Li Xinnian

Biodata

Feature	Details
Name	Li Xinnian (李新年)
Alias(es)	Fated Villain; Final Villain; Li Family Patriarch; Li Family Head
Gender	Male
Affiliation	Azure Cloud Li Family; Litian Sect; Tianli Hall; Peerless Hall
Occupation/Role	Patriarch of the Li Family; Hall Master of Peerless Hall; Litian Sect personal disciple; former manager of Tianli Hall's Dark Division
First Appearance	Chapter 334
Status	Active

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Peak Qi Refining	340	Reached the peak before age ten; delayed his breakthrough to lay a stronger foundation. 340
Foundation Establishment	343	Had already established his foundation by the Ten Directions Ancient Ridge campaign; his Holy Spirit Bloodline let him kill same-realm opponents with a single punch. 343
Golden Core	353	Formed an exceptionally advanced Heaven Core, nearly a legendary Divine Core; manifested a primordial giant Dharma Body. 353
Early Spirit Transformation	476	Reached the early stage at nearly four hundred years old. 476
Half-Step Void Refinement	495	Broke through after six years of refining a fourth-grade Void-Breaking Pill. 495
Mahayana	1087	Completed the Mahayana ritual after cultivating the perilous Nine Tribulations path and using Nangong Qingya's Great Dream talent to repeatedly temper his body over ten thousand years. 1087

Background / History

Li Xinnian was born as an eighth-generation Li Family descendant amid blessings and mana gifts from Qingyun cultivators and clan members. These gifts granted him numerous innate traits, including Heavenly Demon's Protection, Child of Primordial Origin, Literary Dao Bodyguard, and Nine-Tailed Demonic Aura. 334

Raised collectively by the Li Family, he absorbed the temperaments and lessons of his elders from an early age. At five, Li Yaoqing began conditioning his body, allowing his gifted physiques to merge into the Primordial Origin Sacred Body. 340

An assassination attempt in his childhood was met with unusual calmness. After learning of the family's difficult rise and the dangers its members had endured, he became deeply affected by their struggles; Sky Net's foremost expert was assigned to protect him afterward. 340

Li Yaowen's divination identified him as a disaster star, and he acquired the trait Fated Villain after becoming enemies with an unknown young man. Li Yaozu, Li Xiang, and the wider family chose to protect him rather than treat him as a threat. 339 340

Appearance

At fourteen, Li Xinnian was described as a strikingly handsome youth whose appearance drew constant attention within the Litian Sect. 343

• Face compared to polished jade, with almost no visible flaw. 343
• Long, unadorned black hair that fell like a waterfall. 343
• Refined, tranquil bearing likened to a figure from an ink-wash painting. 343
• Maintains a neat appearance and inherited Li Changan's fondness for cleanliness, though not his extreme obsession. 340

Personality

Li Xinnian is composed, courteous, and meticulous. He does not readily form grudges, thinks matters through repeatedly before acting, and was noted by Li Yaowen to have been good-tempered since childhood. 343 He also demonstrates filial discipline, making a point of offering incense and paying respects to the many elders and ancestors of the Li Family upon returning home. 353

His gentleness does not preclude decisiveness. He publicly accepted blame for rejecting Nangong Qingya's marriage proposal in order to preserve her dignity and the alliance between their families. 341 When Su Chen was provoked by Ding Zerui, Li Xinnian intervened first, seizing Ding's throat with Golden Core mana. 352

As patriarch, he cultivated a reputation for geniality while inspiring fear in subordinates and rivals. A family that mocked the Li Family's origins disappeared within two years of doing so, an outcome that left Drunken Madman convinced that Li Xinnian was not to be provoked. 428

He initially refused Duanmu Yushu's proposal to sacrifice living beings for cultivation, citing cause and effect and a desire to preserve his original heart. 476 Later pressure, war, and his pursuit of strength pushed him toward blood-devouring demonic methods; he repeatedly struggles to restrain this nature and insists that evil acts should still seek a good outcome. 677 751

After devouring Peerless Hall, Li Xinnian concluded that he could only oppose evil through methods beyond conventional kindness, gaining an increasingly indifferent view of other lives through All Things Are Straw Dogs. 680 By the Blood Moon confrontation, he had become capable of delivering calculated, merciless punishments to traitorous kin while using deception, intimidation, and preparations laid over centuries to control the battlefield. 1054 1055

His Final Villain trait further ensures that opponents perceive him as the ultimate mastermind, beneficiary, and enemy regardless of his actual intentions. Li Xinnian generally offers no defense against this image, regarding explanations as unnecessary. 1087

Abilities & Skills

Primordial Origin Sacred Body

An innate physique formed from blessings received at birth and later physical conditioning.

• Has no cultivation bottlenecks before Spirit Transformation. 340
• Grants innate comprehension of all laws. 340
• Underpins his exceptional rate of advancement and unusually stable foundation. 340 353

Holy Spirit Bloodline and Dharma Body

Li Xinnian possesses the Holy Spirit Bloodline and a powerful Dharma manifestation.

• Can overwhelm same-realm Foundation Establishment opponents with a single punch. 343
• Developed a primordial giant Dharma Body by the Golden Core Realm. 353
• His Blood Spirit Dharma manifestation possesses great recovery ability and dharma power. 503
• His early reliance on raw cultivation and Dharma Body strength left him lacking in spellcraft and practical combat experience. 503
• By devouring Han Lingmiao, he obtained the Perfect Spirit Transformation Path, enabling him to develop a flawless Spirit Transformation foundation and combat power far beyond ordinary cultivators of that realm. 480

Blood Demon Body and Blood-Devouring Arts

Li Xinnian can strip targets of blood, mana, foundations, and bloodline power through demonic cultivation methods.

• Used the Eternal Spirit-Refining Eight Directions Array to devour the blood and mana of captured cultivators. 480
• Cultivated the Blood Phantom Demon Art, using Zishu Lingtian's divine blood to remake his body. 476
• Devoured Peerless Hall and later absorbed no fewer than a thousand beings, including Min Tiange. 700 766
• His prolonged consumption of blood causes chaotic blood energy and scarlet eyes; his kaleidoscopic heart can suppress the instability. 751
• He has consumed numerous ancient geniuses, immortals, and major enemies over the course of the ancient conflict, accumulating more than a hundred bloodlines and a vast reserve of assimilated power. 1054 1087
• His demonic fire can devour cultivators and corrupt external attacks, as demonstrated when he absorbed Zishu Feng's five golden military-formation dragons and turned them into demonic black dragons under his control. 1087

Sacred Body Mysteries Sutra

A demonic art refined from Li Xinnian's accumulated bloodline-devouring experience.

• Created through the refinement and study of the Seven-Orifice Exquisite Heart. 766
• Strengthens through the absorption of exceptional gifts and powerful bloodlines. 766
• Supports the growth of his Holy Spirit Dao Field. 766

Great Daos and Assimilated Traits

Li Xinnian's devouring cultivation has allowed him to combine exceptional physiques, bloodlines, laws, and Daos that would ordinarily belong to separate cultivators.

• Possesses the Seven-Orifice Exquisite Heart, as well as rare constitutions including the Blood Demon Body, Peerless Sacred Body, and Sacred Spirit Body. 1054
• Cultivates the Great Daos of Immaculate and Devour; by the Blood Moon conflict, he possessed six Great Daos and the laws of four Heavenly Immortals. 1054
• Abducted He Ming's bloodline to obtain the True Essence Battle Body, increasing his true essence and lifespan. 796
• Devouring a Witch Tribe Spirit Transformation elder granted him Primordial Spirit Hundredfold Refinement, greatly strengthening his soul and allowing one divine ability to be raised by a minor realm. 796
• By consuming Ban Shu Qingping, he acquired the laws of World and Oblivion. 1087

Nine Tribulations and Final Villain

Li Xinnian eventually pursued the dangerous Nine Tribulations path to reach Mahayana.

• Used Nangong Qingya's Great Dream talent to repeatedly break through the limits of the Nine Tribulations body and complete his Mahayana ritual. 1087
• Obtained the Final Villain trait, causing enemies to instinctively regard him as the final mastermind, ultimate beneficiary, and most formidable opponent. 1087

Primordial Spirit Perception

Li Xinnian possesses specialized spiritual perception gained from an ancient immortal art.

• Can detect abnormalities in the Divine Sense auras of powerful cultivators. 796
• Identified that several great powers possessed extraordinary origins and immortal arts. 796

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Gentleman Sword — Sword bestowed by Li Yaozu; used to annihilate an ancient soul within a captured cultivator. 480
• Cloud-Slaying Blade — Formerly the Zhao-Slaying Blade bestowed by the ancestor; renamed by Li Xinnian while preparing to act against the Yun Family. 480
• Dragon-Phoenix Light-Severing Sword — High-grade magical treasure awarded by Ba Siyu in the Southern Lands. 478
• Li Kuanghua's Buddha statue — Used to contact Li Kuanghua through her spirit tablet. 677
• Eternal Spirit-Refining Eight Directions Array — A copied formation obtained from an Eternal Immortal Sect disciple; used in his blood-devouring cultivation. 476 480
• Enlightenment Gold Chapter — An innate spiritual treasure comparable to an immortal artifact, wielded by Li Xinnian by the Blood Moon confrontation. 1054

Relationships

• Li Xiang — Ancestor who closely observed his upbringing, cultivation, and dangerous fate; supported the family's decision to protect him. 339 340
• Li Yaozu — Elder who vowed to shield Li Xinnian from calamity and bestowed the Gentleman Sword. 340 480
• Li Yaowen — Elder whose divination identified him as a disaster star; later argued that the family's position, rather than Li Xinnian's nature, could be the source of coming calamities. 340 343
• Wuyazi — Sect Master of the Litian Sect and Li Xinnian's mentor, who raised him from childhood and recognized the quality of his Golden Core and Dharma Body. 343 353
• Nangong Qingya — Former marriage-proposal counterpart, later his wife; she shares dream-memories of possible futures and warns him about Min Tiange. Her Great Dream talent later assists Li Xinnian in completing the Mahayana ritual. 341 375 476 1087
• Su Chen — Close companion whom Li Xinnian came to regard as an elder brother; their bond later became strained by Su Chen's alignment with the Immortal Court. Li Xinnian's treatment of Li Chuyuan destroys Su Chen's hope of reconciliation, though the two may still be forced to fight on the same side. 343 539 800 883 1054 1055
• Li Xinghuo — Godfather who planned to take Li Xinnian to the Northern Border for training. 365
• Li Xinri — Younger cousin whom Li Xinnian disciplines and later entrusts with a task in the Great Jin capital. Ten thousand years later, Li Xinnian persuades the Mahayana Great Sun Golden Crow Xinri to return from neutrality and join the family’s war. 797 882 1087
• Yuexian — Subordinate and close companion who accompanies him in the Great Jin capital and acts to recover her treasures after his capture by the Earth Ancestral Shaman. 882 884
• Li Chuyuan — Grandson who refused Li Xinnian's request to return from the Eternal Immortal Sect, leading Li Xinnian to disown him. After Chuyuan killed Li Jianshu, Li Xinnian mutilated him, stripped his capacity for recovery, and kept him alive as a warning to the family. 433 1054
• Li Zhiheng — His son, whose unusual nature causes Li Xinnian concern. 375
• Questionless Scholar — A leading Tianli Hall commander entrusted with Li Xinnian's covert assignments. He later fought alongside Tianli Hall's infiltrators during the revolt within the Immortal Court. 476 1055
• Mortal World Immortal — An immortal ally who accompanied Li Xinnian in the Great Jin Imperial Capital and offered strategic counsel against the Heaven-Chosen Divine Sect. 815 816
• Star Lord Cidao — Immortal Court power and wielder of the Order Immortal Realm. Li Xinnian offered him a chance to withdraw before revealing the extent of the Li Family's infiltration of Cidao's forces. 1054 1055
• Zishu Feng — Zishu Family princess and battlefield opponent whose five-dragon formation was devoured and corrupted by Li Xinnian. 1087

Story Role / Major Arcs

• Litian Sect prodigy — Became a personal disciple of the Litian Sect, cultivated largely in isolation due to surpassing his peers, and led younger disciples into Ten Directions Ancient Ridge. 339 340 343
• Rise to family head — Appointed Li Family Patriarch after Li Kuangren handed over family affairs to Li Changan. He subsequently managed the family estate and renamed Long Sun Prefecture as Azure Cloud Prefecture. 371 374
• Southern Lands expansion — Remained in Long Sun to oversee Tianli Hall's Dark Division, later entered the Southern Lands to defend against the Witch Tribe, establish a foothold, and address Great Yu's border crisis. 365 478
• Heavenly Wolf Lake massacre — Acquired the Eternal Spirit-Refining Eight Directions Array, devoured captured cultivators, renamed his blade Cloud-Slaying Blade, and eliminated the Yun Family's forces at Heavenly Wolf Lake. 476 480 495
• Blood Moon and Peerless Hall — Followed Su Chen during his mortalization, feared being too weak to protect his family, and eventually devoured Peerless Hall as part of a plan to acquire Mu Xueqing's path and restrain his demonic nature. 677 700
• Great Jin Imperial Capital — Worked with Night-Watch God while searching for the Great Gold Emperor, remained calm under pressure from the Heaven-Chosen Divine Sect, and issued orders that overturned the balance of power in the imperial palace. 801 815 821
• Great Jin statue killings — In the desolate Great Jin capital, carved wooden statues of those who had wronged the dynasty; each completed carving resulted in the target's death. He later departed after entrusting Li Xinri with a task. 882
• Conflict with Su Chen — Set out for the Immortal Court seeking to kill Su Chen, then later arrived at the Thick Earth Totem to confront him as Su Chen led an invasion force. 800 883
• Earth Ancestral Shaman incident — Waited three days for an audience at the Thick Earth Totem before being taken into the Earth Ancestral Shaman's domain, where the shaman revealed knowledge of Li Family secrets. 884
• Immortal Court infiltration — At the Blood Moon confrontation, used a talisman duplicate to mislead Star Lord Cidao while personally punishing Li Chuyuan. When Cidao ordered an attack, Li Xinnian activated a long-prepared network of Tianli Hall and Li Family agents embedded throughout the Immortal Court. 1054 1055
• Final Villain — After ten thousand years of cultivation and the completion of his Mahayana ritual, he summoned hidden Li Family reinforcements into the final conflict, absorbed Zishu Feng's formation dragons, and became the perceived ultimate enemy of the opposing immortals. 1087

Trivia

• Li Xinnian was considered the most talented member in Li Family history during his childhood. 340
• He plays the zither and recites poetry and prose. 339
• He inherited a sharp business sense; his grandson Li Yuanshang was said to have inherited this trait most fully. 379
• Despite his reputation, he once described his younger self as someone who believed he was “the greatest good under heaven.” 751