Luo Ke Di

Luo Ke Di is the Heavenly Bow Unit's “Drunken Rogue,” a specialist whose exaggerated laziness and appetite for wine conceal exceptional archery, perception, and fieldcraft. He first tests Zhou Weiqing and Shangguan Bing'er as prospective recruits, then helps turn the Unit's small-team methods into the mounted and formation archery of the Peerless Battalion.

Biography

Testing the Heavenly Bow recruits

Admiral Zhou directs Zhou and Bing'er to find Luo Ke Di at an inn, making the apparently drunken womanizer their gateway to the Heavenly Bow Unit. Luo immediately mixes duty with mischief: after Zhou tricks him during their introduction, he invents an archery test in which the recruits must force him to parry at three hundred yards. Bing'er's tracking arrow succeeds, while Zhou first studies Luo's extreme flexibility and then uses an exploding ground strike followed by a blinking arrow to catch him in midair. Luo is embarrassed, but he also recognizes both the tactical deception and the care with which Zhou removed the arrowhead. (Chapters 26–28)

His second “test” is another attempt at revenge: he fires twenty arrowhead-less shots and requires the pair to make even one miss. The exercise nevertheless demonstrates the silent release, hearing, and distance judgment expected of a Heavenly Bow assassin. Once it ends, Luo admits that neither improvised trial determines admission; the real test is to accompany the Unit on a mission. He then leads them to its base, introduces its members, and keeps his promise to give Zhou a large black bow, turning an antagonistic initiation into the beginning of a durable teacher-student bond. (Chapters 28–30)

Scouting the Icy Soul Heavenly Bear

On the recruits' formal mission, Luo changes from idle drunkard to tireless scout. He repeatedly surveys a five-kilometer radius, finds a relatively safe route through the Stars Forest, and confirms that the target bear is isolated before the Unit commits itself. During the attack he supplies silent arrows as distractions while Hua Feng, Mu En, and the others exploit the openings. His work is indispensable because the party cannot defeat the region's stronger beasts through a frontal contest; information and coordinated roles are what make the hunt possible. (Chapters 31–32)

That mission also exposes the limits of his specialty. When several bears arrive unexpectedly, their king's wide-area roar catches Luo without secure footing and knocks him unconscious despite his agility. He survives, resumes training the younger pair, and becomes one of the benchmarks of Zhou's progress: after two years Zhou can fight evenly with him, although Luo remains a five-Jeweled Physical Jewel Master. At the farewell, comic attempts to embrace Bing'er cannot entirely hide the Unit's affection for the students it is sending into a wider world. (Chapters 33–34)

Reuniting after the empire's fall

When the Heavenly Bow Empire is conquered, Luo and Mu En help the Unit escape a Bai Da ambush through a secret tunnel prepared in advance. The survivors search for Princess Difuya and Zhou as possible centers of restoration, eventually waiting in Tianbei City until Zhou's force passes nearby. Luo's exuberant reunion assures Zhou that the Unit survived and converts a national disaster into a new assignment: the archers join the Peerless Battalion as instructors. His attempt to greet Shangguan Fei'er as though she were Bing'er ends with him being thrown aside, but her resemblance also makes the reunion feel briefly like a return to their earlier family. (Chapters 132–133)

Luo immediately applies his opportunism to the Battalion's material needs. He asks for a Ghost Demon Horse as part of his “treatment,” while Hua Feng recasts the demand as a sound requirement for instructors who must train mounted archers. He then helps assess which soldiers can handle long-duration winged flight, explains why sustained aerial movement requires a substantial Heavenly Energy reserve, and supports the decision to make archery competence a prerequisite for flight training. (Chapters 133–135)

Fighting and planning with the Peerless Battalion

The first training contest is a reverse lesson: the ruffians ignore its intended rules and batter Luo and the other instructors, forcing the leadership to redesign the exercise. By the time the Battalion faces real cavalry, however, those methods have matured into disciplined formation warfare. Luo and the other God Archers stand at the center of its circular defense; a single release from him sends at least five arrows toward different targets, killing dismounted Unicorn cavalry before they can form an inner attack. His personal precision therefore protects the structure in which the entire Battalion fights. (Chapters 135 and 145–158)

His roguish instincts continue to serve logistics and strategy rather than mere comedy. He and Mu En repeatedly extract extra horses and supplies from the quartermaster, adding roughly five hundred mounts, and Luo enthusiastically supports schemes to win or requisition heavy-infantry equipment. He also identifies the danger posed by Eagle Tribesmen attacking from the air, allowing the command group to prepare a shielded response instead of being surprised by a new axis of attack. (Chapters 157–167)

As Zhou turns toward restoring Heavenly Bow, Luo remains willing to challenge comfortable assumptions. He asks whether Fei Li might obstruct the campaign because of its earlier treatment of Zhou, prompting Zhou to explain the political leverage protecting their route. The concern shows the same function Luo performed as a forest scout: he tests the path before the group commits itself. He remains with the Heavenly Bow and Peerless leadership through the latest direct in-scope references to him. (Chapters 186–208)

Appearance and personality

Luo initially appears to be a handsome man of about thirty, though he is described as middle-aged. He wears white clothes and a long black cape, keeps many emptied wine bottles around him, and lets his gaze wander constantly toward women. In military action the lounging drunk gives way to a practiced scout in maroon leather armor, carrying two bows, a large quiver, water, and rations. (Chapters 27 and 31)

He is lecherous, theatrical, vindictive over small humiliations, and unusually difficult to embarrass for long. Those traits coexist with professional discipline. He can shift instantly from comic self-indulgence to an earnest instructor, absorb the lesson of having underestimated Zhou, and keep a promise even after losing a contest. His banter with Mu En is competitive, but the pair's shared methods—deception, opportunism, and survival before dignity—make them natural partners. (Chapters 27–33 and 132–158)

Abilities and cultivation

Luo is a five-Jeweled Physical Jewel Master whose Jewels divide their enhancement between Coordination and Flexibility. His cultivation is unchanged when Zhou returns after two years, and the supplied corpus records no later rank increase. The distribution gives him extraordinary bodily control rather than the crushing strength of a direct-combat specialist; he can contort around several carefully placed arrows without moving his feet, but his effectiveness drops when airborne, deprived of leverage, or caught inside a broad area attack. (Chapters 28 and 33)

Silent archery and battlefield perception

Luo can release ordinary arrows with most of the silence of a dedicated Silent Arrow, maintain accuracy while moving, and judge an attack's speed and distance by sound. At three hundred yards he evades complex volleys, while his own rapid series keeps Zhou suspended under repeated impacts. Years later, as a God Archer, he can send at least five arrows from one release toward separate battlefield targets. These feats still depend on a bow, ammunition, line of fire, and room to maneuver; Zhou defeats his hearing-based judgment by making an arrow Blink through the last part of its flight. (Chapters 28–30 and 158)

Flexibility and evasion

Coordination and Flexibility let Luo bend from the waist, hold a reverse bridge, lift a leg over his head, roll safely from impacts, and move swiftly through forest terrain. The style excels at avoiding precise attacks and preserving firing position, but it is not invulnerability: Zhou's ground explosion removes his footing, and the Icy Soul Heavenly Bear King's area roar later overwhelms him. Ming Hua's similarly extreme flexibility is compared favorably with his, establishing Luo as a recognized benchmark rather than the absolute limit of the trait. (Chapters 28, 33, and 44–45)

Scouting and instruction

Luo surveys routes, estimates local threats, isolates targets, and communicates observations clearly enough for Hua Feng to build a plan around them. In the Peerless Battalion he extends that expertise to mounted archery, aerial endurance, and formation fire. His initial failure to impose artificial rules on the ruffians shows the boundary of the skill: expert technique is not automatically effective teaching, and training has to be redesigned around the students actually present. (Chapters 29–32 and 133–135)

Relationships

• Zhou Weiqing: Luo begins by trying to humble Zhou, but being outmaneuvered earns his respect. He becomes one of Zhou's archery instructors, later reunites with him as family after the empire's fall, and contributes both skepticism and practical skill to Zhou's military project.
• Shangguan Bing'er: Luo tests Bing'er alongside Zhou and helps train her in the Heavenly Bow Unit. His teasing familiarity never erases his pride in her ability or the affection visible when she leaves.
• Mu En: The “Drunken Rogue” and “God Eye Scoundrel” are partners in the Unparalleled Liu Duo. Their constant insults mask a close working relationship built on archery, improvisation, resourcefulness, and a shared refusal to let propriety obstruct survival.
• Hua Feng: Luo scouts and distracts targets under Hua Feng's command, then supports his tactical leadership in the Peerless Battalion. Hua Feng often supplies the disciplined military rationale for Luo's opportunistic demands.
• Shangguan Fei'er: Luo initially mistakes Fei'er for her twin Bing'er and is promptly thrown aside. He later works under the training system she establishes for the Peerless soldiers.

Items

• Large black bow: Luo gives Zhou an unnamed bow almost two meters long and weighing roughly eighty jin, nearly four times the weight of a Purple Dawn Bow. Its draw is difficult even for Zhou, making it both a welcome gift and a strength-training tool. (Chapters 29–31)
• Field archery gear: On missions Luo carries two unnamed bows, a quiver holding roughly two hundred arrows, leather armor, water, and rations. The equipment supports sustained scouting and harassment, but no individual piece receives a canonical name. (Chapter 31)