Ying Ming Hao

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Ying Ming Hao (赢明浩) 6
Alias(es)	Yun Shan; also impersonates Zhao Yuan 441 748
Gender	Male 6 784
Identity	The azure-haired Corpse Dog spirit incarnation, governing joy, created by Youjing—the human-soul incarnation of Qin Fu Su 717 718
Age	Twelve during recruitment; turns sixteen after the Falling Moon Secret Realm expedition 12 784
Affiliation	Misty Sect; secretly connected to the Great Qin Dynasty through Qin Fu Su and Empress Zhao 14 291 718
Occupation/Role	Personal Disciple; Breeding Farm operator; patron of Ascension City businesses; clandestine trader and matchmaking broker 291 533 603 606 691
Residence	Ming Hao Palace, Misty Sect 118
Highest Documented Cultivation	Quasi-Saint Realm, third level 823
Status	Alive; previously returned in a rebuilt avatar after his body's destruction 590 592 957
First Appearance	Introduced under the name Ying Ming Hao in Heavenwind City 6

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Nascent Soul Realm, third level	37	Starting cultivation before preparing to defend disciples against stipend robbers.
Nascent Soul Realm, fifth level	37	Advances after taking pills and cultivating for seven days.
Enhanced meridians, aptitude, and inheritances	77	Thunder Prison origin power expands his meridians and acupoints and grants extensive inheritances. His cultivation level does not visibly rise.
Out-of-Body Realm, seventh level	88	Deliberately restrains further advancement to strengthen his foundation; his spiritual power and combat ability exceed normal expectations for his level.
Spirit Division Realm, eighth level	285	Reaches the late realm after four months of secluded cultivation at Ming Hao Palace.
Personal Disciple	291	Clears three Trial Towers; defeats all twelve mirror copies after three hours and earns a perfect 100-point result.
Strengthened Divine Soul	294	Completes the Divine Soul Tower after learning to channel Divine Soul Power effectively against its creatures.
Strengthened physical body	295	Endures three hours of Bone-Scraping Yin Wind without protection from spiritual energy or treasures.
Body Integration Realm, first level	297	Breaks through after seven days of cultivation supported by his palace's Spirit Gathering Array.
Minor-realm breakthrough; level unspecified	423	Advances while cultivating at the Breeding Farm, with his emotionless aura resonating with Ye Hua's Heartless Dao.
Void Insight Realm, first level	566	Reaches the realm on the fifth day of cultivation in the Earth Marrow Cold Spring.
Void Insight Realm, second level	566	Continues directly into the second level before his progress slows.
Void Insight Realm, third level	566	Reaches the third level by the tenth day; his injuries heal and his foundation remains solid.
Tribulation Transcendence Realm	592	Returns in a rebuilt avatar one month after his apparent death. Reconstruction consumes vast quantities of rare treasures; he promptly conceals his cultivation.
Heavenly Immortal Realm; first-place combat ranking	674 675	Holds Martial Platform One in the sect competition. His precise cultivation level is not stated.
True Immortal Realm, first stage	697	Breaks through on the fifth day in the Spirit Marrow Secret Realm.
True Immortal Realm, fourth stage	697	Reaches the fourth stage on the tenth day.
True Immortal Realm, seventh stage	697	Reaches the seventh stage on the fifteenth day.
True Immortal Realm, great perfection	697	Reaches great perfection on the twentieth day.
Mystic Immortal Realm, first stage	697	Breaks through on the twenty-fifth day.
Mystic Immortal Realm, third stage	697	Reaches the third stage on the thirtieth day without destabilizing his cultivation.
Great Luo Realm, peak	823	Has reached the realm's peak before the emergency breakthrough in the Burial World; earlier intervening advances are not specified.
Quasi-Saint Realm, third level	823	Swallows pills and breaks through under threat of encirclement. His progress stops at the highest cultivation level the world then permits.

Background / History

Origin and hidden identity

Ying Ming Hao is initially presented as Young Master Fu Su traveling under a new name with a slightly altered appearance. Later revelations distinguish the azure-haired character from the complete Qin Fu Su: he is Corpse Dog, an incarnation governing joy, born from Youjing, Qin Fu Su's human soul. Youjing is the black-haired Ying Ming Hao concealed in Thunder Prison 6 590 717 718.

This makes the familiar Ying Ming Hao an incarnation of an incarnation, rather than Qin Fu Su's entire self. The other incarnations have independent personalities and experiences, but remain fragments of the same person. Their divided abilities and emotions help explain why Ying Ming Hao's apparent talent does not reflect Qin Fu Su's full potential 718.

Journey to the Misty Sect

Ying Ming Hao travels through Heavenwind City with six maids and six guards. His lavish clothing, constant snacking, and conspicuous spending attract a local gang's attention, but its staged-accident scam ends with his entourage defeating the attackers and Ming Hao joining the beating 6.

During the journey beyond the Great Qin Dynasty, Qing Yun and Qing Ying repeatedly restrain his attempts to intervene in injustices. At Cloudmist Valley, his party occupies a formation-protected hill, and he studies the Wind and Cloud Pavilion's intelligence on prospective Misty Sect disciples 8.

His recruitment encounters introduce him to Shui Furong and numerous factions interested in his potential. A mirror-image test also teaches him to use combat against a copy of himself to find and correct weaknesses. He ultimately enters the Misty Sect as an Inner Disciple without an elder taking him as an apprentice 12 14 916.

Ascension City network and the Sima betrayal

Empress Zhao secretly establishes five local forces ahead of his arrival to provide intelligence and protection. Their managers believe their patron belongs to a secluded lineage, not the Great Qin Dynasty. Handling the Sima Lineage's betrayal is one of the practical tasks she sets for Ming Hao 14.

He rewards Zhao Jun's first-rate operation with 100,000 low-grade spirit stones and a Secret Realm cultivation opportunity. The other three loyal stewards each receive 30,000 spirit stones and a cultivation-method choice. Against the Sima Lineage, he favors action through local forces to avoid attracting the City Lord's Residence's scrutiny 15.

After the Sima Family's defeat, he avoids prematurely exposing his backing during disputes over its mines. Qing Yun subsequently kills the surviving Sima siblings, and Ming Hao thoroughly searches their bodies and surroundings, acquiring major treasures and cultivation manuals 18 20.

Stipend conflicts and Thunder Prison

Ming Hao joins Lin Yong, Lin Hao, and Lin Zihan in resisting disciples who steal monthly stipends. After defeating Xu Shu's team, he leads the siblings against other raiders and shares the proceeds to strengthen his allies 41 42.

A later confrontation with Zhao Yuan's group begins when senior disciples harass Lin Zihan and Lin Qinqin. Ming Hao activates a white jade ring whose overwhelming aura suppresses the opposing party 60.

During the group's fifteen-day lightning punishment, he supplies healing pills and elixirs and redirects lightning into his treasures. Origin power subsequently grants the group bodily improvements and inheritances; Ming Hao receives six high-grade Thunder Spirit Fruits and uses the opportunity to begin refining six external incarnations 68 77.

He later divides enemy forces with a formation in a Life-and-Death Arena battle. Its aftermath brings enormous winnings from his 30-to-1 bet, gifts from former opponents seeking reconciliation, and renewed hatred from the dead fighters' relatives and allies 97 111.

Personal Disciple promotion and apparent death

After four months in seclusion, Ming Hao undertakes the Inner Disciples' Trial Towers. He obtains Personal Disciple status, receives the Supreme Heartless Scripture, and continues using the towers to improve his combat, soul, and physique. He deliberately plans to leave three towers uncleared so he will not become a True Disciple and inherit additional sect obligations 285 291 292 294 295.

His experiences with Ye Hua include shared farm work, sparring, and cultivation in the Earth Marrow Cold Spring. Their coordinated counterattack subsequently overwhelms the bandits pursuing them 420 566 570 574.

When his body is destroyed, fragments of his soul return to the black-haired Ying Ming Hao in Thunder Prison. A month later, he reappears in a rebuilt avatar at the Tribulation Transcendence Realm. He negotiates fifty times his former Breeding Farm pay and additional assistants before resuming work 590 592.

Economic influence and sect hostility

While many companions spend three years exploring Secret Realms, Ming Hao becomes important to the Misty Sect's food supply through the Breeding Farm. His private trading operation also attracts crowds of dependent customers. Their return leads to an emotional reunion and a celebration at Ming Hao Palace 603 604 606.

His influence does not make him secure. Following an Enforcement Hall confrontation, sect leaders publicly warn against provoking him because his summoned Giant God Spirit suggests powerful backing. Privately, Sect Master He and a concealed group plan to lure him outside the sect and kill him 620.

Ming Hao continues investing in Ascension City businesses and discreetly arranging sect training for capable subordinates. He also develops a matchmaking and escort-booking business, turning access to wealthy disciples into substantial spirit-stone income 533 645 691 693.

Heavenly Prodigy tournaments

Ming Hao withstands coordinated attempts to exclude him from the sect competition, secures first place in the Heavenly Immortal combat rankings, and then makes a series of stable breakthroughs in the Spirit Marrow Secret Realm 653 666 674 697.

At the South Sea tournament, he fights large coalitions of prodigies and clears his elimination platform until fewer than ten contestants remain. His later use of Spatial Slash kills a Wu Family opponent instantly and exposes his command of the Dao of Space 724 726 733 763.

After training in the Falling Moon Secret Realm and turning sixteen, he travels toward the Central Region tournament. In the Burial World, he prioritizes survival over ranking, orders emergency breakthroughs, and initially agrees to cooperate with the Central Saint Palace's group against encirclement 784 823.

His party later departs secretly on a dangerous mission, exploits another group's battle to loot a treasure-filled valley, and routs Ye Qingxuan's allies. In a subsequent tournament melee, he accepts a temporary truce with rival fighters and redirects them toward his enemies while leading his companions to reinforce Su Yan and Wang Baishun 842 849 860 882.

Appearance

• Early appearance: Delicate brows, clear eyes, red lips, white teeth, and a jade-like face. At twelve or thirteen, he is fair-skinned and slightly over 1.6 meters tall 23 32.
• Signature feature: Long azure-blue hair, retained by his rebuilt avatar 286 592.
• Clothing: Favors conspicuous dress, including an extravagantly multicolored outfit 286.
• Later build: Nearly two meters tall by his companions' return, with a handsome, polished-jade face and a much more imposing presence 604.
• Cultivation aura: The Supreme Heartless Scripture can give him a cold, aloof, emotionless bearing; he can suppress that outward change 293.

Personality

Ming Hao is food-loving, flamboyant, and irreverent. He constantly snacks during travel, enjoys lavish meals, and cultivates an innocent or approachable manner even while bargaining aggressively or concealing his strength. His appetite is more reliable than his cooking: repeated attempts to prepare meals end disastrously 6 88 286 592.

His apparent recklessness coexists with careful judgment. He checks gifts with Divine Sense, avoids exposing his backing unnecessarily, slows cultivation to protect his foundation, and weighs the obligations attached to promotion. In battle, he identifies dangerous opponents and uses terrain, formations, and deception rather than relying solely on strength 18 88 292 294 653 666.

He is generous toward trusted companions and capable subordinates, frequently sharing pills, spirit stones, equipment, and opportunities. When Qing Yun and the others are offered distinguished masters, he supports their independent development rather than requiring them to remain beside him 15 29 68 111 533.

That generosity does not exclude manipulation or abuse. He blackmails Lu Shen, uses secrets and disguises for personal gain, and pressures Jin Nainai and Liu Quer to declare they would kill Luo Bai for him. After frustrated advances elsewhere, he violently lashes out at Liu Quer before expressing remorse. His relationships therefore include genuine affection alongside coercion, jealousy, and repeated boundary violations 695 697 748 870.

His acquisitiveness also has a practical basis: maintaining spare bodies and reviving incarnations demands enormous resources 717.

Abilities & Skills

Nine Mysteries External Incarnation

The technique divides the three souls and seven spirits into autonomous incarnations that cultivate independently and share knowledge. Qin Fu Su and his father are its only documented masters in nearly a hundred thousand years 717.

• Ming Hao's incarnation network gains experience and opportunities through multiple independent bodies; five are sent into the Secret Realms while he remains in the sect 669.
• Spare bodies allow an escaping soul to survive a clone's destruction and return in a reconstructed avatar 592 717.
• Revival consumes immense resources and can badly injure the principal soul 717.
• Dividing too many souls and spirits separates talents, instincts, and emotions; releasing them all risks confusion, frequent sleep, and vulnerability 718.
• Permanent destruction requires an enemy capable of reaching both the true body and its incarnations through the soul 717.

Supreme Heartless Scripture

Ming Hao obtains this superior Heartless Dao method after attracting hundreds of lesser methods in the Insight Tower and refusing to settle for them 292.

• Uses its first form in the Combat Power Tower and later compares it with Ye Hua's Heartless Dao during sparring 293 574.
• Produces a starkly cold aura and changes his fighting style 293 574.
• He can suppress its outward emotional effects, but the method's potential to sever attachments remains a recognized risk 292 293.

Clear-Mind Art

A soul-cultivation method that safeguards the practitioner's true heart and drives away evil influences 20.

• Begins cultivating it after recovering Sima Niji's treasures 20.
• Considers combining it with the Devouring Great Art to address that art's danger of insanity, but the provided account does not establish that he proceeds with the combination 20.

Body Refinement and Endurance

Ming Hao uses the Ninefold Body Refining Art in combat and repeatedly improves his physique through punishing trials 38 77 295.

• Withstands numerous attacks while adapting to twelve equal-strength mirror opponents 291.
• Endures more than nine hours in the Gravity Trial Tower, stopping before risking serious internal damage 290.
• Survives Bone-Scraping Yin Wind using bodily resilience alone 295.
• Can still accumulate injuries during prolonged coalition attacks, especially when opponents exploit gaps in his armor 726.

Movement, Escape, and Shadow Clones

His Ethereal Movement Technique has reached major mastery by the early stipend battles 38.

• Uses Ethereal Steps to evade encirclement, spells, and close-range attacks 38 666.
• Uses the Multiple Shadow Clone Technique to confuse opponents and reach dangerous ranged attackers 666.
• Uses the Earth-Escape Technique to evade a renewed charge and reposition 666.
• These battlefield shadow clones are distinct from the autonomous soul-and-spirit incarnations described later 666 717.

Ice River World and Elemental Combat

Ming Hao selects Ice River World, an incomplete method whose available portion is graded sixth-grade; its complete grade is unknown 32.

• Creates an Ice River World during a large melee, though concentrated spell attacks damage it 666.
• Uses Ice Spike and ice-based slashes in Divine Soul combat 294.
• Finishes a lava monster with Thunder Slash after adapting to its tentacle attacks 294.
• Also selects the incomplete Tathagata Divine Palm, but its mastery is not established in the supplied account 32.

Divine Soul Power and Spatial Slash

Ming Hao learns to channel Divine Soul Power into a spirit-formed weapon after discovering that ordinary attacks cannot harm the Divine Soul Tower's tree demons 293.

• Improves control through battles against tree demons, snow apes, and a lava monster 293 294.
• Uses Spatial Slash, a nearly invisible Dao of Space attack, to kill a Wu Family prodigy immediately after the match begins 763.
• The spatial attack alarms spectators and competitors because of how difficult it appears to defend against 763.

Tactics, Administration, and Teaching

His cultivation covers a broad assortment of disciplines rather than a single specialty 44 77.

• Separates arena opponents by cultivation level with a formation 97.
• Uses cover and coordinated movement to escape numerically superior forces 653.
• Redirects enemies through negotiation and misleading assessments of other fighters 882.
• Gives practical guidance on business expansion, staffing, territorial disputes, and internal reforms 533.
• Identifies weaknesses in Ye Hua's sword techniques and provides Fatty Zhang with an artifact-forging cultivation method 574 756.
• Uses attendant places and financial resources to arrange discreet sect training for subordinates 645.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Burial Life Blade — Inflicts wounds that drain blood and vitality. After absorbing meteorite liquid, it reaches mid-third grade and develops a fragile artifact spirit. A later recovered fragment raises it to perfected second grade and grants an unspecified powerful skill 570 729 866.
• Cold Iron Club — Used to break through hostile disciples during the sect competition, where clubs make injuries easier to control than edged weapons 653.
• White jade ring — Releases an aura powerful enough to overwhelm Zhao Yuan's group and pin its members down 60.
• Demon-Suppressing Pagoda — A damaged ten-story treasure recovered from Sima Nan Feng; absorbs punishment lightning and is nurtured by that energy 20 68.
• Nine-Turn Divine Lotus — Nourishes the soul, strengthens perception, and improves comprehension. Initially budding, it resides in his divine sea and absorbs lightning during punishment 20 68.
• Jade Bangle and remnant-soul rings — Recovered artifacts containing concealed spaces or remnant souls; Ming Hao redirects lightning into them rather than allowing them to drain his own spiritual energy 20 56 68.
• Thunder Spirit Fruits — Receives six rare, high-grade fruits in Thunder Prison and combines them with other resources to refine external incarnations 77.
• Twelve sets of armor — Purchased for his group and repeatedly improved. Eleven worn by Ming Hao and his companions are at peak fourth grade during the Burial World crisis; the sets hold exceptional personal significance to the group 55 823 866.
• Ming Hao Palace — A luxurious, formation-protected residence rebuilt by Senior Brother Fang. Its palace-wide formation allows a sufficiently powerful owner to shrink it, store it in a Storage Ring, and transport it 118.
• Storage Rings — Used for trade, gifts, spoils, and large-scale collection; he stores an entire Huoyang Fruit Tree and later gathers a vast cache of manuals and weapons 111 849 850.

Relationships

• Qin Fu Su / Youjing — Qin Fu Su is the complete originating person; Youjing is the human-soul incarnation that produces the azure-haired Corpse Dog incarnation 717 718.
• Empress Zhao — Arranges the concealed Ascension City support network and assigns Ming Hao the task of dealing with its betrayal 14.
• Qing Yun and Qing Ying — Protective maids whom he calls his bedchamber maids. They restrain his impulsiveness, defend him fiercely, and pursue their own masters with his encouragement 8 24 29.
• Wang Yong — Loyal guard who seeks Ming Hao's approval after growing stronger. He and the original attendants remain loyal to Ming Hao rather than joining the informal factions around his romantic interests 603 693.
• Zhao Jun and the other three stewards — Managers of his Ascension City forces. Ming Hao rewards their achievements, funds their expansion, and provides administrative guidance 15 533.
• Shui Furong / Miss Shui — A flirtatious acquaintance who becomes emotionally attached to him. Their bond develops through favors, gifts, reunions, jealousy, and his efforts to comfort her 12 23 24 604 649.
• Lin Zihan — Close companion from the stipend conflicts. She openly misses him during their three-year separation and shares a tender reunion with him 42 603 604.
• Lin Qinqin — Protective friend who often restrains or rebuffs his advances; remains part of his inner circle and follows him on dangerous expeditions 59 697 842.
• Ye Hua — Fellow Heartless Dao cultivator, combat partner, and intimate companion. His apparent death causes her prolonged suffering; he later supports her against Li Chengfu and Wang Fanghui 566 574 645 649 703.
• Huang Rong — Follower who publicly identifies herself as his concubine. He gives her contribution points and encourages her to participate in his wider circle rather than cultivate in isolation 645 646 693.
• Fatty Zhang — Friend and beneficiary of his resources and artifact-forging method; privately credits meeting Ming Hao for his dramatic rise 670 756.
• Lin Yong and Lin Hao — Early allies against stipend robbers who become regular members of his fighting and social circle 41 42 604.
• Qi Qing — Companion whom he supplies with gifts and cultivation support; later becomes the strongest fighter in his group at perfected Quasi-Saint 55 842.
• Jie Kong, Zhao Bufan, and Xuan Chengzi — Companions who, like Ming Hao, initially lack suitable mentors; remain involved in his later expeditions 88 111 849 860.
• Yun Qingyi and Liu Jingyuan — Breeding Farm associates and trusted battlefield supporters. They help lead his breakout and benefit from his cultivation resources 606 653 748.
• Yu Qinghuan / Lady Yu and Nangong Jin — Entrusted with the Fragrant Pavilion and supported through cultivation resources and sect training. Nangong Jin's life is explicitly under his control 532 534 544 645.
• Jin Nainai / Steward Jin — Secret lover whom he funds toward an emperor-realm breakthrough. She later reveals that she killed Luo Bai; Ming Hao promises public recognition if he becomes Sect Master 695 870.
• Liu Quer — Luo Bai's former girlfriend and Ming Hao's secret lover. Their relationship includes his coercive loyalty tests and an episode of violence against her 695 697 870.
• Luo Bai — Persistent rival whose jealousy develops into revenge plots. Ming Hao regrets not killing him personally before learning of his death at Jin Nainai's hands 97 603 870.
• Zhao Yuan and Su Mei — Enemies involved in harassment and later covert hostility toward Ming Hao and his companions 60 603 604.
• Xu Shu and Luo Junhang — Former opponents who offer gifts and seek reconciliation after the arena battle; Ming Hao accepts 111.
• Sect Master He and his conspirators — Publicly cautious toward Ming Hao's apparent backing, but privately planning his murder 620.
• Lu Shen — A coerced associate who gives Ming Hao valuables and agrees to follow instructions after being threatened with exposure of his affair 748.
• Wang Zhu — Initially subjected to public humiliation by Ming Hao; later joins his wider circle and accepts gifts to keep quiet about his behavior 729 811 842.

Notable Quotes

“It would be unwise for us to reveal ourselves too soon.” 18

“Put on your armor, now! Anyone who can break through, do it quickly! Stop dreaming of earning a good ranking in the Great Luo Realm. Staying alive is all that matters now!” 823