Spouses[]
Nangong Wan[]
Han Li first met Nangong Wan in the restricted zone during the Trial by Blood and Fire. After helping her slay an inky flood demon, and mistakenly identifying the prostate capsule as a demon core. However, it was an aphrodisiac and caused both of them to make passionate love with each other. After both awakened to realized what happened. Nangong wanted to pretend nothing had happened and that it had only been an accident. However, both had feelings for each other since that encounter. Nangong was in denial of her feelings for Han, but Han would try to be extra nice to her whenever they meet. Unable to admit her feelings towards Han, she would keep him guessing for centuries.
Eventually, when Han Li returns from the Scattered Star seas, he hears that Nangong Wan is soon to be wed to someone else. He immediately sets out to meet her to hear her out. All the while, he actively entertains several thoughts and strategies of killing the groom despite not even having established that Nangong Wan wanted to be with Han Li. If it were not for Nangong Wan reciprocating back his feelings, Han Li could have been considered a creep, which is a major red flag stemming from his lack of experience with handling love. He discovers that she was being forced to marry and so, they elope together.
Concubine[]
Mu Peiling[]
Mu Peiling lied and declared that she was taken by Han Li as a concubine to escape a marriage arranged by her clan against her wishes. Although Han Li was strongly opposed to taking her as a concubine, Han had just recently become a Nascent Soul elder and thought that denying her claims would affect his reputation as the clans would think of him as a spineless elder who caved in to the power of the dominant clans instead of an assertive figure.
Following this, Han Li offered to help her cultivate for 30 years during which he promised to not take her vital yin, i.e., her virginity. After this period was over, he gave her a choice to either remain as his concubine in name or move on and be free from him, which would have allowed her to pursue a dao companionship with someone else. Part of the reason he wanted to cut ties with her was because he was married to Nangong Wan now, whom he truly loved. However, Mu Peiling declined to leave him, saying that even if she did leave him, no one would take her as a dao companion given that she was the former concubine of a Nascent Soul elder, which would strike fear in her possible suitors.
Respecting her decision, he says that if she wants to remain as his concubine, she must change her cultivation arts to the Copulative Essence Arts which would help Han Li break through to the late Nascent Soul stage after she becomes a late Core Formation cultivator herself. In the end, Han Li manages to break through to the late Nascent Soul stage on his own, so he never actually takes her virginity. Although this seems like a good turn of events for her, at the end of her lifespan, she is unable to breakthrough to the Nascent Soul stage due to her inner demons resulting from an unfulfilled love.
Love Interest[]
Violet Spirit[]
Attraction: Mutual
Han Li's close confidant, they are mutually attracted to one another.
Yuan Yao[]
Attraction: Mutual
Han Li met Yuan Yao when he arrived to the Scattered Stars Seas for the first time. However, they had their first meaningful encounter within the Heavenvoid Hall where Han Li saved Yuan Yao on three separate occasions. After they parted ways, they met again when he returned to the Inner Star Seas to get away from the pursuit of the grade nine demon beast, Feng Xi. This time, he saves her from a sect plotting to assassinate her because he just so happened to be mistaken by the sect to be one of the Core Formation cultivators hired to kill her due to the pure coincidence of his arrival from the teleportation formation as well as the location where it teleported him to matching that of the time and location decided by this sect to meet before going out to kill her. After saving her again, he helps her give bring her dead companion back to life through a ritual by guarding the area while she works at it. However, this results in Han Li being transported to the Umbra Region and they are separated once again.
Dong Xuan[]
Attraction: One-sided (Dong Xuan)
Xuan'er is a member of the Yellow Maple Valley sect and a martial sister to Han Li. A spoiled disciple and daughter of Hong Fu, she enjoyed manipulating men with her charm abilities. Originally, Xuan'er disliked Han for not falling into her manipulative charms, irritated at his cautious nature, and boring attitude when he escorted her. After Han protected her from getting kidnapped and escaping danger, she developed a one-sided attraction to him. Although Han can sense her attraction, he never reciprocated due to her immature attitude; he always kept things platonic and courteous.
This later resulted in Dong Xuan being unable to break through to the Nascent Soul stage due to her inner demons caused by Han Li's platonic attitude towards her. This eventually got resolved when Han Li later dispelled her inner demons as a late Nascent Soul elder at her request.
Chen Qiaoqian[]
Attraction: One-sided (Chen Qiaoqian)
Qiaoqian was part of the Yellow Maple Valley sect as Han Li; she is Han's senior sister. When they first entered the sect, she was betrothed to the scrupulous Lu but he was later killed by Han. Lu drugged Qiaoqian and planned to rape and kill her before going after Dong Xuan but Han saved her, defeated Lu, and got rid of his body. Because of her drugged state, Qiaoqian grabbed Han and kissed him; he resisted her advances and fed her a memory erasing pill to forget his involvement. However, the memory erasure wasn't full-proof and she had lingering feelings about Han. Since then, Qiaoqian became romantically interested in Han. During The Great Tianan Zhengmo War, the two would be involved in a covert mission with the Seven Sects Alliance. Han was involved in the deaths of two advanced cultivators of the alliance: Lu Tian Meng (Spirit Beast Sect) and Xuan Yue (Masked Moon Sect). To avoid suspicion, he erased Qiaoqian's memories to remove his involvement again. Despite multiple memory erasures, Qiaoqian continues to have a strong attraction to Han and tries to spark a romance between each other. Although Han is attracted to Qiaoqian, he always kept his distance and kept things platonic. In a private place in the mountains, Qiaoqian told Han her family has made arrangements for her to marry off the Qin Family. Qiaoqian saw how her own mother lived an unhappy life from her marriage into the Chen family and Qiaoqian doesn't want that to happen to herself. Qiaoqian wants to choose to be with the man she loves and be free of all family obligations; she made it clear she wants to run away with Han and build a life together. However, Han saw her desperate plea as a desire for freedom and not him. Han never directly rejected her, but Qiaoqian can feel Han unable to reciprocate her feelings and presumed he had someone else in his heart. She gifted him a new uniform and the two would part ways after the fall of their sect. Many years later, Han was able to reconnect with surviving members of his sect and they told him Qiaoqian died. After they parted ways, Qiaoqian never married into the Qin family and died a single woman. News of her demise shocked Han and mourned for her. Despite being attracted to Qiaoqian, Han never explored a relationship with her.
Mo Caihuan[]
Attraction: One-sided (Mo Caihuan)
After Han killed Mo Juren (his master) for trying to take his body, he met his wife and daughter (Caihuan). Juren poisoned Han in his final moments fighting him and his wife had the cure, but it would be at the price of marrying Caihuan. Han convinced Lady Mo to abandon this idea and accept his living doll as their body guard as a trade. Despite being her father's killer, Caihuan never harbored any ill feelings towards Han and was attracted to him due to his kind nature. After the destruction of her family house, she restarted life in another city and encountered Han again. After they managed to escape from danger, Caihuan couldn't hold her feelings back and held him with tearful affection. However, Han never reciprocated her feelings. As a cultivator, he couldn't get himself involved with a mortal. However, Caihuan did her best to be involved in his life over years of sporadic encounters. Eventually, Caihuan realized Han will outlive her and gave up pursuing him. Han did care for Caihuan and left her with face-setting pills to extend her life, but she never took them and kept them as a memento of Han. Despite being a medic, Caihuan developed an incurable condition that eventually took her life. Caihuan would be one of those women Han would lament in his memories from time-to-time.
Masters[]
Monarch Soul Divergence[]
He wasn't Han Li's formal master. However, in practice, he taught Han Li the most, providing guidance, information on mysteries, refining methods for powerful spirit artifacts, and abilities invokable using powerful spiritual sense in life-threatening situations. Listed below are a few of his designs and techniques as well as knowledge that greatly helped Han Li.
- Great Development Technique: Literally created the Great Development Technique that Han Li depended on throughout his cultivation journey since the beginning.
- Triflame Fan: Redesigned the schematics of Divine Spirit Treasures from antiquity of all things by substiting extinct exotic materials, making it possible to invoke the wrath and miracles of such heaven-defying divine treasures once again in the mortal realm. Han Li was able to craft the Triflame Fan with Monarch's help, which is one of Han Li's biggest trump card when he was a Late Nascent Soul cultivator.
- Monarch Puppet: Helped Han Li create a legendary puppet that was nigh indestructible and whose power rivaled a Late Nascent Soul cultivator. Monarch tore apart his own soul to bring the puppet to life, leaving for himself only the strength required to enter the cycle of reincarnation. This was one of Han Li's trump cards from from his time as a Mid Nascent Soul cultivator till his time as a Late Nascent Soul cultivator.
- Pestilence Demons Soullock Technique: Directly prevented Han Li's immediate demise at the hands of his baleful qi by giving him a crash course of the Pestilence Demons Soullock Technique whilst being relentlessly pursued by dozens of Nascent Soul Elders of the Soaring Tribes, which included one of their divine sages.
- Breaking a Spatial Pocket: Also responsible for guiding Han Li out of the Spirit Ethers Garden when all hope seemed lost.
- Puppets: Designed the more sophisticated puppets for Han Li. The combat strength of the weakest models rivaled Core Formation cultivators.
All in all, he is basically the Einstein, Aristotle, and Tesla/Edison of the cultivator world. Man is cursed with knowledge and innovation, and with Han Li's hunger for powerful techniques, Han Li was the like the son he never had; essentially a kitchen sink (Han) that could take in the water from a firetruck faucet (Monarch) without leaking and overflowing too much. The monarch's natural death moved Han Li deeply and went on to fulfil his final wishes in the following decades.
Li Huayuan[]
Novel[]
Li Huayuan became Han Li's master in-name with the initial objective to confiscate half of the spiritual medicines that Han Li collected during the Trial by Blood and Fire[2] to treat his Wife's life-threatening condition. Li Huayuan offered Han Li to become an official disciple if Han Li increased his cultivation level to the Foundation Establishment realm. However, Li Huayuan did not truly believe that Han Li could reach Foundation Establishment given his poor Spiritual Roots[3]. This resulted in Li Huayuan largely forgetting Han Li existed[4].
Since Li Huayuan's wife had been cured by the medicines Han Li had collected, Li Huayuan had intended to reward Han Li by officially accepting Han Li as a disciple before reaching Foundation Establishment. However, since Han Li had reached Foundation Establishment without assistance, Li Huayuan was forced to let Han Li select a cultivation art. Unknown to Li Huayuan, Han Li took a rare hidden cultivation art called the Three Essence Revolutions Technique disguised as a golden page.
Doghua[]
Li Huayuan became Han Li's master in-name because Han Li helped him win a bet against an old Core Formation elder from one of the Seven Sects of the State of Yue. When Han Li reached Foundation Establishment without assistance, Li Huayuan let Han Li select a cultivation art. When Han Li chose a rare hidden cultivation art called the Three Essence Revolutions Technique disguised as a golden page, he was surprised that Han Li could sense the value of such a rare cultivation art in disguise.
Overall, he is an epic but very chill and relaxed master. He is almost a father/uncle figure to Han Li.
Zenith Yin[]
Zenith Yin forced Han Li to become his disciple so that he could use Han Li's Blood Jade Spider to acquire the Heavenvoid Cauldron. He isn't Han Li's true master. However, he did give Han Li several rare treasures to brave the challenges of the Heavenvoid Hall and ensure his survival until they reached the Heavenvoid Cauldron. After Han Li escapes his company with the Heavenvoid Cauldron, he puts a hit order on Han Li and hunts him down alongside other allies. This proves to be futile however. A century or two later, when Han Li returns to the Scattered Star Seas as a late Nascent Soul cultivator, he tracks down Zenith Yin and restrains him. Then, he allows Man Huzi to deliver the killing blow.
Doctor Mo[]
Master turned enemy. Although doctor Mo introduces Han Li to the path of cultivation, it turns out that he intends to take advantage of his disciples. As Han Li finds himself in mortal danger, he ends up killing his master in an act of self-defense using a poison.
Patriarch Miro[]
Friends[]
Silvermoon (Xue Ling)[]
First met as a wolf artifact spirit within the Heavenvoid Cauldron. She accompanied Han Li on his journey by possessing the body of a demon fox and helping him maintain his cave abode during seclusion as well as assisting in battle, often using stealth and an element of surprise. Later she became Han Li's artifact spirit for his Bamboo Cloudswarm Swords. Han Li treated her more than just an artifact spirit, often going out of his way to make sure that she is safe as is evident from him refusing to use her as an artifiact spirit while fighting powerful opponents as well as saving her from dire situations that could have resulted in his own demise. Although they had an agreement to work together until they reached the spirit realm, when Silvermoon reconciled with her other soul fragment, she decided to ascend to the Spirit Realm by herself as she was at Deity Transformation stage while Han Li was still at Mid Nascent Soul stage without guarantee that he would be able to breakthrough to the Deity Transformation stage, not to mention how long it would take him to get there. Besides, as Silvermoon's other soul fragment was more powerful at that time due to Silvermoon's cultivation having mostly waned during her time spent trapped inside the Heavenvoid Cauldron, the other soul fragment would have been the dominant personality, and this soul fragment would have rather killed Han Li in cold blood than remain tethered to him as an artifact spirit. Han Li understood this and agreed to let her go when Silvermoon was temporarily dominant due to the weakened state of the other soul fragment. Silvermoon also wanted to visit her kin in the spirit realm anyways, and Han Li respected this wish.
You Luo (Weeping Soul)[]
First met as the weeping soul beast. Weeping Soul is a Xing beast and accompanies Han Li through thick and thin, even eventually betraying her new master in the Grey Immortal Realm to save Han Li. She is the reincarnation of the Underworld King.
Endless Sky Beast[]
The Endless Sky Beast is a clone of the Mouse Monarch Dong Tian from the Jade Mouse race who is one of the Seven Demon Monarchs of the Spirit Realm.
Jin Tong[]
First met in the mortal realm, as a gold devouring insect Han Li nurtures Jin Tong until she reaches the Dao Ancestor realm. She commonly refers to Han Li as uncle and has a voracious appetite even as a sentient insect.
Li Feiyu[]
Han Li's good friend from the mortal realm. Han Li uses his name as an alias throughout his cultivation journey.
Daoist Xie[]
First met in the Devilish Origin Sea. At first they made a mutually beneficial agreement for survival, although Daost Xie seems indifferent to everything at first, he ends up being a very close ally of Han Li's even into the True Immortal realm. His real identity is a demon race Dao Ancestor surnamed Shi.
Liu Le'er[]
A little fox spirit girl that Han Li saved from the Heavenly Fox tribe that live in the savage wilderness in the True Immortal Realm. For this favour Han Li was saved from a Jade Taiyi Level Gold Devouring Beetle by Liu Le'er's father. After Han Li visits her again in the Savage Wilderness, she considers Han Li her brother and constantly defends him.
Shi Chuankong[]
The 13th prince of the demon race and a cultivator who practices one of the supreme laws, the law of space. After spending countless time with Han Li and accompanying him through life and death through the Grey Immortal Realm, Demon Realm and Cumulus Hollow Realm, they become friends that can rely on each other.
Daoist Huyan[]
Met whilst Han Li was part of the Candle Dragon Road sect. A lover of alcohol and taught Han Li how to cultivate Dao bean puppets.
Yu Menghan[]
Han Li escorts her in the Spiritual Huan Realm to the Cold Fire Sect. Yu Menghan eventually ascends to the True Immortal Realm and takes a Dao Ancestor as her Master. Han Li gives her the Five Thunder Correct Dharma True Scripture after he meets her on the way to Ninth Element City.
Acquaintances[]
Reincarnation Hall Master[]
Jiao San[]
Organisations[]
Mo Estate[]
Fourth Level Gang[]
Qing Wen's Group[]
Yellow Maple Valley[]
Originally joined with the Writ Of Immortal Ascension, it was here that he first cultivated to Foundation Establishment after the Trial by Blood and Fire and taking Li Huayuan as his master. He is eventually betrayed by the sect and left as a scapegoat for higher level cultivators during the devil dao invasion.
Drifting Cloud Sect[]
Han Li first ascended to Nascent Soul stage whilst masquerading as a foundation stage cultivator to make use of the spiritual veins in the sect. Afterwards he became the prominent figure of the sect before ascending to the Spirit Realm.
Reincarnation Hall[]
Han Li first joins the reincarnation hall after obtaining a reincarnation hall mask in the Northern Cold Immortal Domain. The reincarnation hall is said to be directly against the Heavenly Court and is said to have ties to the Grey Immortal Realm. Han Li uses the Reincarnation Hall for its major benefits in trading items with a transmission disk that allows items and information to be easily traded.
Reputation[]
Heavenly South Region[]
Han Li became famous for the first time among the lower grade cultivators for killing 8 Devil Dao Foundation Establishment cultivators while being at the same stage.
Later on, during the war against the Moulans, his fame began to spread after he managed to escape from a Divine Sage (Late Nascent Soul) using the Bloodshadow Evasion Technique even though he was still at the early Nascent Soul Stage. Furthermore, during the climax of the war he accomplished multiple achievements like neutralizing the Moulan’s Sacred Bird by stealing its ancient lamp and reversing the tide of the battle by releasing his Weeping Soul Beast that destroyed all the Copper-armored Corpses. During the skirmish, Han Li also saved the Great Heavenly South Cultivators (Mid Nascent Soul) from the blood cages and killed the Yin Sifting Sect Master's wife. His feats were then revealed by Long Han at the end of the battle.
His trip to Devilfall Valley only confirmed his abilities to be on par with the three Late Stage Nascent Soul Cultivators who rule Heavenly South Region. These old eccentrics clearly recognized him as an equal as he managed to stall the Elder Devil alone for quite some time.
Scattered Star Seas[]
Han Li was known there for being the Exquisite Sound Sect's Guest Elder and the one who stole the Heavenvoid Cauldron, the top treasure of this region.
Afterwards, he had to flee from the Nascent Soul Eccentrics that wanted to get back the Cauldron while escaping from the war that raged between the Star Palace and the Starfall Coalition. He therefore decided to hide in the Outer Seas for some decades. It is during this period that he obtained his first title Insect Devil, after killing numerous Core Formation cultivators that were trying to steal the beast he was hunting.
During his second visit, as Han Li was at the Late Nascent Soul stage, he was feared by any who crossed his path and the two sages of the Star Palace made him the guest elder of Star Palace.
However, it was his third visit that really cemented his position as the undisputed great cultivator in the Scattered Seas after killing the only other Late Nascent Soul cultivator in the region, the Archsaint Six Paths who had possessed Wan Tianming's body after his battle with the two sages of the Star Palace, which had resulted in the deaths of the sages, Wan Sangu, and the Archsaint's real body.
- ↑ Chapter 412 (Novel)
- ↑ Chapter 212 (Novel)
- ↑ Chapter 238 (Novel)
- ↑ Chapter 231 (Novel)