Zhang Yang

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Zhang Yang (张阳)
Alias(es)	Father God; Supreme God; Supreme God Zhang 174 176 180
Species/Race	Human Race in his Star Lord profile; formerly human, later a sentient planet 63 114
Gender	Male 295
Origin	Northeastern China, Earth, in his previous life 261 262
Affiliation	Blue Star Lineage; Milky Way; Cosmic Elders Council 189 253 281
Occupation/Role	Blue Star’s Star Lord; leader of the Blue Star Lineage; ruler of the Milky Way; acting chairman of the Cosmic Elders Council; Lord of the Universe 114 252 279 281
Previous Occupation	Property salesman, later a wealthy motivational success lecturer 295
Previous-Life Age	Twenty-eight, according to his account to Gu Xing Lei 263
Status	Alive; master of a universe in the finale 292

Power Progression

Zhang Yang’s advancement follows planetary and Star Lord ranks rather than the cultivation realms practiced by his inhabitants.

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Second-Level Civilization — confirmed	47	Blue Star is already a second-level civilization. Zhang Yang deliberately delays further advancement to accumulate strength and resources.
Blue Star Level 4 — planetary upgrade	58	Expands Blue Star’s diameter to 15,000 kilometers and creates the Profound Yellow, Star, and Nine Nether continents. This is a planetary upgrade, not Fourth-Level Star Lord advancement.
Eighth Star Ring	81	Advances from the Tenth Ring after twenty-two consecutive victories over more than two centuries.
Fifth Star Ring — confirmed	108	Blue Star has reached the Fifth Ring; Zhang Yang prepares to advance again after raising its victory count to seventy-four.
First Star Ring	112	Reaches the First Ring and prepares for third-level civilization advancement with 32,556,531 Energy Points stored.
Third-Level Civilization — confirmed by this chapter	115	Has access to level-three technology and activates the Star Map and Star Anchor. The preceding preparations identify planetary movement and enslavement as third-level privileges 112.
Fourth-Level Star Lord	166	His will evolves; he gains planetary trading, the ability to divide his will into governing Heavenly Daos, and an annual Council salary of one divine source point.
Fifth-Level Star Lord	252	Gains authority over the entire Milky Way, including planetary relocation, possession of its inhabitants, and approval of Fourth-Level Star Lord advancement.
Lord of the Universe — confirmed	279	Privately uses universe-lord powers while publicly presenting himself as humanity’s leader. The supplied passages do not describe the transition itself.

Background / History

Life on Earth

The side story depicts Zhang Yang working alongside his friend Ying Zheng as a property salesman. Both possess systems: Ying Zheng earns half of Zhang Yang’s mission reward by assisting him, while Zhang Yang’s own reward is doubled. Zhang Yang knows about the arrangement and willingly lets his friend benefit 295.

They later become wealthy, famous success lecturers and continue completing missions to investigate their systems. An unseen observer selects Zhang Yang, and the announced final reward coincides with a meteor striking both men. Gu Xing Lei is also reported killed in the disaster. Zhang Yang subsequently becomes conscious in a newly formed small universe, apparently without a body or eyes 295.

In the main narrative, Zhang Yang remembers being human and knowing Earth’s history but initially cannot recall his former identity. He describes having transmigrated and become a planet three million years before his promise to rescue Quark 63 167.

Humanity’s Inheritance

Zhang Yang develops humanity on Blue Star, but later discovers that Pangu was its original creator. Pangu created the Human Race, simulated its civilization, and passed that inheritance to him 256.

Ancestor Yang Mei explains that Zhang Yang’s hazy memories contain cultivation systems previously deduced for humanity by the Demon Gods. Enlightenment Tea and visions of the universe’s birth, the Demon Gods’ descent, and Earth’s evolution help make that inheritance usable 180.

After meeting Gu Xing Lei, Zhang Yang suspects their nearly simultaneous attempts to create humanity produced a system anomaly: he became humanity’s inheritor, while Gu retained Earth memories but was prevented from creating the already-existing race. This remains Zhang Yang’s interpretation of their circumstances 262.

Appearance

• Virtual body: Can manifest on the Starry Sky Virtual Platform, though the body lacks physical sensation 3.
• Cloud manifestation: Appears through white clouds to avoid spending scarce Energy Points 26.
• Giant manifestations: Appears as a giant above humanity when granting Beast Tamer, and as a colossal White Giant during the confrontation with the Kuafu Lineage 9 177.
• Human form: Takes human form when visiting the Great Wall 201.
• Will projection: Can appear remotely through manifested will; such projections can be intangible 114 265.

Personality

Zhang Yang is cautious about advancement and prefers strength accumulated in reserve to a prestigious rank gained too early. He delays civilization upgrades, maintains hidden combat reserves, and considers escape routes before committing to danger. His hesitation over rescuing Quark comes from the possibility of placing Blue Star’s entire population at risk 47 63 104.

His caution coexists with gratitude and personal loyalty. He ultimately promises to save Quark despite his fears, later returns financial support many times over, and refuses to postpone the rescue merely to collect additional rewards. Friendship matters to him beyond material advantage 63 144 176.

He is an aggressive bargainer and practiced manipulator. His methods include exploiting resource-transfer loopholes, bluffing about his strength, concealing dangerous secret-realm conditions in fine print, and recording an intoxicated ruler’s promise. His willingness to appear shameless is explicit: tangible benefits matter more to him than dignity 58 64 126 171 265.

Zhang Yang believes hardship and competition are necessary for progress. This can make him dangerously interventionist: his engineered Velociraptor crisis forces two talented youths to advance but also kills the animal’s handler. Later, he increasingly emphasizes belonging, gratitude, and shared identity because contracts alone cannot secure lasting loyalty 65 238.

His growing status also isolates him. Quark’s increasing formality leaves an invisible distance between them, making his reunion with fellow Earth-born transmigrator Gu Xing Lei unusually joyful. Even as a universe’s master, he remains troubled by unanswered questions about his own origin 262 292.

Abilities & Skills

Divine Will and Perception

• Retrieves objects with his mind and surveys Blue Star through divine perception 3 81.
• Communicates through dreams and Divine Edicts, supplying rulers with instructions and technology 9 57 76.
• Extends battlefield perception through his inhabitants, although War Fog can restrict him to what deployed troops see 54.
• At Fifth Level, can descend anywhere in the Milky Way, possess its beings, and move planets directly between locations 252.
• Gains galaxy-wide awareness of events and authority to correct them through the Milky Way’s laws 253.

World Creation and Lawmaking

• Withdraws protective divine laws to expose northern humanity to dangerous beasts and encourage adaptation 7.
• Creates continents, cultivation spaces, and the Primordial Secret Realm 58.
• Establishes the Heavenly Dao as an emotionless avatar bound to the world’s laws, delegating routine judgments while retaining intervention rights 94.
• Constructs the Underworld’s institutions and a provisional system of judgment, punishment, and reincarnation 104 106.
• Establishes the Heavenly Court, reorganizes the Heavenly Realm into thirty-six heavens, and later creates the Confucian Realm 170 237.
• Regulates inter-realm access through star-imprint requirements and official Underworld credentials 150.

Genetic Engineering and Evolution

• Grants humanity the inherited Beast Tamer ability through an F-rank card 9.
• Uses dragon blood to activate evolutionary paths for Blue Star’s animals 67.
• Guides gene fusion with a Grade D Evolution Card to create lineages modeled on the Azure Dragon, White Tiger, Vermilion Bird, and Black Tortoise 69.
• Supports genetic-engineering research and distributes Gene Potions across Human Race planets 200 234.
• Designs a new human template after a thousand years of research: stronger bodies, generally greater intelligence, and lifespans of up to 500 years, at the cost of reduced fertility 253.
• The new template’s full benefits apply to humans born in the Milky Way; humans born elsewhere receive weaker versions 253.

Cultivation Deduction and Guidance

• Deduces humanity’s post-tribulation cultivation path, including Loose Immortal, True Immortal, and Mystic Immortal realms 150.
• Uses Enlightenment Tea, merit, cultivation resources, and advancement slots to accelerate exceptional individuals’ growth 170 172 236 237 238.
• Raises Ying Zheng’s talent from B to SSS and subjects him to countless reincarnations before appointing him Jade Emperor 174.
• Organizes galaxy-wide mentorship, with senior cultivators training newcomers and Demon Gods teaching the strongest experts 260.
• His deductions and direct enhancements remain energy-dependent; exhausting his divine source prevents him from exploring the highest realms in his initial deduction 150 283.

Contracts, Imprints, and Administration

• Brands subordinate planets with Blue Star’s aura and uses Enslavement Contracts to direct their Star Lords 126.
• Replaces permanent contracts with thirty-billion-year terms, reducible through military contributions 126 129.
• At Fourth Level, can trade planets and divide his will into Heavenly Daos to administer subordinate worlds 166.
• Designs territorial development laws, technology trees, rankings, and assessments to direct civilization growth 203 210 225 240.
• At Fifth Level, no longer needs the old Enslavement Contracts: Star Lords within the Milky Way fall under his galactic authority 252 253.

Strategy and Negotiation

• Coordinates planetary forces through rehearsed retreats and the Star War Eight Formation Diagram, placing Blue Star at the center 129.
• Uses surrender offers, intimidation, and deliberately ambiguous statements to exaggerate his apparent power 126.
• Engineers a confrontation with the Kuafu Lineage to obtain evidence that its forces attacked first 176 177 178.
• Personally erases defeated planets and their Star Lords’ surviving will 178.
• Combines diplomacy with overwhelming subordinate strength to secure Quark’s release and obtain valuable resources 179.

Scientific Direction

• Supplies human rulers with Machine Race technology and promotes cultivation and technology together 57 115.
• Gathers Human, Machine, and Spirit Machine researchers in the Hextech Realm 258.
• Proposes dimensional weapons, artificial black holes, and dark- and red-matter energy systems, while leaving detailed development to specialists 258 279.
• Supports research with access to cosmic phenomena and arrangements to obtain materials from other universes 279.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Immortal Stele of Enlightenment, Level 2 — Installed in a secluded Chang’an realm. Cultivators can attempt enlightenment once at each eligible major realm, potentially gaining a skill 48.
• Meteor Fall card — Bought from Quark for 400 points after bargaining; summons random meteors during Star Wars, with uncertain accuracy and impact 48.
• D-rank War Fog card — A vision-interference card eventually obtained from Quark for 12,000 points 62.
• Grade D Evolution Card — Enables guided animal-gene fusion used to engineer the Four Divine Beast lineages 69.
• Star Map and Star Anchor — Provide nearby-world information, cosmic-danger information, and Star Lord messages 115.
• Cosmic Wonder Fragments — Used to reinforce spatial barriers, improve Wonders, and support territorial development 126 150 218.
• Great Wall Cosmic Wonder — Initially protects humanity; later adapted to enclose life-bearing star systems 201.
• Blue Star Cosmic Wonder — Identified by Yang Mei as the transformed warship taken from Man Huang and Zhang Yang’s first Wonder earned through his own efforts 180.
• Heavenly Court, three-star Wonder — Converts cosmic energy into immortal energy 167.
• Spirit Mountain, three-star Wonder — Can manifest a Buddhist Pure Land 167.
• Ancestor Yang Mei’s token — Provides access to a secluded space and a means of contacting the ancestor 167 170 260.
• Enlightenment Tea and Enlightenment Stone — Tea assists major cultivation breakthroughs; the stone can nurture a living being or accelerate cultivation through contemplation 236.
• Advanced Star Migration Orders — Council-issued resources for deployment to the Insect Race mission 189 190.
• Pangu Token — Enables communication with the Universal Consciousness and carries Pangu’s Council authority; together with Pangu’s letter, establishes Zhang Yang as acting chairman 258 281.

Relationships

• Human Race — His chosen core race and principal foundation. He develops its cultivation, institutions, genetics, and galactic standing 203 253 258.
• Xuanyuan Huangdi — Early human ruler whom he advises on copper deposits, beast-mounted forces, and state-building 9.
• Chiyou — Receives early bronze knowledge through Zhang Yang’s dreams; later becomes unified humanity’s God of War and an Underworld ruler 7 9 220.
• Ying Zheng — Devoted follower, eventual Jade Emperor, and chief intermediary empowered to mobilize Blue Star’s resources. The side story also depicts an Earth-life Ying Zheng as Zhang Yang’s trusted friend 174 219 295.
• Quark — Merchant, mentor, investor, and brotherly friend. His early support enables Blue Star’s growth; Zhang Yang eventually frees him from Kuafu’s control 63 144 179.
• Ancestor Yang Mei — Mentor who clarifies humanity’s inheritance, supplies resources, and helps Zhang Yang rise to Fifth-Level Star Lord 180 236 267.
• Pangu — Humanity’s original creator and source of Zhang Yang’s inheritance. Entrusts him with a Council token and later coordinates cosmic-war plans with him 256 258 279.
• Laozi / Three Pure Ones — Cultivation leaders whom Zhang Yang elevates and assigns to protect humanity and support the Heavenly Court 170.
• Shakyamuni — Receives Zhang Yang’s reassurance, Dharma instruction, merit, and a Buddhist realm; pledges Buddhism to humanity’s protection 172.
• Kong Qiu — Entrusted with the Confucian Realm, education, lineage records, and later the Milky Way’s fighting spirit 237 261.
• Xiang Yu — Martial Path pioneer whose stalled cultivation Zhang Yang helps overcome with Enlightenment Tea and advancement opportunities 238.
• Little White — One of his engineered spirit beasts and a trusted Spirit Realm ally. Receives a secret assignment and later becomes Blue Star’s second Sage to break through 69 239 240.
• Xiao Zhi — Evolving World Tree supported with Enlightenment Tea and a sainthood slot; also serves as a source of guidance within the lineage 239 240.
• Hill — Trusted subordinate used in the Quark rescue operation, later promoted and entrusted with negotiations and training newly joined Star Lords 176 180 217 218.
• Jun Yu — Rescued trading partner. Zhang Yang arranges the Iceflame Race’s relocation and later assigns Jun Yu to work under Gu Xing Lei 218 261 265.
• Gu Xing Lei — Fellow Earth-born transmigrator and close friend who restores a sense of companionship; becomes a major economic leader in the Milky Way 262 265.
• Sun Wukong — Undercover operative whose origins and career Zhang Yang deliberately shapes after the Great Sage’s legend. Zhang Yang nevertheless gives him the choice to refuse a potentially fatal mission 269.
• Kuafu — Quark’s former overlord. A coerced confrontation becomes a negotiated settlement and restricted cultivation-template trade 178 179.
• Universal Consciousness — Grants galactic authority and a blessing to his chosen core race, while expending its own origin to prepare defenders against invading universes 253.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Unifying Early Humanity

• Engineers northern hardship to push humanity beyond a civilization combat-power bottleneck 7.
• Urges the Yan, Xuanyuan, and Chiyou tribes to reconcile, helping create the Xia Dynasty 9.
• Fulfills his promise of Beast Tamer in Year 10 of the Xia Era, enabling animal speech and inherited affinity with beasts 9.

Cultivation and Controlled Growth

• Observes humanity developing cultivation independently and postpones advancement so Blue Star can consolidate its advantage 47.
• Installs the Immortal Stele and rewards the dwarves’ wartime service by making them Blue Star’s First Affiliated Race 48.
• Creates the Primordial Secret Realm with tenfold time flow and suspended lifespan consumption, but dangerous undead and strict entry limits 58.
• Engineers the crisis that pushes Cheng Yuan and Lin Hao into Foundation Establishment 65.
• Develops the Four Divine Beast lineages; only 531 of more than 10,000 spirit beasts survive their devastating twenty-day tribulation 69.

Building the Three Realms

• Creates the Heavenly Dao to replace constant personal supervision with impartial administration 94.
• Uses Star War rewards exceeding 8.7 million Energy Points to begin restoring the Underworld 104.
• Establishes its workforce, ghost housing, courts, punishments, and provisional reincarnation process 106.
• Strengthens Blue Star’s spatial barriers and regulates movement between realms 150.
• Establishes the Heavenly Court and prepares Ying Zheng to rule it as Jade Emperor 170 174.

Expansion and Quark’s Rescue

• Builds a mobile faction through conquest, surrender contracts, and contribution-based reductions in service terms 126 129.
• Reaches 441 subordinate planets by his reunion with Quark, then grows to a thousand before settling on a development location 144 149.
• Advances to Fourth-Level Star Lord and stages a confrontation with the Kuafu Lineage 166 176.
• Secures Quark’s release, eleven vampire planets, and Cosmic Wonder Fragments; trades Kuafu a restricted True Immortal Great Dao Template 179.

Territorial Development and Sage Preparation

• Accepts the Council’s Insect Race mission, with life-bearing Star System No. 0786 promised as a permanent private domain 189.
• Activates Territory No. 0786 and redesigns its civilization-development system around humanity, structured competition, and the Heavenly Net 202 203 210.
• Strengthens Daoist, Buddhist, Confucian, Martial, and Spirit Realm leaders through resources and advancement slots 236 237 238 239.
• Waits for additional Sages before launching the planned “Havoc in Heaven” campaign 240.

Rule of the Milky Way

• Becomes Fifth-Level Star Lord and inherits responsibility for a fragmented, poorly coordinated galaxy 252 253.
• Improves humanity’s genetic template and reorganizes cultivation through senior-to-junior mentorship 253 260.
• Uses Confucian education to cultivate fighting spirit alongside strength 261.
• Reunites with Gu Xing Lei and relocates his commerce lineage, creating an economic foundation for wider conflict 262 265.

Cosmic War and Concealed Identity

• Coordinates with Pangu while concealing his identity as Lord of the Universe 279.
• Supports research into dimensional weapons, Droplets, artificial black holes, and new energy sources 279.
• Uses Pangu’s token and letter to lead the Cosmic Elders Council as acting chairman, while major decisions still require the Demon Gods’ agreement 281.
• Orders fifteen Void Dao cultivators to surround and kill three Demon Emperors, prioritizing speed over individual duels 283.
• In the finale, remains unable to explain his own birth or origin despite mastering a universe, and looks toward the Great Dao Realm for answers 292.

Notable Quotes

“I said, I'll save you. It's only a level-four civilization, isn't it? If they push me too far, I'll advance straight to level five and kick their ass!” 63

“Oh, I've never listened to them since I was little.” 63

“Call me Old Zhang, or call me your fellow countryman. Just don't call me Lord Star Lord. Are you trying to embarrass me?” 263

“You making money doesn't hurt me, and I'm happy to bring you along.” 295

Trivia

• “Zhang Yang the Vampire” describes his comic exploitation of Quark’s resources; his recorded race remains Human Race 63 64 114.
• His apparently effortless cultivation deductions draw on inherited knowledge rather than wholly original discovery 180.
• The Great Wall is called his first Cosmic Wonder in one passage, while Yang Mei identifies the present Blue Star as the first Wonder he earned through his own efforts 180 201.
• His memories of mythology influence concrete creations, including the Four Divine Beasts, Heavenly Court, and Sun Wukong’s engineered life 69 167 269.