Liu Wei

Liu Wei, known in God's Miracle as Heaven's Pride, is a wealthy real-world heir and recurring antagonist whose influence extends through business, officials, hired force, professional players, and the guild The Myth. He is less formidable as an individual Spellcaster than as a financier and organizer: his most dangerous strategies convert money and loyal subordinates into layered protection, elite troops, and attacks that cross from the game into real life. (Chapters 1, 270–271, 455, 599–600, 658–659, and 662)

Biography

Thunderstorm Castle and the Chaos Realm

In Zhang Yang's first timeline, Liu Wei is the powerful rival behind the destruction of Clear Water and the collapse of Zhang Yang's relationship with Lin Yu. His family dominates the state of Ji strongly enough that he believes officials will conceal whatever he does. Angered that Lin Yu delayed their wedding because of Zhang Yang, he arrives with armed men, has Zhang Yang beaten and shot, and threatens to punish her afterward. Zhang Yang uses his last strength to pull him from a nineteenth-floor balcony, killing them both; the rebirth removes that ending from the present timeline but leaves Zhang Yang with complete memory of Liu Wei's capacity for violence. (Chapters 1–2)

The present-day Liu Wei enters Zhang Yang's life at the Soaring Swords competition, dressed as an elegant businessman and accompanied by two bodyguards. As vice-president of Ming Sheng Technology, he offers to purchase Lone Desert Smoke outright or buy a controlling share, presenting the acquisition as a partnership while privately planning to dilute Zhang Yang's position until he works for Liu Wei. Zhang rejects him, and Han Ying Xue exposes his willingness to break Silky Soft's contract by recording the pitch. Liu Wei preserves his courteous façade at the table, but his humiliation hardens into a campaign to seize or ruin what he cannot buy. (Chapters 270–272)

He first attacks the competition outside the game. Liu Wei has Zhang Yang drugged, framed for prostitution, and confined by cooperative police immediately before the Soaring Swords final, expecting Lone Desert Smoke to compete without its leader. When Zhang Yang escapes the trap and returns in time, Liu Wei shifts to open in-game pressure under the name Heaven's Pride. He and One Sword Stroke direct a deliberate monster attack on Thunderstorm Castle, and Liu Wei contacts Zhang Yang to boast that he will take the territory and eventually strip him of every asset. Lone Desert Smoke survives, and Zhang Yang retaliates with another Monster Attack Order against Imperial Sky. (Chapters 280, 290–300)

Liu Wei then uses capital to build coalitions that ordinary guild diplomacy could not sustain. He funds Imperial Sky, Rolling Rocks, and Storm Riders for a Territory Conquest assault on Thunderstorm Castle, supports repeated hostilities alongside Imperial Sky and The Dominators, and places cash bounties on Zhang Yang's death. At the same time, he recruits much of Imperial Sky's professional talent into his own guild, The Myth, reproducing the organization that Zhang Yang remembers him building in the earlier timeline. The resulting guild is rich and dangerous, but its reliance on purchased loyalty is exposed whenever concentrated retaliation leaves Liu Wei and allied leaders sheltering inside their castle. (Chapters 391–395, 455, and 473)

His alliances deteriorate as personal possession and public pride override common interest. Liu Wei maintains Luo Xin Yan as his mistress and uses her as a paid informant, but her relationship with One Sword Stroke turns the two men against each other. After One Sword chooses to marry her, an attack attributed to Liu Wei leaves him castrated and Luo Xin Yan publicly brutalized; the narrative notes that direct evidence is absent, though characters and the online public infer Liu Wei's responsibility. By the time the Chaos Realm conflicts intensify, he has converted a useful gaming alliance into a deeply personal enemy. (Chapters 391, 455–462, 585, and 592–598)

Regional War and World Competition

Liu Wei next contests a Level 150 Mythical boss needed for the B-Class Demon Summoner inheritance. He brings The Myth to the target already claimed by Crimson Rage, offers to surrender all ordinary drops in exchange for the quest item, and turns to force when Snow Seeker refuses. His formation initially includes thousands of elite recruits, full Violet-Platinum personal gear, a flying mount, and twelve Guardians trained to chain Sacrifice around him. Zhang Yang bypasses that defense by exploiting Liu Wei's low Spellcaster Strength: he grabs him physically, carries him through the air, and repeatedly strikes his face with a shield that causes pain and disfigurement without reducing HP. Liu Wei force-logs out, abandoning The Myth to defeat. (Chapters 598–601)

Rather than reduce his dependence on others, Liu Wei invests more heavily in it. He develops Death Arbiter, supplying equipment and support until the Warrior becomes The Myth's public champion, and stages challenges meant to damage Lone Desert Smoke's prestige. When Zhang Yang arrives, Liu Wei orders healers to sustain Death Arbiter and again surrounds himself with the twelve-Guardian Sacrifice chain. The protection works for a limited time, but Zhang Yang's Phoenix covers the formation with Forbidden Firefall; the Guardians must spend Shield Wall merely to survive, the formation scatters under area damage and stun, and Liu Wei lives only by combining Sacrifice, Ice Barrier, and a short unnamed invincibility effect. (Chapters 621–625)

Liu Wei nevertheless obtains the Demon Summoner inheritance after losing the first contested spawn. Its permanent Demon Lord bodyguard and spawned lesser demons make him a genuine regional-war threat, while his wealth equips a force far beyond normal guild standards. During The Myth's battle with Japan's Sengoku Daimyo, he recognizes the enemy's declining morale and redirects most of his army toward the boss while leaving a blocking line on the opposing players. The plan nearly secures both objectives, but his greed exposes both forces to the boss's area attacks, and Zhang Yang steals the killing blow and loot while Liu Wei's transformation and control-removal skills are exhausted. (Chapters 658–659)

Outside the game, Liu Wei seeks protection through Ma Zhi Hua, offering apparent reconciliation while secretly using Ma's connection to the Sun family to provoke conflict with Zhang Yang. Although Ma treats Liu Wei as an errand runner, the narrative identifies Liu Wei as the actual mastermind feeding him demands and manipulating his sense of entitlement. Zhang Yang's refusal and Sun-family connections eventually help bring a wide investigation down on the Liu organization. The family's officials and executives are detained, its businesses collapse, and Liu Wei is jailed; Zhong Xiu Hua later has him released, apparently to preserve him as a weapon against Zhang Yang. (Chapters 662, 713, and 738)

The loss of money and political protection leaves Liu Wei's remaining methods brittle. In-game, his twelve-Guardian formation still carries him through an imperial defense line, but thousands of NPC attacks kill every protector in under ten seconds, demonstrating that redundancy cannot absorb unlimited simultaneous damage. In reality he hides in a suburban bungalow and continues appearing in the game, aware that his former victims can now reach him. He is abducted after a struggle, and police later identify his tortured body beside a canal. The murderer is not legally established in the supplied corpus, although Zhang Yang suspects One Sword Stroke because of the earlier attack on him and Luo Xin Yan. (Chapters 754, 758, and 762)

Appearance and personality

Liu Wei is a handsome, well-built young man who cultivates an upper-class image. At the Soaring Swords event he wears a fitted Western suit and gold-framed glasses, and his polished smile, formal gestures, and elegant posture make him appear warm and distinguished to strangers. His in-game avatar is a cloth-armored Spellcaster who initially rides a four-meter flying housefly. The report of his death identifies him as twenty-seven, but the corpus does not give fixed details for his hair or eye color. (Chapters 270–271, 599, and 762)

His defining traits are entitlement, possessiveness, vindictiveness, and a strong instinct for self-preservation. Liu Wei treats wealth and local influence as proof that ordinary limits do not apply to him, responds to rejection with disproportionate retaliation, and views guilds, employees, and women as assets he can acquire or punish. He can suppress visible anger and negotiate intelligently, but the façade breaks when he is mocked or denied; he then relies on hired agents, officials, or protected formations rather than expose himself directly. He is not devoid of strategic insight—his guild recruitment, morale reading, and manipulation of Ma Zhi Hua are effective—but greed and wounded pride repeatedly make him overextend. (Chapters 1, 271, 280, 599–601, 659, and 662)

Abilities and gameplay

Liu Wei's build is that of an Intelligence-focused Spellcaster supplemented by a B-Class Demon Summoner inheritance, expensive equipment, a flying mount, and a protection detail designed around Sacrifice. The corpus demonstrates only a few of his personal spells; much of his combat power comes from the Demon Lord, paid elites, and prearranged formations, which also explains why isolation and area attacks are his most consistent weaknesses. (Chapters 599–600, 625, 658–659, and 754)

Spellcaster build and survival skills

As a Spellcaster, Liu Wei has ranged magical offense, a large mana-oriented Intelligence investment, cloth armor, and very little Strength. The class constraint becomes decisive when Zhang Yang closes into grappling range: Liu Wei cannot break the Guardian's hold even though his Sacrifice chain can redirect conventional incoming damage. The narrative does not identify his ordinary elemental specialization or name his routine attack spells, so it is not possible to reconstruct a complete rotation from the supplied text. (Chapters 599–601)

His best-documented personal defensive skill is Ice Barrier, which immediately places him in a ten-second invincible state. He uses it after losing more than a third of his mounted HP to one attack and again after his Sacrifice protection expires under Forbidden Firefall. It is powerful but temporary, and Zhang Yang counters it simply by waiting outside melee range; in a later fight Liu Wei survives the full area attack only by sequencing Sacrifice, Ice Barrier, and an additional five-second invincibility effect from unnamed equipment. Control-removal skills also protect him in large battles, but once spent they leave him vulnerable to stun. (Chapters 599, 625, and 659)

Liu Wei and One Sword Stroke acquire access to two sets of paired skills during their alliance. Such skills have long cooldowns and can clear large areas of monsters efficiently, making them valuable for leveling and mass combat. The corpus does not provide the names, exact numbers, pairing partners for each set, or a scene in which Liu Wei personally activates them, so their contribution can be established only as a progression resource the two allies possess, not as a fully documented part of his personal rotation. (Chapter 408)

Demon Summoner inheritance

The Demon Summoner is a B-Class inheritance restricted to Priests and Spellcasters and designed to add strong offense to cloth-armored characters. It grants a Demon Lord bodyguard that can accompany its owner even in professional-league combat, where inheritance transformations are prohibited but inheritance passives and non-transformation abilities remain available. Liu Wei fails to take the first quest boss from Crimson Rage, yet later acquires the inheritance and demonstrates its transformation in regional combat. The discarded first timeline instead gave him a B-Class Fiery Phoenix inheritance; that memory does not describe his present build. (Chapters 598–599, 604, and 659)

Liu Wei's Demon Lord is permanent and converts players it kills into small devils that fight for him, allowing successful engagements to snowball into a demonic following. The mechanic is limited by kill access: Liu Wei begins with only himself and one Demon Lord, so the number of spawned devils depends on how many enemies the bodyguard can actually finish before the battle changes. His inheritance transformation supplies the large health pool and resistance expected of an inheritor, but it does not prevent Zhang Yang from stunning him after his control-removal skills are exhausted or from stealing objectives under concealment. (Chapter 659)

Sacrifice formation

Liu Wei's signature formation consists of twelve Guardians spaced around him and trained to cast Sacrifice at the last possible moment. Each cast redirects incoming damage from Liu Wei to its Guardian for five seconds, so twelve players can theoretically create sixty continuous seconds of protection. The Guardians wear complete Violet-Platinum sets and spread out to resist a single area strike, while attackers wait behind them to punish anyone who approaches Liu Wei. The tactic is not intrinsically his character skill, but his recruitment, equipment spending, drilling, and command turn it into a repeatable personal defense. (Chapter 600)

The formation has several interacting limits. Protectors must remain alive, in range, attentive, and able to cast at the right instant; maintaining that focus is exhausting, and crowd control can disrupt the chain. Wide persistent damage forces a sacrificing Guardian to absorb both his own hit and Liu Wei's redirected damage, requiring Shield Wall and rapidly consuming the formation's cooldowns. Against thousands of simultaneous NPC attacks, each Guardian dies immediately and all twelve are exhausted in under ten seconds. It is therefore effective against focused bursts from a small number of players, but fails against saturation damage or attacks that physically manipulate Liu Wei without inflicting transferable HP damage. (Chapters 600–602, 625, and 754)

Wealth, command, and constraints

Liu Wei's money is his largest scalable advantage. He buys professional players away from Imperial Sky, offers cash for kills, equips Death Arbiter near the top standard, fields Guardians in full Violet-Platinum armor, and can plausibly outfit dozens of players in Mythical-tier sets when ordinary guilds cannot. He also uses payments to align guilds for territory wars. This spending creates immediate force, but it does not guarantee cohesion: The Myth loses morale when he logs out, purchased alliances break under personal disputes, and subordinates may hide valuable items rather than trust him with them. (Chapters 391, 455, 473, 599–601, 621–623, 658, and 701)

As a commander, he can identify a collapsing enemy line and divide forces between blocking players and finishing a boss. As a manipulator, he recruits officials and intermediaries, frames Zhang Yang before a tournament, and steers Ma Zhi Hua into advancing his agenda. These methods remain dependent on wealth, family protection, and agents willing to obey; after the Liu organization falls, Liu Wei loses both money and safe real-world reach, goes into hiding, and is abducted despite his continuing access to the game. The contrast defines his ultimate limitation: Heaven's Pride can construct powerful systems around himself, but has little resilience once those systems are stripped away. (Chapters 280, 659, 662, 738, and 758–762)

Power progression

Relationships

• Zhang Yang: Liu Wei's principal enemy in both timelines. He kills Zhang Yang in the first history, then tries to acquire his guild, sabotage his tournament, seize his territory, and attack him through political intermediaries; Zhang Yang answers with economic growth, in-game humiliation, and investigation of the Liu family. (Chapters 1–2, 270–280, 290–300, 599–601, 662, and 738)
• One Sword Stroke: Initially Liu Wei's gaming ally and partner in territory attacks and paired-skill progression. Their alliance collapses over Luo Xin Yan, after which One Sword becomes the leading suspected—but unproven—perpetrator of Liu Wei's abduction and murder. (Chapters 290–300, 391, 408, 585–592, 758, and 762)
• Luo Xin Yan: Liu Wei's mistress and paid source of information. Her affair and later marriage plans with One Sword Stroke trigger the violent end of the men's alliance; the narrative attributes the retaliation against them to Liu Wei only by strong character inference, not confirmed evidence. (Chapters 391, 455–462, and 585–598)
• Death Arbiter: The Myth's heavily sponsored champion. Liu Wei invests in his equipment, publicity, and support line as an indirect answer to Zhang Yang, but the strategy still fails when Zhang Yang defeats the surrounding force. (Chapters 621–625 and 659)
• Lin Yu: In the first timeline, Liu Wei's intended wife and the focus of his jealousy toward Zhang Yang. Her delayed wedding helps provoke the attack that ends with both men dying. (Chapters 1–2)
• Snow Seeker: A rival guild master whose Demon Summoner quest boss Liu Wei attempts to claim. She refuses his bargain and defeats The Myth with Zhang Yang's assistance. (Chapters 598–604)
• Ma Zhi Hua: A political intermediary whom Liu Wei outwardly serves but covertly manipulates into demanding Zhang Yang's assets and provoking conflict with the Sun family. (Chapter 662)
• Zhong Xiu Hua: The powerful figure who secures Liu Wei's release after the Liu family's fall, apparently intending his feud with Zhang Yang to remain useful. (Chapter 738)

Items

• Demon Summoner inheritance keepsake: Liu Wei contests Hachilles for the quest item, loses the first spawn to Crimson Rage, and later obtains the B-Class Demon Summoner inheritance by means the narrative does not show. (Chapters 598–604 and 659)
• Monster Attack Order: Liu Wei and One Sword Stroke are jointly responsible for the monster assault on Thunderstorm Castle. The corpus associates him with planning the attack but does not specify that the order itself sat in Liu Wei's inventory. (Chapters 290–300)
• Violet-Platinum equipment: By the Hachilles confrontation, Liu Wei wears a full set of this tier; mounted, it raises his HP to nearly 100,000, still low enough for Zhang Yang to threaten him in a few strikes. (Chapter 599)
• Flying housefly mount: A four-meter, prickly flying mount that carries Liu Wei at the Demon Summoner boss confrontation and gives him aerial mobility until Zhang Yang engages from a superior position. (Chapter 599)
• Unnamed invincibility equipment: A piece of equipment or item supplies approximately five additional seconds of invincibility after Ice Barrier and Sacrifice, helping him survive Forbidden Firefall; the text does not identify its name or slot. (Chapter 625)