Lin Feng

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Lin Feng (林峰) 1
Alias(es)	A potato — online handle; Master Lin — addressed by the guide; Lord Mountain God — addressed by Ghost Uncle and Toothless Old Lady 1 2 36
Species/Race	Human; bearer of Mountain God authority 33 42
Gender	Male 42
Residence	Fog City; lives in a rented apartment 1 41
Affiliation	Bilibili; aligned with the Great Ming imperial party within the game 1 6
Occupation/Role	Gaming creator and livestreamer with approximately one million followers; player of Western Hunan Blood God 1
Classes	Embroidered Uniform Guard and Wild Fox Chan, also translated as Wild Fox Zen; his original Daoist class was only a beginner template 13 40
Cultivation	Ninth Rank in reality; reaches Seventh Rank qi condensation while enhanced by Mountain God’s Power inside the game 40 47
Status	Alive in reality; game deaths can be followed by revival or a restarted attempt while lives remain 11 47
First Appearance	Chapter 1 1

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
High Ritual Daoist of Dragon-Tiger Mountain — beginner template	2	Begins with advanced swordsmanship, talisman and ritual expertise, numerous spells, and high-grade equipment. This is a supplied character template, not his personal cultivation.
Permanent Swordsmanship Mastery; reset to an unclassed character	3 4	Completing Act One grants the permanent passive and five qian of fortune. All other template abilities and equipment disappear; sword knowledge and physical changes carry into reality.
Demon-seed enhancement	12	Liao Chi’s dying gift grants strength approaching Eighth Rank, enabling Lin Feng to behead the Blood God. It is not established as his permanent cultivation realm.
Embroidered Uniform Guard + Wild Fox Chan	13	Purchases both stackable classes outright for a combined five qian of fortune. The Guard class supplies dragon-tiger qi and offensive bonuses.
Sword techniques begin becoming instinctive	14 15	Repeated combat against Worm Thralls makes the sword feel like part of his body. He senses an emerging “sword soul,” but remains far from fully realizing Swordsmanship Mastery.
Sword Heart Clarity	17	Gains a permanent, unupgradeable perception skill after briefly entering a state resembling the Inner Breath Realm, losing concentration, and dying.
Mountain God inheritance	18 19	Contact with the shrine grants Mountain God authority, protective and offensive statuses, accumulated experience, and the complete nine-rank Shaman Priest’s Cultivation Method.
Ninth Rank — Qi Gathering	20	Begins cultivation in reality through meditative stillness and establishes contact with the wind spirit.
Precise Vision; blood-sword technique	25	Earns a weakness-detection passive after being overwhelmed at the inn. During the fight, independently discovers how to spit blood as a damaging sword attack.
Eighth Rank — Qi Nurturing, mountain-enhanced	32 33	Drawing vitality from the Western Hunan Mountains accelerates his cultivation; fifteen strands of qi merge into mist.
Seventh Rank — Qi Condensation, mountain-enhanced	33 34	The mist condenses into liquid. Wind-enhanced sword qi reaches fifteen zhang, and he can briefly fly and form wind blades.
Self-Sacrificing Strike	39 40	Creates an all-out sword attack that gathers his strength into one blow, normally damaging his body and exhausting his power.
Feasting on Wind and Drinking Dew	40	Acquires the Mystic Sustenance Method through the Priest Mask’s forced inheritance.
Qi-Observing Eye	40 41	A further forced inheritance grants an incomplete fragment of ancient geomancy used to examine others’ nature and fortune.
Real-world bodily cultivation improves	41 42	The wind-feeding ritual strengthens his body, improves healing, and lets his skin absorb qi independently. This accelerates progress toward Eighth Rank without confirming a breakthrough.
Ritual Incense Crafting Method	43	Extracts another ancient priestly secret from the mask by repeatedly submitting to its lethal inheritance.
Ninth Rank — real-world limitation confirmed	47	Without Mountain God enhancement, he remains Ninth Rank. He can stir wind and assist sword strikes, but cannot use it to retrieve objects remotely.

Background / History

Lin Feng began creating online content during college and continued working independently after graduation rather than taking an office job. By his first appearance, he has approximately one million Bilibili followers. Reduced platform video earnings have made sponsorships increasingly important to his income 1 19.

He has studied calligraphy and has a longstanding interest in occult subjects, including tarot, divination, the I Ching, birth charts, UFOs, and international horror legends. These interests make him curious rather than purely frightened when supernatural events begin affecting his life 1 4.

His involvement with Western Hunan Blood God starts when an unexplained console arrives with “Lin Feng” listed as both sender and recipient. After ruling out a sponsorship or fan prank, he connects it to his television and enters an immersive Ming-dynasty setting. He chooses the Daoist role because he expects religious magic to offer the safest way to confront a blood god 1.

Appearance

Lin Feng’s facial features remain unchanged after his early sword training, retaining a slightly languid expression around his eyes and brows. The more conspicuous transformation is his physique and bearing: his body becomes streamlined and strong, while wielding a weapon gives him an unmistakably sharp presence 4 5 16.

• Game appearance: The selected Daoist character uses his own face and initially wears Daoist robes with a sword on his back 1 2.
• Physical transformation: Swordsmanship Mastery reshapes his body and leaves his muscles brimming with strength, although his endurance initially remains inadequate for prolonged practice 4 5.
• Sword intent: Repeated combat produces a keen presence that alarms Peng Tianli and surprises the other shrine companions 17.
• Ritual aftermath: Feasting on Wind and Drinking Dew causes bleeding, muscle tears, and extensive shedding of dead skin before his injuries rapidly heal 42.

Personality

Lin Feng is stubbornly competitive. Before receiving the console, he had already spent six hours streaming a difficult Mario level and an entire night attempting a demanding sword-fighting boss. His first response to repeated failure is to grind until he understands the challenge 3.

His confidence becomes more disciplined through experience. Early declarations of invincibility give way to careful observation, preparation, and post-battle criticism. Even after defeating the first Blood God, he focuses on missed openings and inadequate timing rather than treating completion as proof that he played well 2 3 12.

Curiosity and a desire for supernatural power repeatedly lead him into danger. He accepts a harder route through the game to retain Mountain God authority and deliberately subjects himself to the Priest Mask’s painful inheritance. Nevertheless, he distinguishes expendable game lives from his single real-world life and becomes more cautious about experimenting outside the game 35 40 43.

He values independence, finding the Shaman Priest’s institution-free path compatible with his freelance lifestyle. He also refuses an Underworld bargain that would replace his identity and surrender generations of descendants, despite its promise of survival and prosperity 19 31.

His irreverent humor persists through brutal encounters. Mundane anxieties remain equally powerful: parasites associated with cockroaches can unsettle him even after he has learned to face game deaths calmly 15 25.

Abilities & Skills

Swordsmanship Mastery

A permanent passive retained from the beginner Daoist template. It supplies extensive sword techniques and remembered combat experience, but possessing the skill does not immediately make Lin Feng a fully realized master 3 5 13.

• Includes weapon handling, routines, footwork, and instinctive responses 5 12.
• Repeated fighting gradually integrates the supplied knowledge into his own reflexes 14 15.
• Applies beyond a conventional sword: he uses sticks and a baseball bat for practice, and chopsticks or toothpicks as projectiles 4 5 26.
• Effectiveness depends on physical conditioning, cultivation, timing, and awareness 5 12.
• Its listed outright purchase price is 500 liang of fortune, far beyond his early resources 13.

Combat Perception

His two permanent perception passives address different weaknesses in his fighting 17 25.

• Sword Heart Clarity: Detects danger in combat and outside it, guiding evasions and warning him about otherwise imperceptible threats 18 34 39.
• Precise Vision: Instinctively identifies an enemy’s vulnerable point; helps him kill Toothless Old Lady and locate the banyan Blood God’s heart 25 34.
• Neither guarantees victory: he remains vulnerable to overwhelming attacks, sacrificial screams, and the much stronger Yin God 34 39.

Class Traits

Lin Feng purchases two classes after discovering that the beginner mission did not permanently make him a Daoist 13.

• Emperor’s Personal Guard: Grants critical damage against certain sinister entities 13.
• Official Qi Furnace: Provides dragon-tiger qi protection and doubles damage against targets without official-qi protection 13.
• Wild Fox Chan/Zen: Produces an uncanny spiritual aura recognizable to Liao Chi. Its resemblance to Liao Chi’s own practice makes Lin Feng’s background difficult for him to interpret 14.
• Class stacking does not restore the original Daoist template’s spells or equipment 13.

Shaman Priest Cultivation and Wind

The Mountain God inheritance provides a complete nine-rank cultivation path. Lin Feng begins by achieving stillness, sensing natural spirits, and gathering wind-associated qi 18 20.

• Qi Gathering: Improves stamina and permits limited wind assistance, such as speeding sword strikes or blowing wind into an opponent’s eyes 30 47.
• Qi Nurturing: Forms accumulated strands of qi into mist 33 42.
• Qi Condensation: Converts mist into liquid; with the game’s Mountain God enhancement, supports long-range sword qi, shaped wind blades, and brief flight 33 34.
• Can send his awareness with the wind to scout; his investigation of the tomb reaches approximately one hundred zhang before the scouting wind is nearly spent 20 36.
• Avoids projecting his soul into a thunderstorm because of the lightning risk 35.

Mountain God Authority

Lin Feng inherits a portion of Clear Spring Stockade’s Mountain God authority. He later concludes that he may be its chosen successor and that this power can be inherited or forcibly taken 18 33.

• Mountain God’s Blessing: Improves survival in the mountains and protects him from poisonous creatures that kill ordinary travelers 19 22 25.
• Mountain God’s Wrath: Produces critical wounds against things that do not belong to the mountains; wounds can resist healing, bleed continuously, and burn with faint red flames 18 34.
• Mountain God’s Power: Lets him receive vitality from woodland spirits, cooperate with tree spirits, and use the forest’s support in battle 32 33 35 37.
• Enables concealment, vine-assisted obstruction, and sustained attacks against Ghost Uncle 37.
• The relevant Mountain God effects cease functioning in the Underworld. His enhanced Seventh Rank also does not represent his unassisted real-world cultivation 31 40 47.

Blood Sword and Self-Sacrificing Strike

Both attacks are developed through combat rather than purchased from the exchange 25 39 40.

• Spitting Blood: Turns expelled blood into a sword attack. It can damage his own body severely and is not safe for casual use 25 40.
• Self-Sacrificing Strike: Concentrates his essence, qi, spirit, and strength into one decisive blow, normally leaving him injured and exhausted 40 43.
• Mountain-supplied vitality offsets the latter’s usual cost enough for him to use it repeatedly during his later ambush 43.

Priest Mask Inheritance

The living mask forcibly passes on ancient priestly knowledge through painful bodily invasion and assimilation 40 41.

• Feasting on Wind and Drinking Dew: Replaces ordinary nourishment with wind spirits and is presented as a route toward wind godhood. In reality, it improves bodily qi absorption and cultivation speed 40 41 42.
• Sacrificial Chant and Dance: Ritual gestures, vocalizations, and difficult movements gather wind into his body. Its first real-world performance damages his apartment and causes shared hallucinations among neighbors 41 42.
• Qi-Observing Eye: Displays a target’s type, fortune, and threat level. It is one incomplete fragment of ancient geomancy; its inheritance warns that combining all thirty-six fragments would bring catastrophe 41 42.
• Overusing the eye causes headaches, and attempting to inspect his own fortune produces sharp pain 42 43.
• Ritual Incense Crafting Method: Teaches an ancient sacrificial process using captives, livestock, or wild beasts to make incense connecting worshippers with divine realms. The context establishes acquisition, not Lin Feng’s use of it 43.

Game Revival and System Use

Revival is a console mechanic, not an unrestricted personal resurrection ability 11.

• Can restart an attempt or revive on the spot while game lives remain 11.
• Later low-level missions provide three lives and impose a one-hour cooldown after failure 4 19.
• On-the-spot revival can restore wounds and clothing completely 24.
• Uses repeated deaths to test enemies, train swordsmanship, and extract the Priest Mask’s inheritance 14 40 43.
• Permanent skills and some physical benefits carry into reality, but real-world death remains final 4 40.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Green Mountain/Qingshan Game Console and headset — unexplained delivery resembling a PS5; the headset externally matches an inexpensive motorcycle half helmet 1 4.
• Wrought-Iron Sword — ordinary weapon replacing the beginner template’s ritual sword in Act Two 5.
• Dry rations and water flask — basic supplies retained after the beginner equipment disappears 5.
• Thirty-Six Stockades Map — central Act Two objective and guide to the route toward Bull-Head Stockade 10 19.
• Officer Zhu’s identification badge and supplies — collected after Zhu and the guide die during one road attempt 22.
• Priest Mask — living inheritance object taken from Ghost Uncle; repeatedly worn to obtain its secrets despite lethal assimilation 40 43.
• Notebook and pen — used to organize clues and tentative connections surrounding the Blood God, ancient priest, and regional factions 43.
• Beginner-only equipment — Dragon-Tiger Mountain High Ritual Sword, High Ritual Robes, and graded talismans; lost when the trial template ends 2 5.

Relationships

• Hundred-Household Officer Zhu — principal imperial ally. Shares guarded mission information, trusts Lin Feng’s warnings, and coordinates with him in combat; later helps compel the guide’s cooperation 6 7 9 26 43.
• The guide — local escort and source of route knowledge. Initially must be protected through repeated failures; later becomes a reluctant participant in Lin Feng’s alternate-route plans 2 3 19 26.
• Liao Chi — initially belongs to the chieftain’s camp. Sacrifices himself restraining the Blood God and passes Lin Feng the demon seed needed to finish it 6 12.
• Third Lady — Five Poisons Sect teammate whose medicine repels the red threadworms. Her dart and the insects released after her death help weaken the Blood God 10 12.
• Peng Tianli — antagonistic teammate who mocks Lin Feng’s youth and threatens him. Becomes more cautious and polite after recognizing his sharpened sword intent 5 14 17.
• Xu Nian — former high-school classmate working with an archaeology team in Western Hunan. Their teasing messages lead to discussion of strange burial pits and a possible blood-red apparition 16 17.
• Li Pusa — corpse driver and source of information about Yin Roadwalking. Lin Feng’s revival frightens him, but he explains the dangerous shortcut and its transport hubs 24 35.
• Clear Spring Stockade’s Mountain God — source of Lin Feng’s authority, cultivation method, and spiritual inheritance; Lin Feng suspects he was selected as its successor 18 33.
• Ghost Uncle / Head-Taker — recurring pursuer associated with the Ghost Yamen. Seeks the authority inside him, later offers submission when defeated, and is killed after signs of outside control appear 30 37 38 39.
• Priest Mask — hostile source of ancient knowledge. Attempts to assimilate Lin Feng while he exploits repeated revival to exhaust its inheritance 40 41 43.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Act One: Assembly

• Enters the game as a powerful Daoist but repeatedly fails because he cannot anticipate the hazards threatening his guide 1 2 3.
• Learns the route, layers protections on the guide, seals his mouth against dangerous voices, and reaches Clear Spring Stockade before dawn 3.
• Receives Swordsmanship Mastery and discovers that its effects follow him into reality 3 4.

Act Two: Gestation

• Investigates the missing map, the shrine’s removed divine object, and the distrust between the imperial and chieftain factions 6 7.
• Traces the red threadworms to the corrupted spring, finds the villagers’ bodies, and locates the missing Thousand-Household Officer among the banyan’s victims 9 10.
• Defeats the skinless Blood God with his companions’ contributions and Liao Chi’s demon seed, unlocking the exchange 12.
• Replays the act to train, acquire perception skills, kill the Blood God before awakening, and obtain the Mountain God inheritance 14 17 18.
• Learns that the banyan itself has become the Blood God’s second phase after the Mountain God’s defeat 19.

Act Three: The Road

• Attempts to reach Bull-Head Stockade through collapsed roads, poisonous mountain hazards, and supernatural storms 19 20 22.
• Finds shelter at Jixi Inn, destroys its three ancient corpse guardians during a failed negotiation, and encounters Li Pusa and the Ghost Yamen’s servants 23 24 25.
• Explores alternate routes and Yin Roadwalking, discovering that his Mountain God protections fail in the Underworld 26 30 31.
• Unlocks the practical use of Mountain God’s Power, advances to enhanced Seventh Rank, and destroys the banyan Blood God 32 33 34.

Ghost Yamen and the Priest Mask

• Pursues the Ghost Yamen instead of avoiding it, using tree spirits to locate its flood-exposed tomb passage 35 36.
• Defeats Ghost Uncle through concealment and forest-assisted attacks, then learns that her gifts from the tomb are tied to villagers’ sacrifices 37 38.
• Kills Ghost Uncle but is overwhelmed by the towering Yin God controlling the Terracotta Figures 39.
• Obtains priestly knowledge through repeated lethal contact with the mask; his real-world experiments strengthen his body but damage his apartment and disturb his neighbors 40 41 42.
• Returns with a plan to drain the mask of information, swiftly kills familiar enemies, and exhausts its remaining inheritance 43.

Notable Quotes

“I'm an expert gamer!” 3

“Yes, that's right. I offended someone, and I've been sent here to die.” 13