Sun Moon Empire

Biodata

Power Progression

Background / History

When the Sun Moon Continent collided with the Douluo Continent, the empire reportedly used a Level 9 Fixed Soul Guidance Cannon to kill a light-attribute White Dragon with roughly 180,000 years of cultivation. Its remains became valuable research and manufacturing resources: Jing Hongchen’s Red Dust Protection was reportedly forged from its bones, while bloodline research into its Soul Bone contributed to the Hongchen siblings’ Martial Souls 78.

Huang Jinxu later infiltrated the empire to study Soul Tools. He developed a relationship with Kong Deming that approached formal discipleship, but revealed his identity and fled. One reason was to prevent his misfortune-bearing Martial Soul from continuing to sabotage Kong’s research; Kong’s attempted breakthroughs had repeatedly failed, with one nearly killing him 3.

The empire subsequently issued its highest-level wanted notice for Huang. Nevertheless, its leading engineers retained personal ties with him, and Kong continued hoping to bring him back 12 76 77.

Politics and Military Strength

• Expansion plans: The empire seeks to unite the two continents, with Shrek Academy identified as its greatest obstacle 149.
• Invasion capability: Mu En’s reconnaissance convinced him that the empire’s advanced Soul Tools would make an invasion difficult for the Douluo Three Kingdoms to resist. Xu Jiawei’s intelligence particularly emphasized its powerful Soul Engineer corps 30 89.
• Shrek’s deterrence: The academy’s influence and its role in a war several thousand years earlier remain reasons the empire has not launched a large-scale campaign 89.
• Huang Jinxu’s deterrence: Reports of his strength provoke arguments within the empire over whether to continue its offensive against Star Luo 85.
• Demigod uncertainty: After Xuan Zi’s rise, the empire needs to establish whether he will remain aligned with Shrek before deciding its future plans 149.

Assessments by Other Characters

• Mu En considers a powerful Clear Sky Sect expert a potential deterrent that could slow the empire’s invasion and buy the Three Kingdoms time 30.
• Xu Jiawei fears another Shrek tournament defeat would undermine public confidence and hasten Sun Moon’s plans 89.
• Huang Jinxu judges the empire’s ideology and technology to be centuries ahead of the Douluo Three Kingdoms. He believes they would lose a war without divine intervention, and that Sun Moon could recover even after such an intervention if it survived 129.

Soul Tool Technology

Research and Training

• Kong Deming’s resources: He can mobilize the entire empire to gather materials for his research, though exceptionally scarce components still limit his work 44.
• Life-Bound Soul Tools: Kong’s approach to reverse-refining a Martial Soul produces tools capable of growing with their owners and potentially becoming Divine Artifacts 85.
• Cultivation-first approach: Kong endorses Huang’s argument that Soul Masters should establish their cultivation before specializing in Soul Tool research, allowing faster technical progress afterward 128.
• Delayed benefits: Innovations influenced by Huang take more than a decade after his departure to bear fruit, contributing to the imperial academy’s previous tournament championship 128.

Notable Weapons and Resources

• Level 9 Fixed Soul Guidance Cannon — Reportedly killed the approximately 180,000-year White Dragon during the continental collision 78.
• Red Dust Protection — Jing Hongchen’s Level 9 Soul Tool, reportedly manufactured from that dragon’s bones 78.
• Sun Moon Divine Needle blueprints — Included among the sensitive Level 9 designs Jing trades to Huang 77.
• Sword of Judgment — A Level 8 Soul Tool carried by the academy’s Soul Saint captain in the tournament final; its energy triggers Ma Xiaotao’s residual Evil Fire 149.
• White Dragon Core — An imperial-family resource traded through Jing and Kong for Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow. Jing delivers the core to Huang during the tournament 83 84 129.

Technology Controls and Smuggling

• Non-transfer oath: Before leaving, Huang swears in Kong’s presence not to pass the Level 9 technology he learned to the Douluo Three Kingdoms 77.
• Black-market leakage: Despite restrictions, smuggling supplies advanced Soul Tools to the Three Kingdoms, including Level 9 tools held by Star Luo 77.
• High profits: An Invincible Shield can sell for ten times its purchase price. Jing controls a major share of this cross-border black-market trade 77.
• Sensitive exchanges: Jing’s transfer of core Level 9 blueprints to Huang could be treated as treason by the royal family, a risk recognized by Meng Hongchen 77.

Security and the Huang Jinxu Manhunt

Relationships

• Kong Deming — Imperial Chief Enshrined and leading researcher. He values technological advancement enough to agree to teach Huo Yuhao despite the possibility that the student will not remain loyal to the empire 127 128 129.
• Jing Hongchen — Dean of the imperial academy and head of the Hongchen Family. His dealings with Huang combine personal friendship, confidential trades, intelligence gathering, and competing institutional loyalties 76 77 149.
• Huang Jinxu — Former infiltrator and wanted criminal whose ideas strengthen imperial research. He respects Kong but repeatedly distinguishes visiting the empire from joining it; he credits both Sun Moon and Shrek with helping him become powerful 77 78 128.
• Shrek Academy — Principal institutional rival and obstacle to expansion. Tournament results serve as public tests of whether its longstanding dominance remains credible 89 129 149.
• Star Luo Empire — An opposing state directly exposed to invasion. Xu Jiawei cultivates ties with Shrek and Huang to preserve deterrence 85 89.
• Huo Yuhao — Prospective exchange student. Huang arranges for him to study imperial Soul Tool technology systematically, and Kong agrees to guide him; the exchange has not yet occurred in the supplied context 129 147.
• Ji Juechen — Imperial sword-cultivation genius who accepts Huang as his teacher despite the potential stigma of following a wanted criminal. Huang intends for him to return to Sun Moon later and assist Huo Yuhao 127 128 150.

Soul Master Tournament

• Imperial perspective: Kong considers the previous championship sufficient proof that Shrek’s legend can be broken, placing little importance on the current tournament’s remaining matches 129.
• Long-term stakes: Huang and Kong regard the next tournament, five years later, as the more important struggle over the Douluo Plane’s accumulated fortune 129.