Su Wu

Biodata

Power Progression

Su Wu advances through graded talents, spellmarks, inherited mental power, and increasing compatibility with a contained fiend rather than a documented sequence of cultivation realms.

Background / History

Su Wu grew up in a rural hometown and remembered an Earth God temple near his family’s street. Three years before the opening chapter, news of his parents’ deaths reached him at school on a rainy day. Their deaths remained mysterious, and he began keeping a journal afterward 1 10.

His parents left him two homes: an old family home and a property in the capital of Pingyuan Commandery intended for his future career. He also inherited a watch that had passed from his grandfather to his father, keeping it as a memento 1 15.

When his blood touched the stopped watch, it activated as the Perfect Life Simulator. Su Wu wondered whether it might explain his parents’ deaths, but his first simulation instead revealed a near future of spreading mold, murders, and a shadow-born killer 1.

Appearance

The Strongman spellmark gradually makes Su Wu’s frame taller and straighter, with muscle developing beneath his clothes 45.

• Additional arm: The Corpse Buddha Ghost Hand emerges beneath his right armpit and has ten fingers 34 35 45.
• Coloration: The arm is pitch-black, with pale-purple markings forming an eerie hand-bone pattern 34 35.
• Concealment: He can retract it into a black patch against his skin and hide it beneath loose clothing 35 45.

Personality

Su Wu is cautious, analytical, and increasingly methodical. He uses repeated simulations to isolate supernatural triggers, keeps notes, and trains himself to place essential belongings in fixed locations. His blue Composure talent also lets him conceal his reactions when questioned by dangerous people 2 7 8 27.

He does not treat simulated deaths as emotionally meaningless. After taking Jiang Yingying’s rooster caused her death in one trial, he was deeply shaken and promised to do better. In reality, he warned his neighbors and cut Building 6’s electricity to remove light sources that could expose them to the Shadow Fiend 18 41 45.

His pragmatism can become ruthless when threatened. He distrusted a neighbor who tried to use him as a scout and deliberately exposed the attacker to the Shadow Fiend. He is also willing to accept calculated personal risk: after discovering the Fighter’s medicinal treatment, he entered that simulation bodily despite knowing death there would be permanent 45 48 49.

Abilities & Skills

Perfect Life Simulator

The inherited watch allows Su Wu to explore his own future and the past lives of people connected to relics 1 4.

• Future reconnaissance: Tests escape routes, fiend behavior, protective objects, and the consequences of different decisions 2 15 17 35.
• Relic-based past lives: The Gang Cave unlocks Zhuo Jie’s life; the coarse porcelain bowl offers another past-life option; the Damascus steel dagger unlocks the Fighter’s life 24 25 47.
• Permanent rewards: Origin Jade can purchase talents and items obtained during simulations 2 5 22.
• Knowledge sales: Sold offering-production methods, Binding Practice knowledge, and fiend classifications for 3,700 Origin Jade without losing those memories 33.
• Physical participation: Can enter with his actual body, making beneficial and harmful changes irreversible; bodily death also kills him in reality 49.
• Automatic disguise: During physical past-life participation, the simulator conceals inconsistencies with the original owner, including his Fiend Hand 49 50.

Talents

His documented standalone talent set comprises two blue talents and four green talents; Pain Transfer’s ability remains incorporated into the Strongman spellmark 23 39.

Strongman Spellmark

Formed by combining Street Fighting, Blood-Draining Berserker, and Pain Transfer 22.

• Eating large quantities of food increases his strength and toughens his body 23.
• Accelerates his learning of offensive violence 23.
• Preserves the abilities of the talents used to create it 23.
• Produces visible muscular development over time 45.

Mind-Root Reserve

A store of power drawn from the undercurrents of consciousness. Su Wu gains access to it through Zhuo Jie’s past life rather than identifying it as an innate feature of his own Fate Pattern 27 34.

• Zhuo Jie’s reserve manifests as enormous dogs that repel Narrow-Sleeved Guanyin 26 27 28.
• Incorporating a portion sharpens Su Wu’s five senses 34.
• Without a Meditation Method, an activation exhausts the reserve; meditation can shape its manifestation and allow repeated use 27.
• Su Wu still lacks the required Meditation Method when purchasing an additional portion 34.

Corpse Buddha Ghost Hand

A contained supernatural arm formed from the entity within the kangling and material taken from the Shadow Fiend 9 16.

• Tearing and capture: Rips openings in the Shadow Fiend and captures a red lantern for examination 9 36.
• Independent action: Initially responds largely on its own, with Su Wu’s commands producing slow, weak reactions 10.
• Controlled movement: Higher compatibility permits extension, retraction, simple movements, and increasingly fine exercises 35 40 41.
• Durability: Cannot be cut by blades or pierced by bullets; resists water and fire and can become rigid like steel or flexible like rubber 50.
• Enlargement: In a simulation, releases enough power to sweep away more than two hundred Trapped Corpses and temporarily deprive their parent entity of its killing ability 40.
• Training potential: Su Wu judges that mastering its normal-range power alone could make him more than ten times stronger 50.

Limitations:

• Use consumes vitality; higher compatibility reduces the cost 13.
• Complete vitality depletion causes its awakening, while even an unused contained hand is described as awakening within one to three years unless restrained 13.
• At low compatibility, complex actions are costly or impossible, and enlargement can completely drain Su Wu’s vitality 35 40.
• Using power beyond its normal range increases the risk of the fiend awakening 50.

Ritual and Supernatural Knowledge

Guangfa teaches Su Wu the principles behind supernatural containment and ritual offerings 32 33.

• Understands the relationship between Fate Reading, Precept Reception, Binding Practice, and containing a Vicious Ghost 32.
• Learns the complete production method for the Fragrant Blood Offering and a partial method for the Corpse Incense Offering 33.
• Successfully throws a Corpse Incense Offering at Narrow-Sleeved Guanyin, causing luminous arms to bind her 32.
• Learns fiend classifications and recognizes that spellmarks draw on supernatural power 32 33.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Inherited watch — Houses the Perfect Life Simulator; passed down through his grandfather and father 1.
• Gang Cave / kangling — Human-bone flute that summons a skeletal hand when blown. After its entity becomes part of the Ghost Hand, the damaged flute remains useful as the relic linking him to Zhuo Jie’s past 5 6 16 25.
• Imperial Bell — Disrupts the Shadow Fiend and suppresses the Ghost Hand. It does not affect the Lantern Fiend, and reassembled Trapped Corpses develop resistance to it 10 22.
• Temple-lit candles — Provide temporary protection outside the Little Temple, but supernatural pressure can burn them away rapidly 17 21 38.
• Black Candle — Extracted from a red lantern. Relighting it with an orange flame creates a broad protective glow and stimulates bodily growth; Su Wu rejects bringing an unlit one directly into reality as lethal 36 37 40.
• Coarse porcelain bowl — Bought for eight yuan after feeling inexplicably drawn to it; unlocks its owner’s past life for 100 Origin Jade 15 24.
• Chevrolet Cruze key — Brought out of a future simulation for ten Origin Jade 22 23.
• High-Powered Flashlight — Used with his concealed third hand to expose an attacker to the Shadow Fiend 45.
• Damascus steel dagger — Taken from the slain attacker; serves as the relic for the Fighter’s past-life simulation 45 47.
• Notebook — Records observations and preparations; his future journal provides evidence of the approaching crisis 1 7 11.
• Emergency stockpile and gold — Stores food and water near the future Little Temple and at his old home; buys physical gold in anticipation of currency instability and opportunities to acquire supernatural antiques 15.
• Purple Talent Upgrade Talisman — Created by combining lower-grade talismans; the supplied passage does not show him using it to upgrade a talent 39.

Relationships

• Parents — Their mysterious deaths prompt his journaling habit and his initial hope that the simulator might provide answers 1.
• Grandfather — Original wearer of the watch that eventually becomes Su Wu’s simulator 1.
• Jiang Yingying — Fellow survivor whom he guides through simulated escape attempts. She stays beside him after seeing his inhuman arm and later guards him with the Imperial Bell during his physical past-life participation 21 36 49.
• Emergency Rations / Emergency Can — Jiang Yingying’s rooster, whose protection against the Lantern Fiend becomes crucial to their escape attempts 18 20 36.
• Guangfa — Master in Zhuo Jie’s past-life simulation. Gives him the Dharma name Tianhai, a temporary tiger curse mark, and practical supernatural knowledge; their arrangement is explicitly based on mutual benefit 30 31 33.
• Zhuo Jie — Original owner of the Gang Cave. Su Wu inhabits his past life and gains access to his Mind-Root Reserve 25 27.
• Xie Yunqing — Young Daoist at Cloud Dragon Temple who retains contact with Su Wu through a fishing group and recalls his warning to leave the temple temporarily 6 14.
• Pharmacist — Training-facility specialist responsible for massage, medicinal baths, anatomy, and health supplementation in the Fighter’s past life 48 49.
• Wang Zhiyou and Xin Qiaoge — Colleagues who previously obstructed him at work and later confront him as fiends demanding that he return to work 22 23.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Notable Quotes

“You are—a shadow—”
— His realization about the killer’s nature while being torn apart 2.

“Next time. I’ll do better next time!”
— After his mistake causes Jiang Yingying’s death in a simulation 18.

“The world isn’t quite normal anymore. So even though I don’t look quite normal, I’m actually still a normal person.”
— Reassuring Jiang Yingying after she sees his Ghost Hand 36.