Soul Cannon

Biodata

Power Progression

The following records document the levels and technical developments of different Soul Cannon models, rather than upgrades to a single weapon.

Design and Use

• Soul Cannons appear as handheld weapons, body-mounted barrels, and fixed emplacements. Xia Xuanchen carries two barrels enclosing his forearms, while Long Zhanye deploys a platform with numerous barrels arranged across his body 139 192.
• Soul Cannon emplacements provide dense firepower and suppression, but ordinary emplacement attacks lack the destructive power to reliably harm a Titled Douluo 718.
• Fixed Soul Cannons can be linked for larger attacks. Long Zhanye prepares two Level 7 cannons and more than thirty Level 6 cannons as a linked device; later, eleven Level 9 cannons are used in an ambush against him 295 746.
• A typical Level 4 Fixed Soul Cannon has a long, slender barrel, a stable base, and an energy-adjustment knob at the grip. Its external appearance does not necessarily reveal its actual power, as demonstrated by Long Zhanye's Differential Amplification design 151.
• Different models emphasize different effects, including oscillation, high-explosive damage, corrosion, lightning, and decomposition. Xia Xuanchen pairs an oscillation cannon with a Single-Target Directional High-Explosive Soul Cannon, using the former to restrict movement before the latter delivers its attack 50 140 264 327.
• Lock-on and tracking capabilities vary by model. Xia Xuanchen's high-explosive attack uses Soul Power lock-on, Gao Dalou's Shock Cannon automatically tracks its target, and ordinary Piercing Cannons lack both lock-on and tracking 140 199 319.
• Multi-barrel platforms require considerable control and, for heavier configurations, physical strength. Long Zhanye deploys more than one hundred barrels in a coordinated arrangement, while Zhou Xinghao's exceptional physique allows him to assemble and control a 150-barrel heavy platform 192 316.
• Body-mounted cannons can support close combat rather than merely bombard targets at range. Xiao Hongchen's Metal Storm fires rays to seal off escape routes and disrupt an opponent's vision while he fights physically 250 251.
• Defensive emplacements can integrate cannons with detection systems. Shrek City's south wall has a Soul Cannon emplacement every ten paces and a detection Soul Tool every hundred paces; Sun Moon Empire anti-air positions also use specialized cannons with binding, paralysis, and shock effects 429 460.
• The wall-mounted Godly Zhuge Crossbow Cannon uses four sealed Milk Bottles in rotation, whereas the version used by ordinary Soul Engineers accommodates only one and requires replenishment after its stored energy is exhausted 467.

Documented Models

Operational History

Early Combat and Technical Development

• Long Yufeng uses the Bright Jade Sect's Level 6 Corrosive Ray Cannon in a final attack against Xuan Zi and Ma Xiaotao. Long Zhanye later uses the same model against Ye Guyi and precisely wounds Beibei's left arm with a corrosive ray 5 50 65.
• Long Zhanye's examination cannon demonstrates that lower-level core arrays can produce substantially higher-level power when combined through an appropriate structure. Its test shot shatters a Level 5 Invincible Barrier and strikes the examiner behind it 151 152.
• Long Zhanye places thirty-seven Level 6 Fixed Soul Guidance Cannonballs around a valley's cliff walls during his operation against a Gold Wolf pack 224.
• To create a mountain-breaking explosive, Long Zhanye dismantles core arrays from his thirty-six-barrel platform and constructs a Level 7 Linked Soul Bomb. Its master control device coordinates thirty-two blast points, each with power comparable to a Level 6 Fixed Soul Cannon 233.
• In Slaughter City, Long Zhanye displays a Level 7 Fixed Soul Cannon and then a Level 9 weapon. The latter had been given to him by Feng Ling during the Ming Capital Underground Soul Tool Competition as an attempt to win him over 412.

City Defense and Strategic Bombardment

• During the soul beast assault on Shrek City, thirty-two Level 6 Godly Zhuge Crossbow Cannons inflict heavy casualties on the advancing vanguard. Their rapid volleys kill ten-year and hundred-year beasts outright, while two or three high-explosive shells can kill a thousand-year beast 467 468.
• Level 9 Fixed Soul Cannons are treated as strategic weapons even in the Sun Moon Empire. When Long Zhanye displays three before the Body Sect's elders, each is described as capable of destroying a small city 568.
• At Sea God Hall, Xiao Hongchen becomes a Level 9 Fixed Soul Guidance Cannon. Long Zhanye supports its barrel and pours his Soul Power into the weapon, firing a projectile into the core of a black-blue vortex and destroying it from within 674.
• Two Level 9 Fixed Soul Cannons fired to protect Ju Zi from Xuan Zi devastate the battlefield and annihilate the Fire Phoenix Soul Engineer Regiment. The Terrorclaw Soul Engineer Regiment's Circular Linkage defense survives with extensive cracking, keeping its casualties below thirty percent 738.
• Long Zhanye later orders Kong Deming to prepare eleven Level 9 Fixed Soul Guidance Cannons, offering Huo Yuhao, Ju Zi, and Xu Yunhan a pardon if they survive. Before the volley, the area within five hundred li of Ming Capital is cleared, and Long Zhanye shields the spectators outside the blast zone with Divine Power 830 831.
• During that bombardment, Huo Yuhao and his companions withstand successive shells through layered defenses. The eighth is stopped by the Life Reflection Shield, but the combined impact of the final shells tears open Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's cast-off shell 831.

Divine-Level Warfare and Later Technological Direction

Four Level 10 Fixed Soul Guidance Cannons are used during Ma Hongjun's assault on the Body Sect. Fired by Kong Deming's soul engineers against the accompanying Heavenly God Hunters, they kill 103 hunters and injure more than 240. The hunters' leader survives with a crack in his divine armor and orders the survivors to concentrate their attacks against one point of the sect's barrier 849.

In the subsequent era of technological development, the available grades of rare metals impose an upper limit on conventional Soul Tools. Under Kong Deming, the continent's research system shifts away from traditional gun emplacements, devices, and standardized weapons toward Humanoid Soul Tools, ultimately developing mecha and Battle Armor 863.

Limitations and Risks

• The Godly Zhuge Crossbow Cannon’s barrels overheat when firing ordinary Soul Cannon rounds. After three rounds, they must cool for one to three minutes or risk deformation 468.
• Piercing Cannons are difficult to aim and costly to power; dodging is the stated response to their lack of target lock, although He Caitou’s refitted cannon displays an unexpected tracking effect 319.
• High-level cannon fire can endanger allied forces. The Level 9 volley ordered against Xuan Zi annihilates the regiment that fired it 738.
• Cannon platforms can be vulnerable during assembly. Zhou Xinghao's platform initially has weak defenses and cannot counterattack effectively, forcing him to rely on a Level 5 Soul Barrier until its 150 barrels are fully assembled 315 316.
• Detection and targeting can be more limiting than raw destructive power. After losing high-altitude surveillance support during a nighttime attack, Sun Moon Empire defenders cannot lock onto eight Super Douluo, leaving their Level 9 cannons without usable targets 430 434.
• Dense fire does not guarantee effective penetration. Long Zhanye's thirty-six-barrel platform cannot damage the Hundred-Thousand-Year Gold Wolf Emperor with its Level 6 rays, and Qian Duoduo's emplacement illustrates the insufficient destructive power of ordinary cannon-platform attacks against Titled Douluo-level opponents 226 718.
• Large strategic volleys require extensive precautions for bystanders. The eleven-shell bombardment at Ming Capital is preceded by evacuation over a five-hundred-li radius and additional Divine Power protection for those observing from beyond it 831.