Chen An

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Chen An (陈安)
Species/Race	Human 1 6
Gender	Male 2
Age	Six years old during the documented events 2 13 33
Origin	Qinghe Village, Douluo Continent; reincarnated from Blue Star 1 2
Affiliation	Former Shrek Academy student; seeking the Body Sect after leaving Shrek 11 50
Occupation/Role	Soul Master; student of Shrek’s Youth Class before his departure 12 38 50
Martial Souls	True Self, encompassing body and spirit; a second, initially formless ice-attribute martial soul 4 13 14
Soul Power	Level fifteen; approaching level sixteen after the Youth Class battle 12 43
Status	Alive; traveling toward Heaven Dou City under a disguise 50
First Appearance	Chapter 1 1

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
True Self awakening — innate level ten	3 4	Qian Renxue stimulates his dantian with soul power. His martial soul awakens with full innate soul power, strengthened bodily structures, and spiritual power comparable to a Soul Elder’s.
First soul ring — level thirteen Soul Master	11 12	Absorbs a purple, thousand-year Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear ring under Zhang Lexuan’s protection. Gains Dark Gold Transformation; his physique nearly doubles in strength, while mental strength increases by about ten percent.
External soul bone fusion — level fifteen	12	Absorbs the bear’s right-palm external soul bone, gaining Dark Gold Dreadclaw.
Wisdom Soul Ring fusion — Soul King-level spiritual power	13 14	Tian Meng merges with him, expands his Sea of Consciousness, and grants a second ice-attribute martial soul. Soul power remains level fifteen; most of Tian Meng’s spiritual origin is sealed in ten golden spheres.

• Level sixteen is not yet confirmed: Chen An only senses that he is nearing it after defeating the Youth Class 43.
• No second awakening is documented: Shrek and the Body Sect assess its future potential, but his recorded victories occur before it 26 32 44.

Background / History

Chen An lived a previous life on Blue Star and had read three installments of the Soul Land series. His memories give him foreknowledge of the Douluo Continent, though he initially mistakes “Ren Xue” for an insignificant character rather than the time-displaced Qian Renxue 1 2 3.

His parents were hunters who knew how to treat injuries. An Evil Soul Master killed them while they were hunting two years before the story begins. Their inheritance, supplies, and help from Qinghe Village’s residents allowed him to survive, but he could not afford the fee for a martial-soul awakening 1 2.

Determined not to remain an ordinary villager, he repeatedly attempted self-awakening through breathing exercises, meditation, and herbs. He could sense his dormant power but could not release it; before Qian Renxue intervened, he even considered provoking a life-or-death crisis 3.

Appearance

• Ordinary appearance: A black-haired, black-eyed child with delicate features; he stands roughly half a head taller than the six-year-old Qian Renxue 5 10 50.
• After awakening: His wheat-colored skin becomes fair, lustrous, and unusually tough. Absorbing his first soul ring adds three centimeters to his height 4 12.
• True Self manifestation: An enlarged phantom of himself with a golden body, silver hair, and silver eyes 4.
• Martial Soul Possession: Appears two or three years older, with silver hair, silver-lit eyes, and faintly golden skin 18 25.
• Travel disguise: Alters his facial muscles, height, and build to resemble an older, leaner boy with unremarkable features; wears deliberately dirtied and damaged commoner clothing 50.

Personality

Chen An’s central ambition is to reach the pinnacle of cultivation, become a god at level one hundred, and attain immortality. He enjoys testing his strength and treats combat as both an opportunity for growth and a means of establishing independence 1 4 6 43.

His kindness is practical rather than indiscriminate. He rescues and treats Qian Renxue, comforts her when she is distressed, and later repays the villagers who supported him. At the same time, he recognizes the risks and potential advantages of helping someone with an extraordinary background 1 2 5 11.

He values friendship without demanding complete disclosure. After learning that Qian Renxue could not have direct descendants, he chooses not to pry into Ren Xue’s origins because their shared experiences remain genuine 14.

Chen An is wary of institutions that treat his talent as something to possess. He accepts Shrek’s protection while weak, but rejects bullying, delayed rewards, and attempts to dictate his loyalties. His retaliation can be severe: he kills Li Wu decisively and later defeats an entire class rather than submit to repeated harassment 7 11 40 43 44.

Abilities & Skills

True Self Martial Soul

• Whole-body and spiritual scope: Includes his entire physical form and spirit rather than a single body part 4.
• Enhanced foundations: Strengthens muscles, bones, organs, meridians, senses, intuition, and bodily control. His physique and spiritual power already rival a Soul Elder’s immediately after awakening 4 6.
• Above-standard ring absorption: His durable meridians and mental control allow him to absorb a thousand-year first ring. Afterward, his body can withstand a two-thousand-year ring 12.
• Rapid recuperation: Recovers stamina quickly enough to outlast Ma Xiaotao during their city outing despite her higher cultivation 24.
• Limit: Exceptional physical and spiritual attributes do not remove his disadvantage in soul-power reserves or automatically provide an answer to aerial opponents 26.

Spiritual Perception and Bodily Control

• Movement reading: Combines dynamic vision and spiritual perception to track breathing, muscle movements, and incoming attacks 6 40.
• Limit release: Accelerates his heartbeat and circulation, stimulates adrenaline and other hormones, and removes the brain’s normal restrictions on muscular output 26 42.
• Soul-power independence: These bodily enhancement techniques can continue after his soul power is exhausted 43.
• Physical disguise: Changes facial muscles, apparent height, and build without relying on Qian Renxue’s disguise ability 50.
• Limit: His current bodily control remains comparatively superficial; cellular or molecular control is described as a future possibility requiring stronger spiritual power 42.

Dark Gold Transformation

His first soul skill comes from the thousand-year Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear 12.

• Greatly increases strength, defense, explosive power, and resistance to abnormal conditions 12.
• Resists heat, freezing, paralysis, and poison, though effects approaching ultimate attributes remain a threat 26.
• Raises his raw strength to a level comparable to a Power Attack System Soul Ancestor 26.
• Continuously consumes soul power. His initial half-hour estimate does not hold under an intensive duel with Ma Xiaotao, where repeated attacks rapidly deplete his reserves 12 26.

Dark Gold Dreadclaw

The skill of his right-palm external soul bone produces five dark-gold blades and cutting blade beams 12 38 41.

• Cuts through Ma Xiaotao’s enhanced Phoenix Fire Line 25 26.
• Can project a three-meter attack, giving him a limited answer to opponents outside immediate melee range 26.
• Severs the Youth Class’s combined barrage of soul skills while gravity prevents him from dodging 41.
• Consumes substantial soul power; during the Ma Xiaotao duel, he must reserve his last full-strength strike for a decisive opening 26.

Tian Meng’s Wisdom Soul Ring

• Sealed spiritual reserves: Ten golden spheres hold most of Tian Meng’s origin power, preventing Chen An’s body and Sea of Consciousness from being overwhelmed 13.
• Future ring strengthening: Tian Meng states that his reserves can eventually raise ten soul rings to the hundred-thousand-year level 13.
• Concealment support: Hides Chen An’s Soul King-level spiritual power from Xuan Zi’s examination and warns him about powerful observers 18 24.
• Binding shed skin: Provides a powerful restraint and emergency protection 40.
• Long-distance teleportation: Can transport Chen An hundreds of kilometers, but at great cost. His actual thirty-kilometer escape consumes a tenth of Tian Meng’s remaining reserves 40 50.
• Unspecified soul skills: Tian Meng promises four skills through his ring, but the provided chapters do not identify them 13.

Second Ice-Attribute Martial Soul

• Created from Tian Meng’s ice origin during their fusion 13.
• Initially formless; its eventual form depends on the first ice-attribute soul beast whose ring Chen An absorbs 14.
• Tian Meng proposes the nearly four-hundred-thousand-year Ice Empress, but Chen An intends to avoid merging with her before level seventy because he expects Ultimate Ice to slow cultivation from levels thirty to seventy 15 50.

Cultivation and Field Skills

• Meditation: Learns a high-quality method from Qian Renxue, then Shrek’s newer method from Zhang Lexuan. The latter is reportedly thirty percent more efficient than the version used ten thousand years earlier 5 20.
• Basic wound care: Uses herbs left by his hunter parents to dress Qian Renxue’s back injury 2.
• Combat tactics: Provokes reckless opponents, preserves decisive attacks, and prioritizes support and control fighters when breaking a group formation 6 26 42 43.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Sapphire storage bracelet — Zhang Lexuan’s gift; a Storage Soul Tool with ten cubic meters of space 11.
• Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear right-palm external soul bone — A thousand-year bone capable of growing with him; grants Dark Gold Dreadclaw 12 41 42.
• Tian Meng’s million-year shed husk — Attaches to his chest and conceals itself like ordinary skin 15.
• Soul-tool blade — Supplied by Zhang Lexuan and used to cut open the bear’s corpse 12.
• Shrek-provided clothing — Thousand-year silkworm-silk garments and Golden-Footed Deer-hide boots, later exchanged for worn commoner clothing to avoid recognition 50.
• Travel map — Used to plan his northwestward journey toward Heaven Dou City 50.

Relationships

• Qian Renxue / Ren Xue — Rescued companion and trusted friend. She awakens his martial soul and fights alongside him; he protects her angel-martial-soul secret without discovering her time-traveling identity 2 3 7 8 14.
• Tian Meng / Sky Dream Ice Silkworm — Wisdom Soul Ring and spiritual partner. Their shared pursuit of godhood links their futures, though Chen An keeps his previous-life memories secret and retains control over his cultivation choices 13 14 50.
• Zhang Lexuan — Recruiter, mentor, and protector, whom he calls “Sister Xuanxuan.” Gives him equipment, helps him obtain his first ring, and guides him into Shrek 10 11 12 38.
• Mu En — Institutional patron who considers him a possible future guardian of Shrek. Authorizes intensive training, background checks, and measures intended to develop his loyalty 21 22 32.
• Yan Shaozhe — Oversees plans for his cultivation but increasingly views his independence as unruliness. Withholding a promised soul bone deepens Chen An’s distrust 22 43 44.
• Ma Xiaotao — Senior student, city guide, and sparring opponent. Chen An defeats her and agrees to a rematch; proposed matchmaking by her guardians is not an established romance 24 28.
• Sun Menghan and the Body Sect — Rescuers who immediately attempt to claim him as a recruit. Chen An values the sect’s body-cultivation methods but has not joined it by his departure from Shrek 17 33 50.
• Bei Bei — Hostile classmate who blames him for Mu En’s expenditure of life force during the Body Sect invasion. Chen An knocks him unconscious during their confrontation 38 39.
• Wang Xiaoming — Inner Court teacher who recognizes his self-defense against Zhao Wen and rejects blaming him for the invasion 38.
• Wang Laoliu and Madam Liu — Neighbors who helped him; he repays them with money and arrangements to move into the city 11.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Qinghe Village: Rescue and First Battle

Chen An finds Qian Renxue floating in a river and secretly takes her home for treatment. She repays him by awakening True Self and teaching him meditation. When Li Wu attacks, Chen An initially overpowers him but is wounded after the Evil Soul Master uses his soul skills. Qian Renxue’s Angel Domain turns the battle, allowing Chen An to kill Li Wu 1 3 5 6 7.

Zhang Lexuan’s investigation brings his rare martial soul to Shrek’s attention. Chen An accepts her invitation for protection and resources, then arranges awakenings for the village children and assistance for neighbors before departing 9 10 11.

Star Dou Great Forest: Rings, Soul Bone, and Tian Meng

With Zhang Lexuan’s help, Chen An obtains the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear’s ring and external soul bone. Tian Meng subsequently selects him as a host, granting him immense spiritual potential and a second martial soul. The search for the escaped silkworm creates a forest crisis, during which Body Sect members rescue the group and attempt to take Chen An. Xuan Zi intervenes and brings him to Shrek 11 12 13 15 17 18.

Shrek Academy: Elite Training and Public Recognition

Shrek’s leaders debate which department should educate him, then settle on foundational cultivation and a specially arranged class with Titled Douluo teachers. Chen An’s duel with Ma Xiaotao publicly demonstrates the strength of his ring, soul bone, and bodily control; he wins despite being a one-ring Soul Master facing a Soul Elder 20 21 22 25 26 28.

Body Sect Invasion and Youth Class Conflict

Du Busi leads an assault on Shrek to retrieve Chen An. While the academy fights to retain him, Chen An recognizes useful resources in both factions but little freedom to choose his own future. A Body Sect elder’s attempted knockout fails when his form becomes illusory 33.

After the invasion, bereaved students blame him for its casualties. Hostility in the Youth Class escalates into a fight against more than forty students, which Chen An wins even after exhausting his soul power. Yan Shaozhe reprimands him and postpones a promised fifty-thousand-year torso soul bone, reinforcing his desire to leave 38 39 40 41 42 43 44.

Escape from Shrek

When Yun Chen attacks Shrek and searches for him, Chen An disappears through Tian Meng’s teleportation. Shrek’s experts incorrectly suspect Yun Chen of abducting him. Outside the city, Chen An watches Yun Chen’s self-detonation, disguises himself, and sets out toward Heaven Dou City to seek the Body Sect. Three hours later, he encounters the independently disguised Qian Renxue near Willow Leaf City 47 48 50.

Notable Quotes

“My martial soul is called True Self. In other words, it’s me.” 4

“We’ve been through life and death together. It wouldn’t be a stretch to call us friends, would it?” 8

“Farewell. In your next life, remember to be a good person.” 7

Trivia

• The “An” in his name means peace, contrasting with his refusal to accept a quiet, ordinary life 3.
• Tian Meng appears six years earlier than Chen An expects from the original timeline 13.
• An authorial note states that Tian Meng’s Wisdom Soul Ring is planned to become his seventh soul ring later; this is a future plan, not an attained stage in the provided chapters 13.