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Zhou Tian

Respected Nirvana Scryer cultivatorScatter Thunder Clan

Zhou Tian is a high-ranking Scatter Thunder Clan cultivator who competes with Wang Lin, then disguised as Yu Fei, for a mission into the 7 Million Worlds. His prestige and Nirvana Scryer cultivation inspire deference inside the clan, but his arrogance leads him to plan Wang Lin's murder in a place he believes is beyond observation. Wang Lin reveals vastly superior power and kills him in the passage. (Chapters 1335 and 1337–1339)

Identity note: This Master Zhou Tian is not the Soul Servant Zhou Tian fought and killed by Wang Lin in Chapters 918–920. The shared translated name does not make their affiliations, cultivation systems, abilities, or deaths interchangeable.

Biography

Prestige in the Scatter Thunder Clan

Zhou Tian arrives at the Thunder Crystal Temple as a white-haired old man wrapped in thunderclouds. More than a thousand cultivators, including the temple's two Illusory Yin guards, greet him respectfully. He gives the guards pills and says that although he does not expect to reach the top ten of the Scatter Thunder Ranking, he hopes to enter the top thirty. Other clan members attribute his strength to a fortunate encounter in his youth. (Chapter 1335)

At the temple's west gate, Zhou Tian studies the brightest mission jade, which sends clan members into the 7 Million Worlds to descend false divine retribution and harvest Spiritual Thunder. He and Wang Lin reach for it together, but Zhou is closer and seizes it first. Seeing only the Ascendant cultivation of Wang Lin's Yu Fei disguise, he orders him to leave and regards the apparent junior as an ant. Temple officials ask that Wang Lin be allowed to accept the same mission; Zhou agrees outwardly while deciding to kill him once they enter the unobserved realm. (Chapters 1337–1338)

Ambush reversed

Zhou Tian enters the spatial passage first, protected by a thunder cloak as he avoids its chaotic turbulence. He plans both a private transaction with Master Hao Kun and Wang Lin's immediate murder at the destination. Wang Lin catches him before the exit and asks directly about the killing intent. Shocked that the supposed Ascendant can move calmly through the passage, Zhou recognizes that his target concealed his cultivation but still launches his strongest attack. (Chapter 1338)

The thunder dragon and fused sound-wave assault collapse at Wang Lin's command. Wang Lin then triggers all the thunder Zhou Tian has cultivated over countless years, making it explode inside him. Zhou's body is destroyed and his badly damaged origin soul is seized before it can self-destruct. He begs for mercy, realizes at close range that the body before him is not Yu Fei, and is crushed by Wang Lin. Wang absorbs the remaining thunder force and takes Zhou's clan mark. (Chapter 1339)

Appearance and personality

Zhou Tian is a white-haired old man whose eyes carry force. He wears a dao crown at his first appearance, and clouds and endless thunder gather around him like a mantle; in the spatial passage, this becomes a thunder cloak. His public manner is genial enough to reward temple guards, but his rank has made him proud and dismissive. He treats weaker cultivators as disposable, intends to exploit a lawless area for murder, and only abandons that certainty when Wang Lin overwhelms him. (Chapters 1335 and 1337–1339)

Abilities and cultivation

Nirvana Scryer cultivation

Zhou Tian is explicitly a Nirvana Scryer cultivator and a prospective top-thirty member of the Scatter Thunder Ranking. His aura distorts the world and commands broad respect among lower-ranked clan members. He can move rapidly through the passage to the 7 Million Worlds, but unlike Wang Lin he must avoid its chaotic turbulence, marking a clear limit in their spatial control and strength. (Chapters 1335 and 1338)

Scatter Thunder clan mark

Zhou Tian possesses an awakened clan mark and has accumulated thunder for countless years. Striking the mark between his eyebrows releases monstrous thunder into the passage. After his death, the remaining thunder force can be absorbed and the mark taken, showing that both are bound resources of his cultivation rather than merely visual effects. (Chapters 1338–1339)

Thunder dragon and sound-wave assault

At full strength, Zhou Tian gathers endless thunder around himself until it resembles a thunder dragon. The dragon attacks with a roar described as countless voices, fusing a sound wave with the thunder into his strongest displayed strike. The technique is formidable at the Nirvana Scryer level but completely mismatched against Wang Lin's authority over thunder: a single command makes the dragon collapse and immediately injures Zhou. (Chapter 1338)

Thunder cloak and self-destruction

Zhou Tian wraps himself in a thunder cloak while moving through spatial turbulence. When Wang Lin destroys his body and captures his origin soul, Zhou attempts self-destruction as a final escape or attack. The cultivation gap prevents him from even initiating it, so the corpus supplies no demonstrated destructive scale for that last resort. (Chapters 1338–1339)

Relationships

  • Wang Lin: Zhou Tian mistakes Wang Lin for the weak clan member Yu Fei, competes with him for a mission, and plans to kill him privately. Wang reveals his superior thunder authority and destroys Zhou's body and origin soul. (Chapters 1337–1339)
  • Yu Fei: Zhou Tian does not meet the actual Yu Fei in these chapters. He interacts with Wang Lin using Yu Fei's stolen identity and only realizes the deception immediately before his death. (Chapters 1337–1339)
  • All-Seer: No direct relationship with Zhou Tian is established. The All-Seer is mentioned only in Wang Lin's private reflection on adversaries who failed to suppress his will before the mission dispute begins. (Chapter 1337)

Items

  • Mission jade: The brightest jade at the Thunder Crystal Temple contains the task to enter the 7 Million Worlds, impose false divine retribution, and collect Spiritual Thunder. Zhou Tian seizes it before Wang Lin, but both are admitted to the task. (Chapters 1337–1338)
  • Pills: Zhou Tian gives one pill to each of the two temple guards when they welcome him; their properties are not stated. (Chapter 1335)