Soul Master

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Soul Master
Original Name	魂师
Occupation/Role	Practitioner who cultivates Soul Power and uses a Martial Soul, Soul Rings, and Soul Skills 7 8 100.
Specializations	Power Attack, Agility Attack, Control, Defense, Support, and Healing 2 3 26 304 570.
First Appearance	Chapter 1, in Chen Ping’s Soul Master damage formulas and Soul Ring acquisition packages 1.

Power Progression

Soul Power accumulates through cultivation, but a Soul Ring is required to pass the recurring advancement thresholds. Cultivation can continue at a bottleneck without immediately increasing the displayed level 7 374 812.

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Soul Scholar — peak at Level 10	7	Chen Ping reaches this threshold but cannot increase his level until obtaining his first Soul Ring.
Soul Master — first Soul Ring	20	Chen Ping becomes a Soul Master after absorbing a yellow, 480-year Soul Ring. The term also serves as the broader name for practitioners.
Second-ring advancement — Level 20 threshold	152	Chen Ping absorbs a thousand-year Demon Eye Magic Tree ring, raising his Soul Power from Level 20 to Level 23.
Soul Elder — three rings	3 311	Three-ring practitioners ordinarily possess three ring-derived Soul Skills; Chen Ping competes in the tournament at this stage.
Soul Ancestor — four rings	3 348 374	Chen Ping reaches the Level 40 threshold, then obtains his fourth ring through the Snow Empress Soul Spirit and advances to Level 43½.
Soul King — five rings	263 561 570	Chen Ping reaches Level 54½ after absorbing a God-Bestowed 100,000-year ring. Five-ring contestants are formidable tournament participants.
Soul Emperor — six rings	509 576 780	Examples include He Caitou at Level 65 and Chen Ping approaching Level 70.
Soul Saint — seven rings	812 862	Advancement beyond the Level 70 threshold requires another ring. Chen Ping’s seventh ring grants his true Artifact Soul True Body.
Soul Douluo — eight rings	213 765	The Zhongli brothers are Level 80 Evil Soul Douluo; the female Evil Soul Master in Sunrise City is an eight-ring Soul Douluo.
Titled Douluo — Level 90 threshold and ninth ring	812 817	Reaching Level 90 makes a practitioner a prospective Titled Douluo; obtaining the ninth ring completes the advancement. Soul Core condensation can help overcome the preceding bottleneck.
Mortal limit — Level 99	536	The explanation of Douluo Star’s divine origins identifies Level 99 as the limit ordinary people can reach through its power.

• Super Douluo, Limit Douluo, and Peerless Douluo are higher-level designations used for exceptional practitioners; the supplied passages do not establish their full numerical boundaries 315 350 397 817.
• Soul Grandmaster is also named, but its ring count and level boundaries are not specified in the supplied passages 822.

Background / History

Soul Masters and Soul Beasts arose after Douluo Star was infused with divine blood through events connected to a divine war. Both accumulate the world’s energy, while stronger practitioners absorb more Heaven and Earth Vitality and produce more valuable Faith Power 536.

Cultivation methods have changed over time. Soul Cores were absent ten thousand years earlier, whereas modern practitioners commonly condense them to overcome the bottleneck before Titled Douluo and improve Soul Power recovery 8 812.

Martial Souls and Specializations

Martial Soul Types

Type	Characteristics
Weapon / Tool Martial Soul	Provides an implement used in combat. Unlike Beast Martial Souls, it does not grant the same physical enhancement through possession; weapon technique can compensate for the difference 123 521.
Beast Martial Soul	Martial Soul Possession boosts physical attributes. Its Avatar generally transforms the practitioner into a beastlike fighting form 123 522.
Body Martial Soul	Examples include Huo Yuhao’s Spirit Eyes and Ye Can Shang’s Skeleton. The latter can bear several times an ordinary person’s Soul Tool weight 509 587.
Twin Martial Souls	Gives one practitioner two Martial Souls. Huo Yuhao combines Spirit Eyes with the Ultimate Ice Ice Jade Scorpion 509.
Ultimate Attribute Martial Soul	Exceptionally rare, appearing only once every few centuries. Ultimate Attribute practitioners cultivate more slowly before Level 70 but ordinarily lack subsequent level barriers once sufficient Soul Power is accumulated 375 509.

Combat and Support Roles

• Power Attack — emphasizes offensive force and explosive attacks; Chen Ping formally selects this specialization despite developing battlefield-control tactics 89 570.
• Agility Attack — uses speed to reach vulnerable targets, including opposing supports 3 570.
• Control — restricts opponents and influences the pace of battle. Tang Ya’s binding skill demonstrates its effectiveness against Power Attack practitioners 26.
• Defense — protects against attacks; Xu Sanshi’s Profound Netherworld Shield Array blocks tournament bombardments 304.
• Support and Healing — provide enhancements or restore allies. Reliable healers are especially valuable during dangerous outdoor Soul Beast hunts 3.
• Food System — He Caitou belongs to this specialization but primarily fights through Soul Engineering, showing that a Martial Soul role need not dictate combat style 257 576.

Abilities & Skills

Soul Power Cultivation

Soul Masters absorb free elemental energy through their Martial Soul’s affinity, circulate it through the body, and transform it into usable Soul Power 8.

• Innate Soul Power strongly affects cultivation speed: Chen Ping’s original Level Two aptitude leaves him behind more talented students despite constant training 7 68.
• Medicines, body tempering, and meridian improvement can strengthen cultivation foundations 6 7 436 437.
• Opening the Eight Extraordinary Meridians can even allow someone born without Soul Power to cultivate; Jixiang acquires Innate Full Soul Power with Tang San’s help 436 437.
• Some academies accelerate selected tournament candidates by exhausting their future potential in exchange for contracted rewards 245.

Soul Rings and Soul Skills

Soul Rings enable rank advancement and grant abilities influenced by the combination of Martial Soul and Soul Beast 3 7.

• Compatibility matters: a Gem Crystal Insect ring usually provides gem-type enhancement or defensive skills, but Blue Silver Grass has a high chance of receiving Life Force Refraction instead 3.
• Reliable Soul Beast–Martial Soul combinations are valuable family knowledge; ordinary academy teachers often cannot guarantee the resulting skill 3.
• Overlimit rings can produce immediate level gains independent of cultivation aptitude, as Chen Ping’s second ring demonstrates 152.
• God-Bestowed rings grant high-grade skills suited to the recipient’s current abilities 572.
• Absorbing an exceptionally powerful ring can demand prolonged stabilization: Chen Ping spends more than a hundred days assimilating his God-Bestowed ring 559 561.

Self-Created Soul Skills

Self-created skills develop from deeply exploiting a Martial Soul’s traits or refining specialized combat techniques 100 123.

• Examples include Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track, the Chaotic Cloak Hammer Technique, Ring Detonation, and the Great Sumeru Hammer 3 123.
• They provide options beyond ring-derived skills; Tang San’s Tang Sect arts give him substantially more techniques than ordinary three-ring opponents 3.
• Development requires time and exceptional comprehension, while successful techniques are often guarded and suited only to particular Martial Souls 123.

Martial Soul Avatar and Artifact Soul True Body

The seventh-ring transformation is a major combat breakthrough, but its effects differ between Beast and Tool practitioners 522 862.

• Beast Martial Soul Avatar generally limits the user to fighting through the transformed beast’s body and abilities 522.
• Artifact Soul True Body leaves Tool Soul Masters able to perform additional actions, including handling equipment 522.
• Older, complete Avatars allowed unrestricted use of skills below the seventh ring for thirty minutes, increased skill power, and supplied Martial Soul-specific bonuses 527 817.
• Forced activation before seven rings places heavy strain on the practitioner; Chen Ping uses the Nine Revolutions Soul Transformation Device to achieve it temporarily 522 523.

Soul Cores

A rotating Soul Core draws power from the world, greatly improving recovery and reducing reliance on meridian circulation 812 822.

• Cores can help weaker practitioners overcome otherwise insurmountable cultivation barriers 812.
• Condensation requires sufficient Spiritual Power and precise control; conflicting attributes can destabilize the process 819 831.
• Electrolux proposes equipping undead practitioners with cores so they can cultivate passively despite being unable to circulate Soul Power normally 822.
• Chen Ping proposes lower-efficiency Artificial Soul Cores to accelerate mid-level practitioners’ cultivation 831.

Soul Spirits

Soul Spirits provide Soul Rings and Soul Skills while remaining summonable combat partners 373.

• Retaining a Soul Spirit’s Soul Bone and supplying sufficient Soul Power lets it wield approximately 70% of its living combat strength 373.
• Enhancement skills and support buffs applied to the Soul Master also benefit the Soul Spirit 373.
• Ning Tian combines a Silver Moon Wolf King Soul Spirit, support abilities, and an exoskeleton to become competitive in Soul King-level battles 478.

Equipment and Technological Development

• Soul Guidance Devices — supplement Martial Soul abilities with weapons, defenses, flight, and support functions. Using them and manufacturing them are distinct skills 171 347 397.
• Milk Bottles — replenish Soul Power; a Level Four bottle can fully restore an ordinary Soul Ancestor’s reserves 171.
• Nine Revolutions Soul Transformation Device — converts supplied power into neutral chaos-attributed Soul Power, allowing temporary empowerment across incompatible attributes. Use strains the meridians 521 522.
• Soul Guidance Exoskeletons and Battle Armor — enhance physical combat capabilities, including those of support practitioners. Rigid equipment can conflict with size-changing Beast Avatars 433 587.
• Soul Ring Collectors and Storage Devices — preserve ownerless rings produced by specially modified Soul Tools, allowing another eligible practitioner to absorb them 900.
• Artificial Soul Rings — Chen Ping introduces rings compatible with nearly any attribute. Creation still requires refinement and divine power, but offers a potential alternative to Soul Beast hunting 910.

Education and Livelihood

• Many jobs require a recognized Soul Master Academy diploma. Without adequate credentials, a practitioner may still depend on manual labor 2.
• Chen Ping receives one Gold Soul Coin per month after registering as a Soul Master 47.
• Shrek requires applicants to exceed Level 15 before age twelve and obtain a main city lord’s recommendation 7.
• Experienced supports can earn more than most teammates during mercenary Soul Beast hunts, with the captain being a notable exception 3.
• Academy tournaments showcase institutional strength; Shrek’s long championship record establishes its reputation as the continent’s leading academy 223.

Example Admission Requirements

Specialization	Heavenly Soul National Seventh Academy admission	Graduation
Control System	Level 20 before age fifteen 2	Level 30 by graduation at age twenty 2
Support System	Level 18 before age fifteen 2	Level 25 before age twenty 2

Dangers and Controversies

Evil Soul Masters

• Evil Soul Masters may cultivate through murder, soul refinement, or other predatory practices. The Shrek Inspection Team combats them partly to protect ordinary people, the foundation of Soul Master society 23 382.
• Chen Ping rejects classification by attribute alone: even a Light Phoenix user would be evil if they killed and refined souls for pleasure 382.
• A sinister Martial Soul does not necessarily require murderous cultivation. Chen Ping identifies a Vampire Bat practitioner’s accumulated vengeful spirits as evidence of slaughter, rather than treating blood dependence alone as proof 850.
• Their combat strength can exceed normal expectations for their rank, complicating threat assessment 654.

Soul Beast Hunting

• Powerful rings encourage hunters to seek dangerous Soul Beasts; the Demon Eye Magic Tree is harder to hunt than some ordinary ten-thousand-year beasts despite being only a thousand years old 152.
• Soul Masters are also prey: their Soul Power-enriched flesh attracts certain beasts, and some beasts can absorb their power directly 541.
• Soul Spirits, stored ownerless rings, and Artificial Soul Rings create alternatives to conventional hunting 373 900 910.

Golden Ancient Tree

Zhao Wuji’s historical findings link weakened Avatars and shortened lifespans to the Golden Ancient Tree’s influence. Chen Ping subsequently understands the tree as part of Tang San’s effort to restrict future practitioners 817 818.

• Zhao Wuji records seventeen nearby Soul Saints with weakened Avatars, while a student who obtained a seventh ring in the Frozen Forest retains the older transformation 817.
• Qin Ming dies at eighty-two despite suffering neither illness nor disaster; Zhao Wuji contrasts this with the abundant vitality of Titled Douluo who obtained their ninth rings outside the Star Dou Forest 817.
• Shortened lifespans also reduce the time available to accumulate enough faith to establish a God Position 817.