Linglong

Biodata

Power Progression

Background / History

Linglong grew up overseas and entered a martial world dominated by gangs, gunfire, and deadly territorial conflicts. Her unnamed master accepted only three disciples: Lei Jiao, Lin Tianchen, and Linglong. Beginning the Xingyi Dragon Form at sixteen, she learned rapidly and gained extensive experience in life-and-death combat, earning the title Blood Dragon by nineteen 161.

After her master was gone, Lei Jiao allied with several elders to monopolize control of the Xingyi Sect. Linglong used the resulting disorder to return to China, where she concealed herself in Hezhou and studied the Dragon Form’s deeper principles. During this seclusion, she completed Marrow-Transformation and formed her martial Golden Elixir 161.

She stayed in a dilapidated farmhouse within a navel-orange orchard, sharing daily life with an elderly woman. Her remote lodging helped her evade the sect’s intelligence network until Lin Tianchen located her using Tianchen Group’s resources. Her visits to Hezhou’s riverside allowed her to study the dragon totem and statues of the dragon’s nine sons 160 161.

Appearance

• Described as a spirited young woman with a valiant bearing, appearing twenty-five or twenty-six 158 161 246.
• Has a graceful figure; after leaving Antarctica, she exchanges her heavy expedition coat for a trench coat 171.
• When releasing Blood Gang, surrounds herself with blood-colored energy that can take the form of a dragon totem 246 249.

Personality

Linglong is guarded but receptive to sincere fellow practitioners. She initially avoids Chen Jue because she mistakes him for another unwanted pursuer, then readily exchanges cultivation insights once she recognizes his sincerity. Even after witnessing abilities far beyond an ordinary Golden Elixir adept, she chooses not to pry into his secrets, understanding that doing so could damage their friendship 158 171.

Her years of lethal combat make her decisive and ruthless toward threats. She permanently impairs Lin Tianchen after his repeated secret attempts to harm her, explaining that their shared sect had previously restrained her from retaliating. She also refuses the Extreme Sports Association’s recruitment offer despite recognizing the value of its meteorite fragment, stating that she dislikes its representatives and does not share their path 158 160 161.

As sect master, she combines independence with practical concern for her followers. She negotiates substantial assets to support the sect’s return to China and later commits its resources to reaching the moon rather than relying on Chen Jue’s institutional connections 171 211 246.

Abilities & Skills

Xingyi Dragon Form

Linglong enters the Dao through boxing, attaining a martial Golden Elixir whose mastery exceeds the Transforming Strength grandmasters Li Xiang and Li Wei 158.

• Uses coordinated breath, sinew, and bone movement to produce a sound like muffled thunder 158.
• Moves with a swimming-dragon-like gait, rapidly covering more than a hundred meters 158.
• Applies Hidden Strength to pressure points; a finger strike to Lin Tianchen’s forehead causes permanent impairment 160.
• Her Dragon Form cultivation supplies the martial intent behind her Blood Gang’s dragon-shaped manifestation 249.

Perception and Discernment

Her exceptional insight is repeatedly associated with a “seven-apertured linglong heart,” a comparison emphasizing her intelligence and perceptiveness 158 171.

• Recognizes Chen Jue’s Mortal World True Immortal foundation and can distinguish goodwill from malice 158 161.
• Senses Primordial Qi within a sealed meteorite fragment 158 161.
• Detects troubling inconsistencies surrounding Zhao Zhen, Tom, and the Antarctic expedition members 167 168 169.
• Her perception is not absolute: Eugene’s Śarīra can obstruct sixth-sense scrutiny 170.

Blood-Burning Secret Art and Blood Gang

The Xingyi Sect’s blood-burning art uses internal force to stimulate the dantian’s Blood Gate, accelerating the heartbeat and blood supply to briefly release maximum physical strength. Linglong’s breakthrough combines this process with accumulated true qi to create Blood Gang 246.

• Greatly enhances her movement and attacks, allowing her to cross a hundred meters almost instantly 245.
• Manifests outside her body as a blood-colored dragon totem 246 249.
• Enables her, together with a spear made from Bai Ze’s own bristle, to penetrate its psychic barrier and wound its forefoot 245 247.
• Chen Jue concludes that psychic energy and martial intent contribute to the fusion alongside blood and true qi 246.
• Causes severe depletion of qi and blood; her attack on Bai Ze leaves her exhausted and unable to evade its counterattack 245 246.

Mental Magnetic Field and Soul Manifestation

By the confrontation at the Wall of Sighs, Linglong can convey thoughts through her Mental Magnetic Field. After passing the Golden Scales’ judgment, her consciousness survives bodily destruction as a manifested soul 402.

• Controls her soul’s movement and enters the Wall of Sighs by touching it 402.
• Receives ancient records explaining Second Home’s origins 402.
• Falls into adaptive slumber under the volume of information; the inheritance is intended to grant mastery of Manifestation and the ability to recreate her body after she awakens 402.
• Before the judgment, cannot resist Xiezhi’s suppression or the ruins’ higher-order energy field 402.

Investigation and Sect Management

• Identifies the meteorite container as lead shielding and reasons that Primordial Qi behaves like radiation or high-frequency electromagnetic energy 161.
• Uses Hong Mou Group’s cross-shareholdings to transfer roughly ten billion in Lin Group assets to the domestic Xingyi Sect 171.
• Draws Eugene’s portrait for the sect’s intelligence team, eventually uncovering his former identity and lunar activities 171 211.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Bai Ze bristle spear — An improvised barbed spear made from one of the beast’s bristles. Used with Blood Gang to penetrate its psychic defenses 244 245 247.
• Śarīra pendant — Carries it during the mining-pit encounter, then throws it into the sea after escaping Bai Ze 245.
• Spirit-artifact staff — Finds it while exploring the underground ruins. Infusing it with martial dao gang qi makes it hard enough to block antimateriel sniper-rifle bullets 400.
• Meteorite fragments — Keeps a smaller share of the Antarctic recovery while giving Chen Jue most of the haul; arranges lead boxes to preserve their Primordial Qi during transport 171 172.

Relationships

• Chen Jue — Friend and fellow Dao seeker. They exchange martial insights in Hezhou, cooperate in Antarctica, and reunite on Second Home, where he saves her from Bai Ze. Her Blood Gang becomes an important reference for his understanding of transcendent martial cultivation 158 161 171 245 246 247.
• Unnamed master — Xingyi Fist grandmaster who teaches her from sixteen and praises her exceptional perception and learning ability 161.
• Lin Tianchen — Second senior martial brother, known as Dark Snake. Repeatedly plots against her overseas and later tracks her down in China; she permanently impairs him 158 160 161.
• Lei Jiao — Eldest senior martial brother, known as Thunder Wyrm. Takes control of the overseas sect with several elders; his branch is reduced to existing in name only after Linglong brings followers back to China 161 171.
• Uncle Fu — Trusted sect associate who retrieves her and Chen Jue from Antarctica and receives her instructions to investigate Eugene 171.
• John — Recruitment intermediary and expedition organizer. She rejects his initial offer but later negotiates cooperation with Hong Mou Group 158 164 166 171.
• Eugene / Zhao Zhen — Enemy connected to the Antarctic ambush. Her sect investigates his background, and she later pursues him through Second Home’s underground ruins 170 171 211 372 400.
• Young mixed-race Zhao Zhen clone — Unwanted admirer whose courtship overlaps with the Antarctic deception. When they meet again on Second Home, she threatens him before demanding information about Śarīra and Seven-Colored Ore 169 170 242.
• Unnamed disciple — Accompanies her expedition to Second Home; Linglong returns toward the island to recover and reunite with the disciple after parting from Chen Jue 247.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Meeting Chen Jue

After clearing up their mutual suspicions at Dragon Pool Bay, Linglong and Chen Jue recognize one another as accomplished practitioners. Lin Tianchen and John interrupt their exchange with a recruitment offer involving a Primordial Qi-bearing stone. Linglong refuses; after Chen Jue defeats Lin Tianchen and his guards, she disables her senior brother herself and takes Chen Jue to her mountain lodging. Their subsequent conversation establishes their friendship and reveals her overseas history 158 159 160 161 162.

Antarctic Expedition and the Sect’s Return

Linglong joins Chen Jue at Hong Mou Group’s laboratory and later accompanies the Antarctic meteorite search. Her suspicions about their hosts precede the ambush at the enormous meteorite. After escaping, she helps recover over a hundred fragments totaling more than three hundred kilograms and leaves aboard the sect’s aircraft 164 166 167 168 169 170 171.

The expedition also secures her sect’s future: her negotiated asset transfer supports the return of overseas followers to China under her leadership. She commissions an investigation into Eugene, which later uncovers his identity as former astronaut Eugene Annan and his knowledge of a lunar Wormhole Tunnel 171 211.

Second Home and the Blood Gang Breakthrough

Linglong initially mobilizes resources for a civilian rocket venture, then secures two seats aboard Bear’s lunar spacecraft through substantial investment in its space program. On Second Home, she cooperates with other expeditions while seeking information about Seven-Colored Ore 211 242 246.

At Bai Ze’s mining pit, her newly formed Blood Gang allows her to wound the beast, but its retaliation nearly kills her. Chen Jue and Little Parrot rescue her. During their recovery, she explains her breakthrough, helping Chen Jue connect blood, true qi, psychic energy, and martial intent. Their discussion also gives her a clearer direction for strengthening her own cultivation 245 246 247.

Pursuit into the Wall of Sighs

Leading Russian followers, Linglong pursues Eugene into the Pyramid beneath Crescent Lake and through underground ruins. She kills several clones during the chase, but traps also cost her followers their lives. At the bronze Wall of Sighs, Eugene sacrifices a clone to activate the structure 372 400.

Unable to resist Xiezhi and the surrounding energy field, Linglong submits to judgment by placing her own heart on the Golden Scales. It balances against the Feather of Truth. The ensuing black wind destroys her body and the nearby explorers and clones, but her consciousness survives. She enters the wall as a manifested soul and falls into adaptive slumber while receiving the ancient civilization’s inheritance 402.

Notable Quotes

“Different paths leave no room for common plans... I don't like people like you... Especially this 'fine' senior brother of mine!” 158

“As sect master, I naturally have to consider how our members will put food on the table in the future.” 171

“The mind can interfere with reality, and the physical body can likewise manifest the sacred!” 247

Trivia

• Her WeChat avatar is an openwork ivory puzzle ball decorated with dragons and auspicious clouds, with seven openings and nine internal layers 162.