Lu Yibai

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Lu Yibai (路一白)
Alias(es)	Boss Lu; Yi Bai; Little Five 302 353 376
Species/Race	Human in his current life; an inheritor of a reincarnating lineage who previously lived as a demon between lives 306 311
Gender	Male 37
Affiliation	Night Watchmen; Answer Bar; Wucheng 24 362
Occupation/Role	Answer Bar manager; Night Watchman; Wucheng Steward; later patriarch of the Answer Bar family 24 362 397
Status	Active 397
First Appearance	Chapter 3

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Advanced First Tier	37	Reaches the advanced First-tier stage and approaches Second Order through continuous Menstrual Pain cultivation.
Second Order	54, 55	Undergoes his first skin reinforcement; gains the ability to project Night Watchman power externally and channel it through the Lion Umbrella.
Soul Nail awakened	62, 63	Awakens an Innate Divine Ability formed from condensed Spiritual Sense: a handleless golden nail that disrupts and pierces Spiritual Sense defenses.
Acquisition Contract with Huai	84, 85	Contracts the young Huai tree, gaining immense vitality and substantially improved sensitivity to ghost energy.
Fourth Tier	206	Completes the Fourth-tier breakthrough after drawing in a large volume of spiritual energy.
Peak Fourth Tier	256	Ghost possession and absorbed demon power heal his body, greatly increase his life force and Spiritual Sense, and leave him at peak Fourth Tier.
Fifth Tier	265, 267	Absorbs residual power to advance. His comprehensive condition reaches Fifth-tier strength, a Sixth-tier physique, Seventh-tier Spiritual Sense, and a first Domain.
Sixth Tier — Man-Domain Unity	368, 370	Forcefully breaks through to Sixth Tier. His newly formed Domain merges into his body as the Unique Show Armor, dramatically improving his durability and spiritual-energy control.

Background / History

Lu Yibai entered the supernatural world through a contract connected to Answer Bar. Although baffled by its terms, he accepted it with characteristic practicality, immediately asking whether it meant he could obtain the bar without paying for it 3. He subsequently became the bar's manager and began cultivating the painful Body Refining method he mockingly named Menstrual Pain 14 24.

His father died before Lu Yibai's rise as a Night Watchman. Lu Yibai continues to visit his grave, leaves offerings, and measures his own life against the hope of making his father proud 24 46. He also pays respect to the unnamed Night Watchmen buried beneath Wucheng Public Cemetery, later learning that the grave contains masters from his own lineage 46 69.

After building a home at Answer Bar, he gathered companions around him: Ye Yiyi became an employee, Huai became his contracted monster, and Xiao Yao became his daughter. His relationship with Lin Xiaoqi developed from colleagues and senior-junior partners into a romantic family bond 14 84 164 263.

Lu Yibai eventually learned that his anomalously powerful Spiritual Sense was not simply talent. His Menstrual Pain lineage reincarnates rather than seizing corpses; his current human life carries the soul imprint of his earlier selves, who created and repeatedly inherited the same cultivation path 309 310 311. In his first life, Ji Dekeng chose him as a disciple, a relationship that persisted across centuries and reincarnations 311 312.

The Night Watchmen Chief Chen Jiuyi recognizes Lu Yibai as his former Junior Uncle-Master Ancestor, though Lu Yibai retains none of those memories 321 322. Following Ji Dekeng's death, Lu Yibai brings his coffin back to Answer Bar and accepts the responsibility of leading both its household and the larger family Ji Dekeng left behind 396 397.

Personality

Lu Yibai is carefree, practical, and difficult to embarrass. He often responds to bizarre supernatural developments with jokes, mundane concerns, or self-congratulation rather than panic; his dry humor confuses more literal people such as Li Youde 20 79 310.

Beneath that relaxed surface, he is exceptionally persistent. He cultivates daily despite Menstrual Pain being severe enough to exhaust and damage him, and he repeatedly chooses to improve his strength rather than dwell on uncertainty 14 26 54. He is also cautious when the stakes involve others, refusing to learn delicate mechanism arts from the hostile ghost sealed in his umbrella and taking responsibility for Wucheng when Ji Dekeng is absent 172 294.

His strongest motivation is protecting his family. He gives Ye Yiyi protective equipment and entrusts her with the household, heals and raises Xiao Yao, rescues Li Youde despite the danger, and supports Lin Xiaoqi after Ji Dekeng's death 185 187 214 396.

Abilities & Skills

Menstrual Pain Body Refining

A Body Refining cultivation art that treats the body as a magical artifact, using heaven and earth as a furnace and spiritual energy as a hammer 282.

• Produces extreme pain during cultivation and intensifies sharply at breakthroughs 14 54 112.
• Reinforces his skin, physique, strength, senses, and resistance to damage 54 368.
• Grants exceptional physical power even among practitioners of the same tier 128 285.
• At Sixth Tier, his Domain fuses into his body, creating the Unique Show Armor and allowing him to ignore most attacks below Seventh Tier 368 370.

Soul Nail

Lu Yibai's Innate Divine Ability, created when his Spiritual Sense solidified into a small, handleless golden blade resembling a nail 62 63.

• Attacks and disrupts an opponent's Spiritual Sense, including through defenses 62 63.
• Can be formed unexpectedly, making it difficult to guard against 63.
• Initially consumes enough Spiritual Sense that he can only use it two or three times before risking mental instability 63.
• Develops a devouring property and can be strengthened through Demon Cores and Demon Crystals 240 309.
• Can deploy six Soul Nails simultaneously after his Fourth-tier gains 256.
• Blocks Spiritual Sense attacks and permits powerful hypnosis against weakened targets 305 324.

Green Life Force

Power gained through his Acquisition Contract with Huai, the young Huai tree 84.

• Provides immense vitality and rapid self-healing 84 255.
• Can be transferred to heal allies, though the effect on others is slower than on Lu Yibai himself 305.
• Nourishes Xiao Yao's frail body and improves her health over time 168 187.
• Allows him to sustain injured allies such as Chen Dinggen during combat 304 305.

Spiritual-Energy Control

After reaching Fifth Tier, Lu Yibai discovers that Wucheng's spiritual energy responds directly to him 286.

• Detects subtle disruptions in spiritual energy, allowing him to locate hidden enemies even outside Wucheng 302.
• Commands Wucheng's spiritual energy to strike, defend, search, and support cultivation 286 333.
• Becomes a “human-shaped blessed land” within Wucheng, increasing the local spiritual-energy concentration and accelerating allies' cultivation 273.
• Following his Sixth-tier breakthrough, his control range expands to more than half of Zhejiang Province 370.
• His control is extraordinarily powerful but remains poorly understood even by Lu Yibai himself 287 370.

Domain: Killing Life

A weakened replica of the sealed ghost's Domain, acquired through their connection 267 272.

• First manifests while Lu Yibai is Fifth Tier, despite Domains normally being associated with much higher cultivation 267 309.
• Enhances his combat potential when paired with Soul Nail and the ghost's power supply 267.
• Later merges into his physical body through Man-Domain Unity rather than remaining an independently projected Domain 368 396.

Umbrella and Movement Techniques

Lu Yibai uses the Lion Umbrella as his primary weapon and has developed a direct, strength-focused fighting style.

• Mastered the thirteen forms of the Basic Umbrella Technique, including Stab and Sweep 26 68.
• Channels Night Watchman power through the Lion Umbrella, making it feel like an extension of his body 55.
• Learned Instant Step from Ji Dekeng and uses it for sudden bursts of speed 98 254.
• Created Immortal Leap with mechanism wrist wires, enabling aerial movement and giving him an answer to flying enemies 239 240.

Mechanism Arts

Lu Yibai studies the legacy notebooks of Ji Qiuli and develops ancient mechanism arts independently 168 212.

• Masters Thousand Mechanisms and later studies Brocade 212 232.
• Creates wrist wires for allies and adapts mechanism designs for combat mobility 212 240.
• Uses artifact-refining materials and destroyed minor artifacts as research material for his Body Refining-based forging experiments 183.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Lion Umbrella — A black magical artifact used as Lu Yibai's primary weapon, Yang-energy source, seal, and conduit for Night Watchman power 14 55.
• Sealed Ghost / Shadow — A powerful and hostile ghost inhabiting the Lion Umbrella. Lu Yibai can draw on its ghost energy, but the arrangement risks possession and conflict 252 255 353.
• Peach Wood Sword — A sentient weapon that acts as an extension of his will and can be dispatched to eliminate threats around Answer Bar 244 264.
• Ji Qiuli's mechanism notebooks — The inheritance that enables Lu Yibai's study of ancient mechanism arts 168 171.
• Sealed demon legs — Demonic limbs connected to Lu Yibai's past that he places within the cemetery seal to prevent their use in breaking other seals 306 325.
• Past-life remains — A powerful external manifestation stored within the cemetery seal and controlled by Lu Yibai's thoughts 376.

Relationships

• Lin Xiaoqi — Girlfriend, fellow Night Watchman, and Answer Bar family member. She guides his early cultivation, protects him in battle, and remains his closest partner after Ji Dekeng's death 14 62 263 396.
• Ji Dekeng — Mentor and master across Lu Yibai's many lives. He taught the Menstrual Pain lineage to Lu Yibai and Lin Xiaoqi; his death leaves Lu Yibai as Answer Bar's new patriarch 98 311 397.
• Ye Yiyi — Night Demon employee and adopted family member. Lu Yibai supplies her with Yang energy, gives her protective armor, and entrusts her to protect the household when he and Lin Xiaoqi are away 80 185 264.
• Xiao Yao — His daughter. Lu Yibai raises her, replenishes her vitality, and deliberately allows her a free childhood rather than forcing her to grow up too quickly 164 168 187.
• Huai — His contracted young Huai-tree monster. The contract grants Lu Yibai vitality and improved ghost detection, while Lu Yibai provides Huai with care and protection 84 85.
• Shadow — The ghost sealed inside the Lion Umbrella. Their relationship is hostile and argumentative, but Shadow provides vital power and reveals the truth of Lu Yibai's reincarnating identity 252 309 353.
• Li Youde — Head of the Wucheng Assistance Department and a trusted ally. Lu Yibai relies on his investigation and cleanup work, then risks himself to rescue him from Zhao Mingming and a Level 4 demon 88 217.
• Chen Jiuyi — Night Watchmen Chief and Lu Yibai's former junior. Chen Jiuyi recognizes him as Junior Uncle-Master Ancestor despite Lu Yibai's lost memories 321 322.
• Lu Yibai's father — Deceased father who raised him in a single-parent household. Lu Yibai continues to honor him and recalls his father's belief that loving one's country is not embarrassing 46 399.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Answer Bar and Early Cultivation

Lu Yibai enters Answer Bar, takes responsibility for its management, and begins his painful Night Watchman cultivation. He helps Ye Yiyi find a home at the bar and performs his first ghost-dispersal assignment with the Lion Umbrella 14 17 24.

Acquisition Contract and Wucheng Defense

He contracts Huai, gains green life force and enhanced ghost detection, and begins acting as a dependable protector of Wucheng. He also continues investigating the mysterious Divination God application rather than dismissing it as a minor problem 84 85 88.

Family at Answer Bar

Lu Yibai accepts Xiao Yao into his household, becomes her father, develops a romantic relationship with Lin Xiaoqi, and equips Ye Yiyi to defend the bar in his absence 164 168 185.

Pseudo-Half-Demon Crisis

He rescues Li Youde, captures Zhao Mingming, and later faces a seven-star-enhanced demon. To survive, he opens the Lion Umbrella's seal channel and accepts the ghost's power, leading to possession, victory, and a vast increase in strength 217 252 255 256.

Identity Revelation

After discovering his unnatural Spiritual Sense and the demon limbs connected to him, Lu Yibai learns that he is a reincarnating inheritor whose earlier selves created the Menstrual Pain lineage. He also learns that Ji Dekeng has always been his master 309 310 311.

Wucheng's Spiritual-Energy Controller

Lu Yibai gains the ability to command Wucheng's spiritual energy, uses it to defeat threats within the city, and becomes one of Wucheng's greatest defensive assets 286 305 306.

Man-Domain Unity and Patriarchhood

His Sixth-tier breakthrough creates the Unique Show Armor and expands his spiritual-energy influence beyond Wucheng. After Ji Dekeng's death, Lu Yibai returns the coffin to Answer Bar and takes on the burden of protecting Ji Dekeng's family and legacy 368 370 396 397.

Trivia

• Lu Yibai habitually drinks goji berry water from a thermos, treating health and longevity as personal priorities 62 172.
• He is highly self-confident about his appearance and repeatedly praises his own looks 79 138.
• Despite his growing power, he initially approaches combat primarily through brute strength rather than sophisticated techniques 128 254.
• He is a capable cook, and his meals are especially valued by Lin Xiaoqi and Xiao Yao 137 370.