Zhao Yi

Biodata

Power Progression

Spirit Attraction and Spirit Drawing are both used for the same cultivation stage in the supplied chapters.

Background / History

Zhao Yi came from another world, where an accident caused him to become an infant in the cultivation world. The Tide-Subduing Sect took him away at six; because of his poor aptitude, Chen Yihua later brought him to Linghua Island to cultivate. His previous-life memories returned in fragments after he began training 1 9.

Chen Yihua raised Zhao Yi, Liu Yu, and Wang Qing on an impoverished mortal island without a spirit vein. Their master reserved cultivation resources for his disciples, forgoing pills and spirit rice other than Jade Essence Rice. Zhao Yi regarded him as both teacher and father 1 33.

Zhao Yi blamed himself for Chen Yihua’s death during a demon-cultivator attack on Azure Cloud Island: his attempt to obtain dead cultivators’ storage bags had drawn them into danger. Afterward, he cultivated intensely while facing Daoist Mu’s covetous attention 9 33.

Following Daoist Mu’s defeat, a speck of light merged into Zhao Yi. Initially afraid of possession, he discovered the long-awaited supernatural aid he had sought since his early cultivation years: the Sect Jade Register 5 23.

Appearance

• Build: Tall, heavily built, and extraordinarily strong from childhood; initially described as having a dark, sturdy body 1 10 49.
• Height: Grew from eight chi and one cun to eight chi and three cun during his Dao Foundation breakthrough 133.
• Clothing: Has worn a sky-blue martial outfit, fitted black clothing, and Daoist robes 31 36 112.
• Dao Foundation transformation: His accumulated scars fell away, leaving fair, smooth skin rich in spiritual power 133.

Personality

Zhao Yi is cautious about survival and reluctant to expose his full strength. He refuses reckless experiments, waits for weakened enemies when possible, and purchases concealment equipment specifically to stay alive. Even while helping defend Little Wave Island, he keeps his cultivation suppressed because he distrusts the Zhao Family 3 5 89 98.

His restraint gives way to ferocity when retreat is impossible or his junior brothers are threatened. He uses dangerous techniques, trades injuries for openings, and pursues attackers despite their attempts to negotiate. Against the cultivators who injured Wang Qing and Li Hai, he rejects a proposed withdrawal and kills them 22 98 119.

He is protective and demanding toward his lineage. He checks younger disciples’ schoolwork, imposes Daoist Script assignments, guards breakthrough attempts personally, and records his own advancement experiences as an inheritance. His grief over Chen Yihua’s death remains a powerful source of guilt 33 39 46 57 102.

Zhao Yi repays assistance while distinguishing gratitude from political trust. Zhao Xinghe’s breakthrough insights earn his repeated promises of support, but he remains alert to the Zhao Family’s attempts to bind other islands to its interests. His attention to cultivation also leaves him unaware of some internal cliques until Wang Qing explains them 83 126 141 150.

Abilities & Skills

Sect Jade Register

The register records Linghua’s lineage, cultivation information, spiritual roots, and fortune, while allowing Zhao Yi to distribute spendable fortune 23 25.

• Fortune allocation: Raises his own fortune and that of registered companions; increases Wang Qing’s fortune before allocating the remaining points to himself 52.
• Fortune acquisition: Gains fortune through defeated cultivators and personal realm breakthroughs 23 68 127.
• Sect development: Learns that a stronger, more prosperous sect gathers fortune from its members, offering a safer long-term source than killing 68.
• Observed benefits: Fortune above ten makes his thoughts more active and his body feel lighter. A later large allocation precedes a prolonged enlightenment 52 127.
• Lineage registration: Has Liu Yu, Wang Qing, and Li Hai add essence blood to the register before enshrining it in the Ancestral Hall 25.

Cultivation Arts

Heavy Mountain Halberd Technique

His principal weapon technique emphasizes overwhelming momentum and defeating opposing arts through force 114.

• Four levels: Linked Mountains, Heavy Mountain, Falling Mountain, and Mountain-Breaking 114.
• Close combat: Combines sweeping attacks, thrusts, shaft blocks, and physical strikes; can deliberately expose openings to disarm opponents 25 37.
• Mountain-Breaking: Used to kill Qin Wuya and break through a perfection-stage opponent’s Golden Light Bell 114 119.
• Artistic conception: Understanding the weight of earth and grandeur of mountains merges his cultivation art with his halberd technique and enables his superior-grade Dao Foundation 133.

Physical Strength and Body Refinement

Zhao Yi possesses innate strength beyond ordinary people and supplements it with dedicated body cultivation 10 112.

• Hauls a Giant-Mouth Fish aboard a boat and kills it with three punches 10.
• Uses an early body-refining technique to reinforce himself against a water-arrow attack that breaks his Golden Light Talisman 26.
• Manifests a roaring giant-bear image that disorients nearby cultivators 120.
• Finds his hundred-jin-plus Battle Halberd featherlight after reaching Dao Foundation 133.

Boiling Blood Art

A dangerous technique that temporarily increases his combat power 5 22 114.

• Produces blood-red eyes and an enlarged body during early use 22.
• At Meridian Opening, sustains it for no more than thirty breaths 22.
• Can severely damage his body and meridians, causing bleeding and collapse 5 22 23.
• Remains usable at Spirit Attraction, where he employs it against Qin Wuya and the wounded Dao Foundation ambusher 114 121.

Perception and Concealment

• Spirit-Piercing Dharma Eye: Detects spiritual signatures underwater, locates hidden spirit fish, and helps identify an enemy’s reliance on a detection artifact 10 11 80.
• Divine sense: Enables internal observation, artifact control, and spiritual identification; reaches approximately 220 zhang upon his Dao Foundation breakthrough 57 70 133.
• Aura suppression: Hides beneath a tiger shark while reducing his dharma power to resemble its early Meridian Opening strength 80.
• Rock-like concealment: Uses a secret art from the Wu Earth Profound Spirit Treasure Art to suppress signs of life and prevent aura leakage 164.

Utility Arts and Resource Management

• Rain Transformation Technique: Waters spirit fields using an existing water supply; early use exhausts him after watering two mu 1.
• Water-Repelling Art: Separates seawater from his body with a protective barrier 58.
• Earth-element arts: Cancels ground tremors and creates revolving earthen shields 111 113.
• Formation use: Controls existing formations through refined plates and can arrange a basic Spirit Gathering Array, though his formation knowledge is limited 68 86 151.
• Spirit-resource cultivation: Raises spirit fish, enriches fields with Spirit Spring Water, and develops Spirit Honey production with Wu Yuying’s assistance 12 65 86.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Long Ji — Early polearm used with Heavy Mountain; destroyed during the battle with Ghost Shark Daoist 25 31.
• Battle Halberd — Received from Black Wind Island in gratitude for its rescue. Yang Yan later makes it a middle-grade dharma artifact; Zhao Yi subsequently commissions Yuan Lie to upgrade it for two thousand spirit stones 81 112 142.
• Azure Sun Jade Hairpin — Refined after reaching Spirit Attraction; has five restrictions. Zhao Yi preserves its dingy appearance to disguise its value 58 81.
• Bamboo Boat — Flying artifact that expands from three inches to ten feet; controlled through dharma power and divine sense 58.
• Concealing Cicada Talisman — Purchased for fifteen hundred spirit stones, partly offset by intelligence sales; conceals his cultivation at early Spirit Drawing 89.
• Azure Radiance Spirit-Detecting Jade Disk — High-grade detection artifact seized from a Blood Cloud Bandit 81.
• Undersea cave seal — Six-restriction, middle-grade artifact serving as both formation eye and control plate for the Little Peerless Water-Seeping Formation 68.
• Spirit-gathering meditation cushion — Greatly improves cultivation efficiency in his undersea cave abode 44.
• Golden Light Talismans and Inner Armor — Early defensive equipment; his Inner Armor is destroyed during the Kongqing Island raid 25 40.

Relationships

• Chen Yihua — Master and father figure. Zhao Yi mourns his sacrifices and blames himself for his death 1 33.
• Liu Yu — Junior brother and principal administrator. Manages Linghua’s affairs and resources, allowing Zhao Yi to concentrate on cultivation 65 141.
• Wang Qing — Junior brother, frequent expedition partner, and trusted adviser on internal factionalism 44 121 147 150.
• Li Hai — Junior brother whose breakthroughs Zhao Yi supports and guards. Helps restrain a Dao Foundation enemy’s flying sword during their escape 91 102 121.
• Chen Yichong — Martial uncle who previously found work for Zhao Yi and Chen Yihua and gave Zhao Yi twenty spirit stones. Their reunion renews his hopes for the lineage 105.
• Wu Yuying — Allied island mistress and cultivation collaborator. Helps advance the Bee Queen and build its formation; Zhao Yi later protects her Dao Foundation attempt and shares his breakthrough insights 86 147.
• Zhao Xinghe — Political ally and benefactor. Gives Zhao Yi Dao Foundation insights, earning lasting gratitude despite Zhao Yi’s earlier distrust of the Zhao Family 98 126 141.
• Yang Yan — Artifact-refining ally whose breakthrough Zhao Yi protects; upgrades his Battle Halberd before dying during later unrest 93 112 133 142.
• Guiwu — Turtle companion and combat ally. Helps locate the undersea cave and participates in the fight against the wounded Dao Foundation cultivator 44 121 125.
• Zhang Ying — Octopus demon taken under Zhao Yi’s command and named by him. Later reprimanded for advancing without permission 147 150.
• Daoist Liefeng — Enemy after Zhao Yi kills Qin Wuya. Their hostility eventually gives way to an expressed agreement to leave past grievances behind 114 141 167.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Securing Jade Pearl Island

• Leads Liu Yu and Wang Qing on a night raid, avoids Daoist Mu’s traps, and waits until Mu has fought a sea beast before ambushing him 3 4.
• Following Mu’s death, develops Jade Pearl Island through reservoirs, sea patrols, and spirit-fish cultivation 5 12.
• Survives a bandit ambush after a Zhao Family cultivator intervenes; connects the timely rescue with his recent fortune increase 23.
• Defeats Ghost Shark Daoist and his disciples with Liu Yu’s assistance, though both brothers suffer severe injuries 31.

Building a Spirit Attraction Lineage

• Helps relieve Black Wind Island’s siege and leads the raid to seize Kongqing Island’s spirit bees 37 39 40.
• Discovers an undersea cultivation abode with Wang Qing, securing access to concentrated spiritual qi 44.
• Reaches Spirit Attraction and records the breakthrough process so future Linghua cultivators will have practical guidance 56 57.
• Helps establish a Spirit Attraction Bee Queen and a formation-supported honey-production site 86.
• Reinforces Little Wave Island against the Blood Cloud Bandits while concealing his full cultivation 97 98 99.

Marketplace Duels and Water Mansion

• Kills Qin Wuya in the marketplace-share duels, drawing Daoist Liefeng’s threat of revenge 114.
• Rescues Wang Qing and Li Hai from attackers before entering the Water Mansion with them 118 119 120.
• After leaving the mansion, kills a badly wounded Dao Foundation ambusher with his companions’ help. The spoils finally provide suitable earth-attribute cultivation inheritances 121 122.
• Converts to the Wu Earth Profound Spirit Treasure Art, undergoes enlightenment, and eventually condenses a superior-grade Dao Foundation 125 127 133.

Dao Foundation Leadership

• Takes Zhang Ying under his command and spends two years making demon-hunting expeditions with Wang Qing, Guiwu, and the octopus demon 147.
• Kills a snapping turtle demon cultivator, then later pursues and kills Qingli Rogue after the battle on Xuanli Island 150 159.
• Advances to middle Dao Foundation and oversees a lineage increasingly supported by multiple Dao Foundation cultivators 160 161 163.
• Secures twenty percent of Yunsha Market’s proceeds for Linghua Island after revealing Li Hai’s middle-grade foundation 163.
• Conceals his own superior-grade foundation by claiming fourth grade when questioned by Daoist Liefeng and Zhao Xinghe 167.

Notable Quotes

“Standing was won through fighting; face was something one earned oneself.” 47

“Rather than continuing to consolidate his cultivation, he wanted to hurry and record the process of his breakthrough and his insights, making them a legacy of Linghua Island’s own!” 57

“Since we agreed to turn the page, let’s turn it! From now on, it would be best for our two sides to coexist peacefully!” 141