Lu Quanan

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Lu Quanan (卢权安)
Gender	Male
Affiliation	Suining Prefecture Heaven Patrol Office; Lu family 229 257
Occupation/Role	Chief Inspector of Suining Prefecture; works in Judgment Hall 229 265
Cultivation	Confirmed Profound Connection Realm expert; his full strength remains undisclosed. Yi Yang later regards him as above that realm 253 337.
Primary Cultivation Art	Wood-Nurturing Longevity Art 257
Status	Alive at his latest documented appearance 269
First Appearance in Provided Context	Referenced through his cultivation notes 192; directly appears 197

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Qi-Blood Sixth Level — completion	257	Retrospectively states that completing the entire qi-blood section of the Wood-Nurturing Longevity Art took him ten years.
Inner Qi Realm — perfection	257	Reached at age thirty-five after joining the Heaven Patrol Office and obtaining its cultivation resources.
True Astral Realm — breakthrough	257	Entered at age forty.
Profound Connection Realm — confirmed	253	Revealed during his defeat of Yin Xi, rather than attained during the battle. He had already severely wounded Yin Xi, a newly advanced Profound Connection expert, more than a decade earlier 255.

• Public record: Heaven Patrol Office records list him at True Astral Perfection, concealing the extent of his strength 230.
• Unresolved upper limit: His effortless victories over Profound Connection experts leave Yi Yang unable to determine his actual level 256 269 337.

Background / History

Lu Quanan’s family inherited the Wood-Nurturing Longevity Art from his grandfather, Lu Sanjin, a mistreated stablehand of the City Lord’s Manor. Three hundred years earlier, Sanjin encountered Pineclear Daoist, who gave him treasure medicine and taught him the art without accepting him as a formal disciple. Sanjin erected a statue and honored the Daoist as the family’s “founding master”; the story and cultivation method passed down through his descendants 257.

Lu Quanan’s father practiced the art throughout his life but reached only the Inner Qi Realm because his constitution was poorly suited to it. Lu Quanan proved much more compatible, joined the Heaven Patrol Office, and eventually destroyed the City Lord’s Manor and became Chief Inspector. By the Profound Sword Pavilion crisis, he had governed the prefectural city for nearly a hundred years without losing a fight. Xu Yuhu’s master had once challenged him and returned admitting defeat 253 257.

His search for Pineclear Daoist uncovered Clawscale Abyss in Southern White Dragon Marsh. The Daoist’s lingering Divine Sense aura remained overwhelming even after three centuries. Lu Quanan has never met Pineclear himself and cannot establish how far the Daoist’s martial cultivation progressed 257.

Appearance

• Build and face: Tall, with a lean face resembling an ordinary schoolteacher 235 266.
• Hair: Long, half-white hair, usually tied neatly behind his head 235 247.
• Eyes: Dark brown, nearly black 229.
• Clothing: Plain black fitted martial attire without embroidery or ornaments, secured with a black iron buckle 229 247.
• Bearing: Unhurried and outwardly ordinary; his clothing remains immaculate after major battles 197 244 253.

Personality

Lu Quanan is direct, restrained, and difficult to read. He gives orders without unnecessary pleasantries, rarely explains more than he considers necessary, and closes off questions about matters he intends to keep private. His calm manner persists even when discussing his near-fatal defeat of a Profound Connection enemy 229 239 255.

He rewards useful service generously while making his expectations explicit. His gifts to Yi Yang support both immediate cultivation and future work on his behalf. He recognizes Yi Yang’s unusual talent, offers protection against scrutiny, and does not press him to explain every breakthrough 230 256 265.

His composure can appear cold. He shows no visible grief at Xiao Zhengyan’s death, prompting Yi Yang to suspect that Xiao’s Wu Family connections had cost him Lu’s trust. Whether Lu deliberately allowed the death remains unconfirmed 244.

Abilities & Skills

Wood-Nurturing Longevity Art

Lu Quanan cultivates the same inherited method as Yi Yang. His blue-green energy and circulation patterns help Yi Yang recognize their shared lineage 257.

• Produces blue-green true qi capable of manipulating and containing physical objects 254.
• Manifests resilient vines that absorb Blood Butcher’s blood flames, imprison him, and compress him to death 269.
• His True Astral cultivation notes correct flaws in Yi Yang’s training and help him reach the mid True Astral Realm 192 193.

Unarmed Combat and Energy Projection

Lu Quanan defeats powerful enemies without carrying a weapon 247 253.

• Disperses a corrosive blood mist with a single effortless wave of Qi Force 241.
• Kills the enormous serpent leading the beast tide; its severed head retains enough Astral pressure to make nearby guards collapse 244.
• Projects a solid, thirty-foot manifestation that attacks independently—far beyond the faint phantom Yi Yang associates with True Astral Perfection 244.
• Breaks Yin Xi’s Flame Sky Veil, crushes his blood sea, destroys his Heartflame Blood Sword, and kills him with one palm strike 253.
• Overwhelms Blood Butcher even after the assassin manifests his Blood Demon Dharma Body 269.

Movement, Concealment, and Perception

His true strength is almost impossible for Yi Yang to read, despite Yi Yang’s specialized mental cultivation 230.

• Leaves the hall in an instant without a warning surge of Astral energy 253.
• Approaches Blood Butcher undetected despite the assassin’s Divine Sense 269.
• Sees through Yi Yang’s concealment and correctly identifies his True Astral Perfection cultivation 265.
• Recognizes Yi Yang’s reference to the dead Xiao Zhengyan as a coded warning 251.

Cultivation Knowledge

Lu Quanan explains advanced cultivation and provincial power structures to Yi Yang 256 265 266.

• Identifies the five Divine Sense realms: Self-Observation, Illusion-Breaking, Spirit-Seizing, Heavenly Might, and Sacred Domain 256.
• Recognizes that Yi Yang is approaching Illusion-Breaking and selects the Xuannian Stone to assist him 256.
• Once attempted the Heart Ape Mind Guarding Art but failed to enter its threshold 256.
• Has witnessed Pineclear Daoist’s lingering Heavenly Might trace, but never met a living practitioner of that realm 256 257.

Emergency Treatment

• Checks Xu Yuhu’s pulse and determines that his intact Qi Sea makes recovery possible 247.
• Administers two medicinal pills and positions the injured pavilion master to prevent blood entering his windpipe 247.

Equipment / Items

• Ancient Bronze Seal — Engraved with a vine-like rune; its purpose is not explained 230.
• Medicinal pills — Carries a porcelain bottle used to stabilize Xu Yuhu 247.
• Blood Butcher’s storage ring — Takes it after silently killing the assassin 269.

Relationships

• Yi Yang — Subordinate, cultivation beneficiary, and prospective helper in an undisclosed future task. Lu supplies cultivation notes, True Pills, a Century Blood Lotus, another Armory true art, and the Xuannian Stone; he also promises one personal intervention and permission to invoke his name in Qing Province 192 230 256 265 266.
• Lu Sanjin — Grandfather and original recipient of the family’s Wood-Nurturing Longevity Art 257.
• Pineclear Daoist — Revered founding master of the family’s cultivation lineage. Lu searches for his traces but has never met him 257.
• Yan Wuyuan — Knows her influential background and reassures Yi Yang that few people in Qing Province City would dare harm her. Later identifies her as the influence behind Yi Yang’s conscription 257 265.
• Jiang Zhongtian — Former attendant in Lu’s circle, later a Hidden Dragon Ranking expert overseeing Crossing Peak Stronghold 266.
• Xu Yuhu — Saves the Profound Sword Pavilion master from Xuanyi and treats his injuries 247.
• Xiao Zhengyan — Deputy Chief Inspector whose death Lu receives without visible emotion; assigns Yi Yang command of the surviving Evil Punishment Office personnel 244.
• Yin Xi — Longstanding Nine Evil Sect enemy. Lu severely wounds him at Southern White Dragon Marsh, then kills him after exposing his possession scheme 253 255.
• Blood Butcher — Nine Evil Sect assassin targeting Yi Yang and tasked with testing Lu’s strength. Lu intercepts and kills him before the planned ambush 267 269.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Clearwind Ridge Aftermath

• Places the remaining Wu Family matters under Yi Yang’s sole authority after the stronghold’s destruction 228.
• Offers Yi Yang either a provincial report with possible rewards or one personal intervention; Yi Yang chooses the intervention 230.
• Adds Armory access and a Century Blood Lotus as recognition for eliminating threats before they reach the prefectural city 230.

Donglai Beast Tide and Profound Sword Pavilion Crisis

• Commands the response to Donglai County’s deteriorating situation and personally kills one of the five True Astral demon beasts cleared during the campaign 235 240.
• Leads the Evil Punishment Office and Pacification Guard toward the attacked Profound Sword Pavilion, disperses an ambush’s blood mist, and confronts the beast tide’s strongest serpent 241 244.
• Saves Xu Yuhu, identifies the stolen Xuannian Stone as the conspiracy’s objective, and orders surviving Golden Sun Temple monks subdued where possible 247 250.
• Demands evidence before accepting Yi Yang’s accusation against Zhao Xunge. Once the prayer bead exposes the deception, Lu destroys the body concealing the infiltrator and pursues the escaping figure 252.
• Kills Yin Xi and subsequently explains how the elder’s possession of Xuanding led to Golden Sun Temple’s downfall 253 255.

Yi Yang’s Provincial Transfer

• Explains Qing Province’s conscription order, the Hidden Dragon Ranking, and the competing interests behind the three strongholds 265 266.
• Offers his name as protection while explicitly cautioning Yi Yang not to rely on it before a Grandmaster 266.
• Approves Qi Shujian as Yi Yang’s successor commanding the Pacification Guard 267.
• Removes Blood Butcher from the departure route without speaking a word, allowing Yi Yang’s party to continue north 269.

Notable Quotes

“You can call on my intervention whenever you like. Just let me know beforehand.” 230

“Besides, you'll be working for me in the future. Naturally, the stronger you are, the better.” 256

“Of course, don't mention it in front of a Grandmaster. … My name doesn't carry that much weight.” 266

Trivia

• Taps his thumb twice against his teacup’s rim when pondering something—a habit Yi Yang notices repeatedly 239.
• Describes his compatibility with the Wood-Nurturing Longevity Art as merely “reasonable,” although Yi Yang considers his ten-year completion of its qi-blood section exceptional 257.
• His undisclosed future task for Yi Yang remains pending because Yi Yang is not yet strong enough when Lu first mentions it 256.