Dharma King

Biodata

Power Progression

Appearance

• Circus disguise: Wears a bull-head mask; his lightning-covered entrance at Cloud Mountain initially makes him appear to be a minotaur 30 203.
• Early transformed body: Becomes a white skeleton with blue lightning flickering in its empty eye sockets 45.
• Horned lightning form: Displays black pointed horns, golden lightning pupils, and legs composed entirely of electric current 111.
• Armored Beast Transformation: His lower body becomes golden lightning, his upper body gains lightning armor, and individual strands of hair turn into current 172.
• Later Strange Beast form: Has long blue hair streaming upward, lightning trailing from his eyes, electrically charged claws, and a lower body blazing with lightning 652.
• Strengthened thunder beast: After his physical-enhancement Soul Orb upgrade, his humanoid beast form becomes large enough to nearly compare with Giant Overlord 1130.

Personality

Dharma King is loud, boastful, and theatrical. He announces himself as “the main character,” declares that he will solo an Otherworld’s final boss, and treats battles as opportunities to claim kills and show off. When Qin Ze steals a finishing blow, he complains—then later steals one back and repeats Qin Ze’s own justification 172 303 325.

His impatience and temper frequently create trouble. He openly despises cryptic explanations, rises to Ink’s deliberate provocation, and unleashes attacks broad enough to kill allied clones. Other Circus members repeatedly mock his aim and disregard for friendly fire, although one particularly disastrous incident is caused by the Faceless Beast manipulating his target perception 67 743 795 992.

Despite his bluster, he can be deceptive and tactically cooperative. He pretends to lose his composure to lure a shadow-using enemy into Giant Overlord’s strike, carefully directs an explosion away from Thousand Faces during a staged battle, and abandons attacks when negotiation offers a better solution 432 652 659.

Abilities & Skills

Lightning Manipulation

Dharma King’s innate ability produces lightning for direct attacks, battlefield control, and paralysis 25 111.

• Lightning whips: Uses single whips, five-hit combinations, and paired whips over ten meters long. Rapid strikes can briefly expose an enemy using optical camouflage 31 112 602.
• Thunderbolt and Electric Energy Surge: Launches concentrated electrical attacks capable of numbing stronger opponents or cutting a bloody trench through a beast horde 250 1130.
• Myriad Bolts of Lightning / Thunder: Releases multiple descending bolts or widespread electrical destruction; one use destroys a mass of spherical drones 281 324.
• Lightning nets: Weaves broad nets that engulf crowds. At North Ridge, one net shreds more than a hundred exotic beasts 187 292.
• Spears and lightning balls: Condenses electricity into thrown weapons or large explosive masses. Gathering all his lightning into a spear at Underworld Mountain leaves him weakened and falling from the sky 557 652.
• Chain lightning: Spreads current between closely packed Wandering Corpses, breaking their damaged bodies apart 555.
• Large-area destruction: Uses a lightning version of Supernova Explosion across a radius of dozens of kilometers, also reducing several allied clones to ash 992.

Beast Transformation and Lightning Movement

Beast Transformation converts much of his body into lightning and gives him an exotic-beast-like presence 172.

• Flies, turns into lightning to retreat, and moves rapidly through thunderbolts during combat 32 111 804.
• Uses lightning armor and layered electrical shields for protection 172 658.
• Can become a lightning pillar for a high-speed “rocket headbutt,” though his momentum makes sudden changes dangerous 602.
• Avoids transforming near the city center when the resulting disturbance might attract law enforcement 203.

Lightning Domain

His Lightning Domain fills an area with intersecting bolts whose next appearance is difficult to predict 946.

• Uses it above the Northern Heaven Gate to draw two Level Nine opponents into fighting him rather than rushing the gate.
• Coordinates with Mist Lord, whose concealment creates an additional threat within the battlefield 946.

Close-Quarters Combat

Although described as a mage, Dharma King also fights with punches, lightning-enhanced charges, and close-range whips 148 602.

• Delivers more than a hundred punches in one second while overwhelming Big Beard, a Level Three Martial Artist 148.
• Gains a major physical upgrade through a strengthening-related Soul Orb 1130.
• Uses Million-Ton Thunder Power Fist against a winged king-level beast. Their initial exchange sends lightning into the beast’s arm and blows it apart 1130.
• Earlier in his development, a peak Level Six opponent closing the distance puts him in immediate danger; Giant Overlord must block the attack 281.

Soul Orb Absorption and Clone Coordination

Dharma King directly consumes Soul Orbs and returns cultivation and ability feedback to Qin Ze 25 149.

• Swallows an unpurified Soul Orb without undergoing the mutation that Big Beard expects 149.
• Resists knockout incense that incapacitates several ordinary clones; the passage attributes his and Giant Overlord’s resistance to their direct consumption of Soul Orbs 129.
• Communicates with Qin Ze and the other clones through the Local Area Network 67 292.
• Carries attached combat clones into Cloud Mountain’s execution grounds, allowing thirteen masked clones to emerge after he deploys smoke 31.
• Later commands a legion of five thousand clones assigned to dangerous missions 1115.

Divine Elemental Authority

After crossing the Star Gate, Dharma King gains elemental power oriented toward blunt destruction rather than A Sheng’s fine, meticulous control 1201.

• His authority feeds back to Qin Ze.
• A Sheng identifies a fusion of Star God and Strange God authorities in his Sequence.
• The fusion’s existence surprises A Sheng because both contributing Sequences already exist 1201.

Limitations and Counters

• Numbers: His lightning cannot always compensate for overwhelming enemy density; huge octopus swarms and sea-beast hordes limit its battlefield impact 112 276.
• Defenses and resistance: Defensive Martial Artifacts can block his bolts, resistance equipment reduces their effect, and an octopus swarm’s shared Domain prevents chain lightning from forming 203 292 608.
• Superior opponents: The transformed demon mercenary forces him back, while the fully recovered Blazing Sun woman suppresses him with a single blast 251 430.
• Control and deception: A supernatural gaze immobilizes him and interrupts a charged Thunderbolt; the Faceless Beast redirects his apparent target onto allies 789 795.
• Unexplained resistance: Ink’s starlight, which instantly drops nearby beasts, initially has no effect on him. A subsequent attack causes him to spit blood, but he quickly recovers; Ink cannot explain his resilience 992.

Equipment & Items

• Bull-head mask — His recognizable Circus disguise 30 203.
• Smoke bomb — Conceals the appearance of the combat clones carried into the execution grounds 31.
• Blood crystal — Absorbs one during the city-wall battle before returning to the air and resuming his attacks 112.
• Dust-covered ornament — Obtains it as an apparent bonus to a purchased treasure map; he immediately discards the fraudulent map, while Giant Overlord recognizes the ornament as connected to Qin Ze 122.
• Monocular Martial Artifact — Taken from the captain who attempted to rob his group. Consuming more qi and blood increases its viewing distance and clarity 129.
• Blue Flame Realm map — Marks the approximate location of newly surfaced buildings southeast of the realm’s entrance 129.
• Entropy Stones — Plants them around the World Stone while attempting to destroy it, but stops before detonation when it offers an alternative 659.

History

Execution-Ground Rescue

Dharma King enters Cloud Mountain’s execution grounds in his lightning-covered Circus disguise and rescues Wang Biao. He brings attached clones past security, releases them under smoke cover, and escapes while the remaining clones use self-destruction to hold back the enforcers and Blood Hand Gang 30 31.

At the rendezvous, the black-robed employers reveal that they also hired Blood Hand and intend to kill him to conceal Wang Biao’s knowledge of a key. Dharma King proposes joining them, but the leader demands that he take poison. Teacher Yao’s enforcers arrive before he does so; when both leaders rush toward the sack containing Wang Biao, he throws it aside and escapes as lightning 31 32.

Sea Hunting and Pirate Encounters

Dharma King uses bleeding clones as bait to attract a fifty-meter, level-three Unicorn Shark. He and Giant Overlord kill it, but their small boat begins sinking, leaving them dependent on a returning fishing vessel 120.

The vessel’s captain later attempts to steal their catch with knockout incense. Dharma King and Giant Overlord foil the robbery, and the captain trades information about Blue Flame Realm ruins for his life. Dharma King obtains his monocular and map before the Flying Circus sails from Thousand Streams Island 129.

He subsequently overwhelms Big Beard of the Black Cross Pirates and joins the search through their treasure, openly consuming a Soul Orb in front of the astonished pirate 148 149.

Rescue Operations and Happiness City

Dharma King helps protect Shi’an Academy’s teachers and students from the one-eyed mercenary, but the enemy’s demonic transformation overwhelms him and Brother Devour. Fairy eventually kills the mercenary and asks Dharma King for directions to the central laboratory 250 251.

During a later street battle, he retrieves a girl from between opposing forces and passes her to Brother Devour. Qin Ze, Dharma King, and Brother Devour escape after twenty self-destructing clones create smoke and confusion 292.

In Happiness City, his lightning destroys drones while an EMP briefly disables peace officers. He later reaches the human-Spirit separator with Qin Ze and Brother Devour, supplying additional energy with lightning when the machine warns that Qin Ze’s Spirit is too strong 324 325.

Abyss Expeditions and the World Stone

Dharma King accompanies Qin Ze into Otherworld No. Zero, where intense pollution gives the Heavenly Kings only half an hour of operating time. Qin Ze recalls them and uses the Source of God to help them endure it 542.

He also participates in the search for Preacher, working with Thousand Faces and Big Black to detect hidden spaces and track the target 570 578.

In the Land of Faith, Dharma King penetrates the corpse horde guarding the World Stone but cannot damage it. He instead persuades it to leave by offering a peaceful place to sleep. Its departure destabilizes the realm and helps bring about the end of the Land of Faith 658 659.

Alliance Service and Divine Ascension

Dharma King helps defend the Heaven Gates against Level Nine martial artists and later alerts Qin Ze that Sea Capital is sealed under curfew while other cities are unusually tense. His report prompts Qin Ze to investigate 946 1045.

After the First Legion suffers heavy losses in Dark Tide, Qin Ze appoints him commander of a new five-thousand-clone corps. Its members choose the name Raptor Legion. He later fights beside the Amethyst people at the Magic Academy, using his strengthened thunder-beast body against a king-level exotic beast 1115 1130.

Qin Ze eventually sends him through the Star Gate, where he gains divine elemental authority. A Sheng’s examination reveals the unexpected fusion underlying his new Sequence 1201.

Relationships

• Qin Ze — Original body and leader. Receives Dharma King’s cultivation and ability feedback; their exchanges include orders, insults, and competitive kill-stealing 25 303.
• Brother Devour — Frequent combat partner. Shields Dharma King from the queen’s self-destruction and later from an explosive Martial Artifact; Dharma King initially believes the queen’s blast has killed him 76 203.
• Giant Overlord — Regular teammate. Helps kill the Unicorn Shark, protects him from stronger melee attackers, and launches him through a corpse horde with a bone-club strike 120 281 602 658.
• Mist Lord — Provides concealment and battlefield support; also restrains him when Ink deliberately provokes him 292 946 992.
• Thousand Faces — Fellow Heavenly King and partner in staged battles. They coordinate theatrical attacks while trading insults privately over the Local Area Network 652 796.
• Big Black — Hunting Beast used in tracking operations. Dharma King rewards its work with the promise of an extra chicken leg and is later assigned to supervise its weight loss 570 1045.
• World Stone — Initially an indestructible target, then a negotiated solution to destabilizing the Land of Faith. It later falls silent at the sight of Dharma King approaching 659 678.
• Fairy — Rescues his group from the demon mercenary and then asks him to guide her through the institute 251.

Notable Quotes

“A way out has always been something you fight for!” 250

“There’s no such thing as an undying body. You just haven’t done enough damage.” 341

“Before you touch our leader, you’ll have to answer to me, Lightning Dharma King!” 557