Yue Changlong

Biodata

Power Progression

Background and History

Yue commanded the Army's 7th Armored Company during the Black Hat Mountain Campaign. He led its 120 soldiers from the front and killed nineteen enemies on the first day; after a week, barely more than fifty soldiers remained. Zhao Mengsheng later credited the campaign with Yue's first First-Class Merit and identified him as a Special-Class Combat Hero 74.

He kept the company's youngest soldier, nicknamed Xiaochuan, close as his communications officer. After Xiaochuan's death, Yue learned that the soldier was Commander Liu's only son, Liu Weiguo. Yue tearfully apologized for failing to protect him, but Commander Liu refused to blame him 74 77.

At 27, Yue held the rank of senior colonel and commanded the Longdu Military Region's Ironblood Division. He resigned three years later, surrendering his rank-related benefits; his appointment record lists “personal reasons” without further explanation. He subsequently entered the Air Force as an ordinary recruit under his mother's surname, using the name Lu Chengfeng 81 89. His Air Force file carries SSS+ classification, beyond even Zhao Mengsheng's access 90.

During flood-relief operations in Xun City, Yue opposed attempts to obtain special treatment through influential connections. He insisted that those seeking to leave stand at the front of the embankment with their comrades instead. Liang Sanjiang remembers him as a celebrated flood-relief hero 83 89. Later evidence implicated Cao Zhengchun in his downfall: a recording of Cao Xuanye boasted that the Cao Family had ruined Yue's reputation, driven him from the capital, and caused his imprisonment 803.

Under the codename KING, Yue intervened in Goryeo ten years before Park Taegyeon's account. He destroyed three Eagle Country military bases and the Sabi missile-defense system, then left bullets beside the pillows of Goryeo's political and business leaders. Goryeo's president secretly agreed to remove Sabi and resign, while Park Taegyeon knelt and promised that the Four Star Group would never oppose the Dragon Kingdom 678.

Yue later joined the Night Watchers and became its strategist. After the organization traced its enemies to Skull and Bones and suffered repeated losses through an internal mole, Yue, Han Xiao, and founder Xiao Pojun devised Operation Underworld, a plan to infiltrate Skull and Bones at enormous personal cost 311. Han Xiao's account reveals that the Nanshan Massacre involved the deliberate sacrifice of Yue's comrades to preserve the operation. Xiao Pojun ordered Han Xiao to survive as an apparent escaped traitor and bait for the mole, named Yue the Black Emperor, and killed himself. Left among the bodies of 117 fallen comrades, Yue swore to expose the mole and destroy Skull and Bones 324.

Five years before his return, Yue fought nine Thrones single-handedly, was gravely wounded by a Forbidden Weapon, and fell into a spatial rift. The Fool later claimed that Yue had exhausted his life force escaping Skull and Bones headquarters and that his gene chain had collapsed; Yue's subsequent combat performance disproved the Fool's assumption that he could no longer use his power 549 550 553 555.

Five years before the investigation into his disappearance, Yue was reportedly imprisoned for treason. At a later military parade, Marshal Long Qianshan stated that the imprisonment was part of the secret Hidden Dragon operation: Yue had accepted public disgrace to help expose a spy network. Long credited him with helping capture more than thirty spies and drafting 127 research proposals during those five years 81 909.

The classified legal record described a secret treason trial, a life sentence, and confinement in Yanshan Prison, also called the Black Prison 12 234 710. Yue later explained that he had actually been unable to leave the Kunlun Ruins for five years, although he remained informed about events outside. With the Old Lord temporarily watching over the ruins, he could remain outside for only seven days 831 850.

A recording left for Xiaofei further explains that Yue volunteered to bear the blame and faked his death to slip away as the Kunlun seal weakened. His mission is to prevent an Ancient God True Form from eroding reality and entering the world through the ruins' enormous void rift 944.

Appearance

When he removes his Black Emperor mask, Yue appears to be around forty, with few visible signs of aging 547.

• Sharp, handsome features and short, upright hair 547.
• Deep black eyes 547.
• An imposing bearing; an earlier military photograph shows him in a green uniform with senior colonel insignia 81 547.
• In the recording from the Kunlun Ruins, he wears a tattered camouflage battle robe and has a prominent scar extending from the corner of his right eye to his chin 944.

Personality

Yue is composed under threat and openly contemptuous of opponents who rely on titles or numbers to intimidate him. He also takes an active role in teaching Xiaofei, demonstrating techniques during combat rather than merely telling him to stand aside 547 839 882.

His approach to justice distinguishes between targets and bystanders: he ignores fleeing servants while pursuing Cao Zhengchun, and later makes the Witch King surrender to the authorities rather than kill him. He rejects hereditary privilege and asks for its abolition instead of rank, office, or money 841 850 862.

Yue Qinhu describes him as a stubborn, hot-tempered child who led the other children and frequently fought, but never bullied the weak. His targets were boys who abused their strength or status 298. Han Xiao offers a contrasting view of his everyday manner, recalling that Yue treated people gently, like an ordinary middle-aged neighbor, despite his place among the Night Watchers 311.

His loyalty to comrades is central to his leadership. He taught the 7th Armored Company never to abandon a brother and promised to pursue anyone who harmed his soldiers to the ends of the earth. When the veterans return to support him in Longdu, his normally unshakable demeanor gives way to warmth 835 844.

Yue accepts disgrace and separation from his family as the price of protecting the country, but his recording also reveals anguish over Yue Lingfei's capture and an urgent desire for Xiaofei to rescue her 944. He refuses to regard delayed compensation as sufficient justice for his fallen comrades and rejects Cao Zhengchun's offers to restore their reputations and enrich their families in exchange for mercy 843.

Abilities and Skills

Divine Ruin and King's Ruins

• Calamity—Black Sun: Yue invokes Divine Ruin 003 against Wolf during his confrontation with the Thrones 553. The attack annihilates Wolf and his giant werewolf form without leaving a trace 553.
• King's Ruins: Creates a domain in which Yue controls the rules, preventing the Fool from self-destructing inside it 556.
• Rule power: Against the Witch God Array, Yue freezes the surrounding space and arrests an enormous attacking hand. He explains that he can decree silence or a palace's collapse, making other forms of power ineffective before his rules 860 861.
• Word Becomes Law: A single command disperses seductive smoke around him. The passage attributes this feat to his overwhelming will and blood vitality rather than an expenditure of true qi or internal energy 879.

Combat and Instruction

• A step from Yue makes thousands of bullets fall and forces 3,000 Cao Family death warriors to their knees. He then gravely injures the ten elite Extermination Guards before they can complete their attack 839 840.
• He teaches Xiaofei the Yue family's Eight Thunderclap Forms and demonstrates the Eight Formulas for Breaking the Edge while fighting through the Five Immortals Pilgrimage Array 858 882 885.
• He identifies the Fountain of Youth Water as the array's main power source and chooses to strike that node rather than its five subsidiary nodes 885.
• Emperor Engine: His heartbeat produces oppressive force that immobilizes the Thrones. Its sound is described as deeper and fuller than Xiaofei's, like an awakening primordial beast 548.
• Balanced physical and spiritual capabilities: Wolf's Hunting Instinct finds no exploitable weakness in Yue's strength, speed, endurance, spirit, defense, or technique 550.
• Mental defenses: Demon's Fear Erosion is crushed on contact with Yue's consciousness, and the resulting backlash leaves Demon bleeding from his facial orifices 550.
• Curse and illusion resistance: The Witch King's Witch God Curse disappears without harming him. He also destroys Hu Jiumei's illusion with golden light from his eyes 856 880.
• Eight Thunderclap Forms transmission: Yue conveys the ancestral formula and technique diagrams directly into Xiaofei's mind, explaining that these forms allow the Emperor Engine to express its greatest power 858.
• Understanding the Emperor Engine: He teaches that its essential qualities are “breaking” and “destroying,” then demonstrates by shattering Kashyapa's Great Might Heavenly Dragon manifestation with one punch 870.
• Eight Formulas for Breaking the Edge: Also called the Demon-Slaying Blade, this saber art was created by Yue Qinhu on the battlefield. Yue demonstrates its use in duels and mass combat, emphasizing breaking formations, isolating enemy units, and achieving decisive results with minimal effort 870 871 882 883.
• One Slash Severs the Void and Slays Gods and Demons: The saber art's final form produces blade intent strong enough to crack the surrounding space. Yue uses it to strike the Five Immortals Pilgrimage Array's main source rather than its subsidiary nodes 885 886.
• Energy transfer and detoxification: By striking Xiaofei's back with his palm, he floods his son's body with pure yang energy, removes Muscle-Weakening Powder, and temporarily raises Xiaofei's strength above his previous peak 881.
• Cultivation extraction: He forcibly strips the five spirits of five hundred years of cultivation, gathering their energy into a multicolored orb and reducing them to ordinary animal size 887.
• Lightning combat and endurance: He tears through a city-destroying lightning storm with his fists and kicks. He later survives a through-and-through chest wound inflicted by a projection of Odin's Gungnir, although he emerges severely injured 889 897.
• Dragon-vein and lightning power: In the Kunlun recording, each swing of his broken spear calls down lightning and dragon-vein power to destroy the Ancient God's invading hand, which repeatedly reforms 944.

Strategy and Military Engineering

• Han Xiao describes Yue as the strategic mind of the Night Watchers, valued for planning as well as combat 311.
• During a European pursuit, he locates a traitor and predicts the escape route within half a day using newspapers, hydrological records, and seemingly ordinary business contracts 311.
• He designed the Kunlun tank's core fire-control algorithm and active defense system, and led work on the Thunder-9 anti-ship missile's design concept and trajectory model 907 908.
• As the White Emperor fighter's chief test pilot, he completed 3,000 hours of testing and helped resolve more than thirty major flaws 908.
• Ye Jincheng credits Yue with the Southern Heavenly Gate project's theoretical foundations and underlying energy model 912.
• His five years of secret service produced 127 research proposals, according to Long Qianshan's public account 909.

Weapons and Legacy Items

• Hongming Blade: A longtime companion that Yue introduces while teaching Xiaofei the Eight Formulas for Breaking the Edge. After defeating Kashyapa, he gives the blade to his son, later borrowing it to break the Five Immortals Pilgrimage Array before returning it 870 871 886 887.
• Broken Black War Spear: Wielded in the Kunlun Ruins recording; despite having half its length broken away, it channels lightning and dragon-vein power against the invading Ancient God 944.
• Purple-Gold Jade Box: Left for a descendant bearing the Black Emperor legacy. Xiaofei opens it with his essence blood and discovers Yue's recording and the Kunlun Ruins Ancient God Suppression Records 944.

Relationships

• Yue Xiaofei — son and student; Yue protects him, fights beside him, and teaches him family techniques 831 858 882. He gives Xiaofei the Hongming Blade and later entrusts him, through a recording, with finding and rescuing Yue Lingfei 871 944.
• Ye Qingmei — wife and Xiaofei's mother 908 909.
• Yue Feng — elder son; Xiaofei seeks news of his missing brother 423.
• Yue Lingfei — daughter and Xiaofei's sister; captured by the Ancient Gods Church during an overseas infiltration mission. Yue reveals her situation in his recording and asks Xiaofei to save her 944.
• Yue Qinhu — father; recalls Yue's stubborn but protective childhood character and created the Eight Formulas for Breaking the Edge that Yue teaches Xiaofei 298 870.
• Lu Lanxin — mother; Yue takes her surname when adopting the Air Force identity Lu Chengfeng 89.
• Zhao Mengsheng — former subordinate who regards Yue as a mentor and defends his military record 18 74 912. Zhao recalls that Yue saved his life and insists that his eventual rank must match his achievements 910.
• Liang Sanjiang — former Ironblood Division guard who continues to revere him 82.
• Lei Zhen — Air Force comrade who rallies the Azure Sword formation in support of Yue 845 846.
• Ye Jincheng — father-in-law and the judge who sent Yue to prison; he later publicly supports Yue's marshal appointment 850 912. He pledges the Ye Family's support when Yue resolves to pursue those responsible for his comrades' deaths and later delivers the Purple-Gold Jade Box to Xiaofei 851 944.
• Han Xiao — Night Watchers comrade and fellow planner of Operation Underworld. He survives the Nanshan sacrifice under Xiao Pojun's orders and eventually tells Xiaofei the truth about Yue's mission 311 324.
• Xiao Pojun — founder of the Night Watchers and co-planner of Operation Underworld. Before his death, he names Yue the Black Emperor and entrusts him with destroying the mole and Skull and Bones 311 324.
• Cao Zhengchun — principal enemy in Longdu, implicated in Yue's disgrace and the betrayal of the Night Watchers. Yue rejects his proposed compensation and executes him in the name of the fallen heroes 803 843 849.
• The Old Lord — temporarily watches over the Kunlun Ruins during Yue's seven-day absence. Yue's recording explicitly asks Xiaofei not to blame either the Old Lord or Ye Jincheng for the burden he voluntarily accepted 850 944.

Story Role and Major Arcs

• Investigation into his imprisonment: Xiaofei's search begins with conflicting accounts of his father's military service and alleged crimes. Investigators uncover Yanshan Prison, the classified treason charge, his earlier Army and Air Force identities, and eventually Han Xiao's account of Operation Underworld and the Night Watchers' sacrifice 12 81 89 234 311 324.
• Return against Skull and Bones: Yue reveals himself as the Black Emperor and confronts the organization's Thrones. The Fool identifies him as Divine Sequence 003 547 553 556. Despite the Fool's belief that his old injuries have crippled him, Yue annihilates Wolf, suppresses the Fool, and states that he has long surpassed National Authority Level 549 550 553 555.
• Confrontation in Longdu: After reuniting with Xiaofei, Yue moves against the Cao Family. Veterans of the 7th Armored Company, the Ironblood Division, and the Azure Sword formation come to his aid. He then demands an end to hereditary royal-clan privileges 831 845 846 850. He publicly accuses the Cao Family of colluding with Skull and Bones and causing the deaths of 137 Night Watchers, executes Cao Zhengchun, and sees the remaining core members taken into custody. Elder Chen agrees to abolish hereditary privileges 846 849 850.
• Collecting the hidden sects' debts: Yue takes Xiaofei to the hidden sects, explaining that their predecessors owe the Yue Family major favors. He secures the Nine-Turn Soul-Returning Herb from the Witch Gate, the Mingwang Relic from the Great Thunderclap Monastery, and the Fountain of Youth Water from the Five Great Immortal Houses. Throughout the journey, he teaches Xiaofei the Emperor Engine's principles and the family's martial arts 854 858 861 870 871 882 887.
• Battle against divine power: Yue confronts a devastating lightning assault, demonstrating that a mortal body can fight on equal terms with gods. He survives the encounter but later emerges from the void badly burned and pierced through the chest by Odin's Gungnir projection 888 889 897.
• Public recognition: A military parade credits his Army, Navy, and Air Force work and discloses the Hidden Dragon operation. The Supreme Command announces his elevation to marshal, later specified as a special honorary rank to take effect when his top-secret mission is complete 907 908 909 911 913.
• Kunlun Ruins and Yue Lingfei's capture: Xiaofei opens Yue's Purple-Gold Jade Box and watches a recording of his father defending the ruined world beyond the seal. Yue explains his voluntary disgrace and faked death, identifies the Western Deep-Sea Cult as remnants of False Gods leaking through the rift, warns of a secretly modified Divine Weapon, and reveals Yue Lingfei's capture by the Ancient Gods Church. Xiaofei vows to rescue her 944.
• Continuing martial legacy: Xiaofei continues using the Eight Blades of Shattering the Edge in later battles, including a direct assault on a Berserker formation, carrying forward the killing saber art Yue honed in border warfare 972.

Notable Quotes

“I don't want a Military Rank, a position, or money. I have only one request. … No more royal clans in Dragon Kingdom!” 850

“People of the Yue Family don't kill indiscriminately.” 862

“National Authority Level? … I left that behind long ago!” 555

“Justice delayed is no justice!” 843

“If justice won't come, I'll take it myself!” 847

“A mortal body... Can still... Stand shoulder to shoulder with gods!!!” 888

“Don't blame your grandfather, and don't blame the [Old Lord]. I volunteered to take the blame back then.” 944

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