Li Yang

Biodata

Power Progression

System training durations represent lifespan expenditure, not ordinary elapsed time. Li Yang’s remaining lifespan, lifespan cap, and lifespan awaiting unlocking are separate values 3 107.

Background / History

Li Yang remembers a previous life as an office worker and describes herself as an orphan in both lives. In her new world, the death of her grandmother leaves her supporting herself. Before pursuing military academy admission, she lives in a sparsely furnished home in Heqing Residential Complex and takes time away from high school 7 8 9 28.

Her immediate concern is survival: harvesting plants extends her otherwise dwindling lifespan. After meeting He Song while cutting down a mutated four-leaf clover, she learns about Zhongdu Military Academy. Its separate Agronomy Department appeals to her because it offers large-scale cultivation of mutated crops—a safer, renewable source of lifespan than hunting dangerous creatures 4 8 192.

Her 90-point physique draws the attention of Huangcheng No. 1 High School and provincial officials. Principal Sun provides an apartment, protects her from reporters, and arranges examination preparation. She becomes Donghua Province’s top scorer; after her spiritual enhancement greatly improves her memory, she also places first in her school’s academic mock examination 7 8 27 43.

Despite competing offers from seven departments, Li Yang chooses Agronomy and formally joins Zhongdu Military Academy’s 301st incoming class. She moves out of the freshman dormitory immediately so she can spend more time harvesting wheat 46 49.

Appearance

• Build: Tall and lean; her loose Huangcheng school uniform initially makes her appear slighter than she is 21.
• Hair: Black, worn in a half-high ponytail during her military-academy assessment 5.
• Eyes and complexion: Clear, cool black eyes and fair, luminous skin 5.
• Bearing: Confident, composed, and poised, contrasting with classmates’ memories of the original girl’s timid manner 5 7.
• Disguises: Takes Little Ox’s appearance and also uses the face of an ordinary-looking woman of about twenty-two or twenty-three. These forms are not her natural appearance 176 178.

Personality

Li Yang initially wants a safe, comfortable life rather than fame or combat achievement. She studies safety instructions closely, weighs harvesting rewards against danger, and prefers buying a breakthrough pill to seeking a fight. Her choice of Agronomy also protects her secrets by keeping her away from crowded, prestigious departments 10 20 27 44.

She is practical about money and resources, shaped by prolonged poverty. Farming, pill refinement, and weapon forging all become potential income sources. Nevertheless, she keeps track of debts even when her creditors do not press her, and she repays kindness: after receiving scholarships, she buys Teacher Xu a new oven in thanks for feeding her 28 88 160 357.

Her negotiations combine frankness, calculation, and deliberate performance. She dislikes lying unless necessary, but readily uses disguises, feigned distress, or a staged disagreement to protect herself and improve her bargaining position. Li Yaowan recognizes her as a particularly formidable negotiator 5 83 85 179.

Her caution does not prevent deep attachment. She risks herself for her teachers, companions, and department, and she refuses to treat established relationships as mere transactions. Her preferred partnerships begin with mutual benefit and develop into trust rather than dependence or exploitation 254 426 449 511.

Abilities & Skills

Plant Harvesting and Lifespan

Harvesting plants grants Li Yang lifespan. She eventually discovers that this is her own innate talent, not an ability supplied by Sister Longevity; the system chose her because she already possessed it 481.

• Mutated wheat initially provides one year per harvested head, making the Agronomy Department a reliable source of survival and advancement 36 37.
• Returns depend on the crop and her cultivation. First Grade wheat becomes ineffective after she advances, while higher-grade crops also yield less as she grows stronger 84 230 289.
• Crop cultivation offers a renewable alternative to indiscriminate plant killing. She explicitly redefines herself as a farmer rather than a “plant killer” 108.
• Lifespan caps and locked reserves restrict how much she can immediately use; obtaining lifespan does not automatically make every reserve accessible 107 112 281.

Longevity System — “Sister Longevity”

The system spends lifespan to perform training, cultivation, refinement, and analysis 3 24 105.

• Improves physique, spirit, cultivation techniques, Star Skills, pills, and Star Weapons 26 29 44.
• Can accelerate spiritual-power recovery and analyze dangerous cultivation questions 105 230.
• Produces results almost instantly from an observer’s perspective, even when its simulated work consumes centuries 132.
• Does not erase poor aptitude: Li Yang repeatedly pays enormous costs for low comprehension, limited forging talent, and bodily limits 26 78 132.
• Cannot bypass every realm restriction. At Second Grade, she cannot purify a Third Grade pill 84.

Shock Subsystem

Li Yang binds a sharing subsystem from Jiang Yuqing’s Shock Points System through a Spirit Connection 404 405.

• Identifies people and tracks the Shock Points they generate 405.
• Offers pill-refinement and spiritual-power functions 404.
• Sister Longevity converts 2,000 Shock Points into one thousand years of lifespan, adding another resource stream for cultivation and combat 405 418.

Agricultural Research

Li Yang uses lifespan, materials, and practical experimentation to cultivate mutated crops 133.

• Successfully raises a mutated chive seed to Second Grade with Lianxin’s guidance 133.
• Failed experiments can produce seed monsters; killing one allows her to recover the lifespan spent creating it 133.
• Organizes large-scale planting with the Nature Department, the Plow Ox Clan, and other partners to support increasingly expensive cultivation 230 366.
• Selects heavenly spring water partly for its ability to nourish Divine Soil 212.

Spiritual Perception and Coordination

Her unusually high spirit strengthens perception, memory, and battlefield coordination 13 27 31 184.

• Detects Starlight around disguised mutated plants and identifies weak points where it is thinnest 13 16.
• Gains enhanced dynamic vision and reflexes, allowing her to evade an otherwise concealed attacker 31.
• Directs teammates through Spirit Connection, giving an inexperienced group unusually strong coordination 184.
• Manipulates masterless weapons in the Sword Tomb to create collisions and help Qingchen escape 231.

Concealment and Disguise

• Hidden Shadow: Conceals her form. In the Tree Tower, she disappears from pursuing Star Plants’ attention and makes them attack one another 59 90.
• Vest: Supports borrowed appearances, including her Little Ox disguise 159 184.
• Separate combat identities: Learns wood-type Star Skills suited to the Bone Peach Mother Tree so observers cannot identify her through the Light of Dawn’s usual techniques 404.
• Emotional concealment: Later combines a Divine Skill with unusually effective emotional concealment, preventing Shennü from locating her 541.

Close-Combat Star Skills

Her fighting style emphasizes weak-point strikes, sudden acceleration, and finishing opponents before they can respond 73 90.

• Fist Burst: An early close-range attack; she reaches full proficiency through lifespan expenditure 31 32 38.
• Burst-Speed Combo: Combines Frenzy, Severing Space, and Execution, the Star Combat Department’s quick-kill combination 90.
• Frenzy: Greatly increases speed, supporting both rapid attacks and urgent movement 103 218.
• Skill limits: Purple-grade techniques require ten Star Apertures. Having learned Time Rewind, she initially cannot equip a complete purple-grade version of the combo 218.
• A temporarily elevated realm does not automatically upgrade her skills: purple-grade Severing Space loses effectiveness when used against Chen Ri at a much higher combat level 244.

Defensive and Healing Skills

• Invincible Sun Shield: A defensive Star Skill learned under Si Kui; Li Yang later pushes an Invincible Shield to full coverage while charging a powerful plant opponent 55 349.
• People Need Face, Trees Need Bark: Commonly shortened to Bark; its close-fitting defense neutralizes an enemy’s Starlight attack and supports stealth-oriented melee combat 73 90 107.
• Natural Healing: A healing skill whose proficiency she improves alongside her other preparations 159.
• Willow God’s Binding: Listed among her early Nature-related Star Skills 55.

Scythe of Ice

Scythe of Ice becomes her principal large-scale harvesting technique and also serves as a freezing attack 230 285.

• Harvests many plants in a single sweep; Chen Ri’s enhancement further increases its efficiency 258 320.
• Can be simplified and controlled precisely enough to freeze a Fifth Grade opponent in place 285.
• Its scale doubles after her Fifth Grade breakthrough, even before Chen Ri’s next advancement 289.
• Broad coverage is not always an advantage: obstructing branches and roots prevent her from using it to strike the Sand Fruit King’s small weak point 349.

Spatial and Temporal Techniques

• Spatial Teleportation and Teleportation Anchors: Provide transport and escape options for dangerous Nature Department bounty missions. An anchor also functions inside the Life-and-Death Battle secret realm 281 294.
• Time Rewind: Becomes part of her investigative toolkit; information from the Flower of Evil later helps her use it more safely 218 426.
• Power of Time: Studies its relationship with the Law of Time while investigating Shi Yun and the repeating encounters in the rear hall 475.

Power of Nature

Li Yang cultivates the Sparse Words, Natural Heart Sutra and later applies the Power of Nature directly in battle 107 522.

• A mental probe of Wang Gexiao substantially advances her understanding of the sutra 335.
• Infusing attacks with the Power of Nature makes them effective against black monsters that otherwise threaten to overwhelm her group 522.
• Her Ninth Grade breakthrough spreads nourishing Power of Nature through the Huaxia Heavenly Palace in the form of white pear blossoms 570.
• In the side stories, she purifies the Power of Chaos under the descending Laws of Heaven and Earth 594.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Iron axes — Her early harvesting tools and practical-examination weapons. She chooses two axes rather than the more conventional swords, sabers, or spears 12.
• Agronomy Department sickle — A borrowed Star Weapon used to harvest mutated wheat. She initially declines to improve it because it is not hers and an unexplained upgrade would expose her ability 36.
• Shadow Moon — Blue-grade twin blades. Even after obtaining purple replacements, she finds Shadow Moon more comfortable because she has already grown accustomed to it 166 196.
• Purple-grade twin blades — Later weapons used against Chen Ri; their lower grade makes them vulnerable to being shattered by her attacks 196 244.
• Risking Life — A compass-like secret treasure that burns lifespan for a dramatic temporary increase in capability. One thousand years gives her a single second of Eighth Grade-level action in the Sword Tomb, enough to sever a thousand cages 242.
• Noisy Pot — Contains a sword spirit capable of strengthening her weapons. She releases it against Chen Ri only after Lianxin offers to suppress it 244.
• Chen Ri — Later serves as a Growth-Type Divine Weapon, enhancing Li Yang’s combat power and Scythe of Ice 258 305 320.
• Cultivation dishes — Forged vessels used in crop experiments; one also becomes Lianxin’s bed. Producing a Second Grade dish initially costs two hundred years of lifespan 132 133.

Relationships

• Si Kui — Primary teacher and a deeply cherished parental figure. Li Yang stops her from consuming the sentient lotus, works to restore what she has lost, and later pursues Daowu to recover her Myriad Phenomena Origin Soul 105 510 511 579.
• Li Yaowan — Supplementary teacher, research partner, and eventual mother-like figure. Their relationship begins with negotiations over purification and research resources; Li Yang later obtains the titanium needed to repair her lifebound furnace 84 254 261 426.
• Lianxin — Symbiotic partner, cultivation adviser, and constant companion. He supplies lifespan, helps protect her mind, and supports her in spatial crises. She promises to take him home and later challenges his willingness to die creating a new world 210 334 349 495 552.
• Jiang Yuqing — Initially a rival from Star-Slaying Military Academy, later a battle companion and source of recovery pills. He shares his Shock subsystem with her, unknowingly making his own astonishment especially valuable to her 147 172 184 405.
• He Song — The first person she meets after arriving in this world. He rewards her for clearing the mutated clover, later recruits her for a mission, and escorts the Agronomy Department toward the Astral Realm 8 70 192.
• Fang Chuyun and Yu Hongyuan — High-school classmates who travel to Central Capital with her and become part of her close circle. She specifically considers her ability to protect them when planning department recruitment 9 151.
• Feng Yiqiao, Lü Shunshun, and Xia Putao — Agronomy Department seniors who welcome her enthusiasm and support her decision to join. They campaign to secure benefits for her and enthusiastically welcome her return in the side stories 37 48 594.
• Shen Binghua — Initially a formidable institutional opponent over the Tree Tower, later a protector and adviser. She rescues Li Yang’s mission team and warns her against entering the Astral Realm too quickly 64 74 141.
• Little Ox — Agricultural ally who shelters Li Yang and Jiang Yuqing, restrains a captured attacker, and helps provide access to cultivated Star Plants 170 172.
• Li Qingchen — Fellow Huaxia Star Wielder whom she helps in the Sword Tomb. They later survive an encounter with the Flower of Evil together 231 375.
• Flower of Evil — Dangerous contact and later active collaborator. He provides information, relays her message to Cheng Rui, treats her injuries, and offers passage to the Lotus Domain; his involvement also carries risks to her identity and safety 375 426 449 495 579.
• Cheng Rui — Martial uncle and battlefield collaborator. He acts on her warning during the God King of Time crisis and designs the formation used against the Divine Venerable of Wood 397 495 541.
• Daowu — Contractual counterpart and later enemy. She binds him to help reclaim Nature Department Star Wielders, then fights him over Si Kui’s soul and the Human Emperor’s body 502 579.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Rebuilding the Agronomy Department

• Uses her early successes to promote the neglected department, including a Tree Tower strategy that turns pursuing plants against one another 59.
• Abandons her original low-profile approach when threats to the Nature Department make obscurity unsafe. She plans to demonstrate the department’s strength and recruit well-protected students from prominent families 76 151.
• Takes responsibility for the wheat harvest and helps turn the department into a campus attraction. Its senior students eventually become teachers 160 594.

Lianxin and the Sentient Lotus

• Investigates recurring lotus dreams and discovers Si Kui attempting to devour a sentient divine object to reach Ninth Grade 105.
• Confirms the danger of heavenly punishment and persuades Si Kui to stop, preventing a potentially fatal or cultivation-destroying outcome 105 210.
• Later enters the Spatial Rift to retrieve Lianxin, who believes he must remain behind as the seed of a new Lotus Domain. She argues that certain death cannot fulfill his mission 552.

Divine Miracle and the Sword Tomb

• Survives assassination attempts, works with Jiang Yuqing and Little Ox, and directs the Agronomy Department’s first coordinated team battle 172 184.
• Helps Qingchen escape in the Sword Tomb, then uses Risking Life to free imprisoned Star Wielders 231 242.
• Holds off Chen Ri while Qingchen collects light-condensed titanium. The material enables Li Yaowan to repair her lifebound furnace and return to the Eighth Grade Realm 244 254 310.

Single-Horn Domain and the Buried Affair

• Operates under her Fire Fox identity and enters the Life-and-Death Battle secret realm to secure Lu Yanbie’s cooperation 292 294.
• Risks exposing herself by using Chen Ri to save him rather than preserving her disguise at his expense 305.
• Returns after defeating Jiang Nianchu’s plan and obtaining one hundred million Star Coins. Lu Yanbie then prepares to disclose an affair concealed for twenty-eight years 314.

Infiltrating the Upper Three Realms

• Prepares a separate identity and skill set to draw the Lost Space Society’s attention during the Wise One promotion gathering 404.
• Investigates Shi Yun’s repeating behavior in the Time Realm Domain and becomes the target of the God King of Time, who attempts to consume her existence and seize her Myriad Phenomena Origin Soul 475 495.
• Recognizes the missing Authority of the Present as the key to resisting the takeover and sends Cheng Rui an urgent message through the Flower of Evil 495.
• Uses a heaven and earth contract with Daowu to demand the recovery of Nature Department Star Wielders, exposing the Seven Sages’ possession of them 502.

War and Academy Reform

• Helps lure the Divine Venerable of Wood into Cheng Rui’s formation, sacrificing both arms while destroying two vessels during the operation 541.
• Reaches Ninth Grade after killing Mi Liu, then continues fighting to recover Si Kui’s soul from Daowu 570 579.
• In the side stories, reorganizes Zhongdu Military Academy and establishes Agronomy Departments at military academies throughout Huaxia’s thirty-six provinces. She also plans reforms beyond Huaxia, across the Astral Realm 600.

Notable Quotes

“Because I like crops!” 43

“Not everyone wants to become a Grandmaster. Like I said, I’m not very ambitious. I’ll be happy if I can graduate safely and smoothly.” 44

“I just hope you can return to the Eighth Grade Realm and protect the Nature Pavilion, Teacher Li.” 254