Zhang Fan

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Zhang Fan (张帆)
Alias(es)	Overlord; “Hongjun,” an improvised identity used on Earth 21 317 318
Species/Race	Human soul inhabiting a technologically created Insect Race body; uses Carbon-Silicon Worm genes as his bodily foundation 38 193
Gender	Male
Affiliation	Insect Race; humanity; Rebecca Alliance; later the Southern Realm of the Erl Universe 7 193 316
Occupation/Role	Supreme leader of the Insect Race; protector of humanity; Western Realm Great Emperor’s representative; later Great Emperor of the Southern Realm 28 220 316
Status	Alive and participating in the battle against the Evil Legion in the latest supplied passage 364
First Appearance	Chapter 3, “Evolution,” is his earliest appearance in the supplied material 3

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Silicon-based body and human genome repository	4	Absorbs one million human embryos and preserves their genomes, including individual differences, inside his body.
Bodily division	5	Splits off a duplicate after storing sufficient energy. Huateng sells the duplicate, helping spread Zhang Fan through Rebecca society as a pet.
Mental-power amplification	28	Receives a purple-energy royal staff that strengthens mental power and control and can drive his insects into a greater frenzy.
Extensively modified combat body	38	Completes three months of modification using Carbon-Silicon Worm genes. Enhanced Yate magic surpasses his previous magic-energy and Ice Blue Dragon cannons, which he removes.
Golden Dragon strengthening	193	The Five-Clawed Golden Dragon breathes restorative, strengthening energy over him. The intervention coincides with widespread weakness throughout the Insect Race.
Basic psychokinesis	200	Learns from Shilva in exchange for helping find and rescue the Dark Prince.
Improved psychokinetic control	205	Advances under Sadran’s guidance, though he remains substantially less proficient than Sadran.
Markedly increased personal power	269 270	Overpowers Madoc and returns unharmed after Valaya punches him out of a spaceship. He attributes his change to “betrayal”; no precise new rank is stated.
Psychokinesis strengthened over ten thousand years	271	Can immediately detect subtle Dragon Race mental control on Zhiqiang that previously would have escaped his notice.
Human-looking Insect Race body	317	Transfers into a body engineered by Shusha with modified god genes, allowing it to contain his power while passing as human.
Consciousness merger with Yixiouya	343	His Overlord consciousness takes priority in their merged connection, allowing him to control her body. He promises to sever the link after she enters the Creator’s domain.

Background / History

Human Origins and the Death Star

Zhang Fan describes himself as a human soul placed in an insect body through technology. Humanity’s near-extinction at the hands of the Qiya People remains the central reason for his efforts to preserve human life and rebuild its future. He also recalls attending a Military Academy 193 320.

His memories of the Iris are bound to grief over its dead crew and his transformation. During a dream reunion, Selena asks whether he regrets becoming an insect to preserve humanity. Selena and Yan Hao explain that their apparent betrayal was staged to give him the anger needed to survive rather than watch them die as the ship lost power. Zhang Fan recognizes that the choice to transform was ultimately his own 141.

On Death Star, he preserves the genomes of one million human embryos while waiting for the Qiya People. When Captain Liliwa’s Starmoon arrives instead, he tests the Rebecca expedition with local creatures and secretly boards the departing ship through a Protozoan. His immediate priority becomes escape, infiltration, and preparation rather than a premature confrontation with a technologically superior civilization 4.

Rebecca Infiltration and the Asha Alliance

On Rebecca Star, Zhang Fan studies the inhabitants’ habits and weaknesses while sending Protozoans away from the city. Huateng’s trade in his split bodies introduces him into Rebecca households as a pet, providing a discreet route into their society 5.

He later enters the Tiger Shark Galaxy with seven hundred biological vessels and presents the Rebecca Alliance as peaceful. Speaking fluent Asha helps him establish contact with General Mora and Commander Liya 7.

The resulting 999-year alliance gives the Rebecca Insectoids temporary sovereignty over Camille Star, food, and assistance searching for Earth. In exchange, they provide biological armor, regional protection, and technology exchange. Zhang Fan limits their commitment to the Asha–Lila war: they will fight only if the Lila attack first 8.

He saves Norad from the Lila invasion while enforcing a separate agreement with the Whirlwind Emperor. Afterward, his insects turn the Mechanical Army’s wreckage into a Crystal Garden resembling flowers from his lost homeland. He subsequently helps bring the Asha and Lila into a wider alliance before leaving 9 13 14.

The Lilvara, Nagang, and Western Realm Emperor

Hu Baili becomes an ally after proving capable of interrupting Zhang Fan’s mental control. Their common enemy is the Nagang People, whose conversion of living beings into steel demands stronger, specialized insects. Zhang Fan equips a new swarm using Qi Spiders and develops units designed to counter Nagang technology 16 17.

On Huo Planet, Han Bing tries to use Zhang Fan as leverage against the Insect Race. Zhang Fan reverses the situation with tiny black insects, coerces him into accessing the Data Nexus, and recruits him through the promise of a living body and command of a legion. Together they rescue King Pamir, although Pamir treats their cooperation as betrayal 21 22.

Han Bing later becomes White Forehead, the Insect Race’s first general, while Yata remains marshal. Zhang Fan concludes that Pamir is unsuited to rule and considers Wolf 800 a better candidate. Missing expedition coordinates also lead him to suspect that information needed to find home was deliberately deleted 24.

Unable to defeat the Western Realm Great Emperor, Zhang Fan accepts service as his representative and a three-thousand-year deadline to build an army for a northern invasion. He regards the arrangement as time to develop, appointing Hu Baili to govern in his absence and Yata to assist him 28.

Expansion, Biological Warfare, and the Search for Earth

Zhang Fan’s army grows through genetic recombination, parasitism, and captured technology. Its development includes Super Six-Eye, the Tyrant Beast, the Thunder Emperor, and planetary-scale biological attacks. He also modifies his own body into an exceptionally powerful individual combat form 31 32 38.

The Universal Combat Auction introduces him to wider cosmic powers. He purchases the Gomita Galaxy and the Dawnlight rifle with bids of one hundred Emperor warships each, initially underestimating those ships’ value. His dealings with Princess Domina begin with gifts and commercial goodwill 39 43.

His experiments uncover dark crystals capable of annihilating everything within fifty light-years when charged and detonated. Kui persuades him to keep the discovery secret until the Insect Race is strong enough to withstand the attention such a weapon would attract 53.

Blue Cardian Teleportation Pillars, powered by the Krami Pearl, greatly shorten the journey toward Second Earth. Zhang Fan secures their help by accepting Ferandel’s independence and ending demands for its hidden technology 62.

Mental attacks expose weaknesses that military expansion cannot solve. He seeks Dragon Race protection, researches psychic defenses, and increasingly distrusts Domina and other powerful civilizations. When he finally returns to Earth, it is Earth sixty-five million years before the destroyed world he remembers 74 96 126 150.

Dragon Race Schemes and Divine Artifacts

Zhang Fan refuses to let the Dragon Race dictate his actions solely through fear of Jiertai. He is willing to cooperate with either side if humanity and Earth remain protected, while maneuvering to draw out Lamya’s forces 152 157.

His methods become increasingly ruthless. During Pangu’s battle with Lamya, he orders Blood Shadow to kill Minerva at an opportune moment, conceal the evidence, and blame Lamya. His stated aim is to acquire Minerva’s planetary-teleportation ability; the supplied passage does not establish that this plan succeeds 164.

At Dark Soul Star, he defeats a guardian that copies his own body and abilities by discovering its tiny chest weak point. Inside the treasury, the Five-Clawed Golden Dragon reveals that an artifact can unlock humanity’s sealed memories, but requires the essences of five Judgment Dragons and is not intended for Zhang Fan 192 193.

He subsequently learns psychokinesis, helps free the Dark Prince, and pursues armor capable of countering Jiertai’s sealing power. The theft of its necessary psionic ore leads to negotiations with Madoc and the Ink Race, followed by the destruction of the Halley pirate legion. Captured wealth is redirected into weapons research and the search for resurrection-related artifacts 200 204 205 206 210 211 215.

The Vitter Universe and Zhang Hongjun

Resource shortages drive Zhang Fan into the Vitter Universe. There he recruits the Barton People, supports Sophia’s hybrid weapon research, and encounters Varagon’s faction. He balances the appeal of exceptionally powerful troops against the danger of losing control over them 217 220 221 227.

A charged Time Control Device offers a route for enormous fleets between universes. However, the Vitter conflict fractures his forces: Zhang Hongjun assimilates part of the Insect Race, Mimipa attacks Kaina’s Cave Insect Race, and Pangu and Soraya’s survivors are forced onto the defensive 264 269.

Zhang Fan returns to the Erl Universe and gains the Great Emperors’ cooperation through a mixture of disclosure, intimidation, and concealed information. He reports that the Reaper Scythe revived him, reveals his origin sixty-five million years in the future, and identifies the protection of the Milky Way as his overriding objective. Valaya accompanies his relief expedition back to Vitter 270 273.

During the war against Zhang Hongjun, Zhang Fan isolates and mentally controls his opponent’s shadow clone at the Golden Gate. He uses the clone’s memories to work on a seal hiding a universe-changing force, despite Bai He’s warning that it may exceed his control 309 310 311.

After Pangu defeats Zhang Hongjun, whose power Zhang Fan has restricted, Valaya destroys him. Zhang Fan appoints Kaina as Vitter’s Insect Queen, returns his army to Erl, and closes the Time Passage. He explicitly rejects ruling Vitter in favor of rebuilding humanity on Earth 315.

Return to Humanity and the Aurora War

After replacing Varagon as Great Emperor of the Southern Realm, Zhang Fan finds that apparent success brings exhaustion and emptiness. Questions about the Qiya People, time travel, and the possibility of a parallel universe remain unresolved 316 317.

Using Shusha’s human-looking body, he visits Earth to experience ordinary life. His wealth and supernatural abilities make unobtrusive observation difficult, so he chooses to help humanity indirectly by finding and training a human leader capable of unifying Earth 317 318 320.

The Aurora invasion interrupts this retreat from war. Zhang Fan mobilizes forces while maintaining the Milky Way’s concealment, helps coordinate the Erl resistance, and uses physical attacks, poison, and mind-control weapons to overcome Aurora’s energy countermeasures 323 328.

To infiltrate Aurora’s inner ranks, he plans an apparent betrayal of Erl with Jiertai and Valaya. In their staged battle, he tears out Valaya’s core and orders the Erl forces to retreat, convincing observers that the Insect Race has changed sides. Meanwhile, he negotiates with Yixiouya, who wants to seize control of Aurora and threatens the Milky Way to secure his cooperation 332 334 335 336.

Following their consciousness merger, Yixiouya departs for the Creator’s domain with Shusha, Pangu, and more than half the Insect Race. Zhang Fan remains behind, and nearly a century of reconstruction restores peace to Erl. Humanity’s weakness, the slow Human Emperor Plan, and Kui’s disappearance continue to concern him 343.

The Evil Legion

Later, Zhang Fan and his allies face the Evil Legion. Even the Great Emperors’ fleets struggle, and Jiertai releases all five Judgment Dragons to clear enemy forces 360.

In the latest supplied passage, Zhang Fan and Yixiouya exhaust themselves restoring a frenzied Insect Race to normal. Yixiouya’s Creator Starfield insects replace the withdrawing Erl insects, but a tremendous force rises from Evil Star. Valaya identifies it as a possible final attempt by the legion’s master to destroy them all; the battle’s outcome is not supplied 364.

Appearance

Zhang Fan’s body changes through deliberate modification and consciousness transfer. His early diplomatic form is identified as an insectoid Broodmother; later forms become increasingly specialized for personal combat 8 38.

• Huo Planet form: Two legs, four arms, and a spiked carapace 21.
• Modified combat form: Roughly three meters tall, with an armored face, six compound eyes, a tiger’s torso, dragon claws, two pairs of bony wings, two feet, and four hands 38.
• Integrated blades: His main hands have five-fingered claws; the secondary pair incorporates Noya’s sword blades 38.
• Human disguise: A human-looking Insect Race body engineered with modified god genes to contain his power 317.
• Visual acuity: His compound eyes detect the almost invisible red mark that exposes the treasury replica’s weakness 193.

Personality

Zhang Fan is patient when confronting superior technology, but increasingly bold once he has prepared suitable forces. He studies opponents before attacking, exploits rivalries, and treats diplomacy, technology exchange, military production, and trade as connected tools. His willingness to accept temporary submission or conditional alliances reflects calculation rather than unquestioning loyalty 4 28 62 210.

Humanity remains his strongest attachment. He preserves individual human genomes, mourns his lost crewmates, and refuses to let reckless experimentation on humans become accepted practice. His priorities eventually extend beyond protecting a particular planet: when Yixiouya threatens the Milky Way, he insists that humanity’s survival and reproduction matter more than the location itself 4 141 167 334.

His protective purpose coexists with coercion and brutality. He controls Han Bing with insects, plans Minerva’s concealed murder, and accepts devastating campaigns against hostile races. At other times, he grants independence, respects an ally’s refusal to join a war, or chooses indirect guidance rather than imposing rule on Earth 22 62 89 164 318.

He frequently teases his advisers, especially Kui, and can be generous without fully understanding economic value. Centuries of struggle also leave him exhausted: overwhelming enemies prompt crises of confidence, while achieving apparent security for humanity produces emptiness rather than satisfaction 43 57 141 317.

Abilities & Skills

Overlord Consciousness

Zhang Fan’s consciousness directly connects him to the Insect Race and allows long-range control rather than merely inducing fear or submission 234.

• Projects information into another person’s mind, including a mental star chart of the Milky Way 8.
• Connects with individual insects to suppress hostile mental influence 74.
• Strengthens Kaina’s Overlord Consciousness and maintains a mental connection with her after closing the Time Passage 315.
• Invades the minds of Erl observers to broadcast his command during the staged betrayal 336.
• Takes priority over Yixiouya’s consciousness after their merger 343.

Limits:

• Hu Baili’s roar breaks his mental control 16.
• Sustained direct control over enormous numbers of insects places an intolerable strain on his mind 74.
• Dragon Race interference can affect Overlord Consciousness, and purchased Emperor ships become undetectable to him, leading him to suspect its removal 191 271.
• Xuàn Rì’s savage aura induces submission even among intelligent insects, forcing Zhang Fan to withdraw his forces 234.

Genetic Assimilation and Biological Engineering

Zhang Fan stores genetic material, recombines traits, and directs the creation of specialized insects and bodies 4 31 38.

• Preserves one million human genomes without erasing their individual differences 4.
• Combines species traits to create aircraft-like insects, heavy ground units, and biological warships 31 32.
• Incorporates Qiuqiu Beast reproduction into Hatchling Broodmothers to replenish enormous ground-force losses 120.
• Uses adaptable Carbon-Silicon Worm genes as the foundation for his own modifications 38.

Limits:

• Excess Qi Spiders can cause a host’s body to burst 16.
• Uncontrolled Insect Fungi reproduce rapidly enough to endanger the Insect Race itself 38.
• The strongest ships demand immense resources: a new Kronos could require material from dozens of galaxies 217.

Consciousness Transfer and Bodily Division

His identity is not confined to a single body 4 157 317.

• Travels aboard the Starmoon through a Protozoan 4.
• Produces a duplicate through division after accumulating sufficient energy 5.
• Transfers into Shusha’s human-looking body before visiting Earth 317.

Limit: Although he once treats consciousness transfer as a form of immortality, he later recognizes the possibility of genuine death. His reported resurrection is attributed to the Reaper Scythe, not ordinary transfer 157 270.

Mental Combat and Psychokinesis

Zhang Fan develops psychic techniques through instruction and prolonged strengthening 200 205 271.

• Learns psychokinesis from Shilva and improves under Sadran 200 205.
• Detects subtle mental control placed on Zhiqiang 271.
• Uses a Mental Power Barrier to sever communication between Zhang Hongjun and his shadow clone 309.
• Exploits the shadow’s awakened childhood emotions, attacks its mind, takes control of its body, and retrieves its memories 310 311.

Limits: Earlier mental ambushes overwhelm him with disordered memories and require outside protection. His initial psychokinetic skill also remains far below Sadran’s 96 205.

Personal Combat

His modified body combines biological weaponry, claws, blades, armor, and enhanced magic 38 193.

• Carries venom glands, corrosive-fluid glands, and air sacs 38.
• Uses Yate magic stronger than the cannons removed from his body 38.
• Deploys toxins, biological missiles, and biological laser cannons 193.
• Drives treasury guards back with qi attacks 192.
• Defeats his mirror guardian through observation and repeated attacks on its weak point 193.
• Demonstrates substantially improved durability by surviving Valaya’s strike unharmed 270.

Limit: The mirror guardian matches his abilities closely enough to render several built-in weapons ineffective, forcing a physical contest 193.

Teleportation

Zhang Fan uses personal teleportation for travel, rescue, and rapid movement between ships and planets 215 234 318 341.

• Returns Pangu to the Spirit Dragon Brood Bug after stabilizing his consciousness 234.
• Leaves human settlements before authorities can question him 318.
• Moves directly aboard the allied warship to meet Jiertai and Valaya 341.

Military Strategy and Leadership

He coordinates biological warfare with diplomacy, logistics, reconnaissance, and economic pressure 70 211 328.

• Delegates command rather than permanently directing every insect himself 120 217.
• Identifies shortages in troop transport and long-range consciousness communication 70.
• Uses Shapeshifting Insects as convincing warship decoys 128.
• Targets pirate reinforcements and supply routes while applying commercial retaliation through Boss Jin 211.
• Counters Aurora’s energy defenses with armored ramming forces, toxins, and mind-control weapons 328.
• Stages betrayal to gain access to an enemy’s inner ranks 332 336.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Purple-energy royal staff — Gift from the Western Realm Great Emperor; amplifies mental power and control, increases insect frenzy, and proves Zhang Fan’s representative authority 28.
• Spirit Source — Blue object given by Luo Yun; glows during a mental ambush and reveals the intrusion 96.
• Dragon Crystal — Supplied by Jieduona to block mental intrusion 96.
• Krami Pearl — Holds the power of a star and supplies energy for Teleportation Pillars with a five-million-light-year range 62.
• Dawnlight — Auction-bought sniper rifle capable of destroying a C-Class warship from fifty light-years away; Eagle Eye uses it to detonate a charged dark crystal 43 53.
• Dark crystals — Absorb energy until saturated; a charged specimen detonates with a fifty-light-year destruction radius 53.
• War God Spear — After witnessing its galaxy-destroying power, Zhang Fan separates it into three sections for Noya, Snow White, and Charm Spider, with orders preventing its capture 170.
• Reaper Scythe handle — Entrusted to Luo Yun with a request to revive him if he dies. Later, Zhang Fan reports that the Reaper Scythe brought him back from death; the supplied material does not show the resurrection itself 215 270.
• Dagger containing human records — Holds extensive information on human civilization and evolutionary paths, which Zhang Fan brings to Buffett for study 206.
• Time Shard / Time Control Device — His shard is identified as the missing core of the larger device. Charging the completed device enables transport of vast fleets between universes 243 264.
• Fire God Hammer head — Crimson divine artifact sent to Earth because fire is especially dangerous to insects 217.
• Spear of Revival — Merfolk trident resistant to Noya’s attacks, but secretly offered without its essential ice-blue gem 279.

Principal Biological Vessels

Vessel	Function and distinguishing features
Thunder Emperor	Battleship created by having a Six-Eyed Overlord Beast parasitize Rebecca; measures 200 kilometers long and 100 kilometers wide. Its Energy Source Cannon test flattens a quarter of Jade’s near side 32.
Spirit Dragon Brood Bug	Frequently serves as Zhang Fan’s ship and an operational base for his advisers and investigations 96 99 234.
Insect-Transformed Kronos	Becomes his most powerful warship when its transformation is completed 217.
Shapeshifting-Insect Kronos	Colossal linked vessel capable of splitting into a fleet and replacing damaged sections while its Control Bug survives. Its resource cost, century-long Control Bug incubation, teleportation-only travel, and inability to move during combat limit its practicality; its deterrent value remains exceptional 241.

Relationships

• Shusha — Deputy, scientific adviser, and trusted commander. Protects him during mental attacks, manages research and logistics, and creates his human-looking body. Later joins Yixiouya’s expedition to the Creator’s domain 96 217 317 334 343.
• Hu Baili — Adviser and friend; the first person shown interrupting his consciousness. Zhang Fan entrusts him with Western Realm administration and humanity-related work 16 28 217 320.
• Noya — Favored fighter whose impulsiveness frequently requires restraint. Zhang Fan acknowledges human emotions behind his special attention to her; she later refuses to leave his side 38 290 343.
• Yata — Marshal and military innovator. Governs alongside Hu Baili and develops new insect forces that Zhang Fan evaluates and refines 24 28 70.
• White Forehead / Han Bing — Former would-be captor turned first general. Zhang Fan recruits him with the promise of genuine life, a new body, and military command 21 22 24.
• Liya — Asha commander and later empress; diplomatic ally who helps secure a temporary homeland and the search for Earth 8 9 14.
• Whirlwind Emperor — Secret negotiating partner whose agreement with Zhang Fan constrains the Lila fleet’s actions 8 9.
• King Pamir — Rescued ruler who distrusts Zhang Fan’s cooperation with Han Bing. Zhang Fan later considers him unfit to rule 22 24.
• Kui — Cautious Star Seer and frequent verbal sparring partner. Zhang Fan repeatedly threatens him without genuine killing intent and remains concerned by his disappearance 53 57 62 354.
• Boss Jin — Trade partner and loyal commercial ally. Zhang Fan installs him as chairman of the Interstellar Trade Alliance and relies on him for ore, artifact searches, and economic leverage 198 206 215 328.
• Princess Domina — Initially a customer and friendly acquaintance, later an enemy targeted by Zhang Fan’s alliances. Her capture and Kui’s intervention leave her alive rather than executed 39 43 126 323.
• Madoc — Rival and conditional ally. Their cooperation combines mutual suspicion, teasing, threats, and bargaining over resources and military objectives 157 210 269.
• Jiertai — Western Realm Great Emperor; first a feared superior, later a protector and strategic partner. Honors his promise not to threaten the Milky Way 28 152 315 332.
• Valaya — Eastern Realm Great Emperor and close ally. Accompanies him to Vitter, executes Zhang Hongjun, and participates in the staged betrayal of Erl; the text also suggests unspoken affection 270 315 336 341.
• Minerva — Dragon Race collaborator whom Zhang Fan increasingly distrusts. He eventually plots her death to obtain her teleportation ability 87 96 152 164.
• Ona — Dragon Race contact and military collaborator involved in negotiations, ore recovery, and the pirate campaign 133 206 211.
• Pangu — Powerful subordinate and expedition companion. Zhang Fan directs his battles and later assigns him to accompany Yixiouya 204 217 315 343.
• Kaina — Vitter Insect Race leader appointed Insect Queen. Remains mentally connected to Zhang Fan after the universes are separated 315 323.
• Varagon — Vitter commander whose faction approaches Zhang Fan. Zhang Fan later presents avenging his death as the reason for assembling the Four Realms’ forces 227 249 270.
• Zhang Hongjun — Rebellious figure associated with the God Gene and an enemy who takes control of part of the Insect Race. Zhang Fan restricts his power before his defeat but does not personally execute him 268 273 315.
• Sitasia — Merfolk princess and Element Race ally seeking revenge against Zhang Hongjun. Zhang Fan shelters her, presents her with an Atlas infant, and receives her support at the Golden Gate 279 304 311.
• Yixiouya — Aurora conspirator turned consciousness-linked partner. Their bargain combines shared ambition, threats, and mutual distrust; his consciousness ultimately takes priority over hers 334 335 343.
• Selena and Yan Hao — Lost Iris crewmates whose apparent betrayal shapes his grief. In his dream, they reveal that the deception was intended to help him survive 141.
• Luo Yun — Trusted ally who gives him the Spirit Source and receives the Reaper Scythe handle despite his dependence on its potential powers 96 215.
• Buffett — Adviser on technology and human development; works on consciousness amplification, studies the human-record Dagger, and assists with the Human Emperor Plan 70 206 217 320.

Notable Quotes

“Flowers from my homeland. Though these only look the part.” 9

“Not hasty at all. If we can't beat him, we can't beat him. The Western Realm Great Emperor's power is beyond imagination. Isn't this arrangement fine? We have three thousand years of peace for now.” 28

“I understand that possessing a treasure can make even an innocent man a target.” 53

“I'm finally back!” 150

“I've lived for thousands of years without aging or dying. I finally fulfilled my wish, only to find that I feel completely empty inside.” 317

“Trust is what matters most!” 332