Jiang Hao

Biodata

Feature	Details
Name	Jiang Hao (江浩)
Alias(es)	Jon; Jiang Dingyang; Jiang Hanyang; Xu Xian / Xu Hanwen; Grand City God; Haotian Demon Lord; Dan Chenzi
Species/Race	Human; reincarnation of Jiu Hua, a disciple of Sage Taiqing 1879
Gender	Male
Affiliation	Maoshan Sect; Laoshan Sect; Haoran Group; City God system
Occupation/Role	Collection System traveler; Daoist cultivator; Taoist priest; chairman of Haoran Group; former Grand City God
Status	Active; returned to Earth to cultivate after receiving a Guardian position 1879
First Appearance	Chapter 1

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Beginner Talisman Cultivation	257	Successfully cultivated all thirty-six beginner talismans in the Maoshan Talisman Scripture, though he could not yet use intermediate talismans.
Minor Five Thunders Technique	1115 1116	Mastered the technique by cultivating with natural and household electricity; his altered method produces visible electrical arcs and lets him charge electronic devices.
Foundation Establishment — Peak	1500	Reached the peak of Foundation Establishment after practicing the Golden Core Secret Edict for a day and night.
Foundation Establishment — Great Perfection	1505	Broke through after a month spent studying alchemy and artifact forging.
Indestructible Diamond Divine Skill — Near Vajra Bodhisattva	1522	Absorbed the Five Manifestations God's Golden Core, rapidly strengthening his body and approaching the Vajra Bodhisattva realm.
Indestructible Diamond Divine Skill — Five-Foot Manifestation	1548	Refined the Imperial Preceptor's Golden Core; his defensive manifestation reached five feet and stood one step from the Vajra Bodhisattva Dharma Body.
Golden Core — Grand Perfection	1630	Reached Golden Core Grand Perfection after a year cultivating with the Cosmic Energy Stone.
Nascent Soul — Middle Stage	1707	Advanced to the middle Nascent Soul stage within a year through cultivation resources and dual cultivation with Bai Suzhen.
Vajra Bodhisattva Dharma Body	1757	Manifested a three-headed, six-armed Vajra protector capable of withstanding a zombie's overwhelming strike.
Nascent Soul — High Stage	1773	Broke through after dual cultivation with Bai Susu while completing a large artifact-refining project.
Cultivation Perfection	1870	After three years of cultivation and dual cultivation with three thousand-year-old cultivators, reached perfection and sensed his approaching Heavenly Tribulation.

Background

Jiang Hao began as a financially struggling university graduate working in Anxinda Insurance Company's sales department. With overdue rent, an imminent performance review, and little money remaining, he was diligent but unable to secure enough sales. After receiving the Collection System from the “Second Universe World,” he resigned from the company and began traveling through mission worlds 1 5.

His encounters with supernatural worlds led him into Daoist cultivation. Old Daoist Hong Lu accepted him into the Maoshan lineage and bestowed the Daoist name Jiang Dingyang, chosen for Jiang Hao's “pure Yang of the Five Elements” 524. Hong Lu later taught him the Five Thunder Method and Heavenly Eye technique to address the malevolent energy left by Jiang Hao's past actions 525.

Although he repeatedly assumes identities supplied by the System, Jiang Hao generally retains his own body and appearance. Near the end of his travels, Emperor Qin Guan reveals that Jiang Hao is the reincarnation of Jiu Hua, Sage Taiqing's disciple. Jiang Hao accepts the revelation but chooses to live according to the path he has made as Jiang Hao 1206 1879.

Appearance

Jiang Hao is tall, broad-shouldered, and athletically built, with defined muscles rather than a bodybuilder's bulk. His usual appearance includes black hair, deep bright eyes, and a composed, mature bearing 28 98 1172.

• Possesses a defined chest, six-pack abs, and a lean, powerful physique 28.
• Is commonly described as exceptionally handsome, even when placed in identities from other worlds 56 998.
• Can alter his styling and mannerisms for disguises, including facial hair, altered posture, colored contact lenses, and period-appropriate clothing 619 869 984.
• Frequently wears Daoist robes when acting as a Maoshan priest or Feng Shui master 1711 1717.
• Manifests ethereal blue Sword Wings after refining them into an Immortal Artifact 1849.

Personality

Jiang Hao is steady, composed, and practical. As a young graduate, he worked hard despite poverty and refused to exploit relatives or friends for money 1. His reserved nature contrasts with more outgoing friends such as Ji Yunxi, but he is capable of relaxed humor, teasing, and confidence when the situation calls for it 95 98.

He is intensely acquisitive about knowledge, treating every skill, manual, and spell as potentially useful. His eidetic memory, unblocked meridians, and System rewards let him learn at an extraordinary pace, but he still trains repeatedly to turn raw power into usable techniques 1131 1574. His personal motto is: “It’s good to have many skills!” 1447.

Jiang Hao can be persuasive, deceptive, and ruthless. He has adopted false identities, manipulated hostile groups, tortured enemies for information, and killed those he judges to be persistent threats 140 1144. However, he also refuses corrupt favors, judges humans and monsters by their actions rather than origin, and seeks to direct his wealth and authority toward family, cultivation, and long-term projects 1425 1426 783 1306.

Abilities & Skills

Collection System

Jiang Hao's defining advantage is the Collection System, which sends him to other worlds, grants missions, collects abilities, and provides rewards.

• Can receive skills and items as mission rewards, including Rage Skill, the Golden Key, and the Wine Gourd 1061 1833.
• Can collect martial arts by observing their use, as shown when the System collected Nameless Swordplay and Nameless Saberplay 1121.
• Cannot obtain superpowers through observation alone; direct interaction is required for that collection method 1206.
• Uses a spatial storage ability, often called Golden Space, to carry weapons, materials, supplies, and treasure 1206 1379.

Daoist Cultivation and Talismans

Jiang Hao practices Maoshan and Laoshan Daoist arts, with particular strength in talismans, lightning methods, formations, and exorcism.

• Mastered all thirty-six beginner Maoshan talismans and later gained access to a broader collection of seventy-two talisman arts 257 1548.
• Uses talismans for healing, warding off evil, dispelling illness, detoxifying poison, fixing bones, protecting homes, and protecting allies 794 1301 1640.
• Can use the Heavenly Eye to perceive spiritual and demonic energies, including the purple-gold fortune surrounding himself 525 1423.
• Commands techniques including Body-Fixing, Water Evasion, Fire Evasion, Earth Evasion, Wall-Piercing, Stone to Gold, Substitution, Paper Crane Messaging, and Scattering Beans into Soldiers 1441 1501 1763.
• Serves as the Grand City God, capable of organizing underworld envoys, managing matters of Yin and Yang, and converting service into merit and favorable reincarnation 1510 1511.

Thunder Magic

Jiang Hao's lightning arts are among his strongest offensive techniques.

• Mastered the Minor Five Thunders Technique, which harms ghosts, demons, and spiritual bodies while mutating into a visible electrical ability in his case 1114 1115.
• Can charge electronic devices with his body after mastering the technique 1115.
• Uses Five Thunder Palm to disrupt spiritual energy and severely damage ghosts or cultivators 1116.
• Developed Divine Firmament Lightning Control Technique, which heavily wounded the Ghost King and forced him to flee 1439.
• Improved his lightning affinity after being struck by Thor's lightning, increasing the ease and force of his summoned thunder 1401.

Martial Arts and Physical Combat

Jiang Hao combines modern combat training, martial arts, firearms expertise, and superhuman physical enhancements.

• Possesses advanced free combat ability, military training, spearplay, saber techniques, swordsmanship, archery, marksmanship, and hidden-weapon techniques 95 430 1206.
• Learned Lightness Skill by channeling Spiritual Power through his meridians, allowing rapid leaps, rooftop movement, and travel across water 1131 1316.
• Rapidly mastered One-Word Electric Sword, Swift Thunder Sword, Sky Full of Flowers, and acupoint-striking techniques 1131.
• Defeated twenty consecutive martial artists while deliberately extending the fights to learn and collect their techniques 1134.
• Has peak-human physical statistics even without activating supernatural abilities 1061.

Rage Skill and Indestructible Diamond Divine Skill

Jiang Hao possesses two major body-strengthening abilities.

• Rage Skill — Temporarily grants immense strength, speed, and endurance at the cost of rapidly consuming Spiritual Power and leaving him exhausted afterward 1061.
• Indestructible Diamond Divine Skill — Provides exceptional physical defense and strength; eventually developed into the Vajra Bodhisattva Dharma Body 1217 1522 1757.
• The Vajra Dharma Body can manifest as a golden, three-headed, six-armed protector around him 1757.
• His Golden Body Protection can still be broken by enemies with vastly superior instantaneous power 1783.

Sword Control and Flight

Jiang Hao is an accomplished sword cultivator and telekinetic weapon user.

• Learned Sword Sacrifice and Sword Control from Zhiqiuyiye, then refined the Pure Jun Sword through his Dantian and Universe Sword Casket 1440 1465.
• Can control swords with divine sense, ride flying swords, and use Heavenly Escape Swordplay 1500 1501.
• Practiced Sword Control thousands of times until reaching the realm of “mind following intent” 1574.
• Uses Sword Wings as both a flight method and an offensive Immortal Artifact 1849.
• Can form an enormous Heavenly Sword with Pure Jun, though sufficiently powerful foes can shatter it 1783.

Medicine, Scholarship, and Artistry

Jiang Hao's non-combat talents are unusually broad.

• Possesses eidetic memory, allowing him to accurately reproduce portraits and retain texts, faces, spell formulas, and martial manuals after minimal exposure 207 1441.
• Is skilled in traditional Chinese medicine, injury treatment, surgery-like bone setting, and magical healing 539 794 1718.
• Paints lifelike portraits by combining line drawing, ink wash, and modern sketch realism 207 208.
• Speaks multiple foreign languages, including Spanish, French, Italian, and German 474 1259.
• Has professional-level piano ability, passing CM Level 10 examinations 599.
• Is proficient in calligraphy, Chinese painting, oil painting, singing, cooking, magic tricks, lockpicking, wilderness survival, vehicle operation, and aircraft piloting 539 1259.

Other Supernatural Abilities

• Animal Communication — Can communicate with and tame animals, including using birds for scouting 539 1121 1134.
• Sixth Sense — Detects danger in advance and can provide intuition similar to limited mind-reading 1206 1546.
• Super Recovery Ability — Acquired from Deadpool; allows recovery from otherwise devastating injuries 1439 1620.
• Elimination Skill — Can negate or weaken targets' supernatural states, including deflating the Five Manifestations God's Vajra Dharma Body 1519.
• Charm Burst / Monster's Favor — Can temporarily influence people or make monsters view him as non-hostile 1219 1741.
• Soul Captivation Technique — A soul-based hypnosis method effective against ordinary people but ineffective against cultivators with trained souls 1630.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Purple Gold Gourd — Captures ghosts and contains Yin Fire; it can fail against opponents whose strength exceeds its limits 1435 1439.
• Pure Jun Sword — Jiang Hao's refined magic sword and primary weapon for Sword Control techniques 1465.
• Universe Sword Casket — Stores and nurtures swords in his Dantian, greatly accelerating refinement 1465.
• Sword Wings — Personally refined blue spectral wings; a mid-grade Immortal Artifact used for combat and mobility 1849.
• Dao Talismans — Includes protective, healing, exorcism, lightning, and formation talismans 1301 1482.
• Wine Gourd — A System reward capable of holding unlimited liquor while gradually improving its quality 1833.
• Golden Space — Spatial storage for weapons, materials, treasure, and supplies 1206 1379.
• God-Slaying Crossbow — Won at auction after personally enduring three of its bolts 1857.
• Profound Yin Pearl — A top-grade Immortal Artifact collected from Old Ancestor Green Robe 1866.

Relationships

• Zhou Xinyan — Jiang Hao's partner and longtime supporter; she assists with Haoran Group negotiations and remains unaware of much of his supernatural activity 389 459 784.
• Old Daoist Hong Lu — Jiang Hao's Maoshan master; gave him the Daoist name Dingyang and repeatedly advises him to balance worldly wealth with cultivation 524 525 783.
• Jiang He — His younger brother, whom Jiang Hao supports through academic and relationship difficulties 459 994 995.
• Jiang Yan — His younger sister; appears in several System-assigned identities and remains part of Jiang Hao's core family ties 728 783.
• Tie Yuxiang — A devoted companion from an earlier life; supports Jiang Hao's decisions and reunites with him when he returns to that era 463.
• Lu Zhi — One of Jiang Hao's consorts; cultivates Spiritual Power under his influence and later receives his protection talismans 909 1301.
• Bai Suzhen / Bai Susu — Jiang Hao's wife and cultivation partner; their dual cultivation helped him reach the middle Nascent Soul stage 1703 1707.
• Xiao Qing / Bai Qingqing — Bai Suzhen's sister; receives cultivation methods and later serves as Jiang Hao's legal advisor 1763 1778.
• Ma Xiaoling — A ghost-hunting partner and fellow Daoist; their relationship is playful and competitive, and Jiang Hao teaches her advanced spells 1724 1769.
• He Yingqiu — Senior Maoshan brother whom Jiang Hao heals of a decades-long leg injury; later assists with the Maoshan temple project 1718 1773.
• Zhiqiuyiye — A cultivator and friendly rival who exchanges spells with Jiang Hao, teaching him Earth Evasion and Sword Control techniques 1439 1441.
• Zhu Guang — Jiang Hao's ghost subordinate; receives the Taiyin Soul Refining Chapter and performs reconnaissance and other missions for him 1419 1442.
• Hu Xinyue — Fox spirit who comes to admire Jiang Hao's integrity and later becomes closely tied to his household 1425 1465.
• Emperor Qin Guan — Jiang Hao's elder brother from his previous life, who reveals Jiang Hao's identity as Jiu Hua and arranges his Guardian role 1879.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Collection System Traveler

After the Collection System appears, Jiang Hao leaves his insurance job and enters worlds with assigned identities and missions. He steadily turns each world into a source of skills, wealth, allies, and cultivation resources 1 5 1121.

Nanchang Artist and Scholar

In Nanchang, Jiang Hao uses eidetic memory and a realistic painting style to become a sought-after portrait artist. His rapid fame earns him wealthy patrons, marriage proposals, and attention from Prince Ning's faction 207 208 210.

Qin Dynasty Imperial Preceptor

While traveling through the Qin era, Jiang Hao treats plague victims, identifies an Azure Dragon Qi vein, and earns Qin Shi Huang's attention. He becomes Imperial Physician Attendant and later rises to the position of Great Qin Imperial Preceptor 875 879 917.

Martial Arts Collector

In the martial-arts world, Jiang Hao discovers that the System can collect techniques through observation. He learns lightness skills, sword arts, hidden weapons, and Daoist methods while gathering manuals from sects and the Imperial Historical Archives 1121 1131 1139.

Cultivator and Grand City God

Jiang Hao joins the Laoshan Sect through True Lord Xuanji, develops Golden Core cultivation, and publicly reveals himself as the Grand City God. He recruits Daoist sects into a system for restoring order to the underworld and eliminating demonic threats 1498 1510 1511.

Haoran Group Chairman

In the modern world, Jiang Hao becomes the chairman behind Haoran Technology and uses his resources to develop AI, supercomputers, medical systems, technology research, and hometown investment. He commits 10 billion yuan over five years through Haoran Venture Capital for high-tech development 784 1306 1809.

Hong Kong Maoshan Master

Jiang Hao gains fame in Hong Kong by creating the Azure Dragon Spitting Water Formation, healing He Yingqiu, and establishing plans for a Maoshan Taoist temple. His reputation expands from Feng Shui master to a formidable exorcist and artifact refiner 1717 1718 1772.

Haotian Demon Lord

Under the identity of Haotian Demon Lord, Jiang Hao conquers demonic cultivator factions, collects dangerous magic treasures, and commands more than sixty Loose Immortal-level demonic cultivators. Despite his fearsome title, he prevents the Demonic Path from harming ordinary people and accumulates over a million Merit Points 1857 1858 1870.

Notable Quotes

“It’s good to have many skills!” 1447

“I am the Grand City God of the world, holding a divine position, capable of managing both the Yin and Yang realms.” 1511