Qin Zhaoye

Biodata

Power Progression

Background / History

Academy Auditor and Group Owner

Qin Zhaoye began as an impoverished auditor at Qihong Soul Master Academy in Suotuo City. Unable to absorb a Soul Ring after reaching level 10, he spent three years enduring the label of “cripple.” His circumstances changed when his Wordless Ancient Scroll became the interface for the Myriad Ages Douluo Group, connecting him with Huo Yuhao, Tang Wulin, and Lan Xuanyu across different eras. The interface identified him as “Group Owner · Myriad Ages Historian,” while leaving his personal profile blank 1.

After Tang San joined, Qin verified his identity and family background against official history, earning his first 1,000 conversation points. The opening gift pack then allowed him to overturn his academy reputation: his level 17 Soul Power and thousand-year first ring persuaded Dean Feng Yanqiu to offer him better accommodation, waived fees, and an allowance 1 2.

His first public victory came against Cen Ao, a level 23 spear wielder from the city lord’s residence. Fighting at level 20 with one ring, Qin disarmed him in three moves. The result became the first paragraph-level historical deviation and demonstrated to Tang San that recorded history could change 3.

Conflict with Spirit Hall

Qin emptied a former-dynasty hidden cache before Spirit Hall could seize it, taking Soul Bone pieces and cultivation fragments. He also erased a secret mark identifying an innocent herb-gathering family, preventing that clue from leading Spirit Hall to them. The failed raid brought him under investigation 5.

When the investigator Luo Tan approached him, Qin uncovered her Night Owl Terrace identity and used that knowledge to secure cancellation of an academy inspection. He later used a nomination voucher to bring Hu Liena into the group, exposing the identity behind her disguise 7 9.

Li Chuan nevertheless led an enforcement squad into Qin’s residence. Qin defeated its members through prediction and movement, then used a single-use afterimage of the young Bibi Dong against their captain. His victory changed another historical footnote, and Feng Yanqiu subsequently moved him into a private courtyard 10 11.

The conflict escalated when He Zhili confiscated Qin’s stored Soul Bone pieces and restricted the academy’s movement and supplies. At the academy gates, Qin publicly declared himself the Myriad Ages Historian and defeated two level 40 elders while only level 38. He then used Historical Evidence Remnant Image II to overwhelm He Zhili’s punitive force, forcing it to retreat 17 18 21 22.

Historical Intervention and Fate-Changing Orders

Qin’s interventions extended beyond his own battles. He replaced the original Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast Sighting Records with a forgery and burned the originals, removing a historical clue that exposed Xiao Wu 15.

His public sessions also revealed the recorded destruction of Spirit Hall and the dangers of Bibi Dong’s Rakshasa God inheritance. Rather than suppress the information under threat, Qin established a four-tier fate-changing service. Bibi Dong became his first paying assessment client, and his preliminary inspection concluded that the three layers of danger behind her dead end could be dismantled 18 19 20 24.

Following Spirit Hall’s military failure, both it and the Heaven Dou Imperial Family offered him positions and resources. Qin accepted their calling cards without committing to either side. He maintained a first-come, first-served appointment system, leaving imperial representatives and Qian Renxue behind Bibi Dong’s bookings 23 24 25.

Fourth Ring and the Unexplained Alteration

Using purchased terrain intelligence and Hu Liena’s patrol-gap timetable, Qin entered the Ten-Thousand-Year Ancient Forest to obtain his fourth ring. He fought a stronger Soul Beast by predicting its attacks, evading through Folded Page, and interrupting a charged killing move. After reaching level 40, he later refined a sealed ten-thousand-year ring in a cavern and used Lost Text to defeat the pursuers’ tracking methods 26 27 28.

By the close of the first volume, more than ten percent of First Era official history had diverged into gray files. While archiving those changes, Qin discovered a deletion-and-alteration entry that he had not created. It vanished when touched, and even the Eye of Historical Observation could not annotate it, leading him to suspect something hidden beneath the Group Hub 30 31.

He continued overseeing Tang San’s search for Tang Hao, verified the physical evidence locating the secluded forge, and supplied archived material for their confrontation. After Tang Hao joined the group, Qin hosted a first-day session exposing records of his blacksmithing, severed arm, and the Clear Sky Sect’s retreat 31 32 33.

Personality

Qin is commercially minded and methodical. He charges for historical information, converts completed discussions into cultivation gains, and commonly lets others wager while collecting the host’s commission. His appointment rules apply regardless of status: neither Qian Renxue’s offer of extra payment nor an imperial envoy’s position earns priority over an earlier order 2 20 24 31.

He remains composed under pressure and uses information as leverage. He deflects Luo Tan’s probing questions, exposes her intelligence network when necessary, and refuses to let Bibi Dong’s threats dictate his prices. As moderator, he enforces evidence requirements, speaking order, and topic restrictions even during confrontations involving the Pope 6 7 8 19.

His interventions are not limited to profit or self-preservation. He removes evidence endangering an innocent family and Xiao Wu, while his dealings with Luo Tan develop from mutual suspicion into deliberate trust. He shares sensitive assessment notes with her, including information about how she could leave Suotuo safely 5 15 24.

Abilities & Skills

Eye of Historical Observation

• Automatically displays golden annotations through the Wordless Ancient Scroll, revealing identities, cultivation, Martial Souls, habits, injuries, and movements 3 7.
• Exposed Cen Ao’s habitual opening attacks and old rib injury, giving Qin exploitable weaknesses before their duel began 3.
• Produces incomplete annotations when the subject is at least twenty levels above him 7.
• Cannot supply missing historical information: his ancient-forest target displayed “Details unrecorded,” and the unexplained Group Hub alteration yielded no annotation 26 30 31.

Historical Brush Errata

• First Soul Skill, associated with his first purple thousand-year ring 2 3.
• Draws golden trajectories showing attacks approximately half a breath in advance, including follow-up strikes and openings between movements 3 21.
• Supports precise evasion, disarming, and counterattacks rather than relying on superior brute force 3 21.
• Predictions become blurred against substantially stronger opponents, though Qin could still discern enough to evade a ten-thousand-year Soul Beast 27.

Folded Page

• Second Soul Skill, granted with his second purple thousand-year ring 6.
• Instantly displaces him across roughly ten zhang, allowing escapes, flanking attacks, and covert entry 6 13 15.
• Can be used twice consecutively, after which it enters a cooldown lasting several breaths 27.
• Its cooldown can leave him exposed; Li Chuan attacked while the skill was unavailable 10.

Chapter Severing

• Third Soul Skill, acquired from a thousand-year shadow-type Soul Beast 13.
• Interrupts Soul Power circulation at a critical point, stopping a charging Soul Skill and potentially causing backlash 13 21.
• Can disrupt coordinated techniques by cutting the junction where participants’ Soul Power converges 22.
• Against an opponent more than ten levels stronger, it normally provides only a half-breath delay. Qin used that delay at a crucial charging point to collapse a ten-thousand-year beast’s killing move 27.

Lost Text

• Fourth Soul Skill, acquired with his black ten-thousand-year ring 28.
• Erases him from the world’s “current record” for several breaths, preventing tracking, detection, and attacks from reaching him 28.
• Also removes him from the Group Hub’s live record, leaving blank footage while time continues 28.
• Limited to one use per battle; Qin cannot attack while concealed 28.

Cultivation and Close Combat

• Ever-Bright Bamboo Slip Art: His principal cultivation method, obtained from the opening gift pack; its doubled cultivation efficiency and academy-funded medicinal baths supported his natural advancement 2 12.
• Armor-piercing killing move: Learned from former-dynasty manual fragments. It concentrates Soul Power into a narrow edge capable of piercing protective black Qi 13.
• Improvised scroll weapon: Uses the closed bronze scroll as a cudgel, short staff, or mace to strike nerves, exploit injuries, and finish interrupted opponents 10 13 21.
• Short-blade combat: Channels Soul Power through a blade to exploit exposed wounds 27.

Group Owner Permissions

• Hosts evidence-based sessions, allocates speaking rights, locks topics, suppresses off-topic posts, and imposes thirty-breath mutes 2 8 16 32.
• Approves or rejects betting pools and collects commissions; the father-son confrontation pool carried a ten-percent host’s commission 6 31.
• Exchanges group earnings for cultivation increases, intelligence, and historical combat items 3 8 12 20.
• Opens spectator access and historical playback, distributes reward red packets, and uses nomination vouchers to recruit selected members 9 16 25.
• At Tier Four, cross-era material transfers remain limited to what one person can carry, but their permitted frequency doubles; the per-packet reward limit also doubles 25.
• Reward red packets can provide function vouchers, intelligence vouchers, and small cultivation bonuses that take effect in the recipient’s own era 6.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Wordless Ancient Scroll — Martial Soul, group interface, historical annotation medium, and improvised melee weapon 2 3 10.
• Historical Evidence Afterimage: One — Single-use page fragment containing a strike from Bibi Dong’s youth. Purchased for 1,500 conversation points and expended against Li Chuan’s squad 8 10.
• Historical Evidence Remnant Image II — Historical image depicting Spirit Hall’s destruction; its divine pressure helped Qin rout He Zhili’s punitive force 20 22.
• Former-dynasty cultivation fragments — Retrieved from the hidden cache and used to learn his armor-piercing technique 5 13.
• Short blade — Carried during his fourth-ring hunt and used against the ten-thousand-year Soul Beast 26 27.
• Group Owner Nomination Vouchers — Recruitment items; one was used to bring Hu Liena into the group, and another arrived with the Tier Four permissions package 9 25.
• Soul Bone pieces — Taken from the hidden cache, stored at the academy, and later confiscated by He Zhili 5 17.

Relationships

• Feng Yanqiu — Academy dean and patron. Reverses his initial plan to expel Qin after witnessing his breakthrough, then supplies accommodation, allowances, cultivation resources, and public support 2 11 18 21.
• Du Hengzhou — Chief instructor and later personal teacher. Verifies Qin’s unusually stable breakthroughs and offers individual training after he reaches level 34 2 16.
• Hu Liena / Luo Tan / Crimson Sparrow — Initially an undercover Night Owl Terrace investigator. Qin exposes her identity and recruits her into the group; she subsequently conceals his activities in reports and provides patrol intelligence for his ring hunt 7 9 10 16 24 26.
• Tang San — Group member whose family history and future Qin helps investigate. Qin’s demonstrated historical deviations encourage Tang San to seek Tang Hao rather than immediately follow his recorded route to Shrek 1 3 10 31 32.
• Huo Yuhao — Cross-era member and research contributor who analyzes historical events and Qin’s combat methods 1 18 21.
• Tang Wulin — Enthusiastic group member who studies Qin’s techniques and saves combat footage in an “Ancestral Operations Manual”; also a frequent target of Qin’s moderation 2 6 13 21.
• Lan Xuanyu — Major historical research contributor whose dossiers and records form the basis of several sessions Qin hosts 8 17 18 33.
• Bibi Dong — Initially an adversarial group member whose subordinates pursue Qin; later his first paying fate-assessment client. She abandons force in favor of direct negotiation and purchases 19 20 22 24 25.
• Qian Renxue — Prospective Angel God-route consultation client. Qin offers help changing her recorded fate but refuses to grant priority over existing bookings 12 20 24 25.
• Xiao Wu — Beneficiary of Qin’s destruction of the original records exposing her as a hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast 15.
• Cen Ao — Early opponent who publicly concedes defeat, then later waits at the academy gates to offer Qin a carriage ride 3 11.
• He Zhili — Spirit Hall branch chief who confiscates Qin’s goods and leads the failed punitive expedition; later personally delivers Bibi Dong’s assessment deposit 17 21 22 30.
• Tang Hao — Subject of Qin’s historical verification and first-day revelation session after Tang San finds him 31 32 33.

Notable Quotes

“The historian keeps accounts and accepts only hard proof.” 1

“The history books have been read, and the ending is known, but the power to put pen to paper lies with the living. This historian records only ironclad facts.” 3

“Rules are rules. Orders count, not identities. Whoever signs first gets the first slot.” 20

“I trust what you write.” — To Luo Tan, after giving her sensitive assessment notes. 24