Progenitor Chen

## Introduction

Progenitor Chen (辰祖) originated from the Fifth Mainland of the Xia Family, with the given name of Xia Shang (夏殇). Humanity once claimed that it had regressed compared to the Ancient Progenitors and the Heavens Sect era but Progenitor Chen was strong enough to be known as an invincible progenitor whose power had been unmatched in both the ancient and modern times. He had been well known for cultivating the Nine Clones Secret Technique which allowed him to have nine clones in the Progenitor realm.

## Description

Progenitor Chen was a true powerhouse who stood at the zenith, with the Nine Clones Secret Technique giving rise to nine Progenitors, who were each unrivaled. It was first believed in the Fifth Mainland that Progenitor Chen had created the Nine Clones Secret Technique but it originally existed within the Xia Family of Shenwu's Sky.  Once Progenitor Chen had defeated the powerhouses from the Daosource Sect, he grew strong enough to gain a foothold in the Perennial World. His strength and invincibility allowed him to occupy Two Mountains and One Sea from the Nine Mountains and Eight Seas inheritance.

Progenitor Chen was a man with boundless arrogance and even threaten to burn down the Daosource Sect of the Sixth Mainland if they interfered with him killing Progenitor Nan.

### **Innate Gift**

Progenitor Chen's innate gift was Heaven's Furnace. This innate gift traps a target within a pill furnace cauldron that looks as though the universe itself had been compressed and refined to form it that has the power to obliterate anything trapped within even another progenitor. Though powerful and impossible to escape, the target can survive if they can somehow endure the pressure until the innate gift isn't maintained.

## History

The first introduction of Progenitor Chen began with the Sea King using Progenitor Chen's bloody cloak wrapped around the Pyrolyte to blast through the Upper Three Gates of the Starfall Sea that connects the Fifth Mainland to the Sixth Mainland. The Sea King stated that he got the cloak by accident, but it was the blessing of Chen that wished and willed for the Fifth Mainland to resist instead of merely waiting to die without dignity.

Progenitor Chen was born from the Xia family and was a branch member, but unlike the Lu family, the Xia family were always oppressive to the branch family. The Xia family was willing to do just about anything to the members of their own branch families, and they regarded anyone who was not part of the direct family line as pawns to be used. This was why they had made it a point to execute Progenitor Chen’s parents, and it was also why he had not been acknowledged by the family for so long, despite his peerless talent.

Progenitor Chen had many clones seeking out various cultivation methods traveling across the Fifth Mainland which each clone cultivated various powers such as Cosmic Art, or colossal giants' bloodline which resulted in the Daosource Sect condemning Progenitor Chen for such defiance. At that time, the Xia family did nothing to help him, and they never even gave him any support or assistance throughout his cultivation journey. His growth and rise in power had not been a steady path as he had frequent clashes with the Daosource Sect and disobeyed their commands. Progenitor Chen was synonymous with being a rebel.

Back then, the Xia family stood at the very top, and it was beneath only the Lu family. The Nine Clones Secret Technique is exceptional, and if not for the fact that the Lu family was simply invincible, the Xia family probably would have ruled over the Fifth Mainland. The Xia family achieved amazing success, but Xia Shang's birth and sudden rise not only robbed the Xia family of the Mountains and Seas they wanted to inherit, but he also stole the one that the Xia family controlled, leaving them with nothing at all. In fact, the entire reason why Progenitor Chen had seized control of two Mountains and one Sea had been because he wanted to remove the Xia family's path forward and prevent anyone from the Xia family from controlling one of the Nine Mountains and Eight Seas. The Xia family had given birth to some truly outstanding individuals in that generation, and they did not fall behind the geniuses from the Wang or Bai families at all, but because of Xia Shang, everyone from the Xia family had failed to receive any of the Nine Mountains and Eight Seas’ inheritances. In fact, they had all failed to become Progenitors due to the emotional scars that Xia Shang had inflicted upon them. These events eventually led to the Xia family to fall until they were merely comparable with the White Dragon clan.

The Lu family were the powers in control of the Fifth Mainland with their direct line of descendants being able to rival a nation and lord over all, but Progenitor Chen was strong enough to be comparable to them.

### Fifth Mainland War against the Sixth Mainland

The war between the Fifth Mainland and the Sixth Mainland was initiated by Progenitor Chen due to the influence of the Wang family, and it was Progenitor Chen who lead the Fifth Mainland against the Sixth Mainland. Progenitor Chen used his innate ability of Heaven's Furnace to refine Progenitor Nan in front of the Daosource Sect; countless people were forced to watch, unable to do a thing as the Progenitor was refined. The event had been a humiliation that the Sixth Mainland had erased from their history, and Progenitor Nan’s disgraceful end had also forced him to be erased from history. During the battle between the Fifth Mainland and Sixth Mainland, Progenitor Chen took down Black Progenitor. With the defeat of the Fifth Mainland against the Sixth Mainland, the Lu Family and the powers of the Fifth Mainland had left with the Mother Tree in order to bring the battlefield to the Mother Tree with the protection of Ceaseless Impetus, resulting in Progenitor Chen volunteering to stay with the Fifth Mainland after the Fifth Mainland lost the war.

The Court of the Seven Names had been designated as one of the Three Dark Hands of the human domain due to the Court taking over Progenitor Chen's Mausoleum. The Cosmic Sect was the organization that inherited the Cosmic Art, a cultivation technique created by Progenitor Chen. While Progenitor Hui had left the Technocracy and a plan to protect the Fifth Mainland, Progenitor Chen had left the stars that existed in the Fifth Mainland as a form of power left to those that reached the fifth level of Cosmic Art and the pattern which allowed the user to use the stars with power of a Progenitor.

## Nine Clones

The Nine Clones Secret Technique was from the Xia family but not all can cultivate clones and to the strength comparable to their main body. Progenitor Chen had been able separated himself into nine clones with each cultivating differently. He was able to combine all nine clones into one because he was a straightforward man with no deceit. The true benefit of the Nine Clones Secret Technique is not one becoming nine but nine becoming one meaning nine separate cultivations and beings could be fused into one.

* **1 - Colossal Giant Clone**
	+ Believed to be the clone of which current body was the Mausoleum which Court of Seven Names guard and gain their inheritance. The Colossal Giant Clone cultivated up to the Aurelian force and could change his size to whatever he wished. This clone had gained the bloodline of the Colossal Giants clan which was forbidden and a cause of conflict with the Daosource Sect of the Fifth Mainland, which the Xia family was part of. Due to the giant bloodline, this clone had merged with, the Sixth Mainland had slaughtered all the giants in their mainland. The Colossal Giant clone could reach a gargantuan size that he had been able to hold a planet and hurl it like a common stone.

* **2 - Cosmic Art Clone**
	+ Progenitor Chen was the creator and origin of the Cosmic Art, which lead to the rise of the Cosmic Sect in the Neoverse. Progenitor Chen means Progenitor of the Stars, hence the name Chen. The Cosmic Art clone that cultivated the Cosmic Art at the Enlighter realm had over five thousand stars, which compared to the true disciple of the Cosmic Sect Qiu Shi who only cultivated a thousand stars at most, allowed one to see the vast difference in power levels between the clone and present-day cultivators. Progenitor Chen had left the Skystar Wall for the Cosmic Sect. Due to how difficult it was to cultivate the Cosmic Art, it was split into different layers. It is possible that the stars that exist in the Fifth Mainland could have been created from the Cosmic Art.
* **3 - Invisible Clone**
* **4 - Wang Family Clone**
	+ Despite being from the Xia Family, Progenitor Chen still had acquired the Wang family’s Forgotten Ruins technique and their secret technique of Confinement.
* **5 - Xia Family Clone**
	+ Cultivated from the Xia Family, which includes their signature battle technique Triple Blade Will, and the Xia Family's secret technique of Nullify.
* **6 - Inverse Step Clone (Time & Space / Movement)**
	+ Inverse Step can rearrange time and space, making it chaotic and allowing the clone to find the weaknesses of all battle techniques used against this clone. It was strong enough to even render the Knowing realm of Truesight to be unable to protect the user. Progenitor Chen had comprehended the power of time before he even reached the peak of the Enlighter realm, as he had been able to create a chaotic field of time and space with Inverse Step. Lu Yin knew that, to do so, the user had to be able to perceive the power of time, and thus, he had deduced that Progenitor Chen had indeed comprehended the power of time.
* **7 - Water Clone (Healing)**
	+ Capable of using a healing technique that recovered even faster than users of the Sixth Mainland’s Secret Technique of Resurrection, this technique seemed to have no negative side effects. Lu Yin had visited the Nine Mountains and Eight Seas that were still in the Fifth Mainland’s Daosource Sect ruins. Progenitor Chen had already mastered one of those inheritances before becoming an Envoy.
* **8 - Heaven's Furnace Clone (Innate Ability)**
	+ Heaven's Furnace was Progenitor Chen's innate gift which was powerful enough to refine Progenitor Nan. There was no way to force Heaven's Furnace to open after it had been completely manifested. It looked like the universe had been compressed and refined to form this cauldron. It looked like a pill furnace, and it completely enveloped him on all sides, even overhead. It’s said that more than one Progenitor was obliterated in that cauldron. Heaven's Furnace was an innate gift that was formed from the universe itself, and the inside was completely cut off from the outside universe. Boundless pressure surrounds the target, feeling like it was being refined by heaven and earth. It looked as though that part of the universe had returned to a primordial state with only the target existing as an anomaly that vainly tried to escape destruction. The only method used to beat this innate gift is to stay alive until the user runs out of energy.

## Trivia

* Progenitor Chen's symbol was nine stars supporting a single, pure white flower.
	+ The flower insignia was on the Seven Skygod's Forgotten Ruins God's face.
* Progenitor Chen had been known as the Progenitor of the Stars.

## References

1. ↑ Chapter 1131
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Chapter 1172
3. ↑ Chapter 1840
4. ↑ Chapter 2066
5. ↑ Chapter 528
6. ↑ Chapter 2279
7. ↑ Chapter 2130
8. ↑ Chapter 1840
9. ↑ Chapter 1883
10. ↑ Chapter 2065
11. ↑ Chapter 1432
12. ↑ Chapter 706
13. ↑ Chapter 2106
14. ↑ Chapter 1174
15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 Chapter 1881
16. ↑ Chapter 2301
17. ↑ Chapter 1882
18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 Chapter 1097