Luo Tang

Luo Tang is an Archean Mountain Sect Proprietor whose true body guards Luo Tang Pass while her projections help direct the wider demon war. She shares responsibility for the sect's strategic decisions, including its early investment in Meng Chuan, the awakening and deployment of ancient Godfiends, and the postwar handling of the surviving enemy forces. Her later experience in Earth Cloud Mystic Realm also shows the limits of opportunity: a longer life and richer cultivation environment do not by themselves guarantee a breakthrough.

Biography

Guarding the foundation and investing in Meng Chuan

Luo Tang first appears as an illusory figure deliberating with Qin Wu over whether to open Archean Eon Grotto-Heaven for Meng Chuan. The opportunity has been used only a handful of times, and ancestral rules envision an interval far longer than the eight centuries since its previous opening. She initially considers Meng Chuan's saber attainment too ordinary to justify the expense. Qin Wu's evidence that painting has already awakened his Essence Soul changes her calculation, and she consents because that combination suggests potential beyond his visible combat record. (Chapters 134–135)

The result does not simply vindicate the wager. After Meng Chuan acquires the Cosmos Body inheritance, Luo Tang and Qin Wu judge that the human world lacks the Cosmos Crystals needed to carry it to its highest stages. Luo Tang nevertheless recognizes that the system's strong lifeforce and survival value give it practical wartime use. Her response establishes a recurring feature of her leadership: she is skeptical before scarce resources are committed, but once the evidence changes, she revises her position rather than defending the earlier objection for its own sake. (Chapters 135–136)

That judgment occurs while Luo Tang's true body remains tied to the only super-large World Entrance in the Great Zhou Dynasty. At Luo Tang Pass she lives in the City Lord Manor, receives reports, and plays chess with Qin Wu's visiting projection, but cannot simply leave whenever a distant crisis develops. When Meng Chuan later faces danger, he knows she could respond rapidly in some circumstances; the strategic reality is that demons could exploit her absence from the pass. Her projection can attend councils and inspect matters elsewhere, whereas the Creation combatant and pass guardian remain the true body stationed at the breach. (Chapters 196, 212–215, 239, and 243–244)

Joint command through the widening war

As attacks spread, Luo Tang governs beside Li Guan and Qin Wu, assessing reports, approving rewards, and deciding when irreplaceable reserves should be used. She questions costly proposals such as spending a phoenix feather, yet accepts them when the exchange serves a stronger long-term objective. During the million-demon crisis, she helps authorize the awakening of ancient Godfiends and the release of resources that earlier generations preserved. Her contribution is less a single battlefield feat than the repeated conversion of sect inheritance into enough mobile strength, reconnaissance, and protection to keep the human defense functioning. (Chapters 216, 256–262, 275–285, and 343–350)

Meng Chuan's recovery of the Eon Sea Sect's three cornerstone treasures forces another institutional decision. Luo Tang is stunned by the scale of what he returns and joins the discussion of how any reward could match it. She supports making him a Sect Proprietor because he already possesses Creation-level influence and has placed the inheritances under Archean Mountain's collective stewardship. She then helps disclose the sect's deeper holdings and accepts him among its decision-makers, turning the junior she once doubted into a fellow custodian whose authority rests on both power and demonstrated loyalty. (Chapters 391–395)

Luo Tang does not surrender judgment to that new colleague. She participates in the inquiry and sentence after King Calm Sea's crimes are exposed, and she helps weigh wartime utility against punishment for mass death. Later, she joins the planning around Liu Qiyue's slumber and Meng Chuan's journey into the outer realm, where Archean Mountain can provide knowledge and equipment but no direct rescue. Across these decisions, her leadership remains collective but substantive: she questions proposals, helps define their limits, and shares responsibility for outcomes rather than merely witnessing Li Guan or Qin Wu decide. (Chapters 436–439, 478–491)

Victory and the limits of later cultivation

When Meng Chuan's Essence Soul avatars begin capturing fifth Firmament demon monarchs, Luo Tang helps convert military dominance into an end to the invasion. Her true body continues monitoring the widened entrance at Luo Tang Pass through its fixed array, while she and the other Sect Proprietors study the demon-sage passageway and the enemy's final force. She can judge and prepare, but the climactic battle lies beyond what the assembled Supremacies can settle themselves. After Meng Chuan destroys the invaders, she weeps and smiles, saying that the survivors can finally face the Godfiends who died before victory. (Chapters 514–516, 524, 529, and 534–536)

The aftermath still requires policy rather than celebration alone. Luo Tang takes part in handling demon and Skydemon submissions, and she witnesses Meng Chuan's continued rise beyond the scale of the old war. Centuries later, his opening of Earth Cloud Mystic Realm gives her access to conditions unavailable in her homeworld. She enters Secular World Painting after Qin Wu explains its value, but the experience produces mental demons rather than the hoped-for transformation. When Meng Chuan examines her, her Essence Soul is intact yet dispirited, and the memories she acquired have altered how she moves through the world. (Chapters 539–543 and 646–648)

Meng Chuan offers to erase the Secular World Painting memories, which he believes would let her recover, but Luo Tang refuses because she considers them beautiful despite their cost. She calmly acknowledges that her talent is ordinary, that she remains far from the Heaven Earth realm, and that her fifth-level Essence Soul has not advanced. She chooses to return to the Archean Eon Realm and spend her remaining life in her homeworld. By the final chapter, Meng Chuan remembers her among the people from his earlier life who are gone, making her latest state deceased rather than an active Earth Cloud cultivator. (Chapters 648 and 766)

Appearance and personality

Luo Tang's true body is shown wearing a luxurious white robe embroidered with phoenixes, an appearance that gives her a noble bearing even during an informal chess game. A later Earth Cloud scene places her in a yellow robe as she watches cultivators fight. The corpus does not describe a radical bodily transformation between these appearances, so the change is best understood as clothing and circumstance rather than evidence of a new form. (Chapters 214 and 648)

She is pragmatic, direct, and willing to voice doubt. Her initial opposition to opening Archean Eon Grotto-Heaven and her questions about costly treasures are not reflexive stinginess; in each case she wants an extraordinary expense matched by extraordinary evidence. She can also be warm and informal with old colleagues, as shown in her chess games with Qin Wu, and openly emotional after the final victory. These traits coexist with a leader's habit of treating hopes as decisions whose risks must be accounted for. (Chapters 134–136, 214–216, and 535–536)

The Secular World Painting experience changes her later demeanor. Qin Wu reports that she begins traveling alone, and Meng Chuan finds her watching a conflict blankly, with a bright but dispirited Essence Soul. The text attributes this condition to her memories and mental demons rather than an external injury. Luo Tang does not describe those memories as a mistake: she values them enough to refuse restoration, calmly accepts the limits of her cultivation, and chooses home over an indefinite search for advancement. (Chapter 648)

Abilities and cultivation

Luo Tang is a Creation Supremacy whose strength combines Godfiend cultivation, a fifth-level Essence Soul, World Power, and centuries of experience defending a fixed World Entrance. The supplied corpus documents her strategic and defensive applications more fully than a named personal combat art. It does not establish a signature weapon, a named Godfiend body, or a complete progression through her early cultivation stages.

Creation cultivation and World Power

At the height of the war, Luo Tang is one of the very small number of human Creation Supremacies. That realm gives her World Power, longevity, and the standing to confront fifth Firmament threats that ordinary Godfiends cannot handle. Her true body is powerful enough that placing it at Luo Tang Pass materially changes whether demons can exploit the super-large entrance. The corpus demonstrates this deterrent and her capacity to inspect major spatial changes, but does not provide a self-contained duel from which every offensive limit can be measured. (Chapters 196, 212–215, 239, and 529)

Her later record clarifies that Creation strength is not the same as unlimited progression. In Earth Cloud Mystic Realm she remains very far from creating a Heaven Earth realm technique, and her Essence Soul stalls at the fifth level. The richer environment extends her opportunities but cannot replace comprehension or resolve the mental demons produced by Secular World Painting. Her latest cultivated state is therefore still that of an aging Creation Supremacy with a fifth-level Essence Soul, not an Imperial Lord or Heaven Earth expert. (Chapters 647–648)

True body, projections, and the Luo Tang Pass array

Luo Tang frequently attends Archean Mountain councils through an illusory projection while her true body guards Luo Tang Pass. The projection communicates, observes, and participates in decisions; it is not presented as a second autonomous Creation combat body. She explicitly notes that the Supremacies cannot simply divide themselves, and her inability to abandon the pass during distant emergencies confirms the distinction. Her fifth-level Essence Soul likewise does not grant the Essence Soul avatars associated with later soul realms. (Chapters 134, 160–162, 214–215, 239, and 335)

At Luo Tang Pass, her true body works with a powerful fixed array. When the World Entrance expands into a demon-sage passageway, she uses the formation to monitor it, and even enemies such as Monarch Peacock or Holy Lady Strings cannot casually reach her through its protection. That defense is strategically formidable but geographically constrained: it belongs to the fortified pass and its preparations, not to Luo Tang as a portable innate technique. Leaving the site would surrender the same environmental advantage that makes her presence there decisive. (Chapter 529)

Her projection also demonstrates limited interaction with prepared sect mechanisms. She can examine Meng Chuan's identity token and draw out the concealed golden sword Qin Wu placed inside it. The act shows high-level perception and control, but the sword's killing power belongs to Qin Wu's stored protection rather than to a projection-generated attack of Luo Tang's own. This distinction prevents a support feat from being mistaken for evidence that her projections wield the full combat force of her true body. (Chapters 243–244)

Perception, command, and resource deployment

Luo Tang can perceive large changes connected to the human world and its World Entrances, inspect reports through the sect's communication system, and coordinate responses with distant Godfiends. Her most sustained application of power is command: she balances guarded passes, mobile reinforcements, awakened ancient Godfiends, formations, and rare treasures against simultaneous threats. These decisions have battlefield effects because a wrongly placed Supremacy or prematurely spent inheritance cannot be replaced, even though the skill itself is institutional expertise rather than a named supernatural technique. (Chapters 145, 152, 181, 256–285, 335, and 646)

Her leadership also has a clear limit. Luo Tang can allocate communal resources and make plans with fellow Sect Proprietors, but she cannot make one Creation body cover every crisis, guarantee an outer-realm traveler's safety, or defeat an enemy force above the assembled Supremacies' level. Her record repeatedly shows her recognizing those boundaries and committing the strongest available person instead. That discipline is one reason Meng Chuan's promotion changes Archean Mountain's capacity without erasing Luo Tang's authority. (Chapters 239, 391–395, 488–491, and 529–534)

Relationships

• Qin Wu: Luo Tang's longtime fellow Sect Proprietor and friend. They debate investments and deployments, coordinate through projections while their true bodies guard different responsibilities, and relax over chess. He later asks Meng Chuan to help when Luo Tang develops mental demons.
• Li Guan: The senior Archean Mountain leader with whom Luo Tang and Qin Wu form the sect's governing core. She shares responsibility for wartime resource policy, promotions, judgments, and the transition that follows his final slumber.
• Meng Chuan: Luo Tang initially doubts that his visible saber record warrants Archean Eon Grotto-Heaven, then accepts Qin Wu's broader evidence and supports the investment. She later recognizes his returned inheritances, admits him as a Sect Proprietor, depends on his strength to end the war, and allows him to inspect her memories in Earth Cloud Mystic Realm.
• King Calm Sea: A powerful Archean Mountain Godfiend whose conduct Luo Tang helps judge after his collusion and killings are revealed. She accepts a sentence that preserves his remaining wartime utility without excusing the dead.
• Liu Qiyue: Luo Tang helps evaluate the cost of Liu Qiyue's Phoenix's Nirvana and the use of Millennium Instant slumber, treating her remaining lifespan as both a personal danger and a strategic reserve.

Items

No distinct qualifying personal inventory is established for Luo Tang in the item manifest. The ancestral resources she helps allocate are communal Archean Mountain holdings, not her personal possessions.