Lin Changgeng

Biodata

Feature	Details
Name	Lin Changgeng (林长庚)
Alias(es)	“Young master,” a form of address used by his companions 3 15.
Gender	Male 1.
Age	Six years old 1 32.
Origin	A transmigrator raised at the Nuoding City Orphanage; his parents in this life are unknown 1.
Affiliation	Independent; declines Spirit Hall membership and later recruits Dugu Bo 1 14.
Occupation/Role	Soul master and soul-tool craftsman 19 30 31.
Martial Souls	Gengjin Origin Spirit and Behemoth 18.
Cultivation	Rank 23 Soul Grandmaster; last explicitly confirmed at this rank during his training 19 20 34.
Residence	A wooden cabin near the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well in Sunset Forest 21.
Status	Alive; studying soul-tool blueprints and pursuing large-scale development 36.
First Appearance	Chapter 1, “Pure brute strength? Let's see just how strong!” 1.

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Martial-soul awakening; innate full soul power	1	The one-time system grants his chosen Behemoth talent, Gengjin Origin Spirit, and guardian Wang Qiu’er. He reveals only the Gengjin Origin Spirit during Su Yuntao’s examination.
First soul ring	4 5	Absorbs the yellow ring of an 800-year Golden-Patterned Ironback Wolf, exceeding the ordinary first-ring standard. Gains Golden Edge Across the Sky and awakens the Geng Metal Domain, originally expected at level 30.
Four-level increase; subsequently confirmed at rank 17	10 12	Absorbs the Hundred Thousand Year Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone over seven days. Gains Regeneration and Flight.
Rank 20 bottleneck	16	Consumes octagonal mysterious ice grass and infernal delicate apricot, then undergoes a day of Ice and Fire Body Tempering. His physical capability more than doubles, and he gains resistance to poison, heat, and cold.
Rank 23 Soul Grandmaster; second soul ring	19 20	Absorbs a purple ring from a Gengjin White Tiger over six hours. The over-limit ring raises his soul power by three levels and grants White Tiger Gengjin Transformation.

• Planned advancement: He intends to attempt a 10,000-year fourth ring. Dugu Bo warns him about both spiritual backlash and the attention such a ring would attract; Lin identifies Wangchuan Autumn Dew as his intended answer to the spiritual-power requirement 18.
• Second-ring age: Wang Qiu’er recommends approximately 3,000 years, with 3,500 as the upper limit; the acquired tiger ring’s exact age is not stated in the supplied account 18 19.

Background / History

Lin Changgeng was an orphan in his previous life and remained one after transmigrating. Found at the Nuoding City Orphanage entrance at six months old, he was raised by its director. As a child, he helped with chores and saved the coins he earned; the director remembered him as sensible, quiet, and reluctant to complain even when other children bullied him 1 3.

Before awakening his martial souls, he worried that his unknown parentage might leave him without the talent needed to become a soul master. His initial ambition was modest: survive, live peacefully, and eventually have a family. The system’s appearance gave him far greater opportunities, but later training forced him to distinguish extraordinary talent from the strength needed to control his own life 1 33.

Appearance

• Before awakening: A delicate-featured, well-behaved boy with soft black hair 1.
• After awakening: Dark-gold hair with a cold metallic luster; sharp brows; slightly upturned outer eye corners; gilded eyes with circulating metallic particles 1.
• Facial features: A prominent straight nose and angular jawline, compared to a finely forged metal sculpture 1.
• Presence: A sharp, aggressive aura of slaughter that makes others wary despite his age 1.
• During White Tiger Gengjin Transformation: His height increases by more than a head as his aura surges 19.

Personality

Lin is calculating and protective of his independence. He conceals Behemoth during his awakening because he fears attracting Tang Hao and endangering the orphanage. Although he recognizes Spirit Hall’s resources, he refuses its recruitment offer because he distrusts the risks associated with Bibi Dong’s leadership 1.

His kindness is selective rather than selfless. He remembers the orphanage’s care, leaves financial support for its children, and kneels to thank the director. Conversely, he pursues the Blue Silver Emperor’s soul bone for his own cultivation, acknowledging that Tang Hao and Tang San were not originally his enemies. He treats helping Dugu Bo as a practical way to gain an ally rather than a debt requiring lifelong submission 3 10 17.

Rapid success initially makes him complacent: with exceptional talent and Wang Qiu’er’s protection, he assumes cultivation will progress naturally. Her harsh sparring changes that outlook. He resolves to cultivate for survival, freedom, protection of those close to him, and control over his own fate—not status, wealth, or authority over others 33.

He readily shares opportunities with trusted companions, allowing Dugu Yan to study soul tools alongside him. Despite his strategic confidence, Wang Qiu’er’s teasing can still leave him flustered, highlighting the contrast between his retained memories and his young body 2 27.

Abilities & Skills

Gengjin Origin Spirit

An ultimate-metal elemental martial soul, manifested as shifting dark-gold radiance composed of countless metal particles rather than a fixed weapon 1.

• Metal shaping: Uses soul power and spiritual power to inspect metal internally, remove impurities, rearrange its structure, and shape it into tools 29 30.
• Array engraving: Condenses a small Gengjin knife and uses it to inscribe soul-guidance arrays 30 31.
• Material limits: Denser, tougher metals require more time and effort to shape and engrave 30 31.
• Environmental limits: At rank 23, he can sense surrounding metal elements but fails to draw on them directly to form an attacking weapon. Wang Qiu’er explains that this requires greater cultivation, spiritual power, and mastery 34.
• Suggested close-combat use: Wang Qiu’er recommends forming gauntlets or armor from his own metal-attributed soul power, at the cost of greater consumption and lower durability than environmental metal 34.

Behemoth

Chosen as a system talent and subsequently revealed as his second martial soul. Its manifestation is a towering beast phantom over twenty meters tall, with dark-gold, steel-like fur and bone armor across its shoulders and back 1 2 18.

• Grants exceptional physical strength, resilient meridians, and heaven-devouring aptitude 1 4.
• Has a dragon-subduing presence and is described by the system as a bane of dragons 1 2.
• Helps him withstand the violent energy of his over-limit first soul ring 4.
• Its aura makes even Dugu Bo feel as though he is about to be devoured 18.

Geng Metal Domain

An innate domain awakened early through his over-limit first ring 5.

• Initially ignores 15% of physical defense and automatically marks targets entering it with Geng metal elements 5.
• Suppresses lower-level targets’ soul-power circulation by 20% and slows their movement 5.
• Lin states that each additional soul-power level increases its defense penetration by one percentage point; its effects also improve with elemental mastery 5.
• Stacks with his soul skills. He reports 65% combined defense penetration with White Tiger Gengjin Transformation at rank 23 19.
• Allows him to perceive his surroundings through metal elements, locating Wang Qiu’er during sparring 34.
• Does not overcome a major gap in physique and combat experience: Wang Qiu’er continues to dominate him at close range during training 33.

Golden Edge Across the Sky

His first soul skill, obtained from the Golden-Patterned Ironback Wolf 4 5.

• Instantly forms a half-meter, sheathless metal blade and launches a sharp golden slash 5.
• Provides 40% defense penetration 5.
• Inflicts metal-attribute corrosion; Lin can trigger the embedded metal elements for a second round of damage 5.
• Improves with his control over metal elements and benefits from his domain 5.
• In its first test, pierces a large rock and continues flying beyond it 5.

White Tiger Gengjin Transformation

His second soul skill, obtained from the Gengjin White Tiger 19.

• Triples all attributes while active 19.
• Increases attack power by 60% and ignores 40% of defense 19.
• Creates a shield capable of blocking attacks one rank above him until his soul power runs out 19.
• Has fixed proportional effects, distinguishing it from early enhancement skills whose usefulness diminishes at higher levels 19.

Blue Silver Emperor Soul-Bone Skills

Granted by Ah Yin’s Hundred Thousand Year right-leg bone 10.

• Regeneration: Lin states that even severe injuries can heal so long as an attack does not directly strike a vital area such as his heart 10.
• Flight: Enables independent flight; he declines Wang Qiu’er’s offer to carry him into the poisonous mist surrounding the medicinal garden 10 12.

Ice and Fire Body Tempering

Combines two opposing immortal herbs with immersion in the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well 16.

• More than doubles his physical capability and tolerance for older soul rings 16 18.
• Grants resistance to poison, heat, and cold, described in the passage as immunity to poison and imperviousness to water and fire 16.
• Strengthens his body enough to support the proposed 3,000-year second-ring attempt 18.

Soul-Tool Craftsmanship

Studies Wang Qiu’er’s library before adapting conventional fabrication to his ultimate-metal martial soul 26 29 30.

Achievement	Details
Class One storage ring	Shapes refined iron and engraves a Basic Storage Array, producing approximately one cubic meter of storage space 30.
Class Two soul-tool pistol	Shapes deep-sea sunken silver and inscribes a Soul Power Compression Array. Its test shot blasts apart a boulder 30 31.
Pistol performance	Produces roughly Soul Grandmaster-level power in Lin’s hands and could reach Soul Elder strength for Dugu Yan. The design’s ceiling is approximately Soul Ancestor level; stronger materials cannot bypass the array’s limits 31.

• Begins conventional smithing with the Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer, an eighty-one-strike technique that builds force through linked blows; his first attempt is rhythmic but inexperienced 29.
• Shares introductory books with Dugu Yan while acknowledging that he is still a beginner himself 27.
• Plans large-scale soul-tool development using the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s resources and connections 36.

Medicinal Knowledge and Recruitment

• Diagnoses Dugu Bo’s self-inflicted, hereditary jade phosphor snake poisoning by describing its symptoms 13.
• Proposes three treatments: poison immunity at the cost of poison cultivation, transferring poison into a soul bone, or condensing it into a soul core 14.
• Directs treatment using aromatic silk beauty, medicinal baths, soul-core formation, and immortal herbs; Wang Qiu’er provides the technical soul-core instruction 14 16.
• Helps arrange Earth Dragon Golden Melons for Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan, enabling their serpent martial souls to evolve into flood dragons 13 17.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Ruyi Treasure Pouch — Stores living beings, making it suitable for preserving immortal herbs. Secured at auction for 1.5 million Gold Soul Coins, with Wang Qiu’er bidding for him 25.
• Soul Guidance Engraving Knife — A palm-length, dark-silver knife made from cold heart iron essence. Purchased for 100,000 Gold Soul Coins; channeling soul power through it increases its sharpness 25 26.
• Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone — A Hundred Thousand Year soul bone found in a concealed lead box behind the waterfall and absorbed by Lin 10.
• Golden-Patterned Ironback Wolf materials — Salvaged hide and claws; Wang Qiu’er advises that the claws can later improve his metal control through absorption 5.
• Soul-tool books and blueprints — Supplied by Wang Qiu’er, covering construction principles, arrays, materials, and designs 26 30.
• Smithing equipment — Obtained by Dugu Bo from Tai Tan’s Servant Clan and installed near the well 29.
• Self-made storage ring and pistol — His first demonstrated Class One and Class Two creations 30 31.
• Tang Hao’s inherited left-leg soul bone — Approximately 70,000 years old; recovered after Tang Hao’s disappearance, but Lin gives it to Wang Qiu’er because it offers him little benefit 9.

Relationships

• Wang Qiu’er — System-selected guardian, companion, and demanding combat mentor. Publicly poses as his distant older cousin, protects him during hunts and absorption, and supplies soul-tool knowledge 1 3 26 33.
• Orphanage Director — His principal caregiver. He promises to visit, helps fund the orphanage, and kowtows in gratitude before leaving 3.
• Su Yuntao — Conducts his awakening, discovers his innate full soul power, and offers Spirit Hall recruitment. Respects Lin’s refusal and issues his certificate 1.
• Dugu Bo — Recruited ally and protector. After treatment and martial-soul evolution, swears to protect Lin; Lin discourages treating their alliance as an overwhelming debt 14 17.
• Dugu Yan — Beneficiary of his treatment and fellow soul-tool student. Her grandfather considers a possible future match but chooses not to impose it; no romance is established 16 20 27 35.
• Ning Fengzhi — Prospective commercial ally. Lin accepts his friendship while recognizing his political motives, and uses whale-rubber information to build trust for future soul-tool development 23 26 36.
• Ning Rongrong — Meets him at the auction and invites him to play; he declines 23.
• Tang Hao — Targeted for access to the Blue Silver Emperor soul bone. Attacks Lin after mistaking him for a Spirit Hall disciple, but is stopped by Wang Qiu’er 6 10.
• Ah Yin — Removed from the dark chamber beneath the waterfall and placed in a flowerpot after Lin absorbs her soul bone. Lin frames taking her away as repayment for benefiting from her family, while recognizing possible future resentment 10.
• Asura God and Sea God — Secretly mark him as a shared inheritance candidate. Lin is unaware of either mark and has not received their divine trials 8 9.
• Qian Renxue — Investigates him through reports and plans to recruit him, with coercion or killing as a fallback. No direct meeting is documented 28 35.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Arc	Events
Awakening and departure	Chooses his system gifts, refuses Spirit Hall, and leaves Nuoding City with Wang Qiu’er after thanking the orphanage director 1 2 3.
First soul hunt	Obtains an over-limit wolf ring in Star Dou Great Forest and unexpectedly awakens his domain 4 5.
Holy Soul Village confrontation	Accompanies Wang Qiu’er against Tang Hao. Suspects Asura involvement when Tang Hao gains an unexplained surge of power; divine intervention saves Tang Hao and draws the gods’ attention to Lin 6 7 8 9.
Waterfall cave	Obtains the Blue Silver Emperor right-leg bone, gains regeneration and flight, and takes Ah Yin away before heading toward Heaven Dou City 9 10 11.
Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well	Gains access to Dugu Bo’s garden, recruits him, tempers his own body, and helps cure and transform the Dugu family 12 13 14 16 17.
Second soul hunt	Reveals his twin martial souls to the Dugu pair and reaches rank 23 after absorbing the Gengjin White Tiger ring 18 19.
Auction and technological development	Meets Ning Fengzhi, acquires crafting resources, and produces his first storage ring and pistol 22 23 25 26 29 30 31.
Factional attention	His unexplained rise and powerful companions prompt investigations by the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and Spirit Hall. Their leaders debate friendship, recruitment, and force 27 28 32.
Combat training and long-term strategy	Defines his reasons for cultivating, develops elemental perception, and reveals that whale rubber was a bridge toward securing support for mass soul-tool production 33 34 36.

Notable Quotes

“Director, I will remember the kindness of your care until my dying day.” 3

“Let's continue.” — After recognizing why he cultivates and rising to resume Wang Qiu’er’s training 33.

Trivia

• His system is a one-time selection system: three choices from nine options, divided into talent, martial soul, and guardian categories 1 33.
• Before departing the orphanage, he regularly watched the stars from the grassy area behind it 2.
• The Asura God marks him before granting trials partly to discourage other gods from claiming him. Tang Chen’s ongoing trials remain an obstacle to Lin receiving the Asura inheritance 8.
• Lin deliberately passes the whale-rubber business opportunity to Ning Fengzhi rather than exploiting it himself, prioritizing the relationship needed for his larger soul-tool plans 35 36.