Liang Shi

Biodata

Power Progression

Background / History

Refugee and Errand Runner

Liang Shi was the only son of a somewhat well-off family. After the adults in his household died, he fled to a city without a home or family. Yi Xuan encountered him on his second day there, after he had gone a full day without food. Although hunger had made him consider stealing from a stall, he cautiously refused to accept work involving ill-gotten gains 17 18 22.

His first work for Yi Xuan involved delivering a message. When offered an ingot weighing an estimated forty or fifty taels, he tried to return it and calculated that 200 copper coins would be fair payment. His honesty pleased Yi Xuan, who continued employing him. Within less than a month, Liang Shi earned enough to acquire a small courtyard of his own 18 22.

He subsequently helped with Yi Xuan’s grenade business. When sect disciples seized him by the collar and brought him to Yi Xuan’s residence, he was badly frightened but remained anxious about Yi Xuan’s safety 19 20.

Apprenticeship

After cooperation with Li Jingming made Liang Shi’s delivery work unnecessary, Yi Xuan deliberately ignored him for a month. Liang Shi interpreted this as abandonment and eventually confronted him in tears. Yi Xuan explained that he wanted a subordinate capable of independent thought rather than someone who depended on him for every decision, then began teaching him grenade assembly 22.

Nearly half a year after their first meeting, Yi Xuan arranged for Liang Shi’s Spirit Root to be tested and offered to take him as a disciple. Liang Shi accepted by repeatedly kowtowing. Yi Xuan explicitly stipulated that the apprenticeship would not make him a disciple of the Azure Cloud Sect 39.

No. 01 became responsible for his scientific education, while Yi Xuan supplied his initial cultivation method. After a little over ten days of targeted instruction, Liang Shi assembled a 3D printer from nearly a hundred sheets of blueprints in four hours under No. 01’s supervision 40.

Choosing Bioengineering

After completing No. 01’s training, Liang Shi chose biological engineering as his specialty. Yi Xuan had expected him to select mechanics because of his practical aptitude. Instead, Liang Shi devoted himself to Demon Beast cloning, enduring five failed experiments and preparing a sixth before Yi Xuan forced him to take a break 138.

Yi Xuan suspected that the choice was connected to Liang Shi’s deceased parents, but this remained his inference. Liang Shi also had an explicit second goal: investigating whether Spirit Roots were related to genes so that he could help Yi Xuan overcome his condition as a Rootless Person 138.

Personality

Liang Shi initially demonstrates a strong concern for fair dealing: he refuses dishonest work and rejects excessive payment despite his own poverty. His attachment to Yi Xuan grows from gratitude into a parental bond, making perceived rejection especially painful 17 18 22.

His loyalty is often fierce. He rebukes Shi Zhenghao for disparaging Yi Xuan and accepts Yi Xuan’s use of the Soul Control Technique without questioning him, despite recognizing its association with the Evil Dao. That loyalty does not remain unconditional: he later condemns Yi Xuan’s decision to retreat rather than destroy the Human Clan’s enemies 45 75 619.

As a researcher, he is persistent but prone to impatience and overwork. Repeated cloning failures do not deter him, yet he becomes so absorbed that he neglects food and sleep. Scientific setbacks can also affect him deeply; Yi Xuan has to reassure him after one line of research produces an unintended outcome 138 267.

By the Human Clan’s final crisis, his devotion has become openly vengeful. His last declaration is backed by a deliberate act: distributing the clan’s secret advancement method throughout the universe so that other races will face its consequences as well 620 621.

Abilities & Skills

Scientific and Engineering Training

Liang Shi receives a broad scientific education from No. 01 before specializing in bioengineering. Yi Xuan eventually judges his technological knowledge to be at least comparable to that of a modern person 86 138.

• Assembly: Builds the first 3D printer under supervision and helps assemble ten humanoid robots 40 86.
• Robotics analysis: Recognizes natural-science robotics architecture within machines incorporating the Puppet Technique 86.
• Independent engineering: Is considered capable of developing a functional quadcopter drone himself 150.
• Cross-disciplinary knowledge: Understands basic artificial intelligence, laser theory, and enough civil engineering to question Yi Xuan’s construction-drone design 51 63 150.

Bioengineering

His specialty develops from unsuccessful cloning experiments into mass-producible engineered organisms and biological substitutes 138 239 331.

• Human experimentation: His laboratory contains bodies obtained from Xia Kingdom’s death-row prisoners and employs selected Imperial University students as researchers 238.
• Marine research: Leads studies of sea creatures’ radiation resistance; Godzilla repeatedly consumes the experimental subjects during this work 266.

Medical Research and Genetic Repair

Liang Shi makes an irreplaceable contribution to increasing the upper limit of ordinary human lifespans. He is also one of the key researchers behind life energy 407 543.

• Oversees the second phase of Xingtian’s treatment using gene-repair fluid 543.
• Explains that anesthesia would damage the genetic-repair process, requiring Xingtian to endure the pain 543.
• Arranges examinations and protected recuperation for Yi Xuan after his unexplained unconsciousness; the examinations find no illness or injury 603.

Biological Control Technology

Liang Shi works with Yi Xuan to test and implant a brain-control chip in a Demon Scorpion Soldier 241.

• Subdues the subject with smoke, then introduces the chip through its mouth using miniature robots 241.
• Confirms that a verbal command can stop its attack without suppressing its underlying instincts 241.
• Later directs the deployment of engineered demons through a private visual interface and a domain-wide hidden signal 502.

Cultivation

His natural aptitude is exceptionally poor. Yi Xuan estimates that he would rank near the bottom even among cultivators with fourth-grade Spirit Roots. Simulation reveals that parts of his original circulation route consume True Qi rather than increasing it 43 52.

• Benefits from a method optimized specifically for his body, with safety constraints imposed by Yi Xuan 52 53.
• Uses Divine Sense to read the optimized method from a Jade Slip 53.
• Predicts that he could reach Qi Refining’s third layer within days after adopting the new method, but that breakthrough is not shown in the cited scene 53.
• Remains vulnerable in high-level warfare; Yi Xuan warns that even the aftershocks of Loose Immortal combat could kill him 348.

Administration and Research Leadership

Liang Shi translates Yi Xuan’s development plans into practical implementation and later holds substantial authority among the Mother Planet’s researchers 195 587.

• Oversees Xia Kingdom’s expanding factories and modern consumer production after Yi Xuan leaves the capital 195.
• Helps set examination questions, deliberately giving biology greater weight because his research needs more personnel 198.
• Commands respect second only to Yi Xuan within the research community, including from Niu Keli 587.
• Receives full responsibility for the Mother Planet’s affairs when Yi Xuan and the Good Corpse depart for war 593.

Equipment / Items

• Storage Bag and Black Tortoise No. 2 mecha — Yi Xuan equips him with the mecha, which he keeps ready inside his Storage Bag during a tense encounter with Qian Lei 140.
• Personalized cultivation-method Jade Slip — Contains the optimized circulation method developed using No. 01’s simulations 53.
• Bioroid substitute — Allows him to confront Clear Wind Pavilion’s elders while remaining in a control room tens of thousands of meters above them 331.
• Book of Technology — Entrusted to him when Yi Xuan leaves. Liang Shi subsequently decides to make its knowledge available through the Cultivation Assistance System 561 562.

Relationships

• Yi Xuan — Employer, master, and parental figure. Trains Liang Shi for independence and entrusts him with increasingly important research and administrative duties. Their relationship fractures over Yi Xuan’s response to the Human Clan’s final crisis 22 39 593 619.
• No. 01 — Scientific teacher and friend. Habitually teases him with “Disciple No. 1.” Liang Shi refuses to consider altering its underlying code merely to stop the nickname, regarding that as comparable to harming a friend’s soul 50 51.
• Shi Zhenghao — Senior martial uncle. Liang Shi houses him during his recovery and sometimes struggles with his unreasonable demands. His disappearance after heavenly lightning strikes prompts Liang Shi to seek Yi Xuan’s intervention 46 91 618 619.
• Zhuo Ning — Associate within Yi Xuan’s organization. Liang Shi introduces him to the base’s technology and later helps secure his escape from Clear Wind Pavilion 76 331.
• Xingtian — Addressed as his “second master.” Liang Shi supervises his genetic-repair treatment 543.
• Yi Xuan’s Good Corpse — Addressed as his “third master.” Supports Liang Shi’s decision to distribute the Book of Technology through the Cultivation Assistance System 561 562.
• Niu Keli — Fellow researcher who participates in Godzilla testing and respectfully addresses Liang Shi as Principal 266 587.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Clear Wind Pavilion Confrontation

Liang Shi confronts Clear Wind Pavilion’s eight grand elders over their kidnapping of Zhuo Ning. After Zhuo Ning escapes aboard a rocket, Liang Shi pretends to perform a secret technique while resolving the condition afflicting the Pavilion’s disciples—a problem he had caused himself 330 331.

He rejects an offer to become a Pavilion elder, whereupon the first grand elder beheads him. The severed head speaks before falling silent, revealing that the victim was a bioroid. The real Liang Shi remains safely in the control room above 331.

Heavenly Dog Crisis

Liang Shi recognizes the footage of Chu Longcheng’s disappearance as resembling digestion, helping Yi Xuan’s group conclude that an unknown creature has consumed him. This contributes to their suspicion that the Cultivation Realm’s galaxy lies within the creature’s stomach 262.

During the renewed Heavenly Dog crisis, he proposes the Bullet Plan: penetrating successive stomach walls rather than treating them as a single barrier. He demonstrates the principle by firing through stacked paper but admits that he lacks a practical means of implementing it. Yi Xuan subsequently proposes using the sun’s power to propel the Mother Planet through the Heavenly Dog 426 427.

Sharing the Book of Technology

After Yi Xuan leaves and entrusts him with the Book of Technology, Liang Shi decides to place it in the Cultivation Assistance System. The Good Corpse supports the decision, recognizing the importance of pooled knowledge and the much safer circumstances for public technological development 561 562.

Human Clan’s Final Crisis

Liang Shi reports that Shi Zhenghao vanished after five bolts of heavenly lightning struck him while he attempted to use what Liang Shi believed was Great Sage power. He acknowledges that the advancement was not definitively verified, though Shi Zhenghao’s presence had resembled Yi Xuan’s 618 619.

He begs Yi Xuan to save the Human Clan from the united myriad clans. When Yi Xuan instead announces withdrawal to the desolate lands and promises eternal life for every human, Liang Shi angrily accuses him of yielding again and demands that he destroy their enemies 619.

Before his final meeting with Yi Xuan, Liang Shi broadcasts the Human Clan’s method for advancing to Great Sage through quantum channels, making it accessible to any faction or race with quantum communications. His final cry for the other races to perish with humanity is therefore revealed as a statement of intent backed by action, rather than an empty curse 620 621.

Notable Quotes

“If it involves ill-gotten gains, I’d rather not do it!” 17

“Master, do you think there might be some connection between Spirit Roots and genes?” 138

“That’s right, I asked you to save the Human Clan, but not like this!” 619

“Perish along with my Human Clan!” 620