Ying Zheng

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Ying Zheng (嬴政)
Alias(es)	King of Qin; First Emperor; Emperor of the Great Qin Immortal Dynasty; Jade Emperor; Heavenly Emperor 23 25 76 174
Species/Race	Human 22 174
Gender	Male 22
Affiliation	Ying family; Great Qin; Heavenly Court; Blue Star Lineage 22 23 174 219
Occupation/Role	Founder and former ruler of Great Qin; ruler of the Heavenly Court; Zhang Yang’s intermediary in administering the Blue Star Lineage 23 152 174 219
Status	Alive; continues managing the Human Race through the Heavenly Court in the finale 292
Origin	Ji Province, Wei Kingdom; descended from Xuanyuan Huangdi through his father 22
First Appearance	Chapter 22, “Ying Zheng” 22

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Divine rejuvenation	26	At age eighty-three, receives fifty additional years of life from Father God; his body returns to its thirty-three-year-old condition.
Spiritual-energy enhancement	44	Spiritual energy cures his chronic ailments and strengthens his physique. He estimates that he could defeat fifty versions of his former self.
Water of Life rejuvenation	44	A drop of elven Water of Life restores the robust condition he had upon graduating from military academy.
Fourth-grade Qi Refining	47	Reached after five years of cultivation under Zhang Han’s guidance, despite an effectively unlimited supply of Spirit Stones.
Fortune-path benefits	76 77	The empowered Jade Seal grants fortune bonuses and cultivation support. Its promise of enduring life does not remove his need to cultivate.
Fourth-rank Nascent Soul	115	A test dose of cosmic energy rapidly raises his cultivation while propelling him through the sky.
Fifth-rank Nascent Soul and further advancement	115	Continues absorbing the energy and attempts a direct breakthrough into Deity Transformation.
Deity Transformation	115	Survives seventy-two exceptionally powerful red tribulation bolts. Energy and merit repeatedly repair his body; the Five Primordial Human Ancestors block the final strike with their merit.
Foundation Establishment — accelerated retraining	174	During his preparation for the Jade Emperor’s throne, advances from Qi Refining under Zhang Yang’s instruction, assisted by Enlightenment Tea and the Nine Heavens Divine Thunder Art.
Golden Core — accelerated retraining	174	Reached during the same guided cultivation sequence.
Nascent Soul — accelerated retraining	174	Reached during the same guided cultivation sequence.
Spirit Transformation — accelerated retraining	174	Reached during the same guided cultivation sequence.
Body Integration	174	Advances beyond his earlier documented mortal cultivation under Zhang Yang’s guidance.
Great Vehicle	174	Reached during his preparation to govern the Heavenly Court.
Tribulation Transcendence	174	Zhang Yang unseals his memories at this stage and begins restoring his reincarnation experiences.
True Immortal	174	His ability to process the accumulated memories increases enormously.
Mystic Immortal	174	Advances while drawing cultivation insights from his many lifetimes.
Golden Immortal	174	Reached as the restored reincarnation experiences continue enriching his understanding.
Quasi-Sage	174	Assimilates two hundred million years of experiences and becomes qualified to assume the Jade Emperor’s throne.
Early-stage Quasi-Sage — subsequent assessment	182	Recognizes that administrative duties may leave his cultivation behind that of the religious leaders.

• He later enters seclusion to prepare for Sagehood; Chapter 239 does not confirm the breakthrough 239.
• He subsequently participates in Saint-Level special training, but the supplied passages do not identify his exact rank at that point 280.

Background / History

Ying Zheng grew up in Wei as the elder son of Ying Yiren and Lü Ji. His father was the King of Wei’s ninth son, but accepted expulsion from the royal household rather than abandon his marriage to a merchant’s daughter. Although Ying Yiren remained in the clan genealogy, his children suffered ridicule over their parents’ marriage 22.

As a child, Ying Zheng explored rivers and hills with his younger brother, Ying Si. Their lives changed when a royal cousin insulted them and their mother, then attacked Ying Si. Ying Zheng shielded his brother with his own body and was injured badly enough to remain bedridden for several days. The authorities nevertheless accused the brothers of provoking royalty and imprisoned them 22.

Afterward, Ying Zheng entered the Xia Kingdom’s strictest military academy. He spent twelve years there and graduated as its most outstanding student, forming lifelong friendships with Wang Jian, Bai Qi, and Shang Yang. On returning home in Xia Era 115, he supported Lü Wei’s proposal to purchase an isolated former Han territory and declared that the Ying family should claim the Human King’s throne 22 23.

Appearance

• Height: Described at his introduction as eight feet and six inches tall; he stands a full head taller than his father 22 23.
• Features: Prominent nose, large eyes, and rugged masculine handsomeness 22.
• Bearing: Holds his head high and chest forward, speaks with a resonant voice, and has a fierce, unyielding presence likened to an eagle, wolf, and tiger 22.
• Imperial attire: Wears elaborate ceremonial clothing for the Mount Tai rites and dragon robes when personally joining Blue Star’s defense 26 137.
• Mortal disguise: Appears as an elegant young gentleman while investigating Li Bai 183.

Personality

Ying Zheng combines bold ambition with patient preparation. He openly claims his family’s right to pursue supreme rule, but delays announcing Qin’s founding until its institutions and army are ready. His greatest governing strength is recognizing capable people and trusting them with responsibility 22 23 24.

His severity contrasts with his affection for family and old friends. He protects Ying Si in childhood, grieves helplessly at his deathbed, and asks departing generals to return alive. Centuries of rule make him increasingly lonely as his companions withdraw into cultivation 22 77 98 122.

Immortality is a persistent desire, but he repeatedly struggles to reconcile it with public duty. He fears that retirement could undo humanity’s unity, while prolonged divine silence makes him worry that Father God has abandoned him. Zhang Yang’s reassurance restores his confidence 75 76.

His preparation for the Heavenly Court changes his perspective: countless reincarnations teach him the suffering of humans, animals, plants, and ghosts. As Heavenly Emperor, impartial administration increasingly outweighs personal attachment, although he continues finding ways to help former companions 174 239.

Abilities & Skills

Leadership and Administration

• Recruits talent and assigns complementary responsibilities: military command, law, commerce, logistics, and research 23 24.
• Supports a centralized state with separate military, civil, and police authorities, alongside courts and procuratorates 24.
• Oversees military rewards, compulsory education, healthcare, welfare, and equal benefits for conquered populations 24 25.
• Produces the Heavenly Court Blue Book, Version 1.0, defining laws, organization, responsibilities, conduct, and recruitment 181.
• Coordinates Heavenly Court and Underworld appointments while preserving the Underworld’s distinct operating system 184 220.

Military Training and Command

• Graduates first from the Xia Kingdom’s strictest military academy and demonstrates familiarity with rifles and martial practice 23.
• Directs Qin’s strategic expansion while entrusting battlefield operations to Wang Jian and Bai Qi 23 24.
• Assigns specialized commanders and supporting forces against different invading races 98.
• Mobilizes the Heavenly Court’s gods and manifestations to defend key locations throughout the Milky Way 284.

Cultivation and Enhanced Talent

• Initially possesses grade-B cultivation talent; extensive resources do not prevent comparatively slow early progress 47 174.
• Zhang Yang raises his talent through B → A → S → SS → SSS using Talent Pills. The final pill requires three enhancements to overcome diminishing effectiveness 174.
• Practices the Nine Heavens Divine Thunder Art, provided for his preparation as Jade Emperor 174.
• Uses insights from two hundred million years of reincarnation experiences to advance rapidly to Quasi-Sage 174.
• His first forced Deity Transformation breakthrough nearly kills him, demonstrating that energy alone cannot replace sufficient preparation and understanding 115.

Primordial Spirit, Divine Sense, and Divination

• Can monitor conditions across the Qin Kingdom with his Primordial Spirit after reaching Deity Transformation 119.
• At that realm, can enter the Underworld in spirit, though entry remains subject to its authorities 122.
• Uses divination to identify a suitable diplomatic official for the Heavenly Court 182 184.
• Reads Li Bai’s thoughts without difficulty despite Li Bai’s Tribulation Transcendence cultivation 184.

Heavenly Dharma Form and Energy Control

• Manifests a Heavenly Dharma Form reaching ten thousand zhang in height 177.
• Freezes incoming warship energy beams with the command “Stop” 177.
• Amplifies the beams hundreds of times and reflects them along their original paths, destroying ships and striking the planets behind them 177.
• Waits for Zhang Yang’s permission before retaliating against the Kuafu fleet 177.

Avatars and Concealment

• Sends an avatar through the Heavenly Gate into the Mortal Realm in a cultivator’s form 182.
• Leaves an avatar to administer the Heavenly Court while his true body cultivates in seclusion 239.
• During his concealed encounter with Li Bai, observers subsequently cannot remember his appearance; a bystander also breaks through after speaking with him 183.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Jade Seal of Heaven’s Mandate — Originally bestowed upon Xuanyuan Huangdi, reclaimed after Huangdi’s death, and later given to Ying Zheng at Mount Tai. Zhang Yang subsequently transforms it into a magical treasure supporting fortune bonuses, monthly Spirit Stones, and law-backed imperial edicts 26 76 77.
• Six Innate Spirit Treasures — Supplied for his role as Jade Emperor. Each initially consists of one Cosmic Wonder Fragment and can be strengthened by adding further fragments; their individual names are not given in the supplied passages 174.
• Special Secret Realm Keys — Allow Ying Zheng and his companions to enter and leave the Spatial Secret Realm freely 72.
• Spirit Stones — Available in enormous quantities during his early cultivation, though they cannot eliminate limitations imposed by talent and constitution 47.
• Water of Life — Elven rejuvenation resource that he consumes and shares with veteran officials and generals 44.
• Cosmic energy / energy fluid — A test dose triggers his dangerous Deity Transformation breakthrough; much later, Zhang Yang sends him a hundred drops to support cultivation after retirement 115 152.
• Enlightenment Tea — Assists his preparation for Quasi-Sage cultivation; later, his avatar distributes advancement leaves to gods, family, and trusted associates 174 239.

Relationships

• Zhang Yang / Father God — Divine patron, mentor, and ultimate authority. Ying Zheng’s devotion is intensely filial; he offers daily incense before a private golden statue and governs on Zhang Yang’s behalf 76 119 174 219.
• Ying Si — Younger brother and Qin’s chief technological innovator. Their childhood bond survives Ying Si’s death and appointment in the Underworld; Ying Zheng later helps finance his reforms 22 23 122 123.
• Ying Yiren — Father. His royal descent enables the territory purchase that begins Qin’s rise; he subsequently manages logistics 22 23.
• Lü Ji — Mother, whose marriage to Ying Yiren provokes the royal family’s hostility. She receives a lifespan reward for giving birth to Ying Zheng 22 26.
• Lü Wei — Maternal grandfather and Qin’s financial founder. Nearly exhausts his fortune purchasing the family’s territory, then rebuilds its finances through commerce and banking 23 24.
• Wang Jian — Academy friend and principal general. His measured command style complements Bai Qi’s aggressive tactics 23 24.
• Bai Qi — Academy friend and ruthless general. Secretly executes Wei’s royal family to avenge Ying Zheng’s humiliation without burdening him politically; later receives an Enlightenment Tea leaf from his avatar 24 239.
• Shang Yang — Academy friend, reformer, and architect of Qin’s administrative system. His caution checks Ying Zheng’s excitement over the secret realm’s apparent promise of eternal life 23 24 58.
• Zhang Han — Early cultivation mentor and imperial Attendant; eventually returns to his service as the Heavenly Court’s Curtain-Raising General and personal guard 47 239.
• Fu Su — Son and successor following Ying Zheng’s abdication from Qin 152.
• Consort Xia — Consort who gives birth to his daughter Ying Lingxiang 94 95.
• Ying Lingxiang — Beloved daughter, one of the ten Chosen Ones, and a pioneering formation master. Receives an advancement tea leaf from him 95 239.
• Five Primordial Human Ancestors — Rescue him from the final strike of his Deity Transformation tribulation and direct his gratitude toward Father God 115.
• Virtue Heavenly Venerable / Grand Supreme Elder — The Venerable supports his Heavenly Court by creating an independent avatar. Ying Zheng grants Grand Supreme Elder Doushuai Palace and a Cosmic Wonder Fragment 182.
• Li Bai / Taibai Jinxing — Personally recruited after Ying Zheng tests his principles and ambitions; later serves as his secretary 183 184 239.
• Chiyou / Fengdu Emperor — Appointed by Ying Zheng to oversee the Earth Realm and involved in coordinating Underworld expansion 184 220.
• Former emperors and generals — Many refuse formal Heavenly Court service but answer his personal request to defend the Milky Way 284.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Founding and Expanding Qin

• Acquiring a foothold: Ying Yiren and Lü Wei purchase the dangerous former Han territory from Wei. Seeing his father’s injuries and humiliation deepens Ying Zheng’s hostility toward Wei 23.
• Transforming Lodi City: His followers suppress its criminal factions in twenty days. A census reveals more than 6.7 million residents, over twice the official population 23.
• Preparing in secret: Wang Jian and Bai Qi build the army while Shang Yang establishes law, Lü Wei restores the treasury, and Ying Si develops technology 23.
• Founding Great Qin: In Xia Era 120, Ying Zheng renames Lodi City Xianyang and proclaims himself King of Qin while the established kingdoms are distracted by Chu’s wars 23.
• Rapid conquest: Qin defeats Shang and Zhao, then destroys Qi and Wei, leaving Qin, Chu, and Xia as the continent’s surviving powers 23 24.
• Replacing war with competition: The three kings agree that the first kingdom to develop a country-destroying weapon will receive the others’ unconditional surrender 24.

Unification and Divine Recognition

• Xia Era 183: Qin completes its strategic weapon. Xia accepts surrender; Chu submits after a rocket demonstration near its palace 25.
• Imperial title: After initially refusing the proposal, Ying Zheng accepts the title Emperor and becomes the First Emperor 25.
• Mount Tai, November 1: At the Fengshan ceremony, he promises peace, protection for humanity, Qin’s endurance, and continued guardianship after death. Father God appears and grants him the Jade Seal 26.
• A new era: The following year becomes Qin Era 1. Qin moves its capital to Yu Province and names it Chang’an 26.

Spiritual Energy and Cultivation

• Seeking longevity: Alien combat recordings reveal the Immortal Race’s potential thousand-year lifespan, turning spirit veins into a major strategic objective for Ying Zheng and his commanders 30.
• Conquest and extraction: Following Father God’s instructions, he orders Bai Qi to accelerate the Immortal Race’s defeat, take no prisoners, and recover spirit-rich soil and atmosphere 40.
• Public transition: He commemorates the fallen, explains spirit veins to the population, and organizes a five-day Thanksgiving holiday and state ceremony marking the Spiritual Energy Era 44.
• Institutional cultivation: Approves phased testing and eventual nationwide teaching of Ying Si’s human body-training method 45.
• Immortal dynasty: When cultivation begins drawing officials away from public service, the empowered Jade Seal gives him a new incentive system. He declares the Great Qin Immortal Dynasty 75 76 77.
• Managing new powers: Permits sects to emerge rather than relying indefinitely on coercion, advocates peaceful development with spirit beasts, and broadcasts their tribulations as a warning about cultivation’s dangers 69 71 81.

Interstellar Leadership and Retirement

• Defending Blue Star: Assigns commanders against invading races and later personally enters battle in his dragon robes 98 137.
• Divine testing: Serves as a tester for cosmic energy and the Heavenly Net System 115 118.
• Protecting local interests: Brings concerns about immigration from affiliated planets to Father God, representing the broader dynasties and Lineages 119.
• Ying Si’s death: Arranges offerings and temples for Black and White Impermanence, then negotiates support for Underworld modernization in exchange for the Deity-Summoning Method 122 123.
• Abdication: Eventually passes Qin’s throne to Fu Su and withdraws from politics to pursue immortality, receiving renewed cultivation support from Father God 152.

Becoming Jade Emperor

• Selection: Zhang Yang chooses him to rule the Heavenly Court outside the competing Buddhist, Daoist, and Confucian traditions 174.
• Preparation: Receives enhanced talent, a divine cultivation art, six treasures, and extensive reincarnation ordeals before reaching Quasi-Sage 174.
• Installation: Announces his appointment to all beings; the eight religious Quasi-Sages pay homage while declining substantial involvement in routine government 174.
• Establishing law: Completes the Heavenly Court Blue Book after repeated review by Father God. Its Heavenly Laws apply to cultivators at Tribulation Transcendence and above throughout the Blue Star Lineage 181.
• Building legitimacy: Secures Virtue Heavenly Venerable’s support, recruits Li Bai, formalizes Underworld offices, and appoints the Eastern Pole Azure Emperor as one of the Six Sovereigns 182 184 187.

Governing the Expanding Lineage

• Delegated authority: Acts as Zhang Yang’s fully empowered intermediary, handling resource requests and assistance sought by even third- and fourth-level Star Lords 219.
• Interplanetary administration: Coordinates surveys and Underworld branches for developing Human Race planets, then proposes local divine officials to monitor interference in the Human Planet Rankings 220 221.
• War preparation: Oversees recruitment, training, supply production, mecha coordination, and combat elixirs while continuing his own advanced training 280.
• Milky Way defense: Assigned to remain behind for the galaxy’s protection, mobilizes Heavenly Court forces and personally appeals to independent former rulers and generals 284.
• Finale: Continues administering the Human Race through the Heavenly Court and joins Zhang Yang and the two Pangus at their table 292.

Great Qin’s Disappearance

• Great Qin vanishes from the Mortal Realm after Ying Zheng removes its people and willing descendants from public life 284.
• Accounts attribute the decision to descendants abusing their imperial ancestry while immortals feared punishing or reporting them. Those unwilling to leave are described as relinquishing Qin citizenship; unwilling blood descendants face removal of Ying Zheng’s bloodline 284.
• Rumors also cite protection against hostile bloodline arts and other explanations. Ying Zheng never publicly clarifies the disappearance 284.

Notable Quotes

“The Yellow Emperor's seat passes from one to another; this year, it comes to our house. It's time our Ying family took a turn on that throne.” 22

“I, Ying Zheng!
Emperor of the Great Qin Immortal Dynasty!
Am willing to die in service to Father God!” 76

“Father God, I... failed the test...” 115

Side Stories and Bonus Material

• “Happy ‘Nian’ Year” — Explicitly separate from the main story. Depicts a far-future Ying Zheng as an Ancestral Dragon, a leading cosmic overlord, and the universally recognized First Emperor after hundreds of millions of years 105.
• “God of Battle!” — Publicly reveals Sun Wukong’s undercover mission among the Demon Race and credits his contribution to the Native Universe’s victory 294.
• “Hello, My Name Is Zhang Yang” — Presents an Earth-setting Ying Zheng as Zhang Yang’s sales partner and friend. His system rewards him for helping Zhang Yang while doubling Zhang Yang’s reward; the two later become wealthy success lecturers and are reported killed in a meteor disaster. The supplied account does not explicitly establish how this side-story identity connects to the main-story emperor 295.

Trivia

• During his first major demonstration as Jade Emperor, he reduces his Heavenly Dharma Form until it is exactly one zhang shorter than Father God’s form 177.
• He initially becomes excited enough about the secret realm’s promise of eternal life to consider retiring with his ministers, until Shang Yang discovers its dangerous conditions in the decree’s fine print 58.
• Zhang Han begins as a member of Ying Zheng’s personal guard selected for early cultivation experiments and eventually returns to his side as a heavenly bodyguard 239.