Lan You Ruo

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* Blood Monster Battle Dress

Lan You Ruo, also known as **the Proprietress**, is the First Inn branch manager that forcefully takes Yang Kai under her wing shortly after his arrival in the Outer Universe. She then plays one of the largest roles in helping Yang Kai to establish himself in the 3,000 Worlds.

## Appearance

Lan You Ruo is an outstandingly beautiful woman who appears to be in her 30s. It is said that her appearance draws the attention of everyone whenever she enters the room.

## Personality

Lan You Ruo has a harsh on the outside*,* caring on the inside, and elder sister/mother disposition. This is particularly so when it comes to Yang Kai, who reminds her of her younger brother in the past.

## Background

Having been suppressed into straight promoting 6th Rank in the past, Lan You Ruo was an extremely powerful and talented 6th Rank Open Heaven Realm cultivator. Within 6th Rank, almost no one could compete with her one on one, especially when she went all out. As a 7th Rank, Lan You Ruo later has sufficient capital to deal with the Elders of Cave Heavens and Paradises.

When pressed into a hopeless situation, Lan You Ruo has a powerful Artifact Armor called the **Blood Monster Battle Dress**. Filled with Monster Qi, this dress gives her an enormous boost in power. However, as its name suggests, corrosion by its Monster Qi can cause its user to degenerate into a feral state of mind, and, if one is not careful, they can permanently lose their intelligence.

## Past

### Lan Ting Yu

Proprietress once had a little brother named Lan Ting Yu, who bore a striking resemblance to Yang Kai. Lan Ting Yu wanted to straight promote to the 7th Rank Open Heaven Realm, but was suppressed by the 36 Cave Heavens and 72 Paradises. Eventually, he was forced into straight promoting to the 5th Rank Open Heaven Realm, and subsequently met his death. This lead to a fracture between Lan You Ruo and the sister-like orphan she raised, Yue He.

## History

### Golden Crow

Lan You Ruo first sees Yang Kai as he hides in the Golden Crow Divine Palace found on the dying Sun Star within her First Inn branch's territory. Disinclined to manage him, Lan You Ruo gets several 4th Rank and below Open Heaven Realm cultivators to assist them in breaking the formation around the corpse of a Three-Legged Golden Crow Divine Spirit. After the formation is broken, Lan You Ruo makes a move to grab the most valuable 7th Rank resource of Sun's True Gold.

However, the Golden Crow suddenly reveals that it feigned its own early demise in order to take out greedy treasure hunters before it actually died. The Golden Crow releases a fierce volley of Golden Crow's true fire, which Lan You Ruo greatly weakens through the use of a powerful Umbrella Artifact. However, it still doesn't prevent the True Fire from killing more than a dozen Low Rank Open Heaven Realm cultivators. Infuriated that its plan was ruined, the Golden Crow then targets Lan You Ruo. Lan You Ruo then discovers that the Crow is on its last legs, and she subsequently gets the remaining Open Heaven Realm cultivators to assist her in defeating it.

### New Valet

Eventually, the Golden Crow, who once again appears to revive from the dead, is suddenly killed by the Divine Ability of a Golden Hen Divine Spirit. When the corpse falls, Yang Kai is found to be in the full view of the furious Open Heaven Realm cultivators. He then quickly takes the corpse and disappears after first calling out to Lan You Ruo as a means to distract the group. After a surprisingly long chase, Lan You Ruo manages to catch Yang Kai right outside of the First Inn. However, Yang Kai again summons the Divine Ability of Mie Meng to stall Lan You Ruo. After taking a final shot from Lan You Ruo, Yang Kai successfully makes it into the Inn, where, as a customer, a disgruntled Lan You Ruo has no choice but to protect him.

The news of the Golden Crow Corpse being located at the First Inn branch spreads quickly, and numerous High Rank Open Heaven Realm show up to inquire on who possesses it. Due to Yang Kai’s unwillingness to quickly hand over the corpse to Lan You Ruo, The First Inn branch building ends up subsequently being destroyed by the High Rank Open Heaven Realm cultivators as Yang Kai hides in his Six Fated Paths Bag with the corpse. Eventually, The First Inn ends up in possession of the corpse and Yang Kai is forced by Lan You Ruo to serve as her valet in order to pay her back for the destruction of the Inn, as well as to secretly protect him from the pursuit of any vengeful Open Heaven Realm cultivators.

### The Proprietress

Lan You Ruo, though acting coldly, proceeds to treat Yang Kai well as one of her valets. Though incurring increasingly high debts from him, she helps him to leave behind a mark on multiple Universe Temples in several Great Territories. Over time, Yang Kai suspects Proprietress favors him as if he reminded her of someone close to her in the past. Eventually, the First Inn branch members end up in one of Great Battle Heaven's Star Cities located in Thousand Birds Territory. Here, Proprietress has Yang Kai and Bai Qi move to acquire reparations for the destruction of her First Inn branch building from the shops of various influences involved.

One particular Influence, by the name of Wind and Cloud Auction, refuses to comply. After subsequently being outsmarted by Yang Kai, Wind and Cloud auction intends to hold him and Bai Qi as ransom against Lan You Ruo. However, Lan You Ruo personally storms into Wind and Cloud Auction, and crushes their two leaders, Old Yu and Yu Zhen Hua, thoroughly humiliating the two 4th Rank Open Heaven Realm cultivators. Later, Lan You Ruo also kills the descendant of a 6th Rank Open Heaven Realm Clear Mind Heaven Outer Sect Elder after the arrogant Young Master implicates Yang Kai into being whipped by the Star City guards of Great Battle Heaven. During these events, Yang Kai and Lan You Ruo start to become quite close.

### Sealed Yang Domain

Eventually, Bai Qi receives news that Sealed Yang Domain has appeared in Golden Rainbow Territory, and Lan You Ruo immediately prepares a trip for him to promote to the Open Heaven Realm there. She also allows Yang Kai to come along for experience. In Sealed Yang Domain, Bai Qi starts to promote before it is revealed that the whole situation was a trap set up by Old Yu of Wind and Cloud Auction, Qi Jin of Golden Rainbow Province, Ling Chun Qiu of Boundless Altar, and Yue He of Small Orchid Palace. These Open Heaven Realm cultivators all have some enmity with Lan You Ruo. Yang Kai manages to kill Old Yu with the last Divine Ability of Mie Meng, but Yue He manages to disturb Bai Qi's promotion, causing Lan You Ruo to fly into a rage and suppress her opponents.

As Yang Kai manages to miraculously save Bai Qi's promotion with World's Source Liquid, Lan You Ruo draws her opponents, now also including the vengeful Elder Hai Ping Le of Clear Mind Heaven, far away from the battlefield to protect Yang Kai and Bai Qi. During this time, Lan You Ruo takes an oath that she must inflict retribution on everyone present before she can promote to the 7th Rank Open Heaven Realm. Lan You Ruo eventually escapes to a Universe Temple, where her opponents dare not attack her for fear of retaliation from the 36 Cave Heavens and 72 Paradises.

### Grandmaster Wu Liang

Lan You Ruo again sees Yang Kai after the latter founds Void Land and asks for her help in repairing the Sect Protecting Array. After hitting Yang Kai for making her worry for so many years, the Proprietress sets him up with Grandmaster Wu Liang, an extremely skilled and famous Open Heaven Grade Array Master. Proprietress, while completely ignoring Yue He, then asks Yang Kai about his adventures in Great Ruins Boundary, to which Yang Kai reports with some exaggerations on the helpfulness of Yue He. Bai Qi helps Yang Kai's case by pretending to take a shot at Yue He's life, and only injures her slightly. Proprietress, clearly worried about Yue He's health, then reminds everyone of the oath she took by her Dao Seal in Sealed Yang Domain, which is reinterpreted into a vow to destroy the respective altars of the offenders.

Lan You Ruo then helps matters by bringing Yang Kai and Yue He to Small Orchid Palace, which she subsequently destroys without harming any of its actual inhabitants in order to fulfill her oath. The Proprietress then has Yue He take her people to Void Land to save Yang Kai the trouble of having to request for this process to take place. On the road, Lan You Ruo warns Yang Kai of the dangers of trying to straight promote to the 7th Rank Open Heaven Realm before taking him to meet Grandmaster Ma Fan. As Grandmaster Ma Fan, using his mysterious World Tempering method, then refines Yang Kai the Execution Heavenly Sword and Heavenly Net Umbrella within his Small Universe Furnace, Lan You Ruo is shocked when Yang Kai is revealed to have Golden Dragon Blood. Lan You Ruo then departs from Void Land to return to The First Inn branch, and absolves Yang Kai of any relation to the First Inn in order to allow him to keep Void Land to himself.

### Shadowless Cave Heaven

Lan You Ruo continues to assist Yang Kai in developing Void Land, helping him to acquire the Heavenly Yuan Seal Stabilizing Pill Recipe, a 7th Rank Yang Element Resource, and protects him both during and after the Blood Monster Cave Heaven event. Upon hearing about a High Rank Yin Element showing up, Lan You Ruo pursues it personally, but ends up falling into a trap set by Myriad Demons Heaven's Ti Zheng in the Shadowless Cave Heaven of Shattered Heaven. Here, Lan You Ruo, along with her Chef and Accountant, are eventually rescued by Yang Kai, who takes a Middle Rank World Fruit to promote to the 6th Rank Open Heaven Realm. After conquering the top powerhouses of Shadowless Cave Heaven, Yang Kai leads Proprietress and the others to depart using his mastery over Space Principles.

### Oath Fulfilled

Upon leaving Shadowless Cave Heaven, Yang Kai takes the opportunity to use his new found and extraordinary 6th Rank Open Heaven Realm strength to destroy both Boundless Altar and Golden Rainbow Province. Before joining Yang Kai's Void Land, Lan You Ruo first travels with Bai Qi and her other subordinates to separate herself from the First Inn. After joining Void Land, Lan You Ruo immediately closes up to finally promote to the 7th Rank Open Heaven Realm.

### Temporary Leader

Upon promoting to 7th Rank, Proprietress is processed by Xuan Yuan Cave Heaven and allowed to remain as an Elder of Yang Kai's Void Land, something unprecedented for most 2nd Class Influences. Later, when both an Ink Clan Royal Lord and Void Corridor are discovered in Black Territory, Lan You Ruo helps Yang Kai maintain his ownership of Black Territory and its various resources through negotiations with the Ancestors of various Cave Heavens and Paradises. As he later travels to Ink Battlefield, Yang Kai leaves Void Land/High Heaven Palace to be largely overseen by Lan You Ruo.

## References

1. ↑ Chapter 4850
2. ↑ Chapter 4438
3. ↑ Chapter 3908
4. ↑ Chapter 4395
5. ↑ Chapter 3974
6. ↑ Chapter 3976
7. ↑ Chapter 3979
8. ↑ Chapter 4149
9. ↑ Chapter 4150
10. ↑ Chapter 4153
11. ↑ Chapter 4155
12. ↑ Chapter 4157
13. ↑ Chapter 4158
14. ↑ Chapter 4887