Chu Mu

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Chu Mu (楚牧)
Gender	Male
Affiliation	Longevity Sect; Ninth True Inheritance 658 679
Occupation/Role	Cultivator; alchemist; artifact refiner; puppet master; founder of the True Understanding Pavilion 369 431 679
Status	Active
First Appearance	Chapter 2

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Basic Blade Technique — Initial Understanding	75	Developed through practice and Spirit Radiance-assisted learning.
Body Forging Art — Completion / Spirit Manifestation	125, 127	Reached Completion; gained clear, all-round perception and became able to perceive Spiritual Qi, though it was unsafe to absorb directly.
Basic Blade Technique — Perfected	130	His second perfected skill; physical growth made ordinary blade weight negligible.
Qi Refining — Second Layer	170	Concealed his identity while operating in Jade Emperor Valley as the alchemist “Li Gang.”
Blazing Fire Art — Second Layer	168	Cultivated alongside Peak Basic Blade Technique and Peak Fireball Spell.
Qi Refining — Eighth Layer; Body Refinement — Second Layer	196	Broke through before departing for Jade Emperor City.
Foundation Establishment — Early Stage	264	Recognized for Foundation Establishment cultivation, Weapon Refinement, and Puppet Art.
Foundation Establishment — Middle Stage	298	Prepared through months of seclusion, pill use, and Tai Gang Blade Art cultivation.
Foundation Establishment — Late Stage	363	Emerged after six years of seclusion; also advanced his body-and-technique cultivation.
Golden Core — Early Stage	431	Entered the Golden Core ranks in the Vast Ocean Cultivation Realm.
Golden Core — Middle Stage	628	Recorded by the Sky Palace Cloud Compilation during its trial.
Golden Core — Late Stage	650	Annihilated more than a thousand Li Family cultivators, including eight Golden Cores, with one saber strike.
Nascent Soul — concealed	851	Maintained a false cultivation appearance through the perfected Star Cloud barrier.
Dharma Appearance — Initial Stage approaching	1091	Reached the late fifth turn of the Profound Art of Nine Revolutions after more than a decade of cultivation.
Dharma Appearance — Late Stage	1095	Advanced after decades on the Furnace Rules-affected plain; Completion became within reach.

Background / History

Chu Mu arrived in a world ruled by martial arts and cultivation with knowledge and memories from a technological civilization. His early progress began when he discovered Spirit Radiance Value, which could be allocated to accelerate comprehension and skill development. He first applied it to the Basic Blade Technique, but overtraining left him incapacitated with exhaustion. 2

While serving in the Patrol Inspectorate, Chu Mu trained relentlessly, studied literacy and history, and gradually turned practical survival skills into martial competence. Wu Shuo gave him the Body Forging Art, a Real Skill that let him address the physical limitations restricting his saber use. 19 34 47

After exposure to cultivators and Spiritual Qi, Chu Mu abandoned ambitions for secular rank and devoted himself to the Immortal Path. Old Li’s alchemy inheritance and a separate Puppet Art legacy expanded his knowledge beyond martial cultivation. 107 126

Chu Mu entered the cultivation world as a cautious, low-level cultivator, concealing his identity behind the persona of the young alchemist “Li Gang.” His alchemy, weapon refinement, puppet crafting, blade techniques, and cultivation advanced in parallel through Spirit Radiance Blessing, experimentation, and long periods of seclusion. 170 195 298

He became known first as a Foundation Establishment puppet master and artifact refiner, then as a Golden Core cultivator with “Dual Excellence in Pills and Weapons.” In Red Glow City, he founded the True Understanding Pavilion, taking disciples and turning its puppet artifacts into a major source of fame and wealth. 264 369 374 431

After the Tyrant Province conflict, Chu Mu’s connection to the Longevity Sect became public. He was recognized as the sect’s Ninth True Inheritance and began integrating into its structure while extending the True Understanding Pavilion’s influence across Great Chu. 501 658 679

Appearance

Chu Mu is generally depicted in a green robe during his cultivation life. Following catastrophic injuries after escaping the Li Family’s Nascent Soul Old Ancestor, he temporarily became white-haired and withered, with a lifespan reduced to less than two hundred years. 650 704

• Often carries or manifests a long saber in combat. 283 696
• Uses disguises and concealment techniques to obscure his appearance and cultivation. 170 501 851
• Wore black armor during his confrontation with the Jiaolong and accompanying demon beasts. 696

Personality

Chu Mu is analytical, patient, and intensely pragmatic. He treats cultivation as a system of knowledge, testing formulas, techniques, artifacts, and combat methods rather than relying solely on intuition. 123 280 298

His primary goal is self-preservation and control over his own fate. He avoids unnecessary risks, conceals his strength when possible, and repeatedly chooses preparation, escape routes, disguises, and layered defenses over public displays of power. 113 170 307 641

Despite this caution, he protects people he considers his own. He intervened to save Xu Yuan, pursued Zhao Hong after learning of his involvement in the attack on Xu Yuan’s camp, and later placed bounties on thirteen of Zhao Hong’s blood relatives to prevent future retaliation. 271 272 277

Chu Mu is emotionally restrained regarding romance and lineage. He considers a Dao companion unnecessary to his current pursuit of the Immortal Path and sees little value in having descendants while his own false spiritual root would likely be inherited. 287

Abilities & Skills

Spirit Radiance Blessing

Spirit Radiance is Chu Mu’s defining advantage: it enhances his intelligence, logic, memory, comprehension, and learning speed. 2

• Can be accumulated as Spirit Radiance Value and strategically invested into skills. 19 75
• Accelerates the study of techniques, alchemy, weapon refinement, and inherited knowledge. 108 126 298
• Does not eliminate the need for practice, digestion, experimentation, or resources. 124
• Can restore clarity against overwhelming mental pressure and illusion-like influence. 1019 1135

Blade Arts and Blade Intent

Chu Mu began with the Basic Blade Technique, refined it to mastery, and later developed Blade Intent-based combat arts. 75 130 298

• Uses the Tai Gang Blade Art as a major combat technique. 298 307
• Developed Blade Intent Finger Flick attacks that release blade qi at range. 298
• Can combine Blade Intent with puppets and formations, such as the Four Symbols Formation of Azure Wolf Puppets. 283
• His Blade Intent can produce overwhelmingly destructive strikes; at Golden Core Late Stage, one saber strike killed more than a thousand Li Family cultivators. 650
• Blade Intent use can severely drain him when pushed to unprecedented levels. 873

Body Forging and Physical Cultivation

The Body Forging Art strengthened Chu Mu’s physique, Qi and Blood, strength, and saber control. 47 56

• Reached Completion and triggered Spirit Manifestation. 125 127
• Grants heightened perception of his body and surroundings. 125
• Supports enormous appetite, digestion, and absorption after physical transformation. 135
• Physical strength remains useful alongside his blade techniques, Great Sun True Fire, and puppets. 307

Alchemy

Chu Mu inherited foundational alchemy knowledge from Old Li and later integrated additional pill scriptures and formulas. 126 293 294

• Refines practical pills including Bigu Pills, Nourishing Meridian Pills, Body Tempering Pills, and Spirit Milk Pills. 170 192 233 345
• Produced thirty successful Bigu refinements under Spirit Radiance Blessing, including twenty-three One Pill Pattern pills. 170
• Successfully refined a Two Pill Pattern Peace Palace Creation Pill. 679
• Used the Fire Spirit Root Supplementing Pill to significantly improve his fire-attribute spiritual roots. 294
• Is publicly renowned for alchemy alongside weapon refinement. 431 450

Weapon Refinement and Artifact Crafting

Weapon refinement is one of Chu Mu’s foremost specialties, built on the Immortal Path Sect’s Weapon Refinement Grand Summary and later experience with arrays, runes, and advanced materials. 195 308 434

• Refines high-grade and top-grade Spiritual Artifacts. 259 267
• Can modify puppet battle armor, including adding ranged attacks. 280
• Repaired the Chen Family’s Fourth Order War Puppet in only months. 450
• Designed the Blade War Puppet concept around his evolved Blade Intent. 450
• Founded a prosperous business around artifact refinement, puppets, and technical instruction. 369 374

Puppet Art

Chu Mu received a Puppet Art inheritance early in his cultivation journey and developed it into a central part of his combat and professional identity. 126 259

• Commands Azure Wolf Puppets, including a Four Symbols Formation configuration. 259 283
• Crafted hundreds of puppets adapted for the Vast Ocean environment. 363
• Developed the Little Zhou Tian Puppet Grand Array from twelve Second Order Low-Grade puppets. 369
• Uses Third Order Armored Soldier Puppets as powerful combat assets and grants them to trusted subordinates for protection. 797 888
• Understands that increasingly advanced puppets require high-grade materials and compatible cultivator souls. 259 450

Great Sun True Fire and Fire-Attribute Cultivation

Chu Mu cultivates an extreme Yang, extreme-strength fire path centered on the Great Sun True Scripture and Great Sun True Fire. 280 370

• Uses True Fire in combat and artifact refinement. 283 345
• Repaired the Bright Moon Battle Armor using Great Sun True Fire. 345
• His fire cultivation and alchemy benefited from a third-order fire-attribute spiritual vein. 287
• Later planned to integrate his Fire Attribute Immortal Path system with Blade Intent through the Devouring Divine Ability. 942

Devouring Divine Ability

Chu Mu gained control of the Devouring Divine Ability after solving its spatial load-bearing problem. 942

• Converts Chaotic Void energy into Spiritual Qi. 942
• Serves as the intended core of a self-sustaining cultivation cycle integrating fire cultivation and Blade Intent. 942
• Can rapidly drain a demon until only ashes remain. 949

Formations, Restrictions, and World Authority

Chu Mu’s refinement work developed into substantial expertise in Array Restrictions, runes, and formations. 280 373

• Helped deploy an Earth Fire Cannon through his understanding of Array Restrictions and runes. 280
• Was entrusted with setting up the Fourth Order Great Thick Earth Formation. 745
• Received partial authority over a secret realm and used Heaven and Earth Spiritual Fire for purification. 765
• Used authority over heaven and earth to bypass Langya Pavilion’s barriers and access its knowledge. 767
• Later deepened his understanding of changing a world’s rules and order through work in the Qingqiu Grotto-Heaven. 1096

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Minghong Saber — Top-Grade Spiritual Artifact saber used with True Fire, Blade Intent, and puppet formations. 283
• Bright Moon Battle Armor — Chu Mu’s self-refined life-saving battle armor; features feather-like wings, flight capability, physical-strength amplification, and later a redesign favoring speed and burst power. 308 363
• Azure Wolf Puppets — Combat puppets used individually and in Four Symbols Formation. 259 283
• Armored Soldier Puppets — Third Order puppets designed for Chu Mu’s use and deployed as elite guards or reinforcements. 797 888
• Little Zhou Tian Puppet Grand Array — A twelve-puppet array exchanged for Second Order Demon Cores. 369
• Crescent Moon Shield — Mid-Grade Spiritual Artifact shield refined from Crescent Moon Stone, Adamantite Jade, ancient bronze, and other materials. 259
• High-Grade Spiritual Artifact robe — Includes a stealth effect. 259
• Ten Thousand Souls Banner — Used defensively to create a ghost tide against demon beasts. 696
• Illusion God Mask — Used to alter his appearance while concealing his true identity. 170
• Teleportation Jade Talisman — Enabled his escape from the Li Family’s Nascent Soul Old Ancestor. 650
• Thread-drawing Saint Spirit Gu — A partly tangible Saint Spirit Gu that reacts urgently to an unknown presence. 886

Relationships

• Wangcai — Chu Mu’s demon beast companion, originally a stray dog cub he adopted to guard his home; later became an Adamantine Wolf and a trusted combat partner. 21 363 696
• Xu Yuan — Longtime friend and former Patrol Inspector colleague. Chu Mu rescued him from frontline danger, provided him an Azure Wolf Puppet and bloodline cultivation method, and later sent him on important errands. 271 277 862
• Old Li — Mentor-like figure whose alchemy inheritance profoundly shaped Chu Mu’s cultivation path. Chu Mu later became determined to find him. 126 276
• Wu Shuo — Patrol Inspector superior who knew Chu Mu’s father and gave Chu Mu the Body Forging Art. 34
• Zhao Shuang — Acquaintance and occasional partner who offered Chu Mu a mid-grade Spiritual Artifact cauldron; later helped facilitate dealings involving the Fire Spirit Root Supplementing Pill. 200 293
• Zhao Yu — Alchemist who identified Chu Mu’s incomplete formula as the Fire Spirit Root Supplementing Pill and provided the relevant knowledge. 293
• Chang Hongyi / Hong’er — Business associate and trusted assistant who handles sensitive operations for Chu Mu and the True Understanding Pavilion. 227 679
• Xu Changqing — Sword Dao cultivator and Longevity Sect junior brother who is protective of Chu Mu; their paths repeatedly intersect through Blade and Sword Intent. 450 671
• Chu Yan — Longevity Sect junior sister who seeks Chu Mu’s guidance regarding her Peeking Truth Vein. 670 671
• Yan Ming — Mentor-like associate who shared Gu Arts knowledge with Chu Mu; Chu Mu agreed to assist with an array formation in return. 732
• Profound Sincerity Old Ancestor — Longevity Sect Nascent Soul senior who entrusted Chu Mu with a Fourth Order formation and partial secret-realm authority. 745 765
• Li Caiyi — Old acquaintance from Nanshan Town; Chu Mu offered her resources and transport back to the mortal world if she chose to leave cultivation. 306 307
• Qin Zhaoxue — Cultivator from Great Heng with whom Chu Mu interacts respectfully while pursuing access to comprehend the Celestial Heart. 552 964
• Lie Yan — Chu Mu’s clone, whom Chu Mu allowed to reach Nascent Soul before suppressing within the True Inheritance Palace for his own larger cultivation plan. 943

Story Role / Major Arcs

Nanshan Town and the Patrol Inspectorate

Chu Mu discovers Spirit Radiance, learns the Basic Blade Technique, joins the Patrol Inspectorate, receives the Body Forging Art, and begins turning himself from an ordinary survivor into a martial cultivator. 2 34 47

Entering the Cultivation World

After encountering cultivators and receiving alchemy and Puppet Art inheritances, Chu Mu commits to the Immortal Path, advances through Spirit Manifestation, and begins Qi Refining cultivation. 125 126 141

Jade Emperor Valley and Foundation Establishment

Chu Mu cultivates under concealed identities, develops his alchemy and refinement skills, acquires artifacts and puppets, and advances to Foundation Establishment. 170 192 264

Jingmen Frontline

Chu Mu rescues Xu Yuan, eliminates Zhao Hong, fulfills promised rewards, and establishes his reputation as a dangerous puppet master and artifact refiner. 271 272 276 277

Red Glow City and the True Understanding Pavilion

In the Vast Ocean, Chu Mu establishes the True Understanding Pavilion, gains disciples, sells puppet artifacts, and becomes a respected local master of alchemy and weapon refinement. 369 373 374

Tyrant Province and the Chen Family Conflict

Chu Mu’s ties to Xu Changqing and the Longevity Sect draw him into Tyrant Province’s crisis. His identity becomes widely known after he resists Chen Family forces and escapes the city’s hunt for Golden Core cultivators. 500 501 507 511

Longevity Sect True Inheritance

Chu Mu becomes the Longevity Sect’s Ninth True Inheritance, integrates into the sect, expands the True Understanding Pavilion, and gains increasing authority over secret realms, formations, and sect affairs. 658 671 679 765

Demon Calamity and Secret-Realm Affairs

Chu Mu commands reinforcements against demon hordes, investigates the Thread-drawing Saint Spirit Gu, and receives responsibility for increasingly dangerous secret-realm and purification matters. 886 897 942

Higher Realms and the Anomaly of Destiny

After reaching Nascent Soul and later Dharma Appearance cultivation, Chu Mu learns that he is an Anomaly whose destiny is absent from the current time and space. He continues advancing under growing pressure from Heaven and Earth. 851 1090 1091 1095

Trivia

• Chu Mu’s original worldview is shaped by memories of a technological civilization, leading him to compare cultivation knowledge systems with scientific and technological systems. 126 141
• He once considered becoming a marquis or general before learning of cultivators and abandoning secular ambition. 107
• His first adopted companion, Wangcai, began as a stray dog cub intended to guard his house. 21
• Chu Mu’s false spiritual root makes external resources especially important to his cultivation. 287
• The name “Bright Moon” comes from the battle armor’s feather wings, which resemble the moon. 308