Li Wuyi

Li Wuyi is the emperor of Liaoye Country and an Ultimate Emperor Realm bearer of the Dream Beauty bloodline. A pragmatic negotiator and cautious defender of imperial interests, he bargains with Su Chen, covertly checks the Boundless Sect's growth, and later joins the human coalition against Desolate Beasts and returning gods.

Biography

An emperor of bargains

Li Wuyi is first referenced handling the aftermath of the Rong Clan's betrayal, sending investigators into its former territory and receiving the mind-damaged captive Flowing Flame Oriole. His first direct meeting with Su occurs after the Harpy conflict, when Su asks Liaoye to halt its planned offensive and help secure Zhu Xianyao's release. Li recognizes both Su's youth and his new Spirit Burning cultivation, then refuses to treat a bloodline-free technique as adequate compensation unless Liaoye receives a durable advantage. (Chapters 775 and 913)

The negotiation becomes productive when Su offers to strengthen the Li Clan's Dream Beauty bloodline. Li shortens the proposed research deadline, uses the suspected killing of his son Li Daohong to test Su's composure, and ultimately accepts a smaller cultivation-technique payment rather than pursuing vengeance he cannot prove and may not truly desire. His conduct reveals a ruler who separates family sentiment, national advantage, and bargaining leverage instead of treating them as one obligation. (Chapters 913–914)

Li later consents to Gu Qingluo's release when Su offers medicines and rare resources. Like the other emperors, he accepts because the exception is collectively shared and imposes little isolated political cost. These bargains also reduce the older nobility's hostility toward bloodline-free cultivation by giving inherited lineages a path to improvement rather than simple displacement. (Chapters 918–919)

Testing the Boundless Sect

Li's accommodation has limits. When Water Sheen and Long Sang move against the relatively empty Ten Thousand Swords Mountain, Liaoye's role is to prevent the Zhu Clan from reinforcing it. Li sends only a token group of cultivators and no Light Shaking experts, allowing him to pressure the sect without risking a significant force. Su initially doubts that Li would be short-sighted enough to join the attack and considers both hidden political motives and the unresolved death of Li Daohong. (Chapters 959–960)

After the Boundless Sect defeats Long Sang, Li leads representatives of the remaining countries to negotiate. He immediately kills an insulting substitute envoy with a simple palm, both removing an obstacle and showing that the delegation will speak through more controlled voices. Su then reveals that he has transformed the Deep Sea Sorrow into a sect resource, making clear that threats will not force him to surrender Long Sang or the treasure. Li understands the deterrent and shifts from intimidation to bargaining. (Chapter 1000)

Li offers an Ink Jade Chrysanthemum from Liaoye's treasury as part of the collective price for preserving the Lin bloodline. He objects to Su's political demands but recognizes that the defeated Lin Clan has no better option. The final arrangement preserves a nominal Long Sang throne under Boundless Sect supremacy, while the other rulers execute Lin Mengze and elevate Lin Chenyuan. Li's mediation therefore protects continuity at the price of helping remove a fellow emperor. (Chapter 1001)

Coalition commander in the final wars

When the gods begin returning and larger threats emerge, Li joins the peak human council led by Su Chen. He participates in assessing divine artifacts, recognizing a transformed Titan-Class puppet through his bloodline-enhanced perception. During the Beast attack he and the other Ultimate Emperor Realm cultivators confront a Desolate Beast, retreat from Eternal Night's trap, and help coordinate responses when raw power proves insufficient. (Chapters 1049–1054 and 1071–1074)

Li's political relationship with Su has by then become subordination within a larger coalition. He remains proud enough to bow rather than kneel until Su's new divine-level will forces even the emperors to the ground. He nevertheless continues to offer strategic objections, warning that some god-level battles exceed what ordinary Ultimate Emperor cultivators can enter and questioning how bans on worship can be enforced among nonhuman races. (Chapters 1125, 1142, and 1148)

Li is among the first human emperors through the spatial fissure into the gods' territory and remains in the final battle. He and Jiang Jusheng combine forces against a god's white-hot attack but cannot drive it back, demonstrating both his continued frontline commitment and the ceiling of the old human cultivation system against true divinity. The corpus ends without stating his death, retirement, abdication, or further breakthrough. (Chapters 1138 and 1157)

Appearance and personality

The supplied corpus does not describe Li Wuyi's age, height, face, hair, eyes, or usual clothing. His first direct scene places him in Wind Screen Palace, receiving Su from above the steps in formal imperial fashion. Later he travels and fights among the human emperors, but no distinctive visual marker or lasting injury is recorded. (Chapters 913, 1000, and 1138–1157)

Li is observant, pragmatic, controlled, and politically shrewd. He quickly identifies what Su values, turns Li Daohong's death into leverage without committing himself to an accusation, and abandons negotiation when the balance of force becomes clear. He can also be ruthless: the effortless killing of You Tianxiang converts an unruly envoy into a demonstration of authority. (Chapters 913–914 and 1000–1001)

His caution is not simple cowardice. He avoids wasting Liaoye's forces in an indirect attack, yet personally confronts Desolate Beasts and enters the divine battlefield when collective survival requires it. He voices limits openly, preferring realistic assessment to theatrical bravery. By the end, he accepts Su's supremacy while retaining enough independent judgment to question strategy. (Chapters 960, 1049–1074, and 1138–1157)

Abilities and cultivation

Li Wuyi is an Ultimate Emperor Realm cultivator with the Li Clan's Dream Beauty Desolate Beast bloodline. The lineage is weaker in direct battle than the other imperial bloodlines but grants unusual dream, illusion, distance, and perception capabilities.

Ultimate Emperor cultivation

Li stands among the small group of human cultivators at the old system's peak. He can fly, kill an accomplished cultivator with an understated palm, and join coordinated attacks against Desolate Beasts and gods. His participation alongside the Gu Clan elders, the other emperors, and the Void Seahorse confirms that his battlefield role is not merely ceremonial. (Chapters 1000, 1049, 1072, and 1138–1157)

Ultimate Emperor power still has clear limits. Li cannot meaningfully enter some exchanges between god-level beings and advises retreat when nearby fluctuations alone threaten the human force. Even when he combines power with Jiang Jusheng and others, a god's heat overwhelms their resistance. No later cultivation realm or method for individually crossing that gap is attributed to him. (Chapters 1142 and 1157)

Dream Beauty bloodline

The Dream Beauty bloodline specializes in effects that do not require a direct physical confrontation. Other bearers can attack through dreams, induce distant illusion realms, and manipulate perception. Li personally enters the nightmare afflicting Lin Mengze and suppresses it while present, proving both dream access and enough mental authority to make the hidden attacker withdraw. (Chapters 841 and 971)

The protection is temporary. The nightmare returns whenever Li leaves, and he cannot remain permanently as Lin Mengze's dream guard. This establishes a dependence on proximity or continued intervention even if the initial dream entry can bridge unusual distances. The source does not name Li's personal Dream Beauty techniques, give their energy cost, or show him permanently dispelling a hostile dream construct. (Chapter 971)

Enhanced perception

Li's bloodline improves perception. When golden dust changes a divine statue, he identifies the resulting construct as a Titan-Class puppet even before its full capabilities are demonstrated. His political observations show similar attentiveness, but the source only explicitly attributes this artifact assessment—not general strategic intelligence—to the Dream Beauty bloodline. (Chapter 1054)

The corpus does not establish that this perception reads thoughts, sees through all disguises, or functions as omniscience. Li can suspect Su in Li Daohong's death but lacks proof, and he can be surprised by the Boundless Sect's resources and decisions. Its latest confirmed use remains technical recognition rather than a complete investigative art. (Chapters 913–914, 1000, and 1054)

Imperial command and diplomacy

Li commands Liaoye's officials, army, treasury, and foreign policy. He can mobilize or withhold troops, restrain the Zhu Clan, authorize imperial agreements, and commit treasury resources during negotiation. These powers let him shape conflicts without exposing his personal cultivation, as shown by Liaoye's deliberately token participation against the Ten Thousand Swords Mountain. (Chapters 913–919 and 959–960)

His diplomacy relies on incentives, face-saving, and rapid reassessment of leverage. Su's rise eventually reduces Liaoye's independent freedom, but Li remains useful as a representative among the emperors and as a strategist in coalition councils. By the latest chapters, his authority functions within Su's larger order rather than as an equal counterweight to it. (Chapters 1000–1001, 1049–1054, and 1125–1148)

Relationships

• Su Chen: Li begins as a ruler bargaining with an extraordinary researcher, testing him over both national policy and Li Daohong's death. He later joins indirect pressure against the Boundless Sect, then accepts Su's victory and works within his coalition. Their relationship evolves from wary transaction to pragmatic subordination without becoming personal friendship. (Chapters 913–919, 959–1001, and 1049–1157)
• Li Daohong: Li's son is talented, tyrannical, and politically burdensome. Li suspects Su of killing him but accepts a limited settlement rather than pursuing a confrontation, leading Su to infer that the emperor benefits from having the problem removed without acting himself. The text does not show private grief or reconciliation. (Chapters 808 and 913–914)
• Zhu Xianyao and the Zhu Clan: The Zhu Clan operates within Liaoye's political sphere. Li agrees to help stop the Harpy war and later keeps the clan from reinforcing the Boundless Sect, using it as a lever in imperial strategy. His actions concern clan utility rather than a developed personal relationship with Xianyao. (Chapters 913 and 959–960)
• Lin Mengze: Li temporarily suppresses the nightmares attacking Lin Mengze and later helps negotiate the defeated ruler's fate. When Lin refuses Su's settlement, Li and the other rulers execute him, choosing wider political stability over solidarity between emperors. (Chapters 971 and 1000–1001)
• Jiang Jusheng: Jiang and Li often occupy parallel positions as rulers balancing self-interest against Su's power. Both accept compensation for Gu Qingluo's release, join the pressure on the Boundless Sect, participate in the final coalition, and combine forces against a god's attack. (Chapters 919, 959–960, 1049–1074, and 1157)
• Chu Yuan and the other emperors: Li acts among a collective of human rulers whose shared agreements distribute political risk. He negotiates beside them after Long Sang's defeat and later fights with them under Su's leadership, preserving imperial expertise even as their individual supremacy ends. (Chapters 918–919, 1000–1001, and 1049–1157)

Items

The finalized item inventory for Li Wuyi contains no entries. The Ink Jade Chrysanthemum belongs to Liaoye's treasury and is offered to Su Chen; it is not established as Li's personal or persistent possession.