Li Xingkong

Biodata

Power Progression

Background and History

Early Life and System Training

Li Xingkong grew up in poverty in Divine Land. Becoming conscious of money’s importance at an early age left him with a persistent inferiority complex, particularly when approaching women 9.

His initial cultivation consists of systematic study and practical training under the system rather than unexplained power grants. He learns to control his existing bodily functions before obtaining the means to cultivate with Spiritual Qi 1 20. At this stage, he is the only cultivator in his world and initially favors techniques useful for everyday modern life over a conventional arsenal of attack, defense, and escape methods 35.

Prisoner Continent

Li Xingkong travels to Prisoner Continent to work, but Guan Zhenzhen steals his belongings while airport officers prevent him from intervening. Further encounters with fraud and armed criminals teach him to avoid confrontations he cannot yet win and to retaliate through theft, disguise, and infiltration instead 10 12 26.

His dispute with Luke Morgan escalates into repeated armed attacks and the destruction of Morgan’s Bloody Hand Gang. Morgan then uses Old Mike, the man who sold Li Xingkong his farm, to draw him toward Freedom City Prison 39 41 42.

Before returning home, Li Xingkong settles several earlier grievances. He frightens Ellie with an empty-chamber gunshot rather than demanding compensation from her, and later recovers an overcharged taxi fare with precisely calculated interest 28 53.

Cooperation with Divine Land

Back home, Li Xingkong cultivates, breeds Body Tempering Grass, and begins healing his father’s chronic illnesses and construction-work injuries 76 104. His refusal to sell to the Cherry Blossom Wind Group leads to threats against his family’s livelihood and land 89 96.

Through Tang Cheng, he opens contact with Divine Land’s authorities. He treats cooperation as conditional on peaceful coexistence and retains the option of leaving if an irreconcilable conflict develops 120 121. Old Tang becomes his principal high-level contact and arranges access to a classified base 125 134.

Li Xingkong subsequently becomes Divine Land’s cultivation pioneer and the person in primary charge of its lunar base 200 305. Although he supplies transformative techniques and infrastructure, he leaves routine governance to others and concentrates on cultivation 309 345.

Lunar and Space Infrastructure

Li Xingkong prepares to reach the moon without a rocket and offers to carry approximately five thousand tons of supplies. On the moon, he excavates and reinforces a mountainside base, then compresses the rubble into building bricks for its interior 170 189.

His later projects include leveling the space-elevator construction site, completing its grand formation, and developing spatial transport devices for Divine Land 296 304 393 400. The production and distribution of Spiritual Qi also allow him to explore cultivation arts previously impractical in his environment 209.

Interstellar Conflicts

After the Snail People attack him, Li Xingkong fights their fleets and pursues their leadership. He eventually stops attacking ordinary citizens and seeks to remove foreign merchants and other visitors before striking the capital 540 544 547. His spoils include laboratory data, an intelligent sphere, and the Shield of Truth Type Three, which he intends to bring back for Divine Land’s researchers 552.

Returning home after prolonged absences, he discovers that his parents have adopted Tang Huhu as a daughter 595 596 599. He later confronts cultivators whose treatment of ordinary people violates his convictions and entrusts Ge Baoqi with handling the aftermath 609 610.

His conflict with Xuan Qingzi extends into Sihali territory. Working within a temporary alliance involving Fang Ritu and Baili Qiu, he destroys Xuan Qingzi’s consciousness-upload infrastructure to cut off his escape routes. Xuan Qingzi’s death is subsequently confirmed 618 622 626.

Immortal Cultivation and Flying Cloud Pass

Wan Chongshan’s Thousand Mountains Method radically accelerates Li Xingkong’s Golden Core cultivation. Her later instruction, alongside the system’s guidance, supports his preparations for Nascent Soul formation 655 658 761.

After becoming an Immortal, he enters the Era of Chaos and seeks battlefield experience to complement his theoretical knowledge 834 857. At Flying Cloud Pass, Liu Shinian becomes his teammate, while Huang Feihu’s trust gives him access to the treasury to search for Concept Pearls 858 878.

His later research centers on Dao Evolution and the integration of other concepts. When his progress encounters conceptual boundaries, he returns to the Thousand Mountains Bodies under Wan Chongshan’s control and begins cultivating through them 903 926.

Appearance

Li Xingkong initially has ordinary facial features but a nearly perfect physique developed through years of cultivation training 8.

• Hair: Black; alien observers later describe him as skinny and black-haired 545.
• Aging: Shows no visible change after three years of Foundation Establishment seclusion 201.
• Early clothing: Wears a black shell jacket and thick jeans for his first flight 8.
• Disguises: Uses a gray trench coat, wide-brimmed hat, and black sunglasses when posing as a newly arrived traveler 26.
• Dharma form: Incorporates solar and lunar imagery, a ribbon, black lotus, Eight Trigrams lotus pedestal, golden armor, rosy clouds, and draconic features 813.

Personality

Li Xingkong is an intensely disciplined homebody. He prefers prepared, extended seclusion to social advancement, displays little interest in luxury, and sees prestige and envy as useless unless they benefit cultivation 65 413 833. His reclusiveness is not hostility: he welcomes friendly conversation when it does not interfere with important work and does not punish well-intentioned mistakes 673.

He remembers both favors and grievances. His early stated principle is proportional retaliation—answering attempted murder with lethal force, but financial fraud through financial revenge 56. He also questions his own conduct, recognizing that revenge can become an excuse to bully weaker people 29. His later position remains explicitly egalitarian: cultivation does not make him superior in human worth, and he continues to identify with ordinary people 609.

His research is grounded in understanding and reproducibility. He values strength built through comprehensible theory and practice, studies unfamiliar techniques closely, and uses simulated battles to compensate for a shortage of suitable opponents 161 372 411. Despite his power, he repeatedly recognizes gaps in his combat experience and generally prefers peace to making enemies 217 311 906.

Abilities and Skills

Bodily Control and Tempering

System training gives Li Xingkong conscious control over his body’s existing functions 1.

• Regulates blood pressure, digestion, pain, and pore opening.
• Can suspend digestion and expel ingested poison before it is processed.
• Develops enhanced hearing, reactions, movement, and physical durability through cultivation 12 25 26.
• Eventually withstands aircraft autocannon rounds without injury 351.
• His Golden Core vitality and self-designed Three Palaces system allow him to survive a devastating spatial attack, though it causes substantial damage 613 614.

Divine Sense and Hexagram Deductions

Divine Sense provides perception, physical manipulation, and the computational foundation of his Heavenly Evolution cultivation 196 316 318.

• Detects attacks whose operating principles he understands 196.
• Crushes small fighter-engine components to disable aircraft 351.
• Uses the Li Trigram to evaluate battlefield conditions and calculate optimal responses 316.
• Simulates battles and artifact-refining procedures 348 411.
• Reaches nearly one hundred thousand kilometers after Core Formation 556.
• Requires sufficient Magic Power; the energy cost of his calculations repeatedly limits advancement 199 309 313.

Spellcasting and Sword Arts

His repertoire develops from a few practical spells into large-scale offensive techniques 70 311.

• Early spells: Shotgun Spell, Explosive Reactive Armor, and Rejuvenation Technique 70.
• Mobility and utility: Acquires the Wind Riding Spell, Thunder Vein Technique, and Restoration Technique 73.
• Sword Control Technique: Provides both offense and flight fast enough to escape a nuclear blast wave, rather than endure it 311.
• Ten Thousand Swords Art: Converts surrounding wreckage and planetary fragments into flying swords 540 602.
• Documented range: The Ten Thousand Swords Art approaches a combat radius of 0.5 astronomical units 556.

Restoration Technique

Li Xingkong uses the Restoration Technique to investigate and treat bodily damage 76.

• Successfully tests it on a sick dog before using it on his father.
• Detects his father’s high blood pressure, high blood sugar, and old physical injuries.
• Begins removing hidden muscular injuries and ailments individually.

Earth-Traversing Golden Light

An unexpectedly acquired Golden Core divine ability lets Li Xingkong transform into golden light and travel at light speed 448.

• Demonstrates it by traveling to Mercury’s orbit 448.
• Increasing Divine Sense range gives him time to perceive obstacles while moving 556.
• Spatial disruption and associated neutrino turbulence can interfere with the transformation 614.
• Remains his favored escape ability even after many ordinary spells become redundant 809.

Thousand Mountains Method

Taught by Wan Chongshan, this method lets Li Xingkong explore alternative cultivation paths through parallel worlds 655 656 658.

• Initially takes nearly a month to sense a parallel world and nearly five years to learn practical use 658.
• His initial Magic Power permits only two paths despite computational capacity sufficient to deduce many more 658.
• Accelerates his advancement from One Revolution to Six Revolutions 658.
• Calculates an escape from a spatial maze in nine steps 727.
• Later supports cultivation through multiple Thousand Mountains Bodies carrying distributed Concept Beads 926.

Construction and Material Processing

Li Xingkong applies cultivation to excavation, manufacturing, and infrastructure 189 296.

• Hollows out and reinforces the lunar base while preserving structural pillars 189.
• Compresses excavated rubble into durable bricks 189.
• Levels the space-elevator site with Swift Lightning 296.
• Uses the Thick Earth City Fortification Technique’s raw-material refining module independently 526.
• Continues valuing the technique for its versatility even when stronger abilities reduce its necessity 809.

Formations, Artifact Refining, and Spatial Devices

He learns formation design and artifact refining through system instruction, deductions, and practical projects 311 348.

• Completes the space-elevator formation and subsequently determines that a redesign could use at least twenty percent fewer flags 304.
• Refines the Luo Shu and gives it to Old Tang through Tang Cheng 349.
• Builds space bags capable of passing objects, living creatures, and energy through a beacon 389.
• Develops an External Core vessel to supplement Magic Power and accelerate Divine Sense cultivation 393 413.
• Produces spatial gates for long-distance transport 393 400.

Manipulation of Creation

Li Xingkong eventually gains direct control over material creation rather than relying on crude particle-collision processes 703.

• Creates gold as easily as shaping clay 703.
• Analyzes unfamiliar treasury materials and reproduces them from the void 878.
• Stores their structures in memory for future artifact production 878.
• Creates cultivation-enhancing pills to reward soldiers who waited during his treasury search 878.

Conceptual Body and Dao Evolution

Becoming a Human Immortal changes Li Xingkong’s mode of existence from a purely material or spiritual being to a conceptual one 834.

• Can appear where matters related to him are being discussed, including beyond his home universe 834.
• Uses Dao Evolution to condense detectable concepts into physical substances and remove their offensive power 884.
• Can apply this process to naturally occurring concepts and other Human Immortals’ attacks 884.
• Identifies a weakness in concepts acquired through pearls: their links to him can potentially be severed by an opponent who understands the connection 903.

Equipment and Items

• Swift Lightning / Lightning Chaser — Sword commissioned by Old Tang from Bone-Tempering Grass material. Its approximately 1.1-meter blade is predominantly dark with golden patterns, and its hilt bears Li Xingkong’s name. Initially used chiefly for sword flight; later remembered as the model for a new magical treasure 286 782.
• Space Bag — His first successful bag is retained for storage; its spatial beacon also inspires the External Core 389 393.
• External Core vessel — A longan-sized metal sphere refined specifically to hold his supplementary energy system 393.
• Baili Qiu’s spatial bracelet — Gifted storage item used to carry the intelligent sphere and looted research data 552.
• Shield of Truth Type Three — Captured planetary shield comprising black and white shields and a circular base. Li Xingkong cannot break its deployed defense directly and instead bypasses it 552.
• Soul-Guiding Banners — Prepared for his planned reconstruction of the Underworld; also used against spirit-body spacecraft 492 611.
• Little Underworld — Used to collect an underground base’s equipment, research data, and valuable building materials 621.
• Cloud and Rosy Mist Robe — Worn during the Sihali conflict; returns to him after he survives the flagship’s devastating attack 613.
• Homecoming Knot — Linked to Earth Star, making it the gateway between his original universe and the Great Primordial World 803.
• Concept Pearls — Obtains damage-reduction, seven-emotions, and blood-lock pearls from Flying Cloud Pass’s treasury; also possesses a Traversal pearl obtained by Kong Ren 878 887.
• Laojun’s sword and Wan Chongshan’s short sabers — Treasures of exceptional origin that remain largely unused because his encounters rarely call for them 906.

Relationships

• The System — Teacher, research partner, and eventually lifebound Immortal artifact. Guides his cultivation and regards him as both a disciple and an outstanding researcher 1 762 849.
• Father Li and Mother Li — Parents. He treats his father’s ailments, prefers living with them when possible, and remains close despite lengthy seclusions. Both later become prominent spirit-plant specialists; his mother is explicitly a Golden Core cultivator 76 413 803 933.
• Tang Huhu — Adoptive younger sister and his mother’s eldest disciple. Her introduction initially makes him believe his parents have had another biological child 595 596 599.
• Old Tang — Principal governmental contact and long-term collaborator. Supports his research, arranges resources, and promises protection for his parents while he cultivates 134 309 348.
• Tang Cheng — Friend, early cultivation recipient, intermediary with the authorities, and sparring partner 106 120 216 217.
• Wu Ting — Former class leader and old friend who receives cultivation-related modification alongside Tang Cheng. Later helps care for Li Xingkong’s parents during the great expedition 241 633.
• Lou Zhiwu — Coordinates practical arrangements for his deep-sea research and lunar supply request 142 170.
• Wan Chongshan — Powerful mentor who gives him the Thousand Mountains Method and teaches him alongside the system. Later permits him to use isolated Thousand Mountains Bodies in exchange for an unspecified future favor 655 761 926.
• Baili Qiu — Interstellar friend, storage-bracelet donor, and intermediary in Sihali affairs. Their personal connection survives strained negotiations 552 610 618.
• Fang Ritu — Intelligence contact and calculating temporary ally during the pursuit of Xuan Qingzi. Seeks to cultivate friendship as a means of securing Li Xingkong’s cooperation 618 622 649.
• Xiao Chongshan — Close friend whose protection and past matter deeply to him. He supports her revenge and later introduces her to his parents as his friend 805 807 933.
• Liu Shinian — Immortal teammate at Flying Cloud Pass. Gives him a precious life-saving pearl and later assists him in approaching Wan Chongshan 858 860 926.
• Huang Feihu — Trusted senior contact whose confidence allows Li Xingkong unusual freedom in Flying Cloud Pass’s treasury 878.
• Ge Baoqi — Acquaintance entrusted with the aftermath of Li Xingkong’s intervention against abusive cultivators 610.
• Xuan Qingzi — Enemy whose actions bring their conflict to a point where Li Xingkong seeks his complete elimination, including the destruction of his revival infrastructure 618 622 626.

Notable Quotes

“People are born looking the way they do. Having a few scars is perfectly normal too.” 34

“My dad’s a dirt-legged peasant, and so am I. If you have nothing to say to him, then I have nothing to say to you.” 96

“Nothing to it but a practiced hand. Once you’ve practiced fighting for long enough, you’ll definitely catch up to me.” 217

Trivia

• The system’s original handmade Spiritual Qi is completely compatible with Li Xingkong. Other people’s affinity varies with their genetic similarity to him, an unintended consequence that alarms him when explained 215.
• He collects a handful of seabed sand as a souvenir after a deep-sea research descent 142.
• Despite his growing wealth, his family retains frugal habits, including bargaining over vegetables 414.
• Liu Shinian identifies him as a scholar rather than a battle Immortal, much to his surprise 860.