Chapter Summaries

Qin Qi completed the revised Threefold Reversal with Lu Jin, then traveled to Biyou Village to recruit Ma Xianhong for his artifact-crafting talent. After using Magnetic Field Rotation to restore Ma Xianhong’s stolen memories, he left Ma Xianhong with the truth about his past.

• Qin Qi and Lu Jin finished revising Threefold Reversal, and Lu Jin prepared to test the first stage before passing it on to Lu Lin.
• Qin Qi left the Three-One Sect and set out to find Ma Xianhong, while Lu Jin and Lu Lin discussed the revised stages and Qin Qi’s strength.
• Qin Qi secretly entered Ma Xianhong’s workshop in Biyou Village, watched him solve a problem with the Self-Cultivation Furnace, and offered him a deal based on his artifact-crafting talent.
• Qin Qi told Ma Xianhong what he knew about his missing memories and used Magnetic Field Rotation to help him recover them.
• Ma Xianhong remembered that he had been kidnapped and that the woman he called his older sister had kidnapped him.

Ma Xianhong learned that Qu Tong had likely killed his family and agreed to join Qin Qi after taking revenge, while bringing most of Biyou Village’s residents with him. Qin Qi dealt with Fu Rong’s objections and demonstrated overwhelming speed, leaving the villagers stunned that he had marked them all despite their protective artifacts.

• Qin Qi told Ma Xianhong that his family was probably dead, and Ma Xianhong grieved before investigating the claim for himself.
• After checking the evidence and his memories, Ma Xianhong believed Qin Qi and agreed to help kill Qu Tong before joining him, provided he could bring the villagers along.
• Qin Qi agreed to take in most of Biyou Village’s residents and continue searching for Ma Xianhong’s family.
• Fu Rong challenged Ma Xianhong’s trust in Qin Qi, but Qin Qi exposed her unpaid bank debts and her boyfriend’s fraud, then offered her a salary to stay and work.
• Jin Yong asked Qin Qi to demonstrate his strength, and Qin Qi touched every villager between the brows in an instant without triggering their protective artifacts.

Qin Qi exposed Zhao Guizhen, removed dangerous villagers from Biyou Village, and helped Ma Xianhong accept the limits of his leadership. After restoring the village to ordinary life, he began assigning work to its remaining residents and the Twelve Root Vessels.

• Qin Qi handed Zhao Guizhen over to Shangqing Maoshan disciples and showed Biyou Village evidence of his murders.
• Qin Qi crippled villagers who attacked him after resisting the loss of their Self-Cultivation Furnace abilities, while Ma Xianhong arranged for them to leave.
• Qin Qi explained that the remaining villagers could stay without joining him and offered to teach them fitness exercises.
• Ma Xianhong accepted that he had been wrong to think he could guide everyone and agreed to work under Qin Qi as a brother.
• Qin Qi assessed Fu Rong's résumé, assigned her no extra pay, and sent her to sit with Big Yellow.

Qin Qi arranged work and help for the Twelve Root Vessels, then prepared for the Luotian Grand Ceremony while recruiting Lu Linglong’s friends into his plans. He directed Ma Xianhong to make everyday products, including redesigned Ruhua Puppets, as the ceremony approached.

• Qin Qi hired Bi Yuan and Qiu Rang, and promised Liu Wukui he would try to restore her brother’s body.
• Qin Qi visited Lu Jin, who had begun reconstructing his dantians with the new Reversal method, and declined to accompany him to Mount Longhu.
• Bai Shixue begged Zhi Jinhua for help choosing Luotian Grand Ceremony betting favorites, but Zhi Jinhua refused and warned Lu Linglong not to gamble.
• During the ten days before the ceremony, Qin Qi shifted Ma Xianhong’s research toward everyday artifacts and asked him to redesign Ruhua Puppets based on pictures of sex dolls.
• Ma Xianhong agreed the designs were possible, and Qin Qi ordered four intelligence levels for the products.

Qin Qi organized Ma Xianhong’s puppet designs and encouraged him to prepare for revenge against Qu Tong, then attended the Luotian Grand Ceremony and announced the Three-One Sect’s return with a spectacular display. The chapter left the assembled Outcasts and elders reacting to Qin Qi’s display of power.

• Qin Qi explained four grades of puppets to Ma Xianhong, including companion puppets designed to provide emotional support.
• Qin Qi told Ma Xianhong that Qu Tong had used Twin Hands to control deathsworn and learned Divine Machine Hundred Refinements, and Ma Xianhong chose to pursue revenge himself after getting stronger.
• Qin Qi met Lu Lin and Lu Linglong at Mount Longhu and stopped Lu Lin from crossing the rope bridge without displaying his abilities.
• Qin Qi formed a bridge and twelve towers and five cities from Innate Primordial Qi, astonishing the crowd as he crossed with Lu Lin and Lu Linglong.
• Xu San and Xu Si studied Qin Qi’s skybound creation while Feng Baobao saw someone inside it and waved to them.
• Qin Qi told Lu Lin that the display would restore the Three-One Sect’s reputation, while Lü Ci compared Qin Qi’s entrance to a verse about an immortal descending from heaven.

Qin Qi drew attention at the Luotian Grand Ceremony, where his immortal-looking feat at the rope bridge overshadowed the other contestants’ techniques. During his first match, he used tiny grains of Qi to drain an opponent’s energy, while the Old Celestial Master recognized the danger of Qin Qi’s technique and challenged Zhang Lingyu to consider how he would respond.

• Qin Qi’s twelve towers and five cities remained standing after the other contestants crossed the rope bridge, earning Lu Jin congratulations for the Three-One Sect’s showing.
• Zhang Chulan wriggled across the rope bridge and endured the crowd’s mockery, while Xu San, Xu Si, and Feng Baobao tried to distance themselves from him.
• Qin Qi arranged for Liu Wukui and Fu Rong to record the fights and for Bi Yuan to run a betting pool before entering his four-person match.
• Qin Qi’s three opponents agreed to gang up on him, but he calmly praised their strategy and released tiny grains of Qi that drained one attacker’s energy.
• The Old Celestial Master explained that Qin Qi’s technique could potentially drain life force and asked Zhang Lingyu how he would counter it.

Qin Qi defeated three opponents by controlling the arena with his Qi, while Zhang Lingyu realized he had been outthought from the moment he entered. After Qin Qi profited from selling match records and running a betting pool, he prepared to scan Mount Longhu for disguised intruders and set unusually high odds on Zhang Chulan, leaving Fu Rong eager to bet against him.

• Qin Qi used Spin to drain the Qi of three opponents, and Zhang Lingyu concluded that Qin Qi had predicted and countered every move he considered.
• Lu Jin told Lu Lin that mastering Qin Qi’s advanced use of Threefold Reversal would take decades of cultivation and practice.
• Qin Qi sold match records and commentary from famous figures, earning a large profit from the sales and betting pool.
• Qin Qi told Fu Rong that Ma Doraemon Hong’s Scouters had been installed to scan Mount Longhu for abnormal Qi and disguised people.
• Qin Qi set Zhang Chulan’s odds at five hundred to one and said he was betting on Zhang Chulan to win.
• Fu Rong bet her wages and bonus against Zhang Chulan, while Liu Wukui refused to join her.

Qin Qi refused Bai Shixue’s challenge to take over his betting pool, then defeated and intimidated her before offering her one chance to win a share of the business by placing a bet. The next morning, as the round of thirty-six began, Qin Qi sent Fu Rong and the others to gather information while he waited for his match.

• Bai Shixue learned Qin Qi’s betting pool had already made a fortune and, unwilling to abandon her plans, challenged him to a duel; Qin Qi refused, and Mount Longhu Taoists intervened when she tried to force a fight.
• That night, Qin Qi ambushed Bai Shixue in a grove, pinned her down, and smacked her until she admitted defeat.
• Qin Qi offered Bai Shixue half the betting-pool business if she could win one cent from him with a single bet by the following night; she agreed, and Qin Qi vanished.
• Qin Qi returned to his room and reviewed his plans through the night.
• When the round of thirty-six began the next morning, Qin Qi sent Fu Rong and the others to gather information while he waited for his match.

Qin Qi defeated Zhuge Qing by disrupting his Qimen Bagua formation with sheer strength, then invited him to talk about his difficulty accepting defeat. Zhuge Qing admitted Qin Qi had understood his fears, leaving him to face the pressure of his family’s expectations.

• The Old Celestial Master arranged for Qin Qi and Zhuge Qing to face each other, and they exchanged polite words before the match.
• Qin Qi’s Magnetic Field Rotation disrupted the arena’s aura and broke Zhuge Qing’s formation, prompting Zhuge Qing to surrender.
• Xu Si suggested that Qin Qi’s immense influence on the world’s aura explained why Zhuge Qing’s formation failed, and Zhang Chulan worried about facing him.
• Qin Qi approached Zhuge Qing after the match and invited him to talk privately on the back mountain.
• Qin Qi told Zhuge Qing that his family’s expectations and fear of failure made it hard for him to accept losing, and Zhuge Qing acknowledged that Qin Qi was right.

Qin Qi helped Zhuge Qing confront his disappointment over failing to inherit the True Fire of Samadhi, and Zhuge Qing decided to try again after returning home while passing some responsibility to Zhuge Xiaobai. Qin Qi then explored a new direction for Threefold Reversal before Liu Wukui warned him that someone was placing unusually large bets on the Luotian Grand Ceremony.

• Qin Qi told Zhuge Qing the story of Zuo Ruotong and encouraged him to accept failure as part of a longer effort passed down through generations.
• Qin Qi defeated Zhuge Qing in a renewed sparring match, and Zhuge Qing accepted Qin Qi's friendship and felt relieved enough to cry.
• Zhuge Qing told Zhuge Xiaobai he would return home after the Luotian Grand Ceremony, try the True Fire of Samadhi once more, and leave the clan's future burden to his younger brother if he failed.
• Qin Qi experimented with shaping Innate Primordial Qi into a true flame and identified form and substance as a possible path beyond the Threefold Reversal Second Stage.
• Liu Wukui told Qin Qi that Bi Yuan had discovered someone making large bets at five-hundred-to-one odds and asked whether Qin Qi wanted to impose a betting limit.