Ren Yisheng

Biodata

Power Progression

Ren Yisheng’s genetic Sequence, mental development, and Realm Technique cultivation advance separately. His early reputation as a Seventh Sequence powerhouse does not initially reflect a Seventh Sequence genetic breakthrough 1253 1312.

• Mental Strengthening discrepancy: A later discussion identifies his level as chapter six and says he took a wrong turn at chapter five, despite earlier passages explicitly describing seventh-chapter attainment. No reconciliation is provided in these passages 1618 1693 2190.

Background / History

Ren Household and the Luofu Legacy

Ren Yisheng inherited a household deeply entangled with the fallen Luofu Imperial Family. His father, Ren Aiguo, had been captain of the palace guard, and the Ren Household obtained four Mental Strengthening chapters from the imperial family. Ren Yisheng continued developing that inheritance into a more advanced mental cultivation system 280 301 506.

The household also inherited dangerous secret-medicine research. Ren Yisheng witnessed live experiments that left him deeply disturbed; after taking control of the lineage, he transferred ownership of its medical group. His father died through the medicine research, and Ren Yisheng later identified Luo Tianming’s substitution of a dose as the cause of that death 280 1304.

After the Ren Household was driven out of Western Capital City, Ren Yisheng helped rebuild its position through research and the Dragon Elephant Combat Technique’s value to allied fighters. He initially avoided openly competing for gains, instead establishing himself through useful knowledge and support abilities 373 1624.

Meeting Zhang Xuezhou

Ren Yisheng approached Zhang Xuezhou after noticing his exhaustion. While Zhang wanted a powerful patron, Ren saw an unusually promising cultivation test subject: Zhang had mastered the Mental Foundations Chapter without guidance. Ren tried to steer their conversation toward Zhang’s health, but technical terminology repeatedly failed to get the response he wanted 117 118 119.

Their association became a reciprocal teacher–student relationship. Ren developed Zhang’s Kunpeng Combat Technique from the Dragon Elephant Combat Technique and Zhang’s genetic traits, while Zhang introduced him to Realm Techniques and treated otherwise dangerous cultivation injuries 219 280 319.

After recovering from the secret medicine’s effects, Ren agreed to help rescue Zhang Manqian from the Phoenix Creek Medical Club. He later formalized an alliance with Zhang Xuezhou, offering access to the Ren Household’s network as Zhang grew stronger 280 357.

Confinement and Survival in Soul Jade

Ren Yisheng feared the mental deterioration that afflicted elderly Sequence Holders and pursued a way to make the mind’s longevity match the body’s. His concern was sharpened by memories of Luo Zhong’s tyranny and unrestricted human experimentation 506.

Following confinement in the Twilight Years Mansion, his divine soul separated from his body. He initially moved like a formless ghost, passing through solid barriers and electrical security systems. His children subsequently took his apparently dead body home 598 600 603.

Soul Jade became his refuge, but also increasingly replaced his original body as the center of his existence. Neither Zhang’s Soul-Collecting Technique nor Ren’s Return to the Aperture Technique restored him. Refusing to give up, he turned toward cultivating a replacement body 653.

The Yang Corporeal Soul Transformation Technique finally allowed him to emerge. Discovering that this form consumed the Soul Jade’s Spiritual Qi, he sought further supplies from the Tur Tribe in the Thousand Islands Alliance 770 771.

Recovery and Changing Priorities

Ren Yisheng subdued Huang, the being worshipped as the Tuer God, during a mental confrontation. He then renewed cooperation with Tuer Kelanduo: she needed a god, while he needed Soul Jade. Continued cultivation eventually gave him a substantial child-sized body 784 787 788 971.

His physical recovery remained difficult. Treatment under Professor Luo Hui left him fat, and a chase through Shengteng Academy ended with his collapse and dangerously weak vital signs. Further investigation considered an interaction between the medicine, his Law Power, and Soul Jade 1304 1307 1309.

Repeated suffering gradually weakened his fixation on revenge. Zhang Xuezhou’s warning of an approaching catastrophe then pushed him to reconsider old enemies as potential allies and to pursue strength beyond the Seventh Sequence 1309 1625.

National Influence and Later Expeditions

Ren Yisheng became an influential strategist behind the Sequence Committee rather than its conspicuous public leader. His arrangements distributed authority, preserved political counterweights, and protected him from being easily targeted 1857.

On Alliance Island, his suppressive abilities helped secure ten consecutive victories while deterring Mengtesi Badun and Nagesi from entering the arena. He subsequently became a central figure in the Qinmeng Hunting Group, although he regarded Zhang Xuezhou as its true core 2176 2181.

Later expeditions exposed the limits of his intimidation against Resistance Layers and stronger opponents. He developed Control and Mental Storm, confronted Mengtesi Badun as an Eighth Sequence peer, and joined the assault on Hongku’s great hall 2597 2601 2605 2775 2960.

After failing to reach the Ninth Sequence, he resumed training rather than remaining consumed by the setback. Much later, he helped Zhang Xuezhou and Ren Anran capture Xixumi’s clone, using illusion to make it reveal its thoughts 3212 3805.

Appearance

At his introduction, Ren Yisheng is slender and notably tall. Although his résumé gives his age as fifty-six, he looks closer to a man in his thirties 117.

• Original appearance: Gold-rimmed glasses and a light-colored coat give him a refined, scholarly bearing 117.
• First soul incarnation: Approximately three inches tall, blurry, and translucent 770.
• Developed soul body: As tall as a seven- or eight-year-old child, with facial features resembling a six- or seven-year-old 971.
• Treatment-related changes: Becomes fat during treatment under Luo Hui 1304.
• Later aging: Looks substantially older than similarly aged companions after prematurely using Control while still Sixth Sequence 2704.

Personality

Ren Yisheng’s courteous, scholarly manner conceals a forceful and calculating temperament. He tightly planned his children’s cultivation and social development, pouring resources into them while imposing demands severe enough to damage both relationships 302 315.

His ethics are neither uncomplicated nor wholly cynical. Early on, he considered using a mentally ill Zhang Xuezhou for dangerous cultivation tests morally permissible, yet he was haunted by human experimentation and sought to become a better person. He describes goodness as allowing the light in one’s heart to outweigh its darkness 118 280 325.

Family is his strongest emotional anchor. During confinement in Soul Jade, his determination to see Ren Wuyang return safely and Ren Anran recover sustained him when psychological self-reassurance failed 770.

He is pragmatic about alliances and willing to use dangerous people, but his outlook broadens as he learns more about the world. The prospect of invasion makes local feuds seem trivial, while evidence of civilizations and lives beyond familiar human limits inspires him to seek more than a century of existence 1625 2189 2264.

Abilities & Skills

Dragon Elephant Combat Technique

A mental-intimidation Gene Fighting Technique that suppresses opponents silently and imperceptibly. His recorded restriction ability is S-rank 189.

• Suppression and control: Can clear groups of weaker opponents, forcibly control targets, and disrupt their actions 282 360.
• Lethal close-range attacks: As a Sixth Sequence practitioner, had repeatedly demonstrated instant kills against Fifth Sequence opponents within ten meters 277.
• Precision support: Fifth-chapter Mental Strengthening refines broad intimidation into individual targeting, allowing allies to fight above their usual tier 379.
• Illusions: Forces Wang Haoran to experience the apparent slaughter of his family; later places Xixumi’s clone under an illusion through its Heavenly Eye 360 3805.
• Limits: Its intimidation fails to keep pace with higher Sequences. Seventh Sequence advancement adds bodily protection without supplying a corresponding new source of mental suppression 2602.

Mental Strengthening

Ren Yisheng expands the Luofu Imperial Family’s inherited mental technique through his own deductions and research 301 506.

• Mental Power Seed: Materializes mental energy, distinguishing a higher level of mental development from his earlier state 1312.
• Mental combat: Subdues Huang in a direct consciousness struggle despite lacking access to the Dragon Elephant Combat Technique in that state 784 788.
• Communication: Communicates mentally with other beings, including receiving meaning carried in a tiger’s roar and negotiating with Huang Snake 2264 2271.
• Perception: Reads lips and detects the emergence of Law Power during Realm Entry 360 442.
• Sensation control: Can cut off sensation below his head, but cannot block pain within his own brain 280.
• Risk: His developmental route takes a wrong turn at chapter five; he warns others to establish their own paths before studying his later chapters 2190.

Realm Techniques and Soul Transformation

Realm cultivation supplements his mental reserves and provides methods outside genetically driven combat 447 771.

• Realm Suppression: Combines True Spirit cultivation with seventh-chapter Mental Strengthening to produce suppression without physical Gene Power-channeling movements 1618.
• Disembodied movement: Initially flies and passes through solid obstacles as a formless soul 600.
• Yang Corporeal Soul Transformation: Uses Law Power to absorb Spiritual Qi and construct a substantial body 971.
• Healing techniques: Successfully casts several Supreme Purity True Techniques while testing his first incarnation 771.
• Soul-body limitations: Initially cannot use the gene-dependent Dragon Elephant Combat Technique or exert a fleshly body’s strength. Larger, denser incarnations consume more power 771 780 971.

Control and Mental Storm

Control extends his mental influence into physical destructive force, meeting the defining criterion associated with the Eighth Sequence 2064 2599.

• Wind manipulation: Creates wind in his palm, relocates it several meters away, and shreds paper with invisible cutting force 2061.
• Physical attacks: Cuts Mengtesi Badun’s alloy wire into pieces using mentally guided wind 2597.
• Propulsion: Can use Control to propel himself through the air 2064.
• Mental Storm: Destroys a red-skinned Dead Soul during the assault on Hongku’s hall 2960.
• Limits: Initially operates through instinct rather than a teachable method. Its use places severe demands on his physique and reserves 2064 2181.

Research, Medicine, and Technique Design

Ren Yisheng contributes to medicine, psychology, and the design and revision of the Scarlet Alliance State’s Gene Fighting Techniques 274 276.

• Near-real mental simulation: His deductions resemble practical manipulation within his mental world rather than abstract calculation. This makes his low-stage technique design exceptionally reliable 301.
• Kunpeng Combat Technique: Creates Zhang Xuezhou’s technique and later produces a revision at least fifteen percent stronger than its predecessor 319 1857.
• Genetic analysis: Investigates Zhang’s apparent change from crane genes to egret genes and its implications for cultivation 1014.
• Mental treatment: Specializes in treating lingering mental shock, complementing Zhang’s physical healing 2181.
• Pharmaceutical development: Leads work on Heavenly God General Medicine and explains its potentially fatal requirements and side effects 1253 2190.

Defensive Limitations

• Early vulnerability: His disproportionate striking power initially lacks matching physical defense and mental protection. Long-range attacks are a recognized countermeasure 2175 2181.
• Resistance Layer: Later protects him from Mengtesi Badun’s wire attack, giving him room to survive mistakes 2597.
• Opposing Resistance Layers: Such protection also shields an opponent’s mind, forcing Ren to convert mental power into physical force rather than rely on intimidation alone 2605.
• Growth ceiling: Neither his expanded repertoire nor combined cultivation paths guarantees a Ninth Sequence breakthrough 2775 3212.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Soul Jade / Spirit Jade — Houses his separated soul and powers his constructed body. His early incarnation exhausts its available Spiritual Qi within a few dozen breaths 771 971.
• Heavenly God General Secret Medicine — Drives mental advancement through extreme stimulation; can cause death or brain damage without adequate protection and Mental Strengthening 280 2190.
• X432 recovery device — Used while recovering from injuries and reconsidering his combat technique’s weaknesses 1693.
• X864 Drug — Helps accelerate his cultivation of Imprinting Divine Marks 3212.
• Sword — Takes one up to practice Mengtesi Badun’s Nurturing Method after his failed Ninth Sequence attempt 3212.
• Personal aircraft — Provides mobility during expeditions and leverage when pursuing Mengtesi Badun 2597.

Relationships

• Zhang Xuezhou — Student, collaborator, healer, and closest ally outside the household. Their bond becomes so strong that Ren regards him almost as half a son. Ren supports him while he remains himself, but resolves to kill him if a Fire Meteor creature consumes him 357 1672 2538.
• Ren Anran — Daughter. His controlling upbringing initially drives them apart, but shared crises restore their bond. He later prioritizes helping her reach the Divine Ability Realm over dealings with the Void Furnace 302 603 2696.
• Ren Wuyang — Son and intended successor. Ren’s harsh education contributes to his difficulties, though a life-and-death ordeal brings them closer 301 315 325.
• Ren Aiguo — Father, former palace-guard captain, and skilled swordsman. His death and the Ren Household’s downfall shape Ren Yisheng’s early desire for revenge 280 1304 3212.
• Tuer Kelanduo — Biological mother of his children through artificial insemination. Their troubled history gives way to renewed cooperation over the Tuer shrine and Soul Jade 608 787.
• Wang Haoran — College friend and teammate. Ren supports his advancement despite grievances between their households, but discovers that Wang’s deepest fear is Ren himself 359 360.
• Huang — Initially a hostile consciousness Ren subdues. Ren later encourages cooperation by offering a possible route toward a body and the freedom to search for Yu 788 971.
• Changkong Luo — Former adversary turned uneasy partner. Ren’s intervention saves him and other Twilight Years Mansion residents, helping clear the way for cooperation 506 1625 1694.
• Li Yingbo — Political ally and combat partner. Fights opponents immobilized by Ren’s suppression during the Alliance Island contests 1695 2175.
• Mengtesi Badun — International rival who becomes a wary Eighth Sequence peer and occasional collaborator after their Qinmeng confrontation 2597 2599 2601.
• Professor Luo Hui — Treating researcher whose interventions contribute to Ren’s recovery but also provoke accusations, a chase, and fears of fatal complications 1307 1309.
• Zuo Quan — Becomes a friend through Zhang Xuezhou’s mediation; Ren welcomes him into his circle rather than treating him as an outsider 2119.

Notable Quotes

“As long as the light in your heart outweighs the darkness by a little, that’s enough!” 325

“My life shouldn’t be limited to a hundred years either!” 2264

“The higher I climb, the smaller I feel. And the more timid I become!” 2706