Yellow River Chart and Lo Shu

Biodata

Power Progression

Background / History

In her previous life, Luo Yue excavated cultural relics, dealt in antiques, and studied the mystical arts of the Fuxi Zhouyi. While digging in the Yellow River basin of the Ancient Shu Kingdom, she unearthed two seemingly unremarkable stone slabs. After they brought her across worlds, she discovered that they remained within her sea of consciousness and had revealed their true identities as the Yellow River Chart and Lo Shu 3.

Luo Yue recognized them through traditions describing the Dragon Horse bearing the chart and the Divine Turtle carrying the book. In the lore she recalled, the diagrams were associated with the beginnings of Chinese civilization and the derivation of the Fuxi Trigrams 3.

Their connection to another legendary object emerged when Luo Yue recovered a Five-Colored Stone fragment. The fragment resonated with the pair and strengthened their calculations. They then autonomously rearranged their stellar patterns and tortoiseshell characters into an instruction to gather the fragments and mend heaven, confirming the fragment’s identity as a Heaven-Mending Stone 19 20.

Appearance

• Yellow River Chart: Woven from countless points of black and white starlight, with flowing stellar paths 3 9.
• Lo Shu: A book covered in dark tortoiseshell patterns; during operation, tortoiseshell and trigram imagery accompanies the stellar chart 3 9.
• Active state: The two revolve, collide, and reorganize their patterns as they dismantle and reconstruct information 9.
• Visible projections: Their star-chart and tortoiseshell imagery can appear within Luo Yue’s eyes. Their Dao resonance also forms the cold moon above her Bitter Sea, whose halo contains faint stellar paths and trigram patterns 9 40.

Abilities & Skills

Deduction

Deduction analyzes available information, extracts its underlying principles, and reconstructs it into techniques or explanations suited to Luo Yue 9 12.

• Scripture synthesis: Combines the Dao Scripture’s Sea of Bitterness Volume with the Divine King Scripture to create the personalized Divine King: Dao Foundation Sea of Bitterness Chapter 9.
• Cultivation planning: Orders Luo Yue’s cultivation steps and produces the blueprint for her Cold Moon Ice Soul Bridge 21.
• Reverse analysis: Extracts part of the Taiyin Scripture’s true meaning from Yao Xi’s moon-palace vision and traces of Solar True Meaning from the Hengyu Scripture 34 35 36.
• Original arts: Helps Luo Yue derive imperial dragon qi and develop her own Imperial Dao Body-Tempering Method and Dragon Qi Offensive Divine Art, rather than merely reproduce Taihuang’s fragmentary technique 50 53 55.
• Observed techniques: Copies stone-cutting methods Luo Yue watches during stone gambling 19.
• Environmental insight: Unravels the relationship between trapped dragon resentment, tiger baleful qi, and the expanding black hole of nothingness 105.

Traceback

Traceback reconstructs past events from a target’s aura or traces. Luo Yue initially identifies this function particularly with the Lo Shu 12.

• Uses fragments of a counterfeit Source Stone to reveal other tampered stones and cultivators resealing emptied shells in a hidden workshop 12.
• Exposes Ghost Eye’s false medicinal-vitality imprint on the Black Tortoise Offering Treasure, including its connection to his aura and the stone’s earlier tampering 27.
• Initially reaches only a limited span into the recent past. Luo Yue suspects that her own strength restricts its range 12.

Source Stone Appraisal

Combined with the Qi Gazing Art, the pair turns an ordinary inspection technique into a method of reading a stone’s concealed properties 14.

• Displays stones in distinct colors; Luo Yue judges the nature of their contents by color and their value by the brightness of the radiance 14 19.
• Detects the unusual chaos coloration and concealed five-colored glow surrounding the Heaven-Mending Stone fragment 19.
• Reveals counterfeit imprints while helping identify the hidden Seven-Colored Exquisite Flower Jade Fruit. Luo Yue’s Divine King Body sensitivity to life essence also contributes to this discovery 27.
• Stones veiled in primordial qi remain a limitation: Luo Yue avoids them in her early selections and later accepts Kong Ming’s contest despite being unable to see through such stones 14 69.

Soul Analysis and Knowledge Integration

The pair can analyze spiritual visions and organize knowledge directly within Luo Yue’s primordial spirit 34 58.

• Vision imprinting: Forcefully analyzes Yao Xi’s innate moon palace and imprints a Taiyin Moon Palace Diagram into Luo Yue’s divine soul. The result contains only part of the Taiyin Scripture’s true meaning, not a complete scripture 34.
• Primordial-spirit support: Continues stabilizing and analyzing Luo Yue’s spiritual origin during the Cangming Divine Art trial, even when its phantom cannot manifest directly within the trial’s Nethersea 56.
• Knowledge Treasury: Absorbs, categorizes, and imprints material from the Jiang Family’s vast scripture collection, supporting Luo Yue’s attempt to become a walking library 57 58.
• Vision refinement: Performs rapid deductions while her Cold River Reflecting the Moon vision transforms into the Divine King’s Pure Land 61.

Divination and Heavenly Secrets

The pair can search for traces, support divination, and assist techniques that manipulate or conceal heavenly resonance 39 63 87.

• Attempts to locate Duan De through fluctuations associated with him 39.
• Provides glimpses of the danger awakening beneath the Divine Source Ancient Mine, warning Luo Yue that the terror extends deeper than the visible sealed Source block 40.
• Supports Luo Yue’s divination alongside her Qi-Seeking Art during her pursuit of bandits 63.
• Works with the Heaven-Mending Stone and Luo Yue’s seals to conceal the resonance of an impending tribulation temporarily 87.
• Luo Yue treats divination as an auxiliary tool and deliberately avoids routinely calculating her own future 65.

Artifact Refinement and Combat Support

The pair also applies its calculations to weapon construction and immediate battle decisions 77 95.

• Helps Luo Yue use the Heavenly Dipper Art to forge a Seven-Tier Thunder Pagoda from tribulation lightning 77.
• Anticipates the Old Demon’s final struggles and possible primordial-spirit escape routes, allowing Luo Yue to seal those routes with heavenly-secret runes 95.
• Supports the Sun and Taiyin diagrams used in Luo Yue’s spiritual cultivation; alongside the Cangming Divine Art, these contribute to her unusually powerful primordial spirit 90.

Costs & Limitations

• Heavy energy consumption: The pair cannot calculate without fuel. Most of the Divine Source used during Luo Yue’s initial scripture synthesis is consumed by their deductions; only a portion goes toward opening her Bitter Sea and establishing her Life Spring 12.
• Deduction backlash: Forcing the mysteries of the Taiyin and Solar scriptures together injures Luo Yue despite the pair’s protection, disturbing her Bitter Sea and placing strain on her Divine Bridge 35.
• Physical requirements: Deducing Taihuang’s killing art places such a burden on her body and divine sense that her prior Dragon Pool tempering and the Heaven-Mending Stone’s nourishment are essential safeguards 53.
• External interference: The Divine Source Ancient Mine’s curse obstructs attempts to locate Duan De. Later impressions from the awakening below nearly destabilize Luo Yue’s divine soul 39 40.
• Knowledge overload: The treasures can absorb and process information, but Luo Yue’s primordial spirit must carry it. Attempting to ingest too much advanced formation knowledge causes spiritual chaos and a silver divine flame to appear on her brow 58.
• Unsafe probing: Forced analysis of Yao Xi’s moon palace causes her pain and distress. Luo Yue stops after obtaining a partial diagram, believing further probing could cause the palace to expel her 34.
• Absorption in deduction: Luo Yue can unwittingly enter a selfless, deeply absorbed state likened to “greedy meditation,” something she is repeatedly warned about during her seven years of study 79.

Notable Quote

“Gather the Five-Colored Stone, mend the breach in heaven!”
— Words formed by the Yellow River Chart and Lo Shu after their autonomous deduction 19

Trivia

• Luo Yue recalls that the Yellow River Chart’s ten numbers govern constancy, while the Lo Shu’s nine numbers govern change 3.
• The Lo Shu arrangement she recites places nine above, one below, three left, seven right, two and four at the shoulders, six and eight at the feet, and five at the center 3.
• Luo Yue initially imagines using the treasures to explore every tomb under heaven, but regards that as a trivial use compared with their potential for deducing the Heavenly Dao or evolving a universe. Those grander possibilities are her assessment, not demonstrated feats in these passages 3.