Lin Chuan

Biodata

Feature	Details
Name	Lin Chuan (林川)
Gender	Male
Affiliation	Grand Dao Internet Cafe System; proprietor of the Grand Dao Internet Cafe, later known as the Myriad Heavens Internet Café 1 105
Occupation/Role	Internet café owner, system host, and game instructor
Status	Active; operates the expanding Myriad Heavens Internet Café network 105 145
First Appearance	Chapter 1

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Ordinary, powerless transmigrator	1	Arrived with no martial soul, Soul Power, Tang Sect arts, or combat ability; survival depended on completing the system’s customer-acquisition task.
Minor movement-technique synchronization	7	Hu Liena’s growth grants him a partial synchronization of her movement insight, subtly improving his footwork.
Moon Shadow Step Perception	13	Xiao Wu’s hidden achievement grants him 120 points and a minor synchronization of her movement technique, making his movements more coordinated.
Trace Edge-Breaking Perception	19	Tang San’s roulette reward grants Lin Chuan a faint perception related to defensive timing and disrupting an opponent’s momentum.
Minor Heat Perception	25	Yan’s fire-control reward gives him an insight into regulating intensity—being fierce when needed and restrained when necessary.

Background

Lin Chuan was transported to the Douluo Continent three days before opening his shop. He arrived without Soul Power, a martial soul, or any inherited combat method, then became bound to the Grand Dao Internet Cafe System. Its initial order was to open an internet café in Spirit City; failure to attract a computer user within seven days would revoke his qualification and erase him. 1

He established the Grand Dao Internet Cafe in Spirit Hall’s core territory with four computers, virtual helmets, and Black Myth: Wukong. His posted rate—ten Gold Soul Coins per hour—made the shop an immediate target of ridicule. Hu Liena became his first paying customer after he refused to flatter or pressure her, allowing him to begin the novice task. 1

Hu Liena, Xie Yue, and Yan’s simultaneous play completed the novice mission and unlocked the café’s beverage shelf. Their continued progress convinced Lin Chuan that soul masters valued the game as a training method rather than simple entertainment. 3

Appearance

Lin Chuan is repeatedly perceived as an ordinary person. Yue Guan detects neither Soul Power nor martial-soul fluctuations from him, making the system-backed authority of his shop especially unsettling. 4

• Usually works from behind the café counter.
• Maintains an outwardly composed demeanor even when confronted by powerful soul masters.
• Has no documented martial soul, Soul Power, or innate combat physique. 1 4

Personality

Lin Chuan is blunt, commercially minded, and notably unwilling to defer to status. He treats Spirit Hall’s Golden Generation, Titled Douluo, academy students, and ordinary soul masters as customers subject to the same posted prices and rules. 1 27 28

His apparent confidence often conceals anxiety. He remained outwardly calm when Yue Guan and Gui Mei entered the shop, but later admitted that he had been extremely nervous around the two Titled Douluo and feared for his safety beyond the café’s protection. 4 8

As the business grows, Lin Chuan becomes more strategic. He refuses factional monopolies, prevents forced purchases, and prioritizes a broad, voluntary customer base over quick profits from Spirit Hall. 8 27 28 37

Abilities & Skills

Grand Dao Internet Cafe System

Lin Chuan is bound to a system that provides the café, its games, its rules, and its expansion functions.

• Initially supplied four computers, virtual helmets, and access to Black Myth: Wukong. 1
• Tracks customers, simultaneous players, revenue, achievements, shop missions, and host points. 3 5 9
• Unlocks new features through customer progress, including beverage and food shelves, Lucky Roulette, replay functions, buyouts, cooperative trials, Pokémon, and regional branches. 3 5 19 29 45 105
• Grants Lin Chuan points and partial synchronized insights when customers receive or develop compatible rewards. 7 13 19 25

Shop Rule Authority

The café’s rules are enforced by the system rather than Lin Chuan’s personal strength.

• Suppresses violence and Soul Power used to threaten people inside the shop. 2
• Intercepted Yue Guan’s Titled Douluo pressure before it could reach Lin Chuan. 4
• Enforces equal access through daily limits, reservations, faction machine caps, anti-line-cutting rules, and blacklisting. 8 27 37
• Does not make Lin Chuan personally powerful outside the establishment; once Newbie Protection ends, he must bear external risks himself. 8

Game Knowledge and Instruction

Lin Chuan’s experience with modern controls and game systems allows him to teach soul masters mechanics unfamiliar to them.

• Uses keyboard-and-mouse controls in spectator demonstration mode rather than a virtual helmet. 16
• Teaches health management, limited healing, staff momentum, spells, attributes, equipment, spirits, relics, stamina conservation, and timing. 16
• Demonstrates the White Snake battle by using positioning and the Immobilization Technique only during its post-lunge opening. 17
• Emphasizes that understanding a method does not guarantee the ability to execute it. 17

Business Management

Lin Chuan turns the café into a structured training institution rather than a simple gaming venue.

• Requires payment and voluntary participation; he rejects coercive recruitment and forced sales. 1 8 28
• Refuses Spirit Hall’s offer to reserve the best daily hours, preventing one faction from monopolizing core machine resources. 27
• Introduces paid explanation mode, reservation tokens, review-paper sales, strategy-guide commissions, and the Small Counter. 27 37
• Allows useful strategies to be valued by practical effectiveness rather than the author’s status. 35

Establishments & System Assets

• Grand Dao Internet Cafe — Original Spirit City shop, initially equipped with four computers and virtual helmets. 1
• Internet Cafe Expansion Card — Earned after reaching the required simultaneous-player condition; later used to expand the shop to eight machines. 9 13 14
• Small Counter — Sells Refreshing Tea, coarse grain cakes, Review Paper, and free water; supports customers waiting, studying, and writing strategy guides. 37
• Pokémon Trainer Test Area — Unlocked as the café’s second game, with Capture Registration and Real-World Transfer functions. 45
• Heaven Dou City Regional Door Deed — Enables a second branch connected to the original café’s shared interior space. 104 105
• Dual-City Reservation System — Links Suotuo City and Heaven Dou Tier City while preserving shared rankings, save files, inventories, Pokémon teams, and Pokédex progress. 104 105
• Third Regional Door coordinates — Identified as Spirit City; activation requires Lin Chuan’s affiliated academy to qualify from the Heaven Dou Division. 145

Relationships

• Grand Dao Internet Cafe System — His binding system, source of the café’s rules, missions, facilities, points, and synchronized rewards; it also withholds information unless directly questioned. 1 8
• Hu Liena — First paying customer and one of the earliest players to validate the café’s training value. Her rewards provide Lin Chuan’s first meaningful synchronized movement insight. 1 7
• Xie Yue — An early customer whose analytical approach helps establish the game’s value as combat training rather than entertainment. 3
• Yan — Frequent critic of Lin Chuan’s prices and rules; Lin Chuan repeatedly uses Yan’s impulsive playstyle as a teaching example. 3 16 25
• Tang San — Customer and rival-faction player whom Lin Chuan instructs through the White-Clothed Scholar challenge. Tang San’s growth grants Lin Chuan Trace Edge-Breaking Perception. 17 19
• Grandmaster — Educational collaborator who helps turn replay analysis into Explanation Mode and develops strategy guides for the wider customer base. 16 22 35
• Bibi Dong and Spirit Hall — Spirit Hall investigates the café but ultimately chooses observation and controlled use over direct interference. Lin Chuan refuses to become its exclusive resource. 9 27
• Ning Fengzhi — Provides a vacant Merchant Association storefront for the Heaven Dou branch under a business arrangement. 104
• Zhou Ping — An ordinary soul master whose strategy notes become sellable resources under Lin Chuan’s guide-commission system. 35 37

Story Role / Major Arcs

Founding in Spirit City

Lin Chuan opens the Grand Dao Internet Cafe under a survival deadline and secures Hu Liena as his first customer. The Golden Generation’s repeated in-game deaths, visible improvement, and real-world rewards transform the shop from a suspected scam into a matter of concern for Spirit Hall. 1 3 4

Establishing a Neutral Training Ground

After learning that customer growth produces points and synchronized benefits for him, Lin Chuan broadens the café beyond Spirit Hall. He accepts Shrek, ordinary deacons, academy students, and later the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect under the same commercial rules. 8 9 10 30

Instructor and System Organizer

Lin Chuan intervenes when players cannot overcome the White-Clothed Scholar, demonstrating that the game requires resource management, timing, restraint, and system knowledge. He later formalizes replays, explanations, reservations, strategy guides, and cooperative trials into structured training services. 16 17 22 27 29 35 37

Pokémon and Broader Game Development

The café unlocks Pokémon as a second game, introducing a separate system of capture, levels, types, moves, abilities, evolution, and possible real-world transfer. Lin Chuan withholds advanced explanations until players have enough practical context to understand them. 45 52 84

Cross-Regional Expansion

After the required records and customer movement are achieved, Lin Chuan receives the Heaven Dou City Regional Door Deed. He establishes the Heaven Dou branch, connecting it to the original shop while maintaining regional reservation limits and shared player data. 103 104 105

Pursuit of the Spirit City Branch

During the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament, the system identifies Spirit City as the third branch location. Lin Chuan’s affiliated academy must qualify from the Heaven Dou Division before the door can be activated. 145

Notable Quotes

“Customers.” 1

“This shop treats everyone fairly, and the prices are clearly marked. If you think it's expensive, you don't have to play. If you think it's worth it, you can renew your time.” 1

“Die a few times, learn what pain feels like, and then you'll understand.” 16

“Only money you can finish earning counts as money. If you earn too much and wreck the shop, that's trouble.” 37

Trivia

• Lin Chuan’s first strong reminder of modern civilization in the Douluo Continent is a shelf of Chilled Happy Water; the sight nearly moves him to tears. 3
• He is similarly excited by the arrival of instant noodles, despite recognizing that five Gold Soul Coins per tub is an absurd price. 5
• His initial game knowledge is sufficient to coach elite soul masters, even though he states that he was not a top action-game player in his original world. 16
• He deliberately maintains a composed, mysterious image before customers because appearing more unfathomable strengthens the café’s reputation. 13