Lu Sui

Biodata

Power Progression

Background / History

Former Life and Transmigration

Before transmigrating, Lu Sui was a forest policeman involved in a violent confrontation with a poaching gang. His final memories included gunfire, an explosion, and approaching police sirens. He awakened in the body of the Lu family's gravely ill eldest son, initially unable to move or speak 1.

The original Lu Sui had lost his mother young, disliked martial training, and preferred opera, songs, and the company of courtesans. Roughly half a year before the transmigration, an enemy's mysterious attack had left him bleeding from the mouth and nose and confined to bed. His successor inherited both the family's wealth and its unresolved blood feud 1 2.

Household Attacks and the Lu–Yu Feud

Lu Sui began training under Dou Xiaowen to recover his health and protect himself. His growing hearing abilities uncovered a needle-pierced straw effigy bearing his birth details. He later hacked apart the effigy after discovering Granny Ma's attempt to harm him; she died that night. The incident earned him greater trust from Lu Yulin and access to household resources 3 17 19 20.

By eavesdropping on a hostile senior sister and junior brother, Lu Sui learned that the Yu family's surviving heir had used Suppression Art against the original owner to pressure Lu Yulin into revealing the family's supposed Ginseng King. He also discovered discussion of a household mole and disputed accounts of the Lu family's ancestral treasures 22 23.

Lu Yulin subsequently exposed Luo Dongsheng's betrayal, while Chai Sanjin killed Luo and captured the sorceress Yuniang. Lu Sui helped his father present their actions sympathetically to the public. The Yu heir remained at large, prompting Lu Sui to intensify his training 27 28.

Martial School and the Zhou Qing Investigation

Lu Sui entered the Hundred Victories Martial Arts School under Tan Jingzong. His rapid progress and attention from Bai Fangfang provoked Deng Yun, whom he defeated in a school spar. He also used meals and celebrations to build connections with fellow disciples and learn more about Changle County 34 36 40 42.

After detecting Calamity Qi on Zhou Qing, Lu Sui suspected a connection to the sinister deaths at Zhenyuan Escort Agency. Deng Yun later confronted him in an alley, blamed him for his family's deaths, and threatened to kill him. Lu Sui killed Deng, reported his strange condition to Lu Yulin, and disclosed Deng's association with Zhou Qing. He then left the investigation to his father rather than pursue it alone 42 45 47 48.

Fate and Family Secrets

Piercing the Obscure revealed the inscription “Owl God Enters Fate” above Lu Sui's reflection. Because the Owl God Fate also appeared in accounts of the Yu family, he briefly questioned whether his surname should be Yu. He rejected a simple switched-child explanation and suspected that the feud concealed a deeper history 51 52.

Yang Kunbing's recognition of his newly acquired Root and Nature opened further questions about his future. During a private conversation, Lu Yulin began revealing the family's true background and disclosed an existing marriage arrangement with the side of the godmother he had acknowledged in his youth 58 67.

Appearance

• Face: Upturned phoenix eyes and delicate, handsome features; his initial pallor and pale lips reflected his severe illness 1.
• Build: Training replaces his thin, sickly frame with broad shoulders, long legs, an upright back, and lean muscle 14 48 51.
• Hair and skin: Blood renewal leaves his skin smooth and fair and his hair glossy black, temporarily growing as long as his waist 47.
• Bearing: Xiaotang notices an increasingly imposing, almost “immortal” air. Lu Sui himself would prefer a more rugged appearance to his refined looks 48.

Personality

Lu Sui prizes survival after experiencing death once already. He favors preparation, reliable protection, and steady growth over unnecessary risks. Although curious about the wider world, he willingly remains at home while enemies threaten him and later entrusts the Zhou Qing investigation to his more experienced father 1 13 48.

His dedication contrasts sharply with the original owner's aversion to hardship. He follows a routine of breathing exercises, stance training, medicinal meals, and later punching practice. He treats the temple's intelligent arts as personalities to encourage, feed, and understand rather than as passive techniques 5 12 37 39.

He combines generosity with an awareness of its practical benefits. Treating disciples to meals and sharing Bone-Strengthening Soup help him form friendships and establish a favorable reputation. He explicitly regards spending the family's wealth to build goodwill as a lesson learned from Lu Yulin 42 56.

When threatened, he can be cold and ruthless: he destroys Granny Ma's effigy, suggests driving nails through Yuniang's shoulder blades to hinder rescue, and kills Deng Yun. Nevertheless, he is uncomfortable with Lu Yulin's casual discussion of exterminating an enemy's entire family 19 20 27 47.

Abilities & Skills

Ancient Temple

• A ruined temple accessible through his consciousness records learned arts and methods in individual shrines 1 5.
• Recorded techniques acquire intelligence and advance when he acts in accordance with their dispositions. Their experience and insights can transfer directly to him 5 8.
• Progress is not wholly passive: Turtle-Snake Stance stops working when he neglects his own practice, while Cicada-Chasing Steps benefits greatly from actual sparring 5 37.
• Perfecting an art unlocks a choice of talents. Some arts can also transform into higher-grade techniques 12 39 48 51.
• Temple-related messages identify Calamity Qi on the jade cicada and warn of Zhou Qing's possible Calamity Artifact and sinister transformation 14 42.

Turtle-Snake Stance and Panwu Great Strength True Art

• Turtle-Snake Stance: A health-nurturing art taught by Dou Xiaowen; restores Lu Sui's damaged legs, builds Qi, and gradually improves his physique 4 5 6 38.
• Diligence Rewarded: Responds to consistent practice and determination, providing additional circulation and training benefits 5 28.
• Gluttony: Manifests as a small green snake that consumes medicinal potency, including that of externally applied ointment 10 11.
• Panwu transformation: Replaces the original art with a precious-grade technique focused on repeated punching and heavy medicinal nourishment 39.
• Physical results: Strengthens sinews and bones, supports blood renewal, and eventually lets him withstand full-force cudgel blows without pain 47 64.
• Limit: Lu Sui does not consider himself impervious to blades or spears; he believes that would require an external body-hardening art 64.

Movement and Close Combat

• Cicada-Chasing Steps: Evasive footwork first taught by Tan Jingzong. At perfection, it lets him move through attacks from several armed guards without their touching his clothing 34 52.
• Dragon-Roving Movement Technique: Uses the waist and hips to coordinate movement and drive Qi and Blood, increasing his speed and accelerating blood renewal 62.
• Unifying the Six Harmonies: Connects hands and feet, elbows and knees, and shoulders and hips, improving strength, reactions, and whole-body coordination 47 52.
• Staff technique: Can seize an attacking staff and use it to disarm several guards in succession 52.
• Additional training: Learns the Startled Swan movement and acquires Chaotic Cloud Hands 45 62.

Heavenly Sight and Earthly Hearing Great Art

• Represented in the temple by a six-eared monkey that enjoys observation and secrets 17.
• Allows him to infer shapes through sound, identify familiar breathing, hear blood flow, and see fine details in darkness 17 45 51.
• His former police habits help him reconstruct a speaker's likely physique, age, and martial background from auditory clues 22.
• Early use draws him into compulsive eavesdropping; Turtle-Snake Stance warns him before the fixation deepens 17.
• Its first-level perfection makes advancement into the Ten Directions All-Illuminating True Art available. By Chapter 66, he is still concerned about obtaining the ten wisps of Calamity Qi needed for the monkey's transformation 51 66.

Acquired Talents

Incomplete Grand Shaman Ghost-Capturing Compendium

• A precious-grade spell with the Yin Devouring imprint, represented by a small worm in its shrine 30.
• Its appraisal describes consuming filth to nourish the spirit and perceiving evil emanations 30.
• Improper practice risks contamination, making Lu Sui cautious about its side effects 30.

Thousand Rays Dotting Stars Hand

• Trains eyesight, wrist power, and coordination for precise concealed-weapon attacks 66.
• During nighttime practice, Lu Sui severs a fine thread with his sword and pins a flying insect to a pillar with a throwing dagger 66.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Finger-Wrapping Softness: A concealed flexible sword gifted by Dou Xiaowen to complement Lu Sui's footwork 64.
• Throwing daggers: Used while practicing the Thousand Rays Dotting Stars Hand 66.
• Leopard Fetus Sinew-Changing Pills: Given by Tan Jingzong, who advises saving them for a breakthrough bottleneck 45.
• Medicinal nourishment: Ginseng meals, blood-activating ointment, tiger-bone wine, and Bone-Strengthening Soup support his recovery and body refinement 8 32 52 56.
• Jade cicada: A supposedly consecrated gift from Luo Dongsheng that carries Calamity Qi 14.
• Jujube-wood staff: Uses a staff seized from Heiwa to defeat several guards during practice 52.

Relationships

• Lu Yulin — Father of the body he inhabits and his principal financial backer. Lu Sui gradually earns greater trust and unrestricted spending on training, though he still finds their formal, patriarchal relationship uncomfortable 25 47 64 67.
• Dou Xiaowen / Uncle Wen — First martial instructor and trusted adviser. Teaches him Turtle-Snake Stance and gives him Finger-Wrapping Softness; Lu Sui feels most at ease with him among the household's senior figures 4 64.
• Tan Jingzong — Master at the Hundred Victories Martial Arts School. Recognizes his potential, teaches movement techniques, and supplies valuable medicine 34 45 61.
• Chai Sanjin / Master Chai — Half-Step Fetus Embracing protector whose presence gives Lu Sui confidence when leaving the residence and facing danger 20 28 45.
• Yang Kunbing / Uncle Bing — Household treasure seeker who confirms his newly acquired Root and Nature 58.
• Xiaotang — Bedchamber maid and intimate attendant. Supports his medicinal treatments and daily care; Lu Sui values her intelligence and skill in managing household relations 8 20 29 48.
• Xiaohuan — Maid who assists his recovery and accompanies him outside. He teases her affectionately and brings her food from his outings 1 5 40 42 49.
• Heiwa — Household trainee and frequent practice partner. Witnesses Lu Sui's harsher actions and helps test his growing strength and resilience 20 52 64.
• Liang Bao and Wei Erhe — Fellow disciples and social companions. Liang Bao spars with him; Wei Erhe gratefully accepts his offer of extra Bone-Strengthening Soup 36 56.
• Bai Fangfang — Fellow disciple who shows him around the school and becomes visibly impressed by his martial demonstrations 34 62.
• Deng Yun — Jealous fellow disciple turned enemy. After losing a spar, he later threatens Lu Sui in an alley and is killed by him 40 45 47.
• Zhou Qing — Brokerage heir whom Lu Sui suspects of involvement with a Calamity Artifact and Deng Yun's abnormal condition 42 47.

Notable Quotes

“A person has to rely on himself!” 1

“Seek strength through stability, consolidate stability through strength, combine stability and strength, and put stability first.” 48

“Wash away a body's killing air, train the courage in my breast to grow bold.” 48