Chapter Summaries

Qing Mo took Lü Suzhen on a half-year tour of the world before bringing her to Xianyang on Da Bai, a giant White Tiger divine beast, to meet the First Emperor of Qin. After Qing Mo freed the emperor from the world’s control, he promised to grant the emperor’s wish and began changing the course of history.

• Qing Mo took Lü Suzhen sightseeing across Africa and other continents, where she encountered unfamiliar animals and grew happier as she let go of her grief over Yi Xiaochuan.
• Qing Mo collected two enormous elephant tusks and then revealed Da Bai’s true form as a colossal White Tiger, carrying Lü Suzhen toward Xianyang.
• Yi Xiaochuan and Gao Yao saw Da Bai fly over Xianyang and were stunned, while the people of the city knelt in worship.
• Qing Mo told Lü Suzhen he intended to help the First Emperor strengthen Great Qin and asked to become the emperor’s Imperial Preceptor.
• Qing Mo noticed and erased a black thread controlling the First Emperor, creating a parallel universe as the emperor welcomed him and offered to share his realm.
• Qing Mo stopped the First Emperor from bowing and said he knew the emperor’s wish and could fulfill it.

Qing Mo showed the First Emperor of Qin the future’s history, secured Fusu’s succession, and supplied Great Qin with technologies and crops to change its course. He then went with Meng Tian to rescue Gao Yao, who stared in disbelief when Qing Mo offered him a cigarette.

• Qing Mo gave the First Emperor of Qin the Fountain of Immortality and asked him to summon Fusu, Meng Tian, and Li Si.
• Qing Mo showed the emperor and his attendants the River of Time and recounted more than two thousand years of Chinese history, prompting the First Emperor of Qin to make Fusu Crown Prince and imprison Hu Hai.
• Qing Mo gave the First Emperor of Qin high-yield crops, papermaking and printing methods, and agricultural and metallurgical designs to strengthen Great Qin.
• Qing Mo asked Meng Tian to acquire Xianyang’s best restaurant for Gao Yao and went with him to retrieve Gao Yao.
• Qing Mo stopped a soldier from beating Gao Yao, and Gao Yao stared in shock when Qing Mo offered him a cigarette.

Qing Mo rescued Gao Yao, revealed that Lü Su had been revived, and showed them recordings of the future Gao Yao and Lü Su would have faced without his intervention. Gao Yao rejected Yi Xiaochuan and asked Qing Mo to help him grow strong, while Qing Mo offered to become his sworn brother.

• Qing Mo killed the soldier who had beaten Gao Yao, then covered up the execution by declaring that the man had died exposing a Xiongnu spy.
• Qing Mo brought Gao Yao to his residence, where Gao Yao reunited with Lü Su and learned that Qing Mo had brought her back to life.
• Qing Mo showed Gao Yao and Lü Su recordings of the future, including Gao Yao becoming Zhao Gao and Yi Xiaochuan abandoning his friends for his own desires.
• Gao Yao broke down over Yi Xiaochuan's betrayal, then vowed to end their friendship and make him pay for bullying Xiao Yue.
• Gao Yao asked Qing Mo to help him become strong enough to protect those he cared about, and Qing Mo offered to become his brother.

Qing Mo established himself in Great Qin, exposed the danger of alchemists, and used visions of the future to redirect Meng Tian’s mission. After Lü Su gave up on Yi Xiaochuan, Meng Tian returned with Yushu and Yi Xiaochuan, leaving Yi Xiaochuan stunned by Great Qin’s transformation and Qing Mo’s treatment of Yushu.

• Qing Mo moved into the National Preceptor’s Residence, gave Gao Yao a restaurant, and asked the First Emperor to send Meng Tian to bring back Princess Yushu of Tu'an.
• Qing Mo explained that he meant to use gold and life-extending pills to provoke Tu'an’s greed, demonstrated that his pills differed from poisonous alchemist elixirs, and led the First Emperor to order the arrest of alchemists across Great Qin.
• Qing Mo showed Meng Tian visions of Yi Xiaochuan betraying him and ruining the Meng Family Army, then told Meng Tian to bring Yi Xiaochuan back alive so Qing Mo could deal with him.
• Qing Mo and Lü Su secretly watched Yi Xiaochuan choose to stay in Tu'an for Princess Yushu, and Lü Su accepted that Yi Xiaochuan was not worth her love.
• Months later, Meng Tian brought Yushu and Yi Xiaochuan to Xianyang, where Yi Xiaochuan saw Great Qin’s rapid modernization and discovered that Qing Mo was the Imperial Preceptor and Lü Su was alive.
• Qing Mo inspected Yushu and called her a maid for odd jobs, leaving Yi Xiaochuan shocked and furious.

Qing Mo rejected Yi Xiaochuan’s pleas to free Princess Yushu, had his meridians crippled, and sent him to labor under brutal conditions. The chapter left Yi Xiaochuan enduring an even harsher punishment after Qing Mo ordered his workload tripled.

• Qing Mo ordered Lü Su to take Princess Yushu into his residence as a maid, while guards held back Yi Xiaochuan.
• Qing Mo told Yi Xiaochuan that he could treat Yushu as he pleased, and the guards beat Yi Xiaochuan unconscious when he tried to attack him.
• Qing Mo crippled Yi Xiaochuan’s meridians and ordered guards to shackle him and send him to the corvée laborers.
• Several days later, Yi Xiaochuan collapsed under heavy labor and was beaten by a guard as Qing Mo watched.
• Qing Mo ordered the labor official to triple Yi Xiaochuan’s workload, give him the harshest beatings, and reduce his food and sleep.

Qing Mo continued reforming Great Qin while punishing Yi Xiaochuan with brutal corvée labor, and he brought palace maid Xiao Yue to Gao Yao, who recognized her resemblance to Gao Lan and welcomed her as his younger sister. The chapter ended with Gao Yao hurrying to prepare a feast for Xiao Yue.

• Qing Mo ordered Yi Xiaochuan worked and watched harshly while the other laborers received better food and lodging.
• Gao Yao asked Qing Mo to find his sister, and Qing Mo promised to bring Xiao Yue from the palace.
• Lü Su told Qing Mo she wanted to return to Pei County to visit her family, and Qing Mo agreed to arrange an escort.
• Qing Mo retrieved Xiao Yue from the palace and brought her to Gao Yao's tavern.
• Gao Yao mistook Xiao Yue for Gao Lan at first, then accepted her as his little sister after Qing Mo explained who she was.
• Gao Yao told Xiao Yue to wait with Qing Mo and rushed to cook her a meal.

Gao Yao welcomed Xiao Yue as his sister, and Qing Mo made her free to enter the Imperial Preceptor's residence. Qing Mo then ordered Yi Xiaochuan castrated, recruited several future Han leaders for Qin, and brought them before the First Emperor.

• Gao Yao introduced Xiao Yue as his sister and treated her to a meal, while Qing Mo welcomed her as family.
• Qing Mo told the guards Xiao Yue could freely enter the Imperial Preceptor's residence, where Gao Yao showed her around and gave her a room.
• Qing Mo ordered the eunuch to take the unconscious Yi Xiaochuan to the official slave camp and arrange for him to be castrated.
• Qing Mo left Xianyang with Da Bai and Little Tail, recruited Xiao He and Han Xin, seized Zhang Liang after he refused, and brought Fan Kuai back with them.
• Qing Mo presented Xiao He, Han Xin, Zhang Liang, and Fan Kuai to the First Emperor and Fusu as gifts.

Qing Mo persuaded the First Emperor of Qin to capture the Xiongnu for labor and supplied Meng Tian’s expedition with alcohol and medical staff. He then forced Princess Yushu to choose between pleading for Yi Xiaochuan and protecting Tu'an, and she followed him toward Yi Xiaochuan’s impending castration.

• Qing Mo advised the First Emperor of Qin to capture the Xiongnu for labor and assimilation, and the emperor ordered Meng Tian to bring back as many as possible.
• Qing Mo told Meng Tian to collect alcohol from the distillery and take medical school members as military doctors on the expedition.
• Yi Xiaochuan woke restrained in the official slave camp, where eunuchs forced him to eat egg yolks for three days in preparation for castration.
• Qing Mo brought Princess Yushu to the camp and announced that Yi Xiaochuan would be castrated, while the eunuch confirmed the preparations were complete.
• Qing Mo showed Yushu reports of Tu'an raids on Qin territory and threatened to send troops unless she warned her people to stop.
• Yushu stopped pleading for Yi Xiaochuan and followed Qing Mo toward the room as she heard the blade being sharpened.

Qing Mo had Yi Xiaochuan castrated and kept him conscious through the ordeal, then made him watch as Princess Yushu submitted to Qing Mo in exchange for Tu'an’s safety. Yi Xiaochuan’s body and spirit were left broken as he witnessed Yushu’s humiliation from the room next door.

• Qing Mo had the eunuch castrate Yi Xiaochuan while keeping him conscious, and Yushu watched in tears from outside.
• When Yushu saw Yi Xiaochuan’s suffering through the window, Yi Xiaochuan broke down and fainted.
• That night, Yi Xiaochuan woke in a dilapidated house and overheard Qing Mo question Yushu about Tu'an’s border incursions.
• Yushu knelt and pleaded for Qing Mo to persuade the emperor to spare Tu'an, promising that her people would stop harassing Great Qin.
• Qing Mo demanded that Yushu come to him, and Yi Xiaochuan watched helplessly through a crack in the wall as she complied.
• Over the next two or three hours, Yi Xiaochuan remained frozen and watched Qing Mo humiliate Yushu, leaving his already fragile heart shattered again.

Qing Mo secured Princess Yushu’s promise that Tu'an would stop harassing Great Qin’s borders, then continued to torment Yi Xiaochuan through harsh treatment at the official slave camp. That night, Qing Mo took Gao Yao to confront Liu Bang, the man who had framed him.

• Yushu promised that Tu'an would behave and asked Qing Mo to speak to the Emperor on its behalf.
• Yi Xiaochuan swore revenge on Qing Mo while the carriage carried Qing Mo and Yushu back to the National Preceptor's residence.
• Qing Mo arranged for guards to whip Yi Xiaochuan at the official slave camp, and he watched with Yushu as the guards continued the punishment.
• Qing Mo told Gao Yao that he would take him to meet someone, then later revealed that the person was Liu Bang.
• Qing Mo took Gao Yao out at night to meet Liu Bang, the man who had framed him and sent him to corvée labor.

Qing Mo and Gao Yao captured Liu Bang and brought him back to Xianyang to punish him for framing Gao Yao. After Liu Bang endured less than two days of brutal forced labor and tried to bluff his way out, Qing Mo ordered a blade sharpened to execute him.

• Gao Yao confronted Liu Bang in an abandoned house, while Qing Mo stopped Liu Bang's companions from attacking and let them leave.
• Gao Yao beat Liu Bang, but Qing Mo stopped him and proposed sending Liu Bang to forced labor so he would suffer as Gao Yao had.
• Qing Mo took Liu Bang and Gao Yao to the labor camp, where he ordered Liu Bang shackled, worked five times as hard, and beaten at least three times a day.
• The next day, Gao Yao and Qing Mo watched Liu Bang struggle under the punishing workload while the other laborers ate well.
• Liu Bang declared that he would never submit, and Qing Mo responded by ordering the guards to sharpen a blade so Liu Bang could be executed.

Qing Mo exposed Liu Bang’s cowardly act, had him spared from execution, and left the soldiers to beat him. Later, Qing Mo recruited the Western Regions merchant Chen Qin'an as a potential guide for a Great Qin diplomatic mission, and Chen Qin'an realized he was speaking to the famed National Preceptor.

• Qing Mo ordered Liu Bang’s execution, but Liu Bang broke down and begged for his life, admitting he had only pretended to be fearless.
• Qing Mo let Liu Bang live after the soldier’s blade cut only his hair, then the guards beat Liu Bang repeatedly for his deception.
• Qing Mo and Gao Yao left the labor camp, and Gao Yao bought a white rabbit for Xiao Yue.
• Qing Mo spotted Hu merchants in the street and asked Chen Qin'an about his knowledge of the Western Regions and its countries.
• Qing Mo offered Chen Qin'an work guiding a Great Qin diplomatic mission to the Western Regions, and Chen Qin'an realized Qing Mo was the National Preceptor.

Qing Mo recruited the Hu merchant Chen Qin'an to guide a Great Qin envoy through the Western Regions and promised him Qin household registration. The First Emperor approved the exception and summoned Chen Qin'an to explain what he knew, leaving his citizenship and service to Great Qin dependent on his account.

• Qing Mo recognized Chen Qin'an as a merchant familiar with the Western Regions and brought him to the National Preceptor's residence.
• Qing Mo asked Chen Qin'an to guide a future envoy mission, and Chen Qin'an requested Qin household registration and identification papers in return.
• Qing Mo agreed to make an exception, accepted Chen Qin'an's offer of rare treasures, and promised to take him to meet the First Emperor.
• Qing Mo presented his plans for trade, intelligence gathering, and future expansion in the Western Regions to the First Emperor and Fusu.
• The First Emperor approved granting Chen Qin'an Qin citizenship if he served Great Qin, then summoned him to describe the Western Regions and lands beyond them.

Qing Mo brought Yushu to the state slave camp to confront the battered Yi Xiaochuan, then showed him scenes of the future he had supposedly prevented and explained why he had made Yi Xiaochuan suffer. When Yi Xiaochuan failed to hide his hatred, Qing Mo decided to arrange a reunion with Liu Bang.

• Qing Mo ordered his guards to bring Liu Bang from the corvée labor camp and keep him under guard at the state slave camp.
• Qing Mo stopped a soldier from waking the unconscious Yi Xiaochuan with water, then ordered him taken to the room where he had been castrated and drenched in brine.
• Qing Mo showed Yi Xiaochuan and Yushu scenes from the Recording Stone depicting Yi Xiaochuan's betrayals and hypocrisy in the original events.
• Qing Mo told Yi Xiaochuan that he had made him endure Gao Yao's intended fate, while Yi Xiaochuan wept and begged to be spared.
• Qing Mo challenged Yi Xiaochuan to forgive him for his suffering and what he had done to Yushu, then called him a liar when Yi Xiaochuan claimed he would.
• After Yi Xiaochuan invoked Liu Bang's future as the founding emperor of Han, Qing Mo explained that Great Qin's changed fortunes would prevent that future and left to arrange a reunion between them.

Qing Mo trapped Yi Xiaochuan with a drugged Liu Bang, then revealed Liu Bang’s future as the founding emperor of Han and ordered his castration. Liu Bang was dragged away, while Qing Mo promised that Gao Yao would witness his screams.

• Qing Mo sealed Yi Xiaochuan and the drugged Liu Bang inside a room, where Liu Bang attacked Yi Xiaochuan after the drug overcame his reason.
• Qing Mo overheard Liu Bang admit that he had never regarded Yi Xiaochuan as a brother and had only used him to survive.
• The next day, Qing Mo had Yi Xiaochuan and Liu Bang awakened with concentrated saltwater and brought before him.
• Qing Mo told Liu Bang that he would have founded the Han dynasty and revealed that Yi Xiaochuan and Qing Mo came from the future.
• Qing Mo rejected Liu Bang’s offer of power, condemned his future political marriages, and ordered the soldiers to prepare Liu Bang for castration.
• Qing Mo sent Liu Bang away and said he would bring Gao Yao to witness Liu Bang’s screams.

Qing Mo punished Yi Xiaochuan by making him immortal for over two thousand five hundred years, then learned that Tu'an’s Queen had tried to infiltrate his residence and kill him. The Queen admitted her plan, while Yushu was left unable to intervene as Qing Mo questioned her mother about the plot.

• Qing Mo gave the bound Yi Xiaochuan an immortality pill and an ankle shackle, condemning him to endure life as a eunuch for more than two thousand five hundred years.
• Qing Mo warned Yushu that Tu'an’s raids on Great Qin’s border could provoke a military response, and she begged him to spare her homeland.
• Qing Mo revealed that guards had caught Yushu’s mother, the Queen of Tu'an, sneaking into his residence with other outsiders.
• Yushu tried to explain her mother’s presence, but the Queen admitted that they had come to kill Qing Mo and slow Great Qin’s expansion.
• The Queen said Tu'an had prepared a deadly poison, and Qing Mo inferred that they planned to use Yushu to poison him.

Qing Mo exposed Queen of Tu'an’s plot to poison him, threatened Tu'an over its attacks on Great Qin, and spared the kingdom after Yushu pleaded for mercy. After keeping the Queen imprisoned for three days, he flew with her and Yushu to Tu'an’s border, where he entered its territory and demanded the King come out to greet him.

• Qing Mo revealed that Queen of Tu'an had brought poison, drank it without harm, and ordered the guards to imprison her after listing Tu'an’s crimes against Great Qin.
• Qing Mo threatened to destroy Tu'an if Queen of Tu'an killed herself, and he ordered the guards to prepare an army’s supplies if she attempted it.
• Yushu begged Qing Mo to spare her mother and Tu'an, and he agreed to give the kingdom a chance to survive.
• Qing Mo kept Queen of Tu'an imprisoned for three days while Yushu served him, then rode Da Bai toward Tu'an with both women.
• Qing Mo summoned the border garrison, armed its soldiers with new weapons, entered Tu'an’s territory, and demanded that the King come out to greet him.

Qing Mo forced Tu'an to submit to Great Qin, then took Gao Yao to watch Liu Bang be castrated in revenge for framing him. The chapter ended with Liu Bang enduring the procedure while fully conscious.

• Qing Mo confronted the King of Tu'an with demands to surrender offenders and accept Great Qin's rule or face war.
• General Jin attacked Qing Mo, who seized him and crushed his neck; the King of Tu'an then accepted Qing Mo's terms.
• Great Qin took control of Tu'an, executed those who had harmed its citizens, and relocated the Tu'an royal family and population as ordered by the First Emperor.
• Qing Mo told Gao Yao that Liu Bang's castration was imminent and brought him to the official slave camp.
• Qing Mo stopped Liu Bang from pleading for mercy and made him remain conscious as the eunuch castrated him.

Qing Mo tormented Liu Bang over his castration and arranged for Gao Yao to pursue Lü Zhi, then welcomed Lü Su and her family to Xianyang and helped Lü Su give up her feelings for him. Later, Qing Mo discussed the consequences of his actions with Cui Wenzi, who recognized that he had changed the fate of China.

• Qing Mo taunted the castrated Liu Bang by telling him Lü Gong would reject him and offering Lü Zhi to Gao Yao, causing Liu Bang to faint.
• Qing Mo and Gao Yao welcomed Lü Su, Lü Gong, and Lü Zhi to the Imperial Preceptor's residence, where Qing Mo introduced Gao Yao to Lü Zhi and the two began getting along.
• Lü Su saw Princess Yushu leaving Qing Mo's room and later spoke with Qing Mo, then let go of her romantic feelings and began calling him Brother Mo.
• Qing Mo met Cui Wenzi at Gao Yao's tavern, and Cui Wenzi said Qing Mo had rewritten the fates of many people, China, and the land itself.

Qing Mo arranged for Gao Yao to marry Lü Zhi, then fulfilled his promise to send the couple back to their own era after giving Cui Wenzi three longevity pills in exchange for the ingredients he needed. After a farewell trip around the world, Gao Yao and Lü Zhi returned home, leaving a letter and his businesses for Xiao Yue.

• Qing Mo gave Cui Wenzi the Black Wind horse blood and Heavenly Star powder, and Cui Wenzi promised to deliver an immortality medicine within a month.
• Qing Mo told Gao Yao he would send him and Lü Zhi back to their era after their wedding, then prepared Gao Yao with advanced knowledge and gave Lü Zhi modern memories.
• Gao Yao and Lü Zhi married, while Qing Mo forced Liu Bang to watch and had him returned to the government slave camp afterward.
• Cui Wenzi delivered three longevity pills to Qing Mo, who rewarded him with Wind, Flowers, Snow, and Moon wine.
• Qing Mo took Gao Yao, Lü Zhi, Lü Su, Yushu, and the others on a world tour before opening a passage home for Gao Yao and Lü Zhi.
• Gao Yao left Xiao Yue a letter and gave her his businesses before returning to his era with Lü Zhi, while Qing Mo left him a wisp of divine sense.