Li Xin

Biodata

Power Progression

Warrior cultivation and spiritual-force cultivation initially advance at different rates. The table distinguishes them wherever the text does 9 19.

Background / History

Li Xin transmigrates into the Swallowed Star world and inherits the original owner's memories. A golden sphere fused with his soul—the Eternal Divine Brain—merges with a laptop, granting him computer knowledge and the Calculation talent. This lets him overcome the original body's difficulty with genetic origin energy cultivation 1.

He belongs to a small Li Family with three War General Level martial artists. His father, Li Houming, retires from wilderness hunting after losing an arm, while his third uncle, Li Houzhong, becomes the family's principal source of strength and income. The Li and Liu families are bitter enemies, and their feud extends to Li Xin and his classmate Liu Yifan 1 2 5.

Appearance

Li Xin is introduced as a handsome young man; his body becomes noticeably sturdier after his first successful cultivation session 1.

• Age at debut: Nineteen around the time of the assessment 3.
• Early combat equipment: A battle sword in his right hand and a shield in his left 2.
• Psychic combat silhouette: Floating swords around him, often with a shield beneath his feet for flight 10 14.
• Planetary transformation: His body becomes closer to perfection and briefly disappears from naked-eye view during the breakthrough 23.

Personality

Li Xin values independence over institutional prestige. He chooses the Extreme Martial Hall for its technological resources but rejects headquarters training, partly because its experts and surveillance could expose the Eternal Divine Furnace. He later declines military membership because he dislikes restrictions and has no interest in commanding troops 4 7 21.

His approach to growth is pragmatic: he first exploits spiritual force to hunt efficiently rather than spending valuable time polishing weaker skills. When solitary training becomes inadequate, he seeks stronger simulated opponents and learns directly from their combat methods 11 34 39.

He is protective of his family and openly favors China. He promises to assume responsibility for the Li Family, equips it with powerful robot guards, and supports Chinese-led global unification. Toward enemies, he can be ruthless, torturing attackers for their bank credentials before killing them; toward Hong, whom he respects for protecting humanity, he shows neither arrogance nor contempt after winning 17 23 29 32 33.

Abilities & Skills

Eternal Divine Brain and Calculation

The Eternal Divine Brain is a Mechanical Flow Treasure of unknown origin fused with Li Xin's soul. Its first computer fusion gives him extensive computer knowledge and a growing capacity for calculation and comprehension 1 23.

• Calculates enemy speed, trajectories, timing, and likely targets to guide precise evasions 2 3.
• Simulates cultivation methods and combat techniques, then checks those deductions through practice 7 16.
• Learns opponents' combat experience during battle and integrates it into his own style 39.
• Advances through research and cultivation; upgrades improve both its computational power and Li Xin's mental sharpness 1 21.
• His physical coordination initially cannot match the speed of his simulations, requiring repeated bodily practice 7.
• Prevents him from losing consciousness as a protective response to pain, forcing him to remain awake through severe awakening and upgrade ordeals 9 22 34.

Avatars and Machine Race Inheritance

Advancement allows the Divine Brain to split off another Divine Brain, which can fuse with an item to create a new avatar 1.

• His first avatar functions through a computer and later a robot; it does not need sleep and can watch over his resting body 1 10.
• His Machine Race spaceship avatar grants access to technological knowledge and the memories and cultivation inheritance of a deceased Machine Race Immortal 24 25.
• Controls the spaceship's structure, opening and closing a passage where no entrance previously existed 25.
• The ancient Immortal's immense memory influx threatens to overwhelm his much shorter personal identity 24.
• The Machine Race inheritance lacks soul secret techniques, a gap later addressed by Caesar's legacy 49 50.

Eternal Divine Furnace

The furnace extracts energy that Li Xin uses to strengthen his body and genetic origin energy. Its first test reduces a dead Steel-Boned One-Horned Pig to ash 5 8 19.

• Converts hunted monsters into a source of rapid cultivation growth 8 11.
• Gains the ability to absorb many forms of energy after upgrading 23.
• Uses the improved output of Mars's nine ancient energy pyramids as a power source 26.
• Subsidiary furnaces installed in sold robots supply the main furnace with ten percent of their stored energy whenever the robots recharge 30.
• Its speed does not eliminate resource constraints: one planned upgrade stalls because the furnace lacks sufficient energy 15.

Spiritual Force and Mental Master Control

Li Xin awakens spiritual force during his first wilderness expedition, gaining telekinetic weapon control and greatly sharpened perception 9.

• Attacks with multiple swords and shields from different directions 9 17.
• Probes his surroundings without blind spots and detects the Black Bull Squad before it reaches him 9.
• Flies on a shield and later lifts his entire off-road vehicle through the air 10 16.
• Reduces spiritual-force consumption by using only the force necessary to kill each target 10.
• Develops mental power amplitude through the Basic 312 Forms for Mental Master Controllers, reaching twentyfold and later fortyfold amplitude 25 27 34.
• Favors distance against warriors: during his fight with Hong, he consistently maintains a ten-kilometer separation 31.

Swordsmanship and Movement

His early fighting style combines calculated evasions, conventional sword attacks, and attacks on weak points 2 8.

• Micro-Level movement: Makes minimal, precisely controlled dodges; assessment observers independently recognize the technique 2 3.
• Firmament Step: Moves through a surrounding pack of twenty-five Black-Scaled Wolves 8.
• Heaven-Breaking Sword Technique: Begins with doubled force output and eventually reaches its highest level, giving fivefold bodily force amplification 7 23.
• Weak-point targeting: Attacks eyes, ears, and other areas unprotected by the wolves' black scales 8.
• Close-range warrior combat is initially weaker than his controller skills; he selects the Basic 312 Forms for Warriors as a foundation for further training 25 33.

Star Annihilation

Star Annihilation is a fourth-tier Mental Master Controller secret technique paired with the Star Annihilation Circle 27.

• Its first level doubles output from an existing mental power amplitude; subsequent levels provide fourfold, eightfold, and sixteenfold multipliers 27.
• Starlight Splendor: Combines 111 small golden swords into a spinning, ten-meter five-pointed star; defeats Hong's spear attack 32.
• Forms a three-foot golden longsword for focused attacks 31.
• Learns to divide the weapon into separate star-shaped attacks instead of always concentrating everything into one strike 39.
• Stars Surround the Moon: Destroys Lonely Expert's metal-domain spear and wins Li Xin's first betting-platform match instantly 41.
• The second level requires at least twenty-fivefold mental power amplitude before practice can begin 34.

Blazing Light, Light Domain, and Law of Light

Li Xin awakens blazing light force upon reaching Planetary Level as a warrior and later develops a Light Domain by studying Hong's domain in battle 23 32.

• Blazing light raises Planetary Level One speed to approximately Level Three when genetic origin energy covers his body 23.
• Applied to weapons, it similarly boosts attack power to around Planetary Level Three 23.
• His domain strengthens him, suppresses opponents, and can restrain their movement 32 39 47.
• The SS-Class bloodline transformation makes the Law of Light much clearer to perceive, reducing the work previously needed to reconstruct its indistinct principles 46.
• Studies the Holy Qilin Tricorn Beasts' domains to develop Prairie-Blazing Hundred Slashes 48.
• His domain remains vulnerable to vastly stronger opponents: Abedo, a Domain Lord Ninth Stage beast, shatters it 48.

Mechanical Evolution and Robotics

Mechanical Evolution upgrades Mechanical Puppets and grants them intelligence, allowing Li Xin to establish an increasingly autonomous industrial operation 26.

• Evolves an A8 puppet into Black Iron, an intelligent mechanical life assigned to lead workers 26.
• Evolves a B8 puppet into a B9 intelligent robot 26.
• Uses intelligent machines to supervise mining, construction, and energy infrastructure on Mars 26.
• Mass-produces combat robots for sale or barter, including units capable of defeating Lord-level monsters 28.
• Expansion is limited by energy costs; he stops one production run after making two hundred additional puppets 26.

Willpower and Soul Techniques

Repeated Divine Brain upgrades temper Li Xin's tolerance for pain. He supplements this experience by studying Chinese philosophical classics and consulting Hong and Thunder God about mental-state cultivation 34.

• Develops the Hundred Refinements Spirit-Tempering Method, using suffering, soul pressure, and illusions to strengthen his will 45 49 50.
• Reaches the inheritance trial's tenth step without first learning its intended protective technique 50.
• Learns the first level of the Seven-Colored Soul-Annihilating Bell, forming a red bell above his soul that halves the trial's pressure and illusions 50.
• Gains an offensive soul technique, addressing a weakness in his Machine Race inheritance 49 50.
• States that he is already immune to soul attacks; he also intends to use the bell to conceal his soul's unusual nature 50.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Eternal Divine Brain — Soul-fused treasure and the basis of his Calculation talent and avatars 1.
• Eternal Divine Furnace — Main furnace and subsidiary furnaces used for energy collection and cultivation 5 23 30.
• Blood Shadow weapons — Early battle swords and shields; later purchases ten A9 flying swords and an A8 Blood Shadow Battle Sword 9 10 14.
• Star Annihilation Circle — Fourth-tier, mid-grade mental power weapon made of small golden swords that combine into different attack formations 27 31 39.
• Machine Race spaceship — Avatar, transport, and source of an Immortal's technological and cultivation inheritance 24 25 46.
• Mechanical Puppets and intelligent robots — Serve as workers, training partners, bodyguards, and trade goods 26 27 29 37.
• Modified off-road vehicle — Three times larger than his earlier vehicle, with more than ten times its performance 15.
• World Ring — Stores Lemon and his other companions, whom he releases for battle and retrieves before Abedo takes him away 48 49.
• SS-Class Bloodline Evolution Agent — Transforms his human genetic cells and improves light-law comprehension 45 46.

Relationships

• Li Houming — Father and Li Family patriarch. Initially worries that technological research will waste his son's talent; later recognizes his growth and supports him. Li Xin accepts Water of Life intended to restore his missing arm 1 6 28.
• Li Meifang — Mother and retired Advanced Warrior. Gives him ten million in cultivation funds despite the family's limited means 5.
• Li Houzhong — Third uncle and former mainstay of the family. Li Xin acknowledges his years of support and promises to take over protecting the family 2 23.
• Li Houyi — Second uncle, retired soldier, and military instructor. Helps manage family affairs and receives Li Xin's warning about the final monster tide 5 22 35.
• Li Ding and Li Xiang — Younger cousins and childhood companions. Their initial intimidation after his rise fades when he treats them as warmly as before 23.
• Hu Yanfeng — Family butler. Reminds him of the martial artist assessment and discovers the letter announcing his first wilderness trip 1 10.
• Chu Hanling — Classmate with unrequited feelings for him. He declines her assessment team invitation and later rescues her with the Black Rose Squad 2 13.
• Du Zhiqiao and Bai Mengfei — Current and former Black Rose Squad captains. Du Zhiqiao offers to take responsibility for the Tiger Shark Squad's deaths; Bai Mengfei gives him one billion in thanks and seeks his friendship 13 15.
• Ming Chengjun — Extreme Martial Hall recruiter and contact. Obtains the complete Heaven-Breaking Sword Technique and free technological knowledge access for him, then regrets the hall's limited investment after his rapid rise 4 15 20.
• Jia Yi — Military contact and partner. Cooperates with him during the beast tide, provides Water of Life, and arranges China's robot-for-materials agreement 20 21 28.
• Hong and Thunder God — Rivals turned allies and sworn younger brothers. Their brotherhood is ranked by combat strength, making the younger Li Xin the eldest 32 33 35.
• Black Iron — Intelligent mechanical life created through Mechanical Evolution; leads Li Xin's mechanical workers 26.
• Helen — Commercial partner who purchases his spaceship and Mechanical Puppets and later introduces him to Princess Bu Luoxin 37 44.
• Liu Yifan and the Liu Family — Hereditary enemies. Their attempts to kill him escalate from mercenary hiring to a War God-level ambush 2 9 16 17.
• Babata — Avoids selecting Li Xin for the Yunmo Star inheritance, fearing his control of Machine Race technology could threaten both Babata and the ship 30.
• Kesha and Abedo — Administrator and escort of the Holy Light Divine Kingdom's trial. Kesha recognizes his potential; Abedo forcibly brings him to the palace 48 49.
• Caesar, the Illusory Light Marquis — Deceased teacher whose legacy Li Xin inherits. Requests vengeance against Soul-Annihilating King Fleming only if Li Xin eventually reaches King level 50.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Assessment and Independent Research

• Completes the Monster Town assessment with 308 monster ears and no injuries, attracting recruitment offers from several major factions 3.
• Chooses the Extreme Martial Hall for technological access but refuses its Special Training Contract and headquarters training 4 5.
• Uses startup funding and family support to establish a laboratory, improve the Divine Brain, and build the Divine Furnace 5.

Wilderness Growth and the Family Feud

• Leaves for the wilderness alone to keep the furnace secret, then awakens spiritual force while strengthening himself through monster energy 7 8 9.
• Eliminates the Black Bull mercenaries hired by the Liu Family and begins hunting monster packs from the air 9 10.
• Defeats an Elementary Lord-level Golden Lion, but damages his inadequate swords in the process 11.
• Kills the Tiger Shark Squad, including Liu Wuwu, and brings the injured Black Rose Squad back to Supply Base No. 66 12 13.
• Defeats Xiang Yutao and Liu Wu Shuang, extracts their bank credentials, and kills them, ending the immediate threat from the Liu Family and Tiger Shark Squad 17.

Councilor-Level Rise and Industrial Expansion

• Kills the king-level Tyrannosaurus Beast and suppresses attacks at dozens of supply bases. Recorded footage makes his councilor-level strength known worldwide 20.
• Refuses formal military recruitment while pledging to defend China, then uses the enormous battlefield harvest to upgrade the Divine Brain 21.
• Obtains the Machine Race spaceship avatar and establishes a mechanical mining and energy operation on Mars 24 25 26.
• Supplies China with combat robots through barter, helping it defend base cities and reclaim territory 28.

Earth's Strongest and Global Unification

• Kills Atkin after the councilor attempts to intimidate him and seize his technology 30.
• Defeats Hong and Thunder God, becoming Earth's strongest fighter. The victory ends covert schemes against his factory 32 33.
• Agrees with both men to strengthen Earth, eliminate powerful monsters, and support China's unification of global forces 33.
• Kills the Eight-Clawed Beast Emperor with one strike while Hong and Thunder God kill the Thunder Dragon Emperor. Aid against remaining King-level monsters is tied to nations surrendering to China 35.
• Earth is unified under China after Europa, India, America, and the Soviet Union join it 35.

Universe Commerce and Virtual Combat

• Sells a modified spaceship and four hundred B8 Mechanical Puppets, then purchases equipment for himself, Hong, and Thunder God 37.
• Uses the name Dugu Qiubai in virtual combat, earns a nine-star rating, and enters the Qianwu Betting Platform for stronger opponents and profit 40 41.
• Purchases Earth through the Black Dragon Mountain Empire for four billion Qianwu Coins, registering ownership within half a day 44.
• Declines Princess Bu Luoxin's recruitment offer, citing invitations from the Virtual Universe Company and Giant Axe Arena 44.

Holy Light Divine Kingdom and Caesar's Legacy

• Investigates a newly emerging world discovered by Hong and Thunder God, where entry is restricted to Star Level beings 46.
• Uses its light-law environment and beast battles to improve his domain, then kills fifteen Universe Level Holy Qilin Tricorn Beasts 47 48.
• Is taken to Kesha's palace and given three months to learn a soul technique and climb ten trial steps, with death threatened for failure 49.
• Reaches the tenth step through willpower, learns the Seven-Colored Soul-Annihilating Bell, and becomes Caesar's successor 50.

Notable Quotes

“Commander Jia, I'm Chinese. If China is in danger, I'll naturally fight for it.” 21

“Third Uncle, you supported this family all these years. From now on, I'll protect it, and it'll only grow larger and more prosperous!” 23

“I'd like to see whether I can reach the tenth step without learning the Seven-Colored Soul-Annihilating Bell!” 49