Lin Yuan

Biodata

Power Progression

Background

Lin Yuan transmigrated into the world of Douluo Continent twenty-six years before the story begins. Familiar with the book’s setting, he hoped for a promising Martial Soul awakening, but received only a Wooden Sword and Innate Soul Power Level 1 1.

His circumstances changed when reaching the Soul Elder realm triggered the arrival of the God-Level Auction System. The system required him to select auction lots from supplied options and sell everything he chose, with better auction earnings producing better personal rewards 1.

Appearance

• Build: Tall and handsome, with an upright bearing compared to a pine tree 1.
• Clothing: Introduced wearing a fitted black outfit 1.
• After receiving Ultimate Fire: Changes clothes because the Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame burns his original outfit 25.

Personality

Lin Yuan is commercially minded and treats customer safety as essential to his auction house’s future. He offers protection to visiting Soul Beasts because allowing customers to be hunted after attending would discourage their return. He also discloses the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger Bloodline’s dangerous incompatibility rather than concealing a risk that could harm buyers 20 23.

He is courteous to cooperative guests but retaliates against threats. After Tang Hao attempts to steal a lot, Lin Yuan suppresses him and demands compensation; when the Silver Dragon King orders him to surrender an artifact, he insists that she bid like any other customer 6 7 49.

He favors direct conversations and practical delegation. Once Zhu Zhuqing joins his staff, he trains her to conduct auctions, monitors her performance, and rewards successful work 52 54 57 70.

Abilities & Skills

God-Level Auction System

• Auction inventory: Presents selectable lots that include Martial Souls, bloodlines, cultivation methods, Soul Beasts, artifacts, and even a Titled Douluo from the future. Selected lots must be auctioned 1.
• Revenue-based rewards: Grants personal upgrades according to the Gold Soul Coins earned, including Martial Soul evolution, bloodlines, physiques, Soul Rings, and followers 23 51 70.
• Private interface: Only Lin Yuan can hear its voice or see its blue virtual panel 23 51.
• Appraisal: Values potential collateral, including Zhu Zhuqing, the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, and the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud 26 66 73.
• Invitation delivery: Sends his handwritten invitations directly to recipients. A later update allows him to invite Soul Masters from future eras, limited to one at a time 1 60.
• Updated schedule: Establishes a large auction every seven days and a small auction every three days. Lin Yuan chooses large-auction invitees; the system chooses small-auction invitees 51.

Wooden Horse Ox

• Type: Super-god-level sword Martial Soul evolved from his Wooden Sword 24.
• Specialty: The system describes its offensive power as capable of breaking every weapon and penetrating every defense, ranking it above god-level Martial Souls 24.
• Ring configuration: Yellow, yellow, purple, black, black, black, red by the time he reaches Level 79 70.

Sun

• Type: Special top-tier Martial Soul, selected as his Second Martial Soul instead of the Stargod Sword or Heavenly Frost Sword 51.
• Selection rationale: Lin Yuan considers another sword Martial Soul unnecessary because he already possesses Wooden Horse Ox 51.
• Development: Still has no Soul Rings equipped at Level 79 70.

Golden Dragon King Bloodline

• Origin: A God King bloodline inherited from the Golden Dragon King, who received the Dragon God’s powerful physique 24.
• Suppression: Exerts bloodline pressure against dragon-kind. During his confrontation with the Silver Dragon King, Di Tian and Zi Ji struggle to remain standing under it 50.
• System assistance: Lin Yuan later acknowledges using both the system’s power and his bloodline during that confrontation 54.
• Identity distinction: Possessing the bloodline does not make him the Golden Dragon King, despite the Silver Dragon King’s belief otherwise 54.

Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame

• Type: Ultimate Fire described by the system as an emperor among flames, capable of suppressing other Ultimate Fires 24.
• Fire resistance: Lin Yuan regards the Fire-Immune Body as redundant because his existing flame already makes fire-element attacks exceptionally difficult to use against him 51.
• Initial manifestation: Burns his clothes when he first receives it 25.

God-Seeing Indestructible Vajra Body

• Function: A physique specializing in exceptionally strong defense 51.
• Acquisition: Received after the second auction; its transformation causes his tendons and bones to resonate with thunderous sounds 51.

Suppression and Setting Knowledge

• Forceful restraint: Immobilizes Tang Hao with the command “Suppress,” leaving him unable to resist or retaliate 6 19.
• Hidden identities: Recognizes Qian Renxue despite her Xue Qinghe disguise and identifies the King of Slaughter as Tang Chen to Bo Saixi 4 53 54.
• Future knowledge: Explains Battle Armor’s development in later Soul Master eras 34.
• Sword study: Receives the ten-page Nameless Sword Manual and examines its opening techniques, A Sword Comes from the West and Heaven-Slaying Sword-Drawing Technique; these passages do not establish mastery 51 52.

Equipment & Assets

• Hundred-Thousand-Year Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone — Taken from Tang Hao as part of his penalty and later listed among Lin Yuan’s equipped Soul Bones 7 51.
• Hundred-Thousand-Year Titan Giant Ape Left Arm Bone — Equipped by the time he reaches Level 79 70.
• Hundred-Thousand-Year Blazing Fire Wolf Left Leg Bone — Equipped by the time he reaches Level 79 70.
• God-Given Soul Rings — Receives twenty after the second auction. Each provides an age and effects suited to its absorber; seventeen remain in his later inventory 51 70.
• Nameless Sword Manual — Ten pages containing one powerful sword move each 51.
• Storage Soul Tool — Stores his system-issued rings, manual, and other belongings 51 52.
• Soul Bone reserves — Later inventory lists nine Ten-Thousand-Year and twenty Thousand-Year Soul Bones 70.
• Pills — Later inventory includes one Heavenly Yuan Pill, two Youth-Preserving Pills, and one Innate Pill 70.
• Lin Auction House — Includes second-floor secluded rooms formed through spatial power and a third-floor meeting room 23.
• Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well — Secures a one-billion-Gold-Soul-Coin deal with Dugu Bo covering the well and surrounding herbs. Da Zhuang subsequently collects its Immortal Herbs for him 66 73.

Relationships

• Zhu Zhuqing — Initially left as collateral for Dai Mubai’s debt. She later joins the auction house, becomes its auctioneer, and regards Lin Yuan as her source of security. He rewards her with a fifty-thousand-year Ghost Shadow Leopard Soul Bone and an Innate Pill 26 49 54 70.
• Da Zhuang — An absolutely loyal humanoid puppet and follower, titled Golden Bull Douluo. He is a Level 98 Titled Douluo with the Iron-Armored Golden Rhinoceros Martial Soul and later gathers the well’s herbs for Lin Yuan 70 73.
• Dai Mubai — A customer who cannot pay for the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger Bloodline. Lin Yuan accepts Zhu Zhuqing as collateral and gives him seven days to redeem her 21 26.
• Tang Hao — Attempts to rob the auction house. Lin Yuan suppresses him and takes two Soul Bones as compensation; afterward, Tang Hao fears him and suspects his strength may equal or exceed Tang Chen’s 6 7 19.
• Snow Empress — A wealthy repeat customer whose Soul Bones Lin Yuan values at approximately twenty million Gold Soul Coins. She entrusts him with an unused balance of one million for future purchases 7 22.
• Bibi Dong — A recurring bidder. Lin Yuan warns her not to involve his auction house in her plans to seize visiting Soul Beasts’ rings and bones 23.
• Qian Renxue — A customer intrigued by his strength and Martial Souls. He knows her concealed identity and refuses her request for a contract-killing service 45 46 54.
• Silver Dragon King — Challenges his right to auction the Dragon-Slaying Saber. After experiencing his bloodline pressure, she mistakes him for the Golden Dragon King; he denies that identity 49 50 54.
• Dugu Bo — Trades the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and its herbs to Lin Yuan to obtain funds for a Martial Soul Evolution Pill intended to help Dugu Yan 66.
• Bo Saixi — Comes seeking Tang Chen. Lin Yuan tells her that the King of Slaughter seated beside her was Tang Chen 53.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Establishing the Auction House

Lin Yuan begins by choosing nine of ten system-provided lots, rejecting “Grandmaster Yu Xiaogang’s wisdom.” His invitations draw major human factions and powerful Soul Beasts to Suotuo City. At the first auction, he introduces himself as the auction house’s owner and only employee, with every lot starting at one Gold Soul Coin and going to the highest bidder 1 4 5.

Tang Hao’s attempted robbery becomes Lin Yuan’s first public enforcement of the auction rules. After suppressing and penalizing him, Lin Yuan resumes business, accepts Soul Bones as collateral, and handles Dai Mubai’s request to purchase on credit 6 7 21 26.

Second Auction and Dragon King Confrontation

The second auction expands his offerings to include Battle Armor, Wuzhiqi, Transformation Pills, and the Dragon-Slaying Saber. The saber attracts the Silver Dragon King, who demands its return to the dragon clan. Lin Yuan rejects her claim to take it without payment and answers her threats with bloodline pressure 34 40 46 49 50.

Afterward, he obtains Sun, the God-Seeing Indestructible Vajra Body, God-Given Soul Rings, and the Nameless Sword Manual. The system simultaneously introduces separate schedules for large and small auctions 51.

Delegation and Expansion

Lin Yuan entrusts Zhu Zhuqing with the small auction, supervises her through voice transmission, and begins preparing invitations for the next large event. His expanded invitation privileges allow him to contact Xuan Zi ten thousand years in the future 54 57 58 60.

During the third auction, he negotiates the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well deal with Dugu Bo. The resulting system rewards include a thirty-piece Soul Bone gift pack, five pills, and Da Zhuang. After three days of secluded cultivation, Lin Yuan emerges as a Level 79 Soul Saint and assigns Zhu Zhuqing the upcoming auction 66 70.

At the following auction, the system values Xue Ye’s proposed collateral—the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud—at eight hundred million Gold Soul Coins, while Da Zhuang collects the Immortal Herbs from Lin Yuan’s newly acquired well 73.

Notable Quotes

“The Lin Auction House cheats neither young nor old. Whatever we say we’ll auction, we auction.” 4

“In the past, the Dragon-Slaying Saber did indeed belong to your dragon clan, but now it belongs to my Lin Auction House!” 49

“If I told you I’m not the Golden Dragon King, would you believe me?” 54