Zhao Hao

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Physical Description

Zhao Hao's physical appearance is remarkably fluid, shaped by a series of deliberate transformations and concealment techniques. His natural form, before any alterations, is that of a young man under twenty years of age with a lean build, but he rarely presents himself in this state. At his induction into the Corpse Refining Lineage, he presented himself as a ten-year-old boy 8. The most dramatic early change occurs after he consumes Essence Blood Pills, forcibly stimulating his flesh to alter his physique: he grows to over eight feet in height and gains a muscular, burly frame that completely changes his silhouette 41. This new bulk is often hidden under layered robes and spiritual armor, such as the form-fitting Blood Vein Bone Armor that clings silently to his skin beneath ordinary sect robes 26. Later, he adopts the identity of Zhou Wuji, a Golden Core cultivator, and his appearance shifts again to match that persona 86. He also cultivates the Spirit Muscle Shape-Shifting Art to perfection, granting him the ability to alter his facial features and body shape at will 66. His bone age remained a tell at Foundation Establishment: Old Ancestor Guo recognized that he was under twenty despite his altered physique 50.

After reaching the Nascent Soul Realm, Zhao Hao's transformations cease to be limited to human disguises. Refining True Dragon blood grants him the ability to transform into a thirty-zhang five-clawed black dragon, while the Heavenly Demon Body allows him to assume the forms of several Devil Creatures and an ultimate Heavenly Demon True Form 195 199. His Ye Wuchen avatar uses the body and identity of a Ye Family descendant whose original consciousness Zhao Hao erased 145 147.

During his later exploration of multidimensional spacetime, Zhao Hao's Primordial Spirit can enter alternate worlds and act through alternate selves or unrelated vessels. In one alternate Azure Cloud World, he repaired the pierced heart of the deceased Qi Refining rogue cultivator Li Xiuyuan with the Heavenly Demon Sacred Art, restored the vessel to Foundation Establishment cultivation through demonic-beast essence blood, and used its appearance to investigate an alternate Zhao Hao 260. Such vessels are temporary manifestations rather than replacements for his protected true body.

When acting openly as Zhao Ritian, Zhao Hao displayed an ordinary, unremarkable young face, wore a green Daoist robe, and used a hearty manner rather than maintaining his earlier burly disguise 103. After forming his Nascent Soul, he also restored the ordinary appearance associated with his previous life when introducing himself to Elder Ji 131.

• Height: After the transformation induced by Essence Blood Pills, Zhao Hao stands over eight feet tall 41.
• Build: He possesses a muscular, burly physique, which he often uses to pass as a body cultivator 41 44. His natural, unmodified build is leaner and less imposing.
• Notable Changes:
  • Golden Core Transformation: After forming his Golden Core using the Crimson Gold Burning Heaven Art, the surface of the core is overlaid with golden veins 86. This does not visibly alter his external form but is a mark of his cultivation.
  • Soul-Chasing Seal: A blood-red mark the size of a palm, shaped like a vicious ghost, was branded into the skin of his chest 37.
  • Karmic Burden: Old Ancestor Guo noted that Zhao Hao carried an extraordinarily thick karmic burden, yet lacked blood Baleful Intent clinging to him 50. This early condition did not remain unchanged: refining the Mahayana cultivator Ye You's essence later caused substantial karmic burden and killing intent to cling to Zhao Hao as black-and-red mist 307.
  • Shape-Shifting Mastery: He has achieved perfect mastery of the Spirit Muscle Shape-Shifting Art, enabling him to change his head and swap his face at will 66.
  • Fire Spirit Body: His Immortal-Grade Fire Spiritual Root granted him a Fire Spirit Body 69. Stitched-monstrosity material advanced the physique to top grade; subsequent bloodline refinement elevated it to supreme grade 123 194.
  • Li Fire Tower Identity: While entering the Li Fire Ascension Tower, he reshaped himself into Wu De's appearance but registered the name Zhao Ritian, receiving recognition as a Core Disciple 72.
  • Zhao Ritian Identity: After five years of seclusion, he took the identity of Zhao Ritian, presenting himself as a blunt, rough-mannered rogue cultivator from the Northern Lands while revealing mid-Golden Core cultivation 103.
  • True Dragon Form: Zhao Hao can manifest a thirty-zhang five-clawed black dragon, gaining enormous physical strength, dragon scales, and enhanced Demon Race Divine Abilities 195 199.
  • Heavenly Demon True Form: His ultimate Heavenly Demon Transformation creates a wolf-headed, winged, clawed form with a third eye and an aura recognizable to Outer Realm Heavenly Demons 199. By late Spirit Transformation, this form reached roughly eighty zhang and possessed physical power comparable to his late Void Refinement Heavenly Wolf avatar 230. During his Integrated Body breakthrough, it stood one hundred zhang tall, with the Eye of Chaos occupying its brow 282 284.
  • Ye Wuchen Avatar: Through Plant Demon in the Dao Heart, Zhao Hao erased the original Ye Wuchen's consciousness and converted his soul and body into an avatar. Ninth-grade Camouflage conceals the demonic-seed aura 145 147.
  • Alternate-World Vessel: In an alternate Azure Cloud World, Zhao Hao restored and occupied the dead rogue cultivator Li Xiuyuan's body, regenerating its destroyed heart and rebuilding it to Foundation Establishment Early Stage 260.
  • Five-Element Physiques: He strengthened four newly acquired elemental physiques to supreme grade and harmonized their power with his original fire foundation 292.
  • Immortal Transformation: Stable immortal qi from an enhanced Spirit-Eye Tree began replacing his dharma power; after half a month, one-tenth had converted to immortal power, beginning the transformation of his body 316. He initially relied on his Heavenly Demon True Form and its regenerative ability to endure the violent immortal qi entering his meridians 316.

Cultivation Progression

Abilities and Techniques

Divine Abilities

Golden Eyes

The Golden Eyes Divine Ability was awakened by Zhao Hao after consuming a Blood Spirit Pill refined from the Ancestral Golden Roc's essence blood 95. It fires extremely fine golden beams with immense penetrative power and near-instantaneous attack speed 96. Originally a first-grade lesser divine ability, Zhao Hao enhanced it to sixth grade, removing its damaged status; the incomplete Blood Spirit Scripture nevertheless limited its practical bloodline power 96. It subsequently reached seventh grade 117.

• Applications: Pierces high-tier defensive restrictions; complements Golden Roc Spreads Wings by preserving perception at extreme speed; reveals weak points in formations 96 97 107. It also helped Zhao Hao trace another Zhao Hao's scrutiny back across dimensions 280. At the Dragon Race gathering, he used it to inspect the barrier surrounding a battle before suppressing his opponents 328.
• Limitations: Its bloodline-derived power was initially restricted by the incomplete Blood Spirit Scripture 95 96. A stitched monstrosity's seventh-grade spatial attack bisected one beam 118. Even its seventh-grade form could not see through the blood-rune restrictions of Blood Spirit Hall 117.

Golden Roc Spreads Wings

Derived from the Ancestral Golden Roc bloodline, this Divine Ability grants enhanced mobility and aerial combat capability 95. Zhao Hao enhanced it to sixth grade, although the incomplete Blood Spirit Scripture initially restricted its practical power 96. It later reached seventh grade and then eighth grade before his Nascent Soul breakthrough 117 126.

• Applications: Provides exceptional flight speed and maneuverability. Combined with Golden Eyes, it let Zhao Hao travel at more than ten times the speed of a fully driven third-rank flying sword while maintaining awareness 97. He used it with Camouflage to escape Elder Wu and to kite regenerating stitched monstrosities 102 119. Its speed rises in Golden Roc and Heavenly Demon forms; Zhao Hao later amplified it with the Wind Rule 199 236.
• Limitations: In human form it consumes substantial vital energy, and its original bloodline-derived strength was subject to the incomplete scripture's ceiling 95 96.

Mystic Armor Protection

Awakened from third-rank Mystic Turtle essence blood, this defensive Divine Ability initially manifested at first-grade power. Zhao Hao enhanced it to sixth grade despite the bloodline limitation and later obtained a seventh-grade version 95 96 115.

• Applications: Provides protection against physical and magical attacks; it blocked Elder Wu's earth-attribute Divine Ability during Zhao Hao's escape from the Crimson Flame Mountain mine 95 96 102.
• Limitations: The initial incomplete version did not reproduce the source bloodline's full power 95 96.

Rapid Digestion

Extracted from a second-tier Giant-Toothed Demon Shark, Rapid Digestion quickly refines objects containing spiritual energy to replenish Zhao Hao's spiritual power and vital energy 96.

• Applications: Converts energy-rich resources into usable power during cultivation or combat. Zhao Hao refined a third-rank Spirit Recovery Pill in only a few breaths after practicing his Golden Roc and Golden Eyes combination 96 97.
• Limitations: Its effectiveness depends on the available consumable resources 96.

Camouflage

Obtained from a Coral Beast, Camouflage lets Zhao Hao blend with his surroundings 96. He enhanced it to sixth grade using other damaged Divine Abilities and later completed its ninth-grade transformation using Nascent Soul Tribulation Golden Light 96 147.

• Applications: Enables stealth, evasion, reconnaissance, and ambushes. It helped him escape Elder Wu, conceal the demonic seed in Ye Wuchen's Nascent Soul, and ambush Hu Qingshan alongside his Heavenly Wolf avatar 102 147 231. Combined with Heart Demon Law, it also supported his impersonation of a Shadow Race Mahayana cultivator while pursuing a wounded Yaksha Race opponent 303.
• Limitations: Specialized perception can defeat it: a stitched monstrosity's third eye broke Zhao Hao's Camouflage state 118.

Thousand Ghost Servants Scale-Guarding Shield

Formed from Zhao Hao's ghost servants, this defensive Divine Ability had reached eighth grade by Chapter 115 and manifested as a rapidly regenerating, scale-covered illusory shield 115 118. Zhao Hao later completed its ninth-grade transformation with Nascent Soul Tribulation Golden Light 128.

• Applications: Withstood a stitched monstrosity's seventh-grade spatial attack and protected Zhao Hao's sea of consciousness against chaotic demonic bloodline wills 118 134. Its protective scales cover both his flesh and soul 117.
• Limitations: Strong attacks can visibly damage the shield and expose his position even when it regenerates 118.

Ghost Servant Soul-Devouring Wave

Ghost Servant Soul-Devouring Wave is a seventh-grade Divine Ability acquired through Zhao Hao's continued cultivation of the Blood Spirit Scripture and collection of demonic-beast essence blood 115. Refinement of Azure-Winged White Tiger essence blood also produced a first-grade entry for this ability, identifying it as a rare soul attack carried by that bloodline 139.

• Applications: Expands his soul-path combat options alongside the Ten Thousand Soul Banner 115.
• Limitations: Its precise combat mechanism and resource consumption have not been recorded 115.

Geng-Edge Tide-Shattering Breath

Geng-Edge Tide-Shattering Breath is a seventh-grade offensive Divine Ability acquired alongside Mystic Armor Protection and Ghost Servant Soul-Devouring Wave 115. The Azure-Winged White Tiger bloodline carries this ability, which commands Geng-metal energy to form storms 139.

• Applications: Provides another high-grade offensive method 115.
• Limitations: Its specific activation requirements and resource costs have not been recorded 115 139.

Red Lotus Karmic Fire

This eighth-grade minor Divine Ability evolved from Zhao Hao's Karmic Fire Spirit Seed when he absorbed Tribulation Golden Light during his Golden Core tribulation 83. Fueled by karmic force, it can bind and capture divine souls, as demonstrated against Zhou Wuji 84.

• Applications: Captures souls, bypasses conventional physical defenses, and obstructs escape. Zhao Hao used it against Hu Qingshan in and around the Space-Shattered Forest, later empowering it with his perfected Causality Rule 84 231 232. Together with ninth-grade Fire Spirit Affinity, it can gather surrounding fire spiritual energy into a black-and-red karmic-fire flying sword capable of burning souls 129.
• Limitations: It depends on karmic force; its use and Zhao Hao's heavy karmic burden can attract attention 50 51 84.

Earth-Li Origin Flame

A minor Divine Ability Zhao Hao acquired during the Golden Core trade fair, the Earth-Li Origin Flame supplements his fire-based offense 86.

• Applications: Provides another fire attack; Zhao Hao displayed it while demanding compensation from Sun Hao and Zheng Yao 93. He also used its threat to force Chen Li and the Chen Family Ancestor to surrender ten thousand year stone milk as compensation 89.
• Limitations: Its specific costs and limits have not been recorded 86.

Five Elemental Spirit Affinities

Upon advancing his Fire Spiritual Root to Immortal Grade, Zhao Hao gained Fire Spirit Affinity. It permits automatic spiritual-energy absorption and converts other absorbed attributes into fire spiritual power; fire-attribute absorption is more than ten times faster than that of the other attributes 69. Fire Spirit Affinity later reached ninth grade 124. Advancing his other four roots to Immortal Grade granted Metal, Wood, Water, and Earth Spirit Affinities 292.

• Applications: Fire Spirit Affinity enables passive cultivation and can draw fire spiritual qi from an enormous area 69 81 124. At ninth grade, it forcibly stripped fire spiritual energy from a radius of ten thousand li and let Zhao Hao compress that energy into supreme-grade Fire Attribute spirit stones 124. Activating all five affinities together allowed Zhao Hao to absorb a five-colored spiritual-energy tornado and refine its energies through the Five-Element Illusory World Art 292.
• Limitations: When he first gained Fire Spirit Affinity, other elemental energies were forcibly converted to fire. Later, the four new elements initially remained separate from his Chaos Dharma Power and threatened to weaken his foundation until he unified them through a different cultivation art 69 292. His Immortal-Grade Fire Spiritual Root could no longer be selected for further System enhancement 69.

Heavenly Demon Divine Abilities

After acquiring and soul-searching the Golden Core Outer Realm Heavenly Demon Moro, Zhao Hao registered five Heavenly Demon Divine Abilities in the System. He retained access to the registered abilities despite expelling Moro's unstable bloodline 132 133.

• Other-Transformation Calamity Thought: Opens routes into the Inner Landscape World, alternate worlds, and targets' seas of consciousness. Zhao Hao and his avatars also use its gateways for travel and coordinated operations 143 260 270 296.
• Heavenly Demon Contract: A registered Divine Ability distinct from the contractual status Zhao Hao previously consumed through the System; its detailed activation method has not been recorded 132.
• Plant Demon in the Dao Heart: Plants a demonic seed in a target soul. Zhao Hao used its ninth-grade form to turn Ye Wuchen into an avatar, later took over the Devil Race cultivator Ya Jiu, and transformed the captured Mahayana ancestor Ying Feng 145 296 312. He subsequently combined it with immortal power and Chaos Law to convert seventeen captured Mahayana cultivators into loyal clones 330.
• Heavenly Demon Illusion Realm: Draws enemy souls into illusions. Its Heavenly Demon Dance can expend Heavenly Demon soul origin for a stronger attack; Zhao Hao used it to shatter Ye Wuchen's Dao Heart 133 145. He later cast large-scale illusions over immortal cities to harvest Fortune Power and manipulated battlefield survivors into supplying misleading evidence against rival races 302 307.
• Formless Demon Body: Supports stealthy movement, including Hu Yang's passage through a brief breach in Heavenly Cauldron Palace's Array Formation Hall barrier 270.
• Limitations: An intact Mahayana cultivator's fundamental will offers far greater resistance to demonic-seed corruption than Ying Feng's severely damaged origin did. Converting the Sea King Race captive initially proceeded slowly and consumed Zhao Hao's limited immortal power heavily 330. Heavenly Demon methods also failed to provide the cross-realm material transfer he sought between the Immortal Realm and Haotian World; the System supplied a separate solution 340.

True Dragon Divine Abilities

Zhao Hao refined True Dragon blood with the protection of his supreme-grade Fire Spirit Body and tempered body, gaining multiple ninth-grade True Dragon Divine Abilities 194 195.

• True Dragon Body: Transforms him into a thirty-zhang five-clawed black dragon with great strength, durability, scales, and draconic pressure 195.
• Wind Control, Water Control, Thunder Control, and Fire Spirit Affinity: Provide elemental manipulation 195.
• Dragon Might: Exerts suppressive True Dragon pressure 195.
• Dragon Breath: Provides a direct offensive method 195.
• Limitations: True Dragon Body originally consumed spiritual power so quickly that Zhao Hao could maintain it for only about an incense stick without recovery pills. His later Heavenly Demon Body allowed him to assume a dragon form through Heavenly Demon Transformation without consuming magical power 195 199.

Heavenly Demon Transformation and Returning to the Source Against the Bloodline

After completing the initial Heavenly Demon Body, Zhao Hao acquired two ninth-grade Divine Abilities: Heavenly Demon Transformation and Returning to the Source Against the Bloodline 198.

• Heavenly Demon Transformation: Draws on bloodlines stored in his 365 acupoints to assume Howling Moon Heavenly Wolf, Azure-Winged White Tiger, Golden Roc, True Dragon, and ultimate Heavenly Demon forms. The Heavenly Demon True Form enhances Demon Race Divine Abilities 199. His tests established that these transformations did not consume magical power, unlike the separate True Dragon Body ability 199.
• Returning to the Source Against the Bloodline: Also described as Bloodline Reversion, this ability purifies a bloodline toward a stronger ancestral form. Zhao Hao tested it in dragon and Golden Roc forms 198 199.
• Limitations: The Heavenly Demon True Form emits an aura recognizable to Outer Realm Heavenly Demons 199. Bloodline Reversion consumes life-source energy, prompting Zhao Hao to stop his initial experiment 199.

Unity of Ten Thousand Paths and Tribulation Devouring

Unity of Ten Thousand Paths is a ninth-grade Divine Ability that appeared after Zhao Hao absorbed an alternate self's extensive cultivation foundation 276 277. It lets him combine otherwise distinct powers. He used it with Heavenly Hound Devours the Moon to swallow his Integrated Body tribulation's lightning and cloud mass, trapping and digesting their power rather than merely resisting them 283. At higher cultivation, it supports the fusion of his elemental power with Chaos Dharma Power and the combination of multiple Laws 292 308 312.

• Applications: Zhao Hao used five Laws together to form Chaos Law power and channel it through the Profound Heaven Void-Nether Bowl 308. His Heavenly Wolf clone Xiao Gu also used an Eye of Chaos attack combining five laws 300. His own ninth-grade Eye of Chaos manifested in the vertical eye of his hundred-zhang Heavenly Demon True Form during the Integrated Body breakthrough 282.
• Limitations: Combining high-level powers can be costly. Xiao Gu's Eye of Chaos consumed roughly one-third of his Chaos Dharma Power reserves in one attack 300. Zhao Hao found that the combined fundamental strength of more than four hundred perfected Rules was only barely comparable to a single First-Tier Time Law, motivating his transition from Rule fusion to genuine Law power 293.

Rule and Law Powers

Zhao Hao develops Rules through Dao-Comprehension Pills, avatars, System-assisted accumulation, and the insights of alternate selves. His Rule cultivation eventually supplies the foundation for Laws and Chaos Dharma Power 188 260 281 308.

• Causality: Initially allowed him to perceive and transfer causal connections associated with identities including Zhao Hao, Zhao Ritian, and Ye Wuchen. He later used perfected Causality power against Hu Qingshan and advanced it to Law power 179 188 232 294. The Heaven-Earth Eight-Trigram Mirror could receive nearly all his causal threads, though a crimson connection remained attached to him during an early transfer 183.
• Heart Demon: Major mastery strengthened resistance to soul locks, mental attacks, and chaotic bloodline wills; later became one of the Laws Zhao Hao could combine 188 194 308.
• Wind: Amplified Golden Roc Spreads Wings during his disrupted Void Refinement tribulation. It reached Great Accomplishment by Chapter 270 and was among the ten perfected basic attributes listed after his alternate-self merger 236 270 277.
• Space: Advanced from Minor Mastery to Perfect through twenty-five Demon Race avatars consuming Dao-Comprehension Pills. It strengthens spatial defenses and treasure use 259 260. Zhao Hao later advanced it to First-Tier Spatial Law and used it with Spatial Traversal for rapid pursuit 293 303.
• Time: Recorded at Beginner mastery in Chapter 259 and reached perfection by Chapter 270 259 270. It subsequently became a First-Tier Law 293.
• Blood and Five Elements: Blood is among the Laws Zhao Hao combines into Chaos Law. His Five Elements Laws were perfected before he used the Five-Element Heaven-Replenishing Art 292 308.
• Expanded Foundation: By Perfected Void Refinement, his System listed hundreds of perfected Rule powers obtained through his cultivation and alternate-self mergers 281.
• Five First-Tier Laws: Using other perfected Rules as enhancement materials, Zhao Hao established Time, Space, Causality, Heart Demon, and Blood as his five principal First-Tier Laws before the final alternate-self hunt 293. At Mahayana, he could interweave them without the physical strain he had previously experienced 312.
• Reincarnation: The Three-Life Stone supplied a manifestation of Reincarnation Law. Alongside Time and Space, Reincarnation became part of the foundation associated with his newly born Chaos Law 322 324.
• Other Great Worlds: Through Zhao Hai's investigations, he discovered that the Thousand Buddhas, Gray Baleful, and Pangu Great Worlds each possessed three Supreme Laws. The Thousand Buddhas Great World's examples were Prophecy, Wish Power, and Pure Land; the Gray Baleful Great World's were Destruction, Devouring, and Calamity 377.

Chaos Law and the Three Thousand Great Daos

Zhao Hao's earliest use of chaotic law power involved temporarily combining five distinct Laws through Unity of Ten Thousand Paths 305 308. After obtaining the Three-Life Stone and further investigating law resonance, a newly born Chaos Law began drawing his Heart Demon, Causality, and Blood Laws into itself, following Time, Space, and Reincarnation 322 324. This incomplete Chaos Law became a central power in his subsequent cultivation and development of the Haotian World 333 350 351.

• Combat Applications: Supported by immortal power, its combined Time and Space properties immobilized Mahayana opponents 319. It also empowered the Profound Heaven Void-Nether Bowl against multiple Mahayana cultivators and a Star Beast comparable to a True Immortal 328 333.
• Assimilation: After devouring seventy-eight Laws, the incomplete Chaos Law began absorbing even introductory-level Rule seeds 350 351.
• Completion: Zhao Hao had once possessed Rules spanning the Three Thousand Great Daos, but his “Six-in-One” enhancement of more than four hundred perfected Rules into Laws left over three hundred attributes missing. He assigned more than three hundred Nascent Soul avatars to replenish them, completing the Three Thousand Great Daos and producing the panel entry Chaos Law (First Tier, 0/100) 351.
• World Feedback: Completing Chaos Law perfected the Haotian World's origin. Its later advancement to Second Tier (15/100) expanded that world and raised Zhao Hao's main body to True Immortal Middle Stage (15/100) through origin feedback 351 377.
• Cultivation Support: Zhao Hao used the Heavenly Immortal Art and Heavenly Demon True Form to withstand the torrent of Dao resonances during Chaos Law's completion 351.

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Techniques and System-Enhanced Abilities

System Enhancement

Zhao Hao's most fundamental ability is using the System to strengthen items, cultivation arts, spells, spiritual roots, Divine Abilities, and removable statuses by consuming compatible materials 7 33 75. Success depends on the quantity and quality of materials 7 101. He has used it to perfect arts, upgrade spiritual roots and treasures, develop Divine Abilities, and repurpose harmful conditions 7 37 69 75 96. It is later explicitly identified as the All-Things Enhancement System 333.

• Applications: During his five-year seclusion, he consumed hundreds of third-rank magical treasures to improve five principal treasures 103. He later used stitched-monstrosity material for his Fire Spirit Body, spirit stones for the Heavenly Demon Sacred Art, and Tribulation Golden Light for ninth-grade Divine Abilities 123 124 128. His clone network subsequently helped upgrade Heavenly Cauldron Palace's Formation Core and four cauldrons into First-Rank Immortal Artifacts 271.
• Hostile Entities as Materials: During his Golden Core Heart Demon Trial, Zhao Hao tricked an Outer Realm Heavenly Demon's avatar into his divine-sense hand and used it as enhancement material for his Karmic Fire Spirit Seed 82.
• Alternate Systems as Materials: The inherited More Children, More Blessings System could not be activated conventionally, but offered a 1,562,500% success-rate increase for enhancing the Profound Heaven Void-Nether Bowl or 62,500% for the perfected Space Rule 263. Zhao Hao preserved it. After further alternate-self mergers, he possessed more than one hundred different systems that he could not directly use but regarded as exceptional enhancement materials 281.
• Spirit-Eye Tree: By consuming ancient trees as materials, Zhao Hao enhanced a Spirit-Eye Tree until it produced stable immortal qi, enabling partial conversion of his dharma power into immortal power 316. He concealed the tree within a dimensional space inside his body and personally gathered forests from several races' territories to supplement his clones' collections 316.
• Perception Amplification: The Primordial Chaos Myriad Spirits Formation suggested a way to extend the System's effective targeting range by amplifying his perception across an entire star domain. This was initially a realization about the formation's potential rather than a demonstrated star-domain-wide enhancement 333.
• Cross-Realm Materials: Through shared awareness with his Zhao Hai clone in the Immortal Realm, Zhao Hao successfully selected five low-grade Magic Treasures there as materials for a flying sword held by his main body in the Haotian World. The materials vanished without spatial or magical fluctuations, and the sword advanced from low grade to mid grade at a displayed 100% success rate 340.
• Limitations: Material costs rise steeply with higher grades; success is not guaranteed without enough materials. Zhao Hao discovered early that the System could not directly enhance blood 4 7. Immortal Grade proved to be the selectable enhancement limit for his spiritual roots 69.

Mysterious Yin Breath Concealment Art

One of Zhao Hao's earliest enhanced spells, this art hides his cultivation and aura. He raised it to perfect mastery by consuming other spells 7 10.

• Applications: Hid his fourth-layer Qi Refining cultivation as the early third layer; later suppressed his Foundation Establishment aura to the fourth layer of Qi Refining when facing Jia Ren 10 26. He could also give his displayed aura an unstable, pill-dependent quality to reinforce a deliberately misleading impression 15.
• Limitations: Stronger cultivators or specialized detection can threaten a disguise, making later concealment methods and alternate identities important 50 103.

Spirit Muscle Shape-Shifting Art

Zhao Hao cultivated the Spirit Muscle Shape-Shifting Art to perfect mastery, allowing him to manipulate his musculature, skeletal proportions, physique, and facial features 66. It supports identities including Wu De, Zhou Wuji, Qian Riyue, and Zhao Ritian 72 85 97 103.

• Applications: Changes his face and body shape, including shrinking his burly frame into that of an ordinary young man 72.
• Limitations: At Foundation Establishment, it could not conceal his true bone age from Old Ancestor Guo 50.

Mystic Corpse Spirit Control Art

Zhao Hao purchased copies of twenty-five spells from the Scripture Repository and used them to enhance the Mystic Corpse Spirit Control Art to Perfection before being sent to the front line 21.

• Applications: Supplied corpse-refining and corpse-control knowledge appropriate to his original lineage 21.
• Preparation: He spent three days digesting the influx of knowledge before boarding the Bone Boat with the sect's battle participants 21.

Earth Escape Art and Early Sword Techniques

Perfected Earth Escape Art was one of Zhao Hao's principal early survival methods. He used it to escape Lin Yaoyao, flee the Heavenly Sword Sect's battlefield ambush, and construct concealed underground cultivation sites 18 22 25.

• Sword Control Technique: Enhanced to improve his single-target burst offense 33.
• Ten Thousand Sword Technique: Enhanced to Minor Accomplishment to supplement group attacks 33.
• Limitations: Spirit-stone-bearing ore could obstruct Earth Escape Art, requiring him to cut a path with a magical treasure instead 101. Elder Wu's superior earth-escape method also prevented Zhao Hao from simply outrunning him underground 102.

Blood Spirit Scripture

Obtained through Fan Jin, the Blood Spirit Scripture is a major body-cultivation and bloodline-fusion method. It removes demonic-beast wills while preserving bloodline power and supports repeated bloodline fusions 78.

• Applications: Refines Blood Spirit Pills, strengthens the body through Vitality Energy, and grants bloodline Divine Abilities 78 79 95. Its later teachings describe using a Nascent Soul Dharma Image to guide a demonic-beast bloodline into a corresponding Dharma Image power 78.
• Limitations: The incomplete version initially available borrowed only a fraction of a source bloodline's power 95 96 98. Fan Jin's version included the Hundred Aperture Pulse Suppressing Art but not the unrestricted fusion method Zhao Hao had hoped for 99.

Hundred Aperture Pulse Suppressing Art

This secret art came from Fan Jin's version of the Blood Spirit Scripture and forms part of the broader Heavenly Demon Sacred Art inheritance 99 116.

• Applications: Supports suppression and storage of bloodlines in Zhao Hao's 365 acupoints, contributing to his Heavenly Demon Body 99 194.
• Limitations: The accumulated chaotic wills risk cultivation deviation without his physique, Soul-Devouring Jade, and Heart Demon protections 194 201.

Heavenly Demon Sacred Art

Zhao Hao discovered the Heavenly Demon Sacred Art in the Blood Spirit Hall and recognized the Hundred Aperture Pulse Suppressing Art as only one part of its inheritance 116 120. He later used condensed spirit stones to strengthen his mastery 124.

• Applications: Underpins the Heavenly Demon Body, bloodline assimilation, and Heavenly Demon Transformation 124 194 198. Its blood-refining power healed the wounded alternate Zhao Hao he first inhabited, and it reignited remaining vitality to regenerate Li Xiuyuan's destroyed heart 234 260.
• Limitations: Its chaotic demonic will can threaten the practitioner; Zhao Hao needed Soul-Devouring Jade and Heart Demon protection during advancement 201.

Li Fire Imperial Spirit Canon

The Li Fire Imperial Spirit Canon became Zhao Hao's principal fire cultivation method after he replaced the Extreme Yin Sect's Mysterious Yin methods. It converted his power into crimson-gold Li Fire Power, and he strengthened it through the System 33.

• Applications: Supported his fire-attribute cultivation, Fire Spirit Body, and early Fire Spirit Affinity 33 69.
• Further Inheritance: As a Nascent Soul cultivator, he traded the Li Fire alchemy inheritance and intelligence for the Golden Core, Nascent Soul, and Spirit Transformation sections 138.

Crimson Gold Burning Heaven Art

Zhao Hao obtained the complete Crimson Gold Burning Heaven Art from Zhou Wuji's storage pouch after capturing him. A dual Metal-and-Fire cultivation method extending to Nascent Soul Perfection, it temporarily resolved his lack of the later volumes of the Li Fire Imperial Spirit Canon 85.

• Applications: Supported his post-breakthrough Golden Core cultivation and the golden-veined transformation of his core 85 86.
• Limitations: Its dual-attribute nature was not the ideal match for his then solely Immortal-Grade Fire Spiritual Root 85.

Five-Element Heaven-Replenishing Art and Five-Element Illusory World Art

To repair his incomplete elemental foundation, Zhao Hao absorbed Earth, Metal, Water, and Wood attribute crystals into the corresponding organs through the Five-Element Heaven-Replenishing Art. His perfected Five Elements Laws made its law-insight stage unnecessary 292. After strengthening all four additional roots and physiques, he found that their initially separate powers threatened to pollute his Chaos Dharma Power. He therefore drew on an alternate self's memories and adopted the Five-Element Illusory World Art 292.

• Applications: The Five-Element Illusory World Art fuses all five attributes into seamless Five-Element Dharma Power. Unity of Ten Thousand Paths then merges that power with Chaos Dharma Power, completing Zhao Hao's five-element Dao foundation 292. He later used the art to refine the Netherworld Blood Pool 300.
• Higher Cultivation: Its secret method guided his Mahayana breakthrough by compressing and purifying essence power and tempering the essence, qi, and spirit imprints throughout his body. He also circulated it when beginning immortal-qi refinement 308 316.
• Limitations: Merely acquiring additional elemental roots and physiques was insufficient; leaving their power unharmonized would have weakened his existing foundation 292.

Heavenly Demon Blood and Clone Advancement

Zhao Hao can use his own Heavenly Demon Blood to force existing clones' bloodlines into Heavenly Demon bloodlines and reconstruct their bodies. The process draws on his Chaos Dharma Power and foundational reserves 285.

• Applications: Two masses of blood elevated Xiao Gu and Hu Yang through the intermediate Void Refinement stages to Perfected Void Refinement. Their resulting foundations were sufficient to attempt Integrated Body breakthroughs immediately 285.
• Shared Experience: Xiao Gu used Zhao Hao's breakthrough experience and Unity of Ten Thousand Paths to merge essence, qi, and spirit with little resistance. As a clone controlled by Zhao Hao's consciousness, he faced no meaningful obstruction from the Heart Demon Trial 285.
• Limitations: The blood is not costless; Zhao Hao sensed a real, though minor, loss of his own power and foundation when supplying it 285.

Primordial Chaos Myriad Spirits Formation

Zhao Hao found the Primordial Chaos Myriad Spirits Formation while studying the Golden Palace Jade Book for a defense against further Star Beast encounters. The same investigation brought the Three Thousand Dao Gods Grand Formation into resonance with his incomplete Chaos Law 333.

• Defense: He selected the formation to help protect his remote Dao-integration site 333.
• Perception: Its amplification of perception suggested that the All-Things Enhancement System might reach targets throughout an entire star domain 333.
• Containment: His Mahayana avatars supplied power to the formation to contain the upheaval generated by Chaos Law's completion within the Star Domain 351.

Haotian World and World-Origin Feedback

Zhao Hao developed the Haotian World in the Dead Star Domain, where he had selected an isolated, lifeless planet as a suitable Dao-integration site 333 350 377. When life began emerging, he deliberately chose not to transplant outside organisms, intending the world to develop a civilization of its own 350.

• Origin Completion: Completing the Three Thousand Great Daos through his Chaos Law perfected the world's origin 351.
• External Resonance: The perfected world's pulse passed through its immortal formation and into the universe, where a Daoist within the Heaven and Earth Mysterious Yellow Tower sensed it 351.
• Cultivation Feedback: As Chaos Law advanced to Second Tier, the Haotian World expanded and its origin fed back into Zhao Hao, carrying him into True Immortal Middle Stage 377.

Notable Achievements

• Enhanced the Mysterious Yin Qi Absorption Art, raised his Fire Spiritual Root to mid grade, and reached Qi Refining Second Layer in one night 7.
• Reached Qi Refining Seventh Layer and gained the ability to control objects with spiritual sense 14.
• Strengthened a Tracking Compass to avoid, rather than locate, the wanted Wu De 15.
• Perfected the Mystic Corpse Spirit Control Art before his deployment to the front line 21.
• Escaped a Heavenly Sword Sect ambush using perfected Earth Escape Art 22.
• Killed Jia Ren and obtained his cultivation resources, banner, flying sword, and Corpse Refining Bag 29.
• Strengthened the Li Fire Imperial Spirit Canon, Sword Control Technique, and Ten Thousand Sword Technique, then overcame enough of his acrophobia to ride a sword eighty zhang high 33.
• Used Essence Blood Pills to assume an imposing eight-foot physique and renewed the Fire Phoenix Sword and Ten Thousand Soul Banner 41.
• Entered the Alchemy Grand Assembly selection and passed the preliminary round by producing six high-grade Inedia Pills with an unconventional wok-tossing method 43 44.
• Refined a second-tier Soul Condensing Pill with a damaged first-tier furnace and won 60,000 low-grade spirit stones 49.
• Drew Old Ancestor Guo's attention and advanced from Second Tier Beginner to Third Tier Beginner alchemist during the Crimson Origin Pulse-Forging Pill competition 50 52 53.
• Obtained Soul-Devouring Jade at auction and learned numerous third-tier pill formulas from Old Ancestor Guo 57 60.
• Infiltrated a Ten Thousand Immortal City group without revealing his Extreme Yin Sect origins 62.
• Received Li Fire Ascension Tower Core Disciple recognition and chose its alchemy inheritance 72.
• Escaped the collapsing Li Fire Secret Realm with an enhanced Space Escape Talisman 74.
• Consumed a Heavenly Demon Contract as System material, freeing himself from Old Ancestor Guo's contractual restriction 75.
• Obtained the Blood Spirit Scripture, opened all 365 acupoints, and developed a seventh-grade Karmic Fire Spirit Seed 78 79.
• Used an Outer Realm Heavenly Demon's Golden Core avatar as System-enhancement material during his Heart Demon Trial 82.
• Passed the Golden Core tribulation, evolved Red Lotus Karmic Fire, captured Zhou Wuji, and assumed his identity 83 84 85.
• Completed his Golden Core transformation and acquired Earth-Li Origin Flame 86.
• Developed Golden Eyes, Golden Roc Spreads Wings, Mystic Armor Protection, Rapid Digestion, and Camouflage through bloodline cultivation and System enhancement 95 96.
• Captured Fan Jin, obtained his memories and scripture, impersonated him, and plundered Blood Refining Demonic Sect spirit stone mines 98 99 100 101.
• Escaped Elder Wu and spent five years advancing to Mid Golden Core while upgrading five principal magical treasures to third-rank supreme-grade 102 103.
• Joined Linyuan City's Sea Beast Tide garrison as Zhao Ritian, negotiated compensation from Zheng Yao, and harvested beast souls and essence blood 103 106 107 108.
• Obtained three seventh-grade Divine Abilities and over one thousand varieties of demonic-beast essence blood 115.
• Withstood a stitched monstrosity's spatial attack, then exploited regenerating monstrosities as renewable enhancement materials 118 119 120.
• Raised his Fire Spirit Body to top grade, reached Golden Core Late Stage, and subsequently attained Golden Core Completion 123 124.
• Condensed supreme-grade Fire Attribute spirit stones from gathered spiritual energy and used them to enhance the Heavenly Demon Sacred Art 124.
• Passed the Nascent Soul tribulation and developed ninth-grade Divine Abilities 128.
• Captured the Heavenly Demon Moro, acquiring Heavenly Demon Divine Abilities and intelligence 133.
• Returned the Li Fire alchemy inheritance and acquired higher sections of the Li Fire Imperial Spirit Canon 138.
• Converted Ye Wuchen into an avatar and concealed its demonic seed with ninth-grade Camouflage 145 147.
• Improved his fighting skill through repeated defeats in combat trials, eventually clearing the ninth checkpoint before encountering the tenth opponent's Nascent Soul Dharma Image 156.
• Developed a means for Ye Wuchen to send Storage Bags and cultivation resources to his true body 171.
• Transferred nearly all his causal connections onto an enhanced Heaven-Earth Eight-Trigram Mirror 183.
• Refined True Dragon blood, completed his initial Heavenly Demon Body, and gained multiple ninth-grade bloodline abilities 195 198 201.
• Created a Void Refinement fox clone and learned the principles of alternate-self devouring and Refining Falsehood into Reality from its memories 208.
• Farmed Outer Realm Heavenly Demons to advance through Spirit Transformation 218 220 230.
• Ambushed and captured Hu Qingshan, using Red Lotus Karmic Fire, seals, and the Blood Spirit Holy Ancestor's feared name 231 232.
• Survived the disruption of his first Void Refinement tribulation by a tribulation-devouring thunder dragon 236.
• Perfected the Space Rule, explored alternate Azure Cloud Worlds, and merged with a Golden Core alternate Zhao Hao possessing the More Children, More Blessings System 260 261 263.
• Tested the destructive power of the First-Rank Immortal Artifact Purple Firmament Thunder Gourd, then escaped before Xiao Yan could investigate his location 265.
• Directed his clones to infiltrate Heavenly Cauldron Palace's Array Formation Hall and seized its Formation Core 270 271.
• Upgraded the Formation Core and four anchoring cauldrons to First-Rank Immortal Artifacts, raising the palace's formation to ninth-rank supreme-grade and making the palace his base 271.
• Used the palace formation to defeat the actual Blood Spirit Ancestor after the latter entered his territory, then recovered the Profound Heaven Mountain-Splitting Axe as enhancement material 274.
• Hunted alternate selves across hundreds of worlds, acquired more than one hundred systems as potential enhancement materials, and reached Perfected Void Refinement 276 280 281.
• Acquired ninth-grade Unity of Ten Thousand Paths after merging with an alternate self's cultivation foundation 276 277.
• Survived the fusion of hundreds of alternate selves' immortal-ascension obsessions during his Heart Demon Trial, then swallowed Integrated Body tribulation lightning and clouds, advancing to Integrated Body Early Stage 282 283.
• Used Heavenly Demon Blood to elevate Xiao Gu and Hu Yang to Perfected Void Refinement and prepare them for Integrated Body breakthroughs 285.
• Completed five Immortal-Grade elemental roots and supreme-grade elemental spirit physiques, then harmonized their energies into a flawless Dao foundation 292.
• Advanced his five principal powers—Time, Space, Causality, Heart Demon, and Blood—to First-Tier Laws 293.
• Fused with the remaining alternate selves he could locate, including the Body Integration alternate who had once observed him across dimensions 294.
• Established a Demon Realm foothold by converting Ya Jiu into a clone and sending Xiao Gu through the resulting route 296.
• Refined the Netherworld Blood Pool to advance from Integrated Body Early Stage (1/100) to 69/100 300.
• Sent thousands of clones to gather battlefield remains; their widespread scavenging caused numerous races to suspend fighting and seek the “Battlefield Vultures” instead 301.
• Manipulated Yaksha Race and Shadow Race hostilities, harvested their Fortune Power, and refined the captured Mahayana cultivator Ye You's essence 302 303 307.
• Reached Integrated Body Completion, accumulated Fortune Power, and advanced to Mahayana Early Stage 307 312.
• Converted the captive Shadow Race ancestor Ying Feng into a Mahayana Heavenly Demon avatar for exploration beyond the Spirit World 312 315.
• Enhanced a Spirit-Eye Tree to produce stable immortal qi and converted one-tenth of his dharma power into immortal power 316.
• Destroyed a Sea King Race cultivator's supreme-grade Heaven-reaching Spirit Treasure with a punch and caught a water-law attack from a Profound Heaven Spirit Treasure with his bare hand 318.
• Used immortal-power-supported Chaos Law to suppress Mahayana opponents through combined Time and Space effects 319.
• Received a Dragon Race Attendant token and obtained the Three-Life Stone, a manifestation of Reincarnation Law 321 322.
• Captured and converted seventeen Mahayana cultivators into loyal clones, acquiring nearly ten million Top-Grade Spirit Crystals and sending one million to replenish Ying Feng's Void Shuttle 328 330.
• Personally suppressed a captive Star Beast comparable to a True Immortal through the Profound Heaven Void-Nether Bowl, immortal power, and Chaos Law 333.
• Selected a lifeless planet in the Dead Star Domain as a Dao-integration site and found the Primordial Chaos Myriad Spirits Formation in the Golden Palace Jade Book 333.
• Demonstrated cross-realm System enhancement by consuming materials held by Zhao Hai in the Immortal Realm to improve a sword held by his main body in the Haotian World 340.
• Allowed the Haotian World to develop its own life rather than transplanting organisms from outside 350.
• Completed the Three Thousand Great Daos, transformed his incomplete Chaos Law into a First-Tier Law, and perfected the Haotian World's origin 351.
• Advanced Chaos Law to Second Tier (15/100) and reached True Immortal Middle Stage (15/100) through feedback from the expanding Haotian World 377.

Relationships

Jia Ren

Jia Ren, a deacon of the Extreme Yin Sect, was the first figure of authority Zhao Hao encountered after his spirit-testing. When the test revealed Zhao Hao's apparent fire-attribute Heavenly Spiritual Root, Jia Ren shifted from indifference to enthusiasm and took his vital essence blood under the pretext of creating a soul lamp, immediately arousing Zhao Hao's suspicion 2. After Zhao Hao reached Foundation Establishment, Jia Ren tracked him with that blood, intending to seize his presumed inheritance. Zhao Hao bluffed that True Person Corpse Heart supported him and carried powerful artifacts, making Jia Ren retreat 26.

Their conflict ended in Jia Ren's death. Once Zhao Hao exposed his Foundation Establishment cultivation, Jia Ren fled using Blood Escape Art. Zhao Hao tracked and killed him, destroyed identifying evidence, and used Jia Ren's Blood-Colored Compass to strengthen his own Tracking Compass 27 29.

True Person Corpse Heart

True Person Corpse Heart accepted Zhao Hao as his ninth direct disciple and had Shi Lei test him with a gauntlet of refined corpses 8. He later killed a disciple and absorbed his soul before ordering Zhao Hao into the war against the Heavenly Sword Sect 20. Zhao Hao recognized the danger in his master's assignments while maintaining outward obedience; he subsequently used Corpse Heart's reputation to bluff Jia Ren 21 26.

Corpse Heart placed him under Guo Fan's supervision for the frontline deployment 21. By the gathering at the Li Fire Secret Realm, Zhao Hao learned that the Extreme Yin Sect had fallen and Corpse Heart had escaped 62.

Lin Yaoyao

Lin Yaoyao, the Corpse Refining Lineage's eighth senior sister, initially treated Zhao Hao warmly and offered to protect him during the search for Wu De 8 15. During that search, Zhao Hao's upgraded Tracking Compass and caution helped them avoid Wu De's false trails and traps, temporarily earning her admiration and trust 16. She later attacked him from behind. Zhao Hao blocked her, injured her, and fled when a white-robed Heavenly Sword Sect cultivator returned; that cultivator beheaded her 18 20.

Lu Gui

Lu Gui, a seventh-level Qi Refining cultivator, lent Zhao Hao one thousand low-grade spirit stones after seeing his rapid advancement. Zhao Hao used them to strengthen his Fire Spiritual Root 5 7. When they met again in Ten Thousand Immortal City, Zhao Hao overheard Lu Gui cursing him for disappearing with the loan. He left Lu Gui pills and stones as repayment, then considered their karmic debt settled 54.

Xiao Wugui

Xiao Wugui attempted to assert authority over Zhao Hao in the Lecture Hall, citing his third-layer Qi Refining cultivation, dual spiritual roots, and Foundation Establishment Late Stage uncle in the Alchemy Hall. Zhao Hao instead demanded one thousand spirit stones as proof that following him would be worthwhile. Lu Gui's subsequent delivery of the same amount left Xiao Wugui publicly embarrassed and angry 5.

Old Ancestor Guo

Old Ancestor Guo summoned Zhao Hao after the Alchemy Grand Assembly, identified his altered physique and heavy karma, and offered a secret art with which to address the latter 50. He became Zhao Hao's reluctant alchemy teacher, but Zhao Hao learned his formulas so quickly that Guo grew exasperated 60.

Zhao Hao later consumed the Heavenly Demon Contract binding him to Guo as System material, ending that restriction 75. He nevertheless returned the promised Li Fire alchemy inheritance. Upon Zhao Hao's return as a Nascent Soul cultivator, Guo treated his former student with conspicuous deference 137 138.

Wu Tang

Wu Tang, a second-tier alchemist, hired Zhao Hao to escort him to the Alchemy Grand Assembly, sealing the arrangement with a Heavenly Demon Contract 32. When danger struck during their journey, Wu Tang fled, ending their purely transactional cooperation 36.

Fan Jin

Fan Jin initially commissioned alchemy from Zhao Hao under the latter's Qian Riyue identity. Their relationship became hostile when Fan Jin tried to pressure him into joining his faction and learned Zhao Hao had also reached Golden Core 97. Zhao Hao subsequently blocked Fan Jin's attack, captured him, extracted his memories and version of the Blood Spirit Scripture, and impersonated him to plunder Blood Refining Demonic Sect mines 98 99 100.

Zheng Yao

Zheng Yao, the Azure Sea Immortal Palace deacon guarding Linyuan City, first dealt with Zhao Hao while he impersonated Zhou Wuji 85 86. Zhao Hao later declined Zheng Yao's request for “Zhou Wuji” to join the Sea Beast Tide defenses because Elder Ji might see through the disguise. He instead joined under his Zhao Ritian identity 103.

Zheng Yao treated Zhao Ritian courteously but became suspicious of his methods and motives 106 107 108. Their provisional alliance collapsed when Zheng Yao tried to seize Zhao Hao's Ten Thousand Soul Banner after believing its owner defeated. Zhao Hao returned, denounced the betrayal, and left Linyuan City despite Zheng Yao's attempted compensation 112.

Fairy Bingyue and Zhang Quan

Zhao Hao's negotiations for service in Linyuan City's defenses brought him into conflict with the Zhengyuan Sect cultivators Fairy Bingyue and Zhang Quan. After defeating Zhang Quan, he objected when Zheng Yao offered Bingyue equivalent benefits without requiring her to win, threatening to leave until Zheng Yao offered additional payment 105.

He then sparred with Bingyue but conceded while complaining about her persistent ice flame. Bingyue suspected that he had not used his full strength, while Zhang Quan repeatedly dismissed him as a coward despite his contributions against the Beast Tide 106 108.

Elder Ji

Elder Ji is a Nascent Soul cultivator of Azure Sea Immortal Palace whom Zhao Hao initially avoided while impersonating Zhou Wuji 103. After forming his Nascent Soul, Zhao Hao met him openly under his true name. Elder Ji recognized his Golden Roc movement ability but accepted his account of being an independent cultivator and treated him with wary respect 131 137.

City Lord Wan

City Lord Wan negotiated with Zhao Hao after his return to Ten Thousand Immortal City as a Nascent Soul cultivator. Zhao Hao supplied the Li Fire alchemy inheritance, a pill formula, and intelligence; Wan supplied higher sections of the Li Fire Imperial Spirit Canon and a fourth-tier Essence Blood Pill formula 138.

Ye Wuchen

The original Ye Wuchen was a Golden Core Late Stage descendant of an artifact-refining family affiliated with the Heavenly Forge Sect. He resisted Zhao Hao's illusions with considerable willpower until Zhao Hao used Heavenly Demon Dance to destroy his Dao Heart and consciousness, then converted him into an avatar through Plant Demon in the Dao Heart 145.

The avatar retained Ye Wuchen's body, memories, identity, and family connections while acting as Zhao Hao's extension. Ninth-grade Camouflage concealed its demonic seed, and a spatial arrangement let it transport resources to the true body 145 147 171. Zhao Hao later arranged the apparent death of the Ye Wuchen identity to sever his causal ties with the Heavenly Forge Sect 242.

Hu Qingshan

Hu Qingshan, the Green Hill Fox Clan patriarch, was an Integrated Body cultivator with the Nine-Tailed Life Substitute ability. Zhao Hao and his Heavenly Wolf avatar ambushed him, forced a life substitution, and pursued him into Fallen Dragon Valley 231 232. Zhao Hao subdued him with Red Lotus Karmic Fire and seals, then invoked the actual Blood Spirit Holy Ancestor's reputation to break his resistance. He confiscated Hu Qingshan's treasures and retained him as a captive 232.

Alternate Zhao Haos

Zhao Hao's first visited alternate Azure Cloud World contained a native version of himself whose concern for his younger sister, Zhao Jing, created an obsession Zhao Hao resolved before absorbing his origin 233 234 260. In another world, he met an eighty-plus-year-old Golden Core Zhao Hao with five Five-Element Heavenly Spiritual Roots, a large family, and a More Children, More Blessings System. Zhao Hao merged with him, increasing his own Void Refinement progress to 40/100 and inheriting the system as potential enhancement material 260 261 263.

He subsequently encountered far stronger alternate selves. One possessed a Proficiency Panel System and exceptional mastery of cultivation arts; another had reached Body Integration and watched Zhao Hao across dimensions before retreating 276 280. Zhao Hao hunted and merged numerous alternate selves during his ascent and eventually confronted that Body Integration counterpart as the last Other Self he had located 280 294.

These mergers carried psychological risks as well as power. During his Integrated Body Heart Demon Trial, the accumulated wills threatened to erase his memories and identity as Zhao Hao from Earth. Their shared obsession with ascending to immortality eventually unified them. Rather than continuing to resist, Zhao Hao allowed that unified will to fuse with his Primordial Spirit and Heavenly Demon Body, remaining himself while incorporating a second “self” formed from hundreds of immortal-ascension obsessions 282.

Zhao Jing

Zhao Jing is the younger sister of Zhao Hao's first inhabited alternate self, not an established sibling of his original body. Two years younger than that counterpart, she possessed four spiritual roots and fourth-layer Qi Refining cultivation. Her brother had risked his life protecting her from Zhao Kuo and the Zhao Clan 234.

After entering the injured counterpart's body, Zhao Hao healed it, resolved to protect Zhao Jing, and spent time with her at Nethercloud Market. He told her that he would leave with a wandering expert, and they promised to reunite after cultivating 234.

Hu Yang and Xiao Gu

Hu Yang, Zhao Hao's Heavenly Fox clone, specializes in artifact work, stealth, and formation control. Xiao Gu, his Heavenly Wolf clone, supplies formidable combat power and has operated in both the Spirit World and Demon Realm 242 270 296. Their coordination was decisive in taking Heavenly Cauldron Palace: Xiao Gu broke the Array Formation Hall barrier with the Purple Firmament Thunder Gourd, while Hu Yang entered and seized the Formation Core 270 271.

Zhao Hao later supplied both with Heavenly Demon Blood, reconstructing their bodies and raising them to Perfected Void Refinement. Xiao Gu immediately began an Integrated Body breakthrough using Zhao Hao's shared experience 285. Xiao Gu also brought the Profound Heaven Blood Demon Blade and Netherworld Blood Pool from the Demon Realm to Zhao Hao; Zhao Hao returned the blade for the clone's own use 300.

Blood Spirit Ancestor

Zhao Hao used the Blood Spirit Holy Ancestor's name to terrify Hu Qingshan, but the actual Blood Spirit Ancestor is a separate powerful figure 232 263. When the Ancestor entered Heavenly Cauldron Palace, Hu Yang controlled its formation to bombard him repeatedly despite his extraordinary regeneration. Zhao Hao took extreme precautions against his survival and recovered his Profound Heaven Mountain-Splitting Axe 274.

Ying Feng

Ying Feng was a Shadow Race Mahayana ancestor captured by Zhao Hao. After reaching Mahayana himself, Zhao Hao used Plant Demon in the Dao Heart and Heavenly Demon Essence Blood to assimilate Ying Feng's origin and remake his damaged body as a Mahayana Heavenly Demon avatar 308 312. Zhao Hao intended to use the avatar to scout the Immortal Realm and investigate travel through the cosmic void 312 315.

The avatar subsequently traveled aboard the Void Shuttle. Zhao Hao sent it one million Top-Grade Spirit Crystals from the wealth surrendered by his newly converted Mahayana clones. Upon reaching the Dead Star Domain, Ying Feng encountered a colossal Star Beast capable of swallowing a withered planet and apparently comparable to a True Immortal 330.

Ao Run, Ao Chun, and the Golden Dragon King

Ao Run invited Zhao Hao to the Dinglong Auction in Ten Thousand Dragons Immortal City after Zhao Hao began converting his dharma power into immortal power 316. Ao Chun greeted him there and immediately probed his origins, reflecting the different treatment given to unaffiliated cultivators and experts backed by major races 317.

After Zhao Hao demonstrated overwhelming strength, Ao Chun adopted a much friendlier attitude. Zhao Hao recognized the change as opportunistic but had deliberately displayed his power to secure serious consideration at the gathering 320. He also clarified that his dragon-related abilities did not mean he had been born in the Dragon Realm or entered its clan registers 320.

The Golden Dragon King approached Zhao Hao as an exceptional expert and later invited him to join the Dragon Realm 320 321. Zhao Hao subsequently possessed a Dragon Race Attendant token and received the Three-Life Stone from the king. The token entitled him to select an unclaimed cave abode in Ten Thousand Dragons Immortal City 322.

Mahayana Clone Network

Zhao Hao expanded his high-level forces by converting seventeen captured Mahayana cultivators into loyal clones. He began with the injured, early-stage Sea King Race captive, then used the growing group to help suppress and convert the others 330.

The group surrendered nearly ten million Top-Grade Spirit Crystals 330. Their memories also exposed suspicious features of Buddhist cultivation: three Buddhist Order clones could no longer activate the Purification and Physical Body Laws that their original selves had used, prompting Zhao Hao to investigate the Buddha Realm's apparent relationship with those powers 333. His Mahayana avatars later powered the formation containing the upheaval caused by Chaos Law's completion 351.

Zhao Hai

Zhao Hai is Zhao Hao's clone operating in the Immortal Realm. Through their shared awareness, Zhao Hao's main body could perceive Magic Treasures placed before Zhao Hai and select them as System-enhancement materials despite the separation between realms 340.

Zhao Hai's later investigations helped reveal that other great worlds possessed their own sets of Supreme Laws. Meanwhile, advances in Zhao Hao's Chaos Law and the Haotian World's origin raised the main body's cultivation to True Immortal Middle Stage 377.

Fellow Transmigrator

A mysterious fellow transmigrator from Earth in the Mysterious Yellow Realm gave Zhao Hao a jade slip explaining the Earth Immortal and Heavenly Immortal paths as ways to escape their existing confinement 312. Zhao Hao was surprised when the Earth Immortal legacy, the Earth Deity Incense Scripture, appeared openly at the Dragon Race auction. He suspected that his fellow countryman might be using its circulation to distract others or draw out hidden parties, but did not identify him among the attendees 325.

Power Progression

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