Lu Yuan

Biodata

Feature	Details
Name	Lu Yuan (陆远)
Alias(es)	Boss; Boss Lu 27 49
Species/Race	Human transmigrator 1
Gender	Male
Affiliation	Origin Internet Cafe
Occupation/Role	Owner and administrator of Origin Internet Cafe; mentor and equipment provider to its customers 1 49
Status	Active 195 248
First Appearance	Chapter 1

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Soul Power Level 12	5	The system reports his soul power increasing after Origin Internet Cafe’s first group of customers completes its session. 5
Cross-city cafe network	199	Announces a Heaven Dou City branch with access to the main store’s games and cross-city networking. This is an expansion of the cafe’s system, not a stated increase in his soul power. 199

Background

Lu Yuan is a transmigrator who established Origin Internet Cafe on the edge of the mixed zone of the Star Dou Great Forest, despite knowing the region to be dangerous even for high-level soul masters. The cafe’s system assigned him a novice mission to receive his first customer and granted him an absolute invincibility domain covering the cafe and ten meters beyond its entrance. Within that domain, his words become law. 1

His first major confrontation came when Red King—also called Scarlet King—attempted to destroy the cafe while searching for the Auspicious Beast. Lu Yuan simply ordered the beast to “Lie down,” pinning it helplessly to the ground through the domain’s authority before converting it into a paying customer. 2

After Tianmeng Ice Silkworm entered Huo Yuhao’s spiritual sea, Lu Yuan projected himself into that sea, identified himself as Huo Yuhao’s guardian, and imposed terms on Tianmeng: no possession, spiritual assistance for Huo Yuhao’s work at the cafe, and support for Huo Yuhao in games. 3 As the cafe gained customers, Lu Yuan began using its games as a means of training soul masters, exposing their weaknesses while improving their battle awareness and mental power. 5 15

Following the cafe’s first upgrade, Lu Yuan opened a VIP second floor with holographic simulation pods. He also recruited the awakened Elex as a technical consultant, offering him access to the cafe’s spiritual environment to nourish his fragmentary soul. 11

As the cafe expanded further, Lu Yuan opened the Origin Cinema and began presenting stories and cultivation systems from other worlds. Through films such as A Record of a Mortal’s Journey to Immortality and Zhu Xian, he exposed his customers to immortal cultivation, divine-sense object manipulation, and sword-control techniques beyond Douluo Continent’s conventional martial soul system. 89 90 91

He later introduced increasingly elaborate multiplayer experiences, including the historical neural-link game Douluo Continent Online, cooperative games intended to correct customers’ teamwork, and a Minecraft server that became a new gathering point for humans and soul beasts alike. 98 116 121

By Chapter 190, Lu Yuan had expanded the cafe’s offerings to include Honkai: Star Rail. He personally explained its galactic setting, the Aeons, elemental weakness-breaking, turn-order interruption through Ultimates, and the Astral Express’s journey to the assembled powerhouses. He subsequently introduced the Simulated Universe and its roguelike Blessing system, describing its Blessings as fragments of Aeonic laws that can stack and develop into Path Resonances. 190 195

When scheduled game maintenance interrupted the players’ journey to Jarilo-VI, Lu Yuan drew their attention back to events outside the cafe. Tang Ya and the younger Shrek members had reclaimed the Tang Sect’s ancestral residence from the Iron Blood Sect; after deciding to dissolve the Tang Sect, Tang Ya gave Lu Yuan the Heaven Dou City property in gratitude. He announced that it would become an Origin Internet Cafe branch connected to the main store. 199 He continued guiding players through Honkai: Star Rail’s Warp and progression systems, and later advised them during their encounters with the bosses of Black Myth. 202 221 238 241 242 248

Appearance

Lu Yuan is a young man who shows no detectable soul power fluctuations, even to powerful soul masters such as Yan Shaozhe and Di Tian. He is commonly found behind the cafe counter or reclining in a gaming chair with a cold drink in hand. 1 10 22

• Usually carries cola, Sprite, hot cocoa, or another drink while dealing with customers. 1 11 49 60
• Maintains a relaxed demeanor even when confronting fierce beasts, Super Douluo, Limit Douluo, and god-level entities. 2 10 22 128 162
• His presence within the cafe can feel inseparable from its governing laws. 11 128
• Retains a casually dressed, gentle appearance even while the cafe’s protection seals the powers of figures such as Ye Xishui and Long Xiaoyao. 162

Personality

Lu Yuan combines a laid-back, profit-minded attitude with complete confidence in the cafe’s authority. He openly treats customers as business opportunities, charges strict fees, and turns threats into memberships, gaming sessions, or work contracts. 1 7 27 66

He is also an exacting mentor. Rather than simply granting power, he places customers in situations that require strategy, composure, observation, and adaptability. He challenged Huo Yuhao to survive in Iceborne before travelling to the Far North, guided Wang Qiuer through her battle against Sigrun, and taught Shrek’s reserve team to value efficiency over spectacle. 42 87 49

Lu Yuan enforces the cafe’s rules without regard for rank or reputation. He prohibits fighting, soul-pressure releases, excessive noise, property damage, and outside interference; even Di Tian, Xuan Lao, Tang San, Ye Xishui, and Long Xiaoyao are subject to these restrictions. 4 10 26 67 162

Although he often acts amused by his customers’ failures, Lu Yuan deliberately selects games and stories that reveal their shortcomings. He uses cooperative games to expose dysfunctional communication, Minecraft to teach ingenuity and efficiency, and interstellar or immortal-cultivation settings to broaden their understanding of power beyond Douluo Continent. 89 116 121 190

He does not treat virtual adventures as a substitute for life outside the cafe. During Honkai: Star Rail maintenance, he reminds customers that their absorption in the game has caused them to overlook the Shrek group’s real-world mission. In Black Myth, he teases players for repeated defeats but also explains mechanics and strategic alternatives when they struggle. 199 238 248

Abilities & Skills

Invincibility Domain

Origin Internet Cafe grants Lu Yuan absolute protection within the building and for ten meters beyond its entrance; within this range, his words become law. 1

• Ordered Red King to lie down, crushing and immobilizing the three-headed fierce beast mid-pounce. 2
• Nullified Yan Shaozhe’s released soul pressure before it could reach him. 10
• The cafe itself remained undamaged when Di Tian attacked it. 21
• Prevented combat and suppressed soul skills within the establishment. 4 10
• Instantly sealed the soul power and spiritual power of Limit Douluo Long Xiaoyao and Ye Xishui when they entered the cafe. 162

System Administration and Virtual Environments

Lu Yuan operates the cafe through a system that issues missions, unlocks games and facilities, and produces equipment beyond local technological standards. 1 5 11

• Opened a second-floor VIP area containing private holographic simulation pods. 11
• Uses virtual environments to safely train customers or address specific conditions, such as Ma Xiaotao’s evil fire. 12
• Can create or enter independent spiritual spaces, including Huo Yuhao’s spiritual sea. 3 11
• Broadcasts distant events with a zero-delay livestream function. 51
• Activated a firewall and countermeasure that blocked Tang San’s attempt to investigate the cafe from the God Realm. 67
• Opened the Origin Cinema, allowing customers to experience films and cultivation systems from other worlds. 89 91
• Operates historical neural-link games, multiplayer worlds, and other immersive settings whose player identities and talents can be generated from their real-world bloodlines and souls. 98
• Introduced Honkai: Star Rail and the Simulated Universe, allowing customers to experience galactic travel, Aeonic Paths, elemental weakness systems, and stackable Blessings. 190 195
• Announced a Heaven Dou City branch that would share the main store’s games and support cross-city networking. 199

Knowledge and Insight

Lu Yuan possesses knowledge that exceeds what should be available to an ordinary resident of Douluo Continent. He knows Elex’s identity and history, recognized Ma Xiaotao’s hidden condition, and anticipated Huo Yuhao’s intended journey to the Far North. 10 11 42

• Identified the Spirit-Devouring Carving Knife’s curse as resentful undead energy and directed Shrek’s group to purchase it. 54
• Provided Huo Yuhao with Velkhana data essence after Ice Empress rejected the sacrifice plan, awakening Huo Yuhao’s second martial soul. 47
• Judges each customer’s strengths and directs them toward suitable games, builds, roles, or training methods. 19 53 55
• Understands alternate cultivation systems, including qi refinement, Foundation Establishment, Core Formation, Nascent Soul cultivation, divine sense, and sword cultivation. 89 90 91
• Explains the cosmic hierarchy of Honkai: Star Rail, including the Aeons, the Interastral Peace Corporation, elemental Weakness Break, Ultimates, and the Simulated Universe’s Path Blessings. 190 195
• Explains Honkai: Star Rail’s Warp system, beginner-banner guarantee, limited banners, Light Cones, and regenerating Trailblaze Power. 202 221
• Knows Black Myth’s boss progression and hidden mechanics, including that Wandering Wight can be bypassed and its spirit recovered later, that King Black Wind is not the chapter’s final boss, and that the Sand King and Sand Erlang encounter has different outcomes depending on the order of defeat. 238 242 248

Tactical Instruction

Lu Yuan teaches combat through gaming concepts rather than conventional soul master doctrine. His instruction emphasizes vision control, terrain use, coordination, efficient resource use, and disabling opponents as quickly as possible. 30 49

• Equipped Shrek’s reserve team with encrypted, anti-interference tactical bone-conduction headsets. 49
• Gave Wang Yan The Art of MOBA Tactical Command, introducing concepts such as split pushing, poke compositions, and team-control coordination. 49
• Remotely advised Shrek’s group during the Starlight Auction House auction, helping them acquire and purify the Spirit-Devouring Carving Knife. 54
• Mentored Wang Qiuer through the Valkyrie Queen Sigrun’s attack patterns, teaching her to observe, evade, and counterattack. 87
• Demonstrated high-level ADC mechanics with Jhin, including positioning, prediction, cooldown management, trap placement, and precise use of summoner spells. 60 61
• Uses games such as Overcooked and Minecraft to expose flawed coordination and teach customers the value of communication, planning, and efficiency. 116 121
• Explains turn-based strategy through Honkai: Star Rail, emphasizing elemental matchups, breaking enemy toughness, speed management, and interrupting turn order with Ultimates. 190
• Advises Black Myth players to study difficult encounters rather than assume every boss must be fought immediately. He explains the alternate strategies and rewards in Wang Qiuer’s battle against Sand King and Sand Erlang. 238 248

Equipment / Items

• Tactical bone-conduction headsets — Seven system-made communication devices with city-wide range, encrypted channels, anti-interference capability, and no delay; issued to Shrek’s reserve team. 49
• The Art of MOBA Tactical Command — A strategy book given to Wang Yan to modernize Shrek Academy’s team-fight doctrine. 49
• Velkhana data essence — An icy-blue data card used to awaken Huo Yuhao’s Velkhana second martial soul. 47
• G-virus vaccine — Used under Lu Yuan’s direction to purify the Spirit-Devouring Carving Knife and reveal its Gold of Life composition. 54
• Dung Pods — Monster Hunter-derived tools given to Huo Yuhao before his Far North journey; refined from high-grade soul beast excrement for repelling threats. 43
• Heaven Dou City property deed — Deed to the former Tang Sect ancestral residence, given to Lu Yuan by Tang Ya after she reclaimed the property and dissolved the sect. He designates the site for a new Origin Internet Cafe branch. 199

Relationships

• Huo Yuhao — Employee, protégé, and someone Lu Yuan calls his guardian responsibility. Lu Yuan regulates Tianmeng’s presence in Huo Yuhao’s spiritual sea, tests Huo Yuhao’s resolve, and provides the Velkhana martial soul data essence. 3 42 47
• Wang Qiuer — Customer and mentee. Lu Yuan supported her choice to remain at the cafe, reassures her regarding her Golden Dragon bloodline, personally coaches her through difficult game battles, and teaches her efficiency-focused Minecraft methods such as constructing an automated iron farm. He later explains the rewards and alternate strategies of her Black Myth battle against Sand King and Sand Erlang. 22 53 87 121 248
• Di Tian — Initially an enemy who attacked the cafe over Wang Qiuer’s disappearance; Lu Yuan persuaded him to allow her to stay. Di Tian later becomes a regular customer and watches Shrek’s tournament broadcasts with Lu Yuan. Lu Yuan also introduces him to worlds and combat systems that challenge his reliance on brute force. 21 22 51 190
• Ice Empress — Employee. Lu Yuan protected her from her heavenly tribulation through a contract and appointed her as the cafe’s first net cafe attendant. 47
• Snow Empress — Employee. Lu Yuan suppressed her threatened heavenly tribulation and hired her as an attendant, allowing her to retain human form and continue gaming. 66
• Elex — Technical consultant. Lu Yuan recruited the necromancer’s soul fragment by offering spiritual nourishment and access to Dark Souls 3. 11
• Ma Xiaotao — Customer whose evil fire condition Lu Yuan stabilized by placing her in Hoarfrost Reach’s frozen virtual environment. 12
• Shrek Academy reserve team — Students and beneficiaries of Lu Yuan’s tactical training, communications equipment, and tournament guidance. Lu Yuan later defends the younger Shrek members’ preparation when other customers doubt their ability to confront the Iron Blood Sect. 49 54 199
• Tang Ya — Early customer who later leads the effort to reclaim the Tang Sect’s ancestral residence. After dissolving the sect, she gives Lu Yuan the Heaven Dou City property in gratitude for the cafe’s influence on their lives. 4 199
• Tang San — External observer and opponent. Tang San’s attempt to spy on the cafe from the God Realm was intercepted and penalized by Lu Yuan’s system. 67
• Gu Yuena — Customer. Lu Yuan greeted the Silver Dragon King with bubble milk tea, introduced her to Minecraft, and advised her on materials and the dangers of entering the Nether while she planned a Star Dou Dragon Palace. 128 129
• Mu En — Respected customer and Shrek Academy’s Sea God Pavilion Master. Lu Yuan provides him access to advanced games and observes his composed use of their mechanics. 27 156 190
• Ye Xishui and Long Xiaoyao — High-level customers whose powers were sealed upon entering the cafe, forcing both Limit Douluo to recognize Lu Yuan’s authority. 162

Story Role / Major Arcs

Founding of Origin Internet Cafe

Lu Yuan opens Origin Internet Cafe in the Star Dou Great Forest and relies on its invincibility domain to survive encounters with the Auspicious Beast and Red King. He converts both dangerous soul beasts into customers rather than enemies. 1 2

Shrek Academy Training

As Shrek students and teachers begin visiting the cafe, Lu Yuan establishes gaming as an alternative training method. He recruits Huo Yuhao as an employee, challenges Shrek’s Inner Court disciples, upgrades the cafe, and uses virtual environments to help Ma Xiaotao stabilize her evil fire. 3 11 12 15

Integration of Soul Beasts

Lu Yuan withstands Di Tian’s attack and persuades him to accept Wang Qiuer’s decision to remain at the cafe. He later recruits Ice Empress and Snow Empress as attendants, using contracts to protect them from heavenly tribulations. 21 22 47 66

Shrek Tournament Support

Before the All-Continent Advanced Soul Master Duel Tournament, Lu Yuan equips Shrek’s reserve team with tactical headsets and a MOBA strategy guide. He continues supporting them remotely during the Star Luo City auction and tournament. 49 51 54

Expansion into Online Gaming

Lu Yuan introduces League of Legends and organizes competitive matches among the cafe’s increasingly powerful customers. When the Body Sect causes trouble, he forces its members to work off their debt through online games. 55 66 67

Alternate Cultivation Cinema

Lu Yuan opens the Origin Cinema and presents films from worlds with radically different cultivation systems. His screenings of A Record of a Mortal’s Journey to Immortality and Zhu Xian expose the customers to cautious survival tactics, divine-sense manipulation, sword cultivation, and the consequences of lacking the strength to protect others. 89 90 91 92

Douluo Continent Online

Lu Yuan reveals a neural-link historical game that lets players enter the Douluo Continent of ten thousand years ago and choose among the Tang San, Soul Beast, and Spirit Hall factions. 98

Cooperative and Minecraft Training

Lu Yuan uses Overcooked to confront both human and soul beast teams with their poor communication and lack of coordination. He later oversees their Minecraft server, where he teaches Wang Qiuer automated iron-farm construction and watches the server’s powerhouses pursue resource gathering, construction, and revenge against Creepers. 116 121 125

Silver Dragon King’s Arrival

When Gu Yuena investigates the absence of Star Dou Great Forest’s powerful soul beasts, Lu Yuan disarms her hostility with bubble milk tea and introduces her to Minecraft. He later advises her as she begins planning a Dragon Palace and prepares to explore the Nether. 128 129

Astral Express and Simulated Universe

Lu Yuan introduces Honkai: Star Rail to the cafe’s powerhouses, guiding them through its interstellar setting, Aeons, Weakness Break system, and Ultimate-based turn-order interruptions. He subsequently opens the Simulated Universe, explaining its roguelike Path Blessings and Aeon Resonances as a new form of stacked power progression. 190 195

As the players reach Jarilo-VI, he introduces Warp, its beginner guarantee, and the limited banners that become available through story progression. He later explains why the game’s Trailblaze Power restricts material farming. 202 221

Heaven Dou City Branch

When scheduled Honkai: Star Rail maintenance interrupts the players, Lu Yuan reminds them of the real-world events they have overlooked. He tells the cafe that Tang Ya and the younger Shrek members defeated the Iron Blood Sect and reclaimed the Tang Sect’s ancestral property. After Tang Ya dissolves the sect and gives him the land, he announces plans for an Origin Internet Cafe branch in Heaven Dou City, with the main store’s games and cross-city networking. 199

Black Myth Challenges

During the players’ journey through Black Myth, Lu Yuan offers technical guidance without removing the challenge. He tells them that Wandering Wight can be bypassed and its uncollected spirit retrieved later, explains the Destined One’s vulnerability without the Great Sage’s iconic weapon, and reveals that the formidable King Black Wind is only a gatekeeper rather than the chapter’s final boss. 238 241 242

When Wang Qiuer struggles against Sand King and Sand Erlang, Lu Yuan explains the encounter’s branching outcomes: defeating Sand Erlang first lets Sand King flee and makes the fight easier, while defeating both yields Sand Erlang’s Spirit. Wang Qiuer chooses the harder route and succeeds. 248

Notable Quotes

“As long as you pay, you're Dragonborn.” 27

“There are only two words you should pursue—efficiency! Use the least amount of soul power and the fastest speed to make your opponents lose their ability to fight. That is called—professionalism.” 49

“So what if he's a God King? In my internet cafe, no one gets to screen-peek.” 67

“May this journey reach the stars!” 190