Li Yao

Li Yao, nicknamed Vulture, is an influential advanced wargod and the husband of Venina Paulinus. The death of their only son, Li Wei, turns him into one of Luo Feng's earliest sustained enemies. He uses wealth, HR Alliance access, hired fighters, forbidden military hardware, and his own Black God Set to pursue revenge, then extends that campaign to Luo Feng's family. The Palace of Wargods sentences him to death; he breaks through to star traveller level at the execution site but is killed by Luo Feng before he can escape. (Chapters 91–92, 136–148, and 192–200)

Biography

Earth's Fighter Era

Li Yao first appears at his Marvelous Mountain villa as one of Earth's strongest advanced wargods. When Li Wei's death signal arrives, he immediately uses HR Alliance equipment to search the surrounding wilderness for registered fighters. The absence of a nearby wargod leads him and Venina to suspect a combatant hiding greater strength, and they travel to the scene to inspect the bodies. Their grief becomes an investigation backed by exceptional money and influence rather than a willingness to accept that the killer may remain unknown. (Chapters 91–92)

The couple offers an astronomical bounty for the culprit and systematically narrows possible suspects. Li Yao states that he would rather kill a thousand candidates than let the true killer escape if fewer organizations protected them, showing how quickly vengeance overrides proportionality. Luo Feng remains concealed for a time because he killed Li Wei during a wilderness conflict and hid his spirit-reader strength, but the bounty and continued surveillance make the dead son a persistent danger around his advancement. (Chapters 92, 101, and 115)

The conflict becomes open when Luo Feng's spirit-reader power is exposed. Li Yao and Venina infer that the previously underestimated fighter could have killed Li Wei and begin preparing to strike during the elite training camp's Australia survival exercise. Hong refuses to decide a lawful fighter-against-fighter feud for Luo Feng, but promises that Luo Feng's family will remain safe. Li Yao interprets this boundary correctly: he can still try to kill Luo Feng in the wilderness, but touching the family would provoke power beyond the HR Alliance's ability to protect him. (Chapters 136–139)

Li Yao nevertheless assembles a private expedition of three hired wargods, roughly fifty support personnel, and a disassembled laser cannon obtained through Paulinus arms connections. He travels to Australia while Venina supplies intelligence, intending to overwhelm a nineteen-year-old target with manpower and a weapon capable of killing horde-leader monsters. Luo Feng anticipates the pursuit, defeats the hired fighters and crew, and destroys the cannon emplacement. Li Yao survives chiefly because the Black God Set covers his body and turns otherwise lethal spirit-weapon strikes aside. (Chapters 138–145)

The failed hunt leaves Li Yao isolated but still unwilling to disengage. Following Luo Feng across Australia, he discovers the mist-shrouded island and its Spirits of Nature, then calls on the Paulinus family's elite Catalan and Catalan's companions. Li Yao supplies local knowledge and joins their attempt to harvest the willow-tree treasures. Luo Feng steals a Thousand-Year Willow Heart from them and later, strengthened by it, defeats the gathered advanced wargods. Li Yao again endures because of the Black God Set, but his advantages in money, reinforcements, and battlefield preparation no longer restore control of the feud. (Chapters 146–158)

Luo Feng does not pursue him into a headquarter city after Australia. The apparent reprieve ends when Luo Feng spends more than a year inside archaeological ruin #9 and is declared dead. Believing the opponent gone, Li Yao and Venina begin a three-month indirect campaign against his surviving family through HR Alliance connections. Luo Hua uses wealth and state protection to resist them, yet Luo Feng's parents endure psychological pressure, his mother relies on sleeping pills, and his father is badly injured in a staged traffic accident. Li Yao's desire to punish Luo Feng has by then expanded to people who had no part in Li Wei's death. (Chapters 187–192)

Luo Feng's return reverses the balance immediately. Enraged by his father's injuries, he publicly attacks Li Yao outside the HR Alliance building, overwhelms the Black God Set's protection with sixteen simultaneous impacts, and traps him in a golden silk net. The confrontation does not become an unlawful execution there: Luo Feng collects state surveillance and documentary evidence establishing Li Yao and Venina as the organizers of the attacks, accepts recognition at representative-level strength, and brings the case to the Palace of Wargods. The change turns their private retaliation into a challenge to the protected family of a representative. (Chapters 192–195)

Li Yao and Venina attempt to return to Paris, believing Paulinus territory and Li Yao's senior Yan Hai may shelter them. Palace representatives arrest them at the airport under an order no individual patron can oppose. The court finds that they instructed others to kill a representative's family members and sentences both to immediate death. Li Yao is compelled to surrender his Black God Set before Liu He and Amuhan take the couple into the wilderness; Venina is executed first, leaving him grieving, furious, and facing the failure of his revenge. (Chapters 195 and 198)

At the instant Liu He approaches to carry out the sentence, Li Yao's accumulated emotion triggers a breakthrough to star traveller level one. He breaks his restraints, flies, and manifests a light-associated special ability that gives him exceptional speed. Rather than use the opening only to escape, he stops to fight Luo Feng and prepares a self-injuring all-out attack, blaming him for both Li Wei and Venina. Luo Feng's Soaring Shuttle in Mountain Drill form reaches him first and destroys his body, ending the feud almost immediately after Li Yao becomes a representative. (Chapters 198–200)

Appearance and personality

Li Yao is introduced with a cold, sculpture-like face and eyes that flash sharply when alarmed or enraged. He initially wears a loose dark-blue training uniform and carries a chilling, controlled aura; later battle scenes emphasize a powerful, highly trained body. When deployed, the Black God Set spreads as a black membrane over his limbs, torso, head, and even face, making his silhouette appear inhuman as he extends its material to alter the reach of his arms and legs. No exact height or stable eye color is supplied. (Chapters 91, 138, 142–143, and 199)

His defining trait is obsessive loyalty to his immediate family coupled with disregard for outsiders. Li Wei's death produces genuine shock and grief, and Venina's execution brings tears and despair, but that love does not moderate his methods. He is willing to endanger uncertain suspects, hired subordinates, ordinary people used as cover, and Luo Feng's uninvolved parents. His revenge thus develops from a comprehensible loss into conduct the fighter community treats as an intolerable violation. (Chapters 91–92, 101, 138–145, 192–193, and 198)

Li Yao can be observant and tactically prepared. He analyzes the death scene, anticipates institutional constraints, wears the Black God Set before danger appears, and combines tracking, paid combatants, and a laser cannon in Australia. Yet anger repeatedly narrows that judgment. He continues after the expedition collapses, targets the family once he believes Luo Feng dead, and pauses after his final breakthrough to attempt a costly revenge attack instead of maximizing his chance to flee. (Chapters 91–92, 138–148, 192, and 198–199)

Abilities and progression

For most of his life in the narrative, Li Yao is a veteran advanced wargod near that rank's peak. His ordinary fist strength is described in the hundreds of thousands of kilograms, and force exertion raises his attacks beyond one million kilograms. He fights at supersonic speed with blades and can pressure Luo Feng in close combat when the younger fighter's spirit weapons fail to penetrate his defense. Those results depend on both practiced fighter skill and the Black God Set rather than a demonstrated spirit-reader ability. (Chapters 91, 142–145)

The Black God Set is his central defensive advantage. It can reshape into full-body protection, seal vulnerable openings, and extend limbs so that he can slash from unexpected range or run while partially constrained. It ignores ordinary wargod-level piercing attacks and disperses much of a stronger impact over the body. It is not absolute: repeated multi-weapon strikes transmit enough force to injure his organs, and surrendering it before execution leaves his newly advanced body exposed to Luo Feng's stronger weapon. (Chapters 136, 142–145, 192–193, and 198–200)

Li Yao also has extensive operational resources rather than only personal combat power. Through the HR Alliance and Paulinus family he accesses global fighter tracking, satellite intelligence, private aircraft, arms personnel, hired wargods, and a laser cannon. These tools let him project force across continents, but they remain dependent on institutions and money. Hong's warning makes the HR Alliance withdraw support for attacks on Luo Feng's family, Luo Feng disrupts the Australia operation, and the Palace of Wargods later overrides Paulinus protection entirely. (Chapters 91–92 and 138–145)

His final breakthrough makes him a star traveller level one fighter, called a representative on Earth. It grants flight, much greater physical and genetic-energy power, and a special ability associated with light; observers judge that ability unusually effective for speed. He coats his hands and body in golden light for a sacrificial attack that could injure himself while trying to kill Luo Feng. Because he dies during his first battle at the rank, the corpus does not establish long-term cultivation, a domain, named star-traveller techniques, or the ability's full limits. (Chapters 198–200)

Relationships

• Luo Feng: Luo Feng kills Li Wei during a wilderness conflict, then hides the spirit-reader strength that would identify him. Li Yao's pursuit escalates from bounty and investigation to an armed Australian hunt and attacks on Luo Feng's family. Luo Feng ultimately secures his death sentence and kills him when the execution-site breakthrough becomes a final attack. (Chapters 91–101, 136–158, and 192–200)
• Venina: Venina is Li Yao's wife, Li Wei's mother, and active partner in revenge. Her HR Alliance authority and Paulinus family connections support their searches, bounty, weapons, and later attacks. They sometimes debate risk, but act together until the Palace sentences them; her execution immediately before his intensifies Li Yao's last breakthrough and attack. (Chapters 91–92, 101, 138–145, 192–195, and 198–199)
• Hong: Hong refuses to settle Li Yao's direct fighter feud with Luo Feng but guarantees the safety of Luo Feng's family. The warning forces the HR Alliance and Paulinus family to stop open support against those relatives. After Li Yao violates that boundary indirectly, Hong arranges representative arrest and supports the Palace proceedings. (Chapters 136–139, 195, and 198–200)
• Catalan: Catalan is a leading Paulinus family fighter who comes to the Australian island after Li Yao reports the Spirits of Nature. Li Yao guides him to the willow trees and fights alongside his group, but Catalan rebukes his inadequate security after Luo Feng steals a treasure. Their connection is family and battlefield cooperation, not a teacher-disciple bond. (Chapters 152–158)
• Luo Hua: Luo Hua has no personal feud with Li Yao before becoming a target. When Li Yao and Venina move against the Luo family, Luo Hua converts a rare treasure into financial and political protection, preserves evidence, and keeps their parents alive. His resistance is a principal reason the indirect campaign fails before Luo Feng returns. (Chapters 187–195)
• Liu He: Liu He explains the certain Palace penalty once Luo Feng presents evidence, accompanies the sentenced couple as an executioner, and is assigned to kill Li Yao. Li Yao's breakthrough interrupts Liu He's strike; Liu He then pursues by aircraft and witnesses Luo Feng complete the killing. No earlier friendship or private enmity between them is established. (Chapters 194–200)

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