Created by sorcerer Fei Wang Reed as a synthetic duplicate, Shaolan’s purpose is to gather scattered feather fragments holding Sakura’s memories. Born heartless, he gains emotional potential after receiving a sealed shard of the original Shaolan’s heart and left eye. Raised by archaeologist Fujitaka, he bonds deeply with Sakura until their memories are erased as payment for crossing dimensions. When the seal on his eye shatters, he loses emotions, fixating solely on retrieving feathers. This cold determination drives him to abandon allies and seize a companion’s magical eye for greater power. Confronting the original Shaolan—imprisoned by Fei Wang—in ruined Tokyo, he learns of his artificial origins, sparking a clash over their intertwined mission and Sakura’s survival. Though destroyed after betraying Fei Wang, his essence endures. A temporal paradox reveals his rebirth alongside a cloned Sakura in another dimension, where they paradoxically parent the original Shaolan. This cycle binds their fates, with the duplicate’s past influencing the original’s path. Post-Fei Wang’s defeat, the duplicate’s consciousness fades, leaving the original to wander dimensions in a futile quest to revive him. Central to his existence is his fraught bond with Sakura, blending protection and muted affection. Despite post-seal emotional numbness, flickers of care emerge—hesitation to harm her, her sacrificial acts to save him—entangling their destinies across timelines. His combat skills, swordsmanship, and magic-absorption abilities, amplified by the stolen eye, grow through battles but demand physical and moral tolls. His journey wavers between autonomy and manipulation, embodying struggles for identity and purpose. In spin-offs, the original Shaolan travels endlessly with companions, seeking resolution for the duplicate’s fractured legacy. Their paths intersect with other dimensional wanderers, weaving a narrative of interlinked lives and recursive time.

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Shaolan

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