Wang Chong

Biodata

Power Progression

Background / History

Transmigration and the White Chrysanthemum Accusation

Wang Chong transmigrates from a modern society into a body with extensive martial training but no accessible personal memories. He can recover and perform its martial arts without understanding the original owner’s identity or the principles behind every technique. His initial fear is that he has become the wanted sexual predator White Chrysanthemum 9 10 35 45.

To avoid recognition, he adopts scholar’s robes, changes his hairstyle, and uses makeup learned while accompanying an ex-girlfriend to a cosplay convention. His literary performance helps reinforce the disguise. With Fang Jingru and Qin Han supporting him, he joins the very alliance hunting White Chrysanthemum as its sixty-second brother 10 17.

Building a Reputation and Household

His exchanges with powerful opponents attract the attention of the alliance’s young martial artists. Chu Qiuzi reads with him and arranges a Qingcheng junior to serve as his book attendant. Su Luoyan invites him into her circle, gives him a sword, and later allows Yuzao to enter his household 15 23 28 30.

After he kills Wenducheng, the Su Family formally thanks him for avenging Su Luoyan’s younger brother. Meanwhile, constables threatened with execution over Wen Zhengming’s murder seek his help. Wang Chong recruits their sons and nephews with promises of official prospects, creating the beginnings of a personal following 66.

His defense of Pengshan County becomes the foundation of his military rise. The recruits gain substantial military merit, and chief constables who had previously ignored him begin sending gifts and young relatives into his service 77 78 213.

Reclaiming the Prince of Yan Identity

Wen Zhiwei reveals that the Wen Family raised Wen Zhengchun and exploited his fear of execution to manipulate him. Their plan relied on burdening him with White Chrysanthemum’s crimes, including crimes he had not committed. Wang Chong subsequently reclaims recognition as the Prince of Yan, although the extent of the original prince’s wrongdoing remains unresolved 80 81.

Gao Gun later explains the Empress’s part in his departure from Chang’an. Aware of the aristocratic clans’ schemes, she had hoped to let her son feign death and escape into an ordinary life. The alternative identity prepared for him was connected to the Way of Great Peace 105.

Wang Chong rejects the Wen Family’s control and prefers his chosen name to “Wen Zhengchun.” Close followers learn to address him as “Brother Wang Chong” rather than insist on princely formalities 95 112 191.

Territorial Expansion

Wang Chong develops the Wind-Treading Cavalry, incorporates surrendered soldiers, and assigns commanders to secure strategically important territory. He and Sun Mingke rout the Wild Goose Cavalry; afterward, Wang Chong replenishes his cavalry and places soldiers not selected for it into the Tailwind Army 97 100.

He captures Great Consort Yueliduo and takes Red Camel City, then reorganizes its garrison and incorporates Shangtuo tribesmen into his forces. During his subsequent grassland diplomacy, he obtains the Eternal Life Holy Church’s support for his bid to become Great Chieftain. He later holds that position within the Shangtuo Tribe 119 138 206.

The Empress appoints him Military Governor of Tong, Ba, and Yan and Grand Protector of Nine-Bend, while clearing him of rebellion charges. Although her public decree orders action against An Dushan, her private instruction is to remain uninvolved and send no troops 168.

An Dushan and the Nineteen Provinces

As his responsibilities grow, Wang Chong becomes less willing to abandon territory and followers as casually as he once imagined he could. He rejects an alliance with An Dushan despite his teachers’ advice, treating the protection of his mother as a fixed principle rather than a negotiable political interest 190 195.

After reaching Great Grandmaster, he travels toward Luoyang with a disguised party to assassinate An Dushan. He succeeds, escapes to Copper Pass, and absorbs many of the defeated ruler’s former troops while defending the pass 208 219.

By the confrontation with the Chang’an envoys, he commands several hundred thousand troops across nineteen provinces and is described as the world’s youngest Great Grandmaster. He foils their poisoning attempt and rejects the Jiang Clan’s assumption that its claim to rule requires his submission 225.

Return to Chang’an

During his return to Chang’an, Wang Chong fights the Jiang Clan, abandons his disguise, and calls the Empress “Mother.” She allows him to escape. He kills Third Lord Jiang in her presence, leaves the city with Gao Gun’s help, and vows to return openly 239 240.

His later activities include teaching Longji a spear art, visiting Su Luoyan, and receiving further support from senior martial figures. Ku Cha sends another five hundred Wudang disciples to Tongzhou and brings Xun Ba to apologize and serve him. Kong Chan then presents a Dharma-Transmission Kasaya as a wedding gift for Wang Chong and Su Luoyan 246 248 249.

Appearance

• Scholar disguise: Replaces a warrior’s topknot with a scholar’s hairstyle, wears scholar’s robes, and uses powder and eyeshadow to resemble a pale, bookish young man with weak blood and Qi 10.
• Portable disguises: Keeps specially blended makeup on his person and uses it before sensitive meetings 78.
• Unfamiliar reflection: Even after his rise to power, he remains unused to the appearance of the body he inhabits 245.

Personality

Wang Chong is sociable, quick-witted, and attentive to how others perceive him. He moves comfortably between literary conversation and rougher martial-world company, making alliance members feel welcome while impressing aristocratic women with poetry and historical discussion. He also deliberately protects his reputation, sending departing allies away with generous gifts rather than sacrificing goodwill for immediate advantage 44 106.

His apparent refinement coexists with calculated deception and severe violence. He kills resistant captives to compel submission, gives intruders false confidence before ordering an arrow volley, and repeatedly seeks to decide dangerous fights with overwhelming opening attacks. Nevertheless, he will retreat from a winnable battle if an injury would leave him vulnerable to other pursuers 75 76 108 119 154.

Personal feeling can override political convenience. He shelters Li Wantang without exploiting the humiliating terms on which she was sent to him, and protects Sun Ji’s reputation with a fabricated account. His loyalty to the Empress likewise survives warnings that mother and son may eventually become rivals for power 184 188 195.

He is flirtatious and experienced in romance, drawing on memories of numerous former girlfriends. His companions nevertheless sometimes find him unreliable despite his victories, friendships, and ability to prosper almost anywhere 71 92.

Abilities & Skills

Pure Yang Cultivation and Swordsmanship

• Innate Pure Yang Formula: His principal internal cultivation art, supplying the power required to realize the Candle-Bearing Sword Technique’s flame-producing effects 28.
• Candle-Bearing Sword Technique: One of Wudang’s Seven Routes Divine Sword arts and his strongest early martial skill. Its consumption is substantial enough that he initially avoids frequent use 45 75.
• Sword Candle Mountain Sea: A decisive sword attack used to overpower Yueliduo 119.
• Pure Yang Sword-Refining Chapter: Cultivated after his entry into Grandmaster; he later forms a second Pure Yang Divine Sword 92 134.
• Suppress the Canghai: Learned from Mi Ang and incorporated into spear combat as well as sword practice 171 194.
• Innate True Flame Sword Threads: Used directly against Xun Ba and later gathered into the fist force of the Immortal-Piercing Hammer 195 239.

Lightness Arts and Earthly Fiend Art

• Cloud-Riding, Wind-Treading Lightness Skill: Enables rapid escapes, evasive footwork, and separation from groups whose combined fighting strength cannot compensate for slower movement 13 73.
• Soaring Clouds, Treading the Wind: Integrated into his self-created Eighteen Flying Dragon Forms 63.
• Earthly Fiend Art: Draws on an energy beneath the earth to let him glide just above the ground. That energy cannot be absorbed into his body as Inner Force or True Qi 205 208.
• Combat advantage: His superior movement and speed allow him to evade stronger opponents, including Xun Ba and Zhao Feishan 194 208.
• Limit: His sensations of deep earthfire after perfecting the art are not established as an ability to control it 236.

Fan, Palm, and Hidden-Weapon Arts

• Hundred Styles of Wind and Cloud: A Wudang supreme art usable with a folding fan or bare hands. Combines his internal cultivation, movement arts, Flowing Cloud Palm, Wind-Splitting Palm, and part of the Candle-Bearing Sword Technique 11 17.
• Flying Flowers, Plucking Leaves Hand: Both a palm art and a hidden-weapon art; requires profound internal power to turn ordinary objects into weapons 17.
• Improvised projectiles: Cuts a bow apart with a leaf and uses plucked hairs to pressure Xun Ba and attack another target 64 192 245.
• Object-Borrowing Power Transmission: Sends internal power through intervening objects. He injures a claw-wielding opponent through his sleeve and her iron weapon 75.

Vajra Prajna Palm and Divine Transformation Arts

• Vajra Prajna Palm: Memorized from the manual concealed in Tie Mole’s leg wraps, made available by Lu Zongfeng 48.
• Nine-Headed Fire Dragon Flash: A fiery palm attack derived from powering Vajra Prajna Palm with the Nine-Headed Dragon King Aspect 49 65.
• Eighteen Flying Dragon Forms: His movement-based adaptation of that combined palm force 63.
• Nine-layer ceiling: Because he does not cultivate the Green Mountain Sect’s matching internal method, he cannot reach Vajra Prajna Palm’s full thirteen layers 229.
• Army-Breaking Bodhisattva Aspect: Protects him from the harmful consequences of quick-mastery heart methods 123.
• Other cultivated signs: The Mani Jewel deepens his understanding of the Nine-Headed Demon Dragon Aspect, Army-Breaking Bodhisattva Aspect, Prajna Blade, and Huayan Kasaya 237.

Spear Combat and Martial Instruction

• Mounted combat: Adapts sword techniques to spear use and emphasizes direct, economical attacks when fighting through formations 69 194.
• Force control: Uses dispersal, redirection, and precise application of force to compete against physically stronger opponents 47 220 246.
• Teaching: Identifies Jiang Wenyue’s suitability for external martial arts and teaches him the Six Qi Skin-Aspect Method and Dragon Elephant Maha Great True Force 163.
• Technique creation: Develops the Ten-Thousand-Victory Flower Spear for Longji and presents Huayan Kasaya under the name Brocade Red Phoenix. Longji subsequently expands the spear art to 108 sequences using Emei techniques 246.

Leadership, Strategy, and Literary Skills

• Recruitment and integration: Builds forces from constables’ relatives, surrendered cavalry, tribesmen, and captured soldiers 66 119 181 219.
• Military deception: Swaps the destinations of intercepted appeals to the imperial court and grassland tribes; later keeps Tai Sui Fu occupied while taking control of Huazhou’s defenses 100 198.
• Delegation: Entrusts Shangzhou and White Province to Su Luoyan and Tongzhou to Yuzao 247.
• Poetry and presentation: Uses poetry to support his scholar persona and win others’ admiration. His command of this world’s books is less complete than his cultivated image suggests 10 23 168.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Folding fan — Carried in a leather sheath inside his left sleeve. Its surface withstands an attempt to tear it with internal force; he removes its original peonies and crude verse to reduce the risk of recognition. A later appearance describes it as painted with beauties 9 194.
• Sword from Su Luoyan — Presented after his fight with Qian Luoyi, for which he had borrowed Yuzao’s sword 28.
• Coiling Dragon — A longsword that responds to his touch with a ringing cry audible for several miles 102.
• Heavenly Martial Great Spear — Assembled and tested by Wang Chong; absorbs his Pure Yang internal power when he channels it into the weapon 167.
• Old martial-arts fan — Given by Su Luoyan; contains the Twelve Flower-Plucking Kills and the lightness technique Moonlit Eve, Flower-Filled Morning 108.
• Makeup supplies — Used to alter his face and maintain disguises 10 78.
• Dharma-Transmission Kasaya — Kong Chan’s wedding gift for him and Su Luoyan, densely inscribed with an obscure internal cultivation method 249.

Relationships

• The Empress — Mother of his current body. Arranges his attempted escape from court politics, supports him through appointments and private instructions, and lets him escape Chang’an. Wang Chong resolves not to rebel against her 105 168 195 240.
• Gao Gun — Teacher and major supporter. Trained the original prince, explains his concealed background, and assists his military and political rise 104 105 107.
• Qiguan Sui — Teacher and adviser. Recognizes him as Holy Lord of the Way of Great Peace and counsels him alongside Gao Gun 180 181 190.
• Kong Chan — Teacher. Sends Xuangang to him and later supplies the Dharma-Transmission Kasaya as a wedding gift 71 248 249.
• Su Luoyan — Romantic partner, adviser, and administrator. Gives him a sword, accompanies his campaigns, and governs two provinces. He calls her his wife before Mo Zhenxing 28 97 108 247.
• Chu Qiuzi — Early romantic interest who reads with him and arranges his book attendant. Later becomes the Prince of Yan’s secondary consort in Chang’an, initially without his knowledge 23 92 162.
• Longji / Princess Hongluan — Betrothed consort and daughter of his father’s formidable sworn brother. Wang Chong teaches her the Ten-Thousand-Victory Flower Spear and Brocade Red Phoenix 235 245 246.
• Jiang Wenjun — Cousin and prospective Princess of Yan who chooses to support him rather than abandon their marriage arrangement; later commands forces in his absence 155 219.
• Wen Chan’er — Romantic partner and campaign companion. Accompanies his assassination expedition and later commands the Caiying Army 208 213.
• Yuzao — Maid who enters his household from Su Luoyan’s service and eventually manages Tongzhou 30 247.
• Sun Mingke — Close friend, regular sparring partner, and cavalry commander. Their joint action breaks the Wild Goose Cavalry 45 48 100.
• Qin Han — Alliance brother who helps secure his membership and connects him with Qin Gao, an early military supporter 17 82.
• Fang Jingru — Early friend who introduces him to the young martial artists and supports his entry into the alliance 15 17.
• Wen Zhengxi and Wen Zhiwei — The original prince’s trusted relatives and caretakers, implicated in the scheme to frame him as White Chrysanthemum 80 81 208.
• Yueliduo — Captured opponent who subsequently serves alongside him and joins his campaigns 119 126 181.
• Shi Langying — Sworn elder brother. Wang Chong maintains their informal affection even after his princely identity becomes widely known 177 191.
• Tai Sui Fu — Sworn brother and alliance partner; receives a level of Vajra Prajna Palm from Wang Chong 198.
• An Dushan — Rival whose proposed alliance Wang Chong ultimately rejects; later assassinated by him 195 219.
• Xun Ba — Powerful opponent who repeatedly challenges his martial limits. Later brought by Ku Cha to apologize and enter his service 192 194 248.

Notable Quotes

“You shot an arrow at me, so I’ll send a leaf back!” 64

“It was no easy feat for you to force me to advance to Great Grandmaster either, State Preceptor Zhao!” 208

“Here, I never require anyone to make grand bows. Most of the brothers simply call me Brother Wang Chong when they see me. You and I are brothers, so just call me Little Brother Chong.” 191