Spirit Skill

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Background

Spirit skills are techniques for using soul power rather than power itself. Their effectiveness depends on the user’s soul power and life force; Zhou Tao considers these underlying resources more important than the technique’s form. A strong foundation can amplify even basic applications into powerful attacks 8.

A spirit skill may be obtained through a spirit ring or spirit bone, inherited through another source, or created independently. Zhou Tao develops self-created techniques by applying his understanding of lightning release to his Lightning Blue Silver Grass martial soul 16.

Plant-type martial souls can perform entanglement instinctively, without spending a spirit-skill slot. Zhou Tao therefore rejects entanglement as an inefficient ring skill and prioritizes skills that strengthen vitality, lightning power, and direct offensive force 8.

Acquisition Methods

Known Spirit Skills

Vitality and Lightning

• Undying Thunder — Zhou Tao’s first spirit skill, obtained from the millennium Undying Thunder Vine.

  • When his Blue Silver Grass roots into the ground, it draws vitality from the earth and nearby plants.
  • Converts that vitality into a continuous supply of thunder power.
  • Combines the vine’s vitality with lightning-based offense 10.

• Thorn Thunderstorm — Zhou Tao’s third spirit skill.

  • Releases hundreds of explosive Lightning Balls simultaneously.
  • Functions as a large-scale area attack.
  • Zhou Tao describes its battlefield potential as equivalent to an army of spirit masters 33.

Lightning Release

• Lightning Ball — A self-created lightning technique.

  • Used to defeat evil spirit masters despite Zhou Tao having only one spirit ring at the time.
  • Its strength surprises Xue Qinghe, who learns Zhou Tao created it himself 18.
  • A purple-gold version intimidates Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, which associates it with heavenly-tribulation lightning 118.

• Thunderbolt Lightning Release — Zhou Tao’s self-created second spirit skill.

  • Enables rapid lightning-based movement and evasion.
  • Used to dodge Liu Erlong’s Bloodthirsty Flame.
  • Becomes freely usable after Zhou Tao obtains three ten-thousand-year and two hundred-thousand-year spirit rings 23 51.

• Ninefold Thunder Tribulation — A skill gained through the Thunder God’s inheritance.

  • Acquired after Zhou Tao endures nine layers of heavenly thunder and receives a hundred-thousand-year sixth spirit ring 43.

• Annihilation Electromagnetic Cannon — Zhou Tao’s sixth spirit skill.

  • Obtained from the hundred-thousand-year ring of the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger.
  • Demonstrated by annihilating a distant mountain 59 60.

• Thunder God Verdict — Zhou Tao’s ninth spirit skill.

  • Used to kill the Evil Orca King in a single strike 170.

Water, Fire, and Dragon Skills

• Ultimate Purification — A skill gained from the Water Dragon King spirit bone 29.

• Ultimate Flame — A skill gained from the Fire Dragon King spirit bone 29.

• Water Dragon Shield — A defensive skill gained when Zhou Tao absorbs the Water Dragon King’s god-level spirit bone 124.

• Fire Dragon Spear — A weapon-form skill gained when Zhou Tao absorbs the Fire Dragon King’s god-level spirit bone 124.

• Ice Jade Emperor Slash — A third spirit skill of the Thunder God Hammer, obtained from the Ice Empress’s soul 139.

• Extreme Ice Power — A second third spirit skill of the Thunder God Hammer, obtained alongside Ice Jade Emperor Slash 139.

• Emperor Cold Heaven: Snow Dance Shining Sun — A fourth spirit skill of the Thunder God Hammer, obtained from Snow Empress’s 600,000-year spirit ring 139.

• Great Cold No Snow — A second fourth spirit skill of the Thunder God Hammer, obtained alongside Emperor Cold Heaven: Snow Dance Shining Sun 139.

Mental and Perception Skills

• Spirit Guard — A mental-defense spirit skill gained from a Spirit Skull Bone.

  • Described as mental defense with no upper limit 88 89.

• Myriad Illusions Return to Void — A mental attack skill.

  • Dominates an opponent’s five senses 89.

• Spirit Detection — A mental skill granted by Sky Dream Ice Silkworm.

  • Detects movement across a radius of tens of thousands of meters 118.

• Spirit Sharing — A mental coordination skill granted by Sky Dream Ice Silkworm.

  • Synchronizes detected information directly to allies’ minds.
  • Improves team coordination and battlefield information sharing 118.

• Sky Dream Domain — A mental interference skill granted by Sky Dream Ice Silkworm.

  • Affects life forms within range that possess mental fluctuations.
  • Causes enemy attacks to miss and disrupts spirit-skill activation 118.

• Soul Shock — A mental attack skill granted by Sky Dream Ice Silkworm.

  • Deals direct mental damage 118.

• Light of Destruction — The Eye of Destruction’s unique ability.

  • Condenses a massive amount of soul power into a destructive beam 118.

Martial Soul Avatar

• Blue Silver Avatar — Zhou Tao’s seventh spirit skill.
  • Obtained with his seventh spirit ring after awakening the Blue Silver Emperor bloodline 64.

Other Documented Skills

• Physical Restoration — A soul-bone skill from the Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone that provides powerful bodily recovery 7.

• Stable Flight — A soul-bone skill from the Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone.

  • Enables flight with low soul-power consumption.
  • Used to evade the Undying Thunder Vine’s lightning attacks 7 10.

• Evil Mirror Annihilation — Zhou Tao’s eighth spirit skill.

  • Obtained after absorbing the Evil Orca King’s spirit ring 170.

Limitations and Principles

• Spirit skills consume soul power; Zhou Tao’s extensive use of Undying Thunder, Thunderbolt Lightning Release, and Thorn Thunderstorm during sparring rapidly drains his reserves 36.
• A user’s available skill slots are valuable, making a martial soul’s innate abilities—such as plant-type entanglement—undesirable choices for ring-granted skills 8.
• Spirit rings can grant multiple skills in exceptional cases: Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s million-year sacrifice provides four first skills to the Eye of Destruction 118.
• Soul-bone skills can supplement a spirit master’s arsenal without relying on ordinary spirit rings 7 29.