Jiang Ming

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Jiang Ming (姜明)
Gender	Male
Age	39 at introduction 2
Affiliation	Jiang Family; Shrek Academy’s Outer Court Soul Tool Department 28 38
Occupation/Role	Adjunct lecturer, Level 5 Soul Engineer, and Soul Tool workshop operator 3 7 28
Residence	Fireplume Soul Guidance Workshop’s three-courtyard compound in Shrek City 3 39
Martial Soul	Fireball, an elemental fire-attribute Martial Soul 3 4
Cultivation	Level 59 Soul King, last documented 24
Family	Diwu Ying, wife; Jiang Dongjun, son 2 3
First Appearance	Chapter 2, “A Grand Vow” 2

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Level 58 Soul King; Level 5 Soul Engineer	2 7	Initial documented cultivation and engineering ranks. Supplements his five-ring cultivation with a complete Soul Tool combat system.
Level 59 Soul King	24	Advances after Jiang Dongjun directly imparts the Great Sun Visualization Method. Its divine essence adapts into a crimson, furnace-like image, and Jiang Ming enters Deep Meditation until dusk.

• Proposed advancement: Shrek’s Soul Tool Department discusses using medicine after Jiang Ming and Diwu Ying turn forty to raise them to seven-ring cultivation, aiming to develop two Level 7 Soul Engineers. This remains a plan, not a completed breakthrough 5.

Background / History

Jiang Ming began life as an orphan in a mountain village. His relatively favorable innate soul power, aptitude for Soul Engineering, decisions, and assistance from benefactors eventually brought him to an adjunct lectureship at Shrek Academy 28.

He grew up with Diwu Ying. When her family attempted to make her a concubine of an heir from the Wu Golden Crow Family, she refused and eloped with Jiang Ming. They hid elsewhere and continued their studies, settling in Shrek City after she became a Soul King and they decided to have a child 3 16.

Both parents waited until after thirty, when their cultivation had slowed, before conceiving Jiang Dongjun. Before his birth, neither used cultivation-enhancing medicine, fearing it could harm their child’s innate potential 2.

Their Shrek City compound combines a customer reception courtyard, a private residence, and a Soul Tool workshop. Initially, both specialize in fire-attribute Soul Tools, with the department’s deans holding their engineering potential in high regard 3 5.

Appearance

• Tall, imposing, and unkempt, with features resembling Jiang Dongjun’s by roughly seventy percent 2.
• Bristling short hair held back by a forehead hairband 2.
• Pocket-covered work clothes marked by persistent oil stains and a faint metallic smell 2.
• An authoritative bearing softened by the appearance of a technology-obsessed, homebody engineer 2.

Personality

Jiang Ming is pragmatic about both opportunities and danger. Rather than attempt to hold Old Dragon Ravine with only two Soul Kings in the family, he chooses to sell its valuable location to Shrek Academy. He firmly forbids Jiang Dongjun from entering the Cold Pool when its chill could damage his mind, warning him against destructive greed 15.

His confidence and fire-influenced temper often surface in arguments with his son. He boasts about his fully armed combat strength and initially judges ordinary academy students from the perspective of his own success. When Jiang Dongjun challenges that attitude, he recognizes that Qian Duoduo’s favor has gone to his head and openly reassesses himself 7 28.

As a father, he combines teasing with preparation. He equips Jiang Dongjun with costly protection, anticipates the physical toll of prolonged meditation, and obtains institutional backing when academy officials threaten his son’s interests. He also understands that Jiang Dongjun rarely pursues a costly scheme without expecting a greater benefit 3 33 37 39.

His ambitions include improving the family’s strength and supporting Jiang Dongjun’s potential godhood. His proposed future match between his son and Wu Ming mixes concern for a reliable guardian, interest in stronger descendants, and a lingering grudge against her father 8 16 17.

Abilities & Skills

Fireball Martial Soul

• Produces orange fireballs used to burn Huang Fen’s poisoned corpse and help clear contaminated remains from Old Dragon Ravine 12.
• Provides controlled heat for softening thousand-year and ten-thousand-year whale rubber into edible paste 25.
• Its basic quality is inferior overall to Diwu Ying’s advanced Golden Feather Crow Martial Soul 3 4.

Soul Engineering

• Creates conventional Soul Tools that Jiang Dongjun subsequently adapts for use by his Yin Spirit 1.
• Builds custom tools with internal Milk Bottles and spiritually operated power switches, reducing the connection between a tool’s rank and its user’s own soul-power level 1.
• Manufactures firearm designs suggested by Jiang Dongjun, including Gatling-like guns and weapons combining high-energy gunpowder with Soul Guidance Arrays 7 9.
• Shifts his main research from fire-type to mental-type tools. By dismantling and copying tools improved through Jiang Dongjun’s soul liquid, he becomes a leading expert in that sparsely researched field 31.
• Collaborates with Qian Duoduo and Fan Yu on a sixth-rank spiritual-defense component; this does not establish Jiang Ming himself as a Level 6 Soul Engineer 41.

Soul Tool Combat

• Uses a Flying Soul Tool for reconnaissance, transportation, and airborne cannon attacks 7 10 11.
• Fortifies a stream valley with Level 5 Fixed-Installation Soul Cannons and rapid-fire guns before Jiang Dongjun experiments with the Golden Disc 7.
• Coordinates with Jiang Dongjun’s Golden Eyes of Truth to strike Huang Fen with incendiary and concussion shells 10 11.
• Claims his complete fortification could bombard a Power Attack System Soul Saint to death, but acknowledges that these new weapons had not yet been tested in actual combat 7.
• Cannot independently relocate Huang Fen through the resulting sea of flames and relies on his son’s special sight for targeting 10.

Great Sun Visualization Method

• Receives the method through Jiang Dongjun’s direct spiritual impartation 24.
• Draws Heaven and Earth Essence and guides soul power through a self-sustaining meridian cycle 24.
• Develops an individualized crimson, furnace-like visualization with an aggressive, burning aura 24.
• His spiritual cultivation is initially low enough that Jiang Dongjun specifically advises him to improve it 24.

Pharmacology and Medicinal Preparation

• Studies pharmacology to formulate mind-supporting medicinal incense for Jiang Dongjun’s initially frail projected Yin Spirit 14.
• Examines his son’s physique and soul-power stability when assessing Soul Ring endurance and the risks of rapid advancement 25 26.
• Learns Immortal Spirit Fungus preparation from Lu Xiaoxiao’s recipe book, preserving its medicinal effects despite imperfect flavor 21 40.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

Personal and Field Equipment

• Flying Soul Tool and basket — Carries Jiang Dongjun during travel and combat; the basket also houses a heavy machine gun 9.
• Storage Soul Tools — Stores weapons, materials, and research items; his equipment includes a storage bracelet 21 46.
• Level 5 Fixed-Installation Soul Cannons — Deployed in defensive positions and used against Huang Fen 7 10 11.
• Level 5 shotgun — Owns a shotgun of the same specifications and ammunition assortment as the one Jiang Dongjun later uses in another era 50.

Notable Creations for Jiang Dongjun

• Soul Puppet — Protects the Yin Spirit inside a durable shell. Ordinary brute-force attacks from a Soul Emperor would require time to destroy it, but restricted transmission and delayed limb control hinder close combat 3.
• Tiger-Emblem Pendant — Originally blocks one spiritual attack from an opponent below Soul Saint. Its upgraded form combines “Mountain-Guarding Tiger” and “Descending Tiger” faces, with one side raised to sixth rank 3 41.
• Golden Light Sword — Reforged into a fifth-rank tool capable of releasing sword qi and dazzling light; Jiang Dongjun controls it as a flying sword through his Yin Spirit 31 41.
• Horror — Fifth-rank spiritual-attack revolver or hand cannon whose bullets can induce wounds, worry, fear, sorrow, or resentment 41.

Relationships

• Jiang Dongjun — Son and research collaborator. Jiang Ming provides weapons, cultivation supervision, medical care, and political protection, while Dongjun contributes designs and new technology 1 26 37 39 46.
• Diwu Ying — Childhood companion and wife. They eloped to escape her arranged marriage and jointly operate their workshop; her anger readily intimidates both father and son 3 16.
• Qian Duoduo — Department superior and patron. Supports the couple’s engineering prospects, handles the Old Dragon Ravine transaction, and intervenes on Jiang Dongjun’s behalf after Jiang Ming summons him 5 20 37.
• Lu Xiaoxiao — Specialist who verifies the Immortal Spirit Fungus and lends Jiang Ming her unfinished recipe book for one reading. He promises that only he and his son will read it 20 21.
• Wu Ming — Daughter of Diwu Ying’s former intended marriage partner. Jiang Ming hopes she could eventually become Jiang Dongjun’s guardian and wife 16.
• Li Qun — Acquaintance and Jiang Dongjun’s homeroom teacher. Jiang Ming arranges his son’s classroom entry and reassures Li Qun about the challenge tournament’s prize money 28 33.
• Fan Yu — Fellow researcher consulted alongside Qian Duoduo when upgrading Jiang Dongjun’s spiritual-defense tool 41.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Awakening and Golden Disc Expedition

• Recharges and inspects Jiang Dongjun’s tools after Li Qing’s defeat, then helps identify his son’s twin Martial Souls and respects his decision to keep them secret 2 4.
• Accompanies Jiang Dongjun on the first-ring expedition and fortifies the site used to test the Golden Disc 6 7.
• Trusts his son’s instructions during the miniature star’s dangerous expansion, retreats, and retrieves him immediately afterward 8.
• Analyzes Dusk’s Blessing through firsthand contact, identifying its decomposition and aging-like effects and confirming that soul power can counteract the abnormal condition 9.

Huang Fen and Old Dragon Ravine

• Provides cannon fire and follows behind Jiang Dongjun with a weapon ready when his son pursues the wounded Evil Soul King 10 11.
• Burns poisoned remains to prevent downstream harm and helps extinguish the forest fire 12.
• Helps recover five Immortal Spirit Fungus clumps, camouflages the remaining growing fungus, and negotiates the site’s transfer to Shrek 15 20.
• Secures Soul Bones, physique-strengthening treasures, an increased personal-use rare-metal quota, and two future spiritual-treasure selections 20 21.

Cultivation Support and Academy Challenges

• Volunteers to test the Great Sun Visualization Method, reaching level 59 23 24.
• Restricts Jiang Dongjun’s use of thousand-year-or-older spirit objects for six months after checking his rapid gains and arranges elementary academy enrollment 26.
• Fetches Qian Duoduo when Du Weilun’s treatment of Jiang Dongjun threatens trouble, leading to protection and additional rewards for his son 37.
• Prepares medicinal liquids and accelerates ingredient deliveries during Jiang Dongjun’s sixteen-day Deep Meditation 39.

Cross-Era Technology

• Guards Jiang Dongjun’s physical body during his Yin Spirit’s first journey through the Light of Time and Space 41 42.
• Tests the returned Soul Guidance Battery using a modified Flashlight Soul Tool, confirming that its energy can power tools even though Soul Masters cannot absorb it into their dantian 45 46.
• Agrees to study the battery’s Sealed Milk Bottle technology in support of Jiang Dongjun’s ambition to govern and change the continent, while advising him to seek leadership of Shrek and godhood first 46.

Notable Quotes

“You're carrying nearly half our family's assets on your back. Why would I worry about you?” 3

“Remember! When greed piles up too high, it brings destruction!” 15

“I'll help you, I'll help you. Since you were little, when haven't I cleaned up your messes?” 46