Ye Chen

Biodata

Power Progression

Background and History

Ye Chen arrives in a world of talent awakenings with memories of another world. His parents are deceased, and he supports himself with the apartment and savings they left him while earning additional money through gaming. Years of late nights have left him physically weak. After his eighteenth-birthday awakening, spirit qi strengthens his body and Wood Release begins continuously repairing it 1 2.

His SSS-rank result attracts university recruiters, but Yan Feng insults him during Beijing University’s visit and attacks when Ye Chen refuses its offer. Ye Chen blocks the attack and injures Yan Feng with a wooden spike. He instead accepts Firmament Academy’s offer of cultivation resources and future support, agreeing to remain affiliated with it after graduation 3 4 5.

At school, Ye Chen is placed in the elite Awakening Class but receives conditioning rather than combat instruction because his Wood talent is assumed to be support-oriented. Zhang Daosheng also arranges for him to join Lan Lengshuang’s College Entrance Trial team 6 7 9.

Appearance

Ye Chen usually wears black. Sage techniques produce conspicuous facial markings; when he fights Yan Feng and A-Da in the Secret Realm, they are bright red 12 40 42.

• Usual clothing — Black outfits 42.
• Sage markings — Appear on his face when he draws on sage energy 12 15 40.

Personality

Ye Chen is ambitious and intent on becoming a fighter rather than accepting the support role others assign him. He negotiates for resources, trains intensely, and prefers to keep the full extent of his combat strength hidden. He is also playful and irreverent with allies and the system; his jokes regularly exasperate Zhang Daosheng 3 6 9 19 43.

He can be cautious when he recognizes a gap in strength, but he becomes decisive under threat. After nearly dying to a Windchaser Leopard, he escalates to the Wood Dragon Technique. Against Yan Zhanren, he refuses to leave an enemy alive who could reveal his strength and bring stronger attackers to Zanghai City 8 15 47.

Abilities & Skills

Wood Release

The system-granted Wood Release replaces Ye Chen’s ordinary wood element. Although publicly classified as support-oriented, it gives him defensive, restraining, offensive, and large-scale combat techniques 2 3 11 46.

• Defense and restraint — Wood Stockade Wall blocks Yan Feng’s fire and helps restrain a Shadow Cat; wooden branches provide another binding technique 4 11.
• Weapons — Forms wooden spikes and spears, including the attack that kills Xu Shen 4 11 28.
• Wood Dragon Technique — Summons a four-limbed dragon that fights Mutant Beasts and drains spiritual power from enemies it touches to sustain itself 15 16.
• Wooden Human Technique — Summons a giant figure during his fight with Dong Shizhang 28.
• True Thousand Hands — Raises an enormous Great Buddha. Its Top Transformed Buddha attack controls thousands of arms; using both techniques nearly exhausts him 41 46 47 48.

Healing and Cultivation

• Seal-less Healing — Continuously repairs bodily damage and lets Ye Chen withstand the Creation Breathing Method’s strain on his meridians 2 7.
• Creation Breathing Method — Absorbs spiritual energy over a hundred times faster than his basic method. Ye Chen estimates he could absorb up to 500 Spirit Stones in a day 7 9.
• Healing others — Channels Spiritual Power into people at Zanghai No. 1 High School, helping most regain consciousness 23.

Sage Body

• Primary Shikkotsu Forest Sage Body — Grants access to natural energy and a Sage state that improves his strength, spiritual energy, perception, and jutsu 12.
• Intermediate and Advanced upgrades — Further improve his recovery and healing; the Advanced Sage Body helps supply energy for his largest techniques, though they can still leave him unable to continue fighting 19 23 42.

Swordsmanship

• Basic Swordsmanship — System-granted fundamentals enter his memory after he seeks a way to improve at one-on-one combat 42 44.
• Limit — He recognizes that both Wood Release and Ryūjin Jakka favor wide-area attacks, prompting his search for closer-range skills 42.

Equipment, Weapons & Items

• Ryūjin Jakka — A fire-type Zanpakutō granted by the system in the freezing Secret Realm. Its heat saves Ye Chen and Lan Lengshuang; its released flames are powerful but rapidly consume spiritual power 38 39.
• Spirit Stones — Cultivation resources supplied by allies and the academy; Ye Chen repeatedly exhausts large allocations 7 10 43.
• Spatial Ring — Given to him by Zhang Daosheng with 1,000 Spirit Stones inside 7.
• Myriad Worlds System — Grants Wood Release and later abilities and items through draws or direct rewards; its stated full authority remains locked until Ye Chen reaches the Mountain-Moving Realm 2 12 23.

Relationships

• Zhang Daosheng — His principal and principal backer, who supplies resources, worries over his safety, and supports his cultivation despite initially treating him as a support fighter 7 9 17 30.
• Li Mo — Firmament Academy recruiter who explains the cultivation system to Ye Chen and secures support for him 5 6.
• Lan Lengshuang — College Entrance Trial teammate. They survive the glacier Secret Realm together, and she agrees to keep his strength secret after he saves her life 9 38 41.
• Lan Batian — Lengshuang’s father; initially tests Ye Chen roughly, then comes to respect his growth and asks him to protect his daughter 9 34 36.
• Bai Zhan — Senior ally who helps search for Ye Chen, checks on him during Zanghai City’s crisis, and asks to be called “Big Brother Bai” 16 23.
• Westwind Lion King — Powerful ally who carries an exhausted Ye Chen back to the city, agrees to keep his strength secret, and supports him against the Yan Family 30 35 47.
• Yan Feng — Enemy whose attack during a recruitment visit begins their feud; he later pursues Ye Chen into the Secret Realm 3 4 38.
• Li Xiaodie — Initially believes damaging rumors about Ye Chen; later stays at his villa in a paid cultivation arrangement 19 20.

Story Role and Major Arcs

• Awakening and recruitment — Gains Wood Release, demonstrates its combat value against Yan Feng, and joins Firmament Academy 2 4 5.
• Early combat — Helps City Guard members defeat a Shadow Cat, then hunts Mutant Beasts with his Wood Dragon in the Lianhai Mountains 11 15 16.
• Zanghai City crisis — Is captured by Beast God Cult member Dong Shizhang, turns the confrontation against him, and returns to the city exhausted 27 28 30.
• Glacier Secret Realm — Travels with Lan Lengshuang, obtains Ryūjin Jakka from the system, and uses True Thousand Hands to save them from drowning 38 39 41.
• Yan Family confrontation — At the Seventh Awakening Realm, uses True Thousand Hands: Top Transformed Buddha to kill Yan Zhanren and two Myriad Stars Realm elders. The attack destroys the Lan estate and leaves Ye Chen severely depleted 43 46 47 48.