Li Qingning

Fairy Qingning (清凝仙子, *Qīngníng xiānzǐ*)

Little Doctor Li (小李大夫, *Xiǎo Lǐ dàfū*)

## Appearances

* Lanxi Zhen (Chapter 1)
* The Legend of Luo Xiaohei (mentioned, Episode 10)

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**Li Qingning** (李清凝, *Lǐ Qīngníng*) is the protagonist of Lanxi Zhen. She is one of the only six known healing types in history and a disciple of the esteemed immortal Laojun. A genius medical practitioner, she's been earning a reputation as a doctor since a young age and is considered a goddess by some of the people she’s helped.

In the present time, it is heavily implied that she is no longer around. Panjing further implies that she may have lost her spirit realm, saying that if it were a condition that Laojun could cure, then he wouldn't be pining at the Fire Borrower's Rock.

## Appearance

Qingning has short bangs and wavy dark brown hair parted either into two low buns, two hair loops, or two french braids that end in buns. She often dons a turquoise attire and white pants with either a wrap of apple green or trimmings of pink. Her winter wear consists of a pink and blue overcoat with fur trimmings.

## History

Qingning never met her mother. Her father, a doctor, brought her along to travel across the land and taught her a bit about medicine before he got drafted in the war and died, leaving the then 8-year-old Qingning to tend to the sick and wounded of their village. She continued self-studying from medical books until Laojun saved her village from military bandits when she was 10. After moving to Lanxi Town, she began to study to become a doctor and became the best doctor in the medicine pavilion in just 21 months. She officially became Laojun's disciple when she was 12 and has been following him ever since.

## Personality

Qingning is a very determined and hard-working person. Once she was determined to become Laojun’s disciple, she already started calling him "shifu" without him even agreeing to take her in yet and worked hard to juggle both school and doctor training just to be his disciple. She has a strong sense of justice and would make sure to leave no wrong uncorrected if she can help it, going as far as compiling a list of corrupt local officials to be dealt with by the imperial palace. She's also very filial and never forgets to greet and check in with her family and old teachers. She's very self-assured in her both her medical and martial abilities and does not shy away from praising herself or getting into potentially dangerous situations, confident that she can fight her way out anyway.

## Abilities

### Diagnosis

She can quickly and very accurately diagnose the status of a patient's health and prescribe effective medicine that even more veteran doctors would not have known or thought about.

### Healing

She can intuitively figure out the best way to heal a person either through medical or spiritual means, and is highly effective at executing it.

### Spirit extraction

She can extract the spiritual essence from herbs and medicine and use it in her practice.

## Relationships

### Laojun

Qingning has been dedicated to following Laojun ever since he saved her and her village from military bandits. She successfully passed his rigorous conditions for her to become his disciple and soon proved to be a natural talent at cultivating. Eventually, Qingning's affection for her shifu turned changed in nature and she confesses her feelings to him, but Laojun couldn't reciprocate her romantic attraction despite caring deeply about her. They continue being a close pair of master and disciple after that, with Laojun being especially protective of Qingning due to her being an extremely rare healing type.

### Xuanli

Qingning and Xuanli have similar temperaments and are therefore very close, with Qingning referring to him as "Gou-ge" (dog brother). Xuanli is incredibly fond of Qingning, even taking reading and writing lessons to understand Qingning's letters to him and sitting through Laojun's lectures to learn to protect her better, despite lessons boring him out of his wits.

### Wuxian

Wuxian and Qingning are amicable with each other. Wuxian even accompanies Qingning to face an enemy to make sure she stays safe and helps her along with her endeavors.

## References

1. ↑ *Lanxi Zhen*, Chapter 7
2. ↑ *Lanxi Zhen*, Chapter 2
3. ↑ *Lanxi Zhen*, Chapter 55

## See Also

* Appearances of Li Qingning
* Mentions of Li Qingning