Martial Soul

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Martial Soul (武魂)
Known Manifestation	Nine Nether Red-Clad Ghost Emperor
Alias(es)	Red-Clad Ghost Emperor; Ghost Emperor Martial Soul
Species/Race	Humanoid Martial Soul
Affiliation	Su Chen
Occupation/Role	Su Chen's Martial Soul; source of his domains, Soul Skills, and attendant followers
Status	Active
First Appearance	1

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Awakening / Innate Full Soul Power	1	Manifested as the Nine Nether Red-Clad Ghost Emperor with the attendant followers Ghost Bride Xiangsi and Purple-Robed Celestial Master Ghost Hongdou.
First Soul Ring — yellow, over 600 years	5	Absorbed from a Dream Shadow Spider beyond the usual first-ring limit, gaining Dream of Millet.
Attendants gain yellow rings	6	Xiangsi and Hongdou developed yellow spirit rings alongside Su Chen's growth, confirming their power is linked to the Ghost Emperor Martial Soul.
Second Soul Ring — purple, at least 2,000 years	15	Absorbed from a smaller Green Medusa, forming Su Chen's unprecedented yellow-and-purple two-ring configuration and granting Love Thread Entanglement.
Two-ring stage / Soul Grand Master	20	Su Chen had reached the Soul Grand Master realm less than two years after awakening.

Background / History

The Martial Soul awakened in Martial Soul City when Su Chen was six. Its manifestation blanketed the city in resentment, baleful energy, and a calamitous ghostly aura. Observers initially mistook the three humanoid figures for a never-before-seen Triple Martial Soul, but Su Chen clarified that only the Red-Clad Ghost Emperor was his Martial Soul; the Ghost Bride and Purple-Robed Celestial Master Ghost were attendant followers derived from it. His subsequent Innate Full Soul Power test established him as an exceptional prodigy. 1

Qian Xunji recognized that the Martial Soul had no precedent in Martial Soul Hall records and urged Su Chen to communicate with it. This revealed two innate domains: the Nine Nether Lovesickness Ghost Domain and the symbiotic Three Souls Return, Ghost Domain. Its dark and evil aura was considered stronger in that aspect than Bibi Dong's Death Spider Emperor, and even the Angel Family's Martial Soul was unable to suppress it. 2 17

Bibi Dong became Su Chen's teacher and investigated the Martial Soul with him. Yu Xiaogang classified it as an agility-focused ghost type, but Su Chen rejected this assessment, arguing that its proper path combined power attack, control, and agility while prioritizing suppression and dominance. 3

Its first Soul Ring came from a Dream Shadow Spider more than six hundred years old, granting Dream of Millet. Afterward, Xiangsi and Hongdou visibly developed yellow rings and increasingly independent personalities. 5 6 Su Chen later obtained a purple second ring from a smaller Green Medusa, adding the powerful control skill Love Thread Entanglement. 15

Appearance

The Nine Nether Red-Clad Ghost Emperor manifests as a tall red-robed woman surrounded by dense negative energy. Her arrival is accompanied by a blood-red sea beneath her feet and an atmosphere of cold resentment and calamity. 1

• Tall female figure with a tragically beautiful face and vivid crimson lips. 1
• Blood-red robes embroidered with twisted crimson ghost patterns. 1
• Sleeves move without wind amid baleful aura. 1
• Manifests alongside Ghost Bride Xiangsi and Purple-Robed Celestial Master Ghost Hongdou. 1 2
• Its aura is described as dark, violent, malevolent, and filled with negative energies. 1 2

Abilities & Skills

Nine Nether Lovesickness Ghost Domain

An innate prototype domain possessed from awakening. 2

• Forcibly reduces all enemy attributes by 15%. 2
• The reduction cannot be cleansed with Soul Power or spiritual power. 2
• Increases Su Chen's attributes by 5% every half hour while active. 2

Three Souls Return, Ghost Domain

A symbiotic domain involving the Ghost Emperor and both attendant followers. Its complete effects remained unknown at the time Su Chen first identified it. 2

• Ghost Emperor — suppresses opponents. 2
• Ghost Bride — entangles and kills through emotional evil. 2
• Ghost Celestial Master — seals with runes. 2
• Its full capabilities were expected to emerge after Su Chen became a true Soul Master. 2

Attendant Manifestation

The Ghost Bride and Purple-Robed Celestial Master Ghost are not separate Martial Souls; they are companions derived from the Nine Nether Red-Clad Ghost Emperor. 1

• The Martial Soul's first registered skill was described as Summon Retainer, capable of summoning up to two retainers. 20
• The attendants strengthen when Su Chen gains strength and develop their own spirit rings. 6
• By Su Chen's two-ring stage, both attendants had reached level 24 and displayed increasingly independent thought and speech. 16

Dream of Millet

A dream-based Soul Skill gained from the over-six-hundred-year Dream Shadow Spider. 5

• Forces a target into an immersive dreamscape indistinguishable from reality. 5
• Ignores Soul Power Level and conventional defenses. 5
• Dream time is drastically accelerated; a century in the dream may equal only a breath in reality. 5
• Cannot activate if the target is actively using Soul Power, preventing use during an ongoing battle. 5

Love Thread Entanglement

A control skill gained from the purple Green Medusa Soul Ring. 15

• Produces blood-colored threads that entangle and bind enemies. 15
• Drains a restrained target's life force and Soul Power. 15
• Includes petrification and time-stop effects. 15
• Covering the entire field in threads can freeze the area for ten minutes. 15
• Its upper limit against stronger opponents remained untested. 15

Attendant Followers

Ghost Bride Xiangsi

Xiangsi appears in a blood-red wedding dress, carrying a red oil-paper umbrella amid phantasmal red lanterns and a malevolent aura. 2

• Sea of Other Shore Flowers — creates a destructive flower-sea tornado; its first use destroyed Su Chen's room. 6
• Second Soul Skill — sees through hidden forms, illusions, and aura disguises. 16
• Inflicts fear on living beings. 16
• Holds absolute dominion over Undead and remnant souls. 16

Purple-Robed Celestial Master Ghost Hongdou

Hongdou wears a dark-purple Daoist robe covered in eerie runes and carries a black talisman charged with faint purple lightning. 2

• Undead Aid — summons Undead to assist in battle; the number summoned depends on the talismans she possesses. 13
• Suppression Talisman — releases talismans like rain to suppress baleful aura, break evil, purify turbid energy, and resist divine attributes. 16
• Her talismans gradually gnaw away at targets until they dissolve. 16

Relationships

• Su Chen — wielder and source of the Martial Soul's growth; the Ghost Emperor and both attendants answer to him. 1 6 16
• Ghost Bride Xiangsi — attendant follower derived from the Martial Soul; specializes in emotional evil, perception, fear, and dominion over Undead. 1 2 16
• Purple-Robed Celestial Master Ghost Hongdou — attendant follower derived from the Martial Soul; specializes in talismans, sealing, purification, and Undead summons. 1 2 13 16
• Bibi Dong — Su Chen's teacher; she recognized the Martial Soul's unprecedented nature and guided its early Soul Ring hunts. 2 4 15
• Qian Xunji — identified the Martial Soul as an unprecedented talent within Martial Soul Hall, though its dark aura later provoked his distrust. 2 17

Trivia

• The Martial Soul was initially mistaken for a Triple Martial Soul because it manifests three humanoid figures. 1
• Martial Soul Hall had no prior record of a Martial Soul awakening with attendant followers. 1
• Its power is particularly effective against deceased beings and spirits, a trait used to explain Su Chen's ability to absorb unusually old Soul Rings. 5 16
• Su Chen concealed much of its true nature when registering it in the Library Pavilion, reporting only Summon Retainer and the spider-type nature of his new Soul Ring. 20