Tatsuryuu

Tatsuryuu (タツ龍の郷苑) was a human who lived in China during the Qin Dynasty. He was known as the Heavenly Emperor (天皇, Tiānhuáng) during his time thanks to his power. Despite this, he was never crowned as a Sovereign alongside the likes of Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor of China after unifying it sometime in 221 BC. During his thirties, he eventually found an elder Dhruv and then killed him, leading onto his incarnation in the future by Kenjaku. Tatsuryuu did live long enough to meet Ashoka just before he died. Sometime after meeting Ashoka, fighting him to see if his rank as Heavenly Emperor could be maintained, and then losing to him despite the fact that Ashoka was 71 in 233 BC. Shortly after, he then went to live in peace with Qin Shi Huang eventually calling him the strongest around throughout China. At some point, he wandered the world, determined to find strong opponents, however, to his chagrin, none could rival his power except Ashoka alone, calling him and him alone the Strongest in the World. Due to the nature of his technique, he was an immortal entity who lived long enough to see the 21st century, calling it a place where "marvellous things could be accomplish by way of patience, the sword and the ever-dark presence of [the] time of hard work. For surely, the Analects of Confucius, in all their facets and forms became true".

## Appearance

He was described as a man with long, flowing black hair with a red cape and bore a black and purple long-sleeved shirt as well as bearing glowing red eyes.

## Personality

Tatsuryuu's personality is mysterious although he is predominantly someone who desires to fight the strong. He uses his rank and power to threaten anyone who gets in his way, irrespective of rank although he was merciful to the people of China, not harming them whilst he lived there. Despite this mercy, he did have moments of glee when fighting truly strong opponents like Ashoka, where he was described as a "man solely obsessed with fighting... his hands baring their grip on the strong and strong alone", bearing a similar attitude to Satoru Gojo in that regard.

## Powers and Abilities

**Overall Skill Level**: Whilst little is seen and known of his actual skill, according to those who lived long after him, he was regarded as a myth; and a legend in China and Japan. Even Kenjaku called him a truly immortal entity who had even surpassed Tengen herself in this aspect.

That said, back more than 2000 years ago, Tatsuryuu was the strongest sorcerer in all of China. More than living up to his title, Tatsuryuu himself possessed immeasurable amounts of cursed energy within his body due to the nature of the Soul Flame.

**Master Hand-to-Hand Combatant**: While immensely powerful as a jujutsu sorcerer, Tatsuryuu could beat up an older Dhruv and fight somewhat on par in terms of hand-to-hand with Ashoka who was 71 years old.

**Immense Strength**: He, like Ashoka, was physically strong to destroy one of Dhruv's shikigami with his raw strength, something which no-one barring Yuta Okkotsu himself could do thousands of years later.

**Immeasurable Speed**: Whilst little is known of his speed, Tatsuryuu was said to be almost as fast as Ashoka himself by the man in question. He could also dodge Narakan Knives, a technique that both Ashoka himself and Dhruv described as beyond dodging entirely.

**Immense Reflexes**: He was also able to reflexively dodge each of an older Dhruv's attacks with minimal effort.

**Immeasurable Durability**: He was durable enough to tank both of Dhruv's Shikigami attacks with somewhat minimal effort, and could even survive attacks from the Vajra of Indra whilst Ashoka was using it, a weapon capable of easily annihilating an entire country as thunder poured from its every orifice. Kenjaku also described him as someone so durable that it would take a millennia in order to truly defeat him. He was also able to survive an encounter from Ashoka and live past the Heian era without any real damage to speak of.

**Great Tactical Intellect:** Tatsuryuu was an extremely intelligent man, being able to use his techniques and vision to see right through most opponents and adapt to them correspondingly.

He was also intelligent enough to see right through Dhruv's Shikigami, determining their actual purpose and then using that against Dhruv himself.

### Jujutsu

**Immeasurable Cursed Energy**: Whilst his actual amount of cursed energy is unknown, according to Qin Shi Huang, it was though "Heaven and Earth had coursed through his very being".

**Barrier** (バリア (障礙), *, Barria*?): Tatsuryuu's defensive technique is a technique that brings the concept of "non-movement" into reality. This makes it impossible for the opponent to reach someone who has the Barrier. Being the lone user of the technique, it can also allow for the complete control of space and time through either warping it around the user or around the opponent, where it can be shaped into different shapes and is seen through a coloured energy that surrounds them with this energy being speculated to heal him if they take any damage. The base state of the Barrier is non-movement where anything that moves in front of the user and is essentially the power to stop on a conceptual level, making it similar to the Limitless Zero or the Gojo Clan's Infinity. Through this power of stopping things on a conceptual level, the opponent enters into a state of non-movement, where they cannot move their body parts, think or speak whilst in front of Tatsuryuu. As such, moving is impossible whilst Tatsuryuu has the barrier active. This is said to be the original form of the Gojo Clan's Limitless cursed technique.

**Void Division** (呪術式空わりざん (公式為空), *, Waaridan*?): This is his second application of the Barrier defense where creates a gravitational void that pushes targets toward the user, eventually mutilating them if the cursed energy is focused onto a specific body part where space and time is crushed due to it being pulled towards the user whilst also warping the opponent's spatial coordinates, essentially forcefully teleporting them to the user.

Tatsuryuu can then use the Soul Flame to create a black sphere that upon manifesting warps the nearby environment's surroundings and after firing the attack was so strong that Ashoka and Vedant called it an attack that could threaten multiple cities and castles with its destructive powers. It was also called the origin of Hollow Purple used by the Gojo clan. It deletes whatever is in infront of it, devouring the environment as it does so. Its range appears to be controllable and Ashoka countered it by using Narakan Knives.

Tatsuryuu can then use the Soul Flame in a similar way to how Ashoka used the Human Path to remove people's souls, but unlike Ashoka, he can forcibly liberate a person, including a Cursed Spirit's soul and existence, causing a white light to surround them as they are fully removed from the cycle of reincarnation entirely. He can only activate this by summoning the Purgatory Flame and touching the target's stomach or heart.

Dragon Eyes (ドラゴンの目火眼金睛, *Doragon no Me*?): Not much is known about the Dragon Eyes, but it is known that they play some role in the precise usage of the Soul Flame. According to Ashoka, the eyes grant six main abilities:
(1) Jinsokutsu (大悟), the ability to go anywhere at will and to transform oneself or objects at will although this is only used when the Ruyi Jingu Bang is already on his person.
(2) Tengentsu (天眼通), "the divine eyes" capable of seeing anything at any distance and the future destiny of oneself and others. He used just after his fight with Ashoka.
(3) Tennitsu (天津), "the divine ears" capable of hearing any sound at any distance.
(4) Tashintsu (多心津), the ability to know others' mind and thoughts. He used this ability with his Soul Flame to see through people's souls.
(5) Shukumytotsu (宿命通) the ability to know former lives of oneself and others.
(6) Rojintsu (ロ神通), the ability to destroy all evil passions. How this works is unknown although Ashoka implies that he can use this to damage people who are truly evil with him likely using this during his fight with Dhruv to damage him given his desire for fighting and fighting alone.
The Fiery Golden Eyes are activated when his eyes briefly flicker; allowing him to see through illusions, truths and lies. He can also counter Domain Expansion by detecting their outer shells and destroying them with the Soul Flame, however with barrier less Domains, he can still target the "weakness" of the Domain by targeting the enemy themselves.
It is unclear how the eyes benefit Tatsuryuu's energy levels. He is said to have virtually immeasurable amounts of cursed energy. It is heavily implied that Dragon Eyes allows for Tatsuryuu to perceive the world in a red hue, as well as allowing him to detect non-sorcerers whilst he was in China; as well as allowing him to see through people to some degree according to Qin Shi Huang.

## Trivia

Tatsuryuu is partially based on Sun Wukong and Satoru Gojo, with him moreso being inspired by the latter than the former.

Him fighting Ashoka is a reference to Sun Wukong when he meets the Buddha in the Journey to the West.

His Fiery Golden Eyes were attained after surviving for 49 days in Lao Tzu's anti-immortality furnace.

The Ruyi Jingu Bang is the main weapon that Sun Wukong carried throughout the novel.

Moksha (Gedatsumon) is an idea from Hinduism where a soul is liberated from the cycle of life and rebirth.

The technique Soul Flame: Moksha also represents Sun Wukong attaining Buddhahood at the end of the Journey to the West.

Purgatory Flame is based off of Purgatory in Christian theology as well as Purgatory from Dante's Alighieri's Divine Comedy.

Mushoyusho is based on the Sphere of Non-Perception from Buddhism