Li Jiao

* Manhua 1
* Manhua 2

Li Jiao is the Palace Master of Fire Dragon Palace who initially makes himself a determined enemy of Yang Kai and High Heaven Palace.

## Appearance

Li Jiao is described as a middle aged man in purple robes.

## Personality

Li Jiao, though initially presenting as arrogant, turns out to have a caring and loving personality towards those close to him as well as a strong sense of loyalty to his friends.

## Background

Carrying a 3rd Order Dragon Bloodline, Li Jiao is a powerful and respected 3rd Order Emperor Realm master within the Northern Territory of Star Boundary.

## History

### High Heaven Palace

Li Jiao is first seen growing a Dragon Blood Flower in the presence of Mi Qi of Full Sky Sect. Both are upset about the recent destruction of the Seeking Passion Sect by a young upstart 1st Order Emperor, seeing this as a serious encroachment on their turf. Li Jiao also happens to have the Wondrous Pill Great Emperor’s 5th disciple, Ji Ying, over as a guest. During this time, one of Ji Ying’s disciples, Li Xuan, suddenly notifies the former that he was unfairly assaulted at High Heaven Palace, giving Li Jiao and Mi Qi a seemingly legitimate reason to make trouble with it.

Upon arriving at High Heaven Palace, Li Jiao and the others run into a disgruntled Zhu Qing, whom the lying and lecherous Li Xuan points out as one of his offenders. After Mi Qi, a 3rd Order Emperor, attacks and is instantly defeated by the 8th Order Dragon female, Yang Kai politely invites them in. After exposing the lies of Li Xuan using a recording Array created by Nanmen Da Jun, Yang Kai watches as Ji Ying expels him on the spot before engaging in a an Alchemy contest with him. Li Jiao and Mi Qi then bet a massive offering against Yang Kai so that High Heaven Palace will be crippled when Yang Kai loses. However, to their shock, Yang Kai wins the contest, gains Ji Ying as High Heaven Palace’s Chief Alchemist, and causes Fire Dragon Palace and Full Sky Sect to suffer massive losses for the next few decades.

Whats worse, Li Jiao has his Dragon Blood Flower taken by Zhu Qing, who he is helpless against due in part to his mere 3rd Order Dragon Bloodline. Li Jiao, terrified, tells her he acquired it near a Dragon corpse in Frozen Earth. Li Jiao and Mi Qi then leave soundly defeated.

### Frozen Earth

Later, Yang Kai walks straight into the middle of the main hall during a meeting between the Elders of Fire Dragon Palace with Li Jiao, who the former subsequently forces to lead the way to Frozen Earth in order to track down a now missing Zhu Qing. Having no other choice, Li Jiao leads Yang Kai and Zhu Lie, the brother of Zhu Qing, to the Northern Territory Forbidden Zone. Upon arriving in Frozen Earth, they find the Dragon corpse, but no sign of Zhu Qing. Suddenly, however, a Frozen Tide then descends upon the group, and Li Jiao curses his fate with Yang Kai as they are swallowed by the wave. Li Jiao then ends up stuck in the Revolving World, a strange Small World with shifting World Principles, with Zhu Lie. They then manage to survive in a series of struggles with Demon Qi by fighting countless Monsters for weeks until Yang Kai and Zhu Qing eventually find them. Li Jiao, largely corroded by Demon Qi, is then helped to heal by Yang Kai. Eventually, they then successfully leave the Revolving World.

### Wind and Cloud Pavilion

Upon subsequently ending up in Western Territory, Li Jiao finds himself separated from Yang Kai, Zhu Qing, and Zhu Lie, and he ends up reuniting with an old friend in Hua Xing, the 3rd Order Emperor Realm Pavilion Master of the Western Territory Top Sect, Wind and Cloud Pavilion. As he has been treated as an honored guest, Li Jiao is later convinced by Hua Xing into helping the latter deal with two troublesome 1st Order Emperor Realm cultivators, the first of whom killed Hua Xing’s lecherous son, who are currently engaging in open conflict with the Pavilion. After both agreeing to aid his old acquaintance and traveling to confront the latter two cultivators, Li Jiao is horrified to learn that the second cultivator is Yang Kai.

Having no choice but to comply with the latter’s will, Li Jiao then goes on to assist Yang Kai and Lin Yun'er, the cultivator behind the Pavilion Young Master’s death, in both infiltrating and assaulting Wind and Cloud Pavilion. Though still somewhat reluctant to kill his old acquaintance, Li Jiao continues to assist Yang Kai and Lin Yun’er, who he then learns is associated with the fearsome Iron Blood Great Emperor, in completely annihilating Wind and Cloud Pavilion. After returning to Northern Territory through a Cross-Territory Space Array built by Yang Kai, Li Jiao returns dejectedly back to Fire Dragon Palace.

### Dragon Island

Li Jiao is later relaxing with his favorite wife/mistress when Yang Kai again visits unsolicited and asks him to go to Dragon Island. At first reluctant, Li Jiao, as a Dragon Descendant, has always wanted to go to Dragon Island, and he decides to follow Yang Kai. Later, in the Half-Dragon City of Dragon Island, Li Jiao surprisingly sees his ex-fiancé, who he previously thought had abandoned him in the past, as she is about to be violated in front of her child in the middle of the streets by a Dragon Descendant. Infuriated, Li Jiao immediately jumps in to rescue her from the latter. He then explains to Yang Kai that Lu San Niang was promised to him in marriage by her father, Northern Territory’s Dream Gate Sect’s Sect Master, in the past. Though they subsequently fell in love, Lu San Niang suddenly disappeared shortly before their wedding, embarrassing both Li Jiao and a now disgraced Dream Gate Sect.

He and Yang Kai are then shocked to hear the truth. Lu San Niang, a 1st Order Dao Source Realm cultivator, was actually kidnapped by the 8th Order Dragon Clansman Fu Chi, who forcefully took her back to Dragon Island. Here, she was repeatedly raped for years as a sex slave until giving birth to a child with impure Dragon Bloodlines by the name of Lu Yu Qin. She was then subsequently discarded to Half-Dragon City alongside her daughter, where she maintained a feeble existence until nearly being brutalized and violated that day.

Infuriated, Li Jiao vows to care for her and her daughter as he prepares for revenge with Yang Kai’s help. Later, they are part of a team sent to build a Palace for Fu Chi’s wedding to Zhu Qing. Li Jiao is first made to go sacrifice his blood to nurse Dragon Blood Flowers until Yang Kai rescues him with the recently enslaved Fu Ling. He then bides his time for a month as he is reunited Lu San Niang and her daughter, and they rekindle their romance. On the day of the wedding, Yang Kai crashes it, frees Zhu Qing, and ends up ripping off both of Fu Chi’s arms before everything is interrupted by the Martial Beast Great Emperor’s invasion of the Dragon Grave.

### Wu Chen

Fu Chi flees from the wedding and Li Jiao, with Yang Kai’s blessing, pursues him. Having much of his Bloodline suppression nullified due to inadvertently receiving the Dragon Temple's blessing, Li Jiao fights Fu Chi in a devastating battle in which he gives everything he has, including sacrificing his own Dragon Bead, in order to fight Fu Chi. However, he is only able to fight to a narrow defeat, with them both ending up in terrible shape. Suddenly, before Fu Chi can deliver a fatal blow, Wu Chen, the leader of the workers on the Wedding Palace, appears and attacks the former. Fu Chi then helplessly collapses after a brief exchange with the strange Wu Chen, who claims he wishes to eat the Dragon. Horrified, a surviving Li Jiao meets up with the others and lets them know what he saw. Yang Kai then correctly deduces that Wu Chen is Wu Kuang.

At first, Fu Zhun does not fully believe Li Jiao, causing her to take hold of the latter as she delivers a blow to a protesting Yang Kai. Eventually, however, Wu Kuang's treachery is confirmed, and everyone ends up rushing to the Dragon Temple of Dragon Island in pursuit of him. As he later travels to pursue Wu Kuang to the lower Star Fields through a Void Corridor opened by the latter within the Dragon Temple, Yang Kai throws Li Jiao, Lu San Niang, and Lu Yu Qin into his Sealed World Bead. They then are able to spend lots of time together, and Li Jiao becomes eternally grateful to Yang Kai for all that he’s done in reuniting them.

### Friends

Upon returning to Star Boundary, Li Jiao, now friends with Yang Kai, is eventually freed of all debts to High Heaven Palace before they agree on a plan to unite all of Northern Territory. As the first part of this plan, Li Jiao helps Yang Kai to submit Mi Qi and Full Sky Sect. Li Jiao then loyally works with Yang Kai whenever he is called, such as during the Orthodoxy Temple incident involving Demon Spirits in the Southern Territory.

During the Demon War, Li Jiao fights with Yang Kai in Tiger Roar City of Western Territory. Likewise, he is later among those most devastated by Yang Kai’s well-faked fall out with the Iron Blood Great Emperor, in which the former apparently becomes demonized. However, when Yang Kai returns to Star Boundary with his reputation restored, Li Jiao unquestionably continues to follow him.

### Void Land

Li Jiao would follow Yang Kai to Void Land. It is presumed that he went to Ancestral Land with Hong Hu and all the other Divine Spirit-related(Bloodlines/Sources) members of Void Land.

## References

1. ↑ Chapter 2722
2. ↑ Chapter 2731
3. ↑ Chapter 2736
4. ↑ Chapter 2738
5. ↑ Chapter 2945
6. ↑ Chapter 2997
7. ↑ Chapter 3000
8. ↑ Chapter 3007
9. ↑ Chapter 3009
10. ↑ Chapter 3021
11. ↑ Chapter 3067
12. ↑ Chapter 4728