Zu An

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* Manhua

**Zu An** is the main protagonist of the web novel *Keyboard Immortal*.

## Personality

As a keyboard warrior he uses his vast trolling knowledge to aggravate everyone in his surroundings. He feels no shame when spinning his lies or flirting with any and all beautiful girls in front of everyone.

A notorious philanderer, he will flirt with nearly any beautiful woman in front of him. His flirting is so strong, in fact, that when he's in a dangerous situation with a female at his side he will sacrifice himself to keep the girl from harm. This leads to these women falling in love with him nearly completely. However, despite not feeling bad in the act, in front of his wife, he often feels guilty when he unintentionally thinks of other women and the actions he's made with them. Despite this, he continues to flirt with other women in his attempts to build his harem.

After being transported into this world, he has little sense of belonging. He often feels like there is nowhere he can call home, even wanting to leave the Chu clan in multiple cases due to the way he is treated and his status as a *drafted son-in-law*.

## Abilities

### Keyboard System

* **Rage Point Lottery Draw -** For the price of 100 rage, roll the keyboard lottery for the chance at an item.
	+ For individual items, see Keyboard System/Lottery
* **Rage Point Shop -** Use rage points to purchase items.
	+ Marrow Cleansing Pill: 10,000 Rage (base) + 1 factor per purchase.
* **Valkyrie System -** Spend a Tiger Charm for a chance to get a Valkyrie. Guaranteed random item if no Valkyrie drawn.
* **Shop System / Full Version** **-** Now filled with all sorts of items and not limited to what he drew in the past.

### Nine Phoenix Hatchlings

Granted by the keyboard system and the Phoenix Nirvana Sutra

* Grandgale - Wind Element. "Instantaneous" movement (2nd Rank completion)
* Blue Mallard - Water element. Breath under water, move existing water quickly (3rd Rank completion)
* Hundred Warble - Spirit element. Protects self from spiritual attacks. Can attack other's minds to control, or otherwise stun a more powerful opponent (4th Rank completion)
* Ice Phoenix - Ice element. Freeze a wide area, acts similar to the Chu clan's Snowflake Sword (5th Rank completion)
* Blue Luan - Metal element. Attacks with sword ki (6th Rank completion)
* Fire Phoenix - Fire element. Phoenix flame (7th Rank completion)
* Golden Phoenix - Gold element. Can trigger a woman's erotic desires and make her fall in love (8th Rank completion)
* Kun Peng - ‘Naught but a Kun Fish in the beginning but devours all once evolved’ Feasting on his enemies makes him stronger with no defects. Merged with Heaven Devouring Sutra, now he only needs to kill his opponent to gain their cultivation and essence. Resulted in restructuring of the system, killing others gives him ‘exp’, once this exp bar is filled he can breakthrough. Others can no longer detect his cultivation level (Power Soul Stage)

* Garuda - Unknown
* Peacock - Unknown

## Cultivation Arts

### Secret Scrolls

There are twelve secret scrolls Zu An is *tasked* to find. These are the scrolls he currently has obtained.

* Phoenix Nirvana Sutra - Rebirth through destruction. Convert damage inflicted on you into your own rank. Rumored to grant eternal life. It also increased the stats of the practitioner in proportion to the severity of their injuries. The closer the practitioner was to death, the greater their fighting prowess would be. Under normal circumstances, a human would grow weaker the more injuries they sustained, resulting in a drastic reduction in their stats. On top of that, being on the verge of death was an extremely dangerous position. A single strike would result in an instant knock-out. For these reasons, the Phoenix Nirvana Sutra’s enhancement in strength wasn’t as powerful as it sounded in theory. One of the techniques from the White Emperors Lineage.
* Primordial Origin Sutra - Tempers body with primordial ki. Heal wounds and absorb external primordial ki to cultivate. After reaching the latter half of the Sutra, the practitioner can use the ki to heal another party's wounds.

* Heaven-Devouring Sutra - The Shang Royal Family's core cultivation technique. It allows the cultivator to devour another cultivator's cultivation and turn it into their own. The sutra can also be used to absorb or redirect power in combat. One of the techniques of the White Emperors Lineage.
* Rune Weapon Chart - obtained from Yu the Great, founding emperor of the Xia Dynasty. It enables him to replicate any weapon he has seen and understands. Gives him affinity to all and mastery over all weapons. This includes modern missile like the Dongfend 17 (Hypersonic Warhead) as well as weapons commonly found in Wuxia/Xianixa novels. The weapons are usually weaker than their original and is not limited by any grade, I.e Zu A can make Deity-grade down to Earth Grade weapons. Weapons are created using Ki and use up Ki to be made.
* Baopu Sutra[57] - Obtained from Jing Teng after being intimate with her and earning her trust. Baopu Sutra was created by Immortal ruler Baopu.

### Equipment

* Tai'e Sword
* Poisonous Prick
* Brilliant Glass Bead
* Jade Badge: Aquired in the Yinxu dungeon. Allows communication with life forms who’s intelligence is lower than the users (generally small animals).
* King Qin's Mirror of Souls
* Sun Slaying Bow: Formerly the possession of the Golden Crow Crown Prince. The Unknown Region stole the bow from him with a red light created by the Celestial Emperor Zhuan Xu, and gave it to Zu An to reenact the Hero Yi's Heroic journey.

### Techniques

* Thirteen Forms of Elementary Swordplay : Elementary sword technique taught at Brightmoon Academy. Consists of forms: 'Stab’, ‘Chop’, ‘Tap’, ‘Swing’, ‘Pick’, ‘Flick’, ‘Intercept’, ‘Sweep’, ‘Slit’, ‘Shed’, ‘Cloud’, ‘Revolve’, and ‘Rise’. Later modified into Bixie Swordplay.
	+ Bixie Swordplay: Self created sword art created by combining the Thirteen Forms of Elementary Swordplay and Sunflower Phantasm. It's an emulation of the Bixie Swordplay from Jin Yong's *Proud Smiling Wanderer.*
* Sunflower Phantasm : A movement technique given by Old Mi, requires the user to be a eunuch. It emphasizes fast speed and elusive movements. Later modified by Mi Li through integrating another movement technique's principles so that it can be used without being a eunuch. Furthermore, it can now create clones with Zu An's aura when in use. Eventually, it can create at least nine clones with enough proficiency and cultivation level. After condensing his soul, Zu An can now trick master rank cultivators by sending strands of his soul into the clones.
* Snowflake Sword: Sword art given by Chu Chuyan; its an ice based sword art.
* Mirror Mirage: A secret technique that can hide one's cultivation and aura. Given by Qiu Honglei.
* Entangling Feathersilk Art: Close combat technique. Given by Pei Mianman.
* Shining Finger (formerly known as Sunflower Finger) : Obtained from Old Mi. Allows him to launch deadly attack from his finger in the form of a sunflower.
* Flame Blade: Obtained from Wu Di. It said that this was a growth-type skill that grew in power together with the strength of the wielder’s fire element. The more powerful one’s fire element became, and the rarer the type, the stronger each move would become.
* Face of a Thousand Identities: A facial disguise technique different from other disguise techniques in that it doesn't require auxiliary medicines and tools to utilize. It only requires the use of ki. However, the technique is entirely reliant on the practitioner's ability to draw and ability to memorize. Furthermore, the technique has high ki consumption. Obtained after killing the Thick-Browed Daoist. Zu An was very excited about the technique since it can give him the ability to turn into a girl.
* Steps of the Rising Lotus: A footwork technique that is said to be able to break through sealed spaces. Obtained from the memories of Old Mi but couldn't be practiced till later due to cultivation level requirements. When using this technique, the user's leaves behind lotus flower imprints with each step. Touches upon spatial laws.
* Rune Weapon Chart [56]: This technique allows him to materialize weapons that he is aware or seen in his life. The proficiency of the weapons can be increased when he uses the materialized weapons upto an extent.
* Lion's Roar: A secret technique that he acquired after killing one of the Lion Young Masters. It is a large AOE attack that doesn't have an effect on stronger cultivators, but was very effective against weaker cultivators.
* One drop of heaven’s essence: A book found in the Lord Sui's dungeon it seems it came from the Ancestor Chuan Shan and has a great ability to discern the secrets of the earth and allows the user to easily find treasure in the earth. It seems that Zu An learned how to control the energy of a Dragon Vein during his trip in the Unknown Region. This allowed him to fire Dragon like projections that could badly hurt an Earth Immortal, but draining the Dragon Vein in the process.

## Trivia

* **Zu An** remarks that the main Chu branch only has daughters, despite believing that Chu Youzhao is a male at this point. This may be a gaff from the author, since Youzhao is actually female.
* Oddly enough it is divined that Zu An will have a full house of children, and most of them will be daughters and only a few sons. "Zu An’s eyes lit up. How cute and lovable are daughters? They’re far better than naughty sons. This fat daoist doesn’t know anything."

* In chapter 132, Zu An returns the sound recording seashell/conch to Shang Liuyu. This later becomes a plot hole where he ends up leaving the conch with Qiu Honglei later on in the story.
	+ He later retrieves the conch from Qiu Honglei but forgets to return it to Shang Liuyu.

* Zu An "took over the Plum Blossom Gang under the aid of the academy" before participating in the Ursae Dungeon. However, he didn't start taking over the businesses until chapter 300, which took less than a day (and about 3 chapters).
* After cultivating the 'Primordial Origin Sutra', Zu An managed to unlock the seal on "his little brother" finally freeing him from his impotence.
* His Viscount title was Green Hat because he gave the Emperor a Hat of Forgiveness which was green. When the Emperor promoted him, the Emperor randomly gave him that title.
* Zu An has the potential to use all the elements as he awakened all of them, but he is different from ordinary cultivators in that he needs a medium to use and develop them compared to others who can automatically use them when they awaken their elements. For example, only after Zu An formed the Fire Phoenix could he use fire element skills without borrowing them from Daji.
* Zu An condensed his soul before he reached the master rank.
	+ Zu An created a technique for him to meditate and cultivate his soul while sleeping.

* He's had sex with:

1. Chu Chuyan
2. Mi Li (in Chuyan's body)
3. Qiao Xueying
4. Zheng Dan
5. Yun Yuqing
6. Liu Ning
7. Bi Linglong
8. Nan Xun
9. Sang Qien
10. Pei Mianman
11. Chu Ji & Liu Ji
12. Zhang Ji
13. Yu Yanluo
14. Tushan Yu
15. Yan Xuehen
16. Second Demon Empress
17. Yun Jianyue
18. Jing Teng[58]
19. Hei Jingteng (Ghost King)[59]
20. He Yuan (Princess Jin)
21. Meng Chan
22. Qiu Honglei (Oral sex only)

* He is the master of secret technique "Wukong Staff" and can control the size, and used it to match the size of the Duke.
* Zu an believes that "single pulls weren’t all that great and that the ten multi-pull was easier to get lucky with. That was why he usually saved up quite a few Rage points first before trying his luck."
* The Pronunciation for Marquis Shen sounds like "Deep Throat"

## References

1. ↑ Chapter 88
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Chapter 582
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Chapter 899
4. ↑ Chapter 1841
5. ↑ Chapter 565
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Chapter 1178
7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Chapter 450
8. ↑ Chapter 457
9. ↑ Chapter 600
10. ↑ Chapter 679
11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 Chapter 736
12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 Chapter 932
13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 Chapter 1068
14. ↑ Chapter 125
15. ↑ Chapter 626
16. ↑ Chapter 901
17. ↑ Chapter 1303
18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 Chapter 1546
19. ↑ Chapter 1109
20. ↑ Chapter 1314
21. ↑ Chapter 1517
22. ↑ Chapter 1841
23. ↑ Chapter 1890
24. ↑ Chapter 177
25. ↑ 25.0 25.1 Chapter 199
26. ↑ 26.0 26.1 Chapter 795
27. ↑ Chapter 557
28. ↑ Chapter 1214
29. ↑ 29.0 29.1 Chapter 1
30. ↑ Chapter 832
31. ↑ 31.0 31.1 Chapter 300
32. ↑ Chapter 556
33. ↑ Chapter 892
34. ↑ Chapter 38
35. ↑ Chapter 392
36. ↑ 36.0 36.1 Chapter 564
37. ↑ 37.0 37.1 Chapter 793
38. ↑ Chapter 4
39. ↑ Chapter 186
40. ↑ Chapter 888
41. ↑ Chapter 555
42. ↑ Chapter 1147
43. ↑ Chapter 314
44. ↑ Chapter 560
45. ↑ Chapter 825
46. ↑ Chapter 1449
47. ↑ Chapter 89
48. ↑ Chapter 95
49. ↑ Chapter 231
50. ↑ Chapter 232
51. ↑ Chapter 1139
52. ↑ Chapter 267
53. ↑ Chapter 269
54. ↑ Chapter 273
55. ↑ Chapter 396
56. ↑ Chapter 982
57. ↑ Chapter 983
58. ↑ Chapter 1055
59. ↑ Chapter 383
60. ↑ Chapter 1425
61. ↑ Chapter 1266
62. ↑ Chapter 107
63. ↑ Chapter 1227
64. ↑ Chapter 132
65. ↑ Chapter 257
66. ↑ Chapter 335
67. ↑ Chapter 135
68. ↑ Chapter 186
69. ↑ Chapter 1101
70. ↑ Chapter 1099
71. ↑ Chapter 192
72. ↑ Chapter 193
73. ↑ Chapter 229
74. ↑ Chapter 313
75. ↑ Chapter 890
76. ↑ Chapter 953
77. ↑ Chapter 1011
78. ↑ Chapter 1069
79. ↑ Chapter 1232
80. ↑ Chapter 1292
81. ↑ Chapter 1517
82. ↑ Chapter 1528
84. ↑ Chapter 1366