Tang Qi

Biodata

Feature	Details
Name	Tang Qi (唐奇)
Alias(es)	Scholar; Lucky Man; Evil God Bane; Mysterious Male Witch; Deceiver of Gods; Master of Dreams; Tang Wang (persona) 323 423 711 799 1082
Species/Race	Human; he retains a human main body even after attaining Master-level divine power. 1055
Gender	Male
Affiliation	Former Special Response Team consultant in Messer City; Headmaster of Melada Special Education School; leader of the Dream Pantheon. 58 323 1055
Occupation/Role	Furnace Witch; Secret Medicine Master; Item Forger; Scholar; Beast Tamer; Headmaster; Master of Dreams. 334 452 691 1082
Status	Active
First Appearance	Chapter 3

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Golden Furnace Meditation Method — initiated	5	Discovers the ancient method and successfully cultivates for the first time, forming golden motes of supernatural power in his mental sea. 5
Golden Furnace Meditation Method — Beginner	17	The method becomes a measurable skill at 0.01% progress after his first supernatural confrontations. 17
Golden Furnace Meditation Method — Entry	58	Reaches the Entry realm at 1.5%; Furnace Eyes and Chaga Combat Technique also reach Entry. 58
First Furnace bestowal threshold	96	Advancement of the Meditation Method grants a bestowal from the Master of the Furnace; every ten-percent threshold can improve associated inheritances. 96 150
Third cultivation stage	211	Refining Samira's Resentful Soul pushes his Furnace cultivation into its third stage and upgrades Judgment. 211
Golden Furnace Meditation Method — Professional	357	Completes the Furnace Witch Professional Trial by splitting his soul and becoming a Familiar of the Furnace Imprint; Meditation Method and Furnace Eyes reset to 0% at Professional mastery. 357
Primitive Secret Medicine School — Apprentice	452	Successfully configures Rubber Man Secret Medicine and gains a second Professional-level path. 452
Master of Dreamland	595	Has become Dreamland's master, enabling extensions of his special abilities through Dream Divinity. 595
Master of Dreams	1082	Attains the Master of Dreams rank, gaining the ability to manipulate Fate threads across kingdoms, universes, civilizations, and deities. 1082

Background / History

Arrival in Messer City

Tang Qi arrives on Origin Blue Star in the body of another Tang Qi: a wealthy Messer City resident whose parents founded Tang Steel Company. The original body's parents died in an accident, while the original Tang Qi was murdered by Old Morgan, the butler he trusted. 3

After killing Old Morgan, Tang Qi discovers the Golden Furnace Meditation Method through his special insight. The method becomes his first reliable defense against Samira, Old Morgan's feared mother and a Black Serpent Witch. 5

Messer City and the Mystic Side

Tang Qi begins cultivating while posing publicly as an ordinary, knowledgeable high-school student. At St. Thorn High School, he acquires Furnace Eyes during an incident involving Angela's bullying of Sally, then develops the Chaga Combat Technique through combat. 9 12

He deliberately builds a persona as a clever occult expert with limited combat ability, allowing Stana to receive public credit for supernatural cases while he keeps his real strength concealed. 49 58

Tang Qi becomes involved with the Messer Police Department's Special Response Team alongside Stana. His investigations, cultivation, secret-medicine work, and calculated deception eventually lead him into conflict with Samira's Family and the Black Serpent Witch Sect. 58 112 211

Defeat of Samira

Tang Qi defeats Samira and takes the Ring of Inheritance containing the Black Serpent Witch Sect's complete legacy. He refuses its path because it requires faith in Ausa, the God of the Black Serpent, an Evil God. 211

Rather than claim the inheritance, Tang Qi refines Samira's Resentful Soul as fuel for the Golden Furnace Meditation Method. 211

Headmaster of Melada

Tang Qi later becomes Headmaster of a special school in Mihuang City. His growing reputation as a Scholar and supernatural problem-solver attracts attention from the Manor Bureau, Church of Light, Transcendentalists, and hostile cults. 323 423

He completes the Furnace Witch Professional Trial by splitting his soul, creating a Familiar for the Furnace Imprint, and enduring the resulting pain and memory loss. 357

As Headmaster, Tang Qi protects and trains students with unusual or dangerous supernatural traits. He also develops the school into a neutral force that cooperates with multiple organizations without formally belonging to any of them. 376 423 588

Dreamland and Divine Ascension

After becoming the Master of Dreamland, Tang Qi gains increasingly broad divine authority, creates Tang Qi Number Two as a clone and decoy, and transfers his Furnace Witch power to the clone. 595 680

His conflict with the Goddess of Fate becomes central to his later actions. He repeatedly attempts to protect Sally, investigates Lady Fate's schemes, manipulates possible futures, and prepares substitutes and contingencies to free Sally from Fate's control. 1005 1023 1038

Tang Qi ultimately rises as the Master of Dreams, wielding authority over Dreamland and Fate while preparing to face threats including the Origin Divine Race and the Young Creator. 1082

Appearance

Tang Qi commonly appears as a black-haired, black-eyed young man in a fitted Witch Robe. Earlier in Messer City, he concealed his identity as a bespectacled Asian high-school student. 18 641

• His everyday disguise includes black-rimmed glasses and a restrained, well-behaved student demeanor. 18
• His Second Body Secret Medicine form is a rough, burly, scar-faced man used for the Beast Tamer persona. 128 162
• Chaga Combat Technique can temporarily reshape him into a taller, heavily muscled combat form. 250
• He uses numerous role-based disguises, including Scholar Tang Wang, a middle-aged investigator, and a handsome youth within Forced Narrative Domains. 711 862 878

Personality

Tang Qi is methodical, self-controlled, and intensely driven by knowledge and power. He prioritizes preparation, information advantages, and practical gains over reckless displays of strength. Even when tempted by powerful items, fuel, or rapid advancement, he regularly chooses restraint when exposure or corruption would create a greater risk. 135 256 279

He is also a habitual schemer who enjoys managing others' impressions of him. His crafted personas range from a weak but brilliant student to an arrogant Beast Tamer and an aloof Scholar; he frequently uses contracts, disguises, and asymmetric information to control a situation. 49 107 112 137

Despite this calculating nature, Tang Qi repeatedly protects allies, students, civilians, and newly created life. He respects Olga's right to choose her own path, treats Alice V as a person rather than a tool, and risks himself to oppose Fate's wider schemes. 857 957 1037

He has a mischievous streak, particularly toward friends and subordinates, such as when he and Gluttony trick Jensen with supernatural soup. 323

Abilities & Skills

Special Insight and Omniscient Gaze

Tang Qi possesses a unique ability that presents information fragments about people, creatures, skills, Mystical Items, and supernatural phenomena.

• Identifies a target's status, origins, weaknesses, effects, and side effects. 5 15 137
• Enables exceptional appraisal of Mystical Items and materials, making him an unusually effective trader and collector. 114 135 510
• Evolves into Omniscient perception, allowing him to observe detailed information throughout the Divine Eagle Federation and later peer into possible futures. 805 1023
• Cannot perfectly analyze every object or existence; entities beyond the Boundless Mystery, Supreme Divinities, and certain protections can limit or injure his gaze. 1005 1023 1082

Golden Furnace Meditation Method

Tang Qi's foundational cultivation method visualizes a golden sun and transforms supernatural souls and fuel into mental power and Furnace Power.

• Generates powerful mental energy, heightened perception, and golden Furnace Flame. 5 41
• Burns Resentful Souls, Evil God Seeds, abnormalities, and other supernatural fuel to advance cultivation. 41 96 211
• Allows rapid entry into meditation because Tang Qi has converted the method into a skill. 18 41
• Excessive or poorly managed fuel can cause mental overload and Demonic Deviation. 41
• Reaches Professional mastery through the Furnace Witch Trial. 357

Furnace Eyes

A derivative of the Golden Furnace Meditation Method that channels Furnace Power through Tang Qi's eyes.

• Produces a pale-gold gaze that intimidates ordinary people and supernatural targets. 10
• Has deterrence and calming effects. 26
• Develops into Judgment and Crimson after Furnace bestowals and later advancement choices. 149 211
• Judgment reaches its sixth stage and can affect multiple targets simultaneously. 527
• Can burn away direct mental beguilement and resist attacks on Tang Qi's mind. 376

Furnace Witchcraft

As a Professional Furnace Witch, Tang Qi wields Furnace Magic Power in combat and rituals.

• Creates golden shields and flames capable of resisting corruption and burning Evil God-related entities. 222 223
• Uses Furnace Divinity to transform into a Sun Furnace in desperate combat, at the cost of severe injury. 533
• Practices the Furnace Tempering Method to improve precision and separate controlled wisps of Furnace Power. 228 256
• Can create and empower Furnace Bullets for supernatural combat. 106
• His Furnace Witch power was transferred to Tang Qi Number Two, allowing the clone to act as a Furnace Witch leader. 680 728

Chaga Combat Technique

An ancient combat technique that Tang Qi continually expands by integrating other physical disciplines.

• Enhances strength, speed, reactions, and close-quarters movement. 12 15
• Can be combined with Mist Body for evasive melee attacks. 249
• Integrates Super Strength Technique at full mastery, resetting its progress but creating a more powerful evolving style. 250
• Produces a physically transformed combat body capable of overpowering powerful supernatural creatures. 250
• Continues to improve through real combat and technique fusion rather than meditation alone. 26 263

Secret Medicine Studies

Tang Qi possesses knowledge from the Primitive Secret Medicine School and becomes a Primitive Secret Medicine Apprentice.

• Formulates enhancement medicines, including Swiftness, Haze, Mist Body, Spirit Communication, Wind's Whisper, Second Body, and Rubber Man. 71 73 88 128 263 452
• Mist Body atomizes his body into mist, enabling passage through solid objects and allowing nearby clothing or firearms to transform with him; its duration is limited by mental strength. 73 79
• Second Body Secret Medicine grants a fixed alternate form for one month and allows free switching between the two bodies. 128
• Wind's Whisper Secret Medicine grants perception of information carried through the wind. 263
• Rubber Man Secret Medicine grants a Rubber Man physique with exceptional defense and advances him to Apprentice. 452

Ralph Witchcraft

Tang Qi learns six major spells from Ralph's Grimoire.

• Flame Curse — offensive Furnace-infused flame effective against abnormalities and desire manifestations. 213 530
• Protection Curse — defensive magic used to protect himself and repair damage in emergencies. 213 753
• Soul Splitting Curse — separates soul fragments; used in his Furnace Witch Trial and to animate Tang Qi Number Two. 213 357 680
• Illusion Incantation — conceals people, objects, and identities; later supports his broader Illusion Authority. 213 255
• Body Control Spell — one of his learned witchcraft techniques. 213
• Life Curse — used to send Flame Sparrows toward potential Furnace Witches and in other life-related workings. 213 746

Beast Taming and Animal Companions

Tang Qi acquires Beast Taming knowledge from the Mysterious Hair Knot and uses it through his Second Body persona.

• Can rapidly tame wild or supernatural beasts. 101 162
• Uses a red light from his eyes to subdue a caged monster nearly instantly. 162
• Commands the Night Beast and Bag of Gluttony, both of which acknowledge him as master. 263

Dream and Divine Authority

Tang Qi's later powers derive from Dreamland, Dream Divinity, Creation Authority, Fate manipulation, and his ascension as Master of Dreams.

• Creates Dream Familiars, Divine Avatars, and reality Nodes connected to Origin Star. 747 839
• Can observe and intervene across vast distances through Dreamland and Omniscient perception. 805 1082
• Uses Creation Authority to create life, including Alice V and other living constructs. 993 998
• Manipulates Fate threads after becoming Master of Dreams, altering destinies on a kingdom-to-civilization scale. 1082
• Uses Xirang, “The Nothing,” to create an indistinguishable replica of Sally as part of a plan to evade Lady Fate's control. 1005 1038

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Bag of Gluttony — A supernatural creature with a pocket space; it accepts Tang Qi as master after reacting to Furnace Power. 261 263
• Night Beast — Tang Qi's supernatural companion and a guardian of his collection. 255 263
• Diana's Corpse — A powerful Mystical Item that recognizes Tang Qi as its master; later Diana becomes his Subordinate God. 323 841
• Blood Python No. 1 — A firearm used with Supernatural Bullets; Tang Qi later considers reforging it as it falls behind his growth. 18 410
• Heg's Grudge — A bone blade that inflicts intense pain on supernatural creatures; later considered for reforging. 69 410
• Dragon's Roar — A forged weapon created with Dragon Blood Flint; Tang Qi subdues it personally when it resists him. 430 431
• Ship of Fools — A vessel used to travel between Origin Star, the Boundless Mystery, and other worlds. 710 939
• Beckfast's Chair (“Fuck”) — A talking Mystical Item that advises Tang Qi, complains frequently, and attempts to help locate Sally. 805 852
• Furnace Hammer — A High-Level Furnace Witch war item selected for Tang Qi Number Two. 681
• Xirang / The Nothing — A rare substance that can create perfect mud replicas of existing beings from a trace of soul aura. 1005

Relationships

• Stana — Former Messer City partner and one of the few people Tang Qi considers close. He helped her enter the Mystic Side; she later becomes a Light Knight apprentice and remains an important ally. 58 227 498
• Sally — Tang Qi first protects her from school bullying, then becomes her prophesied mentor and protector. Much of his later resistance against Lady Fate centers on freeing Sally from Fate's control. 9 271 1005 1072
• Rose Madeline — Scholar, confidante, and study companion. Their relationship is built on mutual respect, shared curiosity, and growing affection. 858 1009 1010
• Raphael, Lord of Thorns — A powerful friend and source of knowledge who warns Tang Qi about the Origin Divine Race and later stands among the major powers connected to him. 678 1037
• Master of the Furnace — Source of Tang Qi's Furnace Witch inheritance. Their relationship develops into an uneasy alliance formalized through an ally contract. 96 852
• Tang Qi Number Two — Tang Qi's sentient clone, created with Flora's Box, a soul fragment, transferred Furnace power, and later used as a decoy and Furnace Witch leader. 680 746 839
• Diana — Initially Diana's Corpse, then Tang Qi's Subordinate God; she revives Dreamland and assists against the Origin Black Mud. 323 841
• McAuley — Tang Qi's subordinate and protégé, whom he equips with Swiftness Secret Medicine and encourages to train discreetly. 119 273
• Gluttony — A supernatural companion and storage creature that shares Tang Qi's collecting habits and participates in his pranks. 261 323
• Lady Fate — Tang Qi's principal enemy and manipulator. Their conflict revolves around Sally, the Fate Game, and Tang Qi's attempts to expose and undermine her conspiracies. 846 1037 1039

Story Role / Major Arcs

Old Morgan's Legacy

Tang Qi enters the body of the murdered heir to Tang Steel Company, kills Old Morgan, uncovers the threat posed by Samira, and begins Golden Furnace cultivation. 3 5

Messer City Cases

He joins Stana in investigating abnormal incidents, creates a weak-but-knowledgeable public persona, gains Furnace fuel from supernatural enemies, and becomes a key but concealed figure in Messer City's Special Response Team. 41 49 58

Black Serpent Witch Conflict

Tang Qi infiltrates and manipulates Samira's Family, defeats Samira, refuses the Black Serpent Witch inheritance, and uses her Resentful Soul to advance his own cultivation. 107 112 211

Melada Headmaster Arc

After gaining fame as a Scholar and supernatural hero, Tang Qi becomes Headmaster of Melada Special Education School, trains its students, and completes his Furnace Witch Professional Trial. 323 357 376

Dreamland and Clone Plan

Tang Qi becomes Master of Dreamland, creates Tang Qi Number Two, transfers his Furnace Witch inheritance to the clone, and expands his influence through Dream Familiars and reality Nodes. 595 680 747

Fate Game and Resistance

Marked by Lady Fate, Tang Qi enters Grotesque Town, obtains new authorities, repeatedly investigates Fate's conspiracy, and creates Xirang Sally as a contingency against Fate's control. 875 892 1005 1038

Master of Dreams

Tang Qi ascends as Master of Dreams, gains control over Dreamland and Fate threads, and turns his attention toward the Origin Divine Race, the Young Creator, and the approaching larger conflict. 1082 1146

Notable Quotes

“I want it all!” 334