Biodata
| Feature | Value |
|---|---|
| Name | Death Soldier (死士) |
| Species/Race | Bronze Mirror projection given a body through Flesh Essence 143 215 |
| Affiliation | Lin Ze; organized under the Bronze Hall 1 118 |
| Occupation/Role | Cultivation, combat, reconnaissance, resource gathering, research, and infiltration on Lin Ze’s behalf 118 217 |
| Status | Active; fallen soldiers can be resurrected through the Bronze Mirror 103 447 |
| First Appearance | Chapter 1 1 |
Power Progression
A Death Soldier’s rarity tier determines its starting talent and abilities; its cultivation realm can develop separately. Lin Ze also gains the ability to project more soldiers each day as his own rank rises 7 10 71 213.
| Stage / Realm / Level | Chapter | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| White Common Death Soldier | 1 | Lin Ze’s first summons have ordinary-person strength and absolute loyalty. His initial projection allowance is two per day. |
| Blue Rare Death Soldier | 10 | First obtained through a chance-based projection. This tier has a Proficient Grade skill, a blue talent, and better cultivation talent than White Common soldiers. |
| Purple Epic Death Soldier | 64 | Unlocked after Lin Ze spends Flesh Essence. This tier has a Mastery Grade skill, a purple talent, and Myriad Hearts as One, which distributes damage among connected soldiers. |
| Dou Master via Proxy | 74 | Qian Yi borrows Lin Ze’s Dou Master strength through Proxy State rather than reaching the realm through cultivation. |
| Dou Master → Dou Grandmaster → Dou Spirit → Dou King | 84 | A soldier advances through these realms using a Life-Devouring Pill under Lin Ze’s guidance, spending life force to reach Dou King. Lin Ze repeats the process with another soldier. |
| Golden Legend Death Soldier | 174 | This tier has a Grandmaster Grade skill, a golden talent, Myriad Hearts as One, and Life Substitution, which can take fatal damage in Lin Ze’s place. |
| Peak Dou Emperor | 221 | The alchemist soldier Lin Wuyao reaches this realm in just over ten days through Lin Ze’s resource-intensive Evil Path upgrade method. |
| Dou Ancestor | 242 | Lin Wuyao subsequently reaches Dou Ancestor. |
| Peak Dou Ancestor | 247 | Lin Ze forcefully raises alchemist Death Soldiers to this level using multiple kinds of pills, before running short of Zongyuan Pills. |
| Dou Venerate | 255 | Six Dou Venerate-level Death Soldiers take part in the assault on a Hall of Souls branch. |
| Half-Saint power via Proxy | 326 | After Lin Ze’s breakthrough, soldiers must be at least Dou Venerate to channel his Half-Saint power without unsustainable damage. |
| Dou God power via Proxy | 447 | Death Soldiers can act in Lin Ze’s stead and wield his Dou God power; this is not stated to be their own cultivation realm. |
Background / History
Lin Ze first summons a Death Soldier after discovering the Bronze Mirror in his soul. He confirms that the soldier has some autonomy and can cultivate; the first two are named A-Da and A-Er. Unlike ordinary people, they do not need sleep and can absorb Flesh Essence by eating 1 2 3.
Lin Ze initially uses the soldiers to hunt, gather Flesh Essence, watch enemies, and fight through the Mirror’s Control and Proxy functions. As their numbers grow, they infiltrate factions and carry out specialized work. He establishes the Bronze Hall to organize more than 4,500 soldiers into management and production, warfare, research, reconnaissance, and coordination roles 5 10 20 118.
Their deployment eventually extends across the Dou Qi Continent. By one count, Lin Ze has over 90,000 Death Soldiers distributed across its regions; a later count exceeds 400,000 247 328.
Appearance
Death Soldiers look like ordinary humans, but their appearances vary. Lin Ze’s first summon is sturdy and unremarkable; Chang Nuo, a Purple Epic soldier specializing in body refining, is notably tall and muscular 1 65 123 287.
- Disguise — A Bronze Mask can change a soldier’s flesh-and-blood appearance and voice while blocking soul detection 255.
- Identifiability — Without Bronze Hall equipment, soldiers can blend into human factions, making them difficult for the Hall of Souls to trace 287.
Abilities & Skills
Control and Proxy
- Control lets Lin Ze command a soldier, take over its senses, or observe while allowing it to act independently 1 20 71.
- Proxy briefly lends a soldier Lin Ze’s power. A-San sustained Dou Practitioner power for three minutes but suffered internal injuries; Lin Ze judged a shorter duration safer 5 7.
- A soldier’s capacity remains a limit: weaker soldiers cannot safely channel Lin Ze’s Half-Saint power, even with damage-sharing support 326.
Myriad Hearts as One
- Purple Epic and Golden Legend soldiers can connect other Death Soldiers and distribute damage taken by a resonance core among them 64 174.
- The ability helps soldiers withstand otherwise dangerous medicinal force, but sharing damage can still cause casualties when the power involved is too great 79 253.
Resurrection and Inscription
- Resurrection recasts a fallen soldier’s body from its surviving Projection Shadow using Flesh Essence 103 215.
- Ordinarily, rebuilding the body loses the effects of previously consumed pills. Inscription preserves the soldier’s recorded cultivation through one resurrection, at a Flesh Essence cost that rises with the soldier’s strength 214 215 217 328.
Specialized Talents
- Summoned soldiers can arrive with skills in alchemy, body refining, tracking, forging, mechanisms, cooking, or assassination 31 64 91 104.
- Alchemist Death Soldiers may possess distinctive prescriptions; their cultivation base does not necessarily match their starting alchemy grade 123 221.
Notable Members
- A-Da and A-Er — Lin Ze’s first two soldiers, named in summoning order 3.
- Zhao Yi — Blue Rare alchemist with Proficient Grade Alchemy and the Practice Makes Perfect talent 31 32.
- Chang Nuo — Purple Epic body-refining specialist whose preparations help Lin Ze temper his physique 64 65 66.
- Qian Yi — Purple Epic tracker deployed to search for the Life-Devouring Pill 74.
- Qian Ling — Sixth-Grade Alchemist whose Dou Spirit Pill prescription incorporates Flesh Essence 123.
- Fa Wujin — Golden Legend soldier assigned to cultivate and improve the Nine-Fold Demon Body 175 236.
- Lin Wuyao — Tier 7 alchemist whose cultivation Lin Ze rapidly raises through the Evil Path upgrade method 221.