Chen Banxia

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Chen Banxia (陈半下)
Alias(es)	Sister Banxia; Teacher Chen; Teacher Banxia 157 383 405
Species/Race	Human 336
Gender	Female 21
Age	Twenty-five at her introduction; in her thirties by the postwar reunion 21 533
Birthday	Twenty-first day of the First Month 117
Affiliation	Yujing University; Spirit Sect, as an outer-sect disciple 185 383
Occupation/Role	Pharmaceutical researcher and assistant professor in the Modern Pharmaceutics Teaching and Research Office, College of Pharmaceutical Sciences 383
Residence	Lives alone in a rented apartment in Jade Capital; her family home is in Bai City 21 398
Status	Alive following the interplanar war 533 534
First Appearance	Chapter 21

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Fourth Tier	22	Already a Fourth-Tier cultivator and certified pharmacist when she funds Chen Shu’s Second-Tier advancement potion. Her breakthrough method is not described.
Fifth Tier	130	Confirmed at Fifth Tier while nearing graduation; remains explicitly at this rank during later doctoral work and while helping Zhang Suannai 328 373.

• Planned limit: Banxia intends to stop at the Sixth Tier, but no completed Sixth-Tier breakthrough is documented in the supplied passages. She admits to barely cultivating and sees no urgency in advancing 270.
• Reasoning: She considers Sixth Tier the best balance of practical strength, flight, lifespan, and effort, without the severe Spirit Decline Syndrome risks of High-Tier cultivation 270.

Background / History

Childhood and Family Life

Banxia is Chen Shu’s older sister by five years. Despite their age difference, he often looked after her during childhood, and she used his money to buy ice cream. Her later efforts to earn money and send him gifts partly reflect her desire to reclaim the authority she never really had as the elder sibling 290 352.

The siblings spent childhood holidays at their grandparents’ countryside home, exploring its orchard and ravine. Banxia also knew Ning Qing from childhood and bought her candy when she was little 21 276.

Studies and Sect Membership

At twenty-five, Banxia studies pharmacology in Jade Capital and uses the spare bedroom of her apartment for pharmaceutical experiments. She has also won the Martial Body Meet’s ordinary division, a championship identified as having taken place two years before her dinner with Chen Shu in Chapter 130 21 130.

She chooses the Spirit Sect because its Phoenix Tower books and Yinping Mountain materials are useful to her research. Since her specialty is modern potions, she finds conventional medicine-focused sects unsuitable and prefers the Spirit Sect’s resources, openness, and comparatively lenient treatment of outer disciples 185.

Academic Career

Banxia pursues a doctorate with the aim of returning to her college as an assistant professor. By her dissertation defense, she has deciphered traditional formulas, developed and improved medicines, solved technical problems, and published papers that caused international attention. Her achievements exceed those of most reviewers present 328 376.

Yujing University subsequently hires her primarily as a researcher, with an assistant-professor title and some teaching duties. She observes other teachers’ classes before beginning her own course the following semester 383.

Wartime Absence and Reunion

When Chen Shu’s involvement in the overseas operation against Cao Ci becomes public, Banxia angrily confronts him for risking his life and helping Zhang Suannai conceal the truth. His reassurances do little to erase her concern 423.

Chen Shu later presents the interplanar mission to her as training in the Lanya Forbidden Land. More than two years pass on Earth before he and Ning Qing return. Banxia, bored and lonely despite her professional success, greets both with enthusiastic hugs 533 534.

Learning the mission’s true purpose leaves her indignant at being deceived, then shocked by the deaths of the emperor, the Spirit Sect’s former master, and Zhang Suannai’s master and eldest senior brother. Chen Shu asks her to look after their mother when the losses become public 534.

Appearance

Banxia’s youthful face makes her age difficult to judge: at twenty-five she looks sixteen or seventeen, and she retains much the same appearance into her thirties 21 533.

• Height: Approximately 165 centimeters 249.
• Face: Round, with plump, baby-like cheeks 21.
• Skin: Very fair, smooth, and snow-white 21 93.
• Eyes: Large, round, dark, and bright; they narrow into crescents when she smiles 21 93.
• Family resemblance: Looks more like Professor Chen’s younger sister than either parent 21.
• Clothing: Wears modified classical outfits as well as floral dresses; one described ensemble combines a black camisole, sheer white wide-sleeved top, calf-length pleated skirt, and champagne-colored belt 363 367.

Personality

Banxia prizes independence, financial freedom, and an undemanding private life. She firmly rejects dating, marriage, and children, regarding a boyfriend as an intrusion on the freedom to work, relax, and sleep as she pleases. These convictions remain unchanged for more than a decade 94 533.

Her domestic laziness contrasts sharply with her research ability. She sleeps extensively, struggles with cooking, and prefers a compact home that a single robot vacuum-mop can clean. Even after producing a world-shaking research result, she spends much of her newly available time lounging and sleeping 52 135 533.

Banxia repeatedly insists on her authority as Chen Shu’s older sister, trading insults, punches, and demands with him. Beneath that performance, she is generous and protective: she offers money without fuss, worries about his dangerous cultivation path, and objects to Zhang Suannai fighting him again. Her boasts about commanding him become increasingly fragile as his strength surpasses hers 22 131 326 328.

Abilities & Skills

Pharmaceutical Research

• Traditional formula reconstruction: Helps decipher several old medicinal formulas, including the Esoteric Sect’s Fifth-Tier auxiliary potion 376.
• Modern ingredient substitution: Works on replacing extinct, scarce, or prohibitively expensive ingredients so ancient formulas can be reproduced with modern materials 91 185.
• Original development: Improves and creates formulas, resolves technical problems, and publishes influential pharmacology research 376.
• Botanical knowledge: Recognizes medicinal Deep Sleep Flowers and knows where Full Moonflowers grow and when they bloom 131 135.

Research / Product	Contribution	Constraints or Outcome
Fourth-to-Fifth-Tier auxiliary potion	Helps reconstruct an ancient Esoteric Sect formula and prepares components for three handmade doses 91 185.	Requires tightly restricted Poison Spirit Extract and difficult-to-obtain poisonous ingredients. Each dose costs roughly 1.5 million to make; Chen Shu offers one to Yan Keling for two million 130 185.
Improved Clear Spirit Pills	Develops a revised formula and applies for a patent 376.	Blue Light Company approves and adopts it for pills manufactured after June that year 376.
Lifespan and spiritualization research	Studies the bodily spiritualization underlying much of High-Tier cultivators’ lifespan advantage 402.	Predicts that longevity medicine will emerge within a century; this is her expectation, not a completed result 402.
High-Tier Spiritual Decline	Cracks the problem during Chen Shu’s absence, producing a world-shaking breakthrough 533.	The achievement effectively completes decades of anticipated research and gives her substantial freedom from university pressure 533.

Teaching and Academic Support

• Course: Teaches Pharmaceutical Spirit Power Studies to second-year students 405.
• Teaching approach: Opens with a three-class conceptual overview rather than immediately following textbook details. Admitting her nervousness helps her treat students as fellow learners 405.
• Student reception: Students praise her warmth, appearance, and teaching style after her first class 405.
• Academic assistance: Repairs Zhang Suannai’s thesis formatting and advises her on references, while acknowledging that sword-cultivation research lies outside her own field 373.

Cultivation and Spellcasting

• Tournament achievement: Former ordinary-division Martial Body Meet champion 130.
• Firework spells: Projects spiritual energy into the sky to create elaborate flowers, lotuses, and dandelion-like spheres 100.
• Combat limitation: Chen Shu judges her fighting ability inferior to that of a similarly ranked, formally trained Spirit Sect inner disciple because she devotes much of her time to research rather than combat 185.

Breakthrough Supervision

• Trusted attendant: Agrees to oversee Zhang Suannai’s Seventh-Tier attempt and protect her privacy 373.
• Discretion: Refuses Chen Shu’s video calls while Zhang behaves embarrassingly during recovery, though a voice call still lets him hear her barking 374.

Equipment / Items

• Home pharmaceutical laboratory — An experiment table and assorted apparatus occupy the spare bedroom of her rented apartment 21.
• Small car — Used by Chen Shu; Banxia once operates its remote from upstairs to repeatedly unlock it and sabotage his attempted escape from Ning Qing 290.
• Storage Spell Artifact — A valuable artifact obtained through Chen Shu’s Spirit Sect contributions. He gives it to Banxia for use, but the sect retains ownership and will reclaim it after her death 435.

Relationships

• Chen Shu — Younger brother. She transfers him 30,000 yuan for an advancement potion and offers further financial support; he cooks for her, helps with everyday matters, and coaches her through first-class nerves 22 405.
• Ning Qing — Longstanding family friend and Chen Shu’s partner. Banxia encourages their relationship, imagines their marriage and children, and is comfortable treating Qingqing as family 21 361 533.
• Xiaoxiao — Younger family friend with whom she shares easy familiarity. Banxia helps accompany her to university registration and later worries about the emotionally distant atmosphere in the Ning household 157 196 398.
• Zhang Suannai — Close friend. They share meals, drinks, outings, and hotel rooms; Banxia helps with her thesis and advancement, but refuses to take her side against Chen Shu 312 356 373.
• Professor Chen — Father. Banxia joins Chen Shu in teasing him, but also helps arrange a meal when they notice he has not been eating properly 437 438.
• Lawyer Wei — Mother. Frequently scolds Banxia for laziness and shirking chores, while urging her to work hard and look after Chen Shu, Qingqing, and Xiaoxiao in Jade Capital 253 400.
• Shi Qian — Childhood acquaintance and senior university colleague. Banxia is noticeably reserved around him; he recognizes that her talent warrants a research-first position 383.
• Yan Keling — Indirect beneficiary of her potion-making. Chen Shu arranges access to Banxia’s handmade auxiliary potion for her advancement 185 196.

Trivia

• Chen Shu describes Banxia as “forever eighteen” when arranging her twenty-sixth birthday meal 117.
• Her name prompts Zhang Suannai to joke about “Chen Half-Shu” and progressively smaller fractional names for younger siblings 157.
• Banxia once offers to buy Chen Shu a gaming pod if he calls her “Teacher Chen.” Xiaoxiao later purchases the exact JZ-300 model Banxia had considered, frustrating her attempt to demonstrate big-sister generosity 383 398.
• Her rare attempt at cooking shredded potatoes becomes a postwar “appreciation party”: Chen Shu examines it closely, but its excessive seasoning and overcooking make it inedible 533 534.