Martial Soul

Biodata

Power Progression

The following table documents the evolution of Xiao Han’s twin Martial Souls, rather than his cultivation realm.

Awakening and Rank

Spiritual energy revived on Blue Star a thousand years before the story, and exotic beasts ravaged the world. People can awaken a Martial Soul at eighteen and become Martial Artists, who fight those beasts. Xiao Han could not break through from the Ninth Level of the Martial Disciple Realm before awakening his souls 1.

At Beihai No. 1 High School, students awaken their souls on a platform using an awakening crystal. Powerful awakenings can attract offers of admission from the four great academies without an entrance exam 1.

• F to B: D- and F-rank souls appeared frequently at the ceremony; B-rank souls were rare 1.
• A: An A-rank owner can be called a genius 1.
• S: Beihai City produces only a few S-rank souls in a year 1.
• SS: No more than a hundred are said to appear nationwide each year 1.
• SSS: An awakening of this rank is considered historic. The system describes SSS as the limit of quality, not the limit of a Martial Soul’s strength 1 3.
• SSS+ and beyond: Later accounts describe Xiao Han’s twin souls as SSS+. A temporary system enhancement raises both beyond that grade, while the Eternal Night King later takes a lasting step beyond SSS+ through origin fusion 16 83 114.

Xiao Han’s initial cultivation and school performance led students to expect a high-ranked soul, but he awakened two F-rank souls instead. His subsequent evolution was unusual even among the academy teachers, who recognized Martial Soul evolution as something that had occurred before 2 3.

Manifestation and Combat

• Summoning: Martial Souls can appear as energy forms or phantoms. Zhao Yu manifests his Emerald Spirit Snake around his arm, while Lei Ming summons a bear phantom behind him 9 26.
• Possession: Lei Ming merges with his Earth-Splitting Savage Bear, enlarging his frame and hardening his claw-like fingers. Long Aotian also uses possession by his Purgatory Demon Dragon 27 79.
• Domains: Xiao Han’s Chaos Green Lotus and Eternal Night Monarch develop opposing Domain Prototypes that can influence their surroundings 37 42.
• Combat without summoning: A Martial Artist need not visibly summon a soul for every fight. Xiao Han defeats an Iron-Armored Savage Bull and evades Zhao Yu without summoning his own; he later defeats Li Yan without visibly summoning a soul 7 9 74.
• Dispersal: Lei Ming seizes and disperses another student’s Wind Sparrow phantom during a combat evaluation 26.
• Origin and soul defense: A Martial Soul’s origin can be burned for power, as Lin Qingxia does with her Extreme Ice Phoenix. Souls can also resist threats within their user’s consciousness: Xiao Han’s twin souls oppose a Demon General Soul Fragment, and his lotus protects his true spirit during the shadow soul’s evolution 128 171 178.
• Suppression by quality: The aura of a higher-grade soul can suppress another. During Xiao Han’s temporary Origin Awakening, Long Aotian’s Purgatory Demon Dragon phantom recoils and its Domain is overwhelmed 83.

Notable Martial Souls

Xiao Han’s Twin Souls

Chaos Green Lotus

The Chaos Green Lotus provides life force, recovery, and defensive support 4 10 13.

• Its Chaos Domain strengthens Xiao Han and weakens opponents within it 4.
• It helps preserve his body during the Eternal Night Monarch’s painful evolution 21.
• Its healing has limits: the ruin guardian’s persistent energy and spatial damage suppress its repairs 43 44.
• Early on, Xiao Han considers it lacking in effective ranged attacks and immediate explosive offense 10.
• The fragmentary Green Lotus Sword Song gives the soul a more effective offensive method. Its Green Lotus Sword Qi can also purify corruption and cut through illusions 67 90 95.
• During the Blood Sacrifice Grand Formation crisis, it draws golden dragon qi from the Dragon Vein; dragon markings subsequently appear on its petals 128 129.
• After the World Tree Heart Fragment restores Xiao Han, the lotus develops nascent Space Imprisonment and Life Grafting. Its later deep evolution stabilizes and strengthens both abilities and grants Myriad Trees Spring Forth, which grows spirit plants for formations, healing, or temporary barriers 134 137.
• Its World Tree phantom absorbs remnants of heroic spirits and strengthens its suppression of demonic power. The lotus and tree’s life origin also protect Xiao Han’s true spirit against the Primordial Shadow Heart’s imperial pressure 163 178.

Eternal Night Monarch

Also called the Eternal Night King, this soul controls shadow-related power and aids stealth and spatial movement 10 14 19.

• Its shadow jumping complements A Step to the Ends of the Earth, but Xiao Han considers it less useful in open areas or places without shadows 10 14.
• Shadow Devour absorbs negative, dark, and deathly energy to nourish the soul and restore some strength. Xiao Han uses it on the Black-Scaled Mad Ape’s corpse and later on forest beasts 19 39.
• The Shadow Dominator path improves shadow control and Shadow Devour and unlocks the embryonic Eternal Night Domain, which suppresses enemies and enhances the user’s shadow abilities 20 21.
• The soul resonates with the Shadow Demon Lotus and a shadow barrier at an ancient ruin; the barrier opens a passage for Xiao Han. Its connection to the ruin also helps him perceive the runic network controlling the guardian 15 19 40 48.
• In a later secret realm, it devours corrosive energy and transforms it into nourishment. Further pure energy strengthens Shadow Dominator, greatly accelerates Shadow Devour, and stabilizes and enlarges the nascent Eternal Night Domain 94 100.
• As the Eternal Night Void Emperor (pseudo), it gains the prototype Eternal Night Void Realm and the innate divine ability Dark Realm Descent. A Soul Fusion Pill helps Xiao Han integrate the new form and control its powers 114 116.
• Refining the Blood Soul Source Crystal helps expand the Eternal Night Void Realm to nearly twice its previous range. During the Blood Sacrifice Grand Formation, the soul devours defiled death qi and returns fragments of Void Origin 122 128.
• After its mutation, it begins fusing with the Soul Origin Treasure Jade and can slowly refine the Blood Soul Curse Mark into nourishment. It also draws refined curse-mark power into Xiao Han’s fist attack against the Wilderness Poison Dragon Lizard 134.
• The Primordial Shadow Heart, an origin fragment left by the ancient Eternal Night Emperor, resonates intensely with the soul. Its subsequent prototype Primordial Eternal Night Overlord form begins developing Eternal Night · Myriad Worlds’ Downfall, a darkness Domain that suppresses techniques and devours life force 177 178.
• In a later clash between opposing powers of order and chaos, the Primordial Eternal Night Overlord forms a vortex that attempts to devour both 221.

Combined use

Xiao Han can manifest both souls at once and combine their powers. Against the ruin guardian, their Domain Prototypes help resist its suppression, and he fuses darkness and purification with the Annihilation Divine Fist to attack its crystal core 42 43 45.

In the academy competition final, Xiao Han combines their domains into the Chaos Eternal Night Domain to hold back Ye Wuchen’s spatial attack, Void Exile. At the Chaos Pool, the souls’ origins begin merging: the lotus purifies the shadow origin, while the monarch’s spatial power lends the lotus greater agility 86 90.

The souls also cooperate in dangerous cultivation. While Xiao Han refines the Blood Soul Source Crystal, the Eternal Night Void Emperor devours and transforms violent energies and the Chaos Green Lotus purifies them, helping protect his soul from collapse. Their complementary powers later resist curse seals, with the lotus purifying foul power and the shadow soul attempting to devour it 122 187.

The public revelation of Xiao Han’s twin SSS+ souls makes him famous across the Dragon Nation Federation and attracts recruitment efforts. It also exposes him to danger: masked attackers show interest in his Martial Souls and techniques 88 102.