Qi Tianji

Biodata

Power Progression

Appearance

Qi Tianji is a tall, thin elder whose appearance is repeatedly compared to that of an immortal or sage 10 32.

• Wears white robes 3 10.
• Has white hair and a long white beard 10 14 32.
• Carries the Heavenly Secrets Divine Calculation Flag 10 11 19.

Personality

Qi Tianji habitually deflects uncomfortable questions with jokes. When Qi Lin confronts him about his supposed death, he changes the subject to his grandson’s growth and marriage prospects. He later conceals his concern about Qi Lin’s cultivation by claiming that a beautiful older woman has rejected him 3 16.

His easygoing manner disappears when Pingyang District’s residents are threatened. He publicly exposes Su Fengxuan’s exploitation of the poor, punishes him brutally, and refuses to surrender their homes to the Xiao Clan. He also praises Doctor He’s unpaid medical service as a virtue surpassing that of the great clans 11 32.

He is protective of Qi Lin without keeping him away from danger entirely. Although he initially supports his grandson’s refusal to leave Mystic City, he later assigns him a separate battlefield at the Divine Strategy Manor, with protection arranged in secret 13 20.

History

Supposed Death and Return

Qi Lin buried Qi Tianji when he was ten and spent the following three years believing himself an orphan. Qi Tianji returns when Qi Lin is thirteen, insists that he is alive, and refuses to explain what happened. Qi Lin accuses him of faking his death to escape guarding the ancestral shrine; the circumstances remain unexplained 3.

After returning, Qi Tianji stops Qi Lin from confronting Su Lianxi immediately. He explains that uncovering the betrayal would not give Qi Lin the means to evacuate and sustain tens of thousands of commoners, then takes responsibility for their protection himself 3.

Using the sword formed from the ten ancestors’ spirit tablets, Qi Tianji offers his blood and summons the Qitian Clan Flame. Its appearance reaches distant ancestral shrines, signaling that the scattered clansmen can return home. He tells Qi Lin that “guests” will soon arrive and that he is no longer an orphan 3.

Defending Pingyang District

Qi Tianji intervenes when Ye Jianxiong attempts to kill Qi Lin. He catches the attack, breaks Ye Jianxiong’s wrist, kills him, and eliminates more than ten Green Jade Hall medicine sellers attempting to escape 10.

He then exposes City Lord Su Fengxuan’s crimes: sharing in Green Jade Hall’s fraudulent medicine profits, selling Pingyang District to the Xiao Clan for his daughter’s admission to the Divine Strategy Manor, and confining the residents for Xiao retaliation. When the Su Family’s two ancestors attack, Qi Tianji kills both with one punch 11.

Qi Tianji severs Su Fengxuan’s remaining limbs and castrates him, but deliberately leaves him alive to witness the coming conflict. He publicly claims responsibility for Xiao Tianyang’s death—although Qi Lin delivered the killing blow—and challenges the Xiao Clan to confront him at the ancestral hall. He vows that they will not take even a pebble from Pingyang District 1 11.

Afterward, he directs Tang Wenwan to seek the city lord’s position with Tang Clan support and to transfer Green Jade Hall’s wealth and medicine to Pingyang District 13.

The Clan’s Return and the Two-Front Strategy

When Qi Tianlong returns, Qi Tianji privately discusses Qi Lin’s responsibilities as the ancestors’ spirit guardian. He worries that Qi Lin’s limited advancement after taking a realm-breaking pill may leave him unable to bear the Qitian Clan Soul’s martial intent inheritance. Nevertheless, the genealogy permits only the spirit guardian to venerate the rekindled Clan Flame 19.

Qi Tianji introduces Qi Tianlong as Qi Lin’s elder sister and confirms that they share both parents but were raised separately. He instructs her to live under the identity of the Qi Clan’s eldest daughter in Mystic City rather than as a heaven’s chosen of the Divine Ash Ruins 19.

He subsequently entrusts Qi Lin with the ancestral sword and the clan’s hope of revival. To avoid the Eye of God, he refuses to teach Qi Lin identifiable Qitian cultivation arts or battle techniques. Instead, he sends him to the Divine Strategy Manor to attack the Xiao Clan’s and Universal Salvation Chamber of Commerce’s younger prodigies while the elders fight in Mystic City 20.

The Xiao Clan responds by sealing Mystic City and planning to use Qi Tianji as bait to draw out his allies. Xiao Baidao announces that the city will be slaughtered if those allies do not appear within three days 21.

Establishing Local Institutions

Qi Tianji distributes Ice Mystic Pills recovered from Green Jade Hall and restores Yang Ting’s severed arm and leg. These treatments lead the residents to address him reverently as “Celestial Master Qi” 14 32.

He brings Physician Dan to examine Xiao Tao’er and arranges for him to take over Doctor He’s medical hall. Doctor He accepts no payment, asking only that the district’s people continue receiving free treatment 32.

Qi Tianji renames the establishment the Qi Clan Medical Hall. With it and the Qi Clan Escort Agency standing opposite one another beside the ancestral hall, he envisions institutions that protect and heal the people while awaiting the Qitian descendants’ return 32.

Abilities & Skills

Heavenly Dominion Combat

Qi Tianji overwhelmingly outmatches the Mystic City opponents who confront him 10 11.

• Breaks Ye Jianxiong’s wrist with two fingers and kills him at close range 10.
• Channels black and white Qi into two dragon-like forms around his fist, destroying both Su Family ancestors with a single punch 11.
• Uses his hand as a blade to sever Su Fengxuan’s limbs 10 11.

Clan Flame Invocation

Qi Tianji knows the ancestral procedure for calling forth the Qitian Clan Flame 3.

• Plants the spirit-tablet sword hilt-first in the ground, offers blood onto its tip, and prostrates himself before the ancestors 3.
• Awakens the flame that signals the scattered Qitian branches to return 3.
• Entrusts its continued protection and veneration to Qi Lin, the spirit guardian 19 20.

Healing

Qi Tianji successfully reattaches Yang Ting’s severed arm and leg 32.

• Yang Ting credits the restored limbs directly to him 32.
• Supplements local treatment by distributing recovered medicine and recruiting Physician Dan 14 32.

Other Demonstrated Feats

• Manipulates a chessboard suspended in the air while holding his calculation flag 19.
• Reshapes the bronze character on the medical hall’s sign from “He” to “Qi” by pointing at it 32.

Equipment & Items

• Heavenly Secrets Divine Calculation Flag — His recurring banner, bearing the words “Divine Calculator of Heavenly Secrets.” Its specific powers are not explained 10 11 19.
• Ancestral spirit-tablet sword — Temporarily uses the black wooden sword to summon the Clan Flame, then returns it to Qi Lin 3.
• Ice Mystic Pills — Recovers these from Green Jade Hall, distributes them among residents, and gives two to Qi Lin 14.
• Frost Formation Pill — Obtains it from Ye Jianxiong and offers it to Qi Lin for cultivation 14.

Relationships

• Qi Lin — Grandson and the clan’s spirit guardian. Qi Tianji protects him, conceals sensitive clan matters from him, and entrusts him with the ancestral sword 3 19 20.
• Qi Tianlong — Granddaughter and Qi Lin’s elder sister. He asks her to help safeguard her brother and insists that she adopt a local Qi Clan identity after returning 19.
• Tang Wenwan — Political ally and head of Mystic City’s Evil-Warding Bureau. She addresses him as “Uncle Qi”; he supports her bid to become city lord 12 13.
• Yang Ting — Pingyang resident whose severed limbs he restores; thereafter an enthusiastic admirer of “Celestial Master Qi” 32.
• Physician Dan — Introduced as the son of an old friend. Qi Tianji recruits him to settle in Pingyang District and operate its medical hall 32.
• Su Lianxi — Spared because she belongs to the younger generation; Qi Tianji leaves her eventual punishment to Qi Lin 12.

Notable Quotes

“All you need to know is that your grandpa isn't dead.” 3

“With me, Qi Tianji, standing guard, the Xiao Clan can forget about taking even a pebble!” 11

“One to protect, one to save the world.”
— On the Qi Clan Escort Agency and Qi Clan Medical Hall 32

Trivia

• The Qitian Clan’s second-generation ancestor is also named Qi Tianji and is credited with slaying seven Hun Dun Gods at the Northern Darkness Sea. The supplied account does not establish that the ancestor and Qi Lin’s living grandfather are the same person 1 3.