error] ejects this attack from Lin Yu’s soul 1815 1816.
• Oblivion: Conceals his approach to Lin Yu before surrounding him with escape-blocking threads 1913.
• Concealment: Reduces his detectable presence almost to nonexistence and supports his survival against concentrated attacks. Its available power is depleted through use 1961 1964 1968.

Possession, Avatars, and Puppets

He can act without exposing his real body 351 1813 1915.

• Possesses Max to use her Tier 1 identity; removing her soul leaves her beyond saving 351.
• Reabsorbs an avatar through a spatial passage 1813.
• Negotiates with Lin Yu through a wood-and-straw Mechanism Puppet covered in talismans and disguised by Green Smoke Illusion 1915.
• Limit: On Mist Island, acting through possession with only one Compass leaves him vulnerable to Zao’s sabotage 352.

Instance Creation

The Diviner creates a replica of Shenzhen that the Death game recognizes as an Instance 1950.

• Sets clearance conditions of surviving for 24 hours or killing a living being 1950.
• Uses the Instance to admit powerful Ten Realms partners without bringing them directly into the Real World 1940 1950.
• Receives support from the space’s nascent world will 1961 1964.
• With this support and Authority power, holds off five Tier 4 opponents simultaneously, though he cannot promptly defeat or disengage from them 1965 1967.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Fragment of Fate — Central to his divination, Authority countermeasures, and intended ascension. Destiny’s constraints prevent him from simply seizing another holder’s fragment; he instead seeks a sincere, willing trade 1837 1913 1960.
• Red Gold Compass — Coordinates formations, connects to Ten Realms powers, and assists in locating desired targets 1749 1912.
• Copper coins — Used for hexagram readings, defensive interception, and combat 775 1747 1965.
• Long Banner — Used alongside his formations and to neutralize incoming energy attacks 1915 1965.
• Wooden Boat — Aerial transport and escape vessel that can be summoned by unfurling a banner 1813 1913.
• Soul-Seizing Bell — Soul-targeting Item; Jian Cunyi claims he can withstand it even with his soul already damaged 1747.
• White Cubic Box — Supplies the unformed Authority of Life used in his soul-eroding attack 1815.
• Blank Dao Banner — Stores spiritual energy and supports additional formations drawn on its surface. He gives one to Yayu as a reward 1991.
• Exclusive Item — Confirmed to exist, but its identity and operating mechanism were not established in Jian Cunyi’s research 1375.

Relationships

• A’yu — Trusted subordinate and capable assistant. He rescued her during her fourth Instance, prompting her to join the Marauders out of gratitude 353 598 809.
• White Sand — Longtime friend from before the Death game. Their unusually equal relationship means White Sand cannot simply be controlled through the Diviner’s authority 1171.
• Jian Cunyi / Feng Shui Master — Formerly deceived acquaintance turned mortal enemy. Jian studies his abilities, publishes countermeasures, and repeatedly obstructs his plans 1371 1374 1375 1721.
• Lin Yu / Director — Enemy and holder of a Fragment of Fate the Diviner needs. The Diviner attempts to isolate him from Order, exploit his family history, and bargain for his fragment 775 1913 1915.
• Schreiber — Target of revenge for White Sand’s death, but also a potential temporary partner. The Diviner falsely concludes that Schreiber and Director are separate people with intertwined souls 1245 1837 1838.
• Yayu — Lin Yu’s infiltrating identity within the Marauders. The Diviner recognizes her calculating nature and invests in her usefulness without requiring genuine loyalty 1990 1991.
• Gu Mo / Grandmaster — Recurrent opponent whom he nearly killed after unlocking Heart Domain 1558.
• Cold Cicada — Temporary strategic partner, explicitly not a Marauder; serves as a link in his cooperation with the Emperor 1697 1867.
• Emperor — Previous-version Player and leader of Copper Furnace. Their cooperation is transactional; the Diviner describes such arrangements as temporary partnerships rather than alliances 1797 1914.
• God of Oblivion — Bargaining partner. The Diviner offers information about the Previous Civilization’s Authority of Memory in exchange for action against Lin Yu 1470.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Mist Island

• Possesses Max and seeks the raw soul of the Lord of Mist Island 351.
• Overpowers Zao’s blood-painted attacks, but her sabotage releases the soul’s mist and disrupts his preparations 351 352.
• Refuses Hacker’s request to spare Lin Yu and Robin. His danger intuition subsequently warns him as a martial artist arrives to confront him 355.

Tournament and Fragments of Fate

• Publicly offers Director membership in the Marauders to cast doubt on his motives for joining Order. Director’s emphatic rejection instead strengthens Order’s favorable impression of him 775 776.
• Receives a divination indicating that he killed Lin Yu’s closest relative, initially leaving him confused 775.
• Identifies Director and Zhu Ming as Fragment of Fate holders, but orders the Marauders to seek friendship and trade rather than attack their well-connected owners 786.

Prison Mountain Realm

• Engineers the Duxuan Sect trap through the Gu-Heart Snake Demons, Living Foot, lured martial artists, and Qin Siyu’s arrival 1745.
• Confronts Jian Cunyi in his true body and combines Heart Domain with borrowed Authorities during their duel 1747 1749 1751.
• Attempts to use Qin Siyu’s blood to aid Demon Ancestor Gantuo’s escape 1811.
• Fails to overwrite Lin Yu’s consciousness with unformed Life after [Error] expels the attack. Ultimately withdraws rather than fight Jian Cunyi, Yun Fengyang, and Lin Yu together 1816 1817.
• Explains afterward that the operation’s failure still served him by pushing the Emperor into fuller cooperation against their shared enemies 1839.

Shenzhen Offensive

• Seeks to dismantle the cooperative environment maintained by Order and the Night Watchers, weaken opposing experts, and establish a player order led by the Marauders 1839 1845.
• Approaches Lin Yu through a disguised puppet to negotiate for his Fragment of Fate, offering future assistance and the Benevolent King’s five-Item defensive set 1913 1915.
• Creates the Shenzhen Instance and opens it to his Ten Realms partners 1950.
• Counters Desire, Game, and Rule with projected Fate, then survives Lin Yu’s concealed Data Deletion attack 1960 1961.
• Battles multiple reinforced Tier 4 opponents. Jian Cunyi later tampers with his formation, preventing him from escaping Old Wu and Comedian’s temporarily amplified attacks 1965 1967 1971.

Investment in Yayu

• Publicly hears the account blaming Schreiber for the Marauders’ deaths, then privately recognizes that Yayu knows the truth and has helped cover his lie 1990.
• Chooses to cultivate her as a useful subordinate, lets her retain the Benevolent King’s Items, and rewards her with a Blank Dao Banner 1991.
• Explains that even godhood appears to be an upper limit on the current path of advancement 1991.

Notable Quotes

“I’ve never responded to either softness or force. Once I’ve decided to do something, no one can stop me.” 355

“I want to reach a higher level of life, obtain a longer lifespan, and greater power, enough to overturn everything—I want to become a sea all on my own.” 1752

“You can have ‘ambition,’ and you can lack ‘loyalty,’ but... you have to be ‘useful’ enough.” 1991