Contents
- 1Biodata
- 2Power Progression
- 3Background / History
- 4Appearance
- 5Personality
- 6Abilities & Skills
- 6.1Heaven-Seizing Creation Art
- 6.2Ultimate-Realm Dantian
- 6.3Nine-Turn Divine Dragon Art
- 6.4God and Devil Tyrant Body Art
- 6.5Kunpeng Dao Art
- 6.6Supreme Bone — Hand of Heaven
- 6.7Fortune Eye
- 6.8Combat Techniques and Tactics
- 7Equipment / Weapons / Items
- 8Relationships
- 9Story Role / Major Arcs
- 9.1Broken Engagement and Rebirth
- 9.2The Empress’s Deadline
- 9.3Demon God Valley and Seven Kills Hall
- 9.4Fortune and the Deeper Caverns
- 10Notable Quotes
Biodata
| Feature | Value |
|---|---|
| Name | Qin Wuyou (秦无忧) |
| Alias(es) | “Former Holy Son,” “fallen Holy Son,” and the derogatory “ultimate simp”; his Holy Son title has not actually been revoked 1 6 45. |
| Species/Race | Human 32 48. |
| Gender | Male 1. |
| Affiliation | Upper-Realm Qin Family, an Emperor Clan; Xuantian Holy Land 6 14. |
| Occupation/Role | Imperial Scion of the Qin Family; Xuantian Holy Land’s sole officially titled Holy Son 6 45. |
| Residence | Wuyou Peak, his personal cultivation mountain in Xuantian Holy Land 6. |
| Cultivation | Purple Mansion Realm, Tenth Heaven—the latest documented level 50. |
| Fortune | Red villain fortune; not yet the black fortune of a Villain of Heaven’s Mandate 42. |
| Status | Alive after rebirth; previously killed by Lin Fan 1 50. |
| First Appearance | Chapter 1 1. |
Power Progression
| Stage / Realm / Level | Chapter | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Myriad Phenomena Realm — before his decline | 6 | His original cultivation made his Holy Son position secure. He surrendered his eighth-grade dantian to heal Lin Qingxue three months before his rebirth. |
| Essence Condensation Realm, First Heaven — recovery starting point | 1 9 12 | Losing his dantian caused continuing regression; his renewed cultivation begins from First Heaven. |
| Soul restoration and ultimate-realm dantian | 7 8 | The Mysterious Empress restores his weakened soul and regenerates a golden dantian superior to a ninth-grade one. |
| Essence Condensation Realm, Second Heaven | 9 | Refines a hundred-year spirit fruit through the Heaven and Earth Furnace, obtaining over ten times the energy of ordinary refinement. |
| Essence Condensation Realm, Tenth Heaven; Nine-Turn Divine Dragon Art, perfected Ninth Heaven | 12 13 | Intensive resource consumption raises his realm and produces 81 Origin Qi True Dragons, surpassing the Qin ancestor’s recorded 72. |
| Ultimate Realm of Essence Condensation; 108 true dragons | 19 20 | Achieved before his Foundation Establishment breakthrough. The expanded reserves prepare him for the God and Devil Tyrant Body Art. |
| Foundation Establishment Realm, First Heaven | 19 | Refining demon corpses restores this realm. Three days of conversion turn his vital energy and 108 dragons into mana, yielding the power of ten thousand galloping horses. |
| Kunpeng Dao Art and Kunpeng Dharma Form | 21 | Comprehends the Kunpeng visualization and manifests its Dharma Form; gains Saint-comparable speed while still at initial Foundation Establishment. |
| Innate God and Devil Qi cultivation | 21 22 | Begins transforming his flesh, bones, and organs. Demon blood essence accelerates the production of the Qi needed for his body art. |
| Supreme Bone awakening; Hand of Heaven | 23 | Innate God and Devil Qi awakens the bone’s origin runes and grants its Innate Divine Ability. |
| Foundation Establishment Realm, Sixth Heaven | 24 | Advances through bodily tempering with Innate God and Devil Qi. |
| Foundation Establishment Realm, Eighth Heaven | 24 | Reaches eighty thousand galloping horses of magical power and over eighty thousand strands of Innate God and Devil Qi before exhausting his blood essence supply. |
| God and Devil Tyrant Body, first transformation | 28 | Completes the first transformation. His skin withstands a supreme-grade Spirit Artifact, and a punch releases a million galloping horses of force. |
| Foundation Establishment Realm, Tenth Heaven | 31 | Confirmed on arrival at Earth Dragon Mountain; his realm is genuine, despite spectators assuming he must be concealing stronger cultivation. |
| Purple Mansion Realm, First Heaven | 36 37 38 | Breaks through after refining over a hundred Foundation Establishment assassins and ten Purple Mansion cultivators. His Purple Mansion expands to roughly 200 times its former size. |
| Fortune Eye | 41 42 | Uses accumulated fortune power and a day of cultivation to form the ability in both eyes; discovers his own red villain fortune. |
| Purple Mansion Realm, Second Heaven | 47 | Advances after defeating and refining a peak Primordial Spirit Realm demon. |
| Purple Mansion Realm, Tenth Heaven | 50 | Two days of refining Myriad Phenomena Realm demon corpses raise his magical power to five million galloping horses; activating his Supreme Bone’s ability can raise the force to eight million. |
Background / History
Qin Wuyou was born with a Supreme Bone into the Upper Realm’s Qin Emperor Clan. His Emperor-to-be ancestor concealed the bone’s aura to prevent stronger cultivators from coveting it, telling him that it should remain sealed until he reached the Saint King Realm. As an Imperial Scion, Qin enjoyed attendants and a Golden War Chariot bestowed by an ancestor 14 22.
He remained in the Lower Realm for three years to pursue Lin Qingxue, supplying gifts and resources that helped establish the Lin Lineage as a first-rate family in Xuantian City. His refusal to return angered his clan, which withdrew his privileges; his father repeatedly threatened to sever their relationship. Three months before the engagement ended, Qin willingly transplanted his dantian into Qingxue to heal her, sacrificing his cultivation and endangering his position as Holy Son 1 6 14 15.
In his previous life, Qingxue later removed his Supreme Bone to give it to an injured Lin Fan. Lin Fan subsequently humiliated and publicly killed him. At death, Qin accepted a mysterious woman’s offer of rebirth in exchange for fulfilling ten conditions, returning to the day Qingxue rejected him in favor of Lin Fan 1 2.
Appearance
Qin Wuyou is a handsome young man who appears at Earth Dragon Mountain in snow-white robes with flowing long hair, likened to an Exiled Immortal 26 31.
- Supreme Bone: A thumb-length bone along his spine, originally brilliant gold 22.
- Cultivation patterns: Intertwined black-and-white God-Devil Patterns develop across his body during bodily tempering 21 22.
- First-transformation markings: Ancient “god” and “devil” runes appear on his chest and back, with a Kunpeng image across his shoulders 28.
- Disguises: Changes into a potbellied middle-aged man, an ordinary-looking man in his twenties or thirties, and a slightly plump cultivator; his transformation can alter both height and appearance 19 24 48.
Personality
Before rebirth, Qin’s devotion to Lin Qingxue overwhelmed his judgment. He indulged her demands, ignored his family’s warnings, and sacrificed his cultivation for the possibility of winning her affection. After rebirth, he rejects that attachment completely: he reclaims his gifts, demands contractual compensation, and explicitly tells Fang Han that he has no intention of winning Qingxue back 1 2 6 37.
He is ruthless toward enemies, refining defeated attackers into cultivation resources and treating the Seven Kills Hall’s entire membership as targets once it accepts the contract against him. However, he initially chooses demons as his primary resources rather than casually refining ordinary human cultivators 12 14 16.
His public arrogance coexists with strategic restraint. He deliberately tests killing formations against his body, but avoids a peak Myriad Phenomena expert before he is ready and escapes stronger enemies through concealment, speed, and deception. His renewed priorities also include returning to protect his parents from the upheaval he remembers from his previous life 14 32 45 48 49.
Abilities & Skills
Heaven-Seizing Creation Art
The Mysterious Empress gives Qin an art that seizes resources and fortune to transform its practitioner. Its stated branches include blood, energy, soul, matter, and fortune creation 8 9.
- Heaven and Earth Furnace: Condenses a three-legged furnace from essence, energy, and spirit; Qin forms it in approximately one hour 9.
- Resource amplification: His first spirit-fruit test yields over ten times the vital energy obtainable through ordinary refinement 9.
- Enemy refinement: Extracts blood essence, vital energy, soul power, and fortune from human cultivators; demon remains supply cultivation resources and demon soul or Primordial Spirit power 12 19 40 47.
- Aura concealment: Hides his presence from Lin Chaozong’s powerful Primordial Spirit scan 45.
- Fortune prerequisite: He must comprehend Fortune Creation before absorbing his accumulated fortune power, and Purple Mansion cultivation is required to study it 41.
Ultimate-Realm Dantian
His regenerated golden dantian provides vastly greater capacity than his original eighth-grade dantian 8 9.
- Requires over a hundred times the vital energy needed by other cultivators at the same realm 9.
- Makes his Second Heaven Essence Condensation energy comparable to his former Fourth Heaven strength 9.
- Supports exceptional reserves but makes advancement correspondingly resource-intensive 9.
Nine-Turn Divine Dragon Art
The Qin Family’s emperor-grade cultivation art condenses true dragons that store additional energy 9 13.
- At perfected Ninth Heaven, Qin possesses 81 dragons, each holding as much origin qi as his entire ultimate-realm dantian 13.
- Surpasses the family ancestor who reached perfected Eighth Heaven with 72 dragons 13.
- Delays realm advancement to explore levels beyond the art’s supposed Ninth Heaven limit; eventually possesses 108 dragons 13 19.
- Converts those dragons from vital energy into mana upon entering Foundation Establishment 19.
God and Devil Tyrant Body Art
A supreme body-cultivation art given to Qin by his mother, who found it in a mysterious ruin. It requires ten thousand galloping horses of power at Foundation Establishment—a prerequisite Qin could not meet in his previous life 20.
- Method: Uses twelve Primordial God and Devil Visualization Diagrams to comprehend cultivation pathways and condense Innate God and Devil Qi 20 22.
- First transformation: Requires 108,000 strands of Qi to permeate the body; demon blood essence accelerates the process 22.
- Defense: After completing the first transformation, a supreme-grade Spirit Artifact cannot cut his skin; only a Treasure Artifact has a chance of injuring him 28.
- Combat test: The first killing formation’s strongest Purple Mansion-level attack leaves only a temporary white mark on his arm 32.
- Unreached stages: The Tyrant Body has nine revolutions. The later God and Devil Golden Body has nine levels, but Qin’s copy records only the first three 20.
Kunpeng Dao Art
Derived from the first visualization diagram Qin comprehends, the Kunpeng Dao Art grants a powerful Dharma Form and exceptional movement speed 20 21.
- Traverses a thousand li in an instant, comparable to Saint-level speed while Qin is still at initial Foundation Establishment 21.
- Provides both combat mobility and an escape method against stronger opponents 47 48.
- Improves further when he completes his first Tyrant Body transformation 28.
- Could carry him directly to Earth Dragon Mountain’s summit, though he chooses to confront the formations along its path 31.
Supreme Bone — Hand of Heaven
Qin’s awakened Supreme Bone grants Hand of Heaven, an Innate Divine Ability that channels its origin runes into a colossal palm 23 24.
- Kills several hundred Demon Apes with two strikes while Qin is at Foundation Establishment’s Eighth Heaven 24.
- Cuts off the Nine-Star God-Slaying Blade’s connection to the stars and crushes the attack 39 40.
- Destroys the Seven Kills Hall Deputy Hall Master’s Primordial Spirit through an Earth-rank killing formation 40.
- Crushes a peak Primordial Spirit Realm demon’s spirit before Qin destroys its body with his sword technique 47.
- At Purple Mansion’s Tenth Heaven, can raise his attack force from five million to eight million galloping horses 50.
Fortune Eye
An ability cultivated through Fortune Creation that allows Qin to perceive fortune 41.
- Forms in both eyes after he ignites accumulated fortune power using his essence, energy, and spirit 41.
- Carries the risk of consuming all his fortune and inviting catastrophe if cultivation fails 41.
- Reveals his own red villain fortune; black villain fortune remains a goal rather than an achieved state 42.
Combat Techniques and Tactics
- Saint Dragon Heaven-Battling Fist: Defeats Lin Hu with one blow and later kills the twelve operators of the first killing formation 12 32.
- Sacred Dragon Heaven-Battling Palm: Destroys the second formation and its concealed Purple Mansion assassin in one strike 33.
- True Dragon Divine Sword Art: Uses dragonlike sword light to destroy the body of a peak Primordial Spirit Realm demon 47.
- Perception: Detects Lin Hu’s concealment and hears the nearly imperceptible sword sound of a hidden assassin 11 32.
- Deception: Pretends Lin Chaozong is his master, redirecting the pursuer’s attack into a Flying Yaksha and forcing the two to fight 48.
Equipment / Weapons / Items
- Storage Ring — Holds valuable cultivation supplies and the previously unused God and Devil Tyrant Body Art 9 20.
- Nine-Turn Golden Lotus — Reclaims it after Qingxue rejects him. By Chapter 50, he has absorbed it and formed a Nine-Turn Lotus Platform 2 50.
- Marriage Contract — Establishes tenfold compensation for the Lin Lineage’s breach. Qin demands three hundred million high-grade spirit stones and announces that he will collect payment in one month 6 11.
- Samadhi Divine Flame — Feeds it a defeated demon’s origin demonfire, advancing it to a third-grade spirit flame 47.
- Supreme-grade Spirit Artifact flying sword — Uses it to test his completed Tyrant Body; the blade leaves no mark on his arm 28.
- Golden War Chariot — Former transportation bestowed by a Qin ancestor; withdrawn with his Imperial Scion privileges during his prolonged stay in the Lower Realm 14.
Relationships
- Lin Qingxue — Former fiancée and principal revenge target. Received his gifts and dantian, then chose Lin Fan; in Qin’s previous life, she removed his Supreme Bone for Lin Fan. Qin no longer seeks reconciliation 1 2 37.
- Lin Fan — Romantic rival, intended Holy Son successor, and previous-life killer. Seeks to capture Qin alive and obtain his Supreme Bone 1 10 44 48.
- Mysterious Empress — Grants his rebirth, restores his soul and dantian, and supplies the Heaven-Seizing Creation Art. Their relationship is explicitly transactional, governed by ten conditions 7 8.
- Lin Nantian — Qingxue’s father and head of the Lin Lineage. Benefits from Qin’s generosity, hires the Seven Kills Hall to kill him, and later regrets the broken engagement without accepting responsibility 13 15 43.
- Lin Hu — Lin Fan’s subordinate, sent to cripple Qin and seize the contract. Qin defeats and refines him 10 11 12.
- Fang Han — Xuantian Holy Land’s foremost True Disciple. Once admired Qin, considers rescuing him, warns him to retreat, and later defends his reputation and gives him credit for saving the survivors 30 36 37 40.
- Qin Family Emperor-to-be ancestor — Childhood mentor who concealed his Supreme Bone and taught him to value himself and recognize the wielder’s importance over an ability’s rank 22 23.
- Father — Leader of the Qin Emperor Clan. Threatened to sever their relationship over Qin’s refusal to return; Qin now intends to protect him from a coming upheaval 14.
- Mother — Gives him the God and Devil Tyrant Body Art. Like his father, she faces danger in the upheaval Qin remembers 14 20.
- Lin Chaozong — Lin Fan’s Tenth Heaven Myriad Phenomena Realm pursuer. Qin tricks him into fighting a Flying Yaksha, then later pursues him to uncover his origins before the royal yaksha can kill him 45 48 50.
Story Role / Major Arcs
Broken Engagement and Rebirth
- Returns to the Martial Stage scene where Qingxue rejects him and accepts Lin Fan 1 2.
- Reclaims the Nine-Turn Golden Lotus instead of allowing it to strengthen her as it did in his previous life 2.
- Publicly invokes the marriage contract, turning the broken engagement into a compensation dispute that damages Qingxue’s reputation 6 26.
The Empress’s Deadline
- Accepts the first condition: reach Saint King Realm within one year, or be sent into reincarnation 7 8.
- Receives the means to cultivate again, but is ordered not to contact the Empress during that year 7 8.
- Seeks at least Purple Mansion cultivation before the disciples’ tournament to retain his Holy Son title 9.
- Also needs Saint King strength and access to Xuantian Holy Land’s Spatial Divine Weapon to return to the Upper Realm before his parents’ crisis 14.
Demon God Valley and Seven Kills Hall
- Defeats Lin Hu, then enters Demon God Valley to gather resources and strengthen his foundation 12 13.
- Discovers the assassination contract, kills the initial hunters, and leaves the signature “The killer: Qin Wuyou” 15 16.
- Completes his first Tyrant Body transformation and challenges the Hall openly 28 29.
- At Earth Dragon Mountain, breaks successive formations, advances to Purple Mansion, and destroys the Deputy Hall Master and the force assembled against him 31 32 33 36 37 40.
- Saves the surviving spectators from the Hall’s attempt to eliminate witnesses. The victory destroys more than half the Hall, not the entire organization; its master remains alive and plans revenge 39 40 43.
Fortune and the Deeper Caverns
- Learns that his own fortune marks him as a basic villain and resolves to plunder fortune from the Seven Kills Hall and Lin Lineage 41 42.
- Avoids Lin Chaozong’s search, kills a peak Primordial Spirit Realm demon, and escapes a stronger Flying Yaksha 45 47.
- Redirects the Yaksha into Lin Chaozong, gathers further demon corpses, and cultivates in hiding on the Seventh Floor 48 49.
- Emerges at Purple Mansion’s Tenth Heaven and follows the battered Lin Chaozong, intending to learn his identity before the royal yaksha kills him 50.
Notable Quotes
“Lin Qingxue, go back and tell your father to prepare all the compensation. In one month, I'll personally visit the Lin Lineage to collect it!” 6
“Seven Kills Hall, it's time to send you to your graves!” 28
“Fang Han, you'd better rein in that overflowing sympathy! I, Qin Wuyou, have never taken advice in all my life!” 37