Lu Ping
Awakening the Office Survival Simulator in the Cultivation WorldContents
- Original Name:
- 陆平 (lù píng)
- Gender:
- Masculine
- Kind:
- Character
- Scope:
- Novel-specific
- Status:
- Active
- Source:
- AI
- Occurrences:
- 2,300
- Chapters:
- 369
- Context Up To:
- Ch. 50
- Wiki Model:
- GPT-6.1 Terra
- Updated:
Contents
Biodata
| Feature | Details |
|---|---|
| Name | Lu Ping (陆平) |
| Alias(es) | Blacksmith Lu, during his first simulation 7 |
| Gender | Male |
| Affiliation | Greenwood Sect, Alchemy Hall; formerly the Black Tiger Gang 33 37 |
| Occupation/Role | Outer Sect Disciple and alchemist; formerly a mine slave 2 37 |
| First Appearance | Chapter 1 1 |
Power Progression
Simulated advancements are distinguished from cultivation retained in the real world.
| Stage / Realm / Level | Chapter | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Early Body Tempering | 8 | In his first simulation, forced a breakthrough at age fifty-eight using Artisan Spirit and Cost Reduction and Efficiency Improvement. The backlash exhausted his vitality. |
| Early Body Tempering | 9 | Returned from the first simulation with its cultivation and memories; his Trait slots increased to four. |
| Middle Body Tempering | 13 14 16 | Advanced during the second simulation with Qian Cuihua’s low-grade pills, which left Pill Poison in his meridians. |
| Late Body Tempering | 18 19 | Jiang Mutian transferred Severed-Fate Hehuan Powder into him; Heavy Tomato User purified it and converted its remaining spiritual power. |
| Body Tempering Completion | 19 | Broke through a second bottleneck during the same encounter. |
| Qi Refining, First Layer | 23 | After months strengthening his meridians in the second simulation, broke through and gained six Trait slots. |
| Qi Refining, Second Layer | 26 | Advanced while cultivating at the Greenwood Sect. |
| Qi Refining, Third Layer | 27 | Continued concealing his cultivation behind a First-Layer facade. |
| Qi Refining, Fourth Layer | 27 | Reached this stage after four years of service, while financing cultivation with loans. |
| Qi Refining, Fifth Layer | 31 | Returned from the second simulation at this level, retaining seven years of memories and skills. |
| Qi Refining, Sixth Layer | 40 | Reached this stage during the third simulation before studying combat techniques. |
| Qi Refining, Seventh Layer | 43 | Secretly advanced after refining and consuming more than 180 Qi-Congealing Pills over two months. |
| Foundation Establishment | 46 | During the third simulation, survived another poison transfer from Jiang Mutian and broke through; the advancement added three Trait slots. |
Background and History
Lu Ping died at his desk in his previous life after workplace pressure had driven him into depression. He later found himself in the cultivation world as an eighteen-year-old slave in the Black Tiger Gang’s mine. The gang had captured him at Sunset Glow Village after its slaughter 2 5 32.
His first simulation followed decades of survival in the gang’s mine and kitchen, then years of work elsewhere. He studied the incomplete Body Tempering Instruction throughout, finally reaching the Early Body Tempering Realm at the cost of his life. Returning to the mine with that cultivation, he used his knowledge of an impending collapse to hold up a beam and let Uncle Sun and the other trapped slaves escape 2 4 8 9 10.
Personality
Lu Ping is cautious and pragmatic, treating cultivation as a matter of survival, resources, and risk. He often compares the institutions and people around him to exploitative workplaces from his previous life. Although he prefers to conceal his abilities, he will take risks when he judges the opportunity worth the danger 6 21 29 30.
His choices can be ruthless. In his first simulation, he shifted a theft accusation onto another kitchen worker, who was beaten to death; Lu Ping recognized that the list of people harmed by his survival was growing 4. After gaining power in reality, he nevertheless freed the mine slaves and ordered the gang to replace slavery with paid labor 34.
Abilities and Skills
Office Survival Simulator
Lu Ping uses life simulations to test choices and acquire experience before acting in reality. His first two returns gave him cultivation and memories from the simulated lives; the second also left him with alchemy and Spirit Infusion skills 9 31.
- Traits are generated through service and can be equipped in limited slots. Realm advancements increased his capacity from three slots to four, then six 9 23.
- After he joined the Greenwood Sect in reality, a completed job-switching mission unlocked his third simulation and let him change Traits at any time in the real world 36.
- A year away from an organization starts a resignation limit that can end his service length and stop Trait generation 5 8.
Notable Traits
| Trait | Rank | Effect |
|---|---|---|
| Salty Fish / Salted Fish | S | Halves task efficiency but grants an indestructible Dao heart and resistance to manipulation and inner-demon interference 5. |
| Heavy Tomato User | S | Protects him from most poisons and knockout drugs; it cleared Pill Poison and converted the remaining power of Jiang Mutian’s poison 14 18. |
| Bully at Home | A | Within his own sect or institution, makes him unbeatable against opponents at the same level and grants five times his combat power against higher-level opponents. It does not apply to outsiders away from his institution 22 47. |
| Artisan Spirit | A | Enables exceptionally high-quality work; Lu Ping applies it to smithing, alchemy, and technique practice 6 35. |
| Cost Reduction and Efficiency Improvement | A | Reduces resource costs while improving results and success rates, including through the use of cheaper substitute materials 7 36. |
| Friend of Women | A | Improves the opinions of women at his workplace, with an enhanced effect on emotionally unstable women 7. |
| Flattery | B | Makes his praise unusually effective with superiors, though it can fail when the target is unable to communicate normally 2 18. |
| Passing the Buck | B | Redirects responsibility for trouble onto someone else 4. |
| Fall Guy | C | Draws organizational blame toward him, but slightly improves his constitution and resistance to blows when he successfully takes it 3. |
Alchemy and Spirit Infusion
Lu Ping learned alchemy in his second simulation and passed the First-Rank Alchemist examination. His Traits helped him refine pills using inexpensive substitute ingredients and infuse Spirit Blanks at four times the efficiency of disciples at his cultivation level 25 27 29.
- His poison resistance allowed him to refine poison pills despite their fumes 25.
- With Si Wangshu, he developed a safer Spirit-Urging Pill and later helped produce a stable version. The Si Clan claimed the completed formula, compensating him with Spirit Stones, pills, and an incomplete formula 43 50.
- His low-grade spirit root makes cultivation resource-intensive; he initially could absorb only two Low-Grade Spirit Stones per day 25.
Combat Techniques
- Thousand-Hand Guanyin: A hidden-weapon method he adapted with spiritual power and poison. In the third simulation, he increased the number of flying knives he could use from twelve to forty-eight 33 35 41.
- Fire techniques: After poor results with swordsmanship, he learned Little Flame Art and Red Fire Finger. The former improved the potency of his Qi-Congealing Pills, while the latter gave him a ranged attack 40.
- Fire Crow Technique: In the third simulation, he refined a lead fire crow’s soul into a Fire Crow Seed, which required spirit fire as nourishment 48.
Equipment and Items
- Twelve throwing knives and a short saber — Forged at the Black Tiger Gang’s forge; he used the knives to practice Thousand-Hand Guanyin 34 35.
- Demonic Spirit Stone and mysterious token — Taken from the gang’s warehouse. The gang had looted them from a black-robed corpse at Sunset Glow Village 32.
- Greenwood Sect Ascension Token — Used to enter the sect as an Outer Sect Disciple in reality 33 36.
- Storage Ring — Purchased at Green Grain Shop for 280 Low-Grade Spirit Stones 37.
Relationships
- Uncle Sun — A fellow mine slave who warned Lu Ping of danger. Lu Ping saved him during the collapse, treated his injured leg, and appointed him to oversee the gang’s accounts 9 10 34.
- Hu Dayou — A Black Tiger Gang member whom Lu Ping placed in charge under new rules forbidding slavery. Hu pledged to serve him 33 34 35.
- Qian Cuihua — The gang’s third-in-command. In the second simulation, her attraction to Lu Ping gave him access to pills and gang secrets, but she also treated him as disposable 12 13 14.
- Jiang Mutian — A cultivator who transferred a lethal poison into him in two simulations. In the third, she helped control his surging power and left him a valuable Storage Ring; Lu Ping’s feelings toward her remained complicated 18 19 44 46.
- Liu Cheng — A Greenwood Sect deacon who tested experimental pills on Lu Ping in the second simulation. In reality, Liu admitted him to the sect without recognizing him 22 36.
- Si Wangshu — Lu Ping’s collaborator on the Spirit-Urging Pill during the third simulation; her clan claimed the finished formula 43 50.
- Han Changqing — The Greenwood Sect master who used Lu Ping as bait for five years in the second simulation after discovering the Demonic Spirit Stone 29.
Story Role and Major Arcs
Black Tiger Gang
After returning from his second simulation at Qi Refining Fifth Layer, Lu Ping retrieved the Demonic Spirit Stone and token from the gang’s warehouse. He questioned its leaders about Sunset Glow Village, then killed the gang leader, Zhao Tiezhu, and Qian Cuihua when they attacked him 31 32.
Rather than dismantle the gang, he placed Hu Dayou in charge, freed its mine slaves, and established paid work. He left after finding that the area’s thin Spiritual Qi could not sustain his cultivation 34 35.
Greenwood Sect and Third Simulation
Lu Ping traveled north, killed the wild boar that had chased him in the second simulation, and entered the Greenwood Sect using an Ascension Token. He sold mountain goods, bought a Storage Ring, and registered with the Alchemy Hall 35 36 37.
In his third simulation, Lu Ping developed his fire techniques and alchemy, helped improve the dangerous Spirit-Urging Pill, and secretly advanced to Foundation Establishment after another encounter with Jiang Mutian. He later fought on Red-Silk Mountain, formed a Fire Crow Seed, and continued working on the pill with Si Wangshu 40 43 46 48 50.