Su Ming
Douluo: Fabricating a Heavenly Screen, All My Alternate Identities Become Gods!
Biodata
| Feature | Details |
|---|---|
| Name | Su Ming (苏铭) |
| Alias(es) | Brother Ming; Brother; Xiao Ming—forms of address used by his companions and Tang Hao 1 16. |
| Gender | Male |
| Age | Twelve 19. |
| Origin | Has traveled through several worlds; tells Xiao Wu that his hometown is not on their current planet 1 19. |
| Affiliation | Trinity Sect, identified as his sect in the Heavenly Screen’s fabricated future and recognized by Tang Hao as part of his background 29. |
| Occupation/Role | Soul Master; creator and controller of the Heavenly Screen; fabricator of alternate identities 1. |
| Cultivation | Level 39 Soul Elder, as known to Xiao Wu 19. |
| Status | Alive; operating from Suotuo City during the Heavenly Screen broadcasts 29. |
| First Appearance | Chapter 1, “The Heavenly Ranking Descended, Bestowing Grace Upon the Eight Directions” 1. |
Power Progression
| Stage / Realm / Level | Chapter | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Second Soul Ring: thousand-year | 5 | Previously obtained a thousand-year second ring. This achievement helps convince Tang Hao that Su Ming might withstand a ten-thousand-year fourth ring. |
| Level 39 Soul Elder | 19 | Identified by Xiao Wu as a twelve-year-old level 39 Soul Elder with a thousand-year second ring. |
- Fourth-ring objective: Requests a ten-thousand-year Soul Ring, prompting Tang Hao to search the Star Dou Great Forest. Its acquisition is not documented in the supplied chapters 5 14.
- Planned divine path: Intends to inherit both the Sea God and Asura godhoods as stepping stones before pursuing his own Dao. Neither godhood is established as an attained power 26.
- Projected achievements: His inheritance of the Sea God’s Nine Trials and subsequent training appear within a future narrative he fabricated for the Heavenly Screen, not as completed present-day advancements 26 29 31.
Background / History
Before arriving on the Douluo Continent, Su Ming obtained the ability to harvest Vow Power and used it in several other worlds. His earliest approach was to kill a world’s child of destiny and other important characters. Although this produced a large immediate harvest, it severed the story and disrupted the remaining characters’ fates, leaving him without a continuing source of power 1.
He subsequently adopted a sustainable method: intervening in events while keeping important figures alive. Strong emotional reactions and altered destinies supplied continuing Vow Power, while changes beneficial to an entire plane could earn an additional share from its consciousness 1.
After reaching the Douluo Continent, he spent years accumulating power and influencing events through alternate identities. He also guided Tang San into becoming a food-type Soul Master and challenged Yu Xiaogang’s entrenched beliefs, causing the latter to reconsider his approach to teaching. By the opening chapters, Xiao Wu had been with Su Ming for six years 1 12 15.
Personality
Su Ming is calculating, ambitious, and willing to manipulate others’ understanding of reality. He treats major revelations as opportunities to harvest Vow Power, deliberately prolonging Qian Daoliu’s monologue to extract reactions from each exposed secret. His decision to abandon indiscriminate killing comes from recognizing its poor long-term returns 1 14.
He carefully separates his public behavior from his private intentions. While secretly controlling the Heavenly Screen, he displays convincing shock and uncertainty alongside its audience. He also conceals his connection to its revelations when acknowledging them would interfere with his plans 1 2 15 27.
With Xiao Wu, he is physically affectionate and attentive to her distress, comforting her when she remembers her mother. His ambitions extend beyond personal advancement: he wants to strengthen the Douluo Plane, create a genuine golden age with many god-level combatants, and use that foundation to conquer other planes and the Divine Realm 11 12 26.
Abilities & Skills
Vow Power Harvesting
Su Ming harvests Vow Power, described as the essence of the world, by changing important characters’ destinies and provoking strong emotions 1.
- Emotional sources: Shock, anger, gratitude, and fear can all contribute when accompanied by changes to the characters’ original trajectories 1.
- Continuous income: Keeping characters alive and their stories moving allows repeated harvests rather than a single payout 1.
- Plane-wide rewards: Beneficial changes to a plane can yield additional Vow Power from its consciousness 1.
- Resource cost: Deploying the Heavenly Screen consumes his accumulated reserves, although reactions to its appearance immediately begin replenishing them 1 2.
Heavenly Screen
The Heavenly Screen is Su Ming’s continent-wide broadcasting and concealment tool, fabricated with Vow Power 1.
- Divine concealment: Distorts the Divine Realm’s perception of the Douluo Plane without drawing its attention to the screen’s descent 1.
- Universal broadcasts: Projects images and announcements to living beings across the plane; even unintelligent Soul Beasts can dimly grasp its message 1.
- Fabricated futures: Mixes verified history with rewritten future events and invented identities, using the former to establish trust in the latter 1 14 26.
- Rankings: Begins with the ten-place Strongest Human Monologue Ranking. Su Ming also plans Strongest Martial Soul and Strongest Soul Beast rankings 1.
- Projection rules: The monologue ranking concerns beings alive in the present and projects no more than one hundred years into the future 1 26.
- System assistant: Operated with help from an assistant Su Ming separately created using Vow Power 1.
Alternate-Identity Fabrication
Su Ming creates alternate identities to influence the world and introduce new figures into his rankings. An identity’s apparent cultivation does not necessarily reflect genuine combat strength 1 18.
- Shi Lihao: A fabricated persona presented as a light-attribute Titled Douluo, despite lacking that level of strength 18.
- Staged punishment: Su Ming makes Shi Lihao seize Qian Daoliu’s Heart of Holy Light, then has the Heavenly Screen erase him. The demonstration discourages reward theft and generates further Vow Power 18.
- Corroborating narratives: Plans for the monologues of native figures, alternate identities, and himself to support one another as a logically consistent script 26.
Knowledge and Cultivation Planning
Su Ming understands developments beyond the continent’s current cultivation practices and incorporates that knowledge into his long-term plans 11.
- Future systems: Knows the significance of Soul Cores, Soul Spirits, and Battle Armor, which he intends to contrast with the present era’s powerhouses 11.
- Resurrection knowledge: Tang Hao believes Su Ming possesses a family-transmitted method capable of resurrecting Ah Yin. The method is not demonstrated in the supplied chapters 14 16.
- Projected perception: His fabricated future depicts him detecting Bo Saixi while she secretly observes him; this is not established as a present-day feat 31.
- Projected training insight: The same narrative shows him recognizing the Sea God’s Light as a way to accelerate cultivation and strengthen the body, then choosing to train beneath it for a year 31.
Story Role / Major Arcs
| Arc | Chapters | Su Ming’s role |
|---|---|---|
| Heavenly Screen deployment | 1 2 | Launches the screen during Tang San’s confrontation with Dai Mubai at the Rose Hotel, then poses as an ordinary spectator while receiving Vow Power from across the continent. |
| Establishing the screen’s authority | 4 12 14 | Uses Qian Daoliu’s monologue to expose genuine secrets, including the Six-Winged Angel’s innate soul power, Ah Yin’s identity, and Bibi Dong’s killing of Qian Xunji. Verified revelations make later fabrications more credible. |
| Qian Renxue’s predicted romance | 15 16 | Broadcasts a future in which he and his friends ruin the Nation-Stealing Plan and Qian Renxue falls in love with him. When Xiao Wu questions him, he denies being the man described. |
| Reward-theft demonstration | 18 | Stages Shi Lihao’s attempted theft and erasure to establish the rule that only ranked recipients may claim their rewards. |
| Sea God successor revelation | 26 27 29 | Inserts his own future into Bo Saixi’s monologue, gradually revealing himself as the Trinity Sect disciple chosen for the Sea God’s Nine Trials. His wording leads outsiders to assume he has not yet reached the continent. |
| Projected Sea God Island training | 30 31 | Depicts his future self receiving honored-guest status, learning that at least one trial must be completed each year, and choosing to cultivate under the Sea God’s Light. Bo Saixi also explains his one-time opportunity to obtain a God-bestowed Soul Ring and warns against using it too early. |
Relationships
- Xiao Wu — Close companion and love interest who calls him “Brother.” After six years together, she has fallen in love with him. He knows her true identity and comforts her over her mother’s death, but continues concealing his control of the Heavenly Screen 12 15 16.
- Tang San — Loyal younger-brother figure who addresses him as “Brother Ming.” Su Ming guides his development as a food-type Soul Master, and Tang San readily obeys his instructions and seeks his advice about his family 1 12.
- Tang Hao — Supporter whose faith in Su Ming centers on the possibility of resurrecting Ah Yin. Searches for a suitable ten-thousand-year fourth ring and celebrates the screen’s identification of Su Ming as the Sea God’s future successor 5 14 16 29.
- Qian Renxue — Predicted romantic connection in Su Ming’s rewritten future. The announcement that she will love the man who ruins her Nation-Stealing Plan infuriates her and drives her to reject that outcome 15.
- Bo Saixi — Watches the real-world broadcast with interest in the Sea God’s future successor. Within Su Ming’s fabricated future, she supervises his trials, arranges support, and advises him about cultivation opportunities 29 30 31.
- Yu Xiaogang — Su Ming’s criticism prompts him to abandon his previous fixation and reconsider his suitability as Tang San’s teacher. He later regards Mu En as a better-matched disciple 12.
- Bibi Dong and Spirit Hall — Regard the future Sea God successor as a potential obstacle. Their immediate plans to locate or capture him are thwarted by the misleading impression that he is outside the Douluo Continent 29.
Notable Quotes
“Strictly speaking, my hometown isn't on this planet.” 19
“With our current strength, we'd be better off cultivating in peace...” 23
“All living beings on the Douluo Continent had better prepare themselves to welcome a golden age!!” — Internal declaration 26