Li Ming

Biodata

Power Progression

Background

Li Ming’s father is a retired military logistics soldier who hopes his son will awaken a strong dungeon theme and bring honor to the family. After Li Ming awakens an A-rank technological civilization, Su Mu recommends military special recruitment as his best future path because of its favorable treatment of technology-type themes and clear promotion structure. Li Ming is willing to abandon that prospect to help Su Mu, but ultimately agrees to trust his friend’s independent plans 4.

Li Ming is later recommended for admission to a local military academy in Rongcheng. Ye Qingxue notes that his A-rank technological theme and core card make him a promising candidate, while suggesting that his father may also have connections. His admission is guaranteed without taking the college entrance examination, and he begins academy training 77 105.

Personality

Li Ming is outspoken, excitable, and deeply loyal. The narration describes him as not particularly bright, but willing to stake his life on a promise to support a friend. His apparently careless manner does not stop him from completing practical tasks thoroughly, such as building his dungeon and gathering trial information for Su Mu 4 13 20.

His protectiveness can become stubborn self-sacrifice. During the hard trial, he continues fighting beyond his limits to reduce the burden on Su Mu. Once he understands how much stronger Su Mu has become, however, he refuses a nightmare run rather than take experience and restrict his friend’s progress 26 27.

He celebrates Su Mu’s successes without resentment. Although curious about the extraordinary strength of Little Drill Wind, he stops pressing when Su Mu declines to explain it. His understanding remains rooted in conventional dungeon theory, leading him to underestimate the usefulness of Years Like a Blade to Su Mu 26 38 39 40.

Even after entering the military academy, Li Ming remains eager to help Su Mu. He offers to carry him through dungeons and is astonished, rather than resentful, to learn that Su Mu placed first in the province 105 172.

Abilities & Skills

Biochemical War

Li Ming uses an A-rank technological civilization focused on legion combat and troop production 3.

• Established construction models: He follows standard technological-civilization procedures to build a coherent mothership-and-barracks framework, earning praise from the school’s teachers 4 7.
• Rapid troop production: His barracks produce replacement biochemical soldiers during battle, supported by the mothership’s energy reserves 26.
• Strong early combat: His unarmed soldiers easily defeat the first two waves of the hard trial; a punch can crush a level-one goblin’s skull 25.
• Incomplete equipment: He lacks equipment cards during the hard trial and explicitly identifies this as a severe reduction in his forces’ combat power 25.
• Attrition limits: By the end of the fifth hard-mode wave, all twelve deployed soldiers have been lost, mothership energy has fallen below thirty percent, and production can no longer replace casualties quickly enough 26.

Cooperative Dungeon Combat

Li Ming understands the distinction between temporary cooperation and a permanently bound secret realm 3.

• Separate dungeon systems: Temporary cooperation links entrances and redirects monsters without forcing one dungeon to operate under another’s rules 3.
• Relay defense: He and Su Mu alternate active battlefields during the hard trial, allowing Li Ming’s steel battlefield to give way to Lion Camel Ridge 25 26.
• Compatibility: He correctly explains to Ye Qingxue that his technological legion can cooperate with Su Mu’s special dungeon without their themes interfering 3.
• Military training: His academy regimen includes dungeon coordination practice as well as physical training 105.

Dungeon Assets

• Biochemical Mothership — His A-rank core card. It hovers over the battlefield and connects to the three barracks through cables 3 25.
• Three biochemical barracks — Pipe-covered structures containing dark green biochemical fluid; they form the production infrastructure around his core 7 25.
• Biochemical soldiers — Humanoid troops with gray-green biochemical armor, concealed faces, and dark red eyes. They initially fight without weapons 25.
• Elite biochemical soldiers — Two elite troops break through the shield-bearing goblins in the third hard-mode wave 25.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Awakening and Offers of Support

Before Su Mu’s awakening, Li Ming encourages him and predicts a strong result based on his school-leading soul power. After awakening his own A-rank theme, he immediately offers Su Mu assistance with materials and cooperative combat 1 3.

When Ye Qingxue offers Su Mu a place in her Ice and Snow World, Li Ming steps between them, suspecting she intends to exploit their academic rivalry. He continues offering Su Mu a shared path afterward, relenting only when Su Mu reminds him of his dungeon-design record and promises to seek help if necessary 3 4.

Goblin Trials

Li Ming scouts the North Gate Trial Grounds and waits for Su Mu with information about the goblin waves. He initially proposes protecting Su Mu through normal difficulty, but accepts Su Mu’s argument that separate clears will preserve their experience gains 13 20.

After clearing normal at level four, he joins Su Mu for hard difficulty. He volunteers to handle the opening waves and ultimately defeats the first five before switching out. Little Drill Wind’s overwhelming performance in the remaining waves reveals the true strength of Su Mu’s dungeon to him 24 25 26.

Teachers and students initially give Li Ming most of the credit for the team clear. Li Ming himself recognizes that Su Mu carried the decisive later battles and declines the subsequent invitation to nightmare difficulty 27.

Wang Hao’s Wager

Li Ming warns Su Mu against Wang Hao’s provocation, but backs him when the wager proceeds, offering his A-rank theme and core card as collateral. He waits anxiously throughout the nightmare attempt 28 29 30 33.

After Su Mu wins, Li Ming celebrates Wang Hao’s humiliation while warning that Wang Hao’s family has influence in Rongcheng and may retaliate 37.

The Random-Quality Skill Book

Li Ming encourages Su Mu to open the won skill book and is thrilled when it yields an S-grade skill. His excitement fades upon learning it is Years Like a Blade, which conventional dungeon users consider impractical. Unaware of its value to Su Mu’s developing creatures and spirit stone, he repeatedly tries to comfort him 38 39 40.

Before they part for home, he arranges to meet Su Mu at the trial grounds the following morning 40.

Military Academy

Su Mu later looks for Li Ming at the Goblin Nest but does not find him. Ye Qingxue subsequently tells Su Mu that Li Ming has been recommended to a local military academy, news that makes Su Mu genuinely happy for him 71 77.

During pre-enrollment training, Li Ming tells Su Mu that his guaranteed admission exempts him from the college entrance examination. His demanding regimen includes a daily five-kilometer run and dungeon coordination practice. He reports reaching level fourteen, promises to carry Su Mu once he grows stronger, and wishes him luck on the examination 98 105.

After the examination, Li Ming calls Su Mu when intensive training finally allows him access to his phone. Initially worried by Su Mu’s description of his result as “average,” he learns that his friend placed first in the province and chose Tsinghua and Peking Universities. Li Ming reports that he has reached level fifteen and mentions an unusual time difference in his training; Su Mu suspects a special secret realm but does not press for military details. Li Ming promises to visit when he gets a break 172.

Relationships

• Su Mu — Best friend since their first year of high school. Li Ming calls him “Brother Mu” and “Old Su”; their support becomes reciprocal when Su Mu carries him through the later hard-mode waves. Li Ming continues encouraging him and offering to help after entering military academy 1 4 26 27 105 172.
• Ye Qingxue — Schoolmate whose intentions toward Su Mu he misreads: first as possible romantic interest, then as an attempt to recruit or exploit him. She later informs Su Mu of Li Ming’s military academy recommendation 1 3 77.
• Wang Hao — Su Mu’s antagonistic schoolmate. Li Ming opposes his provocation, guarantees Su Mu’s wager, and warns about possible retaliation afterward 28 29 37.
• Father — A retired military logistics soldier who hopes Li Ming will awaken a strong theme and bring honor to the family. Ye Qingxue suggests that he may have connections relevant to Li Ming’s academy recommendation 4 77.

Notable Quotes

“If your results aren't good later on, you have to come find me. If you don't, we can't be brothers anymore.” 4

“If you still consider me your brother, go in by yourself. I'll wait out here for you to come out. Just tell me how many waves you cleared afterward.” 27

“Once I get my Biochemical Mothership build set up, I'll have no trouble carrying you through dungeons.” 172