Chen Beiwu

Biodata

Power Progression

Background / History

Chen Beiwu grows up in a family with limited cultivation resources. His mother, Huang Xiaoling, abandons her own cultivation path after failing to reach Foundation Establishment, choosing to leave opportunities to the next generation. His father, Chen Dong, works at a tile factory, while his mother earns money through embroidery 9 10 14.

Ten years before the opening events, Beiwu accidentally knocks over the Huang Household’s Maitreya Supreme Truth South God Statue. Its mudra-forming hands strike his heart as he catches it, but his newly acquired spiritual qi protects him. Thereafter, the statue teaches him Nine-Breath Qi Ingestion in dreams. He spends five hundred years of dream-time—one month in reality—learning its basics and receives Nine-Breath Chaos’s initial recognition 4.

He subsequently uses fortune-generated encounters to obtain cultivation resources, improve his water and wood roots, and transfer to Shouhe Elementary School. A blue-fortune encounter leads him to Iron Egg five years before the story; the dog later rescues Chen Dong from a collapsing, burning brick kiln 3 4.

At Shouhe No. 2 Middle School, Beiwu places second in his year with an assessment score of 867. His strongest elective is medicine refining, scored at 98, while artifact refining, formations, and talismans score 39, 59, and 29 respectively. Initially unable to meet the Five Great Grotto-Heavens’ aptitude requirements, he targets the Thirteen Immortal Sects or the Upper Sects 6.

Appearance

• Handsome: Described as a handsome figure when arriving at Abysswall Market 47.
• Hair: Chen Qin notices his flowing, lively hair when recognizing his advancement to late Qi Refining 9.
• Clothing: Wears ordinary clothes during his visit to Four Seas Lake, prompting another cultivator to dismiss his background 39.

Personality

Beiwu prioritizes cultivation and independence over social advantage. He dismisses Liu Yan’s suggestion that romance with Xu Ziqing could secure resources, and he refuses to lower his cultivation-method ambitions after Golden Egg improves his aptitude. His long-term aim is not merely Foundation Establishment, but a stronger foundation for pursuing immortality 8 45.

He is cautious rather than eager to prove himself. Before exploring the other world, he conceals his scent, poisons his weapons, prepares escape supplies, and checks his equipment. He avoids powerful beasts and declines Lin Yi’s jealousy-driven sparring invitation instead of accepting an unnecessary confrontation 13 46.

His concern for his family drives his search for income and medicine. He investigates treatments for his mother’s cold poison, starts fishing livestreams to earn money, and later offers his remaining funds toward her hospital stay 7 10 17 47.

Beiwu combines generosity with ruthlessness. He buys medicine for Mo Li’s father and refuses repayment, but kills bandits who target him. After Iron Egg kills Lin Yu, he outwardly scolds the dog before promising a meaty bone for accepting the blame 25 26 29.

He recognizes Xu Ziqing’s and Xu Lingling’s affection but adopts a policy of neither initiating nor explicitly rejecting their advances. His caution stems from the influence of their clans and his cousin Chen Xiuran’s disappearance after courting daughters of two Golden Core lineages 21 22.

Abilities & Skills

Nine-Breath Qi Ingestion and Nine-Breath Chaos

Nine-Breath Qi Ingestion nurtures Beiwu’s fortune, while the inherited treasure Nine-Breath Chaos lets him perceive fate and turn accumulated fortune into encounters 3 4.

• Fortune perception: Sees the fate of living beings and identifies unusually fortunate beasts, including the variant Darkwater Spirit Turtle and Golden Egg 3 36 39.
• Fortune accumulation: At the seventh level of Qi Refining, can accumulate one stream of blue fortune in fifty days 23.
• Encounter generation: Uses a Fortune Golden Bell to transform accumulated fortune into Spirit Fish and release them into the river of fortune 23.
• Cultivation support: Occasionally obtains exceptionally high-quality spiritual energy from the treasure; this benefit is not reliably repeatable 5.
• Calamity reduction: Uses accumulated fortune to reduce Golden Egg’s crimson calamity aura to gray ill luck 47.
• Mental protection: The treasure saves his consciousness during the Great Sun Mutation and lends power to suppress Golden Egg during a battle within its sea of consciousness 1 41.
• Limitations: His divine ability remains introductory, and he cannot freely command the treasure or understand the ability’s underlying principles 11 21 23.

Ten Directions Chaos

An awakened power of Nine-Breath Chaos allows Beiwu to travel through the Ten Directions Chaos Gate between the Immortal Alliance and the Earth Evolution Realm 11 12 30.

• Uses Nine-Breath Qi Ingestion as the catalyst and can leave special spatial anchor points 12.
• Carries physical resources and living creatures between worlds 12 16 19.
• Escapes the Azure Thunder Tiger by crossing back to his cultivation room 12 19.
• Must account for travel timing and an activation delay; aura concealment helps him survive long enough to escape 12 20.

Ten Thousand Beasts Art

Beiwu practices this foundational Immortal Alliance cultivation method at minor attainment. Its magical power is gentle, resists cultivation deviation, and can be converted when switching to another method 2.

• Exotic-beast essence blood can deepen his understanding of the art and improve magical-power purity 14.
• He hopes to attain major accomplishment and the Thousand Beast Mark through essence blood from a thousand different exotic beasts; this remains an ambition, not a completed advancement 14.
• Continues using the art while saving for a more advanced scripture 45.
• The method can take him to the ninth level of Qi Refining but provides no means to exceed that limit 45.

Great Mystery Guarding the One

Beiwu practices this Pure Yang Grotto-Heaven visualization method daily. Eleven years of practice have raised each of his five spiritual roots by one point, despite his failure to master even its basics 6.

Spellcasting

Wang Kui regards Beiwu as Shouhe No. 2 Middle School’s most gifted spell learner. Beiwu attributes his comprehension to the five hundred years of instruction received in dreams 21.

• Water Shadow Convergence: Creates a mobile, convincing water double that conceals his aura and confuses an opponent’s spiritual sense. He learns it within days of reaching the seventh level 21.
• Wind Manipulation: Reduces body weight for rapid movement, leaping, gliding, and evasion 13.
• Poison-Chiming Technique: Infuses weapons with Jade-Scale Snake venom 13.
• Environmental advantage: Observes that identical spells are several times stronger in the Southern Wild Region than in the Immortal Alliance. He suspects differing natural laws, rather than spiritual-energy density alone, explain the disparity 30.

Divine Sense

Nine-Breath Qi Ingestion and Nine-Breath Chaos strengthen his divine sense beyond the normal standard for his realm 27.

• Reaches a range of fifty feet 27.
• Exceeds ninth-level cultivator Cheng Yun’s divine sense in both range and strength 27.
• Possesses unusually covert perception, almost undetectable to cultivators at his level 27.
• Guides Golden Egg through spell activation and cultivation exercises 44 49.

Formation Modification

Beiwu modifies the Mist-Congealing Tide-Returning Array into the Tide Array, redirecting its enhancement toward the instantaneous force of water spells 26.

• Combines the array with a Water Blade Talisman for Tide · Instant Slash, killing the scarred bandit 26.
• Consults Teacher Zhao about using a water-attribute formation against the lightning-attribute Azure Thunder Tiger 31.

Companion-Beast Cultivation

Beiwu contracts Golden Egg through the Three Treasures Companion Seal and begins refining its origin, attribute, and technique meridians 41 42 43.

• Uses divine sense to teach Golden Egg Sea Absorption, raising its cultivation from ten to fifteen years 44.
• Cleanses Golden Egg’s demonic power into magical power using the Ten Thousand Beasts Art 49.
• Cannot advance his own realm during this cleansing period, though he can purify his magical power and stabilize their contract 49.
• Golden Egg’s aptitude reduces the expected cleansing time from roughly one month to half a month 49.

Cooking and Language

• Spirit-fish cooking: Tempts the variant Darkwater Spirit Turtle with descriptions of fish dishes, turning a failed contract attempt into an opportunity to acquire Golden Egg. His cooking also earns Guan Ange’s job offer 40 46.
• Southern Wilderness Language: Learns from Lin Yu’s jade slip, then checks village-school books to identify deliberately falsified vocabulary. Completes his study in two days 28 30.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Nine-Breath Chaos — Huang Household inheritance housed at his heart; supports fortune manipulation and otherworld travel 1 4 12.
• Bone Blade and crystalline needles — Low-cost weapons enhanced with Jade-Scale Snake venom 13 15.
• Water Blade Talismans — Used to kill the Illusion Weasel Wolf and, with the Tide Array, the scarred bandit 15 26.
• Three Emperor Coins — A simple artifact offering protection against some low-level illusions and warnings of sinister ghosts 13.
• Scent-concealing supplies — Windflower powder and earthface-mushroom liquid used before wilderness exploration 13.
• Thorn-Smoke Pills — Release pungent smoke to conceal his movements while preparing an escape 13.
• Spirit-Concealing and Warning Talismans — Establish a small alert formation around his forest cave 14.
• Storage Bag — Carries beast meat, gold, and other resources 44 49.
• Spirit Beast Pouch — Purchased after registering Golden Egg at the Spirit Beast Pavilion 42.
• All Arts Return to One Stream Jianmu Heavenly Scripture — Also rendered as All Arts Converge Jianmu Heavenly Scripture. His chosen future method, not yet purchased; its Qi Refining section costs 2,000 Spirit Origin 44 45.

Relationships

• Chen Dong — Father; supports Beiwu’s cultivation and trusts that his unusual companion-beast choice has a sound reason 10 45 47.
• Huang Xiaoling — Mother; her Heart-Severing Cold Syndrome motivates his search for money and medicine. Initially refuses Xu Lingling’s costly pills, but later agrees to keep one 7 10 23 24.
• Iron Egg — Loyal dog found through a blue-fortune encounter. Guards his cultivation room, accompanies him between worlds, and learns Blazing Flame Pull under his direction; not his contracted Companion Beast 3 4 19 22 26.
• Golden Egg — Contracted variant Golden Scale. Beiwu values its exceptional potential and personally guides its training 41 42 43 44.
• Xu Ziqing — Classmate with romantic interest in him. Accompanies him during companion-beast selection and gives him the Blazing Flame Pull jade slip 21 32 34.
• Xu Lingling — Classmate who also likes him; gives him three Frostfall Pills for his mother 21 22 23.
• Chen Qin — Childhood friend and neighbor, three years older. Provides water-beast information and advises him to reserve the Cleansing Spirit Tune until ninth-level Qi Refining 9 10.
• Li Jiacheng — Medicine-refining teacher; offers a Frostfall Pill at cost and encourages Beiwu to enter the Thirteen Immortal Sects 7.
• Wang Kui — Homeroom teacher; treats him favorably and publicly praises his spellcasting talent 7 21.
• Teacher Zhao — Teacher and friend who takes his unconventional formation questions seriously 31.
• Mo Li — Herb-gathering girl he rescues. He cures her father, discovers her metal earth-grade root, and gives her the Metal Refining Art 28 29 31.
• Guan Ange — Fellow cultivator who recognizes his ingenuity and cooking ability; offers clan recruitment and a part-time chef position at the Immortal Flavor Pavilion 37 46.
• Chen Xiuran — Distant older cousin whose disappearance serves as a warning against entanglement with powerful clans 22.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Great Sun Mutation and the Second World

• Survives the transformed sun’s overwhelming aura because Nine-Breath Chaos intervenes, then reaches seventh-level Qi Refining 1 2.
• Spends the intercepted seven-colored fortune seeking an encounter that might improve his companion-beast prospects 4.
• Witnesses the chaos realm transform and gains access to the Ten Directions Chaos Gate 11 12.
• Establishes a concealed cave base, hunts low-tier beasts, and confirms that living creatures can cross with him 13 14 15 16.

His Mother’s Treatment

• Learns that Frostfall Pills can remove cold poison, though they cannot restore lost lifespan or cultivation 7.
• Calculates a nine-hundred-spirit-stone cost for three pills and begins livestreaming to earn money 10 17.
• Receives three pills from Xu Lingling, creating a dispute over accepting a debt to her powerful household 22 23 24.
• Later learns that the bloodface vine sold for 950 Spirit Origin, allowing his parents to arrange a hospital visit in Fallen Dragon Prefecture 47.

Southern Wild Region Exploration

• Survives an encounter with the Azure Thunder Tiger and resolves not to return to Spirit Lake before Foundation Establishment 19 20.
• Defeats the bandit cultivators targeting him and obtains language records and information from their belongings 25 26 30.
• Helps Mo Li’s family in Twin Rivers Village, where his actions inspire rumors that he is an immortal 28 29.
• Studies the Earth Evolution Realm’s cultivation philosophy and considers joining Mirror Moon Palace for protection and to test his spellcasting aptitude 30.

Companion-Beast Selection

• Initially considers an Azure Spirit Newt, but keeps searching for a more suitable beast 6 10 32.
• Fails to win the golden-fortune Darkwater Spirit Turtle through fate compatibility, then negotiates for a Spirit Fish instead 36 37 40.
• Chooses the unusual Golden Scale after Nine-Breath Chaos reveals promising evolution paths, including Golden Dragon Carp 40.
• Contracts and names it Golden Egg, discovers its two mutually reinforcing supreme-grade spirit arts, and gains a heavenly-grade water root 41 42 43 45.

Funding a Heavenly-Grade Method

• Selects the Jianmu Heavenly Scripture but cannot afford its Qi Refining section 44 45.
• Accepts Guan Ange’s business card without committing to the Guan Household or the chef position 46.
• Preserves the golden fortune gained through Golden Egg’s contract and seeks income by exploiting differences between the two worlds 47.
• Visits Abysswall Market, purchases phoenix yellow dendrobium in Anyi County, and asks to buy an unusually inexpensive Jade Sword Fish alive 47 50.

Notable Quotes

“The Dao of formations is limitless, and patterns connect with principles. Why can't a water-attribute formation kill a lightning-attribute demonic beast?” 31