Kalu

Biodata

Power Progression

Appearance

• Height: Three meters tall 709.
• Build: Exceptionally burly, with bulging muscles and metallic skin 709.
• Eyes: Described as exceptionally fierce when confronting the intruders in Ye Feng’s room 709.

Background / History

Kalu met Aiville while traveling with a band of adventurers. Although she came from a major family in the Central Star System and had many suitors, she chose him. Shortly after their son Rhode was born, intruders devastated their home, severely injured Kalu, and took Aiville away. Kalu rescued Rhode from the rubble, where the child had survived unharmed inside golden light emitted by his mother’s necklace. He traced the necklace’s emblem to the Gould Family 711.

When Kalu attempted to enter the Central Star System, a masked man repeatedly intercepted and injured him. The man warned that Kalu lacked the strength to retrieve his wife from the Makarov Family and would endanger both her and himself by trying. Kalu eventually understood these interventions as a form of protection and turned to cultivation and developing his family’s resources 711.

To expand those resources, Kalu entered marriage alliances with numerous families and had many children. He nevertheless favored Rhode, while expecting his other children to become self-reliant through hardship. This disparity became a source of deep resentment within the family 711.

It was later revealed that the Makarov Family had spared Kalu and Rhode and falsely reported their deaths to the Hartell Family. Concealing their survival worsened relations between the two families 828.

Personality

Kalu is hearty, demonstrative, and physically affectionate. He welcomes Ye Feng with embraces, celebrates Rhode’s recovery with a banquet, and becomes so excited by the news of his son’s cure that he accidentally stamps through the floor. His enthusiasm also extends to combat: being outmaneuvered during a spar initially excites him rather than humiliates him 738 820.

Behind that exuberance is an experienced businessman. Kalu adapts his manner to powerful customers, recognizes bargaining tactics, and is willing to walk away from negotiations to protect favorable terms. His generosity toward Ye Feng also serves practical goals, including securing a valuable partner and strengthening the Tamel Family 708 733 777 778.

His devotion to Aiville and Rhode coexists with serious failures toward his other children. When Descartes accuses him of reserving resources and the family inheritance for Rhode, Kalu recognizes how deeply he has hurt them and breaks down in tears. He also refuses to repay Ye Feng’s help with betrayal, even when protecting him risks conflict with the Chris Family 711 772.

Abilities & Skills

Physical Cultivation

Kalu primarily cultivates strength and possesses exceptional bodily toughness 697 709.

• His physical toughness is several times greater than Ye Feng’s when they first become acquainted 697.
• His palm strikes break the arms of two attackers after Ye Feng immobilizes them 709.
• His movements can shatter the ground, while his full-strength punches produce two tiger-shaped blasts of wind 738.
• He explains that cultivation advancement in his system does not require tribulation lightning 771.

Hand-to-Hand Combat

Kalu practices taijutsu, combining powerful punches, kicks, and attacks on his opponent’s footing 738 739.

• During his spar with Ye Feng, he strikes the ground to destabilize Ye Feng before closing in for a punch 739.
• His flexibility allows him to recover from being swept into a split without injury 738.
• Despite his strength and tactical feint, Ye Feng repeatedly redirects his attacks and throws him using Tai Chi techniques 738 739.

Commerce and Negotiation

Kalu manages the commercial side of the Tamel Family’s talisman trade rather than making its talismans himself 733 734.

• Recruits and retains specialists such as Ward, on whom the family’s talisman business initially depends 734 736.
• Offers Ye Feng purchase prices of 100,000 for advanced-grade, middle-tier talismans and five million for advanced-grade, high-tier talismans 733.
• Uses auctions to publicize the Tamel Paper Talisman Shop and protects the identity of its high-level supplier 743 748.
• Negotiates access to the Chris Family’s intelligence network while holding firm to a ten-percent limit on its share 776 777 778.

Interstellar Knowledge and Contacts

Kalu supplies Ye Feng with practical information about planetary powers, restricted markets, and rare cultivation resources 697 713 719 824.

• Possesses Black Market access and obtains a temporary pass for Ye Feng 713.
• Identifies Ye Feng’s likely possession of a small world from its ability to accommodate living creatures without nearby space-time fluctuations 719.
• Warns that even the universe’s strongest cultivators would fight over such a treasure 719.
• Gathers information on nearby Ōtsutsuki activity and later brokers intelligence cooperation with the Chris Family 754 776.

Equipment / Items

• Black Market access chip — Allows him through the guarded entrance; he also uses his standing to bring Ye Feng inside 713.
• Planetary source — Initially sought as an offering to obtain the planetary ruler’s help for Rhode. After extracting source from the Ten-Tails, Kalu gives Ye Feng more than ninety percent of the remaining supply and retains only what he needs 698 706.
• Nascent Soul-grade Primordial Essence — A rare body-strengthening treasure given to him by the Chris Family’s Second Elder. Kalu accepts it because improving his strength could bring him closer to recovering Aiville; its consumption is not shown 824 825.

Relationships

• Aiville — His first wife and Rhode’s mother. Their forced separation drives his cultivation and family-building efforts; they eventually reunite on Makarov Star 711 776 988.
• Rhode — His favored son and intended successor. Kalu spends years seeking treatment for his apparent cold affliction, later identified as involving poison clinging to the soul 697 709 711.
• Descartes — Another son, whose resentment exposes the consequences of Kalu’s favoritism. His accusations leave Kalu questioning his competence as a father 711.
• Ye Feng — Initially a partner in a mutually beneficial arrangement, later a close friend. Ye Feng cures Rhode and secures Aiville’s release; Kalu ultimately pledges his life to him 727 738 820 988 989.
• Maine — The family butler, whom Kalu entrusts with organizing warnings and assistance for Ye Feng during the hunt for him 764.
• Ward — The family’s leading talisman maker. Kalu tolerates his eccentricity because of his importance to the business and hopes his association with Ye Feng will improve his skills 733 734 736.
• Chris Family’s Second Elder — His principal negotiating partner within the family. Their outwardly cordial relationship depends heavily on the benefits Kalu can provide 775 820 821.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Partnership with Ye Feng and Rhode’s Treatment

• Initial agreement: Kalu seeks planetary source to attract the planetary ruler’s attention and obtain treatment for Rhode. Ye Feng agrees to help, initially offering him a quarter of the proceeds 697 698.
• Ten-Tails extraction: Kalu extracts the source, gives Ye Feng most of what remains, and takes responsibility for disposing of the Ten-Tails’ husk through the Black Market 706.
• Night raid: Kalu and Ye Feng catch two intruders in Ye Feng’s room. After Ye Feng restrains them, Kalu beats them unconscious and takes them away for questioning 709.
• Family reckoning: Descartes’s accusations reveal the anger among Kalu’s other children. Kalu then tells Ye Feng about Aiville’s abduction and his failed attempts to retrieve her 711.
• Search for treatment materials: Kalu accompanies Ye Feng to the Black Market to seek an Ōtsutsuki whose energy could help cleanse Rhode’s soul, but none are available 712 713 715.
• Recovery: Ye Feng first removes most of Rhode’s soul toxin, then completely clears it with a Wood Spirit Talisman. Kalu celebrates his son’s recovery with a banquet 728 736 738.

Expansion of the Talisman Business

• Production partnership: Kalu brings Ye Feng to the family’s talisman-making facility and introduces him to Ward 733.
• Factory security: With Ye Feng’s assistance, he discovers more than a dozen spies among the facility’s low-level talisman makers and support staff 741.
• Public auction: He rejects Max’s direct offer of eighty million for a healing talisman in favor of auctioning it under the Tamel Paper Talisman Shop’s name. It sells for 350 million, with Kalu receiving 315 million in settlement 743 747 748.
• Supplier secrecy: When the Raen Family’s First Elder requests more talismans or an introduction to their maker, Kalu refuses to reveal Ye Feng 748.

Protecting Ye Feng and Working with the Chris Family

• Warning network: When the Ōtsutsuki and Chris Family hunt Ye Feng, Kalu orders Maine to place people on nearby planets to warn him away. The Chris Family shuts down the Tamel Family’s communications and stations ambushes outside Taker Star 764.
• Captain investigation: Kalu initially rejects suspicions about the captain he assigned to Ye Feng, a companion of twenty years who once saved his life. A search of the captain’s home uncovers a token associated with Blood Shadow 764 765.
• Orochimaru’s tribulation: He provides a cultivation chamber, evacuates the surrounding area, and attempts to keep investigating families away despite pressure from the Chris Family 771 772 773.
• New arrangement: After Ye Feng poses as a Makarov Family representative, Kalu uses the resulting change in the Chris Family’s attitude to negotiate intelligence on nearby Ōtsutsuki in exchange for talismans and a share of the returns 775 776 778.

Ye Feng’s Return

• Thirteen-year absence: By Ye Feng’s return, Kalu’s assets and standing barely reach first-rate-family standards, though his actual combat strength does not. His influence with the Chris Family has declined because his talisman supply ran out three years earlier 820.
• Renewed leverage: Kalu delivers six talismans—two each of wood, earth, and fire—to the Chris Family. Their power restores the Second Elder’s enthusiasm, and he offers 1.4 billion for the batch 821.
• Central Star Domain journey: After receiving Primordial Essence, Kalu accompanies Ye Feng toward the Central Star Domain to seek the masked expert who had previously barred his entry 824 825.

Reunion with Aiville

• After six or seven years without news from Ye Feng, Kalu initially distrusts the powerful messengers sent to collect him and Rhode. He prepares to flee before reluctantly accepting their assurance that they serve Ye Feng 988.
• On Makarov Star, he finds Ye Feng waiting and reunites with Aiville. Husband and wife embrace and promise never to separate again 988.
• The following day, Kalu, Aiville, and Rhode attempt to kneel in gratitude. Ye Feng stops them, and Kalu declares that his life belongs to him 989.

Notable Quotes

“Perhaps I really am not a competent father.” 711

“Yes, we won't part again. Never again!” 988

“Ye Feng, words can't express my gratitude. From now on, my life is yours!” 989