Hong

Hong is the founder of the Dojo of Limits, Earth's strongest fighter at the beginning of the story, and the eldest of the three sworn brothers from Earth. A former assassin whose martial discipline develops into an unusually expansive mental state, he helps lead humanity through its planetary crises, risks his soul against the Golden Horned Beast, and later follows a slow but persistent cosmic path from domain fighter to illusionist, universe master, and Illusion Heart True God. He is mentioned in the combined Chapters 1–2 source file, but first appears directly in Chapter 136. (Chapters 1–2, 136, and 1408–1486)

Biography

A refuge built by Earth's strongest fighter

Hong's public position is established before he enters a scene: he created the Dojo of Limits and is recognized as the strongest person on Earth, a standing that makes governments treat him as an equal rather than a subordinate. Later recollection supplies the private history behind that authority. Trained as an assassin from youth, he learned to control strength, breath, attention, and emotion with exceptional precision. During the Grand Nirvana he saw cities and populations collapse under monsters and concluded that someone had to stand forward and organize resistance. He founded the dojo not simply as a school for his own techniques but as a structure in which fighters could compete, improve, and become a shield for the survivors. (Chapters 1–9, 136, 209, 401, and 441)

Hong Ning base reflects that motive at civic scale. Hong established it during the Grand Nirvana as a protected settlement, and its association with the world's strongest fighter makes it one of Earth's safest places and one of its richest sources of new fighters. He also makes his victories part of the dojo's institutional memory: after killing an emperor-level black dragon, its eyes are mounted in the elite training camp as a physical reminder of what its founder overcame. The result is an organization centered on his reputation but designed to outlast any single battle through training camps, examiners, investigators, and a hierarchy of fighters he has personally cultivated. (Chapters 112–113)

His first sustained dealings with Luo Feng show a leader who is severe without being careless. Hong's five investigators and royal guards are all beyond ordinary Wargod level and intensely loyal, yet his authority is expressed as much through restraint as force. During the Misty Island dispute he forbids indiscriminate laser use, evaluates treasures before distributing rewards, and compensates contributors according to their part in the operation. He recognizes Luo Feng's value, explains the restrictions attached to rare equipment, supplies him with a Black God Set, and appoints him an examiner rather than treating a younger talent as a threat. Even when his gaze and pressure frighten subordinates, his decisions are calculated around institutional stability and the future strength of Earth. (Chapters 146–163)

Hong also distinguishes duty from possession. When Luo Feng fails to return from Ruin No. 9 within the expected time, Hong delays declaring him dead because he still believes Luo Feng may survive. Once the dojo must act, he transfers the fighter's property to his family but withholds the auto jet because an asset with that military value could make them a target. The choice is protective rather than punitive, and it anticipates the way Hong later treats Earth's resources: power should remain in the hands of people able to control the danger attached to it. His early coldness therefore coexists with attention to the families and institutions that depend on him. (Chapters 187–188)

Burning his soul against extinction

The Golden Horned Beast crisis exposes the limits of Hong's planetary supremacy. By then he is a seventh-level Star Traveller with a domain, and Babata judges that combination nearly unbeatable among fighters of the same rank. Hong has cultivated a Cloud Contact Vine with Mu Ya crystals and spent decades using his domain, placing him well ahead of Earth's other fighters in experience. None of those advantages closes the rank difference with the space beast, however. Hong accepts that assessment and searches for a viable chance rather than mistaking his reputation for sufficient power. (Chapters 237–248)

At the global emergency meeting, Hong refuses the proposal that Earth's strongest people should simply hide their families in a ship. He acknowledges that he has a son and daughter and that his devotion to training has made him a poor father, but argues that escape is meaningless if the beast is allowed to mature and exterminate everyone else. He and Thunder God intend to fight even when no reliable method of return exists. When Luo Feng presents the B6 laser cannon as an alternative, Hong accepts the better plan immediately, thanks him, and emphasizes that they will have only one firing opportunity. His leadership is not attachment to his own proposal; it is the willingness to choose whichever plan offers humanity the best chance. (Chapters 248–250)

When the laser fails to end the threat, Hong and Thunder God execute the sacrificial plan. Hong prepares metal fragments and hydrogen bombs to obstruct the beast's swallowing ability, then burns his soul through a method available to domain fighters, combining spirit, strength, will, and the surrounding universe into a temporary surge. Inside his domain, he drives his spear through the beast's defenses and enters its body so he can attack closer to the core, with Thunder God following. The technique can last no more than roughly a minute; failure means death when the burning is exhausted. Their assault does not kill the beast, but it badly weakens it and creates the opening for Luo Feng's final attack. (Chapters 254–256)

Hong and Thunder God are not dead, although no instrument can initially detect ordinary consciousness from them. Their souls remain in profound comas while their bodies are kept alive, and the corpus gives no medical technique capable of guaranteeing recovery. Two years later their brain waves return and Hong wakes first. His first response to Luo Feng is gratitude: he recognizes that the younger fighter preserved their lives and humanity after their own attempt failed. The recovery does not lessen the meaning of the sacrifice, because at the time Hong acted he had no reason to expect that either his soul or body could be restored. (Chapters 255–274)

The aftermath changes Hong's place in the universe. He, Thunder God, and Luo Feng swear brotherhood, with Hong as the eldest, and Hong accepts Luo Feng's invitation to enter the Yun Mo Planet lineage. He studies its fighter manuals under an oath of secrecy and immediately notices how much deeper their attention to foundation is than Earth's fragmented methods. His motive remains defense: the Golden Horned Beast and the possibility of off-world invasion have shown that strength must be measured against cosmic threats, not merely Earth's old rankings. Brotherhood, inheritance, and the protection of the planet become parts of one path rather than competing obligations. (Chapters 274–275)

Three brothers enter the wider universe

Hong's first cosmic period is collaborative. He travels, trains, and takes risks with Luo Feng and Thunder God while the three work to secure Earth's legal and military position against the Nuolan Shan family. In the virtual killing fields, Hong seeks real danger because simulated opponents without consequences no longer produce the tension he needs for breakthroughs. Ming Yu's evaluation places him at ninth-level Star Traveller with a third-layer domain and identifies him as the most promising comprehension talent of the three at that moment, despite Earth's low bloodline rating. Hong and his brothers agree to become external rather than internal members of the Virtual Universe Company, preserving freedom to choose their own missions instead of entering a tightly supervised cultivation system. (Chapters 314–325)

That preference is tested in the universe mercenary examination and the world within a world. Hong does not confuse danger with recklessness: he weighs whether treasures are worth exposing the team, shares information, and supports the conclusion that Nuolan Shan must die if Earth is ever to be free of the family's pursuit. When the brothers divide their gains, Hong initially resists receiving more than he believes his contribution warrants. He asks principally for a life fruit to strengthen his Cloud Contact Vine and accepts Luo Feng's distribution only after the younger brother explains the reasoning. The expedition reinforces a relationship in which wealth is secondary to trust and long-term security. (Chapters 324–365)

Hong also accepts the painful bloodline evolution catalyst acquired in cosmic society. It improves the body's future cultivation potential rather than granting an immediate combat transformation, so its value lies in opening a path that Earth's original bloodline would otherwise constrain. He continues studying Yun Mo methods without a living teacher and feeds his plant life with resources shared by Luo Feng, including Swelling Water fruits intended to carry the vine toward Universe level. The limitations are clear: manuals and resources help, but comprehension still has to be developed by Hong himself. (Chapters 325 and 388)

Before the Ganwu genius battle, Hong undertakes mental cultivation while disguised as a beggar and raises his domain to its sixth layer. During the elimination round he begins far down the rankings because he conserves strength and treats survival as part of the scoring problem: death would cost half his accumulated points. His later advance reveals the connection between his old assassin training and cosmic combat. Precise energy use, control of presence, patience, and a darkness-and-light domain let him choose when to reveal himself and reach 982nd place, inside the top 1,001. The performance is not built on overwhelming every opponent; it is a disciplined conversion of limited opportunities into survival and points. (Chapters 390–401)

Hong does not advance as far as Luo Feng in the subsequent arena stage, but the contest changes his trajectory. Watching the gap open between himself, Luo Feng, and the newly inherited Thunder God persuades him that solitary study will eventually leave him behind. He does not resent their progress. Instead, he uses it as evidence that he needs a teacher and a broader environment, preparing him to accept a commitment much longer than his entire life to that point. (Chapters 409–417)

A dying teacher's journey and the tests of love

The Time Sector Lord Luo, founder of Three Axe Mountain, offers to teach Hong light and time law because he recognizes both Hong's early domain and a temperament similar to his own. The offer carries severe conditions: the Sector Lord has only about twenty thousand years left, intends to roam the universe and continue risking his life for an Undying breakthrough, and may enter seclusion without being able to supervise Hong. Hong hesitates because accepting means leaving Earth for twenty thousand years, then decides that the pursuit of martial arts requires real sacrifice. His wife has died and his grown children have families of their own; on July 27, 2066, after saying goodbye to the dojo and his family, he leaves Hong Ning base with his teacher. (Chapters 409–417)

Long afterward, Hong falls in love with Ji Qing, a gifted hypnotist of the Universe Mercenary Alliance and a disciple of Fantasy Spirit Emperor. Their relationship is opposed by both Ji Qing's ancestor Silver Snow and her teacher, whose rules forbid disciples from maintaining romantic attachments. Hong waits without panic while Luo Feng helps arrange a confrontation. He does not claim that his mental discipline makes him fearless: before Fantasy Spirit Emperor, he openly admits that he fears death. What he refuses is retreat from a commitment to Ji Qing merely because the person obstructing it is stronger. If strength is the barrier, he is prepared to grow and return. (Chapters 619–622)

Fantasy Spirit Emperor gives him a choice between a long conventional qualification—reaching peak Sector Lord and earning a first-class outer-battlefield medal—and immediately facing eighteen Love Illusions, with death as the consequence of failure. Hong chooses the illusions and even guarantees the sincerity of the test by agreeing to kill himself at a Mercenary Alliance office if he fails. The illusions attack the desires and contradictions associated with love, but his defense is not emotional emptiness. Hong understands attachment, accepts its existence, and allows it a place within a larger mental state, so the successive trials cannot make it control him. (Chapters 622–624)

Hong deliberately slows his progress and feigns fatigue during the test. Passing too effortlessly would humiliate Fantasy Spirit Emperor and might turn a successful challenge into a new conflict, so he combines internal certainty with social judgment. This restraint is a representative use of his mental discipline: he controls not only whether an illusion moves him, but also how much of his strength another person needs to see. His victory secures recognition of his qualification and draws attention from the Huge Axe Dojo's special-elite program. (Chapters 623–624)

The victory does not secure the relationship. Ji Qing later embraces Hong and then ends their bond, choosing duties or pressures the narrative does not fully disclose. Hong checks that she has not been hypnotized; once satisfied that the decision is hers, he apologizes for troubling her and leaves rather than using his achievement to claim authority over her choice. The breakup hurts him, but it confirms that his understanding of love includes another person's autonomy. He continues with the special-elite opportunity instead of turning loss into retaliation against Ji Qing, her family, or her teacher. (Chapter 625)

A mental-state breakthrough reshapes Earth's future

The Huge Axe Dojo places Hong in elite training and Primal Chaos City, where his unusual strength becomes visible through Fantasy Island. At Universe level he passes the first twenty islands and fails only on the twenty-first, when the opposing consciousness reaches Universe Knight intensity. Hong explains the difference among the three brothers' mental paths: Luo Feng's will is hard and unbending, Thunder God's changes between hardness and softness, while Hong's seeks to contain everything without finding a boundary. He also admits that this third state is not yet perfect; otherwise the twenty-first island's pressure would not have stopped him. (Chapter 713)

The feat attracts Void Gold Master and Huge Axe Creator. Huge Axe accepts Hong as a nominal disciple but sets a threshold before direct teaching: Hong must first become an emperor-level Undying. Until then, Void Gold Master guides him. They direct him toward becoming an illusionist fighter, a path that joins close or physical attacks with illusion rather than treating them as separate careers. Hong's mental state makes ordinary illusions unusually ineffective against him and supplies the foundation for attacking other minds, but the source does not give a complete catalogue of the secret techniques taught during this period. (Chapters 713–714)

Huge Axe Creator also recognizes that Hong's performance is not an isolated accident. Together with Luo Feng's will, it points toward Earth's distinctive capacity to nurture souls and mental states. Hong tells his sworn brothers what his new teachers have inferred, giving Luo Feng critical context while powerful human factions are attempting to acquire control of Earth. His personal breakthrough therefore has political consequences: it helps reveal why the planet has become strategically valuable and why surrendering ownership would endanger the future of the Earthling line. (Chapter 714)

The corpus does not place Hong inside Luo Feng's Blade River Emperor battles or credit him with those victories. His development during that era occurs mostly away from the main viewpoint, under Huge Axe Dojo training. By the time the Earthling branch is reviewed, Hong is one of its eleven Undying fighters, demonstrating that he has crossed the threshold Huge Axe set even though the exact breakthrough battle and the detailed mechanics of his Undying transition are not narrated. His advancement is real but deliberately quieter than Luo Feng's battlefield reputation. (Chapters 746–965 and 1135)

A late bloomer inside Huge Axe's universe

Hong's training eventually carries him into Huge Axe Creator's miniature universe, beyond the virtual universe network's reach. When Luo Feng asks about him, Void Gold Master describes an inverted growth curve: Hong advanced slowly at first, but unlike many fighters whose improvement diminishes over time, he continues making later breakthroughs. The assessment explains both his absence and his method. Hong's strongest resource is not an early burst of rank but a mental and comprehension foundation that keeps producing results over long periods. (Chapter 1182)

The miniature universe gives Hong access to his teacher's environment but also separates him from ordinary contact with Earth and his brothers. That isolation is consistent with the choice he made when leaving Hong Ning base: he accepts long absences when they are the price of a path he considers meaningful. The source does not specify every rank he reaches inside the universe or identify a named combat technique learned there, so those intermediate mechanics remain unknown. What it does establish is continued guidance through the Huge Axe lineage and progress after his early cultivation appeared comparatively slow. (Chapters 417, 713–714, and 1182)

Huge Axe Creator's death turns the training ground into a disaster zone. As the miniature universe begins to collapse, Hong is among the teleport-capable knights and emperors moving human elites into world rings. The keepsake carrying his teacher's life imprint loses its owner, and Hong understands that this change, together with the collapsing space, means humanity's only Universe Supreme Master has died. He is horrified and anxious, but continues teleporting survivors until the final order forces the evacuation team to abandon the failing region and return to the main space. (Chapter 1259)

The rescue shows the continuity between Hong's Earth leadership and his cosmic role. Faced with catastrophe, he grieves without allowing grief to stop the immediate work, preserves as many people as the remaining time permits, and withdraws only when staying would prevent any escape. Void Gold Master then takes Hong and the other survivors into a world ring. His teacher's death removes both a personal guide and humanity's principal deterrent, leaving Hong among the lineage members who survive to carry that inheritance into the race's next crisis. (Chapter 1259)

Ancient knowledge rewards the patient path

During the coalition war and the World of Jin expedition, Hong remains largely outside the narrated front line. Near the end of the World of Jin phase, Luo Feng still counts Hong and Thunder God among Earth's Undying fighters. The corpus does not assign Hong a personal campaign in the coalition war, show him entering the World of Jin, or credit him with an item recovered there. His place in this arc is instead that of a long-cultivating survivor whose growth depends on the knowledge the human race gains from ancient civilization. (Chapters 1263–1393)

That collective change eventually breaks his long plateau. In the thirteenth-thousandth era, after roughly ten thousand eras of guidance from ancient civilization, Hong becomes a Universe Master. The narration emphasizes that he has always been modest and calls him a peerless genius who would have ranked among humanity's most conspicuous figures if Luo Feng had not continually outshone him. The comparison is not presented as resentment on Hong's part; it measures how far the once-slow disciple has risen while remaining publicly understated. (Chapter 1408)

Hong's promotion also vindicates Void Gold Master's earlier description. His early cosmic growth is slower than that of fighters with stronger inheritances or more visible battlefield opportunities, but the rate does not collapse as the eras accumulate. Mental-state cultivation, light-and-time guidance, the Huge Axe lineage, and ancient-civilization knowledge produce a sequence in which his most important rank changes happen later rather than earlier. The exact technique by which he breaks the Universe Master bottleneck is not supplied, so the achievement cannot be reduced to a named law move or treasure. (Chapters 713–714, 1182, and 1408)

Illusion Heart True God confronts the Sector Beasts

In the 1.6 trillionth era, Hong becomes humanity's twenty-third True God. By this stage he is known as Illusion Heart True God, a title that reflects the illusionist path chosen under Void Gold Master rather than a newly explained ability. His rise draws attention across Universe Ocean because a second extraordinary Earthling has reached True God while Luo Feng, already its dominant combatant, remains formally a Universe Master. Hong himself does not use the breakthrough to seek political control; the end of the corpus describes him as detached from power even while recognizing his standing. (Chapters 1409, 1425, and 1484)

Hong soon accepts one of the crisis's most dangerous reconnaissance missions. He and Eye Devil God travel toward the Land of Darkness, the Sector Beasts' nest, because both are illusion specialists with strong willpower and machine-type treasures. They are average among True Gods in ordinary combat and possess only modest godly bodies, but their void-space-level will gives them a better chance than most of withstanding the nest's soul pressure. Even at the periphery, three Sector Beasts detect them. Their simultaneous invisible soul attacks cause intense pain despite resistance, and the beasts' opposing energy badly injures Eye Devil God, forcing an immediate retreat. (Chapters 1410–1411)

The mission fails to penetrate the nest, but it provides strategic evidence. Hong and Eye Devil God confirm that even True Gods with excellent illusion training and strong will can be overwhelmed by multiple Sector Beasts, that remaining inside a spaceship protects them at the cost of learning little, and that ordinary godly power is vulnerable to the beasts' mutually consuming energy. Hong later states that only someone who has actually fought them understands how terrifying they are. He does not exaggerate his success: he treats the injury and retreat as information Universe Ocean must use when choosing who can confront the threat. (Chapters 1410–1415)

When Morosa emerges, Hong joins Luo Feng and Fire Dome in Star Tower as an observer and adviser. He notices that Morosa's seemingly inconsistent retreats may be signs of prudence rather than weakness, asks where it has gone during periods of disappearance, and calls the changing pattern a disaster. During Luo Feng's confrontation he and Fire Dome witness the battle rather than claiming the decisive role. After Morosa is driven back in a weakened state, Hong tells Luo Feng not to overtax himself and assesses that a sufficiently strong True God should be able to kill the reduced beast if it is found. His contribution is judgment shaped by direct contact, while the corpus leaves the actual killing burden with Luo Feng. (Chapters 1415 and 1419–1435)

Hong survives the Sector Beast crisis and remains present among Luo Feng's friends when victory is celebrated. At the end of the first book he is still a True God and has not yet entered the reincarnation passage; the continuation later establishes that he makes the required breakthrough and follows the earlier human pioneers to the Land of Origin. (Chapters 1471–1486 and 1756)

A younger cultivator in the Land of Origin

Hong reaches the Land of Origin as the eleventh later human to pass through reincarnation. Huyang City exhilarates rather than discourages him: seeing True Gods of Void Space, Eternal True Gods, Primal Chaos Overlords, and Godly Kings gives his old desire for self-transcendence a new scale. He honestly reassesses his talent, admitting that resources and Luo Feng's help made his passage possible and that cultivation which looked exceptional in the Primordial Cosmos is merely ordinary here. That humility preserves the mental discipline that defined his rise on Earth. (Chapter 1756)

As a core disciple of the Blade River Sect, Hong reunites with humanity's other pioneers when Teacher Origin becomes a Godly King. He listens as Luo Feng, Morosa, and Teacher Origin answer questions, accepts that official responsibilities and contact with stronger cultivators can supplement seclusion, and remains embedded in the closest human circle rather than pursuing independent political status. The gathering shows a reversal from Earth: the former planetary leader is now a junior again, willing to learn inside institutions built by his younger sworn brother. (Chapter 1756)

Hong later participates in selecting the governing structure of Luo Feng's Origin World. His standing as Luo Feng's elder brother and Huge Axe's disciple gives him influence, yet he supports Huge Axe for the disputed highest-governor position instead of using family intimacy to claim it himself. The decision preserves both personal loyalty and institutional legitimacy, carrying the same preference for stable collective order from the Dojo of Limits into a civilization spanning the Origin World. (Chapter 1917)

Appearance and personality

Hong is an Earth-born Chinese man repeatedly shown with black hair and black clothing; later descriptions retain the image of a black-haired man in a black robe. Early meetings emphasize his eyes and presence more than precise measurements: his gaze feels like a blade, and the pressure around him can make experienced fighters afraid to move or speak casually. The corpus does not establish a reliable height, eye color, or other fixed bodily measurements, so those details remain unknown. (Chapters 161–163, 401, and 1415)

His default manner is quiet, controlled, and difficult to read. Assassin training taught him to suppress wasted movement and emotion, while decades at the top of Earth's fighter hierarchy reinforced an austere public image. That reserve is not lack of feeling. Hong laughs with his sworn brothers, worries about his children and admits his failures as a father, grieves his wife and Huge Axe Creator, and experiences pain when Ji Qing leaves him. What distinguishes him is his refusal to let any one feeling determine his next action. (Chapters 248–274, 401, 417, 625, and 1259)

Hong is ambitious without being possessive of status. He wants to reach the peak of martial arts, willingly leaves Earth for a twenty-thousand-year journey, and accepts mortal tests rather than retreat from commitments. At the same time, he distributes resources by contribution, initially resists an outsized treasure share, allows Ji Qing to make her own choice, and remains modest even after becoming a Universe Master and True God. His leadership rests on measured judgment and the willingness to carry risk himself, not on demanding sacrifices he would refuse to make. (Chapters 157–163, 248–255, 324–365, 417, 622–625, and 1408–1409)

Abilities and progression

Hong's strength combines fighter cultivation, spear combat, a light-related domain, assassin training, mental-state discipline, illusion techniques, plant life, and equipment. His progression is unusually delayed: he is Earth's strongest fighter at the beginning, advances more slowly than some cosmic peers, then continues breaking through over immense spans of time until he reaches True God. Several late techniques are identified only by category rather than name, and the corpus does not explain the detailed mechanics of his Universe Master or True God breakthroughs. (Chapters 1–9, 136, 237, 401, 713–714, 1182, and 1408–1411)

Fighter ranks and physical cultivation

Hong begins as Earth's strongest known fighter and the founder of its largest dojo. By the Golden Horned Beast crisis he is a seventh-level Star Traveller; by the early cosmic period he reaches ninth-level Star Traveller, accepts a bloodline evolution catalyst, and continues through Star, Universe, Domain Lord, Sector Lord, and Undying cultivation under several inheritances. The source later confirms him as an Undying, then records his promotions to Universe Master after about ten thousand eras of ancient-civilization guidance and to True God in the 1.6 trillionth era. It does not give a complete date for each intermediate rank, so those stages should not be assigned more exact timing than the narrative provides. (Chapters 237, 314–325, 713, 1135, 1408–1409)

The bloodline catalyst improves the body's potential for later training but does not give Hong immediate high-rank power. Yun Mo Planet manuals supply a more systematic foundation, the Time Sector Lord teaches light and time laws, and Huge Axe Dojo training broadens his path, yet each source still requires comprehension and practice. His late-bloomer pattern is therefore cumulative rather than a single transformation: resources remove limitations and give direction, while Hong's persistent understanding converts them into breakthroughs over time. (Chapters 274–275, 325, 409–417, 713–714, and 1182)

Spear combat, assassination, domain, and laws

Hong fights primarily as a close-combat warrior with a long spear or pike. His childhood assassin training gives him exact control over force, movement, concealment, timing, and mental focus; in the genius battle he uses that discipline to conserve energy, hide his real strength, and kill only when the exchange favors him. Against the Golden Horned Beast, he combines the spear with his domain and a direct charge through the creature's defenses. The corpus demonstrates precision and penetration but does not name a personal spear school or explain a fixed sequence of spear forms. (Chapters 248–255 and 390–401)

Hong awakens a domain at Star Traveller level and has already used it for decades when Thunder God first reaches the same state. A domain joins the fighter's force and will with the surrounding universe, letting Hong control or suppress the local combat space and amplify attacks within it. Its measured progression reaches the third layer during Ming Yu's evaluation and the sixth layer before the genius battle. Domain is not absolute control: stronger opponents, superior laws, or a large rank difference can overwhelm it, as the Golden Horned Beast crisis makes clear. (Chapters 237–248, 314–323, and 390–401)

His domain is associated with light and darkness imagery, and the Time Sector Lord chooses him specifically for light and time law instruction. Later Hong becomes an illusionist fighter, so physical attacks and mental interference operate together rather than along a purely elemental path. The source does not trace a complete chain from his early domain layers to named light-time secret techniques at True God, nor does it quantify the contribution of each law to his late combat power. Those mechanics remain unknown. (Chapters 401, 409–417, 713–714, and 1410–1425)

Soul immolation

Soul immolation is Hong's most destructive early technique and also his most dangerous. Available to domain fighters, it burns the soul while combining spirit, bodily strength, will, and the surrounding universe into a drastic temporary increase. Hong uses it with his spear and domain to break into the Golden Horned Beast after ordinary Earth weapons fail. The technique's duration is roughly one minute at most, and the user dies if the target is not defeated before the burning ends. (Chapters 248 and 254–255)

Hong survives only because the attack ends with his soul in a profound coma rather than dispersed. He cannot be contacted or awakened by ordinary means, and recovery is initially uncertain; two years of life support pass before his brain waves return. The corpus does not show him using soul immolation again or state that later rank makes it safe, so it remains a one-time sacrificial application rather than a routine power. (Chapters 255–274)

Mental state, willpower, and illusion resistance

Hong's defining internal ability is the mental state he describes as limitless containment. Unlike a will that resists pressure by remaining hard or one that adapts between hardness and softness, his ideal is to encompass every pressure, desire, and contradiction without allowing any of them to become an external boundary. This is not immunity to emotion: his success in the Love Illusions comes from understanding love and accepting it rather than deleting it. It gives him exceptional resistance to hypnotism and illusion, while the twenty-first Fantasy Island shows a limit—at Universe level, Universe Knight consciousness can still exceed his incomplete state. (Chapters 622–624 and 713)

The same foundation supports the illusionist-fighter path selected by Void Gold Master and Huge Axe Creator. Hong can remain stable while attacking an opponent's perception and combine those attacks with physical combat, making ordinary specialization less restrictive for him. His later title Illusion Heart True God and selection for the Land of Darkness mission confirm that illusion remains central at True God. The source, however, does not name his principal illusion technique, describe its visual content, or give a precise range and energy cost. (Chapters 713–714, 1410, and 1425)

By the Sector Beast crisis, Hong's willpower has reached void-space level. That lets him resist the invisible soul cries of Sector Beasts better than many True Gods and makes him a rational reconnaissance choice, but it does not prevent pain or guarantee victory. Three beasts attacking together force Hong and Eye Devil God to retreat, and machine-type protection does not negate the danger once they leave their ships. His strongest mental capability therefore has demonstrated counters: superior consciousness pressure, multiple coordinated soul attacks, and the Sector Beasts' incompatible energy can still defeat the mission. (Chapters 1410–1411)

Cloud Contact Vine and protective equipment

Hong possesses a Cloud Contact Vine during Earth's late fighter era and feeds it Mu Ya crystals to promote its growth. As a plant life, it can accompany and protect its owner and can be strengthened with rare biological resources; Luo Feng later gives Hong enough Swelling Water fruits to project growth into the early Universe levels. The exact scene in which Hong first obtains the vine and the complete mechanics of its bond are not established in the reviewed passages, and the corpus does not make it the basis of his late True God strength. (Chapters 237 and 388)

Hong also controls the Dojo of Limits' supply of Black God Sets, including the set issued to Luo Feng. A Black God Set reshapes over its wearer as full-body protection and is an important Earth-era defense, but it does not close the gap against cosmic-rank attacks and is eventually superseded by stronger equipment. During the Sector Beast era Hong carries a machine-type treasure and uses a True God spaceship for reconnaissance; the story confirms those categories without naming his machine or explaining its functions in his hands. Those late benefits must therefore remain separate from his innate domain, will, and illusion ability. (Chapters 157–163 and 1410–1411)

Leadership and tactical judgment

Hong's non-supernatural capabilities repeatedly affect battles. He builds a worldwide dojo network, trains elite subordinates, evaluates and distributes recovered treasures, imposes weapon restrictions, and coordinates Earth's strongest fighters during extinction-level emergencies. Against the Golden Horned Beast he prepares obstacles for its devouring power and attacks the body rather than repeating ineffective external bombardment. In the collapse of Huge Axe's universe, he continues teleporting survivors while processing evidence of his teacher's death. These actions rely on organization and judgment rather than a named cultivation technique. (Chapters 112–163, 248–255, and 1259)

His judgment remains useful after others surpass his direct combat power. Hong recognizes when to reveal less strength in the Love Illusions, identifies the strategic implications of Morosa's short feeding periods and voluntary disappearances, and advises Luo Feng from direct experience without pretending he can replace him as the crisis's decisive fighter. The limitations are equally important: his best plan against the Golden Horned Beast leaves him comatose, and his Land of Darkness reconnaissance ends in retreat. Hong's leadership improves humanity's decisions; it does not make his forecasts infallible or remove the need for stronger allies. (Chapters 623–624, 1415, and 1419–1433)

Power progression

Relationships

• Luo Feng: Luo Feng begins as a young Dojo of Limits fighter whom Hong equips and promotes, then saves Hong after the Golden Horned Beast battle and becomes his sworn youngest brother. Hong treats Luo Feng's faster progress as motivation rather than a grievance and later advises him during the Sector Beast crisis while accepting that Luo Feng carries the decisive burden. In the Land of Origin, Luo Feng brings Hong into the Blade River Sect and later includes him in the resurrection-list and governance discussions for the new Origin World. (Chapters 157–188, 248–275, 390–417, 1415–1435, 1756, 1905, and 1917)
• Thunder God: Thunder God is Hong's closest early peer and the middle of the three Earth brothers. They compare domains, plan their sacrificial Golden Horned Beast attack together, enter the Yun Mo lineage and cosmic society side by side, and retain a warm competitive bond even as Hong eventually reaches ranks Thunder God does not. (Chapters 237–275, 314–417, 713–714, and 1485)
• Ji Qing: Hong loves Ji Qing and risks the fatal Love Illusions rather than abandon their relationship under pressure from her family and teacher. When she subsequently ends the relationship, he confirms that the choice is genuinely hers and leaves without coercion, carrying the emotional loss into his continued cultivation. (Chapters 619–625)
• Huge Axe Creator: Huge Axe Creator recognizes Hong's Fantasy Island achievement and accepts him as a nominal disciple, requiring him to become an emperor-level Undying before receiving direct instruction. Hong later trains in Huge Axe's miniature universe and helps evacuate its inhabitants when the creator's death causes it to collapse. After Luo Feng resurrects Huge Axe in the new Origin World, Hong greets his teacher and explicitly supports him for the highest-governor position. (Chapters 713–714, 1182, 1259, 1907, and 1917)
• Void Gold Master: Void Gold Master becomes Hong's active guide under the Huge Axe arrangement and directs him toward the illusionist-fighter path. He later reports that Hong is a late bloomer whose breakthroughs accelerate with time and rescues the evacuation group from Huge Axe's collapsing universe. (Chapters 713–714, 1182, and 1259)
• Babata: Babata explains cosmic ranks and inheritances to the three Earth brothers, admits Hong into the Yun Mo Planet lineage through Luo Feng, and strongly encourages him to accept the Time Sector Lord's instruction. Hong benefits from that knowledge while remaining a fighter rather than Babata's primary inheritor. (Chapters 237–275, 314–325, and 409–417)

Items

• Black God Set: Hong controls the Dojo of Limits' supply of these adaptive full-body defenses and issues one to Luo Feng under the dojo's recovery rules. It is a major Earth-era protection but not a substitute for cosmic-rank armor. (Chapters 157–163)