Daoist

Biodata

Power Progression

Background / History

Lin Feng selects Daoist from five available roles, choosing it over the Embroidered Uniform Guard, yamen runner, veteran soldier, and guide. Expecting to face a “blood god,” he reasons that a religious spellcaster offers better protection than a warrior. His assumption that the character belongs to Dragon-Tiger Mountain is confirmed by its initial status panel 1 2.

The beginner mission requires him to reach Clear Spring Stockade alive before the following day. Despite the template’s overwhelming capabilities, his first intervention kills the accompanying guide indirectly: severing a monster’s hand splashes poisonous blood onto the man. Repeated attempts teach Lin Feng that powerful skills cannot replace awareness 1 2 3.

After reaching the stockade, Lin Feng receives permanent Swordsmanship Mastery but loses the rest of the high-level template. The Daoist appearance and narrative identity persist into Act Two, concealing the fact that his class field is empty. He only recognizes this discrepancy while examining the exchange after defeating the Blood God 4 5 13.

Appearance

• Selection model: Initially faceless, wearing a high priest’s Daoist robe with a sword on its back 1.
• After selection: Receives a face identical to Lin Feng’s 1.
• Act Two presentation: Appears as a young Daoist; Peng Tianli mocks his youth and apparent inexperience 5 6.

Personality

The playable Daoist’s decisions reflect Lin Feng’s competitiveness rather than the composure expected of a veteran ritual master. He refuses to abandon the beginner mission after repeated failures, eventually replacing confident improvisation with layered protection, careful observation, and preemptive action 2 3.

Losing the template frustrates him, but discovering that its swordsmanship works outside the game intensifies his desire to acquire more supernatural arts. His later realization that he has been a “fake Daoist” prompts him to study the class system and buy practical advantages instead 5 13.

Abilities & Skills

Swordsmanship Mastery

The template’s passive sword skill becomes Lin Feng’s sole permanent reward from Act One 3 4.

• Produces sword light thirty feet long while used through the high-level template 4.
• Provides ingrained sword techniques and combat footwork 4 12.
• Transfers into the real world, where Lin Feng instinctively pins a cockroach with a thrown chopstick 4.
• Remains limited by the user’s physique and cultivation; retaining the skill does not preserve the template’s endurance or power 5 12.
• Has an outright exchange price of 500 liang of Fortune 13.

Talisman and Ritual Arts

The initial panel grants Talisman Mastery and Ritual Proficiency, alongside numerous active Daoist techniques 2.

• Listed arts include Wind Riding, Samadhi True Fire, Command Spirits and Dispatch Generals, Armor Horse, Bean Soldiers, and Lingguan Possession 2.
• Lingguan’s descent requires an altar and ritual preparation 4.
• Bean Soldiers requires previously nurtured magical implements and incantations 4.
• These arts are not retained after the beginner mission 4 5.

Protection and Supernatural Detection

• Suppresses his own and the guide’s human auras to avoid attracting supernatural threats 2.
• Layers protective spells onto the guide and inspects him with a heavenly eye 3.
• Seals the guide’s mouth to prevent him from answering dangerous voices 3.
• Initially possesses the status “Blessed by auspicious stars, protected by dragon and tiger” 2.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Dragon-Tiger Mountain High Ritual Sword — Initial weapon 2.
• Dragon-Tiger Mountain High Ritual Robes — Initial ritual clothing 2.
• Seventh- and eighth-grade talismans — Included in the beginner template’s equipment 2.
• Shangqing Firmament True Fire Talisman — A third-grade talisman supplied at the start 2.
• Basic sword, rations, and water — The reduced inventory available after the reset; the advanced equipment is gone 5.

Relationships

• Guide — Escort and source of local knowledge. His repeated deaths force Lin Feng to learn how to use the Daoist template effectively 2 3.
• Hundred-Household Officer Zhu — Natural ally within the game’s political setup: both represent the imperial court rather than the local chieftain. Zhu follows Lin Feng’s warnings and cooperates against the Blood God 6 9 11 12.
• Peng Tianli — Hostile teammate who questions why the court sent such an inexperienced young Daoist and suggests he was dispatched to die 5.
• Liao Chi — Fellow participant who passes a demon seed to Lin Feng before dying. On a later run, he is puzzled by the young Daoist’s combination of Wild Fox Zen influence and dragon-tiger qi 12 14.
• Zhang Daoling — The initial panel claims that Lin Feng is on his shortlist and destined to join the Celestial Master’s ranks; this is part of the beginner template, not a completed promotion 2.

Later Daoist Inheritance

• Zhang Zhuoen’s transmission: Lin Feng later receives the True Form Diagram of the Five Sacred Mountains (Mount Tai) and Taiyin Plain Body as permanent arts, independently of the lost beginner class 104 107 110.
• Taiyin Plain Body mastery: Zhang Zhuoen confirms that Lin Feng has reached the method’s endpoint on only his second attempt, an achievement he cannot explain 121.
• Claim to orthodoxy: When confronting corrupted ordained practitioners, Lin Feng regards his transmission through Zhang Zhuoen as evidence that his own practice is authentic 291.

Naming

• Daoist is not a unique personal name. The context also uses it for Zhang Zhuoen, the headless Daoist Uncanny, and the injured old Maoshan practitioner; these are separate figures from Lin Feng’s playable role 102 121 168 171.
• Choosing the Daoist character does not permanently grant the Daoist class. Lin Feng explicitly discovers that only the high-ranking ritual master used in Act One possessed it 13.