Qing Dynasty清朝

The onmyoji sends the player back to 22 May 1850, in the Qing dynasty, on the day of the Divine Path. Sorcery is banned inside the city and the city gate is closed. The Daoguang Emperor has no time for travellers. An onmyoji in the city, an ancestor of the one in Kowloon, warns that the distortion in time lasts only two hours.

Liang Aidan explains that the Emperor himself is to receive the Divine Choice as Xuanwu. Xuanwu is a divine serpent and tortoise, so there must be two. When the Emperor will not accept his fate, his nephew Xuantai has to be chosen with him. Xuantai is locked in the prison, and Liang Aidan gives the player the key.

A wooden Buddha stands in the Tower of Flourishing Qi. Liang Aidan tells how it was once a monk destined to become Qinglong, who turned himself into wood when strong malice nearly possessed him at his own Divine Choice. The feng shui master who called himself Yaodi was executed. The monk is said to come back to life with a taixi doll, and a ghostmaster returns a hermit statue that his apprentice took from the player.

Qing Dynasty is stage 7 of 10. Its lines are in SHINCHOU on disc 2. 26 people speak there.