Li Qingye

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Li Qingye (李青叶)
Alias(es)	Zhang Jack; Andrew 9 131 171
Species/Race	Human; genetically modified through the Jianmu Factor 4 110
Gender	Male
Age	24 at his post-modification examination 5
Affiliation	Homo sapiens Company; Qingye Group; formerly Jiangcheng University 4 47 189
Occupation/Role	Biochemist; founder and chairman of Homo sapiens Company; founder and chairman of Qingye Group 2 101 189 294
Family	Son of Li Zhonghua; grandson of Li Shengli; his mother and eldest brother are deceased 3 6 58
Status	Deceased; ends his life in a nuclear fusion furnace after reaching the irreversible limit of soul decay 694
First Appearance	His parents’ funeral in Gaoshan Temple Village, Qingshanqiao Town 1

Power Progression

Li Qingye’s documented advancements are biological enhancements and lifespan treatments rather than named cultivation realms.

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Jianmu Factor self-modification	4 5	Injects his experimental gene-editing enzyme. Survives cardiac arrest with automated CPR and emergency medication, but suffers accelerated organ aging.
Ancestral Memory	5	Gains access to inherited ancestral memories, providing knowledge and experience beyond his own life.
Memory Palace and Eidetic Memory	5	Both are identified by noon on the seventh day. He can organize, categorize, and tag memories while retaining information with exceptional accuracy.
Super Senses	5	Emerges on the eighth day, improving hearing, taste, and smell. Red–green color blindness appears during the same period.
Super Analysis and Super Deduction	5	Emerges on the ninth day, rapidly recombining stored information into new insights. His body cannot support further advancement; examinations estimate only about twenty years of remaining life.
Sensory control and combat experience	6	Learns to suppress and reactivate Super Senses. First-person immersion in his grandfather’s memories gives him veteran-level reconnaissance, combat, and survival skills.
Blood Blade sub-personality	7	A combat-oriented personality derived from his grandfather’s memories remains vigilant while his main personality rests. Sub-personalities help manage the effects of integrating ancestral memories.
Guan Zhong personality	10	A third personality specializes in company management and business affairs, compensating for his main personality’s research focus.
Hibernation and medical conditioning	191	Low-consumption hibernation, drugs, nutrient solutions, biochip regulation, and surgery increase his estimated remaining lifespan from about sixteen to twenty-one years. Other complications are partially relieved.
Longevity Gu treatment plan	299	Selects Longevity Gu for further testing before using it himself. It is projected to provide about thirty years of extension, or roughly sixty more years when combined with hibernation; administration is not confirmed in this passage.

Background / History

Scientific Career and Family Loss

Li Qingye chose science partly because he doubted he could surpass his father and eldest brother in business and disliked political intrigue. Using more than twenty million supplied by his mother, he established Caixin Cosmetics Company near Jiangcheng University as a front for a private biochemical research institute 2.

In 2016, his research explored restoring Neanderthal genes through gene editing. Experiments on Turritopsis dohrnii stem cells produced an enzyme capable of turning genes into pseudogenes and activating recessive genes—the foundation of the Jianmu Factor. He became so absorbed in improving it that he did not visit his parents for the 2017 New Year 2.

His parents’ deaths left him isolated and considering withdrawal from his doctoral program. After their funeral, he placed their ashes in the family villa at the foot of Changshan Mountain. Wu Hewang offered to safeguard their shares and gave him a notarized will naming him as an heir 1 2.

Suspicion, Self-Modification, and Escape

A news alert and the rapid restructuring of Xin Xin Group led Li Qingye to suspect that his family’s deaths were connected to a corporate takeover. His parents’ car had been rammed into the Huangpu River by a dump truck. He concluded that his inherited 5.8% stake made him an obstacle to the people taking control and avoided accessing assets that might alert them 2 3.

With no faction he could safely trust, he returned to his laboratory and injected himself with the Jianmu Factor. The resulting enhancements came at the cost of decades of expected life. He accepted that bargain as necessary for survival and revenge, then destroyed the laboratory’s Jianmu Factor and gene-edited jellyfish materials 4 5.

While travelling to America with his mentor, he detected surveillance and discovered that his classmate Tian Nanxing was conspiring with one of his pursuers. He subsequently left San Francisco for Cape Town, obtained the identity Zhang Jack, and moved money through several Commonwealth countries to obscure his trail 6 7 9.

Establishing Homo sapiens Company

Operating as Zhang Jack, Li Qingye evaluated aquaculture acquisitions in Luzon, selecting Yada Marine Aquaculture Company for inspection. He devoted the following months to broadening his technical knowledge and developing his research infrastructure 10 11.

His biological chips and Soldier software supplied a means of creating absolutely loyal manpower. Baffart became the first activated modified subject. Later experiments on captured Sea Serpent Gang members expanded his workforce, while refinements reduced the physical burden of modification on older subjects 18 21.

After Li Jinglan’s death, Li Qingye placed Soldiers in key finance and personnel positions and promoted the honest Fang Xin Cheng to acting general manager. He also brought Chen Jianxiong into his inner circle through biochip implantation and tasked him with expanding intelligence operations across Luzon and Southeast Asia 27 28 30.

Manila Operations and Qingye Group

In Manila, Li Qingye attacked gang strongholds and rescued captives forced into online gambling operations. He took in the starving girl later known as Jasmine and offered rescued people the choice of returning home or remaining to pursue revenge. Of 173 rescued people, 107 chose to stay 40 41.

The destruction of eight gangs brought 1,372 selected gang personnel into the company’s modification pipeline. His operations also drew the Fernando and Lopez families into the company’s sphere of control 43.

After capturing Yang Tiancheng and extracting information about his family’s deaths, Li Qingye established Qingye Group as a second branch and public-facing decoy. Ma Chi impersonated him, while the real Li Qingye continued covert operations through Homo sapiens Company as Zhang Jack. Initial capital of approximately US$150 million came from his mother’s secret account 47 48.

Qingye Group began with low-temperature glass and coral cement technologies, then expanded through Hongsawad’s industries, infrastructure, and services. Hidden ownership arrangements, local intermediaries, Soldiers, and Managers concealed the extent of its control 47 48 69.

Revenge and the Fate of Xin Xin Group

Li Qingye refused to resume his relationship with Wu Xinlan, his childhood sweetheart, regarding emotional attachments as interference with revenge. Her visit to Qingye Group was handled by Ma Chi rather than Li Qingye himself 72.

He later subjected Wu Xinlan to biochip implantation and used pheromone control on Wu Hewang as part of his plan to take over Donghua Group. He refused Wu Hewang’s request for death, choosing prolonged helplessness as punishment 134 135.

Li Qingye eventually became Xin Xin Group’s largest shareholder with 12.1%, exceeding Du Shuping’s 11.5%. He coerced Du Jianxin into transferring assets by threatening his family, but found that revenge did not resolve his inner emptiness 139 141.

When Xin Xin Group faced collapse, he authorized Ma Chi to negotiate with Jiang Haitao. He approved selling its assets, repaying debts, and dissolving the company, adding provisions to compensate employee shareholders with dormitory properties 168 169.

Technological and Space Expansion

Li Qingye increasingly delegated routine management to return to research. His work on bio-nanotechnology produced high-performance steels and ceramics, using superior materials to compensate for the company’s comparatively outdated precision-manufacturing equipment 149 189 191.

He oversaw projects ranging from magneto-visual detection to launch vehicles, battleships, and military space infrastructure. As Homo sapiens Company prepared to enter the public spotlight, maintaining his identity solely through pseudonyms was no longer practical 224 226 265 271 294 413.

The Pangu Project created an artificial ecological research environment on the Darfur Plateau. Li Qingye intended to introduce powerful gene-recombined organisms and investigate possibilities for evolution beyond known genes. The completed Pangu Realm had a radius of 100 kilometres, a height of 500 metres, and eight auxiliary control zones 474 532.

Following the discovery of the Six-Clawed Civilization, he directed preparations for extraterrestrial threats and studied its Gene Memory Inheritance Technology. He also advocated integrating bio-armor into human genetics as a step toward humans capable of surviving and operating directly in space 612 619 630.

When an alien technological database posed a risk of information contamination, he suspended his Pangu research to analyze it personally. He prioritized extracting materials, energy, and mechanical technologies over potentially dangerous information-related fields 646.

Death and Legacy

At Anxi Star in the Kuiper Belt, Li Qingye reached the final stage of his life. Humanity could recognize the irreversible threshold of soul decay but could not slow it. His final orders were broadcast throughout Homo sapiens Company and its subsidiaries 694.

He enclosed himself in a biological life-support pod and ejected it into a strong-magnetic-field nuclear fusion furnace. After his death, the dominant faction loyal to his ideology imposed strict controls on cloning and gene-memory management, investigating widespread use of cloning to assume new identities and “live again” 694.

Appearance

• Early grief: Pale, vacant-eyed, unshaven, and visibly haggard following his parents’ deaths 1 2 4.
• After gene modification: Physically frail, with accelerated aging that makes him resemble a man in his thirties or forties despite being twenty-four at his initial examination 5 10.
• Business presentation: Slicked-back hair and rimless glasses while operating as Zhang Jack 10.
• Demeanor: A refined, gentle-looking face accompanied by a sharpness and arrogance noticed by Garfield Fernando 35.
• Altered identities: Uses a genetically modified parasitic organism to change his appearance; under the Andrew identity, he presents as Latin American 72 131.

Personality

Originally driven by the wish to prove himself through science, Li Qingye loses interest in achievement after his parents’ deaths. Suspicion of murder replaces that despair with a determination to survive long enough to avenge his family. He accepts shortened life and physical deterioration as worthwhile costs for the intelligence needed to do so 2 3 5.

Betrayal and ancestral-memory integration deepen his distrust. He considers verbal loyalty inadequate and demands enforceable guarantees from trusted subordinates. Nevertheless, he values Fang Xin Cheng’s integrity and regards Chen Jianxiong’s refusal to sacrifice his family as evidence of a meaningful moral boundary 7 27 28.

His ruthlessness coexists with selective care. He rescues Jasmine, provides opportunities for capable employees, compensates Xin Xin Group’s employee shareholders, and personally treats Qi Yuanchao’s son’s lung cancer. By contrast, he deliberately leaves Wu Hewang alive in helpless agony and shows no sentimental restraint toward Wu Xinlan 40 135 169 176.

Caution is central to his methods. He dislikes impulsiveness, recklessness, and carelessness, preferring secure approaches even when faster alternatives exist. He attributes success to strength and preparation rather than the supposed luck of a “destined protagonist,” and seeks to pass those traits to future New Humans 629.

Revenge does not restore what he has lost. Qiu Yingyue recognizes his company and ambitions as attempts to fill an internal void; Li Qingye describes an unattainable dream as a reason to continue living 141 171.

Abilities & Skills

Ancestral Memory

Accesses inherited experience through two distinct modes 6.

• Third-person mode: Observes memories like a film.
• First-person mode: Immersively acquires experience, but risks changes to his personality.
• Knowledge sources: His father’s business experience, mother’s management experience, grandfather’s combat skills, and grandmother’s metallurgy knowledge 7.
• Sub-personalities: Blood Blade specializes in combat; Guan Zhong specializes in business and management 7 10.

Memory Palace and Eidetic Memory

Provides both accurate retention and deliberate organization of information 5.

• Clears, categorizes, and tags memories.
• Supports rapid accumulation of scientific knowledge and intelligence 11 14.
• Supplies organized information for Super Analysis and Super Deduction 5.

Super Senses

Enhances hearing, smell, and taste, with the ability to suppress and reactivate the enhancement 5 6.

• Detects pursuers and monitors their movements 6.
• Notices changes in Tian Nanxing’s heartbeat and body temperature from sensory cues 7.
• Does not eliminate the physical side effects of modification, including his initial color blindness 5.

Super Analysis and Super Deduction

Rapidly combines stored knowledge to produce insights and theoretical models 5 11.

• Accelerates research by generating models for experimental verification.
• Identifies more than 300 problematic research papers during one month of study 11.
• Strengthens his ability to detect concealed guilt and inconsistent behavior 46.
• Remains limited: his enhanced brain cannot immediately solve the service-life problem of the Zhu Chen Magnetic Monopole Crystal 509.

Combat and Technical Skills

Acquires battlefield expertise from Li Shengli’s scouting memories and supplements it through self-study 6 11.

• Combat: Firearms, melee fighting, explosives, traps, and demining.
• Fieldcraft: Reconnaissance, camouflage, wilderness survival, mapmaking, battlefield first aid, driving, and swimming.
• Technical work: Programming, computer operation, electronic and electrical repair, and hacking.
• Temperament: Inherited battlefield experience includes an “Iron Will” 6.

Genetic Engineering and Biological Computing

Develops technologies that underpin the company’s workforce, intelligence system, and industrial growth 18 21 30.

• Jianmu Factor: Removes the restrictive effect of human Gene Lock sequences; later research establishes that his abilities were not simply granted by Neanderthal genes 110.
• Biochips and Soldier software: Produce command-responsive, absolutely loyal modified personnel 18.
• Fu Xi Shi 1.0: A biological computer implantable in organisms or disguisable as conventional devices 21.
• Pheromone Hive: Controls modified organisms through pheromone concentration; a demonstrated model operates within approximately 3,000–5,000 metres 21 30.
• Medical engineering: Personally creates a gene-targeted treatment that eliminates lung cancer cells in Qi Yuanchao’s son 176.
• Industrial biosynthesis: Develops coral cement, nano-level metal growth, and high-temperature-resistant ceramics 48 189.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Implanted biochip and medical support systems — Help regulate his physical complications alongside medicine and surgical modification 191.
• Magneto-visual glasses — Render magnetic fields as visible, colourful fluctuations during testing at Institute 422 224.
• Hibernation support — Drugs and nutrient solutions maintain his body in a low-consumption state that reduces telomere damage 191.
• Backup clone — Maintained as an alternative to risking further direct gene therapy; its eventual use is not established in the cited passage 191.
• Synchronous robot — Allows remote field inspection; he uses one while travelling and attending the Star Island Technology Exhibition 586 588.
• White Shark underwater combat suit — Supplied to Blood Blade forces; extracts oxygen from seawater, blocks infrared detection, and permits dives of approximately 100 metres 54.
• Fierce Tiger land combat suit — Supplied to Blood Blade forces; combines an exoskeleton, camouflage, protective layers, biological computing, and pheromone communication 54.
• Gu worm nest, Bomb dragonfly, ultrasonic paralyzer, and electric shock device — Weapons developed for biological and unconventional special operations 54.
• Biological life-support pod — Used in his final entry into the nuclear fusion furnace 694.

Relationships

• Li Zhonghua — Father and a founder of Xin Xin Group. His death drives Li Qingye’s revenge, while his inherited business memories later aid company management 3 7 58.
• Li Qingye’s mother — Financed his original laboratory and left a secret account that later funded Qingye Group; her management experience is preserved in his ancestral memories 2 7 47.
• Li Shengli — Grandfather, former military scout, and source of Li Qingye’s combat skills and Blood Blade personality 6 7.
• Tie Dongqing — Doctoral mentor who encourages him not to abandon his studies and accompanies him on the academic visit to America 2 6 121.
• Liu Xiaoli — Helpful university junior who manages laboratory access and arranges leave for its workers during his absence 4.
• Tian Nanxing — Classmate whose conspiracy with a pursuer reinforces Li Qingye’s distrust 7.
• Wu Hewang — His father’s friend, initially addressed as “Uncle Wu” and presented as a benefactor. Li Qingye later controls him and denies him death as punishment 1 135.
• Wu Xinlan — Childhood sweetheart who nearly became his wife. He rejects reconciliation, later implants her with a controlling biochip, and she subsequently serves in his household 72 135 200.
• Fili — Confidential assistant who accompanies him, reports intelligence, and implements orders. A rejuvenation experiment later leaves Fili unconscious and without memory 28 265 299.
• Chen Jianxiong — Trusted subordinate inducted through biochip implantation; central to intelligence expansion and later proposals for the company’s space reorganization 28 30 612.
• Fang Xin Cheng — Manager promoted for honesty and integrity. Li Qingye mentors him in balancing authority with benevolence 27 31.
• Ma Chi — Body double who publicly impersonates Li Qingye and represents him in Qingye Group business and Xin Xin Group’s liquidation negotiations 48 72 168 169.
• Sangjibadaleyal / Jasmine — Girl rescued in Manila who becomes his devoted assistant and household attendant; also participates in controlling Wu Xinlan 40 131 135 200.
• Bagheera — Blood Blade commander and later intelligence chief, displaying fervent loyalty while reporting military and international developments 54 403.
• Du Shuping, Yang Haibo, and Du Jianxin — Central adversaries in the Xin Xin Group struggle. They plot against Li Qingye; he later coerces Du Jianxin into asset transfers 3 139 141.
• Yang Tiancheng — Captive used to uncover information about the Li family’s deaths, then controlled through the Soldier program to preserve the appearance of ordinary business activity 46 47 48.
• Jiang Haitao — Surviving representative of Li Zhonghua’s faction who seeks Li Qingye’s intervention in Xin Xin Group’s crisis 167 168 169.
• Qiu Yingyue — Joins the company after discussing cooperation with him; recognizes the emptiness beneath his ambitions and shares his determination to pursue an apparently unattainable goal 171.

Notable Quotes

“My father once taught me a lesson with his own life: If you're not ruthless, you won't stand firm.” 28

“I can give you wealth, status, and resources, but you must repay me with absolute loyalty.” 28

“Because only by becoming extremely evil can one be kind.” 131

“Only by letting the world know you are not to be trifled with will the world treat you gently.” 171

“If there are no dreams, what is the meaning of life? A life with nothing requires unattainable fantasies.” 171

Reputation

Aspect	Documented reception
Admirers	Regard him as benevolent and seemingly omnipotent; titles include “Father of New Humans,” “Benevolent Father,” and “Equatorial Sun” 529.
Enemies	Regard him as an evil heretic or demonic figure; titles include “Gene Satan,” “Enemy of God,” and “Terror Yuri” 529.
Other titles	“Equatorial Overlord,” “King of Bugs,” “Superman,” and “Controller of Life” 529.
Strategic reputation	Outsiders consider his caution, strong corporate control, and potential longevity major obstacles to undermining Homo sapiens Company 101 328.