Li Yue

Li Yue is the leader of Clear River City's Long Clear Gang and a Yang Opening cultivator dependent on Lai Wuyi's noble clan. He is implicated in the murder of an Origin Bureau officer, then killed when Su Chen attacks the gang's dock as part of a broader campaign against the city's entrenched powers. (Chapters 374 and 377–379)

Biography

Gang leader and Lai subordinate

Li Yue commands the Long Clear Gang with three Blood Boiling deputies and the backing of the Lai Clan. He has effectively sold his allegiance for access to a mixed, lower-grade White Phosphorus Snake bloodline. Trusted gang members carry out the murder of Origin Bureau officer Liu Jiyun, giving Su a route to connect the crime, the gang, and its noble patron. Li is first discussed as the Yang Opening obstacle protecting that arrangement. (Chapter 374)

When Su kills the dock guards and Li's trusted subordinates, Li arrives enraged and unable to avoid a direct fight without surrendering his position. He turns incoming crossbow bolts back with Origin Energy and uses his bloodline's cold and corrosive powers, but Su's Shadow Flame Giant breaks through his defense and leaves a fatal wound in his chest. Wang Wenxin confirms Li's death afterward and succeeds him, while later references use Li only as a comparison or retrospective marker. (Chapters 377–379)

Appearance and personality

The supplied corpus does not provide stable details for Li Yue's face, age, height, clothing, hair, or build. (Chapters 374 and 377–378)

Li is proud, violent, and bound to the public authority of gang leadership. The slaughter at the dock provokes genuine fury, but his decision to fight is also structural: retreat would concede that the gang and its Lai patron cannot protect their own territory. His acquisition of a diluted noble bloodline shows willingness to exchange independence for power and status. The brief combat leaves little evidence for subtler motives or private loyalties. (Chapters 374 and 377–378)

Abilities and cultivation

Li is a Yang Opening Realm cultivator with a mixed, low-grade White Phosphorus Snake bloodline obtained through service to the Lai Clan. He can manipulate multiple crossbow bolts with Origin Energy and send them back toward attackers, erect a barrier, produce a chilling aura, dissolve fire with the snake manifestation, spit corrosive poison, and use an attack called Hades Snakebite. (Chapters 377–378)

These abilities give him control and corrosive pressure, but his diluted bloodline and lower-tier Yang Opening strength cannot withstand Su's sustained Shadow Flame assault. The Shadow Flame Giant overpowers the snake defense and inflicts the chest wound that kills him. The corpus does not describe earlier cultivation stages, the exact ritual by which he received the bloodline, poison antidotes, recovery costs, or any progression beyond this final battle. (Chapters 377–378)

Relationships

• Lai Wuyi: Li's noble patron. The Lai Clan supplies the bloodline behind Li's strength and uses the Long Clear Gang as a proxy, making Li both a gang chief and a dependent client. (Chapter 374)
• Su Chen: Li's killer and the official exploiting Liu Jiyun's murder to attack the noble-clan network. Su defeats Li at the Long Clear Gang's dock. (Chapters 374 and 377–378)
• Wang Wenxin: Li's successor as gang leader. Wang confirms Li's death and becomes the figure through whom the gang's relationship with the Lai Clan is eventually reversed. (Chapters 379–497)

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