Chen Chuan

Biodata

Power Progression

Apprentice ranks ascend from Third-Class to Second-Class to First-Class, followed by Formal Wizard 15 17.

Background / History

In his previous life, Chen Chuan suffered from lung cancer, spent three years bedridden, and died before turning twenty. He transmigrated into his current world as a fetus and grew up on Blue Star, where Awakening Day offered the sole opportunity to enter the extraordinary professions. Before awakening, he was a high-school senior with strong academic results and a seemingly laid-back attitude 1 4.

His Spirit Branch awakening brought him under military protection. Gu Changgeng explained that his talent could qualify him for wizard training, but failure in the entrance examination meant death. Chen Chuan chose the wizard path over safer alternatives, including becoming a psychokinetic. Learning that Blue Star occupied a vulnerable, subordinate position in the Wizard World Alliance gave his decision stakes beyond his own future 3 4.

Before leaving Blue Star, he underwent three months of military preparation in combat, cross-country running, first aid, crawling, and wilderness survival. He visited his parents and Zhao Tie during training, concealed the danger from his family, and asked Gu Changgeng to care for them if he did not return 4 6.

Appearance

• Seed markings: Green, plant-vein-like patterns appear beneath his skin after implantation, particularly on the back of his left hand. They glow during magical activity and can gradually fade 11 12 15.
• Eyes: Green light briefly flickers in his pupils during cultivation and advancement 17 34.
• Academy clothing: Initially wears a gray reserve-apprentice robe, followed by a black Third-Class robe and a blue Second-Class robe 25 38.

Personality

Chen Chuan’s casual humor conceals a strong desire to control his own fate. His early claim that he is merely a “salted fish” contrasts with his willingness to risk death for wizardhood. His ultimate goal is eternal life, and he treats potion-making, cultivation, and the study of advancement paths as practical steps toward it 1 3 31.

He is guarded about information and deliberately understates his abilities. He withholds details about Blue Star from unfamiliar candidates, conceals the precision of his plant control from Lili, and suppresses his Spirit reading during his first official assessment. Suspecting that others covet his Seed of Life, he distances himself from Lili rather than joining her search for the Heart of Plants 8 16 19 25.

He prioritizes useful knowledge and financial independence over social standing. He postpones buying combat equipment to establish a potion business and largely ignores the prestige of noble families. He also refuses intimidation: he repels Feierte’s attempt to seize his robe and rejects the subsequent claim that Feierte merely wanted friendship 20 25 26 41.

Abilities & Skills

Crimson System and All-Things Analysis

The Crimson System provides a private status panel, while Light of Wisdom enables analysis of magical knowledge and techniques 1 4 14.

• Accelerated study: Analyzes the elementary meditation method in less than thirteen hours, compared with his estimate of roughly three months without assistance 14.
• Potion optimization: Helps him learn formulas and refine individual brewing movements 21 33.
• Spell acquisition: Lets him rapidly fill gaps in his combat repertoire before the ruins expedition 41.
• Limits: Analysis is not instantaneous. A first-tier Windproof Barrier carries an estimated analysis time of 26,000 hours 4.

Clear Mind

Clear Mind is described as granting immunity to negative mental effects 7.

• Prevents the Realm of Illusion’s emotional pressure from penetrating his soul, allowing him to assess the trial clearly 7.
• Enables him to recover almost immediately from Elina’s spiritual influence 8.
• Does not automatically identify every illusion; he deduces the monsters’ false nature by observing their behavior and flickering bodies 7.

Source of Magic Power

Chen Chuan converts absorbable extraordinary materials into points that directly improve skills and attributes 17.

• Skill growth: Early upgrades cost 10 points per skill experience point 17.
• Direct attributes: His initial test raises Spirit by 0.1 for 100 points 17.
• Fuel sources: Suitable crystals, ores, beginner magic stones, and the remains of the Soul-Devouring Flower can be absorbed 17 32 48.
• Conversion examples: One beginner magic stone supplies approximately one point; the damaged Soul-Devouring Flower supplies 6,657 points 32 48.

Activated Seed of Life

Liya supplies this unusual seed from a miniature plant plane. It can nourish itself without spiritual power and was previously nourished by a plane core 11 13.

• Vitality Solidification: Initially grants additional Physique and Agility equal to 25% of Spirit 13 15.
• Life Magnetic Field: Improves bodily recovery and accelerates nearby plant growth while improving plant quality. Chen Chuan can adjust its range and effects 15.
• Abundant Energy: Initially doubles magic recovery and stores one additional reserve. After advancement, recovery is tripled and storage increases to twice his normal reserve 15 41.
• Life perception: Sharpens his awareness of surrounding life, plants, and potion ingredients 11 26.
• Mother Tree connection: Produces dreams and an increasingly close connection with the Mother Tree of Life 14 34.

Vitality Magic Mushroom Summoning

Through his Seed of Life and Plant Summoning, Chen Chuan accesses the Vitality Magic Mushroom Plane. Its guardian enhances the seed’s summoning effect to permit creatures one level above their summoner 35.

• Standard formation: One recovery, one attack, and one defense mushroom cooperate as a single combat unit 36 41.
• Upper capacity: With Abundant Energy, he could summon six advanced mushrooms, but doing so would briefly exhaust his magic and leave little safety margin 41.
• Practical reserve: Normally uses three and considers adding two more against stronger enemies 41.
• Compact deployment: In the ruins, his three mushrooms appear approximately twenty centimeters tall and ride on his shoulders and head 44.

Life Magic and Combat Spells

By the expedition’s departure, his repertoire includes elementary and intermediate magic for movement, defense, sensing, mental protection, plant control, and summon support 41.

• Ring of Repulsion: Pushes nearby enemies more than three meters away. He can concentrate most of its force in front of himself 26.
• Life Revival: Restores wilted herbs and prompts flowering; at its demonstrated stage, it can heal only delicate plants 34.
• Defensive spells: Includes Shield of Earth, Deflection Protection, and Mental Protection 41 44.
• Support spells: Includes Summon Enhancement, Agile Thinking, Plant Supercontrol, Wind of Swiftness, Mental Detection, and Magic Power Sensing 41 44.

Potion-Making and Botanical Research

Chen Chuan develops potion-making into both a source of income and a means of accelerating cultivation 21 25 34.

• Life potions: Establishes a regular commercial relationship with Alex’s Potion Cottage 21 24.
• Examination proficiency: Produces excellent recovery, purification, and protection potions during his elementary potionist examination 25 28.
• Concentration Potions: Eventually averages five bottles per day, mostly good quality with occasional excellent batches 34.
• Dosage limit: Can drink no more than one Concentration Potion daily to reduce the risk of mental-power backlash 33.
• Research insight: Suggests that lunar phases may explain unstable extraction results from the Flower of Light 29.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Storage ring from Gu Changgeng: Contains approximately one cubic meter of space. Initially holds gold, rare metals, jade, crystals, and valuable magical materials 17.
• Military dagger: Drawn when confronting Elina’s spiritual influence and later used to test a defense mushroom 8 36.
• Black Third-Class robe: Provides one use of Purification Spell per day 25.
• Blue Second-Class robe: Raises Purification Spell availability to three uses per day 38.
• Apprentice badge: Provides a slight magic-recovery effect; replaced when his official rank increases 25 38.
• Elementary potionist badge: Awarded after passing the Potions Association examination 28.
• Interference-Resistance Amulet: Gift from Alia Madison; resists mental interference no stronger than the first tier 42.
• Sensing amulet: Displays the positions of fellow expedition members inside the ruins 44.
• Advanced Life Potion: Supplied by Alex before the ruins expedition 39.
• Collection equipment: Includes a sample bag and a sealed crystal box used to preserve the Soul-Devouring Flower’s blossom 48 50.

Relationships

• Parents — His family in Great Banyan City. He reassures them about military training while concealing its danger and arranges protection for them before the wizard examination 4 6.
• Zhao Tie — Childhood friend and schoolmate. Aspires to become a knight and promises to take Chen Chuan flying on a magical beast 1 4.
• Gu Changgeng — Military patron who explains the wizard path, arranges survival training, supplies examination intelligence, and gives him a storage ring. Promises to remember his parents after Chen Chuan departs 3 4 6 17.
• Chen Shaohua — Military protector who intervenes during his awakening and secretly escorts his home visit 2 4.
• Liya — Life Academy recruiter who accepts him after his affinity assessment and gives him the Activated Seed of Life 11.
• Lili — Neighbor and fellow apprentice interested in plants and the Heart of Plants. Chen Chuan suspects her motives and keeps their contact limited 15 16 19 26.
• Aikte — Potion-shop contact who buys his products and introduces him to Alex 21 24.
• Alex — Formal Wizard, potion-shop owner, and research supervisor. Provides formulas, recruits him, and assigns him to the planar expedition 24 28 39.
• Arwen — Research colleague who guides his study of the Heart of Light Potion and combat systems. Offers to undertake the dangerous ruins mission in his place 29 31 39.
• Alia Madison — Expedition ally who compensates for her sister’s rudeness with an amulet and later fights beside him against the Soul-Devouring Flower 42 46 48.
• Vera Madison — Initially hostile fellow apprentice; later joins him and Alia in surviving the flower encounter and exploring the underground cavern 41 46 50.
• Feierte — Antagonistic contemporary whose attempted intimidation Chen Chuan rebuffs before the potionist examination 26 27.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Wizard Entrance Examination

Chen Chuan passes the mental-power test with a surge of light reaching the top of the testing pillar. In the Realm of Illusion, Clear Mind protects him from emotional manipulation, and he passes by recognizing that the attacking monsters are illusions rather than fighting them 6 7.

He becomes one of seven leading Black Wizard Seeds gathered from 246 testing grounds. During academy selection, he chooses Life Academy after demonstrating high life affinity through the Vine of Life 8 11.

Life Academy and the Heart of Plants

After receiving his Activated Seed of Life, Chen Chuan dreams of the Mother Tree calling him an inheritor. Lili’s questions about the Heart of Plants, alongside unexplained watchers, make him suspicious of others’ interest in his connection to the tree 14 16 19.

He later considers using the Heart of Plants to obtain the Mother Tree’s bloodline. A dream guardian explains its possible uses across bloodline, elemental, and spellblade paths, but warns of a potentially fatal test and the danger of attracting the Tree of Myriad Worlds’ attention. Chen Chuan postpones choosing a path and concentrates on safer cultivation gains 31 32.

Potionist and Researcher

Chen Chuan establishes a basement laboratory, sells life potions, and attracts Alex’s attention. Passing the elementary potionist examination earns him a place in Alex’s project group 21 24 28.

The group studies the unstable Heart of Light Potion, which can grant the Body of Light required for becoming a paladin. Chen Chuan proposes investigating lunar effects on Flower of Light extraction and is assigned a full-moon extraction test 29.

Planar Ruins Expedition

Alex sends Chen Chuan into newly discovered planar ruins as an herbal consultant, tasked with collecting plants and recording their environments and properties. A particular objective is the rare Sunflower of Holy Light 39.

Separated from the expedition during transit, Chen Chuan deploys his mushroom squad and searches for nearby apprentices. He subsequently fights a nearly ranked Soul-Devouring Flower alongside Alia, Vera, and another apprentice; the unnamed apprentice dies when its attack breaks his defenses 44 46.

Chen Chuan harvests the blossom and converts the remains into Source of Magic Power. The flower’s collapse exposes an underground passage containing traces of sacred-element energy 48.

In the cavern beyond, he collects fifteen Sunflowers of Holy Light. Alia identifies a floating Ruin Plane Core above the flower field, then realizes that the flowers form a sealing formation as they absorb energy from it. The supplied account ends before the nature of the seal is resolved 50.

Notable Quotes

“I choose wizard.” 3

“No need.” — Rejecting Feierte’s claimed offer of friendship after repelling him 26