Qin Fei

Biodata

Power Progression

Cultivation and Craft Ranks

Heavenly Craft Creation Pavilion

Background / History

Stallholder and Puppet Entrepreneur

Qin Fei has memories of a previous life, including manufacturing workshops, heavy trucks, games, and Luban locks. In Shangyu Market, he initially survives by crafting Puppet Soldiers, barely earning enough to cover his stall’s rent. He has no formal puppetry teacher and develops his early skills through experimentation and the Heavenly Craft Creation Pavilion 1 2 5 15 17.

After inferior imitations are blamed for deaths in Wang Hu’s hunting team, Qin Fei demonstrates that his improved puppets can dismantle the copies. The confrontation becomes a business partnership. Once he masters the Wooden Ox and Flowing Horse, he appoints Wang Hu as their first sales agent, charging thirty Spirit Essences per puppet while keeping their source secret 3 4 5.

Demand soon exceeds what he can produce alone. He designs Technician Number One and learns to coordinate more than fifty puppets at separate crafting tasks, raising daily output to over twenty cargo puppets. The resulting income funds cultivation pills and the materials for his Flame Martial Envoy 8 10 11.

Yunxiu and the Inheritance Lock

During a barbarian raid, Qin Fei completes the Flame Martial Envoy despite a simulation success rate below one in ten. He also captures Yunxiu, recognizing her as the wanted woman associated with modified copies of his Puppet Soldiers 12.

He interrogates her through a puppet courtroom and a Truth-Telling Talisman, but a soul restriction prevents her from revealing her cultivation inheritance. Later, he uses the Pavilion’s blueprints to solve her inheritance lock and obtain the Divine Soul Sensing Chapter. He releases her after a Heavenly Dao Oath of secrecy and gives her blueprints to reconstruct the lock 13 16.

Yunxiu leaves him her puppet insights, filling gaps in his self-taught foundations. When she later returns injured, he shelters her but refuses to accompany her into the secret realm. Instead, he learns the Heavenly Secrets Sect’s written characters from her and completes a dictionary compiled from discarded puppets 17 47 48.

Scrapyard Factory and the Heavenly Mystery Key

Old Zhang persuades Qin Fei to become a Lin Household outer-court attendant. Assigned to repair discarded puppets, he discovers that the Pavilion can identify reusable materials, repairable components, and valuable construction techniques. He builds a concealed underground factory beneath the scrapyard and finds the Heavenly Mystery Key among the wreckage 26 27.

His repair work improves Lin Man’s opinion of him, but he declines her romantic confession and later refuses involvement in her household’s marriage dispute. Shortly afterward, a Lu Household Ninth-Layer cultivator ambushes him while searching for the key. Fairy Caiyi saves him, but his combat puppet force is almost completely destroyed 28 30 32.

Qin Fei hands over the original key while secretly retaining a copy. He receives Ice Silk Soft Armor as a reward, rebuilds his forces, and negotiates Caiyi’s promise of assistance if he reaches the threshold of Foundation Establishment. To divert attention from himself, he circulates duplicate keys and posts a five-hundred-Spirit-Stone assassination task against the Lu Household’s young master 31 32 33 34 36.

Household Conflict and Late Qi Refining

As the Lin–Lu conflict spreads, Qin Fei purchases defensive artifacts and spars with Tiezhu to address his lack of direct combat experience. During an attack near the Gathering Immortals Pavilion, he and his companions kill Lu Household cultivators and rescue Tang Zhan and Xu Meiniang 37 38 39 40 41 42 43.

Seeking a breakthrough before retaliation, he gathers Stage-Breaking Pills through Wang Hu, Tang Zhan, and Yama Hall transactions. Nine pills are required to reach Late Qi Refining. Despite his increased strength, he continues to reject speculative treasure hunts in favor of gathering resources for Foundation Establishment 43 46 47.

Mandatory Yama Hall Mission

Qin Fei acquires the Seventy-Seven Yama Pendant from a dead attacker. Burying it fails: it returns to his Storage Bag. He later uses its task listings for intelligence and transactions, but cannot escape its mandatory mission requirement 22 23 29 46 50.

The mission sends him into the Heavenly Mystery Secret Realm to document its hundred-story tower. He intends to complete the assignment and leave without pursuing treasures. After detecting and erasing a hostile gu cultivator’s tracking mark, he reports their grievance to the Impermanence Envoy, who assigns him to partner with Fifty-Eight instead 50.

Personality

Qin Fei is cautious, commercially inventive, and determined to retain time for cultivation. He conceals his production methods, distributes purchases among shops to avoid attention, and uses agents rather than publicly monopolizing sales. Even after becoming profitable, he deliberately limits crafting when it threatens to displace cultivation 4 5 6 28 33.

His restraint does not prevent calculated retaliation. Under Lu Household surveillance, he remains outwardly calm while arranging duplicate keys and an assassination contract. He also uses interrogation, disguises, and misleading claims of powerful backing when he believes they will protect him 13 30 34 36.

He is affectionate toward established friends, especially Old Zhang and Zhang Youqing. He repays assistance with pills or valuable artifacts, but deliberately keeps Lin Man at a distance because he does not want romance to obstruct his pursuit of the Dao. His immediate ambition is Foundation Establishment and greater freedom over his own life, rather than a distant promise of immortality 9 10 30 31 32 34 40.

Abilities & Skills

Heavenly Craft Creation Pavilion

• Virtual crafting: Supplies inexhaustible simulated materials, allowing repeated practice without wasting physical resources 2.
• Blueprint learning: Provides material-processing, assembly, and formation-inscription instructions; Qin Fei must still practice their execution 2 4.
• Analysis and salvage: Identifies reusable parts, rare materials, and research-worthy structures in ruined puppets 26 27.
• Progression bonuses: Crafting earns experience; upgrades unlock blueprints and improve puppet performance 1 2 9 50.
• Exclusive-puppet storage: After blood-binding the Flame Martial Envoy, he can summon it from the Pavilion with a thought 12.

Puppet Design and Control

• Custom engineering: Improves the original Puppet Soldier and develops Technician Number One for precision manufacturing 2 3 11.
• Automated production: Coordinates puppets across refining, assembly, and array inscription. The work still requires his Divine Sense and divided attention 11.
• Growing control capacity: Can command more than a hundred technicians at the Fifth Layer; after reaching the Sixth, he plans a workforce of five hundred 35.
• Combat limits: Stronger puppets demand more Divine Sense. Before his later advances, he can control only one Fourth-Layer puppet or three Third-Layer puppets simultaneously 9.
• Higher-tier deployment: Later commands two Sixth-Layer Desolate Rock Ghost Pythons alongside the exclusive Flame Martial Envoy 39.

Everlasting Spring Art

• Wood-attribute cultivation: A common, inexpensive method suited to his poor aptitude 6.
• Resource-assisted advancement: Uses Spirit Ascension Pills and later absorbs the pure spiritual energy in Spirit Stones directly 6 17 23 36.
• Late-stage endurance: At Late Qi Refining, estimates his spiritual reserves to be roughly 30% deeper than those of others at the same realm 47.
• Limitation: Its spiritual power has no special offensive properties 47.

Divine Soul Sensing Chapter

• Soul cultivation: Contains methods extending from Qi Refining to just before Core Formation 16.
• Puppet efficiency: Teaches ways to improve puppet agility and reduce Divine Sense expenditure 16.
• Mental improvement: Qin Fei develops sharper thought, greatly improved memory, and better comprehension 17.
• Spirit-binding knowledge: Includes a secret method for binding a demon beast’s spirit into a puppet; no successful use by Qin Fei is documented here 16.
• Detection: His strengthened Divine Sense allows him to discover a concealed tracking mark 50.

Formations and Artifact Handling

• Formation inscription: Progresses from difficulty drawing Storage Arrays to independently creating first-tier formations 4 40.
• Artifact refinement: Learns to communicate with an artifact’s internal spirit patterns and imprint his soul, greatly improving control and power 38.
• Direct combat training: Spars without puppets to improve his survival if an enemy closes in 39.
• Remaining weakness: Recognizes that his Technique Methods lack systematic practice and begins studying captured advanced methods 40 43 44.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

Puppets

Weapons and Protective Items

• Still Water Sword — First-Tier Superior-Grade flying sword taken from an attacker; its cooling influence clears his mind 22 31 40.
• Soul-Startling Bell and Crimson Flame Shield — First-Tier Superior-Grade defensive artifacts. After refinement, the shield protects him from a test attack by the Flame Martial Envoy 37 38.
• Ice Silk Soft Armor — Lightweight heavenly-silkworm armor awarded by the Lin Household; fits without restricting movement 32.
• Black Tortoise Breath-Concealing Array — Conceals his presence and blocks outside probing while providing defensive control and awareness within its boundary 19 22 27.
• Large Storage Bag — Looted from the Seventy-Seven attacker; its interior is comparable to a small apartment 22.
• Yama Pendant and Seventy-Seven masks — Provide access to Underworld Bureau tasks and transactions, but also bind him to mandatory assignments 22 23 46 50.
• Heavenly Mystery Key — Special puppet found in the scrapyard and copied using its recorded blueprint 27 31 34.
• Handheld game console blueprint — Unlocks a special puppet capable of reproducing previously fought opponents at adjustable realms; actual use is not documented in the supplied events 50.

Relationships

• Old Zhang — Longtime friend, neighboring stallholder, and drinking companion. His talisman insights help Qin Fei become a First-Tier Puppet Master; he later persuades Qin Fei to join the Lin Household 1 4 9 26.
• Zhang Youqing — Old Zhang’s granddaughter, whom Qin Fei has watched grow up. He celebrates her apprenticeship under Caiyi and later asks after her progress 9 10 34.
• Wang Hu — Customer turned sales agent, friend, and combat ally. Helps market the cargo puppets and locate an alchemist for Stage-Breaking Pills 3 5 8 45.
• Yunxiu — Initially his captive; later an exchange partner in puppetry and sect knowledge. He helps preserve her inheritance, shelters her, and learns the Heavenly Secrets Sect’s characters from her 13 16 17 47 48.
• Tiezhu — Old friend who sources Qin Fei’s defensive array and trains him through sparring. Qin Fei rewards his help with a Superior-Grade Law Artifact 18 19 39 40.
• Tang Zhan and Xu Meiniang — Friends whom he supports with warnings, spirit herbs, and assistance during the Lu Household attack. He suggests Tang Ping’an and Tang Lening as names for their unborn child 23 41 43.
• Fairy Caiyi — Powerful rescuer and commercial patron. Qin Fei distrusts the dependence created by their arrangement but secures her promise of future Foundation Establishment assistance 30 31 34.
• Lin Man — His immediate superior at the scrapyard and a rejected romantic admirer. He refuses involvement in her arranged-marriage dispute 26 28 30 32.
• Lu Household — Hostile lineage that targets him over the Heavenly Mystery Key. He retaliates indirectly through copied keys and a Yama Hall contract 30 34 36.

Notable Quotes

“I’m merely a Rogue Cultivator. All I seek in this life is Foundation Establishment.” 30

“I don’t want to risk my life for treasures I can neither see nor touch.” 48