Gao Ming

Gao Ming is Du Ge's roommate and one of the few civilian-academy candidates who repeatedly survives the Alien Star Battlefield. Initially cautious and resentful of Du Ge's disruptive victories, he grows into a dependable operative whose strongest campaigns rely on turning belief, despair, or disparities of power into battlefield weapons. His loyalty is not simple obedience: he betrays Du Ge under one keyword, later opposes him to prolong a crucial battlefield, and still repeatedly risks himself to preserve Du Ge's larger chance of freedom (Chapters 79–80, 358–359, 446, 583, 597).

Biography

From cautious roommate to committed candidate

Gao Ming first appears as Du Ge's big-headed roommate with mental power of 38 and a notebook of conservative survival rules: conceal the keyword, trust no one, disguise one's behavior, and blend into the setting. He initially treats those rules as elementary advice that cannot explain an elite-level victory. When Du Ge admits that he was Feng Qi, Gao Ming's surprise becomes anger because the abrupt end of the simulation denied him further experience, but learning that his roommate took first place quickly replaces outrage with curiosity about how an apparent civilian achieved it (Chapters 79–80).

Gao Ming's own first simulation was not empty of promise. His advanced skill, Angry God, made all his attributes rise exponentially when confronting someone who offended him, with a more serious offense producing a greater increase. He nevertheless understands that a strong skill is not enough to erase the structural advantage of elite academies, especially after Feng Zhong demonstrates how much more deeply elite candidates plan around deception and identity. Gao Ming accepts an alliance with Du Ge and Feng Zhong, establishes private recognition codes with his roommate, and begins mental-power training rather than pretending that confidence alone closes the gap (Chapters 80, 85–88).

The charity simulation turns that alliance into a material change in Gao Ming's prospects. Du Ge uses their secret code to identify him and transfers 100 mental power, a gift that Gao Ming and the other civilian students regard as a change in destiny worth protecting. Gao Ming returns with mental power of 190 and immediately asks for the privileges that strength should earn, but Nan Youlong dismisses him as a coattail rider who must prove himself through rotational examinations. Instead of abandoning the path, Gao Ming watches Du Ge depart and promises that he will not break his word, making independent qualification the next test of their friendship (Chapters 117, 120–122, 125).

Yunyao and the Heavenly Spirit Sword legend

Gao Ming eventually qualifies for the Chongming battlefield and possesses the body of a young girl named Yunyao. After receiving Du Ge's public summons, he tries to descend from Qinglan Sword Sect, but the Qinglan Sword Saint will not release him until he comprehends the Grandmaster path. Gao Ming cultivates while repeatedly boasting that he is a peerless genius; he awakens Turning Fiction into Reality at approximately the same time that he reaches Grandmaster, and Du Ge's Zodiac Fortunes also assist the breakthrough. The result is a genuine martial foundation paired with a keyword power that can make invented sword feats lethal (Chapters 297, 358–359).

His reunion with Du Ge begins with a demonstration rather than a rescue. Using Boasting, Silver Tongue, and Turning Fiction into Reality, Gao Ming causes hostile experts to envision attacks and then suffer the attacks they imagined; one opponent effectively fights a defensive sword produced by his own expectation. Gao Ming immediately explains both skills and their weaknesses to Du Ge, then agrees to protect Luo Shuang if she is threatened. That candor gives Du Ge enough information to design a public identity—Heavenly Sword Star Yunyao—whose reputation supplies the expectations Gao Ming needs before every fight (Chapters 358–360).

The Linyang Daily attributes victories to Yunyao and invents the Twenty-Three Styles of the Heavenly Spirit Sword Technique, including Sword Eighteen, Sword Twenty-Three, and Ten Thousand Swords Return to the Sect. Gao Ming understands that much of the system is propaganda, but weaponizes the distinction between fiction and belief. Against Wei Jiuchou, Sword Eighteen manifests even when Gao Ming's true energy is sealed, because the fatal sword net arises through the audience's imagination rather than ordinary cultivation. Once enemies have experienced it, their memory becomes a liability: merely hearing the name again causes them to recall the attack so vividly that it manifests a second time (Chapters 360, 371–372).

That power remains conditional. Pei Ma'er's Chaos leaves Gao Ming and Xiang Li with disordered minds, and their shouted techniques produce nothing because no coherent imagined attack forms. Gao Ming is also vulnerable while prevented from completing a boast, and fire, control skills, or a listener who neither fears nor imagines the announced strike can bypass his advantage. Du Ge therefore uses guards, battlefield preparation, and publicity to protect the setup. By the campaign's end, credited kills make the legend self-reinforcing: Yunyao becomes the foremost swordsman in public memory and receives the title Yunyao Sword Immortal, while the real Sword Saint independently derives ideas from the fictional higher forms (Chapters 358–360, 371–374).

Betrayal, despair, and a choice to resist

On the divine-war battlefield, Gao Ming receives Betrayal and chooses a risky route to develop it. He leaks detailed information about Du Ge to the demon king Tedis, intending to serve the demon king until he can betray him for a large attribute increase. Tedis controls him before that second betrayal can occur, so the plan stalls, yet the initial leak develops Gao Ming enough to finish around the twenties and survive among only sixteen returning Qi Yuan Star warriors. On the flight home he confesses without prompting, identifies his two skills, and accepts Du Ge's decision to leave the incident in the past (Chapters 445–446).

Gao Ming next possesses Tong Anni on Bi Xing and draws Despair. Doomsday Fantasy projects disasters from his mind into other people's minds, allowing him to establish the Doomsday Cult and gain influence over Haibin City's politicians and defenses. Because neither his own skill nor Dai Sheng's supporting skill supplies reliable offense, Gao Ming recruits other Qi Yuan Star warriors and initially treats the Homeland Defense Bureau as a possible enemy. Once he recognizes Du Ge's methods, however, he coordinates public calls and a non-aggression pact, gathering nearly forty compatriots around the cult while using Du Ge's reputation to deter stronger opponents (Chapters 482, 497–499).

The alliance exposes an inverse weakness in Despair. Du Ge's appeal to hope inspires the Doomsday Cult's followers and the soldiers escorting Gao Ming, nearly converting the organization into a “Hope Cult” and driving Gao Ming's attributes toward their minimum. When an opposing crowd unleashes chaotic skills, he can therefore affect only a narrow area with his group skill Despair, which strips fighting spirit and induces extreme hopelessness. Even at reduced range, it makes one concealed enemy publicly break down, allowing Du Ge's side to identify and kill him; Gao Ming's utility depends on emotional conditions, not just having the skill available (Chapters 502, 504–505).

Du Ge refuses to let the Qi Yuan Star contingent rebuild their attributes at the expense of his resource-sharing promise. Gao Ming worries that allies may turn on them and that his weakened compatriots will be unable to help, but chooses not to undermine the gamble and entrusts his life to Du Ge's coalition. After surviving the battle and returning home, he also rejects a comfortable administrative future: public position on Qi Yuan Star now feels meaningless beside the possibility of escaping Pan-Universal Entertainment, so he volunteers for another battlefield despite knowing that a poor keyword can still kill him (Chapters 504–510).

Imbalance and the celestial campaign

On the Human Emperor battlefield, Gao Ming follows Du Ge's instruction to remain hidden while powerful natives rapidly eliminate Alien Star warriors. Possessing a middle-aged farmer in the Southern Zen Continent, he receives Imbalance and develops it through supply-and-demand disparities and a Swinging Bridge attraction that makes customers experience physical instability. The performance awakens I'm the Most Swinging and attracts the Dao Ancestor, who takes Gao Ming as his first disciple, gathers eleven more Qi Yuan Star warriors, and accelerates them through a time-distorted cave until all twelve reach Great Golden Immortal cultivation (Chapters 555, 583).

The Dao Ancestor orders the twelve to support the celestial court against Du Ge, arguing that immediately joining their friend would collapse opposition and end the battlefield before his escape plan could mature. Gao Ming accepts the causal logic even though he dislikes the role. He insists that they must oppose Du Ge convincingly enough to gain the Celestial Emperor's trust, but also tells the others to reveal only their own identities if Du Ge is about to kill them. Gao Ming, Yu Xia, and Yin Erchuan withhold their own identities and accept the greater personal risk, treating possible death as repayment for what Du Ge did for them (Chapters 583, 587).

At the Southern Heaven Gate, Gao Ming demonstrates that I'm the Most Swinging destabilizes everyone in his line of sight. Even the Celestial Emperor and Queen Mother experience the forced imbalance, although their quasi-saint bodily control lets them make constant compensating movements and appear steady. His second skill, The Rich Get Richer, The Poor Get Poorer, forcibly transfers power from the weaker of two selected parties to the stronger. The Celestial Emperor recognizes the threat but appoints Gao Ming Grand Marshal of the Celestial Army because the twelve outsiders' skill combinations are the court's best available answer to Du Ge (Chapter 588).

Gao Ming ultimately abandons the pretense when the campaign reaches its decisive battle. His transfer skill drains spiritual power from celestial soldiers and generals into stronger allies, progressively repairing Dao resonance and helping Du Ge, the Underworld Emperor, and the Demon Emperor sustain combat against the celestial court. The technique can be interrupted by broken sightlines, concealment, or uncertainty over which party is stronger, and choosing the comparison incorrectly can reverse the transfer against Gao Ming's intent. Once Du Ge clearly surpasses the heavenly lords, Gao Ming links them to him as a final act of support, allowing their power to flow into the Human Emperor (Chapters 592–595).

The multiverse battlefield and recall

Du Ge's disclosure that the original roommate Gao Ming knew had died in the first simulation leaves Gao Ming visibly shaken, but he cannot bring himself to reject the person who assumed that identity and transformed Qi Yuan Star's future. He enters the next battlefield even though he could retire in wealth, explaining that without Du Ge he would have none of his present life. Du Ge's Benevolent Healer skill reinforces that goodwill, but Gao Ming's choice also continues the pattern he established before the skill existed: he accepts repeated danger because their shared campaign offers more meaning than safety at home (Chapters 596–597).

The multiverse scatters Gao Ming away from Du Ge and prevents easy contact. By the time they reunite, Gao Ming has occupied Jian Luo and become entangled with the God of Wisdom; Yin Erchuan must repair the resulting situation before bringing him to Du Ge. Their reunion lasts only moments. Pan-Universal Entertainment recalls the Alien Star warriors, freezing Gao Ming's possessed body while leaving Du Ge behind, and Du Ge marks the abandoned body as private property before the company's personnel can descend into it (Chapters 623, 646).

Gao Ming himself returns to Pan-Universal Entertainment headquarters, where the company's leaders classify Du Ge's friends as strategic leverage and prepare them for deployment against him. Alongside Janice and the Dao Ancestor, Gao Ming is placed in a projection pod as an emergency force while the Governor prepares to occupy a body containing thousands of skills. After Du Ge suppresses Pan-Universal Entertainment, he gathers the souls stored in the Simulation Field, recovering Gao Ming from corporate control; Gao Ming is not shown receiving a replacement body (Chapters 653–655).

Keywords, skills, and cultivation

Angry God

Angry God is Gao Ming's advanced skill in his first simulation. When he confronts someone who has offended him, all his attributes increase exponentially; a more serious offense produces a larger increase. Its underlying keyword, maximum multiplier, and duration remain unknown, and Gao Ming never activates it in combat before the simulation ends. The skill expires with the simulation rather than remaining available after he returns to Qi Yuan Star (Chapter 80).

Boasting, Silver Tongue, and Turning Fiction into Reality

Boasting rewards Gao Ming for extravagant self-presentation. Silver Tongue makes whatever he boasts about appear as a mental image to everyone who hears it, which by itself is chiefly useful for disruption and credibility. Turning Fiction into Reality converts the imagined version of one of his announced attacks into an immediate physical event. Skilled and wary opponents are unusually susceptible because they rapidly predict where the announced sword will land, supplying a vivid attack for the skill to realize (Chapters 358–359).

The combination depends on hearing, comprehension, and imagination. Du Ge is unaffected by an announced attack after recognizing Gao Ming because he does not expect his ally to strike him. An overconfident or slow-minded enemy may likewise fail to imagine danger, while a speaker who is silenced or denied enough time to finish the boast cannot establish the attack. Crowds are dangerous in both directions: many minds can strengthen or diversify the imagined event, but uncontrolled images can also cause collateral harm. Gao Ming consequently needs distance, a reputation, and often a bodyguard to operate reliably (Chapters 358–359).

The Heavenly Spirit Sword Technique is the most effective frame built around these mechanics, but Gao Ming never cultivates or displays all twenty-three advertised moves. Public descriptions teach opponents what Sword Eighteen and the higher forms are supposed to do, so calling a form prompts the lethal image before Gao Ming physically performs it. The method bypasses a true-energy seal and becomes harder to resist after first exposure because the remembered sword net returns automatically. It fails under Chaos when minds cannot form a coherent image, and its later availability ends with the Yunyao battlefield body (Chapters 360, 371–374).

Betrayal, Pointed by Thousands, and Selling Out for Glory

Betrayal develops through violating trust or changing sides. Pointed by Thousands makes Gao Ming's attributes stronger as more people curse him, turning public condemnation into growth. Selling Out for Glory converts a portion of the abilities of someone he betrays into his own attributes, with the conversion scaling according to the degree of betrayal. Gao Ming's plan to betray Tedis after first betraying Du Ge illustrates the desired chain, but mind control prevents the second step; the skills do not protect him from control and expire when the battlefield ends (Chapter 446).

Despair, Doomsday Fantasy, and Despair

On Bi Xing, the Despair keyword grows through making hopelessness socially influential. Doomsday Fantasy projects imagined disaster scenes directly into other people's minds, an effect Gao Ming uses for recruitment, political pressure, and the founding of the Doomsday Cult rather than direct injury. His later group skill Despair makes affected people lose the will to fight and fall into extreme disappointment. The two effects attack morale and perception, but neither supplies physical offense, leaving him dependent on followers and allies to exploit the opening (Chapters 482, 505).

The keyword can shrink when Gao Ming creates or becomes associated with hope. Du Ge's resistance speech inspires Gao Ming's followers, causes his attributes to plummet, and reduces the group skill's reach to roughly the nearby portion of a crowd. That reduced pulse still exposes an emotionally affected enemy, showing that potency and area fall without necessarily erasing the effect. Gao Ming returns from Bi Xing without continuing access to the keyword or either skill (Chapters 502, 505, 510).

Imbalance and its two skills

Imbalance can be developed through both physical disequilibrium and unequal economic conditions. Gao Ming's Swinging Bridge turns bodily instability into an attraction and awakens I'm the Most Swinging: while he sways, everyone within his line of sight becomes unable to maintain balance. The forced condition affects quasi-saints, but sufficiently exact bodily control can compensate for each unwanted movement. Line of sight is therefore both the skill's operating range and an exploitable limit (Chapters 583, 588).

The Rich Get Richer, The Poor Get Poorer selects two parties with unequal power and forcibly transfers power from the weaker to the stronger. It can drain cultivation levels and spiritual power, strengthen an ally, and complete otherwise stalled Dao resonance. Gao Ming must correctly identify which party is stronger; an error can feed his intended target or strip Gao Ming and his side instead. Concealment, disrupted visibility, and rapid battlefield changes also interfere with maintaining useful links, making judgment and target selection as important as raw range (Chapters 588, 592–595).

Martial cultivation, mental power, and limits

Gao Ming begins with mental power of 38, gains three points after his first simulation, and reaches 190 after Du Ge's transfer in the charity simulation. That growth improves the security of later body possession and helps him survive repeated deployments, but it never makes keyword choice irrelevant. His major combat identities remain temporary possessed bodies, and he explicitly continues risking death whenever a weak keyword or failed possession could erase his advantage (Chapters 79, 81, 120–122, 449, 510).

His martial attainments are also body-specific. Yunyao reaches the Grandmaster path at Qinglan Sword Sect, combining sword cultivation with Boasting, while the Southern Zen farmer is raised to Great Golden Immortal through the Dao Ancestor's compressed-time instruction and heavenly book. Recall leaves those cultivated bodies behind rather than transferring their realms to Gao Ming's original Qi Yuan Star body. Across battlefields, his persistent strengths are instead tactical honesty with trusted allies, rapid interpretation of unusual keywords, and willingness to organize weaker compatriots around a stronger political structure (Chapters 359, 376, 482, 498, 583, 595).

Power progression

Relationships

• Du Ge: Gao Ming moves from angry roommate to trusted code-sharing ally and one of Du Ge's most persistent companions. Keywords sometimes make him betray or oppose Du Ge, but he confesses the betrayal, risks death while playing the enemy, and repeatedly chooses Du Ge's struggle over a safe life on Qi Yuan Star (Chapters 79–88, 120–125, 358–359, 446, 583, 596–597).
• Feng Zhong: Feng Zhong's elite preparation initially makes Gao Ming feel inadequate, but the two become recurring members of Du Ge's Qi Yuan Star circle. They coordinate through multiple battlefields, survive the celestial campaign, and continue trading jokes and criticism even during their final reunion with Du Ge (Chapters 85–88, 449, 485, 498, 583, 646).
• Nan Youlong: Nan Youlong initially rejects Gao Ming as an unproven coattail rider and makes him qualify through rotational examinations. Gao Ming later returns as a veteran whom Nan Youlong questions about battlefield outcomes and Du Ge's intentions, reversing much of their early difference in standing without making Gao Ming part of the formal command structure (Chapters 125, 376, 445, 596).
• Luo Shuang: Gao Ming knows Luo Shuang chiefly as the person whose safety anchors Du Ge's declared Loyalty. He promises to protect her with his life and uses the Yunyao identity within the military coalition that secures her empire (Chapters 359–376).
• Qinglan Sword Saint: The Sword Saint prevents Yunyao from leaving before she comprehends the Grandmaster path, indirectly creating the conditions for Gao Ming's second Boasting skill. Later publicity falsely magnifies their rivalry, but the Sword Saint treats the invented sword forms as ideas worth studying and derives a real Sword Twenty-Three from them (Chapters 359–360, 374).
• Yao Tong: Yao Tong is another recurring survivor from Qi Yuan Star. He greets Du Ge alongside Gao Ming after the divine-war battlefield and teases Gao Ming about profiting from betrayal, keeping the confession among comrades rather than turning it into a lasting rupture (Chapters 445–446).

Items

• Sword: As Yunyao, Gao Ming uses an ordinary sword as the visible focus for his imagined attacks. The weapon helps listeners picture a conventional strike, but Turning Fiction into Reality—not a named property of the blade—creates the impossible sword nets and defensive interceptions (Chapters 358, 371–372).
• Dao Ancestor's golden plaque: Gao Ming receives one of twelve plaques identifying the holders as the Dao Ancestor's disciples. It secures an audience and institutional trust at the celestial court, after which the Celestial Emperor appoints him Grand Marshal (Chapters 583, 588).
• Purple gourd: Before leaving the Dao Ancestor's cave, Gao Ming selects a purple gourd from the treasures left for the twelve disciples and fills it with spiritual water rather than wasting the pool. He does not employ the gourd as a distinct weapon or use it again before recall (Chapter 583).