Li Daohong

Li Daohong is a prince of Liaoye, a dual-bloodline prodigy, and an earlier recipient of the Human Ancestor’s intervention. The Attendant’s Brain gives him exceptional memory and learning ability, but he uses those gifts for retaliation, luxury, and personal power rather than the broader human advancement for which they were intended.

Biography

A gifted prince shaped by humiliation

Li Daohong is already recognized as a precocious imperial genius before an old beggar beats him into an apparently mindless state. For three years his family and court largely abandon him, while servants and noble children exploit his incapacity. When he recovers, he remembers those humiliations, possesses an eidetic memory, awakens both the Li imperial and Night God bloodlines, and advances from Yang Opening to Light Shaking in half a year. Rather than turning that suffering into reform, he retaliates against former tormentors, blackmails officials with secrets witnessed while he was disregarded, and uses imperial protection to indulge cruelty and lust. His father, Li Wuyi, feels guilty for abandoning him and continues shielding a son whose talent remains useful even as his conduct becomes a political burden. (Chapters 807–809)

Commerce, rivalry, and Jade Clearmist’s palace

Liaoye sends Li Daohong abroad because he manages foreign relations competently and keeps his worst disruption away from the capital. As head of the merchant group in Harpy territory, he preserves the trade relationship while appropriating its profits. His pursuit of Zhu Xianyao brings him into conflict with Su Chen, whom he initially believes to be a servant; he orders that servant killed merely for interrupting him. Su Chen answers indirectly, provoking a costly battle between Li and Holly Keen. Li recognizes that he has been manipulated but cannot accept the insult and continues the fight, revealing how his intelligence is repeatedly subordinated to pride. In Jade Clearmist’s secret realm, he pursues the central palace with sacrificial warriors and competes for its treasures even after every faction has suffered heavy losses. (Chapters 807–814 and 841–854)

Death and judgment as a failed seed

When Su Chen secures the Wind and Thunder Spirit Totems, Li Daohong becomes his primary target. Li pleads that both of them were chosen by the old beggar and argues that this connection should protect him, but Su Chen rejects the claim. Li exhausts a succession of defensive treasures before Su Chen’s blade severs his body and lifesource in one strike. Li Wuyi later suspects Su Chen but treats the dead prince as a burden he had wanted removed, using the death mainly as leverage in negotiations. The Human Ancestor’s later account supplies the final judgment: the Attendant’s Brain was meant to help its recipient discover a new system of power, but Li used it to satisfy greed and selfishness. His death therefore ends both a dangerous prince and one of the Ancestor’s most conspicuous failed experiments in human potential. (Chapters 856–859, 914, 1087, and 1156)

Appearance and personality

Li Daohong is introduced as a young, stately prince. The narrative focuses on his openly lascivious gaze and abrupt shifts in expression rather than fixed physical details; it does not state his height, build, hair color, eye color, or usual clothing. (Chapter 807)

He is quick-witted, eloquent, proud, vengeful, greedy, and highly self-indulgent. His years of helplessness leave him determined never to be humiliated without retaliation, but he directs that determination toward domination rather than empathy. He can control himself well enough to keep foreign trade functioning and usually stops short of provoking a united response from Liaoye’s nobles, demonstrating real judgment when profit requires it. In personal conflicts, however, wounded pride repeatedly defeats that calculation. He understands that Su Chen has manipulated him and still persists against Holly Keen, then allows treasure competition to place him before an opponent he cannot defeat. (Chapters 807–814 and 853–859)

Abilities and cultivation

Li Daohong combines the Human Ancestor’s Attendant’s Brain with two awakened bloodlines and an unusually broad catalogue of learned Origin Skills. His range is exceptional, but the corpus does not name his cultivation technique, number of Lotus Platforms, or any advancement beyond the Light Shaking Realm before his death.

Attendant’s Brain

The old beggar’s attack leaves Li Daohong impaired for three years and then restores him with the Attendant’s Brain. The gift provides an eidetic memory and powerful calculatory capacity resembling the extinct Attendant race, allowing him to learn rapidly, speak persuasively, preserve secrets observed while others considered him incapable, and master roughly eighteen top-tier Origin Skills. The Human Ancestor later confirms that the gift was intended as a starting point from which Li might derive an independent power system, not an end in itself. (Chapters 808–809, 814, 1087, and 1156)

The brain increases intelligence, not wisdom or emotional discipline. Li can recognize a trap and still choose the confrontation because withdrawing would offend his pride. Su Chen exploits that separation by arranging provocations rather than attempting to out-calculate him directly. Stimulation Medicine in Jade Clearmist’s palace further amplifies Li’s preexisting greed, showing that exceptional cognition does not make him immune to emotional or medicinal influence. The corpus does not describe a separate activation condition, energy cost, or progressive upgrade for the Attendant’s Brain. (Chapters 814 and 854)

Dual bloodlines and broad Origin Skill repertoire

Li awakens the Li Clan’s Dream Beauty bloodline and his maternal Night God bloodline before reaching the higher cultivation realms. The compatible Dream Beauty bloodline supports consciousness-infused attacks, while the Night God bloodline manifests as grey clouds. Their coexistence contributes to his rapid ascent from Yang Opening to Light Shaking and gives him a flexible foundation for many other techniques. The corpus does not specify the exact density, awakening stage, or individual cost of either bloodline. (Chapters 808 and 814)

His learned repertoire includes thousands of streaks of sword Qi and a defensive transformation into a metal statue, in addition to bloodline-derived attacks. This variety lets him withstand repeated waves of Holly Keen’s puppets and conceal many options until a serious battle forces him to reveal them. Versatility does not make any one technique supreme: the prolonged puppet fight consumes sacrificial warriors and resources, while Su Chen at his empowered peak stops Li’s full-strength punch and destroys every defense he attempts. His latest state is death with his lifesource severed, leaving no opportunity for further progression. (Chapters 813–814 and 858–859)

Relationships

• Human Ancestor: The Human Ancestor chooses Li as one of humanity’s promising seedlings and gives him the Attendant’s Brain. Li interprets that selection as proof of special status and invokes it when Su Chen is about to kill him, but the Ancestor later describes him as someone who squandered the opportunity on selfish desire. (Chapters 856, 1087, 1107, and 1156)
• Su Chen: Their parallel encounters with the old beggar make each a potential source of answers for the other, but Li’s attempt to have Su Chen’s disguised identity killed begins their active conflict. Su Chen manipulates Li’s pride, observes the limits of his intelligence, and finally kills him during the struggle for Jade Clearmist’s treasures. (Chapters 807–814 and 853–859)
• Zhu Xianyao: Li pursues Zhu Xianyao with open desire and relies on his imperial status to prevent a forceful rejection. She suppresses her anger rather than risk provoking him and later helps Su Chen direct Li into conflict with Holly Keen. (Chapters 807–814)
• Li Wuyi: Li Wuyi’s guilt over abandoning his impaired son leads him to shield Li Daohong after his recovery, allowing talent and misconduct to grow together. By the time Li dies, the emperor regards him as a dangerous burden, yet still uses his death to probe Su Chen and extract political compensation. (Chapters 808, 913–914, and 959)
• Holly Keen: Su Chen engineers a clash between Li and Holly Keen by redirecting each man’s anger. Although both suspect manipulation, neither will accept the losses and humiliation necessary to withdraw immediately, turning them into continuing rivals during the journey to Jade Clearmist’s secret realm. (Chapters 813–814 and 853–859)

Items

The finalized notable-item inventory for Li Daohong contains no entries. He uses numerous expendable or defensive treasures during the Jade Clearmist battle, but the corpus presents them as a rotating stock of wealth rather than a finalized signature inventory. (Chapters 853 and 859)