Suo Mingzhang/Abilities

## Cultivation Techniques

### **Heavenly Stellar Phenomena**

**Blazing Stellar Heavenly Fire Yang Flame (炽热星辰天火阳炎):** The origin of his title piece **Culmination** and the foundation style. Based on his **flame manipulation** ability and the Reverse Heavenly Scripture, his qi aura reveals the blazing stars of heavenly fire yang flames 炽热星辰天火阳炎. What he learned encompassed the cultivation of the power of the fire within the sun, comprehension of the changes of the stars, and the truth of all things. Those learning allowed him to attain ascendancy to Immortal and cultivate the Primordial Heavenly Scriptures. Through years of cultivation, he had integrated the scripture with a variety of Supreme Martial Arts and deduced a unique style of his -Severing Heavenly Scripture.

### **Jade Clear Lineage**

#### Severing Heavenly Scripture 截天书 (c. 1294, 1661)

修炼星辰天火阳炎之力，参悟群星变化，及至万物道理，并进一步升华，逆练元始天书，融会贯通多种绝学，最终自成一格，得截天书之法。

Using fragments of the Three Purities' (Three Clear Lineage) Hollow Void Heavenly Scripture found on Flame Dragon World as a child and later encountered other Jade Clear Primordial Heavenly Scriptures as comprehension, Suo Mingzhang embarked on a rare and difficult path of reverse practicing the Primordial Heavenly Scriptures. It lead him to create his own martial arts scripture called the Reverse Heavenly Scripture. The Reverse Heavenly Scripture was used to help him breakthrough to the True Immortal stage. After becoming a True Immortal, Suo Mingzhang went to the Daoism Universe and encountered more orthodox daoism martial arts, he took their essence and fused it with his Reverse Heavenly Scripture to improve it and create the Severing Heavenly Scripture.

This scripture required him to understand 'heaven' (Jade Clear martial arts and scriptures) in order to severe away the phenomenon, allowing him to disrupt, deny or destroy the enemy's connection (law of the Great Dao) to the world's principles simultaneously Reverse them. The self-made heavenly scripture also protects him from external 'heaven' related influences by severing one's connection to 'heaven'. This scripture is direct opposite to Yan Di's cultivation path because its concept inspired the path's creation of new 'heaven'. The Severing Heavenly Scripture appears as a flame, burning away the law of the Great Dao as the flame collapsed inwards like a supernova.

As a Two Flower Converged Crown Heavenly Monarch, Suo Mingzhang was not strong enough to forcefully prevent civilization’s declination and yet didn’t have the terrifying strength to defy creation itself.

##### Reverse Heavenly Scripture 反天书 (c. 1294)

The resulting martial arts scripture created, with the Hollow Void Heavenly Scripture as the base and Later Heaven Primordial Heavenly Scriptures added, the reverse comprehension of all the Jade Clear scriptures that fundamentally the source of everything. The Reverse Heavenly Scripture contained enough potential to propel Suo Mingzhang on the path to the Immortal Realm - True Immortal. It follows the **Understanding of Reverse Essence**. This scripture could reverse the user's comprehended 'heaven' phenomena (stars, fires, yang, flames, changes of the stars, all-things' principles) and set a boundary of non-interference, preventing 'heaven' from acting upon the world while protecting the user from the understood 'heaven' through its related Primordial Heavenly Scriptures + descendants from interfering in events. However, it could not injure, but disruptively undo 'heaven' essence away, with the destructive result becoming an attack. It produces the appearance of 'heavenly' stars burning into supernova like fierce attacks.

#### Primordial Heavenly Scriptures

As a previous member of the New Kunlun Nine Luminaries and from his hardwork to create his own Severing Heavenly Scripture, Suo Mingzhang owns the complete collection of the Three Purities/Three Clear Lineage scriptures, excluding Peerless Heavenly Scripture or equivalents. The Jade Clear Lineage's Later Heaven Heavenly Scriptures or their derivative arts were used to develop his Reverse Heavenly Scripture based on the concepts of Later Heaven (Space, Time, Life, Yin Yang, Thought & Matter).

##### Hollow Void Heavenly Scripture (Mortal Foundation)

Suo Mingzhang's first martial arts' foundation, obtained as a fragmented martial arts scripture as a child. Although it was the Jade Clear Lineage’s Hollow Void Heavenly Scripture, there were too many empty sections. At first, it was just the basics of his foundation alongside understanding stellar phenomena. However, after Suo Mingzhang managed to acquire more Jade Clear supreme arts derived from the 6 Later Heaven Heavenly Scriptures, he ventured deeper into the rare difficult path and practiced the Primordial Heavenly Scriptures in reverse, to understand more of stellar phenomena. As his basic foundation, Suo Mingzhang uses the Hollow Void Heavenly Scripture to establish 'boundaries' (circle, divine light, slash, etc) of his self-made Severing Heavenly Scripture and Reverse Heavenly Scripture effects. (c. 1294)

Suo Mingzhang also can causally use his spatial foundation to shrink and store in an alternative space non-living and living things, such as the Exalted Wood Luminary's Canghua Heavenly Tree, with opening of a palm. (c. 1227, 1286)

##### Life Creation Heavenly Scripture (Immortal Foundation)

Suo Mingzhang had obtain either a general version of the Life Creation Heavenly Scripture or derivative arts to constitute the Heavenly Scripture's profundities to create his Reverse Heavenly Scripture.

He, as the Exalted Wood Luminary's lover, learned and mastered her unique Canghua Lineage of the Life Creation Heavenly Scripture, from its secret rituals to its differences from the Southern Extremity Longevity Emperor's Original Lineage. He used the Canghua Lineage version and its customs to act as hidden keys to his small private spaces, such as the small shadow space that he hid his Canghua Emperor's folding fan. (c. 1210, 768)

##### Opening Heavenly Scripture (Immortal Foundation)

As a member of the New Kunlun Nine Luminaries, True Immortal Suo Mingzhang learned and was the most heavily influenced by this Earlier Heaven Heavenly Scripture due to its relationship with his Reverse Heavenly Scripture and his halberd arts. It also assisted him to forge Mars Halberd.

###### **Heaven Splitting Halberd (Opening Heaven Halberd 开天幡)**

* Form shift between halberd-axe and flag banner: It was a strong force that opened the heavens and split the earth; relentless and vast. Exhibits the Heavenly Scripture's ability to confront Many with One.
	+ *"He launched his fist. The fist seemed to resemble both an axe and a halberd. It opened the heavens and split the earth, and crimson red flame surged out. At this moment, the flame transformed into a star. The horrifying flame did not explode outwards. Instead, it was continually collapsing inwards! All of a sudden, a burdensome feeling appeared with Suo MIngzhang’s fist as its center. An immeasurable amount of weight was collapsing in one focused point, its heaviness great. As if it was a real star, it was experiencing a supernova! Suo Mingzhang’s punch could almost shatter the entire World Beyond Worlds!"*

###### **Heaven Splitting's Fire (Opening Heaven's Fire 开天之火)**:

* The concept of fire released from opening Heaven, spreading out its flames and envelop many. Afluent towards Suo Mingzhang's Blazing Stellar Heavenly Fire Yang Flame.

## Martial Arts

### Martial Dao - Body Refinement

Suo Mingzhang had incorporated martial art practice as the main element of his cultivation and not the type to cultivate and research in the library. He was battle-hungry. To enjoy his battles directly, his cultivated his body as a foundation to display his martial arts and extend the endurance of combat.

### Axe - Halberd - Flag Arts: 斧 - 戟 (斧似幡) - 幡

Based on creating the leakless-grade Immortal weapon Mars Halberd, Suo Mingzhang most likely favored a Fang Tian Hua Ji 方天画戟, a 双月牙大戟.

Suo Mingzhang expresses his halberd arts through his limbs and in his flames. As a Heavenly Lord, he could produce a simple supernova halberd during combat.

## Other Abilities

### **Flame Manipulation**

Because of his Flame Dragon bloodline, Suo Mingzhang inherited the innate ability to create and control flame phenomena, but at a lesser degree than True Flame Dragon monsters. When young, Suo Mingzhang used his innate flames to support his offense or form halberds. This inspired Suo Mingzhang with his diminished Hollow Void Heavenly Scripture to explore the 'Heavens'.

With Hollow Void and flame, Mingzhang created the comprehensive method, the Reverse Heavenly Scripture then later Severing Heavenly Scripture to divide and implode 'heaven' as a continously collapsing fire through reversing part of the law of the Great Dao.

He also uses his flames to purify evil of the Nine Nether and forge artifacts. However, for cleansing (purification), the process had to be gradual.

### **Artifacts Forging**

As a lone genius cultivator and natural flame manipulator, Suo Mingzhang had deep skills towards creating artifacts and forging became his production skill specialty among the Kunlun Nine Luminaries. He also has the basic foundation to create space storage items with his Hollow Void Heavenly Scripture.

### **Array-Formations Mastery**

Suo Mingzhang has adequate ability in array-formations for his pursuit of the dao. He has used some to guard and protect his childhood home and parents' tomb.

### **Upper Grade Alchemy**

As pills are necessary for a lone cultivator and part of the dao, Suo Mingzhang possessed above average refining medicinal pills and related knowledge. This decent foundaion allowed him to maintain a solid conversation with the divine refiner Canghua Emperor.

## Immortal Qi

#### **Vicious Qi 戾气**

A stream of air that was fierce and violent. It represents both killings and ruthlessness, an extremely evil qi, the Vicious Qi. Vicious Qi balances Bright Qi.

Vicious Qi brings killing and catastrophe. It represents the dark side, the destruction of the world of Creation. Vicious Qi, the opposite of Bright Qi, doesn’t focus on change or stability but on the effect left by them, unravelling the dark side of the world. If the Vicious Qi prevails, the world will fall into incessant disasters and endless calamities.

The *first* immortal qi chosen by Yánlóng Emperor to progress on his path in the Immortal Realm. Yánlóng Emperor picked this first to aid advancing and improving his Reverse Heavenly Scripture as a combative art. Vicious Qi also allowed him to increase the lethalty of his attacks compared to other immortal qis. Vicious Qi is viewed as the most difficult immortal qi of the five immortal qis to fuse with other immortal qis, with Bright Qi as the second most difficult. However, with Yánlóng Emperor's talent and hardwork, he fused his Vicious Qi with a second immortal qi, becoming the fastest record of the New Nine to reach the Profound Immortal realm.

### **Transformation Qi 化气**

Transformation Qi is on the opposite side of Righteous Qi, formless, flexible and endless, reflecting the evolving history of the world of creation. Time brings many changes, and overall, the whole universe is undergoing constant changes with rapid development. If there is no Righteous Qi to maintain the balance and rhythm between Transformation Qi and itself, then the world of creation will soon be in chaos, fallen apart and broken halfway.

### **Righteous Qi 正气**

A stream of air that was extremely firm and stable.

Righteous Qi, the so-called righteousness is not equal to justice or fairness, and Righteous Qi is unshakable and in a stable state, showing that the world of creation is unchangeable. Righteous Qi balances Transformation Qi.

### **Bright Qi 明气**

A stream of air that was bright and gentle. It was very kind. Its life force was bursting, and the life force seemed to be thick and long.

Bright Qi is full of brilliance, kindness and positiveness, which represents a world of prosperity and beautifulness. Whether the Qi is shifted from stability to change, or vice versa, as long as it positively develops, then it belongs to the Bright Qi. Bright Qi balances Vicious Qi.

### **Pure Qi 清气**

A stream of air that was normal, peaceful, and unbiased. It seemed unimportant but was actually very significant.

Pure Qi exists between changes and stability and between right and wrong. It is the basis of the world, connecting everything and adjusting the four other Qis.

Among the Five Qis, it was comparatively more normal and more mundane. It could almost be considered as the most mundane qi. For martial arts practitioners, the advantage of cultivating Pure Qi was that it could fuse with the second kind of Immortal qi, allowing them to achieve the Two Qis Fused Aura and breakthrough to the Profound Immortal Realm. At the same time, objectively speaking, it was relatively easier for those that cleansed their body with Pure Qi to challenge the Immortal Mortal Tribulation. Those that cultivated the Pure Qi were the most mundane and peaceful ones. Whether it was the point of its movement, or between good and evil, it was the connection point, the middle point, and the fulcrum point. It was the qi that harmonized and circulated the other four qis. It was the most primitive qi of the universe and the foundation of the five qis.