Shen Jingchuan

Biodata

Power Progression

Background / History

Inheriting the Ancestral Ring

Shen Jingchuan is Shen Jianguo’s only child. His mother dies before the story begins, and he exhausts himself keeping watch during his father’s final hospitalization. After Shen Jianguo’s death, blood from Shen Jingchuan’s nosebleed reaches the ancestral ring on his finger, causing it to recognize him as its master 1.

With just over 3,200 yuan remaining after the funeral, he purchases protective equipment and weapons in installments before exploring the other world. Once his finances improve, he repays the relatives who helped fund his father’s treatment 2 27.

Establishing Himself in Yuxi Prefecture

After saving Lin Qingyao and treating her injuries, Shen Jingchuan becomes an honored guest of the Zhenyuan Escort Agency. To explain his unfamiliar clothing, missing identity documents, and ignorance of local affairs, he claims to be an overseas traveler suffering from amnesia 3 11 12 65.

He begins selling modern goods and establishes his own residence. His early trade includes glass mirrors, with one sale of twenty-odd mirrors bringing in twelve hundred taels. He brings Yue’er and the Su sisters into his household, introduces them as younger sisters, and employs Liu Zhong’s family 30 32.

Martial Training and Literary Recognition

Lin Weiyuan teaches him basic martial arts, while the Everlasting Spring Breathing Instruction begins his cultivation. His lack of combat experience remains a weakness: even after gaining substantial strength, he struggles against a technically superior First-Layer cultivator and survives partly through his armor and heavy spear 55 75 130 131.

In Chang’an, Shen Jingchuan gains literary recognition by presenting poetry from Huaxia, including “Autumn Mountain Journey.” His performances attract scholars, merchants, and Prince Jing; Yan Chongli eventually becomes his teacher 81 92 94 373.

Marriage and Conflict with Local Powers

Lin Weiyuan approves Shen Jingchuan’s proposal to Lin Qingyao, and Shen Jingchuan learns the local betrothal and wedding procedures. He subsequently lives with Lin Qingyao and Bai Ruoli as his two wives, while feeling guilty about his relationship with Meng Ke in the modern world 127 142.

His mirror business draws the Huang Household’s attention. After rejecting its demand for exclusive supply, he is ambushed by Steward Huang’s masked men. He turns back after breaking their encirclement and uses his cultivation techniques against them 152 157 158.

Spirit Creek Market and Cultivator Enemies

Shen Jingchuan expands into cultivator commerce, selling pills and talismans alongside timepieces and makeup mirrors. He negotiates a restaurant partnership with Wang Cheng’an in which the Shen Household receives forty percent of the profits for supplying seasoning and training. His repeated exchanges of high-grade cultivation goods for lower-grade equivalents attract True Person Moxuan’s scrutiny 246 264.

Conflict with the Wang and Tian households pushes him toward stronger weapons, talismans, spirit beasts, and soul attacks. He reports killing two Ninth-Layer cultivators and a Great Perfection cultivator through a combination of autocannon fire, talismans, and his Five Elements Heaven and Earth Rings. He later turns the tables on Tian Chengye, a Sixth-Layer Foundation Establishment cultivator, using an upgraded talisman and follow-up attacks from a distance 304 338 340.

Azure Cloud Stronghold and Modern-World Ties

When Yuxi Prefecture becomes unsafe, Shen Jingchuan evacuates the Shen and Lin households toward Azure Cloud Stronghold. He supplies Hu Tieniu’s forces with grain, armor, firearms, and autocannons, but refuses to take direct responsibility for their campaign. He also challenges Hu Tieniu to consider how the country would be governed after a successful rebellion 227 295 352 391.

He rescues Zhou Tong’s imprisoned family and settles them at the stronghold, later restoring Father Zhou’s health with a Life-Extending Pill. In the modern world, Elder Yang introduces him to the younger generation of several influential families, and Yang Siqi becomes his first disciple there 386 391 410 416.

Appearance

• Build: Tall, broad-shouldered, and narrow-waisted, with a straight, muscular physique. Mother Meng describes him as over 1.8 meters tall 91 193.
• Features: Fair complexion, handsome features, and black hair 41 126.
• Distinctive early clothing: His helmet, fitted clothes, and short hair stand out against local robes and tied-up hairstyles 8 14.
• Changes through cultivation: His skin becomes fairer and his bearing clearer and more composed, likened to jade stripped of impurities 126 145.

Personality

Shen Jingchuan is cautious about survival but quick to act once he settles on a plan. He equips himself before exploring unfamiliar territory, conceals his origins with prepared stories, and later changes his appearance and apparent cultivation to conduct discreet transactions 2 11 193.

He places considerable importance on repaying kindness and caring for those close to him. He settles his family debts, treats the girls in his household as family, and offers Liu Zhong’s family freedom and silver rather than requiring them to remain during an evacuation 27 32 227.

His concern for ordinary people coexists with a ruthless response to threats. He insists that mortal lives are not inherently worth less than cultivators’ lives, yet deliberately uses lethal force to break the Huang Household attackers’ willingness to target him 158 301.

His romantic self-justifications are repeatedly challenged. He frames several relationships as obligations arising from circumstances, but Xian’er points out that they could not have developed without his consent 142 370.

Abilities & Skills

Five-Element Cultivation

• Possesses all five elemental attributes and cultivates the heaven-grade Five Elements Qi Refining Instruction 260 305.
• His Spiritual Power reserves are described as five times those of a single-Spirit-Root cultivator at the same realm 305.
• His unusually wide, sturdy meridians allow him to refine potent pills that ordinary cultivators at his level would risk injury consuming 249 285.
• Regularly expels the small amount of pill poison accumulated from high-grade pills 324.

Heavenly Eye Peering into Truth Instruction

• Detects another cultivator’s realm up to one major realm above his own without alerting them, provided they do not exceed that limit 149.
• Identifies the cultivation of the five pursuers who confront him outside Spirit Creek Market 325.
• The transmitted method also includes concealing and altering one’s presence 287.
• Its inheritance describes eventual perception through illusions, concealment, and disguised spirit objects; these are higher-level capabilities rather than confirmed early accomplishments 149.

Geng Metal Arrow and Shield Instruction

• Condenses Metal Spiritual Qi into offensive arrows and defensive shields 149 222.
• Uses a golden arrow to kill a fleeing mounted attacker during the Huang Household confrontation 158.
• Blocks Wu Feng’s fireball with a golden shield while preparing a counterattack 222.
• At the Second Layer, can produce only one arrow at a time. Xian’er explains that greater output depends chiefly on cultivation and available Spiritual Power, not repetitive practice alone 186.

Azure Wood Rejuvenation Instruction and Utility Techniques

• Uses the Azure Wood Rejuvenation Instruction to make an orchid bloom and restore yellowed pothos leaves 197.
• Uses the Cleaning Technique to clean a dining table and dishes instantly 197.
• Produces a flame on his fingertip to establish his identity as a cultivator before city guards 373.

Martial Arts and Combat Adaptation

• Trains in the Three-Body Posture and Lin Household saber and spear techniques 55 71 75.
• Initially relies on strength, weapon reach, and protective armor rather than refined technique or Qi control 130 131.
• Later channels Spiritual Qi into his spear, multiplying the force of its strikes 158.
• Combines firearms, protective talismans, cultivation weapons, and surprise attacks against stronger opponents 269 304 326.

Divine Sense and Flight

• Learns flying-sword refinement and flight from Xiao Mingshu after reaching the Fourth Layer; achieves unsteady circuits of the garden within half an hour 213.
• Uses Divine Sense to guide weapons, communicate privately, and exchange thoughts with contracted spirit beasts 260 323 370.
• His Divine Sense extends nearly 470 meters after his latest breakthrough 422.

Beast Contracts and Training

• Forms Equal Contracts with Big Black, Little Black, and Treading Snow, enabling communication through Divine Sense 323.
• Helps the horses develop through pills and bloodline awakening 207.
• Rides the winged horses for long-distance travel and uses a beast-taming pouch to carry them 345 346.
• The Equal Contracts do not cause the beasts to suffer backlash if he dies 340.

Commerce and Instruction

• Trades modern mirrors, timepieces, and carriages while presenting the Shen Household as a distant Lineage 85 244 245.
• Personally cooks the dishes used to secure his restaurant partnership 244 246.
• Passes cultivation techniques to members of his household and takes Yang Siqi as his first modern-world disciple 287 416.
• Teaches the Body Tempering Instruction to Yang Xiao and Wang Lezhi, who lack Spirit Roots and cannot cultivate immortality 417.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Ancestral ring — Recognizes him through blood and enables travel between worlds. Its internal space stores supplies, houses cultivation areas, and later accommodates members of his household 1 301 370.
  • Ordinary stored objects absorb limited Spiritual Qi but do not undergo fundamental transformation. Upgrading cultivation treasures requires a conscious command 135.
  • Its upgrade light sphere improves pills, artifacts, and talismans; a buried Spirit Vein increases the space’s Spiritual Qi density 329 330 338.
• Five Elements Heaven and Earth Rings — Five growth-type natal Law Treasures nurtured in his Dantian. He controls them through the Five Elements Immortal-Slaying Linked Formation 259 260.
  • Their heavy Spiritual Power consumption is a major early limitation, draining roughly a third of his reserves during a short exchange 269.
• Soul-Seizing Nail — A repaired and upgraded supreme-grade Spirit Artifact nurtured in his sea of consciousness. It attacks through Divine Sense rather than true essence; insufficient Divine Sense initially makes activation dangerous 318.
  • He later becomes proficient in controlling it and deploys it at close range against an Eighth-Layer attacker 324 326.
• Titanium-alloy armor — Withstands sword strikes during his battle with a more experienced cultivator. He also commissions lightweight armor for companions and horses 71 72 130.
• Heavy spear and Tang saber — His principal early melee weapons; the saber is among the equipment purchased before his initial exploration 2 71 130.
• Firearms and autocannon — Uses submachine guns, a water-cooled Maxim machine gun, and an autocannon. Xiao Mingshu judges that the Maxim can kill an unprepared mid-stage Qi Refining cultivator 168 269.
  • Recognizes that an ordinary submachine gun is ineffective against prepared middle-stage cultivators and that mundane gun components need protection from techniques and talismans 212 269.
• Geng Metal Mountain-Slaying Talisman — Upgraded to second-tier high-grade, giving it a strike comparable to a Foundation Establishment Late Stage cultivator’s full-force attack 338.
• Spirit Concealing Jade — Alters his apparent cultivation; he uses it to imitate Sixth-Layer fluctuations while disguising himself 193.
• Spirit Gathering Formation Plate — Supports his cultivation alongside high-grade pills 285 306.
• Storage Rings and beast-taming pouch — Supplement his storage and allow him to transport spirit beasts 205 346.

Relationships

Family and Household

• Shen Jianguo — Father. His death and the inheritance of the ancestral ring begin Shen Jingchuan’s otherworldly journey 1.
• Meng Ke — Former high-school and university classmate, romantic partner, and intended bride in the modern world. He reveals cultivation techniques to her and later involves his relatives in marriage preparations 193 197 364.
• Lin Qingyao — Wife. Their relationship begins when he saves and treats her; she later cultivates with resources he provides 3 142 279.
• Bai Ruoli — Wife. He supports her entry into cultivation, and her rapid advancement eventually motivates him to push for another breakthrough 142 279 422.
• Yue’er, Su Qingshu, and Su Qinghua — Girls he publicly introduces as younger sisters. He provides for them and guides them onto the cultivation path 32 283.
• Ju’er — Household maid and intimate partner. He explicitly promises to take responsibility for her and treat her well 354.
• Qinghe — Household maid who accompanies Bai Ruoli and later enters the ring’s space with the family 114 370.
• Liu Zhong and family — Household steward and servants. When offered freedom during the evacuation, they choose to remain with him 227.
• Lin Weiyuan — Martial instructor and father-in-law. Teaches him foundational techniques and approves his marriage to Lin Qingyao 55 127.
• Lin Shan and Lin Yue — Brothers-in-law, traveling companions, and allies in combat and the stronghold’s affairs 72 109 295.

Teachers, Allies, and Disciple

• Xian’er — Principal cultivation mentor. Supplies his methods, explains the ring and cultivation treasures, and later offers guidance to his family 135 149 370.
• Yan Chongli — Literary teacher. Shen Jingchuan visits him after his dismissal from office and gives him a pill that extends his life by fifty years 373 375 376.
• Yan Shuyao — Senior sister and prospective bride. Recognizes his early cultivation progress and receives valuable cultivation resources from him 145 375 377.
• Xiao Mingshu — Cultivator ally whom he addresses as an elder sister. Helps him find cultivation resources and teaches him sword flight; he respects her refusal to help attack her own family’s kingdom 96 213 301.
• Huan’er — Xiao Mingshu’s maid and traveling companion. Receives pills and a larger Storage Ring from him 205 346.
• Hu Tieniu — Rebel leader and recipient of his logistical and military support. Shen Jingchuan supplies equipment while insisting that Hu decide the rebellion’s course himself 295 352.
• Zhou Tong — Close friend and business associate. Shen Jingchuan rescues his family, helps settle them, and encourages his developing administrative abilities 85 386 418.
• Elder Yang — Modern-world contact who helps connect him with younger family members capable of handling affairs on his behalf 410.
• Yang Siqi — His first disciple in the modern world and, at that point, his only successor there 416.

Notable Quotes

“As I see it, everyone was born and raised by parents. No one is more noble than anyone else.” 301

“How you fight, how it turns out, and what path you take afterward are all for you to decide.” 295

“Scholarly honors don’t count for much. What matters is ability.” 418