Zhao Kui
"You call yourselves heroes, forever chanting of good and evil, never seeing that you are Evil Beyond Measure! Judge Zhao Kui of the Hell Path is here! Demons and monsters, dare you come at me again~!"
The Dharma King of the Hell Path in the Mud Cult, appearing and vanishing without a trace, carrying out private executions wherever he goes, so that both the righteous and the wicked suffer. He also performs spirit dances, wrapped in ghostly air; the Mud Cult's name stinks so badly, and this man is inseparable from it.
He was once a Junior Brother of Zou Bo in the Qingcheng Sect. At the Qingcheng Discourse, Fire Dragon Immortal Monarch twisted the meaning of the Daoist texts against him, and his Daoist heart sank into ruin. Later, in the , he was defeated by the demonic arts of the Supreme Bliss Cult's , and his temperament grew ever more savage, until at last he fell into the role of Dharma King of the Hell Path.
His signature skill is the "Celestial Master Sword Technique".
Qingcheng Dao Debate
- He teases Zou Bo for putting on weight, though he insists his own bulk is muscle, which is a different thing.
- If he takes a liking to Zhao Huo, then when Zhao Huo enters Qingcheng and faces Zou Bo, he seals Zhao Huo's acupoints and leaves him standing on the field.
- He rather liked Zhao Huo's looks at first and wanted to teach him a few moves and carry him off to the Underworld of the Hell Path to serve as a Ghost Soldier. Later he got tired of the noise and let it drop.
- He went out of his way to recover the Qingcheng Sect's long-lost Sect Leader's Token, the "Celestial Master's Token", as a trump card against Qingcheng, but since Zou Bo would not make trouble for him, he never used it and simply returned it to Qingcheng.
- He says his debt to his Beloved Master can never be repaid. Zou Bo allowed him to report to his Beloved Master's spirit in person as a Qingcheng Disciple, to apologize and return the Celestial Master's Token, but it came to nothing because no Qingcheng disciple could be found willing to stand in for him in the martial contest.
- He declares he will kill Iron Crown Daoist.
Notes
- He looks rough and wild, but there is fine thought within the rough, and he is accomplished in both letters and arms.
- He hates evil as an enemy and has grown sick of the injustice of the world. What Heaven will not attend to, he attends to; what the authorities will not handle, he handles. He is willing to set himself alight, to become the blazing flame of hell and burn away all that is unclean in the mortal world.
- If Zhao Huo kills Venerable Golden Crow at the martial contest for a bride, everyone will say that even the Nine-Lives Leopard could not escape death in the end, and that it must have been King Yama's Emissary, who also bears the surname Zhao, and may well be connected to Zhao Kui, Dharma King of the Hell Path; the Tang Clan's reputation suffers for your deed.
- When Zhao Huo faces Patriarch Wuxiang in the final battle of the Western Wulin, he and Zou Bo join forces to create an opening for Zhao Huo.