Suo Mingzhang

中天逆元祝融广宇高上天尊 Zhōngtiān nìyuán zhùróng guǎngyǔ gāoshàng tiānzūn (Reverse Essence Culmination Broad Universe Zhurong High Supreme Heavenly Lord)
祝融天尊 Zhùróng tiānzūn (Zhurong Heavenly Lord)
反天尊 Fǎn tiānzūn (Reverse Heavenly Lord)
截天尊 Jié tiānzūn (Severing Heavenly Lord)
索明璋 Suǒ Míngzhāng

## Relationships

### Friends

Mars Halberd (Childhood friend Ye Yang, crafted leakless Immorrtal Weapon)
Yan Zhaoge (similar personality)
Yan Di (similar arts)

### Allies

Yan Zhaoge
Yan Di
Xue Chuqing
Feng Yunsheng

### Enemies

Immortal Court
Buddhism
Nine Netherworlds

## Cultivation

### Core Art(s)

* Severing Heavenly Scripture
* Reverse Heavenly Scripture
* Hollow Void Heavenly Scripture Fragments (Foundation)

### Cultivation Level

Primordial Immortal (Pre-c. 1297)
Heavenly Immortal (c. 1297)

### Battle Prowess

Peak Primodial Immortal
 Half-step Heavenly Immortal (Pre-c. 1297)
Peak Heavenly Immortal
+ Half-step Dao Ancestor of Orthodox Daosim

## Affiliations

### Occupation(s)

Loner Athletic Researcher (Lone Cultivator)* Artifacts Forger (specialty)
* Alchemist
* Array Formations Master

### Affiliation(s)

Grand Calmness Sovereign Cliff Heaven (Heaven Beyond Heavens)

## Chapter Appearance

### First Appearance

Chapter 899: Immortal Artifact Coming For Revenge (Mentioned)
Chapter 1224: Thousand Years Flower Bloomed

*"Immortal Court? They are nobody, all pests except for the Heavenly Lord."* ~ Suo Mingzhang said in a flat tone, c. 1227

*"Indifferent to life and death, fight if you’re not convinced!"* ~ Yan Zhaoge c. 1274

*"Nezha's combat style was similar to Feng Yunsheng, Suo Mingzhang, and others. The longer the battle, the more pumped up the fighter would be."* ~ c. 1698

**Suo Mingzhang** is the first Heavenly Monarch in the Three Purities/Clear Orthodox Daoism, and the first Heavenly Lord across all universes, to be born after the Great Calamity.

He was one of the New Kunlun Nine Luminaries, the neutral *Exalted Fire Luminary*, or previously the *Mars Sovereign* (荧惑皇). He is secretly known as *Wǔshén* *Suo Mingzhang* (Martial God Suo Mingzhang). He is also known as *Suǒ Yánlóng* (Flame Dragon Suo) since he became the *Yanlong Emperor* (炎龙大帝).

After becoming a Heavenly Immortal, he is titled the **Reverse Essence Culmination Broad Universe Zhurong High Supreme Heavenly Lord**. This is shorten as *Zhurong Heavenly Lord*, colloquial as the *Reverse Heavenly Lord*, or commonly as the *Severing Heavenly Lord*.

## Name

索 **Suǒ** - *Rope*, 明 **Míng** - *Clear/Bright*, 璋 **Zhāng** - *Jade*

索炎龙 **Suǒ Yánlóng** - *Flame Dragon Suo* = Yánlóng Emperor title label.

武神 **Wǔshén** - *Martial God* = Invincible within the same cultivation realm, the top strongest cultivator between others of the same realm, commonly used secret title during Suo Mingzhang's period as an Emperor, Sovereign and Heavenly Monarch, but still used for recognizing him as the strongest of the only same realm. This title was later disfunctional upon the rise of Yan Zhaoge's era.

火曜荧惑上尊 *Exalted Fire Luminary* = Representative of Mars and fire affiliated

中天逆元祝融广宇高上天尊 *Reverse Essence Culmination Broad Universe Zhurong High Supreme Heavenly Lord* = Suo Mingzhang's full honorary Heavenly Lord title, with "culmination" related to his association with blazing stellar heavenly fire yang flames; heavenly stellar bodies in his self-created path for the revolutionary Severing Heavenly Scripture and the key essence of this Heavenly Scripture. "High supreme" is applied because of Suo Mingzhang's worthy strength to uphold this prefix.

祝融天尊 *Zhurong Heavenly Lord* = Refers to the Chinese mythical god of fire and the south cardinal direction, Zhurong.

反天尊 *Reverse Heavenly Lord* = Refers to Suo Mingzhang's self-created revolutionary Jade Clear origin Reverse Heavenly Scripture which open his path to the Immortal Realm.

截天尊 *Severing Heavenly Lord* = Refers to Suo Mingzhang's Jade Clear lineage self-created and renown Severing Heavenly Scripture created during his lower stages of the Immortal Realm.

## Appearance

### Human

That black hair young man wore short hair, which was very rare. It made him widely different from other males of this ancient world. However, the young man in front of Yan Zhaoge had shorter hair than him. His hair style was like the brush cut in Yan Zhaoge’s cognition. What’s more, although his hair was dense, each of his hair stood very straightly, which might prick the hands.

Yan Zhaoge views him as extremely tall. This man had a huge figure with perfect proportions in shape and ratio. *His flexed arms and calves are 2.5 times larger than his non-dominant wrist, the shoulders are 1.618 times larger than the waist, his chest is 6.5 times larger than his wrist, and his upper leg is 1.75 times larger than the knee.* Thus he looked very strong and vigorous (mesomorph) instead of clumsy and corpulent. And with that short hair, this man looked extremely masculine.

As he opened and closed his eyes, one could even see the vast universe inside them.

**c. 1286** Suo Mingzhang is described a young teenager or young man with short hair in the air, with his head lowered and himself quiet, when accompanied by the Astro Sovereign and Sword Sovereign.

His Heavenly Lord qi aura reveals the feel of **blazing stars of heavenly fire yang flames** 炽热星辰天火阳炎.

### Hybrid Flame Dragon

The surface of his skin started turning crimson red as if flames were burning within. As the flames spread, pieces of dragon scales appeared. On Suo Mingzhang’s forehead, dragon horns appeared in an ethereal form. He was initially tall to begin with. At this moment, he immediately looked even taller in comparison.

For someone like Suo Mingzhang that was a half-human half-dragon, he might gain back his appearance of a half-dragon and display the Dragon Race characteristics if he were to be heavily wounded. However, currently, his strength was extremely vigorous as he transformed. He wasn’t forcefully putting up a strong front, nor does he have a hidden wound within his body. However, he was slowly transforming into the shape of a dragon. It's power made everyone on the spot shudder.

## Personality

*To Yan Zhaoge's clone, “Please do help me take care of Junhuang’s corpse. I might not be able to return to visit her as frequently.” Suo Mingzhang let out a rare sigh.*

He was keen on the cultivation of martial arts since his childhood. He hoped that he could keep making progress in his cultivation and comprehend all the dao principles in the world while he is still alive. Those are the things he treasures the most. Suo Mingzhang had regarded anything else as unimportant things due to that reason.

A hot-tempered man like him had had many conflicts with others and got seriously injured, but he never really kept those things in his mind. The only thing that he had always been dedicated to was making advances in his cultivation. He didn’t want to prove himself to anyone, nor did he want to revenge the people who had injured him. And he never wanted to gain anything either. The desire toward the dao principle and the curiosity to the unknown realms were the only things that pushed him forward. When he feels battle or dao comprehensive joy, he subconsciously smiles like a battle maniac.

Although Exalted Fire Luminary had a short fuse and always did things in his own way, he actually preferred quietness. In other words, he was a passive person. What had happened in his childhood still had some influences on him. He preferred to soak himself in his own world where he could study the martial arts alone and explore the unknown area, even if it included danger. And he was capable of concentrating on the thing he was studying no matter how wildly arrogant he was. It might seem a bit inconsistent but was actually a very natural thing. Exalted Fire Luminary was more like an odd and hot-tempered scholar. He also had his own pride, unable to give his life up for another's dream. He would be reluctant to admit his mistake only to use another thing as an excuse to give himself out.

Suo Mingzhang liked martial arts and enjoyed venturing martial art techniques. He also would feel sad for delaying his realm breakthrough by 1,000 years. However, he wouldn’t fight with someone to death for no reason, especially if it was a match that he knew he would lose. Even if he were to fight, it would be when he desired it, or when he wanted to witness more profundities of the world. At that time, even if he were to risk his life, he wouldn’t be afraid to do so if it meant gaining more insights into Dao itself. Of course, he was even more unwilling to be illuminated by others.

Suo Mingzhang is notable in his rich battle experience, being one of the best as early as the New Nine Luminaries of the Kunlun period. To some extent, he was also battle-hungry. Suo Mingzhang was now, Exalted Mars Luminary, a lot more restrained and mature because of Shao Junhuang, but he still felt the joy of meeting a well-known opponent.

He is willing to stop his cultivation by half-step to Heavenly Immortal for over 1,400 years just to find his beloved. He treasures Shao Junhuang and those of her discipleship's lineage as his family; Xue Chuqing and Yan Zhaoge, who can make him smile.

Suo Mingzhang has the relaxing habit to sit down, leaning against a flat surface while having both arms resting on one bent leg while leaving the other leg straight.

## History

### Flame Dragon World

After the Great Calamity, Suo Mingzhang was born as the hybrid child between a Flame Dragon (Yánlóng) mother and a human father. Because he and his fellow hybrid friend Ye Yang were not true dragons or even Monsters, both were bullied and lead difficult lives with great tolerance on Flame Dragon World and in the Monster Universe. Between the two, Mingzhang treasured his parents while Ye Yang tolerated his.

Mars Halberd and Suo Mingzhang were both hybrids and shared the same miserable childhood. But Suo Mingzhang never really cared about that.

As a child, Mingzhang chanced upon an incomplete, fragmented Hollow Void Heavenly Scripture with too many empty sections and began his path as a cultivator. Eventually, Mingzhang encountered other Jade Clear scriptures and martial arts along his path and decided to reverse his understanding of them all, creating his own Reverse Heavenly Scripture, based on Later Heaven.

Many years later, upon becoming top Martial Saints and True Immortals, both Suo Mingzhang and Ye Yang left the Flame Dragon World to enter the parallel Daoism Universe. Of the two, only Suo Mingzhang sometimes returned to the Flame Dragon World to pay respects to his parents' tomb in front of their family thatch cottage maintained by Suo Mingzhang himself.

Through his combat prowess of being undefeatable in the same cultivation realm, Suo Mingzhang became known as the **Martial God** to other Immortal realm cultivators.

He once went back to defeat the top head **Yánlóng** of the Flame Dragon World, for his new combat experience and clearing his dao heart.

### New Kunlun Nine Luminaries

Within the New Kunlun Nine Luminaries, the **Exalted Fire Luminary** was the first before departing to fuse two Immortal Qis to become a Profound Immortal and to cultivate the Realm of Five Qi Unification to become a Primordial Immortal. This is notably impressive because his foundation Immortal Qi was the **Vicious Qi**, the most difficult of the five immortal qi types to progress in as an Emperor, but he became the fastest of the Nine to become a Sovereign and the youngest to become a Heavenly Monarch.

#### His Lover Junhuang

He is known to be arrogant and domineering, but truly just wants a peaceful existence. Exalted Fire Luminary was a loner who always did things in his own ways. So he seldom had close friends. The only person that had maintained frequent contacts with him was former lover Shao Junhuang, the Canghua Emperor and Exalted Wood Luminary.

### Searching For Junhuang - Half-step Heavenly Lord

About 2,400 years before the Story, Mingzhang permanently left the New Kunlun Nine Luminaries to search for Shao Junhuang. about 1,400 years later, Mingzhang visited the Flame Dragon World to customarily sweep his parents' tombs and leave his treasured Canghua Emperor's Folding Paper Fan sealed in his old home. By then, Mingzhang had reached the peak of the Primordial Immortal realm and could easily become a Heavenly Immortal anytime he wished. However, because a new Heavenly Lord would arouse unwanted attention and forcing Mingzhang to continue his search in a heavily restricted manner, Mingzhang did not breakthrough until about 1,000 years later.

## Plot

### Immortal Court Beat Up (Pill Hall)

The Exalted Fire Luminary – Suo Mingzhang had caused such huge havoc. The Immortal Court might deploy more manpower to seek revenge.

Suo Mingzhang easily fought the White Deer Spirit to prevent him from interfering with Yan Zhaoge.

### Martial God Suo Mingzhang

He was a prodigy, and he was solid and firm. With just the Two Flowers Converged Crown, the heretic Heavenly Lords couldn’t do anything to him. Forcefully withstanding his opponents’ attacks, he managed to kill a bunch of Immortal Court experts and managed to retreat safely. Within the Pill Hall, he managed to break the Wyvern Sceptre of the Longevity God, one of the Heavenly Monarch experts within the Heavenly Court’s Divine Palace.

The Longevity God's mount White Deer Spirit was well-known as the Immortal in the previous era who had survived the transition of an era and survived the Great Calamity. If it weren’t because of other factors that Suo Mingzhang had to be wary of, the White Deer Spirit would be long dead already.

After returning to Kunlun Mountain of the World Beyond Worlds a year after the Pill Hall incident, Suo Mingzhang finally roots the Canghua Heavenly Tree, whom he refers to as "Junhuang". He roots the tree in the middle of the Pill Hall. He then meets Yan Di.

### Ascend to Great Encompassing Heavenly Immortal

Suo Mingzhang had been searching for 1,400 years as well but ended up finding nothing. As a result, he wanted to continue his search. At that time, in order to locate Shao Junhuang, he forced himself to remain in the same realm for a thousand years and stopped himself from taking that advancement.

Because he has fulfilled his lover Shao Junhuang's final promise towards the Pill Hall, Suo Mingzhang voluntarily breaks through to Great Encompassing Heavenly Immortal realm with a half-step. This choice is executed to provide himself the strength to fight against the upcoming enemies of Yan Zhaoge and temporarily attract the Heavenly Lord of the Immeasurable's attention away.

### Grand Calmness Sovereign Cliff Heaven

Suo Mingzhang used a Sea Suppressing Pearl when competing for the Immortal Extermination Formation to open up his Grand Calmness Sovereign Cliff Heaven, one of the Six Daoism Universes, as his dao arena. Here only one world is formed. In this world, the mountains and rivers were flowing with no shortage of vegetation and flowers, but there were no people. It was just that Suo Mingzhang usually lived in seclusion here and rarely appeared in, unlike the other Daoism bigwigs.Although Suo Mingzhang lived in isolation, his strength and status were prominent compared to other bigwigs even outside of orthodox Daoism. Every once in a while, other people in the Daoism faction would update recent news to him. Suo Mingzhang was once asked by Yan Zhaoge to cleans some Nine Nether tainted flags with his fire.

There on his world, the Canghua Heavenly Tree is moved next to a house he made on an unknown valley. When free and returned to Grand Calmness Sovereign Cliff Heaven, he would accompany the Canghua Heavenly Tree. When off to a task or adventure, he would permit those of Canghua Emperor's lineage to protect and care for the tree. Suo Mingzhang didn’t seek inheritors nor recruited apprentices like the other bigwigs.

Under the tree, a man with short hair was sitting there. He straightened one leg forward, and the other bent and tucked away in front of him. His arms rested idly on his bent knees. The man leaned back against the trunk of the Canghua Heavenly Tree, apparently in a deep meditative state. He seemed to be the center of the world, or more like the center of the entire Grand Calmness Sovereign Cliff Heaven.

### Ending

As usual, Suo Mingzhang continues to stay beside he Canghua Heavenly Tree, at his house, every time he returned to Grand Calmness Sovereign Cliff Heaven. For thousands of years, Suo Mingzhang would accompany the tree: one person and one tree together as if it could go forever.