Chen Du

Biodata

Power Progression

History

Blue Star and the Xuanye Realm

While living in a rented room and looking for work, Chen Du found videos of apparent supernatural events. The evidence he saved was corrupted overnight, but he remained convinced that spiritual qi was returning. After awakening World’s Spiritual Endowment and Myriad Worlds Traversal, he searched a mountain range for a world entrance 1 2.

His true spirit entered the Xuanye Realm as Su Yuanzheng, a disgraced seventh prince. Under house arrest in Qianchuan Hall, Chen Du spent years studying its books rather than joining the succession struggle. He revealed his strength during an assassination attempt at the Hundred Nations Assembly, then sought higher martial arts from the Yun Family, Hanging Temple, and Sword Pavilion 3 7 11 12 15 16.

On returning to the capital, Chen Du exposed Great Sheng Taizu, who had prolonged his life by possessing descendants and absorbing Xiantian masters. Chen Du destroyed him and later returned to Blue Star after seven years in the Xuanye Realm; less than a day had passed at home 18 19.

Qinghe Village and the Yan Kingdom

In a mutated forest on Blue Star, Chen Du rescued Meng Mingyuan and found another world entrance. A helmeted figure called the forest a “Breeding Grounds” and overwhelmed him, prompting Chen Du to escape through the rift 23.

His true spirit descended into Gouwa, a farm boy in Qinghe Village. Chen Du lived and worked with Grandma and Niuwa for three years. When Yan soldiers destroyed the village and killed them, he headed north to avenge them 24 25 26 27.

Chen Du broke the Yan army besieging the Zhao capital, killed its commander, and continued toward Yan’s capital. After defeating the Yan Emperor in the Dragon Tomb, he discovered records pointing to a hidden cycle of warfare. He ultimately killed a Motian Sect disciple who had used the world’s people as fuel for cultivating a divine ability, then escaped to Blue Star when stronger figures appeared 29 30 35 36 39.

Return to Blue Star and the Spirit Martial Realm

Back on Blue Star, Chen Du cultivated his factor path and defended Magic City from a flock of Black-Feathered Birds. He concealed himself from the authorities afterward and decided to make his Martial Canon public 40 41 42 43.

Chen Du later entered the Spirit Martial Realm as Ning Chuan, the neglected son of Duke Tianyuan. After repairing Ning Chuan’s damaged meridians, he killed guard commander Wu Zhan at Liu Shi’s grave and fled. He entered the Spirit Flourishing Sect and secretly cultivated the Immortal Dao to Void Refinement 46 47 49 50.

Appearance

Chen Du’s appearance changes with the bodies his true spirit inhabits.

• Su Yuanzheng: Four years indoors left his skin fairer; after his release, he wore a moon-white brocade robe with a jade belt and cloud-patterned cuffs 11.
• Gouwa: Initially thin and malnourished, with rough, callused hands. After three years of farmwork, he was lean, darker-skinned, and muscular beneath his coarse clothing 24 26.
• Ning Chuan: Gaunt and thin after neglect and starvation 46 49 50.

Personality

Chen Du is patient and deliberate about building strength. In Qianchuan Hall, he accepted obscurity, studied for years, and refused his brothers’ attempts to draw him into alliances. He also takes precautions to hide his cultivation when exposure would put him in danger 7 13 50.

Despite recognizing that his host bodies’ families are not originally his own, he grows attached to them. He reunites tenderly with Su Yuanzheng’s mother and comes to value his quiet life with Grandma and Niuwa. Their deaths drive an anger fierce enough to reshape both his goals and his power 11 26 27.

Abilities & Skills

World’s Spiritual Endowment

Chen Du awakens talents that resonate with each entirely new world he enters, whether physically or through his true spirit 1.

• At Lv1, Infinite Awakening grants one talent per new world; at Lv2, it grants two 1 24.

Myriad Worlds Traversal

This talent lets Chen Du open a passage at a world entrance and send his true spirit into another world 2 24.

• At Lv2, he can open a passage once every four calendar days, with a stated 100% success rate at a world entrance 24.
• During true-spirit traversal, his physical body remains dormant and concealed between worlds. He retains the insights gained when he returns 24.
• The time ratio improves from ten years in another world per day on Blue Star at Lv1 to twenty years per day at Lv2 2 24.

Divine Revelation Reading and Martial Arts Creation

Reading grants Chen Du experience in Martial Arts Creation, improving his comprehension and ability to derive techniques from manuals 3 5.

• Created Dragon’s Roar Iron Cloth Shirt, a defensive hard-body art with a fear-inducing roar 5.
• Derived the Myth-level Cloud Sea Heavenly Scripture, Great Sun Tathagata Divine Palm, and Heavenly Question Thirteen Swords from Xiantian arts 15 16 17.
• Created the Transcendence Martial Canon, centered on the fusion of Spiritual Power and martial intent; he later incorporated insights from other cultivation systems 22 43.
• Derived chapters of the Spirit Martial Realm’s Qi-Guiding Art through Void Refinement 50.

Anger and Dormancy Talents

Becoming an Immortal Through Anger amplifies Chen Du’s comprehension and talent-type abilities, while Lie Dormant accumulates strength during a period of quiet cultivation 25 36.

• At Lv9, the anger ability amplified comprehension and talent effects ninefold 36.
• The two talents resonated during his fight with the Yan Emperor, stacking their effects and pushing him beyond Heaven-Human limits 36.

Reincarnation Talents

In the Spirit Martial Realm, Chen Du awakened Hundred-Lifetime Reincarnation and Reincarnation Inheritance 46.

• Hundred-Lifetime Reincarnation granted ten additional lives.
• Reincarnation Inheritance lets him retain half his cultivation in a new life.

Factor-Path Evolution

By absorbing Evolution Factors, Chen Du transforms his body at the cellular and genetic level 20.

• At Cocoon-Breaking, he expelled bodily impurities and gained a substantial strength increase 22.
• Breaking genetic restrictions further increased his strength; his later gains also improved regeneration, reaction speed, and durability 40 41.

Equipment & Items

• Child’s wooden sword — Used throughout his campaign against Yan. Its hilt bears the character “courage”; with it, he blocked Xiang Anshi’s full-powered saber strike and killed the Yan Emperor 28 32 36.
• Motian Sect disciple’s storage bag — Caught by Chen Du after killing the disciple beyond a void rift 39.
• Liu Shi’s wooden hairpin — One of the few possessions he packed before leaving Duke Tianyuan’s estate 49.

Relationships

• Consort Xian — Su Yuanzheng’s mother. Chen Du reunited with her after four years of confinement and later settled her affairs before returning to Blue Star 11 14 19.
• Su Yuanzhang — Su Yuanzheng’s eldest brother and crown prince. He sent Chen Du rare martial arts texts and became emperor after Taizu’s defeat 13 19.
• Grandma — Gouwa’s grandmother, with whom Chen Du lived in Qinghe Village. A Yan soldier killed her during the village raid 25 27.
• Niuwa — Gouwa’s younger brother. Chen Du lived with him for three years before he died from wounds suffered in the raid 24 26 27.
• Old fisherman — Guardian of the Sword Pavilion inheritance. He gave Chen Du the Nine Swords of Heaven’s Inquiry after losing their contest; Chen Du later offered him guidance and learned from him about Xiantian masters who vanished near the capital 16 17 18.
• Liu Shi — Ning Chuan’s mother. Chen Du tended her grave before fleeing Duke Tianyuan’s estate 46 49.
• Ning Shanyue — Duke Tianyuan and Ning Chuan’s father. He ordered Wu Zhan to bring Chen Du back and later had Liu Shi’s grave leveled 46 49.