Zhou Fan

Biodata

Power Progression

Cultivation

System and Ability Unlocks

Background / History

Zhou Fan transmigrates to Blue Star one year before his awakening ceremony. The world is overrun by monsters, and humans rely on awakened abilities to survive. Before awakening, he is Tianhai First High School’s top student and its only student with S-rank mental power 1 8 10.

At the ceremony, his delayed system finishes activating just before he chooses an ability. Although he initially favors S-rank Lightning, the system’s offer of Madara Uchiha’s template persuades him to choose C-rank Spirit Eyes instead. The decision turns the school’s celebrated prospect into a target of ridicule, but that same reaction supplies the Emotion Points needed to begin expanding his powers 1.

He subsequently becomes the Southern District’s top college entrance exam scorer and enters Xinghai University, where Xia Qingran becomes his instructor alongside Lin Qianqian. His growth attracts recruitment offers from several elite universities before he settles at Xinghai 70 71 77 95.

After serving as Evening Bell’s deputy leader, he establishes Dawn following Xia Qingran’s departure and Evening Bell’s disbandment. He develops the replacement organization into a bounty-hunting group with an off-campus base, uniforms, member rings, and individual codenames. As its masked leader, he becomes publicly known as Madara Uchiha 160 206 263 266 273 275 287 342.

His later achievements include winning the National Competition and escaping the Void Rift after being swept into a spatial storm. Upon returning, he informs the Superpower General Bureau about the Star Realm and his encounters with its inhabitants 336 393 396 397.

Appearance

• Handsome features: His appearance attracts classmates before awakening and later draws Xia Qingran’s attention online 1 2 18.
• Ordinary eyes: His pupils are black before activating the Sharingan 4.
• Three-Tomoe Sharingan: Activation produces scarlet irises bearing three black tomoe 8.
• Mangekyō Sharingan: The tomoe rotate and connect into a sharp, blade-like pattern 50.
• Dawn leader’s attire: Wears a Red Cloud Black Robe, carries the Uchiha Gunbai, and conceals his identity with a white three-tomoe mask 275.
• Disguises: Uses a female disguise during his confrontation with Chen Ting and the Thunderclap Society 234.
• Rinnegan: His eyes become purple with concentric rings when the Rinnegan awakens 493.

Personality

Zhou Fan is independent and pragmatic about progression. He chooses the apparently weaker awakening for its hidden potential, purchases immediate combat upgrades instead of hoarding points at the expense of survival, and selects Hashirama’s Wood Release for its balance of offense and defense 1 17 30.

He enjoys showing off and provoking reactions. Public challenges, taunts, and livestream spectacles are deliberate ways to earn Emotion Points, while expensive viewer gifts can persuade him to accept harder hunts. His showmanship nevertheless has limits: he ends a stream when four Unicorn Lions create a serious threat and avoids pushing too deeply into the Intermediate Mutant Beast Forest 4 7 20 29 32.

His bluntness frequently causes misunderstandings, especially with Lin Qianqian. He fails to recognize how deeply his remarks offend her and interprets her burnt pastries as possible evidence of hostility. However, he gives sincere training advice, restrains his attacks during practice, and comes to admire her persistence 28 42 45 46.

Growing stronger initially takes priority over romance. He rejects admirers’ advances as distractions and firmly denies that Lin’s visits imply a relationship. Despite his interest in fame and rewards, he also saves Fang Rou’s endangered team without requesting payment or revealing his name 10 29 49.

He remains irreverent toward authority but can bargain strategically. He makes competing university recruiters negotiate in a shared group chat, questions Xia Qingran’s qualifications before learning her strength, and frequently complains about the system’s prices while still selecting practical upgrades 70 71 77 202.

Difficult opponents increasingly bring out his enthusiasm for battle. He accepts his loss to Xia Qingran fairly, persists through repeated failures to master the halberd’s frenzy, and enjoys the heightened fighting spirit of Peerless without surrendering his judgment 91 145 192. This confidence does not entirely displace caution: he acknowledges that Kamui has counters and retreats from Raymond’s blood net before preparing a stronger counterattack 248 275.

His loyalty becomes a major motivation. He promises to oppose anyone who bullies Xia Qingran, founds Dawn partly to protect her, and refuses to abandon an injured Lin even after his spiritual energy is sealed. He regards Lin as a good friend whose importance is comparable to Zhao Qiu’s place as his closest buddy 183 303 342 405.

He can also be harsh toward enemies. His treatment of Ruan Qingqing leaves her psychologically traumatized by Tsukuyomi, while his fight with Wang Shi and Honglian ends with him preventing their escape and impaling them together 287 358. He remains socially oblivious in his own relationships, yet becomes an enthusiastic matchmaker for Zhao Qiu and Gu Yu 342 448. By Chapter 501, he notices an unusual attraction toward Lin and irritation when an intimate moment is interrupted, although he does not understand those feelings 501.

Abilities & Skills

Emotion Points System

The system converts other people’s emotional reactions toward Zhou Fan into currency for abilities, upgrades, character bonds, and lottery draws 1.

• Eligible reactions: Mockery, surprise, admiration, envy, resentment, anger, and gratitude all generate points 1 4 10 28 30.
• Reward strength: Point values depend on emotional intensity and the strength of the person reacting 10.
• Event restriction: Each person can generate points only once for the same event 1.
• Remote collection: Videos, reposts, and rumors continue producing points without his presence. Online reactions usually yield less than strong firsthand reactions 5 9 49.
• Cultivation support: Paid absorption enhancements compensate for the poor natural spiritual-energy affinity of his C-rank ability 11.
• Bond limitations: Unlocking Hashirama does not automatically grant his strongest techniques; Sage Mode, Wood Dragon, Wood Golem, and True Several Thousand Hands still require additional purchases 30.
• Limited-time shop: Offers discounted techniques and major upgrades, including Tsukuyomi, advanced Sage Mode, and the Rinnegan. Zhou checks it before purchasing the Rinnegan to avoid missing a discount 115 305 493.
• Achievement rewards: His expanding reputation unlocks further rewards and free lottery draws; widespread attention supplies nine draws before he acquires Flying Thunder God 202.
• Special emotions: Lin’s reactions to his gifts produce notifications described only as unique feelings caused by his actions; the system does not clearly explain their emotional meaning 339.
• Long-term purchases: The Eternal Mangekyō costs 100,000 points, while the Rinnegan’s normal price is one million. He eventually buys the latter for 800,000 through the limited-time shop 115 146 339 493.

Three-Tomoe Sharingan

Zhou Fan receives the Three-Tomoe Sharingan at 100% proficiency with Madara’s template 1.

• Reads opponents’ movements to support dodging, close combat, and sword strikes 4 20 25.
• Tracks coordinated beast attacks and identifies openings in Lin Qianqian’s paper defenses 15 47.
• Provides the perception needed for precise projectile interception 41.
• Can reveal unusual bodily states, allowing him to observe Lin’s Paper Transformation as separable spiritual energy 41.
• Enables rapid learning from written techniques, including a basic halberd manual and the A-rank Truth-Telling Technique 103 125.
• Detects spiritual energy through the Ruined Forest beasts’ dead-wood camouflage 144.
• Remains useful against fast elite fighters, allowing him to read Chen Ting’s Lightning Armor movements and counter Nangong Chen’s changing martial attacks 234 332.
• Has practical perceptual limits: thick mist hampers its observation during his later confrontation with She Wan, prompting him to rely on conventional ninjutsu 318.

Genjutsu

Sharingan genjutsu becomes Zhou Fan’s strongest weapon before he acquires the Mangekyō. It incapacitates both mutant beasts and human opponents, including enemies whose physical defenses are difficult to overcome 36 47.

• Basic Sharingan genjutsu: Immobilizes Liu Kun after eye contact and disables attacking beasts with a glance 4 36.
• Demonic Illusion: Shackling Stakes Technique: Immobilizes a target while leaving them conscious 21.
• Tailed-beast suppression: Traps Shukaku, releasing Zhou and Lin from the Beast King’s sand restraint 27.
• Counter to Paper Transformation: Defeats Lin despite her physical evasiveness and dedicated psychic-power training 47.
• Controlled release: Zhou dispels the illusion once Lin is caught, ending their spar without further attack 47.
• Tsukuyomi: Acquired from the limited-time shop; he later uses it to render Ruan Qingqing unconscious and psychologically traumatized 115 287.
• Genjutsu resistance and contests: Defeats Bai Yu, Bai Tianyue, and the cultivation-suppressed Bai Shan in the Illusory Forest. Bai Shan subsequently acknowledges that Zhou’s genjutsu greatly exceeds his own 110 114.
• High-tier targets: Immobilizes Sixth Tier, 1-star Tenshiki with a Sharingan glance during the attempt to rescue Lin, demonstrating ocular power superior to the opponent’s Moon Eye in that exchange 374 375.
• Qin Tie confrontation: Defeats the Fifth Tier, 5-star elder after countering his ice techniques and escalating his ocular assault 457 458.

Mangekyō Sharingan

The Mangekyō grants sharply improved vision and broad enhancements to Zhou Fan’s existing capabilities 50.

• Left eye: Increases ninjutsu, Taijutsu, and genjutsu power by 300% 50.
• Right eye: Increases spiritual-energy capacity and quality by 300% 50.
• Susanoo: Unlocked with the Mangekyō and subsequently demonstrated during the college entrance examination 50 63 65.
• Izanagi: Turns unfavorable events into illusions, but permanently blinds the eye used 50.
• Drawback: Repeated Mangekyō dōjutsu use causes progressive vision loss and eventual permanent blindness 50.
• Remedies: Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan and Hashirama’s cells are initially identified as possible counters. He later acquires Hashirama Cells, reducing side effects by 90%, and obtains the Eternal Mangekyō, allowing sustained high-level ocular techniques without fear of blindness 50 70 275.
• Amaterasu: Uses black flames to coat attacks and weapons. Wang Shi sacrifices his remaining right arm after losing his hand to prevent the flames from spreading farther 192 358.
• Blaze Release: Kagutsuchi: Shapes Amaterasu into blades to kill ambushing Third Tier beasts in the Crimson Forest 161.

Susanoo

Susanoo becomes one of Zhou Fan’s principal offensive and defensive abilities, expanding from a skeletal construct into armored and complete-body forms 63 91 96 303.

• Public debut: Defeats three S-rank and eleven A-rank candidates during the college entrance examination, leaving Lin shocked by his previously unseen power 65.
• Skeletal form: Manifests an azure skeleton and enormous fist against Dongfang Xuan’s Three Beast Fist 96.
• Third form / Crow Tengu Susanoo: Tengu Armor greatly strengthens offense and defense. He uses this form against Xia Qingran and later quickly defeats the Third Tier, 5-star Furious Black Bear 91 145.
• Compressed armor: Compresses Susanoo into wearable armor, retaining agility while strengthening his offense and defense 192.
• Fourth-stage clone constructs: Each of twenty Wood Clones can wield a fourth-stage Susanoo during the National Competition 328.
• Complete Body Susanoo: Kills the Fifth Tier Three-Headed Demon Wolf after Zhou escapes its sealing barrier, splitting the mountain behind it as well 303.
• Wood Release armor: Encases Wood Golems, Wood Dragons, and True Several Thousand Hands in Susanoo armor, combining their strength rather than deploying them only as separate constructs 248 375 436.
• Limitations against Xia: Her Absolute Domain: Zero cracks his armored Susanoo and allows her to reach him inside it during their early training duel 91.

Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan and Kamui

Zhou Fan acquires the Eternal Mangekyō before purchasing Kamui: Intangibility. Together with Hashirama Cells, it removes his fear of blindness from Kamui’s ocular strain 275.

• He explicitly recognizes that Kamui has counters and does not treat intangibility as an unconditional guarantee of victory 275.
• He combines Kamui travel with Flying Thunder God to reach the Xia family residence from Xinghai in under ten minutes 453.

Rinnegan

Zhou Fan purchases the Rinnegan for 800,000 Emotion Points, discounted from one million. It grants yin-yang abilities, enhances his Five Element spiritual energy by 200%, and unlocks every basic Six Paths and Outer Path ability 493.

• Perception: Its purple, ringed eyes give him a new awareness of life, death, and reincarnation 493.
• Comprehensive enhancement: Raises his cultivation from Fifth Tier, 1 star to Fifth Tier, 2 stars; combined with its abilities, his overall strength could reach Sixth Tier, 3-star level 493.
• Six Paths functions: Include attraction and repulsion, sealing, attack absorption, powerful summons, and memory and soul manipulation 493.
• Human Path — Mind Layer Technique: By placing a hand on the target’s head, forcibly reads their memories 493.
• Human Path — Soul Absorption Technique: Extracts the target’s soul; extraction speed depends on the target’s strength 493.
• Outer Path resurrection: Can revive a chosen target at the cost of spiritual energy and life force 493.
• Tengai Shinsei: Summons meteors with selectable size and number. Purchased separately in a bundle with the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path 493.
• Demonic Statue of the Outer Path: Can contain all Nine Tailed Beasts and ultimately revive the Ten-Tails. With six beasts already collected, Zhou needs three more to pursue becoming the Ten-Tails’ jinchūriki 493.

Fire Release

Fire Release is Zhou Fan’s first publicly demonstrated offensive power. His Great Fireball immediately overwhelms Liu Kun’s A-rank fire attack 3.

• Initial technique: Great Fireball Technique 1.
• Basic gift-pack techniques: Phoenix Flower Jutsu, Dragon Fire Technique, Fire Dragon Bullet, and Earthenware Technique 5.
• Advanced techniques: The six-technique pack includes Majestic Destroyer Flame and Great Fire Annihilation 10.
• Other demonstrated techniques: Ashen Blaze burns away Lin’s paper while concealing Zhou’s position; Ghost Lantern appears during their later spar 41 47.
• Elemental counterplay: Majestic Destroyer Flame forces several Water Type Espers to combine their defenses; Zhou then exploits the resulting steam as cover 21.
• Later techniques: Uses Dragon Flame Song Technique and Ash Pile Burning in later battles, including the confrontation with She Wan 318 411.
• High-tier utility: Evaporates Charles’s blood-rain attack, although Charles then converts the resulting mist into blood needles 486.

Water Release

The “Heartthrob” achievement grants five Water Release techniques 30.

• Techniques: Water Shockwave, Water Formation Wall, Water Dragon Bullet Technique, Great Exploding Water Colliding Wave, and Hidden Mist Technique 30.
• Defense: Water Formation Wall neutralizes part of Lin’s explosive-tag barrage, though the remaining blasts require an additional Wood Release defense 47.
• Public reveal: His livestream audience first sees him use both Fire and Water Release during the thirty-beast challenge 33.
• Advanced gift pack: Later lottery rewards expand his Water Release arsenal, notably granting Steam Imp 339.
• Water Mirror Technique: Replicates Qin Tie’s two ice dragons with equally powerful copies, causing all four to destroy one another 457 458.

Wood Release

Unlocking Hashirama Senju grants Zhou Fan four Wood Release techniques, expanding his offensive and defensive options 30.

• Cutting Sprigs: Drives a wooden spike into an enemy, then grows branching spikes through its body 36.
• Wood Locking Wall: Creates an arched timber shield that withstands the explosive force remaining after his Water Formation Wall is breached 47.
• Acquisition limit: Hashirama’s stronger abilities remain separately priced system purchases 30.
• Deep Forest Emergence: Creates a forest for large-scale combat. Xia Qingran freezes the entire attack with Absolute Zero during their gravity-space spar 70 90.
• Wood Clones: Creates thirty clones under Sage Mode for the Tower of Trials’ final floor, each equipped with Susanoo; later uses twenty Susanoo-wielding clones in the National Competition 223 328 333.
• Wood Golem and Wood Dragon: Combines both with Susanoo armor and tailed-beast energy before teleporting the entire construct into the Raymond battle 248.
• Tree Binding Technique: Restrains opponents during the Blood Society operation 411.
• Hashirama Cells enhancement: Doubles the power of his Wood Release 70.

Wind Release

The “A Thousand Charms” achievement grants Gale Palm, Wind Cutter, Vacuum Sphere, and Great Breakthrough 35.

• Uses Great Breakthrough alongside fire and water techniques while surrounded by mutant beasts 36.
• Practices the newly acquired techniques in actual hunts to improve proficiency 37.
• Sage Art: Wind Release: Rasenshuriken: Uses a massive Rasenshuriken against Tenshiki, who counters it with Moon Eye: Judgment 374.

Lightning Release, Earth Release, and Dust Release

By the Ye Chen duel, Zhou describes himself as proficient in all five basic elements: wind, fire, water, lightning, and earth 309.

• Chidori series: Acquires Chidori, Chidori Stream, Chidori Senbon, Chidori Sharp Spear, Chidori Blade, and Kirin through the lottery 255.
• Chidori in combat: Pierces Qin Tie’s ice wall with Chidori and uses Chidori Sharp Spear during the confrontation with Tenshiki 375 458.
• Earth Release: Uses Earth-Style Wall against She Wan and later receives an advanced Earth Release gift pack 318 339.
• Five-element combination: Combines elemental attacks with Wood Clones against Pan Haining, displaying broad elemental mastery before overwhelming him and Nangong Chen together 333.
• Dust Release: Detachment of the Primitive World Technique: Encloses targets within a translucent barrier and disintegrates them at the atomic level. It destroys Auge’s blood-dragon attacks and blood shield, then kills him; Zhou later uses a cube-shaped barrier to erase an Ice Spirit Snow Ape 417 461.

Taijutsu, Swordsmanship, and Basic Ninjutsu

Madara’s inherited combat experience gives Zhou Fan effective close-range skills from awakening 1.

• Basic ninjutsu: Body Flicker, Substitution, Clone, and Transformation Techniques 1.
• Mobility: Body Flicker lets him rapidly close distance or reposition before opponents can react 4 41 47.
• Energy conservation: Uses Taijutsu and blade attacks against weaker secret-realm beasts to preserve spiritual energy for the Beast King 25.
• Projectile control: Makes thrown darts collide in midair to redirect them into approaching explosive tags 41.
• Training restraint: Pulls potentially connecting blows while teaching Lin, whom he surpasses in close-range speed, reflexes, and strength 45.
• Halberd fundamentals: Learns Xia Qingran’s Basic Halberd Technique manual with a glance through the Sharingan and quickly handles the Star Shatter Halberd with fluid proficiency 103.
• Halberd techniques: Demonstrates Army Breaker, Formation Breaker, Chaotic Dance, Chain Combo, Chaotic Dance of Spring and Autumn, and Beacon Fire Chain, Red Flame Army Breaker 145 300 332 358.
• Swordsmanship against Ye Chen: Compensates for Ye Chen’s superior sword technique with Sharingan perception and Uchiha-style counters, then changes tactics when Metal Control turns his sword against him 309.
• Rasengan series: Acquired from the lottery; demonstrated variants include Rasengan, Big Ball Rasengan, and Ultra-Big Ball Rasengan 202 332 411.

Hashirama Cells and Sage Mode

Hashirama Cells improve Zhou’s body and Wood Release while mitigating the cost of his ocular techniques. Sage Mode supplies a further enhancement through natural energy 70 303.

Peerless State and Eight Gates Technique

Peerless, also invoked as “Unrivaled Under Heaven,” develops from the Star Shatter Halberd’s berserk fire energy. Zhou turns its dangerous frenzy into a consciously controlled combat state after repeated practice 144 145 309 332.

• Peerless enhancement: Raises Taijutsu speed and power while maintaining intense fighting spirit. At Third Tier, 1 star, it can temporarily raise his strength to Third Tier, 2 stars 145.
• Initial danger: Before mastering it, he continues to experience frenzy after killing the beasts and nearly turns on Esper Bureau agents; Xia freezes him to contain the risk 134.
• Mastery: Can freely activate the state and direct each attack without losing clarity 145.
• Eight Gates acquisition: Wins the technique from the lottery; his strengthened body can open up to the Eighth Gate, but the Gate of Death remains fatal and is reserved for an absolute last resort 255.
• Seventh Gate of Wonder: Regularly uses the Seventh Gate in serious fights, including against the Three-Headed Demon Wolf, Wang Shi, and Charles 303 358 486.
• Layered enhancement: Stacks Peerless, Sage Mode, Susanoo Armor, and the Seventh Gate to bridge large differences in cultivation 192 244 358.
• Sealing resistance: Peerless and the Eight Gates remain functional when the Three-Headed Demon Wolf seals his spiritual energy because they operate as Taijutsu 303.

Fire Style: Heavenly Prison

Heavenly Prison is a quick sealing technique obtained from the lottery 17.

• Marks a target and burns them if they gather spiritual energy afterward 17.
• Adds an energy-use restriction to Zhou’s options rather than relying solely on direct damage 17.

Advanced Sealing and Concealment

• Uchiha Flame Formation: Acquires the barrier technique together with Tsukuyomi for 20,000 points 115.
• Sage Art: Gate of the Great God: Purchases for 50,000 points; described as his strongest Wood Release sealing technique and requires Sage Mode 339.
• Reaper Death Seal: Wins through the lottery. Its cost is the user’s soul, which Zhou recognizes as a serious drawback rather than a freely usable trump card 339.
• Dustless Bewildering Cover: Obtains through a secret-technique gift pack; conceals him and makes him invisible. Uses it during the fight with Tenshiki 339 374.
• A-rank Truth-Telling Technique: Forces targets to tell the truth; he learns it almost instantly after winning its book from the underground arena 125.

Flying Thunder God Technique

Zhou obtains Flying Thunder God as a lottery grand prize. It provides teleportation to previously placed markers and can transport others or enormous prepared constructs 202 236 248.

• Reinforcement transport: Teleports out of the abandoned factory to collect Zhao Qiu and Duan Fei, then returns with them to confront the vampire spies 236.
• Prepared escape routes: Uses a marker outside Ashen City to escape Raymond’s blood net with his companions 248.
• Large-scale transportation: Teleports a Susanoo-armored Wood Golem and Wood Dragon back to the factory after preparing the counterattack outside the city 248.
• Flying Thunder God Slash: Teleports into an opponent’s blind spot or opening; combines it with Kamui Chidori against Tenshiki after placing a mark on him 374.
• Counterplay: Truly powerful opponents can detect and prepare for marked teleportation attacks, making repeated use of the same approach less reliable 374 375.

Summoning: Shukaku

Zhou Fan converts the subdued One-Tail into an obedient summon through a system contract 27.

• Uses Shukaku to hunt stronger beasts, including Second Tier, 1-star opponents 29.
• Shukaku can develop through experience and battle; his rank also rises alongside Zhou’s breakthrough to First Tier, 5 stars 27 31.
• Summoning duration is limited, influencing when Zhou ends their Intermediate Forest hunt 29.
• By the Mekalen battle, Shukaku has reached his fully matured form at Fourth Tier, 5 stars 192.
• Can lend his strength to Zhou’s large-scale Wood Release and Susanoo combinations 248.

Other Tailed Beasts and Combined Constructs

Zhou’s initial curiosity about the existence of other tailed beasts develops into an active collection goal 28 287 493.

• Susanoo-Clad Kurama: In Zhou’s demonstrated application, Complete Body Susanoo armors the thousand-armed Wood Release Buddha. He first realizes this combination during the Tenshiki battle and later strengthens it with six tailed beasts against Ilica 375 436.
• Sage Art: Wood Release: True Several Thousand Hands: A massive offensive technique requiring Sage Mode. Its later sea-battle manifestation stands five to six hundred meters tall before receiving Susanoo armor 339 436.
• Summon interdependence: Mekalen attempts to neutralize the tailed beasts by targeting Zhou as their summoner, reasoning that defeating him will make them disappear 192.

Soul Clone Combat

During the Void Rift’s Soul Clone division, Zhou’s abilities are distributed among ten clones rather than remaining available to every body. Attempts to use several of his usual techniques initially fail, while Fire Release still functions for the body he is controlling 383 385.

• Every Soul Clone retains his combat experience, allowing all ten to use Sage Mode despite each inheriting a different principal ability 385.
• Dividing five Fourth Tier, 5-star tailed beasts between the clones gives each a Fourth Tier, 3-star power level; Sage Mode raises each to Fourth Tier, 5-star strength 385.
• Coordinates the clones’ distinct abilities, beginning with the Water Release clone’s Hidden Mist Technique, to create a collective combat advantage despite the division of his normal arsenal 385.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Saber/long blade — Purchased before returning to the forest; used in beast hunts and sparring 17 25 29 47.
• Throwing knives and darts — Shuriken-like knives and kunai-like darts supplement his ninjutsu and precision attacks 17 41.
• Weapons pouch — Purchased with his combat equipment 17.
• Phone and livestream mount — Used for hunting broadcasts and the Douyang app’s level-recognition feature 15 17 32.
• Mission tablet — Supplied by Jiang Canghai with a secret-realm map, navigation, and live tracking 24.
• Essence Stone — Reward for the Beast King mission; increases maximum spiritual-energy capacity proportionally. Jiang recommends waiting until First Tier, 5 stars before use 28.
• Mutant Beast Crystal Cores — Harvested from kills and absorbed to raise cultivation 17 20 31 35.
• Star Shatter Halberd — Supplied by Xia Qingran. Its volcanic meteoric iron produces berserk fire energy that enhances combat but can drive the wielder out of control; Zhou ultimately masters that influence as Peerless 102 144 145.
• Basic Halberd Technique manual — Given by Xia; learned through the Sharingan 103.
• A-rank Truth-Telling Technique Superpower Book — Prize for his underground-arena ten-match winning streak 125.
• Divine Essence Fruit — Receives the rare cultivation-strengthening fruit from Xia after reaching Second Tier, 5 stars 92.
• Uchiha Gunbai — Lottery reward that absorbs attacks and reflects them at their original strength. Converts Chen Ting’s lightning attack into Wind Release and returns the Thunderclap Society’s elemental attacks 202 234.
• Azure Bathtub — Uses it at the villa after returning bloodied from the Crimson Forest; the supplied passage does not specify its full effects 161.
• Dawn uniform and mask — Red Cloud Black Robe and white three-tomoe mask distinguish his concealed leader persona 275.
• Dawn member rings — Organizational badges given to members, including Xia Qingran when she joins 342.
• Crystal Pillar — Takes the enormous pillar from the Chaos Secret Realm into the Kamui Dimension after contracting Three-Tails 286.
• Five Supreme-Grade Spirit Stones — National Competition championship prize 336.
• S-rank Destruction Meteors Superpower Book — Fire-type championship reward 336.
• Cold Ice Pearl — Provided by Qin Bai to convert the Ice Spirit Secret Grounds’ icy energy into ordinary spiritual energy suitable for Zhou’s cultivation 456 468.
• Demonic Statue of the Outer Path — Purchased with Tengai Shinsei for 200,000 points; intended to contain the Nine Tailed Beasts and revive the Ten-Tails 493.

Relationships

• Zhao Qiu / Little Ball — Best friend and an A-rank Gigantification user. Supports Zhou’s awakening choice, repeatedly offers to defend him, and celebrates his victories; later teases him about Lin 2 3 8 49. Zhou remembers his unconditional support and recruits him into Evening Bell, later working with him in Dawn. They were roommates in middle and high school; Zhao yields the opportunity to live with Zhou after Zhou begins cohabiting with Lin. Zhou later encourages Zhao’s developing relationship with Gu Yu 159 160 273 405 448.
• Lin Qianqian — S-rank Divine Paper Technique user, secret-realm teammate, rival, and sparring partner. Her Comparison System assigns Zhou as her opponent; he wins all ten initial simulations and later defeats her in a serious spar. Both deny the dating rumors 2 24 37 47 49. They subsequently share a villa, train under Xia, and become Dawn’s leader and deputy leader. Zhou rescues her from the Three-Headed Demon Wolf and spares no effort to prevent her abduction in the Void Rift 77 118 257 303 374 375. Her competitive resentment increasingly coexists with trust and unspoken affection; he regards her as a good friend but remains slow to recognize romantic signals 305 339 405 500 501.
• Wang Daochuan — Principal and mentor. Initially dismayed by Zhou’s C-rank choice, he later recognizes his combat talent and recommends him for the secret-realm mission 1 8 22.
• Jiang Canghai — Esper Bureau director who entrusts Zhou and Lin with the Beast King mission, provides support equipment, and rewards their success 23 24 28.
• Liu Kun — Jealous school rival and A-rank fire user. Loses two group confrontations against Zhou; his lingering resentment also supplies Emotion Points 3 4 10 21 22.
• Xia Qingran / “Call Me Your Majesty” / Queen Xia — Initially a Xinghai University sophomore and wealthy livestream supporter. Funds hunting challenges, exchanges WeChat details with Zhou, and invites him to her university; he does not immediately make a firm enrollment commitment 18 32 33 34. Becomes his instructor and Evening Bell’s leader, supplies the Star Shatter Halberd, and hands him his first defeat against someone his own age 77 91 102. Their bond deepens through training, shared outings, and his promise to protect her. She joins Dawn and relies on him for support concerning her Ice Spirit Body 183 307 308 342 455 460.
• Shukaku — Former Beast King turned contracted summon. Zhou preserves him as a growing combat ally instead of killing him 27 29 31. Later fights as a fully matured Fourth Tier, 5-star summon and lends his power to Zhou’s combined constructs 192 248.
• Fang Rou — Captain of a novice Esper team rescued by Zhou. She asks his name, but he leaves without identifying himself 29.
• Xi Yan — Xinghai University principal. Assigns Zhou and Lin to Xia Qingran, recognizes Zhou’s exceptional strength, presents his National Competition prizes, and is delighted by his safe return from the Void Rift 77 223 336 393.
• Luo Luodong — University teacher and mission leader who values Zhou as a major combat asset. Accompanies his team on the Lanya Island mission and later supports their refusal to back down after the Ilica confrontation 186 438.
• Duan Fei and Jiaoxin — Dawn members who initially join after being defeated and compelled by Zhou, but become accustomed to the organization and attached to its leader. Both consider leaving when they believe he has died, then welcome his return 263 397.
• Deidara — New Dawn member whom Zhou introduces to the organization’s bounty-work economy. Zhou asks Jiaoxin to help him begin taking jobs, while accommodating their differing preferences for profit and challenging work 405.
• Ye Chen — Ye Family prodigy who seeks Zhou out after watching his forbidden-zone livestream. Zhou defeats him in their subsequent duel; Ye calls him his brother, supports him in the National Competition, and resolves to challenge him again 161 308 309 326 328.
• Dongfang Yue and Dongfang Xuan — Eastern Family brothers and hostile rivals. Both lose earlier confrontations with Zhou; Yue remains resentful and seeks revenge after fully awakening his Pure Yang Flame 95 96 306 326.
• Bai Family — Zhou defeats Bai Yu, Bai Tianyue, and Bai Shan in the Illusory Forest, drawing Bai Xiao’s suspicion and an investigation into the source of his strength. Their resentment continues into the National Competition 114 326 328.
• She Wan — Underground-arena owner who considers Zhou a potential vessel and is later identified as responsible for human and mutant-beast experiments. Their relationship develops from guarded suspicion into direct hostility 125 160 318.
• Ruan Qingqing — Chaos Secret Realm opponent whom Zhou dismisses as too weak. Her attacks pass through his Kamui, and his Tsukuyomi leaves her unconscious and traumatized 287.
• Qin Lin — Xia’s mother. Initially questions whether Zhou’s exceptional strength conceals a dangerous background, but later treats him warmly and entrusts Xia’s safety to him 126 394 455.
• Xia Chuan — Xia Family head and Qingran’s father. Encounters Zhou when coming to retrieve his daughter, later praises his National Competition performance and trusts him to protect Qingran in the Ice Spirit Secret Grounds 206 328 460.
• Qin Bai and Qin Shan — Qingran’s maternal uncle and grandfather. Welcome Zhou to the Qin estate and approve his exceptional access to the inheritance grounds; Qin Bai provides the Cold Ice Pearl and gains further confidence in him after the Qin Tie duel 396 456 460.
• Qin Tie — Qin Family Second Elder who objects to Zhou entering the inheritance grounds as an outsider. Zhou accepts his challenge and defeats him despite the elder’s Fifth Tier, 5-star cultivation 456 457 458.
• Qin Nuannuan — Qingran’s cousin. Meets Zhou in the Void Rift, later reveals how distressed Qingran was during his disappearance, and is astonished by his performance against Qin Tie 359 396 457.
• Yuan An — Combat ally who intercepts Honglian’s ranged attacks while Zhou fights Wang Shi. Later witnesses the scale of Zhou’s strength against Ilica 358 438.
• Meixing Country vampires — Repeated enemies in espionage and military confrontations. Iris and Charles seek revenge for comrades Zhou has killed, while Charles also regards his growth as a strategic threat to Xia Country 236 486.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Awakening and School Combat Training

• Rejects the expected S-rank awakening for Madara’s template, then overturns his classmates’ judgment by defeating Liu Kun and three companions 1 3 4.
• Challenges four mutant beasts immediately after Lin defeats three, wins a perfect score, and earns 3,450 Emotion Points from the spectacle 7.
• Reveals the Sharingan to Wang Daochuan while concealing the system. He accepts Wang’s mistaken explanation that his fire powers developed from Spirit Eyes 8.
• Matches Lin’s absorption performance and earns exemption from further school training, allowing him to begin hunting outside Tianhai City 11 12 13.

Forest Hunts and Livestream Fame

• Builds his audience through multi-beast challenges, using Sharingan perception, fire attacks, and genjutsu to defeat a Fire Wolf pack 15 16.
• Ends a broadcast when four Unicorn Lions threaten him, defeats them off-stream, and later posts proof of survival 20.
• Defeats Liu Kun’s revenge group despite its Water Type counters, then incapacitates Liu with genjutsu 21 22.

Chaos Secret Realm Mission

• Joins Lin on a mission restricted to Espers below Second Tier and negotiates an Essence Stone reward 22 24.
• Initially fights independently of Lin, but combines attacks with her when neither can breach the Beast King’s sand defenses alone 24 25.
• Subdues the newly hatched Second Tier, 1-star Shukaku through genjutsu and contracts him as a summon. The mission authorities recognize the Beast King threat as resolved 27 28.

Exam Preparation and Lin’s Comparison

• Aims to become the Southern District’s top college entrance exam scorer 31.
• Exceeds a twenty-beast livestream challenge by killing thirty beasts, including ten First Tier, 5-star opponents. The broadcast brings over 10,000 Emotion Points and a direct connection with Xia Qingran 32 33.
• Wins all ten simulated battles in Lin’s first system comparison 37.
• Trains with Lin during her three-day visit routine and defeats her full-strength challenge with genjutsu 40 45 47.
• Becomes the subject of false dating rumors that generate envy and resentment points, helping him reach the balance needed to purchase the Mangekyō Sharingan 49 50.

College Entrance Examination and University Recruitment

• Begins the examination after testing his new Mangekyō abilities in the forest. Xia encourages him to qualify for Xinghai University, while Zhao continues teasing him about Lin 51.
• Overcomes five A-rank candidates from Changyue Middle School in the ring match 61.
• Uses Susanoo to defeat all fourteen Advancement Round opponents, including three S-rank Espers, tying Lin at 280 points while becoming the audience’s clear favorite 63 65.
• Reaches the Finals, where Wu Hao asks to concede rather than fight him, and later faces Lin in a spectacular elemental-and-paper battle 65 67.
• Becomes the Southern District’s top scorer and attracts offers from Xuan Kun, Hailan, and Heavenfire. Invites Xia into the recruiters’ group chat to compete for his enrollment 70 71 95.

Xinghai University and Xia Qingran’s Training

• Meets Xia in person after the opening ceremony and discovers that his youthful instructor is a Fourth Tier, 1-star prodigy 77.
• Fights Xia under intensified gravity, escalating through elemental techniques, forest creation, and Tengu-armored Susanoo. Concedes when her Absolute Domain: Zero reaches him inside the construct 90 91.
• Advances to Second Tier, 5 stars through special gravity training and receives a Divine Essence Fruit 91 92.
• Confronts Dongfang Xuan in a livestreamed duel after the Eastern Family brothers arrive at the university 94 95 96.
• Receives the Star Shatter Halberd and learns its basic techniques with the Sharingan 102 103.

Illusory Forest, Underground Arena, and Peerless Mastery

• Clears the Illusory Forest with Lin, defeats the Bai Family group, and carries the poisoned Lin out for treatment 114.
• Absorbs the hunt’s Crystal Cores to reach Third Tier, 1 star, then buys Tsukuyomi and Uchiha Flame Formation 115.
• Completes a ten-match underground-arena winning streak and learns the A-rank Truth-Telling Technique, while She Wan develops a hidden interest in using him as a vessel 125.
• Slaughters a large group of beasts with the Star Shatter Halberd but nearly loses control afterward, requiring Xia’s intervention 134.
• Deliberately enters the Ruined Forest to master the frenzy. After two days of repeated attempts, develops Peerless and defeats the Furious Black Bear with Crow Tengu Susanoo, clearing Forbidden Zone 33 alone 144 145.
• Returns at Third Tier, 2 stars with 85,000 Emotion Points and plans further arena visits to fund the Eternal Mangekyō 146.

Evening Bell, Lanya Island, and the Tower of Trials

• Recruits Zhao into Evening Bell as its deputy leader and begins another forbidden-zone livestream 160.
• Defeats more than two hundred Third Tier beasts in the Crimson Forest over two hours, attracting Ye Chen’s attention 161.
• Promises to knock down anyone who bullies Xia during a rooftop conversation about her purpose and family conflict 183.
• Joins the Lanya Island mission and battles Mekalen with two Fourth Tier, 5-star tailed beasts and layered Susanoo Armor, Peerless, and Sage Mode. His destructive power later becomes known for splitting the island 186 192 200.
• Unlocks Obito’s bond and wins the Rasengan series, Uchiha Gunbai, and Flying Thunder God through achievement draws 202.
• Becomes the first person to clear all thirty floors of Xinghai’s Tower of Trials, overcoming the final horde with thirty Susanoo-wielding Wood Clones, his real body, and two tailed beasts 223.

Dawn’s Formation and the Ashen City Conflict

• Establishes Dawn after Xia leaves and Evening Bell disbands, subsequently building a base outside the university and dividing the organization’s operations 206 263 266.
• Tests the Gunbai against Chen Ting and the Thunderclap Society, returning their attacks while disguised as a woman 234.
• Encounters Iris and four Fourth Tier vampire spies, then teleports away to bring Zhao and Duan Fei into the factory 236.
• Combines Susanoo Armor, Sage Mode, and Peerless to temporarily rise from Third Tier, 5 stars to Fourth Tier, 4-star combat strength against Raymond 244.
• Evacuates his companions from Raymond’s blood net, prepares a tailed-beast-powered Susanoo-armored Wood Golem and Wood Dragon, and teleports back for a counterattack that opens a ravine and threatens Ashen City with enormous collateral damage 248.
• Acquires the Chidori series and Eight Gates Technique 255.
• Spends a month completing bounty missions and building Dawn’s reputation, then purchases Kamui: Intangibility and adopts his masked leader persona 273 275.

Chaos Secret Realm Return and Madara’s Public Reputation

• Contracts Three-Tails and takes the lake’s giant Crystal Pillar into the Kamui Dimension 286.
• Defeats Ruan Qingqing with intangibility and Tsukuyomi before leaving with his group 287.
• Public reports spread the image of Dawn’s leader, Madara Uchiha, as mysterious and untouchable, earning him more than twenty thousand Emotion Points 287.
• Considers pursuing the Four-Tails and expects She Wan or his associates to approach him eventually 287.

National Competition

• Hunts through increasingly dangerous areas with Zhao, taking the rankings more seriously after Zhao frames victory as a matter of earning respect as Dawn’s leader 298 300 301.
• Rescues Lin from the Three-Headed Demon Wolf’s sealing barrier, uses unaffected Taijutsu and Sage Mode while carrying her, and kills the Fifth Tier Beast King with Complete Body Susanoo after escaping 303.
• Purchases offensive left-eye Kamui and advanced Sage Mode after the testing round 305.
• Finishes the first round with more than 12,000 points, far ahead of the runner-up’s total of just over 5,000 306.
• Reunites with Xia in the Imperial Capital, shares an outing with her, and is challenged by Ye Chen. Their duel begins with swords and elements before escalating to the halberd, Sage Mode, and Peerless 307 308 309 310.
• Defeats Ye Chen before the competition’s final round, gaining his enthusiastic support 326 328.
• Dominates the Hunting Match with Susanoo-wielding Wood Clones, defeating a group of twenty and later overwhelming Nangong Chen and Pan Haining together 328 332 333.
• Wins the National Competition and receives five Supreme-Grade Spirit Stones and the Destruction Meteors Superpower Book 336.
• Uses the resulting Emotion Points to acquire True Several Thousand Hands, Gate of the Great God, and further lottery rewards while saving toward the Rinnegan 339.

Void Rift and Return

• Invites Xia to Dawn before entering the Void Rift, increasing its membership from five to six 342.
• Defeats Wang Shi with stacked enhancements while Yuan An handles Honglian, then prevents their Moonstone escape with Kamui and impales them together. Survives their subsequent explosion unharmed 358 359.
• Battles Star Realm opponents to rescue Lin from abduction, combining Flying Thunder God, Kamui Chidori, genjutsu, and Susanoo-armored True Several Thousand Hands 372 374 375.
• Adapts to a division into ten Soul Clones by coordinating their separate abilities with tailed-beast cloaks and Sage Mode 383 385.
• Escapes the dark space of the Void Rift after a spatial storm and reports the existence of the Star Realm to the Superpower General Bureau 393.
• Reunites with Xia and accompanies her to the Qin estate for Ice Spirit Body treatment 394 396.
• Returns to Dawn’s base just as Zhao announces plans to succeed him as leader, ending his friends’ mistaken belief that he died 397.

Blood Society and Maritime Conflicts

• Supports Lin as she reassesses her misplaced resentment toward him, then arranges bounty work for Dawn’s new member Deidara before receiving another university mission 405.
• Helps fight and restrain masked Execution Department opponents during the Blood Society operation 411.
• Kills Auge with Dust Release and rejoins the Bureau teams after the captured Execution Department members are rescued 417.
• Defeats and kills Ilica after deploying Susanoo-armored True Several Thousand Hands empowered by six tailed beasts 436 438.
• Watches Lin intercept enemy warship fire and destroy the five-ship formation with her evolved paper bombs 438.
• Reviews Dawn’s performance afterward and tells its members that their individual strength still needs improvement 449.

Ice Spirit Secret Grounds

• Rushes to the Imperial Capital after learning something has happened to Xia, discovering that she has transformed into a childlike form 453.
• Promises Qin Lin that he will protect Xia inside the secret grounds 455.
• Receives a Cold Ice Pearl and accepts Qin Tie’s challenge over his exceptional permission to enter the Qin inheritance site 456 457.
• Defeats Qin Tie despite the elder’s Fifth Tier, 5-star cultivation, earning the Qin Family’s astonishment and greater trust 457 458 460.
• Accompanies Xia beyond the protected safe zone, shields her from severe weather, and uses Dust Release to eliminate an Ice Spirit Snow Ape 460 461.
• Cultivates to Fourth Tier, 5 stars, then breaks through to Fifth Tier on the final day while Xia completes her own refinement 467 468.

Super Meteorite Mission and Rinnegan Awakening

• Joins the mission to retrieve the Super Meteorite near the South City–Yue Country border 480.
• Fights Charles, a Sixth Tier, 1-star vampire commander seeking both revenge and a strategic blow against Xia Country. Uses intangibility, elemental techniques, Susanoo, and layered physical enhancements while Lin protects the other mission members 486.
• Escalates against Charles’s giant Vampire True Form with Complete Body Susanoo and True Several Thousand Hands 489.
• Purchases the discounted Rinnegan, advancing to Fifth Tier, 2 stars, then acquires the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path and Tengai Shinsei 493.
• Sets his sights on obtaining the remaining three tailed beasts and eventually becoming the Ten-Tails’ jinchūriki 493.
• Continues sharing an increasingly close domestic relationship with Lin; her sleepy request that he not leave and his confusion over their interrupted intimate mood suggest feelings he has not yet clearly identified 500 501.

Notable Quotes

“You look so ugly, clinging to life and still refusing to admit defeat!” 4

“You think you can dance, too?” 21

“Sure enough, fancy mechanics can't beat pure stats.” 50

“It's only a side effect for weaklings who can't control their power. The truly strong can master any power!” 102

“Yes, I'm cheating.” 257

“A hundred battles forged heroic spirit, one halberd shattered ten thousand troops!” 332

“Don't worry, Auntie. Even if you hadn't asked, I'd still help senior.” 455

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