Lu Chen

Biodata

Power Progression

Background

Lu Chen was a 31-year-old man from Earth who was hit by a car after a job interview. He transmigrated into the body of a severely injured 15-year-old boy of the same name in Qingshan Village 1.

The original Lu Chen’s father, Lu Hai, had died after falling from a cliff while gathering herbs. His mother, Luo Qingyi, raised their children alone until she died of illness brought on by overwork. While trying to sell fish and shrimp, the original Lu Chen was beaten by Li Feng, who also demanded compensation for an injury to his foot 1.

Appearance

Lu Chen appears lean in clothing and can pass for a scholar rather than a martial artist 40.

• He was initially malnourished and severely injured, but improved his condition through his system and access to food 1 9.
• His panel recorded his age changing from fifteen to sixteen 34.

Personality

Lu Chen is protective and affectionate toward his younger siblings, often reassuring them with jokes and promises of food. He also repays villagers who helped his family and works to make education available to girls as well as boys 2 8 16.

Cautious about stronger enemies, he gathers information, disguises his intentions and prepares ambushes. Threats to his family can nevertheless provoke ruthless retaliation. He prefers the steady Fate Value earned through teaching to killing, although he uses both methods 6 12 13 47.

Abilities & Skills

Fate and Luck System

Lu Chen can gain Fate Value by changing others’ fates and spend it to improve traits and skills. Luck Value can break a trait’s original upper limit or fuse traits into a new one 1 16.

• He reduced his severe injuries to light injuries for 10 Fate Value 1.
• Practice can improve skill progress and reduce the Fate Value needed for an upgrade 3 10.
• Teaching villagers and killing opponents have both earned him Fate Value 10 14 34.

Throwing

Lu Chen gained Throwing after striking an egret with a stone. He uses stones, iron pellets and throwing knives for hunting and combat 2 24 37.

• At beginner level, his throws reliably hit stationary, fist-sized targets within ten meters 2.
• At perfection, the trait guarantees hits on stationary, fist-sized targets within 100 meters and has a 50% chance to trigger a shock effect 34.

Ox-Cleaving Saber Technique

Lu Chen obtained the manual from Cheng Datou and merged his Chopping trait into it. His system allowed him to advance beyond the incomplete manual’s Organ Refining limit 14 15 24 25.

• He used the technique against Zhao Defu and in close combat with other gang members 30.
• Its eighth form, Tendon-Lifting, let him sever Crippled Blade’s limb tendons with a dagger 38.

Teaching the Way and Imparting Knowledge

Repeated successful lessons generated a teaching trait that improves his students’ learning efficiency 18.

• At perfection, it increases comprehension, memory and concentration by 80% for one day 34.
• Long-term exposure greatly increases students’ chances of sudden enlightenment 34.

Physical and Defensive Traits

• Hunyuan Body — A special physique formed from Rapid Recovery, Overflowing Qi and Blood, Strong and Sturdy, and Robust Strength 34.
• Vajra Body — At entry level, it made his skin extremely tough; a dagger cut made with limited force left only a faint mark that rapidly faded 47.
• Poison immunity — Elder Ning recognized Lu Chen as immune to poison during the Black Kill Pavilion ambush 43.

Other Martial Methods

Lu Chen practiced Rolling Stone Fist, Soul-Severing Swordsmanship, Wind-Chasing Swordsmanship, Formation-Breaking Spearmanship, Eight-Direction Footwork and Linked Pearl Archery. His Thrusting trait merged with Formation-Breaking Spearmanship 33.

Equipment & Items

• Yanling Sabers — Purchased for combat, with spares kept at his rented county-town house 13 17.
• Throwing knives and iron pellets — Concealable ranged weapons used in his ambushes 17 24.
• Lime powder — Carried as a combat aid and used against Crippled Blade 36 37.
• Protective mirrors — Worn over his chest and back; he repaired one after fighting Xiong Pi 36 44.
• Plum-blossom jade pendant — A token given to him by the gentleman on the wall, who could be contacted through the Cloud-Coming Inn 46.
• Vajra Body manual — Taken from Li Ziren’s study and later used for training 46 47.

Relationships

• Lu Ming — Younger brother. Lu Chen teaches him throwing, literacy and martial arts 1 7 33.
• Lu Tang — Younger sister. Lu Chen cares for and teaches her, while she worries about his safety 1 2 33.
• Lu Hai and Luo Qingyi — The original Lu Chen’s deceased parents. Luo Qingyi taught him common characters and arithmetic 1 5.
• Lu Wei — Lu Chen’s Second Grandfather. He offers the siblings food and support and helps Lu Chen propose martial training for villagers 6 33.
• Lu Xiande — Village head and clan patriarch. He gives Lu Chen a teaching opportunity and later helps organize village training 5 34.
• Li Feng — The young master who beat the original Lu Chen and demanded compensation. Lu Chen later abducts and mutilates him 1 27.
• Crippled Blade — A Black Kill Pavilion assassin sent after Lu Chen. Lu Chen captures and interrogates him before their final encounter at the Pavilion 37 38 44.
• Gentleman on the wall — A fellow intruder at Li Ziren’s residence who gives Lu Chen a jade token after they escape 46.

Story Role

Village Survival and the Green Bamboo Gang

After recovering, Lu Chen hunts to feed his siblings and begins teaching village children. When Green Bamboo Gang members threaten to seize his family’s property and sister over Li Feng’s claimed debt, he tricks four of them into taking poisonous mushrooms; all four eventually die 2 5 6 9.

Huang Chao comes to collect the debt, prompting Lu Chen to kill him and strike first against the gang. In the county town, Lu Chen kills Cheng Datou and Huang Sangu after discovering their involvement in trafficking women and children 11 12 14. He later kills Wang Bao and Wang Hu and takes the gang’s cultivation manuals and valuables 24 27.

Black Pole Gang and Village Training

Lu Chen abducts Li Feng and uses him to draw out the Black Pole Gang. In its underground chambers, he discovers caged and mutilated children, frees a beggar searching for his son and fights Zhao Defu. After breaking through to Marrow Washing, he defeats Zhao and the gang’s remaining fighters 27 29 30 33.

Returning to Qingshan Village, Lu Chen arranges martial instruction, a secluded training ground and livestock raising with the villagers. His teaching eventually helps dozens take their first steps in martial arts 33 34 49.

Black Kill Pavilion and Li Ziren

After capturing Crippled Blade, Lu Chen learns that Li Jun hired the Black Kill Pavilion to assassinate him. He approaches Elder Ning under the pretense of joining the organization, survives an ambush by its branch members and kills them 38 40 43 44.

He then kills Li Ziren and searches his study with the gentleman on the wall, obtaining the Vajra Body manual. Back in the village, he resumes teaching and trains the technique 46 47.

Flying Eagle Horse Gang

When the Flying Eagle Horse Gang demands protection money from Qingshan Village, Lu Chen advises paying for the time being. He intends to deal with the gang later and considers visiting neighboring counties for more Luck Value 50.