Immortal King

Biodata

Power Progression

The documented progression below follows Mu Chen’s attainment of the title.

Realm and Hierarchy

• Rank does not guarantee victory: Mu Chen kills Qing Ze while still a True Immortal, using his true body, incarnations, layered immunity, and the Seven Arrows Book 126.
• Temporary attainment differs from a completed breakthrough: Mu Chen briefly enters the realm through fusion long before undergoing his own Immortal King Tribulation 130 138.
• Extraordinary combat power can obscure a cultivator’s actual rank: Ao Sheng, Tai Shi, and Yuan Chu suspect that the True Immortal Mu Chen is an old powerhouse in disguise after he counters Ao Sheng’s attack 134.

Attainment and Tribulation

Immortal King Tribulation

• Judgment of heaven and earth: Advancement requires enduring the crushing weight of the myriad Daos 138.
• Scope: Every rule and order that has appeared within the world, past and present, manifests to test the cultivator 138.
• Dharma-Ending Era: The world’s heightened backlash makes Mu Chen’s tribulation far more than twice as powerful as it would be under ordinary conditions 138.

Mu Chen’s World Method

• Accumulation: Refining Dark Creatures and the dark origin supplies reserves that conventional cultivation would have required at least ten thousand—and possibly a hundred thousand—years to accumulate 138.
• Inner world: Mu Chen creates a true world within himself; it grows for a thousand years and returns its power to him before his breakthrough 138.
• Additional trial: His newly created World Method provokes a separate Creation Method Tribulation that overlaps with the Immortal King Tribulation 138.
• Completion: He absorbs tribulation light and Dao laws, shatters the Blade of Heaven’s Will, and finishes the ordeal after a hundred years 138.
• Result: After advancing, Mu Chen judges that a single palm strike could probably kill his pre-breakthrough self 139.

Abilities and Limitations

Dao Authority and Pressure

• An Immortal King’s manifested will can freeze stellar debris and raging energy currents while suppressing the surrounding Daos 120.
• Wushang’s unadorned presence places him at the center of the surrounding universe, with all Daos honoring him 123.
• Mu Chen’s Immortal King aura pulverizes attacking Foreign Domain cultivators below king rank before they can approach him 143.

Destructive Power and Remote Attacks

• Immortal Kings can project attacks across immense distances. Ao Sheng extends a hand across a vast star domain to seize Mu Chen near the Immortal Gate 134.
• Qing Ze’s ancestral art manifests a starry expanse containing immortal mountains and rivers of stars within his palm 126.
• Their battles can rupture realm barriers, shatter celestial bodies, and leave lasting destructive marks across the universe 126.
• A remote manifestation is not equivalent to the true body: Mu Chen disperses an Immortal King’s projected will, then suffers fractured palms when blocking Wushang’s physical halberd strike 120.

Bodies and Primordial Spirits

• Physical strength: Qing Ze abandons ineffective magical attacks and channels his ancestral art into brute force 126.
• Survival after dismemberment: Severing Qing Ze’s head and destroying his remaining body does not immediately eliminate his primordial spirit 126.
• Resistance to soul destruction: An Lan survives the Seven Arrows Book’s killing strike by detonating much of his body and breaking his restraints, though he is left gravely weakened 130.
• Killability: The title does not confer absolute immortality. Qing Ze’s primordial spirit is destroyed by three successive arrows, while Mu Chen later suppresses and refines other Immortal Kings 126 140 143.

Individual Specializations

Barriers and Other Limits

• Heavenly Abyss: Mu Chen relies on crossing it to escape the Foreign Domain’s Immortal Kings 123.
• Realm rejection: The Immortal King overseeing the attack on Great Scarlet Heaven declines to enter personally because of the realm’s suppression and rejection 124.
• Immortal Domain gates: When closed, their jointly forged restrictions are difficult for even an Immortal King to force open 134.
• Boundary Sea: Fallen Immortal Kings are among its dangers; possessing the title does not make passage safe 134.
• Dao-fruit damage: The Blade of Heaven’s Will can cut away an Immortal King’s Dao fruit, although Mu Chen withstands it during his breakthrough 138.

Notable Holders

Weapons and Remains

• Bronze War Halberd — Wushang’s weapon, used to deliver physical killing blows alongside his immunity to magical power 120 122.
• Red Peak Spear and Immortal Shield — An Lan’s armaments; Mu Chen destroys the shield during their battle 130.
• Immortal-Refining Pot — A weapon associated with a Foreign Domain titan. It has drunk the blood of multiple Immortal Kings and houses the sleeping Kundi before Mu Chen seals it 126 142.
• One-Qi Chaos Tower — Reforged to a level comparable to an Immortal King Weapon before Mu Chen permanently reaches the realm 127.
• Bright Light Sword Wings, Tai Shi Sky Halberd, and Yuan Chu Immortal Light — Spoils taken from Ao Sheng, Tai Shi, and Yuan Chu after their defeat 141.
• Willow Deity’s old body — Its lingering Dao resonance clashes with destructive black lightning, disordering local space, time, and laws; Mu Chen uses the conflict to temper his physique 117 118.
• Essence blood — Immortal King blood can crush space and extinguish celestial bodies. It also serves as the offering that opens the Mysterious Land 126 141 143.

History and Story Role

At the end of the Ancient Immortal Era, the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands faced collapse after its kings fell. Immortal King Without End and Immortal King of Reincarnation entrusted the Gu Ancestor with feigning defection and planting his tribe inside the Foreign Domain as a hidden force 132.

Immortal Kings remain central to the later war over the Imperial Pass. The Gu Ancestor ultimately sacrifices himself to destroy four enemy kings, and Mu Chen publicly reveals the mission that had caused him to be remembered as a traitor 131 132.

• Peach Banquet aftermath: Mu Chen’s rapid defeat of Ao Sheng, Tai Shi, and Yuan Chu shocks the assembled Immortal Kings. News spreads throughout the Immortal Domain, and the three fallen rulers’ clans lose power and territory 141.
• Foreign Domain’s collapse: After refining Kundi, Mu Chen invades the Foreign Domain, captures Wushang, hunts fleeing kings, and kills the remaining defenders at the divine temple. Its king-rank powerhouses are almost entirely eliminated 143.