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Biodata
| Feature | Details |
|---|---|
| Name | Soul Beast (魂兽) |
| Alias(es) | Spirit Beast |
| Species/Race | Supernatural creatures of the Douluo Continent; documented forms include beasts, birds, insects, plants, and transformed humanoids |
| Status | Extant |
| First Appearance | A ten-year Dragon-Scale Beast pulls Yue Guan and Uchiha Huan’s carriage to the Star Dou Great Forest 3 |
Nature and Cultivation
Soul Beasts possess cultivation measured in years, with age generally corresponding to strength, intelligence, and the value of the Spirit Ring or Soul Bone they may provide after death. Their bodies and abilities vary greatly, including camouflage, elemental control, mental attacks, regeneration, transformation, and spatial or time-related traits. 3 16 25 91
When a Soul Beast dies, it forms a Spirit Ring that a Soul Master may absorb. This makes Soul Beasts central to the conventional cultivation system and a persistent source of conflict between humans and Soul Beasts. 2 108 112
| Cultivation threshold | Documented traits |
|---|---|
| Below 10,000 years | Many lack significant intelligence and can be forcibly contracted as Summoning Beasts after defeat. 9 78 |
| 10,000 years and above | Typically possess intelligence and must voluntarily accept a Summoning Contract; forced contracts may lead to resistance or betrayal. 9 78 91 |
| 100,000 years | Face a Heavenly Tribulation; Soul Beasts capable of reaching this level are stated to possess top-tier bloodlines. 91 137 |
| Fierce Beasts | Exceptionally powerful high-cultivation Soul Beasts, such as the 200,000-year Golden-Winged Thunder Roc and 880,000-year Di Tian. 108 137 |
Super Soul Beasts
Super Soul Beasts are distinguished by unusually powerful bloodlines or extreme attributes. Examples named in the narrative include the Dark-Gold Terrorclaw Bear, True Dragon, Emerald Swan, Thunderflame Hell Vine, and Demon-Eyed Devil Tree. 25
Crimson Shadow is an unusual Super Soul Beast: rather than specializing in a single extreme trait, it possesses numerous attributes, including life, mental, space, time, darkness, sacred, fire, lightning, ice, and earth. 25
Habitats
| Location | Soul Beast activity |
|---|---|
| Star Dou Great Forest — Outer Zone | Primarily inhabited by century-old and low-level thousand-year Soul Beasts. 16 |
| Star Dou Great Forest — Mixed Zone | Home to high-thousand-year and low-ten-thousand-year Soul Beasts; the Time-Shatter Beast is found here. 16 |
| Star Dou Great Forest — Core Zone | Primarily inhabited by Soul Beasts with tens of thousands of years of cultivation; Di Tian rules the forest, while the Sky Azure Bull Python and Titan Giant Ape serve as gatekeepers. 16 137 |
| Evil Demon Forest | Its ecosystem is warped by the Evil Eye Tyrant Ruler’s spiritual power; surviving Soul Beasts are all spiritual-attribute creatures. 65 |
| Southern Desert Wasteland | Rich in earth- and wind-attribute Soul Beasts, many of which dwell underground without fixed territories. 121 |
The Star Dou Great Forest’s regional divisions are not absolute, as high-cultivation Soul Beasts may move between zones. 16
Relationship with Soul Masters
Spirit Rings and Soul Bones
Soul Masters traditionally hunt Soul Beasts to obtain Spirit Rings. Higher-cultivation Soul Beasts are especially sought after because greater ring age produces stronger Soul Skills with lower consumption; Spirit Rings above ten thousand years may carry rule-based effects. 2 135
Some Soul Beasts can also produce Soul Bones. Hundred-Thousand-Year Spirit Rings and Soul Bones are considered equipment of top-tier experts in the earlier Douluo era. 74
Transformed Soul Beasts
A transformed Soul Beast may take human form and cultivate as a Soul Master. Such individuals possess Innate Full Soul Power after transformation and, before reaching level 70, must use portions of their Soul Beast origin to condense each Spirit Ring. 45 135
- Xiao Wu — Originally a Soft Bone Rabbit; later evolves into a Sun Moon Crown, classified as a type of Super Soul Beast. 135
- Transformed Soul Beasts can select and imprint bloodline-derived abilities when condensing Spirit Rings, rather than relying entirely on hunted Soul Beasts. 136
Self-Condensed Spirit Rings
Uchiha Huan seeks to develop Self-Condensed Spirit Rings as an alternative to killing Soul Beasts. He argues that widespread adoption could remove the fundamental conflict between humans and Soul Beasts, allowing both sides to unite against the Abyssal Plane and Demon Plane. 108 112 136
Summoning Beasts
Soul Beasts may enter a Summoning Contract with a Soul Master, becoming a Summoning Beast rather than prey.
- The contract links the summoner and Soul Beast mentally; each can sense the other and may summon the other. 9 15 91
- A summoner may contract more than one Soul Beast, but summoning and maintaining contracts consumes Soul Power. 78 91
- Contracted Soul Beasts can grow through the Soul Power supplied by their summoners. 9 15
- A Summoning Beast and contractor share fortune and misfortune; malicious intent toward a contracted beast can be sensed through the bond. 78
- A harmonious contract with a high-cultivation Soul Beast may be passed down through generations. 91
- Multiple summoners may contract the same Soul Beast, though conflicts can arise if more than one person attempts to summon it simultaneously. 78 91
- During a Heavenly Tribulation, a contracted summoner can assist a Soul Beast because their linked auras cause the tribulation to recognize them as one entity. 137
Notable Species
| Species | Known characteristics |
|---|---|
| Dragon-Scale Beast | One of the few Soul Beasts that can be tamed; even a ten-year specimen has notable stamina and can pull a carriage over long distances. 3 |
| Myriad Transformation Beast | Feeds on fear and can transform into other Soul Beasts while mimicking their auras; a 5,000-year specimen contracts with Guang Ling as Little White. 9 |
| Time-Shatter Beast | A glass-bodied, deer-like creature with antlers; can sense danger in advance and possesses unusually potent Mental Power and Spiritual Shock. 16 17 |
| Crimson Shadow | A twenty-thousand-year serpent-like Super Soul Beast with ten dragon heads and an exceptionally broad set of attributes. 25 29 |
| Dark Demon Tiger | A mutated tiger-type Soul Beast and lower form of the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger; a 9,000-year specimen can contend with Soul Beasts twenty to thirty thousand years old. 79 85 |
| Dark Demon Evil God Tiger | A unique, sixty-thousand-year Super Soul Beast with wings, a segmented scorpion-like tail, and the Life-and-Death Arena domain. 23 118 |
| Gray-Clothed Bird | A large, slow-flying bird used for aerial transportation after entering Summoning Contracts; its feathers provide a comfortable ride. 78 |
| Illusion Beast | Uses color-changing camouflage to blend into vegetation, but has poor endurance and is considered unsuitable for combat or transport. 77 |
| Zheng Beast | A centipede-like underground ambush predator with a hundred legs, thick armor, and the Earth Roar skill, which destabilizes the Soul Power of creatures on the ground. 124 |
| Poison Abyss Giant Salamander | A 99,000-year earth-, water-, and poison-attribute Soul Beast that regenerates while on land or in water and can conceal its aura. 91 |
| Thunderflame Hell Vine | A Super Soul Beast capable of surviving a Heavenly Tribulation; one sacrifices itself to Uchiha Huan, granting lightning-related abilities. 109 110 |
| Golden-Winged Thunder Roc | A 200,000-year fierce beast that forms a Summoning Contract with Demon Bear to confront its coming Heavenly Tribulation. 137 |