Lu Qing

Biodata

Feature	Details
Name	Lu Qing (陆清) 38
Alias(es)	Passerby A; Lu Qi; Fang Guike, the “Clear Spring Hermit” 123 199 899
Gender	Male
Affiliation	Profound Heaven Dao Sect; Sword Lineage; formerly the Profound Heaven Dao Academy 310 450
Occupation/Role	Tai Xuan Profound Heaven true disciple; Four Directions Spirit Plant Steward; instructor through an incarnation 386 638 673
Dao Residence	Clearless Prefecture; its surrounding city was renamed Clearless Immortal City 403 404
Status	Active 1127

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Foundation Establishment Realm	28	Newly entered the realm; completed a sustained arena battle that exhausted his dantian’s spiritual power and improved his body, divine sense, and state of mind.
Latter Purple Palace Realm	98	Gained access to the incomplete divine ability Formation-Building Golden Heart, greatly accelerating his study, construction, and breaking of formations.
Ninth Realm of the Purple Palace	156	Reached the ninth Purple Palace realm while deepening his understanding of formations as constant “change.”
Golden Core Realm	220	Arrived at the Outer Academy mountain-gate assembly as a Golden Core cultivator and crossed its gale-filled gateway with his flying vessel.
Void Realm, first stage	382 403	Passed tribulation and entered Mingxu; his Dao seal entered the River of Time, stabilizing his true spirit against ignorance in future reincarnation.
Dongzhen Realm, first step — Dao Manifestation	521	His breakthrough disturbed the River of Time and drew the attention of ancient undying beings; the Profound Heaven Bell concealed the resulting heavenly secrets.
Dongzhen Realm, second step	561	Entered seclusion for a Time Tribulation and merged his Dao resonance with the River of Time, witnessing past, future, heavenly secrets, and destinies.
Dao Lord	1005	Returned to the Ninefold Heaven as a Dao Lord, stirring the Heavenly Net Chessboard and preparing to explore the Long River of Time.

Background / History

Lu Qing began his cultivation path with an unusually cautious approach. When an ominous divination warned that leaving the Dao Academy could lead to danger, he refused missions and remained on the mountain rather than risk an unknown trap. By the time he reached Foundation Establishment, he had already developed martial, spell, and sword-fighting experience, though he considered his combat record limited compared with his formation practice 10 28 87.

He served as the resident cultivator of Spirit Terrace County after Chen Sheng’s departure. There, he established Cloud Mist and Spirit Gathering Formations on Spirit Terrace Mountain, accepted the Dao Academy’s allotted share of local resources, and explicitly declined to involve himself in the county clans’ power struggles 38 42.

Formation study became central to his path. Lu Qing passed Elder Liu’s Formation Academy tests, beginning with the Ghost-Wailing Killing Formation, and later gained practical insight from several killing and restriction formations. Elder Liu’s teaching that formations embody “change” shaped Lu Qing’s own formation Dao and his development of the Heaven-and-Earth Severing Formation as protection for breakthroughs 86 87 156.

After cultivating on Spirit Leaf Island and undertaking Sha Qi-clearing missions, Lu Qing entered a Void Realm examination that temporarily suppressed him to the first layer of Qi Nourishing. He remained composed, adapted to the unfamiliar conditions, and later departed the island after reclaiming its formations 83 105 218.

As a Golden Core cultivator, Lu Qing entered the Sword Lineage and became Li Luoyang’s disciple. He continued to combine formation study, sword Dao, fortune observation, artifact refinement, and cultivation of time and reincarnation. His rise to Mingxu, Dongzhen, and eventually Dao Lord drew growing attention from the Profound Heaven Dao Sect, ancient beings, and the sect’s supreme treasures 310 380 521 1005.

Appearance

Lu Qing is usually seen as a youthful cultivator with an understated but unmistakably uncommon bearing. Even when dressed as an ordinary scholar or concealing his cultivation, his aura tends to set him apart from mortals 196 450.

• Often adopts restrained or deliberately ordinary clothing while travelling under an alias 123 199.
• Appeared in Confucian-scholar attire while travelling through the Void Realm 196.
• Maintains incarnations with distinct demeanors, including a more indifferent youthful incarnation and an older incarnation handling Dao Sect affairs 404 591.
• Can assume the identity of an elderly cultivator within reincarnation trials without concern for the change in appearance 899.

Personality

Lu Qing is defined by caution, restraint, and a preference for steady progress over dramatic confrontation. He avoids factional struggles, dangerous entanglements, and unnecessary fame; his ideal is to cultivate peacefully while retaining enough strength and preparation to survive unforeseen threats 38 42 101 651.

He is neither passive nor cowardly. When threatened, he responds decisively—whether by killing demonic cultivators, severing karmic threats, or preparing formations for an enemy’s intrusion. His reluctance to fight comes from calculation rather than inability or fear 87 125 627.

Lu Qing is also observant and intellectually curious. He studies formations, strange tales, antiquity, fortune, artifact refinement, reincarnation, and the workings of time without allowing any single Dao to dominate his heart. He values instruction from trustworthy seniors but remains wary of anyone claiming authority over the Great Dao 156 308 460 461.

Abilities & Skills

Formation Dao

Lu Qing is a highly accomplished formation cultivator whose methods range from practical defensive arrays to formations that interfere with fortune.

• Established Cloud Mist and Spirit Gathering Formations at Spirit Terrace Mountain 38.
• Broke the Ghost-Wailing Killing Formation by using formations to free the resentful ghosts sustaining it 86.
• Developed Formation-Building Golden Heart, which improves his ability to study, establish, and dismantle formations 98.
• Treats “change” as the core of his formation Dao rather than rigidly copying established diagrams 153 156.
• Created and employed the Heaven-and-Earth Severing Formation, which conceals spiritual opportunity, muddies heavenly secrets, and can serve as a breakthrough defense 156.
• Learned to use formations to suppress or stabilize fortune, including integrating formation principles into the Water-Calming Pearl 310.

Fortune Observation and Heavenly Secrets

Lu Qing can perceive qi, fortune, karmic connections, and shifts in destiny.

• Observes the streams of fortune above cities, individuals, sects, and the wider world 145 151 594.
• Recognizes Children of Fortune and Sons of the Human Emperor without necessarily becoming involved in their affairs 123 710 750.
• Uses heavenly-secrets cultivation to glimpse karmic destinies and judge when restraint is safer than intervention 648 986.
• Perceives major changes in celestial fortune, including the emergence of Human Emperor purple qi and disturbances in the Long River of Time 594 990.

Concealment and Divination

Lu Qing relies on concealment and omens to avoid danger before it reaches him.

• Uses the Calamity Avoidance hexagram to judge whether travel, missions, or other actions may lead to disaster 10 156.
• Cultivates the Great Concealment Art, which at perfection is said to conceal heaven and earth and deceive heavenly secrets 91.
• Regularly changes his identity and appearance while travelling, including the aliases Passerby A and Lu Qi 123 199.
• Can disguise his aura well enough to avoid unwanted attention from powerful cultivators 450.

Sword Dao and Fortune-Slaying Sword

Lu Qing studies sword Dao as both a means of survival and a path connected to fate.

• Used sword techniques against opponents as early as his Foundation Establishment arena battle 28.
• Developed his sword path by studying the principle shared by severing physical things and severing fate 244.
• Refined the Fortune-Slaying Sword alongside qi observation and formation methods 246 310.
• Can use formation methods to stabilize a target’s fortune before employing the sword, making escape more difficult 310.

Wind, Rain, and Water Arts

Lu Qing’s water-aligned spells developed into a major divine ability.

• Cast the Cloud Rain Technique over Spirit Leaf Island’s spiritual fields with ease 64.
• Comprehended and initiated Call the Wind and Summon the Rain, manifesting thunderclouds, wind, rain, and a sea of lightning within his Purple Palace 139.
• Uses these methods both for cultivation and for maintaining spirit fields 64 153.

Spatial Arts

Lu Qing possesses an embryonic spatial ability related to Sleeve Cosmos.

• Comprehended a trace of the spatial divine power known as Sleeve Cosmos after three days of cultivation 208.
• Can temporarily contain objects or living creatures in his sleeve, though he considers it only a storage-in-sleeve spell rather than true Sleeve Cosmos 208 218.
• Later became capable of personally setting teleportation arrays and understanding spatial passages 392.

Time and Reincarnation

Lu Qing’s later cultivation is deeply connected to the Long River of Time and the Dao of Reincarnation.

• Merged his Dao resonance with the River of Time during his second Dongzhen step, witnessing countless destinies and heavenly secrets 561.
• Possesses substantial authority over reincarnation and has comprehended life and death as natural transformations within the Dao 809.
• Uses time-based insight to examine ancient eras while deliberately avoiding changes to established history 755 809.
• Can survey past, present, and future lives, but generally chooses observation and preparation over direct interference 1004.

Artifact Refinement

Lu Qing can forge artifacts and comprehend the Artifact Dao.

• Used the White Rainbow artifact fire of his inner world to forge a longsword 461.
• Imbued the weapon with annihilation and calamity-destruction powers 461.
• Treats artifact refinement as another expression of the principle that the myriad Daos return to one 461.

Incarnations

Lu Qing can divide aspects of his Dao into incarnations capable of acting independently.

• Left an incarnation to manage the Spirit Plant Garden while his true body departed for the Myriad Forms Hall 386.
• Maintains incarnations with different temperaments and cultivation emphases 404 834.
• Uses incarnations to teach, handle sect affairs, protect the Immortal City, and investigate changes across the Nine Heavens 638 919 1004.
• An incarnation may return to his true body instantly with a thought while preserving the wholeness of his Dao 725.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Wooden Fish Bell — A palm-sized defensive magic artifact gifted by Steward Luo. It can change size, possesses black-tortoise-like defense, and produces sound techniques that disrupt opponents’ senses 91.
• Painting Boat — A paint-colored leaf that enlarges into a one-person flying vessel; Lu Qing uses it for inconspicuous travel 100 101.
• Fortune-Slaying Sword — A longsword connected to Lu Qing’s sword Dao and his study of fate-severing techniques 246 317.
• Water-Calming Pearl — Used as a foundation for formations intended to suppress and stabilize his fortune 310.
• Forged Longsword — An artifact personally forged with White Rainbow artifact fire and endowed with annihilation and calamity-destruction powers 461.

Relationships

• Li Luoyang — Lu Qing’s master and the chief seat of the Sword Lineage. Li supports Lu Qing’s Dao path without forcing choices upon him and shields his future from hostile divinations with sword light 380 382 506.
• Liu Changquan / Elder Liu — Formation mentor who tested Lu Qing at the Formation Academy and taught him to understand formations through change rather than imitation 86 156.
• Steward Luo — A senior who gifted Lu Qing the Wooden Fish Bell and offered guidance on Core Formation; their relationship is marked by mutual respect 91 144.
• White Crane Boy — A close companion and source of information. It provides talismans, guides Lu Qing to important locations, and later cultivates spirit fields at Clearless Prefecture with his permission 151 218 403.
• Zhou Yaoming — Dao Academy headmaster who noticed Lu Qing’s temperament early and later expressed concern for the trials he would face 83 147 153.
• Jin Yu — Hall master of the Myriad Forms Hall who promoted Lu Qing to Four Directions Spirit Plant Steward 386.
• Daoist Zuo Liang — A fellow cultivator encountered during Lu Qing’s Void Realm journey; the two exchanged information about the Imperial Proclamation and local cultivation powers 199 200.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Spirit Terrace County Garrison

Lu Qing replaces Chen Sheng as Spirit Terrace County’s resident cultivator. He demonstrates enough power to awe the four major clans, establishes his own formations, and refuses to become involved in local political disputes 38 42.

Formation Academy and Spirit Leaf Island

After receiving formation diagrams and entering Formation Academy, Lu Qing develops from a capable formation user into a cultivator with his own understanding of formation Dao. His prolonged residence on Spirit Leaf Island allows him to cultivate, farm spiritual fields, refine formations, and develop the Cloud Rain Technique 42 64 86 156.

External Missions and the Void Realm

Lu Qing undertakes Sha Qi-clearing missions while travelling under concealed identities. He later experiences the Void Realm, where he temporarily loses his original cultivation and explores a different world’s cultivation systems and mortal society 105 123 196 215.

Golden Core and the Sword Lineage

After reaching Golden Core, Lu Qing enters the Sword Lineage and expands beyond formations into sword Dao, fortune observation, and techniques for severing fate. His growing ability draws attention from senior cultivators while he continues trying to preserve a low profile 220 244 310.

Void Realm and Clearless Prefecture

Lu Qing survives his Mingxu tribulation, establishes Clearless Prefecture as his Dao residence, and gains enough standing to receive stewardship responsibilities within the sect. His presence becomes significant enough that Bixin Immortal City is renamed Clearless Immortal City 382 386 403 404.

Dongzhen Realm, Dao Child, and True Disciple

His Dao Manifestation shakes the River of Time and alerts ancient entities, prompting the Profound Heaven Dao Sect to conceal his heavenly secrets. He later stands first among the sect’s Dao Children and passes the patriarch’s Library Pavilion trial to become a Tai Xuan Profound Heaven true disciple 521 627 673.

Dao Lord and the Long River of Time

As a Dao Lord, Lu Qing oversees multiple incarnations, studies variables across the Nine Heavens, and prepares to explore the Long River of Time. He consistently chooses to observe and prepare for major changes rather than recklessly alter fate or history 1004 1005 1127.