Lucas

Biodata

Power Progression

Lucas’s physical strength, battle qi, and spiritual power develop separately. Magus-rank comparisons describe his spiritual power, not mastery of spellcasting 19 24.

Background / History

Previous Life and Rebirth

Before becoming Lucas, Zhang Chaoyang was an elderly man who had lost his family to famine as a child. His master taught him visualization, breathing exercises, and martial arts. He later became a father himself and read Coiling Dragon after confiscating novels from his son. He described his former professional experience as that of a half-trained Taoist priest and feng shui master 2 16 18 29.

Zhang died after falling down a field ridge and striking a utility pole. His soul entered the Coiling Dragon Universe and overwhelmed an unborn child’s consciousness, triggering a nearly fatal soul mutation that attracted Hongmeng’s attention. Born into the Stans Tribe, he was named Lucas by Abuda and remained unconscious until several days after the mutation succeeded 1 2.

Childhood in the Stans Tribe

Lucas learned the local language, writing, and warrior ranks from his family. Recognizing the setting from his previous reading, he feared the future conflicts between powerful beings competing for faith. With no battle qi or magic manuals available to him, he began combining exercise, visualization, study, and stone carving into a daily routine 2 3.

Initially isolated by his elderly mindset, Lucas gradually joined Benny and the other children at play. His friendships with Benny and Windsor, together with his parents’ affection, helped him accept his new life rather than remain an outsider preoccupied with the old one 3 4 11.

Creating His Cultivation Method

To determine whether his previous-life breathing methods could work in his new body, Lucas sought human corpses and formed a team with Benny, Windsor, and Eric. Their expedition brought them into conflict with a Green-Striped Python, which Lucas killed with a desperate spear thrust despite severe internal injuries 13 15.

After returning, he dissected the bodies to compare their anatomy with remembered meridian diagrams, then buried them. His subsequent experiments produced a functioning battle qi cultivation method. He taught it to his parents and friends, using diagrams of muscles, meridians, and acupoints to explain how it worked 17 18 19 20 21.

Wilderness Training and Return

Lucas studied smithing under Master Drake before leaving alone to gain combat experience. He fought magical beasts throughout the mountain range, killed a sixth-level Wind Wolf King, and developed his spear techniques through practical combat and observation of nature. During this journey, he befriended the black bear cub Anton and formed an Equal Contract with him 23 24 28 32 36.

He returned to the tribe at nineteen with seventh-rank battle qi, finding that his teachings had helped it prosper. After reuniting with his family and Windsor, he resumed training, achieved a spiritual breakthrough through sculpture, and experimented with talismans and corpse refinement. He eventually abandoned the unsuccessful corpse-refining project and reached ninth rank 39 43 44 46.

Marriage and Continental Journey

On a later return, Lucas learned that Windsor had reached seventh rank while striving to keep pace with him. He proposed marriage and promised to take her traveling rather than leave her waiting through another long absence. They married through the tribe’s traditional ceremonies, including a war dance, offerings to the Tree of Life, and a communal feast 49 50.

After another month at home, Lucas departed east with Windsor, Anton, and Rihanna. His focus shifted from seeking fights to studying the mountains, rivers, earth, and laws while pursuing the Saint realm. When he encountered a wary twelve-year-old second-level warrior, he invited the boy to follow them and sent his beasts to investigate the direction the child had glanced toward 50.

Appearance

• Build: Well-proportioned and muscular without excessive bulk; his trained physique includes clearly defined abdominal muscles 30 32.
• Wedding attire: Wore cloth woven by Selina and fourth-level fire-turkey tail feathers placed on his head by Abuda 50.

Personality

Lucas begins with the reserve and caution of an elderly man, preferring solitary cultivation to children’s games. He consciously works to recover youthful curiosity and confidence, believing that an unenterprising mindset would hinder his pursuit of the laws and eternal life 3 29.

He values family and companionship more than impersonal heroism. Renewed parental affection gives him something he is determined to protect, and he encourages his loved ones to cultivate because he hopes they can accompany him into the Higher Plane. Although willing to help strangers, he admits that his deepest concern is for people who matter personally to him 4 16 25 41.

His caution coexists with competitiveness and a willingness to risk his life when cornered. He delays challenging enemies until confident of survival, but remembers slights and intends to repay them. He is also playful and calculating: he teases Benny, coaxes Anton with food, and uses jokes to push the bear into taking training seriously 11 26 35 41.

Abilities & Skills

Self-Created Battle Qi Cultivation

Lucas adapts previous-life breathing exercises and meridian knowledge into a workable cultivation method 18 19.

• Guides absorbed elements through the meridians into the lower dantian, then circulates the refined power through the body 18 19.
• Channels battle qi into his spear to strengthen attacks 19.
• Teaches meditation and the anatomical foundations of cultivation before instructing others in refinement 20 21.

Three-Element Soul Mutation

His mutated soul allows him to cultivate and fuse earth-, life-, and death-attribute battle qi 19.

• Earth is the fastest of the three attributes for him to absorb; death is slower, and life is considerably slower 19.
• Fusion requires balanced quantities, limiting its cultivation speed to that of the slowest attribute 19.
• He prioritizes ordinary earth-attribute cultivation because fusion offers little immediate benefit at his early level 19.

Chaos Azure Lotus Visualization and Stone Carving

Lucas visualizes an azure lotus in his soul and uses Flat Blade Style carving to support concentration and spiritual growth 2 5 6.

• Carving improves his wrist flexibility, precision, and ability to enter meditation 6.
• Earth affinity helps him perceive a stone’s grain and contours when designing sculptures 43.
• Spiritual power is finite: prolonged early visualization nearly exhausts him, and forcing it further risks soul damage 5.
• He cannot initially convert magus-equivalent spiritual power into combat spellcasting because he lacks magic techniques 24.

Spear Techniques and Force Control

Lucas’s spear skills combine remembered martial principles, smithing experience, wilderness combat, and insights from nature 23 26 32.

• Wielding Something Light as Though It Were Heavy: Concentrates an explosive release of force into an attack. He uses it to kill the Wind Wolf King and later pulverizes a large rock with a punch 28 29 40.
• Thousand Layers, Myriad Shadows Spear Technique: Produces rapid, dense spear attacks suited to defending against groups 32 36.
• Repeated-point strikes: Neutralizes Abuda’s stronger broadsword attacks by striking the same point two or three times in quick succession 40.
• Heavy as Light: Develops fine control of force through greatsword practice and Tai Chi in water 45.

Tai Chi and Physical Training

Lucas retains martial practices taught by his former master, including Tai Chi Fist, Tai Chi footwork, and the Five Animal Frolics 3 5 9.

• Redirects Benny’s attacks and sends him flying without adding extra force 9.
• Teaches footwork and force-redirection principles to Benny and Windsor 9 11.
• Uses underwater Tai Chi to explore Heavy as Light, then connects its principles to Windsor’s study of the Water Laws’ Profound Mystery of Roundness 45 50.

Death Edict and Occult Experiments

Lucas gains an initial understanding of the Death Edict before achieving comparable comprehension of the Earth Laws 18 43.

• His early understanding provides no usable combat enhancement 18 26.
• Blood-based talismans briefly connect with natural elements, but their effect fades when the blood dries 44.
• Refined corpses fail to form soul fire or replenish their souls; their souls eventually dissipate 46.
• He concludes that corpse refinement cannot presently succeed because the Undead Realm’s guiding light does not yet exist 46.

Smithing and Soul Communication

• Smithing: Learns equipment forging and the fusion and tempering of weapon blanks from Drake; later acquires the technique for dissolving Magic Beast Cores 23 44.
• Soul Transmission: Silently directs Anton and Rihanna to investigate while traveling with Windsor 50.
• Resistance to soul attacks: Survives two attacks from the fast cat he and Anton capture; the second leaves him unharmed 47.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Blood Courage Bright Silver Spear — His first spear, forged by Drake from blood-pattern gold ore supplied by the family. Made 1.9 meters long to accommodate his continued growth 10 11.
• Carving daggers — Abuda forges his initial iron carving dagger and later agrees to make a better one. Lucas uses a knife given by his father during the creation of Facing Death 3 6 43.
• Self-forged helmet, armor, and dagger — Part of the equipment carried on his first solo training journey 24.
• Heavy sword — Forged using a seventh-level Velocidragon Magic Beast Core to support his pursuit of Heavy as Light 44.
• Facing Death — Large stone sculpture depicting his desperate confrontation with a ninth-level snake, with Anton behind him. Its creation triggers his seventh-rank spiritual breakthrough; Abuda subsequently displays it in the tribal square 43 44.

Relationships

• Windsor — Childhood friend, student, and eventual wife. Her desire to remain beside him drives her own training; after marriage, they travel and cultivate together 11 49 50.
• Abuda Wood — Father and early instructor. Supports Lucas’s experiments and journeys, provides his first weapons, and later learns battle qi and force-control principles from him 3 16 19 41.
• Selina — Mother. Encourages him to socialize, cares for him after injuries, and recognizes when he tries to conceal the dangers he has faced 3 16 39.
• Grace — Younger sister. Lucas supervises her first meditation and discovers her wind affinity; she later leaves to train in hopes of proving herself against his reputation 44 49.
• Allen — Younger brother. Their limited time together leaves him reserved around Lucas, who gives him an eighth-level Magic Beast Core as a reunion gift 49.
• Benny — Childhood friend and student who calls Lucas “Boss.” Learns Tai Chi and battle qi from him and becomes Drake’s formal apprentice 9 21 23.
• Eric — Competitive childhood rival turned teammate and student. Helps with the anatomical research, while insisting that Lucas must never harm the tribe 8 16 17 21.
• Master Drake — Smithing teacher and maker of Lucas’s first spear. Exchanges forging instruction for cultivation knowledge, and later trades his core-dissolving technique for magical-beast contract knowledge 11 23 44.
• Wilson — Windsor’s father and Lucas’s eventual father-in-law. Initially hostile partly because of his rivalry with Abuda, but ultimately accepts the marriage 20 22 50.
• Anton — Black bear companion bound to Lucas through an Equal Contract. Lucas wins his trust with food and affection, then gradually takes a firmer role in his training 36 41.
• Rihanna — Cat magical-beast companion who joins Anton in obtaining wedding gifts and accompanies Lucas and Windsor east 49 50.

Notable Quotes

“Having you two and my parents here has comforted my lonely soul!”
— To Benny and Windsor, as he fully accepts his new life 11.

“Don't worry. I swear I'll never do anything to harm the Stans Tribe.”
— Reassuring Eric about his anatomical research 16.

“Let's get married first, while we're here. After that, I'll take you traveling around the continent.”
— To Windsor 49.