Li Feiyu

Biodata

Power Progression

Qi Refining is also called “Chain Qi” in the provided passages.

Background / History

Li Feiyu grew up in the Red Whale Gang, trained in martial arts from childhood, and began traveling the martial world at twelve. By eighteen, he was a first-rate martial artist and the gang’s young master. Although his family was reasonably prosperous, his father could not provide substantial cultivation funding. Having witnessed his father bow before a cultivator, Li Feiyu regarded mortal status and martial achievement as insufficient substitutes for immortal cultivation 2 3 9 33.

After failing the Azure Cloud Sect’s entrance selection, he chose to join the Lu Lineage alongside Lu Changsheng rather than return to the gang. The recruitment agreement required fifty children within twenty years, or fulfillment of an equivalent spiritual-root requirement. Failure would mean repaying three times the resources spent on him and serving the lineage for ten years 1 2.

At Green Bamboo Manor, Li Feiyu continued both martial training and immortal cultivation. His Red Sun Heart Method required celibacy until the Xiantian realm, so the Lu Lineage temporarily allowed him to postpone fathering children. He nevertheless stated that he intended to honor the contract because he had accepted the lineage’s resources 9.

Personality

Li Feiyu is reserved, with a cold exterior and a warm heart. Lu Changsheng comes to regard him as a trustworthy close friend, supported by his lifesaving intervention during the Chen Lineage ambush and his quiet reassurance during Lu Ping’an’s birth 3 5.

He is proud of his early martial accomplishments and sometimes feels discouraged by his friends’ faster cultivation or improved prospects. These feelings do not become hostility: he sincerely congratulates Lu Changsheng’s successes, accepts his continued friendship, and remains happy for him at his wedding to Lu Miaoyun 18 19 24 49.

His experience makes him cautious rather than impulsively heroic. At the ruined temple, he first observes the suspicious travelers and acts decisively only after detecting an attempt to poison and drug them. After killing the attacker, he remains composed 33 34.

Abilities & Skills

Red Sun Heart Method and Martial Arts

• Early proficiency: Becomes a first-rate martial artist by eighteen after more than a decade of training 3 9.
• Cultivation requirement: The Red Sun Heart Method requires him to remain a virgin until reaching Xiantian 9.
• Vital-essence control: Explains that reaching Xiantian will let him retain his vital essence and prevent primal yang from leaking except when fathering children 9.
• Reflexes and movement: Tackles Lu Changsheng out of a lethal Wind Blade’s path during the Chen Lineage ambush 3.
• Acupoint manipulation: Releases Qu Zhenzhen’s sealed acupoints by sending several streams of force into her body, restoring her speech 34.

Immortal Spells and Combined Combat

• Basic spells: Knows the beginner spells available to cultivators and is described as more practiced with them than Lu Changsheng during their temple encounter 33.
• Voice Transmission Technique: Uses it to discuss the suspicious old man privately with Lu Changsheng 33.
• Fireball-infused palm strike: Compresses the Fireball Technique into his palm and combines it with innate martial arts, burning an Innate Master to ash during their palm clash 33 34.
• Martial limitations: Explains that Xiantian True Qi is roughly comparable to a third-layer Qi Refining cultivator’s spiritual power, but closing the distance against spells and magical artifacts is difficult. Even Xiantian Great Grandmasters, by his account, can contend only with fifth- or sixth-layer cultivators 9.

Martial-World Experience

• Reading suspicious behavior: Recognizes that the old man and Qu Zhenzhen are unlikely to be grandfather and granddaughter; notices her sealed acupoints and apparent appeal for help 33.
• Detecting concealed drugs: Identifies the attacker’s hidden knockout drug and suspects his offered provisions are poisoned, drawing on familiarity with such tricks since childhood 34.
• Medicinal knowledge: Recognizes Marrow-Washing, Innate, Great Restoration, Essence-Nourishing, and Five-Spirit Antidote Pills, understanding their high value to mortal martial artists 31.
• Cultivation-method recognition: Identifies the Cauldron Bewitching Art practiced by the two women Hong Yi sends to Lu Changsheng 42.
• Prospective teaching: Agrees to teach martial arts to Lu Changsheng’s children who lack spiritual roots, while warning that the training is grueling 24.

Relationships

• Lu Changsheng — Close friend and former next-door neighbor. Their bond begins before joining the Lu Lineage and deepens after Li Feiyu saves his life. Lu Changsheng later offers to seek a reduction or waiver of his childbearing obligation 3 5 9 19 24.
• Father — Li Tianyang / Li Zhengyang — Red Whale Gang leader who fully supports his decision to become a cultivation lineage’s live-in son-in-law. The provided chapter uses both names for his father 31.
• Unnamed wife — Lives with him at Green Bamboo Manor and regularly socializes with Lu Changsheng’s wives. Accompanies him when he brings Spirit Tea to congratulate Lu Changsheng’s talisman mastery 9 18.
• Unnamed concubines and children — Has a three-month-old daughter and a recently taken concubine before leaving for the reunion. By the later account, he has taken four concubines, has three children, and has two pregnant concubines 23 42.
• Xiao Xiyue — A relatively close acquaintance from their early group; her interest in the martial world leads her to ask him about it frequently 26.
• Hong Yi, Han Lin, and Zhao Qingqing — Fellow participants in the original sect trials and members of the three-year reunion group. The six companions agree to meet again ten years later 1 25 26.
• Qu Zhenzhen — Rescues her from her abductor and restores her speech. Later receives Lu Changsheng’s request to have the Red Whale Gang search for her brother, Qu Changge 34 36.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Entering the Lu Lineage

• Sect rejection: Fails the Azure Cloud Sect’s selection and accepts the Lu Lineage’s recruitment offer alongside Lu Changsheng 1 2.
• Chen Lineage ambush: Saves Lu Changsheng from a Wind Blade before the surviving recruits reach Green Bamboo Mountain 3.
• Life at Green Bamboo Manor: Becomes Lu Changsheng’s neighbor, explains the relationship between martial arts and cultivation, and supports him through the birth of his first son 5 9.

Three-Year Reunion and Homecoming

• Journey to Ruyi Commandery: Travels with Lu Changsheng on rented spirit steeds. Lu Changsheng offers future help with his contract, while Li Feiyu agrees to arrange protection for the Lu family and martial instruction for their children 23 24.
• Reunion at Ruyi Tower: Rejoins Hong Yi, Han Lin, Xiao Xiyue, and Zhao Qingqing; participates in their agreement to reunite again in ten years 25 26.
• Red Whale Gang visit: Welcomes Lu Changsheng with his father. When the father worries about the value of Lu Changsheng’s medicinal gifts, Li Feiyu suggests repaying him by protecting his family 31.
• Family arrangements: Accompanies Lu Changsheng to Crouching Ox Village with two gang members to help settle his relatives’ affairs 32.

Ruined Temple Rescue and Return

• Temple encounter: Detects an abducted girl and a concealed poisoning attempt, then kills the old man with a spell-enhanced palm strike 33 34.
• Qu Zhenzhen’s rescue: Restores her voice and leaves Lu Changsheng to handle her circumstances. Though privately skeptical of his friend’s sudden declaration of love, he does not undermine the proposal 34 35.
• Return to cultivation: Returns safely to Green Bamboo Mountain and subsequently reaches the third layer of Qi Refining. Under renewed pressure from the Lu Lineage to have children, his household expands 35 42.

Notable Quotes

“Life is a dream lasting barely a hundred years. Now that an opportunity for immortality is before me, I can't let it slip away.” 2

“Since I signed the contract and used the Lu Lineage's resources, I will naturally honor my agreement.” 9

“No, you need to be wary of everyone. You just need to be especially wary of those types. If you encounter several of them together, you need to be even more careful.” 34