Meng De

Meng De is a ninth-bloodline young lord who exploits low-status relatives as retainers and unwittingly carries Meng Hao into the Meng Clan under Meng Chen's identity.

Biography

Opportunist at the 33 Hells

Meng De commands a merchant ship near the Heavengod Alliance with an older Dao Protector shielding him. He sees the wounded Meng Hao and the conflict around Patriarch Blacksoul as opportunities for status and treasure, but stays behind stronger protectors. When the 33 Hells opens, he orders expendable bodyguards—including Meng Chen—inside to retrieve good fortune while he remains outside. (Chapters 1230–1234)

Only “Meng Chen” returns, actually Meng Hao in disguise. Meng De confiscates the offered silver trident and searches his bag, then rewards the supposed survivor with three days in the sick bay. The shallow inspection shows how little he knows the servant whose life he controlled. He focuses on profit from restricted goods and personal luxury while his branch's retainers bear the danger. (Chapters 1249–1250)

Return to the clan

On the journey, Meng De remains oblivious while Meng Hao studies the ship and removes an abusive Han Clan youth. Back at the ancestral lands, his privileged identity contrasts sharply with the tenth bloodline's widows and servants. Meng Hao's intervention exposes the curse and factional persecution that made such exploitation possible. (Chapters 1251–1254)

Meng De later recognizes Meng Hao during the eighth patriarch's failed attack. As a ninth-bloodline member, he watches his own patriarch join the five-expert challenge, his expression complicated rather than triumphant. He survives the upheaval and remains present as the clan reorganizes after the curse is broken. (Chapters 1261–1262, 1267 and 1271)

Appearance and personality

Meng De is a handsome young man accustomed to deference. He is greedy, entitled, and cowardly in how he delegates danger, but not unusually perceptive: he fails to recognize a completely different man wearing Meng Chen's face because he never knew the servant well.

Abilities and cultivation

Clan cultivation

He possesses cultivation appropriate to a young Meng noble, but the supplied scenes do not demonstrate a named personal technique. His survival comes primarily from status, ship defenses, and his Dao Protector.

Command and patronage

Meng De can order retainers into lethal danger, allocate treatment, seize mission gains, and threaten reports to clan authorities. This is institutional coercion rather than combat power.

Merchant scheme

He organizes a voyage to buy restricted Heavengod Alliance goods and resell them at profit. The plan shows commercial intent but is designed to finance his lifestyle, not restore the clan's weakened branch.

Relationships

• Meng Chen: Coerced bodyguard whose life Meng De treats as expendable.
• Meng Hao: Impostor aboard his ship and later force overturning clan politics.
• Meng De's Dao Protector: Senior guardian who supplies the security Meng De personally lacks.
• Ninth Bloodline Patriarch: Factional elder whose confrontation Meng De watches.

Items

• Meng Clan merchant ship: Command resource protected by shields and a Dao expert.
• Silver trident: Treasure surrendered by the disguised Meng Hao and claimed as mission gain; not a lasting signature item.