Yue Chen

Biodata

Power Progression

Background / History

Yue Chen’s memories identify his parents as knights who died fighting demons shortly after his birth. He remembers neither their faces nor their names. The Demon-Resisting Sub-Temple adopted him, and he grew up training alongside its other knight trainees 2 158.

After recognizing his talent, Han Qian brought him to the Holy City for further training. Long Xingyu subsequently became his teacher, passing down cultivation insights, signature techniques, and an Inheritance Ring that allowed him to study advanced knight skills 7 76 100 158 289.

Yue Chen has lived two lives and knows events from the story’s original timeline. Initially, he considers himself a traveler in this world. His bond with Long Haochen and Li Xin eventually gives him a sense of belonging and a family he does not want to leave behind 148 243 307.

The Long Family Misunderstanding

Long Haochen begins suspecting that Yue Chen is his biological older brother after recognizing Long Xingyu’s Nine Dragon Steps. Ye Hua interprets the available evidence as proof, while Li Xin and Cai’er also accept the supposed relationship 100.

Although Cai’er later tells Xue Meng that the two share a father, Yue Chen himself understands Long Xingyu to be his teacher—not his father. He remains unaware that others regard him as Long Haochen’s half-brother, and later explicitly accepts Long Haochen and Li Xin as chosen family 148 186 243.

The belief spreads beyond their immediate companions. Granny San Shui regards his upbringing as evidence that he belongs to the Long Family, and Long Tianyin feels that the family has neglected him. These assumptions are not accompanied by independent confirmation of his parentage in the provided events 259 277 290.

Appearance

• Hair: Smooth black hair 12.
• Eyes: Pale golden eyes associated with his exceptional affinity for light; his right eye channels azure star power in combat 12 122.
• Build: Initially somewhat scrawny, later taller, sturdy, and well-proportioned after improved nutrition and medicinal baths 12.
• Facial features: Exceptionally handsome; his 100 charm points contribute to an appearance more mature than his actual age 12 148.
• Spirit Wings: Brilliant blue wings manifested after his sixth-tier breakthrough 148 150.
• Moon Demon disguise: Demon Masks turn his eyes purple and give him a Moon Demon-like aura, with comparatively little alteration to his face 156.

Personality

Yue Chen is cautious about exposing his advantages. Early on, he avoids another sparring session with Han Qian because his suddenly maximized skills might attract attention. He also refuses to underestimate weaker opponents when they may possess hidden trump cards 6 142.

His humor is teasing and often calculating. He embarrasses Long Haochen about Cai’er and later preserves reminders of Haochen’s Moon Demon disguise. Nevertheless, he repeatedly helps Haochen, encourages his potential, and becomes genuinely moved by his promise of support 54 148 186 200.

As captain, Yue Chen prioritizes his companions’ survival and long-term strength. He shares merit points, provides Spirit Furnaces, and insists that the squad balance cultivation with proper rest 122 240 257 279.

His restraint in romance comes partly from fear that he may not survive his condition. Once together with Chen Ying’er, he rejects the idea of pursuing anyone else. He also has little interest in governing the Alliance after the war, preferring future adventures with her and their companions 237 257 296 307.

Abilities & Skills

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• Attribute allocation: Tier breakthroughs award free attribute points, which he assigns to charm, innate internal spiritual power, and mental power 6 7 163.
• Skill points: Can unlock skills and rapidly maximize proficiency; his mastered knight techniques can be cast with exceptional speed 151 169.
• Identification Tool: Reveals names, allowing him to identify Chen Ying’er 50.
• Practical learning: Conserves points by developing Ancient Combat Technique Mastery through tower battles and learning much of his necromancy without point expenditure 193 200.
• Limitation: Powerful skills become increasingly expensive to unlock, eventually making his remaining stockpile worth conserving 167 193 200.

Child of Light and Three-Element Constitution

• Passive cultivation: His body automatically absorbs surrounding light and converts it into spiritual power, even when he is not actively cultivating 146.
• Three-element absorption: After reaching the sixth tier, can absorb light, stellar, and spatial energy through his Spirit Apertures 150 157.
• Recovery: His first aperture increases recovery to at least ten times his fifth-tier rate; with all three elements available, he can recover three times faster than other professionals of the same tier 150 157.
• Energy supply: The Nebula Spirit Furnace continuously supplies stellar and spatial elements, which are not normally available on the Holy Demon Continent 157.
• Flight: Uses spiritual-power wings to fly and carry Long Haochen into the cavern fissure 169.

Retribution Knight Combat

Yue Chen combines dual-sword technique with stacked elemental and knight enhancements 122 151.

• Slaughtering Circular Sword: Long Xingyu’s rotating offensive technique; uses an opponent’s force against them 103 122.
• Rising Dragon Strike: A powerful fifth-tier Retribution Knight attack used against Long Haochen 105.
• Lock-On: Makes attack skills track a selected target. The Inheritance Ring lets him learn this normally sixth-tier skill early 76.
• Enhancement stacking: Combines Holy Sword, Light’s Holy Fire, Sol’s flames, and stellar power for attacks exceeding his ordinary tier 122 125.
• Higher-tier arsenal: Later uses Asura Slash, Ascending Dragon Slash, and Bloodlight Unsealed alongside his other enhancements 227.
• Weapon limitation: His early spirit-demon-grade swords cannot safely withstand unlimited spiritual power or stacked enhancements 148 151.

Guardian Knight Defense and Support

• Divine Guard Block: Defends against powerful attacks, including the ancient red skeleton’s onslaught 199.
• Consecutive Block: Allows successive Divine Guard Blocks; at the fifth tier, he can perform two in succession 122.
• Vengeance of Light: Converts force received through Divine Guard Block into a counterattack 122.
• Holy Light Shield: Protects companions from the Cave of Dreadful Wails and its undead contamination 167 169.
• Squad support: Uses Guardian Knight secret techniques to accelerate his teammates’ spiritual-power circulation and recovery 114.
• Broad training: Studies both Guardian and Retribution skills rather than restricting himself to one branch 294.

Light Ripple and Combat Mastery

• Light Ripple: Improves control over spiritual power and strengthens the efficiency of his Holy Light Shield against the cave’s wails 169.
• Teaching: Shares Light Ripple with his companions and helps resolve difficulties in their practice 177 178.
• Ancient Combat Technique Mastery: Enables him to counter and overwhelm the Eternal Tower’s red skeleton after raw strength proves insufficient 199.
• Sparring: Usually defeats Long Haochen through superior spiritual power and maximized technique proficiency; also guides and spars with Han Yu 293 294.

Necromancy and Eternal Holy Guards

Yue Chen inherits the light-attribute necromancer Yilikes’s legacy and develops enough practical proficiency to command undead in battle 200 234.

• Undead summoning: Fields light-attribute Skeleton Knights and supports them with strengthening spells 213.
• Eternal Holy Guards: Commands four documented guards whose strength rises with his cultivation 267.

• Undead Lords: Signs summoning contracts with ten great Undead Lords from the Plane of the Dead 293.
• Necromantic clone: Creates a controllable substitute for his masked necromancer identity; deliberately leaves its intelligence unawakened 265.
• Clone backlash: Suffers severe head pain and pallor when a previous clone is destroyed 265.
• Restricted practice: Selects support spells and simpler summons to minimize necromancy’s harm to himself, while reserving more powerful summoning formulas 262.
• Tower rewards: White orbs from defeated guards replenish expended spiritual power but cannot cultivate his internal spiritual power 193.

Sol-Assisted Mental Power and Stellar Attacks

• Mental link: Exchanges information with Sol, including entrants’ locations inside Dream Paradise 213.
• Enhanced perception: Sol’s contract strengthens his mental power enough to sense changes in nearby people’s emotions 235.
• Mental defense: With Sol secretly reinforcing him from the Plane of the Dead, resists Li Zhengzhi’s Mental Detection 281.
• Starburst: Concentrates stellar energy into an azure attack; uses it to finish a Gold-Patterned Twin-Blade Demon and a seventh-tier Crimson Blood Berserk Demon 122 150.
• Mental pressure: Forces Yue Ye to perform squats under sustained pressure while extracting reliable caravan information 183.

Costs and Vulnerabilities

• Body elementalization: Stellar and spatial power progressively alter his body. Their growth grants faster cultivation but threatens his ability to endure the accumulating elemental energy 176 234 253.
• Cultivation dilemma: Suppressing advancement delays the danger, but also limits the strength he needs to survive 253 256.
• Blood-essence expenditure: Sacrifice leaves him unconscious, spiritually depleted, and suffering severe meridian pain after the Golden Bird Demon battle 151 152 153.
• Breakthrough complexity: At the eighth-tier breakthrough, mishandling the interaction of his three elements could rupture his meridians 304.
• Political exposure: His necromancer identity is sensitive, and the demons eventually demand that the Alliance surrender him alongside Austin Griffin 200 275.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Long Xingyu’s Inheritance Ring — Provides access to advanced knight techniques before their usual tier requirements 76 100.
• Holy Fire and Blazing Sun — His early spirit-demon-grade twin swords; begin cracking under the stacked enhancements used against the Golden Bird Demon 95 151.
• Ashen Dragon Fang — A Glorious-grade sword that channels Sol’s annihilating dragon flame 189 199.
• Bloodlight — A gold-and-dark-red knight longsword; wielded alongside Ashen Dragon Fang and later used with Bloodlight Unsealed 198 199 227.
• Goddess of Light’s Aria — Recognizes him after he breaks its seal at auction. Acquired on credit at a stated price of twenty million gold, with Ye Weiyang offering to cover one-third; later becomes his main weapon and shows signs of advancing to epic grade 249 279.
• Spirit Gathering Armor — Earlier magic-grade armor he initially sees no need to replace 95.
• Holy Spirit Set — Commissioned by Han Qian; favors sustained combat over the stronger enhancements of Yue Chen’s usual equipment. Includes the Holy Spirit Sword 96 114 190.
• Soul Chain — The Temple Alliance’s last set; shares damage among squad members and alerts them when one is attacked 96.
• Nebula Spirit Furnace — Installed in his chest; supplies stellar and spatial energy and supports his three-element combat and recovery 112 150 157.
• Eternal Melody — Forearm mark linking him to the Eternal Tower; opens its doors and transports stored items, including Spirit Furnaces 190 240.
• Demon Masks and Moon Demon Viscount tokens — Supplied through Yue Ye; enable noble disguises and travel through demon checkpoints 156 160.
• Gray Robe and Crow Mask — Conceal his necromancer identity and later outfit his clone 265.
• Ye Xiaolei’s Wooden Token — Allows him to contact her when his body can no longer endure its condition 234.
• Storage Ring — Stores weapons, supplies, and valuable demon corpses 148 150 156.
• Spiritual Recovery Pills and dragon ointment — Support spiritual-power replenishment and external spiritual-power cultivation respectively 150 167 243.

Relationships

• Sol — Magical beast companion linked by an Equal Contract. Supplies elemental power, enhances Yue Chen’s mental abilities, and accompanies him into the Undead Plane and Eternal Tower 96 183 192 235.
• Long Xingyu — Teacher and source of his signature knight techniques. Yue Chen considers him a competent instructor despite criticizing his parenting 100 170 289.
• Han Qian — Elder mentor who brings him to the Holy City, monitors his talent, commissions equipment, and warns him away from dangerous missions 90 96 158 243.
• Yang Haohan — Senior protector who awards him the Soul Chain, intervenes at Zhennan Pass, and supports his development as a future Knight Temple leader 96 125 307.
• Long Tianyin — Long Xingyu’s father, whom Yue Chen addresses as “Grandmaster.” Removes Yang Haohan’s tracking mark and feels the Long Family owes Yue Chen better treatment 289 290.
• Long Haochen — Close companion and sworn younger brother. Others believe they are biological half-brothers; Yue Chen regards their bond as chosen family. They exchange help, train together, and would each prefer the other to lead the Alliance 100 200 243 262 307.
• Li Xin — Accepted elder sister whose invitation to regard him as family gives him a lasting sense of belonging 243.
• Cai’er — Long Haochen’s partner. Comes to rely on Yue Chen, asks permission to call him brother, and receives his promise not to conceal future dangers from her 232 262.
• Chen Ying’er — Squad summoner and romantic partner. Confesses to him after their bond deepens; her family approves the relationship and arranges to end her prior marriage agreement 107 275 277 295.
• Lin Xin — Chosen teammate, pill supplier, and teacher of the Insight Technique. Yue Chen entrusts him with auction arrangements and encourages his interest in Ye Weiyang 107 112 142 257 273.
• Jin Ruchuan, Shiqi, and Xue Meng — His squad’s shield warrior, assassin, and priest. Xue Meng serves as deputy captain 107 112.
• Yue Ye — Moon Demon princess bound by his Slave Contract; supplies intelligence, merchant access, and disguises. Her interest in him is not reciprocated, and he remains wary of her schemes 156 178 182 237.
• Yilikes — Legacy master whose necromantic arts and Eternal Tower trials expand Yue Chen’s abilities. Also identifies the danger posed by his elemental transformation 176 192 267.
• Ye Xiaolei — Dream Paradise ally who offers help with his bodily condition. Unable to sever his connection to Yilikes, she instead gives him a contact token and forms a life contract with Sol 227 234.
• Yang Wenzhao — Tournament opponent and Chen Ying’er’s former intended husband. Yue Chen feels some guilt over his decline and avoids unnecessary encounters 275 295.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Demon Hunt Squad Selection

• Completes the tournament group stage with a clean sweep and later wins the finals 93 105.
• Forms Demon Hunt Squad One with Lin Xin, Jin Ruchuan, Shiqi, Xue Meng, and Chen Ying’er 107.
• Becomes the Knight Temple’s second recognized Child of Light, making him a major prospect alongside Long Haochen 90.

Zhennan Pass Military Mission

• Leads his new squad in sustained wall defense, using support techniques and the Holy Spirit Set 114.
• Cooperates with Chen Qi to kill a Gold-Patterned Twin-Blade Demon, then takes responsibility for leading retreating knights to safety when Demon Gods appear 122.
• Kills twenty sixth-tier Liches while Yang Haohan confronts the Demon Gods. Yang Haohan subsequently demands stronger escorts for future missions outside the city 125.

Demon-Territory Expedition

• Travels with the Yue Ye Merchant Company, delaying his sixth-tier breakthrough because caravan inspections prohibit professionals of that tier or higher 141 153.
• Defends the caravan, defeats stronger demons, and suffers severe exhaustion in the Golden Bird Demon confrontation 148 150 151 152.
• Secures Yue Ye’s cooperation, obtains disguises for both squads, and infiltrates the Moon Demon Palace as a viscount 156 160 181.

Eternal Tower and Dream Paradise

• Pursues Yilikes’s legacy despite Long Haochen’s objections, using the tower trials to build necromantic and ancient combat proficiency 192 199 200.
• Fights his first battle as a necromancer in Dream Paradise and helps defend Ye Xiaolei against demon invaders 213 227.
• Returns with Spirit Furnaces for his companions and distributes them to strengthen the entire squad 234 240.

Squad Growth and Holy War

• Applies for squad promotion after his companions reach the sixth tier. Later missions at Demon-Repelling Pass build a stockpile of roughly 500,000 merit points 249 256.
• Intervenes in Long Haochen’s dangerous Dark Swamp mission, using a necromantic clone to separate his public and concealed identities 265.
• Learns that the demons’ Holy War demands specifically name both Austin Griffin and himself 275.
• Cultivates at Imperial Dragon Pass while the squad is disbanded, then applies to re-form No. 61 after reaching the eighth tier and confirming that every companion has reached the seventh 279 291 307.

Notable Quotes

“This is nice. Is this what having a family feels like?” 243

“The whole point of going back this time is to let everyone get some proper rest. There’s nothing wrong with putting cultivation aside for a while.” 257