Synopsis

Synopsis of Novel. This Synopsis follows the novel, but the translated copy I have doesn't give Arc names so i will naming them myself till i get a better copy that has the Arc names

## Arc 1 - Death and Rebirth

In the year 2216 Qin Chen was living a good life with his lover Shangguan Xier and best friend Feng Shaoyu. What he didn't know was that they both were actually lover's with each other and planned to betray him by killing him to steal his treasures. He was fatally wounded by Shangguan Xier and decided to commit suicide by jumping off a cliff to his death so they wouldn't get his treasures. He was reborn approximately 300 years later in the year 2501 and his treasures followed him on his rebirth . He was reborn into the body of Qin Chen of the Qin family who had been fatally injured by one of his classmates. He retained all of the original memories of Qin Chen. When he awoke his mother Qin YueChi was at his bedside. His aunt, Zhao Feng, had promised Zhao Qiirui that he could sleep with Qin YueChi. Qin Chen threatened the servant girl who came to get his mother and when the guards came to forcefully take his mother away he killed them. When Zhao Feng and Zhao Qiirui showed up to see what the holdup was, Qin Chen threatened to kill both of them for trying to force his mother to do this just for a healing pill. Qin Yuanhong showed up and diffused the situation. Qin Chen then left and he realized the body he inherited was trash and he need to rebuild his Qi Pond , open all 12 gates and then awaken his bloodline. Qin Chen went to artifact temple to get the divine needles created. While there he ran in Qin Fin and Zhao Ling Shan , Qin Fin was there to have a sword made and Zhao Ling Shan wanted to become an apprentice of Master Liang. Qin Chen followed the three and after Master Liang accepted Zhao Ling Shan as a disciple and agreed to make the sword Qin Fin approached him and revealed the that Master Liang was poisoned and would die soon. Qin Fin got upset and thought that Qin Chen was offending Master Liang and apologized and tried to take Qin Chen away. Master Liang got mad and started to attack Qin Chen, but was unable to do so due the poison stopping him from using Qi. Master Liang told Qin Fen and Zhao Ling Shan to leave and when they left Qin Chen explained what his illness was and if he didn't want to work with Qin Chen and get the cure he would die in about a week. Master Liang agreed and using the material Qin Fin gave him he made the needles for Qin Chen. After finishing Qin Chen gave him the cure and as Qin Chen was leaving the refining room Qin Fin accosted him , but Master Liang kicked Qin Fin out of the Artifact Temple and told Zhao Ling Shao not to associate with him any further. She said she would have nothing to do with the Qin's, but Master Liang told her she could befriend Qin Chen.

Qin Chen proceeded to the school training ground to use the cultivation tower , but was stopped by Wei Zhen and his cronies. They were going to attack Qin Chen but Lin Tian and Zhang Ying stepped in to protect him. Both of them were losing when Qin Chen stepped up and defeated all the henchmen of Wei Zhen. Wei Zhen then attacked Qin Chen using his bloodline strength, but Qin Chen proceeded to crack his eggs(No pun intended). After, Qin Chen went to the training room and was successful in rebuilding his Qi Pool and opening all 12 gates. Then next thing on Qin Chen's agenda is to awaken his bloodline. He gets some silver from his mother and goes to the market to buy herbs that will assist in awakening his bloodline. He returns home and takes the herbs and brews a type of liquid medicine to help awaken his bloodline. Qin YueChi questions him about it and he explains it to her and where it comes from , but she has suspicions about how he knows about this medicine that she knows nothing about. After drinking the medicine he gets 500 silver from his mother and heads to the bloodline shrine. When he arrives at the Bloodline Shrine he is assisted by Lin Xinrou and he lies to her and tells her he doesn't need a Bloodline Master to help him he just wants to examine a machine. She charges him 500 Silver for one hour and as she is taking him to a awakening room he notices there is a new awakening machine and asks if he can use that one to which she agrees. It takes him multiple times to finally awaken his bloodline which turns out to be the rare lightening bloodline and it causes such a massive lightening storm that some people believe that a Martial God is passing through the area. After the hour passes Lin Xinrou appeared to let him know the hour was up and did he want to buy more time. Qin Chen decided since he was done there was no need and as they were leaving they were accosted by Deacon Liu Tong for using the new awakening tool. Lin Xinrou tried to explain that she didn't know that no one was suppose to use it , but Liu Tong slapped her and she fell to the ground. Qin Chen came and helped her and told her not to worry. When Dongfang Qing showed up and saw that the machine was running at the highest he asked who was it who activated it. Qin Chen stepped forward stated he did and explained everything. Dongfang Qing asked Qin Chen to show him how to turn the machine off and on. Qin Chen showed him how and Dongfang Qing thanked Qin Chen and walked him out of the Bloodline Shrine and gave him the Golden Token to the Bloodline shrine so he would be able to come back at anytime. Qin Chen inquired if Lin Xinrou would be punished and Dongfang Qing said "no". After Qin Chen left Dongfang Qing fired Liu Tong for trying to accuse Qin Chen for being a spy and gave Lin Xinrou a raise and told her to take a few days off with pay. Dongfang Qing then told Li Wenyu to investigate Qin Chen's background. After investigating, Li Wenyu told Dongfang Qing about Qin Chen's background. Both of them came to the conclusion that there must be a Bloodline Shrine master behind Qin Chen.

Now that Qin Chen has awakened his bloodline is is ready to the School Tournament

## Arc 2 - School Tournament and Becoming an Alchemist

The Star Academy Year End Tournament has started and it is being attended by Xiao Zhan and the school president Chu Weichen All the students must pass two tests to compete. The first test is to show that they can awaken their bloodline and if not and they are 16 they will be expelled from the school. The second test to to shoot an arrow into a stone target and make it stick. Qin Chen does not go to down to participate as his bloodline is already awakened. Qin Fin calls his out questioning why isn't he trying to awaken his bloodline and Qin Chen tells him the test is only for those students who haven't awakened their bloodlines and since he has already awakened his bloodline there is no need to take the test. Ge Hong , a teacher and one of the judges, also calls out Qin Chen as they don't believe him. Chu Weichen asks Qin Chen if he has anything from the bloodline shrine to prove this but Qin Chen doesn't have this document as he awakened his bloodline himself. Che Weichen allows him to take the test to prove his bloodline is awakened and not kick him out of the school. Qin Fin is confidant that Qin Chen will fail as Ge Hong has taken a bribe from Qin Yong to fail Qin Chen. Qin Chen makes a bet with Qin Fin that if he passes Qin Fin will have to get on his knees, bark like a dog and say I am a idiot. If Qin Chen loses he will be at Qin Fin beck and call. Qin Fin agrees to the bet as he knows that Ge Hong is going to fail Qin Chen. When Qin Chen get the awakening stone he realizes it is a dead crystal and that Ge Hong has taken a bribe from the Qin family. This doesn't stop Qin Chen as he overcomes the dead crystal and shows that his bloodline is awakened and destroys the crystal in the process. Since Qin Fin lost the bet he gets on his knees and barks like a dog while saying I am an idiot. The next test to shooting the arrow into the stone target, Lin Tian and Zhang Ying are not confidant about passing this test, but Qin Chen shows them how to input their Qi into the arrowhead to hit the target and make it stick. When its Qin Chen's turn he casually shoot the arrow and it sticks in the target , which greatly impresses Xiao Zhan and Chu Weichen.

With the first two tests completed the tournament begins with group fights. Qin Chen is in a group separate from Lin Tian and Zhang Ying. They are in the group with Qin Fin and Qin Chen warns them to be careful of Qin Fin, but they don't take his warning seriously. Qin Fin is cruel to them and beats them mercilessly. Qin Chen see this and it makes him so mad that he releases his bloodline and the lightning defeats all of his opponents in his group. After all the group fighting is done comes the one on one fights. Zhao Feng has Qin Yong get Ge Hong to fix the matches so Qin Fin will face Qin Chen. Everyone is shocked and can't believe that Qin Fin and Qin Chen will fight each other, but Qin Chen tells Ge Hong he is digging his own grave with what he is doing. Qin Chen tell Qin Fin he is making a mistake to come into the ring and face him after what he did to Lin Tian and Zhang Ying and that Qin Fin will pay. Qin Fin attacks Qin Chen with all his power which Qin Chen blocks easily and then taunts Qin Fin by asking him if he had breakfast. Qin Fin can't believe that Qin Chen could block his attacks and decided to use thirteen crashing waves fist a attacked created by Qin Batian to defeat armies. Qin Chen easily avoids the attack so Qin Fin releases his bloodline and comes at Qin Chen again but Qin Chen repels him easily. Qin Fin tries one more time to attack Qin Chen, but this time Qin Chen goes on the offensive and attacks Qin Fin telling him this is payback to attacking his brothers. With Qin Fin defeated Qin Chen tells him that you are the real trash and are nothing without the Qin Family. Qin Chen then starts to leave the arena but Qin Fin attempts to steal an attack and attack Qin Chen while he is not looking. Qin Chen was expecting this and avoided the attack and uses Heartbreaking Fist to destroy Qin Fin's Qi Pool making him a useless person. Qin Chen tells him he knew he would attack him and used this as a reason to destroy his Qi Pool and that he ended up like that due to his own decision. Zhao Feng and Qin Yong rush to Qin Fin side and give him a healing pill, but Qin Fin tells them that his Qi Pool has been destroyed and he has become a useless person. In her rage Zhao Feng tell Qin Yong to kill Qin Chen. As Qin Yong goes to attack Qin Chen, Master Liang gets there first and blocks his attack and then Chu Weichen arrives and defends Qin Chen in attacking Qin Fin as Qin Fin attempted to attack Qin Chen after he had lost. After everything is settled Chu Weichen apologizes to Qin Chen but Qin Chen says that he still has a problem with Ge Hong and explains that Ge Hong has taken a bribe from the Qin family. Ge Hong denies this and Chu Weichen tells Qin Chen that making a false claim can get him expelled. Qin Chen tell him to look at the name tokens and he will see that what he says is the truth. Chu Weichen takes Qin Chen and Qin Fin's tokens out and see they are both marked and has Ge Hong arrested on the spot. He then tells everyone that if he finds anyone else cheating he will deal with them himself.

After this fight the final eight participants have been decided. They are Li Qingfeng vs. Ye Guang, Zhao Ling Shan vs. Gan Hao, Qin Chen vs. Wei Chen and Rou Qingyuan vs. Wang Qiming. In the Quarter Finals Li Qingfeng easily defeated Ye Guang, Zhao Lingshan only needed 3 moves to defeated Gan Hao, Qin Chen didn't have to fight as Wei Chen forfeited since Qin Chen had already beat him up when he had capture Lin Tian and Zhang Qing and Rou Qingyuan asked Wang Qiming to cede as she wished to make the final four but he showed her no mercy and defeated her using sword intent. In the Semi Final round it was Qin Chen vs/ Zhao Lingshan and Li Qingfeng vs. Wang Qiming. First up was Qin Chen vs. Zhao Lingshan. To show respect to Zhao Lingshan Qin Chen uses a sword to everyone's surprise. Zhao Lingshan tell Qin Chen even though she is a disciple of Master Liang she will not show mercy to Qin Chen. She attacked with all her full sword intent, but Qin Chen easily defends against it and also destroys her attack at its weakest point. She is surprised by this and decides to use her bloodline power to attack him next. Zhao Lingshan attacks Qin Chen with her Ice Bloodline, thinking she has the upper-hand in the battle she goes all out. Qin Chen easily defeats her with sword intent and sword force. After she asks if he use all his power to which he stated "does it matter". She is a graceful loser and congratulates him on his win. The final fight of the Semi-Finals was Wang Qiming vs. Li Qingfeng with Wang Qiming pushing Li Qingfeng into a corner and forcing Li Qingfeng to merge with his bloodline to defeat him. Once he merged he used his Falling Star attack to win. Li Qingfeng tells Qin Chen before the fight begins that he is surprised that Qin Chen made it to the finals but he should just surrender as he is not Li Qingfeng's opponent. Qin Chen tells his the winner has yet to be decided so there is no point in talking let fight. The fight starts out with Qin Chen fighting Li Qingfeng with Li Qingfeng's style: Boxing. Qin Chen is evenly matched and holds his own against Li Qingfeng and also seems to be getting the upper hand. Li Qingfeng becomes enraged that Qin Chen can hold his own against him when he has been training boxing his life. Li Qingfeng decides to merge with his bloodline to defeat Qin Chen and tells Qin Chen you might have awoken your bloodline but you can't merge with it and defeat me. Li Qingfeng attacks with Nine Heavenly Dragon Roar which causes Qin YueChi to get worried for Qin Chen, but Qin Chen just scoffs and breaks Li Qingfeng's attack and tells him I can merge with my bloodline also. Qin Chen merges with his bloodline and attacks Li Qingfeng sending him plummeting to the ground in defeat. With this Qin Chen was the winner of the annual Star Academy Year End Tournament. All 8 Quarter Finalists were given prize's and when Qin Chen was given his by Chu Weichen he asked if he could have silver and storage ring instead. Chu Weichen agreed and gave him a hundred thousand silver and a storage ring. Then Xiao Zhan came onto the stage and informed that the top four participants will join the Five Countries Tournament and be allowed to enter the blood pool and that they will leave in one months time.

After the awards were handed out, Prince Kang offered Qin Chen and his mother a mansion to stay in since they had left the Qin Mansion, Qin Yuechi declined his offer, but he left it open in case she changed her mind. Prince Kang also asked Qin Chen to look after her daughter, Zhao Ling Shan, to which she became very embarrassed. Qin Chen and his mother returned to their home and Qin Yuechi started to question if Qin Chen was still her son. She brought up a time when he almost drowned, but Qin Chen corrected her about the story and explained by really happened correcting the story she told. He explained that after he woke up things that were hard for him to learn previously became easy to understand. This quelled her concern that he might not be her son and they both retired for the night. At Qin Mansion Zhao Feng sent Qin Yong along with assassins from the Shadow Killing Tower to kill both Qin Chen and Qin Yuechi. Qin Chen is cultivating is his room and make a break through and senses that there are people in the mansion compound. He moves out to attack by hiding her aura and starts to kill the assassins. There are a total of seven assassins plus Qin Yong. Qin Chen kill them one by one till there are only three left including Qin Yong by disguising himself as an assassin. The assassin went into Qin Chen's room and when they discover he is not there they go to Qin Yuechi's room to kill her. Qin Chen must stop them before they kill his mother so he shows up but they realizes hes not one of them and Qin Chen takes out the last two assassins leaving only Qin Yong. Qin Yong take a blood pill to increase his power in order to quickly defeat Qin Chen but it is not enough. At this time Commander Zuo Li shows up with the city guard to assist Qin Chen. Qin Chen helps him in attacking Qin Yong by pointing out Qin Yong's weak points. Qin Yong realizes he is losing and needs to escape, but Qin Chen blocks his escape and kills him with a combined bloodline attack. Qin Chen takes Qin Yong's body. Qin Chen then told Zuo Li that he can heal his illness and will take care of it later. After Qin Chen took the head of Qin Yong and and hung it from the lintel outside of Zhao Feng's room . Rouge first found the head and tries to warn them, but Zhao Feng and Qin Fin went outside and saw the hanging head. Qin Chen was hiding in the shadows and told himself "Hmph, Zhao Feng, this is a small gift for you, you wait, today's affairs, will not just let it go." Zhao Feng wanted to immediately send more people to kill Qin Chen but Qin Yuanhong stopped her saying there must be someone powerful protecting him. So they decide to let Qin Feng take care of him since he is coming back to the capital.

After the assassination attempt the Qin family announces that Qin Yong acted in his own without there knowledge, but Qin Yuanzhi goes to Qin Yuanhong and tells him he can't believe that Qin Yuanhong and Zhao Feng tried to kill their sister and if something happens to them he will not let it go and will notify their father Qin Batian. Qin Yuanzhi then sends a letter to their father explaining what has been happening. In the Manhua it is Qin Yuechi who sends the letter.

The Next day Lin Tian and Zhang Ying show up at Qin Chen's house and inquire about the assassination attempt and is it OK to leave the house. Qin Chen tells them it is safe as no one will attack in the city during daylight. Qin Chen decides to he needs to find a good weapon and head to Jubaolou with Tian and Ying in tow. Once they arrive the steward who greets them looks down on then as he thinks they have no money and he is wasting his time with them. Qin Chen tells him he is looking for a sword so the steward takes him to look at the swords. Qin Chen looks at numerous swords but to him they are all garbage. This causes Xu Guanshi the manager to come out and inquire what is going on and the steward says that Qin Chin is causing problems. Xu Guanshi says he/she doesn't care who it is he/she will not tolerate it and orders the guards to throw them out. One of the people looking on recognizes Qin Chen and starts talking to his friend about him. Xi Guanshi overhears their conversation and realizes it will be a mistake to throw Qin Chen out. Qin Chen then proceeds to purchase 38,000 silver worth of herbs and when they hear about the artifact auction Lian Tian and Zhang Ying want to see it as they have never seen it before. Qin Chen explains the process to them and they watch as people pay for the artifacts without knowing what they will get.Ge Zhou chooses an artifact that turns out to be ancient jade and whatLian Peng purchases is an ancient vase. Yang Yan, the artifact appraiser, values the jade at 30,000 silver and the vase at 80,000 claiming bases on his experience that are worth that much. Both, Lian Peng and Ge Zhou have a crush on Yan Ruyu and give her the artifacts. Lin Tian makes the offhand comment that the vase looks like a toilet to him and as they are leaving Qin Chen agrees with him. Everyone can't be believe Qin Chen made that statement and Yang Yan orders Qin Chen to stop and that he will not be allowed to leave unless he proves his statement. Qin Chen then proceeds to fix the array on the vase and tosses it to Lian Peng and tells him it fixed. Lian Peng still states that the vase can hold anything to which Qin Chen tells him to activate the array. Once the array is activate Qin Chen throws some cups of tea at it and the vase absorbs the tea. Lin Tian still thinks it can absorb anything so Qin Chen tells him to reverse the array and once he does he is sprayed with urine. He got upset and tried t attack Qin Chen and was easily defeated and Li Qingfeng comments that Qin Chen has gotten stronger again. After this Qin Chen says the all the stuff at the auction are junk and proceeds to check each item and reveals what each of them are. Yang Yan tells Qin Chen he will sue him for making such statements and picks up the artifact that Qin Chen said was a broken bowl and throws it to the ground and when it breaks it is revealed to be a broken bowl just like Qin Chen said. Qin Chen keeps stating what everything is till he get to the last item and the book inside of him reacts the items and he sees it is an ancient rusty sword that is for sale for 20,000 silver. Qin Chen buys it from Xu Guanshi but Yang Yan tries to stop the sale as he thinks it is a real treasure since Qin Chen wants to but it. To resolve this Qin Chen "accidentally" breaks open then rocky shell to reveal a rusty sword with this Yang Yan drops his pursuit of the item. As Qin Chen and company are about to leave Jubaolou , Leng Mo shows up to confront Qin Chen for calling his swords garbage. Qin Chen proceeds to explain his reasoning behind why each sword is garbage, but Leng Mo challenges him and Qin Chen takes out the rusty sword to fight with him. Qin Chen fights against Leng Mo and each sword Leng Mo uses is destroyed by Qin Chen. After Qin Chen leaves Leng Mo finds out that he is the Qin Chen who helped Master Liang advance his refining skills and realizes he has made a mistake and tries to chase after him to apologizes and seek his advice. It is already too late and Qin Chen in gone.

After leaving Jubaolou Qin Chen decides to take Lin Tian and Zhang Ying to the Bloodline Shrine in order to test their bloodlines. When they arrive there is a crowd of young and old people trying to get their bloodline awoken. It i s explained that they have all heard about Qin Chen awakening his bloodline late and then winning the Star Academy Year End Tournament and they want to try and have their bloodlines awoken again. Lin Xinrou is the one who is dealing with all the people and she is being very strict, Lin Tain notices this and makes a comment to Qin Chen and he tells them a month ago she was very docile. Qin Chen starts to head to the awaken machines when he is stopped by a guard, as Qin Chen starts to take out the Bloodline Shrine Gold token , Lin Xinrou arrives and pushes the guard out of the way. Qin Chen tells her he wants to use the same Bloodline Room as before and she agrees to take him there while Lin and Zhang make a comment that Qin Chen has found them a sister-in-law to which Lin Xinrou is very happy. In the Room Qin Chen strengthens their bloodline and gives them each a cultivation technique that goes with their bloodlines. After finishing Qin Chen bids them farewell and decides he needs to make money to take care of his mother and heads to the Pill Pavilion.

When Qin Chen arrives at at the Pill Pavilion Huang Yuling runs into him as she is trying to get to a customer and is upset that he was is her way. She is looking for a husband while working at the Pill Pavilion and thought the person she was trying to get to might be the one. She thinks that Qin Chen might be from a a wealthy family and tries flirting with him as she is showing him different pills. Qin Chen recognized her personality as the same as Zhao Feng and doesn't care for her. He explains to her that he is here to take the Alchemist exam and she takes him t register for the test, not believing that someone so young can pass the test.