Chu Xingchen

Biodata

Power Progression

Background / History

Chu Xingchen remembers a previous life before arriving in the cultivation world. He spent three years trying to recruit a disciple who satisfied his system, which only recognized candidates with the qualifications to become immortals 1 29.

During his travels through the Black Tortoise Kingdom, trouble with other cultivators drove him to practice escape techniques. He eventually hid in the Ruined Temple after offending a kingdom minister. By the time he left the temple, that minister no longer frightened him; the Clearwind Sect’s Nascent Soul patriarch was a much greater threat 4 25.

Appearance

• Young and exceptionally handsome: Shangguan Hong and Zhao Wanqing both encounter him as a youthful-looking man whose cultivation they cannot sense 8 37.
• Striking eyes: Wanyun describes his eyes as seeming to glitter with stardust 33.
• Initially shabby clothing: During the mine raid, he wears worn clothes and conceals his face behind a demon mask 22.
• Later improved dress: Clothes purchased by Li Yingling noticeably elevate his bearing, a change even Yaoqin acknowledges 47.

Personality

Chu Xingchen habitually presents himself as an inscrutable expert, using information from his system to make ordinary deductions look like profound insight. When recruiting Li Xingtian, he turns knowledge of the boy’s regressor trait into remarks about the “karma of time.” He also invents a Central Continent affiliation when questioning Ning Qianqian 6 15.

His caution is practical rather than ceremonial. He lays false trails, conceals his strength, supplies escape talismans, and plans around the strongest possible enemy. Although willing to rescue strangers, he explicitly refuses to gamble his disciples’ lives for them 4 12 18 31.

He is affectionate, teasing, and rarely puts on a master’s airs around his disciples. He cooks for them and accommodates reasonable requests, but also dodges chores and openly relies on their cultivation to advance his own. His concern for money is particularly sharp: despite having plentiful gold and silver, he lacks usable spirit stones and readily abandons dignity when payment is threatened 11 29 31 47.

Abilities & Skills

Trait Inspection and Recruitment System

Chu Xingchen can inspect a target’s cultivation, color-ranked traits, and eligibility for discipleship 6 8 14.

• Candidate detection: The system alerts him when a qualified prospective disciple appears nearby 6.
• Character assessment: He identifies Li Xingtian’s loyalty and regression, Shangguan Hong’s scheming and heart demons, and Guan Quan’s flexible moral boundaries 6 8 42.
• Combat intelligence: Inspecting Mo Chen reveals an acquired demon body and inner demon possession after the elder survives a normally fatal wound 22.
• Recruitment restriction: Ning Qianqian does not qualify despite having resolve, loyalty, and cleverness 14.
• Uncertain edge case: Yuankong’s assessment briefly alternates between eligible and ineligible. Chu Xingchen suspects the novice’s cultivation-impaired constitution is responsible, but this remains his interpretation 50.

Disciple Cultivation and Comprehension Feedback

The system returns disciple progress to Chu Xingchen, allowing him to grow without matching their training effort 2 8 29.

• Cultivation return: Li Yingling reaching the second level of Qi Refining triggers a notification returning 100% of her cultivation 2.
• Shared comprehension: Her initial mastery of the Three Thousand Weak Waters Sword immediately grants him corresponding mastery 8.
• Passive advancement: Li Xingtian’s cultivation sends streams of pure spiritual energy into him while he fishes 29.
• Remote monitoring: The frequency of those returns lets him judge how diligently Li Xingtian is cultivating 29.

Quest Rewards and Teaching Materials

Recruitment and disciple milestones unlock techniques and sect resources 1 5 10.

• Recruiting Li Yingling supplies a cultivation method suited to her single-attribute water spiritual root 1.
• Her Foundation Establishment breakthrough awards the Three Thousand Weak Waters Sword and opens regular recruitment quests 5.
• Recruiting Li Xingtian awards the Spirit-Gathering Formation and the Primordial Chaos Demon Bone Body-Refining Divine Art 10.
• Recruiting three qualified disciples is listed as the requirement for a True Martial Hall; its acquisition is not documented in the supplied chapters 5.

Three Thousand Weak Waters Sword

His strongest documented offensive technique is a water-aspected sword divine ability, initially mastered through Li Yingling’s progress 8 22.

• Channels Sword Qi through improvised implements, including chopsticks, which produce a small white dragon of Sword Qi and spiritual energy 8.
• Wraps a spiritual sword in water-dragon-shaped Sword Qi and destroys half of Mo Chen’s body in a surprise attack 22.
• Releases fine, flowing-water-like threads that sever and erode Mo Chen’s blood-mist form 22.
• Can produce a tsunami-like cascade of sword intent; Chu Xingchen withdraws a finishing strike when Li Xingtian asks him to spare Mo Chen temporarily 23.
• Its first devastating strike does not immediately kill Mo Chen, whose demon body regenerates by consuming nearby miners 22.

Movement and Escape

• Earth escape: A system-granted technique specifically intended for fleeing. Diligent practice makes it extremely fast, and he can carry another person with him 4 14.
• Rainbow-light movement: Travels rapidly through the air and closes distance during combat 7 8 22.
• Pursuit evasion: Repeatedly changes direction and leaves false trails before returning to his base 4 8 25.

Spiritual Sense and Formations

• Uses spiritual sense to locate people, check injuries, and verify whether anyone is following him 6 9 44.
• Conceals his aura and limits his apparent output to roughly early Foundation Establishment when helping A Nian 14 31.
• Sets hidden alert formations powered by traces of his own spiritual energy, requiring no spirit stones 26.
• Places a concealment formation around Li Xingtian’s room to prevent cultivation fluctuations from attracting attention 29.
• Can lay out the awarded Spirit-Gathering Formation, but lacks the materials and usable spirit stones needed to complete it 11 47.

Cooking and Medicinal Preparation

• Cooking: Prepares meals enjoyed by his disciples and Yaoqin 3 35.
• Cultivation medicine: Brews a bitter liquid from stolen spiritual herbs to support Li Yingling’s breakthrough 4 5.
• Healing medicine: Treats Li Xingtian’s severe injuries and later prepares an iron-wok medicine that begins healing Zhao Wanqing despite an intense reaction 9 40.
• Emergency acupuncture: Seals an injured Bureau member’s meridians with silver needles and helps A Nian suppress hostile blood energy. He nevertheless states that he is not a physician 30 31.

Persuasion and Deception

• Uses poetry, flattery, and a cultivated gentlemanly manner to charm acquaintances 33 34 35.
• Persuades Li Xingtian that sect membership need not restrict his freedom, provided his heart remains with the sect 10.
• Coordinates a staged battle with Li Xingtian disguised as an evil cultivator, successfully deceiving Zhao Wanqing 44.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Spiritual sword — Stored in his Spatial Ring and used to channel the Three Thousand Weak Waters Sword 22.
• Spatial Ring — Holds supplies and weapons; becomes filled with blood-tainted spirit stones taken from the Clearwind Sect warehouse 14 23 25.
• Demon mask — Conceals his face during the mine raid; Li Xingtian later uses a demon mask for his evil-cultivator disguise 22 44.
• Thousand-Mile Teleportation Talismans — Gives two to Li Xingtian, marked so he can sense where his disciple teleports 12.
• Protective talisman — Can withstand Golden Core attacks. Previously protected him during Foundation Establishment; later entrusted to Li Xingtian 12.
• Random Teleportation Runes — Emergency escape items supplied to both disciples for the mine operation 22.
• Blood Qi Spirit Stones — Valuable but unusable for ordinary purchases; he seeks purification through Yaoqin and permits Li Xingtian to cultivate with them 27 28 29.

Relationships

• Li Yingling — First and eldest disciple. Her recruitment grants his Flawless Golden Core, and her sword comprehension strengthens him. Their relationship is affectionate and full of teasing; she ranks him first in her affections 1 8 31.
• Li Xingtian — Second disciple, a loyal regressor whose life he saves. Chu Xingchen trusts him with protective items, consults his previous-life knowledge, and assigns him investigative work 8 10 12 37.
• Yaoqin — Longstanding acquaintance whom he approaches for help purifying spirit stones. She worries that his rapid advancement indicates evil cultivation, confirms his energy is untainted, and later promises to cover Zhao Wanqing’s debt. No formal romantic relationship is established 27 34 35 45 47.
• Ning Qianqian — Mortal girl he rescues near the mine and temporarily shelters while arranging to save her father. She does not meet his system’s recruitment requirements 14 15 18.
• Ning Kun — Ning Qianqian’s father. After his rescue, Chu Xingchen gives father and daughter provisions and silver and sends them east to safety 25.
• Zhao Wanqing — Investigator referred by Yaoqin. He agrees to assist for payment, treats her injuries, and conceals the staged nature of his encounter with an “evil cultivator” 37 40 44.
• A Nian — Young physician he assists in treating the injured Bureau member. She thanks him and invites him to claim a reward 30 31.
• Clearwind Sect — Enemy sect whose exploitation of disciples and miners draws his intervention. Its Nascent Soul patriarch forces him to relocate despite his advantage over its Golden Core elders 8 22 25.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Establishing the Heavenly Dao Alliance

• Recruits Li Yingling at the ruined temple, providing an alternative to her unwanted marriage 1.
• Steals spiritual herbs to support her cultivation, then gains a divine ability when she reaches Foundation Establishment 3 4 5.
• Names his sect the Heavenly Dao Alliance while courting Li Xingtian as a disciple; later rescues and successfully recruits him 6 8 10.

Clearwind Sect Mine Raid

• Learns of the spirit-stone mine from Li Xingtian and frames the proposed raid as revenge for the sect’s victims 12.
• Scouts the mine, rescues Ning Qianqian, and prepares retreat contingencies against possible Nascent Soul intervention 14 18.
• Overwhelms Mo Chen while Li Xingtian operates inside the mine, then empties the warehouse of blood-tainted spirit stones 22 23.
• Sends Ning Qianqian and Ning Kun to safety and evacuates the entire sect to Yuzhou City 25.

Yuzhou City Investigation

• Rents a courtyard residence for six months and asks Yaoqin to resolve the unusable spirit-stone haul 26 27.
• Fishes an injured Demon-Suppression Bureau member out of the river; the blood energy attacking him resembles that in the stolen stones 29 30 31.
• Assists Zhao Wanqing’s investigation, uncovering Ritual Foundation Stone purchases tied to the Spirit Evil Cult from Central Province 37 42.
• Stages a confrontation with Li Xingtian before agreeing to withdraw from the Clearwind Sect matter after Yaoqin’s warning 44 45.

Temple Fair and Waterwood Dharma Assembly

• Takes both disciples to the temple fair and joins Yaoqin at the Dharma Assembly 45 47.
• Inspects Yuankong’s unusual traits and predicts that the assembly’s wish power is intended for him 50.
• Bets Yaoqin on that prediction, accepting a penalty of twice the promised spirit stones if he loses. The result is not documented in the supplied context 50.

Notable Quotes

“As long as your heart remains with the sect, you're free to roam to the ends of the earth.” 10

“My heart is full of light. What more is there to say?” 22

“My fine disciples! Come on! We're making a run for it!” 25

Trivia

• The Millennium Bone Jade sought by Li Xingtian was being used to prop up a table leg in Chu Xingchen’s temple 6.
• He defeats Li Yingling in every round of a dice game despite her Strong Fortune trait. He does not establish why she loses 18.
• His leisurely fishing produces no fish over several days; his eventual catch is an injured man initially mistaken for a corpse 29 30.