Qin Shujian

Biodata

Feature	Details
Name	Qin Shujian (秦书剑)
Alias(es)	Liangshan Stronghold Chief; Sect Master Qin; Liangshan Domain Lord; Grandmaster Qin; Qin Emperor; Heavenly Emperor Qin 6 119 272 649 943
Species/Race	Human 628 649
Gender	Male 2
Age	31 at the time of his Heavenly Rankings assessments 628 649
Affiliation	Liangshan Stronghold; later the Origin Sect, Human Race, Qianyuan Sacred Ground, and Celestial Court 6 119 649 654 1153
Occupation/Role	Originally an ordinary mountain bandit; subsequently stronghold chief, Origin Sect founder and first sect master, domain lord, Human Emperor, and Heavenly Emperor 2 6 119 649 943 1040
Previous incarnation	A Third Era cultivator who rose from an ordinary mortal to Heavenly Emperor and Dao Fruit, becoming that era’s foremost figure 741 1017
Status	Alive in the final chapter, where he undergoes another cultivation breakthrough 1177

Power Progression

Early status panels include territorial and faction bonuses, which can make Qin’s displayed realm higher than his underlying cultivation. Such bonuses cannot carry him beyond the realm limit imposed by a domain 24 58 119.

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Martial Entry Second Level	2	Spends one Life Source to advance the Body Tempering Scripture from its first to second layer; his strength roughly doubles.
Martial Entry Fourth Level	4	Advances after accumulating 25 Life Source. This increase adds only roughly 30–40% strength, disproving his expectation of repeated doubling.
Martial Entry Fifth Level — territorial enhancement	6	Becoming Liangshan’s chief grants realm +1 within its territory; his Body Tempering Scripture remains at the fourth layer.
Black Tiger Saber Technique — proficient, then perfect mastery	7	Spends three Life Source on proficiency and another fifteen on perfect mastery; a test sequence shatters a boulder.
Black Tiger Saber Technique — peak perfection	10	Spends 75 Life Source. His cultivation realm stays unchanged, but his combat strength rises dramatically.
Body Tempering Scripture — complete mastery	11	Gains Force Follows Will. His displayed realm reaches Martial Entry Sixth Level with the territorial bonus.
Body Tempering Scripture — Sixth Layer	21	Extrapolates the formerly limited manual, gaining Blood and Qi in Full Flourish; displayed realm becomes Martial Entry Seventh Level.
Everlasting Spring Technique — Fifth Layer, complete mastery	24	Gains unceasing regeneration before the next assault on the players.
Five Elements Eight Trigrams Step — peak perfection	24	Improves his movement technique without increasing his cultivation realm.
Body Tempering Scripture — Seventh Layer	24	Spends 300 Life Source and gains copper skin. Actual cultivation reaches Martial Entry Seventh Level, or Eighth Level with Liangshan’s bonus.
Everlasting Spring Technique — Sixth Layer	24	Gains extended lifespan and additional vitality.
Body Tempering Scripture — Eighth Layer	33	Gains iron bones. The panel displays Martial Entry Tenth Level with the first-tier faction’s realm +2 bonus.
Black Tiger Saber Technique — Heaven-Man Unity	33	Surpasses the technique creator’s understanding; this mastery was crucial to killing Wei Min.
Body Tempering Scripture — Ninth Layer	34	Gains full marrow; the manual reaches high-grade Mortal Tier.
Everlasting Spring Technique — Seventh Layer	34	Its longevity trait increases to Level 2.
Martial Entry Ninth Level — confirmed outside Liangshan	48	Reveals his cultivation during Cloud River Stronghold’s submission.
Body Tempering Scripture — Tenth Layer	55	Gains unity of primordial origin, replacing the earlier physical traits. His body reaches the limit of ordinary human strength.
Everlasting Spring Technique — true qi developed	63	Produces True Qi Level 1, which Qin estimates increases his existing strength by well over 50%.
Everlasting Spring Technique — Tenth Layer	72 79	Spends 2,000 Life Source during the Qingxuan duel. The later panel records Longevity Level 5 and True Qi Level 2.
Black Tiger Saber Technique — Dao Entry; saber intent	107 117	Uses Dao-level saber mastery and newly comprehended intent against the undead army and Undying Evil Lord.
Additional Mortal Tier manuals — Tenth Layer	117	Flowing Water Force, Tiger-Subduing Body Tempering Art, and Iron-Forging Technique are recorded at the tenth layer, adding spiraling true qi, vajra tiger-subduing strength, and an imperishable body.
Five Elements Eight Trigrams Step — Heaven-Man Unity	117	Its improved mastery is recorded alongside his other techniques.
Seven Leaves Piercing Flowers Palm — consummate mastery	117	Advances through practice while Qin attempts to expend dangerously excessive blood qi.
Fused cultivation method — Twelfth Level; True Martial Realm	117 119	Fuses six compatible manuals for three Fortune Points, breaking the Mortal Domain’s limits. The subsequent panel displays True Martial Tenth Level with domain and sect enhancements.
Origin Canon — Thirteenth Level	136	Records Longevity Level 11, Indestructible Body Level 7, and Shattering Astral True Essence Level 6.
Ming King Prison-Splitting Blade — peak perfection	154	Spends 5,000 Life Source. Qin judges his unenhanced combat strength comparable to an ordinary True Martial peak expert.
Ming King Prison-Splitting Blade — Dao Entry; blade intent 20%	199	Spends 100,000 Life Source. The blade art merges with Black Tiger Saber Technique into the special ability blade intent.
Wind and Thunder True Art — True Martial Seventh Level	213	Uses his remaining Life Source to improve the Spirit-tier art after discovering his first Cosmic Heavenly Lock.
Wind and Thunder True Art — True Martial peak	222	Forms a second Cosmic Heavenly Lock. The restriction further purifies his true essence while his realm remains capped.
Four Cosmic Heavenly Locks	231	Reaches the limit of what a True Domain can contain; deliberately suppresses a breakthrough until he can advance Liangshan directly into a Spirit Domain.
Spirit Martial Realm; fused art — Twenty-first Level	235	Fuses seven cultivation arts, shatters the locks, and forms a spirit god. His breakthrough creates the Liangshan Spirit Domain.
Liangshan Spirit Domain Lord — territorial enhancement	235	Receives realm +9, 30% stronger attacks, 30% reduced incoming damage, and faster cultivation within the domain.
Spirit God manifestation	253	His spiritual sense reaches manifestation level, greatly increasing his flight speed.
Golden Immortal Shattering God Chant — peak perfection	272	Spends nearly one million Life Source while retaining his remaining reserves for other needs.
Origin Return Ancestral Canon — further extrapolation	277 304	Spends ten million Life Source to extrapolate Level 27, then twenty million for Level 28. Extrapolation unlocks further cultivation rather than automatically completing it.
Divine Martial Realm; Origin Return Ancestral Canon — Level 31	421	Gains a lifespan exceeding a thousand years. The enhanced panel displays Divine Martial Tenth Level; the canon reaches high-grade Divine Tier and gains three new traits.
Five Elements Eight Trigrams Step and Seven Leaves Piercing Flowers Palm — Dao Entry	421	Both martial arts are recorded at Dao Entry in his Divine Martial status panel.
Divine Martial Fourth Layer	471	Improves the Origin Return Ancestral Canon while preparing for Great Zhao’s political crisis.
Divine Martial Fifth Layer; canon — Level 35	473	Spends 700 million Life Source. His spirit god grows to 320 zhang, surpassing the ordinary Divine Martial peak standard.
Heavenly Human First Level; canon — Level 41	485	Gains the Starry Myriad Forms Body. His panel records Spirit-Slaying at 10% and Heaven and Earth Manifestation at its first level.
Spirit-Slaying — 70% mastery	539	Spends 12.7 billion Life Source to improve the spirit-targeting martial art.
Nine Tribulations Immaculate Imperishable Body — Sixth Tribulation	539	Spends another 6.3 billion Life Source, strengthening his physical body.
Heaven and Earth Manifestation — Seventh Level	540	Grows to 3,000 zhang and uses the transformation to relocate entire mountains.
Power Rule comprehension — 7,500 combat power	565	Can borrow heaven-and-earth power equal to 50% of his own strength; the Godslayer Saber verifies his exceptional combat power.
Heavenly Human Fourth Level — strengthened foundation	574	Essence blood expands his Star Acupoint foundation. Qin estimates nearly 7,000 raw combat power before rule amplification.
Heavenly Being Fifth Level — 10,800 Star Acupoints	580	Advances while absorbing Heavenly Spirit Nectar and forging tribulation energy. Records 16,000 base combat power and 28,000 with a 75% rule enhancement.
Heavenly Being Fifth Level — 12,000 Star Acupoints	581	Absorbs the remaining essence-blood energy; raw combat power increases to approximately 17,000.
Heavenly Being Fifth Level — 34,100 ranked combat power	628	Expands all 13,200 existing acupoints by 30% instead of opening more.
Imperishable body — complete mastery; 36,000 ranked combat power	649	His Heavenly Rankings assessment records the stronger foundation while he remains at Fifth Heavenly Being.
Heaven and Earth Manifestation — Tenth Level, complete mastery	649	Spends 76.8 billion Life Source. Complete mastery lets the technique double his strength without its amplification diminishing at higher realms.
Eighth Heavenly Being	698	His combat strength enters the second tier among True Immortals; an Ancestral Weapon further increases his threat.
Past-Life Wisdom awakened	741	Recovers knowledge of his Third Era existence. His attributes disappear from the Heavenly Rankings, and he outwardly resembles an ordinary person.
Dao Fruit — confirmed	979	States that he has reached Dao Fruit and can easily defeat the Demon Abyss’s strongest half-step Dao Fruit beings.
Inner World — Great Thousand World	1101	His developed world supplies immense reserves for the Zhou Tian Star-Dipper Grand Formation.
Immortal Saint Realm — confirmed	1153	Pingxin recognizes his realm when he receives the returning First Era powers.
True Immortal breakthrough — later event	1177	The final passage explicitly records a True Immortal breakthrough while he absorbs spiritual energy and power fed back from his body; the passage does not explain its relationship to his earlier realms.

Background / History

Third Era incarnation

Qin originally rose from an ordinary mortal to the position of Heavenly Emperor in the Third Era. Opportunity, talent, and fortune enabled him to attain Dao Fruit; Da Yi’s legacy helped him survive several life-and-death crises while he was still weak 1017.

He fought alongside surviving experts of the First and Second Eras, but their effort failed in the Third Era, where he also fell. Awakening his Past-Life Wisdom later restores these memories and makes him aware that the current epoch is approaching its end 741.

Liangshan Stronghold

In his early documented circumstances, Qin is an ordinary mountain-bandit NPC with a damaged saber, ragged clothing, and a low-grade Body Tempering Scripture. He discovers that Life Source can directly improve his techniques and cultivation 2 4.

After killing numerous bandits, he receives a warning that Wu Sheng is searching for the culprit. Rather than risk exposure and exile as a Wandering NPC, Qin approaches the chief under the pretense of supplying information, launches a surprise attack, and overwhelms him with his broken blade and fists 4.

By the time he becomes Liangshan’s chief, Qin finds leadership less liberating than expected. His territory borders rival factions, leaving no neutral route outward, and the chief’s position cannot be voluntarily relinquished. He responds by gathering intelligence, managing the stronghold’s dwindling finances, and assigning practical duties to Zhang Tieniu and Wang Tiezhu 6 7.

Players become both a danger and a major source of growth. Their deaths generate large quantities of Life Source, but their resurrection and rapid advancement threaten the stronghold’s survival. Qin attacks Beginner Village 10021, kills Wei Min, and absorbs its core token to turn Liangshan into a first-tier faction 20 24 27 31 33.

He subsequently absorbs Mingai Mountain and Cloud River Stronghold through overwhelming force and short submission deadlines. Destroying Novice Village 23012 raises Liangshan to a second-level faction, after which he formalizes leadership ranks and rewards senior followers with stronger manuals 39 47 48 77.

Origin Sect and domain advancement

Qin recognizes that most NPCs cannot surpass the ceilings of their cultivation manuals. He begins sharing extrapolated techniques selectively, strengthening trusted leaders while retaining control over advanced instruction 35.

His confrontation with the Undying Evil Lord demonstrates the combined value of physical cultivation, true qi, movement mastery, and saber intent. He rejects the fiend’s offer of immortality and undead command, then fights the source of the demon calamity 107.

Dangerously excessive blood qi eventually forces Qin to seek a breakthrough. Fusing cultivation manuals breaks the Mortal Domain’s limits; his subsequent identity is that of the Origin Sect’s sect master and Liangshan Domain Lord. Established sects recognize the new institution at its founding banquet 117 119 132.

The sect expands through branches, recruitment, and conquest. Qin’s destruction of seven sects supplies immense resources and nearly six thousand prisoners, but also makes neighboring powers fear further expansion. He later introduces cultivation-group assessments, rewards, and rank challenges to encourage disciple development 168 182 310.

After condensing four Cosmic Heavenly Locks, he deliberately waits before advancing. His eventual Spirit Martial breakthrough transforms Liangshan into a Spirit Domain and removes restrictions across the former Liangshan, Cangxi, and Xuanxu True Domains 231 235.

Great Zhao and the wider cultivation world

Qin supplies defensive formations to the Origin Sect and accepts an imperial commission that brings his Array Dao expertise into Great Zhao’s war against rebellious regional lords. His reputation as a possible reincarnated powerhouse grows among both imperial and rebel leaders 319 324.

Although Zhang Yi offers wealth, office, and sole orthodox status for the Origin Sect, Qin refuses to commit to the rebellion. He later kills Du Chengwu at the Imperial City and finishes Shen Hong after joining Gu Changqing’s attack. The restored Human Emperor permits him to keep captured Dao Artifacts and gives him an Array Dao insight crystal 471 493 498 501.

Qin pursues alliances before the routes to the Three Great Continents open. He secures Si Hanhai’s cooperation by warning of threats to humanity, having already allied with the Heavenly Array Sect and Traceless Sect 567.

His forging of Liangshan City into a Six-Seal Dao Artifact, Heavenly Being advancement, and revelation of the Godslayer Saber establish him as the cultivation world’s strongest recognized figure. Rival sects seek accommodation rather than risk the Origin Sect’s retaliation 580 582.

Qin Emperor and Qianyuan Sacred Ground

As Human Emperor, Qin establishes the Qianyuan Sacred Ground to unify the Eastern Continent’s cultivation world. He incorporates the sects into a single institution and orders academies established everywhere, widening access to cultivation knowledge while eliminating independent sect authority 649 654.

He studies treasury-held manuals through more than a hundred spirit-god avatars to develop standardized teachings. When sect remnants attack academies and receive protection from influential clans, he orders spirit searches and collective punishment against those aiding or resisting the crackdown. More than a hundred established families are subsequently destroyed, with hundreds of thousands of cultivators killed 656 657.

Heavenly Emperor

As Heavenly Emperor, Qin travels through the River of Time and retrieves Xia Yi from the past. The feat costs billions of years of lifespan and leaves some of his hair white even after he replenishes his life force from his Inner World. He later recruits Xia Yi through an appeal to humanity’s security rather than coercion 941 943 979.

He supervises Zhang Ergou’s challenge for the Qianyuan Sacred Ground’s Sacred Lord position, creating a battle platform and dismissing its thunder tribulation with a command 1040.

Qin also confronts returning ancient powers. After battling Hongjun, he assigns Hongjun the Death Sea and Luo Hou the Heavenly Abyss under a noninterference agreement. He later receives Pingxin and Shakyamuni, allocating the Fallen Immortal Domain to the Underworld and former Ancient Buddha territory to the Buddhist Order 1100 1101 1111 1153.

Appearance

• Early physique: Initially scrawny; the second layer of the Body Tempering Scripture produces visible muscle growth in his arms 2.
• Early clothing: Tattered shirt and trousers with worn straw sandals, later replaced by the Tiger-Skin Outfit 4 6.
• Transformation: Seventh-level Heaven and Earth Manifestation enlarges him to 3,000 zhang 540.
• White hair: Partly whitens after his costly River of Time journey; he cannot completely reverse the change by replenishing his life force 943.
• Concealed cultivation: After awakening Past-Life Wisdom, he appears to Niu Dali like an ordinary person without cultivation 741.

Personality

Qin is calculating, cautious, and intensely concerned with survival. He studies opponents before committing, postpones dangerous opportunities, and avoids political commitments when the balance of power is uncertain. Even after gaining immense strength, he keeps some capabilities hidden from the Godslayer Saber 4 55 471 574.

His caution coexists with ruthlessness. He uses deception against Wu Sheng, coercion to absorb neighboring strongholds, and loyalty assessments to decide whether defeated cultivators should live. As Qin Emperor, he explicitly prioritizes humanity’s collective future over individual lives and accepts mass killing as a means of enforcing unity 4 39 48 182 654 656.

He is protective of those he accepts as his own. He refuses the Heavenly Martial Sect’s demands for Origin Sect members, arranges protection for Shi Jianfeng, and rewards service with cultivation opportunities. His respect for Xia Yi is especially pronounced: he acknowledges the elder’s sacrifices and preserves his freedom to refuse service 77 231 310 943 979.

Qin is commercially pragmatic and attracted to valuable resources. He negotiates for grain, manuals, weapons, spirit objects, and imperial compensation, even openly asking Chengyun Trading Company to sell goods stolen from its own shipment. He also argues that cultivation should improve life rather than require abandoning worldly enjoyment 82 319 567 620.

Abilities & Skills

Life Source and Fortune

• Technique advancement: Uses Life Source to improve cultivation methods and martial arts directly 2 7 199.
• Extrapolation: Extends manuals beyond their original ceilings, overcoming limitations that normally bind other NPCs 35.
• Faction-supported accumulation: Benefits from kills performed by his faction’s members; the Origin Sect’s growing disciple base becomes central to his supply 24 416 582.
• Fortune manipulation: Fuses cultivation manuals, upgrades Dao Artifacts, and converts suitable objects into Fortune Value 117 213 222 421.
• Costs and limits: Extrapolating a new level and directly cultivating it can require separate payments. Manual cultivation after extrapolation offers a cheaper alternative 277.

Cultivation and Physical Strength

• Body cultivation: Develops copper skin, iron bones, full marrow, and eventually unity of primordial origin 24 33 34 55.
• Layered foundation: Multiple perfected manuals give him exceptionally deep blood-qi reserves and rapid recovery 106.
• Origin Return Ancestral Canon: Gains the Ancient Wilderness Immortal Body, Invulnerable to All Laws, and Truth-Severing Red Lotus; later develops the Starry Myriad Forms Body 421 485.
• Cross-realm combat: At Heavenly Human First Level, his strength already approaches ordinary Second- or Third-Level Heavenly Humans 488.

Saber Arts and Intent

• Black Tiger Saber Technique: Progresses beyond its original creator’s understanding and can manifest a black tiger phantom 33 46.
• Blade intent: Breaks the Undying Evil Lord’s bewitching influence and later consolidates at 20% after the Ming King Prison-Splitting Blade’s Dao Entry breakthrough 107 199.
• Spirit-Slaying: A divine-comprehension martial art raised to 70% mastery 539.
• Retained knowledge: Martial techniques remain usable even after disappearing from his attribute panel, as demonstrated with the Great Wilderness Demon-Suppressing Seal 528.

Movement and Unarmed Combat

• Five Elements Eight Trigrams Step: Surpasses Zheng Fang’s mastery and later reaches Dao Entry 107 421.
• Seven Leaves Piercing Flowers Palm: Combines the originally agile palm art with overwhelming physical force; ultimately reaches Dao Entry 117 421.
• Great Wilderness Demon-Suppressing Seal: Uses Mountain-Moving, Sea-Covering, and Demon-Suppressing forms, whose many variations are condensed into three principal seals 347.
• Heavenly Cloud God-Sealing Finger: Applies destructive and binding power; records complete mastery by his Qin Emperor status panel 528 649.

Divine Sense and Spirit-God Avatars

• Flight: Spirit God manifestation makes him several times faster than he was at the True Martial peak 253.
• External incarnation: Projects a lifelike pure-yang spirit god that astonishes Wu Lang 421.
• Parallel study: Uses more than a hundred avatars to read cultivation manuals, then recalls them to absorb their knowledge 656.
• Perception: Detects hidden observers and uses spiritual sense for lethal attacks 548 576.

Spirit Eye and Dharma Eye

• Attribute inspection: Examines followers’ cultivation and capabilities 39 168 409.
• Loyalty inspection: Monitors allegiance when governing the sect and judging potential threats 168 182 409.
• Later form: His status panel records Dharma Eye as a special ability 421.

Fire and Refinement

• Wisdom King Karmic Fire: Refines valuable spirit objects into Fire Lotuses that can strengthen his spirit god 319.
• Truth-Severing Red Lotus: Its later use against an Evil Fiend confirms that Qin can still absorb the refined result after his cultivation method transforms 421 473.
• Forging application: Controls vast fire seas and spiritual energy when refining Dao Artifacts and city-sized weapons 272 576 587.

Array Dao, Forging, and Alchemy

• Array Dao Grandmaster: Builds a Liangshan-wide Spirit-Gathering Formation that doubles spiritual energy and a hidden defensive formation capable of resisting a powerful Heavenly Being 319.
• Emergency defenses: Entrusts activation stones to Zheng Fang, Zhang Tieniu, and Niu Feng; reserves their use for genuine crises 319.
• Forging: Creates Liangshan City as a Six-Seal Dao Artifact and forges city-shaped Pinnacle Spirit Weapons using Demon Emperor essence blood 580 587.
• Alchemy: His Azure Alchemy Talisman is recorded at Alchemy Dao Grandmaster level 421 649.
• Practical limitation: Large formations exhaust his spiritual sense; expertise alone cannot replace cultivation and spiritual strength 319.

Heaven and Earth Manifestation

• Gigantic form: Enlarges his body sufficiently to uproot and carry whole mountains 540.
• Combat use: Employs the transformation against Du Chengwu, accepting serious injury to secure a decisive attack 493.
• Complete mastery: Provides a lasting twofold strength multiplier whenever used, rather than an enhancement that diminishes as his realm rises 649.

Rules, Inner World, and Time

• Power Rule: Draws strength from heaven and earth, initially increasing his own power by 50%; the enhancement reaches 75% at Fifth Heavenly Being 565 580.
• World-creating cultivation: His developed Inner World supplies immense physical strength and reserves, allowing him to resist Hongjun’s rule-based attacks 1100 1101.
• Zhou Tian Star-Dipper Grand Formation: Sustains reviving star beasts through the Heavenly Cycle Star Chart and his world’s power. An opponent must overpower the formation outright rather than merely try to exhaust it 1101.
• River of Time travel: Observes historical events and retrieves Xia Yi from the past, at enormous lifespan cost 941 943.
• Historical restraint: Avoids interfering in Emperor Zhao’s foundational battle because changing the past could destabilize the future 946.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Damaged saber — His original weapon; breaks during the surprise attack on Wu Sheng 2 4.
• Tiger Head Saber — Ninth-grade weapon used in early battles and to test copper skin’s durability 6 24.
• Tiger-Skin Outfit — Ninth-grade armor set comprising coat, trousers, belt, and boots 6.
• Unknown Cave Abode token — Reveals an unexplored cave abode; Qin initially postpones investigating because of its unknown dangers 55.
• Chengyun Trading Company token — Granted by Gu Feng for use at company branches 82.
• Thousand Mountain Blood — Mentally linked Dao Artifact saber; gains a Thunder Dao Seal and receives repeated Fortune enhancements 182 213 235.
• Heaven and Earth Bow — Sentient adviser on domain restrictions and ancient matters; also guards his boat in the Sea Region 213 535 563.
• Cloud-Piercing Arrow — Damaged arrow that gradually repairs itself using surrounding spiritual energy 199.
• Mountain-Suppressing Seal — Damaged Dao Artifact used as refining material 272.
• Dustless Immortal Garment — Upgraded to a Three-Mark Dao Artifact with Fortune Points 421.
• Godslayer Saber — Ancestral Weapon, combat adviser, and source of knowledge about ancient history, rules, and the Demon Abyss 565 567 580.
• Heavenly Rankings — Displays cultivation, race, age, combat power, and talent; Qin’s own attributes disappear from it after his Past-Life Wisdom awakens 628 649 741.
• Celestial Court’s Emperor’s Seal — Suppresses violent waters within the River of Time 941.
• Scattered Flowers — Innate Supreme Treasure deployed against Hongjun 1100.
• Heavenly Cycle Star Chart — Establishes the Zhou Tian Star-Dipper Grand Formation; strengthened through refinement and nourishment from Qin’s Inner World 1101.

Relationships

• Wu Sheng — Former Liangshan chief whom Qin deceives and kills before taking leadership of the stronghold 4 6.
• Zheng Fang — Trusted subordinate and source of martial instruction and world knowledge. Qin rewards him with improved manuals and entrusts him with the sect’s emergency defenses 35 77 107 319.
• Zhang Tieniu — Early minor leader who supplies regional intelligence and remains a trusted senior follower 6 7 35 319.
• Wang Tiezhu — Early subordinate, carpenter, and intelligence intermediary; later one of the sect’s strongest early elders 6 93 168.
• Niu Feng — Former Mingai Mountain chief compelled to submit, then appointed an elite leader and entrusted with defensive responsibilities 39 319.
• Xu Yuanming — Former Cloud River chief turned elite leader and administrator; handles intelligence, purchases, and sect affairs 48 310 409 535.
• Niu Dali — Highly loyal elder whose unexpectedly easy advancement leads Qin to suspect a powerful reincarnation without acting against him 409.
• Shi Jianfeng — Talented sword-cultivator elder whose safety and development Qin actively supports 310 508 590.
• Ning Xuan — Disciple who addresses Qin as master; Qin recognizes his exceptional aptitude for mastering a Heavenly Being’s sword legacy 635 701.
• Shen Yuqing and Shen Yuhua — Origin Sect members protected from the Heavenly Martial Sect’s demands; their work supports the sect’s crafting and alchemy 231.
• Gu Feng and Lin Wanyou — Chengyun Trading Company contacts who facilitate trade, supplies, and procurement 82 253 277.
• Marquis of Northcloud — Supporter and imperial contact whom Qin describes as having given him considerable help 319 491.
• Emperor Zhao / Xi Yingtian — Initially the restored Human Emperor who rewards Qin’s imperial service; later a fellow Human Emperor and Celestial Court associate. Qin respects his role in humanity’s resurgence 501 651 946 1111.
• Fang Yilan and Su Zhan — Directorate experts who protect Qin during battle and forging operations, while reassessing his rapidly increasing power 493 580 587.
• Si Hanhai — Initially an opponent in a brief clash, later a Sea-Covering Sect ally recruited through shared concerns for humanity 548 567.
• Godslayer Saber — Weapon, mentor, and evaluator of Qin’s strength; regards him as a potential future peer of the ancient Myriad Emperors 565 580.
• Xia Yi — Human hero whom Qin deeply respects, restores from the past, and recruits to the Celestial Court without compulsion 941 943 979.
• Hongjun — Dao Fruit rival whose treasures challenge Qin; later receives the Death Sea under a noninterference agreement 1100 1101 1111.
• Luo Hou — Former opponent and pragmatic ally against Hongjun, later assigned the Heavenly Abyss; remains wary after being beaten by Qin 1100 1111 1153.
• Pingxin — Returning Underworld power whom Qin respects for establishing reincarnation; assigned the Fallen Immortal Domain and later shares a rewarding Dao discussion with him 1153 1176.
• Shakyamuni — Returning First Era Buddhist power whom Qin receives and assigns territory in the Northern Continent 1153.

Notable Quotes

“I only sought to protect myself, and that brought me step by step to where I am today.” 132

“Now that I have founded the Origin Sect, I will be content if its legacy can endure in peace.” 132

“I am the emperor of humanity, and humanity alone!” 654

“As you said, Senior, cultivation realms are merely labels. If one's strength is sufficient, then it is sufficient.” 704

“I am no longer the Human Emperor. Senior, you may call me by my name or address me as the Heavenly Emperor. Either is fine!” 943

Trivia

• Qin initially questions whether he and Liangshan’s bandits are natural inhabitants or creations of the game, but postpones the issue in favor of survival 93.
• Players repeatedly suspect his rapid growth is a game bug; complaints do not change his behavior or power 77.
• The name Pangu mysteriously fails to register when he speaks it to the Heaven and Earth Bow and Xu Yuanming 535.
• Despite extraordinary memory and calculation, Qin loses a strategy game to the more experienced Si Hanhai 567.
• He amputates a badly damaged arm to regrow it just before receiving imperial medicine that could have restored it, realizing he acted too quickly 493.
• Players form an early Qin-Destroying Alliance for revenge; later, destroyed sects’ survivors use the same name for resistance against the Qianyuan Sacred Ground 168 656.