Su Cheng’an — Divine Throne of Primordial Blood

Su Cheng’an is Su Chen’s father and the former Great Master of Northface City’s Su Clan. He initially tries to cure and protect his blinded son, but gradually values healthier heirs and social obedience over Su Chen’s proven character. His refusal to accept responsibility destroys their relationship and later leaves him isolated within the very family for which he abandoned Su Chen. (Chapters 2–4, 95–97, 347, and 1100–1101)

Biography

From worried father to conditional patron

When Su Chen is blinded, Su Cheng’an searches Northface City for the beggar responsible and hires numerous renowned doctors. He remains involved in Su Chen’s cultivation afterward and expresses pride in his discipline, but his support becomes conditional once he concludes that blindness has ended his son’s prospects. Su Keji persuades him that continuing to give Su Chen competition resources wastes the clan’s investment; although Su Cheng’an initially promises to respect his son’s choice, he soon accepts a Three Pool Spring opportunity for a new child in exchange for pressuring Su Chen to withdraw. His motive is not simple hatred. He believes that family resources should follow a viable heir, yet that belief reduces fatherhood to a calculation of future value. (Chapters 2–4)

The same calculation shapes his household. Encouraged by Su Keji, Su Cheng’an takes several concubines after the blinding and places growing hope in new sons, especially Su Hao. He praises Su Chen again whenever apparent signs of restored sight make him useful, then turns against him when loyalty to Yan Wushuang and patriarchal obedience are challenged. Su Chen’s independent income and repeated competition victories do not repair the bond; instead, they expose how little his father’s support rests on trust. By the time Su Chen prepares to leave for the Hidden Dragon Institute, he refuses to meet Su Cheng’an or attend the clan celebration, treating the relationship as already broken. (Chapters 4, 41–43, 89, and 144–152)

Violence, demotion, and estrangement

Their conflict becomes irreparable when Su Chen punishes Yan Wushuang and Su Cheng’an responds with lethal force. As a Blood Boiling Realm cultivator, Su Cheng’an strikes hard enough to hurl his son through walls and follows with a Flaming Tiger attack intended to kill him. Su Chen initially accepts two blows as the end of their remaining father-son debt, then raises defenses against the third. Su Changche intervenes, condemns Su Cheng’an’s willingness to kill a clan descendant over a concubine, removes most of his businesses, and elevates Su Feihu instead. The demotion does not produce remorse; Su Cheng’an interprets his son’s success as humiliation and grows angrier rather than reconsidering his decisions. (Chapters 95–97)

During Su Chen’s years at the Hidden Dragon Institute, Su Cheng’an takes four more concubines but continues to decline in status until he is known as the Su Clan’s “trash.” Tang Hongrui gives up on him emotionally, though she remains in the household because she will not violate family principles. Su Chen later compares his father unfavorably with Shi Kaihuang, recognizing that his instructor’s concern is genuine rather than dependent on advantage. When news of Su Chen’s triumphs reaches Northface City, the clan receives neither punishment nor favor under Su Chen’s policy, and Su Cheng’an’s unresolved resentment becomes a private illness rather than a route back to authority. (Chapters 178 and 347)

Mercy without reconciliation

Near the end of the supplied corpus, Su Cheng’an is too ill to attend the Su Clan’s celebration. He lies pale and white-haired in bed, berating Su Hao and Su Ming as useless and still calling Su Chen unfilial. Su Hao openly tells him that many clan members hope his death will improve their relationship with the now-supreme Su Chen, revealing the final consequence of his choices: the favored replacement heir resents him, while his estranged eldest son is the only person still willing to preserve his life. (Chapters 1100–1101)

Su Chen observes the scene invisibly and concludes that his father has not become repentant; blaming others allows Su Cheng’an to avoid admitting error, but that same emotional knot is consuming his health despite his cultivation. Su Chen does not reveal himself or restore the relationship. He instead gives Su Feihu a medicine expected to make Su Cheng’an recover shortly, explaining that he will do what he can for the man who gave him life and leave the longer outcome to fate. Su Cheng’an is therefore alive in the latest direct evidence, but his recovery is prospective, his underlying disposition is unchanged, and no later condition is stated. (Chapter 1101)

Appearance and personality

The corpus provides no detailed description of Su Cheng’an in his healthier years. In his latest scene he is extremely pale, his hair has turned white, and his whole appearance suggests imminent death despite the durability expected from his cultivation. These changes are attributed to years of unresolved emotional strain rather than a named injury or disease. (Chapter 1101)

Su Cheng’an is status-conscious, impulsive, proud, and highly susceptible to affection that confirms his authority. He can act with genuine concern, as shown by his early search for a cure and his attachment to his children, but his care depends heavily on usefulness and obedience. Once contradicted, he displaces responsibility onto Su Chen, his wives, or his other sons. Even old age does not bring an admission of fault. This stubborn self-protection lets him preserve his view of himself while costing him position, family loyalty, and physical health. (Chapters 2–4, 89, 95–97, and 1101)

Abilities and cultivation

Su Cheng’an is explicitly a Blood Boiling Realm Origin Qi Scholar during his violent break with Su Chen. The corpus demonstrates a small part of his combat style but does not identify his bloodline, cultivation method, age of advancement, training history, or any progression after his demotion. (Chapter 95)

Flaming Tiger attacks

Su Cheng’an channels his power through palm strikes that manifest a ferocious tiger image. A direct blow throws the Qi Drawing Su Chen through a wall, while a stronger follow-up tears clothing, badly dents a Heart Protecting Mirror, and would likely have killed him without it. When he manifests his full Blood Boiling strength, the tiger becomes wreathed in fire and occupies much of the pavilion. Three layered Meg’s Guardian barriers stop that attack, showing that the technique is dangerous to a junior cultivator but not able to bypass sufficient prepared defense. No range, energy cost, formal technique name, or use after Chapter 95 is supplied. (Chapter 95)

Cultivation and failing health

His Blood Boiling cultivation should make his deathlike condition in old age abnormal, yet it cannot resolve the psychological cause of his decline. The text treats the tightening “knot in his heart” as the reason his body fails, illustrating a limit that combat power and longevity do not automatically overcome. Su Chen’s medicine is expected to restore him in the short term, but Su Feihu warns that repeated medicine cannot preserve him forever if his state of mind remains unchanged. The corpus ends without confirming whether he takes the medicine, how complete the recovery is, or whether his cultivation itself has deteriorated. (Chapter 1101)

Relationships

Su Chen: Su Cheng’an begins as an anxious father but withdraws support when blindness makes Su Chen appear unprofitable, later attacks him for defying household authority, and never admits fault. Su Chen ends their personal bond yet still leaves lifesaving medicine out of obligation to the father who gave him life. (Chapters 2–4, 95–97, 152, 178, and 1101)
Tang Hongrui: Tang Hongrui is his principal wife and Su Chen’s mother. His succession of concubines and treatment of their son cause her to give up on him emotionally, though she remains within the Su Clan under her understanding of family duty. (Chapters 2, 41–43, and 347)
Su Keji: Su Keji exploits his elder brother’s fear that a blinded heir has no future, encouraging more concubines and exchanging resources for concessions against Su Chen. Their cooperation advances Su Keji’s faction while helping turn Su Cheng’an away from his most capable son. (Chapters 3–6)
Su Feihu: Su Feihu becomes the family member Su Chen still trusts and receives businesses taken from Su Cheng’an after the household crisis. Decades later, he reports his elder brother’s decline honestly and accepts the medicine Su Chen leaves for him. (Chapters 89, 97, and 1100–1101)

Items

Medicine from Su Chen: Su Chen leaves Su Feihu a vial that should allow Su Cheng’an to recover shortly. The corpus does not show it being administered or establish its precise name, formulation, duration, or final effect. (Chapter 1101)