Contents
- 1Biodata
- 2Power Progression
- 3Background / History
- 4Personality
- 5Abilities & Skills
- 5.1Immortal Cultivation
- 5.2Telekinesis
- 5.3Spiritual and Soul Manipulation
- 5.4Formations and Spatial Techniques
- 5.5Investiture of the Gods
- 5.6Law of Creation
- 5.7Karma and Causality Manipulation
- 5.8Rule of Water
- 5.9Culinary Skill
- 6Equipment / Weapons / Items
- 7Relationships
- 8Story Role / Major Arcs
- 8.1Arrival in Wa Huang Tian
- 8.2Ten Thousand Years in Hong Huang
- 8.3System and Chat Group
- 8.4Precious Lotus Lantern Intervention
- 8.5Luo Li and the Spiritually Rich Feast
- 8.6Overthrow the Qing and Restore the Ming
- 8.7One-Punch Man World
- 8.8Kuina’s Revival and World Administration
- 8.9System Race Conflict
- 8.10Law of Creation Seclusion
- 8.11Chinese Paladin World Intervention
- 8.12Tianpeng Past-Life Revelation
- 8.13Investiture of the Gods Role-Playing World
- 8.14Taiqing Dao Arts and Causality Development
- 8.15System Academy
- 9Trivia
Biodata
| Feature | Information |
|---|---|
| Name | Liu Bing (刘兵) |
| Alias(es) | Hong Huang Little Shrimp; Little Bing; Dugu the Sword Demon; A-Bing |
| Species/Race | Human; transmigrator; immortal cultivator; reincarnation/blank-state successor of Tianpeng |
| Gender | Male |
| Affiliation | Chat group; associated with Empress Nuwa and Hong Huang; System Academy |
| Occupation/Role | Cultivator; chat group organizer; world administrator and mentor; factory patrol worker; System Academy founder |
| Status | Active |
| First Appearance | Chapter 2 |
Power Progression
| Stage / Realm / Level | Chapter | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Ordinary human | 2 | Initially too frail to survive Hong Huang’s dense spiritual energy; his consciousness dissipates during a simulation of its environment. |
| Cultivator | 5 | Spends ten thousand years cultivating in Hong Huang under Nuwa’s arrangement before returning to his original world. |
| Immortal Realm | 16 29 | Identified as an Immortal; his realm greatly exceeds the Grand Unity-level power displayed by Guan Li. |
| Karma ability mastered | 191 | After more than a thousand years of seclusion, completely masters his karma ability and can trace karmic connections across worlds. |
| Initial grasp of the Law of Creation | 191 | Gains the ability to create objects and living constructs from nothing, though his independent creations are initially limited to the Qi Refining level. |
| Rule of Water | 277 | Obtains the Water-Control Secret Art through a glass bead containing the Rule of Water, granting control over water and water-element techniques. |
| Taiqing Dao Arts | 360 391 | Receives the Supreme Pure One's Dao arts and learns them with unusual ease, apparently aided by Tianpeng's residual foundation. |
| Causality manipulation / “Same Moment, Changing Fate” | 410 | Uses a developed causality technique to redirect Gogeta's attacks back onto their source, rendering direct assaults ineffective. |
Background / History
Liu Bing was an ordinary human before being transported to Wa Huang Tian, where he encountered Empress Nuwa, Houtu, Xuan Nu, and Sinu. His thoughts were openly readable to them, and he quickly learned that his body could not endure even a breath of genuine Hong Huang spiritual energy. After his consciousness dispersed in a simulated environment, Houtu ensured his recovery. 2
Unlike previous transmigrators who acted arrogantly and were killed, Liu Bing calmed himself, introduced himself respectfully, and avoided becoming another source of amusement for Nuwa and Houtu. He learned that he was the first transmigrator to arrive in several hundred thousand years. 3
After discovering that his original world was a spiritually barren, artificially created prison-like realm, Liu Bing resolved to return and save it. Nuwa refused to grant him direct immortality, but allowed him to cultivate in Hong Huang instead. 4 5
He spent ten thousand years in Hong Huang, where prominent inhabitants treated him favorably because Nuwa had sent him there. He met and befriended figures including Sun Wukong, Erlang Shen, and Demon Ancestor Luohu, while observing an unexpectedly peaceful coexistence among groups such as the Dragon, Phoenix, Qilin, Witch, and Demon tribes. He returned to his apartment at the exact moment of his original transmigration, avoiding permanent assimilation into Hong Huang. 5
Back in his world, Liu Bing captured and investigated a System, repaired its chat-group function through Nuwa, and began involving historical rulers and other cross-world figures in his efforts to alter predetermined fates and improve their worlds. 6 8 15
As the chat group expanded, Liu Bing increasingly acted as a mentor and administrator rather than merely an intervening immortal. He revived and trained Kuina as his disciple, delegated worlds to capable rulers and group members, and regarded promising recruits as prospective world administrators. 65 172 226
Liu Bing developed a hostile reputation among the System race after repeatedly capturing and dismantling Systems. He later pressured the race to surrender Pangu components in exchange for ending his attacks against their systems. 136
Nuwa later entrusted him with resolving the collapse of the Chinese Paladin world, whose Divine Realm had been destroyed and whose remaining realms were fighting over its origin. Liu Bing helped stabilize the situation before placing Zhao Ling'er in charge of the world’s continued development. 216 217 226
During a Heavenly Court gathering, Liu Bing learned that he is connected to Tianpeng as a past-life identity. Haotian explained that Tianpeng’s former powers and possessions could not yet be returned, because their imprints might overwrite Liu Bing’s present self. Liu Bing consequently chose to remain Liu Bing rather than become Tianpeng, while Zhu Bajie pursued independence from his former main-account identity. 276 277
By later arcs, Liu Bing had accumulated Pangu components, developed systems-related regulations, and began planning a System Academy to educate Systems and establish new rules for their conduct throughout the myriad realms. 435 492
Personality
Liu Bing is outwardly approachable and often presents himself as an ordinary young man, but he is notably calm when confronting threats far beyond normal human experience. He can be mischievous, teasing Zhu Yuanzhang through the chat group and playing along with Luo Li’s attempt to lure him into her apartment. 7 22
He is pragmatic about power and reluctant to manage worlds personally. Instead, he seeks out people he considers suitable—such as Zhang Jiao, Zhou Ru, Zhao Ling'er, and the S-Class heroes—and equips them to improve their own societies. 34 38 45 226
Although he frequently acts unserious and enjoys showing off for Nuwa’s entertainment, he consistently prioritizes protecting allies and civilians. He gives Yang Chan powerful defensive treasures, provides food for impoverished people, revives fallen heroes before recruiting them, and evacuates Chinese civilians from an endangered island nation. 20 39 42 43 185
Liu Bing enjoys manipulating situations into entertaining scenarios, such as encouraging competitions between powerful factions or participating in Bixiao’s role-playing world. However, he draws a firm distinction between harmless amusement and genuine cruelty, showing little mercy toward malicious transmigrators, dangerous Systems, and those who prey on the weak. 200 285 342 343
He strongly values his current identity and resists being defined by Tianpeng’s legacy. Though willing to use the advantages left by his past life, he refuses to accept becoming Tianpeng again or allowing old imprints to erase who he is. 277 358
Abilities & Skills
Immortal Cultivation
Liu Bing’s immortal cultivation gives him overwhelming power relative to many lower-tier worlds.
- Could casually kill a Grand Unity-level opponent, Guan Li, despite initially appearing to be only an early Immortal. 18 28
- Withstood being slapped from a planet into outer space by Nuwa and returned unharmed enough to continue acting immediately. 41
- Can stabilize uncontrolled spiritual-energy outbursts with a step. 38
- Can travel between worlds and locations instantaneously. 18 32 41
- Is durable enough to withstand chaotic void energy that would assimilate and destroy cultivators below the Golden Immortal level. 41
- Possesses an exceptionally powerful physical body, allowing him to defeat Number Three’s Divine Descent vessel even while deprived of his magical treasures. 235
Telekinesis
Liu Bing can remotely manipulate and restrain targets.
- Suspended Luo Li in mid-air while she was in Ghoul form. 22
- Can control or reproduce Tatsumaki’s psychic power after resurrecting her. 43
- Easily seized Saitama and Mo Fan during their fight. 41
- Alters physical size and form without allowing even powerful psychic beings an opportunity to resist. 258
Spiritual and Soul Manipulation
Liu Bing can perceive, remove, and alter supernatural conditions.
- Destroyed the Ghoul cells in Luo Li’s body, removing her Ghoul identity. 23
- Communicated with Zhou Ru through divine sense while she was imprisoned. 37
- Identified Guan Li’s cultivation as externally infused rather than genuine. 19
- Disintegrated the System-possessed Mo Fan and absorbed his origin energy into the chat-group System. 42
- Can summon dispersed souls back through a soul-summoning banner, as demonstrated when he called Kuina back from death. 65
- Can extract individuals from karmic connections and isolate them from a world’s causal structure. 208
- Is capable of reading minds, including the thoughts of Barry Allen. 193
Formations and Spatial Techniques
- Set a formation that annihilated the remains of the Owl before blood or debris could spread. 24
- Opens enormous portals for group members and armies to cross worlds. 32
- Provides real-time maps that can be split into separate instances for military coordination. 33
- Creates structures and alters terrain through earth-release techniques, including a pavilion produced in an empty wilderness. 172
- Can instantly evacuate large populations across national and spatial boundaries. 185
Investiture of the Gods
Liu Bing possesses the Investiture of the Gods and uses it to recruit and preserve capable individuals.
- Recorded Zhang Jiao on the scroll, removing his impending death and granting renewed vitality and power. 35
- Resurrected Fubuki’s fallen heroes through the scroll. 42
- Offers positions on the Investiture as incentives for those who work to improve their worlds. 38
- Used it to rapidly elevate Pang Bo, Ye Fan, and Li Xiaoman to an immortal level. 392
- Conceals that those listed can continue cultivating, while publicly emphasizing the apparent limit imposed by investiture. 392
Law of Creation
After receiving a law-bearing flesh component from Nuwa, Liu Bing spent more than a thousand years comprehending the Law of Creation.
- Can create objects out of thin air, initially up to the Qi Refining level. 191
- Created a Superman costume for himself through the Law of Creation. 191
- Created and cultivated a strengthened version of Lazuli by combining Kryptonite, Super Saiyan cells, a toy, and a newly formed soul carrying part of Lazuli’s memories. 195
- Can modify bodies, alter appearances, and implant cultivation techniques directly into another person’s mind. 261
- Used an “immortal touch upon the crown” to clear Little Dragon Girl’s meridians and impart cultivation methods and spells. 270
Karma and Causality Manipulation
Liu Bing has mastered karma techniques and is pursuing complete control over causality.
- Can trace karmic threads across worlds, including the thread attached to the Red Marriage Ball. 216
- Uses karma to investigate identities, discern past events, and locate people in distant worlds. 217 230
- Aims to invert life and death and overturn yin and yang through causality alone rather than expending power. 172
- Developed the “Same Moment, Changing Fate” technique, which redirects an opponent’s attack back onto them. 410
Rule of Water
- Possesses the Water-Control Secret Art, a divine ability containing the Rule of Water. 277
- Can freely manipulate water and employ water-element techniques. 277
Culinary Skill
Liu Bing received advanced culinary training from the Kitchen God and God of Cookery.
- Produces spiritually rich meals that can satisfy supernatural hunger. 23
- Prepared food powerful enough to attract mutated creatures and dangerous intruders. 25
- Became Xi He’s personal eating streamer after using his eating to encourage Chang Xi to eat. 26
- Sun Wukong considers Liu Bing a fellow member of Nuwa’s circle and invites him to share monkey wine. 92
Equipment / Weapons / Items
- God Slaying Spear Type 1 — A pearly-white handgun prototype provided through Luohu’s arsenal; one shot annihilated Guan Li’s primordial spirit and System. 18
- Chaos Bell / Eastern Emperor Bell — Defensive treasure that protected him from chaotic void energy. 41
- Immortal Binding Rope — Seals and restrains targets; used to capture the System-possessed Mo Fan. 42
- Investiture of the Gods — Scroll used to grant immortality-like preservation, empowerment, and resurrection. 34 35 42
- Soul-Summoning Banner — Summons and consolidates dispersed souls; used to restore Kuina’s soul after her death. 65
- Pangu Banner — Supreme treasure given to Yang Chan for protection. 20
- Immortal Slaying Sword — Supreme treasure given to Yang Chan alongside the Pangu Banner. 20
- Sage Trial Cards — Given to Yang Chan to defend herself against Outer Realm Demons. 19 20
- Red Will — Book distributed to Zhang Jiao, emperors, and later the S-Class heroes as guidance for improving their worlds. 35 45
- Red Marriage Ball — A karmically connected treasure Liu Bing uses as an anchor for tracing paths between worlds. 216
- Water-Control Secret Art Bead — Glass bead containing the Rule of Water, which Liu Bing absorbs into his body. 277
- Primordial World Phones — Cross-world communication devices Liu Bing distributes to trusted allies, including Zhao Ling'er. 227
Relationships
- Empress Nuwa — Benefactor, guide, and frequent source of teasing. She arranged his cultivation in Hong Huang and treats his adventures as entertainment. 4 5 16
- Houtu — One of the divine beings Liu Bing first encountered; safeguarded his soul after it dispersed. 2
- Luohu — Acquaintance from Hong Huang who provided Liu Bing with the God Slaying Spear Type 1. 5 18
- Yang Chan — Chat-group ally whom Liu Bing rescues and equips with trial cards and supreme treasures. 18 20
- Luo Li — Blind date who initially intended to feed on him as a Ghoul; Liu Bing removes her Ghoul identity after recognizing her restraint. 21 22 23
- Chang Xi — Hong Huang acquaintance who is attached to Liu Bing as a meal companion and resents that he left without telling her. 25 32
- Xi He — Chang Xi’s sister; Liu Bing became her personal eating streamer after helping encourage Chang Xi to eat. 26
- Zhang Jiao — Political ally whom Liu Bing saves from death through the Investiture of the Gods and gives Red Will. 34 35
- Zhou Ru — Transmigrator Liu Bing rescues and mentors to help reform the Great Qing world. 37 38
- Fubuki — Ally in the One-Punch Man world; Liu Bing supports her and recruits the resurrected S-Class heroes under his authority. 41 43
- Tatsumaki — Initially defiant resurrected hero; Liu Bing assigns her responsibility for rebuilding her world and later brings her with him from the Precious Lotus Lantern world. 43 45 184
- Kuina — Liu Bing’s disciple, whom he resurrects from a dispersed soul and trains with the promise of making her the world’s greatest swordswoman. 65 172
- Xia Shi — Traveling companion in the Black Bullet world who views Liu Bing as nearly omnipotent and finds safety in his presence. 168 172
- Zhao Ling'er — Nuwa descendant and world leader whom Liu Bing assists in the Chinese Paladin world. She regards him as an older brother and retains a phone to contact him across worlds. 218 226 227
- Wang Yuyan — Transmigrator Liu Bing returns to Mantuo Manor. She becomes attached to him and requests that he teach her immortal arts. 226 230
- Li Qingluo / Number Three — Li Qingluo’s body becomes involved in Number Three’s Divine Descent scheme; Liu Bing defeats the vessel despite being deprived of his treasures. 235
- Little Dragon Girl — Martial-world ally empowered by Liu Bing’s touch upon her crown. He later takes responsibility for training her. 270 272
- Li Mochou — Liu Bing grants her a transformative “BUFF” by merging her with Jiang Yuyan’s soul and encourages her ambition to become an empress. 272
- Haotian / Jade Emperor — Heavenly Court associate who safeguards Tianpeng’s former inheritance and explains the danger of Liu Bing recovering it too early. 277
- Zhu Bajie — Connected to Liu Bing through Tianpeng’s divided identity. Zhu Bajie willingly abandoned the Tianpeng main account to become an independent person. 277
- Bixiao — A powerful acquaintance who draws Liu Bing into her King Zhou role-playing world and assigns him the nominal role of Di Xin. 341 343
- Supreme Pure One — Gives Liu Bing the Taiqing Dao Arts after attaining enlightenment. 360
- Tongtian — Hong Huang acquaintance who seeks Liu Bing’s help in developing the Interception Sect and recognizes his connection to Tianpeng. 360
- Ruthless Emperor — Ally and cultivation recipient who receives the Taiqing Dao Arts from Liu Bing but remains focused on becoming strong enough to revive her brother. 391 510
- Lazuli — A strengthened life-form Liu Bing creates using the Law of Creation, Kryptonite, Super Saiyan cells, and part of the original Lazuli’s memories. 195
- Zhao Yinghong — Recipient of Liu Bing’s guidance and the Bronze Ghost-Face Mask; she later overturns her world’s order and devours its Heavenly Dao. 435 492
- Affection System — A System Liu Bing negotiates with and later recruits into his planned System Academy despite its resentment toward his influence over Zhao Yinghong. 435 492
Story Role / Major Arcs
Arrival in Wa Huang Tian
Liu Bing arrives before Nuwa and other primordial beings, learns of his extreme weakness, and obtains the chance to cultivate rather than being discarded like earlier transmigrators. 2 3
Ten Thousand Years in Hong Huang
He cultivates in Hong Huang, forms connections with powerful figures, and returns to his original world before becoming permanently bound to Hong Huang. 5
System and Chat Group
Liu Bing captures a System, repairs the chat group, recruits members from multiple worlds, and begins helping historical rulers alter their futures. 6 8 15
Precious Lotus Lantern Intervention
He travels to Yang Chan’s world, kills the Outer Realm Demon Guan Li with the God Slaying Spear Type 1, and distributes seized defensive treasures to Yang Chan. 18 20
Luo Li and the Spiritually Rich Feast
Liu Bing investigates Luo Li’s Ghoul condition, removes it after recognizing her refusal to harm humans, and uses Hong Huang food to expose the dangers of spiritual energy to ordinary beings. 22 23 24
Overthrow the Qing and Restore the Ming
Liu Bing organizes emperors and historical figures for a cross-world campaign against the Qing, supplies portals and real-time maps, saves Zhang Jiao, and begins positioning Zhou Ru to rebuild the world afterward. 30 32 33 35 38
One-Punch Man World
Liu Bing confronts a System-descended entity using Mo Fan as a vessel, defeats it with the Chaos Bell and Immortal Binding Rope, resurrects the fallen S-Class heroes, and tasks them with rebuilding their world. 41 42 43 45
Kuina’s Revival and World Administration
Liu Bing summons Kuina’s long-dispersed soul, reconstructs her body, and takes her as a disciple. He subsequently brings her into his broader plan of training capable people to administer and develop worlds. 65 172
System Race Conflict
After eliminating multiple hostile Systems, Liu Bing captures another System and directly demands Pangu components from the System race in exchange for halting his campaign against them. 136
Law of Creation Seclusion
Liu Bing receives a law-bearing flesh component from Nuwa and enters a small isolated space for more than a thousand years. He emerges with an initial grasp of the Law of Creation and complete mastery over his karma ability. 186 191
Chinese Paladin World Intervention
At Nuwa’s request, Liu Bing enters the Chinese Paladin world to resolve the chaos caused by the Divine Realm’s destruction. He supports Zhao Ling'er, assists her rise as the world’s authority, and entrusts its future development to her. 216 217 226
Tianpeng Past-Life Revelation
The Queen Mother and Haotian reveal that Liu Bing is connected to Tianpeng’s former identity. Liu Bing chooses not to recover the full inheritance prematurely, refusing to risk losing his current self to Tianpeng’s remaining imprints. 276 277
Investiture of the Gods Role-Playing World
Liu Bing enters Bixiao’s altered Shang world and is pressed into playing King Zhou while Bixiao plays Daji. Though he accepts the role, he refuses responsibility for state affairs and becomes involved in its increasingly chaotic divine drama. 341 342 343
Taiqing Dao Arts and Causality Development
Liu Bing receives the Taiqing Dao Arts from the Supreme Pure One and continues improving his cultivation foundation. He later refines his causality techniques into “Same Moment, Changing Fate,” allowing him to reflect attacks onto their originator. 360 391 410
System Academy
After further dealings with the Affection System and other system-related entities, Liu Bing decides to establish a System Academy. Its purpose is to educate Systems and enforce new rules across the myriad realms, with Number Three designated as its first teacher. 492
Trivia
- Liu Bing works night patrol shifts at a factory and can leave a clone at his desk while traveling to other worlds. 18
- He initially used Hong Huang Little Shrimp as his chat-group name. 7 15
- He considers many Hong Huang-grade items unimpressive despite their value in lower-tier worlds. 6 19
- Liu Bing describes himself as Nuwa’s “henchman,” though Zhou Ru assumes he is exaggerating. 39
- He once introduced himself to Kuina under the title Dugu the Sword Demon. 65
- Liu Bing’s time spent in other worlds can be heavily distorted relative to his original world; one year in the Pirate World passed as only an instant at home. 78
- He is frequently physically punished by Nuwa for disrespectful thoughts or remarks, but treats the resulting injuries as body-strengthening practice. 41 216
- Despite his connection to Tianpeng, Liu Bing insists that Tianpeng and Liu Bing are separate identities. 358