Ah Hu

## Huang Huting

*This big man who looked a little simple and honest as well as slick actually possessed rather astonishing talent, an exceptional comprehension ability, in the area of the martial dao!* ~ Yan Zhaoge

*In terms of talent and comprehension abilities, he was not any inferior to the likes of Broad Creed Mountain's Xu Fei and Sacred Sun Clan's Tang Yonghao in the slightest.* ~ Yan Zhaoge

*In the Dim Radiant Emperor's treasure pile, Ah Hu smiling happily till even his teeth could not be seen as he clutched a pile of rare, precious Green Deep Golden Sheets.* ~ Yan Zhaoge

**Huang Huting** is the attendant and best friend of Yan Zhaoge. He is initially older than his Young Master by about 9 years, later older by about 2 years with Yan Zhaoge's visits and later death secluded cultivation periods of about 10-11 years in the faster timeflow Vast Ocean Realm compared to the timeflow of the World Beyond Worlds about 14 years.

He enjoys being an attendant and lacks desires for fame and fortune, finding them troublesome. He is a fierce-looking large man with the image of a slick fellow with the big build who had always seemed so simple and honest as he followed behind Yan Zhaoge wherever he went. He also possesses a variety of professional abilities, from monetary management and interrogation to pet sitting Pan-Pan and baggage carrier, through his career as a retainer.

## Name

黄 **Huáng** - *Yellow,* 虎 **Hǔ** - *Tiger,* 庭 **Tíng** - *Court/Front Courtyard*

阿虎 **Āhǔ**:

* 阿 Ā - *Used in front of persons' given names or kinship terms to express familiarity (traditionally in rural or southern Chinese dialects)*

## **Appearance**

**Huang Huting** is notably tall, burly and very fierce-looking with a big head and hands. He has black hair and eyes with an Asian appearance, but is not that handsome, plain or ugly, but simply rough. He commonly has a simple, honest smile during his daily life, except when fighting. He also has white teeth~~, and like other males of this ancient world, long hair? (maybe?).~~

Shi Tie was tall, even half a head taller than Ah Hu who himself could already be considered big.

Ah Hu is two heads taller also large and stocky than Heavenly Thunder Hall's thin, trained body, Martial Grandmaster “senior apprentice-brother Zhang”.

During a temporary period when Ah Hu refined a true ice dragon's blood alongside Yan Zhaoge, Ah Hu's unaccompassing martial arts caused him to have dark blue skin with shining blue light for awhile until his complete refinement, and if it was green skin, Ah Hu's natural burly physique would appear exactly like Marvel's the Hulk.

He wears clothes/robes that reveal his head, neck and arms. They are fit enough to move in while revealing his very burly physique. He sometimes worn a cloak. Due to Yan Xiaoai, Ah Hu is physically not minimally handsome.

## **Personality**

'*Huang Huting **refers to himself as*** **'I' *(俺 ǎn), a dialectal Mandarin of the common* 'I** (我 wǒ) of those from the Northeast.

Ah Hu likes to joke with Yan Zhaoge and has normally a very carefree, "I am dumb" slick, lazy attitude. But when he fights, he becomes beastly and very fierce. Under his care, this aspect is habitually imprinted into the lazy glutton Pan-Pan.

He shows his childish side to only his friends and masters, but normally, he is rude, lone and violent with others.

Ah Hu is openminded towards change and is intuitive with those close to him, noticing early on his young master was not exactly the Yan Zhaoge he served, but still accepted him into his life and thoroughly understood his young master's habits.

He has the habit of touching the back of his head when nervous and scratching it when embarrassed. He imitates Yan Zhaoge's lower chin stroking when plotting or jokingly pondering. He also knows how to express admiration with a modern thumbs up.

Ah Hu is also diligent and enjoys cultivating, feeling bored when unable to do so to pass the time. He has a treasure-crazy side, enjoying the feeling of obtaining/touching rare treasures.

Ah Hu always desires to follow his Young Master on his travels, out of duty, adventure and compassion, unless seriously ordered by Yan Zhaoge to stay put. In these situations, Ah Hu understands it is not because of insufficient cultivation rank, but the mortal-threatening dangers that will accompany the journey.

While many things changed in this world, in the heart of Huang Huting, he seemed only to remember that the Family Head had saved him and his grandfather. Therefore, whatever he became or how high a cultivation base he attained, this life of his would eternally belong to Yan Di's Yan Family. Ah Hu also has a sibling bond with Ying Longtu due to similar circumstances of becoming orphans.

## **History**

**Huang Huting's** hometown was the Zhao Region of the Thunder Domain in the Eight Extremities World.

Ah Hu did not have many feelings associated with his hometown. Ever since his grandfather, his family had begun serving Yan Di. He had grown up in the Central Heaven Region together with Yan Zhaoge since young. The place where Yan Di and Yan Zhaoge were was where his home lay. However, his grandfather and father had wished to be buried in their ancestral hometown for their final rest.

His grandfather was a personal servant of Yan Di. Yan Di tried to save his grandfather and Huang Huting from the Heavenly Thunder Hall while going all out, willing to offend the Thunder Domain's Heavenly Thunder Hall. While Yan Di successfully saved them, Ah Hu's grandfather died in the end so Yan Di took the child Ah Hu in to raise. At first Yan Di wanted to take Ah Hu as his disciple, but Ah Hu refused. Therefore, Yan Di took out the direct lineage martial arts of the late Wind Domain’s Sacred Ground that he had collected and passed them down to Ah Hu.

Ah Hu instead became the attendant of Yan Zhaoge. Over time, Ah Hu and Yan Zhaoge became good friends. Ah Hu also receives cultivation resources and monthly wages from Yan Zhaoge.

Yan Di had not treated Ah Hu badly at all, having treated him as he would a disciple, taking great care in teaching and guiding him. Yan Di himself was an excellent alchemist (medicinal pills), forger (spirit artifacts) and martial arts collector (martial repository). This disciple treatment built him a foundation as strong as famous top generation disciples of other sects. Therefore, Ah Hu’s ability completely wouldn’t lose to the likes of the Sacred Sun Clan's direct disciples Xiao Shen and Chao Yuanlong at the same cultivation level.

In recent years, Yan Di had actually wanted to take Ah Hu as a disciple even more, and Yan Zhaoge had also looked upon Ah Hu more as a friend than a servant.

At a later opportunity given by Yan Zhaoge, Ah Hu packed up his things and began preparing for the moving of his ancestors’ remains and to begin completing Yan Zhaoge's shopping list along the way. After having finished with all this, he set off on his journey.

Over sixteen years before Yan Zhaoge transmigrated, the retainer Ah Hu knew the Yan Family's Madam Xue Chuqing.

## **Plot**

Ah Hu is first introduced as Yan Zhaoge's loyal large male ruffian-hooligan attendant.

After Yan Zhaoge had first awoken in the Eight Extremities World that year, he had interacted with Yan Di and Ah Hu for the span of a few months to nearly half a year before gradually losing his awkwardness as well as perpetual caution.

### Heaven Beyond Heavens

#### Huang Huting's Cultivation

##### True Immortal

Ah Hu is now referred as Huang Huting, an external associate of Heaven Beyond Heavens' Broad Creed Mountain.

#### Truth of Yan Zhaoge and a new Way

Huang Huting and other members of Orthodox Daosim welcoming receive the returning Dao Ancestor Yan Zhaoge in his triumph against Jade Emperor and other Dao Ancestors.

## **Cultivation**

Huang Huting does not prefer fighting with weapons, instead, follows the path of brutal violent swift combat arts.

He possesses the same cultivation speed and abilities as Sacred Ground direct disciples with high resources provided by Yan Zhaoge. He shared the same cultivation speed as Xu Fei until the Immortal Bridge Martial Saint stages. Huang Huting similarly can face practitioners of the same major stage or 1 stage higher: EX - Early Spirit Vessel Martial Grandmaster Huang Huting can win against a Late Spirit Vessel Martial Grandmaster opponent, however, not an Early Essence Spirit Martial Grandmaster opponent.

His refinement of true ice dragon's blood allowed Huang Huting to gain the ice-snow attribute. Eventually, through cultivating in the Myriad Dragon Palace, Huang Huting refined a human type true dragon body, adding reversed sun and moon qi (Dim Sun & Cold Moon opposite = Cold Sun and Dim Moon).

His cultivates in the foundation martial arts: the Black Nightmare Divine Wind Law spirit soil and the main Great Western Purple Qi spirit seed. Both are part of the direct lineage martial legacy of the former Black Nightmare Mountain. The legacy focuses towards passive-active power and speed as well as allowing Huang Huting the potential to reach the Martial Saint realm.

However, because the direct lineage martial legacy was derived from fragmented post-Great Calamity knowledge of the Eight Extremities World, progress beyond the peak Seeing Divinity stage is impossible. This was because the martial arts of many lineages were insufficient for one to reach the Immortal Bridge stage. For peak Seeing Divinity Martial Saints to have a breakthrough, they would have to receive pointers from an expert, obtain great fortune or be a heaven-defying genius that only came once in a thousand years, causing the martial arts that they possessed to be able to advance even further.

With Yan Zhaoge's transmigration, these conditions are fulfilled and Huang Huting is taught many lost pre-Great Calamity scriptures and arts and Primordial Heavenly Scriptures that are selectively his style, allowing him to improve his martial arts to enter the Immortal Realm.

**Qi Directing Martial Artist:** About the same time required by the original Yan Zhaoge (Sacred Ground - Broad Creed Mountain's direct disciple, 3 years) to create a qi sea in his dantian, Huang Huting took about more or less than three years to enter the qi directing Martial Artist realm.

**Inner Aura Martial Scholar:** Huang Huting himself actually also possessed an extremely high talent in the martial dao. However, when he had been in the inner aura Martial Scholar realm in the past (before twenty), he had also not been able to raise his cultivation in half a year between the inner aura’s stages so quickly.

**Outer Aura Martial Scholar:** Huang Huting, based on the average progress of Sacred Ground disciples, reached the outer aura Martial Scholar realm around twenty years old.

**Xiantian Martial Scholar:** Huang Huting, based on the average progress of Sacred Ground disciples, reached the Xiantian Martial Scholar realm in his mid-twenties.

**Martial Grandmaster**: Early Spirit Vessel stage Huang Huting re-established his foundation, under Yan Zhaoge's guidance, using the Great Western Purple Qi to replace the Black Nightmare Divine Wind Law as fusion material and birth a stronger true martial avatar for his future cultivation path.

**Martial Saint:** Mentioned in Chapter 765, based on his cultivation speed since coming to the World Beyond Worlds, Essence Spirit Martial Grandmaster Huang Huting will attain the Martial Saint realm at a very young age, even earlier than Yan Di (50's) did. Based on his cultivation speed being similar to Martial Saint Xu Fei's (until his Qitian Dasheng inheritance), whose speed is similar 'Phoenix Prince' Zhuang Chaohui's, Huang Huting would take less than 6 years to breakthrough from Late Seeing Divinity to Early Immortal Bridge stage. His Martial Saint cultivation speed is also nearly the same, by half a step, to Xia Guang's.

**Immortal Realm:**

## Trivia

* Ah Hu's worth as a combat and adventure companion to Yan Zhaoge diminished with the end of the World Beyond Worlds arc.