Li Dao

Biodata

Power Progression

Background / History

Li Dao was reborn in the Perfect World setting with memories of another life. He possessed neither a Supreme Bone nor Double Pupils; his principal advantages were precise bodily control from the fusion of two lifetimes’ souls and strong comprehension. Aware of the world’s dangers, he began studying runes at one year old and devoted himself to cultivation 1.

His parents died early, and village chief Li Kai raised him. By the opening chapter, he had lived in Golden Feather Village for three years. He joined its hunting team at four, reduced its casualties, and helped gather materials for the children’s medicinal baptism 1 2.

Despite surpassing the usual Blood Moving strength limit, Li Dao believed his physical cultivation still lacked something fundamental. He left the village to find that missing element, promising to return with gifts for everyone 4 5.

Appearance

• After the medicinal baptism: Bright eyes, rosy lips, pearly teeth, and fair skin compared to jade-white lotus root. His skin emitted a faint fragrance, with rosy light beneath it and divine radiance escaping through his pores 3.
• Dao cultivation features: A lotus mark on his forehead, lotus-shaped patterns in his eyes, and golden Dao markings across his body 13 26 29.
• Clothing and hair: Initially wore beast-hide clothing; after the seed transformation, appeared in a blue-and-white robe with his hair gathered into a Daoist topknot 1 13.
• Alterable appearance: Can reshape his body and face into those of a poised adult man, changing his apparent aura as well 39.

Personality

Li Dao is disciplined and ambitious, treating strength as the means to control his destiny. He tolerates painful bodily tempering and refuses to relax after reaching milestones. His decision to delay Cave Heaven cultivation reflects his preference for a complete foundation over rapid advancement 1 3 4.

His confidence is accompanied by calculated provocation. He lets others take the precious bones he releases in the Void God Realm to draw factions into conflict, then deliberately exposes his whereabouts before their attempted encirclement. He refuses the War Goddess’s immediate protection because the confrontation is precisely what he wanted 17 25.

He is affectionate toward his village, friendly with Shi Hao, and courteous to Xia Youyu. Toward hostile opponents, he is mocking and ruthless, answering insults with suppression and lethal attacks. He also rejects Martial King Manor’s recruitment offer rather than betray Heaven Mending Pavilion 5 31 37 43 46.

Abilities & Skills

Physical Strength and Bodily Control

His fused souls grant unusually precise control over his body, supporting both cultivation and close combat 1.

• Exceeds the ordinary hundred-thousand-jin Blood Moving limit, with a measured result of 113,000 jin after baptism 3 4.
• Beats a Cave Heaven Realm Wind-Howling Beast to death while still relying on his Blood Moving physique 5 6.
• Slays Spirit Transformation Realm beasts while in Cave Heaven, including the Purple Snake and Red-Horned Rhino 30 32 36.
• Stops Shi Hao’s hundred-thousand-jin punch without moving and catches Shi Tao’s Golden Trident one-handed 32 43.
• Reshapes his physique and facial features for disguise 39.

Flesh-and-Blood Seed Dao

Li Dao develops his own physical Dao by forming a golden seed and merging it into his flesh and blood. The completed seed anchors a physique he previously regarded as lacking a root 8 12.

• Draws worldly essence more efficiently, first through the outlined seed and later through a powerful essence vortex 8 12.
• Rapidly restores flesh damaged by the lightning tribulation 12.
• Adds Dao essence to ordinary punches and palm strikes, disrupting an opponent’s blood, qi, and divine power; the Willow Deity identifies this as evidence that Li Dao has entered his chosen Dao 39.
• Produces an oppressive aura that unsettles beasts and suppresses opponents 8 26 27.
• Blocks Shi Yi’s attempt to examine him with the Double Pupils 42.

Internal Flesh Furnace

The blood-colored furnace within his dantian was devised from a precious technique supplied by Li Kai 1.

• Refines herbs, beast meat, and cultivation resources into pure vital essence 1 23 32.
• Nourishes damaged muscles and supports the expulsion of waste blood and damaged bone during bodily refinement 1.
• Replenishes vitality after combat and divine power during extended exchanges 6 33.
• Becomes larger and more solid as his body and comprehension improve 3.

Xuanhuang Divine Furnace

Also called the Black-and-Yellow Furnace, this manifested technique surrounds Li Dao with a three-legged, two-handled furnace 5 7 11.

• Protects against wind blades, stone pillars, spatial pressure, and other attacks 5 7 11.
• Allows him to shelter inside the Taiyin River while waiting for the secret realm to open 9.
• Serves as a refining vessel for treasure medicine and Yin-Yang Pool water 11.
• Limit: Its shell can crack or shatter under sufficiently powerful attacks. The Purple Snake breaks it, while Shi Yi leaves it cracked and dim without injuring Li Dao inside 30 44.

Law-Suppressing Stele

Li Dao summons a stone stele whose pressure and ripples suppress hostile techniques 15 19 23.

• Immobilizes the space beneath it and pins Xuan Sha under its pressure 15.
• Shatters treasure arts and forces opponents into physical combat 19 23.
• Suppresses groups at once, including the Rain Clan’s disciples and Martial King Manor’s younger generation 19 43.
• Gives Li Dao a decisive advantage against opponents whose bodies cannot match his own 23.

Golden Feather Wings

Learned from the Golden Feather Eagle clan’s precious technique, obtained before leaving Golden Feather Village 4 5.

• Provides flight and rapid pursuit during combat 5.
• Carries him across the secret realm and toward its Medicine Garden 11.

Yin-Yang Flood Dragon Treasure Art

Li Dao obtains a precious bone bearing the Yin-Yang Flood Dragon’s innate technique. Studying it reveals two enormous dragons entwined like a taiji diagram 15 16.

• Manifests black-and-white flood dragons in combat 26 37.
• Combines with the Evil Dragon Spear and Law-Suppressing Stele during the mass battle in the Void God Realm 28.

Thunder Dao Treasure Art

Li Dao learns the Purple Snake’s lightning technique from its treasure bone after killing it 30 31.

• Uses a manifested Purple Snake in a Treasure Art exchange against Shi Hao’s Suanni 33.
• Deepens his understanding of lightning by studying the two arts during their clash 33.
• Adapts lightning into movement, initially crossing ten to fifteen meters in a step 33.
• Early limitation: His experimental footwork is poorly controlled, damaging terrain and occasionally sending him into beast lairs 33.

Lotus Dao Seal

Lotus-shaped patterns appear in Li Dao’s eyes as part of his cultivation 13.

• Allows him to perceive Shi Hao’s regenerating second Supreme Bone within his chest 32.

Reconstructed Cave Heavens

His rebuilt Cave Heavens resemble great suns or divine halos, with golden inscriptions around their edges and black vortices inside 13 29.

• Are several times larger than the Cave Heaven familiar to Shi Hao from his village chief 30.
• Store the Medicine Field, Evil Dragon Spear, and sacrificial altar 14 16 28.
• Nurture the spear and strengthen Li Dao’s connection to it 16.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Evil Dragon Spear — A weapon obtained in the cavern beneath the Yin-Yang Pool and stored within a Cave Heaven for nurturing. It can injure primordial spirits and is used to kill the Purple Snake 15 16 30.
• Star Bag — A pale-purple storage bag decorated with stars, taken from the Rain Clan treasury and used to carry its resources 21.
• Three-tiered sacrificial altar — Used to enter and return from the Void God Realm; afterward stored in a Cave Heaven 28 35.
• Yin-Yang Flood Dragon precious bone — Bears the dragon’s innate treasure technique 15 16.
• Purple Snake treasure bone — The source of his Thunder Dao Treasure Art 31.
• Five-Colored Divine Lotus — Half-saint medicine consumed to stabilize and merge the golden Dao seed during tribulation 11 12.
• Primordial Bronze Fragments — Two documented rewards, earned for the three-clan raid record and the record of 433 slain 23 28.
• Five captured swords — Spoils taken after defeating Yu Hong and four Rain Clan elders 21.

Relationships

• Li Kai — Guardian and village chief. Raised Li Dao after his parents’ deaths, supplied the technique underlying his furnace, and prepared his potent baptismal bath 1 2.
• Golden Feather Village’s children — Regard him as their leader, including children older than him. He encourages Li Kaixin and Er Ya to continue cultivating before his departure 2 5.
• Shi Hao — Friend and sparring rival. They meet beside the Taiyin River, share a meal, and exchange techniques; Shi Hao admits defeat but promises to win their next bout 30 31 32 33.
• Little Flower / Five-Colored Pheasant — Initially guides him toward the secret realm in exchange for freedom. Later begs to follow him; Li Dao names it Little Flower and tells it to stay close when danger approaches 8 9 37 40 49.
• Xia Youyu — Heaven Mending Pavilion senior sister and traveling companion. Corrects his route, invites him to the Pavilion, and supports him during the Martial King Manor visit 38 40 42 47.
• Liu Yun — Pavilion elder who shields him from Martial King Manor’s elders and escorts him away after his battle with Shi Yi 46.
• Chu Yang — Void God Realm acquaintance who witnesses his strength, warns him about the Rain Clan, and parts from him amicably 17 19 22.
• Grandpa Jingbi and Lord Bird — Void God Realm contacts. He retrieves a bone for Grandpa Jingbi, gives both cultivation currency, and consults them for news 23 35.
• Shi Yi — Rival whose Double Pupils cannot penetrate Li Dao’s Dao protection. Their fight ends in a standstill despite Li Dao’s lower cultivation; both anticipate another encounter 42 46 47.
• War Goddess — Attempts to recruit him into Deer-Chasing Academy and offers protection. He postpones the discussion until after facing his enemies 25.
• Rain Clan and Demon Spirit Lake — Major enemies following his raids and mass killing of their forces. Their leaders order searches and later arrange covert attacks 21 23 28 49.
• Shi Li — Regards Li Dao as a threat to Shi Yi and orders his supposed connection to the Little Devil King publicized to provoke the Rain Clan and Demon Spirit Lake 42 47.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Great Wilderness Training and the Taiyin Secret Realm

After leaving Golden Feather Village, Li Dao spends a month fighting through thirty thousand miles of wilderness. His battles develop his wings and furnace technique, while the Five-Colored Pheasant leads him toward the Taiyin River’s secret realm 5 8 9.

Inside, he discovers a Medicine Garden and Yin-Yang Pool, completes his Flesh-and-Blood Seed Dao, and reconstructs three Cave Heavens. Beneath the pool, he finds the Yin-Yang Flood Dragon’s remains, confronts Xuan Sha, and acquires the Evil Dragon Spear and dragon treasure bone 11 12 13 14 15 16.

Void God Realm Raids and Records

Li Dao breaks the Starting Ground passage’s protective formation and releases four precious bones, using them to attract the attention of powerful factions. He then raids the Rain Clan, Demon Spirit Lake, and Wang Family’s local holdings 17 19 21 23.

The three-clan record concerns the factions’ Void God Realm holdings, not the destruction of their entire organizations. All remain active afterward 23 28 49.

Meeting and Sparring with Shi Hao

After defeating the Purple Snake, Li Dao meets Shi Hao and kills the Blood-Maned Tiger pursuing him. Their shared meal leads to a friendly spar in physical combat and Treasure Arts. Li Dao wins, improves his Thunder Dao understanding, and parts from Shi Hao with the prospect of meeting again in the Stone Kingdom Imperial Capital 30 31 32 33.

Heaven Mending Pavilion and Martial King Manor

Xia Youyu encounters Li Dao after his fight with the Red-Horned Rhino and invites him to Heaven Mending Pavilion. They first travel to the imperial capital, where Li Dao visits Martial King Manor to see Shi Yi’s Double Pupils 36 37 38 40.

He suppresses the manor’s hostile disciples and fights Shi Yi to a standstill. After refusing the elders’ recruitment offer, he leaves under Liu Yun’s protection. Shi Li then attempts to use the Rain Clan and Demon Spirit Lake against him; by the latest supplied chapter, Li Dao’s group has departed for Heaven Mending Pavilion while covert attackers prepare to move 43 46 47 49 50.

Notable Quotes

“I'll come back, and I'll bring everyone lots and lots of good things!” 5

“I'll be waiting for you to challenge me!” 33

“If looks could kill, every last person in the Martial King Manor would be a master.” 43