Li Bai

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Li Bai (黎白)
Alias(es)	Eldest Senior Brother; Little Bai, used by the Fifth Elder 1
Gender	Male
Affiliation	Southern Spirit Sect; Spirit Sword Peak 1 41
Occupation/Role	Spirit Sword Peak’s eldest senior brother; disciple of the Fifth Elder; talisman arts student 1 41 43
Cultivation	Late-stage Foundation Establishment 49
Spiritual Root	Mutated lightning spiritual root 48
Residence	Shares Yuan Shuo’s bamboo house on Spirit Moon Peak 49
Status	Alive in the current storyline; identified by Lan Yue as a major villain in the original novel 48 50
First Appearance	Offers Lan Yue a sword ride to the sect tournament 1

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Qi Induction	1	Retrospectively stated to have drawn qi into his body on his first day in the sect. He learned Sword Flight the following day, attracting intense interest from the elders.
Late-stage Foundation Establishment	49	The Fifth Elder explicitly confirms his current cultivation. The intervening breakthroughs and their circumstances are not described.

Background / History

Li Bai’s rapid start in cultivation made him a sought-after recruit. After he achieved qi induction on his first day and Sword Flight on his second, the Fifth Elder fought other elders to secure him as a disciple. This was an unusual departure from the elder’s normally strict approach to accepting students and remained a well-known incident within the sect 1 2.

As eldest senior brother, Li Bai supervises discipline during the quarterly competition and helps newer disciples navigate the sect’s facilities and training opportunities. He later chooses talisman drawing as his specialty at the Four Arts Hall 2 23 43.

Appearance

• Build and bearing: Tall and upright, with a bearing compared to a bright, clear moon during his attempt to rescue Lan Yue 9.
• Clothing: White robes 9.
• Complexion: Fair; his face flushes visibly when he cries or becomes embarrassed 3 25.
• Hair: Dark 49.

Personality

Li Bai takes his responsibilities toward younger disciples seriously. He keeps his promise to teach Lan Yue Sword Flight, also instructs Yun Xi, and places himself in front of both girls when the Scarlet Moon Sect Master appears—even though he is frightened of her. His confidence in his own flying ability is considerable, but Lan Yue’s repeated failures eventually make him question his teaching skills 19 22.

He is affectionate, sensitive, and easily flustered. Yun Xi’s tragic childhood moves him to tears, while Lan Yue’s embarrassing revelations provoke hiccups, coughing, and frantic attempts to change the subject. His loyalty to his master does not prevent him from enjoying gossip about others; once his own future becomes public entertainment, he regrets having laughed at the Fifth Elder 3 4 20 49.

Li Bai also enjoys being included in sect affairs. Frustrated by missing important news, he decides to stay on Spirit Moon Peak for access to fresh gossip. He occasionally plays up his misery to win Lan Yue’s sympathy, as when she forgets to arrange his lodging 40 48.

Abilities & Skills

Cultivation and Spiritual Root

• Possesses a relatively rare mutated lightning spiritual root. No specific lightning technique is demonstrated in the supplied chapters 48.
• Despite his exceptional early learning speed, he considers his talent merely decent and acknowledges that the senior disciples stationed in the Hidden Sword Pavilion are stronger than him 1 48.

Sword Flight and Sword Instruction

• Learned Sword Flight on his second day in the sect and recalls flying successfully as soon as he stepped onto a sword 1 19.
• Transports Lan Yue on his sword and teaches Yun Xi Sword Flight and basic sword techniques 1 19.
• Tries different swords and repeated lessons with Lan Yue, without overcoming her inability to remain aboard. Yun Xi, by contrast, learns simply by watching his instruction 19.
• Cannot use spiritual power inside the Hidden Sword Pavilion, forcing him to run to Lan Yue’s aid on foot 9.

Hearing Lan Yue’s Thoughts

• Hears Lan Yue’s broadcast inner monologue while she remains unaware that others can listen 1 4.
• Uses what he hears to anticipate embarrassing disclosures and attempts to redirect her attention 1 20.
• Conceals the sect leaders’ eavesdropping when instructed by his master 11.
• By the revelation of his own predicted future, has inferred that the “original novel” is a book Lan Yue read before entering their world 48.

Talisman Arts

• Selects talisman drawing at the Four Arts Hall. No completed talisman or proficiency rank is documented 43.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Glazed Glass Sword — A dark-gold sword used to carry Lan Yue to the tournament. Li Bai loses control when her thoughts reveal that his master’s beard is fake 1.
• Hidden Sword Pavilion spirit sword — Finishes choosing a sword while accompanying Lan Yue and Yun Xi; its name and properties are not given 13.
• Gilded gold longsword — Rides this sword when arriving to teach Lan Yue. The passage does not explicitly identify it as the sword selected in the pavilion 19.
• Storage Bag — Receives Spirit Stones and Spirit Herbs from Elder Whitebrow after the elder rebrands their confrontation as a character test 9.
• Ten-thousand-year cold jade pendant — Receives one alongside Lan Yue and Yun Xi. The elders instruct them to wear their pendants and avoid unnecessary travel after a Demon Abyss Rift appears near the sect 35.

Relationships

• Fifth Elder — Master. Fought other elders to recruit Li Bai, rewards his efforts to protect his reputation, and listens anxiously to the account of his disciple’s predicted misfortunes 1 2 48.
• Lan Yue — Junior sister. Li Bai transports, protects, and teaches her; her broadcast thoughts repeatedly embarrass him and ultimately expose his original-novel future 1 9 19 48 49.
• Yun Xi — Junior sister and sword student. Joins him in defending Lan Yue at the Hidden Sword Pavilion and learns Sword Flight by observing his lessons 9 19.
• Yuan Shuo — Companion and housemate. Li Bai asks after his recovery and tries to draw him into conversation; Yuan Shuo later offers him a room after Lan Yue’s thatched hut loses its roof 41 49.
• Guangji — Martial uncle and Lan Yue’s master. Li Bai introduces Lan Yue to the possibility of learning divination from Guangji and is relieved when the elder finally teaches her Sword Flight 23 27.
• Silver Snow — Lan Yue’s sword spirit. Strikes Li Bai for questioning its suitability, then frightens him while delivering a message and carries him to visit Lan Yue without letting him use his own sword 19 34.
• Little Fruit — Intelligent Rootless Fruit Tree seedling. Li Bai accidentally upsets it by commenting on its bald patch, then tolerates its repeated appropriation of his planting pits for the sect’s sake 40 41.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Tournament and the Fifth Elder’s Secrets

• Offers Lan Yue a ride partly to interrupt her investigation of his master’s private affairs. The Fifth Elder promises him another spirit artifact for the effort 1.
• Her revelation about the fake beard startles him into losing control of his sword; the Fifth Elder rescues them 1 2.
• Cries over Yun Xi’s childhood rather than their fall, a distinction Lan Yue fails to understand 3.
• First hears Lan Yue describe him as a villain, but does not yet understand the term 4.

Hidden Sword Pavilion

• Rushes to defend Lan Yue from Elder Whitebrow alongside Yun Xi. Both are knocked down, then accept the elder’s claim that the encounter was a test 9.
• Keeps Lan Yue focused on choosing swords to prevent her from discovering the elders secretly watching overhead 11.
• Mistakes the blood-pool guardian Xing Yue for a demon before learning that she guards Silver Snow 13.

Life on Spirit Moon Peak

• Attempts to teach Lan Yue Sword Flight, only to watch her abandon swords as transportation and adopt the flying tortoise Er Dan 19 20.
• Shares news of the Ghost Creature’s defeat after eavesdropping near his master’s cave abode 34 35.
• Decides to stay on Spirit Moon Peak after discovering that his supposed “secret realm” news is a distorted account of ruins already known to the others 40.
• Helps dig tortoise dwellings and planting pits, then moves into Yuan Shuo’s bamboo house after his assigned hut’s roof blows away 40 41 49.

Original-Novel Future

These events are recounted through Lan Yue’s memories and system-assisted investigation; they have not occurred in the current storyline 48 49.

Sequence	Predicted event	Consequence
Accidental entry into the Demon Realm	Trips in an ordinary, unstable secret realm and falls through a rift 48.	Reaches the Demon Realm without an ancient grand formation.
Demon inheritance	Obtains a legacy and is made a Demon General 48.	Gains power and a position in the Demon Realm; the inheritance’s contents are unspecified.
Marriage entanglement	After escaping, catches a ball and attracts a Demon Realm bride 48.	Her powerful family sends Demon Generals after him.
Capture and rescue	A Demon Realm young lord captures him and prepares a public execution 48.	His bride arrives with her Demon King father and rescues him.
Beast King Mountain	Following the wedding, a powerful beast king abducts him to become its stronghold bride 49.	He is taken to Beast King Mountain.
Inheritance of the mountain	The beast king takes the wrong medicine and dies 49.	Li Bai inherits Beast King Mountain.

The revelations reverse Li Bai’s usual position as an amused listener: he becomes the subject of the gossip. His master worries that such improbable accidents may be impossible to prevent, while Lan Yue jokingly calls him an ideal candidate to spy on the Demon Realm. By the following night, the account has frightened him awake, and he chooses meditation over returning to sleep 48 49 50.

Notable Quotes

“Let go of my junior sister right now, or I'll attack!” 9

“How could I possibly fail to teach you? It's just Sword Flight! There's nothing your senior brother can't teach!” 19

“Fine, fine. Who told me to be Spirit Sword Peak's eldest senior brother? The sect and I are one. Its losses are my losses. For the sect's sake, I'll let it off.” 41