Li Yi

Biodata

Feature	Information
Name	Li Yi (李毅)
Alias(es)	Cloud-Piercing Arrow Li Yi; Mu Yinzi (Daoist name); Wind Tiger General 16 90 108
Species/Race	Human
Gender	Male
Affiliation	Chen Kingdom army; Wind Tiger Battalion; Azure Cloud Sect
Occupation/Role	Commanding general of Wild Goose Pass; commander of the Wind Tiger Battalion; core disciple of Azure Cloud Sect 100 107
Status	Active 114
First Appearance	Chapter 1

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Archery — Initiated	1	Raises his first skill through the experience-based skill panel.
Eight Extremes Fist — Proficient	2	Gains enhanced constitution and condensed blood and qi, enough to shatter a log barehanded.
Scouting and Concealment — Activated	8	Awakens while shadowing Wang Dagui; later develops into night vision.
Gale-Rending Formation-Breaking Spear — Beginner	11	Learns Li Erniu's inherited battlefield spear art; unlocks three rapid thrusts and increased arm strength.
Archery — Proficient	15	Arrows gain Armor-Piercing Force; this advancement enables him to kill the rebel leader at Thousand-Zhang Temple.
Gale Breathing Method — Proficient / Body Tempering First Layer	24	Reaches the Robust Blood realm, with fewer than ten recruits in his cohort achieving the same level.
Archery — Minor Mastery	28	Unlocks Gale Arrow while defending Blackstone Town.
Gale Breathing Method — Lesser Mastery / Hard Flesh Realm	43	Breaks through after cultivation following three successful defenses against Qing Kingdom forces.
Gale-Rending Formation-Breaking Spear — Minor Mastery	47	Unlocks Gale Downpour after killing a Qing Kingdom captain.
Wind-Breaking Breathing Technique / Body Tempering Fourth Layer	47	Converts from the Gale Breathing Method, purifying his blood and qi and more than doubling his combat strength.
Body Tempering Fifth Layer	53	Advances through intensive cultivation with Little Yellow Dragon Pills.
Body Tempering Sixth Layer	58	Faces and kills three sixth-layer Body Tempering experts during the Zhao Family purge.
Wind-Breaking Breathing Technique — Lesser Accomplishment / Body Tempering Seventh Layer	60	Can draw a ten-stone bow and fight Han Jia, famed for his innate strength, to a draw.
Eight Extremes Fist — Perfected	67	Gains Dragon Body Tiger Soul, multiplying the force of his blood and qi and bringing his physique to True Qi Realm strength.
True Qi Realm	75	Enters the realm after his northern campaigns and continues refining his bow arts.
Army-Breaking Bow Art — Major Mastery	75	Masters Army-Breaking Seven Kills and gains the Cloud-Piercing, Gang-Shattering trait.
True Qi Realm Second Layer	91	Advances after converting to the Azure Cloud Martial Canon and refining an Essence-Congealing Three Flowers Pill.
True Qi Realm Third Layer	92	Develops the Cloud-Piercing Heavenly Spear and Spring and Autumn Archery Canon through training and demon cores.
True Manual of Four Seasons Archery — Perfected	101	Comprehends winter intent, completing the four seasonal true intents.
Astral Qi Realm	100	Breaks through after reaching the ninth level of the True Qi Realm.
Astral Qi Realm Sixth Layer	103	Advances through corpse-demon inner cores and the Cloud-Piercing Mysterious Origin Formula.
Mysterious Origin Realm Ninth Layer	114	Refines accumulated Origin Fragments, transforming his spirit-manor world.
Grotto-Heaven Realm	114	Obtains Law Origin after killing the Eastern King of the Ice Clan and the Nether Abyss Fishmen's Seventh Prince; becomes the world's sole Grotto-Heaven Realm expert.

Background

Li Yi was originally the owner of a modern martial arts school, which he had maintained through nearly a decade of disciplined practice. After completing the school’s transfer procedures, he transmigrated into the body of a poor hunter also named Li Yi in Blackstone Town, a Chen Kingdom border settlement. His martial experience carried over, but his new life began under the threat of corvée labor, local corruption, and responsibility for his younger siblings. 1

The original Li Yi had been saved by Li Erniu, leaving Li Yi bound by a life debt. He accepted Li Erniu’s request to preserve his family line with Liu Fang and inherited the Gale-Rending Formation-Breaking Spear manual, unknowingly taking on the consequences of Li Erniu’s past ties. 3

After Wang Dagui threatened his household, Li Yi used scouting, concealment, and careful planning to eliminate him before departing for military service. The Household Affairs Officer’s subsequent pursuit turned Li Yi’s conflict with Blackstone Town’s corrupt officials into a prolonged feud. 8 11 28

Appearance

Li Yi’s body becomes notably stronger and more defined as his martial arts advance. His muscular physique and resolute features are repeatedly remarked upon by those around him. 3 11

• Possesses a strengthened, athletic build from Eight Extremes Fist and body-tempering cultivation. 2 25
• Has a composed and resolute bearing even under official scrutiny or battlefield pressure. 11 97
• Is described as handsome by hostile Black Wind Sect cultivators. 103

Personality

Li Yi is pragmatic, disciplined, and intensely focused on survival through strength. He places little value on reputation alone, treating titles and recognition as secondary to personal power and the ability to protect those dependent on him. 16

His protectiveness toward family is a defining motivation. Threats against Liu Fang, Liu Ru, Li Xin, and Li Yue repeatedly provoke decisive and often lethal retaliation. He prepares his siblings with martial arts, traps, weapons, and cultivation methods rather than relying on others to safeguard them. 11 28 34

As his authority grows, Li Yi proves a capable but ruthless commander. He rewards loyal soldiers, eliminates ghost pay from Gale Camp, distributes spoils and cultivation resources, and develops trusted subordinates; he also orders severe measures against hostile clans and enemy troops when he considers them necessary. 35 44 58 98

Abilities & Skills

Skill Panel

Li Yi possesses an experience-based panel that records and advances techniques through practice, combat, insight, and consumed cultivation resources.

• Can unlock skills by concentrating on a particular activity, as with Scouting and Concealment. 8
• Raises martial arts through accumulated experience rather than ordinary training alone. 2 11
• Converts demon cores and other rare resources into major gains in skill experience. 92 96 103
• Enables him to derive new techniques by combining compatible arts and insights. 102

Archery

Archery is Li Yi’s defining combat specialty. He progresses from a hunter’s bow to powerful military and divine bows, becoming renowned as Cloud-Piercing Arrow Li Yi. 16 43

• Uses Armor-Piercing Force, Gale Arrow, Killing Arrow, and his self-developed Arrow-Fighting Art. 15 21 23 28
• Defeated two True Qi Realm martial artists with a single arrow during Azure Cloud Sect’s entrance assessment. 90
• Masters the Army-Breaking Bow Art, including Army-Breaking Three Kills and Army-Breaking Seven Kills. 58 75
• Learns the Spring and Autumn Archery Canon, eventually comprehending the true intents of spring, summer, autumn, and winter. 92 93 101
• Can form astral-energy arrowheads, reducing his dependence on physical ammunition. 103
• Develops Cloud-Piercing Qi-Breaking, which can pierce or bypass a martial artist’s qi-and-blood protection. 80

Spear and Long-Weapon Arts

Li Yi combines battlefield spearwork, halberd methods, and his Eight Extremes foundation into a flexible long-weapon style.

• Inherits and develops the Gale-Rending Formation-Breaking Spear, including Gale Triple Thrust and Gale Downpour. 11 47 58
• Studies the mounted Black Iron Formation-Breaking Halberd and can adapt a spear to its techniques in combat. 56 63
• Learns the Xiongnu royal Enemy-Subduing Hundred Charge Spear through battle and observation. 65
• Obtains the True Qi Realm Cloud-Piercing Heavenly Spear, whose Cloud-Breaking Azure Gleam strengthens offensive true qi. 92 93
• Creates and refines personal moves including Spear Suppresses All Under Heaven, Wind Topples Mountains, and May Soars Through the Sky. 92

Eight Extremes Fist

His inherited modern martial foundation evolves into a close-combat battlefield art.

• Enhances his constitution and gives him blood and qi “like mercury” at the Proficient stage. 2
• Can be adapted into the Eight Extremes Spear when wielding a long weapon. 51
• Unlocks Bright Force and the Dragon-Tiger Body trait at Mastery. 51
• At Perfected rank, Dragon Body Tiger Soul briefly raises his physical power to the level of a True Qi Realm martial artist. 67

Cultivation Methods

Li Yi continually replaces lower-grade methods with stronger inheritances as his realm advances.

• Cultivates the Gale Breathing Method early in his military service; it complements his wind-based spear art but has a limited ceiling. 17 24
• Converts to the superior Wind-Breaking Breathing Technique, gaining sharper and more forceful blood and qi. 47
• Becomes a disciple of Azure Cloud Sect and changes to the Azure Cloud Martial Canon. 90 91
• Creates the Cloud-Piercing Mysterious Origin Formula by combining the Five Qi Returning to Origin Art, Azure Cloud Martial Canon, Azure Demon Scripture, and other methods. 102
• Gains Primordial True Interpretation from the Origin Stone Inscription, a profound art concerning martial origins and the path of demonic beasts. 105 106

Demon Beast Taming

Li Yi can identify, subdue, and contract demon beasts.

• Commands Snow Spirit, a snow fox familiar. 94
• Rescues and contracts Spirit Cloud, a four-tailed spirit fox that forms a symbiotic contract with Snow Spirit. 102
• Gains an additional contract slot and trait after subduing a powerful crab demon spirit. 112
• Uses contracted beasts and their illusions in battle, notably against Black Wind Sect disciples. 103

Command and Warfare

Li Yi is an accomplished field commander whose military growth parallels his martial advancement.

• Reforms Gale Camp by removing ghost pay and demanding rigorous training in exchange for fair treatment. 35 36
• Builds the Wind Tiger Battalion into a combined force of archers, infantry, light cavalry, heavy cavalry, reserves, and personal guards. 56
• Employs ambushes, night raids, feints, supply destruction, and rapid cavalry movements to defeat superior enemies. 63 97 98
• Learns Naval Warfare during his Eastern Sea campaign. 108
• Leads more than a thousand followers from several sects and factions inside the blessed grotto-heaven. 114

Equipment

• Seven Killings Bow / Seven Killings Frost Bow — A blood-forged semi-growing divine bow that can increase its draw weight through qi and blood, store Killing Intent, and be upgraded after reaching the True Qi Realm. 44 76
• Spring-Autumn Four Symbols Bow — His principal later bow, used with the four seasonal true intents and astral-energy arrows. 95 103
• Cloudbreaker Wind Tiger Spear — An ancient-forged Plum Blossom Spear personally tempered by Li Yi and Elder Jin Huozi. 107
• Ink-Cold Serpent Spear — His primary spear before the Cloudbreaker Wind Tiger Spear; later becomes life-bound and can be dispersed or re-formed through his power. 58 105
• Army-Breaking Bow — A powerful bow acquired through Old Zhang; it helped establish Li Yi’s military reputation before being repaired and surpassed by later weapons. 20 43
• Black-lacquered bow — A government-issued bow entrusted to him by Li Erniu. 7
• Red Hare Horse — A mount with an exotic beast bloodline granted by General Guan. 76 97

Relationships

• Li Erniu — Benefactor who once saved Li Yi’s life; entrusts him with Liu Fang, his family line, and the Gale-Rending Formation-Breaking Spear inheritance before his death. 3 34
• Liu Fang — Li Yi’s wife and mother of his eldest son, Li Zhuang; their relationship begins through Li Erniu’s request and develops into mutual trust and affection. 7 34 56
• Liu Ru — Liu Fang’s older sister; initially urges Li Yi to help Li Erniu’s household, later bears Li Yi’s son Li Jian. 1 77 100
• Li Xin — Younger brother and trusted administrator of the Wind Tiger Battalion and Li family affairs; later enters White Cloud Temple. 56 76 100
• Li Yue — Younger sister and archery prodigy whom Li Yi personally trains before she enters White Cloud Temple. 75 76 100
• Han Jia — Closest military companion and war general; saves Li Yi in battle, commands the Barbarian-Defeating Battalion, and is entrusted with Wild Goose Pass in Li Yi’s absence. 15 89 100
• Wu Chuansheng — Former squad leader and archery mentor; aids Li Yi’s early military development and leaves him his bow after dying in battle. 20 21 28
• General Guan — Senior commander and patron who repeatedly promotes, equips, and entrusts Li Yi with independent commands. 36 56 97
• Jin Lingzi — Azure Cloud Sect elder who takes Li Yi as his final disciple and gives him the Daoist name Mu Yinzi. 90 106
• Mu Xingzi — Senior brother and mentor within Azure Cloud Sect; provides guidance, resources, and protection during Li Yi’s cultivation. 91 100 114
• Shui Huazi — Azure Cloud Sect disciple who serves under Li Yi during the Martial-Hunting Secret Realm expedition and pledges loyalty after Li Yi’s Astral Qi advancement. 102 103
• Snow Spirit and Spirit Cloud — Li Yi’s contracted snow foxes, who support him through reconnaissance and illusion techniques. 94 102 103

Story Role / Major Arcs

Blackstone Town

Li Yi transmigrates into a hunter’s body, discovers the skill panel, accepts his debt to Li Erniu, and begins pursuing strength to protect his household from Wang Dagui and corrupt local officials. 1 3 8

Corvée Service and Newcomer Assessment

Drafted into frontline labor, Li Yi enters the military, kills the rebel leader at Thousand-Zhang Temple, joins Wu Chuansheng’s archer squad, and wins the newcomer archery assessment to earn the Cloud-Piercing Arrow title. 15 16 23

Family Rescue and Rise at Wild Goose Pass

After the Household Clerk abducts his family, Li Yi pursues the conspirators, rescues Liu Fang, and gains recognition through the defense of Blackstone Town and Wild Goose Pass. He succeeds Wu Chuansheng, reforms the archers into Gale Camp, and becomes a company commander. 28 35 43 44

Wind Tiger Battalion

Promoted to colonel, Li Yi forms the Wind Tiger Battalion into a combined-arms force. He consolidates his authority through military reforms, recruits trusted retainers, and destroys hostile Zhao and Wang Family power bases. 56 58 60

Xiongnu Campaigns

Li Yi defends Wild Goose Pass against Luhu Wu’s invasion, defeats the Xiongnu Left General, captures Divine Bow Hall member Gu Muda, and leads raids into the grasslands. His actions establish him as one of the Chen Kingdom border’s foremost commanders. 60 63 64

Azure Cloud Sect

Li Yi enters Azure Cloud Sect under Jin Lingzi, receives the Daoist name Mu Yinzi, converts to the Azure Cloud Martial Canon, and wins first place in the True Qi Realm sect competition by defeating Mu Yuezi. 90 91 93

War Against Qing Kingdom and Black Wind Sect

Returning to the frontier, Li Yi leads campaigns against demon beasts, Qing Kingdom armies, Xiongnu forces, and Black Wind Sect cultivators. He kills the Gray Bear King, captures Proclamation City, kills the Wolf King and Hu Han, and helps break the allied invasion at Wild Goose Pass. 95 98 99

Martial-Hunting Secret Realm

As commanding general of Wild Goose Pass, Li Yi leads Azure Cloud Sect disciples into the Martial-Hunting Secret Realm. He defeats demon kings and rival cultivators, obtains the Secret Realm Origin Core and Origin Stone Inscription, creates the Cloud-Piercing Mysterious Origin Formula, and gains Primordial True Interpretation. 100 102 103 105

Blessed Grotto-Heaven

Li Yi gathers forces from multiple sects within the blessed grotto-heaven, hunts Mysterious Origin Realm opponents for Origin Fragments, reaches the ninth level of the Mysterious Origin Realm, and finally becomes the sole Grotto-Heaven Realm expert in the world. 114