Recaps

Qin Geng used the Book of a Hundred Trades to build his strength, reclaim his place among the carriage drivers, and prepare for a dangerous mountain job. He left the arc with Shopkeeper Lu’s promised introduction to a master and Master Zhu Xin’s money for the journey.

• After Lai Tou’s men stole Qin Geng’s rickshaw, Qin Geng discovered the Book of a Hundred Trades and began training to become strong enough to reclaim it.
• Qin Geng trained as a carriage driver, met Shopkeeper Lu, and learned that mastering a trade could become cultivation.
• Qin Geng received the Xingyi Dragon and Tiger manual from Zhou Yonghe and began martial arts training, steadily advancing through its levels.
• When Yi He Shantytown attacked Xun River Wharf, Qin Geng killed Chen Sanpi with one blow and claimed the wharf for the South City Carriage Drivers.
• Qin Geng rejected Master Jiang’s ghost-marriage offer, then reached Carriage Driver Level 30 and learned from Henry that he was a Way Cultivator.
• Shopkeeper Lu offered Qin Geng a mountain job and a possible introduction to a skilled master, setting a meeting at Heaven-Reaching Gate.
• As Qin Geng struggled to afford food and medicine for the trip, Master Zhu Xin gave him a heavy bundle of silver dollars.

Qin Geng rose in martial strength while the Dragon King Society’s power struggle led him into a dangerous investigation of Snake Corpses. After defending Master Zhu Xin and confronting Abacus Song, Qin Geng helped the authorities uncover the foreigners’ plot and left Abacus Song tasked with spying on the society.

• Qin Geng accepted Master Zhu Xin’s money and promised him a dignified funeral, then trained until he reached Martial Artist level eight as Hongsheng Cart Company challenged Ping'an Cart Company.
• After Dragon King Society men drowned Guan Ershun and Boss Lin, Qin Geng registered with Hongsheng Cart Company but refused its offer to become South City boss.
• Qin Geng joined Lu Xingmin, Third Master Cao, and the others on Bell Mountain, where Human-Speaking Snakes animated the drowned Boss Lin and Guan Ershun as Snake Corpses.
• Qin Geng led the group through the mountain’s confusing paths, and the survivors realized the Snake Corpses retained the skills of the dead men they inhabited.
• Zheng Tonghe trained Qin Geng with medicine and martial forms until he reached Martial Artist Level 10 and unlocked Sickly Tiger Bones, while Master Ye accepted him for unpaid work.
• Master Zhu Xin entrusted Qin Geng with his deed, will, and hidden antiques, and Qin Geng later wounded Lin Zhihe and killed the South City boss when Dragon King Society men came to seize the courtyard.
• Abacus Song confessed that Jiang Hailong had joined the foreigners in making Snake Corpses at Bell Mountain, and explained that the foreigners used one as a test subject, enforcer, and scapegoat while pursuing an ancient treasure.
• Abacus Song apologized to Qin Geng and offered compensation, while Third Master Cao ordered him to remain in the Dragon King Society and keep Qin Geng informed.

Qin Geng took charge of South City’s carriage drivers, advanced his Way Cultivator and Fisherman paths, and recovered Master Zhu Xin’s hidden heirlooms. After Master Zhu Xin died, Qin Geng honored him with a grand funeral and led him to his final resting place.

• Abacus Song named Qin Geng South City’s boss and gave him twenty rickshaws, and Qin Geng set rules for the drivers and promised to protect them.
• Qin Geng consulted Master Zhu Xin, established a thirty-percent dues system with a Benevolence Fund, and put Xu Chun in charge of collecting the money.
• Qin Geng chose the Way Cultivator path, gained Divine Stride Guardian, and organized South City’s drivers under the new Carriage House rules.
• Zhou Yonghe tested Qin Geng, declined to interfere with his training under Master Ye, and warned him that people were searching for his aunt’s genuine heirloom.
• Qin Geng unlocked the Fisherman profession and Water Breathing, then recovered three hidden boxes from a cave and promised Master Zhu Xin to guard their heirlooms.
• Master Zhu Xin died peacefully, and Qin Geng arranged his funeral with help from Lu Xingmin, Xiao Wei, and Suona Sun.
• Qin Geng held Madam Cui at the mourning hall after she tried to claim Master Zhu Xin’s house, while dignitaries and former beneficiaries came to pay their respects.
• Qin Geng led Master Zhu Xin’s funeral procession through Ping’an County Town and toward the Seven Mountains of Tianjin.

Qin Geng buried Master Xin, helped destroy the Dragon King Society’s plot, and took control of Tianjin’s waterways while gaining an official post and building his own organization. As he prepared to protect Qin Xiu at the Su Family birthday celebration, reports of demons and a plague at Wild Fox Ridge drew him into a new crisis.

• Qin Geng saved Master Xin’s funeral procession from the Water Corpses, buried Zhu Wujun, and joined Ye Lanzen’s school as his tenth indoor disciple.
• Qin Geng and his allies raided Ghost’s Dread, killed Li Zhizhen and Jiang Hailong, freed the children, and exposed the Dragon King Society’s plan against Tianjin’s Dragon Vein.
• Qin Geng reunited the rescued children with their families, then took control of the Dragon King Society after defeating Ma San in an underwater contest and killing Feng Liu when he tried to poison him.
• Qin Geng reorganized the carriage firms and waterways as the Ping'an Cart Company and the Dragon King Society, set fairer payments and a Benevolence Fund, and earned official appointments from the Dragon-Guard Office.
• Ye Lanzen’s divination showed Qin Geng visions of a dragon-slaying pillar and a Spirit Pearl stirring the sea, but Ye Lanzen hid their full meaning and urged him to resist anything that tried to crush him.
• Qin Geng learned that rumors of a Magic Artifact had drawn dangerous practitioners to the Su Family birthday celebration, while his attempts to learn paper effigy making and feng shui failed to produce a new profession.
• After Qin Xiu refused to see him at the Su Residence, Qin Geng learned that Zhou Yonghe’s caravan had encountered demons and a plague at Wild Fox Ridge and hurried there at Lu Xingmin’s summons.
• At the Mortuary, Qin Geng met Liu Sanniang, Wu Tian, Old Hai, and Old Tan, while Lin Er explained that the infected grew black hair, attacked people, and might be zombies.