Chen Fan

Biodata

Power Progression

Background / History

Chen Fan begins as a transmigrator unable to cultivate because he was born without a Spirit Root. His examination performance—forty-ninth in the city—earns him access to a False Spirit Root, a 20,000-Spirit-Coin student loan, the Fire Cloud Cultivation Method, and admission to Handong University. Receiving the root satisfies the activation requirement for his trait-drawing system 1 2.

His official background contains unexplained restrictions. When President Zhou Zhengyuan investigates him, information beyond basic identifying details—including his parents’ information and past cultivation records—is encrypted. An inquiry through the Central Education Bureau also fails, and Zhou’s eldest disciple warns him to stop investigating on instructions from above 13.

Appearance

• General appearance: A handsome, scholarly-looking youth with bright, clear features and an upright posture 15.
• After medicinal tempering: Develops smoothly defined muscles and skin described as white as jade; his overall bearing changes noticeably 8.
• Cultivation effects: Fire Cloud cultivation produces crimson patterns beneath his skin and flames in his pupils. After the Chaos Sea transformation, chaotic light briefly flashes through his eyes 2 21.
• Clothing: Appears in a clean school uniform at the opening ceremony and uses an ordinary blue-green student uniform during his academy investigation 15 25.

Personality

Chen Fan combines sustained effort with an irreverent sense of humor. He jokes about loans, cultivation competition, and university fees, even opening his freshman address with a complaint about the twenty-Spirit-Coin testing charge. Despite his overwhelming results, he initially does not realize how exceptional they are 2 7 12 16.

He is resource-conscious and opportunistic. He borrows aggressively to finance cultivation, turns loans into trading capital, and initially establishes the one-member Luofu Society to obtain funding and facilities for himself. His curiosity also makes him willing to evade rules: after being caught bypassing the spiritual-network firewall, he apologizes while privately intending to try again 5 6 17 39.

His confidence can become recklessness, particularly when traits produce results beyond his understanding. The uncontrolled Five Supreme Evolution nearly destroys his spiritual sea. Nevertheless, he recognizes Jiang Qingyuan’s help and thanks her rather than dismissing the danger 19 21.

He is gentle with victims and confrontational toward their abusers. He patiently reassures Su Wan, asks her to protect herself, and refuses to accept Leon’s claims of privilege. During the Holy See ambush, his first reaction is to pull Jiang Qingyuan behind him, even though she is vastly stronger 25 26 36.

Abilities & Skills

Trait-Drawing Panel

Chen Fan possesses a private system panel that draws, equips, and tracks traits, cultivation, and talents 1.

• Awards draws for breakthroughs, quests, and hidden achievements; even his first failed breakthrough produces rewards 3 10 14 17.
• Gains unlimited equipment slots through Child of Destiny; his panel later displays twenty-eight equipped traits with no upper limit 3 10.
• Unlocks inspection of other people’s panel information after reaching Qi Refining 3.
• Reveals information such as cultivation, physiques, talents, identities, and favorability when he examines Jiang Qingyuan 16.
• External testing equipment cannot determine his exact Spirit Vein count, helping conceal the extent of his development 10.

Diligence Can Make Up for Lack of Aptitude

This foundational trait compensates for his poor cultivation aptitude and strengthens the body needed to sustain his progress 3 7.

• Temporarily improves his False Spirit Root’s conversion efficiency and helps bring chaotic spiritual power under control 3.
• Repairs and strengthens damaged meridians during medicinal cultivation 7.
• Works with Exceptional Talent to accelerate practical skill improvement during combat 37.
• Does not eliminate every danger: overwhelming medicinal power strains its protection, and it cannot prevent the later Chaos Sea crisis by itself 7 19.

Heavenly Dao Rewards Diligence

This trait rewards focused, arduous cultivation with faster refinement and reduced obstacles 3 7.

• Weakens breakthrough backlash and reduces resistance to Spiritual Qi flushing 3.
• During the medicinal bath, increases medicinal absorption rate by 300% and doubles Spiritual Qi refinement speed 7.
• Cooperates with his aptitude-compensating trait to turn dangerous medicinal tempering into sustained growth 7 8.

Child of Destiny

A mysterious-grade trait that grants fortune, removes the equipped-trait limit, and offers the possibility of surpassing limits 3.

• Diverts potentially disastrous developments during his first successful breakthrough 3.
• Produces advantageous coincidences in combat, including an enemy stumbling and nearly striking an ally 38.
• Is passive and cannot be precisely controlled 38.

One Attainment, Eternal

A concept-level trait that permanently preserves his acquired cultivation, traits, talents, Spirit Veins, and fortune 14.

• Prevents those possessions from being stripped away, losing effect, or regressing—even if his Spirit Root is destroyed or his Dao heart shatters 14.
• Equips automatically, remains permanently active, and cannot be unequipped 14.

Aperture of the Mysterious Female and Five Supreme Evolution

The Aperture of the Mysterious Female increases his sensitivity to the Great Dao and enables automatic evolution through the Diagram of the Five Supreme Dao Evolutions 17.

• Cycles through Supreme Change → Supreme Beginning → Supreme Inception → Supreme Simplicity → Supreme Ultimate 19.
• The diagram can reduce complex Spiritual Qi to chaos and derive new Qi dynamics from it 17.
• Produces advanced results without granting Chen Fan a complete understanding of their underlying principles 17 19.
• Forms his Chaos Sea, but initially exceeds both his physical tolerance and his ability to control it 19.
• Requires further Divine Sense refinement before he can freely mobilize Chaos Qi 23.

Same Moment Name Change

A defensive trait that Chen Fan binds to Zhou Zhengyuan during their handshake 13.

• Allows him to emerge unharmed from a five-man attack approaching early Golden Core power 37.
• Chen Fan concludes that binding a sufficiently durable target provides extraordinary protection 37.
• Its full operating rules and duration remain unestablished; he is still considering further tests after the ambush 38.

Fire Cloud Cultivation and Combat

Chen Fan masters the Fire Cloud Cultivation Method and uses Fire Cloud True Fire offensively 2 36.

• Fire tempering expels accumulated bodily impurities 2.
• Channels a thread of True Fire through sword-like finger strikes to deflect a Foundation Establishment late-stage opponent’s weapon 37.
• Uses basic sword moves and footwork, rapidly correcting inefficient movements through repeated combat applications 37.
• Defeats four Foundation Establishment late-stage attackers; Jiang Qingyuan intervenes when their leader attempts self-detonation 38.
• Remains inexperienced: Jiang identifies excessive openings in his technique despite praising his adaptability 38.

Supporting Traits

• Anger: Its initial description promises a 10% strength increase when enraged; combat testing produces a stronger effect than Chen Fan expects 3 37.
• Tenacity: Raises bodily endurance and meridian resilience under pressure 3.
• Exceptional Talent: Improves comprehension, perception, and adaptation to opponents’ movements 37 38.
• Gold and Jade Splendor: Steadies his flames, adds golden radiance, and dissolves yin-corrosive death Qi on contact 38.
• Eight Bushels of Wealth: Supplies high-grade Spirit Stones, creating a practical problem of establishing a legitimate source for his wealth 10 12 39.
• Photographic Memory and Divine-Speed Calculation: Support memorization and theoretical deduction 14.
• Grain Avoidance Mastery and Immunity to All Poisons: Acquired and equipped among his five advanced quest-reward traits 14.

Finance, Research, and Spiritual-Network Skills

• Trading: Uses market intuition and Reverse Flush to turn 10,000 borrowed Spirit Coins into holdings worth one million through contrarian trades 6.
• Quantified cultivation: Develops a practice-based approach to cultivation education, with plans to standardize basic sword moves and breathing methods 34 36.
• Network intrusion: Exploits a firewall vulnerability to access X Platform; later uses Jiang Qingyuan’s backdoor to investigate an illegal lending platform 39 41.
• Technical limits: Withdraws from the loan-platform investigation after encountering professionally encrypted protection around its core database 41.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Campus card — Identity-linked jade card used for payments, cultivation-room bookings, library access, tasks, and other university services 4.
• Provisional law-enforcement token — Establishes his authority and disguises his presence, allowing him to enter Mysterious Spirit Academy as an ordinary Qi Refining student 25 27.
• Protective jade talisman — A consumable defense that blocks Hu Zhongyuan’s Body Integration Realm cultivation pressure 27.
• Emperor’s Flowing Serum — University reward used with potions to increase his Spirit Vein count from eighteen to thirty-three 13 14.
• Cultivation medicines — Uses Origin-Nurturing Potion, Marrow-Cleansing Potion, Qi Gathering Pills, and Meridian-Warming Pills for intensive medicinal tempering 7 8.
• Foundation Establishment study materials — Receives an Omnidimensional Foundation Establishment Refinement Guide and Jiang Qingyuan’s compiled insights on constructing a perfect foundation 14 22.
• Jiang Qingyuan’s account-access jade talisman — Lets him log into her old X Platform account 40 41.

Relationships

• Jiang Qingyuan — One-on-one mentor, housemate, and protector under the joint-training arrangement. Saves his Chaos Sea transformation, recruits him into law enforcement, and supports his research. Their relationship grows more personally comfortable through shared meals, domestic help, and his care for her after the trial 17 21 23 29 33 36.
• Shen Moru — Jingfu professor who champions his talent, proposes joint training, and is designated to supervise his postgraduate studies. Encourages his summit presentation and sees applications for his educational methods 11 13 34 36.
• Zhou Zhengyuan — Handong University president who secures resources for him, presents Emperor’s Flowing Serum, and negotiates the joint-training program. Also becomes the bound target of Same Moment Name Change 12 13.
• Qing Song — Senior student, cultivation-loan intermediary, and supplier contact who arranges reliable batches of medicine 5 6 14.
• Fatty Wang — Fellow first-year student who accompanies him during testing, celebrates his recognition, and openly marvels at his progress 9 12 14.
• Su Wan — Victim and witness in his first major investigation; entrusts him with her account of abuse and helps him contact other victims 25.
• Leon — Holy See exchange student investigated for abusing female students; threatens Chen Fan and attacks him during their confrontation 25 26.
• Hu Zhongyuan — Academy vice principal who protects Leon, threatens Chen Fan, and attempts to overpower him before Chen Fan asserts law-enforcement authority 27.
• Li Songyan — Huaqing professor who dismisses his False Spirit Root and doubts his proposed summit presentation 34.

Story Role / Major Arcs

University Recognition and Joint Training

• His seventeen Foundation Establishment-level test results trigger the university’s highest-level alert and competition among professors to train him 9 10.
• Accepts a program combining four undergraduate years at Handong with three postgraduate years at Jingfu, including access to Jingfu courses, research, laboratories, and star-domain combat opportunities 13.
• Becomes freshman representative and delivers a deliberately down-to-earth opening address 15 16.
• Receives one-on-one instruction from Jiang Qingyuan and moves into her residence 17.

Luofu Society and Cultivation-Education Research

• Establishes the Luofu Society as a one-member organization, initially intending to direct its resources toward his own cultivation 17.
• Later discusses developing it into a cultivation-method research club; Jiang offers access to Jingfu research materials if he treats the work seriously 23.
• Accepts an invitation to discuss quantified cultivation at the annual university summit 34.
• Gains Jiang’s funding commitment and assistance from two engineering students. He proposes starting with the twelve basic sword forms, with possible future inclusion in standard introductory teaching materials 36.

Mysterious Spirit Academy Investigation

• Takes responsibility for investigating Su Wan’s complaint, with Jiang acting as a safety net rather than leading the case for him 24 25.
• Uncovers allegations involving at least a dozen girls, multiple foreign exchange students, and administrative protection 25.
• Confronts Leon and Hu Zhongyuan, publicly reveals his reserve-law-enforcer identity, and declares that he is taking over the investigation 26 27.
• Organizes and submits the evidence dossier. The case reaches the Supreme Council, which orders a public trial and livestreamed executions; Jiang also uses it to pursue an end to foreign students’ special privileges 29 31.

Holy See Ambush

• Encounters five Holy See death warriors after the summit: four at Foundation Establishment late stage and one at perfection 36.
• Uses the fight to test his traits and gain practical combat experience, defeating the four late-stage attackers 37 38.
• Survives the leader’s attempted self-detonation through Jiang’s intervention; she destroys all five and warns him to expect further Holy See retaliation 38.

Spiritual-Network and Loan-Platform Investigation

• Searches for a legitimate channel for his trait-generated Spirit Stones and bypasses the firewall to examine overseas discussion and trade opportunities 39.
• Gains access to Jiang’s old X Platform account and discovers her own history of defying network restrictions 40 41.
• Receives a fabricated overdue notice for 4,520 Spirit Coins from Treasure-Gathering Spirit Loans. His investigation uncovers an unlicensed platform listing over a thousand borrowers, many of them students, before advanced encryption forces him to stop probing 41.

Notable Quotes

“All right. I've mastered the cultivation method. The road isn't blocked; the threshold's just a little high.” 2

“I just wish you all smooth cultivation, fewer failed courses, and more opened Spirit Veins. Let's strive to have everyone reach Foundation Establishment in every category by graduation.” 16

“Yours? Since when did Mysterious Spirit Academy become your family's backyard? Have the students become your private property too?” 26