Li Yichen

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Li Yichen (李奕辰)
Alias(es)	Young Master Yichen; Brother Yichen; Young Master Li; Nascent Soul Patriarch 10 11 373 405
Species/Race	Human with a Netherworld Ghost Body; described by Haoran as half a ghost cultivator 7
Gender	Male 5
Age	19 10 181
Ancestral Home	Hebei 10
Affiliation	Jinling University; Li family bloodline. Does not belong to a cultivation sect 4 181
Occupation/Role	Second-year university student; Journalism Department acting counselor; courier-shop owner; auction-house owner; Ability Pearl supplier 16 40 130 181 261
Cultivation Method	Great Netherworld Scripture 7
Highest Confirmed Realm	Nascent Soul Realm 367 373
Status	Alive; remains active in both the mortal world and Underworld 405
First Appearance	Chapter 1, “Netherworld aura” 1

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Netherworld Ghost Body acquired	7	Haoran transforms him with Netherworld Soul Jade, intervening when his bones begin to collapse. Gains night vision, magical-treasure-like durability, Intangibility, and Mind Control while retaining a physical human body.
Initial cultivation	8	Begins circulating the Great Netherworld Scripture under Haoran’s direction, bringing injected energy under control and gathering it in his dantian.
Ghost Core Realm	29 30	Breakthrough follows a night of martial instruction and the spontaneous fusion of three fighting styles. Haoran explicitly confirms the realm after Yichen returns to his dormitory.
Golden Core-level spiritual power	58	White Impermanence identifies his spiritual power as already sufficient for Golden Core, but says he still needs enough magical power to complete the breakthrough.
Golden Core Stage	60 61	Haoran tempers his body with black yin fire, restores it with white yang fire, and channels spiritual power into his dantian. The twin flames compress that power into a black-and-white Golden Core.
Golden Core tribulation overcome	62 64	Survives the heavenly lightning and destroys the cloud’s final attack by striking a visible weak point with the Yao Light Sword empowered by the twin flames.
Insight into life and death	159	Empathy with a grieving father triggers a spiritual-power surge. Haoran identifies the insight as a major cultivation trial that will ease the path to Nascent Soul; Yichen does not reach that realm yet.
Nascent Soul Realm	367	Energy returned by the twin flames from earlier tribulation lightning causes his Golden Core to crack and form a nascent soul. The soul absorbs the flames, improving their power and controllability.
Nascent Soul tribulation overcome	369 370 373	Calls on Haoran during the ordeal and receives a Flame Control Technique. Afterward, the elders recognize him as a Nascent Soul Patriarch.

Background / History

Li Yichen is a poor university student from a rural background, with his ancestral home in Hebei. At nineteen, he is a second-year student at Jinling University. He has no cultivation-sect affiliation 10 181 162.

He and his father are the only two remaining members of Haoran’s family branch identified during their reunion. Haoran recognizes Yichen as his tenth-generation descendant, although Yichen habitually addresses the much older ancestor as his “great-grandfather” 4 5.

The Li family’s elaborate ancestral ritual is Blood-Led Incense Burning, an ancient shamanic practice restricted to blood relatives. Each incense stick grants the recipient a year’s worth of cultivation. Haoran recognizes Yichen as the source of three recent offerings and credits him with helping achieve his Ghost Emperor breakthrough 4 5 6.

Their first meeting takes place at the White Temple. Mistaking Haoran’s approach for an attack, Yichen distracts him and strikes him with a brick, without effect. He then tries to flee after realizing his ancestor is a ghost, only to be immobilized by frozen space 4.

Yichen initially wants supernatural skills as a way to earn money. Haoran judges his natural cultivation aptitude poor, but compensates by giving him the Netherworld Ghost Body and Great Netherworld Scripture. The transformed constitution—and the modern world’s abundant negative energy—allow him to progress much faster than Haoran originally did 6 7 16.

Appearance

Li Yichen is repeatedly described as exceptionally handsome, attracting attention from classmates and women he meets outside the university 10 38 183.

• Height: Six feet 10.
• Weight: At least 165 pounds 10.
• Outward appearance: Remains physically human despite his Netherworld Ghost Body and can switch between human and ghost-body forms 6 7.
• Forehead mark: Haoran places a jet-black lotus talisman on his forehead; it normally disappears from view but manifests during supernatural communication 7 30 369.
• Cultivation manifestations: Yin-yang fish briefly appear in his pupils after reaching Golden Core. Black-and-white markings flicker on his forehead during his insight into life and death 61 159.

Personality

Yichen is irreverent, opportunistic, and quick to improvise. He bargains with Haoran over money and family obligations, flatters Black and White Impermanence to avoid being taken away, and turns his powers toward practical conveniences as readily as combat. Even after receiving extraordinary gifts, he asks his ancestor for a ride back to school 5 6 7 10.

His ambition is matched by a willingness to endure pain. He accepts the dangerous process of subduing the Yin-Yang Twin Flames because he believes strength requires a price. He also seeks martial instruction because he dislikes being pushed around 27 60.

He can be courteous and considerate despite his growing status. He asks famous martial masters to address him by name, prevents Black Impermanence from punishing Ouyang Xuanxuan for the car accident, and spares a classmate from fulfilling a humiliating stone-eating bet. His decision to buy the courier shop is partly motivated by easing his parents’ financial burden 11 16 28 74.

His compassion coexists with severe vindictiveness. He comforts the distressed Xia rather than exploiting her vulnerability, but later kills a poverty ghost for exposing embarrassing personal details. When threatened by violent inmates, he cripples the group and kills its leader; during the Jiang family conflict, he kills nearly everyone attempting to escape 97 103 242 283.

Yichen is openly flirtatious and possessive. He enjoys attention from women, sometimes imagines inappropriate uses for his abilities, and tries to conceal inconvenient romantic developments. When confronted over having several girlfriends, he refuses to choose one and promises to treat them all fairly 7 313 401.

Abilities & Skills

Great Netherworld Scripture

• Absorbs surrounding negative energy, purifies and compresses it, and converts it into netherworld power 16.
• Benefits from the modern world’s scarcity of spiritual energy and abundance of negative energy; his Netherworld Ghost Body further improves cultivation efficiency 7 16.
• Channels power through his meridians during martial practice, accelerating both movement and mastery 28.
• Can be applied to slow a fall from a dormitory window. Early cultivation also chills his room and produces breath capable of freezing water 16.

Netherworld Ghost Body

• Provides night vision and a body as tough as an ordinary magical treasure 7.
• Allows voluntary switching between human and ghost-body forms without becoming a disembodied ghost 6 7.
• Gives him remarkable speed and unusually sharp memory 27.
• His later physical strength allows him to carry a massive slippery rock effortlessly and knock armed attackers into a wall with a casual sweep 35 74.

Intangibility

• Grants invisibility, immunity to physical attacks while intangible, and passage through solid matter 7.
• Lets him hide in Director Wang’s office while the director’s hand passes through him 18.
• Allows attackers’ fists to pass through his body during the confrontation with Su Shengnan’s uncles 251.
• Can carry another person through a wall, as demonstrated with Su Shengnan 338.

Mind Control and Memory Manipulation

• His innate Mind Control can control another person’s body or let him enter their dreams 7.
• Uses a spell to make a flight attendant and air marshals forget what they have just witnessed 175.

Yin-Yang Twin Flames

• Black yin flame: A cold, destructive otherworldly flame that incinerates blood butterflies and helps reduce Blood Between to ash 76 82.
• White yang flame: Restores vitality and injuries. Yichen uses flame-based healing to revive Old Man Tang and restore Xia’s missing shoulder and arm 130 159.
• Can visibly rejuvenate people: Elder Mo’s wrinkles diminish and beard turns black, while Elder Wang’s hair also returns to black 355.
• Can be channeled into a weapon or used against magical attacks, including tribulation lightning and Old Man Tang’s lightning net 64 130.
• Fuse with his nascent soul after his breakthrough. Haoran subsequently teaches him a Flame Control Technique to improve their use 367 370.
• Heavy exertion can deplete his spiritual energy; after one demanding use, he is left unsteady and exhausted 183.
• Haoran assesses their combination of offensive power and vitality as making the newly advanced Yichen practically invincible within the Nascent Soul Realm 370.

Martial Arts and Three Mysteries Phantom Fist

Technique	Teacher / Origin	Demonstrated Achievement
Lost-Track Fist	Huo Yuanjia	Reproduces the entire technique after watching it once, then advances beyond movements the masters can readily follow 28.
Shadowless Kick	Wong Fei-hung	Executes it with enough supernatural force to demolish a house 28 29.
Wing Chun	Ip Man	Rapidly reproduces its precise, economical movements 29.
Three Mysteries Phantom Fist	Yichen’s synthesis of the three arts	Begins merging the styles while fighting all three masters, then organizes the result into a new technique after returning to his dorm 29 30.

• Can catch Tang Ling’er’s sword between two fingers and fight her barehanded during an aerial duel 43.

Spiritual Perception and Heavenly Eye

• Detects the dense blood aura surrounding Hao Jun, Su Xiaoxiao, and Wang Meng, recognizing that they have killed many people 40.
• Perceives a falling raindrop as moving in slow motion; a surrounding aura deflects it 30.
• Sees a dark weak point in a giant lightning construct during his Golden Core tribulation 64.
• Uses the Heavenly Eye to inspect energy spreading through Ouyang Xuanxuan’s body and to diagnose internal injuries, including a ruptured spleen, broken ribs, and a punctured lung 299 305.
• Resists Zhao Lichen’s Mental Invasion, surprising spectators who expect the technique to incapacitate him 349.

Clones and Nascent Soul Projection

• Can create two shadow clones after reaching Golden Core. He uses one as a distraction and another for a rear attack against Blood Between 82.
• Can transfer his consciousness into his nascent soul and send it outside his body 367.
• Can enlarge the projected nascent soul into a clone-like form; the fused twin flames remain under his control through it 367.

Movement and Spatial Magic

• Discovers that he can fly after reaching Golden Core, though his early handling of rapid travel is imprecise 62.
• Uses teleportation to leave Mo Yurou and later disappears through spatial magic after accepting Hidden Dragon Manor 122 254.
• Continues using ordinary transport when flying openly would be inconvenient 321.

Daoist Arts and Restraint Spells

Art	Application
Round Light Technique	Creates a luminous viewing surface that reveals events beyond a wall; later displays his companions’ infiltrations remotely 99 338.
Netherworld Veil	Forms a translucent barrier that traps Tang Ling’er’s flying Yao Light Sword 121.
Great perfection netherworld realm	Activates it to shatter the rune-made white light of Old Man Tang’s opening attack 129.
Immobilization	Restrains Little Fairy and Su Shengnan’s three uncles 182 251.
Silencing Spell	Prevents assembled Su family members from making any sound 251.
Covert ranged attacks	Uses two raindrops to strike Han Wenqi’s knees without revealing the attack to the crowd 32.

Interaction with Spirits and Netherworld Forces

• Can seize a newly dead man’s spirit with his bare hand—an ability an observing elder describes as “bridging yin and yang” 103.
• Overrides Old Man Tang’s control of summoned netherworld soldiers and orders them against their summoner 129.
• Uses thousands of skeletons as jade miners 190.
• During the Jiang family confrontation, attacks with stone spikes and traps Old Ghost Lu in a shrinking stone chamber despite the latter’s Shadow Movement 242.
• Calls on Underworld contacts to retrieve historical figures or briefly return a dying person’s soul to their body; these interventions rely on his allies’ cooperation 27 84 251.

Artifact Refining and Ability Selection

• Uses Haoran’s refining knowledge and void stone to craft Space Rings. He owns one and explicitly confirms that he made it himself 87 122.
• Requires Mo Yurou to provide void stone rather than agreeing to produce a ring without materials 122.
• Supplies Ability Pearls and chooses powers suited to recipients’ existing skills, including Infinite Stamina for Wang Meng and Energy Shield for Su Xiaoxiao 357.
• Warns his roommates that safely fusing with more than one ability is beyond their capacity and could kill them 272.
• Distinguishes painful absorption from gentler plant and healing energies after observing Ouyang Xuanxuan’s integration 305.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Black Jade Lotus talisman — Forehead seal placed by Haoran for communication; also allows the ancestor to observe Yichen’s development 7 30.
• Yin-Yang Twin Flames — Obtained from Cui Jue with Haoran’s intervention and subdued through destructive tempering followed by restoration 60 61.
• Yao Light Sword — Wields it as a massive blade during his Golden Core tribulation, empowering it with both flames and calling the attack the “Ice-Fire Poison Dragon Great Sword” 64.
• Haoran’s jade slip — Records artifact- and pill-refining methods, including the Void Artifact Refining Art and Yin-Yang Artifact Refining Art 61 87.
• Space Ring — Self-made storage artifact; stores items instantly and temporarily houses Zhou Yixuan’s soul 99 122.
• Void stone — Receives a piece from the Ghost King and discovers a much larger quantity beneath the stone case’s outer layer during the Heavenly Treasury search 87.
• Peace Essentials / Peace Scripture — Daoist text presented during the treasury exploration; associated with arts such as creating soldiers from beans and summoning wind and rain 86.
• Youth-Restoring Pearls — Gifts from Black and White Impermanence. Wearing one preserves youth; consuming it as powder can restore someone’s appearance to eighteen 61 62.
• Ability Pearls — Transfer special abilities when absorbed using blood. Yichen sells them to state bureaus and gives selected pearls to friends and companions 261 272 357.
• Hidden Dragon Manor ownership token — Receives it from Su Shengnan after her grandfather gifts him the estate, valued at roughly two billion 253 254.

Relationships

Family and Underworld Connections

• Li Haoran / Haoran Ghost Emperor — Tenth-generation ancestor, cultivation mentor, and protector. Gives Yichen his transformed body, scripture, refining knowledge, and later flame-control instruction; repeatedly presses him to continue the family line 4 7 61 370.
• Li Yichen’s parents — His father is the other surviving member of Haoran’s branch identified at their reunion. Yichen pursues courier-shop income partly to reduce his parents’ burden 5 16.
• Black and White Impermanence — Initially come to collect his soul, then recognize his ancestry and treat him as a younger brother. Their continuing friendship includes rescues, escorts, gifts, and assistance with historical spirits 10 11 27 84 405.
• Cui Jue — Underworld trading contact who supplies the Yin-Yang Twin Flames in an exchange involving Haoran 60.
• Meng Po — Familiar Underworld contact whom Yichen visits casually; Xia later serves her soup while she is secluded 57 90 405.
• Li Xiucheng — Historical spirit retrieved through the Impermanences. Guides the Heavenly Treasury search and later identifies objects connected to the missing treasure 84 85 150.
• Zhou Yixuan — Ghost whose soul stays in Yichen’s ring. Shares memories of Zhou Tingting and follows the police convoy to keep watch during Yichen’s detention 96 99 102.
• Xia — Distressed woman he first comforts, later encountered as a dangerous ghost attached to him. He heals her, prevents her from killing, and keeps her close because she cannot reincarnate 97 159 190.
• Qiqi — Young ghost who trusts him to find her mother. He protects her from Xia’s possessiveness and promises to take her to her mother 159.

Romantic and Personal Relationships

• Tang Ling’er — Girlfriend and fellow cultivator. Their teasing rivalry develops into affection; she falsely claims pregnancy to obtain her grandfather’s help for Yichen, then later demands answers about his other girlfriends 43 118 401.
• Ouyang Xuanxuan — Girlfriend who first meets him after striking him with her car. Tries to revive him, returns to him during the tribulation danger, and later openly identifies herself and the other women as his girlfriends 10 11 62 401.
• Mo Yurou — Elder Mo’s granddaughter and girlfriend. Initially pressures him into making a Space Ring; he later gives her the rare Spatial Blade ability and entrusts her with his ten-billion bank card 122 305 353 401.
• Jiang Ruoyi — Police captain and girlfriend. Their early exchanges involve provocative challenges; she later expresses firm confidence in his abilities and helps defend him during Ling’er’s confrontation 102 349 401.
• Su Xiaoxiao / Scorpion — Military instructor with mutual flirtation and affection. Catches him after his Golden Core tribulation; he reserves an Energy Shield pearl specifically to protect her, while later denying a romantic relationship 40 64 357 363.
• Su Shengnan — Su family head, ally, and admirer. Gives him Hidden Dragon Manor and relies on his connections and strength; her grandfather proposes marriage, but no completed marriage is documented 253 254 262.
• Bai Binger — Kunlun disciple attracted to him. Defends him against Qin Ming’s accusations despite being ordered restrained 183 197.
• Fang Enmeng — Courier-shop colleague with an affectionate rapport. He teaches her parcel records and later accompanies her shopping 246 321.
• Sun Kai, Yang Weifeng, and Zhang Yong — Roommates who increasingly rely on him. He offers them Superhuman Physique, flight, and Invisibility respectively 270 272.

Teachers, Allies, and Rivals

• Huo Yuanjia, Wong Fei-hung, and Ip Man — Martial teachers he deeply admires. After learning their arts, he asks the Impermanences to look after them in the Underworld 28 29.
• Elders Mo, Wang, and Wu — State-bureau leaders, buyers of his Ability Pearls, and supportive elders. Help organize the Ability Forces and acknowledge his Nascent Soul breakthrough 261 355 373.
• Ouyang Hai — Xuanxuan’s father and business associate, who regards Yichen as a fortunate prospective son-in-law. Joins his jade-mining expedition and seeks his help securing Su family distribution channels 190 287.
• Old Man Tang — Ling’er’s grandfather. Their magical duel ends with Yichen defeating and reviving him, then gifting him the Round Light Technique 129 130.
• Luo Qingyao — Ling’er’s mother. Helps resolve the dispute over Yichen’s girlfriends after accepting his offer of spirit stones; later becomes curious about his Underworld status 401 405.
• Han Wenqi — Hostile Student Union president whose confrontations with Yichen lead to injury and humiliation 32 43 106.
• Blood Between · Jingzhen — Enemy using Zheng Liang’s body as a shell. Yichen defeats him through coordinated clone attacks and destroys him with the twin flames 77 82.
• Qin Ming — Kunlun antagonist whose jealousy of Bai Binger’s attention contributes to his attack on Yichen 197.
• Jiang Tianhao — Recurring rival who threatens the Ouyang family. Escapes the later Jiang clan massacre using his final teleportation pebble 148 242.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Campus Life and Financial Independence

• Begins the story buying candles, Dragon Incense, and copper coins at Good Karma Hall for the ancestral observance 1.
• Takes over Sister Wang’s courier shop for 20,000 yuan, payable in monthly installments of 2,000. Its reported monthly income exceeds 5,000 yuan 16.
• Secretly adds himself and his roommates to the welcome-volunteer list, then sabotages Director Wang’s computer while invisible 18.
• Serves as the Journalism Department’s acting counselor during military training, helping the unprepared instructors organize the students 40.

Underworld Trade and the Heavenly Treasury

• Trades mortal-world goods with Underworld figures for valuable materials and treasures. The exchanges establish him as a supplier of novelties that many ghosts recognize 58 290 300.
• Defeating Blood Between reveals the enemy’s search for the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom’s Heavenly Treasury. Yichen obtains Li Xiucheng’s assistance because the dead may know its location 82 84.
• Enters the Stone Demon’s interior but finds that Jiang Lüzi removed the treasury’s wealth long ago. The expedition nevertheless yields the Peace Essentials and valuable void stone 85 86 87.
• Profits from auctioning Underworld treasures, explicitly reflecting on his rapid change from broke student to billionaire 153.

Detention and Cultivation-Family Conflict

• Voluntarily accompanies armed police, reassures his companions, and is placed in Cell Five as Elder Wang tests his hidden abilities 102.
• Overwhelms the violent inmates and captures their leader’s spirit, exposing his ability to interact with the dead to the surveillance observers 103.
• Uses skeleton labor during a jade-mining expedition with Ouyang Hai and Atamu, bringing him into conflict with Kunlun disciples 190 197.
• Exposes the Jiang family’s plan to use the Heavenly Treasury search as bait against its rivals. His retaliation kills nearly all the fleeing Jiang clan members, though Jiang Tianhao escapes 241 242.
• Arranges Old Master Su’s brief return to consciousness so he can settle the family succession. The old master confirms Su Shengnan’s leadership and gifts Yichen Hidden Dragon Manor before departing with the Impermanences 251 253.

Ability Forces

• Negotiates an order for 100 Ability Pearls at 100 million each: thirty for Bureau 9, thirty for Bureau 4, and forty for Bureau 7. The bureaus seek stronger candidates for the upcoming International Ability User Conference 261.
• Requires reliable supplies of requested paper goods and stipulates that the purchased abilities cannot simply be individually chosen to order 261.
• Delivers a tactical assortment covering reconnaissance, infiltration, offense, defense, healing, movement, and battlefield control. Receives ten billion in payment 352 353.
• Provides additional personalized powers for Hao Jun, Su Xiaoxiao, and Wang Meng, supporting the formation of the Ability Forces 355 357.
• The simultaneous integration of abilities by one hundred recruits summons heavenly lightning. Energy from the associated events contributes to his subsequent Nascent Soul breakthrough 365 367.

Later Relationships and Underworld Visits

• Resolves Ling’er’s confrontation over his multiple girlfriends by insisting he wants to remain with all of them and promising equal treatment 401.
• Takes Ling’er and Luo Qingyao to the Underworld, where the villas, cars, friendly officials, and deferential ghosts reveal the extent of his influence. Their visit ends at the Bridge of Helplessness, where Xia is delighted to see him 404 405.