Feng Zhong

Feng Zhong, whose real name is Yin Erchuan, is one of Du Ge's longest-serving comrades. Initially an opportunistic rival who weaponizes rumors against him, he becomes a recurring information specialist, support warrior, and willing partner in Du Ge's attempt to escape Pan-Universal Entertainment.

Biography

The innkeeper's hidden betrayal

Feng Zhong first appears as the talkative innkeeper of Xingyu Tower and an apparently loyal retainer of the Feng family. After discovering Wang San's sudden recovery, he has the waiter restrained and reports the anomaly to the family, then insists on observing Du Ge's attempt to identify a Heavenly Demon. These actions look like curiosity and diligence, but Feng Zhong is himself a contestant: he uses his access to learn the Feng family's situation while concealing that his host has been possessed. (Chapters 17–20)

His priority is survival through indirect manipulation rather than open combat. Once Du Ge's rapid expansion makes him a visible threat, Feng Zhong secretly sends information to the Iron Palm Gang, hoping the local powers will eliminate Du Ge and Wang San for him. The resulting attack tears Du Ge away from the Feng family and makes Feng Shiyi blame Feng Zhong for the family's collapse. Feng Zhong escapes before he can be confronted, confident that he can remain hidden while the more conspicuous contestants destroy one another. (Chapters 24–29 and 36)

That calculation fails because Du Ge hears him speaking to himself in a crowd and captures him. Faced with elimination, Feng Zhong immediately reveals his keyword, manipulation, and argues that Tongue of Discord can regulate the chaos Du Ge creates, turning uncontrolled conflict into a campaign whose pace they can shape. He neither denies his earlier attack nor treats it as a personal feud; he frames it as the natural behavior of competitors who had no prior relationship. Du Ge spares him because his ability can keep the great sects occupied, and Feng Zhong's dependence on Du Ge's protection begins transforming a temporary bargain into a durable alliance. (Chapters 37–42)

Rumors, letters, and the Peacekeeping Alliance

Once accepted, Feng Zhong becomes the Peacekeeping Gang's principal rumor-maker. He drafts notices and tailored letters that exploit each sect's ambitions and insecurities, ensuring that their leaders investigate invented inheritances, hidden treasures, and alleged insults instead of concentrating against Du Ge. This work raises him from ninth to third in the rankings and gives Du Ge the time and fragmentation needed to absorb opponents one by one. The same success exposes the constraints of Feng Zhong's method: he must personally spread the claims, the recipients remember him as the instigator, and without Du Ge's protection the trail of letters would eventually lead powerful enemies back to him. (Chapters 41–43, 51, and 56–59)

Feng Zhong also tries to correct his weakness in direct combat. He compulsively fiddles with chopsticks, stones, branches, animals' ears, and other small objects to develop the physical sense of his keyword. By the battle at Huashan, his rapid fingers can deflect weapons and disrupt an opponent's composure, but he remains the weakest fighter of the central trio and repeatedly depends on Du Ge to pull him out of danger. Rather than hiding that limitation, he uses his strategic judgment to warn the group about ambushes, unfamiliar skills, and alliances among elite contestants. (Chapters 55, 59, and 62–65)

By the confrontation at the Qiao estate, Feng Zhong and Wang San work as a coordinated support pair: Feng Zhong turns blades aside while Wang San supplies the killing force, and both stay with Du Ge even after silence and other hostile skills cripple their communication. Feng Zhong exposes his back on command so that Du Ge can use him as a springboard for a backstab, showing how completely their former distrust has given way to battlefield coordination. Near the end of the simulation, he proposes a private recognition code so the three can cooperate again in later trials, treating his capture by Du Ge as the luckiest turn of his life. (Chapters 68–78)

Yin Erchuan and the Heavenly Doctor

Outside the simulation, Feng Zhong is revealed to be the elite-academy student Yin Erchuan. Several rivals impersonate him when arranging a meeting with Du Ge, but Du Ge identifies the real Yin Erchuan through his habit of rubbing and manipulating his little finger. Yin Erchuan confirms the alliance materially: he gives Du Ge a Body Refinement technique, warns him that the other elite students may abandon a civilian partner once their interests diverge, and creates a second private code for the small group that has already fought together. His caution is self-interested, but it also marks the first time he deliberately protects Du Ge from people of his own social circle. (Chapters 84–87)

The alliance survives separation on the Alien Star Battlefield. When Yin Erchuan is selected alongside other familiar warriors, he is placed in a remote Western tribe and cannot reach Du Ge before Du Ge becomes famous. Instead of waiting safely, he travels for more than twenty days, forms a medical rescue team, distributes a plague cure through wells, and treats soldiers and residents injured during Pei Ma'er's campaign. His rescue work earns him the title Heavenly Doctor Star, brings him into the top ten, and gives him enough independent standing to help Cao Lin's forces stabilize Qingwu after he finally reunites with Du Ge. (Chapters 297, 337, 353, and 373)

Feng Zhong returns from that battlefield as one of the few veterans from Du Ge's original circle to survive. The experience deepens his belief that his value depends less on receiving an inherently strong keyword than on developing it in a direction useful to the team. Before the next deployment, he promises that whatever keyword he receives, he will avoid becoming a burden; he also accepts that future battlefields may scatter the group and make reunion uncertain. (Chapters 376, 379, and 380)

Deceiving the demon realm

On the battlefield of ancient gods and demon kings, Feng Zhong possesses the horned demon Gulaimo and receives the keyword deception. Rather than confront the demon king Ludius, he encloses him in a false reality in which Feng Zhong's group appears weaker and more controllable than it is. He waits for Du Ge before using his more consequential second skill, both because the proposed replacement of a powerful being is dangerous and because Du Ge is the person he trusts to decide how such an opportunity should be used. The deception succeeds well enough that Ludius unknowingly brings Feng Zhong's entire group to Du Ge. (Chapter 443)

Reunited with Du Ge and Yu Xia, Feng Zhong explains that When False Becomes True can turn a constructed substitute into the genuine target over time while displacing the original. Du Ge chooses not to risk weakening a living ally; instead, Nobu copies the skill and applies it to a soul-bearing replica made from the Sun God's severed head, beginning its transformation into a Dark God. Feng Zhong accepts Du Ge's instruction to preserve his own one-use activation for a better vessel. The battlefield is forcibly terminated before their plan to remake further gods can proceed, but Feng Zhong's judgment and restraint help Du Ge retain a nascent form of Dark God power. (Chapters 443–444, 446, and 520)

Turning Bi Xing and choosing resistance

On Bi Xing, Feng Zhong inhabits the young woman Yan Shan and develops the keyword turning point. He reaches the Homeland Defense Bureau with a rank around four hundred and no reliable offensive skill, then gambles on Twists and Turns when he cannot locate an ally; the favorable reversal is Du Ge's arrival. Du Ge again recognizes him through the wires he has unconsciously bent in the same pattern as his old chopsticks. Feng Zhong accepts the need to hide Du Ge's identity, reports the bureau's internal plans, and later serves as its public spokesperson for the gene-modification breakthrough, turning Fan Lie's work into a planet-wide event that sharply increases his own attributes. (Chapters 485 and 488)

Feng Zhong's loyalty is clearest when Du Ge reveals that the expedition into space is meant to test Pan-Universal Entertainment's limits rather than merely win resources. He acknowledges that defiance may kill them, but judges a brief life of meaningful struggle preferable to passive survival under the company's control. During the mass confrontation at Dewei Base, he stays beside Du Ge and uses his unpredictable reversal skill when the crowd's interacting abilities threaten to collapse the battlefield into indiscriminate slaughter. He cannot choose whether the turn will help or harm them, and is later caught by an enemy control effect, but he survives Du Ge's counterattack and returns to Qi Yuan Star with the others. (Chapters 498 and 504–508)

Although four deployments have already earned him security and political influence, Feng Zhong refuses retirement. He joins Gao Ming and Yu Xia in supporting Du Ge's plan to keep entering the Alien Star Battlefield until they can escape Pan-Universal Entertainment, then participates in Qi Yuan Star's upper-level affairs so that Du Ge will have an institutional base if he ever returns. His humor and appetite for excitement remain, but the decision is sober: his keyword luck is unreliable, his death would be real, and he nevertheless chooses the common cause over the comfortable life his military merits could provide. (Chapters 510–511)

The celestial-court feint and final extraction

In the cultivation battlefield, Feng Zhong obeys Du Ge's initial order to remain inconspicuous until the Dao Ancestor gathers twelve Qi Yuan Star warriors and raises them to Great Golden Immortals. The Dao Ancestor instructs them to assist the Celestial Emperor against Du Ge, arguing that a credible opposition will keep the battlefield from ending before Du Ge can pursue freedom. Feng Zhong supports the dangerous plan: he agrees that the group must behave as genuine enemies to deceive both the Celestial Emperor and Pan-Universal Entertainment, and he volunteers alongside Gao Ming and Yu Xia to conceal the others' identities even if Du Ge attacks him by mistake. (Chapters 555 and 583)

As the celestial court delays, Feng Zhong pushes the group to act before Du Ge's rapid expansion makes their assigned opposition meaningless. He helps analyze the twilight tribulation, Du Ge's dependence on public belief, and the political weakness of a Celestial Emperor who both fears and needs the Human Emperor. The twelve then enter the celestial court under local names, present the Dao Ancestor's tokens, and reveal their keywords and skills in private. Their feint works until the Celestial Emperor overhears them discussing whether to aid Du Ge and turns the court's forces against them. (Chapters 587–588 and 591)

Feng Zhong's Cut Off Abruptly repeatedly prevents the Celestial Emperor and his officers from completing battlefield commands, first protecting Gao Ming's power-transfer strategy and later interrupting attempts to rally the celestial army against Du Ge. The skill does not stop attacks already underway, and the group nearly collapses after its defensive treasures break, but Du Ge recognizes them and shields them with weak water. Once reunited, Feng Zhong immediately resumes his old support role, silencing hostile commanders at the moments when their words could overturn Du Ge's advantage. (Chapters 591–594)

Feng Zhong returns with Great Golden Immortal experience and tens of millions in mental power, yet still enters another battlefield because ordinary peace no longer satisfies him and his descendants are already secure on Qi Yuan Star. In the final conflict he inhabits Porter, helps repair a mistake that could have cost Gao Ming his life, and reaches Du Ge only after the great powers have submitted. Pan-Universal Entertainment extracts him almost immediately, later gathers him with Du Ge's other intimates as a potential hostage, and loses its hold when the Heart of Cangjie removes the souls under its control. Du Ge subsequently gathers those souls into the Simulation Field, where they can live until bodies are made for them. (Chapters 597, 646, 653, and 655)

Appearance and personality

Yin Erchuan is a young man whose most recognizable physical habit is the unconscious rubbing or manipulation of his little finger. The habit persists across worlds strongly enough for Du Ge to distinguish him from impostors and later identify him inside Yan Shan's body by the crossed bends left in pieces of wire. His possessed forms vary widely: the original Feng Zhong is an innkeeper, Gulaimo is a hideous horned demon, Yan Shan is a young woman, and Porter is his final known host. (Chapters 17, 85, 443–444, 485, and 646)

He is talkative, shrewd, irreverent, and highly sensitive to changing incentives. Early in his career those traits make him treacherous and cautious; he prefers rumors, proxies, and escape routes to direct fighting. Repeated survival beside Du Ge turns the same adaptability into loyalty expressed through useful dissent: he warns Du Ge about traps, admits when a skill is weak, and is willing to play an enemy when that best serves Du Ge's larger plan. He also enjoys the danger and novelty of the battlefields, eventually finding ordinary life too narrow after experiencing them. (Chapters 37, 41, 56, 68, 87, 379, 498, and 597)

Keywords, skills, and cultivation

Feng Zhong's powers change with each possessed body. Keywords increase the host's attributes when acted upon and may awaken derived skills, while mental power and accumulated tactical experience carry across deployments. His known keywords are manipulation, rescue, deception, turning point, and intercept; his keyword in the final battlefield is unknown. (Chapters 37, 373, 443, 485, 588, and 646)

Manipulation and Tongue of Discord

Manipulation supports both the literal act of dexterously fiddling with objects and the social act of inciting others. Its principal derived skill, Tongue of Discord—also called Tongue of Right and Wrong—makes news spread by Feng Zhong sufficiently compelling that its recipients seek to verify it. The skill does not simply make every lie true or command belief: Qiu Yuanlang investigates the report about Heavenly Demons, and the major sects independently pursue rumors tailored to their interests. Written letters and public notices let Feng Zhong reach distant targets reliably, but he must originate the information himself and remains identifiable as the instigator, making the ability dangerous without protection. (Chapters 37, 41, and 51)

The physical branch of manipulation produces an unnamed finger technique later described as Feng Zhong's spiritual finger. After extensive practice on small objects, he can use rapid finger movements to push or deflect weapons. Contact also makes opponents flush, lose focus, and utter involuntary sounds, disrupting their technique long enough for Feng Zhong or an ally to strike. Its range is close, it does not compensate for his limited martial training, and against multiple experts he still requires Du Ge's protection; it is most effective when paired with Wang San's offense. (Chapters 55, 59, 62–65, and 73)

Rescue and Benevolent Heart and Skill

The keyword rescue grows through saving people from illness and disaster. Feng Zhong develops it by organizing a medical team, curing the plague in Linyang, distributing medicine through public wells, and treating those harmed by war. The resulting attributes carry him into the top ten and support the public identity of Heavenly Doctor Star. Its broad humanitarian application is powerful for building influence, but the remote location of his host delays his start, and the healing role contributes little against high-attribute warriors who can already recover from ordinary injuries. (Chapter 373)

Benevolent Heart and Skill allows Feng Zhong to discover a cure for any disease. The ability makes the Heavenly Doctor identity self-sustaining because successful treatment produces further trust, influence, and opportunities to rescue others. Its demonstrated scope is disease rather than every form of injury or supernatural harm, and it is not shown functioning as an instant combat heal. (Chapter 373)

Deception and reality substitution

With the keyword deception, Feng Zhong awakens Deceive the Heavens and Cross the Sea. Its true effect is to construct a false reality for selected targets that they accept without doubt. Feng Zhong uses it to make Ludius believe false descriptions of the Alien Star warriors' powers and loyalties, concealing an organized group inside the demon king's own faction until Du Ge arrives. The skill controls the target's understanding rather than Feng Zhong's body or raw strength, so discovery by an unaffected observer or an attack outside the deception remains a practical danger. (Chapter 443)

When False Becomes True is a one-use skill that creates a false target based on a real one; as time passes, the imitation becomes genuine while the original is displaced. Feng Zhong intends to use it to replace the Dark Demon King but waits because choosing a living ally or an unsuitable vessel could produce a dangerous loss of power. Nobu's copied activation shows that the replacement begins extremely weak and strengthens gradually. Feng Zhong's own activation remains available when the battlefield ends, so the full time required and the final consequences for the original target are not demonstrated. (Chapters 443–444)

Turning point and uncertain reversals

The keyword turning point rewards Feng Zhong for participating in events that change the direction of a society or conflict. He initially struggles because Du Ge has already taken control of Bi Xing's largest political reversals, but he later gains substantial attributes by publicly presenting gene modification as a historic transformation. The keyword favors consequential change rather than routine action, which makes independent development difficult when a more influential ally reaches every major event first. (Chapters 485 and 488)

Step on the Big Dipper lets Feng Zhong change direction freely while moving and perform extreme evasive maneuvers within the reach of his mental perception. It is useful for avoiding a faster individual opponent, but its effective area is bounded by what he can perceive, and concentrated firepower can cover that entire space. It offers mobility rather than attack power or immunity. (Chapters 485 and 487)

Twists and Turns, also called A Turn of Events, forces Feng Zhong's current situation to change direction. He cannot determine whether the result will improve or worsen his position, making every activation a gamble. A favorable use helps bring Du Ge to him when he is isolated in the Homeland Defense Bureau; later he activates it amid the chaotic clash at Dewei Base when interacting crowd-control skills threaten the entire group. The subsequent battle turns, but the skill provides no visible indication of which development it caused, reinforcing its central limitation: Feng Zhong can force change, not choose the outcome. (Chapters 485, 490, and 505–507)

Intercept and control of speech

The keyword intercept produces two information-control skills. Quote Out of Context allows Feng Zhong to extract fragments from explanatory writing, give them a new public meaning, and make people firmly believe that reframed interpretation. It is potentially suited to a propaganda contest against Du Ge, but no direct battlefield use establishes its range, duration, or how it interacts with contradictory evidence. (Chapter 588)

Cut Off Abruptly forcibly interrupts a target's speech and prevents the sentence from continuing. Feng Zhong uses it against the Celestial Emperor and Water Official Emperor to stop commands, rebuttals, and rallying calls at critical moments. It can be applied repeatedly and works even on vastly stronger cultivators, but it silences speech rather than thought or physical action: the Celestial Emperor can still wield his seal, sword, lightning, and connection to Jianmu after being interrupted. (Chapters 588 and 591–593)

Cultivation and mental power

Feng Zhong's base mental power is 58 after his first simulation. Surviving an Alien Star Battlefield raises the veteran group's mental power into the five-digit range, greatly improving the safety of later body possession. After the Dao Ancestor gives the twelve Qi Yuan Star warriors a heavenly book and accelerated training, Feng Zhong reaches Great Golden Immortal cultivation in less than three external days; this power is attached to that battlefield body rather than a permanently demonstrated real-world cultivation realm. (Chapters 86, 380, and 583)

By the end of the cultivation battlefield, the surviving warriors return with at least tens of millions in mental power. Feng Zhong combines that reserve with years of experience reading keywords, recognizing skill combinations, and operating inside hostile organizations. His final appearance as Porter shows that he remains capable of surviving another high-level possession and supporting Gao Ming, although no named keyword or new technique from that final host is revealed. (Chapters 597 and 646)

Power progression

Relationships

• Du Ge: Feng Zhong begins as Du Ge's covert enemy, becomes useful to him under duress, and gradually turns into one of his most reliable partners. He provides propaganda, healing, deception, battlefield support, and political preparation, then repeatedly risks retirement and death to support Du Ge's attempt to escape Pan-Universal Entertainment.
• Gao Ming: Gao Ming and Feng Zhong become members of Du Ge's veteran circle and frequently coordinate during later deployments. Feng Zhong supports Gao Ming's dangerous public operations on Bi Xing, joins his celestial-court feint, and helps repair his mistake on the final battlefield.
• Wang San / Yu Xia: Feng Zhong and Wang San begin as competitive, mutually suspicious support fighters, but their skill combination becomes central to the first simulation. After learning that Wang San is Yu Xia, Feng Zhong treats her as part of the original trio, and their reunions on later battlefields are marked by relief and easy familiarity.
• Feng Shiyi: Feng Zhong exploits Feng Shiyi's trust while posing as a family retainer, and his report to the Iron Palm Gang contributes directly to the Feng family's downfall. Feng Shiyi's fury gives Feng Zhong a concrete reason to flee and abandon the innkeeper identity.
• Dao Ancestor: The Dao Ancestor grants Feng Zhong Great Golden Immortal cultivation, a token, and a mission to oppose Du Ge. Feng Zhong accepts the strategic logic but never transfers his true loyalty, using the assignment to prolong Du Ge's opportunity rather than to seek his destruction.

Items

• Body Refinement technique: Feng Zhong obtains this manual through his family, brings it to his first real-world meeting with Du Ge, and gives it to him as an investment in their continuing alliance. (Chapters 85 and 87)
• Dao Ancestor's golden token: One of twelve identity tokens issued to the Qi Yuan Star group as proof of discipleship and protection at the celestial court. The linked token formation blocks the Celestial Emperor's opening attack but is shattered by the Celestial Emperor's Seal. (Chapters 583 and 591)
• Dao Ancestor's magical treasure: Feng Zhong receives one of the swords, spears, gourds, or other treasures allotted to the twelve disciples, though the exact object assigned to him is not identified. (Chapter 583)