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Lu Wenran

Elderdisciple of Esteemed Green Bullmid-stage Void Tribulant

Lu Wenran is a mid-stage Void Tribulant elder of the Great Soul Sect and a disciple of Esteemed Green Bull. He leads the defense of the Heavenly Bull Continent's third meridian, but resentment of Wang Lin and greed for the Heavenly Bull soul armor turn an internal rivalry into attempted murder. Wang Lin receives the armor and kills him. (Chapters 1854–1856 and 1869–1875)

Biography

Return from the Pill Sea

For more than one thousand years, Lu Wenran lives around the Pill Sea under a rogue-cultivator disguise, helping the Great Soul Sect's larger strategy mislead the Green Devil Continent. After returning, he learns that Wang Lin received access to the complete multi-layered illusion inheritance that Lu himself was denied. The perceived unfairness produces a concealed jealousy that he hides behind courteous smiles. (Chapters 1854–1856)

Esteemed Green Bull orders Lu to accompany Wang Lin, Yan Lu, and Xu Dongde to the third Heavenly Bull meridian. Lu leads the group through a costly first-generation transfer array and assumes command of the underground palace and its gathered defenders. (Chapter 1855)

Defense of the third meridian

When the Green Devil invasion begins, Lu leads the Void Tribulant cultivators into the formation fog. The fog blocks enemy divine sense, drains enemy celestial energy, and continuously replenishes the defenders, allowing Lu to hold a mid-stage opponent through repeated battles. He orders disciplined retreats rather than pursuing outside the formation's protection. (Chapters 1856–1859)

Lu's command is increasingly shaped by suspicion of Wang Lin. He sends Wang out of the sealed palace to test whether enemy forces will be drawn to him. Later, while escaping Green Devil Messengers, Lu sees Wang racing for shelter and deliberately seals the entrance immediately, forcing Wang to destroy a precious soul gourd to survive. (Chapters 1862 and 1869–1870)

Struggle for the Heavenly Bull soul armor

After massive losses awaken the soul armor, Lu assumes it should belong to him. Wang Lin interrupts the attempt and argues that Lu's contribution is insufficient, producing the heads of Liu Zhiyuan and Xu Decai as proof of his own victories. Lu tries to discredit those kills before the surviving cultivators because their collective approval determines whom the armor will accept. When opinion shifts toward Wang, Lu openly attacks him. (Chapters 1871–1873)

Wang's rapid spell barrage costs Lu an arm and much of his strength, but he creates blood avatars to delay Yan Lu and Xu Dongde and nearly tears Wang apart with a Nine Tooth Gear. The soul armor chooses Wang before Lu can finish the killing blow. Inflamed by jealousy, hidden inner demons, and Wang's planted illusion, Lu attacks the armored Wang until a single counterblow destroys his body. He tries to escape as an origin soul and invokes his status and teacher, but Wang destroys the soul completely. (Chapters 1874–1875)

Appearance and personality

Lu Wenran is an ordinary-looking middle-aged man in a green dao robe. He is capable of organized battlefield command and served his sect undercover for a millennium, but he is intensely status-conscious. His resentment over Wang Lin's inheritance and merits remains hidden until the soul armor is at stake; once his expected reward chooses Wang, envy and the implanted illusion drive him into public madness. (Chapters 1854–1856 and 1871–1875)

Abilities and cultivation

  • Mid-stage Void Tribulant: Lu Wenran moves with thunder-like speed and can contend with enemy cultivators of the same stage. Even after losing an arm and suffering a prolonged spell barrage, his cultivation lets him continue attacking, illustrating why Void Tribulant cultivators are difficult to kill. (Chapters 1854–1856 and 1869–1874)
  • Formation-fog support: Inside the third meridian's fog, Lu can replenish power, move without suffering its obstruction, and use divine sense more effectively than invaders. These benefits come from the shared Heavenly Bull formation and do not function as unrestricted personal abilities outside it. (Chapters 1856–1859)
  • Blood avatars: By coughing out blood, Lu creates two temporary avatars that intercept Yan Lu and Xu Dongde for several breaths. The method buys time for his attack on Wang but further injures him and does not produce lasting independent bodies. (Chapter 1874)
  • Nine Tooth Gear: His strongest displayed weapon is a rotating, bladed gear. Wang Lin's Heaven Ripping destroys four teeth, but the other five cut into his body and nearly split him apart before the soul armor intervenes. (Chapter 1874)
  • Defensive endurance: Lu breaks through paired Seven-Colored Lances, War Spirit Prints, Realm Burning Umbrellas, Sundered Night, Flowing Time, and several additional spells cast in rapid succession. He survives but loses an arm and exhausts most of his available power; the feat is resistance at great cost, not immunity. (Chapter 1874)
  • Multi-layered illusion knowledge: Lu's resentment centers on being denied the complete version of the Great Soul Sect art. The corpus does not show him using the complete spell and therefore does not support attributing Wang Lin's full illusion mechanics to him. (Chapter 1856)

Relationships

  • Wang Lin: Lu envies Wang Lin's inheritance, repeatedly exposes him to danger, contests the soul armor, and attempts to kill him before the assembled defenders. Once chosen by the armor, Wang destroys Lu's body and origin soul. (Chapters 1855–1856 and 1862–1875)

Items

  • Nine Tooth Gear: A bladed gear used as Lu Wenran's final killing weapon; four of its nine teeth break against Heaven Ripping before the remainder wounds Wang Lin. (Chapter 1874)
  • Transfer jade: A sect-issued, consumable jade authorizes and powers use of an ancient transfer array to the third meridian. It shatters after activation and is not a reusable personal treasure. (Chapter 1855)