Qin Ming

Biodata

Power Progression

Background and History

Qin Ming’s family had practiced butchery for generations, but their fortune and property were lost after his father, Qin Shou, was set up and died. Qin Ming transmigrated into this world on the night of his father’s death, after the original Qin Ming was struck on the head. In his previous life, he had been an orphan 1 2.

Forced into a Qingshan Town shack with his newlywed wife, Embroiderer, Qin Ming worked for Butcher Wang while developing his life-bound Pig-Slaying Saber Technique. After recovering four months of unpaid wages, he began competing for New Year pig-slaughtering work and defeated Wang in a public contest 1 2 3.

Wang and other butchers plotted to kill him, but Qin Ming survived their ambush and killed them. He later confronted Scarface, who revealed that Wild Wolf Gang incense master Yan Yue-Ren had helped arrange the Qin family’s downfall and targeted Embroiderer. Qin Ming killed Scarface and sought martial instruction 4 6 7 9.

After the Tiger Martial Arts Academy rejected him, Qin Ming joined the Eight Trigrams Martial Arts Academy. He cultivated relentlessly, using a mountain lingzhi to reach the Skin-Refining Realm. On returning home, he learned that Embroiderer had been arrested; he broke into the yamen dungeon to rescue her and fought two stronger constables 11 13 17 19 20.

Qin Ming later worked with the Weiyuan Escort Agency. When bandits attacked an escort, he escaped with Li Shengnan, Blood Ginseng and a martial arts manual. He trained in seclusion before returning to Qingshan Town, where he killed Clearwind Stronghold’s guardians and Yuan Lie during the attack on the town 26 29 31 36 37 38.

During the evacuation to Qingyang County, Qin Ming fought ghosts and was gravely injured. He recovered using the Centipede Spirit Pearl and an advance in Savage Bull Strength, then killed those who had plotted against him and his academy. In Qingyang, he became a reserve member of the Demon-Hunting Team. After another Wild Wolf Gang attack left Embroiderer unconscious, he postponed immediate revenge against Yan Yue-Ren and focused on the team’s assessment 41 43 44 46 48 50.

Appearance

Initially, Qin Ming looked young and frail after prolonged hunger, to the point that customers doubted he could slaughter a pig 2.

• Muscular transformation: After training Savage Bull Strength, he grew to nearly two meters tall, with knotted muscles and longer hair 31.
• Later stature: At major accomplishment in Savage Bull Strength, he stood approximately three meters tall 43.
• Preference: He found his enlarged appearance conspicuous and hoped to regain his former appearance by perfecting Savage Bull Strength 31 46.

Personality

Qin Ming is protective of Embroiderer and pursues strength largely to keep her safe. He remembers kindness: after Wang Shun’s family shared food and clothing with the couple, he resolved to repay them and later gave them supplies 2 13 23.

He is calculating under pressure. During the snowy ambush, he restrained his anger rather than attack while exhausted; against the poisonous giant centipede, he tested its defenses and targeted vulnerable gaps. He also prefers concealing his strength when doing so gives him an advantage 6 17 24 31.

Qin Ming becomes ruthless toward enemies who threaten him or his companions. After killing the butchers who ambushed him, he resolved not to hesitate when killing was necessary; later, he rejected the pleas of those who had plotted against him during the evacuation 7 44.

Abilities and Skills

Martial Arts Panel

Qin Ming’s panel records his realm, martial arts proficiency and bonuses. It advances skills through training and qualifying kills 2 23 24.

• Slaughtering pigs and processing meat increased proficiency in his life-bound saber technique 2 5.
• Killing evildoers with martial arts granted skill points; the points varied with the opponent 23 24 28.
• Killing ghosts granted free proficiency points, which could be allocated to anything except internal arts 41.

Pig-Slaying Saber Technique

Qin Ming’s life-bound martial art combines precise butchering movements with bonuses gained from his other martial arts 19 20.

• At first-stage perfection, it granted 40% attack speed while he wielded a pig-slaying saber 37.
• Cook Ding Dissects the Ox reveals an opponent’s weaknesses when he focuses and greatly speeds corpse dissection 37.
• By Chapter 46, his saber bonuses also included force dissipation, Fire Poison, increased base strength, angled attacks and a chance to trigger saber force 46.

Eight Trigrams Arts

The Eight Trigrams Stake Skill is Qin Ming’s cultivation method and emphasizes stability and force diversion. He also learned the accompanying Eight Trigrams Palm after entering the academy’s inner courtyard 20 22.

• He used the stance and footwork to redirect attacks while fighting two Late Skin-Refining Realm constables 20.
• Advances in the arts contributed force-deflection bonuses to his saber technique 19 26 31.

Fire Sand Palm

An external martial art Qin Ming learned from Scarface’s manual. He trained by striking heated sand and eventually perfected it with free proficiency points 9 14 41.

• It inflicts heat and Fire Poison; at perfection, his palms glow red like heated irons 41 44.
• Its Fire Poison also enhances his pig-slaying saber when the blade draws blood 23.
• He used it against ghosts and demonstrated it during his Demon-Hunting Team evaluation 41 46.

Savage Bull Strength

A body-hardening martial art Li Kui taught Qin Ming in exchange for his promise to protect Li Shengnan 30.

• Blood Ginseng and waterfall training helped Qin Ming reach minor mastery and greatly enlarge his physique 31.
• At major accomplishment, the resulting surge in Qi and blood helped him suppress Fire Poison after the ghost encounter 43.
• Its strength did not eliminate the vulnerability of his lower-realm body: Yuan Lie badly injured him despite his physical power 37.

Archery

Qin Ming practiced archery while hunting in the mountains and later carried a bow on the escort mission 16 29.

• After two days of practice, he could reliably hit a tree stump within fifty meters, though precise shots remained uncertain 16.
• He prepared poisoned arrows and used a greatbow against the pursuing Bloodhand 27 29.

Equipment and Items

• Ancestral pig-slaying saber — A sharp family knife passed down for more than a dozen generations. Its accumulated Sha Qi allows it to harm ghosts that ordinary blades cannot 1 41.
• Centipede Spirit Pearl — A spiritual object from the giant centipede that could counter poison and restore Qi and blood. It melted while helping Qin Ming recover from the ghost encounter 30 43.
• Blood Ginseng — Taken from the escort cargo after the bandit attack and used to accelerate cultivation under the waterfall 29 31.
• Wandering Dragon Step manual — A movement-art manual taken alongside the Blood Ginseng 29 45.
• Xingyi Fist copies — Parchment copies of Tiger Fist and Snake Fist found after the battle for Qingshan Town 39.
• Wangjing Prefecture token — A gold token Qin Ming was told to present only after reaching Silver Bone within the Bone Refining Realm 45.
• Duan Kun’s roster — A booklet of names that included Yan Yue-Ren; Qin Ming feared the Wild Wolf Gang would pursue it 24.

Relationships

• Embroiderer (Xiu Niang) — Qin Ming’s wife. Her safety drives much of his cultivation and his conflict with Yan Yue-Ren 1 9 13.
• Qin Shou — His father, whose death and the destruction of the family fortune preceded Qin Ming’s transmigration 1 2.
• Wang Shun — A neighbor who helped Qin Ming and Embroiderer during their poverty and was beaten while defending her from Scarface’s men 2 8.
• Pei Heng — Qin Ming’s Eight Trigrams Academy master; he protected Qin Ming at the yamen dungeon and later introduced him to Xiong San. The academy master is also called Fei Heng in earlier accounts 11 20 44 46.
• Lu Liu — A senior academy brother who advised Qin Ming on training, defended him and fought alongside him at the dungeon 11 13 20.
• Li Shengnan — A fellow academy disciple and escort companion. Qin Ming promised her dying father, Li Kui, that he would stop her from throwing her life away seeking revenge 26 29 30.
• Xiong San — Pei Heng’s junior brother, who accepted Qin Ming as a Demon-Hunting Team reserve and warned him against immediately attacking Yan Yue-Ren 46 50.
• Yan Yue-Ren — A Wild Wolf Gang incense master connected to the Qin family’s downfall and repeated attempts to abduct Embroiderer 9 24 48.
• Butcher Wang — Qin Ming’s former employer and rival, who withheld his wages and helped plot his murder 1 4 7.

Notable Quotes

“Whether pig or person, when it’s time to kill, I won’t hesitate!” 7

“You don’t know you were wrong. You just don’t want to die.” 44

“Once my master, a father for life. I will remember the road I came from.” 44