Gu Ding

Biodata

Feature	Details
Name	Gu Ding (顾丁) 1
Gender	Male 1
Age	15 at his introduction 1
Species/Race	Human–Abyss Alien hybrid; later described as possessing half-Originator bloodline 1479 1609
Affiliation	Captain of the Gu Ding Pirate Crew 720 1550
Occupation/Role	Interstellar pirate; body cultivator, martial cultivator, potion refiner, and later a Water Element Mage 1 459 1201 1243
Status	Alive; actively confronting Original Sin in the final battle 1624
First Appearance	Chapter 1, “My Name is Gu Ding”

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
First-Order Gene Body	1	Introduced with a Cell Comprehensive Index of 10 and mental strength of 9.8; no Special Ability had awakened.
Second-Order Gene Body	52	Possessed Second-Order Berserk and gained Second-Order Regeneration after his body absorbed an Energy Crystal Bead without a gene-level increase.
Third-Order Gene Body	98	Implanted two Fifth-Order Gene Beast Energy Crystal Orbs; gained curse-type Damage Stacking.
Seventh-Order Gene Body	232	Reached a Cell Comprehensive Index of 800,000 and acquired multiple additional abilities, including Absolute Seal and attraction/repulsion control.
Eighth-Order Gene Body	250	A gene-chain mutation raised both his Cell Comprehensive and Mental Power Indices to 100 million.
Thirteenth-Order Gene Body	309	Awakened the Fated Divine Power Indestructible Golden Body and developed abilities including Destruction Flame, Devouring Flame, and Energy Clone.
Demigod	411	Emerged from a cocoon after seven days; his body grew nearly twenty centimeters and reached Five-Star physical and mental indices.
God level	524	Broke the chains represented by the Black Iron Gate in his void-space trial and received an incomplete inheritance.
Five-Star Low-rank God	570	Reached this level during a hundred-day Enlightenment; his physical strength and God Source Strength rose to Seven-Star High-rank God.
Five-Star Mid-rank God	597	Recorded with Seven-Star Peak-rank physical and God Source strength.
Five-Star High-rank God	619	Advanced through cultivation after receiving Bartholomew’s inheritance.
Physical Body True God	787	Used Demon Beast skeletons and Qi Blood energy to cultivate the Nirvana Undying Body past his physical bottleneck.
First Sequence True God	829	Possessed First Sequence Heavenly God-level physical body, soul, and God Source strength.
Sixth Sequence True God	854	Broke his Gene Shackles after Enlightenment; his combat power reached the level of a minor-accomplishment Tenth Sequence Heavenly God.
Saint King	1173	Processed his accumulated battle memories and Law insights into a major breakthrough.
Main God Perfection	1316	Hunted Red-Eyed Demon Bulls with his crew while at Main God Perfection.
Two-Star Lord	1342	Advanced after the Hidden Dragon Battlefield trial.
Eternal God Emperor	1465	Reborn and strengthened after the Demon Face consumed millions of Demon Spirits and their memories.
Emperor Realm / Tenth Level Dao Realm	1491, 1498	Condensed the Singularity as his tenth Great Dao, expanded his internal universe into a true universe, and formed an Emperor Body of black battle armor.
Invincible state	1527	Returned from the Chaos Tower unable to be harmed by Bigge’s or Elsa’s attacks; physical attacks rebounded and Liliath’s soul technique caused her backlash.
Beyond Dominator Realm combat power	1550	Defeated Sadi’s projection with one finger and killed the remaining Supreme Realm experts of the Heavenly Dao Alliance.

Background / History

Gu Ding was an orphan raised by his “Old Dad” after being placed in a trash can as an infant. His earliest recovered memory is of Old Dad picking him up and taking him into Rose Tavern. As a teenager, Gu Ding attended school on Deep Sea Star while working part-time at the tavern in its Red Light District. 1 1307

At fifteen, he publicly declared that he wanted to become “the man with the highest bounty in the entire universe sea.” His academy profile assessed him as exceptionally gifted in comprehension and combat, but overly individualistic and difficult to manage. 1

Gu Ding later learned from Angorde—his biological father’s adopted son—that his father had sent him hundreds of epochs into the future to keep him alive. His identity was eventually exposed as the son of Gu Zang and an Abyss Alien woman, making him not fully human. 574 1479

His heritage also places him at the center of the Gu Family’s internal hostility. Gu Huang Tian considers Gu Ding’s Heavenly Demon Hall bloodline unacceptable because the Heavenly Demon Hall Saintess killed Gu Huang Tian’s brothers during the Primordial Era. 1522

Appearance

Gu Ding initially appeared as a thin, ordinary-looking but slightly handsome teenage boy. After his promotion to Demigod, he emerged with the build of a young man around twenty: nearly twenty centimeters taller, more solidly built, and with a slightly rounder, more handsome face. 260 411

• His signature smile was distinctive enough for Prisson to recognize him through a disguise. 190
• Despite his reputation, he is often perceived as harmless-looking, like a sunny boy next door. 1322
• He can alter his appearance and physique through the Cellular Transformation Technique; one disguise made him a three-meter-tall strongman. 610
• For black-market dealings, he used a more intimidating disguise: three and a half meters tall, heavily built, bearded, and scarred. 621

Personality

Gu Ding is driven by freedom, challenge, and self-improvement. He repeatedly refuses to let stronger opponents, political forces, or apparent disadvantages decide his path for him, and he treats dangerous confrontations as opportunities to grow. 1 1043 1426

Although he is more action-oriented than Reed or Miko, Gu Ding is observant and capable of careful planning. He notices details in opponents’ clothing and behavior, uses terrain and summoned beasts to delay pursuers, and knows when protecting his crew requires postponing a battle. 33 1004 1150

He is also generous and protective toward allies. He supports Liliath during her evolution, treats struggling prisoners to meals, and spared Bu Laze after the Selection Tournament rather than treating him solely as an enemy. 98 571 1031

Gu Ding has a patient side beneath his impulsiveness. He spent days selecting suitable inheritances rather than grabbing treasures immediately, and he showed respect to the deceased experts whose inheritances he later received. 1339 1412

Abilities & Skills

Gene Abilities

Gu Ding’s early growth was defined by a special physique capable of acquiring and evolving multiple abilities through changes to his gene chains.

• Berserk — Multiplies his attack power, defense, speed, and recovery by three for ten minutes. Its original drawback is ten hours of exhaustion and halved combat power afterward. 52
• High-Speed Regeneration — Permanently improves cellular regeneration; it evolved from threefold regeneration to tenfold regeneration by the time he reached Third Order. 52 98
• Damage Stacking — A curse-type ability in which each successive hit stacks prior damage onto the target. 98
• Absolute Seal / Weakening Shackles — Taboo Powers that continued to evolve alongside him. 309 597
• Attraction and Repulsion Force — Can control attraction and repulsion in any direction up to ten times an object’s original gravitational or repulsive force; activation requires physical contact with the target. 232

Flame and Devouring Powers

Gu Ding wields several Divine Fires, including Destruction Flame, Devouring Flame, Starfire, Nirvana Flame, and Purple Lightning Divine Fire. 570 597

• Devouring Flame converts consumed Insect Beast corpses into Qi Blood energy, which he uses to strengthen his body cultivation. 345
• Devouring the Heavens and Swallowing the Earth is his Fated Divine Power and supports the absorption of resources, beast bones, and inherited energy. 570 791
• His devouring powers later enabled the Demon Face to absorb millions of Demon Spirits and their memories, rebuilding Gu Ding’s body. 1465

Body Cultivation

Gu Ding specializes in physical cultivation and has developed several successively stronger Emperor Body techniques.

• Myriad Manifestations Emperor Body / Dragon Elephant Emperor Body — Enhances combat power through the Giant Strength Realm and permanently strengthens the body through the Devil Elephant Realm. Its later limits rose to ten-thousandfold temporary and permanent enhancement. 345
• White Jade Emperor Body — Allows drastic physical transformation; when activated, Gu Ding became a hundred-meter giant clad in silver-white armor. 612
• Nirvana Undying Body — Allowed his physical body to enter the True God level after enduring the transformation fueled by Demon Beast skeletons. 787
• Prajna Body — A physical Mystical Power that absorbs and devours external attacks, strengthening its white mist rather than diminishing under impact. 997

Miniature World and Demon Face

Gu Ding possesses a One-Star Miniature World that can impose a hundredfold combat-power suppression on opponents while granting him a hundredfold increase. Its rules cannot easily affect those who possess comparable world-level power. 574 597

His ultimate move, Demon Face, is powerful enough to extinguish souls directly, though it was blocked by Angorde and is not universally decisive. 539 574

• A separate Red-Eyed Gu Ding emerged after Gu Ding used Death Advent and effortlessly defeated a Death Servant. 638
• The Black Mist within Gu Ding later formed a Demon Face Exotic Beast that consumed the Demon Spirits responsible for destroying his body. 1465

Martial Dao and Inheritances

Gu Ding improved his Martial Dao Intent through repeated virtual battles against opponents at the same cultivation level.

• Reached the peak of the Micro Realm after over two hundred virtual challenges. 438
• Reached the Enlightenment Realm and used it to predict attacks too fast for his eyes to follow. 592
• Improved from minor accomplishment of the Selfless Realm to perfect completion of the Shattering Void Realm during Enlightenment. 854
• Inherited Asura World Extinction, a technique that significantly increased his combat power without raising his Demigod cultivation base. 438
• Received the inheritances of Long Ao, Bai Zhe, and Di Kuang after showing respect to their remains in the Ancient Hall. 1339 1341

Willpower and Battle Spirits

The Great Will Sky Tablet enables Gu Ding to cultivate and project his will in accelerated internal time.

• Reached Tenth Sequence True God-level Will Projection, then completed True God Great Perfection and amplified his will to Fourth Sequence Heavenly God level. 750
• Later raised his willpower to Five-Star Lord Perfection and summoned a Bronze Battle Spirit capable of instantly defeating an opposing battle spirit. 1338

Clones and Space-Time Powers

Gu Ding possesses Metal-attribute and Space-Time-attribute clones, identified as key parts of his fighting style by Angelina. 1243

• Energy Clone appeared among his abilities after reaching Thirteenth-Order Gene Body. 309
• Gu Jin and Gu Kong acted as his clones during the battle against the Masked Man. 1338
• He used clones and Time Regression to restore the ruined Heavenly Futu. 1610

Magic

While in another world, Gu Ding learned its language in three days and read its magical research texts. He used his mental power to modify elements rather than assimilate them. 1201

• Became a Water Element Mage after transforming a drop of water into gold. 1201
• Demonstrated flight by gliding from the Scholar’s Tower toward Winterfell’s city wall. 1205
• Developed and used a Small Fireball Spell against White Walkers. 1207

Invincibility State

After the Chaos Tower trial, Gu Ding entered an unexplained state in which attacks could not injure him.

• Bigge’s and Elsa’s attacks failed to harm him and rebounded upon their users. 1527
• Liliath’s Pupil Technique produced a backlash, confirming his immunity to soul attacks. 1527
• His later combat power surpassed the Dominator Realm despite him not having formally entered it. 1550

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Sea Emperor — His AI companion, strategist, hacker, analyst, and frequent source of cultivation guidance. It can disguise itself as a smart watch around Gu Ding’s wrist. 411 574
• Five-Star Titan Battleship — An ancient-era battleship awarded to Gu Ding after he chose a spaceship as his Merit Point reward. 341
• Lifebound Divine Weapon Ring — A ring that absorbed 108 Secret Bones before entering Gu Ding’s Soul Space to begin its transformation into an Order God Weapon. 1316
• Great Will Sky Tablet — A willpower cultivation treasure used to improve his Will Projection and summon Battle Spirits. 750 1338
• Black Mecha — Used in his battle against Emily on Titan Star. 158
• Space Lock array disk — Used to block pursuers from bypassing his layered defenses with spatial abilities. 1004
• Disguise armor — Pseudo-Divine Object armor that can be transformed to match an altered physique. 610

Relationships

• Sea Emperor — AI companion and closest tactical partner; provides hacking, body analysis, intelligence, and cultivation advice. 29 574 1610
• Liliath — Core crew member and trusted companion; implanted the Energy Crystal Bead that gave Gu Ding his Second-Order Regeneration and later attempted to test his invincibility. 52 1527
• Bigge — Loyal crew member who consistently supports Gu Ding’s decisions and helps test his strength. 1043 1527
• Elizabeth — Wife; their relationship is affectionate and supportive, particularly regarding Gu Ding’s unusual cultivation path. 1479 1528
• Reed — Childhood friend and intellectual counterpart; Gu Ding’s academic results were generally second only to Reed’s. 1 580
• Angorde — Adoptive son of Gu Ding’s biological father and Gu Ding’s adoptive elder brother; revealed Gu Ding’s time-displaced origins. 574
• Gu Zang — Biological father; a former Gu Family prodigy whose actions and lineage made Gu Ding a target of the Gu Family. 1379 1479
• Xiao Hei — Guardian spirit implanted by Gu Ding’s mother; assisted him after his rebirth among the Demon Spirits. 1465
• Angelina — Gu Ding’s Guide in the True King Hall; he rejected eleven stronger mentor candidates to remain under her guidance. 1243
• Ma Dike — Potion-refining senior who identified Gu Ding as his designated disciple after seeing his refining talent. 29

Story Role / Major Arcs

• Deep Sea Star — Begins as a gifted but independent student and tavern worker. His curiosity about Lin Na’s disguise and his ambition to become a pirate establish his early direction. 1
• Arena and refining rise — Builds a reputation through overwhelming arena victories and highly skilled potion refining, drawing interest from the Medicine God Alliance and Ma Dike. 10 29
• Gene evolution and crew formation — Gains several special abilities, develops his physique, and establishes the Gu Ding Team as a recognized force. 52 98 320
• Oul Ruins and Demigod advancement — Accumulates Merit Points, wins a Five-Star Titan Battleship, develops the Dragon Elephant Emperor Body, and advances to Demigod. 341 345 411
• Gate of Purgatory — Faces increasingly powerful opponents, learns of his connection to Angorde and Gu Zang, and improves through dangerous arena and battlefield challenges. 574 581 619
• Burial Ground and Ice Fire Mansion — Reaches True God-level physical strength, earns the sole victory in Heinoas’s assessment, and investigates the Gold Palace. 787 898 904
• Selection Tournament — Becomes the tournament’s guardian target, uses terrain and beast defenses against mass pursuit, and spares Bu Laze after surviving the contest. 1002 1004 1031
• True King Hall — Achieves two hundred newcomer-arena victories, becomes a sought-after disciple, but chooses Angelina’s guidance over eleven senior mentors. 1235 1243
• Hidden Dragon Battlefield — Receives Sealed Emperor inheritances, rises to Main God Perfection, and becomes widely recognized as the top-ranked trial-taker. 1316 1339 1351
• Heritage exposure and rebirth — His parentage is publicly revealed; later, Demon Spirits consume his body before the Black Mist restores him at Eternal God Emperor level. 1479 1464 1465
• Emperor Realm and Chaos War — Attains Emperor Realm, returns after 317 years in the Sea of Time, kills five Supremes in war, and has his bounty canceled. 1491 1498 1522
• Final conflict — Acquires an invincible state, exceeds Dominator Realm combat power, repairs the Heavenly Futu, and attempts to refine the Heavenly Dao to oppose Original Sin. 1527 1550 1610 1624

Notable Quotes

“I hope to become the man with the highest bounty in the entire universe sea.” 1

“Avoiding difficulties has never been my character. The stronger the challenge, the stronger it will make us.” 1043

“I’ve always been a proactive person and don’t like others arranging the outcome for me.” 1426

Trivia

• Gu Ding’s only reliable cooking skill is egg fried rice; he is described as a disaster at every other kitchen task. 378
• To avoid attention while registering for a tournament, Sea Emperor changed Gu Ding’s listed age from 16 to 1600. 623
• His hundred consecutive newcomer-arena victories made him only the sixth person in True King Hall history to accomplish the feat. 1235