Martial Soul

Biodata

Power Progression

Function in Cultivation

• A soul master's Martial Soul defines the foundation and direction of their cultivation. Soul Rings are attached to a specific Martial Soul and grant Soul Skills. 37 398
• A Martial Soul is regarded as a soul master's “second soul.” Its manifestation can be used to identify a person even if their appearance and aura have changed. 408
• Twin Martial Souls allow their bearer to cultivate more than one Martial Soul independently. Long Zhanye initially possessed the inherited Heart and the god-level Heavenly Eye. 2
• Among twin Martial Souls, the primary Martial Soul is ordinarily the foundation of cultivation, while the secondary Martial Soul is an additional gift. Long Zhanye nevertheless develops his grafted Qilin Arm as a specialized ultimate-strength Martial Soul while retaining the comprehensive Sky-Propping Eye as his primary Martial Soul. 221 236
• A Martial Soul can be catastrophically damaged. When Ma Xiaotao destroyed Long Zhanye's Heart Martial Soul, the collapse of its origin severely damaged his heart meridians, blood flow, and physical foundation. 6 14
• Possessing another Martial Soul can preserve a path of cultivation after one Martial Soul is destroyed, though Long Zhanye's Heart Martial Soul made the aftermath especially dangerous. 14
• The Body Martial Soul Grafting Technique can allow a physically compatible recipient with a damaged or defective Martial Soul to acquire some or all abilities of a preserved Martial Soul organ; Long Zhanye's Qilin Arm is a successful example. 18 619
• Martial Soul mutations may result from factors beyond ordinary inheritance. Xiahou Ling's Blood-Red Nine-Headed Bat King arose through the combined influence of her Evil Soul Master bloodline and medicinal stimulation. 270
• Soul Rings may be obtained from soul beasts, unusual inner cores, Spirit Souls, or God-Bestowed Soul Rings. A Chaos beast's inner core can be refined into a Soul Ring, while the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum fused with Long Zhanye as a Spirit Soul and supplied additional rings. 130 518 521
• A sufficiently powerful Hundred Thousand Year Spirit Soul can provide two Hundred Thousand Year Soul Rings and a Soul Bone. When fused as the sixth Soul Ring, it can also provide the seventh-ring Martial Soul Avatar and autonomously use the Spirit Soul skills not selected by its host. 518 530
• Martial Souls may be fused with Soul Tools to form Life-Bound Soul Tools. Kong Deming achieves this by merging his Martial Soul with the Silver Moon Divine Light Barrier, attaining Level 10 Soul Tool mastery. 612 757
• In the exceptional case of Long Zhanye and Xiahou Ling's coexisting souls, inhabiting Xiahou Ling's body allows Long Zhanye to inherit her Bat King Martial Soul as a third Martial Soul. 750
• The Body Possession Secret Art can allow a soul placed in another body to inherit that body's Martial Soul. Wang Yanfeng retains his Hands Martial Soul and gains Beibei's Bright Sacred Dragon Martial Soul after receiving Beibei's body; he also inherits Beibei's Heavenly Dragon Horse Spirit Soul. 816
• Dragon-type Martial Souls can react involuntarily to overwhelming dragon might. A continent-spanning dragon aura forces dragon-type soul masters to release their Martial Souls and causes backlash even among powerful wielders. 753

Classifications

Body Martial Souls

The Body Sect accepts only soul masters whose Martial Souls are part of the body. Because these Martial Souls are scarce, the sect protects settlements such as Body Village and encourages bloodline inheritance among its members. 1

Body Martial Souls may originate from external body parts, internal organs, biological components, or even the soul itself. This variety makes their cultivation paths highly individual, while also making rare internal-organ Martial Souls such as the Heart particularly dangerous when damaged. 1 14 689

Secondary Awakening

The Body Martial Soul Secondary Awakening is one of the Body Sect's defining secret techniques. It was developed through early research into the “Secret of the Body” and causes a qualitative transformation that can multiply a Body Martial Soul's power. 17

The commonly recognized grades are Black Iron, Bronze, Silver, and Gold. The Body Martial Soul Third Awakening was initially considered only theoretical, but is later revealed to be the ninth and highest Body Sect secret art. 56 621

Body Sect Secret Arts

The Body Sect's nine secret arts include the Awaken, Defense, Fuse, Transformation, Source, Spirit, Collapse, and Nirvana Secrets, as well as the Body Martial Soul Third Awakening. 621

• Fuse Secret / Body Martial Soul Grafting Technique — A prohibited theory that proposes transplanting a specially preserved Martial Soul organ into a physically compatible recipient with a damaged or defective Martial Soul. A successful graft may repair the recipient and grant some or all abilities of the grafted Martial Soul. 18 621
• Flawless Golden Body — A defensive secret art that transforms the body with metallic golden luster. At great completion, the “Golden Body Arhat” is said to be breakable only by a super divine weapon. 111 621
• Unity of Heaven and Man — A state in which Soul Power, blood energy, spirit, and flesh are perfectly condensed within the body, allowing every punch and kick to carry immense force. 326 621
• Nirvana Secret / Body Soul Core — A method of cultivating one to five Soul Cores in the body's internal organs. The highest stated realm is the Body Five-Viscera Deification Soul Core. 619 621
• Body Sacrificial Skills — Sacrificial techniques unique to a Body Martial Soul. Long Zhanye's Sky-Propping Eye grants Divine Crown, which uses Chaos Qi to dissolve all forms of energy and even physical matter. 727
• Body Martial Soul Third Awakening — The ninth secret requires a Bloodline Soul Core alongside at least one other Soul Core, Unity of Heaven and Man, and detonation of the Bloodline Soul Core to power a Purple-Gold-Level Awakening. Its reliance on an externally sourced core makes subsequent recultivation possible. 621 808

Martial Soul Fusion

A Martial Soul Fusion Skill combines the power of two compatible Martial Souls through coordination between their wielders.

• Red Dust Attachment — Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen's fusion skill; its power is described as comparable to that of a Soul Douluo and capable of challenging one. 251
• Fusion skills can be disrupted by targeting the users before the fusion is completed. The Sun Moon Team uses this strategy against the Hongchen siblings during the tournament. 324
• Four Martial Souls can also combine through exceptional coordination, producing power that even a Soul Saint may struggle to withstand. 326
• Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong'er, and Wang Qiu'er later perform a rare three-in-one Martial Soul Fusion Skill whose released aura carries traces of the Dragon God. 348

Martial Soul Avatar

A Martial Soul Avatar is an advanced manifestation that greatly enhances the user and their Martial Soul. A normal seventh Soul Ring provides a Martial Soul Avatar as its sole Soul Skill. 530

• Long Zhanye first activates his Sky-Propping Eye Martial Soul Avatar through his seventh Soul Ring, a 700,000-year ring. 400
• His Avatar manifests as gray-white armor and is accompanied by a colossal, mysterious giant figure that Long Zhanye cannot identify as a Soul Skill, domain, or ordinary Martial Soul manifestation. 400
• By stacking the Avatar with Silver-Grade Awakening, Unity of Heaven and Man, and other amplifications, Long Zhanye temporarily reaches combat power comparable to a Title Douluo. 473
• Before obtaining a true Avatar, Long Zhanye creates a pseudo-Avatar using six resonant Level 7 Metal Rings. The set provides a one-hundred-percent amplification and approximately seventy percent of a genuine Avatar's combat power. 330
• Long Zhanye later manifests a separate Avatar for his Qilin Arm, named the Hercules Avatar. 635
• A Spirit Soul fused as the sixth Soul Ring can provide the seventh-ring Avatar while retaining unused abilities for independent use by the Spirit Soul. 530

Known Martial Souls