Lu Chen

Biodata

Power Progression

Lu Chen advances primarily by acquiring, elevating, and combining talents rather than by moving through a single sequence of realms.

Naming and Record Variations

• His initial fire talent is called Flame Sovereign, while later panels and narration also use Flame Manipulation 1 3.
• Full-Area Scan produces upgrades named Absolute Perception and Eye of Omniscience in different encounters 14 22 28.
• Immortal Body is attributed to both Stone Skin and Self-Healing Factor; the Stone Skin acquisition is also depicted again during the later Steel Judgment confrontation 32 34 38.
• The upgraded Impact Resistance talent is called Vajra Indestructible Divine Art and Vajra Indestructible Body in separate passages 31 37.

Background / History

Apocalypse and Family Rescue

Before the outbreak, Lu Chen lived with his parents on the city’s south side. His father had worked on construction sites, and Lu Chen’s belongings included a collection of game skins. Their neighbor, Auntie Wang, regularly brought the family homegrown produce before arriving bloodstained on the first day of the apocalypse 1 5.

After being admitted, Auntie Wang bit his mother. His father fought her with an ashtray and an iron rod, then shut Lu Chen behind the basement door to protect him. Facing approaching zombies, Lu Chen awakened Infinite Replication and burned his way out 1.

He found his father critically injured with glass lodged in his chest. Rejecting Old Zhang’s evacuation offer, he cleared the building, burned it down, and carried his father away in search of medicine. His father’s faint breathing remained a central concern as he crossed the ruined city 2 3.

Shelter Conflict and the First Recruits

Lu Chen defeated a Black Wolf Gang ambush and freed Xiao Lu, taking her along on the condition that she obey him. They entered a temporary shelter, where Captain Lin became suspicious of his composure and flame-related signs 4 5.

Lu Chen stole medical supplies and worked in the medical area to gain access to patients and their talents. His search for a nerve regeneration agent escalated into confrontations with Captain Lin, escape attempts, and another infiltration under the disguise of an injured awakener 5 6 7 8.

After finding gang members threatening Xiao Lu, he killed the attackers and forced the injured Li Gou’er into service. He named Li Gou’er the Godslaying Legion’s first warrior and targeted a military base for additional medicine and talents 9.

Professor Zhao’s Experiments

Posing as an ordinary awakened survivor, Lu Chen entered the military base and used routine labor assignments to collect talents. One-Eyed Wolf’s memories exposed Professor Zhao’s talent-extraction experiments, drawing him further into the institute 10 11.

He rescued the controlled test subject No. 09, stole talent samples and experiment records, and used Chen Feng’s explosives against the pursuing soldiers. After escaping, he brought No. 09 and Old Zhou into the ruins, later appointing Old Zhou chief scientist and Li Gou’er combat leader 14 15 16.

When Xiao Lu was badly injured in an attack, Lu Chen sought safety for her and discovered her developing Life Link talent. He subsequently infiltrated the medical area to retrieve his unconscious father, overcoming spores, infrared surveillance, and Captain Lin’s armed resistance 17 18 19 20.

The escape led to a confrontation with Professor Zhao and his Immunity Talent. Lu Chen pursued Zhao into the laboratory, copied Gene Recombination, and killed him. He then killed Captain Lin when Lin attempted to shoot him, leaving the collapsing base with Su Wan, her injured father, and Xiao Lu 21 22 23 24.

Recruiting for Conquest

In the forest, Lu Chen killed the mutated wolf king Gray Shadow, found the abused Xiaobai in a cave, and obtained supplies and a map with Li Qi’s help. A later military-camp infiltration yielded documents suggesting that the Doomsday Overlord might be responsible for the apocalypse 25 26 27.

He recruited the orphan A Jie for his Spatial Perception, then clashed with Steel Judgment over a warehouse’s supplies. After defeating Tie Dun, he treated his wounds, accepted Xiaoyu’s request to stay, and persuaded Tie Dun to become a test subject for his pursuit of immortality 30 31 32 33 34.

His ambitions shifted openly from gathering followers to conquest. He mapped survivor strongholds as targets for seizing people and resources and welcomed the awakened Chen Hao into the legion 36.

Research Base and Legion Expansion

Lu Chen developed rule recombination, restarted an abandoned reactor, and accepted Linda and A Kai as volunteer test subjects. At the research base, he freed imprisoned awakened survivors, defeated Hei Yao, and copied a large collection of stored talent profiles 42 43 44.

After destroying the base’s armed resistance, he declared that the legion would rewrite the apocalypse’s rules. He forged talent-powered weapons and tested their resonance with Linda and A Kai, extending his power-building strategy beyond personal talent acquisition 45 47.

Following the Thunder Group’s submission, Lu Chen claimed its supplies and ordered Linda to investigate possible backing by a larger force. Over the following days, he selected Bing Ling, Artisan Zero, and a flame-wielding youth as the legion’s first core team, emphasizing strength, strategy, wages, and benefits 49 50.

Appearance

• Face: Described as handsome, with sharply defined features and deep-set eyes 6 15 47.
• Build and bearing: Has an upright figure; after surviving bombardment, he stands “straight as a spear” despite being covered in ash 34 38.
• Hands: Has long fingers and lightly callused fingertips 33 47.
• Defensive manifestation: His skin develops a metallic sheen when his body-strengthening talents are active 32 38 40.

Personality

Lu Chen’s early helplessness becomes a conviction that power is the only reliable means of controlling his fate and protecting others. He distrusts institutions that invoke justice, sacrifice, or collective survival while attempting to use him as a resource. He refuses to become another faction’s pawn and increasingly treats his own strength as the basis for authority 1 2 3 7.

He is calculating and opportunistic, using feigned weakness, false identities, medical work, and staged encounters to acquire talents or expose an opponent’s plans. His recruitment is selective: he values useful abilities and growth potential rather than taking in every survivor indiscriminately 6 10 11 30.

His protectiveness coexists with coercion and brutality. He repeatedly risks himself for his father and shows genuine fear for Xiao Lu’s safety, yet forces Li Gou’er into service and makes obedience a condition of protection 4 8 9 17 19.

His interest in experimentation becomes increasingly obsessive. He deliberately burns his own arm to test regeneration, seeks immortality, and views talent research as a route to creating powerful followers. Dark jokes and theatrical remarks frequently accompany his violence and displays of confidence 24 25 34 42 47.

Abilities & Skills

Infinite Replication

His SSSSSS-rank core talent copies abilities and commonly elevates them to peak SSS rank, granting both power and practical understanding of their operation 19 38 40.

• Broad targets: Copies talents from humans, zombies, mutated animals, grass, and even a reactor’s Energy Conversion module 3 25 28 42.
• Talent sharing: Transfers copied powers to followers, including Linda, A Kai, and Bing Ling 44 50.
• Detection limit: Initially receives a blank interface when attempting to copy Xiao Lu’s incompletely manifested talent 18.
• Research dependence: Recognizes that a larger collection of talent samples is necessary to develop the ability’s potential 10.

Elemental Combat and Rule Recombination

He combines elemental talents rather than relying on a single attack type 42 44 45.

• Creates fireballs, flame walls, fire serpents, and large firestorms; also uses controlled flames to clean wounds and stop bleeding 3 6 8 22.
• Uses water to sweep an entire rooftop and metal to form swords or bullet-blocking barriers 4 9 20.
• Combines fire, ice, and lightning through rule synergy, later fusing five elements into a single energy sphere 42 44.
• Fusion experiments risk energy loss of control and bodily destruction; repeated simulation is essential to his breakthrough 42.

Perception, Prediction, and Concealment

His sensory talents support scouting, infiltration, and responses to ranged attacks 7 27 28 29.

• Absolute Perception: Maps life fluctuations within a three-kilometer radius during a sniper encounter 28.
• Hawk Eye: Expands his field of vision to ten kilometers, with microscopic, telescopic, night-vision, and infrared-like capabilities 29.
• Thermal shielding and concealment: Defeats infrared surveillance and helps him bypass military patrols 19 27.
• Prediction and analysis: Anticipates attacks, senses energy changes, and decrypts stolen research documents 22 27.
• Limits: Before his later defensive upgrades, he narrowly avoids a sniper round and acknowledges that a slower reaction could have killed him 28.

Physical Enhancement and Regeneration

His physical talents combine extreme speed, strength, impact resistance, and recovery 10 31 34 38.

• Extreme Speed Storm: Grants movement exceeding the speed of sound and brief bursts of exceptional strength 38.
• Immortal Body: Provides steel-like defense, immunity to the vast majority of physical attacks, and enhanced vitality and recovery 38.
• Survives artillery bombardment without meaningful injury and regenerates a deliberately burned arm 34 38.
• Gene Control: Allows him to alter his own genes to strengthen himself 23.
• His pursuit of immortality remains an experimental goal, not a demonstrated guarantee that he cannot die 34.

Mental Influence and Life Link

He uses mental abilities to control opponents, extract information, and support coordinated survival 9 10 11 18.

• Mind Control: Controls low-level zombies and influences human emotions 10.
• Memory reading: Extracts information about Professor Zhao’s experiments from One-Eyed Wolf 11.
• Life Link: Synchronizes healing, shares statuses, and distributes fatal damage across linked targets 18.
• Life Link has no stated numerical cap on participants, but its effectiveness decreases as the number linked increases 18.

Causality Interference

He uses Causality Interference against both a human commander and an artificial intelligence 45 48.

• Combines it with Omniscient Vision to make the commander trigger his own attempted self-detonation 45.
• Disrupts the robotic general’s core algorithms, introducing an error into its judgment 48.

Talent Engineering and Command

His later development focuses on equipping and organizing an army 24 42 47 50.

• War Dominator: Supplies detailed battlefield awareness and tactical information 24.
• Talent engineering: Rebuilds an energy system and materializes talents as weapons 42 47.
• Weapon resonance: Tests devices that amplify the interaction between followers and their equipment 47.
• Recruitment: Assesses compatibility, offers power and training, and assigns specialized combat and research roles 15 16 30 50.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Boundary-Breaking Blade — Forged through the Talent Furnace from Flame Manipulation, Frost Freeze, and Thunder Shock; demonstrated to tear open spatial barriers 47.
• Frost Shadow — Talent-powered weapon created for Linda 47.
• Thunder’s Fury — Talent-powered weapon created for A Kai 47.
• Talent Furnace — Used to turn talent combinations into weapons; its data model attracts Artisan Zero’s interest 47 50.
• Energy resonance device — Used to test and amplify Linda and A Kai’s connection to their new weapons 47.
• Talent samples and experiment records — Stolen from the institute, including records of the SSSS-Rank Talent Synthesis Plan 14.
• Encrypted military documents — Contain information on the Doomsday Overlord, Immunity Talent, and Law-Level Evolution 27.
• Nerve regeneration agent — A medical resource he repeatedly seeks for his critically injured father 6 8 9.

Relationships

• Father / Old Lu — His father protects him during the outbreak. Lu Chen carries him through the ruins, steals medicine for him, and retrieves him from a guarded medical room 1 2 8 19.
• Mother — Bitten by Auntie Wang at the beginning of the apocalypse; Lu Chen attempts to pull the attacker away 1.
• Xiao Lu — Rescued companion and early follower. Her safety becomes personally important to him, and her awakened Life Link becomes one of his copied talents 4 9 17 18.
• Li Gou’er — Defeated Black Wolf Gang leader, coerced into becoming the legion’s first warrior and later appointed combat leader 9 16.
• Old Zhou — Scientific collaborator appointed chief scientist, with responsibilities involving zombie research, weapons, and human modification 16.
• No. 09 — Controlled institute test subject whom he rescues and brings to safety with Old Zhou 14 15 16.
• Captain Lin — Suspicious shelter authority who pursues and obstructs him. Lu Chen copies Tactical Command before killing him during an attempted shooting 5 8 19 24.
• Professor Zhao — Enemy researcher associated with talent extraction. Lu Chen steals his research, confronts his experiments, and kills him after copying Gene Recombination 11 14 23 24.
• Tang Xue — Base official who scrutinizes his registration. During their later separation, she expresses hope that their next meeting will not be as enemies 10 15.
• Su Wan — Leaves the collapsing base with him after asking him to save her injured father and Xiao Lu 24.
• Xiaobai — Abused girl found in a wolf cave who accepts his invitation to accompany him 26 27.
• A Jie — Orphan recruited for Spatial Perception; receives an offer of protection and training as a reserve legion member 30.
• Tie Dun — Former opponent whose talents strengthen Lu Chen’s defenses and regeneration; agrees to become his experimental subject 32 34.
• Xiaoyu — Tie Dun’s sister, who asks to stay and learn from Lu Chen. He makes learning to kill a prerequisite for learning to save others 33 39.
• Linda and A Kai — Followers and volunteer test subjects who receive shared talents and custom weapons 42 44 47.
• Bing Ling, Artisan Zero, and the flame youth — Chosen as the legion’s first core team during its expansion 50.

Notable Quotes

“Only power... is truth.” 1

“This is only the beginning. I'll let this world know that true powerhouses aren't born—they're made by me, Lu Chen.” 9

“No, Xiaoyu, you're thinking too small. What I want isn't recruitment. It's conquest.” 36

“Next, I'll let the whole world know—the Godslaying Legion isn't here to survive. We're here to rewrite the rules of the apocalypse!” 45