Chapter Summaries

Lin Bei left the mountain forest with the White Tiger after gathering rare medicinal herbs and teaching it a cultivation method. At the city gate, the White Tiger frightened the guards, and a finely dressed man revealed himself as Han Fei, Ninth Childe, leaving the defending general alarmed for his safety.

• Lin Bei spent a week searching the forest, found three valuable medicinal ingredients, and taught the White Tiger a cultivation method suited to its physique.
• Lin Bei loaded the herbs onto the White Tiger and rode with it toward a city he had sensed nearby.
• The White Tiger frightened people on the road and at the city gate, prompting the defending general to order the gate closed.
• Lin Bei calmed the White Tiger and spoke with a finely dressed man who deduced that Lin Bei had recently subdued it.
• The finely dressed man identified himself as Han Fei, Ninth Childe, and the defending general worried that he was in danger beside the White Tiger.

Lin Bei entered Xin Zheng with Han Fei after leaving the White Tiger in the nearby mountains, and Han Fei invited him to stay at his residence. Han Fei's sister Hong Lian insulted Lin Bei, then stormed off when Han Fei demanded that she apologize; after changing clothes, Lin Bei told Han Fei that there were no immortals in the heavens of this world.

• Han Fei persuaded Lin Bei to leave the White Tiger outside Xin Zheng, and Lin Bei sent it into the mountains with instructions not to hurt people.
• Lin Bei and Han Fei entered Xin Zheng without paying an entry fee, and Han Fei invited Lin Bei to stay at his residence.
• Hong Lian arrived to meet Han Fei, insulted Lin Bei as a beggar, and refused to apologize when Han Fei scolded her.
• Han Fei arranged for Lin Bei to bathe and change clothes, then remarked that Lin Bei looked like an immortal.
• Lin Bei looked at the sky and told Han Fei that there were no immortals in the heavens of this world.

Lin Bei refused the King of Han’s summons, enraging him and nearly earning himself an execution order. He told Han Fei he would not remain in Xin Zheng and favored Qin Country, seeing the land as Hua Xia.

• The King of Han questioned Han Fei about Lin Bei and his gigantic White Tiger, then ordered Lin Bei to appear before him.
• Imperial Guards delivered the summons, but Lin Bei refused to go and beat them when they showed contempt for him.
• The King of Han ordered Lin Bei seized and sentenced to death, but Han Fei and the ministers persuaded him to withdraw the order.
• Han Fei returned to Lin Bei, who called the King of Han childish for getting angry over the refusal.
• Lin Bei told Han Fei he planned to leave Xin Zheng, favored Qin Country, and viewed the land as Hua Xia.

Lin Bei explained Qin Country’s overwhelming strength and the historical momentum behind its rise, leaving Han Fei despairing over Han Country’s inability to reform in time. Honglian confronted Lin Bei about her brother, while Mo Ya and Bai Feng reported intelligence about the Tiger-Riding Man to Ji Wuye.

• Lin Bei analyzed Qin Country’s political, economic, legal, military, and other advantages for Han Fei, who concluded that the six other countries could not stop its eventual unification.
• Han Fei spent the next three days drinking and mourning Han Country’s future, and Honglian went to Lin Bei to ask what he had done to her brother.
• Lin Bei told Honglian that he and Han Fei had discussed the Grand Trend of the World, then returned to his courtyard as she went to find Han Fei.
• Mo Ya and Bai Feng reported to Ji Wuye the intelligence they had gathered about the Tiger-Riding Man Who Approached the City.

Mo Ya and Bai Feng failed to uncover Lin Bei’s origins, while Lin Bei spent his days preparing for the immortality elixir at Han Fei’s residence. Han Fei took him to Zilan Pavilion, where Zi Nv recognized him and Wei Zhuang recalled how dangerous Lin Bei’s White Tiger had seemed.

• Mo Ya and Bai Feng reported to Ji Wuye that they had found no clues about Lin Bei’s origins, and Ji Wuye dismissed them before turning to the beauty beside him.
• Lin Bei read the Classic of Mountains and Seas and considered visiting Kunlun while preparing to refine the immortality elixir.
• Han Fei invited Lin Bei to Zilan Pavilion, and the two traveled there by bullock cart as passersby admired Lin Bei’s appearance.
• Zi Nv recognized Lin Bei and went to receive him, while Wei Zhuang called him a terrifying fellow after recalling the White Tiger’s strength.
• Zi Nv led Lin Bei and Han Fei to a Private Room, where Han Fei asked her to invite Nong Yu to play music.

Lin Bei explained dialectics to Han Fei at Zilan Pavilion, and Han Fei grasped the ideas as Wei Zhuang listened from the next room. Impressed by Lin Bei’s doctrine, Wei Zhuang entered and greeted him with the courtesy of a disciple.

• Nong Yu played the zither for Lin Bei and Han Fei while Zi Nv poured their wine at Zilan Pavilion.
• Lin Bei and Han Fei discussed dialectics, and Lin Bei summarized materialist dialectics for him.
• Han Fei understood the doctrine and celebrated, while Nong Yu and Zi Nv remained confused by the discussion.
• Wei Zhuang overheard them and realized Lin Bei’s ideas could establish a new doctrine and strengthen Han Country.
• Wei Zhuang entered the room and saluted Lin Bei as a disciple, surprising Lin Bei and Zi Nv.

Han Fei, Wei Zhuang, and Lin Bei discussed Han Country’s political crisis and concluded that saving it would require overthrowing the old nobility and taking the throne. Lin Bei warned that Qin Country already had the momentum and would invade while Han Country was weakened by reform.

• Han Fei and Wei Zhuang praised Lin Bei’s teachings, then debated Han Country’s problems with him.
• Wei Zhuang concluded that Ji Wuye’s Nightfall reflected the power of the old nobility, and Han Fei said replacing Nightfall alone would not solve the problem.
• Wei Zhuang proposed that Han Fei become the King of Han while he became Great General, so they could reform the state.
• Han Fei rejected further discussion of taking the throne, saying he had come only to drink.
• Lin Bei said their plan could strengthen Han Country but warned that reform would spark bloodshed and leave it vulnerable to Qin Country.

After Han Fei survived an assassination attempt with Lin Bei’s help, Lin Bei prepared to leave Han Country for Qin Country and gave Han Fei a pill that could extend his life beyond three hundred years. Han Fei swallowed it, beginning a three-month transformation that would greatly improve his physical abilities.

• Lin Bei stopped seven assassins from attacking Han Fei and left them for Han Fei to interrogate.
• Han Fei spent the night questioning the assassins and learned useful information about the attack.
• Lin Bei told Han Fei he was leaving Han Country for Qin Country to give Ying Zheng a great gift.
• Lin Bei gave Han Fei a half-finished Longevity Pill that could extend his lifespan to more than three hundred years.
• Han Fei swallowed the pill, and Lin Bei explained that his body would grow stronger over the next three months.

Lin Bei gave Han Fei a Longevity Pill that began transforming his body and increasing his martial power, then traveled toward Xianyang with his white tiger. As Han Fei and his allies planned against Nightfall, Wei Zhuang and Zi Nv noticed Han Fei’s growing strength and youthful appearance, and Zi Nv asked what had happened to him.

• Lin Bei explained that the Longevity Pill would make Han Fei stronger and urged him to live through Han Country’s fall, then flew away on his sword.
• Lin Bei rode his white tiger west toward Xianyang, healing people along the way and earning the name White Tiger Physician Immortal.
• Snare sent Ying Zheng intelligence about Lin Bei and his enormous white tiger, but Ying Zheng soon returned his attention to court politics.
• Han Fei, Wei Zhuang, and Zi Nv discussed how to oppose Nightfall, with Han Fei relying on Zhang Kai Di’s support and Wei Zhuang’s influence among hidden forces.
• Wei Zhuang and Zi Nv noticed Han Fei’s increasingly powerful aura, and Zi Nv asked why he was growing stronger and younger.

Lin Bei arrived in Xianyang and opened the Xuán Hú clinic, where he treated patients while waiting to approach the King of Qin. After hearing reports of Lin Bei’s extraordinary medical skills, Ying Zheng ordered Zhang Han to protect him and keep him from leaving the city.

• Han Fei refused to tell Zi Nv and Wei Zhuang about the Longevity Pill Lin Bei had given him, saying the matter was too important to discuss.
• Lin Bei reached Xianyang on the white tiger, ordered it to stay in the nearby mountains, and entered the city alone.
• Lin Bei opened the Xuán Hú clinic, treated patients for free, and bought Herbal Medicine gathered by poor civilians.
• Ying Zheng asked Zhang Han what Lin Bei had done since arriving in Xianyang and heard accounts of him reviving a dying patient and reattaching a swordsman’s severed arm.
• Ying Zheng ordered Zhang Han to protect Lin Bei, with the intention of preventing him from leaving Xianyang without permission.

Lin Bei saved a malnourished little girl and sent her home with her mother, then met Ying Zheng at his clinic. He told the King of Qin that he came from the future, leaving Ying Zheng bewildered.

• Lin Bei treated the sick little girl while her mother boiled water, then bathed and clothed the child and gave them money and grain.
• Lin Bei learned that the woman's husband had died from an infected wound and that she had struggled to support her daughter alone.
• Ying Zheng secretly visited Lin Bei's clinic, guarded by Imperial Guards, and Lin Bei recognized him as the King of Qin.
• Ying Zheng asked whether Lin Bei belonged to the Yin Yang Family after hearing Lin Bei predict his unification of the world.
• Lin Bei said he was not from the Hundred Schools of Philosophers and claimed he was someone from the future, leaving Ying Zheng stunned.

Lin Bei revealed to Ying Zheng that he came from more than two thousand years in the future, then used an illusion to show him the modern world and historical records. Ying Zheng learned that Qin fell after its second generation and began reading about the people connected to its collapse.

• Ying Zheng questioned Lin Bei’s claim, and Lin Bei offered to prove it by showing him the future.
• Lin Bei brought Ying Zheng into an illusion of a modern city, where he explained skyscrapers and cars.
• Lin Bei moved the illusion to a library and gave Ying Zheng a book about Chinese history.
• Ying Zheng read that Qin fell after its second generation and demanded to know whether the record was true.
• Ying Zheng read about Hu Hai, Zhao Gao, Xiang Yu, and Liu Bang, and thought about killing them once he left the illusion.

Lin Bei showed Ying Zheng history books that explained Qin Country’s fall and taught him to value the common people and adapt the country’s systems. Ying Zheng agreed to build a prosperous world in exchange for Lin Bei’s protection from death, then nearly stood up when Lin Bei gave him a semi-finished Longevity Pill.

• Ying Zheng studied Hua Xia’s history books and concluded that Qin Country fell because its harsh systems were not adjusted after unification and because its rulers failed to heed the common people.
• Ying Zheng said the Great Qin Empire would not have fallen if he had lived longer, but Lin Bei told him that he would die at fifty and that no elixir of immortality existed.
• Ying Zheng declared that he could not die and asked Lin Bei what he wanted from him.
• Lin Bei asked Ying Zheng to build a prosperous world like the modern city around them and promised to keep him from dying if he succeeded.
• Ying Zheng accepted Lin Bei’s condition, and Lin Bei handed him a bottle containing a semi-finished Longevity Pill.
• Ying Zheng nearly stood up in shock when Lin Bei identified the pill.

Lin Bei gave Ying Zheng a pill that could extend his life to more than three hundred years and explained that he hoped to refine an Immortality Pill eventually. Ying Zheng agreed to Lin Bei’s conditions, then sent Zhang Han to Han Country to verify whether Han Fei had received and taken the same pill.

• Ying Zheng examined the pill Lin Bei gave him and learned it could extend his life for more than three hundred years, while a true Immortality Pill would require much more time to refine.
• Ying Zheng asked why Lin Bei did not take the throne, and Lin Bei explained that he wanted a leisurely, unrestricted life rather than the burden of ruling.
• Ying Zheng accepted Lin Bei’s conditions and hoped the Immortality Pill would not take too long to arrive.
• Lin Bei told Ying Zheng that he had given the other pill to Han Fei before leaving Han Country.
• Ying Zheng left for Xianyang Palace with Zhang Han and ordered him to go to Xin Zheng to check whether Han Fei had taken the pill.

After Han Fei concealed that the Longevity Pill had made him stronger, Zhang Han returned to Qin with evidence of the pill’s power. Ying Zheng confirmed the pill was genuine and swallowed it.

• At Zilan Pavilion, Han Fei, Wei Zhuang, and Zi Nv discussed Han Country’s decline and Han Fei’s unexplained increase in strength.
• Wei Zhuang sensed an expert near Zilan Pavilion, but the visitor had already left before they could find anyone.
• Zhang Han returned to Qin after observing Han Fei and reported his findings to Ying Zheng.
• Ying Zheng confirmed the Longevity Pill was genuine, swallowed it, and felt its power transform him.

Duanmu Rong persuaded Nian Duan to travel to Qin Country to see the White Tiger Physician Immortal, while Lin Bei continued treating patients and hosting Ying Zheng at his clinic. Ying Zheng studied in Lin Bei’s illusory library, and Lin Bei recognized that their meeting had already changed history.

• Duanmu Rong asked Nian Duan about the White Tiger Physician Immortal, and Nian Duan explained that great healers did not necessarily belong to the Medical Family.
• Duanmu Rong asked to visit Qin Country and see the physician, and Nian Duan agreed to go with her.
• A woman and her daughter cleaned Lin Bei’s clinic to repay him for saving the girl, and Lin Bei gave them a rabbit to take home.
• Ying Zheng visited Lin Bei’s clinic with Gai Nie and immersed himself in the illusory library to study its accumulated knowledge.
• Lin Bei reflected that meeting Ying Zheng had already transformed the course of history.

Nian Duan and Duanmu Rong entered Xianyang seeking the White Tiger Physician Immortal and found Lin Bei’s small clinic, where he was treating the sick. They discovered Gai Nie there as well, leaving the reason for their unexpected reunion to be discussed.

• Nian Duan and Duanmu Rong entered Xianyang and noticed its unusual cleanliness and orderly streets.
• Ying Zheng’s sanitation policies reduced illness in Xianyang, while he continued studying with Lin Bei despite ministers’ objections.
• Nian Duan and Duanmu Rong found Lin Bei’s clinic and watched him treat an elderly patient.
• Nian Duan introduced herself and Duanmu Rong to Lin Bei, who greeted them as an idle man beyond the world.
• Gai Nie emerged from the back courtyard, and he and Nian Duan and Duanmu Rong were surprised to see one another.

Lin Bei exchanged advanced medical knowledge with Nian Duan and hosted her and Duanmu Rong for a week, during which Duanmu Rong learned from him. He then told Ying Zheng he planned to leave Xianyang to gather rare ingredients for the Immortality Pill, and Ying Zheng struggled to accept his departure.

• Nian Duan and Duanmu Rong visited Lin Bei, and Nian Duan discussed medicine with him while Gai Nie sat awkwardly nearby.
• The King of Qin arrived, learned why the visitors had come, and left with Gai Nie without interrupting their discussion.
• Lin Bei invited Nian Duan and Duanmu Rong to dinner and let them stay overnight because the curfew made travel unsafe.
• Nian Duan and Duanmu Rong stayed with Lin Bei for about a week, and Duanmu Rong learned medical ideas from both of them and Lin Bei.
• After seeing Nian Duan and Duanmu Rong off, Lin Bei told Ying Zheng he would leave Xianyang to collect rare ingredients for the Immortality Pill.
• Ying Zheng urged Lin Bei to stay and offered to send others for the ingredients, but Lin Bei explained that some lay deep beneath the ocean and only he could reach them.

Lin Bei left Xianyang after demonstrating his sword flight to Ying Zheng, who grew more determined to unify the world. While traveling with Little Tiger, Lin Bei met Yan Fei and Yue Shen, whose attempts to read the heavenly signs were confounded by his presence.

• Lin Bei flew away from Xianyang on a sword, telling Ying Zheng he hoped to see the world united when he returned.
• Ying Zheng took Lin Bei's display as further proof of his extraordinary power and resolved to honor their agreement.
• Lin Bei found Little Tiger and traveled around Qin Country gathering old herbs, including during encounters with the Yin Yang Family.
• Yan Fei and Yue Shen came to Qin Country to seek cooperation with Ying Zheng, while Yan Fei also hoped to investigate the Azure Dragon Constellation and approach Yan Dan.
• Yan Fei sensed that Lin Bei's presence had tangled the threads of fate when she and Yue Shen encountered him at a relay station.
• Lin Bei identified himself as the White Tiger Physician Immortal and rode away on his white tiger, leaving Yan Fei and Yue Shen behind.

Yan Fei and Yue Shen planned to approach Yan Dan and King Qin after learning that Lin Bei had cured Ying Zheng and drawn his interest. Lin Bei then reached Xin Zheng and learned that the city was tense as Han Fei and his companions faced new developments.

• Xu Fu told Yan Fei and Yue Shen that Ying Zheng often visited Lin Bei’s clinic and that his illness and the prepared Immortality Elixir scheme had become useless.
• Yan Fei concluded that Lin Bei was connected to the changed celestial signs and assigned Yue Shen to contact Yan Dan while she sought an approach to Ying Zheng.
• Lin Bei left Qin Country for Xin Zheng and noticed the city was unusually quiet and tense.
• Lin Bei arrived at Zilan Pavilion, where Han Fei, Wei Zhuang, Zi Nv, and Nong Yu welcomed him.
• Han Fei explained the recent changes in Xin Zheng that had created the uneasy atmosphere.