Lan Yue

Biodata

Feature	Details
Name	Lan Yue (澜月)
Alias(es)	Little Yue; Junior Sister Lan Yue 23 36
Gender	Female 1
Affiliation	Southern Spirit Sect; Spirit Moon Peak; Formation Pavilion 8 43
Occupation/Role	Cultivation disciple; Guangji’s apprentice; formation arts student 23 43
Former Occupation	Gaming commentator; previously studied design 46
Cultivation	Late Qi Refining; exact level unspecified 47
Status	Alive in the current timeline; originally destined to die while delivering messages for the protagonists 42 50
First Appearance	Chapter 1

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Qi Refining, fifth level	13	Retrospectively identified as her cultivation three months earlier. By the sword-selection expedition, the elders suspect further advancement but cannot discern her exact strength through her artifact’s concealment.
Qi Refining, sixth level	15	Confirmed by the Three Realms Gossip System immediately before she converts her accumulated gossip energy.
Qi Refining, seventh level	15	Reached by converting gossip seeds into cultivation rather than through conventional practice.
Late Qi Refining	47	Reached after converting another stockpile of seeds. Her eyesight sharpens enough to distinguish distant leaf veins and insects’ compound eyes; no numbered level is given.

Background / History

Lan Yue was a modern woman who died before learning the ending of a celebrity scandal. She transmigrated into Road to Immortality, a cultivation novel she had read, as an insignificant “cannon-fodder” character. In her previous life, she studied design before becoming a gaming commentator 1 46.

Guangji encountered her outside the Southern Spirit Sect while on a mission. An intuition convinced the elder that she was the destined disciple, prompting Guangji to bring her back. Before entering seclusion, her master supplied jade slips containing cultivation insights and Recording Stones showing sword techniques from Qi Refining through Spirit Transformation 19 30.

Lan Yue remembers that her original counterpart died in the jaws of a demonic evil after the male lead sent her to deliver messages for his group. She consequently aims to survive, improve her cultivation, and enjoy the protagonists’ adventures from a safe distance 5 42.

Appearance

• Pale blue dress: Worn when she returns to Spirit Sword Peak carrying practice wood for an attempted custom sword 8.
• Companions on her shoulders: Silver Snow sometimes rests on her right shoulder in white-cat form, while Little Fruit also climbs onto her shoulder 43.

Personality

Lan Yue treats gossip as entertainment, social currency, and a practical route to cultivation. She pursues romantic scandals, embarrassing habits, hidden history, and even the private affairs of intelligent plants. Her outward politeness often contrasts sharply with an irreverent inner monologue 5 15 39 44.

She is fearful of ghosts and dangerous confrontations, readily sheltering behind Yun Xi despite having higher cultivation. Her ambitions are deliberately modest: she wants enough strength to live comfortably rather than endure the protagonists’ near-fatal trials. This caution also makes her adaptable—when sword flight defeats her, she chooses a flying tortoise instead 7 13 14 19.

Her affection is genuine even when expressed through teasing or opportunism. She admires Yun Xi’s warmth after a cruel childhood, supports Yuan Shuo after his rescue, and comforts Little Fruit after upsetting it. She is also attached enough to Spirit Moon Peak’s residents and lively gossip to reject the appeal of another sect 11 22 37 40.

Lan Yue dislikes early mornings and tedious practice, seeks shortcuts through her system, and tries to pass off Little Fruit’s homework as her own. Nevertheless, she takes pride in her technical skills and produces a flawless formation diagram when she applies the dedication she once brought to her university graduation project 33 43 46 50.

Abilities & Skills

Three Realms Gossip System

The system uncovers hidden information and rewards Lan Yue for enjoying gossip. Its interface identifies her as a “Beginner gossip spectator” when displaying her sixth-level Qi Refining cultivation 15.

• Gossip-to-cultivation conversion: Gossip seeds can be exchanged for spiritual energy and cultivation increases 15 47.
• Hidden-information access: Reveals family origins, concealed crimes, artifact histories, and intelligent plants’ circumstances 3 12 30 40.
• Mental footage: Provides visual information that Lan Yue watches and shares with Silver Snow 17 22.
• Recording and replay: Supplies recordings of her formation work, including enlarged footage she uses as a drawing reference 50.
• Location assistance: Gives Yuan Shuo’s location through a map and image during the rescue investigation 32.
• Mental-energy cost: Detailed investigations consume mental power; exhaustion prevents further searches. Inspecting numerous swords leaves her unable to investigate Silver Snow’s trial 14 16 44.
• Undisclosed rewards: Refuses to explain how seed rewards are calculated, calling the method confidential 47.

Involuntary Thought Broadcast

Lan Yue’s inner thoughts are audible to people and spirit beasts around her, although she generally believes they remain private. The broadcast exposes secrets and supplies information that others act upon without admitting its source 1 3 29.

• Increasing reach: Yun Chong observes that her inner voice reaches farther as her cultivation improves 20.
• Selective transmission: At least one vague thought is not broadcast, and crucial details of Yun Xi’s future are muted 5 9.
• Disclosure restrictions: The associated Immortal Artifact prevents listeners from explaining the specific reason they know her secrets 29.
• Not complete telepathy: Red Moon can hear Lan Yue’s thoughts but not Silver Snow’s replies during their mental conversation 25.

Artifact Protection and Cultivation Concealment

Sect leaders identify the system as a bound Immortal Artifact. Attempts to interfere with it meet powerful resistance; Yun Chong previously needed three months of seclusion to recover from its retaliation 2 11.

• Obstructed examination: Even senior elders cannot reliably discern Lan Yue’s exact cultivation 13.
• Paid concealment: The system hides cultivation increases but charges gossip seeds and a brokerage fee without warning her beforehand 47.
• Additional concealment: Her ten-thousand-year cold jade can also hide her cultivation 47.

Sword Flight

Lan Yue initially cannot remain on a sword despite three months of practice, her master’s recordings, Li Bai’s instruction, and attempts with different swords. The system privately identifies her unstable soul as the cause but postpones telling her 1 19.

• Basic competence: Three days of Guangji’s intensive training finally enable her to stay on Silver Snow 26.
• Limited control: Her flight lacks the graceful handling displayed by fellow disciples 26.
• Alternative transport: She adopts Er Dan as a mount before mastering sword flight 19.

Divination

Channeling spiritual energy into a tortoise shell releases golden text into Lan Yue’s mind, granting a Divination inheritance. Guangji subsequently begins teaching her the discipline 27 33.

• Cover for foreknowledge: She intends to present system-derived information as divination, allowing her to warn or advise others openly 23 29 35.
• Improvised explanations: Uses the shell and mystical-sounding phrases to explain her knowledge of Gu Zhuo’s potential 42.
• Training limitations: Finds practice tedious; the system rejects divination as a timely way to display Yuan Shuo’s location during an urgent rescue 32 33.

Formation Arts

Lan Yue chooses the Formation Pavilion partly because she expects system recordings to make formations easier to memorize 43.

• Basic drawing: Produces a basic formation under an instructor’s close supervision 45.
• Precision work: Draws a flawless formation diagram when she takes the task seriously 46.
• Reference-assisted work: Quickly redraws an assignment using recordings of her previous work 50.
• Unsuccessful substitution: Little Fruit’s claw prints expose her attempt to submit the sapling’s diagram as her own 50.

Tactical Commentary

Her tournament commentary suggests poisoning summoned rain and using silver needles as concealed weapons. Competitors adopt more aggressive tactics, forcing the elders to strengthen the arena barriers. Qing Zhu later credits Lan Yue’s poison suggestion with helping her win first place 4 27.

Cooking

Lan Yue spears and roasts spirit fish for herself, Yun Xi, and Spirit Moon Peak’s tortoises. Yun Xi praises the taste, while Lan Yue confidently claims credit for her cooking 36.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Silver Snow Ancient Sword — An ancient weapon of Spirit Moon Peak that claims to be an Immortal Sword. It chooses Lan Yue without requiring her to enter the Blood Pool trial, can hear her thoughts, and manifests as a white cat. The system states that it can break through any restriction or formation 13 14 32.
• The Fifth Elder’s beard artifact — A Supreme Spirit Artifact with offensive, defensive, and storage functions. Lan Yue keeps it after Li Bai presents the detached beard as a gift 5.
• Divination tortoise shell — Given by her master; contains the inheritance she activates with spiritual energy 27 42.
• Ten-thousand-year cold jade — A sect reward requested for her by Yuan Shuo after Silver Snow’s contribution to his rescue. The elders instruct her to wear it amid the Demon Abyss Rift danger; it also conceals cultivation 35 47.
• Spatial Ring — Used to store the spirit stones, artifacts, and pills she persuades Silver Snow to hand over for “safekeeping” 34.
• Red Moon Token — Grants discounts at Scarlet Moon Sect artifact shops; received during Red Moon’s recruitment attempt 22.
• Cultivation jade slips and Recording Stones — Her master’s instructional materials, including recorded sword techniques and early sword-flight lessons 19.

Relationships

• Guangji / Fairy Guangji — Master. Recruited Lan Yue, provided instructional materials, trained her in sword flight, and arranged her Divination studies. Guangji’s demanding supervision is intended to improve her chances of surviving danger 19 23 26 29 30 33.
• Li Bai — Eldest senior brother. Protects her, offers sword-flight lessons, and shares news. She feels guilty after forgetting his lodging arrangements, while her thoughts unintentionally reveal his humiliating original future 1 9 19 35 47 48 49.
• Yun Xi — Favorite original protagonist and close friend. Lan Yue admires her resilience and calls her “my darling daughter” in her thoughts. Yun Xi recognizes her role in the rescue, repeatedly protects her, and agrees to address her as “Junior Sister Lan Yue” 9 11 35 36 50.
• Silver Snow — Sword companion. Attracted by her gossip, it enjoys being carried and praised. Lan Yue indulges its cat form, promises to take it traveling, and sometimes exploits its trust to obtain gifts 14 25 34 35.
• Er Dan — Spirit tortoise and chosen mount. Lan Yue names it and declares it her exclusive ride; she feeds it and comforts it after its disappointment over another tortoise’s relationship 19 36.
• Little Fruit — Intelligent Rootless Fruit sapling. Lan Yue comforts it after revealing its abandonment, gathers its medicinal leaves, and relies on its remarkable formation-drawing ability 40 45 47 50.
• Yuan Shuo — Rescued disciple and self-declared ally. Entrusted to her care by Yuan Su, he begins smiling amid her antics and accepts her request to keep her secrets 33 37.
• Yun Chong — Sect master and Yun Xi’s father. Acts on her overheard information, protects her from recruitment, and considers her residence the safest place to leave his daughter 5 21 36.
• Qing Zhu — Senior sister and patron. Offers protection in gratitude for Lan Yue’s tournament advice and supports her choice to study formations 27 43.
• Luan Ning — Fellow formation student and gossip-loving friend. They exchange scandals and romance commentary, with Lan Yue valuing her extensive connections 17 43 44.
• Fang Ming — Friend met on her first day in the sect and a recurring source of gossip 17 19.
• Red Moon — Scarlet Moon Sect master and persistent recruiter. Gives Lan Yue a discount token and seeks opportunities to recruit her while enjoying her gossip 21 22 49.
• Gu Zhuo — Original male lead. Lan Yue resents his role in her scripted death, strikes him twice while he is unconscious, and then encourages Yun Xi to keep him because of his potential 42 50.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Quarterly Competition and Yun Xi’s Rescue

Lan Yue’s broadcast first disrupts the sect through revelations about the Fifth Elder’s fake beard. At the quarterly competition, her thoughts expose Yun Xi’s origins and abuse, followed by the system’s report that the heroine is being bullied. Yun Chong and the elders act on that information, bringing father and daughter together years earlier than Lan Yue expects 1 2 3 4 5 7 8.

Hidden Sword Pavilion

During the sword search, Lan Yue’s warnings steer Yun Xi away from unsuitable weapons and expose the supposed Cangwu Wooden Sword’s spirit as a predatory ghost. Yun Xi eventually finds her rusty bonded sword. Lan Yue then approaches Silver Snow’s Blood Pool trial, only for the sword to leave its restraints and choose her directly 11 12 13 14.

Yuan Shuo and the Ghost Creature

Her investigation of a missing disciple uncovers Black Ghost Village’s human sacrifices and the abuse of Yuan Shuo, the boy who became Demon Lord Fang Shuo in the original story. Following the system’s advice, she sends Silver Snow through the restrictions concealing him. His rescue allows the elders to intervene before that original transformation occurs 29 30 32 33.

Guangji and Yuan Su subsequently kill the Ghost Creature, but a hand from a Demon Abyss Rift carries Yuan Bao away. Lan Yue recognizes the event as the original trigger for Yuan Shuo’s villainous path and worries that the plot has selected a replacement instead 35.

Spirit Moon Peak’s Growing Household

Yun Chong entrusts Yun Xi to Lan Yue, and Yuan Su later brings Yuan Shuo for protection. Fishing, naps, tortoise chases, and Little Fruit’s arrival turn the peak into a shared refuge. Her overheard thoughts also reveal the Second Elder’s dangerous Chain Curse and warn the sect about concealed ruins near Spirit-Denuded Island 36 37 38 39 40.

Male Lead’s Arrival and Formation Studies

Lan Yue recognizes Gu Zhuo in his unconscious black-and-yellow form and takes a small revenge for her original death. Yun Xi’s greater concern for Lan Yue than for her supposed destined partner underscores how far events have diverged from the novel 41 42.

Lan Yue then registers at the Formation Pavilion, demonstrates genuine precision despite seeking shortcuts, and reaches late Qi Refining through gossip rewards. Her revelations about Li Bai’s original future alarm him, while her attempted homework substitution ends with Elder Duanmu ordering her to redo the work herself 43 46 47 48 49 50.

Notable Quotes

“Xixi, my life is in your hands!” 13

“Of course. Since I can't manage Sword Flight, I can't just keep bashing my head against that one option, can I? We need to be flexible and learn to diversify our investments.” 19

“Never mind. Keep it yourself. From now on, we're allies! Whatever you see in the future, don't ever tell anyone!” 37

Trivia

• She briefly suspects that she entered a fanfiction of Road to Immortality because events differ so drastically from the original novel 8.
• Her invitation to Yun Xi to pursue “dual cultivation” means studying both alchemy and artifact refining; Li Bai initially interprets it as a scandalous proposition 28 29.
• She requests the junior-sister title partly because too many protagonist senior sisters die in the original story 36.
• Her first talent test broke the testing artifact, which she later notes still has not been repaired 46.