Liang Wu

Biodata

Power Progression

Background / History

Arena Owner and Toji’s Captivity

Liang Wu operated a Soul Fighting Arena and dealt in gray-market businesses. His connections included Shrek disciples who sold Toji into the arena and received shares of its profits. Liang Wu later acknowledged that these protectors demanded substantial payments while rarely helping him expand 15 18 54.

When nine-year-old Toji claimed that exercise could strengthen him despite his lack of Soul Power, Liang Wu tested him against a Ten-Year Soul Beast. Impressed by his performance, he paid him three Gold Soul Coins and offered food, lodging, and training support. He subsequently approved dedicated training space, demanding weights, at least eight hours of daily training, nutritious meals, and instruction about Soul Beasts 4 5 6.

Over the next five years, Toji became the arena attraction known as Tyrant, drawing nobles, team battles, and lucrative betting. Liang Wu treated him as a valuable source of income, but underestimated the danger of his growing strength. When Toji obtained leave to visit the Zhang family, Liang Wu secretly sent two Soul Kings to follow him 7 8.

Defeat and Submission

Toji returned with Father Zhang to assassinate Liang Wu. Although Liang Wu detected Father Zhang’s Soul Power and intercepted them, Father Zhang broke through his defenses, allowing Toji to stab him with a poisoned short blade. Their combined assault eventually brought him down 16 17.

Facing death, Liang Wu surrendered the arena and his assets in exchange for an antidote. Toji then claimed that the antidote would last only one year and that disobedience would result in death. The narration reveals that Toji invented this explanation to frighten him; the claimed need for annual antidotes was not an established property of the poison 17.

Liang Wu led his new master to a vault containing approximately thirty million Gold Soul Coins, along with treasures, Soul Tools, and rare materials. Father Zhang was assigned to manage the money and watch him 17.

Turning Against Shrek’s Protectors

Liang Wu proposed a poisoned banquet to eliminate Li Erpang after the noble attempted to purchase Toji. The plan became unnecessary when Li Erpang was found dead. Liang Wu instead helped Toji and Father Zhang collect the estate’s valuables, and agreed to follow Toji’s greater ambitions if doing so would earn more money 24 25 26.

He then used his existing profit-sharing relationship with Luo Tian to lure the Shrek Inner Court disciple to a banquet. Through flattery and drinking, he confirmed Luo Tian’s cultivation and secretly poisoned his wine. During the ensuing battle, Liang Wu was badly outmatched despite his higher level and had to activate an Invincible Shield when Luo Tian tried to finish him 27 28 29.

After Luo Tian’s death, Liang Wu concealed the evidence, coordinated the surviving witnesses’ accounts, and claimed that Luo Tian had collected an advance payment before leaving. A Shrek investigator searched the arena for an entire day without finding a clue 50.

Zhao Tie’s Investigation

When the Shrek Soul Saint Zhao Tie began disrupting the arena’s business, Liang Wu and Father Zhang challenged him as part of Toji’s effort to study his abilities. Zhao Tie defeated both men in fewer than three exchanges 54 55 56.

Liang Wu subsequently helped distract Zhao Tie with gambling and profit-sharing offers. Zhao Tie spent a month indulging in gambling, alcohol, and women rather than pursuing his investigation. After Toji terrorized him into fleeing, Liang Wu openly expressed admiration for his master’s ability to overcome a Soul Saint 57 60 63.

Business Expansion

Liang Wu became an administrator for Toji’s growing Soul Tool enterprise. He arranged personnel, handled finances, gathered intelligence, and managed a Heaven Dou City shop selling Soul Tools and rare cultivation resources. Their markets eventually spread throughout the Heaven Dou Empire with support from nobles and the Body Sect 50 53 76.

When officials obstructed their entry into the Heaven Dou City market, Liang Wu gathered information and arranged a meeting with the city lord. Toji brought military Soul Tools as negotiating leverage. The city lord later offered official protection, and Toji left Liang Wu to continue the negotiations 79 104.

Liang Wu also maintained contacts in the Sun Moon Empire, arranged Soul Tool studies for Xu He under the name He Caitou, and reported that closer ties with the Heaven Dou imperial family had increased the organization’s earnings more than tenfold 106 143 221.

Zhang Lexuan’s Absence

Liang Wu withheld the fact that Zhang Lexuan had not contacted her family for years, reasoning that Toji was busy and should not be delayed. He encouraged Father Zhang to regard her absence as a consequence of studying and cultivating at Shrek Academy 222.

Later, he ran from the Heaven Dou Empire to the Star Luo Empire to deliver an urgent report personally. Exhausted and panicked, he told Toji that Father Zhang had gone to Shrek Academy out of concern for his daughter 230.

Personality

Liang Wu is profit-driven, opportunistic, and willing to invest in people who can make him money. His generosity toward the captive Toji—food, training facilities, instruction, and occasional bonuses—was tied to the boy’s value as an arena attraction. Even after losing ownership of the arena, the prospect of greater earnings helped persuade him to follow Toji 5 6 7 26.

He is tactful and skilled at concealing his intentions. He can flatter a dangerous guest, improvise an explanation under suspicion, and maintain a convincing account during interrogation. His accommodating manner has limits: when a Shrek investigator threatened his family, he angrily replied that they were already dead 28 50.

His attitude toward Toji changes from condescending confidence to fear and genuine admiration. Initially, he believes that a clever child cannot escape his control. After his defeat, he becomes wary of Toji’s authority; witnessing Toji’s success against Zhao Tie leaves him openly impressed. He remains prone to flattery and to misreading personal matters, particularly Di Qiu’er’s search for Toji 4 24 60 106.

Abilities & Skills

Saber Martial Soul

Liang Wu fights with a long saber manifested through his Tool Martial Soul. His Soul Ring configuration is two yellow, two purple, and two black 16.

• Saber light: Blocks Father Zhang’s incoming Soul Skill with a saber strike 16.
• Fifth Soul Skill: Surrounds his body with saber light, forcing Toji away after the poisoned stabbing 17.
• Sixth Soul Skill: Releases a gigantic saber beam 16.
• Combined attacks: Uses his third and sixth Soul Rings in succession to produce a crescent of black saber Qi 29.

Soul Power and Spiritual Power

• Detection: Senses Father Zhang’s approach through Soul Power, but explicitly cannot detect the powerless Toji in the same way 16.
• Poison suppression: Attempts to restrain poison with circulating Soul Power, but cannot expel Toji’s poison quickly enough to avoid defeat 17.
• Concealment: Uses Spiritual Power fluctuations to cover the act of adding poison to Luo Tian’s wine; Luo Tian notices the fluctuations, forcing him to improvise an explanation 28.
• Soul Tool charging: Replenishes the Soul Power in Toji’s equipment on request 47.

Business Management and Deception

Liang Wu’s administrative and social skills are more dependable than his fighting ability 47 50 76.

• Manages arena attractions, betting, wealthy patrons, and profit distributions 6 7 23.
• Organizes banquets, personnel assignments, financial accounting, and business reports 25 50 54 76.
• Gathers intelligence and arranges negotiations with powerful officials 79.
• Conceals evidence and coordinates witness accounts to withstand investigation 50.
• Uses flattery, gifts, gambling, and promised profits to influence targets 27 28 57.

Combat Limitations

• His cultivation was raised using heavenly treasures, leaving its foundation less stable than Father Zhang’s 29.
• Father Zhang’s superior Martial Soul quality lets him overpower Liang Wu despite being approximately two levels lower 16.
• Luo Tian, a Level 61 Soul Emperor, heavily suppresses him in battle despite Liang Wu’s higher cultivation 29.
• Toji repeatedly criticizes his poor combat ability and tells him to devote more time to cultivation 47 74.
• Zhao Tie’s speed and wind-based attacks overwhelm him before he can mount an effective response 56.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Invincible Shield — A single-use defensive Soul Tool given to him from Li Erpang’s estate. He activates it when the injured Liang Wu is targeted by Luo Tian’s flame spear 26 29.
• Storage Soul Tool — Carries equipment, including the Invincible Shield used against Luo Tian 29.
• Heaven-Breaking Sword — A Level 6 Soul Tool bought at auction for his own use. Its weight exhausted him after only a few uses, so he stored it until he could grow stronger; Toji later claimed and wielded it 18 29.
• Arena defensive Soul Tool — Provides the fighting arena’s protective barrier. Liang Wu worries about its expense when Li Xuanfeng’s attacks nearly overwhelm it 52.

Relationships

• Toji — Former captive and chief arena attraction, later his master and business leader. Their relationship develops from exploitation and coerced submission into cooperation supported by profit and Liang Wu’s growing admiration 6 17 26 60.
• Father Zhang / Old Zhang — Initially an enemy who helps defeat him, then a fellow administrator and combat partner. Liang Wu considers him insufficiently tactful for gray-market work but suitable for managing the Soul Tool business 16 17 47.
• Luo Tian — Former Shrek protector and profit-sharing associate who sold Toji to him. Liang Wu uses their connection to arrange the poisoned banquet and later conceals his death 18 27 28 50.
• Du Busi — Powerful backer through Toji and the Body Sect. Liang Wu proudly cites having spoken with him as evidence of his improved standing 32 74.
• Heaven Dou City Lord — Former protector who later obstructs their business expansion. With Body Sect support behind him, Liang Wu negotiates from a stronger position and receives the lord’s promise of protection 79 104.
• Di Qiu’er — Gives her Toji’s destination when she comes looking for him. He mistakenly interprets the situation as a romantic entanglement and chooses not to notify Toji 106.
• Xu He / He Caitou — Arranges his placement with a Soul Engineer after Toji brings him to study Soul Tools 143.

Notable Quotes

“From today onward, everything in the Soul Fighting Arena belongs to you.” 17

“Serving a ruler is like living beside a tiger.” 24

“That's what happens when you latch onto a powerful backer. I'd advise you to pick the right side too.” 104