Lu Changsheng

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Power Progression

Lu Changsheng's development is documented mainly through new techniques, abilities, and equipment rather than named realm breakthroughs.

Recorded Strength Assessments

Background / History

Earth and the Cottage

Lu Changsheng lived on Earth before transmigrating into the cultivation world. His memories include elementary school habits and the attitudes of teachers toward their students. Although Hidden Dao Academy became the place where he grew up in this world, he occasionally longs to see his former family and friends again 113 217 400 581 1281.

After his arrival, the Cottage's previous master took him in. Qin Tiannan also cared for him and protected the Cottage when academy elders proposed abolishing it as a waste of resources. These kindnesses explain why Lu Changsheng continues to treat Qin Tiannan as a senior despite his own overwhelming strength 203.

The former Cottage master, later identified as Du Ni, never required Lu Changsheng to formally become his disciple. Nevertheless, Lu Changsheng considers him more than a master. Du Ni encouraged him to study alchemy and formations before disappearing 1995.

Becoming a Master

Initially, Lu Changsheng refuses to recruit disciples, arguing that teaching is troublesome and that he has not even understood his own cultivation. A system mission leads him to accept Ye Qiubai, whose cultivation he promises to restore. Completing the mission grants him the Azure Cloud Sword, Primordial Sword Scripture, and a Fortune Pill 1 3.

As the Cottage grows, Lu Changsheng supplies techniques, pills, weapons, and protection while generally leaving his disciples to pursue their own paths. His reluctance to intervene is not simply fear: he believes that solving every problem for them would prevent their growth 130 193.

The approaching Great Tribulation of the Six Realms makes him more proactive. He begins planning individual cultivation routes, develops Grand Primordium, and accepts that preserving his peaceful life requires preparing both himself and his disciples 589 592 598 613.

The “Variable”

Lu Changsheng becomes increasingly suspicious that hidden figures have arranged his opportunities and his disciples' experiences. These concerns intensify when his Dao Laws resonate with a mysterious location and when the World Tree appears unusually well suited to him 1219 1670.

Nüwa confirms that her group has influenced their paths and that the Divine Realm is intended as a trial for his disciples. Du Ni later reveals that Lu Changsheng's arrival was no coincidence: before dispersing his Dao, the Dao Ancestor cast a “variable” into the lower realms to break a deadlock under the Holy Court's surveillance. Lu Changsheng is that variable 1846 1995.

He eventually deduces that the hidden group's plans involve training his disciples to help rebuild the Heavenly Court. Although he recognizes their intentions, he remains hostile to being manipulated 1846 2004.

Appearance

Lu Changsheng is depicted as a young-looking man in white whose approachable appearance contrasts with his lethal methods 252 365.

• Hair: Long and black 1604.
• Eyes: Described as shining like stars 1604.
• Brows: Sword-like, sweeping upward 1604.
• Usual clothing: White robes 365 1604.

Personality

Leisure and Independence

Lu Changsheng wants an unhurried life: regular meals, afternoon naps, wine beneath the stars, gardening, fishing, and raising animals. Before taking disciples, he also spent his free time painting, practicing calligraphy, and studying pills and arrays 285 1722.

He resists obligations that might compromise this freedom. He rejects recruitment by other factions and the Dark Domain, preferring to avoid alliances, favors, and their accompanying karma. Hidden Dao Academy is an exception because of his personal history there 113 310 354.

Extreme Caution

His preferred way to eliminate danger is to avoid contact with it entirely. When involvement is unavoidable, he investigates opponents, prepares formations and supplies, conceals his movements, and assumes that enemies may possess reserves they have not revealed 259 465 1063.

This caution continues even when he is demonstrably stronger than his opponents. He erases battle traces, restricts witnesses, and removes memories of encounters to prevent information about him from spreading 998 1758. Once he decides someone is an enemy, his concern about future retaliation can become ruthless: he advocates destroying threats at their roots rather than leaving potential avengers 366 367.

Protective but Undemonstrative

Lu Changsheng complains constantly about his disciples, assigns them cooking and cleaning, and frequently makes Ye Qiubai take the blame. His behavior nevertheless betrays his affection: he waits for Xiao Hei before beginning a meal and intervenes when his disciples face danger beyond their ability 235 243 265.

He wants them to reach the pinnacle so that they can obtain freedom and immortality without depending on him. Over time, those attachments draw him out of his secluded life and make him increasingly assertive, though he continues preparing contingencies 581 680 755 1604.

Abilities & Skills

System

Lu Changsheng possesses a system that provides missions, rewards, cultivation, techniques, and information about prospective disciples.

• Accumulates cultivation through sign-in rewards measured in years 33.
• Receives rewards for accepting and developing disciples; his disciples' improvement also improves him 3 592.
• Can obtain information about talent and special constitutions, including Xu Yeming's SSS-rank talent and Great Wilderness Beast Heart 1566.
• Receives cultivation techniques from the system while concealing its existence from others 1325.
• His alchemy, formations, talismans, and artifact-refining expertise are explicitly attributed to independent study and practice, not system instruction 1426.

Grand Primordium

Grand Primordium is his self-created cultivation art, designed to integrate the numerous Great Daos he practices 598 609 613.

• Combines diverse Powers of Rules rather than specializing in a single Dao 609.
• Has broad compatibility and a low entry threshold, but an exceptionally high ceiling for someone capable of cultivating many powers 609.
• Produces Grand Primordium Qi capable of encompassing different powers, including those used in an absorption vessel 1834.
• Enables the heavy-cannon mode of his World Tree weapon to gather and contain the Rules of the Three Thousand Great Daos 1684.
• Is not automatically suitable for his disciples; he declines to make them abandon their established cultivation paths 754.

Great Dao Mastery

Lu Changsheng practices the Sword Dao, Spear Dao, Samsara, Heavenly Lightning, Life and Death, Space, Yin, Yang, and Destruction 609 1207 1218.

• Demonstrates spear mastery that Hong Ying considers no weaker than his swordsmanship 20.
• Can destroy an illusion array with a willow branch used as a sword 581.
• Uses Ten Thousand Swords Return to the Sect to direct tens of thousands of blades against an array's chains 584.
• His casual movements can stir primordial origin power, allowing observers to gain insights from seemingly simple demonstrations 1497.

Formations and Talismans

His formations support cultivation, concealment, transportation, surveillance, and combat.

• Spirit gathering: Concentrates surrounding spiritual power at the Cottage to support Ye Qiubai's cultivation 4.
• God-Slaying Sword Array: Uses nine swords infused with powers including Yin, Yang, Life, and Destruction 942 1207.
• Secure teleportation: Requires soul inspection for entry into the Changsheng Realm, conceals its location, and incorporates killing formations 654.
• Counter-surveillance: Detects and erases eight foreign divine-sense traces, relocates the formation core, and strengthens defenses 754.
• Emergency supplies: Equips disciples with arrays, talismans, and pills for enemies they cannot defeat directly 935.

Spatial and Soul Techniques

Lu Changsheng combines spatial movement with concealed divine sense and soul-based techniques.

• Tears open space to travel, pursue fleeing enemies, and bypass guards 480 1830.
• Establishes concealed spatial nodes across the Chaos Realm 1670.
• Conceals his divine sense while searching an entire Divine Domain 860.
• Uses Soul Search to uncover Jiang Chan's order to kill Ye Qiubai 3.
• Creates external incarnations and avatars for concealment, training, and protection 465 1225 2104.
• His concealment has limits: Nüwa can recognize his presence through a connection shared by her group, despite affirming that others in the Divine Realm cannot see through his disguise 1846.

Eye of Heaven Scrutiny

An analytical eye ability acquired when he encounters Fang Qiong 900.

• Sees through arrays and talismans.
• Examines attacks, weaknesses, and items.
• Helps him assess things beyond their outward appearance 900.

Alchemy and Healing

Lu Changsheng refines pills with an unconventional, seemingly casual method that often leaves other alchemists unable to follow his reasoning 74 1667.

• His pills can raise cultivation without the unstable foundation associated with low-quality pills 188.
• Uses the intent of unending life to heal Fang Qiong after the heavenly stairway's strain 900.
• Supplies recovery and body-strengthening pills during Xiao Hei's repeated injury-and-recovery training 1225.
• Extends the Black Lord's life by another hundred years, while warning that a breakthrough remains necessary 1669.

Artifact Refining and Puppetry

He studies technical disciplines from their fundamentals and builds his expertise through experimentation 1425 1426.

• Creates communication jade pendants that transmit across vast distances between realms 385.
• Forges weapons suited to individual disciples, including Hong Ying's growth-capable Holy Willow Phoenix Fire Spear 945.
• Uses heaven and earth as a furnace rather than relying on a forging platform 1873.
• Forges a core that combines Jiang Yiyu's eight Divine Soldiers into Creation Grade armor 1873.
• Begins studying the Dao of Puppetry through foundational material at the Mo Clan 1425 1426.

Bloodline and Creation

His bloodline possesses overwhelming influence over other bloodlines and living things.

• Causes the Dragon Emperor and Divine Phoenix bloodlines within Little Bird to stop fighting and retreat into his sea of consciousness; their manifestations address him as a senior 684.
• His released bloodline presence transforms plants and creatures across the Changsheng Realm and strengthens nearby companions 1108.
• Participates in an attempt to create a new dragon using remains, blood essence, and primordial beginning power. His own blood threatens to dominate the intended Dragon Clan bloodline 1108.
• Willow Tree identifies him as the Heavenly Dao of the Changsheng Realm when explaining the prohibition against creating life 1108.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• World Tree firearm — Developed from an incomplete World Tree, with hand-cannon and heavy-cannon modes. It accommodates multiple Powers of Rules; he sometimes avoids the second mode to prevent excessive disturbance 1670 1684 1936.
• Wooden sword — Used to kill an Evil Race commander in the Spirit Division Realm with one strike 354.
• Azure Cloud Sword — A Supreme-Grade Saint Artifact received as a system reward after accepting Ye Qiubai 3.
• Voice-transmission jade pendants — His creations allow the Cottage disciples to communicate across realms 385.
• Notebook — Records mistakes and precautions, including the risk of revealing himself by speaking while concealed 400.
• Pill furnaces, array flags, talismans, and spatial pouches — Used for cultivation support, defensive preparations, and emergency supplies 4 935.
• Heavenly Palace command token — Received from Xuan Heavenly God while operating as Zhongsheng, allowing access without a Divine Envoy escort 1841.

Relationships

Disciples

• Ye Qiubai — First disciple. Lu Changsheng restores his prospects and repeatedly rescues him, but also makes him the Cottage's habitual scapegoat 3 4 73 235 1000.
• Hong Ying — Second disciple and sovereign of the Cloud Phoenix Empire. He guides her spear cultivation, supports her advancement, and forges her a growth-capable spear 20 73 265 754 945.
• Ning Chenxin — Third disciple. Lu Changsheng intervenes against the Buddhist Sect on his behalf while respecting his wishes about how the confrontation should end 130 132 265.
• Xiao Hei — Fourth disciple. Helps him pursue lost memories and later trains his body through repeated combat with an External Avatar 92 265 592 1225.
• Shi Sheng — Fifth disciple. His sincerity moves Lu Changsheng to commit himself to helping fulfill Shi Sheng's dream 203 217 265.
• Mu Fusheng — Disciple whose caution and skill at covering his tracks earn unusually open praise. Receives guidance in talismans and divine lightning 385 945 1225.
• Xiao Shitou — Disciple with the Void Sacred Body. Lu Changsheng obtains a Void Crystal to save him and later refuses to let the Void Behemoth elders take him away unaccompanied 505 2104.
• Fang Qiong — Accepted after Lu Changsheng heals him at the Immortal Palace. His unusual cultivation advances through the Array Dao 900 1225.
• Mu Wan'er — Disciple whose cultivation advances through alchemy; Lu Changsheng personally teaches her during preparations against the Evil Devil Domain 1225.
• Mo Yu — Disciple who treasures the Cottage's warmth and openness. Lu Changsheng jokingly teaches her to avoid troublemakers such as her senior brothers 1413.
• Xu Yeming — Initially distrusts Lu Changsheng's recruitment offer but later becomes his disciple. Receives guidance on pioneering a path for the Great Wilderness Beast Heart 1566 1576 1601.

Mentors, Companions, and Associates

• Qin Tiannan — Benefactor and respected elder. Protected the Cottage and cared for Lu Changsheng, but also regularly pressures him into academy duties 74 203 455.
• Du Ni — Former Cottage master who sheltered him. Lu Changsheng regards him as more than a master, despite resenting his involvement in arranging his fate 1995.
• Willow Tree — Long-standing companion and adviser who understands his character and observes how his disciples change him 33 680 755.
• Huang Qian — Close companion who accompanies him on missions, challenges his stubborn denials of concern, and wishes he would change for her as he does for his disciples 1566 1684 1732.
• Liu Ziru — Dark Domain executive who unsuccessfully tries to recruit him, then becomes a frequent companion. Lu Changsheng relies on him for company and cooking while also treating him as a punching bag 310 754 1109.
• Ji Qianyao — Openly attracted to him. He assists her cultivation but resists intimacy and seeks to settle obligations rather than deepen their connection 998 1000 1496.
• Immortal Emperor — Cooperative but exasperating ally who supplies resources and draws Lu Changsheng into wider responsibilities 589 900 914 1222.
• Jiang Yiyu — Divine Realm associate whose equipment he upgrades. He refuses her invitation to join the Divine Realm and reminds her that they stand on different sides 1873.
• Nüwa — Fellow figure connected to Earth and part of the group influencing his path. He opposes her manipulation while recognizing the larger conflict she describes 1669 1846.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Notable Quotes

“I haven't even figured out my own immortal cultivation. Why should I hold anyone else back?” 1

“You wanted to kill my disciple. Now that you've failed, you think you can end this peacefully?” 130

“I'm just an ordinary person accustomed to peace and quiet.” 589

“I'm not someone who lets others lead him around by the nose.” 1846