Wu Zhong

Biodata

Feature	Details
Name	Wu Zhong (吴终)
Alias(es)	Wu Dong; “Ghost-God Master” (a false reputation spread through the mercenary circle) 31 32
Species/Race	Human; identified as a humanoid calamity whose existence carries an absolute characteristic 14 22
Gender	Male
Affiliation	Formerly under Unit 985 protection; later travels with Xia Heng, Luo Yi, and Yang Chunsha 10 21 46
Occupation/Role	Former auto-repair worker; prospective freelance mercenary and calamity bearer 2 21
Status	Alive; pursued by the Day-and-Night Patrol Gods and factions misled by the Ghost-God Master rumor 32 50
First Appearance	Chapter 1, “A Single Thought Opens Heaven’s Gate”

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Absolute Gate awakens	2–4	Wu Zhong discovers that doors he uses may become inaccessible to everyone else; the effect is later identified as an absolute characteristic. 2 4 14
Fortress of the Mind recognized	28	His Absolute Gate includes a mental “Door of the Mind,” granting exceptional resistance to mental distortion. 28
Madblood Clan member	35	Receives Luo Yi’s First Embrace and insomnia, gaining roughly twice an ordinary person’s physical capabilities. 35
First-generation Madblood / Progenitor	40	Gambling on Progenitor Transformation, he absorbs and reabsorbs Arborvitae’s insomnia; his injuries rapidly recover and his physical attributes increase. 40
Sixfold physique	41	Repeatedly transfers and reclaims Madblood mental illnesses through Yang Chunsha, raising his physique to six times normal and cellular activity to twelve times normal. 41
Absolute Life Gate formed	42–43	Creates a Life Gate within his body that captures Feipeng’s inner force, allowing him to draw on it through physical exertion. 42 43
Eightfold physique	43	Absorbing compatible mental illnesses from an elderly woman restores his body and raises his physique to eight times normal. 43
Twentyfold physique	44	Farms repeated Madblood effects through Yang Chunsha until his strength, endurance, senses, and recovery reach twenty times ordinary human levels. 44

Background

Wu Zhong grew up with little family support. His father died when he was young, his mother later died of depression, and he was raised by his maternal grandfather. After his grandfather suffered a cerebral hemorrhage, Wu Zhong worked exhausting hours at an auto repair shop to cover hospital care, rent, and daily expenses. 2

His life changed after an elevator door and a customer’s car door would function for him but not for others. He eventually realized that he had acquired the ability to “weld” doors shut, though he initially considered it useless because it offered no obvious combat or financial benefit. 2 3 4

Desperate to pay for his grandfather’s urgent surgery, Wu Zhong exploited a payment-app vulnerability with help from his online friend Against the Light. He used his Door ability to keep the virtual backdoor from being fixed, received one million yuan, quit his job, paid his debts, and secured long-term care for his grandfather. 5 6 7 8

A hospital haunting revealed that ghosts were real and that supernatural entities were hunting him. Unit 985 took him into protective custody, but after witnessing ghosts and gods demand him as a sacrifice, Wu Zhong distrusted the organization and escaped with Endless Summer. 9 10 12 13 14

Appearance

Wu Zhong is described as having medium-length hair before entering the Calamity Realm. 2 He later relies on Skin-Changing Outfit Sets to alter his outward identity while evading pursuit. 29

• A men’s Skin-Changing Outfit Set gave him fairer skin, sharper facial features, and a mixed-race appearance. 29
• He has also carried a women’s outfit set for emergency disguise purposes. 29
• After becoming a Madblood progenitor, his enhanced physique grants him unusually sharp senses and extreme physical power. 35 44

Personality

Wu Zhong begins as an introverted, financially strained mechanic with a volatile temper when his home province or family is insulted. Despite this, he restrains himself when he recognizes that a fight could cost him the ability to care for his grandfather. 3 20

He is deeply protective of the people he considers his own. His initial desperation centers on funding his grandfather’s care, while later actions—protecting an elderly woman, saving Yang Chunsha, and refusing to abandon injured companions—show that he remains compassionate even after entering the Calamity Realm. 2 5 43 44

Repeated betrayals and threats make Wu Zhong cautious and secretive. He learns from Xia Heng that revealing every ability is dangerous, conceals that he can undo some Door effects, and increasingly uses deception, improvisation, and an opponent’s misconceptions to survive. 13 22 37 40

Abilities & Skills

Absolute Gate

Wu Zhong’s defining absolute characteristic treats things he uses as “Doors,” allowing him to seal them from others. Endless Summer identifies this ability as the reason the ghosts and gods of Mount Lu want him dead: Wu Zhong may eventually be capable of closing their Heavenly Gate. 14

• Physical doors he uses can become impossible for others to open or close. 4 22
• He can apply the effect to virtual “doors,” including game interfaces and network ports. 5 7
• He sealed Endless Summer’s cell door after borrowing an Air Shield from Zhang Qinglang. 13
• He can secretly undo the Door-Welding effect, though he conceals this from others. 22
• The ability is substantially passive; using an ordinary door risks turning it into an anomalous derivative and exposing his identity. 22
• Objects or barriers created through his Gate can be destroyed by his own applied force. 45

Fortress of the Mind

The “Door of the Mind” is an aspect of Wu Zhong’s Absolute Gate. It gives him a nearly cost-free Fortress of the Mind, making him exceptionally resistant to mental interference. 28

• Remains clear-headed under Tangle’s mental distortion while others are affected. 28
• Sees through Matsutake’s third-eye illusion and can accurately target enemies despite it. 37
• Allows him to endure Madblood Clan mental illnesses without the usual cognitive impairment. 30

Madblood Progenitor Physique

After Luo Yi’s First Embrace, Wu Zhong becomes a first-generation Madblood Clan member. Madblood power converts absorbed mental illnesses into enhanced physical ability; Wu Zhong’s Fortress of the Mind makes this exchange unusually favorable. 35 40

• Can transfer Madblood traits and mental illnesses to another person through an Embrace. 41
• Can reclaim transferred illnesses through Attribute Deprivation, increasing his own physical attributes. 41 44
• Possesses extreme strength, speed, recovery, endurance, sensory acuity, immune function, and cellular activity. 35 44
• At twentyfold physique, his punches exceed three tons and his kicks approach five tons of force. 44
• Can run at roughly twenty-one meters per second and make controlled jumps up to approximately seventeen meters. 44
• His biology remains fundamentally human despite the enhancement; excessive acceleration can briefly render him unconscious. 44

Absolute Life Gate and Inner Force

During his battle with Feipeng, Wu Zhong manifests an Absolute Life Gate within his body and captures the opponent’s inner force. 42 43

• Absorbs Feipeng’s internal energy when his Life Gate is formed. 42
• Can draw on the captured force through raw physical exertion despite lacking formal internal-arts training. 43
• Retains the inner force even after Feipeng deactivates the Multiversal Moment that originally sustained it. 44

Calamity Relic Insight

Wu Zhong can decipher the properties of Calamity Relics in high-pressure situations, allowing him to identify practical uses and counters during crises. 28

Improvised Combat

Wu Zhong is not a formally trained fighter, but he adapts quickly under pressure and uses available tools, terrain, and anomalous effects to offset stronger opponents. 18 37 40

• Uses a damaged pipe wall as a barrier against a pursuing zombie horde. 18
• Discovers that a second detonation of a Laughing Grenade cures its forced-laughter effect. 18
• Evades three tracking dogs by barking like a dog. 19
• Defeats Feipeng by exploiting the mercenary’s assumption that Wu Zhong must be captured alive. 37
• Kills a Vegetable Man with a cucumber after learning that vegetables are its weakness. 44

Equipment

• Biological armor right arm — Lent by Xia Heng; forms a purple armguard with two tons of grip strength, high material durability, recoil dispersion, and regenerative properties. 28 42
• Purple Molten Bombs — Fired through the biological armor; concentrated corrosive and melting attacks with energy comparable to ten kilograms of TNT. 28 37
• Laughing Grenade — An anomalous grenade that inflicts forced laughter; a second blast removes the effect. 18 38
• Skin-Changing Outfit Sets — High-value disguises that alter outward appearance and come with matching identification documents; damage to the clothing ends the disguise. 29
• Vegetable Man seeds — Recovered after destroying a Vegetable Man with a cucumber. 44

Relationships

• Maternal grandfather — Wu Zhong’s last close family member and the central reason for his early financial desperation. His death leads to the funeral shown later in the story. 2 8 21
• Xia Heng / Endless Summer — Rescues Wu Zhong from a truck accident, helps him escape Unit 985, protects his identity, and invests heavily in his growth. Wu Zhong addresses him as “Brother Xia.” 6 21 33 47
• Luo Yi / Shadow Lord — Gives Wu Zhong the First Embrace that makes him a Madblood Clan member. Though initially wary, Wu Zhong develops mutual respect with him. 35 45
• Yang Chunsha — A traveling companion who supports Wu Zhong in battle. She becomes part of his Madblood Clan branch, tying her fate to his. 41 46
• Zhang Qinglang — A Celestial Master’s Mansion Daoist and Unit 985-associated mercenary. Wu Zhong manipulates him into bringing him to Endless Summer’s cell before sealing him out. 12 13
• Lu Guangqi — Unit 985 leader who offers Wu Zhong protection and cooperation terms; Wu Zhong later fears that Lu may sacrifice him to settle with the ghosts and gods. 10 12 13
• Against the Light — Online friend who helps create the program used to exploit the payment-app bug. 6 7
• Purple Dust Wanderer / Zi Chen — Online acquaintance who lends Wu Zhong money when he is injured and stranded after escaping the base. 20

Story Role / Major Arcs

Door-Welding Awakening

Wu Zhong’s elevator and car-door incidents reveal his Door-Welding power. At first, he dismisses it as impractical, but his need to fund his grandfather’s surgery leads him to test its virtual applications. 2 4 5

Hospital Haunting and Unit 985 Custody

After possessed hospital patients attack him, Wu Zhong encounters a mist-like ghost and learns that ghosts and gods have targeted him. He accepts Unit 985 protection, then loses trust after seeing the gods demand him as a sacrifice. 8 9 10 12 13

Escape with Endless Summer

Wu Zhong seals himself inside Endless Summer’s cell, learns that he is a humanoid calamity, and escapes Unit 985 with Endless Summer’s help. He survives zombies, military pursuit, and anomalous tracking dogs before reuniting with Endless Summer at a funeral hall. 14 15 18 19 20

Madblood Transformation

Seeking the strength to survive the Ghost Gods’ pursuit, Wu Zhong accepts Luo Yi’s First Embrace. His mental fortress makes him uniquely suited to the Madblood Clan’s power system, allowing him to turn mental illnesses into increasingly extreme physical enhancement. 30 35 40 44

Liongrass Mercenary Group Conflict

The Liongrass Mercenary Group attacks Wu Zhong’s party after the Ghost-God Master rumor spreads. Wu Zhong withstands illusions, loses an arm to Feipeng, kills Arborvitae, captures inner force through his Life Gate, defeats Feipeng, and reaches a twentyfold physique. 31 37 40 42 44

Flight Toward Supreme Ridge

After the battle, Wu Zhong travels west with Xia Heng, Luo Yi, and Yang Chunsha. He learns more about Calamity Realm factions, his growing bounty, and the Blue-White Society while continuing to seek a way to resolve the Mount Lu Heavenly Gate crisis. 46 47 48 49

Notable Quotes

“You think you're the only one who knows swordsmanship?” 37

“It's very rude to ask about someone else's abilities to their face.” 44

Trivia

• Wu Zhong lives on the twentieth floor of Harmony Gardens, a low-rent residential complex in Xunyang City, Jiangxi Province. 2
• His initial Door-Welding ability makes routine actions inconvenient; he avoids opening doors himself because doing so could permanently affect them. 22
• He is poor at mahjong and loses repeatedly while waiting for Endless Summer at the funeral hall. 20
• He once escaped anomalous tracking dogs by barking at them until they stopped pursuing him. 19