Su Ming

Su Ming is the central protagonist of Pursuit of the Truth. Raised in Dark Mountain Tribe as a youth believed unable to cultivate, he becomes a Berserker in secret and spends the rest of his life contesting the identities, memories, and destinies imposed on him. His search expands from protecting a small tribe to resisting Di Tian, uncovering his Abyss Builder heritage, confronting the wills governing whole universes, and ultimately choosing the people preserved in his past over a future lived alone.

Biography

Dark Mountain and the Berserker awakening

Su Ming begins as Dark Mountain Tribe's herb gatherer and young doctor. He longs to become a Berserker, but the tribe's initiation appears to prove that he has no Berserker Body, leaving him useful to his home yet excluded from the path he most admires. His strongest family bond is with the elder Mo Sang, who raised and taught him, while Lei Chen and Xiao Hong are his closest companions. The black fragment Xiao Hong gives him changes that apparent fate: it opens a strange inherited space, supplies the Quenching and Dispersing method, and helps him deceive the tribe's deity statue so that he can circulate his blood and begin cultivating. Su Ming hides the source of this change even from Mo Sang because he believes disclosure could endanger the entire tribe. (Chapters 1–15)

His secrecy does not diminish his loyalty. Under the name Mo Su, he enters the Feng Zhen trial and climbs far beyond what others expect, using the result to test himself without exposing his identity. He also builds an affectionate bond with Bai Ling after rescuing her from the Nightwing caverns, and he develops pills both to accelerate his own cultivation and to help the people he loves. When Black Mountain Tribe attacks the migrating Dark Mountain Tribe, Su Ming turns his painstakingly accumulated speed, blood veins, medicine, bow, and spear against enemies stronger than himself. He repeatedly accepts wounds and exhaustion to buy the refugees time, and the deaths around him replace the sheltered youth's excitement about cultivation with grief and a capacity for ruthless action when his home is threatened. (Chapters 24–111)

Separated from his home, Su Ming adopts the identity Fang Mu while gathering information and building cautious ties around Han Mountain. What begins as a practical effort to find his way back becomes a deeper crisis after broken memories and visions suggest that his past has been altered. He refuses to accept either destiny or another person's account of who he is, deciding that he will obtain the strength to learn the answer and choose his own fate. His climb from the first level of Blood Solidification through its great circle culminates in Awakening, where lightning becomes his Origin Vessel and the unresolved memory of Dark Mountain begins to define the Berserker Mark that he will make his own. (Chapters 114–199)

Freezing Sky and the Ninth Summit

During Awakening, Su Ming is shown ready-made identities—a moon and a purple-haired image of himself—but gives them up rather than accept a future chosen for him. He ultimately draws a vast, unprecedented Mark from his own memories, centered on Dark Mountain and the tribe whose reality he cannot yet prove. Tian Xie Zi sees both the Mark and Su Ming's uncertainty and takes him to the Ninth Summit. There Su Ming finds a second home among his eccentric senior brothers: Eldest Senior Brother's protectiveness, Second Senior Brother's quiet care, and Hu Zi's boisterous loyalty give him a family that does not depend on certainty about his birth. This belonging steadies him even as the question of Dark Mountain continues to trouble him. (Chapters 201–228)

His position at Freezing Sky Clan also places him in conflict with Si Ma Xin. Their struggle is personal as well as martial: Si Ma Xin's power intrudes on hearts and memories, while Su Ming increasingly treats sovereignty over his mind as non-negotiable. Su Ming develops the Dark Mountain Mark through battle, wins recognition from Han Mountain Bell, and presses from middle to great-circle Awakening. When the black fragment again deceives a deity statue, he receives the Wind Berserker legacy despite knowing he was not originally the Wind Berserker; he gains Provenance of Wind and Wind Separation Slash, then enters Bone Sacrifice and also receives an Origin of Lightning. These rewards make him formidable, but the fragment's intervention means that some of these inheritances are acquired through an external relic rather than innate affinity. (Chapters 229–360)

In the Shaman lands and the World of Nine Yin, Su Ming survives by combining caution, bargains, poison, sealing arts, and increasingly dangerous transformations. His dealings with the Candle Dragon's remains, the Spirits of Nine Yin, and Ji Yun Hai's corpse broaden his methods beyond conventional Berserker cultivation. They also leave him with divided forms and powers that are not all native to his original body. When a red-haired state awakens and Di Tian's projection appears, Su Ming recognizes the enemy tied to his erased memories. He cannot overcome Di Tian's superior power outright, but he refuses to submit, burns a finite strand bearing the first God of Berserkers' power, and uses every opening to escape the attempt to reseal his mind. The confrontation turns his uncertainty into a fixed goal: he will break Di Tian's control and recover the truth of his life. (Chapters 361–406)

South Morning and the Immortal conflict

The Eastern Wastelands catastrophe shatters South Morning and leaves survivors vulnerable to predation. Su Ming responds not only as a wanderer seeking his past but as a protector: he defends Southern Swamp Island, challenges Eastern Wastelands cultivators who treat the displaced people as prey, and searches for the scattered members of the Ninth Summit. He learns that his senior brothers left in turn to find Tian Xie Zi, making the survival of that chosen family one of his main reasons to keep advancing. His early relationship with the bald crane begins through coercion and mutual suspicion, but the crane's transformations and talent with Runes repeatedly become indispensable to his efforts. (Chapters 410–594)

Di Tian's seal prevents Su Ming from completing a normal advance to Berserker Soul: his first attempt fails when the seal reacts, confirming that the enemy can interfere with both his memories and cultivation. Su Ming therefore turns the breakthrough itself into a confrontation. He fuses the images of Destiny, Dark Mountain, and the Ninth Summit into a personal statue rather than reproducing the conventional form, and he draws the power and recognition of the Berserkers around him. The resulting path is irregular and incomplete in form, but it lets him oppose Di Tian and assume responsibility as the Fourth God of Berserkers. He then chooses Life Cultivation, forms an Atman at Life Matrix, and treats the liberation of the Berserkers from Immortal rule as a duty rather than merely a source of personal strength. (Chapters 638–705)

Victory does not restore a simple life. Su Ming reunites with his senior brothers and learns that Tian Xie Zi has left Yin Death Region, but his own body and soul are divided: his physical body remains connected to the Immortal lands while his soul is forced into the Barren Lands of Divine Essence under the state of Yin Death's Child. The mask suppresses emotion and pain, making his survival colder and more calculating without erasing his underlying commitments. Identified as an Abyss Builder, he accepts help from Crimson Flame while remaining wary of being turned into the symbol or tool of another lost people. Hunted by the four Great True Worlds, he resolves to grow strong enough to return, find his master, and decide for himself what his heritage requires. (Chapters 706–800)

Divine Essence and Ecang

In the Barren Lands, Su Ming is a fugitive who cannot afford prolonged recovery; he changes hiding places after only a few days and uses information, ambushes, and alliances to survive enemies with higher formal cultivation. He recovers Ji Yun Hai and develops separate vessels for his Immortal cultivation and physical-body path, while the bald crane evolves from a sealed, reluctant helper into the companion who repeatedly risks itself beside him. Su Ming's willingness to promise resurrection to the dead and dispossessed also begins to connect his Abyss Builder identity with a concrete obligation rather than a title. (Chapters 801–827)

His decisive transformation comes through the attempt to Possess Ecang. Ecang is not a complete being at this point but one wounded tenth of a greater life, and even that fragment nearly overwhelms him. The bald crane holds back Ecang's resistance, Sui Chen Zi's remaining law supplies further help, and Su Ming spreads his soul through the tree's venous pathways until he takes the purple Ecang completely. He deliberately leaves the Ecang clone within its one hundred thousand galaxies, where it can grow and contend with the other nine parts, instead of exposing it outside prematurely. The clone grants Divine Essence and overwhelming will, but its strength remains conditional on that separate body and on the incomplete state of Ecang. (Chapters 828–838)

With Ecang as a foundation, Su Ming explores Divine Essence Star Ocean, seeks the Fifth True World, and tries to understand why the Abyss Builders were destroyed. The black fragment is revealed as part of the Seed of Life Extermination, linking his earliest opportunity to a much older scheme. He uses Ecang's worlds and God Ascension Nectar to enter and stabilize in World Plane Realm, yet advancement does not make the four Great True Worlds or the hidden camps harmless. His journey through the fifth kiln and the legacies surrounding Old Man Extermination reveals that apparent gifts may be mechanisms for selecting, preserving, or sacrificing lives. Su Ming therefore keeps taking power while refusing to surrender judgment over what it means. (Chapters 839–1000)

Returning toward True Morning Dao World, Su Ming merges and coordinates his different bodies, reaches Lunar Kalpa and later Mastery, and enters Morning Dao Sect through the identity and position associated with Dao Kong. His pursuit of Yu Xuan and confrontation with the Emperor of Abyss's third prince show how personal loyalty directs that power: when Yu Xuan is used to provoke and restrain him, he tears through protections that should be beyond his level rather than abandon her. He later reunites with all three Ninth Summit brothers after more than a thousand years. Those reunions reinforce the principle that will govern his final choices—strength matters because it gives him a chance to bring people home. (Chapters 1001–1200)

Arid Triad and the dying aeon

Su Ming enters the late struggle knowing that Arid Triad Expanse Cosmos is not stable and that its cultivation history has been repeatedly broken. Heavenly Incense induces false perceptions of reaching Death Realm and then Sublime Paragon, but the apparent breakthroughs are fake rather than usable progression. He pursues Great Berserker Tribe's spirit ascension instead, forming a Death Realm Berserker Body while his durable cultivation advances from Fate into Life Realm and later Death Realm. This route binds his increasing strength to the collective history of the Berserkers rather than to an illusory shortcut. (Chapters 1155–1220)

The enemy is no longer one ruler. Arid Triad's will seeks to Possess the Harmonious Morus Alba, while the butterfly's four wings approach the overlap that will end the aeon. Su Ming gathers the Ninth Summit and allied lives, confronts survivors and manipulators from previous aeons, and tries to send those he values beyond the coming destruction. The apparent distinction between real and false has by then lost some of its power over him: after Dark Mountain, altered bodies, and competing universes, he concludes that his own care and choices are real enough to act on. That position lets him cooperate when necessary without yielding to Arid Triad's claim that all other lives are expendable components of survival. (Chapters 1221–1343)

During an extended epiphany, Su Ming touches Boundless Dao and manifests a Dao Divinity. It is a qualification and a wisp of a higher state, not full mastery, and both Old Man Extermination and the dying Harmonious Morus Alba react because of what it might allow him to become. He then learns that the Seed of Life Extermination and the engineered Abyss Builder line were designed to produce an offering for Xuan Zang. Instead of accepting that role, Su Ming studies the locating Rune through repeated deaths, copies it, and turns the designation of “offering” back on Old Man Extermination. Even when Xuan Zang's intervention erases his attempts to save everyone, Su Ming and the bald crane both choose to risk themselves rather than abandon the other. Su Ming finally commits his remaining life and soul to Possessing Xuan Zang, transforming an imposed destiny into a contest of will. (Chapters 1344–1377)

Ancient Zang and the final truth

Su Ming awakens in Ancient Zang after the beginning of that Possession with his memories intact but without certainty about the world around him. He takes the body of a dying Seven Moons Sect youth to regain a foothold, retrieves fragments of his will, and learns that he is also identified as Ancient Zang's Third Prince. He treats the imperial succession and sect competition as means to one end: increasing his local cultivation until he can complete the Possession. Even so, his time in Seven Moons Sect creates genuine bonds. Gu Tai's instruction and confidence become important enough that Su Ming cannot reduce him to a disposable illusion, a conflict between his theory of the world and the attachments he continues to form within it. (Chapters 1378–1414)

Su Ming forces the Dao Spirit transition by sounding nine Dao Spirit Voices across Ancient Zang, openly declaring the indignation, longing, and determination carried from his former life. He advances through Dao Spirit and Dao Immortal while refining the Space Whip and Feng Shui compass and investigating what the Ancient Zang world actually is. He eventually states openly that it is the battlefield created by his struggle to Possess Xuan Zang, yet that knowledge does not make its sacrifices emotionally weightless. His cultivation serves a test of truth: each recovered power and memory must help him distinguish his own will from Xuan Zang's world rather than simply crown him within it. (Chapters 1415–1460)

The final conflict brings him against Ancient Zang's sovereign order and toward the thirty-three Skies. Gu Hong, his master in this life, discovers that Su Ming's path is the one that can break the illusion and reverses his own Dao to become Su Ming's ninth Dao Divinity. Su Ming receives the advancement in tears rather than triumph because its price is Gu Hong's life and legacy. Carrying that sacrifice, he crosses the Skies, rejects the choice to remain inside a perfected false world, and successfully completes the Possession of Xuan Zang. The victory gives him a universe within himself, but it does not recover every person he lost or erase the cost of the road. (Chapters 1461–1478)

Su Ming's last decision resolves the question that followed him from Dark Mountain. Instead of severing his past to preserve an unlimited future, he severs his future and pours his life force inward so that the Brands of the people he saved can awaken in his world. Dark Mountain, the Ninth Summit, the Berserkers, friends, teachers, and loved ones live again, while Su Ming's body becomes rigid and sinks beyond recovery into the cycles of life and death. Because the bald crane remains missing, his final request to Old Man Extermination is that the debt between them be used to find it and bring it home. Su Ming thus achieves the truth he pursued not as an uncontested fact about his birth, but as a final act of choice: he refuses eternal solitude and gives his remaining existence to the relationships he decided were real. (Chapters 1478–1481)

Appearance and personality

As a teenager, Su Ming has handsome, refined features and a thin, comparatively weak-looking build that sets him apart from the sturdier people of Dark Mountain Tribe. He wears animal skins, a crescent-bone necklace, and loosely tied, disheveled hair. A shard from Dark Mountain's shattered deity statue cuts his face during the tribe's disaster, leaving the distinctive scar beneath his eye that later acquaintances use to recognize him. In later periods his face is often pale and carries an increasingly ancient air. Purple hair becomes the enduring visual sign of his Destiny state and later of Su Ming's own asserted identity; in Ancient Zang he can restore that purple hair even while inhabiting another local body. (Chapters 1–3, 96, 199, 252, 847, 1395, and 1471)

Su Ming's most consistent trait is determination under conditions designed to make him doubt himself. As a boy, that appears in his dangerous herb gathering and repeated failed refining attempts; later it becomes refusal to kneel to Di Tian, refusal to let a false or engineered identity dictate his loyalties, and willingness to die repeatedly to understand an enemy's method. He is cautious and capable of deception, frequently testing motives before committing himself, but his calculation is not emotional indifference. He can be merciless toward those who threaten his home, yet he repeatedly risks himself for people with little strategic value and ultimately relinquishes his future for them. The periods in which a mask suppresses his feelings make this distinction explicit: the cold presentation is an imposed state, while care for home, master, brothers, companions, and the dead continues to determine his direction. (Chapters 1, 94–99, 405–406, 715, 747–800, 1342, 1375, and 1481)

Abilities and cultivation

Su Ming moves through three formal cultivation systems and also accumulates inherited, copied, bodily, and item-derived powers. His abilities therefore cannot be treated as a single uninterrupted ladder: the Berserker path belongs to his early body and people, his later World Plane and Third-Step power is distributed across bodies and clones, and Ancient Zang supplies a local Dao system during the battle of Possession. He frequently fights above his recorded formal realm through unusual foundations or temporary access, but those feats do not by themselves establish permanent advancement.

Berserker body, blood veins, and Mark

The black stone fragment enables Su Ming to begin Blood Solidification after the tribe's normal initiation rejects him. He condenses blood veins, uses medicine to sustain the process, and develops speed and physical endurance through repeated training. This foundation is partly self-made and partly relic-enabled: without the fragment deceiving the deity statue, the source does not show that he could have entered the orthodox path in the same way. At Awakening, lightning becomes his Origin Vessel, letting him anchor the transformation to a force he has personally mastered. (Chapters 3–11, 57–197)

His Berserker Mark is not a decorative emblem but a manifestation of memory and soul. Su Ming rejects the first Marks presented in his trance, then draws Dark Mountain across his body. It can manifest the mountain, tribe, blood moon, and people remembered there, clash directly with other Marks, and later fuse with the Ninth Summit and Destiny to form parts of his personal God of Berserkers statue. Its strength is inseparable from the memories behind it: attacks on those memories or Di Tian's seal can disrupt his breakthroughs, while emotional recognition makes the manifestation more complete. (Chapters 199–236, 302–331, 639–675)

Elemental legacies and Berserker transformations

At Bone Sacrifice, the black fragment deceives the deity statue into recognizing Su Ming as the first Wind Berserker. The resulting Provenance of Wind gives him access to a wind distinct from the ambient world, while Wind Separation Slash is branded into his memory as a legacy attack. He cannot initially control that provenance at will and must refine it. He also receives an Origin of Lightning after testing whether a Lightning Berserker inheritance exists. These are learned or bestowed powers, not proof that he was innately born as either elemental Berserker. (Chapters 354–360)

Su Ming's red-haired and purple-haired transformations draw on different states of self, inherited power, and Destiny's reincarnations. They can sharply increase combat ability, murderous aura, and access to techniques, but they also expose the fragmentation produced by Di Tian's manipulation. Later, Su Ming fuses Destiny, Dark Mountain, and the Ninth Summit into his own statue, turning formerly competing identities into components of one chosen path. The statue develops in parts rather than appearing complete at once, and his first Berserker Soul attempt fails; despite that obstruction, he later attains great completion in Berserker Soul before entering Life Cultivation. (Chapters 392–406, 475–495, 638–689)

Life Cultivation, Atman, and physical-body path

Life Cultivation is described as cultivation of one's vitality and fate so that a cultivator recognizes weaknesses and gains mastery over the self. Su Ming first produces only a hint of that presence through an epiphany and the Undertaker of Evil's armor, demonstrating combat power beyond his formal stage without yet entering the realm. He later chooses the path deliberately, forms an Atman, and reaches initial Life Matrix. He then advances through Life Privation—mapped locally to Earth Cultivation—from its initial stage to peak Earth Cultivation, before crossing into completed and then great-completion Life Palace, the equivalent Heaven Cultivation state. These advances make soul, body, and vitality answer increasingly to his own will instead of Di Tian's design. (Chapters 499, 534–549, 689–692, 747–751, 821, 838, and 843)

His clone practicing the Art of Swallowing Hollow Shadows Whole specializes in physical strength and incorporates powers associated with the Crimson Python Phoenix and the Surging Indulgers. Spirit ascension eventually produces a Berserker Body in Death Realm whose blows can break the sky and whose potential is enhanced by the body's reconstruction through Possession. This body is a distinct source of power: before Su Ming's own cultivation reaches Death Realm, the completed body already has that physical grade, and it should not be confused with the false advancement perceived under Heavenly Incense. (Chapters 787, 920, 1173–1195, and 1220)

Possession, clones, and Ecang

Su Ming learns to divide and relocate soul-based power through his encounters with Immortal Nascent Souls and corpse vessels. Ji Yun Hai's empty body first gives him a practical vessel for a Nascent Soul and later becomes a poison-bearing body. He eventually coordinates a cultivation-base clone, the physical-body clone, and the Ecang clone. Separation gives him parallel routes of growth and survival, but it also creates risks: a clone can be sealed, stranded, or weaker than the whole, and some accomplishments belong to one body rather than all of them automatically. (Chapters 385–415, 787–838, and 920)

Possessing purple Ecang grants Su Ming a body made from one wounded tenth of the greater Ecang, command of its one hundred thousand worlds, Divine Essence, and a will that can dominate ordinary life. The feat requires outside assistance and nearly fails; it does not amount to possessing complete Ecang. Su Ming leaves the clone in its galaxy to grow and potentially devour the other nine portions. Later mergers let him draw on its life and power, but attacks capable of tearing Ecang apart remain genuine counters. (Chapters 828–838, 907–918, 1011–1032)

Abyss Builder gifts and the Seed of Life Extermination

As an Abyss Builder, Su Ming possesses an Abyssal World and the potential to restore dead lives through preserved Brands. The power is not effortless resurrection: early on, he can offer only hope because his cultivation is insufficient to activate the Abyssal World fully. Abyss Gate later devours hostile power and becomes part of the inner-world mechanism by which he preserves lives. At the end, awakening those lives requires all of his outward life force, causes his body to die, and removes him from the future he could otherwise have lived. (Chapters 821, 1024–1034, 1121, 1353, and 1481)

The Seed of Life Extermination is item-derived and parasitic rather than an innate Abyss Builder organ. It can analyze and disassemble structures, expose flaws, protect Su Ming when its host is threatened, and connect him to Old Man Extermination's legacy. Its protection is self-serving: it consumes his Nascent Divinity and eventually devours almost his entire soul while completing itself. Su Ming must separate from it to escape destruction, and later revelations show that its legacy was part of the plan to make an Abyss Builder into Xuan Zang's offering. (Chapters 834, 985, 1032, 1087–1141, and 1371–1375)

World power, laws, and Dao

Ecang's worlds and God Ascension Nectar help Su Ming cross into World Plane Realm, after which he can direct power of World Planes and eventually form his anomalous three-colored Lunar Kalpa moon. Ecang and Divine Essence can also lend Lunar- or Solar-equivalent output without advancing his true cultivation. His real base reaches Mastery and then Fate through a later epiphany. Heavenly Incense subsequently creates false perceptions of Death Realm and Sublime Paragon rather than genuine access to those states; Su Ming's durable cultivation instead advances from initial to middle Life Realm during spirit ascension and later enters Death Realm. (Chapters 907–918, 926–950, 1017, 1106, 1155–1160, 1172–1174, 1195, and 1220)

His epiphany of Boundless Dao initially produces only a wisp of that realm and a Dao Divinity, described as the seed or qualification needed to pursue it. It can dissolve obstructing power through the authority of his will, but at that point he has not fully entered Boundless Dao. In Ancient Zang, he rebuilds through two levels of Dao Divinity, forms a Dao Shadow, and sounds nine Dao Spirit Voices to enter Dao Spirit Realm with three bodies and a fourth shadow. He progresses through the third, fourth, fifth, and sixth confirmed Dao Spirit states, fuses the six into Dao Immortal Realm, and later reaches eighth-level Great Dao Paragon. Gu Hong's sacrifice supplies the ninth overlapping Dao God, raising Su Ming to ninth-level Dao Divinity, before Su Ming finally enters Boundless Dao Realm. These local advances sustain the Possession battle; they do not make Ancient Zang's apparent world independently real. (Chapters 1344–1346, 1389–1478)

Su Ming's greatest final ability is Possession itself: a contest in which his will, memories, and accumulated identities struggle to replace or absorb another existence. It is neither quick nor safe. His attempt against Xuan Zang burns his life and soul, traps him in three thousand years of Ancient Zang experience, and succeeds only after he reconstructs his path, receives Gu Hong's final aid, and crosses the thirty-three Skies. The victory grants a vast inner universe, but his subsequent choice to populate it with awakened lives consumes what remains of his own future. (Chapters 1377–1481)

Power progression

Relationships

• Mo Sang: The elder raises Su Ming and is the grandfather and first teacher of his remembered childhood. Doubts about Dark Mountain never erase Su Ming's gratitude; he continues to regard Mo Sang's care and lessons as part of the truth he chooses to preserve.
• Tian Xie Zi: Su Ming's master at the Ninth Summit gives him a home and guides him through the problem of clearing his mind. Finding Tian Xie Zi remains a central goal across worlds, and Tian Xie Zi ultimately follows Su Ming into the final vortex rather than leave him alone.
• Eldest Senior Brother, Second Senior Brother, and Hu Zi: The three disciples of the Ninth Summit become Su Ming's chosen brothers. Their separations, searches for one another, and reunion after more than a thousand years make the Ninth Summit one of the two homes embodied in his cultivation and final world.
• Bald Crane: Their bond begins with fear, sealing, bargaining, and the crane's attempts to escape. Repeated shared dangers turn it into Su Ming's closest companion; it risks itself against Ecang and Xuan Zang, and Su Ming's last request is that it be found and brought home.
• Di Tian: Di Tian seals Su Ming's memories, interferes with his cultivation, and repeatedly tries to return him to an obedient, confused state. Su Ming's refusal to kneel and his eventual breaking of that control turn Di Tian into the clearest early embodiment of the fate he rejects.
• Su Xuan Yi: Su Ming initially interprets Su Xuan Yi's arrangements as a hidden father's protection and agrees to pursue his stated wish for the Abyss Builders. Later evidence shows manipulation, designs on Su Ming's body and destiny, and no secure family bond, forcing Su Ming to recover from another collapsed account of his origins.
• Ecang: Ecang is both an opponent and the source of Su Ming's purple Ecang clone. He Possesses one wounded tenth rather than the complete being, suppresses its resistance with aid, and uses that separate body as a foundation for later cosmic cultivation.
• Arid Triad: Arid Triad is a rival will seeking survival through Possessing Harmonious Morus Alba. Their conflict pits Arid Triad's claim over the cosmos against Su Ming's insistence that the lives within it are not expendable extensions of a ruling will.
• Harmonious Morus Alba: Su Ming first knows the butterfly as a Berserker legend, then learns that its dying body contains the universe and the aeonic crisis. He opposes both its manipulation and its destruction while trying to carry the lives inside beyond the ending aeon.
• Xuan Zang: Xuan Zang is the being for whom Su Ming was engineered as an offering and the final target of his Possession. Their struggle generates the Ancient Zang experience and ends when Su Ming crosses the thirty-three Skies and takes control of Xuan Zang's body.
• Bai Ling: Bai Ling is Su Ming's first love in the Dark Mountain period. Later claims that the relationship was false wound him deeply, but subsequent evidence that she had a real side supports his mature conclusion that the value of what he felt is not erased by manipulation.
• Yu Xuan, Xu Hui, and Fang Cang Lan: Each forms a distinct intimate bond with Su Ming across different stages of his journey. His efforts to protect, recover, and preserve them culminate in placing his life force and the continuation of his life into their Brands within his final world.
• Lei Chen: Lei Chen is Su Ming's childhood friend and one of the people whose reality remains entangled with Dark Mountain's mystery. Their separation and Lei Chen's absence from the final restored gathering leave one of Su Ming's earliest relationships unresolved.
• Xiao Hong: The fire ape is Su Ming's earliest nonhuman companion and gives him the black fragment that opens his cultivation path. That apparently casual exchange is later revealed to connect Su Ming to the Seed of Life Extermination and the much older design surrounding him.

Items

• Black Stone Fragment: The fragment Xiao Hong gives Su Ming teaches Quenching and Dispersing, helps deceive Berserker deity statues, and is later identified with the Spirit Refinement Stone and Seed of Life Extermination legacy.
• Blood-Scale Spear: An early spear-shaped Man-Tool used during Su Ming's Blood Solidification battles.
• Small Virescent Sword: A recurring flying sword under Su Ming's control across his Shaman and later journeys.
• Han Mountain Bell: The ancient bell acknowledges Su Ming and becomes one of his longest-used treasures, providing attacks, protection, suppression, and seals such as the one placed on Ji Yun Hai.
• Origin Awakening Vessel: The cauldron-shaped black plate associated with Su Ming's Awakening and Origin Vessel.
• Great Barren Cauldron: A legacy cauldron associated with the Wind Berserker recognition and Su Ming's later path.
• Poison Corpse: The refined corpse vessel developed from Ji Yun Hai's body, combining physical force with accumulated venom and Nascent Soul control.
• Undertaker's of Evil Spear: A legacy spear-and-armor manifestation that gathers Su Ming's combat power and helps him produce an early hint of Life Cultivation strength.
• Five Direction Seal: A suppressing seal treasure tied to Su Ming's conflict with Si Ma Xin.
• Bright Yang Stone: A sect stone carrying soul-related power that becomes part of Su Ming's struggle against Immortal arrangements.
• Sacred Constellation Robe: The command robe connected to Dao Kong's identity and Su Ming's entry into Morning Dao Sect's hierarchy.
• God Ascension Nectar: A limited cultivation resource used with Ecang's worlds to help Su Ming cross into World Plane Realm.
• Seed of Life Extermination: The completed form and legacy linked to the black fragment; it analyzes flaws and protects its host, but parasitically consumes Su Ming's soul and serves Old Man Extermination's offering scheme.
• Life Inequity Spear: A powerful spear whose history connects Su Ming's Divine Essence journey to forces beyond ordinary local cultivation.
• Sun Sinking Talisman: A fixed talisman treasure associated with Su Ming's late defense and preparation during the cosmic conflict.
• Space Whip: A pearl-linked whip first associated with Guru Xing Chen; Su Ming obtains its projection and refines it during Ancient Zang as part of his search for the truth behind that world.