Chen Lin

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Chen Lin (陈林)
Alias(es)	Xiao Lin; Linzi; Boss Chen; Immortal Chen; Advisor Chen. Uses Jack Smith as an overseas disguise 67 79 311 517 685.
Species/Race	Human; later an immortal cultivator with a transformed, True Dragon–empowered body 11 625 755.
Gender	Male
Age	Twenty-four at the beginning; later experiences fifty thousand years of cultivation within Cangyuan Hall 1 755.
Origin	Chen Family Village, Yicheng 134.
Affiliation	Chen Family Village; Huaxia; Seventh Theater Command 517 685 732.
Occupation/Role	Former company employee; farmhouse restaurant and resort proprietor; organizer of Chen Family Village’s cultivating clan; military adviser; centurion 1 15 79 517 685 732.
Family	Both parents deceased; nephew of Chen Guofu, Liu Shuqin, and Chen Muyao; cousin of Chen Qianqian and Li Jiaojiao; father of six children 83 134 266 757.
Status	Alive; becomes a Sage and retires to live with his wives and children 765.
First Appearance	Chapter 1 1.

Power Progression

Cultivation realms and physical-body milestones are listed separately where the text distinguishes them. Chapters that only confirm an existing realm are marked accordingly.

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Taiyin Breathing Technique — initial practice	13	One session enables him to lift a nearly two-hundred-pound solid-wood table steadily.
Taiyin Breathing Technique — unnamed breakthrough	19	Repeated breathing cycles produce a surge of strength through his limbs and bones.
Qi Refining — second layer	154	Confirmed at this level; strength, speed, and all five senses already far exceed ordinary human limits.
Qi Refining — third layer	171	Identified by the chapter title, which also names his practice of the Object Manipulation Art.
Qi Refining — fourth layer	212	Confirmed after a breakthrough; his senses cover a sixty-meter radius.
Qi Refining — peak sixth layer	354	His Azure Origin Sword Art spiritual power is dense enough to approach liquefaction before the next breakthrough.
Qi Refining — seventh layer	354	Breaks through using an Essence-Enhancing Pill, the Azure Origin Sword Art, and a Spirit-Gathering Formation.
Physical strength — approximately seven thousand jin	364	Approaches this threshold through body tempering; full mastery remains a future goal.
Qi Refining — eighth layer	405	Confirmed while attempting to recharge a Core Formation talisman treasure.
Physical strength — nearly ten thousand jin	426	Unleashes this strength through the Taiyin Breathing Technique during a fight in the wasteland.
Qi Refining — ninth layer	427	The Spirit Vein Fruit shatters the bottleneck separating the eighth and ninth layers.
Qi Refining — tenth layer	427	The same fruit forces a second consecutive breakthrough, violently expanding his meridians.
Qi Refining — eleventh layer	427	The fruit completes its three-stage increase; his dantian expands to three times its former size.
Foundation Establishment	474	Confirmed through his use of Foundation Establishment true essence.
Taiyin Breathing Technique — ten-thousand-jin strength	474	Combines this physical strength with true essence to cut open a powerful demon beast’s corpse.
Foundation Establishment — middle stage	500	Confirmed while using divine sense to guide six women’s cultivation.
Foundation Establishment — late stage	503	Confirmed when he meets a Core Formation cultivator’s spear with his fist.
Core Formation — early stage	528	Confirmed when binding the Sword-Nurturing Gourd and its thirty-six flying swords.
Core Formation — middle stage	564	Yun Sheng’s primal yin heals him after the sea battle and enables his breakthrough.
Core Formation — late stage	570	Cultivates with high-grade spirit stones; his golden core develops additional marks and divine sense reaches fifty thousand meters.
Nascent Soul — early stage	604	Confirmed when he begins studying One Qi Transforms into Three Purities; his divine sense rivals peak Nascent Soul.
True Dragon body — approximately one hundred thousand to two hundred thousand jin	625	True Dragon Essence breaks the Taiyin technique’s ten-thousand-jin limit and brands Dao patterns onto his bones.
Nascent Soul — late stage	635	Breaks through; divine sense expands to a radius of one hundred and fifty kilometers.
True Dragon body — over one million jin	635	Further True Dragon Essence reconstructs his body over a day and night; his physical power is later described as comparable to early Deity Transformation 642.
True Dragon body — one and a half million jin	644	Uses this strength without true essence to shatter an attacking golden palm.
Deity Transformation — late stage	676	Breakthrough accompanies physical strength of approximately fifty million jin.
Void Refinement — early stage	692	Confirmed after seven days of mining and refining spirit crystals; his cultivation is nearly stabilized.
Void Refinement — middle stage	693	Absorbs the origin essence laws from two hundred mid-grade spirit crystals.
Void Refinement — late stage	702	Identified as the realm immediately preceding his Integration breakthrough.
Body Integration — early stage	702	Higher laws transform his True Dragon energy, muscles, marrow, and blood as he breaks through.
Physical body — Mahayana level	704	His body outstrips his early Integration cultivation, leaving his available weapons comparatively inadequate.
Body Integration — middle stage	707	Confirmed when he seeks a place to test his newly crafted weapon.
Body Integration — peak late stage	713	Reaches this level before drinking Dao-Comprehending Tea.
Mahayana — early stage	713	A cup of Dao-Comprehending Tea supplies the insight needed to break through on the spot.
Physical body — peak Mahayana	731	Great Golden Immortal essence blood raises his body to this level.
Tribulation Transcendence	731	Achieves the actual cultivation realm inside Cangyuan Hall; eighty-one internal thunderbolts temper his marrow and primordial spirit.
Nine-Turn Profound Origin Art — sixth turn	755	His physical body reaches Taiyi Golden Immortal level.
Peak Great Golden Immortal cultivation; peak quasi-saint body	755	Fifty thousand years of cultivation and complete refinement of Pangu essence blood bring the seventh turn to full mastery.
Quasi-Saint — early stage	758	Identified by the chapter title after a thousand years of ordinary family life.
Quasi-Saint — middle stage	762	Breaks through after a thousand years of battle; repeated recovery strengthens his body and resistance to arts.
Sage	765	Reveals his attainment during the village feast after returning from the war.

Background / History

Chen Lin lost both parents in an accident while still a schoolboy. Withdrawn and vulnerable to bullying, he received protection from Liu Dayong and sustained care from Li Xiaoyue, who cooked for him, helped with schoolwork, and supported him through his grief. He later entered a top high school in Yicheng and returned to the village less often 83 153 379.

After college, he worked for two years before being framed by his supervisor and fired. At twenty-four, facing betrayal and threats, he discarded his SIM card and returned to Chen Family Village. Chen Guofu and Liu Shuqin welcomed him home, but he insisted on staying in the old house left by his parents 1 5 555.

His access to the Myriad Worlds garbage facilities supplied storage items, cultivation manuals, medicinal materials, and valuable salvage. He established a farmhouse restaurant, obtained a business license, and expanded into a reservoir resort. He later told Zhao Jie that top-grade gold star rosewood had sold for one hundred million yuan, supporting a resort project expected to cost around seventy million yuan 11 12 13 79.

Appearance

Chen Lin is handsome and approximately six-foot-one, with a tall, straight frame 43.

• Build: Broad shoulders, narrow waist, and long legs; designer clothing makes him resemble a fashion model 43.
• Expression: Often wears a languid or slightly irreverent smile 188 464.
• Transformed body: True Dragon cultivation produces dark-gold bones and dragon-scale patterns visible when he unleashes his strength 635 644.
• Concealed presence: At peak Great Golden Immortal cultivation, he can suppress his aura so completely that he appears to have no cultivation 755.

Personality

Chen Lin’s desire for greater power is closely tied to protecting others. Qi Tongwei’s warning makes him recognize that his loved ones are both his vulnerabilities and the boundaries enemies must not cross. He also remembers earlier kindness: Li Xiaoyue’s care earns his complete trust, while Liu Dayong’s childhood protection remains important to him years later 83 266 379.

He is pragmatic and resistant to intimidation. He refuses unnecessary funding from Qin Changjiang, rejects condescension during official questioning, and asks directly what Cangyuan Hall can do once its true grade is revealed. He saves Qin Churan because she is his friend rather than to gain obligations from her powerful relatives 96 240 282 742.

His stated wish for peace coexists with ruthless retaliation. After identifying threats to Song Qiuya, he decides to carry the conflict overseas rather than leave Huaxia and his family exposed. He likewise plans to eliminate Zhang Cheng personally when ordinary procedures risk delaying action or alerting him 310 332 435.

Despite his growing authority, he remains affectionate and deferential toward family. He welcomes his uncle and aunt into his new home, bows to his elders upon returning after a long separation, and ultimately chooses domestic life over further fighting 448 757 765.

Abilities & Skills

Myriad Worlds Garbage Access

Chen Lin uses the Black Portal to enter the garbage facilities and recover discarded treasures 343 426.

• Appraisal panels identify items and explain their grades, functions, and restrictions 154 370 619.
• Increasing access privileges raises the grade and quantity of available salvage 613.
• Recovered resources supply his cultivation, equipment, household, and village; eventually his storage ring is nearly full 613.

Taiyin Breathing Technique and True Dragon Body

The Taiyin Breathing Technique develops his physical strength independently of his cultivation realm. True Dragon Essence later breaks its ten-thousand-jin limit 13 625.

• Supports rapid close-quarters combat; he defeats Feng Dayou’s gang in less than a minute 30.
• True Dragon Dao patterns allow his fists to challenge Deity Transformation law barriers 624 625.
• His physical strength remains dangerous where formations suppress cultivation 632 692.
• His enhanced body withstands the violent energy absorbed from spirit crystals 693.

Azure Origin Sword Art

His principal cultivation art provides sword attacks, defensive techniques, and sword formations 427 458.

• Forms nine azure sword silhouettes into a defensive shield 427.
• Uses twelve swords at the initial formation stage, thirty-six at the intermediate stage, and seventy-two at mastery for the Great Geng Sword Formation 458.
• Requires suitable flying swords; Earth’s lack of refining materials initially prevents him from realizing its full potential 458.
• The Sword-Nurturing Gourd’s matched thirty-six swords remedy this equipment shortage 528.

Divine Sense and Enhanced Perception

His perception develops from heightened physical senses into extensive divine-sense coverage 118 464.

• Hears and filters sounds within thirty meters using the Everlasting Spring Art; at fourth-layer Qi Refining, his senses cover sixty meters 118 212.
• Reaches three thousand meters after a half-month seclusion, surprising Changqingzi 464.
• Guides spiritual energy into others’ dantians and suppresses dangerous surges during their cultivation 500.
• Searches concealed compartments and detects hidden formations 569.
• Can suffer severe injury: severing his connection to the Mountains and Rivers Painting damages his Sea of Consciousness, and Essence-Returning Pills provide little relief 591.

Object Manipulation and Utility Spells

The Object Manipulation Art controls external objects with spiritual energy 154.

• Practices by directing spiritual power toward a broom 212.
• Uses the Cleansing Art to remove bodily grime and blood after seclusion 464.
• Creates a spiritual-power barrier to isolate his bedroom before entering the Black Portal 426.

Phoenix Yin-Yang Essence Cultivation Art

Chen Lin introduces this art to his partners because it requires less equipment than the Azure Origin Sword Art and offers a one-hundred-percent cultivation-speed boost through dual cultivation 458.

• Improves the use of limited spirit-stone supplies 458.
• Enables Yun Sheng to save him after he exhausts his divine sense fighting the Sea Tribe and Kunpeng 564.
• Its fourth level permits Divine Sense union, through which Yun Sheng repairs his damaged Sea of Consciousness 591.

One Qi Transforms into Three Purities

This divine ability uses essential vital energy and divine-soul fragments to cultivate three Dao bodies, each possessing sixty percent of the original’s strength 604.

• Requires at least Core Formation cultivation 604.
• Dao bodies can think and act independently while maintaining a mental connection to the original 604.
• Can persist indefinitely unless destroyed, making them useful for guarding the village or investigating elsewhere 604.

Formations, Puppets, and Village Defense

Chen Lin deploys formations and puppets to defend his home and support the cultivating community 369 516 517.

• Activates the Soul-Controlling Jade to turn a blue-robed corpse into an obedient Core Formation puppet 369.
• Conceals Chen Family Village with the Sun-Covering Cloudmist Formation and registers villagers’ bloodline auras for access 516 517.
• Keeps Changqingzi available as an adaptable Nascent Soul defender rather than relying solely on Lao Qing, a dead being 520.
• Later commands three hundred Nascent Soul Battle Puppets, while recognizing that external tools cannot replace personal strength 604.

Medicine and Artifact Refining

He progresses from finding alchemical texts difficult to preparing medicines and studying advanced artifact schematics 12 425 706.

• Makes thirty-two Youth-Locking Pills using herbs and spirit spring water; he states that they preserve a person’s appearance for twenty years 425.
• Organizes Qin Churan’s supernatural treatment through Bright Moon’s Healing Spell rather than performing the spell himself 241.
• Studies the Myriad Forms Artifact-Refining Compendium to create a life-bound weapon suited to his Integration cultivation 706.

Nine-Turn Profound Origin Art and Spatial Power

The Nine-Turn Profound Origin Art sustains his last breath after annihilation laws shatter his bones and threaten to consume his life force 753.

• Its seventh turn reaches full mastery after he completely refines Pangu essence blood 755.
• His resulting physical strength can punch through a planar barrier comparable to that of the Seventh Theater Command 755.
• Upon returning to Blue Star, his spiritual will and quasi-saint body directly rewrite local spatial laws without seals or incantations 757.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Low-Grade Storage Ring — An early salvage find recovered from a severed arm 11.
• Advanced Storage Ring — Later holds thirty-one thousand six hundred and seventy-two low-grade spirit stones, cultivation texts, and seventy-two Foundation Establishment Pills; its capacity is eventually identified as one hundred thousand cubic meters 369 613.
• Shape-Shifting Vajra Bracelet — Changes his face, height, and bodily form. Used for middle-aged and elderly disguises, a tabby-cat form resembling Bright Moon, and the Jack Smith identity 130 135 311.
• Flowing Light Jade Bracelet — Automatically creates a barrier in mortal danger, capable of resisting full-power tenth-layer Qi Refining attacks for half an hour 232.
• Cloudborne Sword — Wind-attribute, high-tier flying-sword magic treasure with a fifty-percent sword-flight speed bonus. Its available power depends on the wielder’s realm 370.
• Flying Boat — Used for aerial travel, including the trip to Macau with Zhang Ruoxi 411 435.
• Sword-Nurturing Gourd — Contains thirty-six matched flying swords and can grow by absorbing supreme-grade ores and sword qi 528.
• Soul-Controlling Jade and Lao Qing — The jade controls the Core Formation corpse puppet that later serves as a bodyguard and driver 369 374.
• Core Formation defensive treasures — Possesses an Eight Trigrams mirror, Black Tortoise Inner Armor, and a defensive jade pendant 410 420.
• Purple Sky Divine Thunder Talisman Treasure — Its recharge demands strain his eighth-layer Qi Refining reserves 405.
• Earthshaker Talisman — Stores a Core Formation earth-element cultivator’s full-power strike; each recharge costs two hundred low-grade spirit stones 457.
• Mountains and Rivers Painting — Spatial Spirit Treasure containing a complete small spiritual vein, used as a cultivation environment for his companions 499.
• Seven-Flame Fan — Deity Transformation offensive Spirit Treasure containing seven extreme flame laws; unsafe without late Nascent Soul cultivation and a formidable body 642.
• Bodhi Seed — Enlightenment treasure used while preparing for a breakthrough 614.
• Cangyuan Hall — Time-compressing treasure whose spirit he binds with a life-and-death contract. Initially suspected to be an Innate Spirit Treasure, it is later identified as a Chaos Supreme Treasure; after restoration, its time ratio settles at fifty to one 732 742 749.
• Xuanhuang Miniature Pagoda — Innate Supreme Treasure that protects him during the battles preceding his middle-stage Quasi-Saint breakthrough 762.
• Friday — Technical assistant that detects hostile satellite surveillance and disables the satellites on his orders 343.
• Qin Plus and Bentley Bentayga — His early car and a later gift from Song Guoan, respectively 15 151.

Relationships

Partners and Companions

• Song Qiuya — Rescued during the jewelry-store hostage crisis and later introduced as his girlfriend. Their relationship survives his admission about Li Xiaoyue; she remains central to his household through the finale 15 79 207 765.
• Li Xiaoyue — His childhood caregiver and most trusted confidante. He removes her from an abusive household and later acknowledges her as another girlfriend 83 119 120 241.
• Qin Chuxia — Openly pursues him despite his existing girlfriend, later becoming part of his intimate household and cultivating alongside his other partners 85 329 499 564.
• Qin Churan — Police captain whose initial questioning develops into friendship, dependence on his healing, and a place among his partners. He supports her investigation into Amei International Hospital 96 240 276 564.
• Zhang Ruoxi — Introduced as Chen Qianqian’s roommate. He later acts as her boyfriend, comforts her after trauma, and confronts the threat behind her family’s framing 52 435.
• Yun Sheng — Saves his life and repairs his divine soul through the Phoenix Yin-Yang Essence Cultivation Art. Their relationship develops into intimacy and parenthood; their son is Chen Yun 564 591 684.
• Clear Wind and Bright Moon — Demon-beast companions who call him Master and communicate mentally. Their control and healing abilities are crucial to his early survival and protection of others 15 58 241 266.

Family

• Chen Guofu — Second uncle who welcomes him home, proudly supports his success, and remains an elder Chen Lin respects despite their enormous difference in power 1 151 520 757.
• Liu Shuqin — Second aunt who treats him like her own son. He intervenes when a customer attempts to bully and extort her 1 67.
• Chen Qianqian — Mischievous younger cousin whose public pranks leave him wary. He later supports her decision to leave university and cultivate 52 464.
• Chen Muyao and Li Jiaojiao — Younger aunt and cousin whom he explicitly considers people he must protect; he arranges accommodation for their visit 218 266.
• Liu Dayong — Liu Shuqin’s nephew and Chen Lin’s childhood protector. Chen Lin remembers his kindness when the family learns he has been deceived into going to Simple Village 379.
• His six children — Reunited with him after a prolonged separation; by that point, they have solid Mahayana or Tribulation Transcendence foundations 757.

Allies and Associates

• Zhao Jie — Close friend and fishing companion, later stunned by Chen Lin’s wealth. Chen Lin helps reunite him with Su Mei 7 79.
• Su Mei — Offered the resort’s general manager position at an annual salary of five hundred thousand yuan plus a profit share 79.
• Song Guoan — Song Qiuya’s father, who entrusts her care to Chen Lin and gives him the Bentley. Chen Lin keeps private the revelation that Ye Qingqing is Qiuya’s biological mother 147 151.
• An Changlin and Xia Xuejun — Officials who commend him after the hostage rescue and give him their private phone numbers 15.
• Li Xiang and An Xin — Police officers repeatedly encountering him at major crime scenes; An Xin privately compares him to a walking “grade-school Grim Reaper” 15 67 175.
• Gao Yuliang and Qi Tongwei — Influential allies who help protect him; Gao introduces him to Qi, whose warning sharpens his urgency to strengthen his household 265 266 276.
• Changqingzi — Cultivation subordinate entrusted with teaching relatives and defending the village while others cultivate inside the painting 464 520.
• Heavenly Hatred True Lord — Artifact-refining subordinate and sparring opponent used to test Chen Lin’s transformed body 580 635.
• Ye Wenjun — Kunlun Action Team leader who initially investigates him and later coordinates Huaxia’s defenses before his departure 329 685.
• Cangyuan — Cangyuan Hall’s damaged artifact spirit, bound to Chen Lin through his True Dragon essence blood 732.
• Ning Yao — Recognizes his Tribulation Transcendence breakthrough and promotes him to centurion under her direct command 732.
• Ling Yuling — Provides the Dao-Comprehending Tea that triggers his Mahayana breakthrough and reveals the battlefield’s uncertainty about its true enemy 713 715.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Local Hero and Resort Proprietor

• Ends the jewelry-store hostage crisis with Clear Wind and Bright Moon’s psychic assistance, seizing a gun and rescuing Song Qiuya 15.
• Protects Liu Ruyan from Feng Shijie and defeats the gang brought to retaliate against him 30.
• Expands his business into a large reservoir resort and recruits Su Mei to manage it 79.
• His wealth, resort, and unusually beneficial restaurant food eventually attract the Kunlun Action Team’s scrutiny 329.

Protecting His Household

• Discovers Li Xiaoyue’s abuse, takes her away from her husband’s family, and later reassures her that she has him to rely on 119 120 209.
• Offers to restore Qin Churan after conventional medicine cannot treat her injuries; Bright Moon repairs roughly thirty percent of the damage during the first documented healing session 240 241 242.
• Seeks senior officials’ help with Qin Churan’s investigation rather than forcing entry into Amei International Hospital 276.
• Responds to an international conspiracy by pursuing enemies overseas under the Jack Smith disguise 305 310 311.
• Rejects Ye Zhentian’s attempt to have him mediate forgiveness from Song Qiuya, insisting that the person harmed must decide for herself 422.

Founding a Cultivating Village

• Conceals Chen Family Village behind a protective formation and ends its tourism business 516 517.
• Distributes three Core Formation cultivation methods to clan members, forbidding disclosure to outsiders and harm against fellow members 517.
• Builds collective strength through cultivation spaces, distributed salvage, defensive formations, and battle puppets 499 580 604 613.
• Helps anchor Huaxia’s Spiritual Energy Great Wall and equips its military before leaving Earth 685.

Myriad Worlds Battlefield

• Must enter the battlefield because the mark on his nascent soul will kill him if he refuses 680.
• Resists the Black Flood Dragon Squad’s demand for a share of his team’s mining profits 692.
• Advances through spirit-crystal cultivation and higher-law body transformation, then receives a centurion’s command 693 702 732.
• Establishes authority over one hundred Mahayana veterans by shattering the Purple Gold Boundary-Setting Stone 732.
• Survives annihilation-law injuries and spends fifty thousand years cultivating within Cangyuan Hall, emerging with peak Great Golden Immortal cultivation and a quasi-saint body 753 755.

Return and Retirement

• Reunites with his elders, cousin, and six children after their long separation 757.
• Spends a thousand years in ordinary family life before reaching early Quasi-Saint, then advances further through battle 758 762.
• Returns from the Chaos Sea as a Sage, holds a village feast, and announces his retirement from fighting 765.

Notable Quotes

“You and Uncle treat me like your own son. How could I stand by while someone bullied you?” 67

“I don't need any favors from either of your families. I'm saving her simply because she's my friend.” 240

“I just want to live a quiet, peaceful life.” 284

“But Song Qiuya was the one you actually hurt. If you want forgiveness, ask her yourself.” 422

“Whatever I am, I'm still Chen Lin.” 520