Li Yuan

Biodata

Feature	Information
Name	Li Yuan (李源)
Alias(es)	Market Master Li
Species/Race	Human; transmigrator
Gender	Male
Affiliation	Former Wang Family peripheral cultivator and Guard Squad patrol officer; Yuanyang Sect Dharma Protector and later Honored Guest; Wulin Marketplace owner/Market Master; Tianyue Sect collaborator; Mingyuan Sect mission contractor and array-node maintenance participant
Occupation/Role	Cultivator, talisman crafter, array master, artifact refiner, alchemist, marketplace administrator, spirit-field cultivator
Status	Alive
First Appearance	1

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Qi Refining, Third Layer	1	Begins after transmigrating into a body injured by a failed breakthrough. Unlocks the Equipment Panel by equipping an intact low-grade spirit stone.
Qi Refining, Fifth Layer	39	Breaks through before a Wang Family clearing mission, increasing the density and power of his spirit power.
Qi Refining, Seventh Layer	122	Enters late Qi Refining; his physical strength, meridian circulation, and soul improve.
Qi Refining, Eighth Layer	158	Breaks through after perfecting the Spirit Guiding Art and practicing the Iron Wall Body Refining Art.
Qi Refining, Ninth Layer	185	Gains the ability to satisfy the Soul Nourishing Pill's permanence condition and further conceals his aura.
Qi Refining Great Perfection	202	Reaches the peak of Qi Refining after making the Blood-Qi Jade Pendant's affix permanent.
Foundation Establishment	207	Successfully establishes his foundation; his liquid spiritual power elevates Tier 1 Talisman Crafting Art directly to Perfect.
Foundation Establishment Middle Stage	251	Breaks through following seclusion after perfecting the Red Fire Art.
Foundation Establishment Late Stage	295	Breaks through in the Sha Ore Mine after making Sha-Spirit Resonance permanent.
Foundation Establishment Perfection	343	Stabilizes at Foundation Establishment Perfection while preparing for Golden Core formation.
Golden Core Stage	388	Forms a Golden Core, causing a qualitative rise in his spirit power and strengthening his body-refining arts.
Mid Golden Core Stage	443	Breaks through from Early Golden Core before using Realm-Breaking Tempering to advance further.
Late Golden Core Stage	444	Stabilizes at the late stage before shattering and reforming his core; he also strengthens his body-refining techniques.
Supreme Grade Golden Core	478	Shatters and reforms his core into a Supreme Grade Spirit Core; gains permanent Dantai Creation, Three-Origin Unification, and Boundary-Breaking Essence Condensation.
Late Golden Core Stage	526	Breaks through to the Late Golden Core Stage again after post-reformation closed-door cultivation, meeting a condition for his Life-Bound Dharma Artifact’s Source Assimilation.
Golden Core Perfection	573	Reaches the extreme of the Golden Core Realm while preparing for Nascent Soul formation and studying Nascent Soul foundation classics.
Nascent Soul Stage	652	By this point, he cultivates the Nascent Infant Origin Return Method as a Nascent Soul cultivator while continuing to develop his thunder arts, demonic cultivation, alchemy, and array mastery.
Nascent Soul Late Stage	707	Breaks through from the middle stage as the Nascent Infant Origin Return Method and Dark Abyss Demonic Origin Art reach Perfection. Permanently gains Infant Origin Foundation Consolidation.
Spirit Transformation Stage	740	His Nascent Infant dissolves and reforms into a dark-gold Spirit Transformation Core. Three breakthrough treasures are consumed to grant permanent traits, and his spiritual and demonic paths reach roughly 90% fusion.

Background / History

When the original body was five, a Wang Family cultivator discovered its spiritual roots. In return for cultivation resources and training, it entered a twenty-year service contract with the Wang Family. Li Yuan transmigrated into this body at age twenty-five, immediately after its former owner failed a Qi Refining breakthrough and suffered cultivation deviation. At the time, he was a poor Wang Family patrol officer with thirteen years of service remaining. 1

While collecting stall rent from Old Man Zhang in Qinghe Market, Li Yuan received two extra low-grade spirit stones. One intact stone activated his Equipment Panel, allowing him to equip items for temporary traits and make those traits permanent by fulfilling their conditions. The discovery transforms his outlook from homesickness and dissatisfaction into focused ambition. 1

Li Yuan initially serves the Wang Family as a patrol officer, then joins the Guard Squad for better pay despite the increased danger. He develops through patrols, mountain-clearing operations, monster hunts, and investigations, including the Zhao Wu incident. 17 39 140

After reaching late Qi Refining, he becomes eligible to reduce his contractual term. He ultimately dissolves his Wang Family contract, completes a talisman-crafting arrangement with Alchemist He, and moves to Yunyang Marketplace to cultivate independently. 173 178 179

Following Foundation Establishment, Li Yuan accepts Chen Yi’s invitation to become a Yuanyang Sect Dharma Protector. His growing role in Wulin Marketplace expands from talisman supplier and array master to administrator, intelligence operative, and defender against demonic cultivators. 207 231 306

Li Yuan develops Wulin Marketplace into a regional hub by reclaiming spirit fields, organizing defensive arrays, receiving refugees from Yun Province, establishing auctions, and coordinating the Three-Province Trade Route. He uses the marketplace’s commercial activities to acquire cultivation resources, intelligence, and trait-bearing objects. 320 333 440 444

After forming and later publicly revealing his Golden Core cultivation, Li Yuan receives complete ownership of Wulin Marketplace and becomes an Honored Guest of the Yuanyang Sect. He chooses to celebrate through a trading fair and auction rather than a traditional Golden Core ceremony. 480 489

Li Yuan subsequently shatters and reconstructs his Golden Core into a Supreme Grade Spirit Core. The process increases his lifespan to more than 1,200 years, improves his physical foundation, and begins a new period of advancement toward Nascent Soul formation. 478 552

As his influence expands, Li Yuan cooperates with the Tianyue Sect, Mingyuan Sect, Mingyuan Chamber of Commerce, and regional cultivation families. He establishes mine arrays in Baihe Province, helps construct large-scale arrays and spatial passages, and develops his Portable Small Realm into a source of spirit herbs and cultivation resources. 554 562 594 640

After entering Mingyuan Sect’s operational sphere, Li Yuan completes maintenance missions for the Spatial Passage leading to the Heavenly Origin Realm and participates in the rotational maintenance of outer fourth-order array nodes. He uses the resulting access to spirit-vein convergence zones, cultivation resources, and array records to further refine his cultivation, alchemy, and formation knowledge. 642 652 691

Li Yuan continues investigating Yuan Sect remnants across the Lower Realm. In Jing Province, he discovers and clears a secret passage secured by third- and fourth-order demonic seals, reports the find to the Tianyue Sect, and retains Magic Stones and the Demonic Fiend Entanglement Art obtained from the site. 682

After advancing to Nascent Soul Late Stage, Li Yuan helps Xuanpu investigate Nether Demon Realm infiltrators repairing a node of the Seven-Star Demonic Gathering Array. Intelligence recovered from the infiltrators reveals a backup activation route through the Earth Vein Nexus General Convergence Point. Li Yuan forwards the findings and moves to reinforce the nexus with another lockdown array. 707 729

Li Yuan later obtains Spirit Transformation breakthrough aids in the Upper Realm and prepares a secluded, spirit-rich pocket space for the attempt. He succeeds, forming a Spirit Transformation Core, then continues developing his soul, demonic cultivation, body-tempering methods, and Portable Small Realm. 739 740 746

Personality

Li Yuan is cautious, analytical, and resource-conscious. He tests cultivation pills before purchasing them in quantity, evaluates the conditions attached to equipment traits, and treats trading, cultivation, crafting, and intelligence work as connected sources of long-term advancement. 72 102 202

He is notably self-reliant. After ending his Wang Family and Alchemist He contracts, he deliberately relocates for better resources and cultivates without mandatory obligations. 178 179

As Market Master, Li Yuan values fairness and practical trust. He clears Sun Shiyi of direct involvement with the Sha Demon Sect after investigating the evidence, then offers him a partnership with Yuanming Studio rather than punishing him unfairly. 436

Li Yuan is highly deliberate about concealing his true strength. He routinely uses disguises, aura suppression, and false cultivation signals to avoid provoking stronger forces or exposing his advantages until a decisive moment. 200 345 447 528

He approaches long-term partnerships pragmatically, seeking arrangements that provide stable materials, commercial channels, or technical opportunities while ensuring reciprocal benefit for his collaborators. 447 554 562

Li Yuan remains vigilant even while operating openly in upper-realm cities and sect territories. After detecting a tracking spell placed on him by a Nascent Soul Late Stage cultivator, he avoids rash action and continues assessing the threat through observation and preparation. 653

He prioritizes missions according to practical distance, reward, and strategic value. When offered simultaneous Mingyuan Sect assignments, he chooses to handle the nearer Spirit Pattern Ravine task before traveling farther to maintain the Spatial Passage. 640

He treats failed experiments as information: after an unsuccessful Yaoguang Qi-Condensing Pill refinement, he analyzes its recorded fluctuations and adjusts his heat control before succeeding. He likewise delays equipping a valuable spatial beast core when its permanence condition does not suit his plans. 687 707

Abilities & Skills

Equipment Panel

Li Yuan’s unique “golden finger” allows him to equip qualifying items for trait bonuses. Traits become permanent once their specific conditions are completed; the equipped item is then consumed and its slot freed. 1

• Trait grades range from Gray, White, Green, Blue, Purple, Red, to Gold. Higher grades provide stronger effects. 1
• Identical trait effects cannot be stacked. 1
• Items must meet their equipment requirements; for example, a spirit stone must be intact. 1
• Unequipping an item temporarily disables its trait and imposes a twelve-hour re-equipment cooldown for that item type. 1 5
• Regular equipment slots expand as he permanentizes traits and advances in cultivation. 1 5 43
• A special equipment slot unlocks after he permanently activates his fifth blue trait; it can equip a fully explored Sha Vein. 240
• He later equips a large Spirit Vein in the special slot, gaining improved spirit-power quality, automatic recovery, and supplemental automatic cultivation. 382
• Scale-Borne Subtle Breath — permanently increases the activity of his blood qi by 50% when he employs dragon-clan techniques. 642
• Ore-Armor Body Condensation — permanently acquired after twenty cumulative days of cultivation in a mineral-vein environment; improves physical defense and resistance to adverse effects. 656
• Spirit Pattern Cultivation Boost — obtained by reverse-engineering and crafting Cultivation-Boosting Spirit Talismans, allowing spirit patterns to improve the guidance of ambient spiritual energy into his body. 659
• Dark Magic Cultivation — reduces the negative effects of demonic-qi cultivation by 30% while increasing the speed and concealment of demonic-qi evasion arts by 30%. 685
• Myriad Image Retrospection — permanently activated through the Myriad Image Mirror’s accumulated battle records, enabling him to analyze recorded spiritual-power fluctuations for cultivation and alchemy. 690
• Void Abyss Array Heart — permanently increases spatial spell power by 30% and casting stability by 20%. 701
• Infant Origin Foundation Consolidation — permanently raises Nascent Soul foundation stability, spirit-power condensation efficiency, and Nascent Soul cultivation efficiency by 50% each. 707
• Dragon-Soul Pill Essence — becomes permanent after ten batches of Dragon-Soul Essence-Condensing Pills, benefiting pill refinement, dragon-type medicine, medicinal effects, and Dragon Clan cultivation methods. 722
• Bone-Refining Essence Accumulation — becomes permanent when the Radiant Light Body-Tempering Technique reaches Major Accomplishment; raises the efficiency and cultivation limit of future body-tempering methods by 50%. 722
• Realm-Breaking Acceleration, Divine Concentration Barrier-Crossing, and Spirit Transformation Origin-Condensing — permanently acquired when their three equipped breakthrough treasures are consumed during Spirit Transformation. They improve cultivation and breakthrough stability, strengthen his breakthrough grade, and enhance spiritual-qi resonance. 740
• Dragon Scale Minor Guard and Demonic Blood Minor Nurture — permanent White traits that respectively improve defense when he releases Dragon Clan aura and medicinal absorption from demonic-beast pills. 746

Cultivation and Spirit Power

Li Yuan cultivates several arts and exploits permanent traits to accelerate cultivation, purify spirit power, expand his reserves, and improve recovery.

• Spirit Purification / Spirit Qi Filtration — initially increases cultivation speed by 30% and filters impurities from absorbed spirit qi. 1 9
• Pure Spirit Power — upgraded from a mid-grade spirit stone; increases cultivation speed by 50% and automatically purifies spirit power. 102
• Flawless Spirit Power — blue trait that doubles cultivation speed and further purifies his spirit power. 293
• Spirit Essence Expansion and Spirit Qi Backflow — increase his spirit power capacity and recovery speed. 140
• Spirit Convergence — increases the range and influx speed of spirit qi gathered during cultivation. 214
• Sha-Spirit Resonance — permits the conversion and coordination of Sha Qi and spiritual power after his Foundation Establishment Late Stage breakthrough. 291 295
• Demon-Spirit Homology — allows spiritual power and demonic qi to be converted into one another, fused to a moderate degree, and stored at increased capacity. 444
• Spirit-Demon Spatial Containment — a purple trait completed by clashing his spiritual and demonic energies within a spatial rift. 472
• Myriad Spirits Returning to Veins — purple trait obtained after completing his Spirit Vein extraction trait through the acquisition and exchange of micro-Spirit Veins. 471
• Dantai Creation, Three-Origin Unification, and Boundary-Breaking Essence Condensation — permanent traits obtained from the Golden Core Formation Platform after reforming his core. 478
• Withered Wood Spirit Core — improves wood-element cultivation efficiency by 20% and reduces wood-element spiritual-power consumption by 10%. 552
• Maintains a third-order Spirit Gathering Array within his body, greatly improving his spiritual-energy absorption and purification efficiency. 587
• Cultivates the incomplete Nascent Infant Origin Return Method as part of his Nascent Soul cultivation, supplementing it with the Dark Abyss Demonic Origin Art through Demon-Spirit Homology. 615 656
• Reaches Proficient in the Dark Abyss Demonic Origin Art, strengthening his demonic-qi production and allowing more efficient dual cultivation of spiritual and demonic paths. 659
• Uses Cultivation-Boosting Spirit Talismans and self-inscribed blood-vessel spirit patterns to continuously guide ambient spiritual energy into his body. 659
• Further increases his cultivation rate through a Qi-Absorbing Stone, Array Core Cultivation, Spirit Ore Essence Gathering, and his Spirit Vein Spirit Accumulation effects. 690
• Both the Nascent Infant Origin Return Method and Dark Abyss Demonic Origin Art reach Perfection during his Nascent Soul Late Stage breakthrough. Their circuits fuse into the energy itself, substantially increasing its density and quality. 707
• His Spirit Transformation breakthrough reforms his Nascent Infant into a dark-gold Spirit Transformation Core and brings his spirit-demon fusion to approximately 90%. The core can leave his body while his physical body remains intact. 740 741
• Acquires a fifth-order demonic cultivation art and uses the Darkmist Mountains’ mixed spiritual and demonic qi to cultivate while strengthening his Spirit Transformation Core. 746

Talisman Crafting

Li Yuan is a highly accomplished talisman crafter whose skill becomes a major source of income, influence, and combat support.

• Reaches Proficient in Fireball Talisman crafting through dedicated practice. 87
• Attains Great Success in Tier 1 Talisman Crafting Art and gains a higher success rate and efficiency. 178
• Foundation Establishment elevates his Tier 1 Talisman Crafting Art directly to Perfect. 207
• Successfully crafts a Tier 2 Spirit Water Talisman after repeated attempts. 212
• Reaches Proficient in Second-Tier Talisman Crafting Art and Spirit Water Talisman crafting. 231 266
• Achieves Major Achievement in Tier 2 Talisman Crafting while creating a Cold Binding Talisman. 436
• Reaches perfection in second-tier talisman crafting after refining the third Spirit Vein into a Triangular Spirit Vein Cycle. 438
• Can infer and learn spell methods from talisman structures, using his Divine Sense threads to reverse-engineer techniques such as the Wayfinding Art. 465
• Masters more than one hundred spells and talismans, making Ten Thousand Arts Mastery permanent. 528
• Reverse-engineers Cultivation-Boosting Spirit Talismans and successfully creates his own version, using their spirit-pattern principles to accelerate cultivation. 659
• Advances Fourth-Order Talisman Crafting Art to Proficient after crafting Spatial Stabilization Talismans and a Spirit Shield Talisman. 685
• Obtains a Myriad Talisman Spirit Platform with a Purple affix that can improve conversion between talisman-making and array-forming circuits. 746

Array Dao

Li Yuan develops from learning basic array inheritances into a capable array master trusted with major infrastructure and defensive work.

• Sets up and dismantles a Sha-Gathering Array, gaining insight into array eyes and barrier penetration. 199
• Trades Spirit Water Talismans to obtain array inheritances from the Wang Family. 231
• Builds Early Warning, Spirit Gathering, and Golden Light Arrays around his Ghost Mist Forest base, gaining Spirit Mechanism Sensing, Spirit Gathering Pulse, and Array Pattern Defense traits. 226
• Advances Second-Order Array Dao to Minor Accomplishment while building the Golden Core Formation Platform’s auxiliary arrays. 306
• Repairs an ancient teleportation array in Mo Province while fighting two Foundation Establishment Late Stage demonic cultivators. 350
• Gains third-order array knowledge while exploring Mo Province and develops advanced Spirit Vein and underground-structure perception. 381
• Builds advanced alchemy arrays for Meng Yangzi and improves the latter’s Origin Recovery Pill success rate. 517
• Establishes a high-grade, tier-two, three-layer defensive array at Lingxi Ferry. 534
• Creates a production-increasing ore array for the Hundred-River Mine. 554
• Reaches complete mastery of third-tier Array Dao and subsequently lays out a Spirit-Guiding Grand Array spanning roughly ten miles. 584 598
• Accepts responsibility for maintaining a Spatial Passage leading to the Heavenly Origin Realm. 640
• Activates an array at the Spatial Passage that reduces spiritual-energy leakage by 30% and stabilizes spatial ripples. 615
• Completes daily rotational maintenance on Mingyuan Sect’s outer fourth-order array nodes, gaining array knowledge through continuous exposure to their operation. 642
• Reviews projection records of a grand array’s deployment during border conflicts, studying node-load distribution, spirit-power fluctuation curves, and emergency switching procedures. 691
• Studies the Yaoguang Relic Mansion’s Array Dao inheritance, significantly advancing his fourth-order knowledge toward Major Accomplishment, particularly in spatial folding, connection, severing, and stabilization. 707
• Recognizes that two branch-entrance lockdown arrays cannot prevent the Seven-Star Demonic Gathering Array’s backup activation through the Earth Vein Nexus and moves to establish a third lockdown array. 729

Body Refinement

Li Yuan reinforces his body through cultivation arts, medicinal pills, Sha Qi, demonic qi, and permanent traits.

• Iron Ox Technique — grants Viscera Strengthening, reinforcing his internal organs against spiritual-power impacts. 9
• Nurturing Origin Technique — grants Qi-Blood Self-Generation for improved qi and blood recovery. 15 29
• Sha Qi Body Tempering — permanently activated through the Sha-Gathering Bowl, allowing him to temper his body with baleful qi. 100
• Iron Wall Body Refining Art — reaches Great Success, strengthening his physical body. 158 341
• Bones Tough as Iron — permanent trait acquired by consuming multiple second-order demonic beast cores. 292
• Iron Bone Golden Body — used to defeat two Foundation Establishment Late Stage demonic cultivators in Mo Province. 350
• Indestructible Golden Body — green trait obtained by upgrading Golden Body Armor after defeating two late-stage enemies. 410
• Flood Dragon Blood Body-Tempering Art — reaches Proficient, significantly increasing physical strength and recovery speed. 503
• Black Iron Body-Tempering Art — acquired through Tianyue Sect contribution exchange and developed into a complementary dual-track body-refining system. 534 540
• Spirit Body Essence-Tempering Art — reaches mastery, comprehensively renewing his bones and improving spirit-power conduction. 598
• Thunder Gang Bone-Refining Art and Thunder Tempering Essence Formula — cultivated simultaneously; the former reaches Mastery. 640
• Dragon Transformation Art and Dragon Scale Golden Body Formula — reach Proficient and then Minor Accomplishment, improving the hardness and coverage of Li Yuan’s phantom dragon-scale armor. 642 653
• Ancient Flood Dragon Tooth — completes its infusion and permanently transforms, granting Li Yuan the ability to intimidate low-level demonic beasts. 642
• Thunder Gang Bone-Refining Art — advances to Major Mastery, triggering the permanent Thunder-Origin Meridian Condensation and Thunder Gang Vein-Continuing traits. 652
• Ore-Armor Body Condensation — provides additional physical defense and resistance to negative effects after its permanent activation in the Nether Abyss Mine Valley. 656
• Radiant Light Body-Tempering Technique — reaches Entry Level after he establishes Light Meridians alongside his lightning, demonic, and spiritual-power circuits. It later reaches Major Accomplishment as the Light Meridians extend through every bone. 707 722
• Light-Demonic Interwoven Layer — forms when demonic qi strengthens his bone marrow from within while light-attributed spiritual power repairs and reinforces it from outside, improving skeletal defense, conduction, and healing. 722
• Purifies his Flood Dragon bloodline with Dragon-Soul Essence-Condensing Pills and advances the marrow-condensation stage of the Ancient Demon Dao Body-Tempering Secret Art with Dark Essence Mysterious Ore. 722
• After reaching Spirit Transformation, obtains a fifth-order body-tempering method and quickly reaches Entry Level, reinforcing his Light-Demonic Interwoven Layer. 746

Spatial Techniques

Li Yuan develops powerful spatial perception, transport, storage, and offensive abilities.

• Void-Bound Carry — gained from permanently activating the Void Nether Stone; provides a Portable Space and enhanced Spatial Perception. 441
• Void-Splitting Slash — progresses to Great Success and later Perfection, creating precise spatial cuts suitable for combat and spirit-pattern engraving. 441 448
• Can travel through spatial rifts, though long-distance movement consumes substantial spiritual energy. 479
• Spatial Seeking Technique — detects faint spatial fluctuations, including those on an abandoned ancient road. 528
• Creates and operates spatial rifts with the aid of his Red Core and uses them to cultivate Spirit-Demon Spatial Containment. 472
• Possesses a Portable Small Realm containing developing Spirit Veins, water zones, spirit fields, and a growing collection of spirit herbs. 587 633 640
• The Kongyuan Guoshen Pill permanently raises his efficiency in cultivating space-related arts by 30% and expands his Consciousness Sea capacity by 20%, easing the burden of maintaining multiple Divine Sense threads. 685 687
• Spatial Restriction Technique — reaches Minor Accomplishment through training against spatial beasts, developing layered imprisonment that restricts movement and suppresses spirit power. 687
• Spatial Investigation Technique — reaches Major Accomplishment, giving him precise passive awareness of spatial changes within eight hundred zhang. 687
• Spatial Severing Technique — reaches Major Accomplishment and can leave a temporary, damaging spatial rift in a target. It later reaches Perfection, allowing him to curve a blade thread through space. 729 739
• Uses Spatial Folding and the Spirit Vein Nurturing Formula to bring small veins in his Portable Small Realm closer to fusion. After his Spirit Transformation breakthrough nearly doubles the realm’s size, he later merges two more small veins to form its third medium spirit vein. 722 740 746
• His Spirit Transformation Core can operate outside his body; he also demonstrates an Absolute Imprisonment field that briefly freezes a three-zhang area of space. 741

Divination and Perception

Li Yuan uses soul cultivation, Divine Sense, and divination to gather intelligence and detect threats.

• Divination Technique — expends lifespan to perceive broad trends of fortune and misfortune. 446
• Uses twelve Divine Sense threads and Spirit Sense Clarity to interpret divinatory signs. 446
• Heavenly Derivation Divination Technique — reaches Minor Mastery, allowing him to derive and compare more detailed causal signs. 552
• Life Flame Tracking Technique and Life Flame Retro-Mirroring Technique — advanced as part of his Nascent Soul preparation. 552
• Trace Tracking — permanently enables passive perception of residual spirit qi trails and their attributes. 424
• Truth-Breaking Spirit Pupil — passively penetrates some disguises and concealment; its effectiveness scales with soul strength. 489
• Spirit Pivot Insight — blue trait that improves perception of Spirit Vein grades and energy gradients, while raising absorption efficiency within a Spirit Vein’s range by 50%. 537
• Spirit Vein Breath Identification — enables him to identify abnormalities in spirit-vein and bodily spiritual-energy signatures. 636
• Dragon Fortune Art — reaches Major Achievement, improving his perception of fortune and allowing him to better assess favorable and unfavorable circumstances. 656
• Dark Fiend Insight — enables him to locate and investigate Yuan Sect’s hidden Jing Province passage and recognize the layered demonic seals protecting it. 682
• Myriad Image Retrospection — lets him examine the spiritual-power fluctuations recorded by the Myriad Image Mirror, improving his analysis of combat, cultivation, and alchemy processes. 690
• Yaoguang Soul Refining Art — reaches Mastery, nearly doubling the toughness of his spiritual-sense threads, and later reaches Major Accomplishment while he cultivates in the Darkmist Mountains. 729 746
• Dragon Might Art — develops a directed mental suppression field capable of concentrating his blood-qi pressure against a target. 669 685

Artifact Refining and Alchemy

Li Yuan expands into artifact refining and alchemy to support his own advancement and commercial network.

• Equips the Old Iron Alchemy Furnace, revealed to contain extensive alchemy insights. 159
• Refines Origin Consolidation Pills and gains a trait improving meridian repair and toughness. 348
• Reaches First-Order Perfection in Dharma Artifact forging. 397
• Makes Forged Pattern Refinement permanent through daily artifact refinement. 440
• Makes his Second-Order Artifact Refining Technique permanent at Great Success. 441
• Successfully refines a third-grade medicinal pill, triggering a blue trait. 516
• Crafts a Mineral Guiding Spirit Tool for the Lu Family’s Hundred-River Mine Array. 554
• Reaches Proficient in third-order artifact refining after studying the Canglan Sect’s spatial artifact-refining inheritance and related classics. 494
• Designs his Life-Bound Dharma Artifact around the Universal Transformation Array Pattern, seeking a versatile artifact capable of adapting to multiple combat functions. 494 511
• Uses multiple Divine Sense threads to refine several standardized magical artifacts simultaneously. 562
• Makes Pill Essence Condensation permanent, reducing spiritual-power loss during medicinal-pill refinement and improving his intuition for conflicting medicinal properties. 549
• Refines high-grade fourth-order medicinal pills with a Fourth-Order Alchemy Furnace at the Nether Abyss Mine Valley’s spirit-vein convergence. 652
• Completes ten furnaces of fourth-order medicinal pills, permanently gaining Meridian Warming and Vein Nourishment to improve meridian circulation and resilience. 653
• Applies Myriad Image Retrospection to alchemy, using recorded spiritual-power fluctuations to refine pills with a higher success rate. 690
• Produces two high-grade Yaoguang Qi-Condensing Pills on his second attempt, using Spatial Restriction to stabilize furnace temperature after analyzing a failed batch. This is the first of ten successful batches required for Yaoguang Pill Essence’s permanence. 707
• Refines ten batches of Dragon-Soul Essence-Condensing Pills, permanently establishing Dragon-Soul Pill Essence. 722

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Low-grade Spirit Stone — first equipped item; grants Spirit Purification and leads to the discovery of the Equipment Panel. 1
• Mid-grade Spirit Stone — upgrades Spirit Qi Filtration into Pure Spirit Power. 102
• Iron Ox Technique — technique manual granting Viscera Strengthening. 9
• Nurturing Origin Technique — technique manual granting Qi-Blood Self-Generation. 15
• Green Spirit Talisman Brush — improves his talisman-making ability. 72
• Blood-Qi Jade Pendant — its affix becomes permanent immediately before his Qi Refining Great Perfection breakthrough. 202
• Three-Origin Unity Bead — increases essence, energy, and spirit by 20% each. 251
• Golden Body Armor — upgraded into the permanent Indestructible Golden Body trait. 410
• Void Nether Stone — grants Void-Bound Carry, Portable Space, and enhanced Spatial Perception. 441
• Mysterious Nether Pearl — allows him to experience the capabilities of the next realm without directly increasing actual strength. 444
• Myriad Image Mirror — enhances Divine Sense and soul strength; later permanently gains Myriad Image Retrospection after recording enough battle-related spiritual-power fluctuations. 478 690
• Water Spirit Sword — grants Water Element Speed Boost, increasing the power and casting speed of water-type spells by 10% each. 407
• Vein-Stripping Spirit Shuttle — blue-trait Dharma Artifact obtained from a Golden Core rogue cultivator and used in his Spirit Vein extraction efforts. 457 471
• Clear Abyss Pupil Technique — pupil-art manual that grants Clear Abyss Line and leads to the permanent Truth-Breaking Spirit Pupil. 489
• Life-Bound Dharma Artifact — a personally forged, developing Dharma Artifact based on the Universal Transformation Array Pattern concept. 494 511
• Portable Small Realm — his expanded internal spatial domain, used to cultivate spirit herbs and develop Spirit Vein resources; it grows substantially following his Spirit Transformation breakthrough. 587 633 640 740
• Ancient Flood Dragon Tooth — an infused dragon-clan treasure that permanently transforms and permits Li Yuan to intimidate low-level demonic beasts. 642
• Kongyuan Guoshen Pill — permanently increases space-related cultivation efficiency by 30% and Consciousness Sea capacity by 20%. 685 687
• Qi-Absorbing Stone — equipped to further improve Li Yuan’s cultivation speed while he approaches the limit of Array Core Cultivation’s additional benefit. 690
• Spatial Rift Beast Inner Core — bears the Blue-grade Rift Battle Edge affix, which benefits spatial spells and spirit-power efficiency in rift environments; Li Yuan initially stores it rather than equipping it. 687
• Nascent Soul Foundation-Stabilizing Pill — consumed when Infant Origin Foundation Consolidation becomes permanent. 707
• Dark Essence Mysterious Ore — permanently absorbed to strengthen his demonic-qi pathways and support marrow condensation. 722
• Huayuan Spirit-Condensing Jade, Concentration Tribulation-Crossing Jade, and Realm-Breaking Pill — equipped for his Spirit Transformation breakthrough and consumed to bestow three permanent traits. 739 740
• Myriad Talisman Spirit Platform — acquired for its Purple affix concerning conversion between talisman-making and array-forming circuits. 746

Relationships

• Old Man Zhang — Qinghe Market talisman seller whose extra spirit stones allow Li Yuan to discover the Equipment Panel; later provides a talisman-making manual filled with personal experience. 1 48
• He Shou — Guard Squad captain and professional superior during Li Yuan’s Wang Family service. 39 72
• Old Sun — merchant and colleague with whom Li Yuan regularly trades pills and materials; supports Li Yuan’s decision to dissolve his Wang Family contract. 39 72 178
• Zhao Heng — grateful acquaintance who arranges private talisman-crafting lessons with a Wang Family Talisman Hall master. 72
• Wang Lu — Wang Family cultivator who discusses Li Yuan’s contract status and later cooperates with him on investigations. 158 173
• Alchemist He — contracts Li Yuan to produce Spirit-Refining Talismans and provides cultivation resources in advance. 173 178
• Chen Yi — Yuanyang Sect representative, recurring contact, intelligence partner, and recruiter who makes Li Yuan a Dharma Protector. 207 231 446
• Qin Ruoshuang — head of Ziyuan Trading Firm’s main branch; establishes a long-term Spirit Water Talisman supply agreement with Li Yuan. 212
• Ji Wenchuan / Ji Wenyuan — trusted marketplace manager who reports on Wulin Marketplace affairs, manages refugees and routine operations, and carries out Li Yuan’s decisions. 333 444 480 542
• Xu Zhang — Mingyuan Chamber of Commerce steward who provides commercial and political intelligence. 407 480
• Zhou Mingyuan — Yuanyang Sect Master who grants Li Yuan Wulin Marketplace ownership and promotes him to Honored Guest. 480
• Zhou He — Nanyuan Marketplace manager and business associate who offers Li Yuan practical support and travel advice. 440 448
• True Person Xuanpu — Tianyue Sect Golden Core cultivator who repeatedly commissions Li Yuan for major array work and offers access to Tianyue Sect resources. They later jointly investigate Nether Demon Realm infiltrators and share intelligence on the Seven-Star Demonic Gathering Array. 534 549 729
• Zhou Heng — Nascent Soul cultivator who coordinates with Li Yuan on the Spatial Passage and Spirit-Guiding Grand Array work; later warns him of additional spatial rifts near Nether Abyss Valley. 594 598 729
• Lu Yang — Lu Family head who enters a long-term artifact-refining and mineral-vein array partnership with Li Yuan. 554 562
• Lu Qing — Lu Family Second Elder who represents the family alongside Lu Yang during their second mineral-vein cooperation. 562
• Lu Ping — Lu Yang’s son, who assists in discussing the Lu Family’s first long-term cooperation with Li Yuan and holds his array and artifact-refining abilities in high regard. 554
• Fang Yue — Yuanyang Sect disciple rescued by Li Yuan from two Sha Demon Sect cultivators; informs him of the Yuanyang Sect’s internal division, resource shortages, and Sect Master’s disappearance. 513
• Fang Zhi — Mingyuan Sect contact who assigns Li Yuan a transport mission to the Azure Profound Realm. 656
• Xue Lang — Mingyuan Sect cultivator who later contacts Li Yuan regarding an array dao seminar that Li Yuan missed while working in the Lower Realm. 691

Story Role / Major Arcs

Wang Family Service

Li Yuan begins as a poor patrol officer in Qinghe Market, discovers the Equipment Panel, and accelerates his cultivation by permanentizing traits. He joins the Guard Squad, participates in clearing operations, and gains experience fighting demonic beasts and investigating suspicious cultivators. 1 17 39 140

Independent Talisman Crafter

After qualifying for contract reduction, Li Yuan dissolves his Wang Family agreement and completes his work for Alchemist He. He relocates to Yunyang Marketplace, where he builds an independent talisman business through high-quality Fireball, Spirit-Refining, Spirit Water, Ice Spike, and Wind-Walking Talismans. 173 178 179 181 187

Foundation Establishment and Yuanyang Sect Service

Li Yuan reaches Foundation Establishment, becomes a Yuanyang Sect Dharma Protector, and develops as an array master and second-tier talisman crafter. He aids the sect against demonic cultivators, manages Sha Ore resources, and becomes increasingly important to Wulin Marketplace. 207 231 251 306

Market Master and Golden Core Cultivator

As Wulin Marketplace’s Market Master, Li Yuan expands defenses, trade routes, auctions, intelligence networks, and Spirit Vein projects. After forming his Golden Core, he gains full ownership of the marketplace and the Yuanyang Sect’s Honored Guest status. 334 440 480

Supreme Grade Core Reconstruction

Li Yuan shatters his existing Golden Core and reconstructs it as a Supreme Grade Spirit Core through the Golden Core Formation Platform. The reconstruction grants him major permanent traits, increases his lifespan and physical foundation, and establishes the basis for his pursuit of the Nascent Soul Realm. 478 552

Inter-Provincial Expansion

Li Yuan’s work expands beyond Liang Province through teleportation-array construction, artifact refining, trade, intelligence gathering, and cooperation with the Tianyue Sect, Mingyuan Chamber of Commerce, and regional cultivation families. 517 534 554

Nascent Soul Preparation and Spatial Passage Missions

After reaching Golden Core Perfection, Li Yuan studies Nascent Soul foundation classics, improves his Portable Small Realm, and undertakes increasingly consequential array missions. These include a ten-mile Spirit-Guiding Grand Array, the maintenance of a Spatial Passage to the Heavenly Origin Realm, and resource-gathering assignments in Spirit Pattern Ravine. 552 598 640

Mingyuan Sect and Nether Abyss Mine Valley

Li Yuan completes Spatial Passage maintenance, begins assisting with Mingyuan Sect’s outer fourth-order array nodes, and cultivates at the Nether Abyss Mine Valley’s spirit-vein convergence. He uses the high-density environment to advance his thunder arts, refine fourth-order medicinal pills, and cultivate both the Nascent Infant Origin Return Method and Dark Abyss Demonic Origin Art. 642 652 656

Dragon and Thunder Cultivation

Li Yuan develops dragon-clan and thunder-based body-refinement systems. He permanently gains Scale-Borne Subtle Breath, transforms the Ancient Flood Dragon Tooth, progresses the Dragon Transformation Art and Dragon Scale Golden Body Formula, and advances the Thunder Gang Bone-Refining Art through Major Mastery. He later purifies his Flood Dragon bloodline and permanently gains Dragon-Soul Pill Essence. 642 652 653 722

Yuan Sect Remnant Investigation

Li Yuan accepts a long-term mission to investigate Yuan Sect remnants in the Lower Realm. His pursuit leads him to a secret Jing Province passage concealed behind four demonic seals, where he acquires demonic materials and the Demonic Fiend Entanglement Art before reporting the discovery to the Tianyue Sect. 682

Demonic Cultivation and Fourth-Order Crafting

Li Yuan furthers his demonic cultivation by permanently activating Dark Magic Cultivation, advances Fourth-Order Talisman Crafting Art to Proficient, and gains major spatial-cultivation and Consciousness Sea benefits from the Kongyuan Guoshen Pill. He subsequently unlocks Myriad Image Retrospection and uses it to optimize his alchemy. 685 690

Nascent Soul Advancement and Light-Demonic Body Refinement

Li Yuan reaches Nascent Soul Late Stage as his spiritual and demonic methods attain Perfection. He studies the Yaoguang Relic Mansion’s array inheritance, refines high-grade Yaoguang Qi-Condensing Pills, and integrates Light Meridians with his existing cultivation systems. By combining light-based repair with demonic marrow tempering, he advances the Radiant Light Body-Tempering Technique to Major Accomplishment and permanently gains a broad body-tempering enhancement. 707 722

Nether Demon Realm Infiltration

While defending the dark vein system, Li Yuan learns that Nether Demon Realm infiltrators are repairing the Seven-Star Demonic Gathering Array. He and Xuanpu kill two infiltrators and recover a blueprint for activating the array through the Earth Vein Nexus, prompting Li Yuan to reinforce that route. 729

Spirit Transformation and Upper-Realm Cultivation

Li Yuan perfects his Spatial Severing Technique, gathers rare breakthrough aids, and prepares a secluded pocket space rich in spiritual qi. He successfully advances to Spirit Transformation, acquiring three permanent traits and a dark-gold Spirit Transformation Core. He subsequently cultivates in the Darkmist Mountains, improves his soul art, acquires fifth-order methods, and develops a third medium spirit vein within his Portable Small Realm. 739 740 746

Trivia

• Li Yuan initially misses Earth’s smartphones, computers, and iced cola, though discovering the Equipment Panel makes him more willing to accept his new life. 1
• His first Equipment Panel trait is called Spirit Purification in the initial prompt, while later summaries refer to its permanent version as Spirit Qi Filtration. 1 9
• He deliberately treats recurring marketplace auctions as opportunities to collect trait-bearing items, not merely to earn profits. 444
• Li Yuan’s ability to split his Divine Sense into multiple threads lets him cultivate, refine pills, manage arrays, and later forge multiple artifacts in parallel. 333 465 562
• He can engrave cultivation-accelerating spirit patterns directly along his major blood vessels, turning his circulatory system into a body-wide spirit-pattern network. 659
• The Myriad Image Mirror records spiritual-power fluctuations from Li Yuan’s battles, allowing its later Myriad Image Retrospection ability to serve as a source of practical cultivation and alchemy data. 690
• The Enlightenment Tree in his Portable Small Realm develops a fourth pale-gold petal, a growing branch and bud, and a cracking seed during his later cultivation. 729 740 746