Jiang Ming

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Jiang Ming (姜铭)
Alias(es)	Boundless
Gender	Male
Affiliation	Soul Fighting Arena of Suotuo City; Flame Radiance Academy
Occupation/Role	Soul Master; arena fighter; Flame Radiance Academy tournament participant
First Appearance	1

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Rank 13	16	His soul power level when he first arrived in Suotuo City, three years before adopting the Boundless codename.
First soul ring	13 45	Absorbed the Space-Rending Beast’s actual six-hundred-year ring; his body was repeatedly damaged and restored during the process, strengthening it to near Soul Elder durability. Its first soul skill, Spatial Amplification, increases the power of his spatial abilities by 50%.
Rank 19 — Soul Master	16	Reached rank 19 after three years in Suotuo City; held a Soul Fighting Arena win rate above 60%.
Second soul ring / Rank 22	24	Absorbed the thousand-year Void Mantis ring and gained Spatial Stripping.
Rank 30	30 33	Reached rank 30 after consuming immortal herbs and completing Ice and Fire Body Tempering in the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
Third soul ring / Rank 33	45	Obtained a ten-thousand-year soul ring after a life-or-death battle, advancing directly to rank 33.
Third soul skill	41 72	Gained a skill which, combined with Space Shift, gave him reliable survival capability so long as he retained soul power and was not surrounded. Space Compression is later identified as his third soul skill.
Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone / Rank 39	43	Absorbed the Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone, greatly strengthening his physique and raising his soul power by six ranks to rank 39.
Rank 40 — Pseudo-Soul Ancestor	43	Reached rank 40 after three additional months of cultivation, at age eleven.
Soul Ancestor / Four soul rings	47	At age thirteen, revealed a yellow, purple, black, black ring configuration.
Rank 45 — Soul Ancestor	55 81	Had reached rank 45 by the aftermath of the Nuoding City massacre.
Rank 50 — Pseudo-Soul King	129	Reached rank 50 while retaining his yellow, purple, black, black configuration and preparing to absorb a fifth ring.
Fifth soul ring / Soul King	134 135	Absorbed the fifty-thousand-year Void Walker’s soul ring and became a Soul King. His fifth soul skill is Void Form.
Blue Silver Emperor Bloodline	183	Extracted Tang San’s dormant Blue Silver Emperor bloodline and origin, crippling Tang San’s Blue Silver Emperor martial soul while obtaining the bloodline for himself.

Background / History

Jiang Ming is a transmigrator who understood from an early age that a Space-type Martial Soul’s true path lay in the intrinsic properties of space—shattering, cutting, displacement, confinement, and folding—rather than the defensive route advocated by Yu Xiaogang. He publicly demonstrated spatial cutting without a soul ring or soul skill, humiliating Yu Xiaogang and refusing to follow his theories. 1

Seeking the Blue Silver Emperor’s life force and future physical potential, Jiang Ming infiltrated the area around Holy Soul Village while Tang Hao was occupied protecting Tang San. He ultimately obtained the Blue Silver Emperor’s Seed of Life and later absorbed its Right Leg Bone, making its tremendous vitality a central component of his survival and physical growth. 2 3 13 43 190

Jiang Ming possessed a spatial-type martial soul from the outset, making him unusually conspicuous to spatial soul beasts; he recognized that such creatures could perceive him as a spatial “coordinate,” kin, threat, or prey. 5 11

He killed a Space-Rending Beast after exhausting his soul power and suffering severe injuries, ending the fight by stabbing its eye and destroying its brain. He then risked absorbing its six-hundred-year soul ring, relying on the Blue Silver Emperor’s vitality to survive the backlash and evolve physically. 12 13

After withdrawing from Nuoding Academy, Jiang Ming spent three years at Suotuo City’s Soul Fighting Arena under the codename Boundless. The matches earned him nearly 30,000 Gold Soul Coins and refined his control of spatial rifts to the point that he could sever a leaf’s veins from three zhang away without damaging the leaf itself. 8 16

Xue Qinghe rewarded Jiang Ming for curing her Spring Poison with a high-level meditation technique, a token granting access to the Crown Prince Mansion, and the promise of a thousand-year spatial soul beast. Jiang Ming later absorbed the captive Void Mantis supplied by Xue Qinghe and acquired his second soul ring. 19 20 23 24

After discovering that the three great families of Nuoding City had leveled his family’s ancestral cemetery for a scenic garden, Jiang Ming returned for revenge. He destroyed the pavilion built over the grave site and exterminated the Xiao, Liu, and Ling families, including City Lord Xiao Chen and his allies. 45 47 48 49 50 51 The massacre drew the attention of Martial Soul Hall and led many to label him an Evil Soul Master. 55

Jiang Ming later negotiated directly with Qian Daoliu and Golden Crocodile Douluo. In exchange for killing Clear Sky Sect members in the future, Qian Daoliu promised him spatial soul beasts, including a hundred-thousand-year specimen for the heads of Clear Sky Sect Title Douluo, and granted him access to Martial Soul Hall’s intelligence network. 102 103

He and Dugu Bo secured and killed the fifty-thousand-year Void Walker in the Void-Breaking Mountain Range despite interference from the Four Single-Attribute Clans. After absorbing its soul ring, Jiang Ming became a Soul King and developed the ability to confront multiple Title Douluo without being successfully restrained. 128 129 134 135 153 171 172

Personality

Jiang Ming is calm, calculating, and difficult to intimidate. He treats hostile displays of status or family influence with open contempt, often refusing to negotiate once an opponent has crossed a line. 22 26 50

He is highly pragmatic in combat, favoring positioning, misdirection, and lethal exploitation of an enemy’s weaknesses over direct exchanges. His spatial skills also allow him to remain composed against numerically superior opponents. 12 72 93 171

Jiang Ming is ruthlessly protective of grievances tied to family and ancestral dignity. The desecration of his family cemetery became the basis for his Nuoding City vendetta, and he showed no remorse afterward. 45 50 58

He values self-reliance over the protection of major factions. Though willing to form mutually beneficial arrangements with Xue Qinghe, Dugu Bo, and Qian Daoliu, he rejects dependence on any patron and sees struggle as necessary for growth. 102 103

Jiang Ming is manipulative when it serves his interests. He exploited Tang San’s desperation to extract the latter’s Blue Silver Emperor origin and intentionally publicized the Mysterious Heaven Skill to turn the continent’s major powers against Tang San. 183 195 199

Appearance

Jiang Ming is described as an ordinary-looking youth when confronting Yu Tianheng and Dugu Yan. 26 At age thirteen, he appeared before the Nuoding City Lord with four soul rings. 47

• Uses Soul Tool masks, including human-skin masks, to conceal or alter his appearance when necessary. 24 28
• Spatial abilities are commonly accompanied by silver-gray or silvery-white light. 49 95
• Was eleven years old upon reaching rank 40 and thirteen years old during the Nuoding City massacre. 43 47 58
• By the Soul Master Tournament, he had become a Soul King. 184 193

Abilities & Skills

Space Martial Soul

Jiang Ming’s martial soul is spatial in nature, granting him manipulation over distance, rifts, compression, redirection, confinement, and spatial displacement. It is later referred to as the Void Walker Martial Soul. 1 11 134

• Jiang Ming rejected Yu Xiaogang’s defensive cultivation route, maintaining that the Space type’s greatest potential lies in space itself rather than redundant defensive soul skills. 1
• His spatial nature made him especially noticeable to spatial soul beasts. 11
• His first soul ring granted Spatial Amplification, increasing the power of his spatial abilities by 50%. 45
• His ring configuration was yellow, purple, black, black upon reaching Soul Ancestor level. 47 62
• He can perceive distortions, density, texture, and occupancy in surrounding space, making conventional concealment ineffective against him. 65
• His extensive hunting of spatial soul beasts allowed him to accumulate spatial origin and develop abilities that are exceptionally difficult to defend against. 138

Space Shift

Space Shift is Jiang Ming’s core movement and redirection technique. His martial soul possesses an innate form of short-range displacement, while his later Spatial Shift soul skill greatly improves its practical combat applications. 7 12 72

• Teleports him across space, allowing him to evade attacks that conventional speed cannot avoid. 12 15 73
• Initially had a range of only about half a meter and consumed nearly a third of his soul power with each use. 12
• Can be used without activating a soul skill in its innate form. 71
• Can redirect enemy attacks back onto their source, including Qin Ming’s sixth soul skill and the combined attack of Meng Shu and Chao Tianxiang. 62 117
• Can switch the positions of other targets, allowing him to turn an enemy formation’s attacks against one of its own members. 171
• Can disrupt coordinated formations, including the Golden Sacred Dragon’s Three-in-One Martial Soul Fusion Skill. 93
• Transported Dugu Bo and the critically wounded Void Walker across a vast distance with minimal soul-power consumption. 129

Space Tear

Jiang Ming creates rifts that sever targets or attacks through space itself.

• Demonstrated spatial cutting without a soul ring or soul skill by splitting Yu Xiaogang’s written notes in half from a distance. 1
• Cut Tang San’s Blue Silver Grass by severing the space in which it existed rather than simply cutting the vines. 7 15 16
• Defeated Dai Mubai and injured Xie Yue and Hu Liena by breaking their Demon Charm fusion. 23 60
• Killed Xiao Chenyu and later used an Arc Slash combination to kill a Hell Demon Spider Soul Master. 48 89
• Can be refined to extreme precision, forming a rift thinner than a needle tip. 16
• Split the Blue Silver King’s Blue Silver Overlord Spear and killed the Blue Silver King. 187
• Bypassed Niu Gao’s formidable defenses during the conflict in Star Luo City. 203

Space Compression

Jiang Ming compresses targets or objects with spatial force.

• Massacred City Lord Mansion guards and crushed multiple opponents during the Nuoding City revenge. 48 49 50 51
• Flattened Qin Ming’s arm before killing him. 63
• Restrained and exhausted Zhao Wuji, forcing him to expend soul power and stamina to break free. 72
• Crushed Speed Clan members who tried to shield Tai Tan. 135
• Used spatial pressure to deform and torture Tang Ao after defeating him. 167

Spatial Stripping

His second soul skill dismantles matter or removes a portion of a target’s dimension. 24

• Can remove a marked portion of space, allowing Jiang Ming to strip away effects such as Zhao Wuji’s Target Tracking. 71
• Killed Zhao Wuji by removing a section of space containing his heart. 73
• Bypassed the Nether Vine Soul Master’s Heavenly Net restraint. 89
• Was prepared to strip away Zhao Wuji’s remaining Immovable Wisdom King Golden Light. 72
• Was used to extract Yu Xiaogang’s martial soul origin and cripple him further. 94

Void Form

Void Form is Jiang Ming’s fifth soul skill and one of his most powerful survival abilities. 135 153

• Temporarily shifts Jiang Ming into a spatial gap, making his body intangible and immune to physical and energy attacks. 153
• Lasts for approximately three seconds but requires continuous maintenance of spatial power. 153
• Allowed him to evade Yang Wudi’s Soul-Breaking Spear and Niu Gao’s defenses before counterattacking with the Void Blade. 135
• Allowed him to ignore Yu Yuanzhen’s Thunder Shakes the Nine Heavens. 195

Void Blade

A silvery-white sword formed through Jiang Ming’s spatial power and External Soul Bone. 134 152

• Severed Tai Tan’s left arm. 134
• Killed Tai Tan after the latter’s attempt to drag Jiang Ming down with him. 135
• Ignores conventional defensive barriers, cutting through Niu Gao’s layered shields as though they were paper. 135
• Severed Clear Sky Sect Soul Douluo Tang Ao’s left arm. 163

Blue Silver Emperor Bloodline

Jiang Ming possesses the Blue Silver Emperor’s life force through the Seed of Life, Right Leg Bone, and later Tang San’s extracted bloodline. 13 43 183

• The Seed of Life’s vitality repeatedly repaired his body during the dangerous absorption of his first soul ring. 13
• The Right Leg Bone strengthened his physique sufficiently to support increasingly extreme soul-ring absorption. 43
• He intends to use the bloodline to comprehend the origin of life and eventually combine it with his understanding of space. 184

Other Techniques

• Jiang Ming can mimic the Clear Sky Sect’s Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer technique after observing Tang Hao use it. 187
• He can withstand and counter the attacks of multiple Title Douluo through spatial positioning, rather than attempting to meet their attacks directly. 153 171 172

Equipment / Items

• Dagger — Used to kill the Space-Rending Beast by striking through its eye. 12
• Soul Tool masks — Used to conceal or alter his appearance. 24 28
• Crown Prince Mansion token — Given by Xue Qinghe for access to meet her in Tiandou City. 20
• High-Level Meditation Technique — Given by Xue Qinghe from the imperial collection. 20
• Gold Soul Coin card — Held nearly 30,000 Gold Soul Coins earned through the Soul Fighting Arena. 16
• Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone — Absorbed to improve his physique and soul power. 43
• Martial Soul Hall intelligence token — Given by Qian Daoliu, allowing Jiang Ming to access Martial Soul Hall’s intelligence network in major cities. 103
• Void Blade — A silvery-white sword associated with his External Soul Bone and spatial power. 134 152
• Black Gold Card — A savings card worth up to 100 million Gold Soul Coins, forcibly obtained from Tang Yuehua. 167

Relationships

• Xue Qinghe / Qian Renxue — Benefactor and politically cautious associate; rewarded him for curing her poison, arranged a Void Mantis for his second ring, and later defended the context of his Nuoding City revenge. 20 23 24 59 173
• Jiang Tao — A close associate from Jiang Ming’s ancestral-grave community; Jiang Ming reassures and protects him, while Jiang Tao publicly explains the cause of Jiang Ming’s revenge. 53 58 59
• Yu Xiaogang — Hostile adversary and former teacher. Jiang Ming publicly dismantled his theories, castrated him, repeatedly humiliated him, and later extracted his martial soul origin. 1 15 53 74 94 95
• Tang San — Early opponent and enduring rival. Jiang Ming severed Tang San’s Blue Silver Grass, later defeated him in the Soul Master Tournament, and extracted his Blue Silver Emperor bloodline, leaving Tang San unable to cultivate normally. 7 15 183 193
• Tang Hao — Enemy whose Blue Silver Emperor opportunities Jiang Ming stole. They have clashed directly, and Jiang Ming can replicate Tang Hao’s Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer technique. 79 187 190
• Dugu Bo — Close ally and fellow beneficiary of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. Jiang Ming exploited Dugu Bo’s immortal-herb valley, later saved him from Yang Wudi and Tai Tan, and fought beside him to secure the Void Walker. 30 128 129 134
• Dugu Yan — Former hostage whose relationship with Jiang Ming developed into a cautious association. Jiang Ming later sought her assistance in finding spatial soul beasts, and she became part of Flame Radiance Academy’s tournament team. 26 65 126 183
• Yu Tianheng — Jiang Ming defeated him in three moves and openly challenged his clan to find him in Suotuo City. 26
• Flender and Zhao Wuji — Shrek Academy adversaries. Jiang Ming killed Zhao Wuji with Spatial Stripping and exhausted Flender until he could no longer use soul skills. 72 73 74
• Qin Ming — Pursued Jiang Ming over the Nuoding City killings; Jiang Ming redirected Qin Ming’s attack and later killed him. 59 62 63
• Tai Tan — Strength Clan leader killed by Jiang Ming after losing an arm to the Void Blade. 134 135
• Yang Wudi, Niu Gao, and Bai He — Leaders of the Breaking, Defense, and Speed Clans who became enemies after contesting the Void Walker. Jiang Ming’s spatial abilities left them unable to effectively pursue or contain him. 128 135 138 203
• Qian Daoliu — A mutually respectful negotiator who promised Jiang Ming spatial soul beasts in exchange for Clear Sky Sect heads and granted him a Martial Soul Hall intelligence token. 102 103
• Tang Xiao and the Clear Sky Sect — Major enemies. Jiang Ming attacked the sect’s affiliated members, killed Soul Douluo-level opponents, used Spatial Shift to turn the sect elders’ attacks against one another, and escaped Tang Xiao’s encirclement. 163 171 172
• Ning Fengzhi, Chen Xin, and Gu Rong — Enemies from the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect. Jiang Ming escaped the combined attacks of Sword Douluo and Bone Douluo through Void Form, while the sect later considered using Yu Xiaogang and Bibi Dong to lure him into a trap. 151 152 153
• Bibi Dong — A hostile force who dispatched the Golden Generation to investigate Jiang Ming and later intended to kill him if he entered Spirit City. 55 81 208

Story Role / Major Arcs

Rejection of Yu Xiaogang’s Theory

Jiang Ming rejects Yu Xiaogang’s claim that Space-type Martial Souls should focus on defense. He demonstrates innate spatial cutting before the class, establishes his independent cultivation path, and begins his lasting conflict with Yu Xiaogang. 1

Space-Rending Beast Incident

Jiang Ming survives a desperate battle against a cursed Space-Rending Beast, then absorbs its unexpectedly powerful soul ring and strengthens his physical foundation. 12 13

Boundless of the Soul Fighting Arena

After leaving Nuoding Academy, Jiang Ming builds wealth and combat experience in Suotuo City under the Boundless codename. 16

Crown Prince Agreement and Second Soul Ring

He earns Xue Qinghe’s favor by curing her poison, receives access to advanced resources, and absorbs the thousand-year Void Mantis ring. 20 23 24

Ice and Fire Body Tempering

Jiang Ming enters Dugu Bo’s hidden herb valley, consumes several immortal herbs, and undergoes Ice and Fire Body Tempering to reach rank 30. 30 33

Nuoding City Revenge

He returns to Nuoding after learning of his family cemetery’s destruction, annihilates the responsible families, and becomes the target of Shrek Academy, Martial Soul Hall, and Qin Ming. 45 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 55 59

Conflicts with Shrek Academy and Martial Soul Hall

Jiang Ming overwhelms the Golden Generation, Qin Ming, Zhao Wuji, Flender, and the Golden Iron Triangle through his spatial techniques and superior combat judgment. 60 62 63 72 73 74 93 95

Qian Daoliu’s Agreement

Jiang Ming rejects the idea of relying on a backer but reaches an independent deal with Qian Daoliu: Clear Sky Sect heads in return for increasingly powerful spatial soul beasts and intelligence support. 102 103

Clash with the Four Single-Attribute Clans

Jiang Ming and Dugu Bo secure the fifty-thousand-year Void Walker, after which Jiang Ming absorbs its soul ring, kills Tai Tan, and defeats Yang Wudi and Niu Gao. 128 129 134 135 138

Conflict with the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect

Jiang Ming confronts Bone Douluo and Sword Douluo, displays Void Form, and escapes their coordinated attacks without injury. The sect subsequently recognizes that conventional force cannot reliably contain him. 151 152 153

Clear Sky Sect Campaign

Jiang Ming extorts Tang Yuehua, cripples Tang Ao, kills Clear Sky Sect Soul Douluos, and uses Spatial Shift to turn the sect elders’ combined assault against one of their own. He withdraws before Tang Xiao’s Grand Sumeru Hammer can force a decisive battle. 163 167 171 172

Blue Silver Emperor Bloodline Extraction

Jiang Ming manipulates Tang San into surrendering his dormant Blue Silver Emperor origin, crippling Tang San’s cultivation and taking the bloodline for his own pursuit of life’s origin. 183 184

Soul Master Tournament and Mysterious Heaven Skill Scheme

As a Soul King representing Flame Radiance Academy, Jiang Ming crushes Tang San and exposes the Mysterious Heaven Skill to the continent, deliberately making Tang San a target for the Upper Three Sects and Martial Soul Hall. 193 195 199

Notable Quotes

“Failure? It’s just death.” 11

“You should be grateful.” 52

“Since we are bound to clash sooner or later, I might as well kill him while I’m at it!” 51

“The core of a Space-type Martial Soul has never been defense, but the very properties of space itself.” 1

“I am neither surnamed Qian nor Feng; I won't be brainless enough to clash head-on with others!” 116