Zou Bo
The Qingcheng Sect Leader, hot-blooded by nature, practices the orthodox Daoist Cantong Secret Covenant, and his Power runs deep. But after becoming Sect Leader and shouldering the sect's affairs, the worry and strain put over a hundred catties on him, and his strength is no longer what it once was.
More than twenty years ago, at the Qingcheng Dao Debate, the Fire Dragon Immortal Monarch twisted the meaning of the Daoist texts, sinking the Daoist heart of Zou Bo's Junior Brother Zhao Kui, who later fell and became the Dharma King of the Hell Path of the Mud Cult. Zou Bo cannot wait to go up Kongtong and kill him.
He calls Nangong Yuan his worthy younger brother, and brought a Returning Void Pill to his birthday banquet. When he saw Nangong Yuan die at the Wulin Assembly on Fengyu Mountain, his heart turned to ash, and he began to think of retiring from the Jianghu.
The Old Days
- In his youth he was tall and handsome, with a bit of a thug's air about him and a fierce sense of justice. Later he decided he could not sink that low, and threw himself into hard work, which is how he got where he is today.[1]
- He once fought shoulder to shoulder with Tang Zhongling against the Seven Immortals of the Supreme Bliss Cult, and their relations were friendly enough. He calls Tang Zhongling "Brother Tang".
- As a young man he and his Junior Brother Zhao Kui swore an oath: rather die for justice than stand with demons; rather roam the wilds righting wrongs than serve under the powerful.
Zhao Kui
- Steady by nature, yet his blood still runs hot. Every time the matter of his Junior Brother Zhao Kui, fallen to become the Dharma King of the Hell Path, comes up, he cannot keep his calm.
- Twenty-five years ago, the Fire Dragon Immortal Monarch twisted the Daoist texts and indirectly sank Zhao Kui's Daoist heart, and he later fell and became the Dharma King of the Hell Path of the Mud Cult. Zou Bo had a fiery temper in those days; had and not joined forces to hold him back, he would have charged up Kongtong to take his life long ago.
- After a fight with Zhao Kui, he put questions to him and heard him speak on and on. His pent-up fury quietly eased a little, and he let Zhao Kui go.
Martial Arts
- A grandmaster of qigong. The orthodox Daoist Secret Pact is known to him alone in this age.
- His Internal Skill is deep. According to , even if , , and piled on top of one another, they could not beat Zou Bo in a contest of Internal Force.
- When Ye Yunshang was poisoned by the Other Shore Immortal Fragrance in the Brocade Pouch, he used orthodox Daoist Internal Skill to keep her Heart Meridian from failing, and urgently sent disciples down the mountain to fetch Tang Fang to save her.
- At the Wulin Assembly his hands itched and he took the field against Xiang Wuyou. Because Xiang Wuyou had already fought several people in a row and his True Qi was bound to be worn down, Zou Bo deliberately set aside his own strengths for fairness, not rousing Qingcheng's profound Internal Skill and deciding the match on moves alone, and so he came off the worse.
Notes
- Zou Bo and Hao Datong, the Taigu Immortal of the Seven Quanzhen Masters, are kindred spirits beyond worldly matters. They once lectured on the scriptures and debated the Dao together, and through this he brought in Quanzhen's external alchemy. Qingcheng's "Returning Void Pill" is the fruit of their joint research.
- During the former siege of Jiangling he went to lend aid, and gave his token to his Junior Brother Shentu Long, letting him hold Qingcheng in his stead.
- Ye Yunshang calls him Zou Feibo.
- If Zhao Huo meets the conditions, he says he wants to take Zhao Huo as a disciple. If you agree, you can become his Direct Disciple, and he gives you the Daoist name "Qichen", meaning to forget and cast off the red dust. He is not angry if you refuse, and is instead gladdened by Zhao Huo's perseverance, though it is a pity that such excellent material ran off to the Tang Clan back then and let pick up a bargain.
- He is very interested in the matter of extra dishes at dinner.
- When Zhao Huo fights Patriarch Wuxiang in the Western Wulin, he comes to help, joining forces with Zhao Kui to create an opening so that Zhao Huo can kill Patriarch Wuxiang.