Li Xian

Biodata

Feature	Details
Name	Li Xian (李仙)
Alias(es)	Hua Manlou; Hua Wucuo; Ugly-Faced Doctor; Handsome-Mane Lad; Ghost-Arrow Yama; Faceless Mud Body Gentleman; “Handsome Sideburns, Ugly Face” 264 339 378 429 434 446
Species/Race	Human; born to an ordinary hunter family 290
Gender	Male
Affiliation	One Accord Manor (former); Flower Cage Sect’s Water Altar (former); Gold-Seeking Guard; Tailstreet Marquis Wu Station 277 406 506
Occupation/Role	Central Lang General of the Gold-Seeking Guard; commander of Tailstreet Marquis Wu Station 506 507
Status	Active
Known Relatives	Li Xiaofan / Xiao Fan (younger brother) 33 183

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Wild Ox Fist — Minor Accomplishment	7	Reached full Remnant Form proficiency through overnight training before the guard contest.
Four Directions Fist — Proficiency	13	Saw through Luo Tongyun’s sabotage, resumed proper training, and gained All-Around Hearing, allowing him to read movement through sound and wind.
Four Directions Fist Force — Minor Accomplishment	22	Accumulated inner qi to “two fists” in size after taking a Tiger Blood Pill.
Four Directions Fist — Major Accomplishment	32	A breakthrough vision of the art’s creator accompanied inner qi tripling.
Four Directions Fist — Perfection	56	Pill-assisted training brought the technique to Perfection; Li Xian began concealing it as a trump card.
Clearwind Leg — Minor Accomplishment	56	Gained Riding the Wind, improving speed and lightness by borrowing wind force.
Blood Solidification and Aperture Closure; Four Directions Fist — Peak Mastery	96	Completed the Clay Embryo limit of blood-and-qi control; his fighting method began integrating blood flow with fist force.
Chest-Drum Thunder Resonance	139	Reached through Major Accomplishment in the incomplete Waning Sun Blood-Draining Sword, gaining Blazing Waves and Solar Radiance Body Tempering.
First Martial Realm / Essence Consumption	157 179	Began intercepting Heaven and Earth Essence from Essence Treasures, then washed away his Clay Embryo and emerged transformed.
Five Organs Purge-Turbidity Revive-Yang Scripture — Minor Accomplishment	282	Gained Flawless Organs.
Wraith Spear — Major Accomplishment	291	Comprehended the Ghost’s Wail Tone and glimpsed the Demon Specters Chart through Martial Dao First Glimpse.
Five Organs Purge-Turbidity Revive-Yang Scripture — Perfection	377	Sharpened his senses, strengthened his organs, and improved poison resistance.
Bone-Sculpting Embryo — Second Stage	406	Reached during the Gold-Seeking Guard assessment, alongside Minor Accomplishment or higher in its three required arts.
Sole-Self Heart Technique — Perfection	493	Gained Everlasting Heart, Heart Resonance, Blood-Boiling Bone-Healing, and Golden Bones and Jade Organs.
Second Martial Realm — Fifth Advance	531	Advanced after refining essence meat; all martial arts benefited from the strengthened realm.

Background

Li Xian originated from an ordinary hunter family and later became a low-ranking servant at One Accord Manor. While assigned to weeding, he secretly trained Wild Ox Fist and cultivated a survival philosophy based on the persistence of wild grass. Forced into exhausting water-carrying labor for Madam Zhuang’s Essence Treasure, he endured through inner force and the resilience he gained from labor rather than abandoning his training. 5 290

He gambled on the manor guards’ competition, registering at the last possible moment to evade steward Luo Fang’s interference. By training through the night, scaling the servants’ rear wall, and arriving just in time, he secured the chance to become a guard. 7 Pang Long formally instructed him in Four Directions Fist, but Luo Fang bribed tutor Luo Tongyun to mislead him. Li Xian detected the fraud because the false forms yielded no proficiency, quietly returned to his original practice, and broke through instead. 12 13

His rapid victories in the Grade-C House Guard contest raised him from Grade-D to Grade-C in less than a month. He defeated veteran Ye Qing through feints and flaws in his technique, then overcame the stronger Gao Xiong by combining Four Directions Fist with Wild Bull Fist. 31 32 Although One Accord Manor provided martial resources, Li Xian recognized that rank within the manor remained another form of servitude and resolved to seek strength that could not be taken away. 32 40

After becoming a Martial Commandant, Li Xian cultivated the Waning Sun Blood-Draining Sword, Iron-Copper Body Technique, and Essence Consumption. His relationship with Wen Caishang deepened through their paired Yin-Yang sword cultivation, eventually making them husband and wife. 139 147 258 394 He later entered the Flower Cage Sect’s Water Altar, became a Token-Bearing Disciple, and broadened his martial foundation with arts such as Flying Snake Hand, Wraith Spear, and Five-Elements Esoteric Escape. 277 310

Following the Water Altar’s fall, Li Xian traveled independently before entering Jade City as a debtor slave and practicing medicine under a concealed identity. He used a probationary opportunity from Xu Shaoqian to join the Gold-Seeking Guard, mastering Heavenly Pivot Saber Method, Stone-Pushing Palm Method, and Suffering Body Scripture within a month. 383 404 406 His success as a case-solver and criminal hunter elevated him through Gold Captain, Gold Steward, Lang General, and finally Central Lang General. 427 428 478 506

Appearance

Li Xian is a tall, straight-backed young man with broad shoulders, a narrow waist, and an unusually refined bearing. His true appearance is frequently concealed with rouge, ash, or masks because it attracts unwanted attention. 277 329 383 407

• Deep, mysterious eyes; his Double Pupils are a rare innate aspect. 259 338
• Sword-like brows, a mountain-like nose, and fair jade-like features tempered by masculine strength. 383
• A distinctive vertical red mole between his brows, later enhanced by the Golden Cicada. 329 445
• Clear qi can wash away his disguises and reveal his true face. 265 329
• His Pure Yang Body, Turbidity-Avoidance traits, and cultivation give him an increasingly otherworldly presence. 234 383

Personality

Li Xian is relentlessly disciplined. He treats martial progress as an accumulation of small, reliable gains and continues training through labor, injury, mockery, and political pressure. His Heaven Rewards Diligence fate reinforces this habit, but he still bears every strain of training himself. 5 291 410

He is observant, strategic, and patient rather than conventionally heroic. He notices sabotage through practical results, waits for advantageous timing, conceals strength when exposure would be dangerous, and prepares disguises, poison, weapons, and escape routes before acting. 13 56 69 186

Li Xian is compassionate toward people he considers deserving of protection, particularly his younger brother, subordinates, and victims of injustice. He rescued Wang Xiaomian, mobilized a massive search for Song Ya, and spent heavily to treat Li Bohou’s severed legs. 428 438 497 However, he is also capable of calculated cruelty, betrayal, and lethal force against enemies when survival or secrecy requires it. 265 440

He does not attach his self-worth to status or opportunities granted by others. Even after losing the Candle Decree and the resources it promised, he regarded it as something that had never belonged to him. 291

Abilities & Skills

Heaven Rewards Diligence

Li Xian possesses a fate that converts sustained practice into measurable proficiency and breakthroughs.

• Enables exceptionally rapid but effort-dependent improvement across martial arts, medicine, painting, artifact work, and other disciplines. 32 447
• Does not remove fatigue, pain, resource costs, or the need to understand a technique’s principles. 147 410
• Lets him build unusually deep foundations by bringing many basic arts to Peak Mastery or beyond. 394 418

Martial Arts Mastery

Li Xian’s early core techniques—Four Directions Fist, Clearwind Leg, Jade Luo Palm, and Heavenly Thunder Finger—reached Peak Mastery or showed signs of the Great Self realm. 109 394 418

• Four Directions Fist — His foundational fist art; grants All-Around Hearing and produces deceptive, direction-divorced fist force at higher mastery. 13 29
• Jade Luo Palm — His earliest Entry Vehicle art and a major killing move; later used to contend with Zhao Yingqiong’s Mysterious Water Palm. 59 109 506
• Waning Sun Blood-Draining Sword — An incomplete Upper Vehicle sword art that provides Solar Extremity Sword Radiance, Life-Protecting Yang Qi, Pure Yang Body, Heartfire, Yang-Origin Sword Qi, and Yin-Yang paired-sword applications. 128 198 234 258
• Wraith Spear / Demon Specters Spear — A ghostly, adaptive spear art that shifts between substance and illusion; its Ghost’s Wail Tone and Demon Specters Chart insight deepen its supernatural applications. 291 377
• Heavenly Pivot Saber Method — Alternates fierce and gentle force around the body as a pivot; one of the core arts of his later martial school. 405 461

Pivot-Shadow Transformation School

Li Xian created a complete martial school by combining several arts rather than relying on isolated techniques. 460 461

• Combines Heavenly Pivot Saber Method, Suffering Body Scripture, Stone-Pushing Palm Method, Demonic Sound Soul-Shaking Melody, and Divine Mist Intent-Transformation Technique. 460 461
• Converts Inner Steam into white mist that covers the body and leaves damaging delayed afterimages, called Pivot Shadows. 461
• Works well with Four Directions Fist and Sole-Self Heart Technique. 461
• Jade Luo Palm and Body-Unity Technique are incompatible with the school’s internal structure. 461

Body, Organ, and Heart Cultivation

Li Xian’s internal cultivation gives him a body far beyond ordinary martial artists.

• Five Organs Purge-Turbidity Revive-Yang Scripture strengthens organs, clears turbidity, improves poison resistance, and later develops Golden Bones and Jade Organs. 377 493
• Sole-Self Heart Technique grants intent infusion, a self-healing Everlasting Heart, and Heart Resonance capable of disrupting an enemy’s heart. 493 544
• Iron-Copper Body Technique grants durability and rapid recovery; it can combine with Wraith Spear to manifest a scaled Ghost-Copper Body effect. 147 348
• Double-Pupil Aspect and Perfect Aspect enhance his strength, durability, and healing. 147 338

Archery and Hidden Weapons

Li Xian is a highly dangerous long-range fighter whose archery is less publicly known than his saber skill.

• Can use Feather-Breaking Arrow to split a shot mid-flight and strike separate targets. 434
• Fired an arrow through windows and ventilation gaps across multiple buildings to hit a criminal in the eye. 434
• Uses the Silverfrost Bow, concealed arrows, throwing darts, poison, and gunpowder when direct combat is unnecessary or unwise. 69 96 428
• His criminal underworld reputation as Ghost-Arrow Yama spread through prisons and Evil-Quelling Island. 434

Consumption and Appraisal

Li Xian’s Consumption skill improves the benefit he receives from food, pills, Essence Soup, and Essence Treasures.

• Can greatly increase retained Heaven and Earth Essence from Essence Soup. 405
• At Peak Mastery, doubles beneficial effects and reduces harmful effects by eighty percent. 458
• Appraisal Insight gives natural Essence Treasures consumed by him a chance to grant skills. 186
• Gained Crane Speech and Turbidity-Avoidance after consuming Lü Dongzhi’s elixir, allowing him to communicate with crane beasts. 459

Medicine, Investigation, and Command

Li Xian’s strength is not limited to combat.

• Practices medicine, recognizes poisons and injuries, and successfully treated Li Bohou’s grievous wounds with carefully timed medicine and the Icefire Limb-Rejoining Paste. 378 497 544
• Solves cases through records, physical evidence, intimidation, deduction, and large-scale search coordination. 428 438
• Commands formations and led the Thunder-Drum Godslaying Formation to increasing proficiency. 410 503
• Learned painting directly from Wu Gan and achieved Proficiency in the Jiyin Painting School within an hour. 447
• Studies Heavenly Crafted Wonders and can identify, use, or dismantle unusual artifacts and mechanisms. 511 531

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Black-Frost Python Saber — Newly forged saber delivered after his Fifth Advance. 531
• Jujube Sword — Concealed weapon acquired alongside the Black-Frost Python Saber. 531
• Silverfrost Bow — Custom bow commissioned from Artifact Cauldron Pavilion. 428
• Golden Leopard Bow — Used both as a bow and as a binding tool. 265
• Wishful Treasure Sword — A sword that can shrink to a hair-thin needle and be hidden within a thumb ring. 407
• Dragon-Scale Soft Garment — Armor strengthened by intent infusion; provides significant concealed protection. 554
• Fish-Scale Chest Armor — Damaged but exceptionally crafted armor purchased in the Black Market. 96
• Heaven-Hiding Casket — Used to store Essence Meat, spoils, and sensitive items. 124 531
• Fish-Eye Jade — A remote-sensing jade given to the Calamity Crow for reconnaissance. 511
• Calamity Crow — Divine beast companion associated with fortune and misfortune. 485
• Masks and rouge — Used to conceal his striking appearance and maintain aliases. 277 383 407

Relationships

• Wen Caishang / Madam Wen — Wife, former mistress, martial mentor, and the person responsible for much of his foundation. Their relationship combines genuine affection, possessiveness, rivalry, and Yin-Yang sword cultivation. 258 259 394
• Li Xiaofan / Xiao Fan — Younger brother. Li Xian is fiercely protective of him and prepared weapons, poison, disguises, and supplies to rescue him from a gang. 33 69 183
• Pang Long — Early mentor and commander at One Accord Manor. He taught Li Xian Four Directions Fist, explained martial realms, and recognized his potential. 12 40
• Tao Xiangrong — Lover and ally from Blue-Heavens Long Dream Tower. She became deeply attached to Li Xian after learning his true face and witnessing his courage; their bond is complicated by her shortened lifespan. 458 459 488
• Zhao Yingqiong — Great General who tested Li Xian, promoted him to Central Lang General, and bound that promotion to three demanding military pledges. 503 506
• Commandery Princess Anyang / Wei Qinghuang — Powerful patron and manipulator who supplied opportunities, information, and poison-based leverage. Li Xian outwardly obeys her while seeking a chance to escape her control. 461 525
• Li Hengfeng — Former phantom thief and trusted ally. His advocacy helped Li Xian obtain a probationary guard position, and Li Xian later protected him on Evil-Quelling Island. 459 460
• Wu Gan — Literary master who found Li Xian “hard to weigh” and accepted him as a disciple of the Jiyin Painting School. 446 447
• Li Bohou and Li Haitang — Father and daughter aided by Li Xian after Li Bohou lost both legs. Li Xian spent substantial resources on his treatment and later obtained paste capable of regenerating his limbs. 493 497 544

Notable Quotes

“This thing was never mine to begin with. What is there to regret?” 291

“Petty hardships cannot stop me.” 404