Hua Feng

Hua Feng is the leader of the Heavenly Bow Unit and one of the archers who shapes both Shangguan Bing'er and Zhou Weiqing. His quiet authority, precision shooting, and cautious command style become essential when the scattered survivors of Heavenly Bow turn the Peerless Battalion into the military foundation of their restored empire.

Biography

Leading Paradise Strange and training its heirs

Hua Feng receives Zhou Weiqing and Shangguan Bing'er into the Heavenly Bow Unit, the independent assassination group also called Paradise Strange. Although its members bicker incessantly, they fall silent when he speaks, establishing him as the stabilizing authority among powerful eccentrics. He explains that the unit normally operates outside direct royal command but acts when the Heavenly Bow Empire faces destruction, and he frames its assassination work as both self-support and national service. He also takes Bing'er as his disciple and equips her for the rapid Wind-oriented archery in which she excels. (Chapters 29–31)

During an Icy Soul Heavenly Bear hunt, Hua Feng demonstrates how that authority works in danger. He assigns scouting, disruption, front-line pressure, and withdrawal coverage before the approach; in battle, he deflects an ice attack with a wind-like cyclone and waits until the bear's defense is broken before driving an arrow through its eye and head. His immediate order to retreat when newborn bears reveal the likelihood of nearby adults is correct, though the returning pack still overwhelms the group. The incident and the following two years of training teach the younger pair that the Heavenly Bow Unit's strength lies in patience, preparation, coordination, and attacks on vulnerable points rather than direct contests of cultivation. (Chapters 31–35)

Turning the Peerless Battalion into an archer army

After Heavenly Bow falls, Hua Feng reunites with Zhou in TianBei City. He accepts Zhou's limited immediate objective—build enough strength to rescue the sealed royal family before attempting full restoration—and agrees that the unit's secret archery arts should no longer be withheld when the empire itself is gone. Under his leadership, the seven archers become trainers for the former Ruffian Battalion. Within three months, soldiers with prior combat experience can reliably strike moving targets at three hundred yards, with the best reaching five hundred, giving Zhou's expensive Consolidated bows an organized doctrine rather than merely individual power. (Chapters 133–136)

Hua Feng then converts that training into battlefield command. Against the Swift Wolf Regiment he controls firing arcs, special Elemental archers, traps, and target selection while Zhou handles the enemy commander. In later battles he directs five hundred mounted archers in disciplined salvos, takes full command when Zhou is absent, and refuses a reckless aerial counterattack against Eagle Tribesmen who hold altitude and javelin range. By combining the Peerless archers with heavy infantry shields and striking a weaker flank, he preserves the force while letting its ranged power decide engagements; his priority is explicitly to return Zhou's battalion intact rather than chase personal glory. (Chapters 145–167)

Command, restoration, and a national institution

When Zhou leaves for extended cultivation, Hua Feng serves as temporary battalion commander through the border war. He converts military rewards into supplies, resists proposals that would absorb the Peerless force into the ZhongTian army, and begins ideological instruction intended to keep newly successful soldiers cohesive. The victories restore hope to Heavenly Bow's survivors: Hua Feng, once unsure whether revenge was possible, can now believe they may return home within their lifetimes. He willingly gives command back when Zhou returns and supports the decision to prepare for restoration. (Chapter 183)

Hua Feng and Wei Feng later command the main Peerless force on its march to Crescent City. In the reorganized Peerless Regiment he becomes a vice commander and overall archery drillmaster, complementing Ming Yu's strategic command and Wei Feng's logistics. He guarantees the empire's defense while Zhou attends the next Heavenly Jewel Tournament, then remains in the senior council as restoration consolidates. When Zhou returns from the XuanTian expedition, Hua Feng is among the leaders who immediately come to meet him, showing that his role has expanded from commander of seven assassins to a founding military elder of the restored state. (Chapters 200, 207–208, 230, and 263)

Appearance and personality

Hua Feng is introduced as a handsome middle-aged man with a graceful bearing. His calm smile and refined manner distinguish him from the louder personalities of the Heavenly Bow Unit, and even in military crises he is normally described as unflurried. Beneath that polish is an experienced assassin and shrewd organizer capable of reading both enemies and allies without advertising his conclusions. (Chapters 29, 133, 145, and 166)

He is patient, pragmatic, and protective. Hua Feng values secrecy while it serves a purpose but abandons it when preserving old restrictions would obstruct national survival. He accepts Zhou's battlefield authority even when worried by a decision, because contradicting a commander mid-battle would create deadly confusion; once he holds command himself, he rejects unnecessary risks and treats keeping soldiers alive as a responsibility. His humor can be as sly as that of his companions, yet his steadiness is what makes them accept his leadership. (Chapters 30–32, 133, 146, 166–167, and 183)

Abilities and cultivation

The corpus identifies Hua Feng as a seven-Jeweled Physical Jewel Master and gives him the title Ultimate Assassin. His cultivation is high enough to make him formidable, but the Heavenly Bow Unit explicitly rejects measuring itself by conventional face-to-face combat: its members use range, concealment, crossfire, and preparation to kill opponents whose Jewel cultivation can greatly exceed their own. (Chapters 30, 33, and 45)

Precision assassination archery

Hua Feng specializes in striking weak points after his companions create an opening. Against the Zong Stage Icy Soul Heavenly Bear, he uses a green cyclone to alter the course of a mass ice attack rather than trying to overpower it, then fires a comet-like final arrow through the beast's eye once its shield has fallen. The shot pierces the head and disrupts its Heavenly Energy, illustrating both his accuracy and his preference for decisive timing. The source does not name the bow, Consolidated Equipment, or specific technique used for this finishing shot. (Chapter 32)

Formation command and instruction

As an instructor, Hua Feng turns individual archery into a scalable system: staged accuracy standards, mounted movement, synchronized salvos, target allocation, and specialist sub-units. As a commander he calculates range, keeps projectiles away from friendly champions, sequences ordinary and Consolidated bows around their energy limits, and pairs vulnerable archers with heavy infantry cover. These methods require disciplined troops, ammunition, sight lines, and protection at close range; the Eagle Tribe engagement shows that even elite archers should not attack into an opponent's altitude advantage without first exhausting its ranged weapons. (Chapters 133–136, 145–167)

Relationships

• Shangguan Bing'er: Hua Feng is her principal archery teacher and treats her with paternal warmth. Her later skill is explicitly judged superior even to Zhou's, reflecting the depth of his instruction and her Agility-focused talent.
• Zhou Weiqing: Hua Feng begins as his senior and one of his teachers, then accepts him as the political and military center of Heavenly Bow's restoration. Zhou trusts him with the Peerless Battalion; Hua Feng supplies the discipline and command experience that make Zhou's equipment and ideas effective.
• Mu En: Mu En is one of Hua Feng's closest Heavenly Bow Unit companions. Their contrasting methods—Hua Feng's composed command and Mu En's cunning improvisation—work together in hunts and later battlefield decisions.
• Ming Yu: Hua Feng supports Ming Yu's appointment as first vice commander and later acknowledges his superior military judgment. Ming Yu addresses him as teacher, while Hua Feng remains responsible for the army's archery institution.
• Wei Feng: They command and administer the Peerless force together, first during Zhou's absences and later as complementary vice commanders in the restored army.

Items

• Purple Dawn Bow: Shangguan Bing'er uses this heavy military longbow before Hua Feng gives her a lighter Green Spirit Bow better suited to her Wind Attribute and rapid-fire style. (Chapters 28–30)