First Li Clan Nascent Soul Protector

The First Li Clan Nascent Soul Protector is the catalog name used for the tall, emaciated old man who speaks for the two senior Dao Protectors accompanying Li Daoyi to the eighth Blood Immortal Legacy tournament. The source never numbers or personally names the pair, so actions attributed only to “the two old men” belong to both protectors collectively and cannot establish which one acted first.

Biography

The Li Clan's five-person expedition

The secretive Li Clan sends only five people to the tournament: three Foundation Establishment Chosen and two Nascent Soul Dao Protectors. The tall, emaciated protector wears a long black robe and delivers the patriarch's prediction to the juniors. He tells Li Daoyi that the eighth Legacy will fall into the Li Clan's hands and instructs the other two Chosen to observe and learn. His certainty reflects information and preparations preserved inside the clan rather than evidence produced by the tournament itself. (Chapter 120)

The prophecy is linked to a four-thousand-year plan. A previous Li Clan Chosen left part of his spirit inside the sixth matrix, and the current delegation expects Li Daoyi to retrieve that ancestor and the Legacy. The protector does not explain this secret publicly, but his assurance that victory is “certain” establishes how completely the expedition relies upon it. (Chapters 120 and 129–130)

Watching the Blood Immortal matrices

When Li Daoyi receives a Blood Dragon, the two protectors remain expressionless while surrounding cultivators are astonished. Their lack of surprise suggests foreknowledge or confidence in the clan's preparations. By contrast, the unprecedented human-shaped Blood Divinity gained by another participant shocks them, showing that their information is substantial but not complete. (Chapter 121)

The pair continue observing while Li Daoyi advances ahead of the other competitors. When the unidentified Meng Hao clears the fourth matrix in a record seven days, both old men frown and begin to feel threatened. This is the first direct crack in the first protector's earlier certainty: an unknown cultivator has advanced outside the conditions covered by the clan's plan. (Chapter 126)

The later tournament narration focuses on competitors inside the matrices and refers to the protectors, when at all, only as a pair. Li Daoyi's ancestor successfully transfers into the Blood Dragon, but Meng Hao ultimately takes the Blood Immortal Legacy. The supplied local evidence does not individually describe the tall protector's response or later fate, so assigning the pair's unnumbered scenes to this catalog entry beyond that point would overstate identity certainty. (Chapters 129–130)

Appearance and personality

He is an old man in a long black robe, specifically described as tall and emaciated. This is the only individual physical description that separates one of the two protectors.

His initial speech is calm, authoritative, and absolute. He treats the patriarch's prophecy as settled fact and defines the three juniors' roles before the trial begins. His shared frown after Meng Hao's record indicates that this confidence can adjust when direct evidence contradicts expectation.

Abilities and cultivation

• Nascent Soul cultivation: Both old Dao Protectors are explicitly at the Nascent Soul stage, placing them far above the Foundation Establishment competitors and qualifying them to guard a clan Dao Child outside the Legacy zone.
• Dao-protection role: He accompanies the five-person expedition to deter outside threats and safeguard Li Daoyi. The Blood Immortal trial itself separates spectators from competitors, so the supplied scenes do not show him intervening inside a matrix.
• Clan-secret knowledge: His prophecy briefing shows access to the Li Clan patriarch's instructions and long-term Legacy plan. Knowledge is strategically important but is not itself a supernatural divination technique demonstrated by this protector.
• Observed limits: No named spell, weapon, attack, or complete battle is assigned to him in the local corpus. Nascent Soul rank should not be expanded into invented mechanics.

Relationships

• Li Daoyi: The Dao Child he is sent to protect and the intended recipient of the Blood Immortal Legacy. He addresses Li Daoyi directly as the expedition's central participant.
• Second Li Clan Nascent Soul Protector: Unnamed partner in the delegation. Most observer reactions are narrated collectively, preventing reliable separation of their later chapter appearances.
• Li Clan patriarch: Source of the prediction that the eighth Legacy tournament would belong to the clan.
• Meng Hao: Unknown competitor whose record progress makes both protectors recognize a threat to the planned outcome.

Items

• No personal weapon or independently cataloged item is directly assigned to the tall protector in the supplied local evidence.