* age provided by official profile at ShadowHearts.net. Original age in both JP and NA manuals was listed as over 60. The reason for this is unknown.

This wise sage is deft in the ways of Yin and Yang and Feng Shui. He hints at some past connection with Yuri and Bacon.

Yuri skeptically dubs this old man a "Quack Oracle" at their first encounter. The elders from a neighbouring village had hired Zhuzhen to look into the strange disturbances in Zhaoyang Village.

Zhuzhen calls himself "the true ruler of the nine heavens. The absolute sage". Contrary to Yuri's original assessment, he is no fraud. Zhuzen is a knowledgable and experienced spirit healer, a master of Taoist magic. He was a student of Master Xifa, the guardian of the White Tiger temple at Wuhan.

(SPOILERS - HIGHLIGHT TO READ) Zhuzhen first met Ben Hyuga and his friend Zhongyun Zhen in 1898, when they saved him from Dehuai's henchmen. The trio joined forces to battle the warlock Dehuai and stop the Valorization. In order to halt the ritual, he was forced to deal the killing blow to his friend. Dehuai is his brother.

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