Lu Yang

Biodata

Power Progression

Permanent Cultivation and Aptitude

Temporary Realm Enhancements

Power of Money increases are temporary, not permanent breakthroughs. Lu Yang retains insights to study afterward, but his cultivation falls back when the enhancement ends 266 402.

Cultivation Methods and Principle Milestones

Tycoon’s Confidence

Background / History

Early Life and Sect Entry

Lu Yang initially feels frightened and disconnected after transmigrating. Growing up with the Lu Household’s affection gives him a genuine sense of belonging. His father, Lu Xuelang, and mother, Liu Qing, raise him in the household’s fourth branch 94 101.

He leaves home at fifteen to join the Golden Rainbow Sword Sect. Four years later, his mid-grade Spirit Root has left him struggling below Mid-stage Qi Refining, despite the family’s pride in his admission. Before the system awakens, he is a menial disciple who cannot even fly on a sword 1 2 93 443.

System Awakening and Outer Sect Life

Lu Yang initially considers an Urban Tycoon System poorly suited to cultivation. Discovering that Universal Experience can improve his innate Spirit Root changes his assessment. He begins completing daily tasks diligently, raising his constitution, intelligence, and charm while using rewards to accelerate his cultivation 2 5 28.

His spending attracts attention almost as quickly as his appearance. Regular Spirit Cuisine meals, supreme-grade equipment, and expensive gifts lead disciples to speculate that he belongs to a hidden lineage or major power. He eventually receives personal disciple privileges without accepting a sect-appointed master 47 49 116.

Returning to the Lu Household

Lu Yang returns home with a huge flying boat and Golden Core servants. To explain resources his relatives know he could not ordinarily possess, he invents a powerful master who supposedly accepted him as a disciple and supplied the treasures 93 94 97.

His support changes the household’s daily life: relatives no longer need to risk hunting Demon Beasts or work at Green Creek Market for cultivation resources. He later supplies longevity aids, cultivation methods, and formation materials, while involving Baili Mingyue and Baili Qiushui in protecting Eastward Prospect Mountain 239 319 326 341.

Secret Realms and Ancient Inheritances

In the Ancient Yue Secret Realm, Lu Yang pursues treasures and experiences he had previously known only from cultivation stories. He defeats a Late Golden Core monster, acquires a Greater Yin Sha Qi crystal, and deepens his Grand Yin comprehension 347 363 369 371.

His subsequent involvement with a shattered fragment of the Heavenly Azure Realm brings him into contact with ancient experts and threats requiring Integrated Body-level power. He ultimately receives inheritance treasuries from six Body Integration Realm factions, gaining resources sufficient to equip relatives, companions, and deserving subordinates 383 384 387 396.

After his permanent Golden Core breakthrough, he travels toward the Crimson Cloud Sect for the Dao of Alchemy Convention. He intends to remain inconspicuous while Lin Ying participates, though an insult directed at him prompts Liu Yaoyao to intervene 430 433 443 444.

Appearance

• Increasingly ethereal features: Even at a charm value of 1.1, his appearance resembles “uncut jade washed clean by a spring” and attracts attention from passing cultivators 5.
• Dark eyes: Described as resembling a quiet night sky 22.
• Refined physique: Rising constitution makes his body leaner and stronger, while increasing charm gives him an increasingly immortal-like bearing 48.
• Recognizable underlying features: Despite his transformation, his parents can still recognize the boy who left home at fifteen 93.
• Black hair with a golden transformation: Metal Source techniques turn his hair gold and cover his skin in shining Principle markings 368 387.
• Moonlike presence: Grand Yin comprehension enhances his allure; he also learns to conceal part of it 371.

Personality

Lu Yang is diligent beneath his extravagant lifestyle. He completes daily tasks consistently and studies the insights left by temporary realm increases rather than treating borrowed power as a substitute for understanding. His early approach to danger is practical: he prioritizes life-saving talismans over a weapon he would rarely use inside the sect 7 28 402.

He is flirtatious, pleasure-loving, and often shameless in conversation. He also consciously uses affection scores and valuable gifts to cultivate relationships. Alongside that calculation, he shows concern for his partners’ feelings, prepares teaching annotations, supports their families, and rejects treating Jiang Shiqing and Liu Yaoyao as merely servants 49 239 250 451.

His family remains a particular source of warmth. He remembers his parents’ care, enjoys reunions with his brothers, and plans resources around the elders’ survival and advancement. His kindness is not restricted to high-status cultivators: Wang Siyuan is struck by how respectfully Lu Yang treats someone of humble origins 21 93 95 239.

Despite living in the cultivation world for roughly twenty years, Lu Yang retains attitudes from his previous life. An insult annoys him, but he considers killing someone over it excessive; he would prefer a discreet beating to a lethal confrontation 444.

Abilities & Skills

Urban Tycoon System

The system turns daily routines, spending, and relationships into cultivation resources 2 9 26.

• Daily attributes: Constitution, intelligence, and charm each rise by 0.1 per day through his completed tasks 28.
• Universal Experience: Improves Spirit Root quality, overcoming a limitation normally regarded as innate 2 336.
• Method and technique experience: Supplies insights directly to his consciousness, sharply reducing learning time 21 27.
• Rebate Cards: Multiply qualifying expenditures; one returns 17.5 million Low-Grade Spirit Stones from a 3.5 million expenditure 108.
• Beauty Module: Tracks affection and grants threshold rewards. Maximum affection can unlock a Beauty Cultivation Plan 44 407.
• Search Module: Provides information on threats and unfamiliar pills 269 396.

Power of Money

Lu Yang consumes Spirit Stones to temporarily raise his cultivation and associated understanding of the Great Daos 258.

• Elevates the insights of Daos he already cultivates alongside his realm 173 258.
• Leaves insights available for later study, supporting his permanent comprehension 276 402.
• Becomes increasingly expensive at higher realms; hundreds of billions of Spirit Stones still leave him short of Integrated Body Perfection without a further technique 384 387.
• Does not permanently replace his underlying cultivation, and its expiration causes a pronounced feeling of weakness and emptiness 266 383.

Heft of Money

An automatic defensive skill consumes Spirit Stones to create a shield when Lu Yang receives a fatal attack 153.

• Has no stated upper limit to shield strength 153.
• Depends on available wealth: blocking the Heart-Eroding Nether Luo Vine costs more than a million Mid-Grade Spirit Stones 269.

Metal Dao and Sword Dao

Lu Yang’s principal combat paths combine powerful weapons, reinforced techniques, and unusually deep Principle comprehension 38 247 430.

• Golden Palace Sword Gang: Creates a defensive barrier that Qin Nanyue cannot shake with her strongest attack 143.
• Sunfall Golden Rainbow Sword: Can be attached to a weapon for efficient close combat, incorporating his physical strength 146.
• Metal Source Return-to-Origin Barrier: Forms layered defenses against the rotting man’s enormous skeletal claws 368.
• Metal Spirit Cloud-Piercing Fingers: Repeated golden attacks used alongside his sword to kill the Late Golden Core monster 369.
• Golden Radiance Sword Intent: Interferes with metal treasures, potentially disrupting weaker weapons or turning them against their owners 240.

Fortune Traits

Divine Sense and Soul

• Exceptional perception: At Foundation Establishment Middle Stage, his Divine Sense covers nearly a hundred kilometers, strengthened by intelligence growth and acquired medicines and materials 347.
• High-tier talisman use: Can activate Spirit Transformation-level talismans without first using Power of Money 396.
• Immortal Immortal Soul: His soul is described as beyond fearing even an Immortal Emperor, but his cultivation and body restrict how much of its power he can wield 430.

Principle Domain

Lu Yang develops a genuine Principle Domain after receiving Great White Metal Emperor 454.

• Manifests sabers, swords, and puppets from Metal Qi 454.
• Draws on Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi to sustain his power and amplify techniques 454.
• Grants qualities associated with Void Refinement cultivators despite his much lower ordinary cultivation 454.

Dual Cultivation and Teaching

• Record of Same-Heart Creation: An Earth Grade Supreme Quality method whose maximum-level effect can temporarily raise both partners by two minor realms without side effects 77.
• Hidden Return Dragon and Phoenix Secret Canon: A Heaven Grade Supreme Quality method that purifies his Spiritual Qi and develops Dragon Origin Qi 247 340.
• Instruction: Guides Jiang Shiqing in Water Dao, annotates the Heavenly Trace Sword Canon for Qin Nanyue, and teaches Su Jinxuan the Golden Radiance Sword Canon 132 239 399.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Black heavy sword — Early high-grade Law Artifact, over four feet long and weighing at least a thousand jin; his enhanced physique lets him wield it easily 20 23.
• Gold-and-White Sword-Scar Waistband — Supreme-Grade Law Artifact that increases Sword Dao technique power 35 47.
• Soul-Suppressing Jade Pendant — Supreme-grade Law Treasure designed to block soul attacks 125.
• Flowing Light Flying Boat — Supreme-grade flying Law Treasure over a hundred zhang long, with seven tower stories, accommodation for hundreds, and cultivation-related facilities 43.
• Nine Splendors Cloud Chariot — Supreme-grade flight Spirit Treasure that replaces the flying boat; can withstand attacks from an Early Spirit Transformation cultivator and contains a small world 202 250.
• Spiritual Connection Rings — Protective gifts that can withstand a Nascent Soul Perfection strike and teleport Lu Yang to the wearer 202.
• Golden Light Ten Thousand Swords Diagram — Supreme-quality Profound Heaven Law Treasure that releases ten thousand golden swords for attack and defense and increases Metal and Sword technique power sevenfold 273.
• Mystic Metal Light-Splitting Sword — Supreme-Grade Law Treasure taken from the merchant alliance’s treasury; powerful enough for his combat needs without the resource demands of a Spirit Treasure 369.
• Dao Comprehension Tea — Repeatedly used to study cultivation methods, comprehend Principles, and assist others’ learning 276 371 399.
• Palace of the Tycoon — Accessible through refinable jade tokens; includes chambers providing Principle-rich cultivation environments 426 430.
• Puppet bodyguards — Initially claims five Golden Core bodyguards and assigns protectors to relatives. Later rewards include Nascent Soul bodyguards 42 94 324.
• Six ancient faction treasuries — Inheritances from Mystic Wood Palace, Mystic Dark Sword Sect, Cinnabar Yang Sect, Divine Fire Hall, Mystic Pivot Gate, and Heavy Mountain Pavilion 396.

Relationships

Family

• Lu Xuelang and Liu Qing — Father and mother. Their affection anchors his attachment to the cultivation world; he returns home after more than four years away 93 101.
• Lu Sheng — Great-grandfather and household elder. Lu Yang supplies resources intended to strengthen his body and support Foundation Establishment 94 326.
• Lu Yunzhong — Paternal grandfather; head of the fourth branch from which Lu Yang descends 94.
• Lu Xiao, Lu Cheng, and Lu Bai — Senior relatives of his generation, addressed as the household’s first, second, and third brothers. Lu Cheng and Lu Bai retain an affectionate, teasing relationship with him 94 95 96.
• Lu Hongdou — Young family member whom Lu Yang is eager to see during his return home 95 96.

Dao Companions and Romantic Partners

• Lin Ying — First dao companion. Their relationship begins through pill purchases and shared meals; he later introduces himself to her parents as her dao companion and supports her alchemy and aptitude 9 54 72 79 400.
• Qin Nanyue — Sword cultivator and dao companion. He reassures her of his feelings, teaches and equips her, and presents valuable betrothal gifts to her household 229 239 317.
• Mu Yunxue — Dao companion and fellow Metal Dao student. She gives him an ancient cultivation tablet; he protects her with a Spiritual Connection Ring and brings her to meet his parents 202 317 322.
• Jiang Shiqing — Personal maid and dao companion. Exchanges Water Dao insights with him; his gift of a longevity pill for Jiang Feng deepens their relationship 132 239 451.
• Liu Yaoyao — Personal maid and romantic partner. He accepts her confession, gives her a dual-cultivation method, and insists that she stand beside him publicly rather than hide behind servant etiquette 250 451.
• Su Jinxuan — Sect elder and later intimate partner. His teaching helps her cultivate; her affection reaches 100 and unlocks a Beauty Cultivation Plan 399 407.
• Baili Mingyue — Formation cultivator and intimate partner. He supports her with inheritances, talent improvements, protective resources, and treasures 322 433.

Allies and Associates

• Qi Yunshu — Grants Lu Yang special sect privileges, discusses Metal Dao with him, and helps him obtain cultivation manuals 116 174.
• Wang Siyuan — Junior disciple and prospective subordinate. Warns him about an ambush and earns his approval through considerate conduct 21 64 66.
• Baili Qiushui — Baili Mingyue’s master. Cooperates on the Lu Household’s mountain-protecting formation and accompanies him toward the Dao of Alchemy Convention 341 433.
• Xu Youling — Befriending her yields the Greater Yin Spirit Body trait; her own aptitude explains the nature of the reward 297.
• Li Yao — Antagonist who attempts to obtain his pills and later orders an ambush. Lu Yang refuses to extend the conflict to the Li Household unless it pursues him 42 57 58.

Notable Quotes

“If the Li Household doesn't come looking for trouble with me, I can't be bothered with them either.” 58

“Fighting and killing in a secret realm to claim the spoils is a classic scene in cultivation stories! Now I've gotten some spoils too.” 363

“I'm just an ordinary cultivator.” 383

“I've never truly thought of you and Shiqing as maids.” 451

Continuity Notes

• Chapter 430 explicitly depicts Lu Yang’s permanent Golden Core breakthrough. Chapter 454 nevertheless describes him as being at Foundation Establishment when discussing his Principle Domain 430 454.
• His Spirit Root becomes transcendent-grade in Chapter 336, although Chapter 340 refers to its improvement as reaching supreme grade 336 340.