Hermoz

Biodata

History

Pursuit of Mu Chen’s Inheritance

Hermoz had long coveted Hongjun’s authority over the Four Seas. After learning that Lin Heng possessed Mu Chen’s inheritance, he hoped to use it to advance beyond the limits of his four-layer universe. He also wanted to prevent another figure like Mu Chen from emerging and threatening his position 859 860 905.

When Hongjun disclosed that Lin Heng would soon leave for an Archaic Land, Hermoz stationed men along every route out of the Southern Spirit Sacred Sea. The pursuit failed to stop Lin Heng from reaching the Western Celebratory Demon Sea. Hermoz subsequently used Time Reversal to investigate the failure and cleared Old Freak Heavenly Yang of accusations that he had helped Lin Heng escape 860 868.

Heavenly Sea Contest

At the Heavenly Sea Contest, Hermoz’s criticism of Lin Heng’s extravagant arrival nearly provoked a fight with Dasiwoba before Hongjun intervened. Hermoz later supplied Sibada Haoli with a second-class acquired Heavenly Punishment Universe Treasure and promised further rewards for obtaining Mu Chen’s inheritance 913 921.

Hermoz also approached Lin Heng directly, offering to spare him and provide a first-class acquired Heavenly Punishment Universe Treasure in exchange for the inheritance. Lin Heng refused, pointing out that he already possessed Mu Chen’s divine weapon, Eternal Ages. During the contest, Lin Yue Yao reminded Hermoz that she had defeated him previously 922.

His sea’s subsequent conflicts with Lin Heng brought further losses. After Zhu Rong killed Nubisi, Hermoz attempted to concede the Heavenly Star Sea Region contest, but Lin Heng enforced their agreement that the battle would continue until one side was wiped out 948.

When Zhao Wuji died carrying Hermoz’s borrowed Heaven Lock Glazed Staff, Lin Heng claimed the weapon as spoils. Unable to replace his strongest treasure, Hermoz eventually met Lin Heng privately on Cliff Island and barked three times to recover it. He left vowing revenge 960 961.

Defeat by Dijiang

Alarmed by Lin Heng’s rapid growth and apparent ability to copy spiritual treasures, Hermoz sought Dasiwoba’s help in killing him during the contest for the Pangu Axe’s axe soul. His proposed payment included a billion li of sea territory and the first billion years of access to Mu Chen’s inheritance 971 972 973.

The conflict escalated after Hermoz sent people to the Nine Heavens to capture Liu Ling’er. Lin Heng retaliated with the Fuxi Bow, devastating part of the Eastern Victorious Divine Sea. Hermoz intercepted the third arrow, then appealed to Hongjun to punish Lin Heng for violating the Four Seas’ rules 978.

Dijiang fought Hermoz with Eternal Ages, forcing him to deploy his secretly refined Blood Spirit Grand Array. Lin Heng’s Evil Avatar began consuming the array while Dijiang prevented Hermoz from attacking it. Hermoz’s own followers refused to intervene, fearing retaliation from their lord 979 980 981 982 983.

Dijiang eventually disarmed and severely injured Hermoz. Lin Heng ordered that his life be spared but forbade him from reclaiming the array, allowing the Good and Evil Avatars to exhaust its energy. Both avatars reached Imperishable Realm Great Perfection at Hermoz’s expense 985 986.

Cooperation with Fate

After his defeat, Hermoz publicly apologized to his followers, permitted anyone to leave without punishment, and distributed valuable spirit treasures. The gesture restored their loyalty, but his apparent transformation concealed outside influence: Fate had contacted him and promised that he would replace Hongjun 986 995.

Following Fate’s instructions, Hermoz adopted a conciliatory manner toward Lin Heng and repeatedly visited the Heavenly Star Sea Region. He apologized for his actions against Lin Heng’s mother, then attempted to turn Lin Heng and the Twelve Ancestral Witches against Primordial Chaos by discussing past killings and Mu Chen’s downfall 995 996 997.

Lin Heng recognized the likely connection to Fate but deliberately left Hermoz’s deception unexposed, hoping to use him as a route to Fate 1004.

Eternal Ruins and Heavenly Ladder Battles

Hermoz later tried to intensify an apparent dispute between Lin Heng and Hongjun, only to become embroiled in another battle with Dijiang. Although the two were evenly matched, Hermoz feared that a costly victory would leave him vulnerable to Liu Yuansheng. He created an opening with a full-power strike and escaped the temporary battlefield, damaging his prestige 1024 1025 1031.

Mu Tong subsequently restrained and reprimanded him, then explained that Lin Heng and Hongjun’s hostility might have been staged. Hermoz wanted to confront them immediately, but Mu Tong persuaded him to wait for an opportunity to kill Lin Heng before his next breakthrough 1031 1032.

During the Heavenly Ladder contest, Hermoz again faced Dijiang. His Infinite Space was suppressed by Death Space, a technique Mu Chen had left within Eternal Ages. Facing death, Hermoz sacrificed the Heaven Lock Glazed Staff to breach the space, escaped, and conceded 1049 1050 1052 1053 1054.

Mo Chen and the Ancient Clan

The Ancient Clan identified Hermoz’s hatred of Lin Heng as useful and sent Mo Chen to recruit him. Mo Chen killed his guards, occupied his seat, and gave him a replacement top-grade spirit treasure while withholding the other resources intended for him 1072 1073.

Forced to help lure Lin Heng into fabricated ruins within a month, Hermoz secretly sought Hongjun’s assistance. He also assured his followers that his apparent submission was part of an effort to avenge their murdered companions 1075 1076.

Hermoz later offered Dasiwoba the opportunity to assist Mo Chen against Lin Heng, prompting suspicion about why he would surrender such an opportunity. The two eventually agreed to cooperate in killing Mo Chen and use the result to strengthen their bargaining position with the Ancient Clan 1078 1090.

Mo Chen’s continuing abuse deepened Hermoz’s hostility. After returning to find murdered guards and learning that Mo Chen had attempted to violate a maid, Hermoz vowed to kill him within seven days. Mo Chen subsequently summoned him into the hall, where both maids were dead 1090.

After Mo Chen’s death, Hermoz and Dasiwoba sought to prove their value to the Ancient Clan by gathering intelligence on Lin Heng. Hai Qianmo challenged the reliability of Hermoz’s reports, but expressed interest when Hermoz proposed isolating Lin Heng and the Heavenly Star Sea Region from outside support 1108 1111 1112.

Hermoz then pressed Hongjun to cooperate against Lin Heng. Lin Heng’s unexpected arrival interrupted their private discussion before Hongjun gave an answer, forcing Hermoz to conceal its purpose 1117.

Personality

Hermoz’s central ambition is to escape his position beneath Hongjun. Even when advancement appears nearly impossible, he regards an endless life without a higher goal as meaningless. His pursuit of Mu Chen’s inheritance combines that ambition with fear of being surpassed 860 905.

Pride and resentment frequently undermine his judgment. Lin Heng’s successes provoke destructive outbursts, while perceived humiliation drives him toward rash confrontations. Nevertheless, he can assess danger and abandon prestige when survival demands it: he privately accepts Lin Heng’s barking condition, withdraws from Dijiang, and ultimately destroys his own strongest weapon to escape 961 971 1025 1032 1054.

His treatment of followers changes markedly. Initially brutal and stingy with rewards, he fails to inspire loyalty when he needs assistance. After Fate’s intervention, he becomes more generous and publicly apologetic. He later recognizes the importance of explaining his actions to his followers rather than expecting unquestioning obedience 982 983 986 995 1075.

Abilities & Skills

Cultivation and Physical Power

• Eternal Ages Cosmic Origin Realm: A veteran cultivator of a realm without early, middle, or late subdivisions. His four-layer universe has reached the normal cultivation ceiling for that structure 979 1024.
• Advancement limitation: Reaching Primordial Chaos’s level requires a five-layer world. Hermoz hopes Mu Chen’s inheritance can provide a solution, but Dijiang states that even Mu Chen could not overcome this limitation for the Twelve Ancestral Witches 905 1049.
• Arrow interception: Catches and destroys an arrow fired from the Fuxi Bow, though its impact drives him back a hundred meters and leaves his hand trembling 978.
• Sustained combat: Exchanges thousands of blows with Dijiang and, during his desperate counterattack, launches hundreds of thousands of staff attacks 980 983.

Time Reversal

A divine ability used to view events that have already occurred 868.

• Establishes that Old Freak Heavenly Yang did not assist Lin Heng’s escape.
• Leaves Hermoz visibly paler after use; no precise cost is stated 868.

Blood Spirit Grand Array

A secretly refined formation containing evil energy, vengeful souls, and evil spirits 981 983 986.

• Uses spirits to occupy an opponent while Hermoz hides and seeks a fatal opening 981.
• Combines vengeful souls into a blood-colored skull a hundred zhang tall 982.
• Temporarily reverses his disadvantage against Dijiang, but loses power as Lin Heng’s avatars consume its energy 983 986.
• Is completely exhausted after nourishing the Good and Evil Avatars 986.

Infinite Space

The hidden technique Hermoz comprehends through the Heaven Lock Glazed Staff 1050 1053.

• Spreads emerald-green light across a sea area fifty thousand li wide 1050.
• Contains binding vines and living beings capable of repeated revival 1051 1052.
• Is suppressed by Death Space, which prevents its life-based regeneration 1052 1053.
• Cannot ordinarily be used by another person merely wielding Hermoz’s staff 1053.

Light of Life

Life energy released through the Heaven Lock Glazed Staff 1053.

• Forms an emerald sphere that shields Hermoz from Death Space’s storms.
• Its collision with death energy tears open a kilometer-long spatial rift.
• Breaks through ten of Dijiang’s eighteen defensive walls before slowing at the eleventh 1053.

Avatars

• Possesses two avatars capable of exchanging blows with Eternal Realm cultivators.
• Neither has the special energy-devouring abilities of Lin Heng’s Evil Avatar 983.

Equipment

• Heaven Lock Glazed Staff — His strongest original treasure, classified as a top-grade spirit treasure. Losing it would weaken both Hermoz and his sea’s standing. Recovered from Lin Heng after the barking condition, then destroyed to escape Death Space 960 961 1054.
• Unnamed top-grade spirit treasure — Given to him by Mo Chen after the staff’s destruction. The Ancient Clan regards treasures of this grade as disposable despite their importance in the Four Seas 1073.
• Curved blade — A second-class acquired Heavenly Punishment Universe Treasure supplied to Sibada Haoli for his confrontation with Lin Heng 921.
• Ancient Clan resources — Receives a storage ring from Hai Qianmo whose contents are valuable enough to visibly shake his composure 1111.

Relationships

• Lin Heng — Principal enemy. Hermoz pursues his inheritance, targets his family, and later feigns reconciliation while continuing to plot against him 860 978 996 1117.
• Hongjun — Eldest senior brother and the authority Hermoz wants to replace. Despite his resentment, Hermoz seeks Hongjun’s help against Mo Chen 995 1056 1076.
• Dijiang — Repeated combat opponent. Dijiang gravely wounds him, rejects his attempts to undermine loyalty to Lin Heng, and forces him to sacrifice his staff 985 1025 1049 1054.
• Dasiwoba — Rival turned recurring ally against Lin Heng. Their cooperation remains unstable, although they later agree to share opportunities for working with the Ancient Clan 913 973 1056 1090.
• Lin Yue Yao — Fellow sea lord who previously defeated him and is prepared to prevent him from forcibly reclaiming his staff 922 960.
• Fate — Manipulator and secret patron. Wins Hermoz’s cooperation by promising him Hongjun’s position 995.
• Mu Tong — Adviser who physically disciplines Hermoz and redirects his plans after the Eternal Ruins failure 1031 1032.
• Mo Chen — Coercive Ancient Clan representative. His domination and killings lead Hermoz to seek outside help and plot his death 1073 1076 1090.
• Hai Qianmo — Ancient Clan negotiator who provides resources and considers Hermoz’s plan to isolate Lin Heng 1111 1112.
• Eastern Victorious Divine Sea followers — Initially fearful subordinates whose refusal to help exposes the consequences of his poor leadership; later retained through apologies, substantial rewards, and promises of protection 983 986 1075.

Notable Quotes

“Lin Heng, I no longer need Mu Chen’s inheritance. But sooner or later, I’ll come to claim your life. Look forward to that day.” 987

“We cannot face this man head-on. We can only outwit him.” 1075