Long Shiya

Long Shiya is the self-taught master of six elemental Attributes who makes Zhou Weiqing his sole disciple and passes on the Six Ultimate Skill Manipulation Arts. A fiercely independent wanderer for most of his life, he becomes Zhou Weiqing's teacher, protector, and eventually family, while his Six Ultimate Divine Territory gives the Peerless Sect a Heavenly God-tier foundation.

Biography

Finding an heir among the northern tribes

Long Shiya is already more than a century old when he encounters Zhou Weiqing near the Snow Deer Tribe, but he has never accepted a disciple. He has lived without a sect and devoted himself to cultivation, and the six-Attribute requirements of the system he created have left him without anyone capable of inheriting it. After silently watching Zhou and his companions survive an attack from Blood Red Hell, Long identifies Zhou's six Elemental Attributes, archery control, nerve, and cunning as the combination he has been waiting for. He stages a threatening introduction, restraining Shangguan Fei'er and insisting that Zhou beg to become his disciple, but accepts Zhou's refusal to betray his earlier teachers. Beneath the coercive performance, his actual purpose is to secure an heir who can survive long enough to carry his life's work forward. (Chapters 140–141)

Once Zhou formally acknowledges him, Long immediately shifts from intimidating stranger to expansive and protective master. He promises that Zhou can invoke his name against future enemies, examines Zhou's cultivation and Stored Skills, and sharply criticizes the youth's dependence on numerous powerful techniques without corresponding mastery. Long explains that he erased most of his own Stored Skills after reaching the Heavenly King Tier and spent ten years building a different path: direct manipulation of Heavenly Energy, simulation of skills, and fusion of his six Attributes. He entrusts Zhou with the introductory text of the Six Ultimate Skill Manipulation Arts, orders it destroyed after memorization, and gives him the large reserve of Heavenly Cores that later finances much of the Peerless Battalion's development. (Chapters 141–144)

Long's mentorship is practical rather than merely instructional. After returning with his old friend Duan Tianlang, he saves Duan when the Consolidating Equipment master collapses and later heals the critically injured Green Wolf. He spends months correcting Zhou's wasteful use of energy, teaching him to vary the strength, timing, and combination of simple skills instead of treating high-rated techniques as the only valuable options. When Gu Yingbing leaves Zhou grievously wounded and Tian'er faces an unwanted marriage, Long's anger becomes a commitment to intervene. He carefully explains the danger of prematurely awakening Zhou's Solidified Dragon Spirit, protects Zhou's mind through the Heavenly Fire ordeal, and accepts the risk because Zhou insists on gaining the strength to fight for Tian'er himself. Long's role therefore develops from preserving a rare technique through an heir into assuming personal responsibility for that heir's life and chosen future. (Chapters 148–166)

A reckoning on Heavenly Snow Mountain

Long brings Zhou to Heavenly Snow Mountain not simply for another of his customary challenges against Xue AoTian, but to demand an answer for Gu Yingbing's attack and the proposed marriage to Tian'er. He refuses to let the wedding proceed without a reckoning and demonstrates the seriousness of that demand by overwhelmingly suppressing Gu Site, a High-Level Heavenly Emperor, without even using his own Consolidated Equipment. The confrontation is deliberately forceful but controlled: Long shields Zhou from the battle's energy, halts when Xue AoTian intervenes, and takes the dispute inside once Xue offers a formal hearing. His reputation and strength create the space in which Zhou's claim can be heard, but he does not ask Xue simply to surrender his daughter to his disciple. (Chapters 172–173)

When Xue AoTian devises a series of trials between Zhou and Gu Yingbing, Long argues against arrangements he believes unfair but ultimately agrees to let Zhou establish his own worth. During the combat trial, Long accepts a restriction to nine-Jeweled power and fights Gu Yingbing while Gu Site tests Zhou. He uses the Six Ultimate Skill Manipulation Formation to pressure Gu Yingbing with continuous, precisely controlled attacks, yet watches Zhou's struggle closely enough to recognize the youth's tactical gambits. This balance is characteristic of his mentorship: he uses his own status to secure a fair field, then refuses to take the decisive achievement away from his disciple. (Chapters 174–180)

Zhou wins Tian'er back through the tests and his own choices, far exceeding Long's expectations. Long stands beside him during the Heaven and Earth Primary Tide and silently approves the result, recognizing that without his protection Zhou could not have reached the mountain but that the victory itself belongs to Zhou. The expedition also changes the older man's personal standing. His recurring rivalry with Xue AoTian remains sharp and competitive, yet the two can negotiate as peers, and Long's advocacy helps replace a fixed political marriage with a judgment centered on Tian'er's will and Zhou's demonstrated resolve. (Chapters 181–182)

Guardian of the imperial restoration

After leaving Heavenly Snow Mountain, Long accompanies Zhou's forces toward the Heavenly Bow Empire even while insisting that he will not fight ordinary soldiers. That restraint follows the rule that Heavenly Emperor-tier powerhouses must not enter mortal wars, where their strength could destroy armies and provoke intervention from their peers. His presence nevertheless functions as protection against opponents of comparable cultivation, and he gives advice to Peerless Battalion officers such as Lin TianAo while allowing Zhou to command, plan, and mature without having every obstacle removed for him. Once Zhou has mastered the foundations of the Six Ultimate Godly Light Formation, Long also leaves him for periods at a time, believing the restoration campaign must serve as his disciple's test rather than his master's achievement. (Chapters 183–212)

Long returns to Heavenly Bow City as the campaign reaches its decisive phase. His first reaction to the transformed Zhou is suspicion: the disciple who left at a much lower cultivation has returned as a Heavenly King, so Long attacks to test whether an impostor is wearing his face. Recognition gives way to pride, but not complacency. When Blood Red Hell surrounds the sealed imperial palace with Meng Gui and six Heavenly Kings, Long deliberately becomes the visible focus of their formation while Zhou eliminates enemies from concealment. Even under layered Destruction Attribute suppression, he absorbs their combined assault, releases six Attribute-shaped incarnations to throw back a Heavenly Emperor and four Heavenly Kings, and then accepts Zhou's request to finish the remaining fighters while Long protects the Fate Denying Seal and everyone inside it. (Chapters 262–264)

That choice marks a change in their relationship. Long still warns Zhou against acting rashly, yet he recognizes that his disciple no longer needs to be sheltered from every equal or stronger foe. Rather than overriding Zhou, he gives him the field and shoulders the defensive duty on which the captives' lives depend. His absolute trust lets Zhou act as an independent powerhouse while preserving the master-disciple partnership: Long is no longer merely creating an heir, but guarding the people and purpose his heir has chosen. (Chapters 264–270)

Choosing a home and reaching the Heavenly God Tier

By the time the Peerless Sect takes shape, Long's cultivation and place in Zhou's life have both changed. Zhou's Saint Energy has rejuvenated him, but Long initially resists taking any formal post because nearly every Saint Land has sought him and freedom has defined his life. Zhou then asks him to remain without administrative obligations, offering him a home and promising that one of Zhou's sons will carry the Long family name. The offer exposes the loneliness beneath Long's wandering independence: he accepts through tears, acknowledges Zhou as a son rather than only a disciple, and entrusts his old age to the family Zhou is building. His residence with the Peerless Sect is consequently a personal choice before it is a strategic one. (Chapters 761–764)

Long then uses Saint Energy transferred by Zhou to challenge the bottleneck that has held him at the Maximum Level of the Heavenly Emperor Tier for more than forty years. The eruption of Heavenly God-tier energy from the Jade Dragon created during completion of Zhou's Legendary Set coincides with Zhou's Astral Divine Territory and supplies the final opportunity. Long breaks through, gains a Divine Territory of his own, and openly celebrates the lifelong ambition he once believed might remain impossible. His new strength makes him the Peerless Sect's Heavenly God-tier deterrent and gives the new Saint Land standing that no amount of titles alone could provide. (Chapters 794–795)

The breakthrough does not restore the old hierarchy between teacher and student. As Long watches Zhou bind the Jade Dragon and consolidate in the void, he realizes that Zhou's Divine Thought and Saint Energy are already approaching or surpassing his own overall power. His response is pride rather than resentment: he recognizes that the disciple has truly inherited the path, formed a projection from his own energy, and advanced beyond what Long can still teach through ordinary cultivation experience. (Chapters 795–801)

The Saint Lands war

At the Grand Tournament of Saint Lands, Long publicly supports Zhou's right to lead the Peerless Sect and rejects Fen Tian's attempt to dismiss the new organization. Blood Red Hell answers by sending its deputy lord Shen Mo, who tempts Long with a method for crossing the very bottleneck that defined decades of his life. Long lets the offer play out, then reveals that he has already become the Six Ultimate Heavenly God. Their confrontation establishes the Peerless Sect's position before the assembled Saint Lands: Long's balanced Six Ultimate Divine Territory withstands Shen Mo's Destructive Divine Territory, while Long refuses both recruitment and submission. (Chapters 805–812)

Shen Mo holds advantages in the maturity of his Divine Territory and his ten-piece Legendary Set, so Long cannot win by force alone. He counters through the control that has defined his entire cultivation path. Wind Blades check the spread of Destruction Energy, fireballs amplify the wind, earth spikes harden while crossing the flames, water drives the spikes through the opposing territory, and paired Light and Darkness spheres detonate inside the opened channels. The sequence destroys Shen Mo's Divine Territory but exhausts Long's Divine Thought, while Shen Mo suffers lasting injury. Long agrees to call the first fight a draw because continuing would risk mutual destruction and because preserving himself and the Peerless Sect matters more than a formal tournament victory. (Chapters 812–814)

When the tournament becomes open war, Long intercepts Shen Mo to stop him from attacking Zhou and later takes him into a second high-altitude battle. This time, Long knows that defeating Shen Mo is not enough if it leaves him unable to help his disciple. Zhou secretly restores his Divine Thought with Saint Energy, and Long hides that recovery, remaining on the defensive until Shen Mo grows confident and commits to a final attack. Long then overlaps two differently proportioned six-colored rings, adds all the Saint Energy Zhou supplied, and collapses Shen Mo's Destruction power from within. The strike separates Shen Mo from his Heavenly Core Nucleus and kills him before he can self-detonate, though it temporarily costs Long access to Heavenly God-tier strength. (Chapters 817 and 822–827)

Long passes Shen Mo's Heavenly Core Nucleus to Zhou as requested and accepts that the final confrontation with Fen Tian lies beyond his useful intervention. He instead helps the Peerless Sect survive the battlefield's destructive aftermath and watches Zhou complete his own breakthrough. By the end of the war, his central ambition is no longer to prove himself against Xue AoTian. He takes open delight in Zhou's greater strength and coming surprises, having preserved both his disciple and the family and sect that finally gave his wandering life a home. (Chapters 828–833 and 837–845)

Appearance and personality

Long Shiya is an immensely broad, round man whose waist is described as nearly matching his height. He has short black hair, a round head, a maroon-red face, and the outward appearance of a prosperous man in his forties despite being over one hundred years old. At his first appearance he wears plain, custom-made black robes, a provocative color in the WanShou Empire; elsewhere he is equally comfortable in a strained army uniform or clothing without ornament. His completed Legendary Set is silver and carries a pair of octagonal plum-blossom hammers. (Chapters 140–142 and 172)

He is irreverent, proud, quick to tease, and openly vain about both his title and techniques. He enjoys food, alcohol, freedom, and verbal needling, dislikes most people calling him Fatty Long, and rarely observes formal ceremony. These habits coexist with great technical patience and emotional directness. He is exceptionally protective of those he accepts as his own, but he tries to make Zhou solve problems at the highest level the younger man can survive rather than substituting raw power for growth. His bluster also conceals a long desire for family: Zhou's offer of a home and a descendant bearing his name moves him more deeply than rank or sect leadership ever does. (Chapters 141, 151–162, 172, and 764)

Abilities and cultivation

Long Shiya's strength rests on six natural elemental Attributes—Wind, Fire, Water, Earth, Light, and Darkness—combined with unusually fine control of Heavenly Energy. He first appears at the forty-fourth stage, the Maximum Level of the Heavenly Emperor Tier, where he is widely treated as the strongest cultivator below the Heavenly God Tier. After using Zhou's Saint Energy to cross his long-standing bottleneck, he becomes a Low-Level Heavenly God and gains the title Six Ultimate Heavenly God. (Chapters 141–142, 172–173, 794–795, and 812–813)

Six Ultimate Skill Manipulation Arts

Long devised the Skill Manipulation Arts after concluding that accumulating dozens of Stored Skills prevented true mastery. At age sixty-one, already a Heavenly King, he erased most of his Stored Skills and spent a decade learning to control the structures of Heavenly Energy directly. The resulting method lets him imitate skills appropriate to his six Attributes, vary their form and power, devise new combinations, and fuse Attributes without depending on a fixed Stored Skill for every effect. Simulated skills have no ordinary cooldown, can be repeated while his Heavenly Energy lasts, and can be tuned to the minimum expenditure needed for the task. This is why he can make a low-rated Wind Shield stop individual falling rocks gently, bind several targets with Fetters of Wind, or turn apparently simple light blades into attacks that force a peer to spend several times as much energy defending. (Chapters 140–141, 156, and 172)

The technique's efficiency does not make it effortless. It gives little immediate advantage below the six-Jeweled stage, demands both six Attributes and exceptional talent, and requires years of precise knowledge and control. Nor can it perfectly reproduce every exceptional effect; Long still recognizes value in storing rare Heavenly God-tier skills whose special mechanisms cannot be simulated. At higher levels, however, he can run many attacks at once, alter the reaction among Attributes, and sustain pressure without normal skill intervals. Against Gu Site, thirty-six independently guided blades, changing six-Attribute chain reactions, and a second charged technique demonstrate both the formation's parallel control and its capacity to dominate another Heavenly Emperor without his Legendary Set. (Chapters 141, 172–173)

Six Ultimate Divine Territory

After reaching the Heavenly God Tier, Long's system develops into the Six Ultimate Divine Territory. Its defining principle is balance: the six Attributes form a stable whole that neutralizes and absorbs hostile energy rather than relying on one element to overpower another. Saint Energy placed in him by Zhou lends the territory a limited Saint aura and lets it resist Shen Mo's Destructive Divine Territory, but Long has not formed a Saint Nucleus Core, so this support is integrated only partially into his own cultivation. (Chapters 794–795 and 812)

Within the territory, Long can manifest an enormous projection of himself and cycle the six Attributes through coordinated large-scale attacks. His first battle with Shen Mo shows the method's peak precision but also its cost: directing tens of thousands of linked elemental attacks and shattering a rival Divine Territory exhausts his Divine Thought enough that continued combat would risk his life. In the rematch, he replaces spectacle with deception, conserving his restored Divine Thought and using two balanced six-colored rings to carry Saint Energy through the opponent's defenses. The attack kills Shen Mo, but its expenditure leaves Long temporarily unable to wield Heavenly God-tier power. (Chapters 812–814 and 825–827)

Legendary Set and physical power

Long wears the complete nine-piece Hate Sky No Handle, also called the Hiltless Heavenly Purging Set, created for his Strength Physical Jewels. When complete it appears silver rather than the usual dark gold and includes paired octagonal plum-blossom hammers. The set amplifies his already immense strength and gives him a close-combat answer when elemental manipulation alone is insufficient, but his victories over Gu Site and his defense against the Blood Red Hell ambush show that he does not need to deploy it against every Heavenly Emperor-tier opponent. At the Heavenly God Tier he uses the hammers with his projected body and Divine Territory, creating spatial ruptures and a black hole during his first clash with Shen Mo. (Chapters 142, 172, 262–264, and 812)

Mobility, protection, and healing

Long can use Wind Attribute Heavenly Energy for extremely rapid flight, carrying Zhou from the northern border to Fire Spirit Mountain in two days and insulating him from the speed and cold. His fine control also supports others: he places invisible protection around Zhou during high-level battles, stabilizes Duan Tianlang when the latter collapses, heals Green Wolf's critical wounds, and safeguards Zhou's core consciousness during the forced awakening of the Solidified Dragon Spirit. These applications depend on his overwhelming Heavenly Energy and control rather than an identified healing specialization, and the corpus does not describe them as restoring every kind of injury without limit. (Chapters 149–166 and 172–173)

Power progression

Relationships

• Zhou Weiqing: Long's sole disciple, heir, and eventual son in all but blood. Long first values Zhou as the only suitable inheritor of his six-Attribute path, then repeatedly risks himself to train and protect him. Their relationship matures into mutual trust, and Long accepts a home with Zhou's family while taking pride when Zhou surpasses him.
• Duan Tianlang: A close old friend whose Consolidating Equipment work completed Long's Legendary Set. Long seeks him out after meeting Zhou, saves him during a collapse, and treats him as a trusted partner in preparing Zhou's equipment and future.
• Xue AoTian: Long's long-standing rival and respected peer. Long repeatedly challenges him and dreams of surpassing him, but their contests coexist with familiarity, negotiation, and cooperation against the Destruction faction.
• Tian'er: Long regards Tian'er as his disciple's intended wife and personally forces a reckoning over her marriage. He provides the protection that allows Zhou to reach Heavenly Snow Mountain while leaving Tianer's choice and Zhou's trials to decide the outcome.
• Gu Site: Long treats the Lion King as an arrogant obstacle during the Heavenly Snow Mountain dispute. He defeats and humiliates Gu Site at Heavenly Emperor level, then later competes against him under restrictions during the test concerning Tianer's marriage.
• Shen Mo: A contemporary from Blood Red Hell who tries to recruit Long through the promise of a Heavenly God breakthrough. Their rivalry becomes a clash of balanced six-Attribute control against Destruction, ending when Long kills him during the Saint Lands war.

Items

• Hate Sky No Handle / Hiltless Heavenly Purging Set: Long's own complete nine-piece Legendary Set, made for his Strength Physical Jewels and completed with Duan Tianlang's help. Its silver armor and paired octagonal plum-blossom hammers distinguish it from ordinary dark-gold Legendary Sets. (Chapters 142 and 812–813)
• Ringless Ground Purging Set: Zhou Weiqing's Legendary Set and the later counterpart to Long's own Hate Sky No Handle set. Long recognizes their linked Legacy of Strength origins, witnesses the creation of its final piece, and helps guard Zhou during its completion; he never owns it.