Contents
- 1Biodata
- 2Power Progression
- 3Background
- 4Appearance
- 5Personality
- 6Abilities & Skills
- 6.1Luck Value and Create Permission
- 6.2Mental Power and Spiritual-World Control
- 6.3Mirror Divine Beast and Replication
- 6.4Spatial Power
- 6.5Chakra, Dōjutsu, and Ninjutsu
- 6.6Divine Skills and Inheritances
- 6.7Resurrection Techniques
- 7Equipment / Weapons / Items
- 8Relationships
- 9Story Role / Major Arcs
- 9.1Huo Yuhao's Golden Finger
- 9.2Public Inheritance and Faction Building
- 9.3Divine Inheritance Campaign
- 9.4Holy Spirit Cult and Sun Moon Empire Operations
- 9.5Dou Ling City and Faith Harvest
- 10Trivia
Biodata
| Feature | Details |
|---|---|
| Name | Zhuge Lan (诸葛蓝) |
| Alias(es) | Blue Bamboo; Lan Yu (avatar identities) 309 332 |
| Species/Race | Otherworlder; initially a bodiless system within Huo Yuhao's spiritual world 1 175 |
| Gender | Male |
| Affiliation | Huo Yuhao's spiritual world; Hall of Light God; Sacred Fire Cult (Saint Son); creator of the Hall of Light God, Ice God Temple, Spirit Pagoda, and other state religions 1 244 332 |
| Occupation/Role | Luck Value system, Huo Yuhao's advisor, avatar operator, divine inheritor, and faction builder 1 5 348 |
| Status | Active; inherited the Sea God's divine position 348 |
| First Appearance | Chapter 1 |
Power Progression
| Stage / Realm / Level | Chapter | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Mental Power comparable to a Three-Ring Soul Elder | 39 | Spent 10,000 Luck Value to accelerate his Mental Power conversion; with bonuses, he assessed his combat power at approximately a Five-Ring Soul King. |
| Seven-Ring Soul Sage | 216 | Created and possessed a customized third clone with the god-bestowed Mirror Divine Beast Martial Soul, seven 50,000-year Soul Rings, and Level 70 Soul Power; the project cost 8.7 million Luck Value in total. |
| Level 80 / Eight-Ring Soul Douluo | 223, 224 | Detonated Soul Rings to force a breakthrough, then used Deep Blue Point Allocation to form a 100,000-year Eighth Soul Ring and upgrade six existing rings to 100,000 years. His Eighth Soul Skill, Mirror Copy: Double Copy, enabled an additional Martial Soul template. |
| Rank 82 Soul Douluo with a Mental Soul Core | 260 | Displayed a Mental Soul Core in his upper dantian while pursuing Ye Xishui and Long Xiaoyao through space. |
| Space Soul Core / Spatial Soul Power | 303 | Fused a newly formed Space Soul Core with his Mental Soul Core, gained Spatial Soul Power, and became the God of Space's candidate. |
| Sea God | 348 | Completed the Sea God's Nine Trials as Blue Bamboo and successfully inherited the Sea God's divine position despite Tang San's interference. |
Background
Zhuge Lan transmigrated into Huo Yuhao's spiritual world at the moment Sky Dream Ice Silkworm sacrificed itself. Taking the role of Huo Yuhao's “system,” he introduced Luck Value: a resource he can collect and spend through his Create permission to produce techniques, bodies, items, enhancements, and other effects. He initially demonstrated his authority by manifesting divine pressure strong enough to immobilize Sky Dream Ice Silkworm 1.
He and Huo Yuhao agreed to treat their resources as shared, allowing Zhuge Lan to direct Luck Value toward both Huo Yuhao's growth and the materialization of spiritual entities capable of assisting outside the spiritual world 5. Although he acts as Huo Yuhao's advisor and calls him his little brother, Zhuge Lan openly takes a share of the Luck Value he manages 158.
As his resources expanded, Zhuge Lan began operating through secret-technique avatars and customized clone bodies. His third clone was built specifically around the Mirror Divine Beast Martial Soul, allowing him to infiltrate inheritance grounds, copy abilities, and pursue divine positions independently of Huo Yuhao's main body 216 217.
Appearance
Zhuge Lan has no single fixed physical form in the documented material. He first appears as a spiritual-system entity, but later acts through mental manifestations, secret-technique avatars, and customized clone bodies 1 111 216.
- His customized third clone is described as a handsome man with sword-like brows, starry eyes, a sculpted physique, and unusually balanced proportions 216.
- When using the Mirror Divine Beast Martial Soul, he can alter its reflective scales to blend into his surroundings and achieve physical invisibility 216.
- In combat, he has displayed spiraling Rinnegan-like eyes before using Shinra Tensei and Banshō Ten'in 317.
- His Sea God incarnation bears the Sea God's Trident mark upon his forehead 348.
Personality
Zhuge Lan is calculating, opportunistic, and unusually frank about pursuing benefits. He treats Luck Value as a strategic resource, manipulates others into providing materials or political support, and is willing to exploit divine trials, religious faith, and public attention to advance his goals 184 245 289.
He has a mischievous and often cruel sense of humor. He enjoys gossip, teases Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong'er, and has been described by Huo Yuhao as disregarding other people's well-being when amused 114 149. Even so, he remains committed to Huo Yuhao's development and refused Ma Xiaotao's advances because of his loyalty to Huo Yuhao 139.
Zhuge Lan claims that he prefers enjoying the mortal world over constant fighting, but he is intensely ambitious about godhood. He actively pursues multiple divine inheritances and ultimately takes the Sea God's position rather than leave it to Tang San 139 223 348.
Abilities & Skills
Luck Value and Create Permission
Zhuge Lan can collect Luck Value and spend it through the Create permission to create, modify, or enhance people, techniques, equipment, and spiritual entities 1 5.
- Can materialize souls into techniques or bodies, allowing spiritual-world residents to assist in the physical world 5.
- Can create or restore physical components, including regenerating Huo Yuhao's eyes with Mangekyo: Flesh Reshaping 138.
- Can increase Soul Ring ages, create Soul Rings and Soul Skills, modify contracts, and construct specialized clone bodies 216 224 333.
- Major creations require substantial Luck Value; his Seven-Ring clone alone consumed 8.7 million Luck Value 216.
- His use of resurrection arts rapidly consumes energy and life force 260.
Mental Power and Spiritual-World Control
As Huo Yuhao's system, Zhuge Lan operates from the spiritual world and can project Mental Power outward, form spiritual bodies, and manage several active avatars 1 111.
- His Mental Power reached the equivalent of a Three-Ring Soul Elder after a Luck Value-funded conversion, with combat strength near a Five-Ring Soul King under bonuses 39.
- Can use Mental Power for telepathy, remote observation, manipulation, and flight 149 211.
- Can remotely operate or seize control of compatible avatar bodies through techniques such as Ghost Possession 211.
- Possesses a Mental Soul Core in his upper dantian by Rank 82 260.
Mirror Divine Beast and Replication
Zhuge Lan's customized third clone possesses the god-bestowed Mirror Divine Beast Martial Soul. Its reflective nature supports invisibility, transformation, copying, storage, and template-based combat 216 217.
- Image Copy: Martial Soul — Copies another Martial Soul, including Oscar's divine-power Clear Sky Hammer avatar 217.
- Mirror Image Copy: Soul Bone Skill — Can attempt to duplicate Soul Bone Skills; copying fails if the target lacks a Soul Bone 218.
- Mirror Image Copy: Self-Created Soul Skill — Copied techniques including Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer, Haotian Bodyguard, Haotian Nine Absolutes, and Great Sumeru Hammer 218.
- Image Copy: Storage — Stores copied Martial Soul templates for later use; Zhuge Lan archived templates from all competitors present at the Soul Master Competition for 10,000 Luck Value 217.
- Mirror Copy: Double Copy — His Eighth Soul Skill allows one additional template, enabling his “Twin Martial Souls” method 224.
- He states that he can replicate Martial Souls, Soul Rings, Soul Skills, Soul Bone Skills, and Self-Created Soul Skills 233.
Spatial Power
Zhuge Lan is an exceptional spatial manipulator, using portals and rifts for travel, infiltration, retreat, and pursuit 211 260.
- Can open spatial portals and travel between distant locations; early use cost him 15,000 Luck Value 211.
- Developed a Space Soul Core, which fused with his Mental Soul Core to produce Spatial Soul Power 303.
- Can form spatial rifts and chase targets through spatial turbulence 260.
- Received the Time-Space Divine Shuttle, a divine artifact from the God of Space, and the path to become the God of Space upon reaching Level 99 303.
Chakra, Dōjutsu, and Ninjutsu
Zhuge Lan publicly demonstrated Chakra as a cultivation system that does not depend on Innate Soul Power, offering its inheritance to suitable candidates 184.
- Demonstrated the Rasengan, Super Strength, and multiple Chakra nature transformations without hand seals 184.
- Has used Wood Release and Susanoo in public combat, though he later limited his Wood Release use to avoid exposing his connection to the Sun Moon Empire incident 138 173.
- Uses the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan for Flesh Reshaping and large-scale resurrection 138 260.
- Used the Rinnegan techniques Shinra Tensei and Banshō Ten'in to defeat Star Luo National Academy competitors, including a Seven-Ring Soul Sage, without taking damage 317.
Divine Skills and Inheritances
Zhuge Lan pursued several divine positions simultaneously through his avatars and One Body, Twin Souls arrangement 223 224.
- Learned and used the Sea God's Golden Thirteen Halberds, including Unsettling Waves, which can imprison opponents through the Sea God's Trident Martial Soul 232 257.
- Used Unsettling Waves to restrain the defense-type Titled Douluo Xuan Zhang before defeating him with fixed Soul Tool cannon fire 257.
- Passed the Emotion God's trial by remaining emotionally detached while experiencing illusions based on Huo Yuhao's memories 219.
- Became the God of Space's candidate after forming his Space Soul Core 303.
- Completed the Sea God's Nine Trials and inherited the Sea God's position 348.
Resurrection Techniques
Zhuge Lan possesses several means of restoring life and reconstructing bodies.
- Mangekyo: Flesh Reshaping can create flesh and restore lost organs or eyes 138 310.
- Impure World Reincarnation was used to revive the residents of Dou Ling City after they chanted the name of his fabricated deity 259.
- Outer Path: Samsara of Heavenly Life Technique fully resurrected nearly one million people, but severely depleted his life force and visibly aged him 260.
- He exploited his apparent death after the mass resurrection to harvest Luck Value from public grief and gratitude 260.
Equipment / Weapons / Items
- Sea God's Trident — Sea God's Super Divine Tool; Zhuge Lan obtained and used it during the Sea God trials 289 310.
- Time-Space Divine Shuttle — Divine artifact granted by the God of Space 303.
- Three-pointed, Double-edged Halberd — A Level 8 close-combat Soul Tool forged by Jing Hongchen; Zhuge Lan used it as a vessel for overwhelming Soul Power and divine skills 240 243.
- MK-3 Battle Armor — Soul Tool armor equipped with integrated flight, shields, weaponry, and fixed Soul Tool cannon capability 256 257.
- Fire God Fixed Soul Tool Cannon — Weapon deployed against Xuan Zhang while wearing MK-3 armor 256.
- Platform of Conferring Gods — Carries a sealed trace of divine consciousness; its exposed aura forced Long Xiaoyao to retreat 259.
- Bright Magic Scrolls — Used to heal damage caused by Soul Ring detonation and other high-risk techniques 223 224.
Relationships
- Huo Yuhao — Host, little brother, and closest collaborator. Zhuge Lan serves as Huo Yuhao's system, directs shared Luck Value, and repeatedly supports his cultivation, Soul Tools, and Soul Spirit development 1 5 263.
- Sky Dream Ice Silkworm — Fellow resident of Huo Yuhao's spiritual world. Tian Meng initially feared Zhuge Lan's power and frequently clashes with him over Luck Value allocation 1 39.
- Wang Dong'er — Ally and Huo Yuhao's partner. Zhuge Lan supplied Soul Bones, guided her Martial Soul Bone Armor True Body, and accepted divine trials on her behalf 208 209 215.
- Ma Xiaotao — Admirer who pursued Zhuge Lan because of his strength. He rejected her advances, citing loyalty to Huo Yuhao, though the two later teased Wang Dong'er together 139.
- Silver Dragon King — Negotiating partner in the plan to revive the Dragon God. She agreed to assist Zhuge Lan after they established a mutual arrangement 214.
- Di Tian — Powerful Soul Beast ally who became increasingly cooperative after Zhuge Lan demonstrated his abilities and commitment to the Dragon God's resurrection 208 210.
- Long Xiaoyao and Ye Xishui — Pragmatic allies recruited through negotiation; Zhuge Lan sought to bring both into his faction in exchange for divine resources 254 264.
- Tang San / God King Tang — Primary divine rival. Zhuge Lan opposes Tang San's plans for Huo Yuhao and Tang Wutong, exploits Sea God trial rules, and ultimately takes the Sea God's position despite Tang San's sabotage 175 223 348.
- Jing Hongchen — Frequently manipulated resource provider and Soul Tool collaborator. Zhuge Lan used his copying reputation and political leverage to pressure Jing Hongchen into supplying weapons and materials 240 241 309.
- Zhuge Qiu'er — Soul Beast ally who adopted Zhuge Lan's surname after taking human form; their interactions are framed as a sibling relationship, though she also persistently pursues him 222 285.
Story Role / Major Arcs
Huo Yuhao's Golden Finger
- Entered Huo Yuhao's spiritual world as a system during Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's sacrifice and introduced the Luck Value system 1.
- Guided Huo Yuhao's early cultivation, provided the Yi Jin Jing, and explained that Huo Yuhao's fate had been arranged by outside forces 2 4.
- Began materializing spiritual-world residents and investing Luck Value in independent combat capacity rather than placing all resources in Huo Yuhao alone 5.
Public Inheritance and Faction Building
- Publicly introduced Chakra during the Spirit Pagoda Team match, attracting prospective inheritors and harvesting a major Luck Value gain from altered destinies 184.
- Built or influenced the Sacred Fire Cult, Ice God Temple, Spirit Pagoda, and Hall of Light God as power bases across the continent 132 332.
- Used the Hall of Light God and Spirit Pagoda to establish influence through Soul Spirits, inheritance opportunities, Soul Tools, and faith 184 241.
Divine Inheritance Campaign
- Entered the Phoenix God's inheritance palace without fear of divine authority and interacted directly with Ma Hongjun's projection 211.
- Built the Mirror Divine Beast clone to infiltrate inheritance sites, copy divine abilities, and challenge godly avatars 216 217.
- Passed the Emotion God's trial through emotional detachment and then passed the Sea God Nine Trials while pursuing two divine positions 219 223.
- Forced Tang San to grant Sea God trials, later completing them and claiming the Sea God's divine position 224 348.
Holy Spirit Cult and Sun Moon Empire Operations
- Became the Holy Spirit Cult's Saint Son and deceived its elders into gathering resources for the Space Dragon King's inheritance 244 245.
- Used Bright Hall resources, Soul Tool development, and clone identities to gain leverage over Jing Hongchen and Xu Tianran 240 249 309.
- Publicly tested battle armor designed for low-level Soul Masters and ordinary people, demonstrating flight, shields, ranged attacks, and Soulfire cannon systems 249 250.
- Betrayed Xu Tianran during the spatial-turbulence crisis, seized his Storage Ring, escaped with his avatars, and left Xu Tianran to die 329.
Dou Ling City and Faith Harvest
- Orchestrated the replacement of the Dou Ling Imperial Family while using the conflict to confront Immovable Douluo Xuan Zhang 255 257.
- Drew life force, Mental Power, and Chakra from Dou Ling City's residents through Deep Forest Emergence to fuel large-scale techniques against attacking enemies 258.
- Resurrected the city's population, staged his own death, and converted the resulting public faith and grief into massive Luck Value 259 260.
Trivia
- Sima Jinchi, the Mountain Dragon King, calls Zhuge Lan his “mother” because Zhuge Lan helped him take human form 289.
- Zhuge Lan once considered giving Sky Dream Ice Silkworm and Ice Empress human forms, but hesitated partly because he found Tian Meng irritating 139.
- His stated “commission” on managed Luck Value is half, while Huo Yuhao jokingly contrasts it with his own transparent ninety-ten split 158.