Wu Chen

Wu Chen is a Crow Scout youth whose failed attempt to brand Meng Hao's wolf turns him into one of Grandmaster Meng's most devoted supporters.

Biography

A failed heir and an impossible wolf

Wu Chen begins as a frustrated Crow Scout youth burdened by repeated failure. He has not secured the tribal inheritance expected of him, his standing has suffered, and his older sister Wu Ling must continue advocating for him. When he encounters one of Meng Hao's Greenwood Wolves, he assumes it is an unclaimed neo-demon and tries to impose a branding leaf. The wolf rejects every attempt and nearly kills him, exposing the gap between Wu Chen's confidence and his actual control. (Chapters 397–399)

Failure changes his judgment rather than merely humiliating him. Wu Chen realizes that the wolves must already belong to an extraordinary neo-demon cultivator and traces them back to Meng Hao. Facing an inheritance contest he expects to lose, he kneels and asks this unknown master for help. His bargaining chip is the Crow Scout Tribe's secret totem-branding method, which he explains to Meng Hao in exchange for support. The decision is risky—he gives away prized tribal knowledge and entrusts his future to a stranger—but it is also the first time he correctly values expertise above his own pride. (Chapters 399–400)

Inheritance victory and Grandmaster Meng

Meng Hao's wolf defeats the neo-demon hired for Wu Chen's rival, reversing years of humiliation and securing Wu Chen's victory in the inheritance contest. Gratitude quickly becomes near-religious devotion. Because he knows the wolves, Wu Chen recognizes them during the Crow Scout conflict with Gu La's apprentice and understands that the supposedly ordinary Meng Hao is the hidden expert behind them. He publicly treats Meng Hao as Grandmaster Meng and helps force the tribe to reassess a guest whom its neo-demon cultivators had underestimated. (Chapters 401–403, 412 and 414–416)

Wu Chen's loyalty is grounded in more than power. Meng Hao's intervention gave him a future when his own clan expected him to fail, so service becomes a repayment of personal dignity. He and Wu Ling help connect Meng Hao to the Crow Scout Tribe and to the pendant inherited through their mother, which in turn provokes the Resurrection Lily inside him. Wu Chen then joins the Ancestor Rite expedition, remaining close to the tribal events through which Meng Hao acquires the Crow Divinity legacy. (Chapters 417–421)

War, migration, and the Crow Divinity Tribe

The Crow Scout Tribe's consolidation and the Western Desert apocalypse transform Wu Chen from an inheritance candidate into a veteran. He accompanies the tribe through conflict, alliance, and migration as the five Crow branches become the Crow Divinity Tribe under Meng Hao. His own contribution is not portrayed as decisive individual power; it is persistence, tribal knowledge, and continued loyalty while stronger cultivators and neo-demons determine the largest battles. That distinction keeps his arc centered on earned belonging rather than inflating him into one of the migration's great combatants. (Chapters 424, 434, 452–453, 475, 483, 503 and 506)

When Meng Hao eventually parts from the tribe, Wu Chen and Wu Ling possess the honored standing that association with Grandmaster Meng has brought them. Wu Chen is no longer the isolated youth who tried to steal a wolf; he has survived the destruction of the old Western Desert order and helped carry a new tribal identity across it. (Chapter 515)

Nine Seas and the Windswept Realm

Much later, Meng Hao visits the Crow Divinity Tribe's old home and reunites with Wu Chen. Age has put distance between the former youth and the inheritance struggle that began their relationship, while Big Hairy's survival preserves its most immediate reminder. Wu Chen's reappearance gives Meng Hao a living connection to the tribe and lets both men recognize how completely their circumstances have changed since the Greenwood Wolves first brought them together. (Chapter 1170)

Appearance and personality

Wu Chen first appears as a young Crow Scout tribesman whose manner is more striking than his physical description. He is quick to claim a valuable neo-demon and initially assumes that his status gives him the right to brand it. After the wolf defeats him, bravado gives way to fear, calculation, and then a willingness to kneel for help. (Chapters 397–400)

His strongest trait is wholehearted loyalty. Once Meng Hao saves his inheritance prospects, Wu Chen does not minimize the debt or pretend the victory was his own. He becomes an enthusiastic advocate for Grandmaster Meng, sometimes to an excessive degree, but that fervor grows from remembered humiliation and gratitude rather than simple worship of strength. Time and migration mature him without erasing that allegiance. (Chapters 401–416, 515 and 1170)

Abilities and cultivation

Totem-branding knowledge

Wu Chen knows the Crow Scout method that forms a leaf-shaped totem brand and uses it to establish ownership or control over neo-demons. He can transmit the method to Meng Hao, making his knowledge narratively important even though his own attempts on the Greenwood Wolf fail. The failure also defines the technique's limit: a cultivator cannot casually overwrite the bond of a stronger beast that already recognizes another master. (Chapters 397–400)

Neo-demon handling

As a member of a tribe specializing in neo-demons, Wu Chen can assess beasts, attempt branding, and participate in inheritance contests decided through them. He is still a developing practitioner when introduced, and Meng Hao's wolves vastly exceed what he can control; the article therefore does not treat familiarity as mastery. (Chapters 397–403)

Western Desert cultivation

Wu Chen follows the tribal cultivation system in which totems, bloodline inheritance, and neo-demons shape status and combat. His advancement is sufficient to survive the Ancestor Rite, tribal wars, and long migration, but the supplied chapters do not give him a distinctive high-level attack or a reliably stated final realm. (Chapters 418–421, 452–453 and 475–515)

Recognition and field experience

Knowing the wolves lets him identify Meng Hao's concealed role before most of his tribe. Later experience across the migration makes him useful as a veteran and witness, though his value remains judgment and allegiance rather than battlefield dominance. (Chapters 412–416 and 503–515)

Relationships

• Meng Hao: Benefactor and the true master of the Greenwood Wolves. Meng Hao rescues Wu Chen's inheritance prospects; Wu Chen repays him with the branding method, public recognition, and enduring loyalty.
• Wu Ling: Older sister and early advocate. She protects his chance to compete, shares the consequences of his alliance with Meng Hao, and later holds honored status beside him.
• Wu Ali: Rival in the inheritance contest. Wu Chen defeats him only because Meng Hao's wolf overturns the expected result, making the victory a turning point rather than proof of Wu Chen's superior cultivation.
• Big Hairy and the Greenwood Wolves: The neo-demons that first expose his limitations and lead him to Meng Hao. Big Hairy's later presence makes the origins of their relationship tangible after many years.

Items

• No independently notable item within the finalized manifest is directly assigned to this character.