Commander Qin

He is the commander in chief of the military subarea and the Grandfather of Qin Baojia.

## Appearance

He has a ruddy complexion and walks vigorously. Wearing an apron and holding a spatula, he looks like a grandpa who stays at home every day and takes care of his grandson! The most important thing is that a cute monkey is printed on the apron…

## History (Contains Spoilers)

Commander Qin was only a teenager when he was ordered by his father to join the army. He went to Korea with the army, and back then, he was a soldier of the lowest rank who had to fight in the front row.

“One time, the regiment I was in was besieged by the U.S. army. In order to strike back, we split up into several groups and laid in ambush in the mountains… It was a hot summer, and I remembered feeling dehydrated. The U.S. army attacked, and I just shot back randomly. All of a sudden, I passed out because of severe heartache. And I woke up one night…”

Commander Qin woke up one night. He found himself lying in the wild under the stars. There was no wound on his chest and the U.S. army was nowhere near him. A gust of wind blew. He assumed that he was on the peak of a mountain, or else he wouldn’t be so close to the sky.

There was a time when Commander Qin doubted that he was dead. Otherwise, his limbs wouldn’t be so numb while his chest was intact. Then he smelled the fragrance of medicine. Fortunately, he could move his neck and he looked to his right— A man in blue frock was stewing something.

Commander Qin immediately realized that this man might be the crazy cultivator that his father told him about. The man seemed to notice that he was awake and turned around. Under the moonlight, the man looked to be in his fifties. He was slovenly and discursive.

Commander Qin was sure that the crazy cultivator had saved him. He said, “Thank you for saving my life.” All of his family members knew that the crazy cultivator was somehow related to Jiang Mingyue, but nothing was ever confirmed. As a result, Commander Qin wasn’t sure of how to address the man.

“I didn’t mean to save you! I came here to collect ginseng and happened to see a strange one. I used you to test its toxicity. You’re just lucky to be alive now!” The crazy cultivator sneered and refused to admit that he specially came to save the Qin’s boy.

Commander Qin didn’t believe in the man’s words. However, the crazy cultivator seemed impatient in making conversations. He poured a bowl of medical soup from the pot and poured it into Commander Qin’s mouth. Warmth rose instantly in his body. Commander Qin guessed that the medical soup was made of the “strange ginseng” the man just talked about and he was grateful. An hour later, his numb limbs could move thanks to the warmth.

The crazy cultivator wanted to leave since he knew the boy was alright.

Commander Qin was aware that the man could go really fast. He rolled over and started to kowtow, “Master, can you take me as your prentice? I am able to bear all the hardship.” Commander Qin had no way to stop the cultivator from leaving so he came up with this excuse.

The crazy cultivator turned around and jeered, “You’re just a trash who doesn’t have the Taoist root. How dare you try to learn spells of the immortals! You are ridiculous!”

Commander Qin kept kowtowing, “You keep talking about the Taoist root. You said to my father once that he was also a trash without the Taoist root. However, my grandmother had it, but you blamed her for marrying my grandfather. Now I don’t have the Taoist root… Master, these two words have confused my family for three generations. Can you please enlighten me about it?”

The crazy cultivator was moved by Commander Qin’s sincerity, or he decided to change his mind because Commander Qin mentioned his grandmother, Jiang Mingyue. The cultivator actually stopped after hesitating for a while.

“The cultivator told me that my grandmother was gifted to cultivate and she reached the level of Laying Foundation before she was fifty years old…"

“Master, what on earth is the Taoist root? How can I have it?” Commander Qin asked. He was just a teenager back then, and he longed for those abilities of flying in the sky and burrowing into the ground.

The crazy cultivator looked at the boy in front of him with pity, “People with Taoist root will interact with one or more of the five kinds of Reiki so that they can absorb these Reiki into their body. The more unitary the nature of Reiki is, the purer the Taoist root can be. Your grandmother can naturally interact with both water and wood Reiki, and that makes her Taoist root distinguished… As for you, you can’t interact with any of the five kinds of Reiki. Even you’ve taken the strange ginseng which can easily prolong your life, there is no chance that you can be a cultivator!”

Although Commander Qin never says frankly about the man’s identity, Lin Luoran knows that he must be a relative, or even the father of Jiang Mingyue!

If he were not her close relative, why would he bother to follow Commander Qin to Korea while knowing that the Qin family was full of trash without the “Taoist root”? Nothing in the world is just a coincidence. The crazy cultivator obviously went to protect Commander Qin.

## Trivia

* Due to Lin Luoran being his granddaughter's best friend, he sees her as his own granddaughter as well.
* He revealed that his grandmother Jiang Mingyue was a cultivator who gave up her cultivation to marry a mortal.

## References

1. ↑ Chapter 74: Secrets of the Crazy Cultivator
2. ↑ Chapter 75: Remnants of Magic Circle?
3. ↑ Chapter 73: Story of Jiang Mingyue