Luo Family

Biodata

Power Progression

The entries below track the clan’s strength and its leading members; the family itself does not possess a single cultivation realm.

Background / History

Ancestry and the Mo City Vigil

The Luo Family descends from the original Ancestor’s elder brother. The Ancestor never married or had children, but maintained a close protective relationship with his brother’s descendants 2.

A thousand years before Luo Yan’s return, the family founded Mo City to conceal and protect the Ancestor’s place of seclusion. An influential clansman was stationed there every hundred years to await him. His instructions allowed for a further century of waiting after his Soul Lamp went out; Luo Zongqi was still maintaining the vigil in the 121st year 2.

The family’s security depended heavily on the Ancestor and his Time Mirror. After the Soul Lamp extinguished, the mirror shattered, and a senior-ranking traitor leaked the clan’s most important secret. Without those protections, the family declined from a super family to a top-tier Southern Region clan sustained by only three Dragon Transformation cultivators 3 4.

Conflict with Yaoguang Holy Land

Yaoguang Holy Land pressured the family to surrender Luo Yixian, its most gifted young descendant and bearer of the Primordial Chaos Divine Physique. Luo Yan suspected that the Ruthless One Lineage intended to use her physique as source essence for the Yaoguang Holy Son rather than merely satisfy an elder’s interest 2.

The crisis escalated when Yaoguang cultivators attacked the family, killed clansmen, and abducted Yixian. News that the Luo Family’s Saint ancestor might still be alive caused Yaoguang to halt its immediate extermination plan. The clan then mobilized its disciples and followed Luo Yan to the holy land 21 22.

Luo Yan demanded Yixian’s return, the deaths of those responsible, and ten thousand jin of high-quality divine source. His confrontation ultimately forced Yaoguang to admit fault, compensate the family, and apologize. He also destroyed its underlying Quasi-Emperor formation, leaving the holy land facing decades of recovery 24 27 28.

Rebuilding and Expansion

During the next three years, Luo Yan corrected the family’s shortcomings and helped establish systems that reversed its decline. He personally guided its young cultivators when available, while Donkey handled much of their regular instruction. When Luo Yan departed for the starry sky, Luo Feng instructed the elders to conceal his absence by claiming that he was in seclusion 28.

The family later restored the former Tianxuan Holy Land stone-gambling workshop under Luo Yan’s direction. Its expanding influence, accumulated resources, and access to the Ancestor’s cultivation insights enabled numerous elders to advance 98 99 148.

Jiang Taixu and the Divine City Gatherings

Luo Yan entrusted the family with his former physical body, refined into a defensive puppet, and sent Luo Yixian to use it in support of Jiang Taixu. The clan transported the body to the Dragon Transformation Pool in an ancient war chariot. Luo Yan’s intervention against Jiang Taixu’s enemies substantially strengthened relations between the Luo and Jiang families 148 150 155 156.

The clan’s prestige subsequently attracted prominent cultivators to its gatherings. At the Moon-Viewing Tower banquet, it received an unexpected influx of faction representatives, including Gai Jiuyou, Jiang Taixu, and other Great Saints 199.

The Ancestor’s Apparent Death and Return

After Luo Yan fought three Quasi-Immortal King Dark Creatures, Ji Zi and Duan De reported that his aura had vanished. Luo Yixian proposed opening his coffin, and Luo Feng awakened the residual consciousness within the body, confirming that the Ancestor remained alive 243.

When Luo Yan later returned to Emperor City, many original clansmen had died or aged. Luo Yixian had succeeded Luo Feng as clan head. Luo Yan placed a new consciousness and an Immortal Dao inscription pattern in the original Ancestor’s body, preparing it to become a True Immortal guardian 296 297.

Luo Yan then openly acknowledged that he was an otherworldly being who had occupied their Ancestor’s body. The family nevertheless insisted that he remained their Ancestor. He accepted that bond, left Immortal Dao Scriptures and supreme secret arts, and departed with Donkey. Yixian ordered the clan to conceal his appearance and whereabouts and stop invoking his name outside the family 297.

Evacuation from Big Dipper

When the Road to Immortality opened, Luo Yan warned that Big Dipper could become the center of a major Dark Turmoil. He uprooted Emperor City and sent the family to a Life Planet, instructing them to return once Big Dipper became peaceful. Other families and holy lands followed its example by evacuating 303.

Organization and Traditions

• Supreme authority of the Ancestor — Luo Yan outranks the clan chief. In the main hall, Luo Feng vacates the central seat for him, and the elders greet him collectively 197.
• Ancestor-centered loyalty — Luo Feng orders the suspension of cultivation-resource allocations and the transfer of the clan’s source reserves to Divine City when Luo Yan expresses interest in a Qilin Divine Medicine Seed. This records the family’s willingness to bid, not a confirmed purchase 149.
• Protection of sensitive information — Clansmen evade outside inquiries about the Ancestor, maintain the fiction of his seclusion, and later conceal his movements by Yixian’s order 28 149 297.
• Marriage alliances — Elders repeatedly seek a match between Luo Tianlin and the Purple Mansion Saintess without success. They also attempt to arrange Luo Yixian’s marriage despite her opposition; Luo Yan states that she should remain unmarried if that is her wish 99 196 197.
• Reverence for Donkey — Younger cultivators provide food, drink, and spirit medicines in exchange for instruction. He also deters powerful enemies while the Ancestor is asleep 21 28 99 297.

Notable Members

• Luo Yan — Supreme Ancestor and principal protector. Despite revealing his possession of the original Ancestor’s body, he continues to acknowledge the family as his descendants 197 297.
• Luo Feng — Clan chief credited with revitalizing the family; Luo Yixian’s grandfather. He later retires and remains in the ancestral grounds as an elderly Saint King 202 296 297.
• Luo Yixian — Bearer of the Primordial Chaos Divine Physique, also called the Chaos Origin Divine Body. The clan’s foremost young prodigy and eventual head, she reaches peak Quasi-Emperor and is regarded as its second pillar after the Ancestor 2 297 322.
• Luo Zongqi — Third Elder, one of the family’s original three Dragon Transformation cultivators, and Luo Tianlin’s father. He recognizes Luo Yan in Mo City and appeals for the clan’s rescue 2 3.
• Luo Tianlin — The family’s “Qilin Prodigy.” His supposed Heavenly Emperor potential becomes a widely publicized claim; he is later described as the clan’s third pillar and remains behind to guard both the Luo Family and Heavenly Court 99 322.
• Luo Songtao — Influential elder who investigates the Ancestor’s puppet body and directs Yixian to test contact with it 148.
• Luo Qing, Luo Youyou, Luo Huaimu, and Luo Tianyuan — Gifted early disciples who receive Luo Yan’s instruction. Several later become core pillars of the family 4 5 297.
• Donkey / Er Dan — Affiliated instructor and protector known as “Senior Donkey”; accompanies Luo Yan and repeatedly supports the clan 28 99 297.

Abilities & Skills

Bloodline-Restricted Time Mirror Technique

The original Ancestor created a cultivation method specifically for his family that briefly reproduces his life-bound Time Mirror 165.

• Produces a mirror manifestation capable of releasing a law of time to dissolve attacks.
• Can be cultivated only by those bearing the Luo Family bloodline.
• Luo Yixian demonstrates the method in her victory over the Golden-Winged Little Peng King 165.

Cultivation Instruction

The clan inherits written insights and direct teaching from Luo Yan, supplemented by Donkey’s instruction 5 28 99.

• Luo Yan’s first notebook for the younger generation covers the Sea of Bitterness through Dao Palace realms 5.
• The original body’s instructional materials also contain insights into Four Extremes, Dragon Transformation, and Immortal Platform 5.
• Donkey is initially forbidden to transmit the Xing Secret and Demon Emperor Scripture because the clan is too weak to safely possess such coveted arts 99.
• Luo Yan later leaves Immortal Dao Scriptures and supreme secret arts 297.

Ancestor’s Guardian Body

Luo Yan’s former body serves as both a defensive puppet and a source of cultivation insight 148.

• After its second refinement, its strength approaches that of a Great Emperor; Luo Yan states that only a living Great Emperor can oppose it 148.
• It tests aptitude, deepens Dao comprehension, and can gradually improve cultivation aptitude through prolonged study of its Great Dao laws 148.
• Contact is not safe for everyone: an elder who touches it is blasted away 148.
• Luo Yan initially instructs the family to activate it only in a crisis 148.
• A new soul and Immortal Dao inscription pattern are later installed to make it an unconditional protector and prepare it for True Immortal attainment 296 297.

Holdings and Resources

• Time Mirror — The Ancestor’s life-bound weapon and an early source of clan security. Its shattering after the Soul Lamp went out helped expose the family to attack 3.
• Five-Element Divine Vine — Important divine medicine brought back by the Ancestor. Long-term consumption of its fruits can potentially produce an acquired five-element divine body, with a strong chance of developing into a yin-yang divine body 197 243.
• Great Emperor Formation Patterns — Defensive patterns buried beneath the ancestral grounds and activated by Luo Feng 243.
• Ancient war chariot — Used to transport the Ancestor’s body and Luo Yixian to the Dragon Transformation Pool 150.
• Ancient medicines and source reserves — Gathered to support Luo Yan’s needs and the clan’s cultivation; the family organizes additional medicine collection when he requests medicines at least five thousand years old 98 101 148 149.

Relationships

• Yaoguang Holy Land — Principal early antagonist. Its attack and abduction of Yixian provoke Luo Yan’s retaliation, leaving the holy land forced to apologize and compensate the family 21 27 28.
• Ji Family — Maintains good relations with the Ancestor. Luo Yan negotiates reciprocal study of the Time Mirror and Void Mirror 28 98.
• Jiang Family — Close ally after Luo Yan helps protect Jiang Taixu during his recovery 148 155 156.
• Purple Mansion Holy Land — Target of unsuccessful marriage-alliance efforts involving Luo Tianlin and its Saintess 99 196.
• Azure Emperor / Wan Qing — Longstanding acquaintance of Luo Yan who visits the family under the name Wan Qing. His defeat of Tianlin prompts the elders’ unsuccessful attempt to match him with Yixian 197 202.
• Ye Fan — Protected associate whom Luo Yan publicly claims as his nephew. Luo Yan also asks Yixian to look after him on the Human Race Ancient Road 150 199.
• Heavenly Court — Shares Luo Tianlin’s protection in a later wartime account; the Ancestor also visits it repeatedly in connection with Ye Xian and Ye Yishui’s unborn child 316 322.

Notable Quotes

“Ancestor, whatever you may think, once you became the Luo Family’s Ancestor, we became your descendants for life!”
— Luo Feng, after Luo Yan reveals his true identity 297