Spirit Tamer

Biodata

Power Progression

The following documented milestones trace Wu Ming’s advancement as a Spirit Tamer, beginning in Dongfang Shuoming’s body.

Background

Spirit Tamers emerged after gifted humans gained the ability to subdue Phantom Spirits. Their power helped human civilization regain dominance over four continents, and Spirit Tamers became nobles and rulers in their nations. Competition for stronger spirits and territory also drove wars between empires 330.

The profession depends on Phantom Spirit power. During the Great Cataclysm, that power began to decline worldwide, leaving many Spirit Tamers who relied on it suddenly weakened 434.

Abilities & Skills

Contracts and control

• Spirit Tamers form soul-based contracts to summon and command Phantom Spirits. A higher-ranked tamer can control more spirits and stronger ones 331 332.
• Basic control uses speech and gestures; more skilled tamers can command with a glance or through intent 331 341.
• A contracted spirit’s death—or the abandonment of its contract—can injure the tamer’s soul 332 342.

Advancement and specialization

• Advancement requires both a sufficiently strong Phantom Spirit and a soul capable of bearing its power 366.
• Recognized ranks include Soldier, General, Commander, Lord, King, and God level. Soldier level requires a War Soldier-level Phantom Spirit and is widely recognized as the threshold of a true Spirit Tamer 332 372 427.
• Specialized tamers focus on fewer summons and can develop each spirit’s feedback more fully. Group tamers gain substantially more summon slots, but maintaining those spirits demands greater resources 353 361.

Phantom Spirit techniques

• Spirits can learn Combat Skills naturally or through purchased skill carriers, though purchased skills are not guaranteed to take effect 334 335.
• Elemental spirits can grant their tamers attribute-based abilities. Living Realm spirits can use fusion techniques; Wolf Beast Fusion, for example, merges a Soldier-level tamer with a wolf spirit 335.
• Strengthened spirits can feed traits back to their tamers, including increases to physical ability 341 352 361.

Story Role

• Spirit Tamers are not limited to fighting: Green Eyebrow teaches that acquiring spirits and skills requires production and the accumulation of Spirit Coins 362.
• Their ranks shape social and military power. In Spirit Tamer families, Soldier-level members are elites, General-level members form the backbone, and Commander-level members hold top positions 363.
• Their pursuit of rare Phantom Spirits and inheritances drives conflicts around Jia Kongming’s legacy and the later competition for God-level spirits 371 417 428.