Recaps

After transmigrating into Ling Yi, a crippled heir of the Heavenly Yang Sect, he recognized Hu Feiyang’s power grab and chose to leave rather than risk his life. His system activated and gave him a chance to heal, but Ling Yi postponed using it until he was safely away, then accepted a quest to sign in at the Da Zhou Imperial Dynasty’s palace.

• Ling Yi recovered the original owner’s memories and realized Hu Feiyang had framed him and crippled his dantian to seize control of the Heavenly Yang Sect.
• Ling Yi decided to escape the sect and left the hall while Hu Feiyang and Hu Fan discussed having him watched and potentially killed if his sister came to rescue him.
• Ling Yi’s God Grade Sign-In System activated and offered to restore his injuries, but he refused to heal while he was still under surveillance.
• Ling Yi signed in at the Heavenly Yang Sect and received the Heavenly Sun Fist Manual, which he comprehended to Perfection.
• The system assigned Ling Yi a main quest to sign in at the imperial palace in the Da Zhou Imperial Dynasty.

After leaving the Heavenly Yang Sect, Ling Yi tried to escape its territory while weighing his enemies, his sister Ling Yanyun’s possible role, and the Sign-In System’s distant imperial-palace quest. When Song Bao and Song Qingxue blocked his path, the system revealed a new sign-in point on Song Qingxue that could grant him Subtlety Perfection in Martial Dao Intent.

• Ling Yi left the Heavenly Yang Sect badly injured and suspected Hu Feiyang had spared him for a reason, possibly connected to Ling Yanyun.
• Ling Yi headed toward the outskirts of Red Maple City, knowing he needed to escape the Heavenly Yang Sect’s sphere of influence and doubting he could reach the imperial palace in time for the martial examination.
• Ling Yi recalled the Da Zhou Imperial Dynasty’s power structure and the Martial Dao Alliance’s overwhelming strength and ranks.
• Song Bao and Song Qingxue stopped Ling Yi on the road, and he feared the weakened former sect master would be easy to kill.
• Ling Yi triggered a new sign-in location by staring at Song Qingxue, and the system offered Subtlety Perfection in Martial Dao Intent as its reward.

After repairing his shattered body, Ling Yi used the check-in system to obtain Perfection of Subtlety by embracing Song Qingxue. He disarmed her and held her own sword to her neck, leaving their confrontation unresolved.

• Ling Yi repaired his body and recovered the Heavenly Yang Inner Breath that Hu Feiyang had used to destroy his dantian.
• Song Qingxue stopped Song Bao from attacking Ling Yi and let Ling Yi pass.
• Ling Yi embraced Song Qingxue to complete the check-in and gained Perfection of Subtlety.
• Song Qingxue attacked Ling Yi, but he dodged, disarmed her with precise finger strikes, and put her sword to her neck.

Ling Yi left Song Qingxue and Song Bao after revealing his perfected Subtlety intent, then headed for the city gate while trying to escape Red Maple City. A new sign-in point appeared on the approaching city lord Chang Ruoli, so Ling Yi drew the Luoxue Sword and asked her for an official post.

• Ling Yi took Song Qingxue’s Luoxue Sword and explained that he had reached Subtlety at Perfection, leaving Song Qingxue to worry about the Song Family’s fate.
• Song Qingxue suspected that Ling Yi had repaired his dantian and decided to leave Red Maple City on an escort mission to the imperial capital.
• Ling Yi disguised himself and headed for the city gate, hoping to escape before Hu Feiyang could target him.
• The system revealed a new sign-in point near Chang Ruoli and offered Flying over Grass Qinggong at Great Perfection as the reward.
• Ling Yi approached Chang Ruoli with the Luoxue Sword and asked her for an official post.

Ling Yi joined Chang Ruoli’s forces after defeating her general and demonstrating that he could overcome her guards. The Heavenly Yang Sect learned that Ling Yi was under Chang Ruoli’s protection, and Hu Feiyang decided to demand his surrender in the Martial Dao Alliance’s name.

• Ling Yi asked Chang Ruoli for an official post, and she offered him a place among her personal guards if he defeated one of them.
• Ling Yi defeated Old Hua in a single move and became a squad leader, then charged past Chang Ruoli’s guards and demanded to be deputy city lord.
• Chang Ruoli stopped her generals from attacking Ling Yi and took him back to the city lord’s manor.
• Heavenly Yang Sect disciples reported Ling Yi’s new position to Hu Feiyang, who decided to demand that Chang Ruoli hand him over under the Martial Dao Alliance’s authority.

Ling Yi defeated Chang Ruoli in a spar and gained Flying over Grass Qinggong at Great Perfection, then asked her for protection. Chang Ruoli refused because protecting him would mean war with the Heavenly Yang Sect, but a new sign-in point on her shoulder gave Ling Yi a reason to propose a deal.

• Ling Yi unsettled Chang Ruoli during their fight and defeated her by placing his sword at her throat.
• Ling Yi claimed the sign-in reward, gaining Flying over Grass Qinggong at Great Perfection and transforming his Inner Breath into Inner Qi.
• Ling Yi revealed that he was the former young sect master of the Heavenly Yang Sect and asked Chang Ruoli for protection.
• Chang Ruoli explained that the city lord's manor and the Heavenly Yang Sect maintained a tacit balance, and refused to risk war by protecting Ling Yi.
• After Ling Yi and Chang Ruoli shared a meal, a new sign-in point appeared on her shoulder, and Ling Yi proposed a deal.

Ling Yi offered Chang Ruoli three Mirror-Breaking Pills and persuaded her that the corrupt Martial Dao Alliance had to be challenged; after one pill advanced her to the Qi Refining Realm, she decided to pursue the opportunity he represented. Ling Yi used another pill to advance himself, then planned to stir Jianghu into chaos and distract the Heavenly Yang Sect, leaving to scout it that night.

• Ling Yi offered Chang Ruoli three Mirror-Breaking Pills in exchange for shelter at the city lord's residence, and she agreed to have a mask made for him.
• Ling Yi argued that Martial Practitioners had ruined Da Zhou and that the Martial Dao Alliance needed to be destroyed, then gave Chang Ruoli three pills.
• Chang Ruoli swallowed one Mirror-Breaking Pill, advanced to the Qi Refining Realm, and resolved not to miss her chance to act.
• Ling Yi took a Mirror-Breaking Pill of his own and advanced from the Sixth Pin Marrow Refining Realm to the Fifth Pin Blood Refining Realm.
• Ling Yi decided to spread news of the pills to distract Jianghu and the Heavenly Yang Sect, then flew out to scout the sect at night.

Ling Yi raided the Heavenly Yang Sect to kill Hu Feiyang and Hu Fan, rescue Xia Tao, and take the sect's valuables. Afterward, he tried on the Concealment Mask he received from a sign-in point.

• Ling Yi used a Mirror-Breaking Pill to restore his internal Qi and signed in at the Heavenly Yang Pavilion, receiving a Concealment Mask.
• Ling Yi found Xia Tao bound and unconscious in Hu Fan's room, killed Hu Fan, and freed her.
• Ling Yi told Xia Tao to wait while he went to kill Hu Feiyang, then beheaded Hu Feiyang in his room.
• Ling Yi carried Xia Tao out of the Heavenly Yang Sect and took her to the city lord's manor.
• Ling Yi made several trips back to the sect to retrieve valuables, then tested the Concealment Mask and found it did not block his sight or breathing.

Ling Yi introduced Xia Tao to Chang Ruoli, revealed that he had killed Hu Feiyang and Hu Fan, and began planning how to spread the Mirror-Breaking Pill’s legend. He gained two check-in rewards and learned of a third, while Chang Ruoli proposed a scheme to make the pill’s appearance credible and difficult to seize.

• Chang Ruoli saw Ling Yi emerge with Xia Tao, and Ling Yi explained that Xia Tao was his childhood companion and maid before revealing he had killed Hu Feiyang and Hu Fan.
• Ling Yi put on the Concealment Mask, took the name Wuming, and asked Chang Ruoli to let Xia Tao stay at the city lord’s manor while he dealt with the Heavenly Yang Sect.
• The system revealed check-in points at Xia Tao, Xiao Yun, and Chang Ruoli, offering Ling Yi a Heavenly Martial Pill, a Yuan Returning Pill, and a Middle Ninth Pin Martial Practitioner Summon Card.
• Ling Yi checked in with Xia Tao and Xiao Yun, then warned Xiao Yun to protect Xia Tao; afterward, he questioned Chang Ruoli about whether she trusted the woman.
• Ling Yi and Chang Ruoli discussed spreading word of the Mirror-Breaking Pill, and Chang Ruoli suggested linking it to an Upper Ninth Pin martial practitioner’s tomb and securing it in a difficult-to-open mechanism box.

Ling Yi gave Chang Ruoli thirty Mirror-Breaking Pills in exchange for daily spars, secrecy, and three favors, then sparred with her to claim a sign-in reward. He escaped her attacks, slapped her backside, and tossed her a pill that Chang Ruoli recognized as a Heavenly Martial Pill.

• Chang Ruoli asked for twenty Mirror-Breaking Pills, and Ling Yi produced thirty after she promised the plan would succeed with that many.
• Ling Yi set three conditions for the pills: daily spars, secrecy about their source, and three moral favors; Chang Ruoli agreed and secured the pills.
• Ling Yi and Chang Ruoli began an unarmed spar, but he used Qinggong to evade her internal Qi attacks while she exhausted her strength.
• Ling Yi feinted Chang Ruoli into using her remaining internal Qi, then slapped her backside and fled toward the front hall.
• Ling Yi tossed Chang Ruoli a pill as an apology and told her he now went by Wuming; Chang Ruoli identified it as a Heavenly Martial Pill.

Ling Yi summoned Leng Ningshuang, gave her a Mirror-Breaking Pill, and sent her away to break through. He went to the Pavilion of Fragrant Beauties to investigate the Sign-In System and found a sign-in point on a guarded servant who seemed familiar.

• Ling Yi used a Middle Ninth Pin Martial Practitioner Summon Card to summon Leng Ningshuang, whose cultivation was at the Late Inner Core Realm.
• Ling Yi gave Leng Ningshuang a Mirror-Breaking Pill, and she left to make a breakthrough away from the city.
• Ling Yi surveyed Red Maple City’s stark divide between its impoverished commoners and wealthy Martial Practitioners as he searched for a pattern in the system’s sign-in points.
• Ling Yi found a new sign-in point at the Pavilion of Fragrant Beauties, where a successful sign-in would grant him a Personal Space.
• Ling Yi bypassed the guards and found the sign-in point on a servant with a birthmark, sensed the Heavenly Yang Art in her, and asked, “Sis, is that you?”

Ling Yi rescued his injured sister Ling Yanyun and brought her to his newly acquired Personal Space, where its spiritual spring healed her. Ling Yanyun revealed that Hu Qian had orchestrated the family’s downfall, while Xia Tao told her that Ling Yi had already killed Hu Feiyang and Hu Fan.

• Ling Yanyun recognized Ling Yi, but her injuries flared and she collapsed; Ling Yi caught her and received a Personal Space with a spiritual spring from the system.
• Ling Yi carried Ling Yanyun away from the Pavilion of Fragrant Beauties, and his flight led people in Red Maple City to nickname him the Ghost-Faced Man.
• Ling Yi brought Xia Tao into the Personal Space, where Ling Yanyun had recovered, lost her birthmark, and explored the area.
• Ling Yanyun explained that Hu Qian had schemed to seize the Heavenly Yang Sect and steal the Heavenly Yang Art and Heavenly Yang Jin, then injured her after she investigated him.
• Ling Yanyun vowed to avenge her family, and Xia Tao told her that Ling Yi had already killed Hu Feiyang and Hu Fan.

Ling Yi revealed his Personal Space and its spirit spring to Ling Yanyun and Xia Tao, then equipped them with pills and plans to cultivate and build a home there. After leaving the space, he reunited with Leng Ningshuang, who had reached Late Void Return, and sent her to capture Hu Qian.

• Ling Yi told Ling Yanyun that he had reached the Fifth Pin Blood Refining Realm and explained his perfected Qinggong and Perfection of Subtlety Martial Dao Intent.
• Ling Yi claimed a powerful master had given him an Upper Ninth Pin Void Return Realm Dao Protector, reassuring Ling Yanyun about confronting Hu Qian.
• Ling Yi described the spirit spring’s healing, cultivation, and plant-growing benefits, and the three planned how to develop the Personal Space.
• Ling Yi gave Xia Tao Heavenly Martial Pills to awaken her Martial Dao aptitude and left pills and a Qinggong method for her and Ling Yanyun.
• Ling Yi left the Personal Space and found Leng Ningshuang back from her breakthrough at Late Void Return.
• Ling Yi asked Leng Ningshuang to capture Hu Qian in Red Maple City, and she vanished to carry out the request.

Ling Yi identified flaws in Chang Ruoli’s plan to spread Mirror-Breaking Pills and proposed a scheme to provoke conflict between the Martial Dao Alliance and the Jianghu. After assigning Chang Ruoli new preparations, he met Hu Qian, whom Leng Ningshuang brought to him.

• Ling Yi introduced Leng Ningshuang as his Dao protector, and Chang Ruoli explained her plan to spread news of a Martial God’s tomb and its ten Mirror-Breaking Pills.
• Ling Yi warned that fighting within the Martial Dao Alliance alone would not throw the whole Jianghu into chaos.
• Ling Yi proposed distributing the pills so four missing pills would empower Spirit Transformation Realm practitioners to establish a rival Martial Dao Alliance, while three pills reached the existing alliance and fueled internal conflict.
• Chang Ruoli praised Ling Yi’s plan and ordered her Second Uncle to carry it out.
• Ling Yi asked Chang Ruoli to gather seeds, poultry, and livestock, then considered moving a manor into his Personal Space.
• Leng Ningshuang brought Hu Qian to Ling Yi, who noted that the sixteen-year-old was a handsome Lower Second Pin Martial Practitioner.

After Leng Ningshuang killed Hu Qian, Ling Yi learned about the Martial Dao Intent Realm and searched with her for a newly generated check-in point. Following its ring led him to Song Qingxue, who was surrounded by assassins sent by the Song Family’s First Madam.

• Ling Yi rejected Hu Qian’s plea for mercy, and Leng Ningshuang killed him with a wave of her palm.
• A new check-in point appeared, offering Martial Dao Will at Perfection of Entering Momentum, but Ling Yi could not locate it.
• Leng Ningshuang explained the four Martial Dao Intent realms and revealed she had reached Perfection of Entering Domain.
• Ling Yi and Leng Ningshuang split up to search for the check-in point around Red Maple City.
• Song Qingxue confronted the men in black surrounding her carriages, pulled an arrow from her shoulder, and charged at them.
• Ling Yi followed the check-in ring to Song Qingxue and landed in front of her as the assassins closed in.

Ling Yi rescued Song Qingxue from Jiang Hong’s assassins, healed her with a Yuan Returning Pill, and gained perfected Entering Momentum through a sign-in. Song Qingxue agreed to travel with him to Red Maple City before they headed for the imperial city, though she worried about his intentions.

• Ling Yi recognized Song Qingxue’s danger, drew the Luoxue Sword, and killed the men in black who had been sent after her.
• Ling Yi caught the wounded Song Qingxue and gave her a Yuan Returning Pill, triggering a sign-in that rewarded him with perfected Entering Momentum.
• Song Qingxue recovered enough to thank Ling Yi and explained that Jiang Hong, her father’s principal wife, had sent the assassins.
• Song Qingxue said she planned to seek refuge with her maternal grandfather in the imperial city, and Ling Yi told her he also intended to go there after a few days.
• Ling Yi invited Song Qingxue to return with him to Red Maple City, and she agreed to travel under his protection while privately worrying about his intentions.

Ling Yi demonstrated the power of Entering Momentum and used his Personal Space to test how spirit spring water and accelerated time affected crops. As he began farming with Leng Ningshuang and the others, his experiments produced ripe wheat and an apple in moments, without following ordinary science.

• Ling Yi returned to the City Lord's Manor with Song Qingxue, and Leng Ningshuang congratulated him on reaching Entering Momentum.
• Chang Ruoli gave Ling Yi seeds and arranged to travel with him to the imperial city in half a month; Ling Yi stored the supplies in his Personal Space.
• Song Qingxue told Chang Ruoli that Jiang Hong possessed a storage treasure, prompting Chang Ruoli to wonder whether Jiang Hong came from the Immortal Dao.
• Ling Yi entered his Personal Space with Leng Ningshuang, Xia Tao, and Ling Yanyun and planted wheat using spirit spring water.
• Ling Yi accelerated time around the wheat a hundredfold, causing it to ripen within moments.
• Ling Yi tested an apple seed and picked a ripe apple minutes later, concluding that the process defied science.

Ling Yi finished transforming his Personal Space and prepared to leave while Ling Yanyun, Xia Tao, and Leng Ningshuang stayed behind. Back in Red Maple City, he faced several sign-in halos on the women around him, then accepted Chang Ruoli’s challenge to spar and bet his Qinggong technique against a hug; she trapped him with an Inner Qi area attack.

• Ling Yi showed the transformed Personal Space to the others, and Ling Yanyun, Xia Tao, and Leng Ningshuang chose to remain there while he left.
• The system awarded Ling Yi a Martial Dao Pill Scripture, a Four Directions Pill Furnace, and an unknown expert’s combat experience after he encountered Song Qingxue, Xiao Yun, and Chang Ruoli.
• Ling Yi agreed to spar with Chang Ruoli, who had initially tried to refuse because of their previous match.
• Chang Ruoli bet that Ling Yi would give up his Qinggong movement technique if he lost, while he asked her to let him hug her if she lost.
• Chang Ruoli launched an Inner Qi area attack that restricted Ling Yi’s movement, believing she had gained the advantage.

Chang Ruoli tried to punish Ling Yi, but he vanished and left magical peaches as an apology. As the women ate, Song Qingxue revealed her guilt over her family’s role in the Heavenly Yang Sect’s downfall, and Bai Xiao Yun disclosed that Ling Yi and Ling Yanyun were not blood relatives.

• Chang Ruoli’s punch missed when Ling Yi faded away, and he left before she could catch him, pressing two fingers to her lips as he vanished.
• Xiao Yun told Chang Ruoli that Ling Yi had left enormous, fragrant peaches as an apology, and Song Qingxue said she did not resent him because she felt she owed him.
• Song Qingxue recalled that the Song Family had helped the Martial Yuan Sect bring about Ling Tianhu and his wife’s deaths, leading to Ling Yi’s injuries and the Heavenly Yang Sect’s collapse.
• Song Qingxue recognized Bai Xiao Yun as a member of the Bai Clan, and Bai Xiao Yun revealed that Ling Yi had been abandoned as a baby and was not related by blood to Ling Yanyun.
• Chang Ruoli discovered that Ling Yi’s peaches could increase cultivation, and the three women divided the remaining peaches before Bai Xiao Yun suggested seeking more benefits from Ling Yi.

Bai Xiao Yun told Song Qingxue about her tragic family history, and the women discussed Ling Yi’s strange abilities and gifts. When Ling Yi arrived, the women confronted him about his conduct, and he claimed his improper master had made him do it.

• Bai Xiao Yun explained that her stepmother and stepsister had framed her, and that she killed them after discovering their role in her birth mother's death.
• Bai Xiao Yun said her father had disowned her and threatened to cripple her cultivation, so she had fled and sought Chang Ruoli's protection.
• Chang Ruoli, Bai Xiao Yun, and Song Qingxue discussed Ling Yi's mysterious movements and valuable gifts, while Chang Ruoli considered the benefits of gaining his support.
• Ling Yi arrived as a subordinate brought more than a hundred animals, and he stored them all in his Personal Space.
• Bai Xiao Yun recognized Ling Yi, and the women demanded that he explain his earlier behavior.
• Ling Yi claimed that his master had set him an improper test, and Bai Xiao Yun asked why his master would do that.

Ling Yi invented a story about his supposed life-and-death tribulation and bargained with Chang Ruoli to help the women advance their cultivation. When the Song Family came demanding Song Qingxue, Chang Ruoli confronted their envoy, and Ling Yi noticed the woman’s unusual momentum field.

• Ling Yi claimed his master wanted him to break a life-and-death tribulation with a romantic tribulation, and Chang Ruoli went along with his explanation.
• Chang Ruoli negotiated a deal in which Ling Yi would help the women reach the Upper Ninth Pin within a year and let them experience his martial dao intent realm every day.
• Two martial generals reported that Song Family members had injured guards and demanded Song Qingxue, so Chang Ruoli headed to the front hall.
• Ling Yi followed Song Qingxue and Bai Xiao Yun to the courtyard, where Chang Ruoli faced Jiang Hong, a Lower Fifth Pin woman wearing an object that held a rare momentum field.

Jiang Hong attacked the City Lord’s Manor with a Momentum Treasure, but Ling Yi effortlessly stopped her tornado and captured her. After learning that Jiang Hong came from the Jiang Family of the Momentum Realm, Ling Yi considered what the new realm might be and reflected on combat experience that could help him reach Entering Domain.

• Jiang Hong threatened Chang Ruoli and the City Lord’s Manor, then used her shell-like Momentum Treasure to summon a powerful tornado.
• Chang Ruoli retreated with Song Qingxue and held her against the tornado’s suction, while Ling Yi remained untouched.
• Ling Yi dispelled the tornado, took Jiang Hong’s Momentum Treasure, and forced her to float after him into the rear courtyard.
• Chang Ruoli ordered her troops to arrest the Song Family, then joined Song Qingxue and Bai Xiao Yun as Ling Yi examined the treasure.
• Jiang Hong identified herself as a member of the Jiang Family of the Momentum Realm, and Ling Yi punished her while pondering the realm’s nature.
• Ling Yi recalled that the combat experience he had obtained could help him reach the Entering Domain realm within a month.

Ling Yi interrogated Jiang Hong, who confessed to murdering Song Qingxue’s mother and explained the history of the Momentum Realms. The chapter ended with Chang Ruoli asking to take Jiang Hong, while Ling Yi left the decision to Song Qingxue.

• Ling Yi used his Momentum techniques to force Jiang Hong to answer Song Qingxue’s questions.
• Jiang Hong admitted that she had arranged Jiang Yingmei’s seduction, causing her to lose her position as the Jiang Family’s Holy Maiden, and later killed her out of jealousy.
• Ling Yi questioned Jiang Hong about Momentum Treasures and learned that the Hurricane Chant was made from a Many-Horned Dragon’s scale and that such materials came from Momentum Realms.
• Jiang Hong told Ling Yi and Chang Ruoli that at least ten thousand Momentum Realms remained from thirty thousand years ago, when all Entering World Martial Practitioners died.
• Chang Ruoli asked Ling Yi to hand Jiang Hong over to her, and Ling Yi told her to ask Song Qingxue.

Ling Yi learned that Momentum Realms followed different rules, then gained a vending machine, Lifespan Pills, and a White Jade Fragrant Carriage through sign-ins. Chang Ruoli revealed she was the eldest princess of the Da Zhou Imperial Dynasty and said they would leave for the imperial city in three days.

• Chang Ruoli reported that Jiang Hong's cultivation techniques could not be used outside her Momentum Realm, and Ling Yi explained that each Momentum Realm had different rules.
• Ling Yi hugged Chang Ruoli to claim a sign-in reward: a vending machine stocked with goods, pills, Momentum Treasures, and cultivation techniques.
• Ling Yi received Lifespan Pills and a White Jade Fragrant Carriage from further sign-ins.
• Chang Ruoli asked about the Heavenly Yang Sect and the Bai Clan; Ling Yi and Bai Xiao Yun said they would leave those matters alone.
• Chang Ruoli moved their departure for the imperial city up to three days away because the Jianghu Chaos Plan had begun.
• Chang Ruoli revealed that she was the eldest princess of the Da Zhou Imperial Dynasty, surprising Song Qingxue and Bai Xiao Yun.

Chang Ruoli revealed why she had been hidden in Red Maple City and planned a disguised journey to the imperial capital with Ling Yi and the others. They discussed upcoming Jianghu events, Chang Ruoli’s hopes of sounding out the Inquiry Sword School, and Ling Yi’s rare Qinggong technique.

• Chang Ruoli said she was the Da Zhou Kingdom’s twenty-one-year-old grand princess, sent to Red Maple City under a false death to protect her from the Martial Dao Alliance.
• Chang Ruoli planned to send subordinates ahead and travel disguised with a merchant caravan, while Ling Yi agreed to follow her preparations.
• Chang Ruoli outlined the upcoming Sword Inquiry Ceremony, Medicine King Valley auction, and Martial Dao Alliance competition, and Song Qingxue explained the Inquiry Sword School’s strength and independence.
• Chang Ruoli said she wanted to learn the Inquiry Sword School’s attitude toward the Martial Dao Alliance and might earn its favor by helping its old ancestor live longer.
• Ling Yi refused to help without a benefit, rejected Chang Ruoli’s joking offer of marriage, and learned that Qinggong techniques were exceptionally rare and valuable.