Lu Yuan

Biodata

Power Progression

Background / History

Poisoning and Departure from Salt City

Lu Yuan is the only son of Lu Tong Xuan, the Lu Clan patriarch. Originally a talented cultivator, he was poisoned two years before the opening of the story. A third-tier alchemist diagnosed his condition, and his father’s investigation led to the rival Wu Clan before the trail went cold. Fighting between the clans ended through the Mo Clan’s mediation 1.

After his coming-of-age ceremony, his Sixth-Stage Dou Qi cultivation fell below the clan’s minimum requirement. Mo Shuang’er broke off their imposed engagement, while clan rules required him to leave and work at a family business. Although he outwardly appeared devastated by the broken engagement, he privately welcomed his release from it 1 7.

He chose Qingshan Town because his knowledge of Xiao Yan’s future and Xiao Yi Xian’s physique suggested possible ways to cure himself. Before leaving, he collected Qing Lin from a private courtyard left by his mother. He had previously arranged for her purchase from the Desert Iron Mercenary Group and concealed her there to protect her from Mo Shuang’er 1 2.

Qingshan Town and Recovery

Contact with Qing Lin awakened the Fortune Catalog, giving Lu Yuan access to replication and plundering. After partially restoring his cultivation through her bloodline, he continued to Qingshan Town rather than returning to the clan 2 3.

He repeatedly visited Xiao Yi Xian for pulse examinations, using the contact to complete his first replication of her Woeful Poison Body. The copied physique consumed the poison that had crippled him. He subsequently offered to help her manage her own constitution and persuaded her to leave Qingshan Town with him 5 8.

Lu Yuan sent Uncle Zhang to assist Xiao Yan and enlisted Zhang Qingqing against the people threatening Xiao Yi Xian. Following the destruction of the Wolf Head Mercenary Group, his business absorbed the Myriad Medicine Pavilion and only one-third of the mercenaries’ territory. This restraint gave other factions a share of the gains and discouraged investigation 7 9 10.

The resulting Yuan Treasure Pavilion became a six-story landmark through which seventy percent of Qingshan Town’s resources flowed. Its purchasing network supplied the poisons needed for his and Xiao Yi Xian’s cultivation 10.

Magical Beast Mountain Range and Yun Yun

Lu Yuan’s party moved into a hidden valley, where he helped Qing Lin develop her pupil abilities while continuing to replicate both her talents and Xiao Yi Xian’s cultivation. He also acquired his first contracted beast, the Fourth-Order Earth Nether Rock Turtle 14 15 17 18.

After witnessing the battle between Yun Yun and the Amethyst Winged Lion King, he rescued the wounded sect master and cared for her while her Dou Qi was sealed. Yun Yun proposed marriage, but he refused to abandon his two existing Dao companions 18 20 22.

Their continued contact enabled further replication. When a Green Wood Wind Wolf threatened the shelter, Lu Yuan copied Yun Yun’s cultivation, rose to Seven-Star Dou Wang, and subdued the beast. He explained his rapid growth through a deliberately incomplete account of a special inheritance linked to contact and dual cultivation with talented women 23 24 25 26.

Qing Lin’s Rescue and Medusa’s Evolution

Returning to the valley, Lu Yuan learned that the Heavenly Snake Mansion had abducted Qing Lin. Despite Yun Yun’s warning about the organization’s strength, he pursued her, recruited Hai Bodong, and secured Queen Medusa’s cooperation by offering a way to shelter her during her planned bloodline evolution 27 29 31 33.

Qing Lin was recovered and contracted her captor, Bai Ya. Lu Man’s death and Bai Ya’s weakened soul flame prompted the Heavenly Snake Mansion to dispatch Lu Ran, a newly advanced Dou Zong, to investigate and retrieve Qing Lin’s pupils 35.

Lu Yuan then helped Queen Medusa evolve using the Green Lotus Core Flame, arranging for her to retreat into his pupil space. Afterward, he gained sealing abilities, part of the Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python’s bloodline origin, and a serpent soul. He negotiated for the Heavenly Flame in exchange for arranging a pill from a seventh-tier alchemist, intending to trade the flame to Yao Lao rather than refine it himself 36 37 38 39.

Return to the Lu Clan

Back in Salt City, Lu Yuan confronted the forces interfering with his clan. Yun Yun publicly identified herself as his Dao companion and secured his agreement to spare Mo Liu in exchange for seventy percent of the Mo Clan’s holdings. The city lord also surrendered his steward for Lu Yuan to deal with 42.

Lu Yuan formally acknowledged Qing Lin, Xiao Yi Xian, and Yun Yun as his Dao companions, promising protection and cultivation support. He also warned Yun Yun of threats to the Misty Cloud Sect and explained that Xiao Yan’s teacher was an eighth-tier alchemist 43.

Appearance

• Handsome face: Mo Shuang’er remains attracted to his appearance even while rejecting him, and Xiao Yi Xian repeatedly recognizes his handsome features 1 5.
• Initially sickly appearance: Before his recovery, a mercenary describes him as a frail-looking “pretty boy” 5.
• Black eyes with lotus manifestations: His ordinary pupils are pitch-black; his developed ocular technique manifests three golden lotuses 15 23 26.
• Poison-source marking: A faint multicolored pattern appears above his dantian after he acquires the Woeful Poison Body 10.
• Purple Dou Qi wings: Manifested after his advancement to Dou Wang 26.

Personality

Lu Yuan is calculating and pragmatic. He uses his knowledge of future events to seek useful allies, chooses Qingshan Town for its opportunities, and approaches Xiao Yi Xian through ordinary medical examinations to accumulate replication progress. He also avoids needless monopolization, taking only part of the Wolf Head Mercenary Group’s territory to reduce suspicion 1 5 10.

He readily conceals his intentions behind plausible explanations. With Yun Yun, he initially performs exaggerated caution around powerful women, then attributes the Fortune Catalog’s rewards to an inheritance. His explanation preserves the broad mechanics of his growth without revealing the Catalog itself 20 26.

His opportunism coexists with loyalty toward those he accepts as his own. He prefers harmless copying over destructive plundering for allies, refuses to abandon Qing Lin and Xiao Yi Xian for Yun Yun, and pursues Qing Lin despite the Heavenly Snake Mansion’s strength. He openly admits that he will not remain exclusive to one partner, but promises to support and protect all three acknowledged Dao companions 3 22 27 43.

Abilities & Skills

Fortune Catalog

The Fortune Catalog records sufficiently fortunate individuals through physical contact and allows Lu Yuan to replicate or plunder their listed attributes 2 3 5.

• Replication: Can obtain physiques, Dou Qi attributes, soul power, cultivation, and cultivation-method or combat-skill experience without harming the source 3.
• Plundering: Takes the target’s listed possessions and attributes, leaving the target without them. Lu Yuan reserves this destructive option for potential use against enemies 3.
• Contact-based progress: Repeated touch advances access to higher grades; closer contact accelerates accumulation 5 10 24.
• Selection and randomness: Copies can be random, but the Catalog offers specific selection for a first replication and for the first activation of Advanced Copy 5 24.
• Repeat use: After reaching the advanced level, a random copy can be performed once per year 3.
• Foundation reinforcement: Large cultivation rewards also temper his body rather than raising his realm alone 25.

Woeful Poison Body

Lu Yuan possesses an acquired version formed from Xiao Yi Xian’s innate physique origin. His documented share reaches sixty percent 5 11.

• Converts poison into cultivation energy; its first use removes the poison responsible for his regression 5.
• Allows rapid advancement when supplied with suitable poisons 10 13.
• Can draw poison out of Xiao Yi Xian’s body 15.
• Supports potent Poison Dou Qi, used alongside a surprise attack and ocular techniques to subdue the Green Wood Wind Wolf 25 26.
• Remains distinct from Xiao Yi Xian’s complete innate physique; increasing his share does not automatically give him her full constitution 11.

Purifying Lotus Triple Flower Pupils

An exclusive ocular technique formed by fusing Heavenly Snake Great Emperor bloodline power with the copied origin of Qing Lin’s pupils. Lu Yuan names it after its golden lotuses and internal space appear 23.

• Mental suppression: Dazes or induces hallucinations in beings with weaker souls 14.
• Expanded contracts: Unlike Qing Lin’s snake-focused ability, his contracts can affect any living being whose soul realm is below his 15.
• Internal space: Stores contracted Magical Beasts and soul bodies and can absorb contracted beasts’ cultivation for his use 23.
• Seal refinement: Extracts and refines Hai Bodong’s Snake Seal into energy for his cultivation, body, and soul 31.
• Material storage: High-grade Spirit Storage allows ordinary objects to enter without contracts. Lu Yuan cannot yet enter the space himself 40.

Replicated Bloodline Powers

• Heavenly Snake Great Emperor Bloodline: Strengthens his meridians, soul power, and pupil abilities. His initial twenty-percent share is supplemented by another sixty-percent replication 3 15.
• Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python origin: A forty-percent replication sharpens his perception of heaven-and-earth energy and gives him a faint awareness of spatial power, which he cannot yet grasp or control 38.
• No racial replacement: These origins are incorporated into his existing bloodline rather than transforming him into their source species 3 38.

Cultivation Methods and Combat Techniques

• Seven-Colored Poison Scripture: Its poison method is inherently High Xuan Tier, but produces Low Earth Tier effects for a Woeful Poison Body user, with potential to improve further as the physique strengthens 13 22.
• Extreme Wind: Meteor Kill: Obtains forty percent of Yun Yun’s experience with the technique through intermediate replication 24.
• Ocular Snake Seal: Gains twenty-percent mastery of Queen Medusa’s sealing technique, which integrates into his pupils and can temporarily restrict a target’s strength 38.
• Heaven-and-earth energy manipulation: As a high-rank Dou Wang, draws on external energy for flight and sustained activity; he also uses lightning-attribute power to help wear down Yun Yun’s Amethyst Seal 25 27.
• Soul perception: Reaches one hundred zhang after copying Yun Yun’s soul power. Following the Snake Seal’s refinement, his unaided perception covers one li and can encompass Desert City when reinforced with Dou Qi 23 31.

Contracted Beasts and Serpent Soul

Equipment / Items

• Storage Rings: His father supplies one before his departure; Lu Yuan later uses rings for medicine, food, valuables, and business assets 1 10 22.
• Folding fan: Carried during his consultations and conversations with Xiao Yi Xian 5 7.
• Presence-concealing pill: Temporarily hides his presence while he travels among searching Magical Beasts 20.
• High-grade Spirit Storage: Integrated into his pupil space to permit storage of ordinary objects 39 40.
• Inherited jade bracelets: High-grade storage artifacts that nourish soul power. He gives them to Yun Yun, Qing Lin, and Xiao Yi Xian, retaining one dark-purple bracelet 42 43.
• Guest elder’s token: Used while moving through the Snake-People Tribe’s halls 40.

Relationships

• Lu Tong Xuan — Father and principal supporter. Provides guards and resources despite clan rules requiring Lu Yuan’s departure, and privately vows to avenge his poisoning 1.
• Zhang Xi’er — Mother. Leaves him a private courtyard and bracelets intended as gifts for his Dao companions 2 41 42.
• Qing Lin — Former maid and acknowledged Dao companion. Her bloodline activates his Fortune Catalog; he nurtures her talents and organizes her rescue from the Heavenly Snake Mansion 2 14 27 33 43.
• Xiao Yi Xian — Dao companion and source of his copied Woeful Poison Body. He supplies her cultivation resources and promises to help resolve her physique’s dangers 5 10 11 43.
• Yun Yun — Dao companion, benefactor of his major Dou Wang breakthrough, and sect master who appoints him a guest elder. Publicly confirms their relationship during the Lu Clan confrontation 24 26 42.
• Queen Medusa — Negotiating partner and ally. Helps rescue Qing Lin in return for assistance with her evolution, then recuperates inside his pupil space 33 36 39.
• Hai Bodong — Recruited ally. Lu Yuan removes his Snake Seal and explains how a Purple Spirit Recovery Pill can restore lost cultivation 29 31.
• Xiao Yan — A cultivator Lu Yuan deliberately helps, initially hoping to secure a future favor. Xiao Yan resolves to repay him by refining a cure for his poison 1 7.
• Uncle Zhang — Nine-Star Dou Shi escort and trusted family retainer; carries out Lu Yuan’s mission to assist Xiao Yan 1 7.
• Zhang Qingqing / Aunt Qing — Protective family associate who eliminates threats in Qingshan Town and accompanies the party into the mountains 9 10 15.
• Mo Shuang’er — Former fiancée who breaks their imposed engagement after his cultivation collapses 1 7.
• Lu Chen — Older paternal cousin and resentful rival who covets his standing within the clan 2.
• Heavenly Snake Mansion — Enemy organization responsible for Qing Lin’s abduction; sends Lu Ran after her rescue 27 35.

Notable Quotes

“You’re the medicine I need.” 5

“I already have Dao companions, two of them, and I can’t abandon them.” 22

“If we encounter danger or a powerful enemy in the future, I’ll die before any of you do.” 43