Mingde Hall

Biodata

Organization and Admission

Mingde Hall occupies a position within the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy comparable to Shrek Academy’s Inner Court. It is regarded as a sacred land for soul engineers and houses more than a hundred influential high-tier specialists 17 46.

Entry Requirements

• Hongchen Class connection: Jing Hongchen presents Mingde Hall as the special class’s next short-term goal. Places vacated by students entering the hall are to be filled through further Hongchen Class selection tournaments 39.
• Research community: Students continue working in Mingde Hall beyond ordinary academy age; one student greeting Lin Qing is nearly thirty 111.
• Permanent protection: Four Level 9 Soul Engineers are stationed in the hall year-round, with other leading specialists sometimes present 139.

Notable Personnel

• Jing Hongchen — Hall Master and academy dean. A Level 9 Soul Engineer specializing in destructive long-range weapons and fixed-installation soul cannons, with substantial expertise in other fields 24 40.
• Kong Deming — Senior mentor to Mingde Hall researchers and leader of the Humanoid Soul Tool’s core research. His principal office is the empire’s Offering Hall rather than Mingde Hall 24 42 111.
• Xuan Ziwen — Chief Researcher and instructor. Kong Deming considers his technical ability sufficient for Level 9 work, with soul power cultivation being his remaining limitation 46 111.
• Ye Yulin — Level 9 Soul Engineer, tournament trainer, and Ye Guyi’s teacher. He also protects field tests of mining technology 46 80 112.
• Lin Qing — Kong Deming’s personal disciple, user of Laboratory One, Humanoid Soul Tool pilot, and proposer of the hall’s underground defense improvements 111 124 139.
• Ma Rulong — Mingde Hall disciple and Sun Moon First Team captain; a Six-Ring Soul Emperor and Level 7 Soul Engineer specializing in medium- and long-range combat, manufacture, assault, and control 77.
• Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen — Students studying under their grandfather, Jing Hongchen 111 112.
• Ju Zi and Keke — Xuan Ziwen’s students who advance from the Hongchen Class into Mingde Hall. Ju Zi later announces plans to enlist in the Second Imperial Soul Engineer Corps, with Keke as her deputy 112 117.
• Ye Guyi — Studies under Ye Yulin, who frequently takes her outside because her aerial specialization is poorly suited to prolonged underground research 112 141.

Facilities and Security

Underground Research Complex

• Exterior: An unremarkable gray building at the academy’s center conceals the main underground complex 46.
• Main workspace: More than five thousand soul tool workbenches stand in orderly rows 111.
• Private laboratories: Assigned according to ability rather than ordinary seniority 109.
• Black-level treasury: Contains valuable cultivation resources, including the Nine Netherworld Soul-Nourishing Grass selected by Lin Qing 40.
• Access control: Entry requires identity verification through multiple checkpoints. Xuan Ziwen’s soul tool imprint authorizes his students’ first visit 46.
• Laboratory authentication: A scanning beam checks Lin Qing’s identity before automatically opening Laboratory One’s heavy metal doors 111.

Soul Guidance Laboratory One

• Long-standing occupant: Kong Deming took possession approximately a century before Lin Qing’s apprenticeship, and the laboratory had not changed owners during that period 109.
• Lin Qing’s access: Kong Deming grants him use of the laboratory and promises instruction every other day 111.
• Specialized equipment: Its apparently ordinary workbench is a Level 9 Soul Tool personally made by Kong Deming 111.
• Teaching work: Lin Qing studies advanced theory by reconstructing the Azure Sky Jade Moon’s blueprints and proposing improvements 113.

Defensive Systems

Research and Technology

Humanoid Soul Tool

Mingde Hall’s highest research achievement is a nearly fifteen-meter humanoid construct, developed under Kong Deming’s leadership 42 123 124.

• Purpose: Give soul engineers with limited innate talent the potential combat strength of Titled Douluos, Super Douluos, or even Limit Douluos. Kong Deming explicitly connects the project to escaping the Holy Spirit Cult’s restraints and eventually opposing it 124.
• Construction: A dull-gray rare-metal alloy body, a chest-mounted cockpit, manual control levers, sensing systems, and tens of thousands of soul guidance arrays 123 124.
• Pilot selection: The hall initially seeks an exceptional spiritual-type soul engineer. Jing Hongchen considers Lan Xiu but rejects him; Lin Qing’s arrival provides another candidate 123.
• Ultimate Metal compatibility: Lin Qing’s machine element allows the metal to respond directly to his will, improving control and reducing movement-related energy consumption 124.
• Prototype limitations: The machine remains incomplete and lacks an offensive weapon capable of delivering a decisive blow. Its initial mobility and flight demonstration ends when its energy runs out 124.
• Field deployment: Lin Qing takes it to the Iron Sea for testing and uses it underwater to defeat and capture a Dark Gold Octopus 124 129.

Other Documented Technology

Equipment and Resources

• Sword of Judgment — Jing Hongchen’s Level 8 close-combat creation, combining light and darkness. Prepared as Mingde Hall’s weapon against Shrek, it is entrusted to Lin Qing for the tournament and awarded to him permanently after the championship 81 109.
• Level 5 Invincible Shields — One disposable shield is issued to each of the fourteen Sun Moon competitors. Their golden-crystal cores provide three seconds of protection against Soul Douluo attacks 81.
• Customized tournament equipment — Mingde Hall supplies Mi Jia’s Soul Tool Armor and the Flashbird Brothers’ guns, cannons, and blades. Meng Hongchen instead commissions her armor from Lin Qing 82.
• Starry Sky Core — Purchased by Jing Hongchen on the academy’s behalf for one hundred million Gold Soul Coins. Kong Deming later demands it for Lin Qing, while Jing Hongchen claims to have reserved it as Meng Hongchen’s dowry 90 111.
• Rare-metal reserves — The academy’s storehouses contain extensive supplies mined from the Jingyang Mountain Range and the Iron Sea, sufficient to sustain Lin Qing’s exceptionally expensive cultivation 140.
• Commercial stock — Lin Qing purchases Mingde Hall soul tools for his undead forces, then upgrades them using machine element 122.

Wealth and Trade

• Market reputation: Mingde Hall products are associated with technology and quality, remain in short supply, and attract buyers throughout all four empires 17.
• Smuggling profits: Transporting its soul tools into the Douluo Three Kingdoms can multiply their value several times; a single successful run can earn a million Gold Soul Coins 17.
• Academy funding: High-grade soul tool sales help finance the academy’s generous provisions, including free cafeteria meals allocated by assessment results 22.
• Export restrictions: Level 9 Soul Tools are an imperial red line. Even Mingde Hall does not casually sell them abroad, especially fixed soul guidance shells 114.
• Internal trafficking: Jing Hongchen initially tolerates some illicit sales. After the tournament, he raids smugglers’ homes and demands repayment, disrupting Mingdu’s underground supply channels 89 111 124.
• Disputed losses: Jing Hongchen claims tournament purchases and rewards produced a five-hundred-million-coin net loss. Kong Deming treats his complaint skeptically because of the hall master’s profitable private dealings 111.

History

Tournament Selection and Championship

When Jing Hongchen relaxes the selection rules, Mingde Hall students gain another opportunity to represent the academy. Thirty-six Level 5 Soul Engineers surround Lin Qing during the Second Team selection, combining defensive screens with massed Soul Tool Turret bombardment. His Steel Machinery Domain and Azure Four Absolutes neutralize their equipment; he stops his final strike before impact, and their leader concedes 73 74 75.

The First Team consists of seven Mingde Hall students led by Ma Rulong. Mingde Hall equips both teams for the tournament, supplying protective devices and specialized weapons. Lin Qing ultimately defeats Ma Xiaotao with the Sword of Judgment, and Shrek forfeits the remaining individual match 77 81 82 104.

After the victory, Jing Hongchen awards each competitor a high-grade soul tool. Lin Qing’s championship contribution and apprenticeship under Kong Deming make him an object of admiration within Mingde Hall; Ma Rulong jokingly calls him “Crown Prince Qing” 109 111.

Shrek Exchange Program

Yan Shaozhe visits to restart the student exchange agreement. Inside Laboratory One, Kong Deming demands a hundred-thousand-year soul bone before proceeding with negotiations. The agreement is concluded, with the exchange scheduled to begin two years later 113 114.

The arriving Shrek students receive access to Mingde Hall’s research environment for nearly three years, while Sun Moon students enter Shrek’s Inner Court. Jing Hongchen rejects teacher supervision and appoints Lin Qing to oversee the visitors. Six veteran Mingde Hall researchers are selected as instructors specifically for their strong Sun Moon loyalties and resistance to recruitment by Shrek 134.

Body Sect Invasion

After returning from the Iron Sea, Lin Qing warns that the hall’s underground defenses are inadequate. Jing Hongchen initially trusts its resident Level 9 Soul Engineers, but the resulting defensive renovations prove decisive when Du Busi leads a subterranean assault 139.

The new system injures the attackers before they reach the main research area. Mingde Hall’s soul engineers counterattack, Lin Qing kills Lang Ya and Yu Tao, and Du Busi withdraws after being wounded by a Level 9 ray weapon 139 140.

Approximately one-third of the experiment tables are damaged, but personnel casualties remain light. More than thirty invading Seven-Ring and Eight-Ring Body Sect members are reported killed. Jing Hongchen orders emergency repairs and investigates three suspected Level 8 Soul Engineer moles 140 141.

Blueprint Theft and Investigation

Huo Yuhao and the Tang Sect students exploit the post-invasion confusion to attempt a blueprint theft, having learned to disrupt anti-Spiritual Detection devices with Mental Interference. Their broader plan seeks one thousand Mingde Hall blueprints as a contribution that could restore their standing at Shrek 138 140 141.

By the subsequent investigation, Huo Yuhao and He Caitou are in custody and the heist has failed. Separately, an interrogated Level 8 Soul Engineer admits betraying Mingde Hall after Jing Hongchen cuts off his smuggling income and excludes him from the renovations. The Body Sect had tempted him with the promised position of Heaven Dou Empire Soul Tool Offering Hall Master 142.

Jing Hongchen sends Shrek a letter detailing accusations against Huo Yuhao and demanding compensation for the invasion’s losses 142.