Chapter Summaries

Qin Qi prepared to profit from the plague in the North Side, then began White Night Yaksha’s trial to become Floor Master of Outer Gate 2105380. He challenged a griffin to a contest of courage and honor, and the two rose into the sky to begin.

• Qin Qi assessed the vampires’ strength and ordered them to expand into the East Side’s remaining Outer Gate areas.
• Leticia delivered a newspaper to Qin Qi, who predicted that Fire Dragon’s appearance would precede his death and further unrest in the North Side.
• Qin Qi ordered Leticia to sell unicorn masks and holy water masks, trade masks to Fire Dragon’s people for handicrafts, and discreetly buy North Side handicrafts.
• Qin Qi went to White Night Yaksha’s shop and agreed to begin the trial for the Floor Master position.
• White Night Yaksha presented a griffin whose approval would grant Qin Qi authority over Outer Gate 2105380, and Qin Qi proposed a free-fall contest of courage and honor.
• The griffin accepted Qin Qi’s challenge, and carried him high into the sky to begin the contest.

Qin Qi entered the griffin’s trial and endured a perilous free fall, but surrendered at the last moment to save the griffin’s life. Though the griffin initially declared himself the winner, he recognized Qin Qi’s courage and granted him passage, leaving White Night Yaksha to issue the Outer Gate rights certificate.

• Qin Qi rode the griffin to extreme heights and withstood the cold, pressure, and turbulent winds during their fall.
• Qin Qi used Spin and his breathing technique to maneuver through the storm currents while the griffin watched in astonishment.
• Near the ground, Qin Qi surrendered and used Magnetic Field Rotation to stop his fall, allowing the griffin to regain his powers and survive.
• The griffin accused Qin Qi of deliberately giving him the victory, but Qin Qi explained that life mattered more to him than glory.
• The griffin acknowledged Qin Qi’s courage and declared that he had passed the trial, and White Night Yaksha agreed to give him an Outer Gate rights certificate.

Qin Qi received outer-gate authority, continued building his business and community, and introduced Black Rabbit to Master Li, his founding-member tabby. After receiving a Fire Dragon funeral invitation, Qin Qi traveled with White Night Yaksha to the North Side, where Mandora announced Sandora’s succession as the next Fire Dragon.

• Qin Qi received his outer-gate authority certificate from White Night Yaksha and told Black Rabbit to sell the unicorn masks at the forest market.
• Qin Qi spent seven days cultivating and running his shop as his masks sold well and his vampires took over outer gates.
• Black Rabbit met Master Li, and Qin Qi explained that the tabby was his community’s first member before leaving the shop in her care.
• Qin Qi and White Night Yaksha traveled to the North Side for the Fire Dragon’s funeral and politely greeted Sandora.
• Mandora announced that Sandora would inherit the Fire Dragon title and invited the community leaders to her succession celebration in a few months.

After returning from the North Side, Qin Qi learned that his system could bring people from the JoJo world to Little Garden through a daily three-hour portal. He invited Joseph Joestar to discuss trade and summoned Caesar with a Dayun heavy truck, leaving both men confused but unharmed in Little Garden.

• Qin Qi returned to his shop, where the tabby cat left an Eye of Water that Black Rabbit identified as a rare support Gift.
• Qin Qi learned that he could invite people he had met in the JoJo world to Little Garden, and that they could travel back through a spacetime gate.
• Qin Qi invited Joseph Joestar, who vanished from the ship bound for America and appeared in the shop, where Qin Qi began explaining and proposing a business deal.
• Qin Qi summoned Caesar with a Dayun heavy truck, which struck him and brought him to Little Garden unharmed.
• Caesar arrived beside Qin Qi and Joseph, then pinched Joseph to check whether the strange situation was real.

Qin Qi recruited Joseph and Caesar into his Community and planned a trade route through Little Garden, then visited the growing Forest Market with Black Rabbit. There, the unicorn introduced him to a water spirit seeking a home in the forest.

• Caesar agreed to join Qin Qi’s plans while continuing to care for his younger siblings and visit his dates, and Joseph revealed that Lisa Lisa was his mother.
• Qin Qi explained Gifts and Gift Games, invited Joseph and Caesar to join his Community, and they accepted and discussed business ideas.
• Qin Qi sent Joseph and Caesar sightseeing, then asked Black Rabbit to help revise the Forest Market plan into a network of free resting places and trade-route hubs.
• Qin Qi and Black Rabbit visited the flourishing Forest Market, where its animals and phantom beasts welcomed him.
• The unicorn thanked Qin Qi for the forest’s new home and introduced a water spirit and her companions, who wanted to settle in its streams and lakes.

Qin Qi recruited water spirits and pixies to help develop his forest market and negotiated a partnership to build a traveling fairy market. Back at the shop, he reviewed reports and news, then prepared to wait for unrest and drought to create new opportunities.

• Qin Qi welcomed the water spirits in exchange for their help protecting the forest's water and farmland, and they blessed him with an affinity for water.
• Qin Qi offered the pixies a partnership to establish a traveling fairy market, giving them a ten percent stake while retaining control over construction.
• Qin Qi and his companions returned to the shop the next morning, where Leticia served breakfast and Black Rabbit recovered from the pixies' feast.
• Qin Qi read that the North Side's plague had ended and fighting over succession had begun, while he anticipated drought in the East Side.
• Qin Qi received reports that his subordinates had secured Floor Master rights over more than ten Outer Gates as the vampire army grew stronger.

Qin Qi began a simulation in The Outcast world, where he used Eightfold Reversal to refine his Hamon Drive and pursued a chance to learn Threefold Reversal. After meeting Lu Jin through Lu Linglong and claiming to know Li Muxuan’s whereabouts, Qin Qi told Lu Jin that he wanted to learn Threefold Reversal.

• Qin Qi started the second simulation and chose to enter The Outcast world as an ordinary supernatural being aiming to take first place at the Luotian Grand Ceremony.
• Qin Qi used his freedom in the simulation to earn money and learn introductory techniques, including Eightfold Reversal, which he used to refine his Hamon Drive.
• Qin Qi befriended Lu Linglong and told Lu Jin that he knew Li Muxuan’s whereabouts.
• Lu Jin sent Lu Linglong outside so he and Qin Qi could discuss their deal privately.
• Qin Qi told Lu Jin that he wanted to learn Threefold Reversal.

Qin Qi persuaded Lu Jin to accept him into the Three-One Sect as a disciple of Zuo Ruotong so he could learn Threefold Reversal, and revealed that Li Muxuan was hiding on Nathan Island. Lu Jin took Qin Qi to the sect’s grave and began explaining the technique’s risks before teaching him its First Stage.

• Qin Qi told Lu Jin that Li Muxuan was hiding on Nathan Island and asked to learn Threefold Reversal without taking a master, but Lu Jin refused to break the Three-One Sect’s rules.
• Qin Qi accepted Lu Jin’s offer to join the sect under Zuo Ruotong and said he wanted Threefold Reversal because it was the best technique for staying alive.
• Lu Jin took Qin Qi away from the Lu residence and brought him to the Three-One Sect’s grave, where he explained the sect’s history and his guilt over its destruction.
• Qin Qi promised to shoulder responsibility for the sect’s legacy, and Lu Jin warned him that cultivating Threefold Reversal could cause irreversible damage and only healed injuries while its Reversal state was active.
• Qin Qi accepted the risks, and Lu Jin prepared to teach him the Threefold Reversal First Stage.

Qin Qi learned Threefold Reversal from Lu Jin and rapidly developed his own method, transforming his skin and flesh into qi while combining life energy, Hamon, and Magnetic Field Rotation. Lu Jin was left stunned by Qin Qi’s unprecedented progress and tried to get him to rest.

• Lu Jin demonstrated the stages of Threefold Reversal and taught Qin Qi to cultivate carefully and avoid impatience.
• Qin Qi transformed the skin on his palm into qi almost immediately, surprising Lu Jin.
• Qin Qi studied the Three-One Sect’s cultivation notes and used Zuo Ruotong’s teachings to devise his own approach to Threefold Reversal.
• Qin Qi completed the first stage in a day, then used life energy and Magnetic Field Rotation to produce golden lightning throughout the valley.
• Lu Jin urged Qin Qi to return to the Lu Family and rest, then noticed that Qin Qi was still maintaining Reversal.

Qin Qi completed the first stage of Threefold Reversal in seven days and discovered that his body remained partly transformed even after he released the technique. Lu Jin realized Qin Qi might be able to advance beyond the second stage and saw him as the Three-One Sect’s hope, then anxiously explained the next stage and waited outside while Qin Qi cultivated.

• Qin Qi completed the Reversal First Stage after seven days of cultivation at the Lu Family.
• Lu Jin urged Qin Qi to rest before attempting the second stage, but Qin Qi released Reversal and showed that his skin remained transformed.
• Lu Jin tested Qin Qi’s arm, and Qin Qi’s injury turned into Qi before he controlled the Qi to heal himself.
• Qin Qi told Lu Jin he could keep advancing in Reversal and might eventually reach the third stage, prompting Lu Jin to vow to help him prove Threefold Reversal was real.
• Lu Jin spent a day explaining the second stage and repeatedly checked whether Qin Qi understood, until Qin Qi threw him out so he could cultivate.
• Lu Jin waited outside Qin Qi’s room and shushed Lu Linglong when she came by.

Qin Qi advanced steadily in Threefold Reversal, learned about the Lu Family’s unusual way of preserving its influence, and met Lu Lin, his junior in the Three-One Sect despite their tangled family generations. When Lu Jin arranged a spar, Qin Qi instantly defeated Lu Lin with golden lightning and then asked Lu Jin about the promised introduction to another teacher.

• Qin Qi completed the initial breakthrough into the second stage of Threefold Reversal, and Lu Jin celebrated his talent and prayed at his master’s cave for Qin Qi to carry on the sect’s hopes.
• After more than half a month of cultivation, Qin Qi asked to study the Lu Family’s technique books, and Lu Jin explained how the family built influence by sending promising descendants to different sects.
• Qin Qi understood the Lu Family’s strategy, studied its basic techniques, and met Lu Lin when he returned from school a month before the Luotian Grand Ceremony.
• Qin Qi and Lu Jin joked over Lu Lin’s confusing family and sect seniority, while Lu Lin stayed quiet rather than risk offending either senior.
• Lu Jin proposed that Qin Qi spar with Lu Lin, but Qin Qi knocked Lu Lin unconscious with dozens of golden lightning bolts before he could reach him.
• Qin Qi told Lu Jin that Thunder Hamon was still far below the techniques needed in Little Garden, then asked about the person Lu Jin had promised to introduce.

Qin Qi traveled with Lu Jin to Mount Longhu, where he arranged to learn the Old Celestial Master's foundational cultivation teachings in exchange for treating Tian Jinzhong. After successfully reattaching Tian Jinzhong's limbs, Qin Qi began three days of lessons alongside Zhang Lingyu and recognized Gong Qing beneath his disguise as Xiao Yuzi.

• Lu Jin brought Qin Qi to Mount Longhu to ask the Old Celestial Master to teach him in exchange for treating Tian Jinzhong's crippled limbs.
• The Old Celestial Master agreed to teach Qin Qi the foundations of cultivating nature and life for three days, provided Qin Qi healed Tian Jinzhong and kept the lessons secret.
• Qin Qi reattached Tian Jinzhong's limbs through precise Hamon control, completing the difficult operation after a full day.
• Qin Qi stayed on Mount Longhu to monitor Tian Jinzhong's recovery and begin his lessons.
• Zhang Lingyu escorted Qin Qi to the Old Celestial Master, and Qin Qi recognized Gong Qing disguised as Xiao Yuzi.
• The Old Celestial Master began teaching Qin Qi and Zhang Lingyu together.

Qin Qi explained his own understanding of cultivating nature and life to the Old Celestial Master, who recognized his talent and invited him for a private lesson. Later, Qin Qi considered recruiting skilled people to build his influence in Little Garden and left Mount Longhu disciples to their practice.

• Qin Qi told Zhang Lingyu and the Old Celestial Master that nature and life were inseparable, comparing their refinement to joining chopsticks into a seamless whole.
• The Old Celestial Master praised Qin Qi's understanding and invited him to return after sunset for a private lesson.
• The Old Celestial Master and Tian Jinzhong compared Qin Qi's quick insight to Zhang Zhiwei's talent as a student.
• Qin Qi planned to learn more arts and recruit Ma Xianhong, Zhi Jinhua, and Bai Shixue to develop his community and business.
• Rong Shan invited Qin Qi to spar, but Qin Qi declined and left to continue his plans.

Qin Qi learned to enter meditation from the Old Celestial Master, and Once Proven, Forever Proven let him maintain the state indefinitely. During a spar, Qin Qi rapidly improved his martial arts and reached a new level of perception, but his final punch damaged the Old Celestial Master’s house; the Old Celestial Master promised to teach him one last thing the next day.

• The Old Celestial Master taught Qin Qi that meditation meant finding a comfortable state in which his heart and consciousness were in accord.
• Qin Qi entered meditation and, through Once Proven, Forever Proven, gained the ability to maintain the state indefinitely.
• The Old Celestial Master offered to take Qin Qi as his disciple, but Qin Qi refused out of loyalty to Lu Jin and the Three-One Sect.
• The Old Celestial Master explained how techniques applied Qi and sparred with Qin Qi to teach him their fundamentals.
• Qin Qi rapidly adapted during the fight, used Mind's Eye and Magnetic Field Rotation, and threw a punch that smashed the house behind the Old Celestial Master.
• The Old Celestial Master told Qin Qi to pay for the repairs and said he would teach him one last thing the following day.

Qin Qi asked Tian Jinzhong about the Outlander world and spent the day talking with him. After a false alarm over poisoned food at Mount Longhu, the Old Celestial Master joined Qin Qi and Tian Jinzhong for a meal and offered them medicinal wine.

• Qin Qi brought snacks for Xiao Qingzi and asked Tian Jinzhong about the current families, sects, and factions in the Outlander world.
• Tian Jinzhong described Zhang Zhiwei’s reputation and past victories while answering Qin Qi’s questions about the Outlander world.
• Xiao Qingzi suffered stomach pain after eating too much ice cream, and Rong Shan mistakenly announced that the dining hall food was poisoned.
• Qin Qi bought food at the foot of the mountain and brought it to Tian Jinzhong’s room, where the Old Celestial Master joined them with a bottle of medicinal wine.
• Qin Qi drank a bowl of the wine and told Tian Jinzhong it tasted like water, prompting Tian Jinzhong to ask for a taste.

Qin Qi completed his lessons with the Old Celestial Master, learning to shape primordial qi and master Generating Thunder from the Void. After three days on the mountain, he said goodbye to the Old Celestial Master and Tian Jinzhong and headed down.

• Qin Qi helped the Old Celestial Master let Tian Jinzhong rest, then left the brothers alone together.
• The Old Celestial Master tested Qin Qi’s control of qi, and Qin Qi used his own qi to counter the Golden Light Mantra’s attacks.
• The Old Celestial Master explained that Threefold Reversal’s final stage involved abandoning the limits of bodily form, and Qin Qi realized what Zuo Ruotong had meant by tearing apart Reversal.
• Qin Qi demonstrated Magnetic Field Rotation and Generating Thunder from the Void, then sparred with the Old Celestial Master and learned to use lightning without gestures.
• Rong Shan and Zhang Lingyu watched the sparring from the courtyard wall until the Old Celestial Master knocked them down and sent them away.
• After the agreed three days, Qin Qi left the mountain, and the Old Celestial Master and Tian Jinzhong saw him off.

Qin Qi finished most of the Threefold Reversal Second Stage, entered the Luotian Grand Ceremony, and began visiting sects to spar and learn. With less than a month before the ceremony, he challenged the Shuzi Sect’s leader, Chen Jinkui, while Lu Lin fought the disciples outside.

• Qin Qi asked the Old Celestial Master to notify Wudang Mountain that he planned to visit and spar, and the Old Celestial Master agreed.
• Qin Qi told Lu Jin that he had completed the skin, flesh, sinews, bones, and internal organs of the Threefold Reversal Second Stage, with only the three dantian left to cultivate.
• Lu Jin submitted Qin Qi’s application for the Luotian Grand Ceremony, and Qin Qi said he planned to visit sects and spar; the Old Celestial Master learned of his entry and worried about Zhang Chulan facing him.
• Qin Qi took Lu Lin along to visit sects and spar, then brought gifts to Chen Jinkui of the Shuzi Sect and challenged him to a private match.
• Lu Lin guarded the gate and sparred with Shuzi Sect disciples while the senior disciple explained that Qin Qi kept the results of his earlier matches private to avoid humiliating defeated sects and making enemies.

Qin Qi completed the second stage of Threefold Reversal after rebuilding all three dantians, then realized its cultivation steps might be wrong and called Lu Lin into the cave to discuss his insight. The chapter left Qin Qi poised to explain his new understanding of returning to Innate Primordial Qi.

• Qin Qi challenged the Shuzi Sect and impressed Chen Jinkui, who warned his disciples to treat Qin Qi and the Three-One Sect with respect.
• Qin Qi visited Wudang Mountain, sparred with Taoist Master Yunlong, and left after Zhou Meng stopped Wang Ye from trying to divine his background.
• Qin Qi discussed nature and life with Fang Dongtian at Quanzhen while Lu Linglong stayed on the mountain with him.
• Qin Qi's visits helped restore the Three-One Sect's reputation, and Lu Jin began planning to recruit disciples and rebuild the sect.
• Qin Qi meditated in the Three-One Sect's grave cave and completed the second stage of Threefold Reversal by reconstructing his heart and middle dantian.
• After pondering the art's principles, Qin Qi concluded its cultivation steps might be wrong and called Lu Lin inside to talk; Lu Lin asked whether he had failed.

Qin Qi rethought Threefold Reversal, concluded it skipped essential steps, and developed a method that united spirit and body before dissolving his form. After reaching a new understanding of the technique, he told Lu Jin he would replace the Three-One Sect’s inherited method with his revised version, and Lu Jin angrily refused.

• Qin Qi explained to Lu Lin that the elixir fields were vulnerabilities because the original Threefold Reversal still depended on them, and argued that the technique was incomplete.
• Qin Qi reasoned that true reversal required returning the body to its primitive state step by step, rather than reconstructing it directly with qi.
• Qin Qi began cultivating First Reversal again, united his spirit and flesh, and learned to gather, scatter, and control his life energy at will.
• Qin Qi dissolved his physical form and reached the peak of the second stage, realizing that his path needed no further stages beyond continual refinement.
• Qin Qi told Lu Jin and Lu Lin that he would revise the Three-One Sect’s technique and have future disciples use the new version.
• Lu Jin rejected Qin Qi’s plan to alter the sect’s inheritance and angrily accused him of undermining the Three-One Sect.

Qin Qi defeated Lu Jin and persuaded him that the Three-One Sect’s spirit mattered more than preserving its cultivation art unchanged. Lu Jin accepted Qin Qi’s leadership and helped rebuild the sect, but worried that future disciples might mistake the new art’s second stage for its endpoint.

• Qin Qi demonstrated the Threefold Reversal by letting Lu Jin’s punch disperse his body, then defeated him by draining his Qi and breaking his Reversal.
• Qin Qi led Lu Jin to Zuo Ruotong’s grave and argued that the Three-One Sect passed down its spirit, not merely its cultivation art, and that later generations should keep refining it.
• Lu Jin recalled Zuo Ruotong’s final words, accepted Qin Qi’s interpretation, and vowed to help rebuild the Three-One Sect.
• Lu Jin gave Qin Qi the inherited manual, and Qin Qi wrote that later generations should be free to find their own paths and treat one another as fellow travelers on the Dao.
• Qin Qi taught Lu Jin and Lu Lin the revised Threefold Reversal, whose first two stages they refined together, and Lu Jin asked how future disciples would know to develop a third stage.