Li Chenglong

Biodata

Power Progression

History

Phoenix City Second High School

Li Chenglong initially occupied seat thirty-five and was a frequent target of his classmates’ rough treatment. After Zuo Xiaoduo defeated him in their first spar, he returned to the bottom of the class rankings. His academic standing was entirely different: classmates regarded his knowledge and memory as unmatched even across Second High School 27 31 36.

Qin Fangyang entrusted him with teaching history, and he also lectured other classes. The school considered appointing him as a lecturer and historical adviser after graduation, with compensation exceeding that of a veteran teacher such as Qin. At this stage, Li Chenglong himself believed that teaching might be his only future because his martial prospects appeared so poor 36 58 100.

His cultivation subsequently improved enough to place him among Class Nine’s top five. Training beside Zuo Xiaoduo helped dissolve the hidden cold energy obstructing his meridians, overturning the assumption that he lacked martial potential 153 174.

Team Vice-Captain and Tournament Fighter

Within Zuo Xiaoduo’s team, Li Chenglong supplied both fighting strength and specialist knowledge. During field training, he used traces in Star Beast droppings to deduce the presence of mature Star Soul Continuity Grass. The team found nine stalks at least sixty years old, earning praise from the supervising teachers 233.

By the tournament period, he was the team’s vice-captain. His match against Xiang Bing became a brutal exchange of unarmed attacks that left both fighters bloodied and swollen. Against Yan Kuanglei, he instead concealed a calculated opening attack behind an exaggerated, slow-motion entrance 619 640.

Although Hu Ruoyun encouraged the students to seek separate fortunes, Li Chenglong deliberately chose a supporting role beside Zuo Xiaoduo. He explained that his knowledge, memory, and planning were best used as a strategist or adviser rather than as a supreme commander 632.

Hidden Dragon High Martial

Li Chenglong travelled with Zuo Xiaoduo to Fenghai City and entered Hidden Dragon High Martial. He quickly began gathering information about the school’s leadership, local families, and surrounding political situation, using his regular sparring sessions with Xiang Bing to question her about matters she knew through her family 675 686 692 698.

His investigations expanded into the troubles affecting Hidden Dragon’s senior leadership. He examined old underground organizations, separated personal grievances from political struggles, and warned that cases involving the Imperial Family required particular caution. Vice Principal Cheng later credited him and Zuo Xiaoduo with substantial help in the Cheng Family’s affairs 818 820 1154.

His examination performance earned the appraisal “A Generation’s Military Strategist.” Ye Changqing subsequently asked about his ambitions, only to learn that Li Chenglong intended to follow Zuo Xiaoduo wherever he went. Ye accepted that the two complemented one another 976 977.

Victory over Bu Yunxiao

Representing Hidden Dragon High Martial, Li Chenglong faced Bu Yunxiao in the opening match of a later competition. He entered with elaborate courtesy and introduced his newly acquired Dragon-Sealing Sword, prompting his bewildered opponent to imitate the introduction 1235.

Li Chenglong initially concentrated on adapting to the Dao Alliance’s unfamiliar swordsmanship. He maintained a defensive strategy, controlled the rhythm of the exchanges, and waited until Bu Yunxiao exhausted even his emergency reserve of true essence. Seven consecutive counterattacking sword slashes then drove Bu off the platform 1238 1239.

The victory ended Hidden Dragon’s streak of ten crushing defeats. In his formal salute, Li Chenglong named both Hidden Dragon High Martial and Phoenix City Second High School, honoring He Yuanyue’s request that her students never forget their former school 1239.

Relationship and Engagement

Li Chenglong failed to recognize Xiang Bing’s feelings despite their constant sparring, her jealousy, and increasingly obvious reactions from their classmates. Even an arranged beating by older Xiang Family experts left him thinking only that Xiang Chong had behaved unfairly 1231 1232 1315.

Xiang Bing eventually confessed publicly, declared them a couple, and received his bewildered agreement. Li Chenglong then asked Zuo Xiaoduo to have his parents serve as matchmakers and formally propose the marriage. Their engagement was announced to Class One, and his parents later joined the Zuo household in celebrating it 1321 1330 1342 1347.

Appearance

Li Chenglong changes from a slightly chubby youth into a composed, refined young martial artist through sustained cultivation and training 155 1235.

• Early appearance: Frequently described as a “little fatty,” with a slightly chubby face 27 155.
• Later appearance: Fair skin, bright, star-like eyes, and a tranquil, quietly confident bearing; not considered exceptionally handsome 1235.
• Arena attire: Wears a pristine white Martial Dao uniform with flowing sleeves for his match against Bu Yunxiao 1235.
• Temporary baldness: Zuo Xiaoduo makes him bald after becoming bald himself 1200.

Personality

Li Chenglong places national survival and the greater good above personal comfort. He wants to fight at Sun Moon Pass, defeat the Witch Alliance, and help remove its shadow from ordinary people’s lives. He Yuanyue interprets his prolonged hesitation during a marriage-choice trial as an attempt to determine which decision would best serve that larger purpose—even at the expense of his own love 155 190 192.

His loyalty to Zuo Xiaoduo is deliberate rather than unthinking. He insists that they share burdens and benefits, openly discusses the importance of sincerity, and wants their friendship to remain strong enough for each to entrust his back to the other. He also recognizes Zuo’s depth of thought and considers him better at understanding people and social relationships 716.

He combines sharp intelligence with stubbornness and punishing self-discipline. Even while positioning himself as a strategist, he trains for roughly ten hours a day in the Gravity Room because he refuses to become a combat liability. Nevertheless, he continues to describe his aptitude as ordinary despite the exceptional assessments of his teachers 977 1145 1348.

His greatest social blind spot is romance. He treats Xiang Bing as a serious sparring opponent, misses her jealousy, and argues about equal treatment when others expect him to comfort her. Her eventual confession succeeds by directly confronting his habit of remaining passive in emotional matters 1231 1232 1321.

Abilities & Skills

Photographic Memory and Scholarship

• Remembers written material after a single reading and retains detailed information across history, legends, cultivation factions, and enemy organizations 36 58 153.
• Teaches history to his own class and other classes while still a student 36 38 39 58.
• Identifies medicinal resources and their storage requirements, including warning that certain herbs must be kept in wooden rather than cold, yin-natured jade boxes 233 240.

Strategy and Political Analysis

• Receives the rare appraisal “A Generation’s Military Strategist,” attracting interest from senior military figures 976 1233.
• Builds deductions from collected clues while recognizing when insufficient information prevents firm conclusions 692.
• Analyzes conflicts through positions, political interests, family ambitions, and opportunities for compromise rather than treating every dispute as simple personal enmity 820 872 873.
• Protects Zuo Xiaoduo’s negotiating position by questioning the Gao Lineage’s attempt to secure a place among his closest allies 1197.

Ice Nightmare Soul Constitution

• Hidden cold energy initially suppresses his cultivation, making his aptitude appear poor 946.
• Zuo Xiaoduo’s Flame Sun True Scripture draws out and refines that energy, improving Li Chenglong’s meridians and providing cultivation benefits to both of them 174 800 801.
• After the obstruction is removed, his dantian, meridians, and Star Soul undergo major changes. His Star Soul begins gradually transforming toward perfection 946.
• Wen Xingtian and Ye Changqing associate these changes with the legendary Ice Nightmare Soul Constitution, whose potential extends to the Ancestral Shaman level. This is projected potential, not an attained realm 946.

Five Directions Sword Heart Method

• Learns Qin Fangyang’s technique, also called the Five Directions Sword Body Art in the supplied passage 640.
• Produces three apparent Li Chenglongs attacking simultaneously with a punch, sword strike, and kick 640.
• Uses the technique to seize the initiative against Yan Kuanglei after baiting him into an aggressive opening 640.
• At that stage, its enormous Origin Qi cost permits only one use; he cannot sustain it 640.

Unarmed Combat and Physical Conditioning

• Uses the Battle Formation Combat Technique for direct, all-out attacks without dodging, countering Xiang Bing’s momentum-based Overlord Fist through equally committed aggression 621.
• Records a punch strength of 85,000 jin, surpassing the other recorded results in that test 419.
• Progresses from wearing 200 jin of distributed weights to travelling under a load approaching 20,000 jin, the latter reaching his limit at the time 379 668.
• Develops exceptional tolerance for blows and pressure through frequent sparring with Zuo Xiaoduo 694 1239.

Swordsmanship and Combat Adaptation

• Combines sword attacks, punches, and kicks into continuous offensive sequences 640.
• Adapts to unfamiliar high-level swordsmanship while defending, then changes his offensive balance as the opponent reveals further techniques 1238.
• Uses light, yielding movements and blade contact to follow an opponent’s momentum rather than meeting every attack with force 1238.
• At peak Dan Origin, possesses combat strength comparable to ordinary cultivators several stages into Infant Transformation 1236.

Negotiation and Service Management

• Organizes registration and appointments for Zuo Xiaoduo’s fortune-telling services 920.
• Negotiates a five-percent commission for recruited customers and prepares an agreement requiring each transaction to be settled separately 921.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Dragon-Sealing Sword — First used in battle against Bu Yunxiao. Li Chenglong describes it as three feet three inches long, weighing seventeen jin, six liang, and three qian, and forged from seabed cold iron essence, extraterrestrial meteorite soul, and stellar steel spirit 1235.
• Space Ring — Stores valuables and resources; most of the high-level bounty hunters’ rings later obtained by Zuo Xiaoduo exceed its quality 920 1146.
• Training weights — Includes distributed body weights, a heavy back load, and two additional armguards weighing 5,000 jin each during the journey to Fenghai 379 668.
• Upper-grade Star Soul Jade — Accelerates energy replenishment during cultivation suppression 859.
• King-level Star Beast meat — Supports repeated compressions, but stops increasing his cultivation after he consumes fifteen pounds and his body adapts to it 1150 1178.

Relationships

• Zuo Xiaoduo — Closest friend, team captain, cultivation partner, and the leader he chooses to follow. Their bond combines sincere mutual trust with relentless sparring, teasing, and arguments over money 632 668 716 977.
• Xiang Bing — Sparring rival turned fiancée. She initiates their romantic relationship; both later acknowledge that their repeated fights gave them time together 619 1321 1347.
• Xiang Chong — Classmate and Xiang Bing’s brother. Helps arrange an older-generation Xiang Family beating in frustration at Li Chenglong’s failure to recognize her feelings 1315.
• Qin Fangyang — Teacher who recognizes the value of his knowledge and teaches him the Five Directions technique 233 640.
• Wen Xingtian — Hidden Dragon instructor who supervises his training, disciplines his excesses, and investigates his unusual constitution 832 896 945 946.
• Ye Changqing — Principal who values his strategic talent, recognizes his partnership with Zuo Xiaoduo, and understands the potential significance of his constitution 946 976 977.
• He Yuanyue — Former principal who understands his willingness to sacrifice for the greater good. He later honors her request to remember Phoenix City Second High School 192 1239.
• Gao Qiao’er — Intelligent negotiating counterpart whose attempts to test his insight irritate him. He scrutinizes her lineage’s bid for a place beside Zuo Xiaoduo 1197 1230 1231.
• Zuo Changlu and his wife — Agree to serve as matchmakers for his engagement to Xiang Bing at his request through Zuo Xiaoduo 1330.

Notable Quotes

“My best position will never be charging into enemy ranks. It will be providing support.” 632

“We came here together, and we’ll leave together too. Wherever you are, I’ll be there, and vice versa.” 716

Trivia

• His father named him Chenglong in the hope that his son would “become a dragon.” Li Chenglong connects that hope to his determination to risk his life at Sun Moon Pass 155.
• He strongly objects to being called “Zhongzhong,” which only encourages his friends to use it 230.
• His Steel Cult Leader nickname refers to his extreme obliviousness to romance; by the time of his engagement celebrations, it is widely known online 1231 1232 1348.
• Zuo Xiaoduo reads his physiognomy as “Flying Dragon Soaring to Heaven” and his destiny as “Above the Nine Heavens,” while predicting that his greatest accomplishments will come in a supporting role 1331.