Ji Ming

Biodata

Feature	Details
Name	Ji Ming (忌铭)
Species/Race	Super-Species License Holder
Gender	Male
Affiliation	Predator Family; Orderly Authorities; Jinping Special Affairs Center
Occupation/Role	Director of the Jinping Operations Department; later head of the Jinping Special Affairs Center 52 552
Status	Active 552
First Appearance	Chapter 52

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Fourth State: Perfect Form	117	Reached this state while imprisoned by Ashes; the experience is implied to be connected to his lasting physical condition.
Fifth State: Composite Form	96	Projects a Fifth State energy field during the Jinping contamination cleanup; his Natural Force is wind.
Sixth State: Conceptual Form	482	Survived heavenly tribulation and advanced; his formerly separate, symbiotic energy structures merged into a stronger unified structure.

Appearance

Ji Ming is a sharply featured man with lavish golden hair, a cold, distant expression, and an unnervingly dim right eye. He favors flamboyant red or burgundy suits, often paired with a lion-head eyepatch, creating a conspicuous contrast with his severe official bearing. 52 110 368 482

• Golden or pale-gold hair, maintained in an elaborate curled style. 52 177 482
• A dull, lightless right eye; during his Griffin transformation, his other eye becomes a black socket lit by golden arcs. 52 341
• Wears an eyepatch engraved with a lion’s head. 52 368
• Bears unusual tattoos that conceal older, gruesome scars. 84
• Uses a large long-handled battle axe in combat. 83 424

Personality

Ji Ming is concise, incisive, and habitually unreadable. He maintains emotional distance even during crises, evaluates people through their demonstrated choices, and rarely offers praise without reason. His confidence is grounded in overwhelming strength, careful preparation, and a willingness to shoulder difficult decisions himself. 46 52 311

He is willing to apply pressure or operate at the edges of official procedure when he considers it necessary, including using private punishment and probing subordinates’ loyalty. However, he respects genuine principle: when Ye Xiaojing refused to conduct improper surveillance on Jiang Qian, Ji Ming withdrew the demand and hired her precisely because she would not compromise her convictions. 108 179

Abilities & Skills

Griffin Symbiosis

Ji Ming is an Unconventional Evolutionist whose energy structure is fused with that of his Griffin Beast King. The resulting “double hourglass” structure gives him greatly expanded power capacity but sharply increases his risk of mutation and loss of control. 105 341 512

• His true form combines eagle and lion traits. 341
• The Griffin’s inverted energy structure expands Ji Ming’s power across the Fourth through Sixth States. 512
• His symbiotic structure gives him a major advantage against opponents of the same level. 512
• The fusion requires continual control to avoid mutation. 512

Natural Force: Wind

As a Fifth State elite, Ji Ming commands wind as his Natural Force. He uses it in close combat, battlefield control, and training exercises designed to force opponents to adapt under overwhelming pressure. 424 425

• Combines wind with extraordinary speed, strength, and battle-axe technique. 424
• Explains Fifth State mastery as three stages: control, merging, and symbiosis. 425
• Can suppress or clear an opponent’s deployed combat power before returning to physical form. 425

Mind's Eye

After advancing to the Sixth State, Ji Ming manifests the conceptual power Mind’s Eye. He claims that anyone who appears before him has no secrets, using the ability to repeat Jiang Qian’s unspoken thoughts and pressure him into cooperation. 483

• Functions as an intelligence-gathering and psychological-pressure tool. 483
• Its activation is associated with a brief abnormality in Ji Ming’s energy structure, lasting roughly three seconds. 483
• Its exact limitations remain unknown. 483

Combat Prowess

Ji Ming is renowned for speed, power, and a combat specialty called Adversity Kill. He is capable of overwhelming opponents across large gaps in experience and routinely serves as a high-risk operation’s decisive combatant. 424

• Wields his heavy battle axe with unexpectedly rapid and flexible technique. 424
• Fought the Teng Snake Beast King without gaining a clear advantage, demonstrating the Beast King’s exceptional danger rather than a lack of ability. 340
• Conducted Jiang Qian’s special training with the safety restrictions disabled, leaving both of them injured. 424

Equipment

• Long-handled battle axe — Ji Ming’s primary weapon in direct combat. 83 424
• Lion-head eyepatch — a recurring part of his appearance. 52 368
• Red and burgundy suits — his characteristic formal attire, often worn even during urgent official work. 52 110 482

Background

Before joining the Predator Family, Ji Ming descended from a prominent Jingcheng noble family and received an elite education. He is professionally trained in piano, violin, visual art, and audio-related work rather than merely treating them as hobbies. 84

At some point during his evolution to the Fourth State, Ji Ming was imprisoned by Ashes. The event is connected to his abnormal energy structure and may also be related to his damaged eye. 117 512

His fusion with the Griffin Beast King created the inverted secondary energy structure that defined his Unconventional Evolution. By the time he advanced to the Sixth State, the two structures had fully merged, greatly strengthening his foundation. 482 512

Story Role / Major Arcs

Recruitment of Jiang Qian

Ji Ming arrives at Wanzhong Group as the feared Operations Department Minister and takes notice of Jiang Qian’s unusually calm conduct and potential. He offers Jiang Qian an exceptional promotion and an escort mission, encouraging him to choose his own path rather than remain safely anonymous. 52 53

He later uses Jiang Qian as bait to lure a Morphing Mutant toward Jingcheng, revealing the pragmatic and ruthless side of his operational thinking. 84

Black Alliance Operation

Ji Ming oversees the suppression of mental contamination around Jinping and assigns Jiang Qian to additional border interception work after the latter survives the tunnel collapse. 96

During the battle with the Black Alliance leader, he is poisoned and mentally contaminated. Jiang Qian intervenes to save him, after which Ji Ming divides the recovered Purple-Gold Gourd and Fate-Holding Lamp equally rather than claiming both spoils. 103 104

Ji Ming subsequently reveals that he is also an Unconventional Evolutionist, establishing a deeper understanding between himself and Jiang Qian. 105

Jiang Qian's Advancement and Training

Ji Ming promotes Jiang Qian, appoints him to manage the Biological Experiment Center, and gives him extensive resources for his work and mutation-treatment research. 107 110

He secures Jiang Qian’s Noble Advancement Training Camp invitation and personally explains the Card King, Domain King, and Beast King trials. 289 290

Following Jiang Qian’s advancement to Noble, Ji Ming helps investigate his newly enhanced ability to perceive energy structures, entrusting him with the secret of Ji Ming’s own abnormal body. 346

God Mountain and Special Operations

Ji Ming supports Jiang Qian’s infiltration of God Mountain and later helps receive him after he returns as the crown prince competition’s victor. Despite initially responding to Jiang Qian’s sensitive revelations with crushing pressure, Ji Ming accepts the proof of Jiang Qian’s connection to Treading Snow into Plum Blossoms and supports his advancement. 368 413 414

He later provides Jiang Qian with intensive Fifth State combat training, teaching him the dangers of Natural Force mastery and the influence of fused Identity Cards on one’s mentality. 424 425

Sixth State and Overseas Operations

After passing heavenly tribulation, Ji Ming advances to the Sixth State and reunites with Jiang Qian in Northern Ireland to coordinate intelligence concerning Ashes and Jiang Yang. 477 482

He reveals Mind’s Eye to Jiang Qian and recruits him for intelligence coordination in East Africa, where Ashes’ God Ascension Ritual threatens the entire region. 483 488

Relationships

• Jiang Qian / Hidden Dragon — Former subordinate and exceptional recruit. Ji Ming recognizes Jiang Qian’s potential early, promotes and trains him, and later shares classified intelligence and personal secrets with him; their trust remains complicated by Ji Ming’s Mind’s Eye. 53 105 346 483
• Mo Sheng — Ji Ming’s professional assistant, who manages his schedule, estate arrangements, and communications. She shows visible concern when Ji Ming is injured. 84 105
• Lan Junxian — Fellow disciple through their shared connection to Lan Junxian; they cooperate in Jiang Qian’s advancement ceremony and both serve as important figures in Jiang Qian’s official career. 107 338 343
• Ye Xiaojing — Ji Ming tests her integrity, then hires her after she refuses to violate her principles by spying on Jiang Qian. He later informs her of her reinstatement as Deputy Director. 179 290
• Elder Helian — Ji Ming’s superior within the Jinping Special Affairs Center’s power structure. She reviews his assessments and warns him against leaving other families leverage over his use of private punishment. 108 423
• Eternal Night Double Brightness — A former superior who later places Jiang Qian under Ji Ming’s temporary supervision during the Northern Ireland operation. 477 482