Zhu Li

Biodata

Feature	Information
Name	Zhu Li (朱离)
Alias(es)	Heaven-Burner
Gender	Female
Affiliation	Tianhai City Countermeasure Bureau; later Prosperity Group in another worldline
Occupation/Role	Transcendent; First Squad captain; singer
Status	Active; later becomes one of the Spark Federation's top three female singers
First Appearance	Chapter 18

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Peak Second Rank	18 53	Introduced as a fire-controlling Transcendent with Second-Order combat power; later identified as a peak Second Rank.
Fifth Rank	325 327 332	Purging the Flame Ghost's Resentment Fire with Ten Thousand Year Ice Spring causes an immense increase in power. Her strength is reported at Fifth Rank, with accounts describing her as lower Fifth Rank after stabilizing and upper Fifth Rank while still rising.

Background / History

A surviving, unconscious spark of the Flame Ghost found Zhu Li after the original Legend was destroyed by Fifth-Rank Transcendents. It selected her as an exceptionally compatible host. While ordinary Flame Ghost wielders generally lose their sanity within a week, Zhu Li retained her reason for an entire year. 216 272

The Flame Ghost feeds on others' negative emotions, allowing Zhu Li's strength to increase without hunting Legends. Its Resentment Fire also deprived her of sleep and speech, continually causing pain. She believed that reaching the Third Order would make her body explode and turn her into the Flame Ghost's vessel. 22 52

Zhu Li initially planned to die at the Rain Lord's hands, believing its water could quell the fire within her. When the Rain Lord proved incompatible with the Flame Ghost, she instead asked Chen Xi to command the Rain Lord and kill her on the sixth night before her predicted explosion. 19 22

Chen Xi later suspended Zhu Li's life state with Freeze while preparing a long-term solution. Zhu Li was eventually given Ten Thousand Year Ice Spring, which purged the Flame Ghost's Resentment Fire. The treatment stabilized her body and restored her emotions, but left her with severe memory loss and a childlike mental state. 113 325 327

Appearance

Zhu Li is a fair-skinned young woman with long fiery-red hair, bright eyes, and a notably gentle smile. Her appearance can shift dramatically when she manifests her fire, including hair that burns like flame. 434 456

• Long crimson-red hair and pale complexion. 434
• Often communicates through controlled flames, notes, or a phone's text-to-speech function. 22 25
• Can form crimson butterfly-like flame wings for flight. 26
• During a final-day outing, she wore sunglasses, Bluetooth earbuds, and leather shorts while driving a convertible. 37

Personality

Zhu Li is warm-hearted, gentle, and deeply self-sacrificing. Despite the constant pain inflicted by the Flame Ghost, she does not regret binding it because it allowed her to save others and continue helping Chen Xi and Lin Yue. 24 52

Her long isolation and approaching death initially make her resigned and withdrawn. During her battle with Qianqi Weiming, she realizes that she is not alone and cries for the first time as her body begins to dissolve. 56

She is also observant and quietly assertive. She recognizes deception and hidden feelings readily, asks Chen Xi to spend a final day with her, and willingly supports plans that put herself at risk for her companions. 26 36 46

Abilities & Skills

Flame Ghost

Zhu Li commands the Flame Ghost, a Legend that grows by consuming negative emotions.

• Provides steady growth without hunting wild Legends. 22
• Generates Resentment Fire that continuously causes her pain and once took away her sleep and voice. 52
• Its instability was expected to cause an explosive transformation upon her reaching the Third Order. 22
• Zhu Li possesses unusually high compatibility and retained her sanity far longer than typical Flame Ghost wielders. 216 272

Fire Manipulation

Zhu Li manipulates powerful crimson and black flames with high precision.

• Combined her fire with Luo Li's power to create the fireball that killed the Rain Lord. 19
• Can shape flames into discreet written messages without alerting nearby ordinary people. 36
• Has strong resistance to her own flames, enabling her to fight opponents above her usual Rank. 460
• Can use fire to form wings and fly, though her airborne duration is limited to roughly half an hour. 26 53

Resentful Fire That Ends All

Zhu Li's Domain manifests as a barrier of black soul-fire.

• Creates black flames that attack living beings within the Domain and inflict severe pain on the soul. 56
• Colliding her Domain with Qianqi Weiming's delayed the latter's expansion, allowing her companions a chance to escape. 56
• Carries a severe cost: using it causes Zhu Li's body to disintegrate into petals. 56
• Zhu Li can deploy a Domain that excludes ordinary civilians, forcing opposing Transcendents to adopt the same restriction. 461

[Queen] Destined Card

A Destined Card created for Zhu Li by Chen Xi.

• Temporarily raises Zhu Li to true Fourth Rank and fully restores her magic power. 456 461
• Lasts for one hour and has a three-day cooldown. 456
• Allowed her to overwhelm Feng Shisan after her Domain had nearly exhausted her magic power. 461

Equipment / Items

• Phone with text-to-speech — Her primary means of verbal communication after the Flame Ghost stole her voice. 25 28
• Sticky notes and pen — Used extensively before she adopted phone-based text-to-speech. 22
• [Queen] Destined Card — Can be stored within her body and summoned in battle. 456

Relationships

• Chen Xi — Ally, benefactor, and trusted friend. Chen Xi agreed to help solve Zhu Li's Flame Ghost crisis and later arranged her treatment; their bond is characterized as comrades who supported one another rather than a romance. 22 325 483
• Lin Yue — Close ally and friend. Lin Yue confided her resurrection ability to Zhu Li, while Zhu Li repeatedly supports Lin Yue despite the danger to herself. 52 97
• Qiu Ye — Comrades-in-arms who became acquainted through repeated encounters at Legend realms after Qiu Ye joined the Countermeasure Bureau. 27
• Gu Yu — Friend and temporary caretaker following Zhu Li's memory regression. Zhu Li becomes attached to Gu Yu and calls her “Mommy.” 159 327
• Flame Ghost — Her parasitic Legend and the source of her powers, pain, muteness, and near-fatal Resentment Fire. 22 216

Story Role / Major Arcs

• Rain Lord incident — Arrives during the Rain Lord's attack and leads the Second-Order battle effort. Her fire, combined with Luo Li and Qiu Ye's support, delivers the decisive blow. 18 19
• Seven-day crisis — Reveals the Flame Ghost's curse and asks Chen Xi to grant her a controlled death if no solution is found. She spends her remaining time traveling and working alongside Chen Xi and Lin Yue. 22 26 50
• Qianqi Weiming confrontation — Activates Resentful Fire That Ends All to delay Qianqi Weiming's Domain and protect her companions, nearly dying as her body dissolves. 56 57
• Flame Ghost treatment — Returns after Chen Xi's preparations and drinks Ten Thousand Year Ice Spring to purge her Resentment Fire, gaining immense power at the cost of her memories and maturity. 324 325 327
• Prosperity Group worldline — Joins Prosperity Group after Chen Xi resolves her condition, accepts overall First Squad captain duties, and later uses Queen to oppose Evil Flower's leaders. 434 435 461
• Lamenter battle — Appears as a spirit from a prior regression, thanks Chen Xi for ensuring she was not alone, and transforms into flames that break the Lamenter's barrier. 421

Notable Quotes

“Thank you for comforting me back then. At least before I died, I wasn't alone.” 421

“At the very least, the people I once saved are still living happily. At the very least, I can still help you all now.” 52

Trivia

• Zhu Li's childhood dream was to sing, and she later returns to singing professionally. 445
• She is eventually recognized as one of the Spark Federation's top three female singers in both popularity and strength. 485
• Her natural voice is described as “heavenly” after her voice returns. 421 434