Di Lan

**Di Lan** is one of the minor characters in *Immortal Swordsman In The Reverse World*.

Lan is the former **Empress** in the Empire, founder of the Supervision Department, and Head of the royal Di Family. She happens to be the older sister to Gong Nian's husband as well to the 6 King and the Palace Master. After the events of the Material Arts Competition, she made Chu Qing one of her concubines. She is the wife to Yang Yang and the mother to Di Si thus making her Qing's mother-in-law. Due to having the Blood Dragon inside her, she is the most powerful woman in the Empire.

## Background

At a young age, Lan was next in line to becoming Empress in the Empire. She was picked on by a young Yang who became her fiancee during the time.

In her adulthood, Lan succeeded on ruling the Empire and married an adult Yang making him the Emperor and both having a daughter named Si, but sadly, her husband and daughter were killed during the Xuan Nu Palace rebellion she exiled the Girls Palace out of existence, banishing them to an island on the east of China. She made a law if anyone in the Empire speaks of the palace warriors, they would get the death penalty. Lan is aware of some of the palace warriors invading the Empire and being undercover so they don't get exposed or caught in the process. She had created a harem for herself.

Later on, Lan rejected the former prince, Xing Lie when the prince had the opportunity of being elected as the 3rd Duchess thus Lie resigned her title and runs away with a man named Liu Feng whom she wanted to be with and gets away from Lan by escaping to Jing Men.

## Appearance

* Lan in her normal attire.
* Lan's hair turns gray.
* Lan as a child.
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Lan is a very beautiful woman. She has long light brown hair and light blue eyes. She wears a red and black long dress, red cape, black arm sleeves, gold Egyptian like necklace, gold rings, and black long legged high heel shoes.

When working in her office, Lan was shown wearing a white long sleeve dress.

During the Material Arts Competition, Lan wears a long red royal like cape, a fancy pearl necklaces around her neck and the back of her head, black arm sleeves, a black short dress with a red longing like tail, and medium legged high heel shoes.

During the time with her sisters, Lan wore a long red dress.

After passing the true blood dragon to Chu Qing, Lan's hair turns completely gray.

As a child, Lan had wore a white short sleeve polo shirt, blue skirt, long white socks, and brown shoes.

## Personality

Lan is shown to be rude when disliking Lie by throwing a book at her face. She seems to judge people for those who are worthy and those who are useless. If any person or family betrays or fail her, she will not hesitate to kill or destroy them. She is described by the Palace Master of Xuan Nu Palace being a mad woman.

Lan can get interested in those that fascinate her such as Chu Qing whom she finds to be very strong and powerful even making him one of her concubines. In a way, she takes pride of treating both women and men equally in the Empire.

According to Cheng Qian Shan, originally Lan was once the kind-heart person to all those she loves, but changed dramatically when she lost her husband Yang and believed to have lost her daughter Si as well during the Xuan Nu Palace's rebellion. However, upon Qing and Si's appearance to her, she has return to be her old self. Lan can be somewhat depress sometimes especially after Yang's death being single for a long time not having companionship.

## Synopsis

### Imperial Capital Arc

Lan makes her first appearance in the Imperial Palace after she had summoned the Head of the Xiao Family, Xiao Qing to ask a certain matter. She asks Xiao Qing if it's true that lightning knocked down a building in her house. Xiao Qing says that it's all rumors. Lan believes her and dismisses Xiao Qing. She speaks to her Head Guard, Han Shang saying that Xiao Qing is lying as she knows that the lightning is not ordinary. She orders Shang to investigate and marks that if the Xiao family betrays her, she not show any mercy.

The next day in her office, Lan is informed by Shang that the lightning incident at the Xiao house was not from a woman, but from a man named Chu Qing who's at the age of twenty and knowing about his strength. Lan finds this interesting and says that Gong Nian's application for a man to attend the Material Arts Tournament has been approved.

At night, after the first session of the semi-finals in the Material Arts Competition, Lan is informed by Shang that Han Shuang was to late to capture Li Le and her alley who both women were exposed being members of the Xuan Nu Palace when they attempt an assassination plot on Qing. Lan wonders what power is in Qing that the Xuan Nu Palace would want to get rid of him. Lan becomes more interested in Qing and wants her people to investigate the matter even further.

On the day in the final stage of the Material Arts Competition with the five competitors being Chu Qing, Ye Chen Xi, Gong Shu, Di Cai, and Bai Jing Feng, Lan enters into the Hall being greeted by the crowd. Soon, the 6 King, Ji Min, Wu Su, and Gong Nian join her with all five of them being the judges. In the final round, one will be a defender while the four will be challengers to defeat the defender. Cai is chosen as the defender while Qing, Chen Xi, Shu, and Jing Feng are the challengers. The judges watch as Cai easily defeats Chen Xi and Jing Feng in the first two founds. In the third round, Cai summons the "Cold Moon Blade" to battle Shu and both seem to be evenly matched. Shu defeats Cai and becomes the defender. This ends the morning matches.

Lan is escorted by Su to the medical room to visit Chen Xi. As they enter, they see Chen Xi surrounded by all her friends. Lan is amazed by Chen Xi's skills and taking a liking to Qing. Su is not fooled by Jing Feng pretending to be asleep. The two women soon leave.

In the her Lounge, Lan orders Su to get all of the movements of the Gentlemen's League in three days and dismisses her. She calls in Shang and states that Qing is not a member of the male league, but invited him to join. Lan states there must be something else besides the league's secret realm of male cultivation. She orders Shang to keep an eye on Qing.

In the afternoon, Lan along with the judges watch the fourth battle between Qing and Shu. Qing defeats Shu and wins becoming the first male champion of the Material Arts Competition in history. Lan places the first place medal on Qing and congratulates him and as the winner, she will grant Qing one prize.

In Lan's Lounge, she notes to Qing about his request since it has to do with the Gong family with Shu and Nian with him. Qing requests Lan to ban the Talent Transfer as do Shu and Nian agree. However, it's not easy for Lan to decide and she'll have to think about this matter and dismisses them. Soon, Lan sends one of her attendants to give Qing a gift that was made by her which happens to be a white clothing having the Peony Totem symbol of the royal family on it. It is implied that Lan may have chosen Qing to be her second love.

At the celebration feast in the Royal Palace, Lan is seen along side with her female concubine, An An though sends her away since she's not feeling well. She notices Qing has block the Peony Totem symbol. She wanted the powerful people to know he's under her protection.

The next day in her office, Lan is informed by Han Shuang that a Holy Land Warrior attempted to assassin Qing and Shuang tried to save him but got injured though end up with Qing saving her. Lan wonders if the warrior could be from Xuan Nu Palace. Shuang says the weapon that the warrior used is from the second-in-command of the rebel material artist organization called "Dragon Slayer" which happens to be the strongest male cultivator in the Empire. Lan believes Qing to be different and believes that the Empire will change dramatically because of him. She orders Shuang to stay by his side and protect him by giving him the message.

During the day in the her office, Lan and Shuang watch on video witnessing Qing in the forbidden mansion which no one is allowed in. Lan asks Shuang after seeing the video does she still want Qing to enter the Dark Guard. Shuang believes that this matter should be verified since the Xuan Nu Palace wants to kill Qing.

Three days later at the Suburdan Royal Hunting Grounds, Lan hosts a hunting conference having Qing and other Material Artists to participate in catching the Spirit Beast Fei Lian. As it hunt starts, Qing asks Lan if he catches it, he can join the Dark Guard to which the she wonders. Soon, Lan approaches Qing alone. Qing reacts to a killing intent and saves the Empress from getting hit by a small blade. Three assassins approach them telling Qing that the Empress tested him and solved the problem for him and in return he can kill her, but Qing doesn't believe them. Qing says to Lan for her to save her strength to use on the real enemy and to contact the Dark Guard, even if their is a spy inside, not all of them are. As Qing fights the assassins, Lan uses a firework formed in a Peony to call the guards knowing she is in danger. However, the guards don't come due to a maze that was set up by the assassins. Lan and Qing protect each other, but Qing pushes her out of the way trying to save her and sets up a boundary to trap the assassins with him in it. One of the assassins ask Qing why he would die for the Empress since she's cold, cruel, and selfish. Qing replies saying, "The top has it's own considerations, no matter whose decision, it is impossible to take into account the interests of all. The Empire has developed so far, violent conflicts rarely occur, material arts and civilians live in harmony, this is not proof of the merits of the leader". Lan is touched by Qing's words and passion. The assassins use their energy to double up by transforming the bodies to become muscular and prepare to finish Qing off. Lan watches helplessly as the assassins overwhelm Qing as they pierce him with their swords and spears dropping him to his knees. One of them notes to the Empress about her liking to Qing and he's about to die. Lan says if he dies, she wants the assassin's relatives and friends to be buried with him. The assassin states that she killed them and finishes off Qing by piercing his heart. However, Qing's power erupts inside him thus impossible for him to be killed and kills the assassins with a counterattack. As Qing collapses, Lan comes to his needs and recalls the death of Si and promises to save Qing. She summons the true Blood Dragon out of her transferring it into Qing. She takes him to the royal palace for recover having her father, Tian He to watch over him.

In her room, Lan is with Shang. Shang can see that the Lan's hair has turn gray noting that she has given Qing the blood of the true dragon to save his life. Lan says that since's the Emperor's death, the dragon was cut off and what's on her will fade away with her death and it's better to save someone's life than to waste it. Shang knows that the Empress' body will weaken. Lan says that the Empire is not hers alone and that people will sacrifice for it. Shang gets on her knees and blames her and her guards for not rescuing Lan in time and prepare to cut of her hand as punishment, but Lan stops her saying she believes in her stating it's not the Dark Guard's fault and wants Shang to invest who's responsible of the assassination.

Lan soon heads to the bath to discover her harem boys have been tied up and gagged by Qing you left. Her father, Tian He was also there witnessing the scene. He says after all the years that have passed, Lan has not changed much. This makes Lan to remember her childhood days when walking together with a young Shang and being picked on by a young Yang. Back to the present, Lan says it's been to long.

The next day in her office, Qing is with Lan after he joined the Dark Guard and has to accompany and make her happy which annoys him giving the task. She says that the basic skill of the Dark Guard is Stealth asking if Shang had taught him to which Qing answers she didn't need to and that his affair with Lan has spread all over the Empire. She asks him if his girlfriends are jealous. Qing says each of them have a deep sense of righteousness. An An walks into the office to see that Qing is here as well. However, Lan is not pleased with An An appearing to her angrily asking why she came. An An heard she was injured and made her soup. Lan orders An An to leave. Qing notes that she and An An have a cold relationship to which Lan says for him not to ask questions about it. Qing tastes the soup commenting it's delicious, but Lan smacks the cup out of his hand telling him to spit it out. Qing says the soup is not poisoned and is cooked with a good heart and wants to know what the misunderstanding is. Lan says it's none of his business and orders him to leave her office.

The next day, Shang reports to Lan that Qing is really married and the his wife may be from Xuan Nu Palace. She shows Lan'er a photo of the person stating her name being Meng Zui and that Qing is going to look for her. Lan thinks that Zui looks familiar and decides to let Qing check out the palace believing he will bring her unexpected results. Shang will let Qing enter the investigation team of the palace next day. Lan brings up about how Min attaches great importance to Lian and back then, in order to win over the Ministry of Finance, she forced Min to marry the minister's son, which caused her to misunderstand love, and the Empress owed her.

Ten days after the rebellion on Hunter, Lan is able to get a hold of Qing by texting him on how he disappeared and no news on him when his phone signal was lost. Qing says he was in a big mess asking Lan to help find Jiang Lian. Lan send out the Dark Guard to look for her and will notify him as soon if there's news.

At night, Lan is in her office with Shang. Shang says how Qing is now in control of the Hunters in Dongcheng, but states how An Nan controls Xicheng in a short amount of time. Shang believes the Xuan Nu Palace is with Nan. Lan assumes that the Palace Master is planning to return, but it won't be easy. Lan gives Shang a token to give to Qing which is a peony order to mobilize the military department. She states the matter Lian to be investigate as soon as possible and there'll be clues to Qing at the same time. Shang agrees and leaves the office. Unexpectedly, Qing Xuan who's in the body of Ye Qing Mei appears to her. Xuan states to her after his death, his primordial spirit was possessed by the dragon, Jin Jiao to cultivate and stumbled into Qing Mei's body. Lan tries to alert her guard, but Xuan stops her from doing so knowing he won't hurt her. She's not interested on how he betrayed her, but Xuan wants to talk about how her interest in Chu Qing is. He tells her that the Qing she knows is not the current world's Qing. After saying what he had said to Lan, Xuan leaves saying it's up to her to what she does making her worry for Qing.

Two days later, Lan is seen with General Min who giver her information right after Qing reports in. Lian walks in tearfully crying saying how Min locked her up in a mansion in Xiushui Village and recorded evidence in a speaker. However, after listening to the recorder, Lan believes it's not enough. Lian tells her it's true, but Lan has heard enough and orders Min to take care of her daughter and both mother and daughter leave. Lan believes that Qing rescued Lian and asks him if he's trying to move the next stage on her General and if she herself is next. Qing says he doesn't want to cause any trouble though Lian's evidence is unreliable and nothing suspicious about Min and ask Lan to try to investigate slowly. She states she would have died ten years ago though Qing believes people can change. Lan was beat by Yun Qian and everyone though she was dead. Since Qing never experience the feeling, she forgives him for offending her feelings and not to discuss this again. She brings up about her birthday in three days and Qing will prepare a gift for her and leaves her office.

Lan is sitting in the Royal Palace Dormitory alongside with her man servant after hearing that An An and Qing were seen together. As An An walks in, Lan sees she's happy. An An quickly hides the gift of a crystal like bird that Qing had given her. The servant whips her shoulder and takes the gift out of her hands giving it to Lan stating An An is seducing Qing. Lan recalls how An An's mother forced her late husband to swallow a highly poison green snake lotus and how her late daughter was dismembered and hanged at the Palace Gate and now An An still wants to be freed. An An tearfully apologizes to her, but Lan comments how An An's hypocritical face is disgusting having her man servant punish An An with more whipping and leaves the dormitory.

Three days later, it is Lan's birthday in the royal palace. She notices An An walking up to her with a tray, but Lan tells her she is in poor health should take good care of herself and do not have to come in person, but An An refuses stating she's healthy and the time has come for the lies to stop calling Lan her aunt which surprises everyone. An An reveals the truth that her real name is Di Xi and being the daughter of the three kings and the three kings rebelled and lived to this day only because of Lan's mercy. Xi pulls out a dagger and Shang goes to the Lan's side believing Xi came to kill the her. Xi knew she was powerless when she couldn't save her uncle and cousin from her mother, but today she asks for relief and wants her aunt to let go and start a new life. Xi grips the dagger tight causing her hands to bleed, but soon blood comes out from her eyes and mouth and collapse. Qing runs to Xi to discover the knife has poison on it and Shang confirms it's the green snake lotus. Lan states to Xi in anger that she thinks she can be freed by dying and will arrest everyone who's related to her now and kill them. Qing says right now Xi needs to be saved. Xiao Qing can't save her, but Qing says he can save her and goes to the recovery room.

In the recovery room, Qing successfully gets all the poison out of Xi and reports to Lan and Shang that Xi needs rest. General Min comes to them saying the Dragon Raptor has been stolen. Lan orders Shang to find the thief by not letting anyone out of the palace. She asks Qing what he thinks of Xi to which Qing answers she's pure and kind believing Lan didn't know it for a long time. He decides to help find the thief. Lan starts to wonder if she may have been wrong about her niece.

At the ballroom where Qing, Xiao Chu Xue and Xiao Qing are waiting, Lan, Min, and Shang arrive with the real Chu Xue surrounding the thief who is in Chu Xue's form. The fake Chu Xue makes a run for it. Shang and Min fire at her, but Qing interferes by protecting and catching up to her with incredible speed. Lan notes in mind that Shang and Min are both top masters of the empire and how Qing can block their attacks alone knowing his strength is terrifying. The fake Chu Xue tries to attack Qing, but no use as he pulls off the ring from her finger and out of it comes the dragon raptor. The women try to capture fake Chu Xue and Qing, but before they can the blood dragon and the dragon QI emerge out of fake Chu Xue and Qing being synced. Lan orders the women to stop and orders Qing to bring the girl with him knowing she has her own mind to believe them.

In the bedroom, the dragon raptor is returned by Qing. Lan asks what the dragon raptor is used for to which fake Chu Xue answers that it gathers spiritual power as well as dragon veins. Lan suspects that Granny Dan has told her. Fake Chu Xue asks if the Empress is trying to get information out of her to which Lan answers not everyone in Xuan Nu Palace deserves to die since Dan is pure and kind at heart. Lan tells them of what the dragon raptor really is saying how the Empire has changed over the years, but those who ascend the throne have one thing in common. Those who can ascend to the throne have a common feature that is the blood of the true dragon. In the past, the empire was rich in spiritual power. Every few hundred years, a family of true dragon blood will be born. They will obey the destiny and overthrow the tyrannical rule of the old dynasty and create a new dynasty. Later, the spiritual power increased until only one remained. In order to protect this last one, the Empress Qing Tian refined herself into a Dragon Lord. The interval between the appearance of the true dragon blood is also getting longer and longer and Dragon Raptor exists to protect the blood of the true dragon and is only useful for true dragons and veins, but useless to others. Lan notes that Fake Chu Xue is pregnant and brings her to inject Qi Jin into Dragon Raptor. After that, Lan says to fake Chu Xue that in this world, besides her, there is only her daughter believing she was dead and asks fake Chu Xue to reveal herself which also shocks Qing to see his wife, Zui. Shang reveals Zui's true name being Di Si causing Si to remember her mother is the Empress and her father being the Emperor Yang Yang. Lan asks Si if Qing is the father of her child to which Si says it is his. Lan heard that Si and Qing got married, but didn't have a wedding and decides to make one for them. Lan is happy for her daughter's return and orders Shang to calculate the auspicious day proclaiming to the world. Qing asks Lan to inject Qi Jin into the Dragon Lord saying while practicing, it is found that there is a dragon energy in the body and decides to give back the blood dragon to Lan. While doing so, the Dragon Raptor response by revealing a ghost like woman figure to the three. Lan confirms its the Heavenly Empress, Qing Tian. Tian states the Son of Prophecy has appeared and will overthrow the Empire and change the world. Tian comes closer to Qing knowing he's the Son of Prophecy telling that him coming is inevitable and breaks the last shackles around his heart having Qing transform into a Golden Dragon. Tian says Qing is the purest true dragon blood. She disappears telling Qing to prevent future disasters. Qing flies outside releasing an endless power. Lan and Si can see how amazing Qing is and the Empire will change. Qing soon comes back into the palace bedroom reverting back to his human self. Lan and Si approach him saying that the Heavenly Empress has given him something good. Si hands Qing a peony symbol token that can make him take command of troops at will. Lan believes in him as well does Si that he can do it. Also, the matter of the blood of the real dragon will be made public sooner or later and Lan and Si can’t escape, but Qing's identity cannot be revealed, so Lan made everyone mistakenly think that the dragon hovering over the palace is Si. Lan then leaves the two alone together to have fun.

Two days later in Lan's office, she orders, Shan, Min, and Nian to have their armies to be prepared for the attack of the Xuan Nu Palace, and the canonization ceremony will not leak a single piece of paper. Lan states to Si that the Xuan Nu Palace didn't do anything when she came back for two days and it just made her nervous. Lan returns the crystal bird to Qing to give back to Xi giving her the freedom she deserves.

Three days later, Lan appears next to her daughter and son-in-law in the Altar during the Canonization Ceremony for the forty-eighth princess of the empire for Si's return. Soon, elders and warriors of the Xuan Nu Palace arrive and begin their assault. Lan soon notices that Si is coughing up blood. Qing comes to their side saying Si's poisoned and the forth elder, Shi Lan is around and orders Shan to find her. Lan notices Qing coughing up blood as well believing he's poisoned as well. Shan finds and captures Shi Lan bring her to Lan and Qing wanting her to detoxify the poison, but Shi Lan can't figure it out as the four-color gu poison is specially tailored for the target and the higher the target's cultivation level, the deeper the poisoning and no matter what method is used, the poison cannot be detected. Qing uses his soul enter on Shi Lan and tells Lan that Si will not die for the time being. Shan puts Shi Lan in the Dark Guard prison.

In the her office, Lan informed that she met the Head of Li Ye Village, Zhai Zhu and agrees that this time Gu Heng will bring something imperial, but was worried about losing the treasure and asked her to send someone to protect her. Qing agrees to go along with Chen Xi, Lian, Zi Yan, and Xiao Chu Xue. Qing decides for Chu Xue to stay in the Capital and wait for them to return. Lan can see that the future of the Empire is in their hands.

The next day in the palace dormitory, Lan and Qing watch as the new Gu Master, Ling Ruo Chan begins the healing process on Si who's not awake as the first pull is given. Ruo Chan explains that the four-color poison needs the four-color antidote. Si needs to take four pills in a certain amount of days for full recover and after taking the final pill, Si will wake up two to three days after. A little later, Lan and Qing check up on Si and see she's doing well recovering. Lan states she has suspicious since Shi Lan's betrayal being hard to believe in Gu Feng, especially Ruo Chan.

Fourteen days later, Lan and Qing watch as Ruo Chan gives Si the third pill. Ruo Chan says that in seven days when Si takes the last pill, the poison in Si's body will be gone. Lan informs Qing that Shan said that Shi Lan was clamoring to see him in the prison, saying that she wanted to tell him a big secret and only tell him, but is worried believing Gu Masters are unfathomable. Ruo Chan lends him her Gu worm named Xiao Tang which is Ruo Chan's life Gu and no matter what Shi Lan does, she can't escape its eyes.

Seven days later, Lan and Qing watch as Ruo Chan gives Si the last pill hoping Si will wake up soon. Qing gets a call from Zi Yan to meet her and Lan lets Qing go as she will stay by Si's side. Qing states he will return. A little later, Qian Shan informs Lan that Qing is in danger as he faces Xuan Nu Palace's first elder, Yue Hong and needs her help which Lan allows as she'll stay with Si. Lans tells Ruo Chan to rest, but gu master uses her power to knock out Lan stating if she doesn't do what she needs to do, the Li Ye Village is finished. Lan manages to wake and sees Si has woke up being fully recovered and is happy and mentions Qing being worried as well. However, to Lan's shock, Si states how pathetic Qing is being all flirty and ruining her good moods. Lan demands asking Ruo Chan what she did to Si. Si comes to Ruo Chan's defense saying that Ruo Chan has nothing to do of what happened and if Qing becomes the emperor, Si would just be the laughing stock in the whole world. Lan says to Si that she just woken up and needs to rest and Ruo Chan just finish treating her so she should go back and rest, but Si says Ruo Chan will stay with her and that Lan should go instead. Lan becomes suspicious of Rue Chan.

The next morning Lan and Shan go to the Xiao house after hearing about Qing's injures confronting Xiao Qing. Lan states there is something strange about what's happened. First, Qing was called away, Shan left to save Qing, and Si woke up like a different person believing something is not right. Xiao Chu Xue confronts the women telling them that Qing's injuries are healed, but his spiritual powers are gone and he's like an ordinary person. Lan notices that Si and Ruo Chan are too close to each other and orders Shan to monitor their movements and to lead a team of secret guards to protect Qing to make sure something like this doesn't happen again.

Three days later at the palace, Lan is told by Si she's going to marry Ruo Chan and go back to Li Ye Village with him. Lan angrily objects to Si's choice believing her daughter has gone crazy. Si grimly states how her mother is nothing more than worrying about no successor to the Empire and seeing how she cares about Qing a lot saying her mother should marry him instead. At that moment, Qing and Zi Yan arrive. Qing viciously slaps Si for her stupidity saying that her brain has also been eaten by Gu worms. Si is mad at Qing for hitting her and tries to hit him back, but he stops her. Si sees that Qing got his spiritual power back. As Qing carries Si to the bed, Lan imagines that Qing and Si are going to make love and pulls Zi Yan out of the room with her to wait in the hallway. In the hallway, Qing comes and approaches Lan and Zi Yan and asks Lan to watch over Si as he and Zi Yan have to take care of some business. Lan goes into the room to see her daughter being bind and having a boundary surround her by Qing realizing she misunderstand the situation that Qing is going after Ruo Chan and doesn't want Si to interfere. Her daughter begs her to set her free so she can go after Qing and kill him, but Lan ignores her as she's still lost in thought leaving the room.

At night as Qing returns after dealing with Ruo Chan, Lan and him watch Si as she wakes up and both being relieved that Si is back to her normal self. Si embraces Qing being happy that she can't die without him. Outside, Qing asked Lan if she agrees to remove the Gu technique that exist in Li Ye Village and let the villagers do what they want to which she agrees.

The next day at the royal palace, Lan is informed that Ling and Mo Chan slaughtered the entire Li Ye Village and Ruo Chan joining to deal with Xuan Nu Palace together, but do to being weak he can't get revenge. Shan informs Xuan Nu Palace's location and sending an advance team to explore it. Qing, Ruo Chan, and Si states they'll go, but Lan and Qing convince Si to stay since she's pregnant with the child being very important. Lan needs Qing to explore the truth and collect information as much as possible and if being in danger not to fight hard and leave immediately. Lan speaks with Qing alone stating how the core members of Xuan Nu Palace have their people and find the information Xan left behind and shows him a butterfly he will need to find.

### Empire Versus Xuan Nu Palace Arc

At the palace when Qing returns, Lan, Qing, Si, and Shan reveal the white butterfly is the power distribution map of Xuan Nu Palace. They get a call from Gong Nian saying Jing Men was attacked by Xuan Nu Palace, and the whole city was bombed. The local military department and the defense army both lost contact and Qing's parents are also missing. This startles Qing and contacts Xing Lie through video and is relieved that his parents and sister are safe with Lie in her underground dugout. Lie asks Qing to get the King of Supervision and General to mobilize the nearest military envoy and military support and Lan orders Nian to get her army and Ji Min around Jing Men to support immediately. The signals were soon cut off. Qing decides he wants to go back to Jing Men as he's worried about his family and Si decides to go with him as she's worried about her people from Drunken Dream.

Two days later, Lan is in her office with Shan, Nian, Min, and Su. Lan is informed that Si and Qing's signals were lost when the two arrived in Jing Men. Shan says not only Jing Men, but Yunjiang and Yunshan have disappeared and the rescue teams they sent were intercepted. Lan orders to send reinforcements sending all their hiders and enchantresses to Jing Men. Su says they've sent enough reinforcements to Tian Jin not only that as Su pulls out a map showing the Xuan Nu Palace has caused riots in many places knowing it's a warrior war. They need to appease the emotions pf the civilians as soon as possible and activate the wartime state and let the civilians retreat into the demilitarized zone. Su states Si and Qing to be both extraordinary and also that Xing Lie is the most powerful hidden teacher in the Empire. Lan agrees with Su and starts the third plan. She orders Min and Nian to ask the local army and military department to give priority to escorting civilians into the demilitarized and hold a press conference to announce the Empire's entry into a state of war.

The next day at the Royal Palace, Lan is revealed that Qing and Si have return back safely and comments on Qing's bravery on behalf of the people on both sides of Yunjiang River that hundreds of towns and cities are safe. Qing then asks why the Xuan Nu Palace mainly uses Wu Jiao to justify their name and if it's true that there are dragons in the Royal Palace. Lan says there are dragons and takes Qing and Si to the 18th underground floor in the palace. They enter a big room to reveal a dragon in white sleeping. Lan explains that the dragon is known as White Dragon God originally being the most powerful guardian of the Empire who had been guarding Lan since she was born. However, in order to usurp the throne, Di Xan secretly assembled formation magicians to study magic and use it to control dragons, but Xan failed to control Dragon God and it suffered mental damage and began to attack humans indiscriminately. Due to this, Lan had to lock it up, but the situation was getting worse day by day. The Dragon God wakes up viciously uncontrollable. Qing uses his spiritual power to calm the dragon, but the Dragon God eats Qing alive. Dragon God eventually spit Qing out before Qing killed the dragon. Lan and Si ask if he's alright to which Qing says he saw a woman who could be his real mother and doesn't know the meaning to it. Lan notices Dragon God gone. Qing shows them a miniature size Dragon God saying him and the dragon have become one.

A few days later, Qing's family comes to the Capital being brought to live into the Royal Palace since they're family. Lan and Si have prepared the family their rooms. They will be protected since war between the Empire and Xuan Nu Palace is about to start and when it's over, Si and Qing will have a real wedding. Soon, Xing Lie busts into the Palace being furious at Chu Xiao. Lie has her guards to take Xiao to demilitarized zone due to a promise she made to stay by Xing Tao's side. Lan invites Lie back into serving her once more by putting their bad past behind them which Lie pledges her loyalty and ordered to report to Wu Su. Lan is grateful that Lie opened the demilitarized zone. Lan asks Si to have Qing's parents settled in the palace while she speaks to him alone. Elsewhere, Lan tells Qing she knows he's not from their world which Qing realizes Qing Xuan told her. He thought he wasn't from their world, but is not sure at the moment. Lan mentions how she and Si saw him get eaten by the Dragon God, spit out, and him killing it. Qing states they've speak the dragon language a long time ago. Even if he doesn't know who he is now, he's on her side and will help her to defeat Xuan Nu Palace. A man servant reports to Lan that elder women are begging to see Qing outside saying they're his elders. Qing knows it's the elders of the Chu Family.

Lan and Si come to Qing and Chu Tian Nan asking why they drove the Chu Elders away to which Tian Nan says since she and Lin Yuantu left the Chu family, they swore to never have anything to do with them. Qing will support his mother's decision. Lan states that Qing is leader of Hunters, Shareholder of Ye Pharmacy, and Si's husband and his net worth and reputation have surpassed the Chu family. Lan tells Tian Nan now with her previous company destroyed in Jing Men, she can start a new one in the Capital and from now on being known as the New Chu Family to which Qing and his mother agree.

The next day inside the palace, Lan is seen with Qing, Si, Shu, Nian, and Min while more protesters gather outside the palace. Shu explains that Can broadcast live for a day first complaining about her tragic experience, and the traveling on Jiao saying she's the real dragon girl as well stating that the White Dragon God didn't choose Lan and was killed by Lan showing a tablet of pictures to Lan, Qing, and Si. The three notice a formation on Xi's chest wondering what Can did to her daughter. Lan feels guilty for letting Xi to leave the palace believing she owes her. Min states that they need to solve the problem of public opinion and they need to invite the Dragon God. Nian agrees with Min as people can no longer be caught, otherwise the consequences will only be more serious. Qing eventually has a plan.

Outside the palace, Qing summons Dragon God to the protesters shocking them all that Dragon God is still alive. He tells them about the flooding of the Yunjiang River which was caused when Can kidnapped Jiao which caused the disaster and if it wasn't for Dragon God pulling off her own scales and transforming into a dragon guarding Yunjiang River, hundreds of towns would've suffer. Lan appears on a big monitor revealing the truth that Can is her younger sister and during the rebellion, Can studied magic to control Dragon God in order to seize the throne and as a result, Dragon God lost her sanity and suffered serious injuries which she didn't recover until now and Can was sure Dragon God was serious injured and died by telling a big lie and the war between the Empire and Xuan Nu Palace is imminent and the enemies want to shake their army's morale and doesn't want anyone to be fooled. With the truth revealed, the protesters that were arrested by Shu are released, but are warned not to let this happen again.

Four days after in her office, Lan, Si, and Lie get information by the consort saying there's a powerful Holy Stone in Xuan Nu Palace, Qing was seriously injured by it, and his whereabouts are unknown as palace warriors are gathering the strength of the whole palace to find him. Si wants to go and help, but Lie states to Si she's the future of the Empire and not to take risks. Lan gives Lie a Peony Order to Jing Men to mobilize all the troops along the way, surround Yunshan, frighten Xuan Nu Palace, and to make sure Qing comes back alive.

### Epilogue

Sometime after the final battle with Xuan Nu Palace had come to an end, Lan passed down her title and throne to Si as her daughter became the new Empress and ruler of the Empire.

## Strength

Though little to know about her, Lan is the strongest and most powerful woman in the Imperial Capital. She knows the power and techniques of both ''Wang Chen" and "Wu Sha" which both happen to be material poison. She had the power of the true blood dragon inside her before passing and giving it to Qing though he later gave it back to her.

## Trivia

* In Chapter - 208, it's revealed that Lan is related to the Gong family.
* In Chapter - 302, Lan's eyes turn gray when bringing out the blood dragon which resemble the Byakugan when activated in the "NARUTO" series.