Duan Dong River

Duan Dong River, born Zhen Jue and later titled Duan Dong River Zhen Jue Wu, is the 192nd master of an ancient one-heir lineage. Knowing that the Universe Boat expedition accompanying his general would probably end in death, he remodels a Boat of Mausoleum into a lethal succession site and leaves a virtual copy of his mind to select a worthy descendant. That consciousness tests the powers of Universe Ocean, chooses Luo Feng as the 193rd Duan Dong River, transfers a vast archive and three protected core techniques, and then relinquishes control and disappears. (Chapters 1217–1486)

Biography

The final expedition becomes a plan for succession

Duan Dong River's first message is recorded for descendants he expects to meet only after his death. He identifies himself as the 192nd master and sole living heir of a lineage whose accumulated inheritance cannot be allowed to end with him. He is traveling on a final, exceptionally dangerous expedition with his general and already considers survival unlikely. A revelation at the end of the corpus places that expedition among ancient attempts to enter deep Universe Ocean and enslave immature Sector Beasts; the army fails, and its members die without even achieving reincarnation. The precise battlefield and the identity of his general are not otherwise shown. (Chapters 1217 and 1486)

Before departing, Duan Dong River converts a standard Boat of Mausoleum into both a shelter for the lineage and a weapon against unqualified intruders. He adds dangerous internal regions, a life-and-death corridor, control systems, and access to the separate space of inheritance. The actual man dies with the expedition, but a virtual consciousness constructed from his thoughts, memories, and character remains in control. When Luo Feng and the other explorers find him, the figure is not a surviving soul or resurrected body; it is a deliberately preserved intelligence able to administer the arrangements its original created. (Chapters 1217–1218 and 1244–1246)

His motive combines duty and guilt. He repeatedly says that his own death is acceptable but the generations of Duan Dong River cannot die with him, and later confesses that his choices brought the lineage's bloodline to complete severance. The corpus does not explain which specific decision made him responsible or whether another route could actually have saved his contemporaries. What survives is his answer to that failure: build a selection rigorous enough that a distant descendant can continue a lineage whose living members have all vanished. (Chapters 1217, 1235, and 1240–1245)

A succession trial that offers retreat before demanding death

The virtual Duan Dong River initially gives the six discoverers repeated chances to leave. He even permits them to invite competitors from their races and other powers because a larger candidate pool increases the chance of finding a true heir. His first screen uses an ancient instrument to reject candidates who do not meet the lineage's basic biological or identity requirements; that round is explicitly safe. Once candidates enter the life-and-death corridor or begin touching protected inheritance, however, failure means annihilation. The distinction is deliberate: curiosity may be withdrawn early, but protected knowledge cannot be taken away by someone the lineage has rejected. (Chapters 1218–1221)

The death corridor tests survival before intellectual potential. Candidates may use every weapon and technique they possess while Duan Dong River's mechanisms and the monster Cuello kill several of them. He separates Luo Feng from the original group after the inspection indicates unusual promise, preventing the others from arranging an attack during the corridor trial. Later, when thousands of candidates arrive, he sets up the Rhinoceros Emperor Game and adjusts the required bottlenecks according to cultivation rank. A Universe Master, Universe Knight, Undying, and True God are not judged by the same raw number because reaching an equal result with less cultivation demonstrates greater potential. (Chapters 1220–1235)

Duan Dong River protects candidates who meet a threshold with a golden shadow and announces that anyone attacking them will be disqualified and killed. He encourages Luo Feng and Blue Blood when they pull ahead, but does not immediately end the competition merely because he prefers one candidate. He gives the remaining contenders time to improve and distinguishes peripheral, elite, core, and heir levels. Once the time expires, those who never pass even the first bottleneck are killed, and the remaining candidates enter the stage where contact with actual inheritance makes death for all but one unavoidable. (Chapters 1231–1236)

His methods are also capable of personal partiality and extreme punishment. Because he owes Thundercoat Devil God a favor, he agrees to exclude the Divine Eye clan unless one of its members proves the best candidate. When none does, he destroys Second and Seventh True Masters inside Ice Cliff Fortress, dismissing their supreme treasure as inadequate against the Boat's deeper mechanisms, and awards the recovered treasures to Thundercoat. The source presents this as a fulfilled debt rather than a neutral part of succession. It demonstrates that the virtual consciousness preserves Duan Dong River's loyalties and harshness along with his selection rules. (Chapters 1236–1238)

The Rhinoceros game produces a new Duan Dong River

The final selection combines broad study with personal creation. The inheritance space offers 820 basic paths ranging across close combat, ranged combat, weapon making, and other disciplines, with one candidate assigned to each portal. Luo Feng chooses the blade. He receives 360 manuals and three mountains of blade engravings, then must create a technique strong enough to satisfy a standard that ordinary Universe Ocean cultivation does not provide. The basic inheritance is called only an appetizer because the core archive remains sealed until a single heir proves both comprehension and creative ability. (Chapters 1239–1242)

Luo Feng's progress through the Rhinoceros Emperor Game and blade trial finally meets the lineage's requirement. Duan Dong River responds with relief rather than simple triumph: after waiting through uncounted reincarnation eras, he has found someone whose comprehension at least does not shame the current generation. The other candidates are annihilated when the heir is confirmed, including those with bodies elsewhere, because the succession mechanisms attack the soul rather than merely the body present in the Boat. Luo Feng's survival therefore closes the competition rather than creating a school of partial inheritors. (Chapters 1235–1243)

Once the choice is made, Duan Dong River changes from aloof examiner to teacher. He asks Luo Feng to call him Teacher, reveals that “Duan Dong River” is a lineage name, and explains his complete title. Zhen Jue was his personal name before becoming the 192nd heir; “Wu” is an honorific he earned, while the much greater third ancestral teacher, Jue Yi Saint King, reached a pinnacle he did not. Luo Feng becomes the 193rd generation and receives the lineage name Duan Dong River Luo Feng. The narrative describes the old master's ancient standing but does not give a reliably translatable modern rank for his original body. (Chapter 1243)

The installation is physical as well as ceremonial. Luo Feng kneels before the third ancestor's statue and receives a black-and-white inheritance mark. The mark allows the succession space to recognize an heir, persists through resurrection, and binds an oath never to give the core inheritance to outsiders. Breaking the oath would annihilate the inheritor's soul every time he was restored. Duan Dong River makes the condition non-negotiable: without the oath, Luo Feng would be killed and another heir selected. (Chapters 1243–1244)

The last consciousness gives up its reason to remain

Duan Dong River introduces the archive in layers. Three Memory Stones hold the lineage's most protected lost knowledge; 12,002 more contain core inheritances and major cultivation experience; more than one hundred million record basic techniques and a broad sample of ancient civilization. The space also includes 820 foundational schools, combat simulations with 282 opponents, areas for creating secret techniques, nurturing weapons, meditation, and time acceleration. It is designed not to hand an heir automatic strength but to provide systematic knowledge, practice environments, and examples at every stage. (Chapters 1244–1246)

The three protected techniques are Duan Mie, Dong Hua, and Undying River. Duan Dong River also gives the heir access to a treasure space, a lineage weapon embryo, and the remade Boat of Mausoleum, but does not leave a stockpile that would eliminate the need to adventure. Generations normally borrow one great treasure and are expected to return it or contribute more. Each generation leaves one weapon embryo, while other equipment must be won through the heir's own risks. This structure reflects his theory of succession: knowledge and a viable foundation should survive, but achievement cannot be inherited whole. (Chapters 1244 and 1249–1251)

After explaining the essentials, the virtual consciousness records its remaining memories and instructions in a final Memory Stone. Duan Dong River admits that he has been lonely for countless eras, then recognizes that the person speaking is already only a copy of someone long dead. He voluntarily releases control of the inheritance space, crumbles into light, and disappears. The space then recognizes Luo Feng as its master. There is no later scene in which this 192nd-generation consciousness returns; subsequent mentions refer to his lineage, records, tools, or the new inheritor. (Chapters 1245–1246 and 1383)

A dead teacher's archive changes the fate of humanity

The inheritance immediately alters the balance of Universe Ocean even though Duan Dong River no longer acts. Luo Feng shares non-core cultivation knowledge with the human leadership, gives systematic guidance from Undying through the limits of True God, and trades carefully selected ordinary Memory Stones for supreme treasures. Rival powers recognize that a race with this foundation may produce more True Gods or eventually transcend reincarnation. When Huge Axe Creator dies, fear of that future joins the struggle for territory and becomes a principal cause of the coalition war against humanity. (Chapters 1247–1265)

In that war, the lineage contributes both knowledge and directly usable methods. The remodeled Boat resists capture, Blood Shadow's weapon embryo raises Luo Feng's blade output, and Duan Mie accelerates his burning godly power beyond ordinary methods. The human leadership shares enough peripheral inheritance to recruit or negotiate with allies while keeping the oath-bound core secret. These consequences fulfill Duan Dong River's goal of preserving the lineage, but they also reveal its cost: the inheritance is so desirable that its new holder and his entire race become targets. (Chapters 1267–1312)

World of Jin later supplements rather than replaces the archive. Luo Feng can compare the Duan Dong River records with Jin's life diagrams, will techniques, machines, and military systems; some Jin knowledge exceeds what the lineage collected, while the lineage remains superior or more complete in other fields. During the Sector Beast crisis, Luo Feng relies on Duan Mie for power and completes Undying River to create a resurrection reserve before entering the nest. His unprecedented 100,000-times life-gene breakthrough and final miniature-universe structure go beyond any recorded Duan Dong River example, demonstrating that the archive is a foundation rather than a ceiling. (Chapters 1366–1452)

After Luo Feng enters the reincarnation passage, the original universe's restrictions no longer prevent him from reading the deepest portions of the memory archive. The final chapter does not restore the former Duan Dong River or reveal his personal memories as a new actor; it only opens knowledge that had previously been inaccessible. His final legacy is therefore a living successor carrying the lineage beyond Universe Ocean, while the 192nd master's own existence remains ended. (Chapter 1486)

Appearance and personality

The figure first seen in the Boat is a human-shaped man with yellow skin, black eyes, completely cyan hair, and simple armor patterned like a rolling river. His projection exerts little obvious pressure, which makes its command over the Boat more unsettling. After Luo Feng wins, he also appears in elegant white armor marked with golden stars, fine boots, and a hat. These are presentations of virtual consciousness rather than proof that his original ancient body still exists. (Chapters 1217–1219, 1235, and 1243)

Duan Dong River is cold, proud, and uncompromising during selection. He rejects pleas, mocks the local classification of supreme treasures, annihilates candidates who have crossed the point of retreat, and treats the lineage's secrecy as more important than the lives of outsiders. Yet he follows declared rules closely enough to protect qualifying candidates, adjusts standards for rank, and rewards exceptional comprehension wherever it appears. His severity is purposeful, although the favor granted to Thundercoat shows that it is not perfectly impartial. (Chapters 1218–1238)

With an heir secured, the same personality reveals grief, reverence, and loneliness. He cries when Luo Feng advances faster than expected, calls himself a sinner toward his ancestors, venerates Jue Yi Saint King, and becomes warm enough to ask for the title Teacher. His final act is not to preserve the copy indefinitely but to surrender control once the lineage can continue. The virtual consciousness reproduces those emotions from the original template; the corpus nevertheless distinguishes it from a soul and states that it is not a living being. (Chapters 1235 and 1243–1245)

Abilities and progression

Duan Dong River's personally demonstrated powers in the supplied corpus belong mainly to the preserved virtual consciousness and the systems it controls. The original ancient fighter is title-bearing, knowledgeable, and capable of remodeling extraordinary machines, but his exact rank, laws, godly-body properties, and battlefield techniques are not shown reliably. Later uses of lineage techniques belong to Luo Feng and demonstrate what Duan Dong River transmitted, not necessarily what the 192nd master personally used in combat. (Chapters 1217, 1243–1246, and 1484–1486)

Virtual consciousness and inheritance mark

The virtual consciousness is constructed from Duan Dong River's thoughts, memories, and character. Inside the inheritance space it can appear or vanish, observe candidates, communicate, control doors and spaces, activate defenses, and voluntarily transfer ownership. It survives for countless reincarnation eras because the inheritance space maintains it, but it is neither a conventional soul nor an independent resurrected life form and has no stated combat power outside the systems it commands. (Chapters 1217–1219, 1244–1246, and 1484)

The black-and-white inheritance mark authenticates the new Duan Dong River and lets the space recognize its owner. It also enforces the core-secrecy oath at soul level, surviving ordinary resurrection and destroying prohibited memories if an enemy tries to obtain them. The mark does not forbid sharing every ancient fact: peripheral knowledge and basic inheritances may be taught at the holder's discretion. Its exact construction is credited to the third ancestral teacher and is beyond the 192nd master's explained mechanics. (Chapters 1243–1246, 1253, and 1388)

Selection systems and soul annihilation

Duan Dong River's succession machinery can inspect candidate nature, test survival, vary Rhinoceros Emperor Game requirements by cultivation rank, create protective shadow palaces, and monitor attacks against protected candidates. The life-and-death corridor, Cuello, and deeper dangerous regions can kill beings whose ordinary defenses survive Universe Ocean threats. These are prepared systems under his control rather than spontaneous attacks generated by the virtual body's own energy. (Chapters 1218–1238)

Once candidates contact protected inheritance, the system can annihilate their souls across multiple bodies, preventing self-destruction or distant avatars from preserving them. It destroys Second and Seventh True Masters despite Ice Cliff Fortress and later kills the unsuccessful final candidates together. Before that point, Duan Dong River repeatedly allows withdrawal, making contact with the real inheritance—not merely entry into the Boat—the decisive boundary. (Chapters 1218, 1236–1243)

Rhinoceros Emperor Game and knowledge evaluation

The Rhinoceros Emperor Game tests comprehension through endgames rather than accumulated force. Duan Dong River establishes different bottlenecks for Undyings, Universe Knights, Universe Masters, and True Gods and values the speed of progress as evidence of future potential. Passing gives protection and candidate standing; reaching a sufficiently high bottleneck can confer the inheritance immediately. The game itself comes from the ancient Rhinoceros Emperor, not from Duan Dong River's personal invention. (Chapters 1231–1236 and 1452)

The later basic-inheritance trial adds specialization and creation. Candidates study one of 820 schools, and a blade candidate must combine manuals and engraving models into an original technique strong enough to meet the lineage standard. Duan Dong River can judge the result, but the source does not explain whether evaluation comes from his virtual memories, the space's automated rules, or both. (Chapters 1239–1243)

Remodeled Boat of Mausoleum

Duan Dong River remodels the Boat of Mausoleum into a machine far more capable than ordinary vessels of the same class. It houses the succession route, resists external capture, can teleport its recognized owner internally, draws on stored or surrounding energy, and contains lethal mechanisms that can destroy True Gods. In flight, defense, impact, and internal control, it outperforms a normal Boat of Mausoleum by orders of magnitude. (Chapters 1217–1238 and 1251–1268)

Its strongest demonstrated attacks operate against targets that enter or are pulled into prepared internal regions. The Boat cannot simply annihilate every enemy outside its hull, and its new owner must still supply some godly power and learn the control system. After Duan Dong River disperses, Luo Feng operates it through detailed instructions left in a Memory Stone. (Chapters 1237–1238, 1246, and 1251–1268)

The archive and three core techniques

The inheritance space stores 820 basic paths, 12,002 core Memory Stones, more than one hundred million peripheral stones, combat simulations, time acceleration, weapon cultivation, meditation, and technique-creation areas. It absorbs external energy to remain stable, while its time acceleration reaches ten thousand times under the virtual consciousness and can increase when a stronger owner supplies power. The archive covers much of the ancient civilization but is not literally complete; World of Jin later contains major knowledge it lacks. (Chapters 1239 and 1243–1246, 1382–1388)

Duan Mie produces an extreme combat outburst by accelerating the burning of godly power. Dong Hua turns the user into a stream of brilliance capable of crossing layers of space at exceptional speed. Undying River lets a True God isolate a complete life imprint in a small piece of flesh or blood; if the main body and soul die, that reserve can absorb energy and restore the person. Completion is difficult and slow—Luo Feng needs prolonged training, and a single viable blood drop takes more than a thousand years to form. None of these techniques removes equipment loss, imprisonment, or the need to comprehend successive volumes. (Chapters 1244, 1248, 1255, 1285, 1413, and 1451–1453)

Treasure knowledge and lineage weaponry

Duan Dong River can identify the limitations of Ice Cliff Fortress, judge recognition requirements for recovered treasures, and assign them to compatible users. The inheritance's treasure area contains 322 precious objects, but an heir normally borrows only one and is expected to return or replace it. This policy prevents the succession from becoming dependent on a diminishing hoard. (Chapters 1237–1238 and 1249)

Every generation leaves one weapon embryo. The embryo begins without a mature technique engraving, accepts the inheritor's own path, and can grow with that user rather than fixing him to a predecessor's style. Luo Feng selects a blade and names it Blood Shadow. That choice demonstrates the system's function, but the blade is the 193rd inheritor's item rather than Duan Dong River Zhen Jue Wu's personal weapon. (Chapters 1249–1250 and 1270)

Power progression

Relationships

• Luo Feng: Luo Feng begins as the most promising candidate and becomes the 193rd Duan Dong River. The old virtual consciousness protects him without waiving the tests, then shifts into the role of teacher, binds him to preserve the core, transfers the lineage, and disappears once Luo Feng can continue it independently. (Chapters 1218–1246)
• Thundercoat Devil God: Thundercoat discovers the Boat first and makes a bargain based on his hatred of the Divine Eye clan. Duan Dong River honors the debt, allows the wider succession contest, excludes the clan once it fails to produce the best candidate, and gives Thundercoat recovered treasures. No generated article exists for Thundercoat in this wiki, so the name is intentionally unlinked. (Chapters 1236–1238)
• Deer Bug Master: Deer Bug is one of the original discoverers and survives the death corridor to become a serious candidate. Duan Dong River evaluates him alongside Luo Feng and the later arrivals, but his blade creation does not win the final succession. (Chapters 1217–1243)
• Second True Master and Seventh True Master: The two Divine Eye leaders resist from Ice Cliff Fortress after their clan is disqualified. Duan Dong River uses the Boat's deeper mechanisms to destroy them and turns their recovered treasures over to Thundercoat, proving that local “supreme” classification does not make a palace invulnerable to ancient systems. (Chapters 1236–1238)
• Duan Dong River Jue Yi Saint King: The third ancestral teacher perfects the lineage, creates its inheritance mark, and is revered by the 192nd master as its greatest figure. No generated article exists for him, so the name is intentionally unlinked. (Chapters 1243–1244)

Items

• Boat of Mausoleum: Duan Dong River remodels the vessel into the container and defense system for his succession, adding lethal internal regions, the path to the inheritance space, and controls that later pass to Luo Feng. (Chapters 1217–1246 and 1251–1268)