Chen Ming

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Chen Ming (陈明)
Alias(es)	“Monster”; Elder Chen; Duke Chen; “Spirit Hall’s Young Master”; Great Master
Species/Race	Human
Gender	Male
Affiliation	Heaven Dou Royal Academy; Martial Soul Hall (Honorary Elder); Holy Soul Territory; Heaven Dou Crown Prince’s Mansion
Occupation/Role	Soul master; inventor; medical practitioner; alchemist; cultivation-method creator; martial-soul researcher; mentor; territorial ruler; Crown Prince’s Study Companion; tournament judge
First Appearance	1

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Innate Soul Power Level 7	9	Registered at Nuoding Junior Soul Master Academy with a sub-dragon martial soul.
Level 10 / Soul Master	16 19	Reached level 10 in seven months; obtained and was certified with a first hundred-year spirit ring after a solo Star Dou Forest hunt.
Level 12	21	Reached at the end of his first academy year through steady cultivation.
Level 15	21	Reached in the eighth month of his second year.
Level 17	21 22	Qualified for enrollment at Heaven Dou Royal Academy at age eight.
Level 18	27	Displayed excellent practical performance among the academy’s new students.
Level 23 / Soul Grand Master	42 50	Reached level 23 after acquiring his second spirit ring; later advanced another level while studying medicine.
Near Level 30	53	Approached his third spirit ring after nearly a year at the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well.
Soul Elder	86	Breaking through this realm raised his computing power to 7.0.
Level 37, nearing Level 38	141	Advanced through cultivation and medicinal assistance after obtaining his third spirit ring; subsequently absorbed Ah Yin’s hundred-thousand-year Blue Silver Emperor soul bone.
Level 40	141 151	Reached the threshold for his fourth spirit ring after absorbing Ah Yin’s soul bone.
Level 43 / Soul Ancestor	154	Reached level 43 after absorbing his fourth spirit ring; expected to stabilize at level 44 shortly afterward.
Level 50 / Soul King	161	Reached level 50 following Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well body tempering and the evolution of both martial souls.
Hundred-Thousand-Year Dragon Spear Spirit Ring and Spirit Bone	181	Absorbed the powers of the Water Dragon and Dragon Turtle, forming a hundred-thousand-year spirit ring and spirit bone for the Dragon Spear martial soul.
Fifth Spirit Ring / Soul King breakthrough	184	The Sacred Illusion Demon Ape’s sacrifice granted a hundred-thousand-year fifth ring and head soul bone. Absorption released soul power previously held behind the level-50 bottleneck.
Spirit Abyss Realm spiritual power	216	His spiritual power underwent a qualitative breakthrough, improving his perception and computational control.
Partial Spirit Domain Realm capabilities	264	With the enhancement of Withering Imprint, his spiritual power reached this realm in some respects, allowing clearer perception and manipulation of ambient energies.
Six primary spirit rings / Borrowed Dragon Spear Avatar	265	Transferred his six primary martial-soul rings to the Dragon Spear, temporarily giving it seven rings and enabling a special Avatar-like transformation without acquiring seven native spear rings.
Spirit Saint-level soul power / Innate spatial and temporal attributes	308	Whole-beast absorption and medicinal refinement raised his soul power to the Spirit Saint standard. A hundred-thousand-year ring converted his acquired space and time attributes into innate, growth-capable attributes; physical strength rose by roughly 30% and potential lifespan approximately doubled.
Third native Dragon Spear ring / Three hundred-thousand-year rings	310	Absorbed a God-bestowed Spirit Ring into the Dragon Spear, gaining Dragon Devour and Dragon Spear Array and further awakening the martial soul.

Background / History

Chen Ming grew up as an orphan in Holy Soul Village, supported by Old Jack and possessing memories and knowledge from a previous life. Before awakening, he improved his physique through sensible exercise, gathering food, cultivating fungi, raising hens, and supplementing his diet with wild rabbits and river fish. His AI Thinking was already present, though its use was restricted by his limited mental strength and bodily energy. 1 2 6 76

During his martial soul awakening, he manifested the Heavy Armored Earth Dragon, gaining earth-yellow scales, dragon claws, a tail, horns, and armor-like bodily protection. His awakened soul power increased his already exceptional computational capacity, allowing him to think in parallel and begin constructing a self-created cultivation method through analysis of meridians and soul-power circulation. 2 3 6

At Nuoding Junior Soul Master Academy, Chen Ming became a work-study student alongside Tang San. He defeated Wang Sheng without strategy through raw defensive strength, refused the position of dormitory boss, and instead declared that he would protect students from bullying. After defeating Xiao Chenyu with a single Heart-Striking Elbow, he named Xiao Wu as the academy boss while becoming the protector of the work-study students. 10 16

He rejected offers from the academy principal and Yu Xiaogang to help him obtain a soul ring, choosing instead to hunt independently in the Star Dou Forest. He returned with his first hundred-year ring, then declined Ma Xiunuo’s invitation to join the Nuoding City branch of Martial Soul Hall because it did not suit his long-term plans. 16 19

During his first ring absorption, Chen Ming used AI Thinking to constrain the emerging skill toward an enhancement type. Afterward, he concealed his use of a grenade by claiming that he had killed an injured Dragon-Headed Lizard with a falling rock. His refusal of local Martial Soul Hall recruitment was not a rejection of the organization itself: he intended to attract its central leadership through specialized knowledge rather than advance through an ordinary branch career. 18 19

Chen Ming later entered Heaven Dou Royal Academy, where its mineral-vein cultivation environment increased his cultivation speed. He rapidly became known for his perfect recall, analysis, combat ability, and inventions. His Bed Crossbow and Hand Crossbow earned him a viscountcy, extensive territory, and later wider political influence within the Heaven Dou Empire. 23 24 26 27

After traveling with Dugu Bo to the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well, Chen Ming studied medicine, poison arts, body refinement, alchemy, and martial soul theory. He treated Dugu Bo’s poison-related condition through a staged plan, became his sworn younger brother, and developed medicines and cultivation methods with Dugu Bo, Ye Renxin, and Chrysanthemum Douluo. 33 43 45 55 56 57

His publication of the Douluo Mental Method brought him to Martial Soul Hall’s attention. Qian Daoliu publicly recognized and protected him, eventually granting him the standing of an Honorary Elder. Chen Ming subsequently became a sought-after authority among Martial Soul Hall, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan. 61 62 86 95 96 97

During his extended stay in Martial Soul Hall, Golden Crocodile Douluo formally accepted Chen Ming as a disciple and opened the Hall’s vast scripture repository to him. Chen Ming examined ancient cultivation records, Tang Chen’s Clear Sky Hammer Analysis, and Body Martial Soul research, using them to investigate bloodline power, the superposition of essence, energy, and spirit, and genuine multithreaded thought. He also publicly presented the Douluo Mental Method to prominent spirit masters as Martial Soul Hall’s young master. 69 70 71 76

Bibi Dong subsequently attempted to attribute a connection between Chen Ming’s achievements and Yu Xiaogang. Chen Ming firmly rejected the claim and argued with her until Golden Crocodile Douluo and Qian Daoliu intervened. The confrontation contributed to the elders’ decision to restrict Bibi Dong’s power. As Chen Ming’s reputation spread, Emperor Xue Ye granted him a dukedom and one-third of Fasinuo Province; the Star Luo Emperor also offered noble honors and added neighboring territory to his duchy while attempting to recruit him. 88 89

After returning to the Heaven Dou Empire, Chen Ming began consolidating Holy Soul Territory, recruiting subordinate families, developing Holy Soul Village’s industries, and arranging construction plans for Holy Soul City. He later accepted Niu Dali as a trainee and gave cultivation guidance to Ning Rongrong, Yu Tianheng, and Yu Tianxin. 119 130 143

Following the absorption of Ah Yin’s soul bone and his fourth spirit ring, Chen Ming returned to the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well for an extreme body-tempering process. By consuming the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot and enduring the spring’s Dragon King energies, he reforged his body and martial soul, awakened a spiritual third eye, acquired the Dragon Spear as a true second martial soul, and advanced to level 50. 157 158 159 161

The subsequent sacrifices of the Dragon Turtle and Sacred Illusion Demon Ape furnished Chen Ming with hundred-thousand-year rings and soul bones. He also continued his research into acquired martial-soul evolution, forging an Eight Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda that Ning Rongrong began fusing with her Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda. 181 184 218

Chen Ming later expanded Holy Soul City into an industrial center. He established steelmaking and manufacturing facilities, developed soul tools and heavy weapons, and used both rewards and harsh punishment to enforce his policies. His factories’ products spread across the two empires, while his newspapers broadened public awareness of the changes in his territory. 234 248 249 250

Further cultivation brought Chen Ming to Spirit Saint-level soul power. Through whole-beast absorption and medicinal refinement, he obtained innate spatial and temporal attributes, refined his body toward an innate state, and greatly extended his potential lifespan. He then absorbed a God-bestowed ring into the Dragon Spear, bringing its native configuration to three hundred-thousand-year rings. Following twenty days of seclusion, he joined Qian Daoliu and Golden Crocodile Douluo in negotiating an alliance with Yu Yuanzhen, who offered access to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan’s ancestral inheritance. 308 310

After Tang Hao attempted to kill him, Chen Ming beat Tang Hao to death. Discovering that Tang Hao had not come to recover Ah Yin, he questioned her about the encounter and then mobilized his extensive political and sect connections against the Clear Sky Sect. He sent letters to major sect leaders and the Star Luo Emperor, while the Heaven Dou court treated the attack as a challenge to its own authority. 324 325 326

In the months preceding the All-Continent Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament, Chen Ming advised students from several academies and expanded his research into beneficial martial-soul mutations, Ring Fusion, Body Martial Souls, and fusion skills. He performed repeated modifications on Su Yuntao and implanted an artificial cultivation system into Huyan Li. Rather than compete for Heaven Dou Royal Academy, he appeared in the tournament’s judges’ seating alongside Xue Qinghe, Prince Xue Xing, and Ning Fengzhi. 333 338 343 344 345 351

Appearance

Chen Ming is notably tall and physically developed for his age, standing about 1.6 meters at eight years old. Training, diet, medicinal refinement, and dragon-bloodline evolution give him a streamlined, muscular build and a composed, resolute bearing. 23 36

• In his initial Martial Soul Possession, he becomes a half-dragon warrior clad in earth-yellow scale armor. 2 9
• His transformed hands become dragon claws; he grows a heavy tail and young dragon horns. 2
• After later evolution, his armor becomes less bulky while his actual defense improves. 37
• His advanced possession manifests golden scales, enlarged dragon limbs, sharp horns, and a dark-purple right eye alongside a bright gold or flame-like left eye. 104
• In the Dragon Spear state, his beast traits recede and he wields a two-meter dark-golden dragon-patterned staff. 101
• Following the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well reforging, a third-eye-like mark appears between his brows and can open when he invokes his temporal power. 158 209
• His formerly ornamental wings became functional after his martial-soul evolution, allowing high-speed flight and the release of ice-and-fire power. 161
• By his later medicinal refinement, his human body is roughly two meters tall. His outward appearance changes little during that refinement, but his gaze becomes markedly deeper and gives observers the impression that their souls could be drawn into his eyes. 308

Personality

Chen Ming is analytical, self-reliant, and intensely goal-oriented. He approaches cultivation, medicine, invention, and politics as systems to be studied, improved, and used strategically. He routinely refuses arrangements that would limit his independence, including Yu Xiaogang’s offer of guidance and an early invitation from Martial Soul Hall. 19 21

Despite his pragmatism, he values promises and responsibility. He considers betrayal and broken commitments especially intolerable, and he remains committed to fully curing Dugu Bo rather than settling for superficial treatment. 43 36

He also has a reformist streak: his desire to publish affordable medicine and cultivation methods stems from having witnessed the hardship of commoners and work-study students. At the same time, he openly recognizes that fame, information networks, and political leverage can further his larger ambitions. 55 56

Chen Ming is willing to make morally difficult calculations in pursuit of strength and long-term security, but he rejects exploiting Xiao Wu, Da Ming, and Er Ming for immediate gains. He instead seeks methods that improve his own power without sacrificing those close to him. 164

His confidence in his own analysis can make him impatient with inefficiency and conventional thinking. When assisting Qian Renxue with urgent administrative matters, he directly took over troop deployment and task assignments to accelerate the operation. 168

As a territorial ruler, he combines opportunities, generous rewards, and specialized cultivation support with coercion and threats of severe punishment against those who obstruct or steal from his enterprises. 248 249

Despite his reliance on calculation, Chen Ming recognizes that AI Thinking cannot produce reliable answers from unknown information. He understands that complete confidence in a model can become dangerous when real events fall outside its assumptions. His cultivation planning likewise favors comprehensive development and a sound foundation over the fastest possible increase in soul-power level. 1 99

His later research displays an increasingly experimental attitude toward human modification. He treats invasive procedures as practical work and data collection, regards the Elephant Armor Sect’s physically promising members as suitable test subjects, and recognizes the possibility of using implanted techniques to produce engineered soldiers. 344

As a mentor, he can be blunt without dismissing unconventional talent. He tells Feng Xiaotian that his terminology and fundamentals are deficient, but also recognizes the long-term value of his work and its potential to ease advancement toward Titled Douluo. 333

Chen Ming places considerable importance on cultivating allies. He views being unrivaled not solely as possessing unmatched personal strength, but also as making enough friends that few enemies remain. After Tang Hao’s attack, he puts this accumulated network to use rather than relying only on direct combat. 325

Abilities & Skills

AI Dragon Emperor Martial Soul

Chen Ming’s martial soul initially evolved from the Heavy Armored Earth Dragon into the Sacred Earth Dragon, combining Earth Dragon and Mountain Dragon bloodlines. Following his Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well reforging, it made another qualitative leap into the AI Dragon Emperor, also referred to by Chen Ming as the Seven Luminaries Dragon Emperor. 52 161

• Provides immense natural defense and powerful linear burst speed. 15
• Its Mountain Dragon component gives Chen Ming a stable foundation for accepting further dragon-king powers. 52
• Later incorporated metallic qualities from the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum and golden essence blood from a Single-Horn Tyrant Dragon horn. 59 153
• Its superior dragon bloodline can suppress inferior sub-dragon spirit beasts. 153
• The reforged martial soul possesses earth, mountain, water, fire, light, darkness, and a trace of time; Chen Ming has gathered seven of the Nine Great Dragon Kings’ attributes and four of their powers. 158 179
• It possesses the dual ultimate attributes of Ultimate Fire and Ultimate Water, which Chen Ming can absorb to strengthen himself. 161
• Chen Ming’s physical body became so resilient that Spirit Masters below Spirit Emperor rank would struggle to breach his defenses even without soul power; with Martial Soul Possession, a Spirit Saint normally requires a Martial Soul Avatar to do so. 159
• With multiple hundred-thousand-year spirit-beast sacrifices and soul bones, his later physique surpassed that of some ordinary Titled Douluo and was estimated to approach that of a level-94 beast-martial-soul or level-96 tool-martial-soul spirit master. 231
• Poseidon’s examination later identifies Ultimate Metal and Ultimate Earth alongside Ultimate Water and Ultimate Fire, as well as four hundred-thousand-year soul bones, twin martial souls, and three hundred-thousand-year rings at that time. 243
• Subsequent medicinal refinement increases his physical strength by roughly 30% and restores his flesh toward an innate state. Chen Ming judges that his unaided body can match most hundred-thousand-year spirit beasts in strength, although his human size and mass remain disadvantages against enormous beasts and his flesh has not yet reached god rank. 308
• The same refinement approximately doubles his potential lifespan; he estimates that even without further advancement, living for three or four thousand years would be possible. 308

Dragon Spear Martial Soul

Chen Ming developed a temporary Dragon Spear from the Single-Horn Tyrant Dragon horn, then transformed it into a genuine acquired second martial soul through the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well’s Dragon King power. 150 159

• The spear carries water, fire, earth, gold, light, and darkness attributes, with water and fire as its strongest aspects. 161
• It is closer in form and handling to a staff, complementing Chen Ming’s physical Golden Dragon-like body with a Silver Dragon-like elemental weapon. 161
• It is highly adaptable to different elements and amplifies Chen Ming’s spiritual power. 161
• After absorbing the Water Dragon and Dragon Turtle’s power, it gained a hundred-thousand-year spirit ring with four powerful spirit skills and showed signs of containing a sleeping Dragon Soul. 181
• Chen Ming believes that, with a suitable method, he may be able to summon the Dragon Turtle’s soul from the spear to assist in battle. 181
• It can draw on ambient elemental energy for area attacks and element-enhanced strikes. Chen Ming emphasizes elemental development because his dragon martial soul already supplies his physical-combat foundation. 161
• Its later God-bestowed ring brings it to three native hundred-thousand-year rings and grants direct offensive abilities through Dragon Devour and Dragon Spear Array. 310

Computational Ability and Memory

Awakening his martial soul dramatically increased Chen Ming’s computational upper limit. He can enter a high-speed mental state, process several trains of thought at once, and use soul power to sustain his body during prolonged calculations. 6

• Possesses photographic memory and can accurately recall books after a single reading. 24
• Memorized 150,000 characters of medical and poison texts in an hour. 33
• Uses calculation models based on human structure and movement to predict opponents’ actions. 107
• His computing power rose from roughly 3 after his first ring to 7.0 after reaching the Soul Elder realm. 18 86
• His AI Thinking divides his thoughts into multiple concurrent lines of rational analysis, allowing simulations from differing conditions and perspectives. 6
• Following his reforging, his spiritual power reached approximately 60 units—about 120 times that of an ordinary person—and entered the late Spirit Sea Realm, nearing the Spirit Abyss Realm. 161
• By opening his third eye, he can use a limited temporal perception ability that makes external events appear slower and aids his prediction of opponents’ actions. 209
• After later sacrifices and soul-bone absorption, his computational capacity reached 50 units. His subsequent Spirit Abyss Realm breakthrough made his spiritual power purer and tougher and let him vaguely perceive particles of elemental energy. 214 216
• Continuous use of his innate high-speed thinking also tempers his spiritual power, a benefit of the ability that others cannot learn as a cultivation technique. 259
• His ability predates martial-soul awakening and draws on his own knowledge rather than an independent source of information. Complex calculations consume mental strength and bodily energy, and processing assigned to essential bodily functions cannot safely be diverted. 1 7
• He splits off an AI Dragon Soul sub-program to coordinate martial-soul origin and energy flow, allowing weapon-like transformations to be maintained through separately allocated processing. 41 101
• Later medicinal refinement gives his spiritual power a broad affinity for different energies, improving perception and control without a comparably dramatic quantitative increase. He approaches the ability to project his soul as a yin spirit, but exercises caution because of the dangerous divine power of the Angel God statue above him. 308

Cultivation Methods

Chen Ming independently developed the Basic Internal Skill, then refined it into the publicly released Douluo Mental Method through research with Dugu Bo, Ye Renxin, and Chrysanthemum Douluo. 6 56 57

• The Basic Internal Skill is neutral, balanced, non-attribute-conflicting, and adaptable to different martial souls. 7
• The Douluo Mental Method was created after studying the martial souls of Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ye Renxin. 57
• He can design targeted cultivation methods by analyzing a martial soul’s traits and soul-power circulation. 56
• He uses the method as a means to gather knowledge and study martial souls across the continent. 56
• Through Martial Soul Hall’s records, he analyzed Tang Chen’s method of combining essence, energy, spirit, bloodline power, and soul power. 70 71
• He dismantled and improved the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s Seven Apertures Exquisite Heart, expanding its pseudo-multitasking into a seven-layer method capable of genuine multithreaded thought. 69
• He later devised a secret technique capable of concealing his spirit rings and improving the application of his spirit skills. 164
• His improved meditation methods increased cultivation efficiency for the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan. Later methods tailored to the Thousand Jun Ant and Great Strength Savage Bull families reached an efficiency of 1.6, compared with the Douluo Mental Method’s 1.4. 204 249
• He distributed the self-created Iron Hand Technique and Little Perplexing Track Steps for continent-wide publication. The former strengthens the hands and arms through training and medicine; the latter is a movement technique adapted for broader use. 204 219
• The Iron Hand Technique’s advanced stage produces jade-like hands capable of resisting blades and poison. Little Perplexing Track Steps is especially useful to spirit masters below Soul King rank. 219
• By his later academy mentorship, the Douluo Mental Method has become compulsory study for academies and sect forces across the continent. 217
• He developed an Iron Arm Technique for Huyan Li to strengthen his arms and their defenses, and taught him Great Power Stone-Splitting Palm, directing him toward a strength-and-defense specialization. 338

Medical Arts and Alchemy

Chen Ming rapidly mastered most of Dugu Bo’s medical and poison knowledge, later receiving guidance from Ye Renxin and collaborating with Chrysanthemum Douluo. 33 45

• Designed a five-stage treatment plan that stabilized and improved Dugu Bo’s condition. 33 45
• Formulates pills, powders, ointments, nutrient solutions, and specialized medicinal treatments. 36 55 140
• Created Large and Small Soul Ascension Pills, the Three Treasures Dragon Transformation Pill, and the Dragon-Tiger Great Restoration Pill. 97 99
• Developed a low-cost medicinal powder intended for low-level spirit scholars and spirit masters. 54 55
• Uses alchemy, medicinal baths, external tempering, and custom body-conditioning methods to improve physical aptitude and reduce the burden of spirit-ring absorption. 36 150
• Plans cultivation around higher-realm pills, impurity removal, and broad development of abilities rather than indiscriminate reliance on medicines for rapid level advancement. 99
• Gives Shui Bing’er a prescription centered on millennium whale rubber after receiving Ice Phoenix Blood from her. 338

Beast Soul Tool-ification

Chen Ming can convert portions of his dragon scales and martial soul into physical weapons or equipment, then return them to energy. 37

• Creates the Dragon Scale Shield, a large dragon-patterned shield with extreme durability and rebound force. 106
• Can form weapons from his martial soul; after consuming the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum, these constructs gained a golden quality. 59
• The ability is limited by spirit-power consumption and by the portion of his body it can cover. 85
• His evolving transformation ability can shift his beast martial soul into weapon-like states, including a Dragon Head Hammer and staff-like Dragon Spear form. 41 102
• His first attempt to condense a shield after obtaining his first ring failed because of unfamiliarity and insufficient soul power; subsequent Earth Dragon Golden Melon refinement helped him develop the transformation successfully. 18 37
• Before acquiring his true second martial soul, his staff state relied on the AI Dragon Soul to force his beast martial soul into a tool-like energy arrangement. This was not equivalent to possessing a native tool martial soul and carried substantial maintenance costs. 101

Spirit Skills

• Fertile Earth Bestowal — First spirit skill. Raises defense and earth affinity by 50%; later also gains a 50% metal-attribute boost. 105
• Dragon Transformation — Second spirit skill. Partially dragonizes his body, raises all attributes by 30%, and strengthens his other skills. 42
• Energy Devouring Shield — Absorbs and sustains damage instead of shattering immediately, greatly strengthening Chen Ming’s defense. Its use consumes significant spirit power and burdens his body. 85 106
• Yin-Yang Eye Technique — Fourth-ring ocular ability that expands his field of view and visual range; he can ignite objects with his gaze at high soul-power and mental-energy cost. 154
• Dragon Dance — Fourth spirit skill. A specific dance and soul-power rhythm increase attack power and speed by 50% per stack, for up to six stacks; each stack increases soul-power consumption and physical strain. 154
• Hundred-Thousand-Year Dragon Spear Skills — The Water Dragon and Dragon Turtle-derived hundred-thousand-year ring grants the Dragon Spear four powerful spirit skills. One is later identified as Dragon Vein; the complete set has not been fully disclosed in the available accounts. 181 266
• Withering Imprint — Imprints and tracks an enemy with spiritual power while continuously consuming their soul power, bloodline power, and spiritual power. Its enhancement lets Chen Ming manipulate ambient energies with a degree of control approaching the Spirit Domain Realm. 264
• Dragon Vein — The Dragon Spear’s first ring’s first skill. Raises attributes by 30%, with the enhancement increasing by one percentage point for every cultivation level. 266
• Spatial Awakening — Hundred-thousand-year ring skill. Increases spiritual power by 50% and the spatial attribute by 100%; the ring also establishes his spatial attribute as innate and capable of growing with him. 308
• Temporal Awakening — Paired with Spatial Awakening. Increases spiritual power by 50% and the temporal attribute by 100%; the ring likewise converts his temporal attribute into an innate, growth-capable quality. 308
• Dragon Devour — Skill of the Dragon Spear’s God-bestowed third ring. Provides energy and physical penetration and allows the spear to absorb energy. 310
• Dragon Spear Array — Paired God-bestowed-ring skill that creates a field of powerful spear projections, expanding Chen Ming’s direct offensive options. 310

Soul Bone Skills

• Blue Silver Emperor Flight — A gravity-based flight ability derived from Ah Yin’s hundred-thousand-year Blue Silver Emperor soul bone. 141 150
• Blue Silver Emperor Recovery — A regenerative ability capable of neurological repair, bone regrowth, and rapid organ regeneration, with considerable future developmental potential. 141 150
• Sky-Shrouding Water Curtain — Manipulates water to create harmful whirlpools, protective water barriers, and rapid underwater movement. 181
• Void Escape — Allows instant movement within fifteen meters or the exchange of Chen Ming’s position with an opponent. It can be used three times daily, has low soul-power consumption, and improves in range with Chen Ming’s strength. 181
• Roar — First skill of the Mountain Range Giant Dragon left-arm soul bone. Copies and stores the next eligible spirit skill released so it can be used again. Domain skills and Martial Soul Avatar are excluded, but enhancement skills are eligible. 266

Defensive Techniques

• Pseudo-Indestructible Diamond Body — A wind-up defensive state that doubles Chen Ming’s defense and grants near-immunity to abnormal status effects, but cannot be maintained for long. 58
• Invincible Golden Body — At its highest described output, can withstand one or two attacks from a Title Douluo, but only briefly. 106
• His ordinary defense is comparable to elite Defense System Soul Kings; through secret techniques, deeper Dragon Transformation, or burning his origin, it can briefly approach Spirit Saint level. 106

Soul Tool Crafting and Engineering

Chen Ming applies spiritual perception, multithreaded calculation, metal-attribute control, and soul power to the refinement and construction of soul tools. His Spirit Abyss Realm perception allowed him to refine rare metals to Thousand-Forged quality and produce a storage bracelet with both visible and encrypted hidden space. 216

• Forged an Eight Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda around Ning Rongrong’s essence, blood, and soul power, using gemstones, minerals, and his analysis of her original martial soul. Her fusion produced an additional phantom tier, beginning the process of raising its limit. 204 218
• Built a high-temperature steelmaking furnace and developed a soul-power electromagnetic projectile launcher with an effective range of roughly two kilometers. He estimated that its thirty-gram projectile could threaten a Spirit Saint’s Martial Soul Avatar within 1,500 meters and seriously injure a Titled Douluo. 234
• Combined metallurgy, soul-tool technology, and explosives in a 600mm cannon intended to threaten Titled Douluo-level opponents. He favors kinetic projectiles over pure energy weapons because soul power and spirit-beast bodies resist energy attacks. 250
• His underground furnace reaches approximately 2,400–2,500°C and produces nearly ten tons of steel per batch. His fire resistance and soul-power circulation allow him to operate within the furnace despite extreme heat and lack of oxygen. 234
• Adapts technology to the Douluo World’s unusual laws and resource limitations rather than reproducing his previous world’s industry unchanged. He develops high-quality coke from charcoal and considers combining electromagnetic propulsion with soul-power force fields to improve projectile performance. 234
• Successfully refines nitroglycerin after several dangerous explosions and develops specialized alloys with the Mountain Range Giant Dragon’s metallurgical assistance. 250

Twin Martial Soul Coordination and True Body Armor

Chen Ming can summon both martial souls simultaneously and transfer spirit rings between them, allowing the Dragon Spear to borrow skills from his dragon martial soul. His initial assessment excludes sharing Martial Soul Avatar in the ordinary manner, but he recognizes the enormous flexibility afforded by cross-martial-soul ring use. He also stores Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well energy in the spear for later use. 160

• Simultaneous use strengthens his attributes and combines physical and elemental capabilities. 160 161
• He initially regards a self-martial-soul fusion skill as a future possibility rather than a completed technique. 160
• With stronger spiritual power and additional dragon rings, he later finds a way to transfer six primary rings to the Dragon Spear, temporarily giving it seven. This triggers a special transformation in which his dragonized body contracts and power from the spear covers it anew, associated with True Body Armor. 265

Independent Martial Arts and Combat Theory

After his later body refinement, Chen Ming considers creating an entirely new martial arts cultivation system independent of soul power and spirit rings. His concern is that his earlier internal methods remain supplements to the existing soul-power system, whose underlying risks he has not fully understood. He proposes using spiritual control over the body and bloodline power to develop a separate path. 308

• Can perceive and manipulate his bloodline power, condensing or explosively releasing it to produce special effects. 308
• Distinguishes soul-power-based self-created soul skills from blood-and-vitality-based combat arts, as well as techniques that combine soul power with will. 333
• Demonstrates these distinctions to Feng Xiaotian through a soul-powered attack, a devastating physical punch, and a palm imbued with overwhelming pressure that immobilizes Feng despite ending only in a pat on his head. 333
• Recognizes that early understanding of advanced combat principles may slow initial cultivation while reducing later realm-related obstacles. 333

Biological Engineering and Prefabricated Cultivation

Chen Ming’s later work combines surgery, spiritual power, medicinal treatment, and biological engineering to modify martial souls and implant techniques into the body. His research extends beyond teaching cultivation routes to physically constructing systems that carry them out. 343 344

• Performs repeated totem-based modifications on Su Yuntao. After the third procedure, Su Yuntao’s martial soul evolves into the newly named Gale Blood Demon Wolf, possessing blood and wind attributes, innate berserk power, and strong regeneration. Its quality is comparable to Feng Xiaotian’s top-tier Gale Twin-Headed Wolf. 343
• Develops artificial plant-based meridians from modified golden silk, arranged in advance as a prefabricated cultivation system and implanted into a subject. 344
• Implants Golden Bell Shield and Iron Shirt into Huyan Li through a painful operation. Activation is intended to enhance defense, resistance, strength, and attack power at a level roughly comparable to a strong ten-thousand-year spirit skill. 344
• Records the operation’s results and considers applications in mass-producing soldiers with engineered abilities. 344
• Studies Feng Xiaotian’s beneficial mutation, Huo Wu’s special Body Martial Soul and Ring Fusion talent, the Shui sisters’ Martial Soul Fusion Skill, and the searing essence concealed beneath the Ice Phoenix martial soul. 345

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Storage Soul Tool — Pendant given by Qin Ming upon Chen Ming’s arrival at Heaven Dou Royal Academy; contains fifteen cubic meters of storage. 23
• Ruyi Hundred Treasure Pouch — Used to carry herbs and other items. 53 140
• Bed Crossbow and Hand Crossbow — Military inventions presented to Emperor Xue Ye. 26
• Firearms and fragmentation grenades — Manufactured for his first soul-hunting journey, then disposed of to prevent Tang San from learning their construction. 16 19
• Earth Dragon Golden Melon — A precious treasure Chen Ming gradually refined using his origin and spirit power, laying the foundation for his martial-soul evolution and shield formation. He originally envisioned developing it into an external elixir, weapon, and eventually a pellet-like soul core stored within his body. 37
• Great Tyrant Dragon horn fragment — Gift from Qian Jun Douluo and Falling Devil Douluo; contains essence blood for cultivation. 62
• Silver Dragon scale — Gift from Chrysanthemum Douluo. 63
• Lightning Speed Dragon leg bone — Thousand-year spirit bone offered by Yu Yuanzhen as a deposit for Chen Ming’s assistance. 97
• Blue Silver Emperor soul bone — Hundred-thousand-year soul bone from Ah Yin; grants flight and recovery abilities. 141
• Temporary Dragon Spear — Formed using a Single-Horn Tyrant Dragon horn; grants a stable 10% attribute boost and can carry portions of his spirit skills. 150
• Dragon Spear — Chen Ming’s acquired second martial soul, evolved from his spear project through the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well’s Dragon King power. 159 161
• Water Dragon and Dragon Turtle spirit bone — Hundred-thousand-year spirit bone formed alongside the Dragon Spear’s hundred-thousand-year spirit ring. 181
• Sacred Illusion Demon Ape head soul bone — Formed from the ape’s soul core during its sacrifice; substantially strengthens Chen Ming’s spiritual power. 184
• Encrypted storage bracelet — Self-made soul tool with 75 cubic meters of visible storage and a hidden 3,300-cubic-meter compartment accessible through a special soul-power frequency. He also made six smaller bracelets of approximately 20 cubic meters each as gifts. 216
• Soul-power electromagnetic cannon and 600mm cannon — Experimental kinetic weapons combining Chen Ming’s engineering with soul-power or soul-tool mechanisms. 234 250
• Mountain Range Giant Dragon left-arm soul bone — Grants Roar, which copies and stores an eligible spirit skill for repeat use. 266
• God-bestowed Spirit Ring — Absorbed as the Dragon Spear’s third native ring, becoming a hundred-thousand-year ring with Dragon Devour and Dragon Spear Array. 310
• Ice Phoenix Blood — Received from Shui Bing’er during his personalized consultations with academy students. 338

Relationships

• Dugu Bo — Sworn elder brother, patient, collaborator, and protector. Chen Ming treats his poison-related condition and later gifts him a Hell Demon Dragon right-arm bone. 33 43 140
• Xiao Wu — Close friend and sparring partner. Chen Ming supported her position as academy boss and invited her to Holy Soul Village. He later supervises her cultivation, provides resources, and restricts her freedom of movement while keeping her under Dugu Bo’s protection. 15 16 21 157
• Tang San — Fellow work-study student with an increasingly strained relationship, particularly after Chen Ming’s closeness with Xiao Wu and enrollment at Heaven Dou Royal Academy. Chen Ming continues to observe and analyze Tang San’s Tang Sect techniques. 21 200
• Old Jack — Village elder who secured Chen Ming’s work-study quota; Chen Ming treats him with gratitude. Even after gaining status and territory, Chen Ming continues to regard him as family. 6 131
• Qin Ming — Heaven Dou Royal Academy teacher who verified Chen Ming’s enrollment and supported his transition to the academy. 21 23
• Ye Renxin — Medical mentor and Nine Heart Begonia expert who agrees to teach Chen Ming after witnessing his treatment methods. 43 45
• Chrysanthemum Douluo — Medical collaborator and influential ally; offers Chen Ming protection and guidance after receiving a Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum seed. 54 63
• Qian Daoliu — Martial Soul Hall’s Grand Worship and Chen Ming’s protector. He recognizes Chen Ming’s talent, arranges resources for him, and advises caution during spirit-ring hunts. He later confers privately with Chen Ming and Golden Crocodile Douluo before agreeing to an alliance with the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan. 61 68 151 310
• Golden Crocodile Douluo — Chen Ming’s formal master within Martial Soul Hall. He provides enormous resources and access to the Hall’s secret cultivation records and scripture repository. His offer of discipleship also marks Chen Ming’s deliberate choice to align with Martial Soul Hall despite potential conflict with Tang San and the Clear Sky Sect. 69 71 66
• Qian Renfeng — Martial Soul Hall ally and research collaborator whose Angel Fire assists Chen Ming’s pill refinement. He also accompanies Chen Ming during significant later developments. 150 181
• Qian Renxue / Xue Qinghe — Political ally who admires Chen Ming’s achievements and seeks his support for her future ambitions. Chen Ming assists her with major administrative and military deployments when she faces urgent difficulties. Her intense attention during their northeastern expedition makes him uncomfortable; he does not interpret it as uncomplicated romantic love. 118 119 168 167
• Ning Rongrong — Student under Chen Ming’s guidance; develops feelings for him. He gives her four storage bracelets and forges an Eight Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda for her. When she attempts to kiss him, he gently defers romance, saying they should focus on cultivation while young. 148 217 218
• Yu Tianheng and Yu Tianxin — Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan juniors who receive Chen Ming’s cultivation guidance at Heaven Dou Royal Academy. 143
• Niu Dali — A Great Strength Savage Bull Clan genius whom Chen Ming recruits and trains, recognizing his potential despite his unassuming outward impression. Fiercely loyal, Niu Dali later confronts people who disparage Chen Ming at the academy. 143 217
• Yu Yuanzhen — Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan patriarch who recruits Chen Ming and later forms a resource-and-research partnership with him. Following Tang Chen’s return, he secretly meets Chen Ming and the senior worships to seek an alliance against the Clear Sky Sect, offering access to his clan’s ancestral Dragon Clan legacy. Chen Ming notices that his weary appearance conceals greater, more controlled strength. 96 97 310
• Long Na’er — A mysterious Silver Dragon Spear wielder whom Chen Ming suspects is connected to the Silver Dragon King. He chooses to approach her directly and share cultivation ideas in order to secure the initiative in their relationship. After she leaves his cave dwelling wearing his clothes, rumors about the two spread through the academy; neither makes a concerted effort to stop them. 204 205 213 217
• Ah Yin — Chen Ming absorbs her former Blue Silver Emperor soul bone, cultivates her surviving plant form, and later draws on their work with Blue Silver Grass to develop forage for his territory. Their early dealings include a coercive negotiation in which he invokes his Martial Soul Hall status and hints at danger to her husband and son. After killing Tang Hao, he learns that Tang Hao had not attempted to recover her; she responds to his questions in writing while appearing deeply withdrawn. 141 143 186 250 324
• Ning Fengzhi — Leader of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and Chen Ming’s research partner. He commissions medicines, supports Chen Ming’s soul-tool research, and regards Ning Rongrong’s emerging eighth pagoda tier as a possible route past the sect’s cultivation limit. He later emphasizes befriending Chen Ming rather than trying to seize his technology and encourages Rongrong’s interest in him. 93 124 218 219
• Bibi Dong — Pope of Martial Soul Hall who clashes with Chen Ming after attempting to connect his achievements to Yu Xiaogang. He rejects her claim, and Golden Crocodile Douluo and Qian Daoliu intervene in the resulting argument. 88
• Yu Xiaogang — An unwanted would-be instructor whose offer Chen Ming rejects. Disputes concerning Chen Ming’s reputation later lead the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan to promise that Yu Xiaogang will no longer affect it and to issue a public apology through Yu Luomian. 21 128 130
• Emperor Xue Ye — Royal patron who rewards Chen Ming’s inventions with noble status and later a dukedom. The court also supports the marketing of Holy Soul Territory’s tribute goods and reacts angrily to Tang Hao’s attack on Chen Ming. 26 89 249 326
• Tang Hao — Enemy who attempts to kill Chen Ming and is beaten to death by him. The attack prompts Chen Ming to mobilize allies against the Clear Sky Sect. 324 325
• Tang Chen — An important theoretical reference through his cultivation notes and a potential opposing power after his return. Despite his connection to the Clear Sky Sect, Tang Chen personally regards Chen Ming highly and wonders whether he might succeed at the god trial that Tang Chen failed to inherit. 70 303 328
• Flender — Shrek Academy’s dean, who treats Chen Ming with pronounced deference because of his authority, reputation, and connections. Chen Ming originally intended only to observe Shrek and prevent Ning Rongrong from joining it, rather than cultivate a close relationship with the academy. 187 188 199 203
• Feng Xiaotian — An academy talent whom Chen Ming advises on combat arts and self-created soul skills. Chen Ming recognizes the value hidden in his Gale Demon Wolf Thirty-Six Consecutive Slashes and studies his beneficial martial-soul mutation. 333 345
• Shui Bing’er and Shui Yue’er — Academy students whose Martial Soul Fusion Skill and Ice Phoenix-related qualities become research subjects. Chen Ming receives Ice Phoenix Blood from Bing’er, supplies her with a prescription, and privately considers recruiting talented water-attribute spirit masters for a chance to inherit the Sea God’s godhood. 338 345
• Huo Wu and Huo Wushuang — Visiting academy siblings. Chen Ming checks Huo Wu’s intended confrontation with overwhelming killing intent and later researches her special Body Martial Soul and Ring Fusion talent. 338 345
• Huyan Li — Elephant Armor Academy student whom Chen Ming guides toward strength and defense, then subjects to an invasive operation implanting Golden Bell Shield and Iron Shirt through artificial meridians. 338 344
• Su Yuntao — The soul master who awakened Chen Ming’s martial soul. His career benefits from Chen Ming’s rise, and he later volunteers for Chen Ming’s potentially dangerous modification experiments, acquiring the Gale Blood Demon Wolf martial soul. 3 340 343
• Mountain Range Giant Dragon — Metallurgical collaborator whose knowledge of Douluo-world metals helps Chen Ming develop specialized alloys and heavy weapons. Chen Ming also possesses a left-arm soul bone bearing the dragon’s name. 250 266
• Suggestion Flute Soul Elder — Recruited specialist whose martial soul is nearly useless in battle but valuable for controlling livestock reproduction, appetite, growth, and stress. Chen Ming recognizes this overlooked industrial usefulness and gives him well-paid work. 250

Story Role / Major Arcs

Nuoding Academy Arc

Chen Ming awakens his dragon martial soul, develops the prototype of his cultivation method, enters Nuoding Junior Soul Master Academy, and becomes a defender of the work-study students. He earns his first spirit ring through an independent hunt and refuses early institutional recruitment. 6 16 19

Heaven Dou Royal Academy Arc

After rapidly reaching level 17, Chen Ming transfers to Heaven Dou Royal Academy. He builds a reputation through unmatched academic performance, invention, and combat skill, eventually receiving noble status for his crossbow designs. 21 26 27

Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well Arc

Chen Ming trains under extreme conditions, studies poison and medicine under Dugu Bo, refines his body and martial soul, cures Dugu Bo in stages, and develops advanced pills and medical methods. 33 36 45 50

Douluo Mental Method Arc

Working with Dugu Bo, Ye Renxin, and Chrysanthemum Douluo, Chen Ming creates the Douluo Mental Method and plans its public release through Martial Soul Hall to establish his authorship and expand his influence. 55 56 57

Martial Soul Hall Arc

Chen Ming is summoned to Martial Soul Hall for protection, gains recognition from Qian Daoliu and the worships, becomes an Honorary Elder, and defeats Hu Liena, Yan, and Xie Yue in a wheel battle. 61 62 63 104 105 106 107

His acceptance of Golden Crocodile Douluo’s discipleship establishes his alignment with Martial Soul Hall. His confrontation with Bibi Dong over Yu Xiaogang further secures the senior elders’ support while contributing to restrictions on the Pope’s authority. 66 88

Holy Soul Territory Arc

After returning to Heaven Dou, Chen Ming begins consolidating his vast territory, gathering personnel, planning industrial development, and transforming his former home region from Holy Soul Village into Holy Soul City. 115 119 130 140

Academy Mentorship Arc

Chen Ming recruits promising talents and begins personally instructing Ning Rongrong, Yu Tianheng, Yu Tianxin, and Niu Dali. His guidance strengthens the future generation of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, and his own emerging faction. 143 145

Ice and Fire Reforging Arc

Chen Ming consumes the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot before entering the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well. The Dragon King energies reforge his body, awaken his third eye, create the Dragon Spear as a second martial soul, and evolve his dragon martial soul into the AI Dragon Emperor. 157 158 159 161

Dragon King Authority Arc

With his evolved martial souls, Chen Ming gathers Dragon King attributes, develops temporal perception through his third eye, and obtains a hundred-thousand-year Dragon Spear spirit ring and spirit bone from the Water Dragon and Dragon Turtle. He subsequently receives the Sacred Illusion Demon Ape’s sacrifice and its spiritual-attribute head soul bone. 179 181 184 209

His growing spiritual control later enables direct manipulation of ambient energy through Withering Imprint and the borrowed-ring transformation associated with True Body Armor. 264 265

Martial-Soul Forging and Soul Tool Arc

Chen Ming applies his research into external-object fusion to forge an Eight Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda for Ning Rongrong, beginning the evolution of her martial soul. His improved spiritual control also enables him to refine metals and craft unusually capacious storage soul tools. 216 218

Holy Soul City Industrialization Arc

Chen Ming develops furnaces, factories, newspapers, agriculture, and mass-produced goods across his territory. Alongside specialized cultivation rewards for his followers, he creates increasingly powerful kinetic weapons, including an electromagnetic launcher and a 600mm cannon. 234 249 250

He expands livestock farming through Ah Yin-derived Blue Silver Grass forage and recruits specialists whose noncombat martial souls can manage animals. His work with the Mountain Range Giant Dragon and successful nitroglycerin experiments further integrate agriculture, metallurgy, chemistry, and military development into the territory’s industrial system. 250

Innate Refinement and Spirit Saint Advancement Arc

Chen Ming absorbs a hundred-thousand-year spirit beast whole and undergoes extensive medicinal refinement. He gains innate spatial and temporal attributes, Spirit Saint-level soul power, greater physical strength, and a greatly extended lifespan. His growing reservations about spirit rings lead him to consider an independent martial arts system, while a God-bestowed Dragon Spear ring provides new offensive abilities. 308 310

Blue Lightning Alliance and Clear Sky Conflict Arc

Following Tang Chen’s return, Chen Ming joins Qian Daoliu and Golden Crocodile Douluo in accepting Yu Yuanzhen’s proposal for an alliance against the Clear Sky Sect. After killing Tang Hao in response to an assassination attempt, he calls on his extensive network of sects and rulers, turning the conflict into a wider political challenge to the Clear Sky Sect. 310 324 325 326

Prefabricated Cultivation and Human Modification Arc

Chen Ming expands his individualized mentorship into biological modification. He evolves Su Yuntao’s martial soul through repeated procedures and implants artificial plant-based meridians into Huyan Li, demonstrating that cultivation techniques can be physically prefabricated rather than only learned. His research raises the prospect of engineered soldiers and exposes the increasingly invasive nature of his experimentation. 338 343 344

All-Continent Academy Tournament Arc

In preparation for the tournament, Chen Ming advises academy talents and investigates their unusual martial souls, bloodlines, and fusion abilities. Although many expect the continent’s foremost genius to compete, he instead serves as a judge alongside leading Heaven Dou political figures and Ning Fengzhi. He also states that he will contribute some of the tournament prizes. 333 338 344 345 351

Trivia

• Chen Ming’s academy nickname, “Monster,” arose from his exceptional memory, cultivation speed, and combat ability. 27
• He can cultivate, exercise, deduce techniques, and review stored memories simultaneously by entering a deep “AFK” mental state. 52
• He considers knowledge of martial souls essential to his long-term plan and deliberately uses published techniques and collaborations to collect data. 56
• He does not consider himself naturally noble; Qin Ming instead describes his appearance and bearing as what a properly cultivated young spirit master should look like. 23
• Chen Ming’s Basic Internal Skill Version 1.0 initially improved cultivation efficiency by roughly 30% over ordinary meditation, and later refinements added a further 10% improvement. 7
• He named his evolved martial soul both the casual Seven Luminaries Dragon Emperor and the more grandiose AI Dragon Emperor. 161
• His previous-life knowledge includes the original Douluo Continent story, which he uses as a reference when developing cultivation methods and anticipating events, while recognizing that his own actions can alter the timeline. 6 205
• Chen Ming had never experienced a genuine romantic relationship in his previous life, a fact he reflects on while trying to interpret Qian Renxue’s intense interest in him. 167
• He remembers the names and profiles of the Martial Soul Hall personnel who participated in matters concerning him, treating those records as potentially useful data. 104
• By his later public appearances, most people address him as Elder Chen or Great Master rather than by name; only a very small number of elders are entitled to call him “Little Ming.” 332