Jiang Yi

Biodata

Power Progression

Background / History

Mortal origins and transmigration

Jiang Yi’s present consciousness comes from another world, where he worked as a secretary. By his first appearance, he has occupied his new body for seven or eight days. Its original owner was an orphan from a reasonably comfortable household in Guniu Town who sold his family property to pursue the sword-immortal ideal at a Dao Academy 1 13.

The original Jiang Yi possessed lower-vehicle aptitude. After three years at the academy and four years of cultivation as a Qianji Sect Mortal Laborer, he had barely approached perfection of the First Level of Qi Refining 1 7.

Escaping Crimson Flame Peak’s labor hierarchy

Jiang Yi’s ambitions sharpen after Xu Yan beats the laborer Little Gao to death and the sect assigns a monetary value to the remains. He resolves to become valuable talent rather than remain expendable material. Using the Heavenly Book, he obtains a hidden ninth-grade fire-control manual and cultivates Yang Xun’s favor 11 13.

His promotion to Inspection Officer frees most of his time for cultivation. When the Heavenly Book reveals Dong Ba and Zhang Chao’s hostility, he borrows money, kills Dong Ba, severs Zhang Chao’s legs, and reports the incident to Yang Xun with an offer of compensation 13 20.

Cat Master and the Inner Peaks

At Three Harmonies Ward, Jiang Yi seeks medicines, opportunities, and a stronger inheritance. He eventually becomes Profound Mystery True Person’s disciple by promising to feed and care for the kitten. Cat Master reveals that lower Dharma Lineages’ dependence on Dao Ginseng contaminates cultivators’ life and nature, obstructing complete Foundation Establishment 47 67.

Upon entering Qianji Sect’s Inner Peaks, Jiang Yi avoids choosing between Sun-Watching Peak and Fate-Watching Peak by volunteering for the Merit Oversight Court. The appointment grants him a first-class stipend, thirty Essence-Nourishing Pills, a Black Shadow Garment, and one major merit 97 98.

He also intervenes when Sui Liushu threatens Yang Xun. Rather than accept his god-grandfather’s proposed mutual destruction, Jiang Yi devises a plan to lower Sui’s guard and turn the danger against him 112 113 117.

Fengdu and the emergence of Lesser Yang

During the Lujiang assignment, Jiang Yi investigates the Huang and Wang Clans’ connection to the Nether Spring Sect and its attempts to open a gateway to Fengdu. He uses the summoned spirit Jiang Shang to investigate without exposing himself directly, then obtains the Innate Fire Virtue Body within Fengdu 128 133 150.

Qiao Yu explains that accepting the Empress’s marriage proposal will expose him as Lesser Yang’s new lord and draw him into the Eight Demonic Sects’ arrangements. Jiang Yi knowingly enters the contest, recognizing that he will need powerful Dharma Lineages behind him to oppose Sun 169 170 171.

During the ensuing Mysterious Thunder ordeal, his body is nearly destroyed. Upside Down responds to his defiance, disperses the ninth thunderbolt, and allows him to wound the True Lord Thunder Pivot while still at Qi Refining. Lesser Yang’s Golden Nature subsequently merges with his Divine Sense 176 177 178.

Xiantian Sect’s Dao Child

Jiang Yi becomes the Xiantian Sect’s only outsider Dao Child in ten thousand years and the Eight Sects’ only Dao Child appointed while still at Qi Refining. His new rank also makes him an obstacle to other disciples’ advancement and to established factional arrangements 204 241.

He begins building an administration at the Eternal Bright Heavenly Pool, appointing Chang Jing as chief steward and employing He Shouzheng to manage three halls. Against hostile factions, he combines selective pardons with exemplary punishment: two True Lord talismans kill the fifth-level Foundation Establishment elder Luo Qingya, while useful former opponents are spared 204 208 243.

Crouching Dragon Ravine and Foundation Establishment

Seeking Water Beneath Kan, Jiang Yi enters Crouching Dragon Ravine despite its connection to Ji Fuyao’s execution of the Dragon Son Yazi. He kills Xuan Guang and confronts a realm-bound manifestation of Ji Fuyao, deliberately enduring danger to bring forth the medicine needed for his advancement 207 218 219.

After reaching grand perfection of Qi Refining, the Shell Pass blocks his Dao Foundation attempt. His search for Ziwu Fire leads him to Yao Yun, an orphan of Daye’s imperial clan. He heals her and requires her to pursue vengeance through her own training rather than simply restoring her dynasty for her 239 253 258.

Jiang Yi subsequently forges his Dao Foundation, develops fire profundities, and breaks the Mortal Realm’s confinement to become a Foundation Establishment True Person. Later study of the Great Yan Dynasty leads him to recognize that Fire Virtue’s essence is not merely burning, but shining 265 275 276 291.

Appearance

• Early clothing: A dingy gray padded Daoist robe worn during his time as a Mortal Laborer 1.
• After ritual refinement: Bright eyes, jade-like flesh, and a harmonious presence that makes others inclined to approach him 56.
• Build and features: Tall and straight, with lustrous skin and features compared to jade wrought into golden form 120.
• Dao Embryo refinement: At great mastery, his body resembles an exquisite jade statue 165.
• Later attire: A water-blue Daoist robe, wooden hairpin, and the black-sheathed Upside Down on his back; frequently carries the calico Cat Master in his arms 188.

Personality

Jiang Yi is meticulous, socially observant, and willing to cultivate patronage. He consciously applies experience from his former life as a secretary: arriving early, remembering preferences, offering gifts, and presenting the right attitude. His initial approach to Yang Xun is explicitly calculated, although their bond later becomes deeply personal 13 15 112.

His caution does not prevent decisive violence. He prefers discovering threats early and eliminating them before they endanger his cultivation or companions. As Dao Child, he becomes increasingly pragmatic about factional politics, sparing talented opponents when their cooperation serves him better than punishment 117 208 243.

He remains loyal to those who helped him rise. He refuses to abandon Yang Xun, gives practical parting gifts to his former laborer companions, and tells Cat Master that meeting it was his greatest cultivation opportunity even while facing death 112 113 176.

His central ambition is to escape being used as disposable material. Even the discovery that greater powers are shaping his advancement does not extinguish his determination. He accepts the possibility of death on the Dao Path, but wants that life to remain recognizably his own 11 176 286 287.

Abilities & Skills

Heavenly Book

Jiang Yi is the Heavenly Book’s destined master and uses it to investigate both cultivation and worldly affairs.

• Cultivation analysis: Reports realm progress, interprets manuals, and helps refine his understanding of methods 12 28 180.
• Divination: Evaluates danger, hostile intentions, profitable opportunities, and potential fortuitous encounters 20 32 204.
• Combat intelligence: Reveals an opponent’s methods during battle, as demonstrated against Kang Lanyun 167.
• Development: Gains a third page after Lesser Yang Golden Nature transforms Jiang Yi’s foundations 180.
• Limits: His consideration of deeper technique deductions exposes insufficient remaining lifespan as a constraint 181.

Fire Cultivation

Fire is the foundation of Jiang Yi’s chosen Qi Refining path, with Bing Fire and Ding Fire cultivated as exterior and interior, Yang and Yin 131.

• Early fire control: Condenses True Qi into a needle-like flame capable, at full power, of piercing three layers of iron armor 18.
• Intermediate shaping: Produces multiple scorching threads; later forms fire dragons, pythons, and snakes capable of melting metals 35 57.
• Advanced methods: Practices the second-grade Refining the Numinous Radiance Sun Lord Divine Art, Red Firmament Void True Qi, and Ding Fire Seizing Radiance Scarlet Sun Divine Light 165.
• Combat endurance: Can unleash the Scarlet Sun Divine Light three to five times in succession; the Foundation Establishment Pill replenishes expended law power 214.

Dao Embryo and Innate Fire Virtue Body

His body-refining inheritance strengthens his physical furnace cauldron alongside his Qi cultivation.

• At minor mastery, resists blades, spears, water, fire, and lower-grade Law Artifacts 155.
• Later withstands direct strikes from fourth-grade Qi Refining Law Artifacts 158.
• A solid Dao Embryo and seamless Origin Gate protect him against Kang Lanyun’s soul-falling technique, allowing him to kill the tenth-level cultivator with one punch 167.
• These defenses are not absolute: the Mysterious Thunder shatters his body despite his great-mastery Dao Embryo and Innate Fire Virtue Body 176.

Divine Sense and Profound Light

• Perception: Condenses Divine Sense at the seventh level; Lesser Yang Golden Nature later raises its sensitivity and clarity to that of a Foundation Establishment True Person 146 200.
• Remote thought: After condensing Supreme Xi, can divide a thought into numerous strands and lodge them in plants, trees, birds, and beasts 221.
• Flight: Uses Cloud-Riding and Flame-Driving before developing much faster Profound Light movement, crossing dozens of li in an instant 102 203.
• Casting speed: Strengthens his Origin Gate with Gang Qi and recognizes faster Divine Sense operation as a means of gaining the first opening in combat 234 235.

Seven Emotions Incantation

The Embrace Thought, Nurture Spirit Seven Emotions Incantation influences thought and emotion.

• Requires drawing a target toward sufficiently intense feelings to exert its effects effectively 115.
• Advances from minor mastery to great mastery, then perfection 102 165 180.

Divine Dao Summoning

Following Cat Master’s instructions, Jiang Yi uses names, written invocations, and incense-related Divine Dao principles to summon a spirit of condensed essence Qi 128.

• Names the spirit Jiang Shang and gives it the appearance of a white-haired elder.
• Sends it to investigate the Huang and Wang Clans remotely 128 129.

Upside Down and All-Extinctions Sword Intent

Upside Down recognizes Jiang Yi when his defiance, desperation, ambition, and fortune align with its requirements 176 177.

• Disperses the ninth bolt of Mysterious Thunder and enables him to wound Thunder Pivot 176 178.
• Becomes his strongest killing move, threatening even Foundation Establishment True Persons 181.
• Cost: Every sword stroke first cuts its wielder before utterly slaying its enemy 177.

Foundation Establishment Profundities

• Illuminating the Hidden and Bright: Deepens his perception of hidden connections and allows him to discern and manipulate Li Conglong’s karma 272 277.
• Heaven and Earth Burn: A Bing Fire-derived profundity that destroys the Water-Moon Grotto-Heaven and absorbs or transforms the Heavenly Lord’s assaults 274 275.
• Supporting foundation: His Ten-Thousand-Chariot Imperial Law Dao Foundation accelerates comprehension of Five Phases mysteries and strengthens his fire methods 273 274.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Heavenly Book — His principal tool for deduction, divination, cultivation analysis, and recording methods 12 168 180.
• Upside-Down Slaying Sword — A True Treasure above Law Treasure rank, offered through Qiao Yu as part of the marriage arrangement 169 180.
• Five Yin Bag, Blood Soul Mirror, and Black Sha Pagoda Lock — Ninth-grade Qi Refining Law Artifacts. The pagoda lock can summon a Yin Horse for travel 83 102.
• Black Shadow Garment — Seventh-grade Qi Refining protective clothing awarded with his Merit Oversight Court appointment; destroyed during the Mysterious Thunder ordeal 97 102 176.
• Bright Flame Mirror and Divine Fire Ring — Received from Li Ruohan before the Lujiang assignment 125.
• Foundation Establishment Pill — Strengthens his foundations and replenishes law power; eventually dissolves completely into pure Qi during his final Qi Refining tempering 180 214 239.
• Golden-Thread Robe — Obtained by Qiao Yu to protect him during his journey to Gathering Grotto Continent 239.
• Yang Qi Taixiang Heaven — An artifact of rank associated with Lesser Yang. Its internal Divine Abilities make entry dangerous without Golden Nature’s protection 283 284 287.
• Lai Buyi’s copper coin — Given by True Lord Lu so Jiang Yi can seek Lai Buyi’s terrain-surveying assistance at Gathering Grotto Continent 253.

Relationships

• Yang Xun — Patron and god-grandfather. Initially won over through careful planning, he becomes someone Jiang Yi sincerely regards as family and refuses to abandon 13 32 112.
• Profound Mystery True Person / Cat Master — Master, companion, and guide to Lesser Yang’s inheritance. Jiang Yi considers their meeting his greatest cultivation opportunity 67 176.
• Qiao Yu / Xiao Qiao — Marriage partner and Sword Dao connection. Offers Upside Down, nurses him after the thunder ordeal, and obtains the Golden-Thread Robe for his protection 169 180 188 239.
• Lady Mysterious Maiden / the Empress — Yang Marriage partner. Jiang Yi lends fortune through a bond whose red cords connect to both her and Qiao Yu 185 188.
• He Laohun — Fellow laborer and trusted companion who helps with substitutes, travel, and shopping. Receives medicines and recipes when leaving the mountain 11 47 113.
• Widow Qin — Fellow laborer who lends him emergency money; their closeness develops into a sister-and-brother-like relationship 20 23.
• Han Li — Senior sect brother, adviser on Inner Peaks politics, and traveling companion during the Lujiang assignment 95 98 125.
• Xu Yan — Initially exemplifies the sect’s brutality through Little Gao’s death; later recognizes Jiang Yi’s talent and intervenes to secure his Law Artifact registration 11 83.
• True Lord Lu — Senior guide who explains cultivation opportunities, advises him on Gathering Grotto Continent, and directs his search for Ziwu Fire 231 253.
• Patriarch Netherworld Profound — Powerful backer responsible for elevating him as Dao Child, but also a figure whose plans shape his constrained route toward Lesser Yang 178 189 287.
• Ji Fuyao — Imperial Lord of the Immortal Dao and bearer of Sun. Jiang Yi’s Yin-Yang path makes eventual confrontation unavoidable 109.
• Yao Yun — Retainer and beneficiary of his training; her fate and restoration campaign are tied to his search for Ziwu Fire 258 263.
• Chang Jing and He Shouzheng — Administrators recruited to establish Jiang Yi’s working authority at the Eternal Bright Heavenly Pool 204 208.

Notable Quotes

“My life and death shall be decided by my own heart.” 176

“Cat Master, meeting you in that ruined temple in Three Harmonies Ward was the greatest fortuitous encounter of my cultivation life. I have never felt the slightest regret.” 176

“When human material has no use, it should be expended.” 287