Li Xinnian

Biodata

Feature	Details
Name	Li Xinnian (李新年)
Alias(es)	Fated Villain; Li Family Patriarch; Li Family Head
Gender	Male
Affiliation	Azure Cloud Li Family; Litian Sect; Tianli Hall
Occupation/Role	Patriarch of the Li Family; 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

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

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

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

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

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

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. 341 375 476
• 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. 343 539 800 883
• Li Xinghuo — Godfather who planned to take Li Xinnian to the Northern Border for training. 365
• Li Xinri — Younger relative whom Li Xinnian disciplines and later entrusts with a task in the Great Jin capital. 797 882
• 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. 433
• Li Zhiheng — His son, whose unusual nature causes Li Xinnian concern. 375

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
• 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

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