Zen Luo

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The main character of this novel is arrogant but fun to love, loyal, and conditionally respectful. He usually knows if someone is out of his league although he has the courage to start fights he can finish. He has uncanny luck that can save him from the most dire of situations as well bring opportunities to grow in great leaps, obtain extremely rare objects, and random windfalls of wealth. He accrues followers, friends, and a harem on his adventure. Zen continuously rises to the occasion and his progression speed makes one envious.

Zen begins the novel as a young man of 17, just starting his cultivation in the peak of the flesh refining level. His father was poisoned by his own brother, Zen's uncle, and framed as a rebel by the other three branches. Zen's father, Mike Luo, was the head of the eldest branch, making Zen the young master and heir. However, two years have passed since Mike's death and Zen has been stripped of all power and used as a slave, a human punching bag, for the other clan members to abuse and to use for training. His genius younger sister, Yan Luo, was selected to be a disciple of Cloud Sect at age 13 and had left before the coup.

Abilities & Learned Skills
body=weapon=beneficial

Cauldron with the Black Flame and Dragon Carvings
9 dragons, green is 1st

Inner World
chaos, 9 stars

Notable Possessions
Sumaru Space Ring

Luo Family Home
After being beaten again by his clan, Zen was frustrated with the words of his late father's book of "repaying cruelty with kindness" and attempted to burn the book. A mysterious golden page emerged from the ashes, the undecipherable words on the page climbed onto his body.

(Unedited from here on, from the manhua wiki but GenuineDragon rewrote part of this on that page.

As Zheng wakes, he mumbles about the "Ancient First Refining Method" and his body becoming a magic weapon: "With flesh as the medium, with one's self as the soul, thoroughly tampered, rinse thy body and turn it into natural energy"

He looks inward and finds a cauldron with 9 dragons carved into it. The cauldron activates and the black flame inside burns Zheng, but his physical body has been refined, tempered, instead of destroyed.

He soon learns that every hit he receives from beatings does not actually hurt and that the energy is now felt as warmth circulating throughout his body. This conversion increases the toughness of his body and will improve his body cultivation level. He then often goads people into hitting him so that his refinement increases.

Luo Family's Clan Training Day
The Luo Family's disciples showcase their strength by beating the slaves. However, if the slaves are able to subdue their attacker, they can win their freedom and can leave the clan.

Luo Cheng Yun, cousin to Zheng and eldest son of the 3rd branch, challenged Zheng. Cheng Yun's punches were the most powerful he has received but they have no effect. Zheng defeated him easily and tried to leave, per the rules. Cheng Yun's father stops him, demands him to hand over the protection technique, and said that they won't let him leave, rules or not. Zheng him out but Luo Bing Quan, his 2nd uncle and current family head, puts an end to his attempt to leave. In that moment Xie Lang apppars and steals Luo Zhen. He is interested in Zheng's scent and plans to use him to refine him with a weapon to increase the weapon's quality. The Lou family lets him go because Xie Lang will likely kill him with his work.

Xie tells him he smells of a Xuan tier weapon and throws him into the furnace to refine his Ye Fire Sword, leaving Zheng to roast. However, unbeknownst to Xie, the flames don't burn Zheng and the golden words from the page appear on his skin. The sword in the furnace melts and the essence is absorbed by Zheng, and in his mind, a scale on one of the dragons lights up, causing a surge in power. Xie opens the furnace to receive his weapon but Zheng beats him down, killing him, and leaves with Xie's Xumi ring, a portable storage space.

Cultivation: Viscera Refining Realm

Body: Middle Level Xuan Tier

Obtained: Xumi ring, flying knife (loses it soon after when he throws it while testing it out)

Sect Entrance Trial Edit
The rules are simple : form a disciple token and travel along the sect road. The further one goes, the stronger the gravity. However, if the token is destroyed, the owner is eliminated. Zheng and his friendly acquaintance, Mo Can, made it 10 miles, increasing to 20 times normal gravity, when people attack them. They were easily subdued by Zheng. Zhuge Hong, a pompous child banking on his family name, tells him to hand over his token. Zhuge sicks his posse on them and they run further, still under increasing gravity. Zheng beats them as well as Zhuge. The Blood Burst Nine Move comes out of no where, which Zheng identifies as Pei Ran's attack. Qing Yun's Drizzle Peak Instructor, Su, stops the interference with the flying knife. Pei Ran's Instructor from Sky One Peak deducts points from him and sends him away. Su blackmails Zheng to join her peak with the flying knife and a ring to recall it.

Sky Book Pavilion and Drizzle Peak Edit
Those chosen from the trial can go to the pavilion to pick books and scrolls with special skills and cultivation methods. An evil but powerful beast was killed and buried in the pavilion, and its lingering intent, soul pressure, gradually increases with increases in skills- this means stronger souls are needed to gain rarer skills. Being the MC, Zheng manages to find the grave of the beast in a desolate hall filled with strong intent. The intent manifests and as it attacks him, the green dragon on the cauldron in his mind lets out a roar and scares the intent into submission. He takes the Sky Devil's Divine Fist, Sheng Tier skill, and a mysteriously appearing elder gives him Spirit Thorn, Tian tier skill.

Zheng asks the others how to reach Purgatory Mountain, where his sister has been imprisoned. The two methods are to either get thrown in by causing trouble, or to gain 100 points to visit. Disciples can earn points in various ways or buy them with cubic crystals. The conversion is two crystals per point, meaning 200 crystals are needed for 100 points. He drops the discussion and goes to cultivate his newly acquired skills.

Arena Edit
Xue Lie goes to bully Zheng's group and Zheng challenges him to duel in the arena and Xue bets 100 cubic crystals on his own win. In the battle, Zheng broke through to the Marrow Refining Realm and then defeated Xue with Spirit Thorn. A servant from the Zhuge family made trouble after the match and was taught a lesson by Zheng. With these events, Zheng made a friend of Zhang We Xian, the 7th ranked outer disciple of Drizzle Peak.

Earning Points: Blade Insect Mission (Chapter 013)
He visits Instructor Su to ask for tasks to gain points but turns down all the lower rewarding ones. He asks to do one involving killing blade insects but Su denies the task as the probability of him dying is very high at his level. Zheng stays until she gives in.

The flying carriage bringing the team of disciples is ambushed by the insects and crashed. Officer Lu Xiao leads the team to their base, Dragon Fort, and the team heads out in the morning. Their first battle is against a blade insect leader, a poisonous, armored, rank 4 demon beast with strength on par with someone in the half-step innate realm. The points earned on this mission comes from killing the insects: a leader is worth one point, equivalent to killing 20 normal blade insects. The blade queen they run into afterwards is much stronger and all run away besides Zheng and Xiao who plan to distract it. The queen followed Zheng into an underground cave with lava pools, the lair of the Fire Scorpion Lion. Zheng hides in the lava pool as the two powerhouses fight and mutually die. The lava actually tempers his body to a Ling Tier weapon. He is able to collect the cores of both creatures and returns to the fort unscathed.

When Luo Zheng returned, he heard news that Lu Xiao was taken prisoner under the influence of the Zhuge family. He convinced Meng Chang Jun and Lao Gou Tian to help him release Xiao and they left for the Dragon Fort's main camp. Xiao was released but Zheng fought and defeated Bai and Hei Sha and another before General Fei Long, Divine Soul Realm, appeared and stopped the battle between Zheng and He Tian Cheng.

Zheng had taken the weapons of those he defeated and in seclusion he "ate" them and lit up more dragon scales. After returning to Drizzle Peak, Zheng traded his 4,626 normal cores, 266 leader cores, and 1 queen core for 1,500 points, very much to Su's confusion.

Body: Ling Tier

Purgatory Mountain (034)
Luo Zheng used his points and climbs Purgatory mountain to find his sister. The rules of the mountain include that he no longer will be protected by the Qing Yun Sect while here and that if he dies, no one will avenge him. Pei Ran is using Wang Yan Miao's crush on Luo Yan to gain status, pills, and skills. He gave him a forged letter from Zheng and a childhood slingshot Zheng made for Yan to Wang to curry favor with her. Yan doesn't ignore Wang this time with these gifts and after leaving her, he thanks Pei Ran.

Here, Zheng runs into the two and is surprised by the respect Wang gives him after saying he is Yan's brother. However, once Wang talks of marriage, Zheng says he isn't good enough for her. Pie Ran has his cultivation crippled after challenging Zheng and Wang then attacks, asking how he isn't qualified. Their fight draws Yan's and Su's attention but the sealed region Yan is in keeps her imprisoned. The dragon scales, Spirit Thorn, and flying knife help Zheng land a strike on the Celestial Realm first layer warrior. Yan tries to go to Zheng again with a forbidden skill but an elder asks her to stop as the barrier keeps in five other people, and she complies.

Zheng is pushed to try the Sheng Tier skill, Demonic God Fist, which is capable of absorbing others' qi and converting to his own. Instructor Su arrives to stop the fight after Zheng successfully countered Wang's strike. Wang refers to Su as Princess Ling Yun and Zheng promises to defeat Wang in 3 years and take Yan off the mountain.

Su brings him up to Yan but they barely speak, seeing her ok is enough for him. After leaving, Su forces him to eat a 5th grade pill worth 1,000 points, and cites he is in her debt.