Zhang Lan

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Zhang Lan (张岚) 1
Alias(es)	Little Lan; Alliance Leader 2 13
Species/Race	Human; transmigrator from another world 1
Gender	Male 1 30
Age	Twelve at Shrek Academy enrollment 29 30
Affiliation	Anti-Entropy; Shrek Academy, Outer Court, Freshman Class One 13 30 40
Occupation/Role	Founder and Alliance Leader of Anti-Entropy; Shrek Academy student and Class One monitor 13 41
Martial Souls	Star of Eden; Spirit Blade: Frozen Naraka 1 23
Cultivation	Rank 52 Soul King 44
Status	Alive; attending Shrek Academy 44
First Appearance	Chapter 1, “Transmigration and Martial Soul Awakening” 1

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Martial Soul awakening; innate full soul power	1	Awakened the Star of Eden at Shrek City’s awakening site. Its gravity manipulation was immediately usable against a Wind Baboon.
Level 20	2	Reached level twenty at seven years old; this achievement helped persuade the Ice Empress to support Tian Meng’s god-making plan.
Preliminary soul-power vortex	10	Gravitational absorption and compression began changing his soul power from gas toward liquid and solid states. His reserves were already nearly comparable to a Soul King’s despite his level-twenty cultivation.
Second Soul Ring	15	Confirmed to have obtained a Voidmark Moth ring, granting World of Chaotic Marks.
Rank 30	15	Reached after a year of cultivation in the Far North, using Gravity Dome to withstand the environment while absorbing its dense soul power.
Level 31; Ice and Fire Golden Body	21	The Star of Eden became a gravity source in his dantian and balanced opposing ice and fire energies. His physique reached Soul Saint caliber, and his soul power advanced despite his not yet possessing a third ring.
Second Martial Soul; divine-grade torso bone	23 24	Absorbed the Ice Dragon King’s Dragon Core and fused its torso bone with his spine. Awakened Spirit Blade: Frozen Naraka, already accompanied by an ice-blue first ring and Ice Dragon King Descends.
Third Soul Ring; first soul spirit	26 27 38	Electrolux’s experimental contract bound the willing Eight Desolate Rock Lizard to him, preserving its soul and providing an earth-attribute ring. His third skill was subsequently identified as Gravity Bullet Line.
Soul core; Soul King stage	27 29	Formed an ice-blue soul core in the third year of a five-year cultivation period. The breakthrough carried him past rank fifty, although he later reported rank fifty at enrollment. The rock lizard supplied his fourth and fifth rings.
Soul Saint-level spiritual power	43	Tian Meng’s expenditure of spiritual origin expanded his Sea of Consciousness, bringing his spiritual power to an ordinary Soul Saint’s level.
Rank 52	44	Advanced two ranks during three months of academy life through intensive absorption and the assistance of pills. His exceptionally dense soul core made each rank unusually costly.

Background / History

In his previous life, Zhang Lan was playing a computer game when he activated a Data Duplicator Max. A flash of light transported him to the Douluo Continent. As an infant, he was found near the Star Dou Great Forest by an elderly Soul Master, who adopted him and raised him for six years 1.

His adoptive father taught him practical survival knowledge and worked to support him after recognizing his unusual memory. Following the old man’s death, Zhang Lan sold their home for five hundred Gold Soul Coins to fund his Martial Soul awakening. He declined Su Yunlian’s offer of assistance with ring hunting and entered the forest independently, relying on the knowledge his father had passed down 1.

Zhang Lan retained knowledge of the original Douluo story and games from his previous world. He recognized the Star of Eden as Welt Yang’s signature weapon and used his knowledge of future events to identify opportunities involving the Snow Empress, profound ice marrow, and the soul spirit system 1 3 16.

Appearance

Zhang Lan has well-proportioned features, an elegant bearing, and a scholarly appearance 32 33.

• Hair: Short, neatly groomed brown hair with soft ends resting near his forehead 32 33.
• Build: Tall and straight-backed; his white freshman uniform accentuates his figure 33.
• Expression: Composed eyes and brows, with a maturity unusual for his age 33.
• Accessory: Wears the Snow Empress’s ice-blue crystal necklace beneath his collar 27.

Personality

Zhang Lan is strategic and inclined to plan several steps ahead. In Dragon City, he considered political pressure from other sects rather than immediately relying on the Empresses to defeat the Heavenly Dragon Sect. He later avoided provoking Di Tian because he expected to need the Ferocious Beasts’ cooperation in the future 4 24.

He values independence without dismissing useful assistance. He rejected Electrolux’s necromancer legacy because it did not suit his chosen path, but asked him to develop soul spirit contracts. Despite his exceptional reserves, he openly acknowledged shortcomings in combat experience and skill application 10 16.

He opposes coercion and abuses of authority. He insisted that the Eight Desolate Rock Lizard consent to its contract and confronted Zhou Yi over indiscriminate punishment. His generosity is also practical: he invested a powerful torso bone in Nan Qiuqiu’s future and replenished the immortal herbs after extracting their essence 13 24 26 34.

Abilities & Skills

Star of Eden

His first Martial Soul normally takes the form of a cane or staff and allows direct manipulation of gravitational forces 1.

• Attraction and repulsion: Crushes or immobilizes opponents, pushes allies out of danger, and gathers loose objects such as dust 1 31 32 43.
• Gravity Dome: A multilayered hemispherical field redirects wind and snow along tangential paths. It can contract into a close-fitting protective membrane 2 3.
• Gravity Barrier: Prevents outside eavesdropping when placed around a room 4.
• Barrier destruction: Cracked and destroyed the Evil Soul Masters’ blood-colored formation surrounding the Heavenly Dragon Sect 8.
• Gravitational perception: Detects surrounding soul-power conditions and predicts attack trajectories, supporting precise evasive movement 24 36.
• Perception limit: The Dragon Cores’ immense power repelled his attempts to examine them 22.

Gravitational Cultivation and Soul Core

Zhang Lan absorbs surrounding soul power by drawing it directly into his dantian rather than relying on a conventional cultivation method 10.

• His naturally large dantian and gravitational compression give him unusually substantial reserves 10.
• The gravity source balances and refines ice and fire energy, later accommodating an independent earth-attribute orbit 21 26.
• His soul core forms within the gravity source as a thumb-sized ice-blue core marked by deep-purple gravitational fluctuations 27.
• Exceptional density slows later advancement: each rank requires nearly twice the soul power needed by other cultivators 27.

World of Chaotic Marks

His second Soul Skill, obtained from a Voidmark Moth, creates a distorted gravitational field 15 37.

• Extends thirty zhang in every direction during his battle with Zhou Yi 37.
• Redirects incoming flames and physical attack projections away from their intended targets 37.
• Is not absolute protection: Zhou Yi partly corrected a diverted claw strike through brute Soul Power, scorching his sleeve 37.

Gravity Bullet Line

His third Soul Skill uses black spheres that project gravitational rays 37 38.

• Fired five rays against Zhou Yi, eroding her dragon claw and forcing repeated evasions 37.
• Rebounding gravity rays extinguished Ma Xiaotao’s evil fire and left her unconscious 43.

Eight Desolate Heavy Prison

His fourth Soul Skill forms a Gravity Mire, subjecting targets to restraining forces from multiple directions 27 43.

• Slowed and tore apart Zhou Yi’s massive phantom crimson dragon 37.
• Kept Zhou Yi trapped when her Soul Power could not overcome its steady pressure 37.
• Stopped Ma Xiaotao’s charge while combined with tenfold gravity; the abrupt halt injured her 43.
• Ma Xiaotao’s escalating evil fire eventually overcame the tenfold-gravity suppression, although she remained enclosed by the barrier 43.

Eight Desolate Dragonfall

His fifth Soul Skill is supplied by the Eight Desolate Rock Lizard. He tested it on an ice field, provoking the Ice Empress; its precise effects are not described in the supplied passages 27.

Spirit Blade: Frozen Naraka

His second Martial Soul is a long, slender, nearly transparent ice-blue blade. It has a cross-shaped guard, ice-crystal handguards, white and pale-blue hilt cords, and an ice-crystal pommel 23 24.

• Its cold is purer and deeper than the Snow Empress’s Ultimate Ice, reaching the threshold of absolute zero 24.
• Its first ring formed from the Ice Dragon King’s Dragon Core and is an unusual ice-blue color 23 24.
• The Snow Empress agreed to teach him swordsmanship after its awakening 24.

Ice Dragon King Descends

Frozen Naraka’s first Soul Skill can manifest an Ice Dragon King or merge its power with Zhang Lan 24.

• Summoning: Creates an Ice Dragon King with cultivation equivalent to a soul beast that has just reached one hundred thousand years 24.
• Ice Armor: Merges with him, increasing all his capabilities by three hundred percent and granting dragon might 24.
• Additional attack: Has a chance to release a dragon-shaped attack dealing triple damage 24.
• Scaling: Zhang Lan states that its effects double as the number of Soul Rings increases 24.

Ice and Fire Golden Body

Refinement by the opposing energies of the octagonal mysterious ice grass and infernal delicate apricot strengthened his physique, meridians, and dantian to Soul Saint caliber 20 21.

• Withstands the extreme temperatures of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well without freezing or burning 21.
• Nearly doubled his dantian’s capacity and greatly increased meridian resilience 21.
• Makes ordinary elemental powers largely ineffective against him; Ma Xiaotao’s flames remained below Ultimate Fire and could not harm him 43.
• This physical reinforcement does not make his cultivation rank equivalent to a Soul Saint’s 21.

Soul Spirit Development

Zhang Lan proposed a system that preserves a soul beast’s consciousness while binding its soul and rings to a human Soul Master. Electrolux supplied the contract framework and magic array 16 26.

• Assisted the first successful trial by extracting the Eight Desolate Rock Lizard’s soul-power core with the Star of Eden 26.
• Required the lizard’s willing agreement before proceeding 26.
• The contract preserved the lizard’s soul after its body died and allowed it to provide further rings once Zhang Lan met the cultivation requirements 26 27.
• Continued supporting Electrolux’s research; by the approach of the freshman assessment, he judged the revised contract better than the initial version in the original story 44.

Soul Tool Studies

He studies Soul Tool theory to prepare for a future army of titans. The supplied chapters establish this as a long-term project, not an already completed capability 32.

Soul Rings

Star of Eden

Ring	Known source	Soul Skill	Documented appearance
First	Not explicitly identified	Not named in the supplied passages	Purple; thousand-year 34
Second	Voidmark Moth	World of Chaotic Marks	Purple; thousand-year 15 34
Third	Eight Desolate Rock Lizard	Gravity Bullet Line	Initially deep yellow after the contract; later displayed as black, ten-thousand-year 26 34 38
Fourth	Eight Desolate Rock Lizard	Eight Desolate Heavy Prison	Described as dark earthen yellow when supplied; later displayed as black, ten-thousand-year 27 34
Fifth	Eight Desolate Rock Lizard	Eight Desolate Dragonfall	Described as dark earthen yellow when supplied; later displayed as black, ten-thousand-year 27 34

Spirit Blade: Frozen Naraka

Ring	Source	Soul Skill	Appearance
First	Ice Dragon King’s Dragon Core	Ice Dragon King Descends	Ice blue; explicitly distinguished from ordinary Soul Rings 23 24

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Storage Soul Tool — Holds his savings card, food, and other belongings 1 32.
• Divine-grade Ice Dragon King torso bone — Fused tightly with his spine; further strengthens his constitution and smooths the circulation of ice and fire energy 23.
• Snow Empress’s necklace — Contains one full-power strike. She instructed him to crush it if faced with an unmanageable threat and promised to arrive as quickly as possible 27.
• Immortal-herb essence — Collected three drops each from the octagonal mysterious ice grass and infernal delicate apricot before leaving the well, replenishing their roots afterward 24.

Relationships

• Adoptive father — Raised him for six years and taught him survival skills that enabled his independent forest journey 1.
• Tian Meng / Sky Dream Ice Silkworm — Resides in his Sea of Consciousness, organizes the god-making plan, advises him on cultivation, and supports his spiritual development 2 10 43.
• Ice Empress — Ally in the god-making plan and frequent travel companion. Initially agreed to become his second Martial Soul; permits the familiar address “Sister Ice Empress” 2 3 5.
• Snow Empress / Xue’er — Powerful protector and prospective swordsmanship teacher. Zhang Lan helped secure the marrow needed for her breakthrough; she later invited him to call her “Sister Xue’er” 7 18 24 27.
• Electrolux / Elder Yi — Resident remnant soul and collaborator in soul spirit research. Zhang Lan declined his necromancer legacy while seeking his expertise in contracts 15 16 26.
• Eight Desolate Rock Lizard — His first soul spirit; willingly entered the experimental contract and subsequently supplied three rings 26 27.
• Nan Shuishui — Sect leader, trading partner, and supporter of Anti-Entropy. Pledged the Earth Dragon Sect’s support after he gave her daughter a powerful torso bone 6 13.
• Nan Qiuqiu — Early recruit chosen for his planned faction, beneficiary of his ring-hunting advice and torso-bone gift, and later fellow student and deputy monitor 10 13 27 41.
• Wang Dong — Dormmate and classmate. Their initial dispute ended in Wang Dong’s defeat, but Zhang Lan afterward brought him food; Wang Dong later defended him in the confrontation over Ma Xiaotao 32 43.
• Xiao Xiao — Classmate and Nan Qiuqiu’s roommate; joins his food-street outings and checks on him after his battle with Zhou Yi 33 39 41.
• Zhou Yi — Former homeroom teacher and opponent. Their dispute over her treatment of students escalated into an arena battle and her transfer to the Soul Tool Department 34 37 40.
• Wang Yan — Replacement homeroom teacher who appointed him class monitor 40 41.
• Yan Shaozhe — Academy dean who compensated him after the Zhou Yi incident, offered Inner Court entry, and promised personal assistance with his sixth ring 40.
• Mu En — Recognized his unusually early soul core and noticed the strength of his passive soul-power absorption 31.

Story Role / Major Arcs

God-Making Plan and Dragon City

• Helped Tian Meng recruit the Ice Empress, then sought out the Snow Empress before she could attempt human reincarnation 2 3.
• Negotiated access to the Earth Dragon Sect’s Cold Spring Secret Realm in exchange for protection, sealing the agreement with a Martial Soul oath 6.
• Returned with ten-thousand-year profound ice marrow, then discovered the Heavenly Dragon Sect had been massacred by Evil Soul Masters 7 8.
• His intervention and the Empresses’ involvement preceded the Earth Dragon Sect’s acquisition of its rival’s resources and rise to Dragon City’s dominant power 9.

Founding Anti-Entropy

• Guided Nan Qiuqiu’s hunt for a Voidmark Moth to strengthen her martial soul’s annihilation mutation 10 11.
• Gave her the 200,000-year Annihilation Rouge Dragon torso bone, deciding that he wanted a stronger bone for himself 13.
• Announced Anti-Entropy and invited Earth Dragon Sect members to join without requiring them to abandon their existing allegiance 13.
• Considered establishing the faction in the Far North and recognized the eventual importance of obtaining the Ice Bear King’s support 15.

Dragon King Inheritance and Soul Spirits

• Traveled to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well after the Empresses’ recovery and breakthroughs 18.
• Descended to the Dragon Kings’ remains and inherited the Ice Dragon King’s power. Left the Fire Dragon King’s core and skeleton untouched until he became strong enough or found a suitable inheritor 22 23.
• Participated in the first successful soul spirit contract before returning north for extended cultivation 26 27.

Shrek Academy

• Enrolled alongside Nan Qiuqiu, attracting the administration’s attention with their exceptional cultivation levels 29 31.
• Challenged Zhou Yi’s punishment policy and dominated their arena confrontation through gravity-based control and attacks 34 36 37 42.
• Accepted two hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins in compensation but declined the Inner Court assessment, choosing to continue learning in the Outer Court 40.
• Became Class One monitor and befriended Huo Yuhao through his grilled-fish stall 41.
• Subdued Ma Xiaotao during an evil-fire outbreak near Sea God Lake, protecting nearby students before Yan Shaozhe explained her condition 43.
• Continued attending classes, cultivating, and assisting soul spirit research as the freshman assessment approached 44.

Notable Quotes

“I simply can't walk someone else's path.” 16

“You use Soul Power to oppress us freshmen. What fundamental difference is there between you, the mediocrities you speak of, and those Evil Soul Masters outside?” 34

“Sustainably draining the pond to catch the fish.” 24