Lü Yuan

Biodata

Power Progression

Ancient Cultivator Lü Yuan

Punk Lü Yuan

Background / History

Factory Life and the Recommendation

Punk Lü Yuan spends most of his first eight years in the Capitalist Immortal Cultivation Realm on an assembly line. He ranks first among his peers during five years of compulsory labor, without mistakes or unauthorized overtime, and receives a factory recommendation for elementary school. Initially, his ambitions center on escaping the lowest-paid labor through cultivation and education 1.

The recommendation brings paid leave and prestige within East District No. 13 Nursery. After borrowing his counterpart’s Spirit Root, he prepares for the Spiritual Qi aptitude test while financing drugs, Law Technique copyrights, and a secondhand sword through loans. His eventual score of 49.68 attracts unusual attention from Foundation Establishment cultivators and other investors 5 10 16 17.

Before moving into his own rental, he has already killed someone in an incident connected to a past betrayal. Wang Yan helps dispose of the body and keeps the secret. Lü Yuan later discloses the killing to Lin Qi as part of an agreement binding them to mutual secrecy and cooperation 13 18 20.

Famine and Immortal Favor

Ancient Cultivator Lü Yuan grows up without known parents, supported by the households of an unnamed Han village. War and famine destroy that community. While fleeing, he buries the young man who gave him his last bread, shares food with a starving child and a dying old man, and treats an injured dog instead of eating it 2.

Having lost the desire to survive, he lies beneath a dead tree until an immortal offers him food and questions his lack of hatred. Lü Yuan explains that he helped others simply because he wanted to. The immortal restores his health, gives him the Immortal Book, and promises to return in three hundred years if he forms a Dao Embryo 2.

Cooperation Between Worlds

The two Lü Yuans communicate through a shared consciousness space and lend each other resources. Ancient Cultivator Lü Yuan supplies his natural Spirit Root and the methods revealed by the Immortal Book; Punk Lü Yuan identifies opportunities to supply cheap food, medicine, and modern cultivation products in return 4 8 11.

Once both possess cultivation, they discover that their connection permits more than exchanging objects: they can also exchange cultivation levels. Punk Lü Yuan briefly experiences his counterpart’s Fourth Layer cultivation and Southern Dipper Life Breath 25.

Refugee Rescue and Great Marsh Mountain

Ancient Cultivator Lü Yuan returns to the wilderness to bury the dead and aid survivors. Discovering that thousands remain stranded, he continues the rescue despite his counterpart’s warning that powerful enemies may be involved. He distributes protective talismans and asks the refugees to spread his name so others can find him 28.

Han Jiu takes over camp administration, allowing Lü Yuan to focus on relief. Lü Yuan subsequently gains Liu Ji’s assistance by admitting that he is only an Embryonic Breathing cultivator protected by a great personage’s favor, rather than pretending to be a mysterious expert 29 33.

Liu Ji, subsequently called Liu Bang, believes Lü Yuan may be his and E Xu’s child because of his appearance and origins. Lü Yuan initially struggles to accept the claim, though he later considers that he may have transmigrated into their child. Liu Bang helps lead tens of thousands of refugees toward Great Marsh Mountain and supplies the rare Qi used in Lü Yuan’s breakthrough 35 36 40 54 57.

School, Patronage, and Business

Punk Lü Yuan initially slows his cultivation to avoid exceeding established prodigy records too conspicuously. At his school’s opening assembly, however, he follows the Bright Yang Tower’s instruction to act arrogantly: he challenges the students to defeat him in an exam or competition within two years, offering twice his allotted resources to anyone who succeeds 37 44.

After three consecutive monthly exam victories, he meets Mingyang City’s ruler, Li Yelan. She explains that emulating the coming Fire Virtue True Lord’s essential image of “struggle” can accelerate his cultivation. Her backing later raises his credit limit to one million Spirit Stone Vouchers, providing a public explanation for faster advancement through expensive medicine 45 48 51 62.

He establishes an air business in the Dark Air Realm with Lin Qi and Wang Yan. Gu Lü endorses the stock as nearly matching the purity of the highest-grade air, and their opening inventory sells out within two hours 66 68.

Chen Sheng’s Instruction

While Liu Bang investigates the Northern Dipper method, he entrusts Ancient Cultivator Lü Yuan’s education to Chen Sheng. Lü Yuan studies cultivation theory, Fruit Positions, worldly affairs, and history, learning the standard writing systems used by immortals and mortals on his first day 78 82 83 86.

Chen Sheng offers to make him a true disciple and pass on his teachings, possessions, and Swan Palace. Before Lü Yuan accepts, Liu Bang returns and accuses Chen Sheng of trying to make the child inherit the Second Demonic Lineage. Their confrontation stops after an azure-clad figure intervenes and Lü Yuan insists that Chen Sheng has treated and taught him well 88 89.

Appearance

• Punk Lü Yuan: an eight-year-old boy described as having a pretty face 1 52.
• Ancient Cultivator Lü Yuan: an eight-year-old boy with long hair; Liu Ji considers his face virtually identical to E Xu’s, even under a cultivator’s scrutiny 34 35 86.
• Disguise: Ancient Cultivator Lü Yuan uses an Illusory Form Technique and a mask. With the Immortal Book’s protection, even Liu Ji cannot see through the first-grade illusion 33 34.

Personality

Ancient Cultivator Lü Yuan is compassionate without presenting his actions as a moral duty or bargain. He helps because he wants to, shows little interest in praise or repayment, and continues rescuing refugees despite the risk. His trust in the immortal’s promise gives him confidence that he can reach Dao Embryo 2 8 28 41.

He is direct, curious, and respectful without being servile. He prefers an honest explanation to maintaining a false identity, refuses to flatter Chen Sheng merely because of his status, and seeks knowledge because he wants to see the world clearly 33 80 81.

Punk Lü Yuan is calculating, status-conscious, and fond of boasting. A past betrayal leaves him unwilling to trust anyone absolutely except his other self. He treats friendship as an investment, deliberately cultivating Lin Qi and Wang Yan’s goodwill while seeking access to their useful inheritances 5 20 24 67 73.

His opportunism coexists with practical generosity: he lends Wang Yan money, shares techniques, offers Lin Qi unused medicinal power, and brings both friends into his profitable business. He also enjoys cooking, a hobby retained from his previous life 17 42 63 68.

Abilities & Skills

Linked Minds and Shared Resources

• The two selves communicate in a consciousness space whose surroundings can be shaped through thought 8 11.
• Ancient Cultivator Lü Yuan can temporarily lend his natural, high-grade Spirit Root to Punk Lü Yuan 4 23.
• Their opposite day–night cycles initially let them alternate use of the Spirit Root without changing their routines 11.
• Once both cultivate, they can transfer objects and exchange cultivation levels; borrowed cultivation is distinct from Punk Lü Yuan’s own advancement 25.

Immortal Book

• Grants techniques and methods at cultivation milestones, and can respond to requests for particular effects 11 21 30.
• Answers Ancient Cultivator Lü Yuan’s questions within his current scope, but responds inconsistently to questions concerning the capitalist world 30.
• Protects him from Liu Ji’s manifestation and conceals his true appearance from powerful scrutiny 33 34.
• Restricts higher-level material: the Northern Dipper method’s Purple Mansion chapter remains unreadable at Qi Refinement 60.

Southern Dipper Cultivation

• Produces Southern Dipper Life Breath, with an emphasis on life and vitality 9.
• Its effects rejuvenate the dead tree beside Ancient Cultivator Lü Yuan’s cultivation site 9.
• The two selves identify refugee rescue as an apparent Acting Method for advancing his Southern Dipper cultivation; Liu Bang later confirms that the rescue’s merit can carry him toward Qi Refinement 29 40.

Fire Virtue Cultivation

• Punk Lü Yuan cultivates a sixth-grade method supplied by Wang Yan 24.
• The method can devour and imitate cultivation methods of the same origin, helping conceal its use 24.
• Dense Embryonic Breathing lets him fight above his documented layer 45.
• Li Yelan advises him to embody “struggle” through competitive victories to benefit from the coming Fire Virtue True Lord’s influence 51.

Sword Dao

• Both selves practice the sixth-grade Dipper Handle Turning the Heavens, Guiding Principles and Heavenly Law Sword Instruction 10 11 37.
• Its stages cover Sword-Ray, Sword Qi, Sword Essence, and Sword Intent; its intent adapts to the cultivator 11.
• Ancient Cultivator Lü Yuan forms Sword-Ray with a wooden branch and later reaches major mastery 11 45.
• Punk Lü Yuan advances more slowly, though Lin Qi later provides a means of improving his swordsmanship 37 68 73.

Crafting and Practical Techniques

• Ancient Cultivator Lü Yuan: excels at artifact refinement, talismans, formations, and medicine refining; eventually refines special-grade Qi Refinement Law Artifacts 21 45 72.
• Punk Lü Yuan: initially shows no talent for artifact refinement but learns to draw one or two ordinary first-grade talismans daily 37.
• Earth-Breaking and Earth-Transporting: first-grade Law Techniques used to gather and bury famine victims’ remains 28.
• Body tempering: Punk Lü Yuan excels in the physical training and martial arts associated with assembly-line labor 6.

Northern Dipper Method

• Ancient Cultivator Lü Yuan receives the seventh-grade Record of Riding the Emperor’s Chariot to Observe the Northern Celestial Pole after entering Qi Refinement 57 60.
• Its disclosed features concern Turning the Dipper Handle, Northern Dipper Righteous Qi, sword-realm enhancement, and a Divine Ability of feigned possession 58 59 60.
• He studies its possibilities but postpones cultivation while Liu Bang verifies its safety; the supplied chapters do not document him beginning it 58 77 78.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Immortal Book — bestowed by the immortal who saves Ancient Cultivator Lü Yuan; supplies methods, knowledge, guidance, and protection 2 30 33.
• Embryonic Breathing flying sword — purchased secondhand by Punk Lü Yuan for 400 Spirit Stone Vouchers, then upgraded by his counterpart to special grade using materials he supplies 10 37.
• Fusang — the rejuvenated tree, later refined into a low-grade Qi Refinement Law Artifact. Nourishment from Great Yin Moonlight and Sun Purple Qi raises it close to special grade 9 54.
• Cultivation medicines — include Rejuvenation No. 3 Embryonic Breathing Crash-Course Injection, Life-Transforming Brand Breath-Nourishing Stock Solution, and the Nine Dragons Pulling a Coffin package 10 63.
• Lin Qi’s two Secret Methods — improve low Spiritual Qi Aptitude and conceal cultivation status 20.
• Fulfill the Root and Reflect Back Talisman Method — a fourth-grade method obtained from Wang Yan 25.
• Wang Yan’s visualization painting — associated with developing Divine Sense; Punk Lü Yuan values it both as a cultivation aid and a memento 72 73.
• Storage Bag — used by Punk Lü Yuan to carry possessions, including Wang Yan’s painting 72.

Relationships

• His other self — the only person Punk Lü Yuan trusts absolutely. Their contrasting temperaments produce frequent teasing, but they freely share their most valuable advantages 8 20 86.
• The unnamed immortal — saves Ancient Cultivator Lü Yuan and gives him the Immortal Book. Liu Ji identifies the benefactor as Southern Dipper, but Lü Yuan cannot independently confirm that identification 2 34.
• Wang Yan — Punk Lü Yuan’s rival and friend; keeps his killing secret, shares a sixth-grade method, and joins his air business. Lü Yuan reciprocates with techniques, loans, and earning opportunities 13 24 42 68.
• Lin Qi — begins as a wagering opponent and becomes a confidante, business partner, and frequent guest. She exchanges secret methods with Lü Yuan, assists with his medicine, and kisses him in the air shop 18 20 63 68.
• Liu Ji / Liu Bang — Ancient Cultivator Lü Yuan’s self-appointed “big brother,” protector, and possible father. He aids the refugees, supplies breakthrough resources, and arranges Lü Yuan’s education 34 35 54 78.
• E Xu / E Ju — Liu Bang’s proposed mother for Ancient Cultivator Lü Yuan, based partly on their extraordinary resemblance. Lü Yuan has not met his parents, and this parentage remains uncertain in the supplied material 35 40.
• Li Yelan — Mingyang City’s ruler and Punk Lü Yuan’s powerful patron. She remembers a different version of him from the future, while his presence unexpectedly eases her recurring pain and madness 48 51 74.
• Chen Sheng — Ancient Cultivator Lü Yuan’s teacher and prospective master. His true-disciple offer provokes Liu Bang’s objection over the Second Demonic Lineage 78 88 89.
• Sima Mingli — Punk Lü Yuan’s schoolmate and selected sparring partner, attracted by promised financial opportunities and the indirect benefits of his medicines 45 63.

Notable Quotes

“Because I wanted to. I simply wanted to do them.”
— Ancient Cultivator Lü Yuan, explaining his acts of compassion 2.

“I'm not afraid, that's all.”
— Ancient Cultivator Lü Yuan, answering Liu Ji’s threat to covet his benefactor’s favor 33.

“I'll be waiting to see it.”
— Punk Lü Yuan, accepting Wang Yan’s promise to catch up 42.

“Because... I want to see this world clearly.”
— Ancient Cultivator Lü Yuan, explaining why he seeks knowledge 81.