Han Li

Biodata

Power Progression

Background / History

Han Li first appears in Divine Hand Valley on Colorful Clouds Mountain in Jingzhou, where he has recently earned a reputation as a divine physician within the Seven Mysteries Sect. Li Feiyu visits him there with glassware and perfume from the Taobao Association, giving Han Li an early, unwitting connection to Lin Yun’s businesses 9.

He later enters Yellow Maple Valley using an Ascension Token and accepts an assignment tending the Hundred Herb Garden. He chooses the work because it should allow him to use his Little Green Bottle privately, only to discover that Lin Yun already works there. Martial Uncle Ma places him under Lin Yun’s instruction, beginning their senior–junior brother relationship 12.

Han Li proves capable of maintaining the garden even without his bottle. Lin Yun’s pills, cultivation advice, and alchemy instruction accelerate his progress, while Han Li reciprocates with aged medicinal materials. After reaching Foundation Establishment, he becomes Li Huayuan’s disciple through a market exchange: Li Huayuan trades a shed python horn for two thousand-year-old spiritual herbs and offers discipleship to compensate for the unequal value 14 16 28.

Appearance

Han Li is introduced as a young man with an ordinary face and slightly dark skin 12.

• His dark complexion is visible when he becomes embarrassed by Lin Yun’s teasing 19.
• After years of tempering his heart in mortal life, he appears especially plain and unassuming 126.
• Using the Shape-Changing Art, he later presents himself as a sturdy middle-aged cultivator while traveling under the name Li Feiyu 160.

Personality

Han Li is cautious about both danger and other people’s motives. He investigates Yuelu Hall’s pill formulas rather than relying entirely on Lin Yun’s account, hesitates to expose the Little Green Bottle’s secrets, and declines the Blood-Colored Forbidden Land expedition despite Lin Yun’s participation. When a merchant offers valuable cultivation materials for free, he remains wary and refuses an unearned reward 14 17 99.

His cultivation is methodical and resource-conscious. He regrets using Peiyuan Pills before exhausting the usefulness of Yellow Dragon Pills, prepares weapons before pursuing further breakthroughs, and spends years strengthening his spiritual sense and tempering his heart. Once he settles on a plan, he is difficult to persuade otherwise 15 55 109 124 126.

Despite his guarded nature, Han Li recognizes and repays genuine kindness. He gives Lin Yun aged herbs and green liquid, tries to conceal Lin Yun’s identity from Nangong Wan when he suspects trouble, and later thanks him formally for passing on teachings that make Nascent Soul cultivation seem attainable 16 19 35 123.

Abilities & Skills

Cultivation Methods

Han Li’s early cultivation uses the Evergreen Technique, and his main magical power is wood-attribute 14 30.

• Three-Turn Reversion Technique: Involves dispersing and rebuilding cultivation as preparation for Core Formation. Han Li begins this process after remaining on Kuixing Island 55 109.
• Sixth Turn Return-to-Elixir Method: Lin Yun’s teachings emphasize accumulating true essence through six turns, making them well suited to Han Li’s pill-assisted cultivation 123 124.
• Benefits and demands: The first turn increases lifespan and purifies true essence, but the method consumes large quantities of pills and requires substantial spiritual sense, especially after the third turn 124.
• Limits: Receiving Nascent Soul instructions does not immediately grant that realm; his latest documented cultivation remains mid-Core Formation 123 177.

Great Evolution Art and Puppet Control

Han Li practices the Great Evolution Art to strengthen his spiritual sense and support the refinement of Qu Hun into an External Incarnation 109.

• Reaches the technique’s second level during his long stay around Kuixing Island 109.
• Fulfills the worldly-experience requirement for a fourth-level breakthrough through fifteen years of mortal-world heart tempering; completion of that breakthrough is not explicitly stated 126.
• Uses Lizard Puppets to find a route through underground caverns while keeping an escape talisman ready 33.
• Refines Qu Hun into an External Incarnation, whose later Fiend Core provides enough protection for Han Li to travel to Tianxing City 109.

Alchemy and Herb Cultivation

Han Li combines practical gardening talent with pill refinement learned from Lin Yun 14 16.

• Maintains the Hundred Herb Garden in excellent order without relying on the Little Green Bottle 14.
• Learns to refine Peiyuan Pills in a little more than a year. His early batches possess only eight percent of the efficacy of Lin Yun’s originals, but aged ingredients still make them useful 16.
• Eventually considers himself capable of refining most pills, although Lin Yun’s flexible medicinal-property formulas remain difficult for him to understand 35.
• Receives a Monster-Luring Pill formula to help attract demon beasts while hunting demon cores 110.

Little Green Bottle and Divine Liquid

The Little Green Bottle produces green liquid that Han Li uses to accelerate the maturation of medicinal herbs 12 14 18.

• Lin Yun identifies the liquid’s connection to Cosmic Light True Water, which embodies the power of time, and Three Lights Divine Water 18.
• Its recommended uses include ripening spiritual plants and potentially accelerating the nurturing of magic treasures 18.
• Han Li repeatedly asks Lin Yun to separate the liquid into its components and receives individual drops of both waters 30 110.
• Lin Yun later gives him a Qi-Discernment Method for learning to separate it himself. Han Li initially finds even its opening passages overwhelmingly abstruse 110.
• Lin Yun warns him to keep both the liquid and the treasure that produces it secret because their effects could invite murder and theft 18.

Sword Combat and Escape

Han Li uses the Green Bamboo Cloudswarm Swords as his bonded magic treasures and employs them in direct combat 124 127 150.

• Refines the complete sword set over five years 127.
• Uses the swords alongside a Five Elements Ring against Inverse Star Alliance cultivators, coordinating with Ling Yuling’s surprise attack 150.
• The Clearvoid Invisible Sword Talisman Treasure gives him an invisible sword-qi attack and Formless Sword Escape, allowing concealment in the void and rapid retreat 19.
• Combines the talisman’s escape ability with the Wind-Fire Boat to evade Wang Chan 33.
• A separate protective strand of Lin Yun’s sword qi carries him out of a Star Palace Elder’s lethal strike in Void Sky Hall 134 141.

Formations and Artifact Refinement

Han Li studies both formations and artifact refinement, though he remains unable to understand Lin Yun’s highest-level refining methods 126 134.

• Makes progress in both disciplines during his fifteen years of mortal-world cultivation 126.
• Gains substantially from Xin Ruoyin’s formation insights and practices by setting up formations in his cave abode 127.
• His demonstrated formation knowledge leads Jin Qing to recruit him for an expedition to ancient ruins 127.
• Protects an earlier cave abode with a Five Elements Reversal Formation 28.

Disguise and Observation

Han Li uses aliases and physical transformation to reduce the risks of being recognized 54 160.

• Changes his build and appearance through the Shape-Changing Art 160.
• Detects Ling Yuling’s imperfect Wind Escape by noticing an unnaturally steady breeze beside him despite changing sea winds 149.
• Learns from Lin Yun’s disguised appearance in Void Sky Hall that changing identity and appearance can supplement using a false name 134.

Medicine

Han Li earns recognition as a divine physician before joining Yellow Maple Valley 9.

• Correctly assesses that Liu Jing’s severe injuries are not immediately fatal but would become dangerous if untreated, then asks Lin Yun to intervene 44.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Little Green Bottle — Produces the herb-ripening green liquid central to his medicinal supply and pill-assisted cultivation 12 14 18.
• Clearvoid Invisible Sword Talisman Treasure — Gift from Lin Yun in exchange for green liquid. Made from a single strand of sword qi, it has less than one-tenth of the original sword’s power but retains invisible attacks and Formless Sword Escape 19.
• Wind-Fire Boat — A top-grade flying magical artifact disguised as a mid-grade one, refined by Lin Yun from a Silver-Armored Horned Python’s horn 28 30.
  • Accepts wood-attribute power without sacrificing speed; wood-powered flight consumes thirty percent less magical power than fire-powered flight 30.
  • Its simplified Wind-Fire Shield Formation neutralizes five-element spell attacks from Foundation Establishment cultivators 30.
  • Fireball attacks and defenses draw on spirit stones rather than the pilot’s own power; mid-grade stones can strengthen both 30.
• Green Bamboo Cloudswarm Swords — A complete set of bonded magic treasures refined before the ancient-ruins expedition 124 127.
• Five Elements Ring — Used with his flying swords against Inverse Star Alliance cultivators 150.
• Five Golden Bamboo Thunder Talismans — Commissioned from Lin Yun; they release a limited portion of Golden Vajra Demon-Extinguishing Thunder’s power. Han Li cannot directly cultivate Lin Yun’s Taiyi Divine Thunder because it requires special magical power 126 127.
• Water Astral Thunder Spell Pellet — Given by Lin Yun and made from origin qi withheld from the Infant Carp Beast Demon Core associated with Han Li’s earlier hunting expedition 109 110.
• Blood Jade Spiders — One is revealed under Extreme Yin’s coercion and later killed during the attempt to retrieve the Void Sky Cauldron; Han Li still possesses another when Profound Bone confronts him 134 141 143.
• Flower Basket Ancient Treasure — Readied against the Two-Headed Fire Wolf and placed before him when Elder Qingyi warns of an incoming attack 141.
• Soul-Gathering Bowl and Blood Spirit Drill — Acquired from the Emperor of Yue’s spoils after Lin Yun passes them to him 44.
• Blood-Congealing Five-Element Pills — Given to him after Lin Yun extracts their Five Elements Yin Fiend; they remain usable for condensing a fiend core 44.
• Soul-Nurturing Wood — Received from Lin Yun after leaving Void Sky Hall, together with a copy of the Nine-Curve Spirit Ginseng Pill formula 148.
• Heaven Mending Pill — Previously given to him by Lin Yun; Han Li recognizes its identity when Profound Bone explains its ability to improve spiritual roots and aid Nascent Soul formation 143.
• Formation implements — Lin Yun gives him a defensive formation set when they part on Kuixing Island 55.
• Voice-and-Image Transmission Talisman — Allows communication over a thousand li and is used to coordinate their departure near the Ancient Teleportation Formation 44.

Relationships

• Lin Yun — Senior sect brother, alchemy instructor, and trusted benefactor. Their exchanges of pills, herbs, divine liquid, treasures, and cultivation teachings develop into a lasting friendship 12 16 19 109 123.
• Li Huayuan — Master in Yellow Maple Valley. Takes Han Li as a disciple to balance an unequal trade involving thousand-year-old herbs and a python horn 28.
• Li Feiyu — Acquaintance from his Seven Mysteries Sect period whose name Han Li later uses as an alias 9 54 160.
• Martial Uncle Ma — Oversees his Herb Garden assignment. Initially dismisses his youth and low cultivation, then recognizes his gardening skill and sponsors his access to Yuelu Hall 12 14.
• Qu Hun — Corpse puppet refined into Han Li’s External Incarnation. Accompanies him in the Chaotic Star Sea and later forms a Fiend Core 53 99 109.
• Nangong Wan — Lin Yun’s Dao Companion, whom Han Li addresses as his senior brother’s wife. Rescues him by killing Profound Bone 123 144.
• Xin Ruoyin — Formation expert whose cultivation benefits from Han Li’s help. Repays him with a jade slip containing her formation insights 109 127.
• Ling Yuling — Star Palace officer and friend of Lin Yun. Meets Han Li during the South Bright Island conflict and fights alongside him against Inverse Star Alliance cultivators 149 150.
• Mo Fengwu — Han Li promises to help avenge the Mo Residence and resolves to fulfill that obligation before leaving the Heavenly South 44.
• Profound Bone — Enemy and coercive collaborator. Kills Han Li’s expedition companions, takes Qu Hun’s body, and later attacks Han Li over access to another Blood Jade Spider 127 143.
• Patriarch Extreme Yin — Forces Han Li into discipleship in Void Sky Hall, then orchestrates an impersonation scheme that casts suspicion on him as the Bug Demon and supposed possessor of the Void Sky Cauldron 134 161.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Avoiding the Blood-Colored Trial

After receiving Lin Yun’s specially refined Foundation Establishment Pill, Han Li decides not to enter the Blood-Colored Forbidden Land. He remains behind while Lin Yun joins the trial, later receiving herb seedlings and assorted artifacts collected during the expedition 17 19 26.

Demonic Path War and Departure from the Heavenly South

During the war period, Han Li acquires the Wind-Fire Boat and uses it with his invisible-sword talisman to escape Wang Chan. At the Golden Drum Plains camp, he attempts to protect Lin Yun from Nangong Wan’s inquiries, but Li Huayuan reveals Lin Yun’s identity and sends Han Li away before he can give a warning 30 33 35.

After the Emperor of Yue’s defeat, Han Li and Lin Yun divide the spoils and decide to leave rather than return to the war effort. Han Li first settles old obligations, then joins the party at the repaired Ancient Teleportation Formation. The group arrives on an isolated island in the Chaotic Star Sea and travels onward to Kuixing Island 44 47 53 54.

Kuixing Island and Reunion in Tianxing City

Han Li remains on Kuixing Island to prepare for Core Formation while Lin Yun’s group departs. Dispersing and rebuilding his cultivation, practicing the Great Evolution Art, refining Qu Hun, and hiding after the Sixfold Palace’s Infant Carp Beast hunt delay his arrival in Tianxing City by more than twenty years 55 99 109.

After their reunion, Lin Yun supplies hunting aids and cultivation guidance. Han Li eventually forms his core, receives the six-turn teachings, and begins preparing his bonded swords. His search for suitable bamboo brings him into an arrangement with the Miaoyin Sect 110 123 124.

Ancient Ruins and Void Sky Hall

Following years of heart tempering and formation study, Han Li joins Jin Qing’s ancient-ruins expedition. Profound Bone kills his companions and seizes Qu Hun’s body, but departs after receiving a mysterious signal. Han Li survives and reaches the third turn of Core Formation 126 127.

In Void Sky Hall, Extreme Yin coerces him into discipleship because of his Blood Jade Spider. Lin Yun secretly places protective sword qi on him, saving him when a Star Palace Elder attacks. Han Li later refuses Profound Bone’s demand for another spider, fights him, and is rescued by Nangong Wan. Before parting, Lin Yun gives him soul-nurturing wood and a spirit-ginseng pill formula 134 141 143 144 148.

Inverse Star Alliance and the Bug Demon Accusations

Han Li encounters the Star Palace–Inverse Star Alliance conflict on South Bright Island and escapes with Ling Yuling following beside him through Wind Escape. After recognizing their shared connection to Lin Yun, they cooperate against two hostile Alliance cultivators 149 150.

Years later, he emerges from seclusion and hears reports of a murderous Bug Demon whose swords and insects resemble his own. Extreme Yin has arranged the impersonation and persuaded major factions that Han Li and Profound Bone took the Void Sky Cauldron. Han Li suspects pursuit from the Void Sky Hall cultivators but does not know the full accusation scheme 160 161.

Aftermath of the Beast Tide

At mid-Core Formation, Han Li plans to return to Tianxing City for advice on his sixth-turn bottleneck. He instead learns that the beast tide destroyed Blackstone City and its teleportation array, severing his route to the Inner Sea. He also hears that an unidentified Nascent Soul cultivator rescued survivors and killed a level-nine flood dragon 177.

Notable Quotes

“One Peiyuan Pill is worth several bottles of Yellow Dragon Pills!” 14

“Thank you, Senior Brother, for your kindness in passing on the Dao!” 123

Trivia

• Lin Yun uses Han Li’s name as an alias in the Blood-Colored Forbidden Land, reversing Han Li’s own habit of borrowing Li Feiyu’s identity 35 54.
• Lin Yun treats Han Li’s experiences as a timeline for anticipating events, including the approaching Demonic Path invasion 30.
• Han Li mistakes Lin Yun’s relationships with several women for evidence of romantic involvement, including assuming that Ling Yuling’s borrowed magic treasure signals a special relationship 55 150.