Bao Liang

Biodata

Power Progression

Background and History

Previous Life and Hope Orphanage

Bao Liang remembers twelve years of a previous life but initially cannot recall how he died. Electrolux later determines that he bled to death and lost his heart and head, leaving lasting deficiencies in his Qi, blood, and Spiritual Sea of Consciousness 124.

He arrives on Douluo Continent as an infant abandoned in a primeval forest. A powerful woman saves him from a large, eye-like tentacled creature and leaves him at Hope Orphanage. He recognizes the setting after hearing other children discuss Martial Souls, Soul Power, and Soul Rings 1.

At three, he persuades the orphanage director to establish the Little Baozi food stall to improve the children’s meals. He organizes bun-making and candied-hawthorn sales, meets the hungry Meng Hongchen, and gives her food. Xiao Hongchen mistakes him for a bully, starts a fight, and subsequently leaves without paying for his buns—a debt Bao Liang remembers for three years 3.

Joining the Hongchen Household

His destructive awakening draws official attention, and he is brought to Jing Hongchen’s residence. Jing reveals that he has monitored Bao Liang since his first meeting with the Hongchen siblings. Bao Liang then discloses both Ultimate Martial Souls and their unusual talents 2 5.

Jing provides food, medicine, training equipment, and personal protection. Bao Liang begins to regard the residence as his first true home since transmigrating. Jing also conceals his abilities to prevent the imperial family or foreign spies from making him a target 8 9 10.

Research and Divine Recognition

Bao Liang and Xiao develop magnetic attraction bombs, with Jing correcting their formation layout and helping produce Level 2 and Level 3 versions. Bao Liang also promotes metal forging as the foundation for future Battle Armor, using his knowledge of later developments to guide their research 22 43 44.

Kong Deming arranges for Long Xiaoyao to teach him. Bao Liang recognizes Long’s connection to the Holy Spirit Cult but distinguishes accepting a teacher from joining the faction 37.

After gaining Chain Explosion, Bao Liang reveals that he has received a Divine Trial and the Destruction God King’s recognition. He regards Tang San as an obstacle to new gods and plans to obtain the Immortal Herbs of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well 50 51.

Continental Tournament

Representing the Sun Moon academy, Bao Liang dismisses Huo Yuhao’s simulated hundred-thousand-year rings as false. He then faces Qiutang Academy alone and defeats its seven-member team with Molten Fire Thousandfold Forging and Instant Explosion 73 74.

At the Starlight Auction House, he purchases the Ice Jade Scorpion Left Arm Bone for 35 million Gold Soul Coins and the Snow Empress Embryo for 150 million. Attempts to seize the embryo end with Bao Liang returning safely under Jing Hongchen and Ye Yulin’s protection 85 88 94.

His later matches include a strength-focused duel with Jiang Peng, whom he deliberately holds back against to prolong the exchange. Against Shrek, he kills Xu Sanshi after the latter uses the life-sacrificing Black Tortoise Descent, making Xu Sanshi the tournament’s first casualty. He also exposes He Caitou as Xu He of the Sun Moon Imperial Family and forces his hidden Sun Martial Soul to appear 101 108 113.

Heart of Creation

After the Sun Moon team defeats Shrek, Electrolux awakens and explains the damage he has been repairing within Bao Liang’s Spiritual Sea. Bao Liang’s subsequent transformation creates the Heart of Creation, reconstructs his body, and evolves both Martial Souls 123 124 128.

During his three-month absence, he also negotiates with the Snow Empress. Rather than demanding her sacrifice for himself, he secures her agreement to sacrifice to Meng Hongchen after they locate the Ice God Temple. On returning, he tells Meng the full account and promises a path toward removing her hereditary cold poison and attaining godhood 130 131.

Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and Star Dou Alliance

Bao Liang forces his way through the poisonous barriers surrounding the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and obtains what he needs for Meng Hongchen’s treatment. On his return journey, he counters Yan Shaozhe’s ambush, defeats him, and later refines him into the Undead Demiplane as material for studying necromancy 136 138 140 142.

Di Tian brings him to the Lake of Life, where he negotiates with Gu Yuena. Bao Liang accepts cooperation against Tang San in exchange for access to needed Soul Beasts. Gu Yuena declares him an ally of the Star Dou Great Forest and entrusts the Three-Eyed Golden Lion to his protection 142 149.

Through the Auspicious Beast’s Eye of Destiny, Bao Liang meets Douluo Star’s Plane Consciousness and the Golden Tree. The Plane Consciousness reveals that she brought him to the planet, rebuilt his body, concealed him from Tang San and Tang Hao, and transferred his destined misfortunes to Huo Yuhao 151 152.

He eventually returns home after nearly a week without answering messages. Meng Hongchen incapacitates him with a harmless sleep-inducing drug and carries him to her room 164.

Appearance

Bao Liang changes from an undernourished child into a lean, proportionate youth, then acquires a much larger body through the Power of Creation 7 52 128.

• Early build: Initially average in height for his age because of limited nutrition; later develops muscle under Jing Hongchen’s care 7 10.
• Recorded measurements at six: 1.55 meters tall and 36 kilograms after one month of conditioning 10.
• At ten: Retains youthful facial softness, defined features, and slightly roguish eyes; stands nearly a head taller than Meng Hongchen 52.
• After reconstruction: Two meters tall, with waist-length white hair, a heavily developed but proportionate physique, and nine-colored light flowing through his eyes 128.

Personality

Bao Liang is irreverent, theatrical, and quick to bargain. His childhood business venture demonstrates practical initiative, while his exaggerated demand for compound interest on Xiao Hongchen’s unpaid buns turns an old grievance into a recurring joke. He also openly treats acting pitiful as a profitable way to secure concessions from Meng Hongchen 3 4 20.

His combat arrogance coexists with genuine enthusiasm for worthy opponents. He taunts hostile teams but respects Jiang Peng’s willingness to face him directly, even reducing his strength to keep their duel going 73 100 101 102.

He draws a distinction between enemies and bystanders. Despite specializing in explosives, he explicitly dislikes involving innocent people and restricts his personal amplification to trusted companions. He remains courteous to ordinary people rather than treating success as permission to look down on them 22 83.

Loyalty and keeping promises drive his larger ambitions. During his crisis, he refuses to fall because Meng, Xiao, Jing, and his other supporters still need him. He similarly accepts responsibility for protecting the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, calling her his cub and threatening anyone who targets her 126 152.

His increasing power also intensifies a destructive urge. Jing Hongchen channels it into scrap-metal demolition and military training, both to prevent further laboratory damage and to give him a controlled outlet 60.

Abilities and Skills

Explosion and Ultimate Flame

Explosion originally manifests as an orange-red elemental sphere. Its Ultimate Flame specializes in ultimate heat and destruction, distinguished from Ultimate Fire’s destructive power and inextinguishability 5 44.

• Deflagration: Infuses objects with Soul Power to make controlled bombs. Applied to himself, it grants an overclocked state that burns stamina and Soul Power rapidly for greater output and explosive attacks 5.
• Hot Core: Burns Soul Power, impurities, and toxins into purer power, automatically compressing it while strengthening his body and accelerating external Soul Power absorption 5.
• Shared cultivation support: Can store talent-infused Soul Power in Soul Tools to grant purification, compression, and faster cultivation to others. Stored power drains even when idle and faster during cultivation 13.
• Soul Tool amplification: Can strengthen inanimate Soul Tools without fully revealing his Ultimate Martial Soul 22.
• Impurity removal: Spends nearly a day and night cleansing Ye Yulin, increasing his Soul Power and loosening his bottleneck. Refuses to attempt the same procedure on Kong Deming because the risk is too great 68.

Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff and Heaven-Hunting Lion Mastiff

His second original Martial Soul possesses an innate Domination Domain and two combat talents. It later evolves into the Heaven-Hunting Lion Mastiff and returns to true life 5 6 128.

• Indomitable: Becomes stronger as battle continues and more ferocious as its injuries worsen 6.
• Upward Assault: Described as ignoring level differences and defenses, allowing it to challenge stronger opponents 6.
• Ultimate Life: The evolved Lion Mastiff’s life attribute can counter the poisonous plants surrounding the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well 137.

Soul Skills

Destruction Bomb’s comparison rule:

• One comparable attribute: The bomb works, but cannot completely erase the target; it can be detected and forcibly removed 29.
• Two comparable attributes: Can erase part or half of the target, while becoming difficult to detect or remove 29.
• Three comparable attributes: Guarantees reduction to ash; the planted bomb cannot be detected or removed 29.

Spiritual and Temporal Abilities

His external Soul Bones expand both bomb control and his handling of time 12 64.

• Remote bomb placement: Combines spiritual power with Soul Power to plant bombs without touching the target 12.
• Mental commands: Prearranged instructions can trigger bombs even while his hands are restrained or he is unconscious 12.
• Time Anchoring: Maintains up to three anchors on the timeline 64.
• Epitaph: Initially foresees fifteen seconds before battle; the foresight interval increases with Soul Power 64.
• Threat detection: By the auction aftermath, can spiritually lock onto nearby hostile threats without a Soul Tool 94.

Heart of Creation

The Heart of Creation circulates the Power of Creation throughout his body and Spiritual Sea, repairing his deficient life origin and producing a tiny internal world 128.

• Bodily reconstruction: Replaces flawed cells, restores missing vitality, and preserves his prior physical strengths 128.
• Internal world: Electrolux places the Undead Demiplane and its laws of death within it, balancing life, destruction, and death 128.
• Spatial durability: Can crush space with his fist and withstand the resulting rifts unharmed 128.
• Negative-effect resistance: Resists most negative effects and ordinary poisons, although powerful poison-barrier attacks still inflict some initial damage 136 137.
• Evolved talents: Gains Immortality and Victory; Victory’s precise effects have not yet been tested when disclosed 133.

Martial Arts and Combat Strength

Bao Liang combines overwhelming physical force with explosive propulsion, forged weapons, and close-range technique 53 56 101.

• Eighteen Black Dragon Forms: Long Xiaoyao’s martial art. Bao Liang is the most proficient of the three children at integrating its forms, including internal-force attacks, acupoint strikes, resonance, meridian manipulation, and spiritual interference 119.
• Hongchen swordplay: Practices the household’s sword techniques before encountering Ji Juechen’s more directly lethal style 55.
• Tested combat capability: Before his creation-powered transformation, testing indicates that he can instantly kill Soul Masters below level 70, overpower those below level 79, contend with approximately level-85 experts, and survive several blows from a level-93 Titled Douluo 60.
• Later capability: By the auction aftermath, is stated to be capable of killing a Titled Douluo 94.

Instability and Costs

• Recurring loss of control: Mental-attribute cultivation initially stabilizes Explosion, but absorbing the True Dragon-Slaying Crown causes anything his hands touch to become an instantly detonating bomb 13 45.
• Suppression dependence: As Instant Explosion becomes more unstable, he requires specially made gloves and later additional restraints, including a bracelet, ring, and collar, to prevent indiscriminate explosions 45 105.
• Supercritical lifespan cost: At four rings, sixteenfold amplification corresponds to a stated lifespan limit of sixteen; a fifth ring raises that figure to twenty-five 50.
• Spiritual training side effects: Combining Hot Core with spiritual-power training overheats his body and temporarily leaves him drooling and incoherent 12.

Equipment and Items

• Full-body training Soul Tool — Gold-and-red adjustable-weight armor made by Jing Hongchen. Its starting weight is 500 kilograms, and its alloy incorporates Scarlet Demon Adamantine to withstand Bao Liang’s strength 13.
• Suppression Soul Tools — Kong Deming’s specialized restraints for preventing uncontrolled detonations 45 105.
• Pseudo Battle Armor: Calamity King Form — Integrates charging and propulsion Soul Tools. Its dark particle coating absorbs and annihilates incoming Soul Guidance Rays 53.
• Evil Eye External Soul Bone — Transforms his right eye and enables remote bomb placement and mental detonation commands 11 12.
• True Dragon-Slaying Crown — Head External Soul Bone appearing as a dragon-horn-shaped laurel. Grants a 100% all-attribute enhancement with doubled additional damage against dragons, plus stacking shields generated whenever he inflicts damage 45.
• Heart External Soul Bone: Negative Creation — Converts Chain Explosion’s output into an equivalent amplification 50.
• Temporal External Soul Bone — Supplies Time Anchoring and Epitaph, represented by a silver-gray illusory eye on his forehead 64.
• Pseudo · Heavenly Fire Holy Judgment — Temporary crimson-and-gold flaming greatsword created through Molten Fire Thousandfold Forging; he repairs its damaged hilt during combat 100 101.
• Ice Jade Scorpion Left Arm Bone — Purchased for 35 million Gold Soul Coins despite Bao Liang being a fire-attribute Soul Master 85.
• God Sealing Altar and Snow Empress Embryo — Acquired together at auction for 150 million Gold Soul Coins 88.
• Ye Yulin’s gifts — Gold Soul Coins, modified soul-guided weapons, and fixed-installation soul-guided bombs received after cleansing Ye Yulin’s bodily impurities 68.

Relationships

• Meng Hongchen — Romantic partner and intended wife. Bao Liang calls her the most important person in his life and works to eliminate her hereditary cold poison and help her become a god 123 131 147.
• Xiao Hongchen — Close friend, rival, and research partner. Their friendship begins with a fight and unpaid buns, then develops through sparring, explosives research, and a shared determination to protect Meng 3 17 21 22.
• Jing Hongchen — Guardian and principal patron. Provides Bao Liang with a home, training, resources, and protection while concealing his true potential from political threats 8 9 34.
• Ye Yulin — Senior protector and supporter. Rewards Bao Liang for cleansing his impurities and helps defend him after the Snow Empress auction 68 94.
• Kong Deming — Senior teacher and research collaborator who supplies suppression equipment and supports the forging project 44 45.
• Long Xiaoyao — Martial teacher and source of the Eighteen Black Dragon Forms 37 119.
• Electrolux — Spiritual mentor who repairs his damaged Spiritual Sea, guides his transformation, and teaches him necromancy 123 128 142.
• Dragon Fang and Iron Soldier — Companions whose transformed dragon forms he reveals after returning from seclusion. Dragon Fang also guards his Spiritual Sea and adds spiritual intimidation to his attacks 32 64 133.
• Snow Empress — Initially a dangerous captive, later a negotiated collaborator in his plan for Meng Hongchen’s godhood 123 130 131.
• Gu Yuena and Di Tian — Soul Beast allies. Gu Yuena secures his cooperation against Tang San, while Di Tian is instructed to provide support and needed Soul Beasts 149.
• Three-Eyed Golden Lion — Ward entrusted to him by the Star Dou leadership. He affectionately calls her his cub and promises to protect her from manipulation 149 152.
• Plane Consciousness / Little V — Transmigration benefactor and protector who addresses him as Godfather. Conceals him from Tang San and Tang Hao and admits to shifting his misfortunes onto Huo Yuhao 151 152.
• Tang San — Principal long-term enemy. Bao Liang opposes his alleged manipulation of fortune and godhood and repeatedly commits to confronting or killing him 50 133 149.

Notable Quotes

“On the path of a Soul Master, fists have the final say. If all you can do is cultivate and you can't fight, you're just putting on a show.” 17

“You're the most important person in my life. Of course I have to keep you safe.” — To Meng Hongchen 131

“My cub can do whatever she wants. If anyone dares set their sights on you, I'll fucking kill them!” — To the Three-Eyed Golden Lion 152