Wang Zhiwen

Biodata

Background / History

Wang Zhiwen is an elderly scientist who has spent his life in technological research and is regarded as one of Great Xia’s leading academicians. As head of Group 749’s core research team, he directs the study of cultivation methods and materials sent back from the Imprisoned Dragon Realm by Lu Li 9 11 20 37.

He opens the first formal cross-realm communication by speaking to Lu Li through an amplification device. When Group 749 is elevated to Bureau 749, Wang is appointed its research group head and moves with the researchers to the underground base beneath Mount Baiwang 9 38.

Appearance

• Elderly, with graying hair: His hair is repeatedly described as trembling when he becomes excited; during the first industrial artifact-refining experiment, it is meticulously combed 11 38 45.
• Wears glasses: He removes them to rub his brow during a research impasse and accidentally bends them when Lu Li reestablishes contact 29 30.
• Vigorous voice: His loud, energetic speech is described as unlike that of an elderly man 10.

Personality

Wang is intensely absorbed in research. News of artifact-refining residue makes him impatient to reach the laboratory, even as his wife complains about his late-night overtime. His excitement frequently overrides formality: when asking whether the improved cultivation method worked, he interrupts the conversation and becomes careless of etiquette 16 37.

His enthusiasm is accompanied by concern for Lu Li and respect for scarce samples. He worries that the experimental cultivation method may have harmed Lu Li, promises not to waste the ore supplied by him, and recommends further simulations rather than rushing into a costly physical experiment. The successful purification of spiritual liquid brings him to tears after prolonged work and anxiety over Lu Li’s safety 16 22 26 38.

Abilities & Skills

Cultivation-Method Analysis

Wang leads the scientific optimization of the Five Elements Instruction, combining computer simulations with Lu Li’s firsthand cultivation records 10 16 34.

• Sequential pulse absorption: Explains a revised circulation method that absorbs the five elemental energies in sequence rather than simultaneously. Its initial projected benefit is a three-to-fivefold increase in cultivation speed 10.
• Practical validation: Arranges for Lu Li’s cultivation insights to be archived and uploaded after Lu Li reports reaching the Second Layer of Qi Refinement 16.
• Version 3.0: Presents an improved method developed through more than three million circulation simulations, identifying losses at several meridian junctions 34.
• Demonstrated results: Lu Li attains advanced comprehension of the technique and, with two bottles of Azure Gold Spirit Liquid, advances from the Fourth to the Fifth Layer of Qi Refinement 34.
• Instruction: Uses three-dimensional holographic demonstrations to explain circulation routes and reviews precautions with Lu Li before practice 10 34.

Spiritual-Material Purification

Wang coordinates research into extracting and preserving the spiritual power within Azure Gold Spirit Ore 17 20 26.

• Early extraction: Oversees an experiment with Professor Chen that produces a stable spirit-ore core but recovers only three percent of the ore’s spiritual power 17.
• Research redirection: Orders the search for a frequency-matched “spiritual solvent,” bringing the biology and energy teams into the effort 17.
• Protective-liquid method: Approves Zhou Mingyi’s proposal to melt ore within its own liquid material, protecting the released spiritual power from dissipation 20.
• Seventh purification experiment: Leads the successful production of spiritual liquid with an instrument-reported purity of 80 percent 26.
• Storage: Orders testing of containers cast from Azure Gold Spirit Ore powder, which successfully prevent the liquid’s energy from escaping 26.
• Support for Lu Li: Arranges the delivery of ten portions of purified Azure Gold Spirit Liquid after regular communication resumes 30.

Cross-Realm Transmission Research

Wang studies the Twin Fish Jade Pendant’s capabilities through controlled experiments and instrument readings 11 26.

• Living-body transmission: After a glass box crosses realms without the white mouse inside it, he immediately asks Lu Li to maintain the connection while researchers analyze the data 11.
• Provisional finding: The resulting calculations suggest that living beings might be transmitted with spiritual power exceeding the world’s limits, potentially requiring an immortal’s power 11.
• Blue Star activation test: Helps test whether purified spiritual liquid can awaken the pendant from Great Xia’s side. Two drops produce no response, leaving its activation conditions unresolved 26.

Technological Artifact Refinement

Wang identifies artifact refinement as an opportunity to combine cultivation materials and inscriptions with Great Xia’s capacity for precise measurement, simulation, and standardized manufacturing 37 43.

• Waste-material recovery: Supports Zhang Yi’s proposal to restore disrupted material structures through controlled particle bombardment. The 38,962nd simulation produces a promising result 37.
• Experimental planning: Requests a large particle collider and a controlled nuclear fusion power supply, prompting the relocation and expansion of the research operation 38.
• Industrial approach: Recognizes that heat, timing, and material quantities could be quantified rather than left to individual refiners’ judgment 43.
• Strategic advice: Urges Lu Li to master artifact refinement and investigate higher ranks of artisans. He speculates that immortal artisans may possess Dao-related power that could offer another route home; this remains a hypothesis 43.
• Material awakening: After more than a thousand failures, the research team masters particle-collision techniques for awakening materials’ spirituality and restructuring them with nanometer precision 45.
• Cross-realm production: Oversees the first coordinated artifact-refining experiment with Lu Li. The machine-made armor remains inert on Blue Star but activates immediately upon entering Lu Li’s world 44 45 46.
• Environmental limitations: Initially suspects differences in the worlds’ fundamental laws, then discusses Blue Star’s lack of Spiritual Qi as the obstacle. He requests detailed performance tests of the completed Great Xia Law Armor 46.

Relationships

• Lu Li — Cross-realm research partner and the source of cultivation texts, practical records, and material samples. Wang supplies technical guidance and research products while showing strong concern for his safety 10 16 26 46.
• Li Yuanchao — Works closely with Wang on communications, experiments, and research expansion. Li secures the institutional approval and facilities needed for Wang’s proposed particle-collider experiments 9 26 38.
• Zhou Mingyi — Chemistry expert whose protective-liquid proposal Wang approves as a feasible route to spiritual-power purification 20.
• Professor Chen — Fellow researcher involved in the early extraction experiment that achieves only three-percent recovery 17.
• Zhang Yi — Microphysics researcher who proposes using particle bombardment to awaken artifact-refining residue; Wang authorizes the investigation 37.
• Li Ming — Researcher who identifies the successful 38,962nd simulation and contacts Wang with the result 37.
• Unnamed wife — Objects to his habitual late-night overtime and reminds him that he is no longer young 37.

Notable Quotes

“Every piece of information you give us will be a tremendous help in our research into immortal cultivation civilization!” 11

“Funding and personnel will be supplied unconditionally and without limit!” 20

“Listen carefully. I don't want numbers, I want blueprints!” 20