Lu Clan

Biodata

Power Progression

The clan's rise is measured through its leading cultivators, awakened ancestors, and younger generation—not a single collective cultivation realm.

History

Ancient Prominence and Decline

The Lu Clan's history predates Central Province's ancient clans. Ancient histories describe a Lu imperial clan that ruled across the four provinces; Ancestor Murong considers the present lineage connected to it. Dali was already a renowned Strength Dao cultivator more than three million years earlier, while Lu You founded the Blood Pavilion more than two million years earlier 37 45 47.

Under Ancestor Danyang, the clan once developed so rapidly that no other power could stand alongside it. Much later, Sage Tianyan dominated the Cangxuan Continent through divination. Tianyan explains that heavenly backlash from his divinations cursed the lineage, while contamination of the Ancestral Land diminished its fortune 5 31.

The clan eventually lost several grotto-heavens and blessed lands. By the opening of the story, it had dwindled to around one hundred members in White Cloud City, surviving on resources left over by the city's three dominant factions 1 40.

White Cloud City Revival

Lu Qingshan returned from his youthful travels severely injured and spent twenty years supporting the declining clan without recovering. The Azure Dragon Gang repeatedly targeted the family because it feared his return to the Spirit Master Realm. Its final ultimatum demanded permanent submission or destruction 1.

An ancestor's intervention restored Qingshan's cultivation, allowing him to repel the gang. When the Azure Dragon Gang, Balance Sect, and City Lord's Manor attacked together, Sage Tianyan emerged and annihilated their attacking forces. The Lu Clan seized nearly all of White Cloud City's resources, while Lu Chen suppressed the defeated factions' remnants 2 3 4.

Five Hundred Years of Rebuilding

Qingshan introduced marriage and childbirth incentives, commissioned a dedicated guard, and ordered the creation of an intelligence organization. Over the following five hundred years, the population grew beyond ten thousand and Qingshan reached the Saint Realm 6 17 18.

During this period, the Azure Feather Dynasty became an ally but refused access to its Lush Wood Blessed Land. When the Supreme Purity Palace destroyed the dynasty, Tianyan advised against intervention or an immediate attempt to seize the blessed land. Qing Xu and Qing Zhe instead entered the Lu Clan under Qingshan's protection 14 16.

Return to Central Province

Danyang's awakening prompted the return to Central Province, where he could obtain the materials and furnace needed for high-grade alchemy. Tianyan transported more than ten thousand clanspeople to Qiyun Mountain and acquired the Yellow Pill Grotto-Heaven from Yu An. Qing Xu, Qing Zhe, and some clan experts remained in Qingzhou 18 20 21.

Danyang's public alchemy demonstration attracted diplomatic approaches, pill requests, and gifts. He subsequently brought roughly one hundred Alchemists' Guild alchemists to train the clan's people. The new settlement developed rows of towers and houses, although Qiyun Mountain initially suffered from thin Spiritual Qi 24 26 28.

Conflict with Central Province's Powers

Rival powers sought the secret behind the survival of the clan's ancient experts. Xuanzhen's defense against six Saint Kings secured the clan's foothold, but an attacker later publicly exposed its apparent ability to extend lifespan. Tianyan suspected a hidden instigator after discovering that the attacker's memories had been partially erased 32 36 42.

Dali retaliated against factions responsible for earlier attacks. The Void Cloud Sect surrendered and accepted servant marks; two resisting superpowers were destroyed. The Xuan Clan then occupied Dali with a Quasi-Emperor duel while its patriarch led an assault on the Lu headquarters. By the time the Xuan Quasi-Emperor withdrew, that assault had failed, and the Xuan Clan activated its defensive formation against Dali 43 45 47.

The clan's expanding influence also forced the Supreme Purity Palace to surrender the Lush Wood Blessed Land and Qing Yun's damaged soul. Qingshan accepted both without ruling out later punishment for the palace's destruction of the Azure Feather Dynasty 50.

Organization

Leadership and Ancestors

Divisions and Institutions

• Shadow Division — Intelligence network operated by Chi Chen under Lu Guangyao. By the clan's departure for Central Province, its agents had infiltrated nearly all of Qingzhou 20.
• Lu Clan Guard — Dedicated security force commissioned by Qingshan. Recruitment prioritizes suitability over numbers 6.
• Clan academy — Educational institution entrusted to Lu Fan, a reincarnated sage appointed as its elder 7 20.
• Alchemy Pavilion — Develops alchemy talent with Danyang's backing and instruction from visiting guild alchemists 26 28.
• Martial stage and rankings — Lu Chen's system for sparring, selecting young talents, and awarding resources and prestige 20 28.
• Blood Pavilion — Worldwide assassination and intelligence organization based in Demon Province. Lu You orders permanent loyalty to the Lu Clan and the establishment of a Central Province branch 47 48.
• Additional secret intelligence organization — Qingshan approves Lu Guangyao's proposal and assigns half the clan treasury to it; the passage does not name this organization 37.

Membership and Resource Policies

• Population incentives: Rewards are offered for taking spouses or concubines, with doubled rewards for childbirth. Clan women are forbidden from marrying out and must instead bring husbands into the family 6.
• Merit-based support: Demonstrated talent and ability earn additional resources. Lu Xiangyang's alchemy aptitude improves the treatment of his entire family branch 28.
• Cultivation choice: The restored clan offers methods spanning many Daos, replacing the limited selection of conventional five-element paths available during its decline 32.
• Selective adoption: Despite its bloodline-centered structure, the clan entrusts Lu Fan with important duties and accepts Qing Xu and Qing Zhe as Qingshan's adopted children 7 10 16 34.
• Secrecy: The official account says the ancestors were merely secluded and the clan's earlier weakness was deliberate. Qingshan and Tianyan establish this explanation to conceal the real ancestral secret 18.

Abilities and Foundations

Ancestral Land

The clan's greatest secret is the Ancestral Land accessed through its inherited incense burner 2 5.

• Extends ancestors' lifespans and shelters surviving experts from earlier generations 5.
• Uses an arrangement established by the forefather to harmonize the land's foul Qi with the ancestors' death Qi, purifying the land while strengthening their cultivation 5.
• Allows dormant ancestors to awaken and return to aid the lineage 3 18.
• Does not provide immediate access to every ancestor: awakening times are uncertain, leaving the recovering clan dependent on whichever experts are available 12 16.

Bloodline Power

Tianyan forcibly awakens the clan's dormant bloodline after his emergence, producing increases in cultivation, strength, and vitality 4.

• The process depends on a lineage having previously produced an exceptionally powerful expert and later declined 4.
• Shared bloodline provides recognizable kinship; Lu You uses it to establish his connection with Lu Yao 49.

Alchemy and Formations

• Ninth-grade alchemy: Danyang can refine the Nine Revolutions Yang Restoration Pill and uses the long-lost Scarlet Yang Alchemy Method. His expertise attracts resources and diplomatic interest 24 28.
• Alchemy training: Roughly one hundred guild alchemists, including a seventh-rank elder, accompany Danyang to teach the clan 26.
• Protective arrays: Xuanzhen claims his completed array could help withstand ten Saint Kings. Its documented battle against six kills one and gravely injures three before the formation collapses 34 36.
• Combat limitation: The rapid arrival of Saint King and Quasi-Emperor enemies outpaces the ordinary defensive forces. Qingshan nevertheless insists that those forces continue developing rather than rely permanently on the ancestors 44.

Territories and Resources

• White Cloud City — Original base; brought under clan control after Tianyan destroys the three dominant factions' attacking forces 4.
• Qiyun Mountain — Central Province headquarters, concealed through powerful divination. The clan plans to install suitable spirit veins to improve its thin Spiritual Qi 21 26 28.
• Ancestral hall — Ritual and strategic center housing ancestral tablets and the incense burner. The original White Cloud City hall is the clan's largest building, divided into main, side, and rear halls 1.
• Yellow Pill Grotto-Heaven — Taken from Yu An by Tianyan; becomes a major foundation supporting the clan's resource reserves 21 33.
• Lush Wood Blessed Land — A Wood Dao secret realm that nurtures Wood Dao treasures and accelerates compatible cultivation. Initially denied to the clan, it is later delivered by the Supreme Purity Palace for ancestral inspection 12 14 50.
• Time Blessed Land access — Not clan property. The Murong Clan admits thirty Lu youths in exchange for a Nine Revolutions Yang Restoration Pill 34.
• Spirit-stone funding — Qingtian's gift includes ten million spirit stones, compared with the clan's former peak reserve of only slightly over one thousand 13.

Relationships

• Azure Dragon Gang, Balance Sect, and City Lord's Manor — Original rivals in White Cloud City. Their combined attack ends with Tianyan destroying their attacking forces and the Lu Clan taking control of the city 1 3 4.
• Azure Feather Dynasty — Former ally. Ancestor Qingtian advocates cooperation and supplies resources, but the reigning emperor refuses blessed-land access. Qingshan later shelters the dynasty's surviving siblings, Qing Xu and Qing Zhe 10 13 14 16.
• Alchemists' Guild — Teaching and professional partner through Danyang. Guildmaster Dan Changkong supplies alchemists to train Lu clanspeople 26.
• Murong Clan — Transactional partner with a personal connection through Murong Yu and Qingshan. Provides Time Blessed Land access; its ancestor recognizes the danger and antiquity of the Lu lineage 30 34 37 38.
• Supreme Purity Palace — Destroyer of the Azure Feather Dynasty and former holder of the Lush Wood Blessed Land. Returns the realm under Lu Clan pressure, but remains liable to further retaliation 16 50.
• Void Cloud Sect — Former enemy reduced to submission through servant marks during Dali's reprisals 43.
• Xuan Clan — Ancient rival whose historical strength could contend with the Lu Clan. Its coordinated offensive fails, forcing its Quasi-Emperor to withdraw behind the clan's protective formation 43 45 47.
• Lu Clan of Desolate Province — A separate reported clan whose connection remains unverified. Lu You sets out to investigate whether it shares the same roots 48.