Fang Hong

Biodata

Power Progression

Background / History

Earth and Transmigration

Before transmigrating, Fang Hong was a biology doctoral student at one of China’s leading Project 985 universities. He intended to pursue a university research career, marry, and raise a family. His scientific background shaped his initial attempt to understand disembodied consciousness through comparisons with computer hardware and program code 1.

At a transmigration office, consultant Little Nine explained that he was a separated “unique trait,” while his original body continued living. His randomly drawn Fate Card assigned him the identity of a sixteen-year-old cultivation-clan heir. Upon possession, the two lives’ memories merged smoothly; he experienced the change more like awakening memories of a previous life than taking over an unfamiliar body 1 2.

His new father, Fang Jian, was the Fang Household’s only Golden Core cultivator, while his mother was at Foundation Establishment. The family sent him to the Shangqing Sect to learn superior cultivation methods. His childhood engagement to its true disciple Su Wan provided another reason for the arrangement 2 3.

Shangqing Admission and Abduction

Fang Hong passed the Shangqing Sect’s entrance assessment and stayed at Lingyun Pavilion. Su Wan sent him a second-tier sword talisman through her younger sister, Su Yao, to celebrate his admission 5 6.

Before the new disciples could reach Tianyu Island, “Fang Qing” revealed himself as an enemy and abducted all twenty-six successful candidates. The impostor was Rogue Person Xuanyin, a Golden Core elder of the Yin-Yang Sect, who had replaced the real Fang Qing 6 7 20.

During the Yin-Yang Sect’s frozen-realm trial, Fang Hong used the Fate Mirror to locate resources and expose a Ghost King Sect cultivator impersonating Fang Li. He killed the impostor, believing the real Fang Li had already been murdered 8.

He subsequently defended the Ice-Soul Treasure Tree against rival cultivators. When the Xun Household and other attackers besieged his formation, he empowered his flying sword with a Seven-Kill Armor-Piercing Talisman and slaughtered the attackers. His trial exploits—reportedly more than twenty same-rank kills and the seizure of the Ice-Soul Spirit Fruit—established his reputation among fellow disciples 10 11 12 41.

Life in the Yin-Yang Sect

Fang Hong and Su Yao mastered Dragon-Phoenix Guidance together and became the second pair in their batch to qualify as inner disciples. They registered their soul imprints and received cave abode A-6 on the northern island 14 15.

Learning that local sects screened for “Extraterrestrial Wraiths,” Fang Hong recognized that transmigrators were being hunted. Xuanyin later confirmed that he was also a transmigrator and had concealed the spiritual signature on Fang Hong’s Fate Card. He supplied Fang Hong with the Three Fates Compendium and offered to accept him as a disciple after Foundation Establishment 16 19 20.

Fang Hong adopted the Black Water True Explanation, trained his swordsmanship through Xuanyin’s illusion album, and began preparing the Seven Great Medicines. He also supported Chai Hongzhou’s effort to organize their fellow newly promoted inner disciples into an information-sharing network 17 18 20 21.

His partnership with Su Yao led him to agree that he should dissolve his engagement to Su Wan. Su Wan later proposed the same arrangement, asked him to treat her sister well, and acknowledged her own reluctance to lose him 14 30.

Company Access and Zhao Feixue

Once his Fate Card’s travel permission activated, Fang Hong visited the Myriad Worlds Ancient Boat and met Hetu Company assistant Zhou Xueying. She explained the dangers facing transmigrators and obtained insurance-related supplies and a second-tier Azure Sky Divine Armor for him 34 35.

He tested the armor against sea beasts, killing second-tier creatures that he admitted he could not defeat without it. These battles also helped integrate his swordsmanship with his Netherworld Heavy Water magical power 38 39.

Suspecting Ghost King Sect true disciple Zhao Feixue of plotting against him, Fang Hong prepared an ambush rather than immediately asking his father to intervene. By his return to the Yin-Yang Sect, he had repeatedly verified that the Seven Great Medicines had taken effect on her and rendered her obedient 37 41 42 44.

Fish-Dragon Assembly

At the Fish-Dragon Assembly, Fang Hong defeated Xun Yan by cutting through his regenerating second-tier demon vines with sword-intent-empowered attacks. Xun Yan’s defeat increased the veteran inner disciples’ wariness of Fang Hong 48 49.

He then accepted She Yutang’s challenge without taking the offered rest. After more than a hundred exchanges, her divided saber light forced him onto the defensive. He ultimately won through a combination of an Immobilization Talisman and poisonous pollen, rather than swordsmanship alone 49.

His performance prompted Ying Yang to suggest bringing more newly promoted disciples on the forthcoming Bloodrock Island trip. In his next documented match, Fang Hong faced Yan Feihuang’s two second-tier puppets and produced an ominous purple-green lightning sphere; the provided passage does not establish the result 49 50.

Appearance

• Features: A face compared to polished jade and an exceptionally handsome bearing 27.
• Clothing: Splendid, loose, broad-sleeved robes that emphasize his aristocratic upbringing 27.
• Cultivation aura: After adopting the Black Water True Explanation, his presence acquired an abyss-like depth 20.

Personality

Fang Hong is curious, analytical, and quick to adapt. He accepted transmigration with relatively little resistance, partly because he enjoyed xianxia novels, and approached unfamiliar phenomena through the habits of a scientific researcher. The intricate water-method alchemy in the Precious Spring Pill Record interested him because it resembled molecular-biology experiments 1 18.

He is composed around both social pressure and physical danger. A Shangqing disciple’s attempt to intimidate him left him unruffled, and he concealed his alarm when he realized that local cultivators hunted transmigrators. Although initially disinclined to initiate friendships, he recognized the practical need for an information network within the sect 4 6 16 17.

His restraint coexists with considerable ruthlessness. He remained calm after his first human kill and showed escalating ferocity toward opponents trying to seize the Ice-Soul Spirit Fruit. Su Yao, who had regarded him as a pampered, unambitious young master, reassessed him as decisive and formidable under pressure 9 10 12.

He is cautious rather than indiscriminately trusting. He checks identities through fate configurations, avoids opportunities without favorable omens, and declines risky invitations when he believes enemies are targeting him 22 24 31.

Abilities & Skills

Fate Mirror

An octagonal bronze mirror within his Niwan Palace’s sea of consciousness, decorated with cloud-and-thunder patterns. Its candlelight reveals omens and allows him to examine fate configurations 3.

• Bright, rising flame: Great good fortune.
• Faltering flame: Great misfortune.
• Steady flame: An ordinary outcome without particular fortune or disaster.
• Alternating brightness: Fortune concealing danger, or danger concealing fortune 3.
• Practical uses: Locating treasures, detecting poisoned wine, selecting an ambush position, and distinguishing impostors from familiar people 8 24 25 41.
• Limits and precautions: He could not read Xuanyin while the elder impersonated Fang Qing. He later avoided examining higher-cultivation targets after suspecting that such scrutiny had attracted Xuanyin’s attention 7 16.

Black Water True Explanation

A middle-grade heaven-rank, Nascent Soul-level cultivation inheritance that refines spiritual energy into Netherworld Heavy Water magical power 17 18.

• Replaced his family’s lower-grade earth-rank Azure Sea Mysterious Art, improving the quality of his magical power at the cost of a temporary realm regression 20.
• Its Foundation Establishment method requires one hundred drops of Netherworld Heavy Water and a suitable wisp of primordial qi to construct an immortal foundation Dao platform; Fang Hong has not yet completed this process in the provided material 18 34.

Dragon-Phoenix Guidance

A dual-cultivation art practiced with Su Yao 14.

• Requires emotional connection alongside harmony of magical power, body, and spirit 14.
• Helps transform spiritual energy into rain and accelerates the recovery and growth of his magical power 20.
• Combined with plentiful pills, it initially raised his cultivation speed to roughly that of cultivators with third- or fourth-grade meridians despite his seventh-grade aptitude 28.

Swordsmanship and Sword Intent

Fang Hong builds his swordsmanship through repeated combat against an illusion of Yan Suyue and through live battles with demonic beasts 21 28 39.

• Improved from being defeated in one stroke to lasting three moves, then six, and eventually more than thirty against the illusion 21 28 34.
• Developed faster reactions, more precise sword control, and the ability to defend against rapidly changing attacks 25 28 49.
• Sword Intent sharpens his perception and allows him to draw greater power from limited magical reserves 44.
• With Sword Intent, his supreme-grade first-tier flying sword approaches the offensive power of a low-grade second-tier flying sword 49.
• She Yutang’s superior Divine Sense, magical power, and saber-light division still forced him to rely on additional tools to win 49.

Ice-Soul Mystic Light

An innate freezing divine ability associated with the Ice-Soul Spirit Fruit 7 10 41.

• Rapidly froze an assassin’s arm and began spreading across her body 25.
• Can grow alongside its user’s cultivation, with potential extending to the Golden Core realm 7.

Seven Great Medicines

Fang Hong discovered a concealed report on the medicines inside an annotation in the Precious Spring Pill Record 18.

• [Sloth]: Successfully improved his meridians from seventh to sixth grade; its immediate effects included intense lethargy 32.
• [Lust]: Successfully prepared on his third attempt after obtaining a Parasitic Phantom Orchid 34.
• Control application: Confirmed that the medicines had taken effect on Zhao Feixue, leaving her completely obedient 44.
• Wrath research: Collected a Flood Dragon Ape’s body as a potential model for the medicine’s beast transformation; no completed transformation is documented 39.

Three Fates Compendium

A Kunxu Company secret art intended to perceive, strip, and transfer fate-chart divine balefuls 19.

• The Fate Mirror gives Fang Hong enough affinity to comprehend a small portion 21.
• Studying it for less than an incense stick’s time exhausts his soul and makes his head swim 21.
• Su Yao’s Enlightenment Flower does not help him study it, and he has not demonstrated its stripping or transfer functions 21.

Additional Combat Techniques

• Tiger-Rope Demon-Binding Seal: Restrained a Flood Dragon Ape during battle 39.
• Primordial Golden Dipper: Absorbed the ape’s lightning attacks 39.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Golden flying sword — A supreme-grade first-tier weapon forged by a Fang Household Foundation Establishment artifact refiner. It can take bracelet-like form; its maker deliberately left room for improvement so Fang Hong could use it at his current cultivation 8 10 49.
• Azure Sky Divine Armor — Second-tier armor supplied by the Hetu Company. Black-gold scales cover his entire body, supplementing his magical power and granting physical strength comparable to an early Foundation Establishment body cultivator. Its use does not represent an actual realm advancement 35 37.
• Divine Ability Talisman Seal — Merged into the armor’s chest and substantially increased its spiritual energy 37.
• Upper Clarity Sword Talisman — Su Wan’s second-tier gift, repeatedly used to kill dangerous opponents during the frozen-realm trial. Its sword light could be restrained by a suitable second-tier treasure 6 8 10 11.
• Seven-Kill Armor-Piercing Talisman — A second-tier talisman that temporarily empowered his flying sword to break through the besiegers’ defenses 12.
• Jade Water Formation — A portable defensive formation used to protect the Ice-Soul Treasure Tree and his sea-beast training site. The Flood Dragon Ape later tore through it 11 38 39.
• Kui Water Yin Thunder Pellets — Three powerful pellets received with his father’s advice; one was readied during his ambush preparations 30 42.
• Romantic Painting Album — Xuanyin’s illusion-bearing album, containing the Yan Suyue manifestation used for sword training. The illusion adjusts to match Fang Hong’s cultivation 19 21 28.
• Fate Card — Records his identity, aptitude, fate configuration, and company permissions; later enables travel to the Myriad Worlds Ancient Boat and transport of treasures for trade 2 32 34.
• Reincarnation Dew and Concealment Incense — Obtained for him by Zhou Xueying alongside the armor 35.
• Flying Chariot and Talisman Snow Lions — His regular transport between the sect, Five Dragon Island, and nearby seas 21 41 42.

Relationships

• Su Yao — Childhood acquaintance, Dao companion, and dual-cultivation partner. Shares her secret Enlightenment Flower with him and agrees to take over Su Wan’s betrothal 3 14 30.
• Su Wan — Childhood sweetheart and former fiancée. Gives him his second-tier sword talisman, then amicably proposes dissolving their engagement after his relationship with Su Yao develops 3 6 30.
• Fang Jian — Father and the Fang Household’s only Golden Core cultivator. Supplies protection, resources, and advice; his standing discourages the Xun Household’s elders from directly retaliating against Fang Hong 2 16 24 30.
• Fang Hong’s mother — Foundation Establishment cultivator who raised the Su sisters and selected Su Wan as his fiancée. Her hostility toward Su Yao makes the younger sister reluctant to return home 1 3 29 30.
• Rogue Person Xuanyin / Jin Huaiyuan — Fellow transmigrator, abductor, protector, and prospective master. Conceals Fang Hong’s transmigrator signature, provides secret arts, and offers apprenticeship after Foundation Establishment 7 19 20.
• Fang Mu / Steward Mu — Fang Household steward who searches for him after the abduction, gathers intelligence, delivers supplies, and acts on his instructions 23 26 27 30.
• Chai Hongzhou — Fellow inner disciple and information broker. Helps during the trial and organizes a disciple network using Fang Hong’s reputation 11 12 17.
• Zhou Xueying — Hetu Company assistant who explains company operations and supplies insurance-related items and the Azure Sky Divine Armor 34 35.
• Zhao Feixue — Ghost King Sect Foundation Establishment true disciple whom he suspects of targeting him; later placed under the Seven Great Medicines’ control 29 37 41 44.
• Xun Household — Enemy clan seeking revenge for its losses during the entrance trial. Xun Yan attempts to defeat Fang Hong at the Fish-Dragon Assembly 24 33 48 49.
• She Yutang — Veteran challenger whom he defeats through combined swordsmanship, talisman use, and poisonous pollen 49.
• Yan Feihuang — Fellow disciple first encountered over an Azure-Snow Spirit Fish; later challenges Fang Hong with second-tier puppet beasts 46 50.