Chu Yuan

Biodata

Power Progression

“Star Level” and “Stellar Level” refer to the same cultivation rank in the provided chapters.

Background

Chu Yuan transmigrated into the Swallowed Star world thirty years before his initial Stellar Level breakthrough. Rather than becoming an Earthling, he was born into the Leinuo Family of the Purple Radiance Empire, within the Black Dragon Mountain Starfield. He did not know whether humanity had yet emerged on Earth 1.

The Leinuo Family was the empire’s second-largest power, with fifteen Universe Level experts. His father, Sake, was a Universe Level Seven expert who provided him with cultivation resources and transferred Water Dragon Planet into his name when he came of age 1.

Chu Yuan began cultivating at three and studying the family’s Falling Flame Blade Technique at six. After reaching Planetary Level Seven, he underwent the family’s compulsory survival trial, whose passing conditions were either surviving for three years or killing one hundred Planetary Level targets. He later settled on Water Dragon Planet, where powerful bodyguards insulated him from further life-and-death combat 6 7.

Before obtaining the system, he considered his prospects limited: reaching Stellar Level had taken twenty-seven years, and he doubted that he would ever reach Universe Level. His planetary estate nevertheless supported a population of tens of billions, over a thousand Planetary Level slaves, and several hundred concubines 1.

Appearance

• Approximately 2.8 meters tall, based on his comparison with Twin Blade Demon 13.
• Commonly wears Dark Flame Armor and carries the Fire Prison Blade during his early Virtual Universe battles 13.
• His combat techniques produce conspicuous flames around his body and weapon 6 14.

Personality

Chu Yuan is openly acquisitive but careful about exposing his wealth. He celebrates major treasure discoveries exuberantly, yet refuses to sell conspicuous high-tier equipment through ordinary shops or publicly use treasures that might endanger his family. His decision to sell Huoyao’s inheritance through a protected bank account reflects this caution 2 8 9 10.

Despite his comfortable upbringing, he responds to demonstrated weaknesses with sustained training. After the Killing Field exposes flaws in his techniques, he repeatedly fights simulated versions of himself. Under Xiong Ba’s guidance, he adopts a schedule of ten hours studying secret techniques and eight hours fighting each day 7 12.

He is generous toward his family and merciless toward enemies. He funds Ge’er’s cultivation and purchases bloodline agents for his father and older brothers, but pursues those who steal his treasures and orders a Tuta Family heir killed despite the threat of a World Lord father 22 27 35 47. His ruthlessness has practical limits: he eventually stops hunting further Radiance Empire royals because they pose no threat and eliminating every descendant is impossible 41.

Abilities & Skills

Infinite Fortuitous Encounter Exploration System

Activated by his Stellar Level breakthrough, the system merges with Feiluan and upgrades her into an intelligent life. Its initial search range covers the Black Dragon Mountain Starfield 1.

• Marks opportunities on planetary and interstellar maps, with documented ratings reaching six stars 1.
• Allows searches filtered by location, rating, and mortality rate 2 41.
• Supplies locations and routes that Chu Yuan distributes among independent treasure-retrieval fleets 6.
• Identifies opportunities rather than automatically securing them; excavation, guards, travel, and combat remain necessary 7 19 43.

Fire Domain and Fire Origin Law

Chu Yuan’s main combat foundation is fire. The Fire Origin Divine Fruit dramatically improves his affinity, allowing him to sense the fire origin and accelerate his comprehension 20.

• Uses his domain to engulf enemies, suppress opposing domains, and concentrate power into saber attacks 30 31.
• Burns the Trial Tower’s first-floor guardian to ashes through domain superiority alone 30.
• First comprehends a trace of the Fire Origin Law after the Radiance Empire battles 40.
• Reaches an eighth-stage domain while mastering the Prairie Fire Form 50.

Saber Techniques

Chu Yuan progresses from the Leinuo Family’s Universe Level technique to Huoyao’s inheritance and the Flame Void secret technique 7 12 50.

• Falling Flame Blade Technique — practiced since childhood; documented moves include Flying Blood and Illusion Destruction 6 7 11.
• Ash Annihilation Blade — documented moves include Starfall, Heavenly Light, Return to the Ruins, and Severing the Flow 23 30 31.
• Prairie Fire Form — the Flame Void Saber’s first form. Its mastery is described as sufficient to make a practitioner virtually unmatched among Star Level fighters 50.

Illusory Space

A movement secret technique leading toward the Space Origin Law. Chu Yuan first manifests its elusive intent during the Radiance Empire fighting, before actually comprehending the law 40.

• Its first level, Phantom Body, distorts space to create genuine Space Phantoms rather than ordinary afterimages 45.
• A true phantom can fight and inflict fatal injuries like the original body 45.
• His first successful combat-capable phantom lasts less than 0.5 seconds 45.

Life Core and Clone Nurturing

Fusion with the Great Void Spirit Crystal transforms Chu Yuan’s genes and binds his soul to a Life Core 45.

• Raises his life-gene multiplier to 100-fold 45.
• Removes his head as a fatal weak point; he can regenerate as long as the Life Core remains intact 45.
• Allows him to nurture three clones before becoming Immortal 45.
• Clone candidates cannot exceed fifty times his original body’s life-gene level—5,000-fold at his documented multiplier 45.
• Makes his perception of the Space Origin Law more than ten thousand times clearer than before 45.

Equipment & Assets

• Flame Void Saber — divine weapon suited to the combined fire-and-space path. Initially beyond his ability to properly wield; he later masters its first form 33 34 50.
• Fire Prison Blade — Tier 3 weapon used in his early training, ranked battles, and first Trial Tower challenge 4 13 30.
• Dark Flame Armor — high-quality Tier 3 combat suit. Although theoretically able to withstand Universe Level Nine attacks, it cannot prevent sufficiently powerful residual force from killing its weaker wearer 3.
• Cloud-Breaking Blade — Tier 4 weapon valued at 93 billion Ganwu Coins. He initially retains it because he cannot unleash its power and selling it would attract dangerous attention 3.
• D9-class laser gun — requires five seconds to charge and can kill a ninth-stage Domain Lord with one shot. Star Pupil No. 1 frequently operates it 33 36 47.
• D5-class railgun — inherited heavy weapon mounted on the Dragon Abyss and used in attacks on powerful pursuers and the Radiance Empire’s leadership 9 20 38.
• E-grade Nutrient Pod — inherited cultivation equipment responsible for his rapid advance to Star Level 9. It requires recovery intervals and cannot bypass the stated domain requirement for reaching Domain Lord 11 12.
• Spaceships — initially owns a C5-class Dragon Abyss from his father, later names a faster dark-red vessel Dragon Abyss, and obtains Huoyao’s E2-class backup ship, subsequently called the New Longyuan 2 3 9 49.
• World Ring — used to store the uprooted Blue Crystal Fruit Tree and as an enclosed cultivation space 43 50.
• Star-Eating Grass — bonded through blood after Black Blade One captures it. He funds its eighteen-main-vine evolution, raising it from Star Level 9 to Universe Level 9 17 33 41.
• Treasure-retrieval fleets — expands his operation from 100 fleets to 300 and eventually 500, using system-supplied routes to gather opportunities across the starfield 6 32 33.
• Hard Rock Race stone heart — retains the captured special lifeform’s heart for later sale. The rock man remains alive while the heart survives, and Chu Yuan cannot physically hold it at his cultivation level 45.

Relationships

• Sake Reynolds / Leinuo — Father and the family’s sixth-generation patriarch. Gives Chu Yuan Water Dragon Planet and later sends him 100 billion Black Dragon Coins; Chu Yuan reciprocates by purchasing a Domain Lord-level Bloodline Evolution Agent 1 10 25 27.
• Yunya Reynolds — Eldest brother. Initially serves as Chu Yuan’s simulated combat benchmark; Chu Yuan intends to help him overcome his long-standing Star Level bottleneck once doing so is safe 6 7 10.
• Ge’er Leinuo — Third elder brother. Receives twenty billion Black Dragon Coins for cultivation; Chu Yuan challenges Teng Kai after learning of Ge’er’s humiliation 22 24 25.
• Feiluan — Personal AI, later intelligent life and system interface. Handles navigation, appraisal, opportunity searches, fleet coordination, and ship weaponry 1 6 20 36.
• World Lord Huoyao — Deceased teacher whose inheritance supplies Chu Yuan with wealth, equipment, and secret techniques. Chu Yuan intends to avenge him if he becomes strong enough 9 12.
• Xiong Ba — Huoyao’s surviving intelligent companion and Chu Yuan’s instructor. Initially doubts his suitability as a disciple, then comes to regard him as a race-level genius capable of avenging Huoyao 8 11 12 50.
• Mongnar — Virtual Universe Company executive who recruits him into the Black Dragon Mountain Branch 23 24.
• Ruofeng — Encourages his first Trial Tower challenge and explains its rewards; recognizes his potential for eventual entry into the company’s core ranks 30 32.
• Zhuojia Leinuo — Close friend and fellow direct descendant of the Leinuo Family; informs him about Ge’er’s defeat 24.
• Black Blade and Star Pupil bodyguards — Purchased Universe Level protectors who excavate opportunities, fight hostile cultivators, and guard him during breakthroughs 15 40 43 47.

Major Story Arcs

System Awakening and Huoyao’s Inheritance

• Uses his newly activated system to locate a four-star opportunity on Three Suns Star, obtaining the Cloud-Breaking Blade, Dark Flame Armor, and a bloodline evolution agent 1 2 3.
• Sells ten Tier 3 weapons for 2.6 billion Ganwu Coins and develops a fleet-based treasure-hunting operation 4 6.
• Excavates an E-grade wreck beneath Proxima Centauri and discovers the estate of World Lord Huoyao, dead for 700 million years 7 8.
• Becomes Huoyao’s disciple and arranges protected bank consignment for most of the inheritance’s 196 valuable treasures 9 10.

Rise of Long Yuan

• Establishes the alias Long Yuan through undefeated Decisive Battle Space matches, reaching 785 wins and a seven-star rating in two days 13.
• Defeats Twin Blade Demon, comprehends his first domain, and advances to 786 wins, zero losses, and nine stars 14.
• After refining his third-level domain, defeats a four-eyed fighter with a matching Thunder Domain and reaches 1,698 wins without a loss 22 23.

Virtual Universe Company Membership

• Chooses external rather than internal membership to retain greater personal freedom. The affiliation grants access to the company’s internal store and provides protection for his growing wealth 24.
• Purchases bloodline agents for his father and two older brothers and humiliates Teng Kai in a wagered Virtual Universe duel 24 25 27.
• Clears the Trial Tower’s first three floors on his first attempt, but dies to the fourth guardian’s single strike. The result earns 700 million Universe Coins and draws attention to his age of thirty-two 31 32.

Conflict with the Radiance Empire

• Pursues the Domain Lord responsible for killing his fleet personnel and stealing treasures worth over 450 billion Universe Coins 35 36.
• Ambushes Elijah, deploys bodyguards against the imperial capital, and gathers over two thousand descendants of Elijah and Modu 38.
• Advances his domain and law comprehension during the ensuing fighting. Afterward, he declines to continue hunting royal descendants who pose no meaningful threat 40 41.

Star Ripple Secret Realm

• Selects a six-star opportunity with a mortality rate below 15% and travels to the Turbid Abyss Continent 41.
• Retrieves a Blue Crystal Fruit Tree, captures a Hard Rock Race special lifeform, and fuses with the Great Void Spirit Crystal 43 45.
• Refuses to wait centuries for the natives’ great purge to end, instead fighting his way out with his guards and relying on his E2-class ship for protection 47 48.
• Returns with roughly thirty tonnes of Star Ripple Sand worth over 54 billion Universe Coins, then masters the Prairie Fire Form and raises his Fire Domain to the eighth stage 50.

Notable Quotes

“A divine weapon will never become a fire poker in my hands.” 33

“Going through it floor by floor is too slow. Once I’m strong enough, I’ll clear the tenth layer in one go and enter the Apocalypse Secret Region directly.” 34

“Idiot. Once I kill you, your treasures will still be mine.” 47