Su Chen

Biodata

Power Progression

Background / History

Su Chen awakens in a world where Ancestor Symbols allow historical ancestors to reappear and empower their descendants. After absorbing his new memories, he discovers that Huaxia’s ancient history has largely vanished from its records. His previous-life knowledge lets him recognize its unidentified Ancestor Symbol as a cauldron 1.

His identity in this world is that of a 21-year-old sophomore from an ordinary working-class family, studying a subject unrelated to history. Although he comes from another world, the memories of both lives give him genuine affection for his current family and friends 4 18.

After granting him his inheritance, Dayu reveals that Su Chen’s arrival was deliberate rather than accidental. Su Chen later recalls that Huaxia’s ancestors burned their remnant souls to bring him there. Their precise reasons for choosing him remain unknown, while Dayu warns of an approaching great calamity 15 50.

Appearance

• Unchanged physical appearance: Receiving Dayu’s inheritance transforms his presence but does not alter his appearance 14.
• Flashes of light in his eyes: Two points of light briefly appear when the inheritance transfer finishes 14.
• Golden radiance: His ancestral power surrounds him with dazzling golden light, which he can withdraw into his body 14 15.
• Battle aura: Fully displayed inheritance power produces nearly tangible golden currents and a hurricane rising over the beach 31.

Personality

Su Chen treats inherited power as a responsibility rather than a personal triumph. Instead of celebrating wildly after receiving Dayu’s legacy, he becomes solemn at the burden of protecting Huaxia. He continues addressing Li Shuhua respectfully despite gaining a status that could place him above ordinary authorities 14 15.

He remains composed under national scrutiny and thinks strategically under pressure. His proposal to conceal Huaxia’s strength and lure Haidong into an invasion impresses Zhu Yuanzheng and Li Shuhua. His apparently dangerous solo journey to Sakura is also calculated: he expects the awakened Qin Shi Huang to protect him rather than relying on his own strength against an entire country 17 22 50.

His loyalty centers on the country and its ordinary people, not hereditary superiority. He explicitly rejects the idea that awakened descendants are nobler than others. This concern extends to controlling who receives power, while his conduct toward invaders is merciless: he refuses Jin Dachang’s offers of wealth and kills him 34 36 39.

Abilities & Skills

Lost Historical Knowledge

Su Chen retains knowledge of Huaxia’s history that is absent from the new world’s records 1.

• Identifies the cauldron and awakens Dayu, restoring knowledge of Huaxia’s ancient heritage 5 8.
• Explains dynasties, historical figures, and the origins of surnames descended from Dayu to Li Shuhua and Zhu Yuanzheng 18 20.
• Recognizes the shattered bronze mirror as another country’s symbol rather than Huaxia’s 41 43.
• Recounts Great Qin’s history and awakens Qin Shi Huang through the Imperial Seal 47 48 49.
• Allows Li Shuhua’s explanation of ancestral dream visitations to stand rather than revealing his transmigration 19.

Absolute Inheritance

Dayu entrusts Su Chen with authority normally exercised by the ancestor phantom itself, making him more powerful and influential than an ordinary inheritor 14.

• Gains strength and speed far beyond those of an ordinary person 14.
• Senses descendants carrying Dayu’s bloodline, including distant relations, and can awaken them with a thought 19.
• Identifies 300 million descendants within Huaxia, excluding those overseas 19.
• Awakens approximately one million defenders together by releasing points of light 34.
• Can revoke their awakening powers at any time 14 39.
• Does not automatically awaken every descendant: candidates undergo screening to prevent inherited power from enabling crime or oppression 39.

Golden Inheritance Power

Su Chen can direct his ancestral energy outward for protection, displacement, and combat 15 34 50.

• Pushes surrounding reporters backward without injuring them 15.
• Creates a golden barrier that blocks simultaneous attacks from tens of thousands of Haidong Awakened 34.
• Splits his power into hundreds of streams, throwing back more than a hundred attacking Sakura Awakened 50.
• Forms an expanding ring to push approaching Qin Clan members away from immediate danger 50.
• Matches Noda Shino’s released energy with roughly half as much power, revealing greater purity 50.
• His barrier trembles under sustained attacks; Jin Dachang attempts to exhaust his inheritance power through repeated strikes 34.

Divine Artifact Command

Su Chen’s complete inheritance allows him to command Dayu’s divine artifacts 32 35.

• Uses the Nine Provinces Cauldron to annihilate Haidong’s fleet and seal the enemy’s retreat 32 36.
• Manifests the Mountain-Splitting Axe from golden light and leads the charge into Haidong’s forces 35.
• Cuts through enemy Awakened who cannot withstand the axe and ultimately kills Jin Dachang 35 36.

Strategy and Public Speaking

Su Chen combines military planning with appeals to shared history and national solidarity 12 22.

• Uses disaster relief and firefighter Liu Zejun’s sacrifice to demonstrate the compassion of Huaxia’s descendants to Dayu 12.
• Conceals the scale of Dayu’s surviving bloodline to preserve Huaxia’s deterrence and avoid provoking a coalition against it 22.
• Proposes drawing Haidong into aggression to justify retaliation and expose disloyal people within Huaxia 22.
• Delays the coastal defenders’ awakening until their actions demonstrate courage and unity against a stronger enemy 34.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Nine Provinces Cauldron — Huaxia’s first Ancestor Symbol and Dayu’s divine artifact. Su Chen awakens it, commands it against Haidong’s fleet, and receives the descendants’ recognition with it standing behind him 5 32 37.
• Mountain-Splitting Axe — Dayu’s divine artifact, associated with opening Dragon Gate during his flood-control efforts. Su Chen manifests it in battle and uses it to execute Jin Dachang 35 36.

Relationships

• Dayu — Ancestor and source of his absolute inheritance. Entrusts him with protecting the Nine Provinces and warns him of the coming calamity before returning permanently to the cauldron 14 15.
• Zhu Yuanzheng — General and strategic collaborator. Progresses from skepticism to trust, promises national support, and orders extensive protection for everyone connected to Su Chen 4 17 19 22.
• Li Shuhua — Director of the History Research Institute. Secures Su Chen’s opportunity to inspect the first symbol, then comes to regard his historical knowledge with the respect due a teacher 5 13 18.
• Dayu’s descendants — Bloodline descendants whose awakening rests in his hands. The coastal defenders follow him into battle and acknowledge him as their ancestor’s entrusted inheritor 14 34 37.
• Jin Dachang — Haidong’s inheritor and enemy. Plans Su Chen’s assassination, leads the invasion of Huaxia, and is killed by him after the invasion fails 17 27 36.
• Qin Shi Huang / Ying Zheng — Second Huaxian ancestor awakened by Su Chen. Su Chen appeals to his oath to protect Huaxia when the Qin Clan faces Sakura’s blades; no inheritance transfer is documented in the provided events 49 50.
• Qin Clan — Descendants who independently travel to Sakura to protect Su Chen and recover their ancestral symbol. Their willingness to face death moves him to tears 47 50.
• Noda Shino — Sakura’s inheritor and opponent. Accuses Su Chen of stealing Sakura’s symbol and orders his forces to kill him and the intervening Qin descendants 49 50.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Awakening Dayu

• National crisis: Huaxia turns to the ordinary student as a last hope while Haidong demands its Ancestor Symbol 4.
• Historical vindication: Su Chen awakens Dayu and challenges Haidong’s claims that Huaxia descends from it, identifying the Hwandan Gogi account as fabricated 5 8.
• Recognition of the descendants: He answers Dayu’s questions honestly, acknowledging continued suffering from floods, then presents the mutual aid and self-sacrifice of modern Huaxia 9 12.
• Entrusted successor: Dayu grants him absolute inheritance and the duty of guarding the Nine Provinces 14 15.

Haidong Invasion and Huaxia’s Rise

• Hidden preparations: Su Chen works with Zhu Yuanzheng and Li Shuhua to conceal Huaxia’s potential and select bloodline awakening candidates 22 26.
• Coastal mobilization: Huaxia gathers 1,003,756 descendants of Dayu against Haidong’s 130,000 Awakened 27.
• Decisive battle: He destroys the fleet, protects and awakens the defenders, and leads them into battle before killing Jin Dachang 32 34 35 36.
• Lasting consequences: His victory makes him a national symbol and alarms hostile foreign inheritors. Great Xia enters Huaxia’s textbooks, while subsequent awakenings proceed under screening and oversight 38 39.

The Second Symbol and Sakura

• Misidentified wreckage: Su Chen determines that the broken mirror recovered in Huaxia is not its second symbol 40 41.
• Ancestral conflict theory: He proposes that godlike ancestors control the symbols’ descent, preparing descendants for a calamity while competing with rival factions. He connects the Yata Mirror to Amaterasu-Ōmikami; these remain his deductions 43.
• Solo recovery attempt: He travels to Sakura to activate Huaxia’s Imperial Seal before Sakura can claim its inheritance 45 46.
• Awakening Great Qin: His historical account summons Qin Shi Huang’s phantom, provoking Sakura’s attacks and international condemnation 48 49.
• Defense of the Qin descendants: He intervenes when Qin Clan members rush to protect him, then invokes the First Emperor’s oath and calls upon the phantom to defend them 50.

Notable Quotes

“I will never fail the trust you have placed in me, Ancestor!” 14

“What you awaken today is not a superior bloodline! It is the ancestral blood passed down by Huaxia’s forebears!” 34

“It's true that I can't protect these descendants of the Qin Family! But their ancestor can!” 50