Yao Shi

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Yao Shi (曜时)
Alias(es)	Pebble / Little Pebble; Little Stone; Medicine King; Compassionate Medicine King; Abundance Pharmacist 2 5 75 79
Species/Race	Human transmigrator; later an Ambrosial Arbor incarnation/avatar formed from Abundance origin power 2 91 92
Gender	Male 5 8
Affiliation	Former student of Bluestone Town Junior Soul Master Academy and Shrek Academy; student and reserve-team member of Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy; disciple of Jing Hongchen and researcher at Mingde Hall 6 51 55 101
Occupation/Role	Soul Master, healer, Soul Engineer, former reserve competitor in the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Tournament, and inheritor of a divine position 5 53 55 102
First Appearance	Chapter 1

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Innate Full Soul Power	1	Awakened a branch-like martial soul that was initially dismissed as useless.
First soul ring / Soul Master	3	His Jianmu martial soul naturally formed a yellow soul ring, granting Conceptual Healing.
Rank 12 Soul Master	4 5	Registered at Bluestone Town Junior Soul Master Academy.
Rank 24 Grand Soul Master	6 7	Graduated early from the junior academy and gained the second-ring traits of immortality and the Abundant Physique.
Rank 37 Soul Elder / third soul ring	28	Broke through from a suppressed Rank 29; the self-formed third ring granted Glazed Abundance Pure Land and Path Resonance.
Rank 39 Soul Elder	30	Gained two soul-power levels while cultivating within the Pure Land.
Four rings / Rank 41 Soul Ancestor	41 49	Broke through during Snow Empress's tribulation; gained Creation and Evolution and upgrades to his earlier rings.
Class 1 Soul Engineer	52 53	Reached the rank after only eight days of study at Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy.
Temporary Titled Douluo-level manifestation	46 47	Thunder Spirit's possession simulated nine hundred-thousand-year soul rings and granted him her Ultimate Douluo-level power; his true cultivation remained four rings.
Rank 45 Soul Ancestor	56	Approached Class 3 Soul Engineer level before departing for the Soul Master Tournament.
Ambrosial Arbor incarnation	91 92	After Tang San annihilated his former body, Yao Shi eventually reformed as an avatar born from the Ambrosial Arbor. His prior soul skills remained, but his cultivation no longer relied on the conventional Soul Master and soul-ring system.
Titled Douluo-level body / near Limit Douluo	93 102	His reformed body possessed Titled Douluo-level strength approaching the Limit Douluo threshold; he later displayed nine hundred-thousand-year soul rings before Jing Hongchen.
Class 5 Soul Engineer	111	Reached Class 5 after two months of closed cultivation in Mingde Hall, only a little over a year after beginning Soul Engineering studies.

Background / History

Yao Shi was a transmigrator whose previous life ended in an accident. Reborn as an infant on the Douluo Continent, he was left stranded on a river rock until an elderly farmer rescued and raised him. The farmer had no children; Yao Shi later renamed himself and gave the old man the surname Yao, treating him as his grandfather. 2

When Yao was paralyzed protecting him during a soul-beast attack, Yao Shi resolved to become a Soul Master and pay for his treatment. From age four to seven, he caught and sold grilled fish, prepared Yao's meals, and cared for him while saving the fee for a martial-soul awakening. 2

His awakening produced a tree branch martial soul and Innate Full Soul Power. Although the Awakening Master rejected him because of the martial soul's appearance, Yao Shi's martial soul formed its own first soul ring overnight. Its healing skill restored Yao's mobility and rejuvenated his aged body, allowing Yao Shi to pursue formal training. 1 3 4

At Bluestone Town Junior Soul Master Academy, Yao Shi used his healing to treat commoners cheaply and nobles at higher prices. His ability to cure injuries, illnesses, and even lost limbs earned him the title of the Medicine King; he refused nobles who attempted to recruit him. 5

Five years after awakening, Yao Shi recognized that his martial soul was not an ordinary Jianmu. Its life-giving and flesh-altering manifestations resembled the Aeon of Abundance, though its power remained constrained by the laws of the Douluo Plane. 6

Following his victory in the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Tournament, Yao Shi was ambushed by the God King Tang San, who called him a “Calamity Star.” Though his former body was annihilated, Yao Shi retained consciousness in an incorporeal state and perceived the prayers and suffering of beings across worlds. 72 73 75

Responding to those pleas, Yao Shi's Abundance spread through the world. The Ambrosial Arbor emerged as a colossal divine tree, granting regenerative and life-extending power to soul beasts and humans alike, while also producing dangerous distortions and fanatic factions. 79 80 90

After roughly a year without a body, Yao Shi returned as an incarnation of the Ambrosial Arbor. He later informed Jing Hongchen that a god had saved him and that he had inherited a divine position, though the exact nature of his rebirth and divine connection remains unclear to his allies. 91 92 102

Appearance

Yao Shi began as a black-haired child, but his martial soul's development transformed him into an exceptionally beautiful, androgynous-looking boy. He is repeatedly mistaken for a girl by strangers, peers, and even potential admirers. 1 5 8 50

• Pale-golden, shoulder-length hair after his transformation; by age twelve, it had grown to his waist. 5 6 8
• Snow-white, delicate skin and a notably feminine face. 7 45
• An androgynous voice that does little to correct others' first impressions. 8
• Manifests antlers and dense life energy while using his Abundant Physique. 7 13
• His body repairs physical injuries, but destroyed clothing does not regenerate with him. 41
• Grew from slightly over 1.7 meters when leaving Bluestone Town to nearly 1.8 meters by his reunion with Yao. 6 109
• His reformed Ambrosial Arbor body radiates powerful cold and pressure when he releases his soul rings, frosting Jing Hongchen's office. 102

Personality

Yao Shi is compassionate toward commoners and particularly sensitive to the inequality that prevents poor families from accessing Soul Master training or medical care. His childhood labor and Yao's paralysis shaped his desire to earn money independently, heal those in need, and eventually change a system that favors the wealthy. 2 4 5

Despite his healing-oriented powers, he is daring to the point of recklessness. He tested his immortality by accepting a direct strike from a four-thousand-year Armored Bear and repeatedly risks himself to protect others, including Snow Empress. 7 39 40

He is usually polite and humble with ordinary people, but can be manipulative when pursuing a goal. He leveraged Tang Ya's desperation to make her his disciple through Path Resonance, and he initially intended to use Ice Empress's strength for his own protection. 28 29 39

Yao Shi is also prone to boastfulness, especially concerning his future godhood and the powers connected to his martial soul. Ice Empress frequently finds these claims irritating, even when his abilities prove genuine. 32 35 41

Yao Shi's mercy extends even to enemies' victims: rather than erase the resentful souls controlled by the Blood Scythe Soul Sage, he purified them and allowed them to enter reincarnation. 46 47

Despite his immense growth, he remains concerned about the consequences of his power. He warns Yao not to overuse Abundance Power as a substitute energy source for Soul Tools, and he investigates the Disciples of Sanctus Medicus rather than accepting their claims of serving his will. 109 110 111

Abilities & Skills

Jianmu / Aeon of Abundance Martial Soul

Yao Shi's martial soul initially appeared as a tree branch, but it naturally produces soul rings and later merges into his body. Its life-based authority provides healing, regeneration, blessings, creation, and a personal independent world. 3 6 16

• Naturally generates soul rings rather than requiring hunted soul beasts. 3 32
• Produces dense life energy that strengthens his body and healing. 7 12
• Evolved into a body-based martial soul after his second ring. 16
• Its Abundance influence can make recipients into believers. 7 10
• Following the destruction of his original body, the Ambrosial Arbor reconstituted Yao Shi as an incarnation formed of pure Abundance origin power. 91 93
• In his new state, his former soul skills remain usable despite the disappearance of his original soul rings, and he no longer needs to advance through the conventional Soul Master system. 91

Conceptual Healing

Yao Shi's first soul skill heals injuries and illnesses with overwhelming effectiveness. 3 5

• Restored Yao's paralyzed lower body and rejuvenated him from an elderly man into the apparent physical condition of someone in his thirties or forties. 3 4
• Can heal cuts, broken bones, illness, and severed limbs. 5 47
• Overhealing ordinary animals with excessive life energy caused them to burst apart, giving the skill a dangerous offensive application. 7
• The power can cause branches or leaves to grow from healed flesh, a manifestation Yao Shi fears may worsen as Abundance develops. 6

Immortality and Abundant Physique

Yao Shi's second-ring traits provide extreme regeneration and a combat transformation. 7

• Immortality rapidly regenerates wounds, severed limbs, and even decapitation-level injuries so long as he is not killed in a single blow. 7 32
• His regeneration restored half of his destroyed body after a soul-tool squad's attack. 37
• Abundant Physique manifests antlers and allows him to summon vines and thorns from the void. 7
• The transformation is his principal direct offensive option before gaining later abilities. 7
• Tang San's attack demonstrated that Immortality cannot prevent the instantaneous annihilation of Yao Shi's body by a God King, though his consciousness endured and he later reformed. 73 91 92
• The Abundance Power he spread can grant others regenerative traits, but its unstable forms may cause organisms to sprout branches, regenerate excessively, or divide into multiple bodies. 78 80 90

Longevity Blessing

Yao Shi's thousand-year second soul skill alters a target's aptitude and lifespan through marks of Abundance. 7 10

• The seed mark improves talent and clears blocked meridians; it raised Huo Yuhao from Rank 11 to Rank 19. 10
• The rice-stalk mark grants vitality and extended lifespan. 10
• Recipients are gradually assimilated into Abundance and may develop faith in Yao Shi. 7 10
• Used alongside Path Resonance, it raised Tang Ya from Rank 33 to Rank 40. 29

Glazed Abundance Pure Land

Yao Shi's third soul skill creates an independent small world isolated from the outside universe. 28

• Can shelter living beings from outside conflict and admit them into a dense-energy environment that accelerates cultivation. 28 32
• Connects believers and can instantly pull them into the Pure Land from anywhere in the world. 28
• Allows Yao Shi to enter the space to evade attacks and grants him access to abilities familiar to those within it. 39
• Helped him repeatedly evade heavenly-tribulation lightning while protecting Snow Empress. 41
• Borrowing overwhelmingly powerful abilities can severely strain his body; using Snow Empress's power nearly caused him to burst apart. 39
• Its isolation from the Douluo Plane's laws enabled Ice Empress and Snow Empress to cultivate to the God Level without immediately suffering the Plane's suppression. 92

Path Resonance

The third ring's additional trait forcibly binds a target to Yao Shi and brands their soul with Abundance. 28

• Can make a target a believer and place their life and death under Yao Shi's control. 28
• Grants bound believers a portion of Yao Shi's abilities. 28
• Does not erase prior memories or fundamentally alter the target's personality. 29
• Turned Tang Ya into his devoted disciple after he empowered her. 29
• Tang Ya, as his first resonant disciple, can sense the worldwide spread of Abundance Power and later undertakes to distribute it further during Yao Shi's absence. 90

Creation and Evolution

Yao Shi's fourth soul skill can imbue inanimate objects or energy with life. 42

• Enlightened Snow Empress's tribulation lightning into the sentient Thunder Spirit. 42
• The Thunder Spirit absorbed the remaining tribulation strikes, enabling Snow Empress to overcome her seven-hundred-thousand-year bottleneck. 42
• His fourth-ring breakthrough also upgraded earlier abilities with Treasured Radiance Illuminates Sun and Moon, a fifty-percent attack enhancement, and Crystal-Clear Glazed Body, a temporary physical-strength boost. 41

Ultimate Ice Techniques

Yao Shi can employ the ultimate-ice power associated with Snow Empress, allowing him to overwhelm opponents far above his own former four-ring cultivation. 67 68

• Used Emperor's Palm, Great Cold, No Snow to defeat Steel Armor Academy's five-ring Soul King Shi Wudi in one strike and freeze him into an ice sculpture. 67
• Defeated two Soul Kings with single palm strikes during the tournament's elimination relay. 68
• Used the domain-type skill Snow Dance Shining Sun to suppress and defeat five opponents simultaneously. 68
• Can delay the regenerative recovery of Abundance users through his ice attacks; Ye Shaojie's severed limbs took three days to regenerate rather than recovering almost immediately. 108 110

Thunder Spirit Possession and Heavenly Punishment

Thunder Spirit, whom Yao Shi named Han Xiao, can possess him and temporarily become his martial soul. 46 47

• Her possession simulates nine hundred-thousand-year soul rings and grants him Titled Douluo-level pressure and power. 46 47
• Through her heavenly-tribulation lightning, Yao Shi purified the Blood Scythe Soul Sage's resentful spirits and destroyed him with Heavenly Punishment. 46
• The simulated rings reflect Thunder Spirit's strength rather than Yao Shi's true four-ring cultivation. 47 48

Abundance Manifestation

While disembodied after Tang San's attack, Yao Shi's consciousness expanded beyond the Douluo Plane and perceived the prayers, pain, and desire for survival of countless beings. 75

• His response caused the Ambrosial Arbor, also called the Everlasting-Life Divine Tree, to sprout and rapidly grow into a colossal tree. 79
• The tree's divine blood revived dying experts and caused the number of Titled Douluo on the continent to increase dramatically. 90
• Abundance bestowed indirectly through the tree differs from Yao Shi's personal blessings and may carry harmful side effects over time. 90
• The worldwide spread of Abundance has also inspired distorted worship, including the Abundance Cult and the Disciples of Sanctus Medicus. 90 111

Combat and Soul Engineering

Yao Shi trained his body through fishing, sparring, and cultivation, allowing him to defeat a three-ring Soul Elder through physical strength and combat technique without relying on offensive soul skills. 12

• His restrained physical-strength test scored at Soul Emperor level without martial soul or soul-power enhancement. 50
• Learned Soul Engineering at exceptional speed, becoming a Class 1 Soul Engineer in eight days. 52 53
• Advanced from Class 1 to Class 3 coursework within a month and neared Class 3 Soul Engineer rank by the tournament journey. 53 56
• After his return to Mingde Hall, he advanced from Class 3 to Class 5 Soul Engineer during two months of closed cultivation. 102 111
• His status as Jing Hongchen's disciple grants him exceptional access to Mingde Hall, the Sun Moon Empire's foremost Soul Tool research institution. 101

Equipment / Items

• Soul Tool card — Apprenticeship gift from Jing Hongchen with three cubic meters of storage space. 53
• Class 8 defensive Soul Tool — Given to him by Jing Hongchen upon accepting him as a disciple. 53
• Soul tools and gold soul coins — Looted from the destroyed soul-tool squad that besieged Snow Empress. 43
• Two 0.5-cubic-meter storage rings — Purchased with the money he earned as the Medicine King before leaving Bluestone Town. 6
• Little Spirit / Life Metal — A sentient tool spirit awakened from the Soul Devouring Carving Knife after its evil intent was removed. She retains the knowledge of a Class 9 Soul Engineer and can create Class 9 Soul Tools. 110

Relationships

• Yao — Adoptive grandfather and rescuer. Yao Shi spent three years selling grilled fish to fund his awakening and cure Yao's paralysis; later, Yao ran a Bluestone Town shop purchased with Yao Shi's earnings. 2 3 6 After Yao Shi's disappearance, Jing Hongchen arranged for Yao to study Soul Engineering; despite lacking a martial soul and soul power, he became a Class 2 Soul Engineer and learned to use Abundance Power independently. 94 103 109
• Tian Dali and Niu San — Friends and former classmates at Bluestone Town Junior Soul Master Academy; both acknowledged Yao Shi as their older brother because of his strength. 5 6 Yao Shi later reunites with them in Bluestone Town and remains protective of their hopes for the future despite their far slower cultivation. 95
• Huo Yuhao — Friend and beneficiary of Longevity Blessing. Yao Shi saved him in the Star Dou Great Forest, accepted a future debt of one gold soul coin, and raised his soul power to Rank 19. 8 10 Huo Yuhao regards him as the benefactor who gave him a second life and vows to one day avenge him after learning of Tang San's attack. 73 74
• Wang Dong — Former Shrek Academy classmate, roommate, and assessment teammate with Xiao Xiao. Their relationship began with a dormitory conflict and developed through shared training and punishment. 12 16 22 Wang Dong was distressed by Yao Shi's unexplained departure from Shrek. 51
• Tang Ya — Disciple and believer. Yao Shi elevated her cultivation, used Path Resonance to bind her to Abundance, and permitted her to use Blue Silver Grass's devouring ability against evildoers. 29 During his year-long absence, Tang Ya becomes increasingly fanatical and resolves to spread Abundance Power throughout the continent in his name. 90
• Ice Empress — Ally and guardian. She agreed to protect Yao Shi until he becomes a god in exchange for shelter from her future tribulation; their alliance was strained by his initial intention to use her power. 32 39 She later reaches the God Level within the Pure Land and remains unable to leave it safely because the Douluo Plane strikes god-level soul beasts with heavenly lightning. 92
• Snow Empress — Ally and traveling companion. Yao Shi helped her survive her seven-hundred-thousand-year tribulation, after which she chose to accompany him into the human world. 40 42 43 Like Ice Empress, she reaches the God Level in the Pure Land and seeks to protect Yao Shi from Tang San. 92
• Thunder Spirit / Han Xiao — Sentient being created by Yao Shi from tribulation lightning. She calls him Master and can possess him to lend her power. 42 46 47
• Little White — Snow Empress's companion and a resident of the Glazed Abundance Pure Land. He reaches four-hundred-thousand-year cultivation during Yao Shi's absence. 43 92
• Little Spirit — Yao Shi's sentient Life Metal and tool spirit. She possesses the knowledge and crafting ability of a Class 9 Soul Engineer and addresses him as her master. 110
• Jing Hongchen — Master and dean of Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy. Jing recognized Yao Shi's potential, accepted him as a disciple, and supplied him with Soul Engineering resources. 49 53 He is bewildered but proud when Yao Shi returns as a Titled Douluo-level inheritor with nine hundred-thousand-year soul rings. 102
• Meng Hongchen — Fellow reserve-team member and Jing Hongchen's granddaughter. She quickly became affectionate toward Yao Shi, to Xiao Hongchen's jealousy. 56 59 She is overjoyed by his return after a year, supports his reunion with Yao, and remains protective of him against the Ye family. 103 108 109
• Xu Jiujiu — Princess of the Star Luo Empire and an acquaintance from the caravan journey. Yao Shi saved her caravan, and they later adopted sibling-like forms of address. 46 48 59 She later faces Meng Hongchen during the tournament, where she acknowledges Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy's superiority after her defeat. 72
• Tang San — Hostile God King who identified Yao Shi as a “Calamity Star,” ambushed him after the tournament, and annihilated his former body. 72 73 Yao Shi and his companions do not know Tang San's true motive. 92
• Di Tian — The strongest known soul beast and a reverent seeker of the Medicine King's power. He prays to Yao Shi's manifested voice for eternal life, healing for the Soul Beast Clan, and restoration of his master's old wounds. 79 80

Story Role / Major Arcs

Medicine King of Bluestone Town

After awakening, Yao Shi cures Yao's paralysis, enters Bluestone Town Junior Soul Master Academy, and builds a reputation by healing commoners. His practice funds his household and establishes him as the Medicine King. 3 5 6

Shrek Academy

Yao Shi meets and blesses Huo Yuhao before accompanying him toward Shrek Academy. At Shrek, he teams with Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao in the freshman assessment, wins the freshman championship, and later leaves the academy at the end of the term. 10 22 51

Far North Alliance

Seeking Ice Empress, Yao Shi enters the Far North and proposes an alliance based on the protection offered by his Pure Land. He subsequently aids Ice Empress and Snow Empress against human soul engineers, helps Snow Empress survive her tribulation, creates Thunder Spirit, and gains Snow Empress and Little White as companions. 30 32 38 42 43

Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy

After protecting Xu Jiujiu's caravan from the Blood Scythe Soul Sage, Yao Shi travels to Mingdu to study Soul Engineering. His cultivation, physical strength, and rapid technical progress convince Jing Hongchen to accept him as a disciple. 46 49 50 53

Tournament Reserve Team

Yao Shi overwhelms students from the fourth through sixth years during the academy's selection trials and secures a reserve-team place for the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Tournament. 55 56

Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Tournament

Representing Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy in the round-robin stage, Yao Shi defeats Steel Armor Academy's five-ring Shi Wudi with an ultimate-ice palm strike, then overwhelms additional Soul Kings and five opponents at once with his domain. 67 68 Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy ultimately wins both the team and individual competitions, becoming tournament champions. 72

Tang San's Attack and the Ambrosial Arbor

Immediately after the tournament, Tang San descends and attacks Yao Shi as a supposed Calamity Star. Yao Shi's original body is destroyed, but his disembodied consciousness answers the wishes of suffering beings across worlds. 72 73 75 The resulting descent of the Ambrosial Arbor spreads Abundance across the continent, changing the balance of power while also creating dangerous mutations and fervent worship. 79 80 90

Rebirth and Return to Mingde Hall

Yao Shi reforms as an Ambrosial Arbor incarnation after roughly a year and returns to the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy with Titled Douluo-level strength. 91 93 102 He reunites with Yao and Meng Hongchen, learns of Yao's Soul Engineering progress, and continues his own studies until reaching Class 5 Soul Engineer. 103 109 111

Disciples of Sanctus Medicus Investigation

After encountering Evil Soul Masters capturing a soul beast, Yao Shi tracks them to the Disciples of Sanctus Medicus' base. There, he confronts the Sowers, fanatics who invoke the Compassionate Medicine King while conducting grotesque experiments in pursuit of their version of “perfect immortality.” 111

Notable Quotes

“Those who disregard life do not deserve to live.” 46

“I need you to protect me until I become a god.” 32

“If living beings are too weak to break free from suffering, then I shall use Abundance to cover all living beings.” 75