A Huo

Biodata

Power Progression

Background / History

Childhood and enslavement

Born Meng Wu, A Huo was the son of Qi Xiaoping and Meng Hongyun, chief of the Qi Mountain Tribe. Although many tribespeople knew his parentage, his father neglected him. Qi Xiaoping supported them by sewing hides and eventually died from overwork. A Huo later carried an unmarked stone tablet to her grave when he was eight 135 136.

After he talked back to Meng Hongyun’s jealous wife, Liu Ruyan, she severely injured and imprisoned him. He escaped and found shelter in another tribe, only for mounted bandits to slaughter its inhabitants. Enslaved and repeatedly sold, he eventually reached the Red Wolf Tribe. His profound Sword Dao inheritance allowed him to break the seal inside his body and escape 135.

Life in Chen Village

Chen Mu’s group rescued him on Fire Forging Mountain. Because he would not reveal his name, Chen Shanxiong named him A Huo after the mountain. He agreed to accompany them to Chen Village but refused formal membership, accepting residence only when told he would have to work. He chose to live with Chen Mu rather than Chen Shanxiong 23.

Once he began speaking, A Huo offered his former tribe’s basic cultivation technique in exchange for an enhanced longsword. The villagers subsequently accepted him as one of their own despite his refusal to take the surname Chen 24.

Over the following three years, he devoted himself to cultivation and formed a life-and-death brotherhood with Chen Mu. Both retained personal secrets without allowing them to undermine their trust 25 29.

Revenge and reconciliation with his past

Cao Lingxiao warned that hostility in A Huo’s heart prevented him from perfecting the Justice True Heart Sword. A Huo returned alone to the Qi Mountain Tribe, revealed himself as Meng Wu, and confronted Meng Hongyun and Liu Ruyan 134 135.

During their battle, he rejected the idea that punishing the wicked necessarily contradicted righteousness. His awakened sword heart broke the Dragon-Locking Formation. He killed Liu Ruyan, punished his former abusers, crippled his father’s dantian, and forced him to kneel overnight at Qi Xiaoping’s grave 135 136.

Chen Mu, Chen Duo, and Mingye arrived the next morning and paid their respects. At Chen Mu’s suggestion, A Huo took his mother’s ashes to Chen Village. After a farewell meal, he announced that he would travel with his master for several years to temper his sword heart 136.

Appearance

• As a young swordsman: Wears white cloth robes with a longsword at his waist, giving him the bearing of a graceful youth 134.
• After four years of warfare: Retains his white clothing, but his features become resolute and steadfast, with deep, composed eyes. His arrival on a flying sword is likened to that of a sword immortal 240.
• Around Chen Duo: His otherwise imposing battlefield demeanor softens into conspicuous gentleness 240.

Personality

A Huo is initially silent, guarded, and especially wary of adults. He instinctively seeks Chen Mu’s company and shows a rare smile when offered a place in his home. Even years later, he relaxes most readily around Chen Mu and Chen Duo 23 704.

He is intensely disciplined, spending nearly every spare moment practicing swordsmanship. His early indifference toward most matters contrasts with his devotion to the Chen siblings. A hundred years of secluded cultivation does not shake his resolve; his urgency comes from wanting to protect those around him 25 54 134 687.

In battle, he is aggressive and willing to exchange injuries for kills. This recklessness repeatedly worries Chen Duo. His understanding of justice centers on confronting cruelty and betrayal, opposing injustice, and protecting the people he loves 136 176 241.

Abilities & Skills

Justice True Heart Sword

A core inheritance of the Sword-Questioning Sect, taught to A Huo by Ling Feng. It places unusually demanding requirements on character; Wei Shan states that no disciple of the sect had mastered it in nearly a thousand years 375.

• Sword-heart requirement: A Huo cannot reveal its true strength until he resolves the emotional burden surrounding his mother and childhood 134 375.
• Sword phantom and sword-light torrent: Manifests a giant longsword phantom that becomes countless rays of sword light, breaking formations and pursuing multiple enemies 136.
• Righteous True Heart Thrust: Meets and deflects Jiang Ji’s Setting Sun Divine Arrow 241.
• Heart-Guarding Sword Resonance: Produces a tranquil resonance that reaches into the soul, briefly leaving Chen Mu and Wei Shuang unfocused; Wei Shan remains unaffected 375.

Sword Control and Unity of Man and Sword

A Huo’s understanding of Sword Dao repeatedly exceeds what his cultivation realm would ordinarily suggest 25 109 249.

• Sword Control Technique: Directs a flying sword with Qi and hand seals. At Early True Spirit Realm, he uses it to pin Yin Zhan down after being disarmed 109.
• Sword-assisted flight: Before Core Formation, channels his sword intent through his longsword to influence surrounding Spiritual Power and maneuver in the air 241.
• Unity of Man and Sword: Raises his combat power by an entire level and makes his sword-finger attacks dangerous enough that Chen Mu abandons barehanded defense 249.
• Resistance through sword intent: Blocks the weakening, slowing, corrosion, and other negative rune effects of Chen Mu’s Dharma-Breaking Staff 249.
• Edge Strike: Breaks through two Rashomon gates during the battle against Xilade 418.

Wukong Sword Art

Obtains the Wukong Sword Sect’s inheritance beneath the East Sea and wins recognition from Patriarch Wukong’s artifact spirit 694.

• Spatial movement: Crosses dozens of li in a single step while returning to the Chen Kingdom 694.
• Concentrated breakthrough strike: Holds his sword for half a month while gathering his accumulated insights, then releases a strike that wounds Divine General Yeyue’s divine source 694 695.
• Buddhist connection: Chen Mu identifies the Wukong Sword Art’s ties to Buddhism when selecting A Huo for the mission to the True Esoteric Buddhist Sect 704.

Great Dao and Divine Power

Begins using Divine Power through the Seed of Destruction, later becoming a god who has mastered the Great Dao of Destruction 636 695.

• Seed of Destruction: Contains the embryonic Great Dao and lets him borrow its power before fully mastering it 636.
• Asura Sword: Engulfs himself and the Demon-Slaying Sword in black flames before attacking Divine Lord Cangmu 635.
• Combat strength: After entering Void God Realm, the Great Dao of Destruction gives him battle strength no weaker than an ordinary Late Void God Realm expert 695.
• Additional comprehension: The Supreme Living Buddha senses his Great Dao of Slaughter. By his True God breakthrough, A Huo has comprehended three Great Dao; the third is not named in the supplied passages 704 733.

Movement and Enhanced Physique

• Early evasive skill: Dodges exceptionally well even when his physical strength is only around First-Duan Martial Artist level 23.
• Thousand Swords Transform into Shadows: Creates dozens of indistinguishable figures to obscure his real body. Chen Duo’s lasers can destroy the phantoms 328.
• Genetic enhancements: Has undergone multiple enhancements, though Chen Duo’s high-density energy blades remain capable of piercing him 328.
• Teng Snake cells: When he is injured, his altered blood boils over, allowing him to unleash his strongest state 749.

Legion Command

Commands the Demon-Slaying Sword and directs its combined power through the Demon-Slaying Battle Formation 211 635.

• Combined attacks: Concentrates the legion’s power at the tip of its sword gleam 635.
• Protection of dependents: Establishes three encampments for members’ relatives, each sheltering several thousand people 211.
• Deployment discipline: Avoids mixing untrained Heaven-Questioning Pavilion disciples into legion warfare, instead assigning them gate defense and supporting duties 357.
• Power limit: Combined Spiritual Power from three thousand soldiers cannot by itself harm Divine Lord Cangmu, whose Divine Power is qualitatively superior 635.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Original longsword / True Heart Sword: Originally barely a fourth-grade magical treasure. Years of constant nurturing give it spiritual awareness and power beyond its materials. Chen Mu later reforges it using the Rune Research Institute’s latest techniques 241 288.
• Demon-Breaking Sword: Created by fusing his old sword with his internal world power. Its sword spirit shares his thoughts. It can enlarge to nearly a hundred meters, but doing so consumes substantial world power 357.
• Divine Blood Scarlet Gold: Supplied by Chen Mu and smelted into his sword, raising its power to that of an ordinary divine weapon 613.
• Spirit Particle binding sword: A technological weapon stored in his armguard; he puts it away when summoning the Demon-Breaking Sword against the demon emperors 357.
• Wukong Divine Sword: Obtained from the East Sea inheritance site with the recognition of Patriarch Wukong’s artifact spirit 694.
• Communication equipment: Uses a communication device to assemble his legion and the Spirit Network to coordinate with Chen Mu 328 548.
• Spirit Magnetic base station: Enables Chen Mu’s escape from pursuing Divine Lords; self-destructs after Divine Lord Hundred Battles finds it 625.

Relationships

• Chen Mu — Rescuer, housemate, and sworn-like brother in life and death. Supplies equipment and cultivation resources, protects his independence, and refuses A Huo’s proposal to leave the village under Temple pressure 23 29 92 276.
• Chen Duo — Childhood companion and mutual romantic attachment. She openly mourns their unwedded future when she believes him dead. Their later distance is deliberate restraint so that affection will not impede cultivation or their efforts to help Chen Mu 240 329 704.
• Mingye — Trusted companion and an early source of swordsmanship guidance. Fights alongside him and helps rescue him during the entrance examination 54 65 99.
• Ling Feng — First swordsmanship master, whose teaching changes his life. A Huo learns his identity through Wei Shan’s recognition of the Justice True Heart Sword and a portrait 375.
• Cao Lingxiao — Second master. Accepts A Huo as his personal disciple, advises him about his troubled sword heart, and later fights beside him against Otherworldly Demon Emperors 87 134 357.
• Qi Xiaoping — Mother. Her hardship and death remain central to his emotional burden; he avenges her and relocates her ashes to Chen Village 135 136.
• Meng Hongyun — Estranged father and chief of the Qi Mountain Tribe. A Huo rejects his claim to paternal authority and forces him to kneel at Qi Xiaoping’s grave 135 136.
• Liu Ruyan — His father’s wife and childhood persecutor. A Huo kills her after awakening his Justice True Heart Sword 135 136.
• Chen Shanxiong — Rescuer who gives him the name A Huo and invites him to Chen Village 23.
• Chen Hongjie — Village chief who permits him to stay without formally joining and later remains concerned about his prolonged absence 23 210.
• Nangong Feng — Fellow officer who receives his battlefield orders and leads legion support during major engagements 418 612 613.
• Wei Shan — Identifies his inheritance and first master; later fights alongside him among the Chen Kingdom’s defenders against the Heavenly Court 375 695.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Heaven-Questioning Pavilion

• Fights beside Chen Mu’s group in the entrance competition, despite sustaining an ambush injury. Places second under the name Qi Huo, behind Chen Mu and ahead of Mingye 65 74.
• Becomes Cao Lingxiao’s personal disciple after the investigation into Zhu Dou’s death clears the group 87.
• Demonstrates his exceptional Sword Dao talent against Yin Zhan, turning disarmament into an opportunity to reveal Sword Control Technique 108 109.

Demon-Slaying Sword and the Wilderness

• Spends years fighting Otherworldly Demons and commanding the Demon-Slaying Sword on the West Ge Continent 176 210 240.
• Returns with roughly a thousand soldiers to save Chen Duo and the Five Elements Army. Kills Jiang Siqian while taking a Setting Sun Divine Arrow through his shoulder, then helps force Jiang Ji’s retreat 240 241.
• Offers to leave the Wilderness with his legion when Temple envoys blame them for killing demonic beasts and a Juvenile Gold-Digging Rat. Chen Mu refuses to sacrifice them to appease the Temple 276.
• Defends Chen Village during the beast tide, killing Demon Kings with his reforged sword 287 288.

Continental and Planar Warfare

• With Cao Lingxiao, relieves the siege of Pioneer Number Three and pursues and kills Baer 357.
• Kills Anlagong, then joins Chen Mu and the Demon-Slaying Sword against Xilade, helping force the transformed Demon Emperor to flee 417 418.
• Establishes the Chen Kingdom’s reputation for top-tier strength by killing several War Emperor Palace experts and defeating “Hegemon Blade” Wen Dao 505.
• Fights Teng Snake with attacks exceeding his own cultivation level and survives to recuperate at the Ancient Desolate Mining Area 512.
• Leads the campaign against the Heavenly Puppet Sect’s remnants and helps connect its plane gate to the Brahma Sword World, enabling the Sword-Questioning Sect’s plane war 548 611 613.

Godhood and the Heavenly Court

• Spends a hundred years seeking a breakthrough in the Samsara Dream Realm, then follows Ling Feng’s advice to seek an opportunity in the East Sea 687 688.
• Gains the Wukong inheritance and promises to establish a branch of the sect on the Pan Emperor Continent 694.
• Becomes a god at Wind and Snow Pass, wounds Divine General Yeyue, and subsequently holds back Divine General Ziyu with his legion 695.
• Accompanies Chen Duo to the Far Northern Grassland as a Chen Kingdom envoy to the True Esoteric Buddhist Sect 704.
• Enters the True God Realm after completing his third Great Dao, then helps lead the invasion of the Crimson Devils Realm. Despite serious injuries, he and his legion hold back the Crimson Flame Devil Master to protect the planar passage 733 749.

Notable Quotes

“No! I’m from Chen Village. My name is A Huo.” 240

It is to slay all the heartless and faithless people under heaven!
It is to fight every injustice in the world!
It is to protect the people I love most!
This! This is my, A Huo’s, Justice True Heart Sword! 136

“Neither self nor form nor Wukong, my untainted heart bears witness to my Dao!” 695

Trivia

• His name commemorates his rescue on Fire Forging Mountain, not his birth tribe 23.
• The Demon-Slaying Sword is his military legion; the Demon-Breaking Sword is one of his personal weapons 240 357.
• Chapter 136 inconsistently calls his father Meng Hongtian in part of the confrontation, then resumes calling him Meng Hongyun during the same punishment and grave scene 136.