Li Ce

Biodata

Power Progression

Background / History

• Li Ce is a veteran Main God user who previously completed scenarios including an altered A Chinese Ghost Story world, where his faction's struggles earned him a Rare Grade evaluation and the title of "Tang King" 87.
• Although his faction genuinely participated in the struggle for the realm, he failed his main mission because he did not reach the Imperial Capital before the decisive battle. His faction's contributions nevertheless counted toward his assessment 87.
• Following the restructuring of the Main God Game and the introduction of Level-Two user privileges, he entered a two-star low-difficulty mission ([Return Disaster]), where he was assigned a local police identity in Linchuan City 87 137.
• During this mission, he triggered a side quest involving an out-of-timeline Alien outbreak, sacrificed himself using Sith tactics to stop the infestation, and was subsequently revived by the Main God Platform while gaining a Second Tier breakthrough 140 142 143.
• His death technically left both the main and side quests incomplete. However, the temporary Alien-tracking connection he left with Yu Yan helped the authorities evacuate the city and eradicate the hive through heavy weapons, targeted chemical agents, and other measures within fewer than twenty days 142 143.
• Operating alongside state-affiliated investigators and researchers, Li Ce leveraged his specialized Force Sight to serve as a vital long-range scout and informant during escalating high-end user conflicts in the Cemetery District 166 178.
• He warned the domestic contingent that individual strength could outweigh numerical superiority after sensing a distant living presence whose energy exceeded known Third-Tier examples. When undead knights later threatened the camps, he urgently called for evacuation and transmitted footage of the danger 159 184.
• His Third Tier exchange nearly exhausted his savings and left him owing resources obtained through official allocations. An urgent request for assistance in the Cemetery District interrupted his initial assessment of the enhancement 233.
• During the celestial upheaval preceding the fall of Grotto-Heaven remnants, he stopped personnel at his base from attempting to fly toward the anomalous sky. After the object fragmented, he urged Elder Ning to dispatch users to recover the falling material and set out toward a nearby fragment himself 249 250.
• As a prominent Third Tier government-allied user, he addressed a large gathering of users about abuses committed against ordinary people, warning them against treating reality as another mission instance 266.
• He observed Chen Ruiping's attempt to reach Fourth Tier, recognizing the latter's exceptional cultivation aptitude while remaining aware that equivalent resources would not necessarily produce the same results for himself 291.
• A military base obtained special approval for him to use second-batch Meteorite Fragments, reflecting official support for his development 318.
• After participating in a high-risk 2-star mission in Tokyo tracking Shin Godzilla and Kong, he successfully accumulated enough resources to complete a Fourth Tier Force Enhancement 321 325.
• Following the introduction of compulsory True-Body Missions, acquaintances and influential figures approached him for favors concerning newcomers. He and Chen Ruiping shared the difficulty of balancing their official positions, personal obligations, and cultivation 331.
• At an internal research conference, he appeared as Tiance and presented his understanding of enhancements and the relationships between material and mental factors. Li Yun recognized him and considered his grasp of underlying principles unusually advanced for Fourth Tier 364.

Appearance

• Outwardly maintains the appearance of an ordinary, professional middle-aged man, though his appearance is periodically affected by stress, severe fatigue, and dark circles accumulated from round-the-clock remote monitoring 178.
• In real-world environments, he is often seen wearing standard clothing or field gear suitable for an investigator or official liaison, though he undergoes medical and physical testing in specialized testing facilities 327.
• During the Linchuan sewer investigation, he wore a fluorescent raincoat and carried a flashlight 136.
• His Third Tier enhancement briefly gave him an elusive, attention-drawing presence, which subsided after he opened his eyes 233.
• Burning his lifespan during the Tokyo mission temporarily made his face more youthful, but the resulting overexertion left him bleeding from all seven orifices and nearly unable to see or move 322 323.

Personality

• Prudent, analytical, and highly pragmatic; he prefers gathering intelligence and deducing tactical solutions over rushing into reckless confrontations 137.
• Possesses a dry, self-deprecating sense of humor, often lamenting his lack of funds or remarking that he is "born to toil" 233.
• Under the influence of Sith enhancements, he is capable of extreme ruthlessness, cold calculation, and strategic self-sacrifice 143.
• His Sith-associated ruthlessness is not his constant everyday disposition. After returning from the Alien mission and losing the immediate support of its combat instincts, he again reacted strongly to the memory of pain and struggled to contain his delight at his breakthrough 143.
• Despite his usual caution, he repeatedly risks his own life when necessary, including exploiting his impending death in the Alien hive and burning almost all his remaining lifespan to locate the Saiyan child in Tokyo 142 322 323.
• Shows social tact and realistic self-assessment. Although envious of Chen Ruiping's talent, he acknowledged the difference in their abilities and avoided openly confronting a resentful colleague during Chen's breakthrough 291.
• Strongly opposes users exploiting ordinary people. Angered by documented atrocities, he departed from his prepared speech and directly condemned those treating living people as experimental materials 266.
• Recognizes that supernatural strength does not free him from social obligations. He quit smoking when young but still habitually carries cigarettes to offer others as a social courtesy 331.

Abilities & Skills

Force Enhancement & Sith Path

• Possesses Force sensitivity originating from the Midi-chlorian Assimilation (Sith Order) enhancement, allowing him to perceive invisible energy fields, trace life signatures, and execute mental manipulation 138 143.
• Force Sight: A specialized long-range reconnaissance ability enabling him to monitor targets covertly from tens of kilometers away without electronic equipment 166.
• Exceptional-Range Detection: On one occasion, he vaguely detected a conscious, living presence at least a thousand kilometers from his group's gathering point. This was an indistinct detection rather than evidence of consistently detailed observation at that distance 159.
• Force Choke & Telekinesis: Able to manipulate objects and disrupt enemies by anticipating movements and applying targeted pressure 138.
• Mental Illusions & Suggestion: Can interfere with perception, induce hallucinations, extract limited information, and influence social recognition. His early interference could briefly confuse an Alien, but attacking it risked breaking the effect 138 139.
• Covert Recruitment: Used Force suggestion to make Tokyo hackers perceive him as a trusted friend or relative, obtaining their help with government databases and online searches. These improvised relationships were shaped partly by the subjects' own subconscious associations 321.
• Temperature Manipulation & Electrical Discharge: His initial enhancement supplied rudimentary versions of both abilities, alongside its other broadly applicable powers 138.
• Combat Instincts: Sith-associated instincts improve the efficiency of his movements, balance, reactions, and evasive decisions under mortal pressure 137 139.
• Aura Reintegration: Learned to draw dispersed Force aura back into his body to reinforce his physical structure. His initial experiment caused his hand and arm muscles to swell slightly and his flesh to become tougher, suggesting a means of reducing his close-combat weakness once mastered 325.

Intuition, Precognition & Life-Force Expenditure

• Danger Intuition: Can perceive threats beyond what visible aura strength alone suggests. During his surveillance, he reported that a target felt increasingly dangerous even as its outward aura weakened 179.
• Lifespan-Fueled Force Amplification: Can burn his own life force to intensify his connection to the Force. In Tokyo, he combined self-destructive intent and induced extreme emotions to obtain a faint premonition connected to the Giant Ape 322 323.
• Causal Tracing: By concentrating on an image of the Giant Ape, he received a vague guiding connection to the Saiyan boy associated with it. Following the connection nearly consumed his entire life and required Chen Ruiping to carry him through the city 322 323.
• Hive Consciousness Access: Used the Alien larva gestating inside him as a bridge into the hive's mental network, identifying seventy-four adult Aliens and more than three hundred Facehugger eggs 142.
• Temporary Force Mark: At death, transferred a trace of the Alien hive network to Yu Yan through a previously placed mark, allowing him to roughly locate members of the collective for less than a month 142.

Energy Simulation & Fourth-Tier Research

• Qi-Like Force Manifestation: Recognized the Tokyo mission world's qi-like energy as a local manifestation related to the Force. After reaching Fourth Tier, he could imitate its outward form, although he felt his reproduction lacked the substance of the Saiyan boy's energy 323 325.
• Phantom Moon: While near death, condensed a moon image that supplied the missing stimulus for the Saiyan boy's Great Ape transformation. The actual sky lacked a moon, making this intervention essential to completing the mission 324 325.
• Wall Traversal: Demonstrated the ability to walk steadily along a curved building exterior, including from an upside-down position 331.
• Power and Attribute Simulation: As an all-purpose, cosmic-energy-oriented Force user, can simulate different forms of power. At the research conference, he demonstrated transformations between forms and attributes 364.
• Enhancement Theory: Explained enhancements as incorporating materiality and mentality in different proportions. His Fourth-Tier perspective allowed him to investigate shared principles linking energy, matter, mind, and the numinous spark's ability to interfere with the world 364.

User Privileges & Limitations

• Level-Two Privileges: Has a shortened mission cooldown, access to ten mission choices, and the option of entering missions with other users. His shorter cooldown initially made synchronizing with former teammates inconvenient unless he deliberately waited 137.
• Recording & Transmission: Uses Level-Two recording functions to preserve observations and provide footage or livestreams to outside personnel 143 178 184.
• Specialization Limits: His Force enhancement is versatile but does not automatically grant the precision of a dedicated psychic enhancement. During the Tokyo mission, his Third Tier direct-combat strength was also far below Fourth-Tier Chen Ruiping's, despite his superior perception and intuition 138 319 321 322.
• Exchange Compatibility: His development benefited from qualifying for a newcomer-only introductory Force exchange and subsequently grasping its mysteries through repeated life-threatening attempts. His case is cited when explaining that enhancement prices depend partly on a user's hidden conditions, not only the listed tier 138 384.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Basic Vitality Potion: A First Tier consumable used to restore energy and alleviate mental fatigue during prolonged surveillance 178.
• Dimension Key: A rare, single-use reward from his earlier mission that allows him to revisit the A Chinese Ghost Story world and partially inherit his former identity, influence, and causal ties 87.
• Personal Space: Possesses a private domain obtained through Level-Two privileges. Initially left it as a blank white space and deferred its one free customization opportunity until he could learn from other users' experiences 143 144.
• Improvised Iron Rod: Used hollow iron rods as thrown weapons during the sewer escape, combining them with Force-assisted timing and mental interference against the pursuing Alien 138 139.
• Official Research Resources: Received institutional support for advancement, including allocated exchange resources and specially approved access to second-batch Meteorite Fragments 233 318.

Relationships

• Chen Ruiping — Close operational partner and fellow high-tier user with whom he coordinates during dangerous missions 321 323. Chen carried the gravely injured Li Ce through Tokyo and sustained his remaining life with inner energy; together they awakened the Saiyan boy's potential and completed their mission 323 324. They later commiserated over requests to protect favored newcomers in True-Body Missions 331.
• Old Yu (Yu Yan) — Drainage worker and temporary investigative companion during the Linchuan mission. Li Ce left him a Force-mediated connection to the Alien hive, enabling the surviving authorities to track the infestation after Li Ce's death 136 137 142 143.
• Elder Ning — Government-allied coordinator with whom Li Ce shared intelligence and evacuation warnings in the Cemetery District. Li Ce also urged him to organize the recovery of falling Grotto-Heaven remnants 159 184 250.
• Government Researchers & Field Colleagues — Support his surveillance and development through recordkeeping, medical assistance, shared resources, and post-enhancement testing. His covert observation skills make him difficult to replace during intelligence operations 166 178 327.
• Saiyan Boy / Kong — The true identity behind the Tokyo mission's supposed giant ape. Li Ce traced the child through the Force, encouraged him to protect his grandfather, demonstrated energy use, and supplied the phantom moon needed for his transformation 323 324 325.
• Li Yun — Recognized Li Ce beneath the name Tiance at the internal research conference and took note of his explanations, acknowledging the rarity of such theoretical insight at Fourth Tier 364.

Story Role / Major Arcs

• Newcomer & Early Veteran Phase: Participated in early historical-fantasy scenarios (such as A Chinese Ghost Story), serving as a faction leader before the Main God system introduced user tiers 87.
• The Linchuan & Alien Disaster Arc: Selected a Two-Star difficulty mission, uncovered an underground Alien hive in a modern city, and sacrificed himself to provide survivors with the means to locate the hive, achieving a Second Tier breakthrough 137 140 142.
• Cemetery District Reconnaissance Arc: Acted as a key intelligence asset for government researchers by maintaining uninterrupted Force surveillance over a rampaging Shadow Fiend bloodline user and tracking high-end threats 166 178. Later detected the impending undead knight offensive, urged immediate dispersal, and transmitted evidence as the camps were overrun 184.
• Third Tier Advancement & Government Operations: Purchased his Third Tier enhancement, returned to support Cemetery District operations, and witnessed Chen Ruiping repel challengers near the entrance 233 236. Subsequently helped respond to the falling Grotto-Heaven remnants and served as a prominent official voice against users abusing civilians 249 250 266.
• Tokyo Beast Suppression Arc: Traveled to Tokyo during an emergency mission involving Shin Godzilla and Kong, assisted in identifying anomalous supernatural entities, and subsequently achieved Fourth Tier Force Enhancement 321 323 325. His lifespan-fueled tracing revealed that Kong was a Saiyan child, while his phantom moon enabled the transformation that brought the two monsters together and completed the mission 322 323 324 325.
• Fourth Tier Testing & True-Body Mission Transition: Underwent scientific testing after his enhancement and heard the announcement activating compulsory True-Body Missions. His new standing brought requests from influential people seeking assistance for newcomers 327 331.
• Internal Research Conference: Presented as Tiance, demonstrating power transformations and discussing the material and mental foundations of enhancements. His role expanded from operational reconnaissance into contributing theoretical insight to collective research 364.