Ten-Thousand-Year Melon Field Contractor

Biodata

Power Progression

Personality

Lan Xuanyu treats historical research as both investigation and entertainment. He calls digging up the past “eating melons,” mocks Tang Wulin’s reverence for Tang San, and insists that a post advertising tours of Spirit Hall’s ruins remain visible when Bibi Dong joins. Her authority does not deter him from publishing the record of her death 1 4.

His sensational presentation is backed by careful source work. Before the Tang Hao and Ah Yin session, he repeatedly checks the original official history. When exposing Hu Liena’s identity, he explicitly distinguishes documented facts from information the records do not provide, admitting that he cannot identify her current location or assignment alias 7 9.

He is an enthusiastic bettor who turns historical uncertainty into competition. He backs Tang San not attending Shrek and Tang Hao returning from seclusion, then raises his stakes as events develop. Nevertheless, he also supplies practical research that helps Tang San locate his father, praising Tang Wulin when the latter’s ancestral knowledge proves useful 2 3 8 10 26 28.

Abilities & Skills

Historical Research

Lan Xuanyu compiles evidence from official histories, specialist volumes, archives, and later-era textbooks 1 13 15 30 31.

• Biographical reconstruction: Establishes Tang San’s parentage by matching birth dates, Martial Souls, and Tang Hao’s settlement in Holy Soul Village 8 9.
• Political and military chronology: Organizes Spirit Hall’s expansion, decline, and destruction into a full-volume research post 18.
• Comparative scholarship: Uses a Fourth Era Shrek Academy textbook to show that two of Grandmaster’s three core Martial Soul Theory works were crossed out in later teaching materials 15.
• Research limits: Cannot recover details absent from his sources. His planned Xiao Wu exposé is also stopped when Qin Zhaoye locks her historical entry 9 14.

Geographical and Artifact Analysis

He combines historical and modern records to connect written accounts with physical locations and objects 26 31.

• Produces nine comparison maps of the mountains around Holy Soul Village, marking possible secluded valleys 26.
• Combines his maps with Huo Yuhao’s patrol analysis and Tang Wulin’s ancestral-home clues to locate Tang Hao’s secluded dwelling 26.
• Identifies a discarded hammer handle through its angled nonslip groove, matching it to Holy Soul Village smithing methods 31.
• Confirms a mountain-sealing inscription as another landmark on Tang San’s route 31.

Combat Analysis

Lan Xuanyu evaluates Qin Zhaoye’s techniques through livestream footage and historical comparisons; the supplied chapters do not show him personally fighting 13 27.

• Finds no comparable hard-interruption skill among early-thirties Soul Elders in the official history’s Soul Skill volume, identifying Chapter Severing as especially dangerous to casters 13.
• Explains how Historical Brush Errata, Chapter Severing, and Folded Page work together during Qin Zhaoye’s fight with a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast 27.
• Recognizes that Qin Zhaoye has vanished from the live record—not merely interrupted the broadcast—because its timeline continues moving 28.

Media and Presentation

He packages research and live events into posts, comparison images, animated stickers, and highlight threads 11 18 27.

• Creates animated stickers from the defeat of Li Chuan’s enforcement squad 11.
• Juxtaposes Spirit Hall’s magnificent Pope’s Palace with later-era tourist tickets and souvenirs from its ruins 18.
• Maintains a “best plays compilation” of Qin Zhaoye’s Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast hunt 27.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Tang San’s Arrival and Family Revelations

• First contact: Already present when Qin Zhaoye activates his group-owner privileges, Lan Xuanyu recognizes Tang San’s real name and publishes the record identifying Tang Hao as a young master of the Clear Sky Sect 1.
• Spirit Hall’s future: Posts a tourist guide to Spirit Hall’s ruins, confronting Tang San with the organization’s eventual downfall 1.
• Tang Hao and Ah Yin special: Serves as lead researcher, reveals Ah Yin’s identity as the Hundred-Thousand-Year Blue Silver Emperor, and challenges Spirit Hall’s account of its hunt for her 7 8.
• Resolution of Tang San’s origins: Presents three converging lines of evidence identifying Tang San as the infant Tang Hao took into hiding, then confirms that Tang Hao remains alive 9.

Newcomer Exposés and the Shrek Roster

• Hu Liena: Reveals her Demon Fox Martial Soul, status as Bibi Dong’s disciple, Night Owl Terrace codename “Crimson Sparrow,” and recorded unrequited love 9.
• Qian Renxue: Publishes her parentage, Heaven Dou infiltration, Angel God route, and eventual defeat 12.
• Shrek Seven Devils: Presents the future roster and its members’ achievements. Qin Zhaoye blocks Xiao Wu’s entry before he can finish publishing it; the remaining roster is subsequently completed 14 15.

Battle of Godhood Research

• Announces the “Complete Record of the Battle of Godhood,” a project he says took three years to compile. The Group Hub marks it as a gold-edged, volume-level topic 16 17.
• Presents Spirit Hall’s destruction in front of Bibi Dong, including the mental erosion, hidden injury, and fatal backlash associated with her Rakshasa God inheritance 18.
• Publishes a side-by-side chronology of Bibi Dong’s, Qian Renxue’s, and Tang San’s routes through the conflict, with notes addressing Qian Renxue’s questions 19.

Finding Tang Hao

• Supplies the geographical research that helps Tang San locate the secluded forge, then verifies physical evidence along the final approach 26 31.
• Backs Tang San to confront his father first, against Tang Wulin’s prediction that Tang Hao will lose patience first. He reminds Tang Wulin of the wager once Tang San presents his evidence 31 32.
• Welcomes Tang Hao into the group and publishes details of his concealed life, including six years spent forging farm tools for liquor 33.
• Announces “The Complete Tang Hao File,” which he says took two years to compile, with a review scheduled for the following night 33.

Recognition of Changing History

• After more than ten percent of First Era history diverges, checks the Fourth Era archives and finds sections of the Suotuo Dossier and Spirit Hall Volume grayed out 30.
• Notes that his world and memories remain unchanged, concluding that the group is watching a new official history develop in real time 30.

Relationships

• Qin Zhaoye — Group owner and host of his research sessions. Qin grants him the floor, pins his visual material, and distributes research proceeds; Lan Xuanyu praises both his combat achievements and fate-changing business 8 18 24 26 27.
• Tang San — Addresses him as Grandmaster or Founding Ancestor while openly teasing and betting on him. Provides the evidence that resolves his parentage and helps him find Tang Hao 1 2 9 26 31.
• Tang Wulin — Frequent bantering partner, research collaborator, and betting rival. Mocks his ancestor worship but acknowledges the usefulness of his memorized ancestral-home clues 1 6 26 31.
• Huo Yuhao — Fellow researcher whom he calls “Brother Huo” or “Old Huo.” Combines geographical work with Huo’s tactical analysis, while teasing him over lost bets and the prospect of Second Era revelations 10 26 31.
• Bibi Dong — Target of repeated historical exposés. His publication of her recorded death earns him a place on her death list, but he continues presenting evidence of Spirit Hall’s collapse before her 4 18.
• Tang Hao — Subject of his family-history research and later a group member. Helps locate his forge before exposing the private details of his years in hiding 26 31 33.