Chu Ge

Biodata

Power Progression

• Black Iron remains a planned breakthrough: Chu Ge intends to attempt it after the East Sea Martial Arts School Competition and hopes to obtain the Sun Aspect’s acknowledgment. No Black Iron breakthrough is documented through his championship victory 10 18 25.

Background / History

Chu Ge is a reincarnator from Earth who remembers his previous life as an overworked “996” office employee. He grows up in the wealthy Chu Family, one of East Sea’s four great martial arts families, with abundant money and cultivation resources 1 2 13.

He trains alongside Xiao Yan from childhood and receives foundational martial instruction from the Chu Family’s old steward, whom he calls Grandpa Gu. Although Blue Star generally favors balanced development of body and techniques, Chu Ge chooses to specialize in body cultivation, influenced by the novels he read in his previous life 3 15.

At eight years old, he survives the Scarlet-Eyed Giant Rat beast tide alongside Xiao Yan, Lin Luyin, and Ye Weiyu. During their escape from school, he kicks Ye Weiyu clear of a collapsing wall, then carries her after the fall leaves her unable to walk. The four reach a shelter and remain there for nearly a week 16 25.

Shortly before the story begins, Chu Ge learns that his family arranged a childhood engagement to Lin Luyin. He personally takes the marriage contract to the Lin estate and breaks off the engagement. Lin Luyin challenges him over the humiliation, but their spar ends with him kicking her five times 1 6.

At his coming-of-age ceremony, his father gives him a 500-square-meter riverside apartment. Chu Ge moves out immediately, preferring its freedom, proximity to school, and Xiao Yan’s frequent visits to the quiet family estate. Xiao Yan lives one floor below him 2 18.

Appearance

• Build: Lean and somewhat slender 1 6.
• Clothing: Wears a hooded black sweatshirt at the awakening ceremony and changes into a tracksuit for his first Instant test 1 11.
• Cultivation effect: A faint golden glow covers his skin while he practices Indestructible Golden Body, giving him the appearance of a Buddha statue 3.

Personality

Chu Ge is irreverent, sharp-tongued, and fond of teasing people he knows well. His exchanges with Xiao Yan frequently involve her height, unpaid debts, and insistence that he acknowledge her as his older cousin. He is equally merciless toward Lin Luyin, needling her about both her cultivation and their previous fights 1 2 19 22.

He is confident in his strength but does not pretend that his advantages are entirely self-made. After winning the class placement examination, he publicly credits his parents for his life and cultivation resources. He also requests a competition slot through the normal selection process rather than using his family status to obtain special treatment 5 9.

His ambition sometimes overrides his caution. He risks synthesizing his valuable two-star traits to obtain Instant and later pushes that skill to sixteenfold speed despite its dangerous backlash. Nevertheless, he tests abilities, studies their limitations, and adjusts his tactics—for example, repeatedly restarting Instant to maintain double speed against a weaker opponent 11 12 14.

Beneath his abrasive humor, he is protective and conscientious. He pays for the park tree destroyed during training, worries about civilians endangered by the growing beast incursions, and warns Xiao Yan that her family would grieve if she died. He also refuses a Sun Stone worth billions, believing he should attempt to comprehend aspect power himself 12 17 18 19.

Abilities & Skills

Webnovel Trait Check-In System

Chu Ge’s system binds to him when he completes the talent awakening ceremony 1.

• Daily check-in: Awards traits, with the next opportunity refreshing at midnight. Rewards can repeat, as demonstrated by his frequent Ten-Year Solitary Bamboo results 3 10 18.
• Trait synthesis: Combines lower-star traits into higher-star ones. Synthesis can fail; his first three-trait synthesis has a stated 50% success rate 3 6.
• Equipment slots: Each major-realm breakthrough grants another trait slot. At the Qi and Blood Realm, he has one slot 3 11.
• Inventory and swapping: Unequipped traits remain in system storage. Swapping a slot’s trait places that slot on a seven-day swapping cooldown 3.
• Realm restrictions: Higher-star traits require sufficiently high cultivation realms 3.
• Secrecy: He explains his initial trait to Xiao Yan as a delayed awakening. Other competitors continue to believe he has no trait until his unusual speed raises suspicions 2 23.

Indestructible Golden Body

A physical cultivation technique created by an ancient Chu Family expert and preserved in the family’s Scripture Repository 3.

• Draws elemental power through the meridians to refine the internal organs and temper all 208 bones 3.
• Provides the foundation for Chu Ge’s strength and bodily resilience; its direct speed enhancement is comparatively small 3 23.
• More than ten years of practice sharpen his senses beyond those of martial artists at the same realm 25.
• Allows him to detect the air displaced by Ye Han’s movements even when Single-Person Blind Spot prevents him from seeing or hearing Ye Han 25.

Instant

A three-star active trait that doubles Chu Ge’s speed at successive one-minute intervals, with no stated upper limit to its stacking 11.

• Scaling cost: Primordial Force consumption rises exponentially alongside speed 11.
• Physical danger: Speed beyond his body’s tolerance can tear muscles, break bones, or kill him through overload 11.
• Combat potential: At sixteenfold speed, he judges himself capable of seriously fighting a Black Iron cultivator, possibly even killing one; no such victory is documented 11.
• Current assessment: Fourfold speed is suitable for regular fights, eightfold requires caution, and sixteenfold should be reserved for emergencies 11.

Martial Arts and Weapon Skills

Chu Ge has substantial training independent of his system 15.

• Unarmed combat: Uses punches, kicks, and throws to win placement matches and remove opponents from the arena 7 9 13.
• Saber, spear, and bow: His proficiency in all three ranks among the best of his peers, supported by Grandpa Gu’s instruction 15.
• Precision: Cuts falling leaves into small diamond-shaped fragments while practicing basic saber techniques without activating a trait 15.
• Combat analysis: Correctly predicts a saber user’s victory by recognizing how solid fundamentals restrict the opponent’s attack angles 13.

Former Equipped Traits

Other Acquired Traits

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Bronze Tang saber — A top-grade Bronze Weapon from the Chu Family armory that he has handled since childhood. Used for training, testing Instant, and fighting Scarlet-Eyed Giant Rats 11 15 20.
• Competition spears — Uses a spear during the martial arts school selection and the East Sea competition. The selection permits only uniformly supplied, low-grade Qi and Blood Realm weapons 12 14 23 25.
• Black Iron Body Tempering Liquid — Awarded for first place in the freshman class placement examination and kept for his future advancement 10.
• Silver Weapon prize — Wins it as East Sea Martial Arts School Competition champion and asks the organizers to send it home. Its weapon type is not specified 25.
• Sun Stone — declined — His father offers it to assist his Black Iron breakthrough, but Chu Ge returns it and chooses to attempt comprehension independently 18.

Relationships

• Xiao Yan — Older female cousin and childhood training companion, born only minutes before him. They live one floor apart and exchange constant insults, but care for one another: she tends to him after his collapse, and he later struggles with his feelings after recognizing her words as a confession 2 3 15 21.
• Chu Xuan — Father and head of the Chu Family. Supports his cultivation, gives him his apartment, and offers him a Sun Stone. Chu Ge finds their relationship difficult to navigate because of his father’s reserved personality 2 18.
• Grandpa Gu / Uncle Gu — The Chu Family’s mysterious old steward and Chu Ge’s foundational martial arts teacher. Even Chu Xuan addresses him respectfully as Uncle Gu 15.
• Lin Luyin — Former fiancée and recurring rival. Resents his cancellation of their engagement and repeatedly seeks revenge for losing to him. Their families remain closely connected despite their quarrels 1 6 9 22.
• Ye Weiyu — Childhood acquaintance whom he rescued during the beast tide. She enthusiastically supports him, although Chu Ge considers them relatively distant and does not initially understand her attachment 9 23 25.
• Yang Wei — Longtime acquaintance, selection opponent, and fellow Chu Martial Arts School representative. Chu Ge defeats him in selection, then avenges his loss to Ye Han in exchange for a promised two weeks of duck-leg rice 13 14 24 25.
• Wang Jianguo — Headmaster of the East Sea Chu Martial Arts School, addressed as “Uncle Wang.” Oversees the fair selection process through which Chu Ge earns his competition place 5 12 14.
• Xiao Lan — Martial arts school receptionist and supporter. Chu Ge teases her about permanent employment but reassures her about her benefits and later encourages her not to measure her life against martial artists’ expenses and dangers 4 13 25.
• Lin Lan — Martial Arts Association member who investigates his first rat encounter and later helps rescue him and Xiao Yan from a swarm 16 19 20.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Notable Quotes

“As long as I'm strong enough, there's no one I can't beat.” 3

“Of course, I mean through the normal application process. There's no need to give me the green light.” 5

“Sorry, but the words ‘admit defeat’ aren't in my dictionary.” 14