Jiang Yue

Biodata

Name	Jiang Yue
Alias(es)	Doctor Jiang; Divine Physician Jiang
Species/Race	Human
Gender	Male
Affiliation	Shrek Academy; formerly Maple Leaf City Junior Soul Master Academy
Occupation/Role	Control-type Soul Master; psychological counselor; Shrek Academy freshman assessment champion
Status	Alive
First Appearance	Chapter 1

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Martial Soul Awakening	1	Awakens twin martial souls: Passionate Sword and Unfeeling Sword. Uses the self martial soul fusion skill Emotion Shakes Heaven to kill the evil soul master who massacred his village 1.
First Soul Ring / Soul Master	3	Absorbs the soul ring of a Purple Spirit Jackal, becoming a Soul Master. Gains First Soul Skill: Emotion Thread Sword Attachment 3.
Joy Sword Condensed	4	The Passionate Sword's innate ability, Emotion-Transforming Sword, creates the red Joy Sword, which can affect emotions even against the old man's spiritual power 4.
Second Soul Ring / Grand Soul Master	6	Absorbs a thousand-year Nightmare Demon as his second soul ring with the Maple Leaf City Lord's help 6.
Dream Iceworm Fusion	7	Fuses with the million-year Dream Iceworm, gaining an intelligent soul-ring partner and drawing in Electrolux's remnant soul 7 9.
Soul Ring Age Upgrade	8	Dream Iceworm helps raise the age of Jiang Yue's first two soul rings; his first ring later retains a disguise as a hundred-year ring while reaching thousand-year level 8 23.
Anger Sword Condensed	8	Condenses the cyan Anger Sword after Dream Iceworm's assistance 8.
Soul Elder / Level 36	9	Reaches Level 36 and possesses three rings: one yellow and two purple. Condenses the brown Sorrow Sword after absorbing his third soul ring 9.
Shrek Academy Enrollment	11	Enrolls at Shrek Academy at age eleven as a control-type Soul Master above Rank 30 11.
First Soul Skill Evolves	23	After the first soul ring becomes thousand-year level, Emotion Thread Sword Attachment gains the ability to forcibly interrupt enemies previously struck by the Passionate Sword, including charged or maintained soul skills 23.
Freshman Assessment Champion	34	Defeats Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu's unstable Netherworld White Tiger, winning the freshman assessment with his team 34.
Rank 40 / Soul Ancestor Bottleneck	37, 38	Reaches Rank 40 by age twelve and prepares to obtain a ten-thousand-year fourth soul ring 37 38.
Living Blade Fusion	41	After Electrolux purifies the Spirit Devouring Carving Knife into the Blade of Life's Watch, Jiang Yue fuses with it, greatly improving his physical constitution and future soul-ring tolerance 41.

Background / History

Jiang Yue is a transmigrator born into a mountain village on Douluo Continent during the Unrivaled Tang Sect era. At six years old, his village is slaughtered by an evil soul master. Jiang Yue awakens his twin martial souls during the disaster and kills the murderer with Emotion Shakes Heaven, but loses his parents and all remaining attachments to his home 1 5.

A mysterious old man rescues him, teaches him soul master knowledge, helps improve his body, trains his left hand and swordsmanship, and guides him to obtain his first soul ring in Star Dou Forest. Before leaving, the old man enrolls him in Maple Leaf City's junior soul master academy and gives him a storage bracelet containing ten thousand Gold Soul Coins and two whale glue crystals 1 2 3 4.

After learning that he is the same age as Huo Yuhao, Jiang Yue decides to pursue the Dream Iceworm opportunity for himself. During a soul hunt for his second ring, he unexpectedly encounters Dream Iceworm ahead of schedule, fuses with it, and also gains Electrolux's unconscious remnant soul 5 6 7 9.

At eleven, Jiang Yue enters Shrek Academy as a Soul Elder. He quickly becomes known for his unusual control-type sword martial soul, thousand-year second ring, and ability to provide psychological counseling by manipulating emotions. His counseling room in Shrek City becomes both a source of income and a way to train the Passionate Sword's abilities 11 20 21 24.

During the freshman assessment, Jiang Yue's team goes undefeated, defeating Wang Dong's team, Xie Huanyue's team, Ning Tian's team, and finally Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu's team. He wins the championship but is frustrated when Shrek Academy refuses to provide the ten-thousand-year soul beast he needs for his fourth ring, offering only a thousand-year beast instead 22 23 29 32 34 35.

To prepare for his fourth ring and stabilize Electrolux, Jiang Yue travels to Star Luo City and buys the cursed Spirit Devouring Carving Knife from the Starlight Auction House. Electrolux awakens, purifies the curse, and transforms it into the Blade of Life's Watch, allowing Jiang Yue to fuse with Living Gold and greatly strengthen his body 38 39 41.

Appearance

Jiang Yue's most striking feature is his heterochromia, which appears after his martial soul awakening and body purification. His eyes leave strong impressions on classmates and major figures alike 2 12 39.

• Left eye: silver 2
• Right eye: blue 2
• Build: still young and shorter than inner courtyard senior Zhang Lexuan during the freshman assessment period 31
• Distinctive aura: often draws attention because of his calm bearing, sword martial soul, and unusual eyes 12 39

Personality

Jiang Yue is calm, pragmatic, and unusually mature from childhood. After surviving the massacre of his village, he chooses to keep living rather than fall into confusion, and he willingly returns to bury the dead despite the trauma 1 2.

He is cautious with secrets and future knowledge. When Dream Iceworm tries to inspect his memories, Jiang Yue prevents it and acts wary, deliberately hiding his foreknowledge of the original timeline 7.

Jiang Yue values growth, knowledge, and self-determination. At Shrek Academy, he spends much of his time cultivating, reading in the library, training the Distraction Control Technique, or running his counseling room rather than socializing 12 16 24 26 37.

He is not blindly heroic. He has no broad mission to eradicate evil soul masters, despite his own history, and states that if he encounters one he will kill them, but he does not feel attached enough to Douluo Continent to make it his life purpose 31.

Abilities & Skills

Passionate Sword

Jiang Yue's primary martial soul is a silver-white longsword with a crimson line running from hilt to tip. It carries spiritual fluctuations and is considered by the mysterious old man to be superior to the Seven Kill Sword 1 4.

• Spiritual-attribute weapon martial soul 1
• Developed along the control-type path by Jiang Yue's choice 1 2
• Can influence, amplify, reduce, and regulate emotions 14 21
• Works with emotion swords produced by its innate ability 4 9 34

Unfeeling Sword

Jiang Yue's second martial soul is the Unfeeling Sword, a twin martial soul paired with the Passionate Sword. He keeps it hidden unless absolutely necessary 1 7 28.

• Possesses a defense-ignoring innate ability 7 28
• Has no soul rings during the covered events 16
• Intended by Jiang Yue as a later-stage offensive martial soul 9

Emotion Shakes Heaven

Emotion Shakes Heaven is Jiang Yue's self martial soul fusion skill, created from his twin martial souls. He uses it immediately after awakening to kill the evil soul master who destroyed his village 1.

• Combines Passionate Sword and Unfeeling Sword 1
• Described by Jiang Yue as a powerful sealing-type skill even in its incomplete state 16
• Considered too extreme to use casually against ordinary opponents 28

Emotion-Transforming Sword

The Passionate Sword's innate ability condenses emotions into separate sword forms. Jiang Yue first creates the Joy Sword, later the Anger Sword and Sorrow Sword 4 8 9.

• Joy Sword: red; can stir joy and calm hostile emotions 4 14 21
• Anger Sword: cyan; can inflame anger and make targets reckless 8 9 32
• Sorrow Sword: brown; can induce sorrow, hesitation, worry, and emotional suppression 9 29
• Requires multitasking and high spiritual power to control multiple swords effectively 4 9 27 28
• Jiang Yue expects the full set to involve seven emotions, likely joy, anger, sorrow, fear, love, hatred, and desire 9

First Soul Skill: Emotion Thread Sword Attachment

Jiang Yue's first soul skill comes from the Purple Spirit Jackal. It strengthens the Passionate Sword and his spiritual power 3.

• Increases Passionate Sword attack power by 30% 3
• Increases sharpness 3
• Increases spiritual power by 25% 3
• After the ring is raised to thousand-year level, can interrupt soul skills of enemies previously struck by the Passionate Sword 23
• Can break sustained states, including the Netherworld White Tiger martial soul fusion skill 34

Second Soul Skill: Live and Die Together

Jiang Yue's second soul skill links targets through spiritual influence, allowing shared effects such as pain and emotional states 29.

• Creates a mental stalemate or linked state among targets 29
• Can transfer pain or psychological pressure 29 30
• Has broad field-control potential but requires creativity to exploit fully 29
• The linked state can be released by Jiang Yue afterward 30

Third Soul Skill: Substitution

Jiang Yue's third soul skill forcibly alters the target of enemy soul skills 14.

• Increases mental power by 65% 14
• Can redirect enhancement-type soul skills that normally apply only to the original user 14
• Allows Jiang Yue to steal or receive opponents' boosts, as shown against Dai Huabin and Ning Tian's team 14 32
• Can redirect attacks, including forcing the Netherworld White Tiger to strike Cui Yajie 34

Psychological Counseling

Jiang Yue turns emotional manipulation into a practical counseling business in Shrek City. The service becomes popular among stressed outer courtyard students 20 21.

• Reduces sorrow and amplifies joy 21
• Helps students feel relaxed, clear-headed, and emotionally lighter 21
• Doubles as training for the Passionate Sword's emotional powers 24
• Especially effective because his spiritual power surpasses other outer courtyard students 21

Swordsmanship and Ambidexterity

The mysterious old man trains Jiang Yue in basic sword techniques and deliberately restricts his right hand, forcing him to use his left hand until it becomes natural 2.

• Fights primarily with the Passionate Sword in his left hand 23
• Left-handed attack patterns make opponents like Wang Dong uncomfortable 23
• Can coordinate multiple sword styles with assistance or Distraction Control training 27
• Uses physical strength and sword precision to carve arena stone into projectiles 23

Distraction Control Technique

Jiang Yue obtains the complete Distraction Control Technique and cultivation insights from the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect through Ning Tian 25.

• Trains multitasking and spiritual control 26
• Helps reduce soul power consumption when using multiple abilities 26
• Jiang Yue succeeds at drawing a circle with his left hand and a square with his right on his first attempt 26
• Needed to control Passionate Sword plus multiple emotion swords 28
• Limited by its highest known level, Seven Apertures Exquisite Heart, while Jiang Yue may eventually need to control more than seven swords 26 28

Cooking

Jiang Yue's cooking has a powerful emotional effect. A meal he prepares improves Zhang Lexuan's mood and coincides with her soul power breakthrough 31 37.

• Comforts friends after competition losses 31
• Helps Zhang Lexuan stabilize emotionally and break through 31 37
• Impresses Zhang Lexuan more than Inner Court food 31

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Passionate Sword — Jiang Yue's primary martial soul, a spiritual-attribute silver-white longsword with a crimson line 1.
• Unfeeling Sword — Jiang Yue's hidden second martial soul, capable of ignoring defenses 7 28.
• Storage bracelet — Given by the mysterious old man; about five cubic meters of space, originally holding ten thousand Gold Soul Coins and whale glue 4 11.
• Whale glue crystals — Two high-quality pieces left by the old man to improve Jiang Yue's physical constitution 4 5.
• Void Demon Leopard Left Leg Bone — Freshman assessment champion reward; Jiang Yue sells it to Ning Tian for 300,000 Gold Soul Coins plus cultivation resources worth 200,000 35 36.
• Spirit Devouring Carving Knife — Cursed carving knife bought from the Starlight Auction House for 80,000 Gold Soul Coins 39.
• Blade of Life's Watch / Living Blade — Purified form of the Spirit Devouring Carving Knife, transformed by Electrolux into Living Gold and fused with Jiang Yue 41.
• Purple guest card — Given by the Starlight Auction House after Jiang Yue purchases the Spirit Devouring Carving Knife 39.

Relationships

• Mysterious old man — Mentor and benefactor; rescues Jiang Yue, trains him, improves his body, helps him obtain his first soul ring, enrolls him in Maple Leaf City's academy, and leaves him resources before departing 1 2 3 4.
• Dream Iceworm — Intelligent soul-ring partner; fuses with Jiang Yue, raises his soul ring ages, plans to become his seventh soul ring, and later helps awaken Electrolux 7 8 39 41.
• Electrolux — Remnant soul residing in Jiang Yue's Sea of Spirit; awakens to purify the Spirit Devouring Carving Knife and agrees to stay in exchange for shelter 9 41.
• Maple Leaf City Lord — Protector and supporter; helps Jiang Yue hunt his second soul ring and supports his Shrek Academy ambitions 5 6 8.
• Huo Yuhao — Grateful peer; Jiang Yue saves him from the Datura Snake, tells him about a suitable spiritual-attribute soul beast, and later beats Dai Huabin, earning Huo Yuhao's gratitude 10 15 17.
• Wang Dong — Conflicted classmate; Jiang Yue discovers her disguise, refuses to expose her, later defeats her team in the freshman assessment 15 16 18 22 23.
• Dai Huabin — Rival and defeated opponent; attacks Jiang Yue in Dormitory 208, loses badly, and is later defeated again in the freshman assessment final 14 33 34 35.
• Zhu Lu — Dai Huabin's fiancée and opponent; her emotional disconnect with Dai Huabin destabilizes their Netherworld White Tiger 33 34 35.
• Ning Tian — Recruiter, client, and ally of convenience; negotiates the Distraction Control Technique for Jiang Yue, buys his soul bone, and faces him in the semifinals 20 25 32 36.
• Wu Feng — Tense acquaintance and counseling target; initially hostile, becomes more comfortable around Jiang Yue, and receives emotional advice from him 19 20 25 26.
• Wang Yan — Teacher and theory mentor; recommends books, observes Jiang Yue closely, and supports his development 16 22 24 37.
• Mu En — Ultimate Douluo observer and guide; gives Jiang Yue advice on Distraction Control and helps him briefly experience controlling three swords 11 26 27.
• Xie Huanyue — Friendly rival and frequent client; loses to Jiang Yue in the assessment and later supports his championship run 21 29 30.
• Zhang Lexuan — Inner courtyard senior sister; visits Jiang Yue's counseling shop, benefits from his cooking, and hopes he enters the Inner Court 31 37.
• Xu Jiujiu — Star Luo princess and auctioneer; grants Jiang Yue special treatment at the Starlight Auction House and investigates his background afterward 38 39.
• Tang Ya — Tang Sect master; repeatedly tries to recruit Jiang Yue, but he declines 10 11 17.
• Bei Bei — Tang Sect member and Shrek senior; recognizes Jiang Yue's talent and later becomes part of the events Jiang Yue observes around Huo Yuhao 10 17.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Village Massacre and Awakening

Jiang Yue begins as the sole survivor of a village massacre. His twin martial souls awaken under life-or-death pressure, allowing him to kill the evil soul master responsible but leaving him without family or attachment to his old life 1.

Early Training and First Ring

The mysterious old man becomes Jiang Yue's first guide, strengthening his body, teaching swordsmanship, and helping him obtain a Purple Spirit Jackal soul ring. Jiang Yue chooses a control-type path for the Passionate Sword despite its apparent assault-type potential 1 2 3.

Dream Iceworm Opportunity

Jiang Yue uses his knowledge of the original timeline to target Dream Iceworm, but encounters it earlier than expected during his second soul-ring hunt. The fusion makes him the holder of the greatest opportunity of the era and changes Huo Yuhao's original fate 5 6 7 9.

Shrek Academy Freshman Period

At Shrek Academy, Jiang Yue is immediately recognized as an exceptional freshman: an eleven-year-old Soul Elder with a thousand-year second ring. He avoids unnecessary obligations, studies heavily, opens a counseling room, and becomes famous in the outer courtyard 11 16 20 21.

Freshman Assessment

Jiang Yue's team dominates the freshman assessment. He defeats Wang Dong's team, Xie Huanyue's team, Ning Tian's team, and Dai Huabin's team, exposing the strength of his spiritual control and emotion-based sword techniques. His team wins the championship 22 23 29 32 34.

Fourth Ring Preparation

After Shrek Academy refuses to provide the ten-thousand-year soul beast he needs, Jiang Yue sells his soul bone reward and prepares independently. He reaches Rank 40 and goes to Star Luo City to obtain the Spirit Devouring Carving Knife, hoping to awaken and stabilize Electrolux 35 36 37 38 39.

Electrolux Awakening

Electrolux awakens and purifies the cursed carving knife into the Blade of Life's Watch. Jiang Yue fuses with the Living Blade, solving his major physical-constitution weakness and improving his ability to withstand a ten-thousand-year fourth soul ring 41.

Notable Quotes

"I'll make the world my home. Since I survived, I'll do my best to keep living." 1

"My name is Jiang Yue. I'm an orphan. My martial souls are the Passionate Sword and the Unfeeling Sword." 7

"The bold prospered, while the timid starved!" 5

"Enough. The facts have proven that you can't beat me." 14

"Alright, I'm done playing with you." 34

Trivia

• Jiang Yue considers Dream Iceworm's best use to be as his seventh soul ring, because a million-year seventh ring would create an unprecedentedly powerful Martial Soul True Body 5 8.
• He rejects Dream Iceworm's blank ice martial soul, preferring to keep his innate twin swords rather than slow his cultivation 7 8.
• His emotion swords make him seek out the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's Distraction Control Technique much earlier than most outsiders would 4 25 26.
• He dislikes unnecessary sect entanglements and declines Tang Ya's invitation to join the Tang Sect 11 17.
• His counseling business becomes popular enough that some students become repeat customers for the emotional relief it provides 21.
• Xu Jiujiu notes his heterochromatic eyes as unusual outside the White Tiger lineage 39.