Mu Chen

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Mu Chen (牧尘)
Alias(es)	Xiao Mu; Chen'er; Spirit Crown Holder; Palace Master Mu Chen; Sovereign Mu Chen 31 45 94 103 112
Species/Race	Human; possesses the innate chaos saint body dao embryo. His physique later transcends ordinary living beings 11 26 112.
Gender	Male 1
Origin	Mu Domain, Northern Spiritual Realm, Hundred Spirits Continent, Great Thousand World 1 3 20
Affiliation	Mu Domain; Northern Spiritual Academy; Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy; Great Luo Heavenly Domain; Ancient Heavenly Palace 1 18 44 62 103
Occupation/Role	Young master of the Mu Domain; cultivator and Spirit Array practitioner; Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy elder; controller of the Great Luo Heavenly Domain; Heavenly Palace master 1 44 53 62 103
Family	Mu Feng — father; Qing Yanjing — mother; Luo Li, Nine Nether, and Tang Qian'er — wives 20 45 112
Status	Alive; has attained Immortal King fruition by his campaign against the Foreign Domain 143.
First Appearance	Northern Spiritual Academy, where his past-life memories awaken 1.

Power Progression

“Supreme” and “Sovereign” both appear in the supplied accounts. Mu Chen's refinement cycles deliberately lower his displayed cultivation while strengthening his foundation and combat power 60 83.

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Late Sensing Realm	1	Starting cultivation when his memories awaken and the Check-in System loads.
First-level spirit body	3	Awakened by killing a Spirit Beast and collecting its soul essence.
Fourth-grade spirit body	5	Reached through repeated Spirit Beast hunts and soul-essence absorption; soul tempering also improves perception and bodily control.
Fifth-grade spirit body	8	Achieved during the Final Spirit Road; ordinary Spirit Beast essences begin providing diminishing returns.
Sixth-level spirit body	10	Reached while hunting in the Final Spirit Road's most dangerous regions.
Seventh-level spirit body	10	Advanced using the essences of the Eight-Legged Ghost-Faced Spider King and Extreme-Cold Ice Python.
Spirit Movement Realm	17	The final spiritual-energy infusion breaks his Sensing Realm bottleneck and carries him through the early, middle, and late stages.
Spirit Wheel Realm	17	Crossed during the same prolonged infusion.
Divine Soul Realm	17	Crossed as the infusion continues over multiple days.
Peak Heaven Fusion Realm	17	The infusion awakens the Chaos Dao Diagram, which consumes a substantial share of the incoming energy.
Heaven Transformation Realm	23	Primordial spiritual energy from the One-Qi Chaos Tower enables his Divine Soul to leave his body and merge with heaven and earth.
Late Heaven Reaching Realm	30	Reached through two months of steady cultivation without additional resources.
Body Tribulation stage	40	Bei Ming Dragon Kun retrospectively notes that Mu Chen could already match a Ninth Grade Sovereign at this stage.
Spiritual Energy Tribulation breakthrough	40	Achieved while absorbing lightning and tempering spiritual energy during his fight with Bei Ming Dragon Kun.
Threefold Divine Soul Tribulation complete	42	Refines thunder marrow; his previous soul tempering makes the tribulation straightforward.
Supreme Realm	44 46	Reaches Supreme after studying the academy's arts and accumulating spiritual energy.
Second Grade Supreme	52	Feedback from completing the Primordial Undying Body raises his cultivation.
Third Grade Supreme	54	Breaks through during his half-month stay in the Northern Spiritual Realm.
Fourth Grade Supreme	55	Reached during the two-month journey to Luo Shen City.
Peak Ninth Grade Sovereign	60	His recorded cultivation immediately before beginning his first foundation-refinement cycle.
First-refinement First Grade Sovereign	60	Converts cultivation into foundational reserves. His displayed realm falls, but his strength more than doubles.
Third-refinement Ninth Grade Sovereign	65	Reached after studying the Great Luo Heavenly Domain's Scripture Pavilion for half a year.
Fourth-refinement Fifth Grade	80	Recorded starting point for his two-month secluded cultivation funded by Tian Huang.
Fourth-refinement Seventh Grade	80	Reached using two hundred million drops of supreme spirit liquid.
Ninth Grade Sovereign	83	Surges through Eighth Grade while refining enormous quantities of Blood Spirit Mud and cultivating the Myriad Spirits Indestructible Body Scripture.
Ninth refinement complete	83	Repeatedly raises and reduces his cultivation to temper his foundation rather than preserving the higher displayed realm.
Nine-refinement Second Grade Supreme	84	Final settled cultivation after the ninth refinement; the Myriad Spirits Indestructible Body Scripture reaches minor accomplishment.
Lower Earthly Sovereign	89 104	Breakthrough occurs during cultivation in the Divine Sea; his body scripture also reaches major completion. His Lower Earthly Sovereign rank is later stated explicitly.
Upper Earthly Sovereign → Earthly Sovereign Great Perfection	104	Uses resources from the Heavenly Palace Conference and four layers of refinement, then continues cycling his Earthly Sovereign foundation.
Heavenly Sovereign	105	Refines the five-element and Time Dao tribulations into his body; the Divine Firmament Calamity-Averting Thunder Body reaches greater mastery.
Saint Grade Peak	108	World power carries his spiritual-energy cultivation through nine revolutions in an instant.
Ruler Realm	108	His consciousness connects with the Great Thousand World, allowing him to perceive its minute changes.
True Immortal	119 120	Completes immortal ascension while battling Yin Yin amid immortal dao thunder and deathly black mist.
Immortal King	138 143	A century refining nine portions of dark origin supplies the reserves for his breakthrough attempt. His attainment is explicitly confirmed later.

Background / History

Mu Chen is the son of Mu Domain Lord Mu Feng and Qing Yanjing. He transmigrated while still in the womb, but remained under prenatal delusion for more than a decade. At the Northern Spiritual Academy, his previous-life memories awaken and merge with his present identity, activating the Check-in System 1 20 45.

His knowledge includes the original story's characters, opportunities, and future dangers. He recognizes Ji Xuan as an early antagonist and plans routes toward the Ancient Heavenly Palace's inheritance before reaching it 13 26 59.

Qing Yanjing left to protect Mu Chen, Mu Feng, and the Mu Domain. When Mu Feng explains her departure and gives him her spiritual art, Mu Chen promises to bring her home 22.

Appearance

• Face: Refined and handsome, initially retaining childishness around his brows and eyes 1.
• Build and bearing: Tall and straight; after the Spirit Road, his youthful immaturity gives way to pronounced calm and depth 19.
• Hair and clothing: Dark hair, usually tied simply behind his head; commonly wears plain black clothes or robes 20 23 127.
• Dragon-and-phoenix markings: Forms two lifelike tattoos after refining a Dragon Phoenix Divine Fruit and the Super Dragon Phoenix Pool's essence 69.
• Cultivation phenomena: Chaos radiance and Dao patterns appear during major transformations, although he can withdraw his energy until he seems almost ordinary 80 105 106.

Personality

Mu Chen combines relaxed confidence with deliberate ambition. He treats the academy entrance trials as a formality, yet actively seeks stronger opponents: against Bei Ming Dragon Kun's avatar, he refuses a simple endurance test and demands a full-strength battle to test his path 29 38.

He is affectionate and teasing with his companions, openly telling Luo Li that he likes her appearance. His protectiveness does not prevent him from respecting her independence: he supports her dangerous inheritance attempt and later accepts her decision to pursue her own cultivation rather than accompany him 7 12 57 59.

His courtesy is selective but genuine. He thanks his teachers, speaks gently to Mu City's guards, and respects predecessors who fought the Outer Realm Evil Clan. Against enemies, he can be detached and ruthless: his first deliberate killings leave him emotionally calm, and he secretly kills numerous Buddha Ancient Clan elders while sparing the clan itself at his mother's request 11 19 20 28 87 95.

Abilities & Skills

Check-in System

A private system activated by the awakening of his past-life memories. Its interface is visible only to Mu Chen and identifies regions where he can check in 1.

• Grants False World, True Realm: Future-Taking Body in the Northern Cang Realm 29.
• Grants the True Dragon Treasure Art and True Phoenix Treasure Art in Dragon Phoenix Heaven 67.
• Grants the Myriad Spirits Indestructible Body Scripture in the Divine Beast Origin 82.
• Grants the Nine Revolutions Origin Art upon entering the Immortal Domain 134.

Innate Chaos Saint Body Dao Embryo

His innate physique supports extraordinary energy absorption, recovery, and the development of a growing divine ability 5 17.

• Its origin light reconstructs his soul after the Chaos Divine Mill shatters it 5.
• Allows him to survive an infusion that would burst the meridians of an ordinary Spirit Road prodigy 17.
• Requires far more spiritual energy than an ordinary cultivator, slowing his displayed advancement despite his enormous intake 17.
• His essence blood later contains exceptional vitality and creation power; he adds it to a pool intended to improve his wives' foundations and potential 112.

Chaos Divine Mill Contemplation Method

A soul-tempering method that repeatedly grinds apart his consciousness and soul before reconstruction 5.

• Expands perception and grants precise control over muscles, blood, and vital energy 5.
• Raises his Divine Soul power far beyond his cultivation realm 23.
• Makes the Divine Soul Tribulation comparatively easy to overcome 42.
• Inflicts extreme agony, with each cycle described as bordering on life and death 5.

Chaos Dao Diagram

An innate divine ability awakened at Heaven Fusion Realm. It anchors his being, evolves arts, and fuses Daos, growing alongside him 17.

• Integrates the essential principles of learned Spirit Arts rather than merely reproducing them 25 44.
• Empowers his body through synthesized offensive, defensive, and movement techniques 25.
• Its Ten Thousand Laws Seal counters Bei Ming Dragon Kun's avatar in close combat 38.
• Serves as one of his four methods for refining Blood Spirit Mud and its embryos 83.

Chaos Cavern Creation Tribulation

A technique developed after integrating the Great Luo Heavenly Domain's legacies with his earlier knowledge. It manifests as devouring darkness without violent outward fluctuations 65.

• Shatters methods whose principles their users understand less deeply than Mu Chen does 65.
• Its effectiveness is explicitly tied to comparative understanding, not merely cultivation rank 65.

Emperor's Fallen Double Pupils

An ocular power used for insight, protection, and attack 25 38 40.

• Void-Piercing Insight accompanies protective radiance that isolates him within a domain described as impervious to techniques 25.
• A destructive black beam from his right eye destroys Bei Ming Dragon Kun's avatar 38.
• Participates in his fourfold refinement of Blood Spirit Mud 83.
• Combining this power with his other strongest methods initially leaves him fatigued 25.

False World, True Realm: Future-Taking Body

A divine ability whose system description concerns making a false realm real, rewriting causes, and altering outcomes 29.

• Lets him enter a personal false world and accelerate toward a desired future, demonstrated when seizing entrance-trial Spirit Seals 30.
• Used to appear above Bei Ming Dragon Kun's Thunder Sun at the moment it forms 40.
• Remains part of his defensive arsenal against an Immortal King's attack 120.

Foundation Refinement

The Supreme Ninefold Refinement Spirit Pivot Scripture converts accumulated cultivation into deeper reserves through repeated cycles 60.

• His first cycle reduces him from Peak Ninth Grade to First Grade while more than doubling his strength 60.
• Later cycles similarly lower his outward realm while improving actual combat power 83.
• He continues using nine-cycle spiritual-energy refinement within the Earthly Sovereign realm 104.

Body-Tempering Arts

• Primordial Undying Body: Mu Chen's adaptation of the Great Sun Undying Body, replacing required treasures with chaos energy and modifying the method for his constitution. Its completion advances him to Second Grade Supreme 50 52.
• Divine Firmament Calamity-Averting Thunder Body: Strengthened alongside his other body arts; reaches greater mastery after absorbing the Heavenly Sovereign Tribulation's five-element and Time Dao forces 83 105.
• Myriad Spirits Indestructible Body Scripture: Refines beast essence into bodily strength. Reaches minor accomplishment after the ninth refinement and major completion in the Divine Sea; regeneration from a single drop of blood is a stated full-mastery capability 82 84 89.
• Eight-Nine Mystical Art: Allows him to withstand repeated destruction and regeneration while refining immortal light and black lightning, until neither can harm him 118.

Dragon, Phoenix, and Flame Techniques

• True Dragon Treasure Art: Its reward description emphasizes heaven-rending claws and a roar that subdues the nine nether depths 67.
• True Phoenix Treasure Art: Includes nirvana through fiery rebirth and imperishable true fire 67.
• Undying flame: Recreates a wisp after observing the flame used in Nine Nether's inheritance trial 85.
• Guixu Dao Flame: Used in refining Blood Spirit Mud and purifying the ingredients of his wives' cultivation pool 83 112.
• Solar True Flame and Nirvana Flame: Counters Yin Yin's lunar flame with Solar True Flame; later combines Solar True Flame and Nirvana Flame in his five-element attack 119 120.

Five Elements and Incarnations

The Great Five Elements Divine Ability gives him coordinated control over metal, wood, water, fire, and earth 116.

• Produces sword qi, restorative wood vitality, waves, destructive flame, and stabilizing earth power 116.
• Reverses the five elements to destroy an Immortal King's attacking hand 120.
• The Five-Aggregate True Refinement Art strengthens his body and expands his divine sense 116.
• Combines the Great Five Elements Divine Ability, One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones, and Freedom Transformation Grand Art to deploy fourteen coordinated incarnations against Yin Yin 119 120.

Spirit Arrays

Mu Chen begins formal array study under Wen Ling and later seeks Ling Xi's guidance 28 45.

• Constructs a ninth-level spirit gathering array for Mu City 53.
• Links it to a concealed defensive array protecting the entire city 53.
• Plans array improvements for both the Mu Domain and Northern Spiritual Alliance 53.

Spatial and World Travel

• Moves himself and Nine Nether ten thousand miles through space to escape Dragon Phoenix Heaven's insect swarms 67.
• Carries companions through the hostile void outside the Divine Beast Origin 80 81.
• Creates stable spatial passages after attaining Heavenly Sovereign 106.
• Uses a World Anchor to connect to another world and sends an incarnation ahead to investigate it 112.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• One-Qi Chaos Tower — Supplies primordial spiritual energy, suppresses opponents, refines materials, and serves as a striking weapon. Later reforged with immortal metals and divine materials into a weapon comparable to an Immortal King Weapon 23 25 40 83 127.
• Great Pagoda Art — Spiritual art left by Qing Yanjing; its orthodox Nine-Tiered Pagoda enables Ling Xi to recognize his connection to her 45.
• Dao Pagoda — A three-foot pagoda used to freeze the entire Futuo Realm, including Futuo Xuan and the Futu Ancestral Pagoda 94.
• Great Sumeru Demon Pillar — Suppresses its baleful energy and stores it in his Supreme Sea for nurturing 50.
• White Dragon Spirit Pearl — An opportunity intended to aid a breakthrough to Heavenly Sovereign. He ultimately advances without it, then uses White Dragon Supreme's projection to locate the latter's homeland 106.
• Futu Ancestral Pagoda — Taken from the Buddha Ancient Clan as part of his compensation after rescuing Qing Yanjing 95.
• World Anchor — Establishes a controlled passage to a random world and secures his acceptance after that world's will initially rejects him 112.
• Stone stele — Suppresses an Immortal's attack and gravely wounds him before Mu Chen finishes him with Primordial Unity Tribulation Light 119.
• Seven Arrows Book — Destroys Immortal King Qing Ze's primordial spirit and later helps capture Wushang 126 143.
• World Annihilation incense — Surrendered to him by the woman in the ancient realm 126.
• Immortal-Refining Pot — Later drawn into his inner world and refined alongside Kundi by the One-Qi Chaos Tower 143.
• Origin Ancient Artifact — Captured and sealed inside the One-Qi Chaos Tower during his Foreign Domain campaign 143.

Relationships

• Mu Feng — Father and Mu Domain Lord. Mu Chen returns to ease his burdens, fortifies Mu City, and brings him to reunite with Qing Yanjing 19 20 53 94 95.
• Qing Yanjing — Mother and source of his Great Pagoda Art. His promise to rescue her culminates in his assault on the Buddha Ancient Clan 22 45 94 95.
• Luo Li — Spirit Road partner, lover, and later wife. Their bond develops through repeated rescues, a promise of lifelong friendship, and his support for her independent cultivation 6 11 12 57 59 112.
• Tang Qian'er — Childhood friend and later wife. He reassures her when their cultivation gap becomes intimidating and promises help at the Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy 23 28 30 112.
• Nine Nether — Initially suppressed by Mu Chen, then becomes his partner through a bargain involving divine-beast evolution and entry to the Great Luo Heavenly Domain. Later one of his wives 25 26 42 112.
• Wen Qingxuan — Former rival and academy peer. Travels with his group; he later encourages her after an arena defeat and gives her a jade token containing his spiritual projection 46 53 103.
• Luo Tianshen — Luo Li's grandfather. Initially tests Mu Chen's suitability, then welcomes him as a powerful figure deserving respect 55 56 57.
• Academy Head Xiao and Master Mo — Early educators who celebrate his Spirit Road victory and help direct him toward the Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy 19.
• Wen Ling — Introduces him to Spirit Arrays; Mu Chen formally thanks him for opening that path 28.
• Ling Xi — Spirit Array mentor connected to Qing Yanjing. Recognizes him as the Xiao Mu mentioned by “Aunt Jing” 45.
• Bei Ming Dragon Kun — Senior opponent and benefactor. Their battle helps Mu Chen overcome the Spiritual Energy Tribulation; his support also opens the academy's arts to Mu Chen 40 44.
• Mandala — Mu Chen cures her curse and gains her service and control of the Great Luo Heavenly Domain through their agreement 62.
• Cai Xiao / Xiao Xiao — Trades a Dragon Phoenix Divine Fruit for access to divine abilities from the Endless Fire Domain; later receives his assistance in advancing to Earthly Sovereign 69 74 103 104.
• Xiao Yan — Praises Mu Chen and grants access to the Endless Fire Domain's Scripture Pavilion, including permission to choose a hundred divine abilities 74.
• Lin Jing — Receives a Heavenly River infusion and guidance from his incarnation to advance to Earthly Sovereign 103 104.
• Ji Xuan — Spirit Road antagonist whom Mu Chen defeats and kills with a single palm strike 14.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Spirit Road

• Hunts Spirit Beasts, accumulates soul essence, and seizes competitors' Blood Tokens to strengthen his spirit body 5 8 10.
• Rescues Luo Li twice, treats her poisoned wounds, and forms a partnership that develops into romance 6 10 11 12 18.
• Kills Ji Xuan, reaches the Final Gate, wins the Spirit Crown, and receives the exceptional infusion that carries him to Peak Heaven Fusion Realm 14 17 19.

Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy

• Chooses the academy with Luo Li, enters alongside Tang Qian'er, and becomes widely recognized as the Spirit Crown Holder 18 29 31.
• Defeats Bei Ming Dragon Kun's avatar, then battles the senior directly and advances through tribulations 38 40 42.
• Studies the academy's accumulated arts, becomes a Supreme, accepts elder privileges, and seeks Ling Xi's array instruction 44 45.
• Explores White Dragon Supreme's treasury and develops the Primordial Undying Body 46 50 52.

Mu Domain and Luo God Clan

• Returns home and installs city-wide gathering and defensive arrays 53.
• Travels to Luo Shen City, wins Luo Tianshen's respect, and supports Luo Li's pursuit of the Luo God Inheritance 55 56 57.
• Respects Luo Li's decision to remain behind, leaves her protective trump cards, and heads toward Blood God Clan territory before departing for Tianluo 59.

Great Luo Heavenly Domain and Divine Beast Origin

• Cures Mandala and gains control of the Great Luo Heavenly Domain 62.
• Develops Chaos Cavern Creation Tribulation, obtains dragon-and-phoenix treasure arts, and negotiates access to the Endless Fire Domain's divine abilities 65 67 69 74.
• Burns away the meteorite belt outside the Divine Beast Origin while preserving its Blood Spirit Mud, then uses the harvest to complete his ninth refinement 81 83.
• Cultivates in the Divine Sea and breaks through to Earthly Sovereign 89.

Family Rescue and Tianluo Unification

• Breaks the Buddha Ancient Clan's defenses, freezes its realm, and reunites his parents 94 95.
• Spares the clan from extermination at Qing Yanjing's request, but takes its ancestral pagoda and treasury and secretly kills numerous elders 95.
• Unifies Tianluo Continent as its major factions submit to him within his ten-day deadline 98.
• Defeats Maha Tian at the Heavenly Palace Conference, answers the assembled Heavenly Sovereigns' cultivation questions, and concludes the event 103.

Heavenly Sovereign and Ruler

• Uses the conference's trillion drops of supreme spirit liquid to reach Heavenly Sovereign without relying on the White Dragon Spirit Pearl 104 105 106.
• Enters the Outer Realm and openly attacks the Evil Clan 107.
• Attains the Ruler Realm through incoming world power. By the time he prepares his wives' cultivation pool, he is credited with killing the Heavenly Evil God and reclaiming half the lost lands 108 112.

Perfect World and Immortal Domain

• Activates the World Anchor, identifies the connected realm as the Perfect World, and studies its cultivation principles 112 114.
• Becomes a True Immortal while fighting Yin Yin and withstands an Immortal King's intervention 119 120.
• Kills Immortal King Qing Ze, exchanges an Immortal Dao Scripture for forging materials, upgrades the One-Qi Chaos Tower, and expounds the Dao at the Imperial Pass for a year 126 127.
• Returns to his wives in the Great Thousand World but decides against exposing them to cultivation risks in the Perfect World 127.
• Enters the Immortal Domain, resists Ao Sheng's attack, and obtains weapon-reforging materials from Ao Sheng, Tai Shi, and Yuan Chu 134.
• Refines dark origin for a century to prepare his Immortal King breakthrough 137 138.
• Refines Kundi, kills nearly all the Foreign Domain's Immortal King powerhouses, seals its Origin Ancient Artifact, and prepares to refine the entire domain 143.

Notable Quotes

“Luo Li, will you be my friend for life?” 12

“Before long, I'll bring Mother home.” 22

“I respect and support Luo Li's wishes, and I have faith in her.” 57

“Seeing through something does not necessarily mean you can let it go.” 134