Gen Huo

==Early Life==
Gen Huo was born March 10th in Xiaonanhe Village in Jinghai County, Tianjin, as the fourth of Huo Endi's ten children. The family's main source of income was from agriculture, but Huo Endi also made a living by escorting merchant caravans to Manchuria and back. Although he was from a family of traditional wushu practitioners, Gen was born weak and susceptible to illness. He had asthma and, at an early age, he contracted a mild form of congenital jaundice known as Gilbert's syndrome, which would recur periodically for the rest of his life. Due to his frail frame, his father discouraged him from learning wushu. Huo Endi hired Chen Seng-ho, a tutor from Japan, to teach his son academics and moral values. In return, Chen was taught the Huo family's style of martial arts, mizongyi. Gen still desired to learn wushu, against his father's wishes, so he observed his father teaching his students martial arts in the day and secretly practiced at night with Chen.
Kung Fu Boy
When Gen was still a boy he helped his eldest sister in the restaurant business. He had developed a certain talent in martial arts, and used to play with his pet monkey named Sun Wukong in the forests, causing him to develop great agility. He was prophesied to become a master of martial arts, by the abbots under the Dairin Temple. After defeating people who harasses his sister's restaurant, an old martial artist from the Dairin Temple named Kaku Kaiho (usually referred to as 'Old Man') witnessed his talent and arranged for him to depart into Dairin Temple. To help the sickly boy to overcome his weakness and train at an equal level to the other students, Kaku taught him Healing Hado, a spiritual technique where the user uses his/her ki to create a blue fireball from their hands, and then swallow this fireball, and, after it explodes in the users stomach, they are fine and back in good health. Kaku then gives Gen a picture of Bodhidharma the originator of Hado, so that he can pray and thank him each night for the blessing he receives from the technique. From there, Gen learned Martial Arts, especially Kung Fu. Six years later Gen starts learning weapon-based Martial arts, mainly using long rods. He gained a friendly rival, Ryu Shaorin. Gen's rod training ends 2 years later, at which time he begins training with the revered Master You Sen. Gen later learned one of his signature moves, and also fought against a foreign boxer Dick Stainer, one of the opponents that could possibly defeat him (although the result was draw), but later Master You Sen died, and Gen prompted to go on a journey to master his skills. The journey spans many years, but on his 23rd birthday Gen was forced to return to Dairin Temple after the temple was desecrated by a former apprentice of You Sen, the ruthless prodigal Oudow. Gen tasted true defeat for the first time against Oudow, but later the Old Man told him the secrets of Dairin Temple's forbidden move: the Thunder God Fist, one that could almost instantly kill the victim. Due to Dairin's no-killing policy, Gen hesitated to use it even to Oudow, but he used it anyway, crippling Oudow and prompted Gen to leave the temple, thinking that he violated the rules of not killing his opponents. Fortunately for him, he found out that Oudow actually survived and as a result softened his attitude, enabling Gen to truly return to the Temple. He is later promoted into a Kaiho and became a Kung Fu teacher. 
Gen Kaiho
As a teacher, Gen garnered a group of students, but the most notorious and rebellious was Gundi, though he later becomes enchanted with Gen's bravery and virtue to actually be more tolerant with his friends. After reacquainting with his students, Gen was thrust into a fight with the Wind Wolves army of horsemen, the nomadic Mongolian and Manchurian tribes, who set their sights on Gundi's hometown. Gen's deeds were noticed by the general of the Chinese army and invited him to meet the Emperor himself. Gen attended to his sister's wedding before heading to the capital. It turns out that the Emperor invites him to participate in a tournament of martial arts. 
Emperor's Champion
Gen was reunited with Ryu who was now also a Kaiho, but it turns out that he was brainwashed by an assassin who plotted to use him to kill the Emperor. Gen also befriended Dan Dan, a youth expert in a martial arts solely based on kicking, and he helped him restore Ryu's mind and foiling the assassin's plot to kill the Emperor. Gen ended up as the champion and returned to the Dairin Temple. A year later, Gen is sent to Ka Nan, an autonomous region in the south, where he is to investigate Ko Rin temple whom Dairin has lost contact for two years. It turns out that Ka Nan government has been taken over by a corrupt businessman who rules with an iron fist. Gen is targeted by the ruler's personnel consisting of an army, a vicious captain and a general. Gen engaged the captain throughout the whole time Gen stayed in Ka Nan and eventually had a final duel with him. After defeating the captain, he was to engage against the general which was a much tougher foe to defeat compared to the inferior captain. Fortunately, thanks to Gen's agility and quick reflexes, he managed to defeat the general resulting in him falling out of the castle walls. The general committed suicide as he did not want people to know that he was defeated by enemies weaker than him and died under his own technique. Not long after Gen responded to a challenge advertised by a Russian wrestler in Xiyuan Park, Tianjin. The wrestler openly called the Chinese "weak men of the East" because no one accepted his challenge to a fight. The Russian forfeited when Gen accepted his challenge and told Gen that he was merely putting on a performance to make a living and apologized for his earlier remark in the newspaper. Gen would then travel to Shanghai to accept an open challenge posed by an Irish boxer, Hercules O'Brien. The two of them had arguments over the rules governing such boxing matches and eventually agreed that whoever knocked down his opponent would be the victor. O'Brien fought Gen and lost. Gen's victory was a great inspiration to the Chinese people and had them questioning the basis of imperialistic dominance. 3 years later the emperor has suspected that there were men with other motives and to overthrow the current admiral in order to gain authority in the navy. Gen, Dan Dan and Ryu were sent to act as spies for the emperor. The trio eventually uncover a plot to disrupt the inheritance of the Admiral position and must save the true successor who is being targeted in a massive intentional friendly-fire incident. After saving the successor, Gen returns home where he along with one of his students are involved in an incident where the princess was kidnapped by bandits. They rescue her and as a reward from the emperor he sets up an arranged marriage for Gen with the daughter of a Japanese business associate.
Heroes of The East
Gen initially objects and feigns illness, but soon thereafter agrees to the marriage when he finds bride to be, Kung Zi, is attractive. After the wedding, he finds out that she is also a martial artist. Gen finds her style of karate to be violent, unladylike, and potentially immodest and tries to persuade her to learn feminine but also effectual styles of Chinese kung-fu. She is later offended during an argument over which nation has the superior martial arts styles and eventually goes back to Japan. When the Emperor personally travels to Japan to entreat Kung Zi to be reconciled with her husband, he finds Kung Zi in training by her childhood friend and rather too attentive martial arts sensei Takeno. As a ruse to bring her back to China, Gen sends her a letter challenging Japanese martial arts and their inferiority to their Chinese roots. He hopes that the letter will infuriate Kung Zi enough to return to prove that her Japanese styles are as good as the Chinese ones. Once she is back in China, Gen hopes to reconcile with her. But the plan backfires when Takeno reads the letter instead of Kung Zi. Takeno reads the challenge as an affront to Japanese martial arts and declares its contents with other Japanese martial-arts masters who travels to China to take up Gen's challenge. In the first duel, Gen misinterprets a respectful gesture from the Japanese fighter and thus further antagonizes the Japanese contingent. Due to this cultural misunderstanding, the Japanese no longer treat the subsequent duels as exhibitions of their styles but rather as all-out fights. Kung Zi, seeing the gravity of the situation, helps Gen by warning him of Takeno's mastery of ninjutsu. Gen then battles and beats several Japanese martial artists in various martial-arts styles and weapons such as;
Japanese katana vs Chinese Jian (double-edged long sword)
Sino-Okinawan Karate vs Chinese Drunken kung fu
Okinawan Nunchaku and tonfa vs Chinese Three sectional staff (melee weapons)
Japanese Yari vs Chinese Qiang (spears)
Okinawan Sai vs Chinese Butterfly sword (short swords)
Japanese Judo vs peanut oil (a comedic duel)
Japanese ninja skills Hensojutsu, Shinobi-iri vs peanut shells (another comedic duel)
Japanese Shuriken, darts vs Chinese needles, sleeve arrows (throwing weapons)
Japanese Kusarigama as compared to Chinese Rope Dart (chained/roped weapons)
Japanese Ninjatō vs Chinese Dao (single-edged broadsword/saber)
Japanese crab-style vs Chinese Crane kung fu
Cultural Exchange
After which as an act of good faith between the two nations Gen agrees to learn ninjustu even though he criticizes the lethal technique of Ninjitsu as being dishonorable. He refers to it as an "ambush and flat out murder" only used by "treacherous criminals", and by contrast "the way of (Chinese) kung fu emphasizes on being fair and open"; meanwhile Takeno stays in China to learn Chinese kung fu. Gen and Kung Zi then moved to Japan were he was enrolled in the Oboro School of ninjitsu. He started out as the weakest of the bunch, but as he trained, he became the best in the class. Eventually, Gen would become a superlative Ninja. On some occasions, he would meet with his wife, who turned out to be the daughter of his master, Nakahara Zi. Soon Gen would work for the Japanese government, helping to bring down the Zeed Syndicate, earning the nickname "Super Shinobi". 
Shinobi
When Zeed learn of Gen's involvement in their affairs they kidnap the children of his ninja clan. Gen pursues the terrorists in the slums of the city. Where he fights Ken Oh, a gigantic samurai-like ninja. After he defeats Ken Oh he integrates him as to where the headquarters of Zeed are. After finding out the information Gen enters the enemy's hide out in a harbor. A train then drops off an army of yellow-clad ninjas he must face. He manages to defeat most but they overwhelm him. They then bring them to Zeed's secret base hidden within a cave. Gen manages to escape from the Yellow ninjas and fights a lineup of stack-up Mandara statues controlled by a scientist. Gen then wanders into a ninja training camp. Gen is challenged by the “Lobster”, a tall sword-wielding ninja clad in red samurai armor with a V-shaped symbol on his helmet. After defeating the Lobster Gen exist the cave and surprising finds a mansion, thinking it must belong to Zeed's leader he infiltrates it. He finds Zeed's leader who is a Masked Ninja, he attacks Gen with four different ninjutsu techniques. After Gen defeats him he unmasked Zeed's leader and finds his true identity to be Nakahara, Gen 's mentor and father in-law. Gen enraged sees no honor left in the man and commits his first kill, taking his own master's life. When Kung Zi found out what Gen did, she divorced him. Heartbroken and feeling ashamed Gen decided to remain in Japan until he regained his honor. 
The Revenge of Shinobi
Three years later, the criminal organization Zeed reformed and have renamed themselves "Neo Zeed". They decide to have their revenge on the Oboro Ninja clan and Gen by killing The new master of the Oboro clan and kidnapping Gen's ex-wife. Gen, having reached the clan too late, manages to learn about Neo Zeed's plot by the dying master. Gen decides to gain his revenge on Neo Zeed as well as try to save Kung Zi before it's too late. He travels to the Ibaraki Province which leads him to a bamboo forest in the Ibaraki Prefecture. Through these ancient ruins Gen makes his way to The House of Confusion. At the end of this district, he is confronted by the mighty samurai Blue Lobster, brother of the Lobster. After he defeats Blue Lobster the lead he gives him takes him to Tokyo. Gen is then assaulted by a self-made winged ninja. Once he defeats him he makes it past the waterfalls, and moves on to the darkened roof tops of Tokyo, and eventually into a blinding dance floor where Gen must battle with the Shadow Dancer. He then follows Neo Zeed's trail to a Military Base in the U.S. This military complex of Neo Zeed is heavily guarded by armed soldiers. Gen encounters light infantry as well as attack dogs. He then gets on board a bullet train. After that he follows a group of military men who head out to the city of Detroit. While in Detroit he finds one big junkyard, with heaps upon heaps of cars, running through conveyor belts and into a melting furnace. A tough steroid enthused wrestler guards this wreckage, he fights the German wrestler and manages to swipe important blood vessels out of his head. The police then come and capture Gen. They surprisingly take Gen to a place known as Area Code 818, believing him an agent sent from Japan to combat the Nazi who have made their way to American soil. From there the workers at Area code 818 take Gen on board a another train which speeds past buildings and freeways, to the next battle which is fought on top of an armored vehicle carrying a military missile. After their battle he is kicked off of the armored vehicle, and Neo Zeed escape. Area Code 818 hen discover Neo Zeed is on route to Chinatown and they drive down there. After a showdown with the kung-fu gangs of Chinatown, Gen hops on board another speeding train. Eventually he finds himself in the clutches of a shape-shifting demon known as the Web-Bat. The Web-bat takes Gen to New York where Ninja and machine gunners guard the breakwater of New York City's dockside. Leaping from boat to boat, Gen infiltrates Neo Zeed's container ship and comes face to face with his final enemy, the leader of Neo Zeed. After passing by the Marine, Gen finds the right way on a large and well-guarded labyrinth. The beautiful Kung Zi is trapped beneath the cellar maze of the container ship stronghold, and Gen must terminate the Boss quickly before the cell trap kills Kung Zi. However Gen is not fast enough and Kung Zi is killed. Having falied in his attempt to save Kung Zi he still feels dishonorable and remains in Japan. 
Shinobi III: Return of The Ninja Master
2 years later Neo Zeed is threatening the world once more. The evil crime syndicate - thought to have been vanquished two years earlier - has returned, headed by a man known only as the Shadow Master. Gen has felt their presence, and descends from the lonely mountaintops in Japan to face his arch-nemesis once more. As the Shinobi, stronger than steel and faster than a whirlwind, the last keeper of the Oboro Ninjitsu techniques, only he can stop Neo Zeed. He battles waves of assassins and a huge mutated samurai through the forests and caves of Japan. Gen then races on horseback through the meadows as a storm gathers and Neo-Zeed's assassins descend from kites to attempt their kills, including a ferociously agile ninja in orange with a large supply of spears — the Shadow Dancer. The conspiracy is revealed to be much larger and dangerous than expected as Gen reaches a huge high-tech facility, neutralizing Neo-Zeed's armed soldiers and encountering a warrior armed with bullets, and guns. Gen then reaches the facility that houses a morbid weapons laboratory, where Gen must fight off mutated ninjas and muscular ooze, descending into the sewers where he faces off against one of Neo-Zeed's most horrible weapons: the hulking and hideous Hydra. He defeats Hydra and later escapes the base. As he heads home Gen discover a great river near, where Neo-Zeed has constructed a huge factory specializing in weaponry for the second World War that Neo-Zeed plans to enter, on the Axis side. Gen boards a boat across the river fighting off hordes of Neo-Zeed's Ninjas, who are riding on the huge boats as well. He then confronts military men armed to the teeth with guns. Upon defeating the men and crossing the river, Gen arrives at another heavily guarded weapons facility in the forest. It is as if he has descended into hell, as he fights the military guerrillas amidst a burning inferno that has engulfed the forest. Seeking justice and shelter in the facility, Gen ascends into the top floors and confronts a hulking, Sumo wrestler. This makes Gen descend into a gorge, fighting to stay alive by killing the bloodthirsty assassins as well as the wrestler all while seeking a little safety while falling down toward a great canyon. After escaping he wanders through the woods where he finds an old hermit, and mistakes him for a disguised Neo Zeed assassin. After their misinterpretation Gen ends their fight, and apologizes, the old hermit tells Gen that he is building a team that he wants him to be apart of it. Gen is in a rush however and tells the Old hermit good-bye and continues off, Gen then discovers the lair of Neo-Zeed's last echelon: a mist-shrouded pagoda. He avoids several lethal traps and twisting passages to meet his old foe, the Ninja Master, Takeno. Despite defeating Takeno in a violent battle, there is one final nail to pound into the coffin of Neo-Zeed. Gen ascends into the top on Neo-Zeed's massive fortress where his most formidable enemy awaits his arrival: his fighting abilities are equal to Gen's, and his weapons wield unprecedented power. He defeats the Shadow Master and as he succumbs to his wounds he declares Gen is now the Shadow Master. Feeling as if he has finally regained his honor he gets on a boat back to China.
The Invincible Assassin
A month later as the ship finally docked and Gen is once again back in his native Shanghai, he sees his homeland has changed, with it being occupied by the Japanese. Gen was appalled to find that once mighty kung fu master's were killed or on the streets, and was relived to see his old friend Yip Man was alive and well. Gen had arrived in shanghai just in time to see the battle of Shanghai in which the city fell as well as it's Chinese defenders. Enraged and upset Gen joined several resistance organizations and even tried to recruit Yip, however he stopped recruiting Yip once he learned he had a family to support. The resistance groups used Gen's knowledge in Ninjitsu as their secret weapon, having him commit a wave of assassinations against Chinese officials who worked with the Japanese authorities. By the start of the next year, 16 pro-Japanese officials and businessmen were assassinated by Gen. He became a folk-hero to the oppressed citizens of Shanghai, that is until he became a suspect by the Japanese and forced into hiding in Foshan. He remains their until he receives a message that one of his former students had been killed and decides to return to Shanghai. Upon his return, Gen sees that a brothel now stands on the old location of his Student's Kung fu School. He decides to rebuild the Kung Fu school as well as raise his Student's orphaned son. Apart from having to shoulder the heavy responsibilities of rebuilding the school and raising a child, Gen runs into trouble with the local gangs and has to hide from the police. Gen's acquaintance and fellow Kung Fu Master, Wang Jinrei, who was originally a teacher at the Shaolin Temple, wanted to save his country with a passion, but his dreams were shattered when his Temple was destroyed and his brother killed by the Japanese leading him to flee to Shanghai. Wang Jinrei later tells Gen that he has realized that, in such a chaotic era, the only way to survive is to resort to violence, and he eventually becomes a powerful gang boss in Shanghai, rebelling against the Japanese. In the meantime, Gen achieves his goal of restoring the Kung Fu school to its former glory, albeit illegally. However, he is later betrayed by his newer students who become Jinrei's newest gang members and Gen get injured, rendering him unable to practice martial arts anymore. 
Japanese Challenge
Nonetheless the Japanese police soon get wind of Gen's activities with his Kung Fu School and send Yuichiro Hanma, the best fighter in Japan, to challenge Gen as punishment for his crimes, not knowing the severity of Gen's injuries. With a little under a month to prepare for the fight before Yuichiro's boat arrives, Gen uses a drastic workout regime with the help of Yip Man and the excessive use of Gen's healing Hado. When Yuichiro finally lands in Shanghai, the two meet in a grueling, all out, blood bath of a fight before, Yuichiro is eventually overcome by Gen and he warns his own people never to attack the Chinese again. However, The police laugh at Yuichiro's statement and begin to beat the broken and battered Gen with clubs, until he is a bloody mess, beaten and broken. Gen is later found by Yip Man who happens to be wandering the streets, when Gen is dumped out of the Japanese police car. Yip takes care of his old friend to which they reminisce upon the past. Gen then promises to kill each and every one of the Japanese until they leave China, and staggers out of Yip's house. However no more blood needed to be shed by Gen's hand as Japan had finally surrendered to the Americans, ending the World War and Japanese occupation of China. 
Life After the War
With the war over Gen decided to return to his true home the Darin Temple. Gen was saddened to see the temple ruined but happy to see Monks were still there. From the Temple Gen heard the heart braking news of the emperor being overthrown once again and that China was becoming modernized. One day as Gen makes a stop into the city, he was contacted by his former commander in the resistance, Yuan Shikai. Shikai asks one more assassination from Gen, the assassination of Song Jiaoren, China's first democratic president. Gen tried to play off his injury as a hindrance to his Ninjustu, but Shikai doesn't buy it reminding Gen that it was widespread news that he defeated Japan's best fighter in his “condition”. Gen then agrees to kill the president before his inauguration. While traveling with a group of colleagues to the Parliament in Beijing, Song Jiaoren was killed by Gen who executes the Thunder God Fist. Gen then covers up his involvement shooting him twice close range, at a Shanghai railway station. The trail of evidence led to the secretary of the cabinet and the provisional premier of Yuan Shikai's government Zhao Bingjun. Although Yuan was considered by contemporary Chinese media sources the man most likely behind the assassination, the main conspirators investigated by authorities were assassinated by Gen. Because of the lack of evidence, Yuan was never officially implicated. Gen then retreated into his temple where he remained for years. However Gen's jaundice and tuberculosis began getting worse as the power of hado became less and less effective. The painof which was so drastic he started seeing a Japanese physician named Dr. Yang for medication and treatment. The physician, who was a member of the Japanese Judo Association in Shanghai, invited Gen to a competition upon hearing of the latter's fame. Gen's adopted son and student, Liu Zhensheng, competed with a judo practitioner in his stead. Although there were disputes over who won the match, the disagreement culminated in a brawl and members of the judo team were injured, some with broken fingers and hands, including the head instructor. The doctor prescribed therapeutic arsenic for Gen, however the arsenic was poising him which lead to Gen developing Hemoptysis. The Hado treatment worked but Gen knew it was only a matter of time before his death, and sought out Dr. Yang who had just moved back to Japan. 
Unexpected Friend
Gen went to Japan and followed his physician's location to an Island off of Japan's coast. The Island held a fortress that Gen infiltrated. Gen demands to see Dr. Yang, but the workers refuse to let Gen go any further into the building. After they refuse and being to pursue Gen he sees a young man being held by 4 guards and quickly defeats the guards, freeing the boy in the hopes that he knows the doctor’s whereabouts. The boy reveals his name is Dorai and tells him that he does not know of the doctor but promises that he will help him. Gen then explains Yang is the only man who can save him from his illness. Eventually, they fight their way past some more guards and reach Yang. In the process, Gen's arm is gashed but he is still able to fight. Dr. Yang explains that he can cure Gen’s illness for a period of time but admits that he does not know if the effects will be permanent with insufficient equipment for the technique of a non-surgical orotracheal incubation to bypass laryngeal obstruction resulting from a diphtheria-related pseudomembrane. However with Gen's persistence they continued with the operation. Dr. Yang's method involved introducing a small straight metal tube into the larynx, securing it by means of a silk thread from Gen's robe and leaving it there for a few days until the pseudomembrane and airway obstruction had resolved sufficiently. However before Yang can preform the treatment a fighter in a tournament taking place on the Island comes and attempts to kill Yang, but is stopped by Dorai. After, Gen thanks Dorai for saving his life and offers to train him. 
Chin Woo Physical Training Center
Wanting to move out of the Darin Temple and train Dorai under his influence alone, Gen went back to Shanghai and founded the Chin Woo Physical Training Center (later renamed to "Chin Woo Athletic Association") with his adopted son Liu Zhensheng, who served as the president of the association. Gen was encouraged by his close friends and was sponsored by the former Emperor, who was hiding in Tokyo. The center was a school for learning the arts of self-defense and improvement of health and mind. Gen trained Dorai as one of his students for 7 years, and he quickly became his favorite student so much so that, he announced Dorai as his successor should he fall ill again and die. This frustrated Liu Zhensheng so much that he challenged Dorai to a public match to prove his adopted father wrong. However Dorai defeated Liu at, which point Gen told Liu of his disappointment. Liu then told his adopted father that he would have his revenge for this disrespect, and left the Chin Woo Athletic Association, disappearing out of Shanghai. 
A Worthy Challenger 
Years later word got around about Akuma, a fighter who fully embraced the Satsui no Hado was in Shanghai looking for a worthy opponent. While Gen was returning home Akuma challenges him to a fight. Gen's experience proved to be a deciding factor as he struck down Akuma with one of his deadliest techniques the Thunder God Fist. Akuma survives, but is badly injured and at Gen's mercy. Intrigued by the level of skill displayed by his opponent, Gen spares his life and agrees to a rematch once Akuma has fully mastered the Satsui no Hado. 
Cultural Revolution
However before a rematch can be had the height of the Communist Party of China's Chairman, Mao Zedong's, reign over the country, enforces communism in the country by removing capitalist, traditional and cultural elements from Chinese society to impose Maoist orthodoxy within all of China. Mao's mass paramilitary social movement of young people in the People's Republic of China known as The Red Guard were responsible for the destruction of Gen's school, Gen resisted and told the young soldiers that they followed a false emperor. However The group's leader Liu Zhensheng commanded his soldiers to “make Gen more understandable” to which they tried and failed. Liu Zhensheng then challenged his father and master, defeating the legendary master when he was held at gun point mid fight by another fraction of the Red Guard that were alerted by the scuffle and was knocked out by Liu's front kick. For Gen's counter-revolutionary actions and comments was sent to a laogai camp and forced into hard labor.
Laogai
While at the labor camp Gen had to cope with physical exhaustion, extreme cold, and starvation on a daily basis; he witnessed rats being eaten as well as the consumption of human corpses, however nothing compared to seeing a man so desperate that it drives him to eat another's vomit. While others starved to death Gen was able to feed off of his Hado, to purge himself from hunger, and to cleanse his body of the many diseases running rampant within the camp. In the daytime, Gen worked on a giant desert project that covers 10,000 acres. He lived on gruel, worked until exhausted; many of the other workers die from the combined effects of extreme physical exhaustion, hostile climate and the great famine sweeping China. Gen was assigned to sleep in a miserable underground dugout, nearest to the latrine, which caused constant fights between him and older members of the camp. Gen tried to escape 3 times the last of which they blinded him. However Gen as well as many people arrested for political or religious reasons were released at the start of the Deng Xiaoping reforms. 
Building a New Life
When the 66 year old Gen tried to return to the Darin Temple, he saw it ransacked and destroyed as a result of the “Cultural Revolution” and so he sold some relics from the temple and used the money to open up an antique shop to sell more relics. Gen would frequently visited Dorai and he briefly trained his daughter Chun-Li in her youth, teaching her Kikoken. Gen would soon use the money he made from the shop to open a chain of restaurants called Genhanten with one in Shanghai and one in Sendai, Japan. While at a mall the nearly 90 year old Gen gets very weak, a 17 year old named Bo sees Gen who it seems is about to die, as he is sweating and looks to be in bad condition, and says he will call an ambulance for him, but Gen insists on Bo taking him to a place of privacy. There, Gen absorbs his Hado. Bo shocked to see Gen back in good health wants to learn how to do the Hado technique Gen just did, and so he takes him to his shop where they can have privacy and practice the technique. Bo doesn't master it, although he gains a little more knowledge about his spiritual self after this encounter and Gen gives him the Boddidarma picture that Kaku Kahio once gave him. 
Street Fighter
Years later Dorai was apparently killed and Gen entered the first World Warrior tournament to find who had killed him. When he did not find the murder, he went back to the streets of China. Later, he was diagnosed with leukemia, and did not have much time to live. Gen did not blame his loss to Bo in the first tournament on his illness. 
Fighting with Leukemia
At first, he decided he would be careful and just manage his restaurant, but his adopted son sent assassins who made repeated attempts on his and his customer's lives. Due to this, he decided he would stop hiding and go out fighting, in a blaze of glory, as he felt it was a more honorable way to die. However he could not bring himself to kill his adopted son and so he went on a search for a worthy opponent, taking on members of Shadaloo and other crime syndicates, to provoke a fight to the death in which he would meet his demise. Gen even battle against another legendary Chinese Martial Arts named Wang Jinrei, in a highly publicized match, which resulted in a draw; to the bitter disappointment of Gen. 
A Worthy Rematch
He soon remembered Akuma, the fighter who fully embraced the Satsui no Hado, and after seeking him out, Gen challenged him to a fight that he hoped would be decisive. The two fought fiercely until the end, each surviving the other's finishing blow. However, Akuma sensed that Gen was terminally ill, making it an unfair fight. Thus, Akuma decided to end the match, leaving him to his fate. 
Street Fighter III
Later Gen, haunted by nightmares where he is surrounded on all sides by the ghosts of those he has killed in the past when he was still an assassin, scorns the ghosts and says that while he is still alive, he will not succumb to the likes of them. Reflecting on how Chun-Li has grown into a strong and admirable woman, he knows he cannot protect her for much longer, as his time is running short. He remembers the day when his illness allowed Shadaloo to make her father disappear; cursing his body and its "infernal frailties", he vows not to let them get away. He joins the S.I.N. organized tournament, and after he eliminated Chun-Li she begs that he tell her all that he knows about what happened to her father. Gen refuses and fades away to his next match, leaving her alone. Gen is then eliminated due to a draw with Hong Kong Star, and Doari's star pupil, Yue Shu Ya. However when the S.I.N. base is destroyed, Gen returns and protects Chun-Li from the ensuing collapse. While partially trapped under the rubble, Gen witnesses Akuma and Gouken fight over an unconscious Bo, internally referring to the two fighters as "Life and Death". He muses that "Death is indeed strong." Impressed by what he called their "ultimate battle", in which both men were "prepared to give up the ghost", Gen resolves not to die until "the final battle between Life and Death", so he returns to what he calls "my own fight to the death". He then uses Hado to rise from the ruble and he also frees Chun-Li leaving her in the care of her American friend Guile. 
China Vs Japan: The Final Fight
Gen then leaves China for Japan hearing of an underground fighting promotion underneath the Tokyo Dome. The runner of the fight promotion is excited to have the greatest living Chinese martial arts master of modern times, "The Invincible Assassin" Gen as a headliner against his Japanese Champion the Tiger Slayer, Doppo Orochi. The Classic Sino-Japanese match up that made Gen a legendary hero of the Chinese was used to attract a large crowd in what was build as Gen's Last Match. During the titanic battle, Gen suddenly has difficulty in breathing and loses his strength. He collapses and starts coughing blood, dying from his leukemia. Doppo and Gen's supporters including Chun-Li immediately demand that the match be halted and postponed, but Gen replies that he wants it to continue since he is going to die soon. Gen is then dominated by Doppo but he manages to deliver the Thunder God Fist to Doppo's chest and collapsed. Doppo survives and walks to his broken and feeble opponent, Gen begs Doppo to end his suffering at which point Doppo calls Gen “It was an honor to battle you sir, You are the greatest opponent I have ever faced, you've severed Asia, proud.” Doppo then preforms his most lethal technique The Tiger Chop, breaking Gen's neck and killing the Martial Arts Legend.
==Legacy==
Many who witnessed the bout believed Gen would have killed Doppo if he wasn't weakened from his leukemia, while those that heard of his death believed it was caused by malicious poisoning. Nonetheless Gen is considered a hero in China for defeating foreign fighters in highly publicized matches at a time when Chinese sovereignty was being eroded by colonization, foreign concessions and spheres of influence. Due to his heroic status, the legends and myths surrounding events in his life are difficult to discern from facts. Some historians believe that because of the times and average death rate of that era, that the real Gen Huo died decades ago before the second Sino-Japanese war. These beliefs have been further expanded on by the public who believe Gen died in a dramatic bout between Japanese Karate and Chinese Kung fu,. many of the films dedicated to Gen uphold to the notion and in these adaptations, Huo is typically depicted as a heroic martial artist who fights to uphold the dignity of the Chinese people in the face of foreign aggression, while his death is portrayed dramatically: he is secretly poisoned to death by foreigners, usually the Japanese, who see him as a threat to their interests in their exploitation of China. A notable feature in some of these adaptations is the appearance of Chen Zhen, a fictional student of Gen, who brings his teacher's murderers to justice and continues to uphold Gen's legacy. Actors who have portrayed Gen on screen include: Wong Yuen-sun, in The Legendary Fok; Bryan Leung, in Legend of a Fighter; Eddy Ko, in Fist of Fury; Vincent Zhao, in Huo Gen; Channie Jack, in Fearless; Ekin Cheng, in Huo Gen (The Remake).