Road to Mastery 6 characters

Appears from the start

A newly advanced B-grade cultivator whose 10,000-mile inner world exceeds the accepted limit. His achievement makes him a symbol of hope for the scattered Black Hole Church and a priority target for its enemies.

Also known as Big Bro

Appears from the start

Jack Rust's spiritually linked brorilla brother and fellow Black Hole Church champion. His 8,800-mile B-grade inner world is an exceptional achievement.

Appears from the start

The leader of the Black Hole Church. She publicly presents Jack and Brock's breakthroughs as proof that the embattled Church still has a future and commits its forces to the Second Crusade.

First appears in chapter 2

An unexplained figure lying dormant within Jack's inner world beside the depleted life drop. Jack does not understand its nature or purpose and suspects that it conceals something important.

Also known as Elder Boatman

First appears in chapter 2

A Black Hole Church elder who calls Jack, Brock, and their fellow envoys together after Jack finishes stabilizing his breakthrough.

Also known as Church diviner, Black Hole Church apostle

First appears in chapter 2

The Church diviner who interprets Jack's ten Dao fruits as a possible challenge to established cultivation laws. His unusual insight suggests that Jack's breakthrough may open an entirely new path.

First appears in chapter 2

Jack Rust's trusted friend and a fellow early B-grade cultivator. She promptly asks him to test their new strength in a friendly spar.

First appears in chapter 2

A late B-grade Black Hole Church leader travelling with Jack among an elite group of envoys.

First appears in chapter 3

A god imprisoned within a black hole and central to the Church's long-term plans. The Church diviner explains that his own sacrifice is intended to help restore and free this captive being.

First appears in chapter 8

The founder of the Black Hole Church, whose uprising and long-term contingencies continue to shape the Church after his death.

Also known as Archon Black Hole's spiritual companion

First appears in chapter 8

A sapient early A-grade space monster who awakens from the depleted life drop. Formerly the spiritual companion of Archon Black Hole, he knows the Church founder's contingencies and advises Jack on restoring the drop.

Also known as talking stone

First appears in chapter 8

A lonely, talkative living stone carried by Jack. Its memory is unreliable, yet it recognizes the Spiral Stair Galaxy and possesses fragments of knowledge that may illuminate its unexplained origin.

First appears in chapter 11

A permanent duplicate formed from part of Jack's inner world and soul. It shares his memories and Dao understanding but is limited to late C-grade, and is assigned to return to Earth to protect his family.

First appears in chapter 11

An E-grade djinn who manages the Church publicity campaign built around Jack and Brock. She turns their victories and cultivation progress into material intended to strengthen morale.

Also known as Vivi Aragon

First appears in chapter 20

Jack's partner and the leader of Earth after the Professor's retirement. She works to strengthen the planet's defenses, public welfare, and stability while raising Abel with Jack's newly returned clone.

First appears in chapter 20

The seven-year-old daughter of Jack and Vivi. She begins training at a leading Earth academy after Jack's clone returns home and settles into family life. Her education marks the beginning of her own cultivation path.

First appears in chapter 23

The leader of the Immortals and principal authority at the summit forced upon the Black Hole Church. The remote meeting places this System-aligned enemy at the center of the campaign against the Church.

Also known as former Church star disciple

First appears in chapter 23

A peak B-grade Black Hole Church ally with distinctive star-like hair who accompanies Jack Rust's party.

First appears in chapter 32

The Overlord who leads the Great Silver Faction, one of the rival powers represented at Empty Star City's auction.

First appears in chapter 32

The peak B-grade chief disciple of a Fiend King elder and a prominent combatant from that faction.

First appears in chapter 35

An early B-grade soldier in the Black Hole Church's Featherwell Battalion. Inspired by Brock's example, he holds a threatened battle line and risks himself to save a fellow soldier.

First appears in chapter 46

An Overlord who leads a rival faction into the Dark Canal. His forces compete with Great Silver's expedition, and his presence makes the once-in-a-millennium delve a contest between two powerful factions.

First appears in chapter 46

Fiend King's son and calculating head disciple. He enters the Dark Canal with the rival expedition and is reputed to possess unusual strength as well as careful judgment.

First appears in chapter 60

A conscious peak B-grade examiner who replaces the Hall's expected combat opponent. The challenger wields entropy against body, mind, and soul and personally tests candidates seeking admission to the hidden Eternal Floor.

Also known as god of entropy, test fragment

First appears in chapter 61

An old god represented in the Hall by the mortal-minded combat challenger. After Jack destroys the test body, the reconstructed fragment acknowledges defeat and begins explaining the Hall's deeper purpose.

Also known as seventh-floor guardian, guardian automation

First appears in chapter 64

The automation that guards the seventh floor and its three inheritance chambers. Jack's sentient stone recognizes this formidable keeper as its creator when the Overlords trespass into the sealed area.

Also known as Hero

First appears in chapter 71

An Immortal champion called the god killer after the death of the god associated with mass. He is bound to face Jack in a duel that may determine the Space Monster World's alignment.

First appears in chapter 72

A sentient pebble guarding three century-long will trials. Frankie is the sibling of Jack's sentient stone and another child of the Stone Scholar, and leaves the Hall with Jack and Brock when they defer the trials.

First appears in chapter 80

An enemy Archon who challenges Jack after the public duel gives way to the full battlefield. The confrontation places Jack directly against one of the Immortals' highest-level combatants.

Also known as the Professor

Appears from the start

Jack's mother and the former leader of Earth. By the opening of this volume she has retired from that position, which has passed to Vivi. She remains part of the family Jack's Earth-bound presence is meant to protect.