Li Le

Biodata

Power Progression

Background / History

Family backing

Li Le’s father, True Person Yuan Yong, is a Nascent Soul elder whose position gives his son considerable influence over other disciples and sect stewards. Yuan Yong supplies him with expensive spirit insects and equipment and personally intervenes to support his pursuit of Zong Ya 19 26 39.

Yuan Yong describes Li Le as his only son during the first half of his life. He justifies supporting Li Le by recalling his own lost love, saying that his decision to relinquish that relationship left Li Le without a mother 39.

Persecution of Lin Ke

Li Le pursues Zong Ya despite her repeated refusals, using her attachment to Lin Ke as leverage. He arranges Lin Ke’s transfer to the Green Mulberry Garden and doubles his monthly Blackgold Silkworm silk quota from one jin to two jin, intending to exploit his failure to pressure Zong Ya into marriage 3 4 15.

He later offers Zong Ya a supposed escape from this predicament: if she marries him, he will ask his father to transfer Lin Ke out of the garden. His harassment has already continued for years by this point 14.

Li Le also involves Discipline Hall disciples Han Yun and Han Fu in an early inspection. They claim Lin Ke requested it through him, which Lin Ke denies. During the subsequent collection, their steelyard underweighs Lin Ke’s silk, but he exposes the discrepancy and secures recognition that his assignment is complete 24 26 27.

Tournament interference

Li Le commissions steward Duan Ligang to place Lin Ke and Du Hui in the same tournament group. The scheme collapses when the Transmission Elder discovers that Lin Ke has reached Dao Foundation and exposes the manipulated pairing 30.

The elder sentences Duan Ligang to three years in Dung Beetle Valley, publicly rebukes Li Le, and threatens to confront his father. Li Le leaves without answering, after giving Lin Ke a prolonged look 30.

Attempt to seize Zong Ya

After encountering an auction involving a cultivation cauldron, Lin Ke suspects that Li Le’s sudden interest in Zong Ya concerns her unusual constitution rather than ordinary attraction. This motive remains Lin Ke’s suspicion, not a confirmed revelation 37 38.

Li Le lures Zong Ya away by claiming Lin Ke’s life is in danger. Rain Spider True Person and Lin Ke find her restrained beside Li Le and Yuan Yong. Yuan Yong offers Lin Ke an Ape-Arm Scorpion and ten thousand mid-grade spirit stones while insisting that Zong Ya should become Li Le’s companion 38 39 40.

When Yuan Yong fights Rain Spider True Person, Li Le battles Lin Ke. Their fight remains evenly matched until Rain Spider returns, having defeated Yuan Yong, and sends Li Le flying with a slap. She then frees Zong Ya, who confirms that Li Le had not injured her 39 40.

Following the outbreak of conflict, Yuan Yong leaves to oversee the mountain territories. Lin Ke plans to deal with Li Le while keeping Zong Ya hidden in the Green Mulberry Garden; no resolution to that plan appears in the supplied chapters 46.

Appearance

Li Le is handsome, but his expression reveals murderous malice when Lin Ke challenges his pose of gentlemanly courtesy. During their later confrontation, his gaze is described as sinister 3 39.

Personality

Li Le combines outward courtesy with calculated coercion. He initially claims that he and Zong Ya are mutually in love, but privately admits that he is targeting Lin Ke to force her compliance. He deliberately keeps Lin Ke alive because killing him would remove Zong Ya’s vulnerability 3.

His confidence rests heavily on his father’s protection. When confronted over sect rules, he argues that approaching war makes strength decisive and that the sect would favor an established Nascent Soul elder over Lin Ke’s undeveloped potential. Once he recognizes Lin Ke’s growing talent, he openly threatens to kill him before he becomes a greater danger 39.

Abilities & Skills

Moisture-and-Egg Transformation Method

Li Le merges with an Ape-Arm Scorpion to manifest a phantom scorpion tail. Lin Ke identifies this scorpion as his probable life-bound spirit insect 39.

• Uses Ape-Arm Stinger to shatter an incoming earth spike and strike toward Lin Ke 39.
• Wields the phantom tail defensively against hardened earth spears 39.
• Assigns defense to additional scorpions so the phantom tail can concentrate on attacking 39.

Spellcasting

Li Le casts large fireballs through hand seals. His longer experience at Dao Foundation initially gives him more practiced spell control than Lin Ke, but his spiritual-power reserves are substantially smaller 39.

• Launches large fireballs at Lin Ke during their duel 39.
• His fireballs are extinguished by Lin Ke’s water spheres 39.
• Relies on spirit insects rather than a spiritual-power barrier to withstand sustained attacks 40.

Spirit Insect Combat

Li Le deploys five additional Ape-Arm Scorpions on his body, all possessing superior spirit-grade quality and ninth-layer Qi Refining cultivation 39 40.

• Their tails intercept Lin Ke’s attacks and maintain his defense 39 40.
• Their support, together with his equipment, allows him to hold Lin Ke to a standstill despite the disparity in spiritual-power reserves 39 40.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Superior spirit-grade flying sword — used for flight and maneuvering during his battle with Lin Ke 39.
• Ape-Arm Scorpion used for transformation — apparently his life-bound spirit insect; produces his phantom tail 39.
• Five additional Ape-Arm Scorpions — superior spirit-grade insects at the ninth layer of Qi Refining, used as bodyguards in combat 39 40.
• Coat garment — Zong Ya reports that he possesses a garment sewn by his father 16.

Relationships

• True Person Yuan Yong — Father and principal protector; equips Li Le and fights Rain Spider True Person rather than abandon his son’s pursuit of Zong Ya 39.
• Zong Ya — Target of his unwanted pursuit. He pressures her through Lin Ke and eventually lures her away under a false claim that her junior brother is endangered 14 15 40.
• Lin Ke — Junior sect disciple and adversary. Li Le sabotages his assignment and tournament pairing, then threatens to kill him after witnessing his strength 3 24 30 39.
• Han Yun and Han Fu — Discipline Hall disciples involved in the early inspection and disputed silk collection associated with his interference 24 26.
• Duan Ligang — Steward who manipulates Lin Ke’s tournament pairing at Li Le’s request and is punished for it 30.
• Rain Spider True Person — Senior cultivator who publicly rebukes him, opposes his father, and forcibly ends his fight with Lin Ke 30 39 40.

Notable Quotes

“Once you fail this sect assignment and fall into my hands, I'll make that senior sister of yours kneel and beg me to marry her!” 3

“Ha! The sect's rules? … War is coming. Strength is all that matters!” 39