Lu Family

## Introduction

The Lu (陆) family was once the ruling family that controlled the Fifth Mainland was Lu Yin's family in the Perennial World. The story revolves around Lu Yin uncovering his past and his connection towards the Lu family. The Lu family was official introduced during the Perennial World arc where it was revealed that the Lu family alongside the Fifth Mainland powers had migrated to the Mother Tree.

## History

The Lu family had existed since the Heavens Sect era and had a Dao Monarch that ruled the Fifth Mainland, similar the other five Mainlands with the Three Realms, Six Daos when humanity was at it's peak. The other four powers of Celestial Frost Sect, Shenwu's Sky, the Wang family, and the White Dragon Clan being underneath Lu family's rule with the Lu family had multiple Progenitors and strong enough to be the leader of all the other four powers. After the Fifth Mainland had gone to war against the Sixth Mainland, the Aeternals had attacked and caused the destruction of the Daosource Sect, resulting in the Lu family alongside many of the powerful organizations to migrate to the Mother Tree and departed from the Fifth Mainland.

It was believed by those of the Fifth Mainland and the Perennial World that when the Fifth Mainand’s Daosource Sect collapsed the Lu family and with many of the primeval surnames powers had abandoned the Fifth Mainland, migrated to the Mother Tree to become the Perennial World. Those from the Perennial World regarded those from the Fifth Mainland as stowaways, and the Fifth Mainland as the Forsaken Lands; while those from the Fifth Mainland regarded the powers that left the Fifth Mainland as deserters. Due to the abandonment, the Fifth Mainland hated the ruling parties of the Perennial World which resulted in the persecution of the Primeval Surnames if any were discovered in the Fifth Mainland.

The true history was that Progenitor Hui had created the Ceaseless Impetus as a means to block anyone below the Progenitor realm, provided there was a battlefield to separate them. The Lu family's patriarch,Lu Tianyi had chosen to take on the eternal infamy and disconnect the Mother Tree from the Fifth Mainland in order to protect the Fifth Mainland. This truth was buried in history, and the Fifth Mainland had regarded the Lu family as abandoning them. The Hall of Honor was created by Arch-Elder Zen with the guidance of Lu Tianyi who gave the Tri-Yang Ancestral Technique to Arch-Elder Zen, and the Sky Pillar which held up the Heavens Sect as the new headquarters of Mt. Microcosms in the Neoverse. Although Arch-Elder Zen was grateful towards Lu Tianyi for providing the inheritance for the Hall of Honor, he did not know the truth of the Lu family and the Perennial World's departure from the Fifth Mainland.

The Perennial World was the new place which the powers exist afterwards, with the Lu family ruling the Higher Realm alongside the vassal of the Qiming family, and the All-Dao family, while the four other powers were restricted to the Middle Realm. The Mavis family were once also one of the three subordinate family of the Lu family after the collapse of their Mainland and the Lu family taking them in, but had made the decision to stay behind on the Fifth Mainland after the separation of the Perennial World. The Mavis family was different than the other two as the Mavis had a long history that had declined due to the Aeternals and was more of a cooperative relationship being the Lu family's purse in return for their shelter.

The Lu Sanctum was the Lu family’s home in the Higher Realm. The Perennial World has its Lower Realm, Middle Realm, and Higher Realm, but only the Lu family and their followers lived in the Higher Realm. The soil of the Higher Realm is the sky of the realms below it, that is Lu Sanctum. It is an informal title given to the Lu family by the Perennial World as a whole and only the Lu family can live on the Lu Sanctum. It is the most highly regarded location in the entire Perennial World. Even if a Progenitor such as Bai Wangyuan wished to visit, he would have to send an announcement requesting access in advance. The Lu Sanctum represents the pinnacle of all of humanity.

The Lu family’s direct descendants had been able to summon Champions, which gave people nightmares for both their lives and their deaths. The easiest way to explain this was absolute control. Once someone died, their enemy could summon them and force them to keep on fighting. The Champions’ Stage had been a major reason why the Lu family had had so many loyal followers, but also why they had had so many enemies. The Lu family had never had any prejudices regarding using friends or enemies as Champions.

### Exile of the Lu family

During the festival in which all of the Lu family members gathered, the four ruling powers plotted against the Lu family and caused the White Dragon Rolls Over, pushing the entire Lu family towards the monsters, exiling them from the Perennial World.

With the Lu family being exiled from the Perennial World, the four remaining powers divided up control as the new rulers of Perennial World. The Progenitors of the four ruling powers stayed in the Dominion Realm at all times to hold back Aeternus’ Progenitors.

## Information

The Fifth Mainland designate the surname of Lu as one of the few Primeval Surname which those without a legal status will be killed by the Hall of Honor. This was due to the fact that the Lu family was one of the powers which casted aside those from the Fifth Mainland and remained on the Mother Tree, hence to the Perennial World, the Fifth Mainland were known as the Forsaken Land. Although they have left the Fifth Mainland, they still guarded the Fifth Mainland from the invasion of the Aeternals on the backside of the Mother Tree.

The Lu family respected the Mother Tree and as it was the source of protection for humanity, they restricted those from harvesting stellular liquid. Stellular liquid was the Mother Tree's sap and it's energy source, so it is harming to the Mother Tree harvesting stellular energy. After the four ruling powers took control, they still replaced the Lu family in guarding against the Aeternal's attacks but it was an open secret that they collected stellular energy in order to get stronger.

## Lu Family Abilities

The Lu family had a long history ruling over the Fifth Mainland and they have many techniques and signatures that belong sololy to them. The direct descendants of the Lu family had the innate ability of the Champions' Stage, as well as the Origin Progenitor's Sutra to enhance the spiritual force. Those from the Lu family possess far greater reserves of stellular energy and star energy than other people, especially those of the direct descendants who had the Champions' Stage as the champion require the star energy of the summoner to fuel them, and well as physical strength and endurance second only to the Mavis family.

Some techniques that were from the direct and branch family line includes:

* **Visualization**-A powerful technique available to the powerful families that once ruled the mainland provided by the Origin Progenitor. The Lu family possessed visualization techniques for both their main and branch families with the branch family is the Immovable Heavenly King Elephant, while the main line family have the Fifth Mainland. The visualization technique was stolen by the other four powers after the **Lu family** had been exiled.
	+ **Immovable Heavenly King Elephant** - one of the visualization techniques practiced by the branch families of the Lu family that copies and draws power from the Immovable Heavenly King Elephant. Enhances the physical attack of the user by imbuing the Immovable Heavenly King Elephant's strength.
	+ Fifth Mainland visualization - the visualization technique of the main branch of the Lu family visualizes the whole Fifth Mainland itself to empower its user.
* **Hidden Needle**- A powerful technique that can be used to attack as well as expel toxins from the body or even heal injuries.
* **Flipping the Sky** - A powerful technique personally created by Lu Xiaoxuan that was so profound that it caused the Lu family’s Progenitor to show himself and became one of the Lu family’s unique battle techniques. Flipping the Sky created a separate portion of the universe itself, and that formed the “palm” of the battle technique. With the palm in the sky above the ground, the sky was overturned. This simple flip of a portion of the universe was all that there was to this battle technique. It was a comprehension technique that did not have any requirements in terms of cultivation of strength. The comprehension of this technique depended solely on whether a cultivator could understand four simple words: Sky Will Flip Over.
* **Origin Progenitor’s Sutra** - A powerful cultivation method that has been passed down by the Lu family from one generation to the next an can only reveal its true power in the hands of the direct descendants of Lu family, the Origin Progenitor's Sutra has properties to grow the user's spiritual force, protect the user from spiritual force attacks, as well as other miraculous functions.
* **Lifeseizer Palm** - A palm technique that can steal an enemy's life force.
* **Tri-Yang Ancestral Qi Technique** - Creates three streams of near unstoppable and indestructible Qi that can be manipulated into becoming clones to guard against an attack enemies. The true power of the technique is to transform the three streams of Qi into clones of powerful Progenitors with all their skills and abilities though at the same cultivation level as the user. Created by Lu Tianyi.
* **Champions' Stage** - An innate gift possessed only by the direct bloodline descendants of the **Lu Family** that can anoint the fallen whether they be friend or foe to create copies of them that are known as Champions. The user can then summon those Champions from their stage to fight for them. The summoned Champion can use all the abilities and techniques those they are copied from possessed but they have no intelligence or will of their own they only act on the will of their summoner. The champions cannot be truly killed or even destroyed as they have no true body as they are made from the energy of the user. The summoned champions continuously draw on the energy of the user while they are summoned more so when they use their techniques and abilities as well as when they take damage drawing as much as needed to repair an maintain themselves.
* **Investiture of the Gods -** At first described as a powerful complimentary visualization technique for the **Champions' Stage** innate gift to allow the anointment and summoning of the living to fight for them but in truth it is the awakening of a second complimentary innate gift to the **Champions' Stage**. It manifests a scroll that radiates a golden light that has the ability to anoint and summon the living to fight for holder of this innate gift but it only anoints Progenitors. Just like the **Champions' Stage** it creates a being, a copy of those that have their name conferred upon the scroll its version of anointed but unlike the Champions of the Champions' Stage these summons are linked to the originals they are copied from. The holder of this gift must be strong enough comparable to the Progenitor level themselves to confer the names of those they want to summon but if they are not at the Progenitor level they can still summon a God by getting the Progenitor to willingly to be conferred onto the Investiture of the Gods. There can be a severe backlash upon the holder if they fail at conferring a Progenitor onto their **Investiture of the Gods** even if the Progenitor is willing and gives consent if there is to great a difference in power between the two.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Chapter 1441
2. ↑ Chapter 1368
3. ↑ Chapter 1518
4. ↑ Chapter 2340
5. ↑ Chapter 1894
6. ↑ Chapter 2380