Zi Chen

Appearance
A youth of 16 years of age, wearing green clothing with animal skin binded to them, similar to the clothing of other disciples. He was considered handsome but overall average when compared to others.

History
He was an outer sect disciple of the Ling Wu sect, treated poorly by his fellow disciples since he lacked any ability or cultivation being at only the 3rd layer of True Qi.

He was going out to gather a snow ginseng in a snowstorm with his friend who had ultimately betrayed him because he wanted it all to himself. This had devastated Zi Chen and while in his shock Zi Chen was stabbed, his dantian shattered, and kicked off a cliff shortly after. As he's bleeding out and about to perish, his blood that was draining from him onto the snow was dripping onto a small ball of ice. Little did he know that the ball of ice turned into a beautiful amber color upon absorbing his blood which brought out a lustrous silver light which healed his body and brought back his cultivation.

Shortly after his cultivation was reset to the 1st level of True Qi, however his rate of cultivation had increased several folds after this ball had infused itself with body, becoming his new dantian. Subsequently he raised his cultivation quickly and shortly afterwards, went to his revenge, and the snow ginseng that he rightfully deserved.

After obtaining a snow ginseng, many other disciples including inner disciples wanted to kill him for it. Through the snow ginseng he managed to improve his cultivation incredibly quickly reaching the mid-stages of True Qi.

Spirit Martial Sect's Destruction
After the core disciple battles and the strife between Zi Chen and Chen Long, the Spirit Martial Sect was invaded by the Martial Sect. The grand elder was killed and everybody except Su Mengyao and Lin Xue were killed in the invasion. Zi Chen was sent out of the sect prior to the attack by the grand elder to save his life, which leaded Zi Chen on a journey for power, and revenge.

Adventuring into the Wild
While he is fleeing from his sect's destruction, he is being chased by the Wu Zong Sect who assumed he had a precious treasure that was given to him by the grand elder of Ling Wu, this was the sole reason for the invasion to begin with. The treasure at this point is unknown but regardless of the circumstances Zi Chen just knows that it's kill, or be killed.

Later he stumbles upon a cultivator in black shamelessly killing mortals from a village which infuriated Zi Chen. After killing that cultivator he ends up coming upon a caravan which that cultivator had come from and blended into their group. He realized they were on their way to Cloud City to kill the children of the city lord, for reasons unknown. The caravan was soon attacked by a formation set up by Cloud City cultivators and they were mostly destroyed. In the midst of the battle Zi Chen figured out they were the heavenly killing pavilion, which was basically an assassination organization who would do anything for a couple yuan stones. Wang Xiao'er who happens to be the daughter of Cloud City's lord and the initiator of the attack, chased Zi Chen as he ran away thinking he was an assassin. The thought of it frightened him as he was still in the True Qi Realm being chased by Zhen Yuan realm cultivators

Trivia
Opens his will in Xiantian Stage (Ch.212)

Opens Spiritual Consciousness in True Origin (Ch.352)