Daoist

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Daoist (道爷), an address used for Lin Feng 20 24 26.
Alias(es)	Master Daoist; Master Taoist; High Ritual Daoist of Dragon-Tiger Mountain, the initial character class 2 24 89.
Identity	Lin Feng’s player-controlled character in Western Hunan Blood God, rather than a separately named companion 1 2.
Species/Race	Human; later develops divine powers and supernatural bodily transformations 189 292 316.
Gender	Male 1 5.
Affiliation	Dragon-Tiger Mountain through the beginner template; the class itself is not retained after Act One. Later receives arts from Zhang Zhuoen 2 4 110.
Occupation/Role	Court-dispatched Daoist investigating the Western Hunan Mountains; later an independent cultivator, Land God successor, and Qi-Observing Historian 6 19 94 241.
Status	The initial high-powered template is removed after Act One; Lin Feng continues using the character without its original class and equipment 4 5 13.
First Appearance	Character-selection screen in Western Hunan Blood God 1.

Power Progression

The beginner Daoist’s power is supplied by a temporary template. After its removal, Lin Feng must develop his own strength; temporary enhancements and separate bodily or spiritual ranks are distinguished below 2 4 40 162.

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
High Ritual Daoist of Dragon-Tiger Mountain	2	Begins with extensive sword, talisman, and ritual skills; auspicious protection; high-grade equipment; and a stated destiny to enter the Celestial Master’s ranks. No numerical cultivation rank is given.
Swordsmanship Mastery permanently retained	3 4	Completes the beginner journey and keeps one passive skill. His class, statuses, and template equipment disappear. The retained skill also affects his real body.
Temporary strength approaching Eighth Rank	12	Liao Chi’s dying demon seed greatly strengthens his body, enabling him to behead the Blood God. This is not established as a permanent cultivation rank.
Embroidered Uniform Guard and Wild Fox Chan classes	13	Purchases both classes for five qian of Fortune. Their effects stack, but neither restores the lost Daoist class.
Shaman Priest’s Cultivation Method	19	Receives an independent cultivation method after defeating the Mountain God, together with Mountain God’s Blessing and Mountain God’s Wrath.
Awakening and Qi Gathering	20 26	Enters stillness through the method’s breathing practice and subsequently cultivates Qi Gathering, identified as the path’s Ninth-Rank stage.
Seventh-Rank Qi Condensation — temporary	40	A character panel records Seventh Rank while the Mountain God’s passive enhancement is active for that game session.
Land God succession	94	Contact with a Han-era priest’s writ grants the Xiang Region Land God Seal, the Bo Tone, staff-related knowledge, and inherited temple authority.
Unyielding	102	Awakens the virtue while resisting Chi You’s assault on his Intent. It allows him to recognize harmful influences and locate their source.
Taiyin Plain Body and Mount Tai Diagram	110	Zhang Zhuoen passes on the Taiyin Plain Body and True Form Diagram of the Five Sacred Mountains (Mount Tai).
Eighth Rank	130	His cultivation has advanced from Ninth to Eighth Rank. People touched by his flames become linked to him through dreams of the rune “Zuan.”
Land God’s staff completed	159	Subdues the Red Luan Bodhisattva and obtains South Seas Jianmu, refining the resulting staff into an eight-sided wooden sword.
Sword Talisman: Break the Army	161	A copied saber-derived teaching merges with Swordsmanship Mastery to produce a new sword talisman technique.
Lower Seventh-Rank Yin God; Lower Sixth-Rank body	162	Literary Qi mutates his Awakened Primordial Spirit and merges with sword mastery, producing Silver-Tongued Sword and Righteous and Awe-Inspiring.
Qi-Observing Historian	241	Becomes an official player after completing Nanyang’s Rise into Evil. Three fused Dharma Eye fragments reveal the movement of origin energy.
Wind Intent crystallized — remains Seventh Rank	316	Prolonged secluded cultivation unifies body, speech, and Intent around wind, establishing a foundation for becoming a Wind God and pursuing immortality.
Internal Alchemy and Fengdu Ghost-Cursing Sutra	337	Begins refining essence, qi, and spirit toward a golden core. Surviving a clash between greater powers also binds the developing ghost-cursing artifact to him.
Blood Seal Shackle broken	400	Accepts Dharma Eye fragments linked to Heavenly Fire. Two presences enter his brow and break a Shackle in his Blood Seal.
Special protective-deity identity	527	Explains that a ritual procedure has made him a protective deity permitted to use Zhang Daoling’s twin swords.

Background / History

Beginner Daoist

Lin Feng selects Daoist from five available roles because he expects a religious spellcaster to be better equipped against a “blood god” than a conventional warrior. The initially faceless character acquires his face, while its name remains locked to Lin Feng 1.

The character proves far stronger than expected: its panel names him a High Ritual Daoist of Dragon-Tiger Mountain and says he is already on Zhang Daoling’s shortlist. Nevertheless, reaching Clear Spring Stockade is difficult because the guide repeatedly dies when Lin Feng overlooks a hazard. Success comes only after he learns to anticipate threats, layer protections, and prevent the guide from answering dangerous voices 2 3.

Completing the mission removes the powerful template. Lin Feng retains Swordsmanship Mastery, but loses the Daoist class, ritual abilities, protective statuses, and equipment. His continued appearance as a young Daoist therefore conceals a much weaker character 4 5 13.

Western Hunan investigation

At Clear Spring Village Shrine, Lin Feng joins Hundred-Household Officer Zhu, Peng Tianli, Third Lady, and Liao Chi in searching for the Thirty-Six Stockades Map. Knowledge gathered through failed attempts lets him coordinate their abilities, though his mistaken belief that Five-Organs Incense threatens only humans leads to Peng Tianli’s death through his Striped Tiger 11.

The ensuing Blood God battle exposes the gap between sword technique and physical capacity. Third Lady weakens the enemy, Zhu fights alongside Lin Feng, and Liao Chi sacrifices himself to restrain it and pass on a demon seed. Lin Feng wins, but regards the narrow victory as evidence of poor timing and insufficient awareness 12.

He subsequently takes up the Shaman Priest’s independent cultivation path. The journey reveals that the Blood God is not merely a skinless corpse: its second phase is the transformed banyan tree at Clear Spring Stockade 19.

Divine authority and later encounters

Inside the Land God Temple, Lin Feng inherits the former deity’s authority through a dangerous priest’s writ. The succession also binds him to an ancient coffin and grants rights whose usefulness has diminished with the fall of the Han dynasty 94.

After Chi You nearly overwhelms him, Zhang Zhuoen rescues him and explains the difference between genuine immortality and the harmful shortcuts pursued by Corpse and A Lu Hun. Zhang later gives him two cultivation arts, providing an authentic transmission despite the loss of his original Daoist class 102 110.

The guide eventually recognizes Lin Feng outside their original journey. By then, the former grave robber has become an evil spirit through stolen lore and human-organ sacrifices. Lin Feng rejects his pleas for servitude and kills him, ending their long-running connection 116.

In later games, Lin Feng acts as a healer and exorcist while establishing worship of Zuan Wangye. He also protects the Little Daoist Boy and brings him to his lineage’s patriarch, allowing the boy to inherit the Quanzhen teaching Golden Lotus Grown in Fire and the name Daoist Ji 324 325.

Appearance

• Selection-screen form: Faceless, wearing a high priest’s Daoist robe and carrying a sword on his back 1.
• After selection: Gains a face identical to Lin Feng’s 1.
• Early adventuring form: Appears as a young Daoist from Dragon-Tiger Mountain, despite losing the original class 5 6.
• Later bearing: Long flowing hair, hanfu, a wooden sword, and an imposing presence noticeable even to his longtime friend Brother Chen 241.
• Forehead mark: A jujube-red mark between his brows is visible to the Little Daoist Boy; in a divine dream manifestation, he appears as a towering three-eyed figure holding a Dharma Sword 292 324.

Personality

The Daoist’s decisions and manner are Lin Feng’s. Early confidence comes from seeing an apparently near-maximal character panel, but repeated failures teach him that powerful abilities cannot substitute for attention. He becomes more methodical, protecting the guide in advance rather than reacting after a threat appears 2 3.

He is competitive, irreverent, and willing to exploit repeatable game encounters. After barely defeating the Blood God, he studies his mistakes instead of celebrating. The guide remembers him as highly capable but frighteningly ill-tempered, frequently muttering about killing him during their journey 12 116.

His concern for others coexists with coercion and opportunism. He treats plague victims cheaply and turns away practitioners who would likely die confronting the Jin Family, while also using reputation, worship, and intimidation to strengthen his position 325.

Abilities & Skills

Swordsmanship

Swordsmanship Mastery is the sole ability permanently retained from the beginner template 3 4.

• The initial high-powered body can release sword light thirty feet long 4.
• The skill includes footwork and evasive movement, not merely cutting techniques 12.
• Its practical strength depends on the user’s body and cultivation; Lin Feng cannot reproduce the template’s endurance immediately 5 12.
• Repeated combat turns remembered techniques into instinct and begins forming what he perceives as a “sword soul” 15.
• Later developments include Sword Heart Clarity, Precise Vision, and Sword Talisman: Break the Army 40 161.

Beginner Daoist Arts

The temporary Dragon-Tiger Mountain template possesses a broad ritual and spell repertoire 2.

• Passive proficiencies: Talisman Mastery and Ritual Proficiency.
• Listed active arts: Wind Riding, Samadhi True Fire, Command Spirits and Dispatch Generals, Armor Horse, Bean Soldiers, and Lingguan Possession 2.
• Journey applications: Conceals human auras, layers protective spells, seals the guide’s mouth, and clears threats with wind and lightning 2 3.
• Preparation requirements: Lingguan’s descent requires an altar and ritual; Bean Soldiers requires previously nurtured implements and incantations 4.
• These arts are not retained when Act One ends 4 5.

Wind Cultivation and Intent

The Shaman Priest’s method offers cultivation without master-disciple obligations or institutional backing 19.

• Qi Gathering improves stamina, perception, and bodily performance 26 30.
• Wind can support movement and combat; the method describes much greater mobility as a distant, upper-rank possibility rather than an early achievement 22.
• Crystallized Wind Intent lets him command nearby wind, place magical power in artifacts, and lodge consciousness in other things 316.
• His chosen Intent becomes an irreversible foundation: changing it could destroy his body and Dao 316.

Land God Powers

Succession grants Lin Feng authority over the temple and several inherited resources, though some rights are obsolete or inaccessible 94.

• Uses the Land God’s Six Tones in spiritual combat; by the Jin Family aftermath, he possesses four tones, including the protective Da Tone 159 316.
• His completed staff senses earth and yin veins, living people, and gathered dead 159.
• Can station Spectral Soldiers in Door God images and talismans to guard homes and enter dreams 162.
• Uses his staff and Sacrificial Fire to ignite household hearths across Fukou, resisting supernatural darkness 162.
• His emergence from the destroyed Nuo temple with ghosts following him may be Underworld Guiding, but he does not confirm that interpretation 116.

Spiritual Perception and Resistance

• Unyielding: Identifies negative influences such as pain, fear, and beguilement, together with their source 102.
• Taiyin Plain Body: Strengthens the soul through moonlight, runes, and power concentrated in the left eye 107.
• Qi-Observing Dharma Eye: Three fused fragments reveal origin-energy flows, but their use worsens his injuries 241.
• Third Eye: Can perceive hidden qi and extraordinary beings; witnessing something beyond his capacity causes his head to explode during the Yin-Shang ritual 301 362.
• Taiyin cultivation requires mental restraint and observance of precepts to avoid an inhuman, malformed state 119.

Ritual Authority and Followers

Lin Feng increasingly acquires power through offerings, divine offices, and commanded spirits 148 292 325.

• Receives incense offerings after taking the Five Directional Divine Generals’ talisman and regalia 292.
• Uses a Luban-style possession rite to claim people recorded in a ritual booklet; he recognizes it as crude control rather than a legitimate Daoist register 299.
• Raises approximately seven hundred Yin Soldiers during his healing campaign, but considers further recruitment difficult to control 325.
• Can use ritual objects as mediums to contact greater powers, notably Yu Lei, without possessing formal Daoist credentials 343.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

Beginner Template

• Dragon-Tiger Mountain High Ritual Sword — The template’s principal weapon 2.
• Dragon-Tiger Mountain High Ritual Robes — Supplied with the initial class 2.
• Seventh- and eighth-grade talismans — Included among its equipment 2.
• Shangqing Firmament True Fire Talisman — A third-grade talisman 2.

All of this equipment is removed after the beginner mission 4 5.

Later Acquisitions

• Land God’s staff / Dharma Sword — An eight-sided wooden sword refined from South Seas Jianmu, combining Land God and Mount Tai imagery 159 189.
• Demon-Binding Rope — Formerly Seventh Rank, weakened to Ninth Rank when given to him by the Written Spirit 126.
• Chi You’s Sword and Halberd — The surviving pieces of the incomplete Seventh-Rank Chi You’s Five Weapons 95.
• Great Ming Fire Lance — A redeemed weapon supplied with three non-repeatable projectiles 244.
• Blood-and-Flesh Sacrificial Bell — A reward from the Wraith Mother that he forcibly subdues 292.
• Fengdu Ghost-Cursing Sutra — A developing artifact that uses Evil Ghosts as writing and strengthens through killing or cursing them 337.

Relationships

• Guide — Initially protected through repeated beginner attempts. Regards Lin Feng as an orthodox Daoist master; later recognizes him after becoming an evil spirit and is killed by him 3 28 116.
• Hundred-Household Officer Zhu — Combat partner who follows Lin Feng’s plans, helps pressure the guide, and fights alongside him against the Blood God 11 12 26.
• Liao Chi — Teammate whose sacrificial restraint and demon seed enable the Blood God’s defeat. Later recognizes Wild Fox Chan and dragon-tiger qi together in Lin Feng 12 14.
• Third Lady — Provides insect-repelling medicine, recovers the map with spiders, and weakens the Blood God before dying 11 12.
• Peng Tianli — Initially mocks the young Daoist, then cooperates when Lin Feng demonstrates knowledge of the stockade’s dangers 5 11.
• Li Pusa — Corpse driver who addresses him deferentially as Master Daoist, but understands that some of his statements could make the court condemn him as a sorcerer 24 89.
• Zhang Zhuoen — Rescuer and transmitter of authentic cultivation arts; explains the dangers of heterodox immortality methods 102 110.
• Little Daoist Boy / successor Daoist Ji — Protected follower who initially mistakes him for the Lord of Mount Tai. Lin Feng corrects that identity and later helps preserve the boy’s Dharma lineage 292 324.

Trivia

• Selecting Daoist does not permanently grant the Daoist class. Lin Feng discovers his class field is empty only after clearing Act Two 13.
• The guide repeatedly urges him to call on orthodox supernatural assistance, unaware that his original institutional advantages are gone 29.
• Swordsmanship Mastery would cost 500 liang of Fortune to purchase, far beyond his early seven-qian balance 13.
• The beginner panel’s promise that he will join the Celestial Master’s ranks belongs to the temporary template; it is not a documented later promotion 2 4.