Zhou Bao

**Current Life:**
Alive

**Current Life:**
3 (Start - Chapter 1)
8 (Chapter 16)
9 (Chapter 32)
10 (Chapter 60)
11 (Chapter 77)
12 (Chapter 84)
13 (Chapter 100)
14 (Chapter 141)
15 (Chapter 172)
16 (Chapter 218)
17 (Chapter 297)

**Designation(s):**

* Owner of Anyuan Store
* Earl of Wuyang
* Elder of Tian Long Taoism
* King of Wuyang

## Introduction

Zhou Bao (Junior Leopard), who travelled through time and space, takes what he earns and does only what he needs to do, never undertaking too much responsibility nor being so chivalrous as to do every good deed. His so-called ambitions from his past life to change the world were cast aside.

However, when a forbidden bloodline awakens in his body and his eternal eyes begin to shine once again, he discovers that his iron fists give him the power to force others to follow the truth and to reforge justice!

This is a cultivation legend about a modern man that was thrust into an amazing martial arts world.

## Background

### *Previous Life:*

In his previous life, Wang Bo was a honorable civil servant. He had a Ph.D. degree in Chinese literature and he was well versed in traditional Chinese, too. Furthermore, he had done some research on ancient Chinese history in his free time. So, besides traditional Chinese characters, he was not good at anything. He had passed CET-6 and majored in Chinese. He was also a staunch communist and an atheist.

Wang Bo never had a strong body and worked in an office. At the age of 36, he choked on a mouthful of cold water and died. And when he was sober again, he found himself reborn into this world.

### *Current Life:*

He was born as one of the Zhou’s and his given name was not Bo. As a matter of fact, he still did not have a name. He was called Little Shiba. The Zhou’s were native mountain villagers and he was the fourth son in the family. His oldest brother, 18 years old, was an honest hunter and farmer who got married last year. His second oldest brother, 13 years old, who horsed around every day, was a little jerk and a real headache for the family. His third oldest brother was nine years old. And Wang Bo was three years old. The Zhou’s also had a girl, 17 years old, who got engaged at the age of 10, and it was about time for her wedding.

The Zhou’s oldest son was called Spikey; the second son Houndie; the third son Boxer; and the fourth son, Wang Bo, who should have been called Fourth Doggie. As for the daughter of the Zhou’s, she was automatically overlooked, just as every other disadvantaged girl was back in the old days.

As the family already had too many little boys to feed, Wang Bo was called Little Shiba, meaning that they were not planning to have another little son.

The Zhou’s were nothing but a normal family in this village, struggling on the barren fields and hunting. Though they did hunt, old Zhou was barely a skilled enough hunter to bring home much prey, and additionally, even if old Zhou got something, it was always traded for daily necessities. That explained why there was no meat on their table all year round, which nearly killed Wang Bo, who was used to lavish meals in his previous life. Fortunately, he was only suffering minor malnutrition for a three-year-old boy. The corn gruel they had every day kept him from starving and with a little luck, he could even have a taste of meat. That would be like the Spring Festival!

### *Chapter 48:*

His eyes became totally transparent golden-red. The black pattern around his pupils became more and more clear.

### *Chapter 76:*

The young man was no more than 13 years old, nice looking from head to toe, and innocence filled his eyes. His face was very refined and his smile was very warm.

### *Chapter 141:*

His body grew very fast recently, so now he looked almost like an adult. If measured by the standard of the world he came from, he was almost 1.8 meters tall. With the mask and the long black robe, no one could tell that he was actually a 14-year-old boy.

### *Chapter 234:*

He was really good-looking. He appeared the same as any well-behaved high school student. But he was a little taller and thinner than before, and the eccentric skull earring that hung on his ear before had disappeared. He folded his hands at his back with no expression on his face. Looking indifferent, he entered the center of the vacant land slowly.

### *Chapter 318:*

He was a 17- or 18-year-old teenager who was handsome but somewhat thin. The smile on his face was hardly visible. He was empty-handed and wore a cyan robe that was made from ordinary materials, so he looked like a poor scholar.

## Cultivation amd Other Techniques

* Dark Bear Fist (*Chapter - 4*)
	+ Skin toughening was at the core of this fighting move.
* *Unusual Strength Qigong (Chapter - 4)*
	+ As the roughest meant of internal cultivation, Unusual Strength Qigong could hone the Internal Strength and wield great power when combined with Nine Sword Fighting Styles and Thousand Killing Fist. It was most suitable for a battle array.
* *Taiji Fist (Chapter - 5)*
	+ There exist different version of this technique:
		- 8 simplified Moves of Taiji Fist of Li Deyin
		- 18 Movements of Taiji Fist of the Chen
		- Movements of Taiji Fist of the Yang
		- Movements of Taiji Fist of the Wu

* It could help to mellow and connect the Internal Qi.

* Taiji Fist was also called a punching skill which focused on Qi practice. Every time one practiced Taiji Fist, a thin stream of airflow inside of the body would slowly flow with the movement and breath unconsciously. It also has the function of strengthening the body.
* *Ignis Skill (Chapter - 7)*
	+ It let the user absorb the fire-property pneuma from the essence of the world

* *Yin and Yang Heavenly Sword (Chapter - 15)*
* *Wild Hammering Skill (Chapter - 22)*
	+ 81 movements Wild Hammering Skill was a rare martial art skill that the ancestors of the Wu Family learned from iron-striking and smelting. Even the most basic, they almost contained all the essence of Wild Hammering Skill. In fact, no one would have thought when the Wild Hammering Skill was practiced to the Advance Level, it became the last one style: Skyshatter Hammer. That was the most foundational of the first nine styles.

* *Nine Dragons Heavenly Fire Technique (Chapter - 28)*
	+ Blaze Technique of the Heavenly Nine Dragon
* *Yanfu Inner Strength (Chapter - 35)*
	+ Highest Level of Lightness Skill and one of the very best in the entire Jianghu.
* *Silver Moon Sword Technique (Chapter - 38)*
	+ There are three killer moves in this Technique. This Silver Moon Sword Technique was the foundation of the Silver Moon Sword Sect. And the mental cultivation method going along with the sword technique was the Bright Moon Deifying Technique.
		- Backflow Galaxy

* Full Moon Galaxy
	+ Star River Set Ablaze

* *Three Realms Division (Chapter - 41) - Movement technique*
* *Blood Demon Forged Bone (Chapter - 54) - Punching Skill*
* *Blood Evil Harden Bone Fist (Chapter - 54)*
* *Moon-Evil Painted Skin (Chapter - 62)*
* *Thirteen Punches of Desolation (Chapter - 69)*
	+ This punching skill set was not a punching skill for strengthening the body, but a set of real martial art skills. It was divided into 13 movements. When executed, it was quaint and displayed simple vicissitudes, not angry nor terrified. Yet it possessed hardness and softness and it was fine and packed. It naturally had its own majestic feeling, an indomitable feeling that transcended the six unities.

* *Green Jade Qian Yuan Skill (Chapter - 105)*
* *Bright Moon Deifying Technique (Chapter - 132)*
	+ This Bright Moon Deifying Technique had the similar effect as Taiji Fist in condensing Internal Qi. However, what was different was that Taiji Fist was focused on purifying Internal Qi, condensing was just a side effect. But the Bright Moon Deifying Technique was completely focused on condensing Internal Qi. No matter how overbearing the Internal Qi was, after the circulation of the Bright Moon Deifying Technique, it would become finer, and in the end, it would reach the state of being fine like silk.

* *External Elixir Refining Technique - Level Five (Chapter - 132)*
* *Flipping Sky Hammer (Chapter - 133)*
	+ This Flipping Sky Hammer originally was a martial arts skill in the imperial family's armory of Great Jin. 300 years ago, it was awarded to General Zhou Ang by Emperor Wu. Since then, it was introduced into the army. However, the hammering skill was in reality too unfathomable and it was demanding for cultivators. For 300 years, except for General Zhou Ang, no one had succeeded in practicing it. Gradually, no one had bothered to inquire.
		- Flipping Sky Three Hammers:
			* Earth-flipping Hammer

* *Seven Wonderful Techniques/Wonderful Technique of Seven Treasures*
	+ The so-called Wonderful Technique of Seven Treasures are referring to 7 types of mysterious secret skills. Combined together, it was named as the Wonderful Technique of Seven Treasures.
		1. Snake-like Breath Holding Skill: Mental Cultivation Method (Chapter - 61)
		2. Extraordinary Strength Fist/ Heavenly Jade Technique: It's said that this Extraordinary Strength Fist can be easily merged with mental cultivation methods of other punching skills. And then no matter what it is used for, it would bring out a multiplication of its original power. (Chapter - 45)

* *Dragon Flying Technique (Chapter - 208):*
* *Nine Heaven Yuan Yang Technique (Chapter - 211):*
* *Poison Cold Shield (Chapter - 212)*
* *Carefree Skill (Chapter - 212)*
	+ The first phase of Carefree Skill is called Guarding Spirit between Heaven and Earth, was repeatedly training and grinding the divine thoughts, allowing one’s divine thoughts to be pure and thick. No matter how thick and pure they were, divine thoughts were still tightly connected to the spirit. They couldn’t be separated. Just like the body and the limbs were connected.
	+ The second phase of Carefree skill is Divine Rush Object. It could allow the divine thoughts to completely separate, cutting off the connection between divine thoughts and the spirit. One’s individual thoughts had already attained an independent existence. Even if it was destroyed and completely collapsed, it would not affect one’s spirit.

* *Nine Changes of Heavenly Birds (Chapter - 212)*
	+ The nine heavenly birds are phoenix, roc, peafowl, three-feet crow, immortal crane, eagle, green bird with poisonous feathers, blue bird, and partridge.
		- Change Of Great Roc *(Chapter - 215)*
		- Change of Heavenly Eagle Claw *(Chapter - 220)*
		- Change of the Magic Crane (*Chapter -* 224) - Boundless Crane Sea: a wind reigning technique of Magic Crane Change. When releasing it, it became fine airflows just like pieces of red cloths which could lift people or goods up to the sky. (Chapter - 243)
		- Crane's Cry: works in coordination with Boundless Crane Sea: (*Chapter -* 243)
		- Change of Turtledove Claw (*Chapter -* 254)

* *Seven Spiral Cut (Chapter - 221)*
* *Yin and Yang Dust Formation (Chapter - 221)*
* *72 Style Earthly Fiends Cudgel Techniques (Chapter - 267)*

## Innate Skills

### *Fiery Eyes - Chapter 10*

Burning eyes are also known as eternal eyes. They will become a firm crystal with an eye shape after being removed from a body and will not be damaged in 3,000 years and even 10,000 years. It is said that people with Fiery Eyes have a great talent for martial arts. It is also said that these people are just ordinary people. Once the Burning Eyes are stimulated, those people have strong senses and spiritual minds, and for people who practice martial arts, their ability to control the internal Qi is also high.They will also have other particular skills with the improvement of their eyes. But nobody knows what these skills are.

The reason for the extinction of the Fiery Eyes race was that all of the people of the world came together to besiege them. The Prestigious Sects and Schools and Millennium Families in the martial arts world have a tacit agreement that if the bloodline of the Fiery Eyes reappears, they'll join together again to destroy it. There are no people of the Fiery Eyes bloodline left in this world. The preserved Fiery Eyes are so rare and priceless that they can cause great blood-shed. Because Fiery Eyes are the best carriers of practicing External Elixir. The most important effect of External Elixir is to reserve Internal Qi. This means that any Internal Qi that your body can not bear would be stored up and then restocked whenever your body needed it. Fiery Eyes are the best material for making External Elixir. They can not only store plenty of Internal Qi, but the method and conditions for making External Elixir are also very easy. They also have a few possibilities to stimulate the particular abilities of Fiery Eyes.

* With such eyes, he could see clearly not only things in front of him but also objects behind him. That was to say, when his eyes turned to be light golden, a 360-degree perspective would be formed. There would definitely be no blind spot in his view.

* In addition to this, his vision and insight increased in strength. Now he could see far away objects that were previously vague. The scope of his vision became larger, and so did his sensitivity.
* He had an Inner Vision now. As long as he turned his eyes to red, he could observe his inner condition clearly. From blood flowing, skeleton constitution, route of Internal Qi in the tendons and vessels to even his metabolism, nothing could escape from his amazing eyes.(Improved time of use over time as he practised.)
* Now he had fine control over his Internal Qi.

## Contract Beast(s)

* Little Du
	+ Subdued in Chapter 130.
	+ Species: Silver Wolf.
	+ A Demonic beast.
* Black Demon Chama
	+ Subdued in Chapter 293.
	+ Was one of the most powerful devils on the prairie of Northern Yuan.
	+ It was a long snake covered with fine black scales. It was huge, but it was flexible. Its lower body was coiled into a ball, but its upper body was like a flexible whip.
	+ Evil Beast.

## Equipments

* Carbon Dagger
* Green Pearl Dagger
* Improvement Sword Blue
* Demon Devil Needles *(Chapter - 96)*
	+ It is a Celestial Device. There are 49 Needles in total.
	+ Demon Devil Needles were made of black gold from deep down in the earth.
	+ Those forty-nine Demon Devil Needles were exactly a celestial device made of black gold that had absorbed Mysterious Yin Evil Qi.

* Hammers
	+ Two Sliver Hammers connected by an adamantine silver chain *(Chapter - 69)*
		- Both of the hammers were oval shaped.
		- They were specially made for him by Xu Yong.
		- It weighted almost 81 Jin (about 89 pounds).
	+ Big Iron Hammer *(Chapter - 201)*
		- This hammer, forged from steel, was enormous. Entirely black, it emanated a certain ferocious spirit.
		- This was precisely the request he had expressed in his reply to Wu Family Head, Wu Yansheng’s, letter when he became an elder of the Wu Family.
		- A hammer weighing more than five hundred kilograms, 862.5 kilograms, to be precise. While the Wu Family did their best to limit the size, it was still an enormous object. The handle was as thick as a child’s arm, with carvings covering its surface.
	+ Meteorite Metal Hammer *(Chapter - 222)*
		- Made of the unused Meteorite Metal material of the Li family.
		- Forged by the masters of Jian Family.
		- Weighs about a 1000 kilograms.

* Poison-Absorbing Green Bead *(Chapter - 197)*
* Golden-Scaled Cudgel - Divine Weapon *(Chapter - 267)*
	+ The whole cudgel was pale gold and covered with delicate, silky scales, which made it very comfortable to grasp. However, you could only see the scales if you had vision like Junior Leopard’s and could only feel them if you held the cudgel in your hands.
	+ It weighed 4,396 kilograms, and could reach up to 190 feet long with a diameter of five feet. Additionally, it could be shrunk to the size of a sewing needle as well, just like Monkey Sun’s Golden Cudgel.
* Pure Yang Celestial Device: Golden Flame Mirror *(Chapter - 272)*
* Temporary Weapon Shield: Air Frozen Bead *(Chapter - 307)*

## Intents

The so-called intent was, in fact, materialized Qi Power. A bigger qualitative change would be undergone as divine thoughts combined with a very strong Internal Qi. At that time, one’s Qi Power would be materialized and intent would be born.

Intent was mysterious and odd at the same time. Not only did it require divine thoughts, but it also relied on one’s luck and savey. A good fortune was also indispensable. Intent meant one had to strike a balance between divine thoughts and Internal Qi while figuring out some insights.

To some extent, intent reflected the practicer’s character a great deal.

* *Fist Intent*
	+ *Black Sun Fist Intent (Chapter - 93)*
		- This black fireball fist intent was originally formed from his simulation of the universe. It was formed from a strand of the golden metal essence and the Mysterious Fire’s energy, according to the process of formation of stars that he knew deep in his heart. In essence, it was a star, a sun. And due to the Mysterious Fire, it was black. Then it was a black sun. Hence, there was no wrong in calling it Black Sun Fist Intent.
	+ *Black Hole Fist Intent ( Chapter - 114)*
		- A demonic “visual field” appeared and then slowly began to turn. It was like a huge black hole in the hollow, involving everything around it, including the Spiritual Energy of Fire, rocks, dust, air. Eeverything changed. Some small special objects began to float and were absorbed into this “visual field”.
	+ *Broken Star Fist Intent*

* *Hammer Spirit (Chapter - 202)*
	+ Technically, his Black Sun Fist Intent and his newly comprehended Hammer Spirit could not be considered independent intents. They were merely evolved from his primitive fist intent, the imitation universe.

## Trivia

* He started learning martial arts at the age of 3 from his brother-in-law and also sensed Qi.
* He had studied the Taiji Fist very well in his previous life under the division chief of his department. He had done it only to impress the latter.
* He was named 'Bao' when he left the village to become an apprentice at Qingyang Market.
* He first experienced insight at the age of 8 while forging iron at the Qingyang Market.
* Since he reincarnated with his memories, his ideas are out of the box. Like when he condensed the fist intent or tried to have the External Elixir cultivate 24x7 for him.
* He is made a Rank Five nobility by making him the Wuyang County Governor after his achievement in the war against Northern Yuan.
* Visiting bookstores was a habit of Junior Leopard in his previous life. It was caried over to his current life as well.
* His luck factor is off the charts as demonstrated multiple times.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Chapter 1
2. ↑ Chapter 14
3. ↑ Chapter 91
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Chapter 4
5. ↑ Chapter 17
6. ↑ Chapter 18
7. ↑ Chapter 93
8. ↑ Chapter 105
9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Chapter 235
10. ↑ Chapter 309