Richard

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Richard Hegel (李察)
Gender	Male
Affiliation	Hegel Family; Myriad Worlds Chat Group
Occupation/Role	God-level cultivator; artifact refiner; leader and protector of the Hegel Family
First Appearance	Chapter 1

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Peak Saint Domain	1	Reached the Saint-level peak before undergoing apotheosis.
Wind-element Lesser God	1	Externalized his godhood by splitting his soul and creating a wind-element divine clone; could extract Low-level Divine Power.
Water-element God	14	Comprehended the Water Element’s Profound Mystery and used Soul Gold Beads to heal his damaged soul before ascending.
Life God	34	His comprehension of the Rules of Life surpassed his Laws of Fate, allowing him to become a god in Life.
Water-element Mid-level God	108	The Water Element Divine Clone advanced after Richard’s consolidation of resources and gains.
Life-element Mid-level God	108	The Life Element Divine Clone advanced alongside the Water clone.
Above God King / Creation God Position	113	Broke beyond the God King level and condensed the Creation God Position; received knowledge of world construction from the World Origin.
Life-element High-level God	121	A rare Life Law treasure triggered an epiphany and elevated the Life Divine Clone into one of Richard’s principal combat clones.
Wind Element nearing Grand Perfection High-level God	148	Following extended closed-door cultivation, the Wind Element Law approached Grand Perfection High-level God status.

Background / History

Richard spent several centuries in the Tara Plane focused almost exclusively on cultivation. Before becoming a god, he had few genuine friends and kept a deliberately low profile; his connections were largely maintained for the Hegel Family’s influence rather than personal companionship 4.

At the peak of the Saint Domain, he achieved godhood and chose the more dangerous path of externalized divinity. He tore his soul in half to form a wind-element divine clone, leaving himself temporarily soul-weakened but establishing a cultivation structure that allowed his clones to pursue separate elemental paths 1 2.

After joining the Myriad Worlds Chat Group, Richard expanded his ambitions beyond merely becoming a Paragon High-God. Encounters with other worlds exposed him to Time, Space, Life, Fate, causality, alchemy, chakra, and other systems unavailable or hidden within the Coiling Dragon World 4 7 15.

Personality

Richard is cautious, pragmatic, and strongly self-preserving. He avoids unnecessary close combat, preferring overwhelming force, artifacts, clones, seals, and advance planning to reduce risk 14 63.

He is also opportunistic in acquiring knowledge and resources. He trades when cooperation is useful, but freely takes valuables, techniques, and artifacts from enemies or unaware factions when he believes the benefits outweigh the consequences 13 128 153.

Despite his ruthlessness, Richard consistently invests in the Hegel Family and his subordinates. He provides Hogg and Della with artifacts, cultivation resources, and personal instruction, while raising the strength of his magical-beast forces with Godheads 14 61 121.

Abilities & Skills

Divine Clones

Richard’s externalized godhood allows him to maintain elemental divine clones separate from his original body.

• His Wind, Water, and Life clones cultivate and act independently within their respective elemental paths 1 15 108.
• In his native world, an elemental divine clone can use only the laws of its own element; the original body alone can employ all laws Richard has comprehended 16.
• His original body remains at Saint Domain level in the Coiling Dragon system and borrows Divine Power from its clones 16.
• He deploys clones for exploration, combat, cultivation, and operations across multiple worlds 15 62 152.

Law Comprehension

Richard studies and combines multiple laws and profound mysteries rather than relying on a single combat system.

• Wind, Water, Life, Fate, Death, Time, and Space are among the documented paths he has pursued 15 34 78.
• His understanding of Space enables him to bypass or analyze spatial seals that ordinary gods cannot safely open 58.
• He uses spatial and temporal abilities to evade stronger opponents and control battlefield positioning 118.
• His Water Element Divine Clone comprehended the Mystery of Round Softness, advancing its fusion of Water Element mysteries 78.

Alchemy and Artifact Refinement

Richard learned Dragon Race alchemy from Xia Mi and later integrated it with several other systems into his own refining methods.

• He attained working proficiency in Elemental Transmutation, Conceptual Armament, Spatial Creation, Life Creation, and Causal Separation 15.
• He combines Dragon Race alchemy, Divine Machine Refinement, Yin-Yang Release, sealing techniques, magic arrays, and forging methods 34.
• He can create Space Rings using Rinnegan ocular power and arrays 36.
• He researched the fusion of Devil Fruits into weapons and enhanced weapon spirituality in preparation for such experiments 62.

Ocular Techniques and Sealing

After consuming a God Tree fruit, Richard gained chakra-based powers and advanced ocular abilities.

• Possesses Sage Chakra, seven chakra attributes, and Rinnegan-derived techniques including the Kamui Eye, Temporal Reversal, and Creation Tribulation Light 33.
• Uses Yin-Yang Release to create black receivers for controlling captured targets 51.
• Created the Void Mirror by fusing a modified Kamui Eye into a mirror; its divided Kamui Space can imprison multiple enemies 34.
• Uses broad sealing methods to suppress domains and spatial abilities, as demonstrated against Ye Zhen’s Ghost Domain 64.

Six Paths Puppet

Richard refines captured Saints into Six Paths Puppets under his control.

• Uses black receivers and Creation Tribulation Light to accelerate the refining process 51.
• Modified six puppets with distinct Devil Fruit abilities and equipped them with Low-level Divine Artifacts 51.
• Uses the puppets for combat, reconnaissance, pursuit, logistical support, and repairs 51.
• Prefers puppets for testing dangerous or poorly understood supernatural rules rather than risking his own body 63.

World Creation

Richard developed several internal worlds and eventually constructed an Origin World.

• Built a Grotto-Heaven Small World as a rear base, though it was initially unable to withstand his full power 34.
• Remodeled the Small World over three hundred years, establishing a Netherworld and a future Heavenly Realm 129.
• Created an Origin World Seed using the Way of Space-Time and other Great Daos, then embedded the expanding Origin World in his Lower Dantian 138.
• Absorbed the Dojutsu Small World into the Origin World and recruited gods and Masters of Rules to contribute their Dao insights 138 147.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Azure Forest Sword — Richard’s divine sword, later recast with causal guaranteed-hit, spatial-jump, spirituality, and automatic master-protection properties; its sword energy can strike within a hundred-mile range 2 15.
• Kusanagi Sword — Alchemical sword retrieved from the White King’s remains; Richard used it against Ange 10.
• Void Mirror — Sealing and imprisonment artifact created by integrating the modified Kamui Eye into a mirror 34.
• Destruction-element High-level Attack Divine Artifact — Taken from Leimo and claimed for Richard’s main body 59 60.
• Material Defense Divine Artifacts — Equipped by Richard’s main body and clones; also bestowed on Hogg and Della for protection 60 61.
• God Tree Fruit — Consumed by Richard, replacing his Battle Qi and Magic Power with chakra-based abilities 33.
• Tree of Life Martial Soul / World Tree — Custom Plant Martial Soul that evolved with divine rings, devoured the God Tree, and became a World Tree connected to Richard’s multi-plane Small World 112 113.

Relationships

• Hogg — Member of the Hegel Family; Richard gave him a Thunder Low-level Godhead and artifacts, allowing him to become a god through refinement 14 61.
• Della — Hegel Family member and Water Law cultivator; Richard supplied her with Soul Gold Beads and artifacts, then personally guided her cultivation 14 61.
• Xia Mi — Chat Group ally, alchemy teacher, and frequent interworld collaborator. Richard aided Fenrir’s recovery, negotiated an alliance against Odin, and exchanged knowledge with her 6 7.
• Fenrir — Xia Mi’s brother; Richard provided a soul-injury potion that helped restore most of Fenrir’s soul and intelligence 6 7.
• Ye Zhen — Fellow Chat Group member and sparring partner. Richard defeated and temporarily controlled him during a puppet battle while studying the world’s ghost rules 63 64.
• Xiao Yao — Close subordinate and companion who assists Richard in stabilizing the Origin World; later became a true World Tree and his strongest combat force beneath him 138 148.
• Su Yu — Richard gives him information about his destiny, the Human Emperor era, and a traitor within the Human Race, creating a mentor-like dynamic 146.
• Yang Chan — Chat Group member who approved Richard’s visit to Mount Hua; the two later discussed his world and personal history 154 160.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Apotheosis and the Tara Plane

Richard’s ascension to wind-element godhood elevates the Hegel Family into a God-level family. He holds a Godhood Banquet, rejects Plane Overseer Steven’s recruitment attempt, and begins planning for a future beyond the Tara Plane 1 4.

He later kills a god who harvested believers’ souls to refine Soul Gold Beads, takes the accumulated resources, heals his soul damage, and becomes a Water Element god 13 14.

Chat Group Exploration

Richard becomes an early driver of interworld cooperation by uploading cultivation resources and visiting other members’ worlds 6 15. In the Dragon World, he assists Xia Mi, learns alchemy, acquires the Kusanagi Sword, and participates in the campaign against the Dragon Kings 7 10 12.

His subsequent cultivation incorporates Dragon Race alchemy, ninja-world techniques, chakra, and artifact refinement, greatly expanding his methods beyond conventional elemental divinity 15 33 34.

One Piece and Mysterious Recovery Operations

At Mary Geoise, Richard frees slaves, attacks the World Government’s leadership, and captures Saints for conversion into Six Paths Puppets 50 51. He later studies Devil Fruits and weapon fusion while delegating further operations to his clones 62.

In the Mysterious Recovery World, he tests ghost rules through puppets, defeats Ye Zhen in a spar, and later overwhelms Jiang Shangbai to seize the Ghost Burial Clothes 63 64 73.

Rise over the Tara Plane

Richard captures Leimo and acquires major divine-artifact resources, substantially upgrading the equipment of his main body and clones 59 60. After confronting several Mid-level Gods investigating his ascensions, he forces them to surrender most of their possessions, establishing himself as the Tara Plane’s dominant powerhouse 107 108.

He defeats Philias, advances his Life Divine Clone to High-level God, and strengthens his subordinates in preparation for future threats 118 121.

Creation and the Origin World

In the Douluo Plane, Richard creates the Tree of Life Martial Soul, pushes it beyond the God King level, and condenses the Creation God Position 112 113. He turns his Small World into a multi-plane structure, then develops the more powerful Origin World around Space-Time and his accumulated Great Daos 113 138.

He uses the Origin World to house recruited gods, resurrected projections of Heavenly Emperors, and a branch of the Iron-Eating Beast tribe 147 148.

Plane Prison and Hell

Before departing for the Divine Planes, Richard enters the Plane Prison to remove powerful threats that could endanger the Tara Plane. His repeated victories earn him the epithet “Tyrant” 150.

He defeats Preston, forces or allows the remaining sovereigns and major prisoners to leave, seals the Plane Prison, and sends clones into the higher realms 151. After reaching Hell, he counter-robs bandits, purchases maps and Metal Lifeforms in Di Yi City, and defeats a group of High-level God ambushers 152 153 154.

Trivia

• Richard was a corporate slave in his past life before arriving in his current world 4.
• He considers himself protective of his own life and avoids gambling on close-range combat without overwhelming certainty 14.
• He once described the Dragon World’s advanced alchemy as absurdly powerful relative to its practitioners’ apparent combat strength 7.
• He admits to enjoying being deliberately cryptic after realizing how satisfying it felt to be the one withholding answers 137.