Mount Lu
The Heretical Path to Immortality
- Original Name:
- 庐山 (lú shān)
- Gender:
- Neutral
- Kind:
- Place
- Scope:
- Novel-specific
- Status:
- Active
- Source:
- AI
- Occurrences:
- 854
- Chapters:
- 164
- Context Up To:
- Ch. 480
- Wiki Model:
- GPT-6 Sol
- Updated:
Biodata
| Feature | Details |
|---|---|
| Name | Mount Lu (庐山) |
| Classification | Immortal mountain range |
| Location | Jade Kingdom 203 |
| Affiliation | The Five Sects of Mount Lu; Mount Lu Orthodox Lineage; formerly Mount Lu Estate; now Five Villages Abbey 293 321 347 471 |
| Status | Its earth vein was sealed after Floating Mountain's army conquered the region and established the Mount Lu Estate. The mountain was later restored under Fang Shu, who founded Five Villages Abbey and left it protected by a permanent formation. 347 469 471 473 |
| First Appearance | 9 |
Sites and Features
| Site / Feature | Description |
|---|---|
| Ancient Mount Lu | The range's central main peak. An ancient battlefield and forbidden ground whose spirit veins were believed collapsed; its summit is unnaturally sheared flat and holds a small five-colored earthen mound. Later the seat of Mount Lu Estate, it became the site of Fang Shu's Golden Core formation and the restoration of the mountain's sect. 297 439 447 471 |
| Five Elders Peak | The site where five colossal divine beings announced Mount Lu's rising fortune and the revival of its Dao lineage. The peak was later reduced to shattered rock after their departure. 293 |
| Inner Heaven and Earth | An ancient secret realm within Mount Lu. It appears when Mount Lu's fortune rises, attempting to absorb the mountain's spiritual opportunities and earth strength. It reopened during the upheaval following Fang Shu's Golden Core formation. 231 232 474 |
| Little West Mountain | A mountain connected to a branch of the Five Viscera Temple dragon vein. Its underground spirit vein became Fang Shu's site of Foundation Establishment. 233 307 |
| Ganoderma Terrace and Monster Market | Old Mountain Lord's former domain on Mount Lu, marked by enormous lingzhi growths and a market frequented by humans and demons. The market and mountain ganoderma were destroyed during later unrest. Old Mountain Lord was subsequently taken to Mount Lu Estate and harvested as medicinal material. 71 231 435 453 454 |
| Water-Fire Spirit Chambers | Cultivation chambers located near Mount Lu's summit, where disciples gather and refine astral qi. 245 |
| Mount Lu Market | A prosperous market encircling the foot of Ancient Mount Lu during the Mount Lu Estate period. Formerly Floating Mountain City, it was governed by the former Floating Mountain and housed both humans and demons. 439 |
| Five Halls | The former territories of the Five Sects, reorganized as five mountain regions along Ancient Mount Lu's mountainside under Mount Lu Estate. Together with Mount Lu Market, they made up the estate's six mountain regions. 439 |
| Ancestral coffins | Five bronze coffins associated with the Mount Lu Orthodox Lineage. Their contents represent organs, skin and membranes, bones, limbs, and the Six Yang Chief—parts of a single immortal predecessor's body. Mystic Script on their walls preserved the lineage's method beneath curse-laden mud. 445 |
| Old Mountain Lord's secret realm | A small secret realm given to Old Mountain Lord by Fang Shu. Rooted atop Ancient Mount Lu, Old Mountain Lord and the realm are nourished by the mountain's spiritual energy and fortune. 471 |
Fortune and Supernatural Properties
- Mount Lu's surging fortune can multiply the mountain's spiritual power, strengthen its earth veins, expand the range, and create additional opportunities for Foundation Establishment. 232
- The Inner Heaven and Earth admits cultivators below Foundation Establishment. Anyone at Foundation Establishment or above who enters—or reveals such an aura within—risks being struck to death by heavenly tribulation. 232
- The five-colored earthen mound on Ancient Mount Lu is infused with Mount Lu's fortune; Mount Lu elders describe the two as bound together: the mountain endures while the mound endures. 304
- During the battle against the goose-headed demihuman, heavenly lightning cast back toward Ancient Mount Lu was absorbed without effect, while the mountain shone across ten thousand zhang. 303
- Mount Lu's fortune enabled the Beauty Palace Lord to attain only a temporary, false form of Spirit Refinement; leaving the mountain would have caused that attainment to collapse. 302
- Fang Shu later concluded that the primordial energy described in ancient texts and Mount Lu's fortune were the same phenomenon. 309
- The former sites of the Five Sects form five supports around Ancient Mount Lu in a vast formation-like arrangement. Dragon qi was also found beneath Old Mountain Lord's former grounds, a node connected to the range's earth veins. 435 437
- Mount Lu's ancestral inheritance accumulated Hidden Merit alongside turbid qi. He Shoufeng manipulated that merit and the mountain's fortune into invisible karmic chains, linking more than eight hundred Foundation Establishment cultivators in a Fortune Net. 445 456
- Mount Lu's fortune and accumulated Hidden Merit aided Fang Shu's Golden Core formation. While he drew upon them, his divine sense encompassed Ancient Mount Lu and its earth-vein qi sustained his magical power. He later understood that he had borrowed the mountain's luck without refining it into himself, avoiding the binding He Shoufeng expected. 446 447 459 470
- After Old Mountain Lord rooted himself in Mount Lu, its fortune and spiritual qi flowed into his small secret realm, stabilizing and expanding it. 471
History
Mount Lu was regarded as the Jade Kingdom's foremost place to seek immortality, surpassed only in reputation by no other mountain. It was home to the Five Sects of Mount Lu—Five Viscera Temple, Withered Bone Abbey, Four Limbs Temple, Flesh Abbey, and Beauty Palace—while also drawing demons, itinerant cultivators, and merchants to its surrounding territories. 203 293
Its Dao lineage had repeatedly risen and declined over tens of thousands of years without being completely extinguished. Fang Shu later connected the Five Sects' inheritances, the methods found in the Mount Lu Secret Realm, and even common spells circulating below the mountain to this enduring Orthodox Lineage. 321
When the Inner Heaven and Earth reappeared, the Five Sects suspended hostilities to contest its resources and protect the benefits created by Mount Lu's rising fortune. The secret realm expedition produced numerous inheritances and prompted the five sects to declare a joint Foundation Establishment Ceremony. 231 232 293
At Ancient Mount Lu, the five sect masters' plan culminated in the emergence of the Beauty Palace Lord as the Mount Lu immortal. The apparent Spirit Refinement was exposed as a false achievement dependent on Mount Lu's fortune, and the mountain's disciples were targeted by a goose-headed demihuman of the Profound Teaching. 301 302
The confrontation ended with the Severing Heaven and Earth spell erasing the memories of those present and likely affecting the entire Mount Lu range. The surviving Five Sects regarded the mountain as ill-omened and began to abandon it. 305
After the Five Sects' decline, a true disciple of the Profound Teaching led Floating Mountain's forces against Mount Lu, broke its temples, sealed its entire earth vein beneath a vast formation, and established the Mount Lu Estate. 347
Under the estate, the former Five Sects became Five Halls, while the former Floating Mountain governed Mount Lu Market. The estate's master, He Shoufeng, fostered the mountain's recovering fortune and its population of Earth Immortals. Old Mountain Lord was held captive and repeatedly harvested for medicine; He Shoufeng used that medicine and manipulated Hidden Merit to bind cultivators throughout Mount Lu into a Fortune Net. 439 441 454 456
Fang Shu returned to Mount Lu and found the lineage's ancestral method inscribed in five coffins. He discovered a curse corrupting its transmitted Elixir Code, independently reconstructed the Great Yin-Yang Life-and-Death Corpse-Liberation Chain-Forming Method, and drew the mountain's fortune while forming his Golden Core. He vowed to restore the mountain gate and protect its disciples, after which He Shoufeng publicly acknowledged him as Mount Lu's mountain lord. 445 446 447 449
He Shoufeng planned to use Fang Shu's Golden Core Ceremony and the gathered fortune to reopen the Inner Heaven and Earth. The ensuing conflict exposed his sacrificial Fortune Net and the imprisoned Goose Divine Immortal. The goose slaughtered many Mount Lu immortals, but Fang Shu proved able to move through the net without being bound by it. 455 456 459 461
After the upheaval, Fang Shu gathered survivors and invited guests from outside the mountain to join a unified Mount Lu Immortal Sect. He ended the divisions between its Five Sects and Five Halls and required those who stayed to answer for past wrongdoings. Fang Shu and Old Mountain Lord subsequently established Five Villages Abbey on Mount Lu, with Fang Shu as Abbey Master. Its reforms abolished the practice of turning failed cultivators into medicine slaves and created paths for outer disciples and branch abbeys. 469 471 472
Before departing, Fang Shu lectured Mount Lu's cultivators and used their participation, the mountain's fortune, and its spiritual vein to refine the Immortal-Fixing Banner into a Ten-Tribulation True Immortal Artifact. He left its Nine-Palace Gu Immortal-Locking Formation as Mount Lu's permanent protective array and entrusted the mountain to Old Mountain Lord. Former Mount Lu immortals living in Vast Sea Immortal City were then invited to return or serve its branch abbey. 473 474
Associated Factions
- Five Sects of Mount Lu — The long-standing sects guarding and cultivating within the range: Five Viscera Temple, Withered Bone Abbey, Four Limbs Temple, Flesh Abbey, and Beauty Palace. They were later reorganized as Five Halls under Mount Lu Estate, then united within Five Villages Abbey. 293 297 439 469 471
- Mount Lu Orthodox Lineage — The broader Dao lineage tied to Mount Lu's secret-realm inheritances and older cultivation traditions. Its ancestral coffins preserved a method leading beyond Golden Core toward Refining Spirit. 321 445
- Old Mountain Lord — A powerful monster immortal whose Ganoderma Terrace and Monster Market stood on Mount Lu. He explained the secret realm's relationship to the mountain's fortune and earth strength. After his rescue from Mount Lu Estate, he rooted himself in the mountain and became a guardian of Five Villages Abbey. 231 232 454 471 473
- Floating Mountain — A neighboring mixed settlement of demons, rogue cultivators, and Mount Lu sect merchants; its army later occupied Mount Lu. Its former inhabitants governed Mount Lu Market under the estate. 203 347 439
- Dao-Virtue Profound Teaching — Its Western Altar sought to establish a branch altar in the Mount Lu region, and one of its true disciples later led the conquest of the mountain. He Shoufeng founded Mount Lu Estate under the Teaching's orders, while the Goose Divine Immortal remained trapped within Mount Lu's secret realm. 306 347 449 459
- Fang Shu — A cultivator who considers himself part of Mount Lu's Orthodox Lineage. He gained secret-realm inheritances, established his foundation by drawing upon Little West Mountain's spirit vein, and believes Mount Lu's fortune remains connected to his future Core Formation. He later formed his Golden Core with the aid of Mount Lu's fortune, became its mountain lord, and founded Five Villages Abbey. 307 321 361 427 447 449 471
- Mount Lu Estate — The administration established by He Shoufeng after the conquest of Mount Lu. It divided the range into Mount Lu Market and five hall regions before Fang Shu's reorganization ended those divisions. 347 439 469
- Five Villages Abbey — The unified sect founded by Fang Shu and Old Mountain Lord to restore Mount Lu's Dao lineage. Fang Shu established its offices, reformed its disciple system, and left Old Mountain Lord and a permanent protective array to guard it. 471 472 473