Fang Qingyu

Biodata

Feature	Details
Name	Fang Qingyu (方青禹)
Alias(es)	Qingzi; “Madman”; Divine Fang; Unrivaled in the Mortal Realm; Thunder Pattern Masked Man / Thunder God 55 320 334 402
Species/Race	Human
Gender	Male
Affiliation	Chenfeng Martial Hall; Zishi Merchant Guild; Qingjian City Divine Management Bureau; Abyss Hunter Special Operations Team; Dawn Legion 43 108 291 457
Occupation/Role	Martial artist, Divine Management Bureau captain, Abyss Hunter, martial arts coach 90 163 291
Status	Missing from the Mortal World; entered Mirage Dragon Swamp, while the Dawn Legion has received no news of him for two years 457
First Appearance	Chapter 1

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Martial Arts Apprentice	5	Unlocks the Martial Arts Apprentice profession after mastering foundational stance training; gains Hidden Dragon Stance.
Martial Seed	11	Awakens the Martial Seed professional talent, which corrects his posture and maximizes training efficiency.
Mixed Martial Arts Athlete	26	Unlocks the profession after seven consecutive victories and gains the unique skill Weakness Gaze.
Qi Core and Inner Sea	54	Cultivates the Nine Heavens Primordial Contemplation Method with Life Pearls and establishes a Qi Core and Inner Sea.
Transcendence Realm	85	Breaks into Transcendence during battle and gains access to higher-grade combat abilities.
Profound Realm	180	Breaks through after the Songdu pit incident; unlocks Five Elements Rotation Force and Bone Marrow Boiling.
Martial Path Grandmaster	217	Returns to the Blessed Land as a Martial Path Grandmaster after advancing Dragon Soul Resonance.
Third Order — Star-Shattering Champion	348	Gains Starry Sky Eyes, a True Intent, consciousness projection through the Formless Heart Sutra, and effectively limitless stamina at night.
Realm Walker Lv. 2	410	Advances from the early to mid-stage through Life Pearl absorption, improving spatial perception and control.
Seventh Limit Break — Divine Prison	442	Advances from the Sixth Limit Break Heavenly Gang realm and receives the Divine Prison physique.

Appearance

Fang Qingyu is a young, sharply featured man with a trained, powerful build shaped by relentless martial practice. His appearance changes substantially when he activates his higher-level physiques and divine powers. 216 321 402

• His ordinary appearance is described as young, handsome, and composed. 252
• His body developed dragon-scale patterns after his Dragon Blood transformation. 216
• His eyes became Starry Sky Eyes after reaching Third Order; they are later described as star-filled, molten-gold vertical pupils in combat. 348 345
• When exerting Heaven Pillar Force and Blood Essence, silver starlight and dark-red energy emerge beneath his skin. 321
• His Calamity Crystal body can form star-and-lava-like crystalline armor over his physique. 350
• His divine manifestation can produce starlight horns on his forehead. 402

Personality

Fang Qingyu is intensely disciplined and treats both ordinary work and martial training as opportunities for improvement. He entered martial arts despite financial strain, repeatedly pushed through physical limits, and built his strength through a combination of training, jobs, combat, and cultivation. 1 6 8 61

He is generally calm under pressure. Whether facing knife-wielding attackers, Life Spirit incursions, hostile recruitment attempts, or powerful opponents, he tends to assess the situation first and act decisively rather than panic. 22 102 120 402

Although initially detached from the world around him due to memories of another life, Fang Qingyu gradually forms sincere attachments to his friends, mentors, teammates, and the people he protects. He is especially unwilling to abandon companions in danger and openly admits he would seek revenge for those close to him. 119 177 423 443

His directness can become provocative toward enemies and corrupt powers. He rejects recruitment bluntly, exposes hidden schemes without pretense, and is willing to use lethal force when he judges it necessary. 136 357 360

Abilities & Skills

Compendium and Profession System

Fang Qingyu’s unusual growth is driven by a Job Panel/Compendium system. By working jobs, training skills, fighting, and completing professional activities, he earns experience, attribute points, and skill points that can be allocated to accelerate advancement. 5 6 23 118

• Has held professions including Martial Arts Apprentice, Delivery Driver, Security Guard, Fitness Enthusiast, Mixed Martial Arts Athlete, Porter, Didi Driver, Bodyguard, Martial Arts Coach, and Life Spirit Executioner. 6 26 43 61 90 118
• Can use accumulated skill points to improve martial methods and cultivation techniques rapidly. 84 88 118
• Uses multiple professions strategically to strengthen attributes that ordinary training improves more slowly. 44 374
• Keeps the nature of the Compendium and the source of his abnormal cultivation speed secret. 443

Martial Arts Mastery

Fang Qingyu began with stance work and Basic Fist Technique, then developed into a martial artist capable of integrating multiple systems and fighting opponents beyond his apparent realm. 3 7 343

• Baji Quan and Thirteen Forms of Hengdao — raised to Perfection through skill-point investment. 88
• Dragon Fist Grandmaster techniques — form a major part of his close-range combat foundation and combine with his divine powers. 217 341
• Thunder Strike Eight Slashes — Great Sun-tier Martial Method brought to beginner level in a day and later perfected. 101 159
• Thunder Swift Cloud Steps / Startling Thunder Evasion Steps — lightning-based movement methods used for extreme mobility and rapid disengagement. 102 251
• World Scorching Flowing Blade — reaches Great Accomplishment. 182
• Life Spirit dismemberment and knife skills — learned under Zou Lingzhu; his executioner experience rises quickly through observation and practice. 118 119

Combat Perception and Burst Techniques

Fang Qingyu possesses several skills intended to identify openings, improve combat control, and produce short, decisive surges of force.

• Weakness Gaze — the unique skill of his Mixed Martial Arts Athlete profession; reached its maximum recorded level of 3. 26 44
• Dragon Hibernation Breath — a combat breathing state that he initially maintained for six seconds across three entries during sparring. 23
• Blood Burst — temporarily boosts his combat output enough to reverse seemingly unwinnable fights, but leaves him weakened afterward. 26 53
• Tie Shan Kao — a powerful body-checking strike used to defeat Yuan Ze while severely injured. 53
• Eternal Night and Embrace of the Nether Candle — abilities used after his Transcendence breakthrough against the mysterious woman. 85
• Offer Body to Fire — Burn All Calamities — an ultimate black-flame technique deployed when facing overwhelming opposition. 85

Cultivation and Internal Power

Fang Qingyu cultivates the Nine Heavens Primordial Contemplation Method alongside his martial path, using Life Pearls and other resources to accelerate his inner development. 54 84

• Forms a Qi Core and Inner Sea after three days of cultivation. 54
• Raises the Nine Heavens Primordial Contemplation Method to Lv. 4 during a crisis by spending earned skill points. 84
• Uses Five Elements Rotation Force, including its Wood aspect for internal protection. 180 193
• Uses Bone Marrow Boiling after entering the Profound Realm. 180
• Possesses the Formless Heart Sutra, which enables consciousness projection and supports advancement toward the Spiritual Platform. 348 352
• Has begun cultivating the Stratagem of Primordial Heaven Splitting, though its prerequisites restrict when he can progress. 374

Body Tempering and Defensive Physique

Fang Qingyu’s body is one of his greatest assets. His profession-derived resilience, repeated hardening, Golden Body development, and later transformations allow him to survive damage that would normally cripple or kill martial practitioners. 43 193 211

• Resilient Body — the Porter profession’s skill, allowing him to train for longer periods. 43
• Golden Body — developed through multiple hardening methods; reached a value above 50 after the Bamboo Shadow Body Tempering Manual. 211
• Thunder Drum Sky Sound Body, Incinerate Calamity Body, Immovable Wisdom King Technique, and Bamboo Shadow Body Tempering Manual — all reached Lv. 5/MAX. 211
• Nine Tribulation Body / Dragon Blood transformation — grants extreme environmental resistance and dragon-scale patterns. 216
• Calamity Crystal body — crystallized flesh-and-blood physique with exceptional defense, strength, and passive damage reflection. 408
• Withstood powerful lightning after combining his Golden Body, hardening skills, fire resistance, and Five Elements Rotation Force. 193

Divine Firmament and Realm Walker Powers

Fang Qingyu combines martial cultivation, divine authority, and Realm Walker power into a hybrid combat system. His fusion capability lets him use abilities that normally belong to separate paths simultaneously. 341 343

• Divinity / Divine Firmament Emissary — manifests overwhelming divine pressure and lightning-based authority. 96 334
• Divine Firmament Lightning and Thunder Cutter: Dragon’s Fall Heavenly Tribulation — high-output lightning attacks used against divine-bone creations and inhuman opponents. 334 341
• Authority of Extreme Speed — a Divine Firmament ability that enhances his high-speed combat. 341
• Realm Walker form — fuses darkness, Divine Firmament power, and Martial Saint Blood Essence into a balanced composite state. 343
• Starry Sky Eyes — grant an altered perception associated with his Third Order breakthrough. 348
• Starlight movement — enables flight, high-speed traversal, battlefield rescue, and city-scale light projection. 367 372 402
• Dragon Soul Resonance — a talent advancement intended to keep him ahead during the Martial Path Grandmaster stage. 216

Limitations

• Blood Burst creates a pronounced period of weakness and requires recovery. 26
• His early physical foundation was considered weak despite his technique and rapid progress. 14
• His powers are significantly constrained inside Mirage Dragon Swamp, whose laws proportionally reduce his body, strength ceiling, Blood Essence, Qi Force, divine sense, attack range, and lightning-escape distance. 457
• He conceals key abilities and identities when necessary, limiting how openly he can operate. 320 333

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Dragon Sparrow Slayer of Calamity — Fang Qingyu’s divine weapon; he seeks opportunities, including Source Quality Tide, to advance it. 98 185
• Rusted Blade / rusted long saber — an aged saber recovered from Qiufeng Village and later kept in a long box. 403 410
• Thunder Pattern Mask — used with Jiang Wei to conceal their identities in the City of Injustice arena. 333
• Force field device — provided by Duan Ling for his protection during the investigation into He Manhe. 102
• Shenxiao — a craft or combat platform he pilots while pursuing Life Spirits during the Ice Fang mission. 291

Relationships

• Qi Hao — High-school classmate, Fang Qingyu’s earliest and initially only close friend; brought him to Chenfeng Martial Hall and remains a trusted teammate. 1 23 423
• Instructor Qin Hui — Early martial arts mentor who recognized Fang Qingyu’s potential, personally supervised his training, and later fought alongside him. 5 9 120
• Zheng Lin — Chenfeng Martial Hall instructor and mentor who helped guide Fang Qingyu’s formal combat training; later treats him with sisterly affection. 20 54 181
• Lin Kang — Martial arts mentor and later comrade; entrusted Fang Qingyu with teaching duties and was rescued by Fang Qingyu from a powerful Life Spirit. 90 167
• Jiang Wei — Closest companion and frequent partner in combat and missions; she chooses to follow Fang Qingyu, trusts his breakthroughs, and remains central to his later journey. 120 179 348
• Old Jiao and Lu Chen — Former colleagues who became loyal allies; they supported Fang Qingyu early and later train under his influence. 43 120 182
• Duan Ling — Divine Management Bureau ally who supplies protection, supports his advancement, and helps him access new training opportunities. 102 118 183
• Hong Qitian — Powerful elder, adviser, and supporter who assists Fang Qingyu’s plans while cautioning him about the burdens created by close bonds and overwhelming strength. 217 372 443
• Su Wanqing — Ally whose life Fang Qingyu protects during the City of Injustice challenges; she recognizes and openly admires him. 251 321
• He Manhe — Persistent antagonist who attempts to recruit Fang Qingyu and repeatedly attacks through puppets. 102 334

Story Role / Major Arcs

• Chenfeng Martial Hall initiation — Qi Hao introduces Fang Qingyu to Chenfeng Martial Hall. Though initially concerned about the fees and unimpressed by the facility, Fang Qingyu chooses to enroll after seeing Coach Lin. 1
• Foundation training and job awakening — He rapidly masters stance work and unlocks Martial Arts Apprentice, beginning his systematic pursuit of martial strength. 3 5
• Formal-class advancement — Instructor Qin’s personal guidance and Fang Qingyu’s intense training carry him into the Formal Class, where he begins practical combat and internal-breathing training. 9 20 23
• Combat-gym rise — He wins consecutive arena fights, unlocks Mixed Martial Arts Athlete, and earns the “Madman” reputation after defeating Yuan Ze despite taking severe injuries. 26 53 55
• Cultivation awakening — After receiving the Nine Heavens Primordial Contemplation Method, he establishes a Qi Core and Inner Sea, beginning formal cultivation. 54
• Divine Management Bureau service — He joins the Bureau’s training environment, undertakes dangerous Life Spirit operations, and develops into a combat leader. 61 108 120
• Transcendence and martial competition — Fang Qingyu breaks into Transcendence, overwhelms martial-hall competitors, and leads Chenfeng representatives toward provincial competition. 85 93 94
• Special training and bureau missions — He becomes a Special Training Class standout, learns advanced martial methods, gains independent law-enforcement authority, and protects Old Jiao from the Le You Merchant Guild. 101 118 119
• Hidden Dragon and Arctic operations — Following the Songdu pit incident, Fang Qingyu enters the Hidden Dragon program, advances through Profound Realm and Martial Path Grandmaster, and earns growing recognition across the Federation. 179 180 217 251
• City of Injustice infiltration — Operating under masks and false identities, Fang Qingyu enters the arena, fights the Desolate Bone Gang and Heaven’s Punishment Society, and publicly reveals himself after dismantling major criminal forces. 333 334 357 360
• Third Order and Arctic campaign — He becomes a Star-Shattering Champion, develops his Realm Walker powers, defeats Chen Yuanshan, and becomes a figure of hope on the Arctic Frontline. 348 367 402
• Qingjian City defense — Returning during a Life Spirit descent, he dispels the city’s darkness, rescues trapped Bureau squads and villagers, and helps repel the invasion. 402 403
• Higher-order advancement and disappearance — He gains the Divine Prison physique, faces the supreme being known as That One, then enters Mirage Dragon Swamp and vanishes from public knowledge for two years. 442 443 457

Notable Quotes

“Hello. My name is Fang Qingyu.” 357

“From now on, don't call me Master. My name is Fang Qingyu. As for what you call me... figure it out yourself.” 368

Trivia

• Fang Qingyu originally suffered from poor memory retention and occasional severe headaches. 1
• Before becoming a martial artist, he had moved out on his own during high school and supported himself through work and study. 422
• His previous nickname, “Self-Detonating Truck,” was replaced by “Madman,” a title he personally dislikes. 55
• Hong Qitian deliberately kept Fang Qingyu’s photographs and personal information from circulating widely; many people know only his achievements and titles. 320