Wu Kuang

* Novel
* True Appearance (Manhua)
* New Body (Mo Sheng’s)
* Skeleton (Manhua)

**Wu Kuang**, known as the **Heaven Devouring Great Emperor**, is one of the most infamous and legendary Great Emperors in the history of Star Boundary. Practicing the evil **Heaven Devouring Battle Law**, he is also one of the most powerful forces Star Boundary has ever seen.

## Appearance

His original body is destroyed before it can make an appearance. In Mo Sheng’s body, he looks like an unassuming Myriad Demons Heaven disciple.

## Personality

Wu Kuang has an extremely vain and cruel personality. He looks down on all others and constantly praises his own genius and aptitude. Eventually, he seemingly curbs some of his evil ways, at least to Star Boundary, and befriends Yang Kai and Duan Hong Chen.

Later, after receiving the memories of Devourer, Wu Kuang seemingly adapts a more composed, responsible, and considerate personality.

## Background

Wu Kuang is one of the top 3 most powerful Star Boundary Great Emperors in history, along with the Flowing Time Great Emperor and Yang Kai. This is mainly due to his incredible Secret Art, **Heaven Devouring Battle Law**.

It is revealed that he can practice this incredible Art due to both nature and chance through the Heaven-defying **Flawless Purifying Lotus**. This treasure is very similar to and just as rare as Yang Kai’s **Soul Warming Lotus**. The difference is the Flawless Purifying Lotus purifies the body while the Soul Warming Lotus purifies the Divine Soul. In this way, Wu Kuang is able to avoid the horrifying negative effects of Heaven Devouring Battle Law just like the Stone Puppet Embodiment.

### Shì (噬/Devourer)

Later, it is discovered that Wu Kuang is actually the reincarnated soul fragment of one of the first 10 Open Heaven Realm cultivators that taught the rest of the Human Race the complete modern cultivation system, Shi (Devour). Though he had no memory of this life for most of his existence, it is from Shi that he got the innate inspiration for Heaven Devouring Battle Law.

## Heaven Devouring Battle Law

### Unparalleled Secret Art

Considered by many to be the most peerless and infamous Secret Art in the history of Star Boundary, Heaven Devouring Battle Law allows one to swallow the energy of the myriad things of creation and assimilate them as one's own strength. This Secret Art allowed Wu Kuang to not only become a Great Emperor, but to achieve the unprecedented feat of slaying 4 other Great Emperors in a single battle before finally falling.

However, as one would expect for such a Heaven-defying Art, Heaven Devouring Battle Law has some serious side effects. The various impurities found in the myriad things of creation can toxify and greatly affect a person's body and disposition, turning this Secret Art into a double-edged sword. Therefore, one needs a method to protect themselves from these impurities in order to practice this Secret Art to the peak. Wu Kuang achieves this through his Flawless Purifying Lotus, whereas Embodiment uses the Stone Puppet Clan's natural Divine Ability to rid himself of the impurities.

Later, it is revealed that this Secret Art was actually used in the Antiquity to outstanding effects by Shi(Devourer), and is a peerless Secret Art even for the Outer Universe. Likewise, Heaven Devouring Battle Law completely lives up to its Heaven-defying reputation, and is able to break through the limit of Open Heaven Realm promotion if one can solve its side effects, which only get worse as one becomes more powerful.

### Bottleneck

Cultivators who practice Heaven Devouring Battle Law reach a bottleneck upon promoting to the 3rd Order Dao Source Realm, and cannot surpass this level until they swallow another cultivator who has practiced Heaven Devouring Battle Law to this degree. For this reason, most cultivators who have practiced Heaven Devouring Battle Law have been unable to even reach the Emperor Realm.

## Past

More than 30,000 years before Yang Kai arrived in Star Boundary, the Heaven Devouring Great Emperor went on a terror throughout the Star Fields, resulting in the deaths of many Cultivation Stars and trillions of lives. The Great Emperors came down to stop him and eventually achieved victory only after Wu Kuang managed the unparalleled feat of killing four other Great Emperors. The Great Emperors killed were Martial Flame, Yuan Ding, Cyan Lotus, and Azure Sea. This battle destroyed countless Stars and created the famous Shattered Star Sea. Wu Kuang’s body was never recovered as he secretly created a space where his Divine Soul maintained its existence using the **Flawless Purifying Lotus** for over 30,000 years, awaiting the appropriate opportunity to revive when Shattered Star Sea re-opens.

## History

### Wu Kuang Lives

Yang Kai inadvertently follows Duan Hong Chen, the Bustling World Great Emperor, into a Black Hole containing a mysterious skeleton while in the Shattered Star Sea. Duan Hong Chen then begins fighting with the skeleton, which suddenly comes to life while Yang Kai is in the distance. It is revealed that the Skeleton, which is devouring some surrounding blood in order to restore its flesh, is actually the still living Heaven Devouring Great Emperor, Wu Kuang. Duan Hong Chen, suspicious he was still alive, had actually re-cultivated himself several times over thousands of years in order to enter the Shattered Star Sea to look for Wu Kuang‘s presence, and finally found him this time. Duan Hong Chen then reveals a 1st Order Emperor Realm cultivation level as he continues to battle with Wu Kuang. Yang Kai then watches this extraordinary battle until he can no longer contain his need to breakthrough, and his subsequent breakthrough is so powerful that it attracts the attention of both Wu Kuang and Duan Hong Chen, who both see great potential in the boy if he is allowed to grow.

Seeing opportunity, Wu Kuang allows his reforming flesh body to be destroyed in a massive explosion before attempting to take over Yang Kai’s newly promoted body. Wu Kuang’s Soul Avatar is then shocked to see the Soul Warming Lotus in Yang Kai’s Knowledge Sea before Duan Hong Chen also appears there in order to kill him. Duan Hong Chen then orders Yang Kai to attack them both while he holds Wu Kuang, and Yang Kai obliges with an extraordinarily powerful Divine Soul attack combined with the Soul Splitting Saber of the Insect Emperor. This attack simultaneously devastates the Divine Souls of both Duan Hong Chen and a terrified Wu Kuang. The two severely injured and foreign Divine Souls then flee Yang Kai’s Knowledge Sea. As the vitality of Duan Hong Chen’s physical body then rapidly begins to fade, Yang Kai proceeds to use a leaf of the Immortal Tree in an attempt to save the dying Great Emperor. However, in the process, Duan Hong Chen and Wu Kuang’s Divine Souls are somehow forced to share Duan Hong Chen’s body.(Chapter 2495 - 2506)

### Dominant Soul

With Duan Hong Chen as the more dominant Soul, Duan Hong Chen/Wu Kuang separate from Yang Kai shortly after their arrival in the Eastern Territory of Star Boundary. Duan Hong Chen then quickly looks for a way to get rid of Wu Kuang. Likewise, they subsequently pay a visit to the Serene Soul Great Emperor, who specializes in the Divine Soul, for assistance. During this time, Wu Kuang/Duan Hong Chen are surprised to find that the Serene Soul Great Emperor is also occupied with Yang Kai through the Soul Descent he left on his daughter. Unfortunately, even the Serene Soul Great Emperor proves unable to rectify the issue of the coexisting Divine Souls.

Later, Duan Hong Chen/Wu Kuang go to Azure Sun Temple, where they enter its Divine Ascension Mirror World in order to seek the aid of the Divine Soul Great Emperor-like existence, Tian Yan. However, this plan goes awry for Duan Hong Chen, and Wu Kuang ends up becoming the more dominant personality. After helping to release more Demon Spirits into the Southern Territory in the face of Yang Kai and several Southern Territory Emperor Realm powerhouses who were looking to prevent this, Wu Kuang joyfully departs from Azure Sun Temple.

### Wu Chen

On Dragon Island, Yang Kai meets a strange character named Wu Chen among the cultivators of Half-Dragon City who are enlisted to construct a Palace for the Dragon Clansman, Fu Chi. Later, after Yang Kai kills the previous overseer, the 3rd Order Emperor Realm Wu Chen takes command of the group of workers instead. Though Yang Kai then briefly notices that many Emperors have disappeared since the promotion of Wu Chen, he remains primarily focused on preventing the upcoming wedding between his lover, Zhu Qing, and Fu Chi. Later, as Fu Chi is engaged in a desperate life-or-death struggle with Li Jiao over the kidnapping and repeated raping of the latters’s former fiancé, Wu Chen suddenly arrives on the scene. Using the mighty Heaven Devouring Battle Law, Wu Chen then brutally kills Fu Chi, alarming the entirety of Dragon Island to the death of a Dragon Clansman.

Wu Chen, now revealed to be "Wu" Kuang and Duan Hong "Chen," then successfully tricks and escapes from the numerous powerhouses present on Dragon Island, including the Dragon Island Great Elders, Zhu Yan and Fu Zhun, and the Martial Beast Great Emperor, Mo Huang, by diverting their attention to the Dragon Grave as he makes his way into the Dragon Island's Dragon Temple. Here, Wu Kuang uses the power of the Dragon Temple to forcefully open up a Void Corridor to the lower Star Fields, to where he successfully escapes.

### New Plan

Later, in the Ancestral Domain, Yang Kai finds that Wu Kuang/Duan Hong Chen are peacefully sitting with a strange checkerboard. They then take the time to casually inform Yang Kai on both how to become a Star Field Master and how to find his Star Field. To Yang Kai's surprise, Duan Hong Chen makes the additional requests that Yang Kai not reveal their location.

Later, during the start of the Demon War, Yang Kai returns angrily to the Ancestral Domain when he finds out that the Heng Luo Star Field is being swallowed. Using the strange checkerboard, which actually seems to contain the merged Star Fields, Wu Kuang/Duan Hong Chen explain that this process is actually good for the Star Fields and will not affect any life. The only effect is that there will be no more Star Field Masters. Yang Kai, though still skeptical, has no choice but to relent upon Duan Hong Chen's urging.

### Final Battle of Star Boundary

While Yang Kai, now the Void Great Emperor, is locked in a desperate struggle with Mo Sheng at High Heaven Palace, Wu Kuang/Duan Hong Chen free all the Great Emperors from the captivity of the Demon Saints. Mo Sheng desperately takes all the Demon Qi and Demon Race into himself to form a giant physical body to display the power of Low Rank Open Heaven Realm. Despite no longer being a Great Emperor of Star Boundary, Wu Kuang draws upon the power of the strange checkerboard and displays the power Open Heaven Realm(**World Mighty Force**) to greatly assist in the battle against Mo Sheng. When Yang Kai returns from death, Mo Sheng is finally overwhelmed. Wu Kuang then splits from Duan Hong Chen and invades the body of Mo Sheng, destroys his remaining Divine Consciousness, and gains a new vessel. Wu Kuang eventually bids Yang Kai, whom he wholly acknowledges, farewell, and expresses a wish to see him again in the Outer Universe.

### Myriad Demons Heaven

Happy to finally have confirmation of a higher Martial Dao, Wu Kuang finds Myriad Demons Heaven where he is accepted as the long lost disciple, Mo Sheng. Here he quickly promotes to the 5th Rank Open Heaven Realm and is placed under the command of the 7th Rank Open Heaven Realm Elder, Ti Zheng. After Yang Kai is forced to promote to the 5th Rank Open Heaven Realm by Ti Zheng in Shattered Heaven, Wu Kuang ambushes him on his departing Flight Artifact, and proceeds to use another Artifact to prevent Ti Zheng from using his strength. Wu Kuang then reveals his identity to Ti Zheng in order to break his resolve before brutally killing the latter through the use of Heaven Devouring Battle Law.

Wu Kuang, now in the 6th Rank Open Heaven Realm, sees Yang Kai again in the Yin-Yang Heaven Dao Theory Assembly on Prison Star, where he and Yang Kai temporarily team up to escape a deadly encounter. Later, when Zuo Quan Hui has Pei Wen Xuan and others come with him to assault Star Boundary and kill Yang Kai, Mo Sheng betrays Zuo Quanhui in a critical moment which allows Yang Kai to finally kill him. Afterwards, Yang Kai allows Wu Kuang to swallow the remaining captives even though Pei Wen Xuan and Yin Xin Zhao‘s deaths will definitely anger their respective Cave Heavens.

### Outlaw

Wu Kuang spends some time hanging out on an extremely young Universe World in Yang Kai’s new Great Territory found next to High Heaven Territory. Here, he reveals to Yang Kai his greatest secret, that he acquired the twin of Yang Kai’s Soul Warming Lotus, the Flawless Purifying Lotus, which he states allowed him to create and practice Heaven Devouring Battle Law. He then proclaims that he only revealed this secret to Yang Kai because the latter carries a very similar secret.

Wu Kuang then spends the next 20 years in Yang Kai’s Six Fated Paths Bag. Disgruntled, he is taken to Shattered Heaven by Yang Kai, a place where powerful Open Heaven Realm masters that do not belong to Cave Heavens/Paradises or any other Force gather. A world of outlaws, Yang Kai deduces it is a perfect place for Wu Kuang, and then leaves him to his own devices in his newfound home.

### Ancestral Land

Wu Kuang would eventually make a name for himself in Shattered Heaven. Avoiding the trouble of visiting Cave Heaven and Paradise members, Wu Kuang would eventually promote to 7th Rank Open Heaven Realm by unleashing the might of Heaven Devouring Battle Law upon the countless outlaws of Shattered Heaven. Eventually, however, Wu Kuang draws the attention of the three 8th Rank Open Heaven Realm Divine Monarchs of the Secret Boundary. Avoiding them, Wu Kuang would not be heard from directly for about 200 years.

It is learned that while escaping the Dull Flame Divine Monarch of Shattered Heaven, Wu Kuang made his way into the Shattered Ruins. Taking only one year to reach Ancestral Land, Wu Kuang mistakenly tried to use Heaven Devouring Battle Law on Great General. Before a horrified Wu Kuang could be harmed by the infuriated Mie Meng, Shan Qing Luo calmed her down by informing her of Wu Kuang's friendship with Yang Kai. When the forces of Ancestral Land head to Spatial Territory in order to battle the Ink Clan army, Wu Kuang eagerly goes along with them.

### Spatial Territory

Later, in the Spatial Territory War, Wu Kuang, now a peak 7th Rank Open Heaven Realm powerhouse, is seen fighting alongside Blood Crow. During their battle with Ink, Wu Kuang shows off the superiority of Heaven Devouring Battle Law in comparison to the Grand Evolution Immortal Blood Light Scripture. Here, it is revealed that Wu Kuang is even able to swallow Ink without any apparent issues. Together, Wu Kuang and Blood Crow serve as two of the most powerful 7th Ranks in the Spatial Territory War.

### Long-Lived Disaster

After the majority of the 9th Rank Open Heaven Realm Old Ancestors sacrifice themselves in Spatial Territory so that the Human Race and Divine Spirit forces can more safely make a retreat to Star Boundary, Wu Kuang goes off on his own. Having used his Heaven Devouring Battle Law unscrupulously for years, Wu Kuang eventually runs into trouble when an innate Territory Lord and a Ink Clan army pursue him. Just when he thinks he’s out of luck, he spots Yang Kai in the distance and quickly makes his way toward the latter with the hopes of relying on his skill in the Dao of Space to escape. However, Wu Kuang is quickly shocked when he finds that not only is Yang Kai refining a Universe World into a World Bead, but he is already 8th Rank Open Heaven Realm.

Yang Kai then easily obliterates the Territory Lord and his army before taking Wu Kuang into Great Ruins Boundary. Here, Wu Kuang spends time in front of the World Tree while Yang Kai goes off to refine the rest of the pure/salvageable Universe Worlds in the Outer Universe, and he even makes a bold attempt at trying to refine the World Tree. Having transformed shape into a humanoid form, the World Tree beats Wu Kuang, who it restricts to the Emperor Realm, to a pulp for trying to use Heaven Devouring Battle Law on him. The Old Tree then remarks that Wu Kuang reminds him of Devourer. After Yang Kai frees the Divine Spirits of Great Ruins Boundary, he gives a furious Wu Kuang a World Tree Subtree to quell his anger and humiliation before taking him to Ink Battlefield.

### Devourer

On Ink Battlefield, Yang Kai tactfully leads Wu Kuang towards the Heavenly Beginning Great Restriction, informs him on the known history of the Outer Universe, and questions him on the true origin of Heaven Devouring Battle Law. Unsurprisingly, Wu Kuang admits that he learned Heaven Devouring Battle Law from dreams he had while still very young, and its mystery has only become more profound as he has become more powerful.

Incredibly curious as to what more Yang Kai knows about his own long held suspicions, Wu Kuang is later unable to evade a strange beam of light exuded from Yang Kai‘s finger tip into his body while outside of the Heavenly Beginning Great Restriction. After several days, Wu Kuang awakens with a great sense of enlightenment and pressure on his shoulders, as he recovers the memories and remaining soul of Shi that was left to Yang Kai by Cang (Dark Green).

After recovering the memories of Shi, Wu Kuang explains to Yang Kai the unobtained mystery of the Creation Realm. He then informs Yang Kai that he will stay behind to manage the Heavenly Beginning Great Restriction, and will reach 9th Rank within 3,000 years. Before entering the Restriction, Wu Kuang gives Yang Kai a special Secret Art to help him breakthrough his limit of the 8th Rank Open Heaven Realm. This dangerous technique, developed by Shi in the Antiquity within the Heavenly Beginning Great Restriction, is said to particularly suit Yang Kai due to his possession of the Soul Warming Lotus.

### Guardian

3,000 years later, Wu Kuang successfully promotes to the 9th Rank Open Heaven Realm while managing the restriction. Around this time, Yang Kai brings an army of cultivators, known as the Withdrawing Ink Army, to assist the newly promoted Wu Kuang by easing the pressure of the large amount of Ink Clansmen within the restriction. As Wu Kuang purposefully opens up a gap in the restriction, the Withdrawing Ink Army, lead by the Divine Dragon Fu Guang, uses a powerful Artifact known as the Withdrawing Ink Platform to slaughter the countless Ink Clan that escape from the gap.

However. over a thousand years later, it is discovered by both Wu Kuang and Yang Kai that there is a flaw in the Great Restriction due to its general instability, which stems from its old age. Because of this, many innate Territory Lords are able to escape the restriction in secret. Although Yang Kai subsequently kills many of these innate Territory Lords along with the King’s Nests they carry, he estimates that approximately 1,000 Territory Lords escaped from the restriction over the last several decades.

## Gallery

Manhua (Past)Wu Kuang/Duan Hong Chen New Look (Manhua Only/Temporary)

## References

1. ↑ Chapter 4370
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Chapter 5467
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Chapter 5672
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Chapter 5504
5. ↑ Chapter 5502
6. ↑ Chapter 3194
7. ↑ Chapter 2495
8. ↑ Chapter 2498
9. ↑ Chapter 2505
10. ↑ Chapter 3067
11. ↑ Chapter 3069
12. ↑ Chapter 3075
13. ↑ Chapter 3106
14. ↑ Chapter 4379
15. ↑ Chapter 4380
16. ↑ Chapter 4467
17. ↑ Chapter 4626
18. ↑ Chapter 5468
19. ↑ Chapter 5506
20. ↑ Chapter 5698