Wu Hao

Biodata

Power Progression

Background / History

Inner Academy and the Strong Ranking

Wu Hao approaches Xiao Yan at Azure Wind Cave and warns him against entering the Strong Ranking Challenge Competition. He explains that Hu Tian intends to target Xiao Yan and that Wang Teng has connections to an enforcement elder and the referees. Although skeptical that Xiao Yan can defeat Hu Tian, he gives him a Strong Ranking Handbook containing information on the top hundred students, including Hu Tian’s old shoulder injury 21.

The two later meet in the tournament. After a hundred rounds of fighting, Wu Hao deliberately exposes an opening and allows Xiao Yan to knock him out of the ring, then encourages him to pursue the top-twenty rewards. Following Xiao Yan’s victory over Zi Yan, Wu Hao sits at his bedside during his recovery, explains the Earth Core Magma Pool’s access restrictions, and delivers his core-area pass 21 22.

Campaign Against Burning Heaven Valley

Wu Hao volunteers to join the expedition to the Ten Thousand Beasts Forest, declaring that Strong Ranking disciples cannot let Burning Heaven Valley look down on them. He fights alongside Xiao Yan and Hu Gan as a rearguard, helping hold off Mo Feng’s forces while the others protect the Flame-Locking Array fragment 23 24.

At the Gu Clan ruins, Wu Hao and Xiao Yan face the Beast Soul Trial together. After the White Tiger projection knocks away his axe, Wu Hao imitates the Black Tortoise’s shell with Dou Qi to withstand the Azure Dragon’s wind blades. Their success earns the Four Symbols Beast Souls Blessing 26.

During the subsequent Central Plains operations, Wu Hao helps install array materials at the Heaven Burning Platform and fights Burning Heaven Valley’s forces with spatial axe attacks. At Fallen Star Crater, he tears an opening in the enemy’s light net and is assigned to hold off Mo Xuan alongside Xiao Yan and Hu Gan 28.

Defense Against the Evil Clan

Wu Hao and Hu Gan take the front line during the defense of the Gu Clan altar. Wu Hao kills an Evil Clan Warlord by breaking its shield with spatial rifts and cleaving through its body. After Ye Xinlan’s Nirvana Pill restores him, he returns to battle and severs the Peak Dou Emperor general’s legs, allowing Hu Gan to bring it down 30.

After the defense, Wu Hao accompanies Xiao Yan and Lin Xiuya to Shattered Star Abyss to obtain Star Sand for repairing the seal. His newly awakened Space Bite devours the Star Spirits’ power, while Lin Xiuya restrains their movements. The three also destroy an Evil Clan corruption party and recover a token pointing toward Ten Thousand Souls Swamp 31.

Journeys Between Planes

Wu Hao remains with Xiao Yan through the Myriad Races’ Furnace and the ensuing plane-traversal expeditions. His roles include shielding the group from Mechanical City’s Iron Filing Storm, helping destroy the Energy-Devouring Core inside the Void Mother Core, and opening the escape rift from the collapsing Starfall Pavilion ruins 37 39 43 44.

In the Realm of Nothingness, he volunteers to retrieve the Fixed Moment from the Time Hourglass. The Snakes of Time attack through past, present, and future moments and attempt to rewrite his desire to protect his companions. Wu Hao defeats their illusions by holding to that conviction, retrieves the Fixed Moment, and returns so Lu Mu can stabilize the team’s time anchor 47.

Core of Chaos and Later Expeditions

During the confrontation with the colonizers’ fleet, Wu Hao accuses them of slaughtering his family. In the Sea of Deathly Silence, he bypasses an illusion through a spatial rift and destroys its sustaining rune core. He later defeats the Tower of Time’s regenerating stone giant by targeting the rune array beneath its feet 48.

After the Core of Chaos is purified, the Guardian Stele shows Wu Hao’s clanspeople reclaiming wasteland alongside Zi Yan’s Dragon Clan. Wu Hao continues into the Forgotten Plane and Fallen Star Canyon, where he helps eliminate Soul-Devouring creatures and destroys external energy nodes to weaken the Void Rift while Xiao Yan operates inside it 48 49 50.

Personality

Wu Hao is outspoken, teasing, and eager to fight. He initially mocks Xiao Yan’s plain iron ruler, jokes about the damage caused by his training, and later welcomes another expedition with the remark that the destination does not matter as long as there is a fight. His generosity is equally direct: he supplies useful intelligence, yields an opening during their tournament match, and volunteers to support Xiao Yan against Burning Heaven Valley 21 23 44.

Protecting his companions becomes his strongest conviction. Against the Snakes of Time, his mental anchor is “not letting a single brother fall behind.” He also rejects a memory-cocoon illusion in which Xiao Yan calls him a burden, insisting that his brother would never say such a thing. Despite his preference for head-on attacks, he can improvise, exploiting mirror images’ predictable movements and destroying the rune cores sustaining enemy illusions 44 47 48.

Abilities & Skills

Mad Lion Fist

• A fierce, overbearing fist technique used against Xiao Yan’s flame Dou Techniques during their Strong Ranking match 21.
• Sustains a hundred-round exchange before Wu Hao deliberately leaves an opening 21.

Axe Techniques and Spatial Power

• Projects crescent-shaped Dou Qi slashes and broad axe shadows; one attack cleaves three Peak Dou Ling Lava Lizards simultaneously 24 27 28.
• Tears spatial rifts through enemies and energy shields. Rifts along the blade also prevent wounds from healing 28 30.
• Uses precise spatial cuts to expose Mechanical Hearts, attack enemy cores, and open escape routes 36 44 50.
• Enlarges his axe with Dou Qi to strike a hundred-meter-tall stone giant during the Tower of Time’s Strength Trial 48.
• Space Bite: Devours Star Spirits’ power through axe strikes 31.
• Limits: His spatial attacks are not universally effective. A spatial trap repels his axe, while the Void Mother Core’s energy erosion limits a protective rift to five seconds and corrodes its edges 29 43.

Black Tortoise Defense

• Imitates the Black Tortoise’s shell with Dou Qi to withstand the Azure Dragon beast soul’s wind blades 26.
• Uses the defense during the Beast Soul Trial after losing his axe, helping Xiao Yan redirect the projections’ attacks against one another 26.

Elemental Combat

• Coats his axe in earth-attribute Dou Qi to defeat a flame guardian in the Elemental Prison 38.
• Targets the Tidal Lord’s lightning-bearing arm with earth energy, dimming its lightning and slowing its movements 38.
• Receives additional elemental, mechanical, crystal, and void-related talents through the team’s plane-restoration quests 38 39 41 43.

Temporal Resistance and Mental Anchors

• Opens spatial rifts that temporarily freeze nearby time in the Realm of Nothingness 47.
• Counters simultaneous attacks from past, present, and future by directing spatial rifts toward the moments of impact 47.
• Resists memory alteration and imposed future visions through his resolve to protect his companions 47.
• Uses memories of his axe, the team’s laughter, and his vow to never fall behind to protect his consciousness against the World-Destroying Fire 47.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Space-Splitting Axe / Black Tortoise Space-Splitting Axe — His principal weapon, combining great-axe combat with spatial rifts and runes. It later awakens Space Bite 29 30 31.
  • Its blade begins melting under the Mutated Heaven Burning Guards’ black flames, forcing Wu Hao to expel them with Dou Qi 28.
  • Its edge chips against Starfall Pavilion’s pill-guarding puppets 44.
  • It absorbs enough residual World-Destroying Fire energy to require purification 48.
• Improvised alloy shield — A large metal hatch found near Mechanical City’s entrance; Wu Hao uses it to cover the rear during the Iron Filing Storm 39.
• Fixed Moment — Temporarily carried after retrieving it from the Time Hourglass; delivered for Lu Mu to stabilize the time anchor 47.

Relationships

• Xiao Yan — Friend, tournament opponent, and expedition leader. Wu Hao warns him about academy rivals, supports his recovery, and repeatedly risks himself to protect their team 21 22 47 48.
• Hu Gan — Frequent frontline partner. They serve as a rearguard together and divide offensive and defensive duties during the altar defense 24 30.
• Lin Xiuya — Combat partner whose restraining sword techniques complement Wu Hao’s axe attacks against Star Spirits and mechanical puppets 31 36.
• Lu Mu — Tactical support partner. Lu Mu identifies formation mechanisms and enemy weaknesses, while Wu Hao retrieves the Fixed Moment needed for his time-anchor array 44 47 48.
• Ye Xinlan — Teammate and healer; her Nirvana Pill restores Wu Hao during the prolonged altar defense 30.
• Zi Yan — Fellow expedition member. They cooperate against the Energy-Devouring Core; Wu Hao later restrains her from interrupting Xiao Yan’s dangerous fusion with the Core of Chaos 43 48.
• His family and clanspeople — Wu Hao accuses the colonizers of slaughtering his family. His clanspeople are later shown rebuilding alongside the Dragon Clan 48.

Notable Quotes

“Leave the front to Hu Gan and me. I’ll chop them up, and he’ll take the hits. A perfect combination!” 30

“Who cares where we go? As long as there’s a fight!” 44

“My brothers and I will write my future together!” 47