Dai Seik Tin

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character_name = Dai Seik Tin
帝釋天


caption = Dai Seik Tin from "Fung Wan"
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debut = Fung Wan
creators = Ma Wing Shing
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Dai Seik Tin (zh-tsp|t=帝釋天|s=帝釋天|p=Dì Shì Tīan) is one of the arch villains in the popular Fung Wan comic series.

The Phantom Menace

Dai Seik Tin first appeared in the comic series as a mysterious leader of the Tian Men (天門) clan "(Translation: Heaven's Gate)".The headquarters of this clan was located in a cold place and therefore the structures were all made of ice.

The followers of this clan were taught special powers by their leader (for example one of Dai Seik Tin's apprentice, Shen Mu, who acquired light healing skills). After Juet Mou San was vanquished by Nameless and Co., this clan emerged as a new threat in the martial world, actively recruiting many fighters to join its ranks. Those who "willingly" became followers include Po Kuan and Duen Long. Others were recruited against their will, for example Huai Kong. Nevertheless, Dai Seik Tin never showed his true self to anyone, preferring to surround himself with a thick layer of ice.

With the many fighters at his disposal, Dai Seik Tin brought chaos to the martial world. He ordered the kidnap of Nameless as well as Cloud and Wind's families. He intended to spare Cloud's life so that he can use Cloud for an unknown purpose. He knew that Wind and Cloud together will pose an unimaginable threat to himself so he ordered for the termination of Wind (which was of course unsuccessful).

Dai Seik Tin's ex-master

On the way to rescue his family, Cloud met another mysterious but wise man named Chui Fook (徐福) who claimed to be the ex-master of Dai Seik Tin. Chui Fook told Cloud that he was one of the ministers in the Qin emperor Shih Huang Ti's court. Shih Huang Ti had ordered Chui Fook to find the Elixir of Life. Suspecting that phoenix blood might give immortality, he and his followers succeeded in capturing and killing the phoenix. However before presenting the phoenix blood to the emperor, he realised the terrible implications of a ruthless man like Shih Huang Ti ruling the world forever. He then drank the phoenix blood himself and ran away from the palace. It was only years later that he found out that his complexion had not changed a bit and thus he could live forever. After centuries of learning, Chui Fook had acquired the ability to prolong others' lives too.

About 200 years earlier, Chui Fook recruited a brilliant student who later learnt this ability to prolong life. This student desired so much to be immortal that he turned evil and became the phantom menace Dai Seik Tin. Surrounding oneself in ice was in fact one of the methods to prevent ageing. Chui Fook explained to Cloud that the reason why Dai Seik Tin was recruiting fighters was to prepare for the appearance of the legendary dragon. Chui Fook believed that Dai Seik Tin wanted to get his hands on the Dragon Sphere to achieve immortality that Chui Fook enjoyed.

Chui Fook intended to help the martial world get rid his disobedient apprentice Dai Seik Tin but he preferred to do things behind the scene, therefore he approached Cloud for help. They could then fight against one common enemy.

Desire to obtain the Dragon Sphere

Legends claimed that the dragon is the leader of the 4 mystical beasts (dragon, phoenix, fire kirin and dragon-tortoise) and therefore the dragon's Sphere could have more powerful properties compared to phoenix blood. Dai Seik Tin's high astrological skills managed to deduce that the dragon would make an appearance at a particular date and time. Curious to get his hands on the Dragon Sphere, he launched a recruitment drive to get the 7 weapons required to kill the dragon, namely:

* Cloud's Ultimate Superior Sword
* Nameless' Hero Sword held by Kim Sun
* Royal Shadow's Lonely Blade
* Duen Long's Fire Kirin Sword
* Po Kuan's sabre Heavenly Blade and his sword Greedy Wolf
* Huai Kong's "beastly" weapon Sin of Heaven

Plans Backfired

Shen Jiang, the man who was ordered by Daik Seik Tin to terminate Wind failed in his task. Wind was rescued by the passing by Mou Ying Hung.

Most of the fighters recruited by Dai Seik Tin to kill the dragon harboured intentions to rob the Dragon Sphere for themselves. As soon as the dragon fell dead and released the Sphere, Shen Jiang, Duen Long and Po Kuan fought one another to be the first to reach the glowing hot Dragon Sphere. However, it was Cloud who managed to grab hold of the Sphere with his heat resistant Kirin Arm. Just when Dai Seik Tin made his move to snatch the Sphere from Cloud, Wind appeared and fought Dai Seik Tin alongside Cloud.

In the midst of the duel, Dai Seik Tin released an ice bullet to destroy the Dragon Sphere. The power was insufficient for its purpose. As a result, the Dragon Sphere was broken into 7 Dragon Pills and Dai Seik Tin only managed to obtain 1 Pill. The other 5 Pills were taken by Wind, Cloud, Huai Kong, Royal Shadow, Shen Jiang, while the final Pill was lost.

The fate of the Dragon Pills obtained by:
* Wind: absorbed by Cloud
* Cloud: absorbed by Po Kuan
* Huai Kong: Indirectly absorbed by the frozen Wind and Cloud 20 years after their duel with Duen Long
* Royal Shadow: Swindled and absorbed by Duen Long
* Shen Jiang: initially swallowed by Dai Seik Tin but absorbed by Duen Long after killing Dai Seik Tin
* Dai Seik Tin: absorbed himself
* The lost one was found and absorbed by Juet Sum much later

hocking Revelations

Dai Seik Tin, as the comic later revealed, was actually the immortal Chui Fook himself.

Being an immortal, Chui Fook had experienced almost all human desires throughout his lifespan of several thousands of years. To be powerful, he learnt various martial stances and even became an emperor once. He had loved women of every generation and made many friends. However, nothing lasts in this world. Everyone will age and die. Having endured heartbreaks whenever a friend or lover dies, soon Chui Fook decided that his life is too long for being sad. Instead he decided to live an exciting life by becoming the puppetmaster of the martial world. Being the good and the bad, he would be able to change people's destiny however he wanted and derive entertainment from it.

That was why he created an alter ego by the name Dai Seik Tin, alleging that this Dai Seik Tin was his disobedient apprentice. As Chui Fook, he would recruit good guys to fight against Dai Seik Tin and the Tian Men clan. As Dai Seik Tin, he would train the bad guys to fight the good guys.

Death

His arrogance as an immortal became his undoing.

By launching the mission to obtain the Dragon Sphere, he opened the possibility for mortal fighters to derive great powers from the Dragon Pills. By underestimating the Dragon-Pill-boosted Cloud, he lost the duel with Cloud and also his invincibility. By mixing a Dragon Pill with phoenix blood in his body caused unknown side-effects. By recruiting the cunning Duen Long into his clan, he led Duen Long to dream of becoming invincible and for that reason, he was killed by the would-be Kirin Demon.