Luo Yue
Shrouding the Heavens: My Low-Key Years as the Jiang Clan's Divine MaidenContents
- 1Biodata
- 2Power Progression
- 3Background / History
- 4Appearance
- 5Personality
- 6Abilities & Skills
- 6.1Divine King Body
- 6.2Yellow River Chart and Lo Shu
- 6.3Visions and Yin–Yang Arts
- 6.4Imperial Dragon Qi
- 6.5Cangming Divine Art and Primordial Spirit
- 6.6Eight-Nine Mystical Art
- 6.7Source Arts, Formations, and Artifact Refinement
- 6.8Perception and Disguise
- 6.9Heavenly Tribulation and Heaven-Mending
- 7Equipment / Weapons / Items
- 8Relationships
- 9Story Role / Major Arcs
- 9.1Luo City and the Source-Gambling Houses
- 9.2Ancient Mine Crisis and Jiang Family Seclusion
- 9.3Southern Region and Fire Domain
- 9.4Ancient Domain and Heaven-Mending
- 9.5Demon Emperor’s Tomb and Northern Return
- 10Notable Quotes
- 11Trivia
Contents
- 1Biodata
- 2Power Progression
- 3Background / History
- 4Appearance
- 5Personality
- 6Abilities & Skills
- 6.1Divine King Body
- 6.2Yellow River Chart and Lo Shu
- 6.3Visions and Yin–Yang Arts
- 6.4Imperial Dragon Qi
- 6.5Cangming Divine Art and Primordial Spirit
- 6.6Eight-Nine Mystical Art
- 6.7Source Arts, Formations, and Artifact Refinement
- 6.8Perception and Disguise
- 6.9Heavenly Tribulation and Heaven-Mending
- 7Equipment / Weapons / Items
- 8Relationships
- 9Story Role / Major Arcs
- 9.1Luo City and the Source-Gambling Houses
- 9.2Ancient Mine Crisis and Jiang Family Seclusion
- 9.3Southern Region and Fire Domain
- 9.4Ancient Domain and Heaven-Mending
- 9.5Demon Emperor’s Tomb and Northern Return
- 10Notable Quotes
- 11Trivia
Biodata
| Feature | Value |
|---|---|
| Name | Luo Yue (洛玥) |
| Alias(es) | Jiang Yue; “Source God,” a public epithet for her Source Arts expertise 1 66 |
| Species/Race | Human; possesses the Divine King Body 1 |
| Gender | Female in her current incarnation 1 2 |
| Age | Seven at introduction; one month short of fifteen when preparing to leave Cangming Divine Island 1 59 |
| Affiliation | Desolate Ancient Jiang Family, specifically its God King Lineage; paternal ties to the Luo Family of Qingyun Province 4 87 |
| Occupation/Role | Jiang Family divine maiden; cultivator, Source Arts expert, formation specialist, and artifact refiner 1 61 74 79 |
| Residence | Cangming Divine Island during her seven-year period of seclusion 45 58 |
| Latest Documented Realm | Fourth minor step of Half-Step Great Power, within the Immortal Platform Secret Realm 108 |
| Status | Alive; preparing to return to the Northern Region and rescue Jiang Taixu 120 |
| First Appearance | Chapter 1 1 |
Power Progression
| Stage / Realm / Level | Chapter | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Bitter Sea opened | 9 | Uses Divine Source and a scripture synthesized from the Dao Scripture and Divine King Scripture. Her Divine King Body produces the Cold River Reflecting the Moon phenomenon. |
| Life Spring established | 20 | Already possesses a Life Spring when the first Heaven-Mending Stone fragment settles inside it; the fragment begins refining her divine power. |
| Life Spring perfected; Divine Bridge breakthrough | 21 | Three days of refining ice soul jade marrow, guided by the Yellow River Chart and Lo Shu, bring her Bitter Sea and Life Spring to their limits before she raises the Divine Bridge. |
| Other Shore Stage | 55 | Reaches the final stage of the Sea of Bitterness Secret Realm after three months in the Heaven-Rank Enlightenment Room, while developing two imperial dragon-qi arts. |
| Dao Palace Secret Realm | 79 | Retrospectively stated to have advanced from the Sea of Bitterness Secret Realm to Dao Palace in less than half a year. She subsequently spends seven years cultivating Dao Palace to its limits. |
| Fifth heaven of Dao Palace | 60 | Explicitly demonstrated during her defeat of Jiang Yifei, using the Hengyu Scripture’s Eight Gods Barbarian Force. |
| Great perfection of Four Extremes | 77 | Passes through all four heavens in one breakthrough. Massive reserves of Divine Source, variant Source, jade marrow, medicinal herbs, and Earth-Source Dragon Spring water support the advancement. |
| Dragon Transformation breakthrough | 94 | Releases a deliberately suppressed breakthrough after developing the rudiments of the Eight-Nine Mystical Art; uses the resulting tribulation against the Toad Old Demon. |
| Third transformation of Dragon Transformation | 103 | Dragon marrow supplied by her allies breaks the barrier between the second and third transformations, triggering another tribulation inside the underground palace. |
| Seventh transformation of Dragon Transformation | 106 | Confirmed while she refines her body and divine power against a black hole’s annihilating force, using a chaos-millstone approach. |
| Immortal Platform Secret Realm | 107 | Ascends during heavenly tribulation and unexpectedly awakens the Martial Dao Heavenly Eye. |
| Fourth minor step of Half-Step Great Power | 108 | Her realm after completing the seven-day Immortal Platform tribulation and five years of cultivation in the Ancient Domain. |
Background / History
Luo Yue is a transmigrator from Earth inhabiting the body of a seven-year-old girl. She conceals this identity by imitating the original child’s cold, taciturn manner. Her grandfather, who raised her on Earth, had already died, leaving her with no one there she particularly longed to return to 1 3.
The original girl’s father belonged to the Luo Family, while her mother, Xiao Qing, descended from the Jiang Family. Both parents died in a perilous incident five years before her introduction; her father’s death occurred while adventuring in the Great Wilderness 1 4 39.
When Luo Tiangang was incapacitated by the ominous forces of an ancient mine, Luo Qingluan brought Luo Yue to the Jiang Family to seek assistance. The Jiang elders confirmed her Divine King Body, accepted her into the family, renamed her Jiang Yue, and appointed her divine maiden. The arrangement secured help for the Luo Family but placed its treasured child under the Jiang surname 1 4.
Recognizing the world from her knowledge of Shrouding the Heavens, she fears the approaching Dark Turmoil and sets a minimum goal of reaching Quasi-Emperor within roughly two hundred years. She also suspects that her body belongs to the original novel’s unnamed Jiang Family Divine Body, whose eventual defeat by Jiang Yifei and disappearance from prominence she intends to avoid 2 23 51.
Appearance
Luo Yue’s natural appearance combines waist-length silver hair, ice-blue eyes, and an innately cold bearing 2.
- Childhood: An adorable but expressionless-looking girl, whose conspicuous coloring makes remaining unnoticed difficult 1 2.
- Adolescence: Her childhood baby fat fades during seven years of seclusion, while her bearing becomes increasingly cold 59.
- Cultivation signs: Jade-like skin, dragon qi around her body, and a silver divine-flame mark between her brows 55 63.
- Disguises: Can adopt black hair, black eyes, an ordinary face, and plain clothing while suppressing her Divine King aura 72 73.
Personality
Luo Yue’s outward reserve initially serves as camouflage rather than a complete reflection of her temperament. Internally, she is sarcastic, irreverent, and quick to recognize the hypocrisy and political maneuvering of powerful families. She readily uses her age and Jiang Family status to gain leverage over opponents 1 14 24 67.
She is cautious about dangers beyond her strength, repeatedly advising against excavating the ancient mine and preparing escape measures when others continue. That caution coexists with fierce combativeness: she exploits inexperienced opponents, refuses unnecessary same-realm contests, and willingly turns heavenly tribulations into weapons 7 41 47 85 94 103.
Her attachment to the Luo Family develops through Luo Tiangang’s willingness to shelter her despite his failing health. She accepts responsibility for its future and seeks medicine to extend his life. Away from battle, she dislikes excessive personal attendance, enjoys street food, and uses meals and travel to relieve the strain of seclusion 8 9 33 37 45.
Abilities & Skills
Divine King Body
- Possesses innate divine blood, golden muscles, jade bones, and a life divine wheel likened to a vast sea of stars 1.
- Her divine blood restrains evil forces and curses; she can sense the ominous contamination affecting Luo Tiangang 7 11.
- Dragon Pool tempering strengthens her flesh, bones, and meridians while introducing imperial dragon qi into her blood 50.
- Requires enormous cultivation resources; she does not regard the constitution alone as a guarantee of invincibility 12.
Yellow River Chart and Lo Shu
- Deduction: Analyzes scriptures, designs cultivation methods, and helps identify hidden contents in Source Stones 9 12.
- Traceback: Reconstructs information associated with objects, exposing counterfeit stones and the gambling house’s concealed operation 12.
- The Lo Shu supports deduction, while the Yellow River Chart supports comprehension and the planning of her cultivation 21.
- Its resource consumption compounds the already considerable needs of her Divine King Body 12.
Visions and Yin–Yang Arts
- Cold River Reflecting the Moon: Her Bitter Sea takes the form of a frozen river beneath a cold moon 9.
- God’s Pure Land: Develops a second vision before reaching Four Extremes; later uses the Pure Land to suppress enemies and protect her supplies 61 75 103.
- Taiyin Guanghan Diagram and Hengyu Solar Diagram: Combine lunar cold and solar heat, enabling her to overwhelm the higher-realm flood dragon hatchling 47.
- Comprehending Taiyin and Taiyang principles raises her divine sense and divine power to a level comparable with Dao Palace cultivators while she remains in the Sea of Bitterness Secret Realm 36.
- Her later offensive repertoire also includes the Red Dust Mortal World Painting Scroll 97.
Imperial Dragon Qi
- Uses the Yellow River Chart, Lo Shu, and Heaven-Mending Stone to fuse dragon qi into her blood and deduce imperial dragon qi 50.
- Develops an Imperial Dao Body-Tempering Method and Dragon Qi Offensive Divine Art during enlightenment-room seclusion 55.
- Employs techniques named Dragon Emperor Fist and Ascending Dragon Fist, drawing on fragmentary Taihuang imperial arts 53 55 60.
- Can condense dragon qi into sharp sword beams, including one that severs the stone-coffin deity’s attempt to steal dragon marrow 103.
Cangming Divine Art and Primordial Spirit
- Visualizes her primordial spirit as an abyssal sea capable of absorbing and refining spiritual power, stray thoughts, inner-demon assaults, and hostile divine-sense attacks 56.
- Creates the Divine-sense Heavenly Blade, which counters attacks from Four Extremes cultivators before she reaches that realm 71.
- Nurtures the Dragon-Patterned Black Gold Sword within her primordial spirit, allowing sword and spirit to strengthen one another 74.
- Further tempers her primordial spirit through a chaos-millstone visualization, the Cangming Divine Art, and Nine Secrets: Qian 113.
Eight-Nine Mystical Art
- Derives its embryonic form through repeated life-and-death battles, combining body-tempering principles from the Hengyu Scripture, Dao Scripture, Divine King Scripture, and imperial dragon qi 92 93.
- Makes her body as tough as divine metal before her Dragon Transformation breakthrough 94.
- Later applies annihilating force as a refining medium, grinding her divine power, blood, sinews, and bones through a chaos-millstone model 106.
Source Arts, Formations, and Artifact Refinement
- Identifies counterfeit Source Stones, penetrates deceptive vitality imprints, and repeatedly extracts valuable treasures without a losing stone 12 27 30.
- Studies dragon seeking, feng shui, and divination to locate resources and avoid danger 61.
- Builds a Knowledge Treasury from Jiang Family records covering formations, geomancy, pill formulas, and artifact refinement; the information places severe pressure on her consciousness 58.
- Can inscribe ordinary Domain Gate platforms and temporarily commandeer existing spatial formations to annihilate attackers 71.
- Forges weapons and arrays in the Fire Domain and corrects flaws in Yan Ruyu’s Treasure-Gathering Basin 74 75 79.
Perception and Disguise
- Qi-Seeking Art: Detects living auras, lingering divine power, and traces of recent fighting across roughly a dozen li 63.
- Martial Dao Heavenly Eye: Reveals laws, falsehoods, an enemy’s power circulation, and weaknesses in their techniques 107 113.
- Can alter appearance, bone contours, and emitted aura through a deduced disguise technique 73.
- More advanced Source Arts disguises can change her origin fluctuations and briefly obscure heavenly workings, but consume more energy 72.
Heavenly Tribulation and Heaven-Mending
- Deliberately triggers breakthroughs during combat, using tribulation lightning to attack enemies while refining her own body and arts 94 98 103.
- Adapts the Luo Family’s Heavenly Dipper Art to command lightning during her Four Extremes tribulation 77.
- Combines a Heaven-Mending Stone, five divine mountains, a Five Elements Sky Net, and precisely fitted laws to repair the Ancient Domain’s expanding black hole 108 109.
Equipment / Weapons / Items
- Heaven-Mending Stone fragments — Five-colored fragments identified as part of Empress Nuwa’s damaged Emperor Weapon. The first settles in her Life Spring and initially refuses her control; after acquiring a second, she considers using one for nourishment and one for combat. Their radiance later protects her in battle and supports her heaven-mending work 19 20 44 49 102 108.
- Jiang Family Sacred Lord’s token — Proof of her backing, used to deter factions attempting to obstruct or exploit her 14 67.
- Divine King Battle Spear and Immortal Divine Shield — Early armaments used against the flood dragon hatchling 47.
- Red Edge Spear and Immortal Shield — Weapons forged in the Fire Domain; the shield blocks a Four Extremes demon’s attack, while the spear destroys another demon’s weapon and inflicts grave wounds 75.
- Dragon-Patterned Black Gold Sword — A three-inch sword embryo forged from immortal gold and nurtured in her primordial spirit. She explicitly does not make it her life-bound or Dao-attainment artifact 74.
- White Tiger Immortal Saber — A slaughter-law weapon first wielded against her by the stone-coffin deity and later used by Luo Yue during tribulation and battles with mighty experts 102 108 112 113.
- Forbidden artifacts — A Hengyu Furnace replica and an ancient bronze mirror bestowed by Jiang Family protectors and elders 102.
- Array disk and over a hundred array banners — Forged during her three-month Fire Domain crafting session 75.
- Earth Dragon weapons — A bow made with a divine tree and dragon tendon, dragon-tooth arrows, and a dragon-bone spear fashioned after killing an Earth Dragon 92.
- Treasure-Gathering Basin — Her own imitation, capable of expanding to a hundred feet across, attracting airborne treasures, and shrinking into a palm-sized storage basin 115.
Relationships
- Luo Tiangang — Paternal great-grandfather and the Luo Family’s principal protector. Gives her Divine Source despite his failing health; she obtains a Medicine King that restores his peak condition and extends his life by fifty years 3 8 33 44.
- Luo Qingluan — Youngest paternal aunt, companion, and trusted intermediary. Brings her to the Jiang Family, accompanies her gambling expeditions, and manages Cangming Divine Island during her seclusion 4 23 45 58.
- Luo Qingying — Third uncle. Handles political confrontations and gambling-house negotiations; Luo Yue insists that her new surname does not sever their family relationship 5 17 18.
- Jiang Yun — Maternal great-grandfather who imposes the Jiang surname; one of the God King Lineage elders to whom she remains close 8 87.
- Jiang Family Sacred Lord — Great-granduncle who confirms her Divine King Body, welcomes her into the family, and appoints her divine maiden 1.
- Jiang Wei — Escort and supporter, whom she calls “Uncle Wei.” Helps protect her and arranges access to the Dragon Pool 3 25 49.
- Little Ming — Flood dragon companion who initially fights her as a hatchling. Later assists her in combat, travels with her, and shares cultivation resources and tribulations 47 71 91 103.
- Nether Flood Dragon Queen — Guardian associated with Cangming Divine Island. Luo Yue bids her farewell before leaving; the queen later advises her to attend the Peacock King’s banquet for an opportunity 45 61 82.
- Yan Ruyu — Initially confronted over her followers’ attacks, then given artifact-refinement instruction. Luo Yue teasingly calls her a disciple and hopes to study her inherited Emperor Weapon 79 116.
- Crow Daoist — Requests instruction from her and gives her valuable dragon marrow, later used for cultivation and prolonged combat 79 82 102.
- Tu Fei, Jiang Huairen, Green-Clad Little Flood Dragon King, and Kong Xuan’er — Allies who supply dragon marrow during her underground-palace struggle 103.
- You Sheng / Mountain-Moving Macaque — Subdued helper who carries divine mountains and stabilizes a node during the heaven-mending project; later obeys her order to slap a Yaoguang major figure 108 111.
- Ye Fan — Offers him help suppressing his Sacred Body curse in exchange for Sacred Fruits; returns his green copper rather than keeping it 120.
- Jiang Yifei — Clan peer whom she defeats before leaving the Jiang ancestral land, reversing the outcome she fears from the original novel 23 60.
- Wang Teng — Hostile rival. She seizes the divine wood containing Nine Secrets: Qian and kills his Dao Protector, but Wang Teng escapes using an Emperor Talisman 98.
Story Role / Major Arcs
Luo City and the Source-Gambling Houses
- Exposes a counterfeit Source Stone bought by Luo Qingluan and turns her deduction abilities toward funding cultivation 12.
- Defeats Li Huan in a major wager and discovers her first Heaven-Mending Stone fragment among the winnings 17 19.
- Outsmarts Old Monster Ghost Eye to uncover an eighty-nine-thousand-year-old Seven-Colored Exquisite Flower Jade Fruit 27.
- Gives the Medicine King to Luo Tiangang so he can protect the Luo Family while she matures 33.
Ancient Mine Crisis and Jiang Family Seclusion
- Warns that the mine contains a dangerous Primordial Race presence, then urges Jiang Wei and Ji Wuque to stop fighting and seal it 7 40 41.
- Escapes before a Primordial Ancient Emperor Weapon shatters the joint seal; subsequently acquires a second Heaven-Mending Stone fragment 41 44.
- Settles on Cangming Divine Island, tempers herself in the Dragon Pool, and spends seven years cultivating and building her Knowledge Treasury under deliberate concealment 45 50 58.
Southern Region and Fire Domain
- Reappears as the Source God and wins resources from the Li Family gambling house before traveling south 66 67.
- Annihilates three ambushers by turning Domain Gate formation patterns against them 71.
- Spends three months forging weapons, reaches perfect Four Extremes, and instructs Yan Ruyu in artifact refinement 75 77 79.
- Accepts an invitation to the Peacock King’s birthday banquet on the Nether Flood Dragon Queen’s advice 82.
Ancient Domain and Heaven-Mending
- Strengthens her body through battles with ancient beasts and develops the nascent Eight-Nine Mystical Art 91 92 93.
- Acquires Nine Secrets: Qian and wages a tribulation-driven war of attrition against the underground palace’s stone-coffin deity 98 103.
- Ascends to Immortal Platform, then spends another half year repairing the expanding black hole. Her completed membrane cuts off the erosion of nothingness and restores a barrier over the land 107 108 109.
Demon Emperor’s Tomb and Northern Return
- Challenges powerful cultivators at the Demon Emperor’s tomb and collects treasures with her own Treasure-Gathering Basin 111 113 115.
- Recognizes Yan Ruyu’s improved refinement technique when she retrieves her ancestor’s Emperor Weapon 116.
- Offers Ye Fan a Sacred Fruit bargain, visits a little girl in Qingfeng Town, and prepares to rescue Jiang Taixu from Purple Mountain 120.
Notable Quotes
“First, a small goal: reach at least Quasi-Emperor within two hundred years!” 51
“Before me, your only fate is suppression!” 107
Trivia
- After her seven-year disappearance, people publicly claim that the Source God died seven years earlier. Luo Yue reacts with bewilderment and looks toward an awkward Luo Qingluan 66.
- She usually prefers sweet rice wine, though she enjoys the banquet atmosphere enough to drink several extra cups 86.
- Her first response to transmigration includes resolving not to eat mushrooms indiscriminately 1.