Li Mingzhu

Biodata

Power Progression

Background / History

Li Mingzhu transmigrated to the Douluo Continent six years before his martial soul awakening. He retains knowledge of the original Douluo stories and recognizes the Ancient Void Dragon from Battle Through the Heavens. At six, he considers himself almost thirty-five across his two lives 2.

An orphan adopted by Li Mu, he initially viewed the people around him as game-like NPCs. That detachment changed when Li Mu entrusted him with the family's long-saved money so he could attend school without work-study chores. Li Mingzhu recognized their bond as genuine and promised to give his grandfather a better life 2 31 54.

Li Mu feared the dangers of soul cultivation because his childhood sweetheart had died while hunting a soul ring. Li Mingzhu reassured him that he intended to study and cultivate rather than join Spirit Hall 2.

Appearance

• Face: Delicate-featured and handsome as a young child; later develops clean-cut contours, a straight nose, and a fair complexion 2 5 50 54.
• Hair: Long hair tied behind his head after the three-year time skip 50.
• Eyes: Described as dark after the time skip and deep purple during his interactions with Shen Liuyu; purple-gold light flashes through them after his first ring absorption 17 50 54.
• Expression: Composed, with visible pride and aloofness even when behaving gently 50 54.
• Clothing: Wears ordinary clothes early on, making him appear too poor to interest predatory soul-hunting teams 5 13.
• Body possession: His Body martial soul makes him grow a full head taller when demonstrated during enrollment 3.

Personality

Li Mingzhu is ambitious but deliberately keeps a low profile. He hides his twin martial souls, understates his cultivation, and supplies weaker versions of his abilities to outsiders. His choice of a hundred-year first ring is strategic: without powerful backing, he avoids the attention a thousand-year first ring would attract 1 17 20 50 65.

His strongest attachment is to Li Mu. He rushes home after receiving an urgent letter, disregarding exhaustion and academy permission, and later feigns indifference toward his grandfather to undermine Yu Xiaogang's threats. Protecting Li Mu also restrains him from killing Yu Xiaogang and risking retaliation from powerful factions 24 25 31 32.

He is sarcastic, distrustful of self-serving authority, and capable of calculated cruelty. His retaliation against Yu Xiaogang combines assault, theft, humiliation, and a staged breakthrough designed to divert the man's attention. With Shen Liuyu, the same mischievous streak appears as teasing rather than hostility 35 36 54.

Despite killing soul beasts to advance, he recognizes the cost of the cultivation system. He gives the Netherclaw Beast a quick death, buries it, and declares an intention to rewrite Douluo's established rules once he becomes powerful enough 17 51.

Abilities & Skills

Twin Martial Souls

Li Mingzhu possesses a Body martial soul and the Ancient Void Dragon, with the latter supplying his demonstrated spatial and fire abilities 1 2.

• The Body martial soul appears as a silvery-white, hazy duplicate of himself 1.
• The Ancient Void Dragon manifests as a purple-gold dragon with spatial patterns, blade-like horns, and purple-gold eyes 2.
• He can conceal the dragon while releasing both martial souls, allowing observers to mistake its ring for a Body martial soul ring 19.
• The dragon is sensitive to spatial restrictions, small worlds, and barriers, helping him locate the secret realm near the Void Stone Ruins 18.

Great Void Domain

An innate domain that enhances Li Mingzhu, suppresses opponents, and gives him control over the surrounding space 2 35 60.

• Domain Space stores money, supplies, soul bones, books, and personal belongings 11 16 36 51.
• Spatial concealment allows him to infiltrate Yu Xiaogang's quarters 35.

Dragon Flame / Ultimate Fire

The Ancient Void Dragon grants an innate flame ability; Li Mingzhu later demonstrates purple Ultimate Fire 2 65.

• Burns terrorized shadow-pattern wolves during his first soul-hunting journey 13.
• Softens whale rubber for consumption and separates useful essence from impurities 12 35.
• Destroys Yu Xiaogang's handwritten copy of the Ten Core Theories of Martial Souls 39.
• Li Mingzhu claims it makes him immune to all poisons. Dugu Bo proposes testing that claim with his Poison Pill; the supplied passages do not establish the test's outcome 65.

First Soul Skill: Void Space Claw

Obtained from a Netherclaw Beast ring over 900 years old 17.

• Coats his dragon claws in spatial power.
• Increases all attributes by 25%.
• Strengthens piercing damage and ignores defense.
• Tears apart the Fire-Scaled Python threatening Dugu Yan 17 57.

Public cover: He tells Dean Lin that his first skill is Power of the Empty Nether, providing a 20% attribute increase and piercing attacks. This is an invented explanation, not a separate documented skill 19.

Second Soul Skill: Ancient Dragon Body

Obtained from a Hidden Space Rat aged approximately 970 years 51.

• Increases all attributes by 60%.
• Adds bloodline tremors to every attack.
• Interferes with an opponent's soul power circulation 51.
• Used with draconic pressure and a spatially coated punch to shatter the Nine-Section Jade Green Snake's bones without directly touching it 60.

Third Soul Skill: Void Dragon Body

Obtained from a 6,200-year-old Void Spirit Crane; merges his body into the void to redirect incoming damage 64 65.

Draconic Pressure and Bloodline Suppression

The Ancient Void Dragon's aura can immobilize weaker soul beasts through fear 13 17 60.

• Forces the Netherclaw Beast to collapse and tremble before his first ring hunt 17.
• Suppresses the Nine-Section Jade Green Snake, exploiting dragons' natural dominance over snakes 60.
• Effectiveness depends on his soul power and mental power. A ten-thousand-year beast cannot be completely suppressed, and attacking it recklessly remains dangerous 13.

Mobility and Emergency Escape

• Airflight: Crosses difficult terrain, mountains, and rivers; flight stops when his soul power runs out 2 14 25.
• Spatial translocation: His martial soul accumulates spatial power that can support an emergency escape, giving him confidence to hunt alone 14.
• Soul-power-enhanced movement: Can cover ten meters per stride while rushing back to Greenleaf Village 25.

Cultivation, Research, and Medicine

Li Mingzhu supplements meditation with soul-beast research and whale rubber refinement 6 12 26 35.

• His two lives give him stronger mental power, helping extend his early cultivation capacity 26.
• Selects ring targets by their traits, choosing space-related beasts to reduce the risk of unsuitable skills 51.
• Helps Li Mu refine whale rubber and supplies an academy meditation method that improves his cultivation efficiency by more than 10% 12 26.
• His Ultimate Space and Ultimate Fire produce soul power denser than that of ordinary Soul Ancestors, according to Dugu Bo 26 65.
• Ultimate Attributes slow cultivation between levels 30 and 70 and require continued purification; the described acceleration after level 70 remains future potential 65.
• High-quality soul power does not eliminate limited reserves. In Sunset Forest, he stops to recover whenever his power falls to 60% 56.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Spear — Used to kill the Netherclaw Beast and search soul-beast remains for bones 14 16 17.
• Sun Man-Eating Flower External Soul Bone — Golden-orange, marked with concentric sun patterns. He cannot absorb it because it lacks vital essence contained in a seed left at the flower's remains 16.
• Demon-Striped Tiger torso bone — Jade-white and nearly ten thousand years old; stored for possible use by someone close to him rather than absorbed 16.
• Whale rubber — Cultivation material used to strengthen himself, Li Mu, and Dugu Yan; refined whale rubber also raises Yu Xiaogang to level 30 12 36 38 60.
• Twenty-Four Bridges Bright Moon Night — Stolen from Yu Xiaogang. Li Mingzhu finds only twenty cubic meters of storage rather than the twenty-four he expected 35 36.
• Seal-shaped Space Soul Tool — Another tool taken from Yu Xiaogang, with a larger storage space than the belt 35.
• Yu Xiaogang's books — Looted soul-beast guides and confidential Spirit Hall material, including information on Angel Inheritance Soul Bones and a Titled Douluo's abilities 36.
• Gold Soul Coins — Receives four thousand from Dean Lin and later takes tens of thousands from Yu Xiaogang's storage tools 20 36.
• Recommendation letter and graduation certificate — Supplied by Lin Nuo for his departure from Nuoding Academy and admission to Winchester Academy 50 51.

Relationships

• Li Mu — Adoptive grandfather and the person he cares about most. Li Mingzhu supports him financially, helps him cultivate, and plans to improve his martial soul with suitable herbs and soul bones 11 24 26.
• Su Yuntao — Awakens his martial souls and records his innate full soul power, but fails to detect the concealed Ancient Void Dragon 1.
• Dean Lin / Lin Nuo — Nuoding Academy's dean and patron. Provides benefits, money, and a recommendation while hoping Li Mingzhu's success will advance his own career; Li Mingzhu accepts his help without fully trusting him 3 20 21 24 41 50.
• Yu Xiaogang — Persistent recruiter and would-be experimenter. After threats involving Li Mu, Li Mingzhu retaliates by robbing him and engineering a misleading breakthrough 6 21 31 35 36 39.
• Shen Liuyu — Winchester Academy acquaintance who guides him to his villa. Their conversations become affectionate and playful, and she is visibly attracted to him 52 53 54.
• Dugu Yan — Rescued from the Fire-Scaled Python. Offers rewards and future soul-ring assistance, receives his help with her second ring, and develops an evident attachment to him 57 60 63 64 65.
• Dugu Bo — Prospective protector and mentor. Helps obtain the Void Spirit Crane, investigates Li Mingzhu's background, and decides to nurture him as a successor after discovering his age, level, and twin martial souls 64 68.
• Spirit Hall — Li Mingzhu declines membership but appreciates its role in awakening remote villagers' martial souls. He initially intends to remain neutral rather than oppose it 2.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Nuoding Academy and the First Soul Hunt

His innate full soul power earns free tuition, meals, and a private dormitory at Nuoding Academy. He rejects Yu Xiaogang's mentorship and instead researches spatial soul beasts and the historical Void Netherstone incident in the academy library 3 6.

After strengthening himself with whale rubber, he hunts independently. He acquires two soul bones from the aftermath of the Sun Man-Eating Flower and Demon-Striped Tiger battle, absorbs his first ring from a Netherclaw Beast, and follows his martial soul's spatial sensitivity to a secret-realm entrance. He returns intending to investigate the realm again when stronger 13 16 17 18 19.

Protecting Li Mu and Retaliating Against Yu Xiaogang

Li Mu's urgent letter leads Li Mingzhu to discover that his grandfather now possesses soul power. He suspects extremely faint innate power had previously gone undetected and was stimulated by whale rubber, then helps establish a safer cultivation routine 24 25 26.

When Yu Xiaogang threatens to exploit their relationship, Li Mingzhu pretends not to care about Li Mu. He subsequently steals Yu Xiaogang's possessions and secretly uses whale rubber to break his bottleneck, arranging circumstances that encourage a false explanation. Yu Xiaogang attributes the breakthrough to Luo Sanpao, keeps his supposed discovery from his clan, and abandons his immediate plans involving Li Mingzhu 31 32 35 36 39 41.

Winchester Academy and the Dugu Family

After three years of cultivation, Li Mingzhu graduates while concealing his true level. At Winchester Academy, he meets Shen Liuyu, receives a detached villa, and reaches the level-30 threshold 50 52 53 54.

His Sunset Forest expedition brings him into contact with Dugu Yan and Dugu Bo earlier than planned. After rescuing Dugu Yan and helping with her ring hunt, he obtains his own third ring with Dugu Bo's assistance. He then stays at the Dugu residence, intending to deepen their trust before revealing his knowledge of antidotes and immortal herbs 57 60 64 67.

Dugu Bo's investigation exposes the cultivation and twin martial souls Li Mingzhu had concealed from the academies. Rather than coercing him, Dugu Bo decides to offer resources and protection, inviting him to call him “Grandpa” 68.

Notable Quotes

“Grandpa, I'll definitely do it. We'll live in the best house and eat the best food together.” 2

“Alas! There was no grudge between us. I killed you only to follow this world's rules of cultivation. Once I achieve success, I will rewrite Douluo's established rules!” 17