Qin Clan

Biodata

Power Progression

Entries track the clan’s collective strength, cultivation infrastructure, and major breakthroughs among its members.

History

Origins and Imperial Recognition

The clan grew from Qin Lu’s beginnings as a medicine-selling physician in a small town. Its earliest second-generation sons, Qin Xiao and Qin Hui, both possessed cultivation aptitude, giving the household the prospect of becoming a family with three warriors 7 345.

Qin Lu formally established an Immortal Clan under Great Zhou’s authority and chose Beichuan as its title to commemorate its origins in the northern mountains and rivers. The court appointed him principal Sima, an eighth-grade official involved in commandery military affairs. After the Xuan River Zhang Clan withdrew, the Qin took control of Yingchuan County 41 42.

Consolidation of the North

The clan organized its spirit peaks into resource sites, administrative institutions, sects, and private branch territories. Its subsequent expansion reached across three prefectures, with nine county seats and 180,000 square kilometers under direct or indirect control, excluding Eastern Mystic Sea Commandery 45 137.

After becoming a Dao Foundation power, it supported loyal subordinate forces while gradually bringing Northern Province’s major clans and sects into its system. Its marriage alliance with the Xiashang Dao Academy reinforced its position among established cultivation powers 162.

The alliance with the Nangong Clan did not prevent later conflict. Qin Xiao, Qin Hui, and their advisers engineered a pretext for war against the Southern Province. Su Qin subsequently secured the submission of the Xie and Wu families, bringing Tai Province and Hong Province into Northern Province and uniting the Northern Frontier 200 220 243.

Overseas Expansion and Great Qin

The clan established new grounds on Qin Emperor Island and expanded throughout the Eight Immortals Sea. By the time Qin Lu prepared for his Core Formation tribulation, it directly controlled hundreds of cultivation-suitable islands and roughly a thousand spiritless islands used for settlement 253 294.

Mr. Ghost Valley selected Rosy Spring Island for a new capital. The clan’s refiners, formation specialists, cultivators, and laborers transformed it into Xianyang Immortal City, centered on the floating Efang Immortal Palace. Its completion marked the proclamation of Great Qin 299.

Great Qin later adopted its own calendar and expanded its academy system. Qin Minghan became its second ruler, while successive generations of Qin descendants supplied its kings, emperors, officials, and commanders 330 403 511.

Withdrawal into the Private Heavens

Qin Lu redirected the clan’s resources toward the Fourth Heaven, reducing its public role in Great Qin as his priorities shifted toward immortality. The private domain subsequently developed through the Seventh Heaven, Eighth Heaven, and Nine Heavens 442 468 508 567.

Withdrawal did not end the clan’s control over the state. When it intervened again, its experts emerged from the Eighth Heaven and reclaimed dispersed authority. It also concealed its capabilities through controlled disclosures, restrictions on traveling disciples, and deliberate misinformation 522 535.

Qin Humans and the Two-Realm System

As its inherited bloodline traits strengthened, the clan became increasingly distinct from ordinary humanity. It formally renamed itself the Qin Humans Race in Great Qin year 1800; by year 1898, its membership exceeded thirteen million 606.

Under the later two-realm arrangement, nearly all Qin descendants withdrew from the Frost Cloud Realm. Only about a hundred remained there for inspections and to guard four strategically important large Spirit Veins. The clan’s subsequent expansion extended into the Great Qin Nebula and subordinate planes 616 629 673.

Organization and Leadership

Main Branches

The original six branches used a shared Qin character with distinct embroidered backgrounds. Qin Zheng’s line later became the seventh principal branch 80 452.

Leadership and Institutions

• Qin Lu — Founder, ancestral authority, and source of the clan’s strengthening bloodlines; directed its long-term cultivation and world-creation projects 41 442 567.
• Qin Xiao — Second-generation patriarch and administrative core, overseeing the clan’s affairs 144 200.
• Qin Hui, Qin Wu, and Qin Zhuang — Known collectively as the Three Giants of the Qin Clan, representing public leadership, military power, and beast-taming strength 200.
• Miscellaneous Affairs Hall, Attendant Hall, and Law Enforcement Hall — Established by Qin Xiao during the organization of the spirit peaks 45.
• Han Academy and Combat Commanders Palace — Highest civil and military administrative bodies during the clan’s northern expansion. Their six grand scholars and six Yuan Generals formed the Twelve Pillars of Beichuan 137.
• Great Qin Cabinet — Later combined the left and right chancellors with the six grand scholars 372.
• Dao academies — Supplied educated descendants, officials, cultivators, and technical specialists; their network eventually extended across the Northern Continent 255 319 540.

Later Division of Functions

Clan Rules and Customs

Genealogy and Generation Names

Qin Lu established twenty generation characters beginning with the third generation 56:

Ming, Xin, Xuan, Ying, Dao; Ming, Qi, Zhen, Qian, Kun; Xiu, Pei, Ben, Yuan, Mao; Wan, Ye, Gu, Yong, Nian.

• Original qualification: Descendants needed cultivation aptitude to receive a generation character and enter the genealogy, unless they had rendered outstanding service 56.
• Early direct-line distinction: Descendants without aptitude were removed from the direct line and placed in collateral branches 229.
• Later seven-inch threshold: Direct-line children with less than seven inches of spiritual light were demoted. Collateral descendants reaching seven inches could enter the direct bloodline and receive a generation character 694.
• Restricted inheritance: Direct descendants could cultivate the Qin Humans’ bloodline Dao and the four core inheritances of soul, Yang, water, and lightning 694.

Selection and Advancement

Qin Mingyi, Qin Minghan, Qin Mingyuan, Qin Mingzheng, and Qin Mingle jointly drafted the major reforms. They sought to keep competition transparent and reduce the influence that powerful ancestors could exert on behalf of their own branches 574.

Loyalty and Conduct

The clan placed loyalty and collective advantage above conventional morality. Qin Lu tolerated serious crimes by descendants who served the clan and did not betray it. Its education nevertheless emphasized strict laws, self-discipline, sound judgment, and the ability to deal effectively with outsiders 85 330.

Its support for fallen members’ families reinforced that loyalty: descendants of those who sacrificed themselves received cultivation resources, including Qi Condensation Pills. Later generations honored members who died pursuing power as martyrs and believed their souls would return to the Soul Dao and become part of their ancestor 294 485.

• Reproductive incentives: Awarded one Spirit Stone per child, three for a child with aptitude, and ten when aptitude exceeded one inch 204.
• Coercive expansion: Purchased female cultivators with good aptitude and forcibly took young female cultivators as wives in the Seven Beauties Star Domain 294 481.
• Operational secrecy: Traveling disciples carried layered restrictions. A disciple deemed missing could be killed remotely by extinguishing the soul lamp held by the clan 535.

Abilities and Cultivation Systems

Bloodline Dao

The Qin Humans combined human cultivation with inherited Demon Race bloodline power. Qin Lu’s breakthroughs strengthened the lineage’s overall potential, while descendants could pursue traditional Dao cultivation or use their bloodlines to bear the Great Dao 567.

• Common affinities: Wood and Soul; some descendants also inherited advantages in Poison Dao 443 606.
• Bloodthirsty Vine inheritance: Could be introduced by fusing the vine’s origin into a descendant, awakening devouring or bloodthirsty abilities and encouraging some members to cultivate the Dao of Blood 490.
• True Extreme Blood Refining Method: Created through Qin Yinghao’s example, Qin Xuanzi’s organization, and Qin Lu’s refinement; covered True Martial through Nascent Soul Peak 576.
• Limit: Increasing bloodline fusion reduced fertility 567.
• Later baseline: Every Qin Human could cultivate from birth; aptitude varied, but the category of an entirely non-cultivating mortal no longer existed within the race 718.
• Atavism: Rare ancestral bloodline manifestations could vary greatly in strength and usefulness 718.

Bloodline Appearance

• Qin Humans ordinarily appeared identical to humans, but awakening could produce emerald pupils, bodily patterns, plant-like skin, or wooden horns resembling dragon horns 443 606.
• Strong Wood Demon manifestations could bring natural advantages in Spirit Plant cultivation, alchemy, and comprehension of the Wood Dao 443.

Fortune and Aptitude Improvement

• Qin Palace: Gathered worship, Kingly Qi, and the influence of surrounding rivers. Qin Xiao used the Second-Tier structure to manifest a hundred-zhang phantom and conjure an attacking army 79 145.
• Nine Heavens’ creation fortune: Loosened cultivation bottlenecks, increased opportunities, and improved newborn aptitude 567.
• Cauldron Primordial Dao-Seeking Method: Used living human pills to support aptitude improvement and breakthroughs; access to suitable victims favored well-connected direct descendants 85 229 255.
• Origin-Evolving Pills: Improved the aptitude of selected descendants, including Qin Mingle and later members of the Xuan generation 255 403.

Cultivation Industries

Military and Economic Integration

• Qin Coins standardized trade and helped gather Spirit Stones and other resources; the system later became part of Great Qin’s broader economic infrastructure 142 540.
• Public inheritances: The clan released ten Dao Foundation methods to encourage people to join Great Qin, while retaining more than thirty such methods in its own collection 302.
• Awakening Soul Tea: Bi’s Third-Tier leaves strengthened souls enough to help train practitioners of the Four Great Immortal Arts 319.
• Integrated warfare: Centralized resources and cooperation between crafts produced formations, puppet legions, artillery, and warships on a scale fragmented rival powers struggled to reproduce 456 540.

Territories and Major Sites

Relationships

• Great Zhou / Qingxuan Zhou Clan — Original sovereign authority that recognized the Beichuan Qin Family and granted Qin Lu office 7 41 42.
• Xuan River Zhang Clan — Early marriage ally that withdrew from Yingchuan. Its later treatment served as an example of Qin support for declining subordinate families 41 42 221.
• Wang and Meng Clans — Loyal families whose establishment as Immortal Clans received Qin support, demonstrating the rewards available to capable followers 137.
• Xiashang Dao Academy — Marriage ally through Qin Zhuang and Shang Yue, a direct descendant of its Shang Clan branch 162.
• Nangong Clan — Marriage partner through Qin Mingzheng, then target of a deliberately engineered war 200 220.
• Xie and Wu Families — Submitted through Su Qin’s negotiations, entered the Nine-Rank Immortal Registry as third-rank Immortal Clans, and relocated into Northern Province 243.
• Ye Clan — Withdrew from competition and agreed to support Qin world creation in exchange for protection and a path to the upper realm 592.
• Fortune Heaven Sect — Rival power. The Qin held Heavenly Fate True Lord as a hostage and planned to use his Dao inheritance to benefit Qin Xuanzi 508 542 567.
• Mountain Piercer Clan — Defeated and enslaved; its higher planes and treasures became spoils of Qin expansion 673.

Notable Quotes

“My clan originated from the northern mountains and rivers, and we naturally use this to commemorate the foundation of our clan!”
— Qin Lu, explaining the title Beichuan 41

“Those who trespass upon Qin lands shall be slain, however far away they may be!”
— Qin Xiao 145

“Those who harm my people shall be pursued until one side is dead!”
— Qin Xiao 145