Qin Ming

Biodata

Power Progression

Background / History

Qin Ming is an outstanding graduate of Shrek Academy who became a teacher at Heaven Dou Royal Academy. When Qian Renxue enrolled Cao Benqi—the disguised Ning Chen—into the academy, Meng Shenji assigned Qin Ming to introduce him to the Heaven Dou Tier students. Qin Ming was surprised by the supposed twelve-year-old Soul Elder’s reputation, but remained composed and professional. 22

Within a month, Qin Ming was formally transferred as an assistant instructor, though Meng Shenji’s backing allowed him to perform a teacher’s duties in practice. His breakthrough to level 51 made him a twenty-five-year-old Soul King, earning the respect of the academy’s gifted students. 24

He belonged to Shrek Academy’s first class. Before the Shrek Seven Devils enrolled, he held the academy’s record for the fastest breakthrough to Rank Thirty. Flender later introduced him to the Seven Devils as their senior following their defeat by Emperor Team. 54

During Emperor Team’s practical training, Qin Ming moved the students from Heaven Dou City to Suotuo City to escape the influence of their powerful backgrounds on arena opponents. His choice also reflected a private wish to revisit Shrek Academy after becoming a Heaven Dou Tier teacher. 46

When Shrek later sought to join Heaven Dou Royal Academy, Qin Ming wholeheartedly served as an intermediary. Dugu Bo’s humiliation of Shrek caused the negotiations to collapse, leaving Qin Ming too ashamed to remain at the royal academy. He resigned and accompanied Shrek toward Blue Tyrant Academy in Heaven Dou City. His departure deeply affected the Emperor Team students he had patiently instructed. 61

Personality

Qin Ming is calm, professional, and observant. He does not pry into Ning Chen’s suspicious background or exaggerated talent; instead, he evaluates what he sees and adapts his instruction accordingly. 22 24

As a mentor, he values practical experience, discipline, and coordination. He recognizes Ning Chen’s tendency toward solitary cultivation as both a strength and a possible obstacle to future team combat, repeatedly encouraging him to train alongside Yu Tianheng’s group. 35

He is direct in his assessments but not demeaning. Qin Ming identifies each student’s flaws after training matches, sets demanding but tailored goals, and gives Ning Chen praise without overlooking the need for continued growth. 38 39

He prioritizes genuine improvement over easy victories or accumulated arena points. When opponents in Heaven Dou City began holding back or forfeiting out of fear of the students’ families, he rejected the resulting wins as meaningless training and sought a more demanding environment. 46

Qin Ming remains strongly attached to his alma mater. His concern for Shrek led him to request restraint before Emperor Team’s match against the Seven Devils, apologize afterward, and ultimately leave Heaven Dou Royal Academy when Shrek was humiliated there. This loyalty coexists with genuine affection for his own students, who were distressed by his departure. 54 61

His attentiveness extends to his students’ emotional and physical well-being. After recognizing that Ye Lingling’s increasingly desperate cultivation was motivated by apparently unrequited affection for Cao Benqi, he advised her to protect her health and strengthened his supervision rather than forbidding her efforts. 60

Abilities & Skills

Soul Master Cultivation

Qin Ming advanced from level 49 to level 51 after acquiring his fifth Soul Ring, becoming a Soul King at age twenty-five. He later reached the Soul Emperor realm. 22 24 38

• His cultivation and status are sufficient to suppress the pride of the Heaven Dou Tier students. 24
• His residual awareness of Ning Chen’s Thousand Peaks Shaking Mountains caused him to recognize the technique’s threat despite his own higher realm. 38
• He became a Soul Emperor at thirty-four, making him the second-youngest Soul Emperor in history. 39
• He used his Soul Emperor pressure to reinforce a reprimand when Dugu Yan dismissed Tang San’s threat because of his Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul. 48

Instruction and Tactical Analysis

Qin Ming combines extensive theoretical knowledge with practical combat experience to train elite academy students. 39

• Recognized Ning Chen’s “catfish-like” effect on the Heaven Dou Tier students and deliberately used him as a sparring opponent to drive their improvement. 24
• Arranged escalating exercises, including Ning Chen’s two-on-one match against Yu Tianheng and Dugu Yan and a later six-on-one match against the Emperor Team. 24 37
• Correctly assessed Ning Chen’s victory over Yu Tianheng and Dugu Yan as the result of using speed to disrupt their coordination and defeat them separately. 24
• Designed a year-long Great Soul Arena program requiring individual, two-person, and team battles, with a goal of reaching Silver Soul rank in all three categories. 39
• Excluded Ning Chen from most team matches because his overwhelming strength would prevent the rest of Emperor Team from developing their coordination. 39
• Paired Ning Chen with Ye Lingling in two-person Soul Ancestor matches, protecting the pure support Soul Master while giving her necessary combat experience. 39 41
• Warned newcomers against entering the more dangerous Gambling District. When Ye Lingling later exhausted her Soul Power, he directed her to meditate and recover; he allowed the unfatigued Ning Chen to continue fighting while reminding him to exercise restraint. 43 45
• Identified the distorting effect of noble, clan, and Title Douluo connections on Heaven Dou’s arena matches and relocated the team to Suotuo City for more serious opposition. 46
• Gathered detailed intelligence on the Mad Battle Team, including its provocations, information-gathering methods, and possible berserk Soul Skill. He kept his students in their lounge after their individual and paired matches to prevent off-field interference. 47
• Recognized the Shrek Seven Devils as dangerous opponents despite their lower overall cultivation, emphasizing Tang San’s threat and refusing to judge him solely by his Martial Soul. 48
• Used Emperor Team’s difficult victory over Shrek to demonstrate that the other students would likely have lost without Ning Chen, preventing them from mistaking the result for proof of their own superiority. 53
• Continued pressing Yu Feng to cultivate after the return to Heaven Dou and monitored Ye Lingling to prevent overtraining. 60

Relationships

• Ning Chen / Cao Benqi — Instructor and student. Qin Ming guides his entry into the Heaven Dou Tier, organizes his sparring, and regards him as the most gifted Soul Master he has encountered. 22 24 38 He accepts Ning Chen’s request to participate against Shrek, but afterward criticizes his excessive brutality. Ning Chen defends his actions by citing Tang San’s killing intent, leaving Qin Ming able only to sigh. 48 53
• Yu Tianheng — Student and Emperor Team member. Qin Ming uses Ning Chen’s presence and their repeated sparring to sharpen Yu Tianheng’s competitiveness and combat ability. 24 37
• Dugu Yan — Student and Emperor Team member. Qin Ming evaluates her poison-based support role during team training. 24 39 He reprimands her for underestimating Tang San. Although her involvement in bringing Dugu Bo into Shrek’s academy negotiations contributes to their failure, she is deeply upset by Qin Ming’s departure. 48 61
• Ye Lingling — Student and Emperor Team’s support specialist. Qin Ming pairs her with Ning Chen because she cannot participate in solo Soul Battles. 39 41 He later recognizes her affection for Cao Benqi as the cause of her desperate cultivation and supervises her more closely to protect her health. 60
• Meng Shenji — Senior supporter at Heaven Dou Royal Academy. Meng Shenji assigned Qin Ming to guide Ning Chen and later backed his effective promotion into a teaching role. 22 24
• Qian Renxue / Xue Qinghe — The crown prince’s faction enrolls Ning Chen at the academy; Qin Ming receives the task of introducing the new student. 22
• Osler / Oslo — Student and Emperor Team substitute. Qin Ming gives him valuable team-combat opportunities by having him replace Ning Chen during most arena team matches. 39
• Flender — Former dean and respected mentor. Qin Ming bows to him as his disciple when they reunite in Suotuo City. Flender praises the students Qin Ming has trained and reassures him after Yu Xiaogang’s cold response to his apology. Qin Ming later leaves Heaven Dou Royal Academy with Flender’s group. 54 61
• Zhao Wuji — Former vice-dean. Qin Ming respectfully greets him alongside Flender after the arena battle and apologizes to Shrek’s injured students. 54
• Yu Xiaogang / Master — Shrek instructor. Yu Xiaogang interrupts Qin Ming’s apology after the Seven Devils’ defeat, coldly declaring that Shrek will not lose again. Qin Ming worries that Master blames him, though Flender reassures him otherwise. 54
• Shrek Seven Devils — Juniors from his alma mater. Qin Ming warns Emperor Team of their strength and asks his students not to strike to kill before the match. After their defeat, he visits them to apologize and is formally introduced as their senior. 48 54
• Dugu Bo — His humiliation of Shrek during its attempted admission to Heaven Dou Royal Academy prompts Qin Ming to resign and leave with Shrek. 61

Story Role / Major Arcs

Cao Benqi’s Enrollment

Qin Ming escorts Cao Benqi through the Heaven Dou Tier training grounds and introduces him to Yu Tianheng, Dugu Yan, the Shi brothers, Yu Feng, Oslo, Ye Lingling, and the other students. He places Cao Benqi in the group preparing for the later Continental Elite Soul Master Tournament due to his age. 23

Academy Sparring

After becoming an instructor, Qin Ming turns Ning Chen into a benchmark for the other students. He arranges a two-on-one match against Yu Tianheng and Dugu Yan, then assesses the battle as a lesson in breaking enemy coordination through superior speed and positioning. 24

Years later, Qin Ming arranges a six-against-one exercise between Ning Chen and the Emperor Team. He stops the match after Ning Chen’s mountain phantom suppresses the entire team and acknowledges the extraordinary power of the self-created soul skill. 37 38

Great Soul Arena Training

Qin Ming leads Emperor Team to Heaven Dou City for a year of practical Soul Arena training. He requires the students to earn Silver Soul Battle Badges through individual, two-person, and team matches before the Continental Elite Soul Master Tournament. 39

He handles the team’s registration and match arrangements at the Heaven Dou Great Soul Arena, including Ning Chen and Ye Lingling’s first two-person match as the Star Sea Team. 40 41

When Star Sea Team returns from an extended series of gambling matches, Qin Ming directs the exhausted Ye Lingling to recover. Ning Chen remains unfatigued and chooses to pursue further solo matches, prompting Qin Ming to remind him to exercise restraint. 45

After nearly half a month, Qin Ming concludes that the team’s status prevents opponents from fighting honestly. He relocates the students to Suotuo City, where they cultivate by day and compete at night for nearly six months. Their paired combinations achieve Silver Soul status, Ning Chen becomes the first member to obtain a Gold Soul badge, and team battles provide much harder lessons in coordination. 46

Before the match against the Mad Battle Team, Qin Ming holds an intelligence briefing and protects the students from the opponents’ off-field provocations. Ning Chen declines to participate, and Qin Ming arranges tactics for the regular lineup. Emperor Team wins and obtains its Silver Soul team badge. 47

Battle Against the Shrek Seven Devils

Qin Ming brings Emperor Team information on the Shrek Seven Devils, whose twenty-seven consecutive victories and rapid attainment of Silver Soul status distinguish them as serious opponents. He reprimands Dugu Yan for dismissing Tang San’s Blue Silver Grass and accepts Ning Chen’s first voluntary request to participate in a team match. 48

Before the battle, Qin Ming asks his students to show mercy and avoid killing their opponents. Emperor Team wins, but its other members are badly injured or depleted, and Ning Chen’s intervention is decisive. Qin Ming emphasizes that they would likely have lost without him, then criticizes Ning Chen for being too heavy-handed. Ning Chen answers that Tang San’s killing intent forced him to stop holding back. 53 54

Qin Ming subsequently visits Flender, Zhao Wuji, and the injured Seven Devils. Flender introduces him as a member of Shrek’s first class and the previous holder of its fastest Rank Thirty breakthrough record. Qin Ming attempts to apologize, but Yu Xiaogang cuts him off with a cold declaration that Shrek will not lose again. Flender reassures the unsettled Qin Ming before sending him back to his students. 54

Return to Heaven Dou and Departure with Shrek

After Emperor Team returns to Heaven Dou, Qin Ming continues enforcing cultivation discipline. He discourages Yu Feng from taking time off and investigates Ye Lingling’s sudden, desperate dedication. Recognizing that her feelings for Cao Benqi are likely unrequited, he advises her to mind her health and increases his supervision. 60

When Shrek Academy arrives seeking admission to Heaven Dou Royal Academy, Qin Ming acts as an enthusiastic intermediary. The negotiations fail after Dugu Bo humiliates Shrek. Ashamed by the treatment of his alma mater, Qin Ming resigns and leaves alongside its staff and students, who head toward Liu Erlong’s Blue Tyrant Academy. The Emperor Team students find his departure difficult to accept, remembering his patient instruction and exceptional teaching ability. 61

Notable Quotes

“Book learning can only take you so far. I've taught you nearly all the theory you need. What you lack is real combat experience.” 39

“There is no need to be modest about your talent. You are the most gifted Soul Master I have seen in all my years.” 38

“We came to the Great Soul Arena to hone our real combat abilities, not to farm points.” 46

“Now you understand how troublesome the Shrek Seven Devils team is, right? If not for Benqi, you would most likely have lost this time.” 53

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