Martial Soul

Biodata

Power Progression

Awakening and Inheritance

Martial Souls are generally inherited from one of a person's parents. The parents' Martial Souls and Innate Soul Power strongly shape expectations for a child's potential, though mutations and multiple Martial Souls can produce unexpected results 141 287 302.

• Martial Soul Awakening is commonly performed at age six through an Awakening Array or formation 35 73 142.
• A successful awakening may manifest as a soul mark and a summoned form, such as Hu Liena's Demon Fox or Luo San's Luo Sanpao 35 142 311.
• Innate Soul Power determines whether the awakened individual can cultivate as a Soul Master; higher levels are treated as indicators of exceptional potential 73 74 142.
• Exceptional bloodlines can produce Innate Soul Power beyond the usual full level. Qian Renxue awakened the Six-Winged Angel with Innate Level 20 Soul Power and received an additional ten God-Bestowed Levels, for a total of Level 30 35.
• A person may possess Twin Martial Souls, as demonstrated by Ye Xishui's Blood Soul Demon Puppet and Light Phoenix 287.
• Some awakenings are altered by physical condition or upbringing. Yu Xiaogang's intended dragon evolution devolved into Luo Sanpao due to his constitution, while Ma Hongjun's poor upbringing contributed to his Evil Fire Roast Chicken mutation 310.
• Spirit Hall's later awakening policy allows families either to pay five Gold Soul Coins and retain freedom of affiliation or receive an awakening without charge in exchange for joining Spirit Hall if Soul Power manifests 302.

Known Types

• Some individuals previously classified as having no Martial Soul despite possessing Innate Soul Power are instead Body Martial Soul users whose Martial Souls are part of their bodies 78.
• Body Martial Souls can originate from any Martial Soul type, and their inheritance is unstable: a body-type mutation may be passed down, disappear in the next generation, or arise anew 28.
• Martial Soul quality is not determined solely by broad type. The Clear Sky Hammer is considered a peak weapon Martial Soul from the outset, while ordinary weapon Martial Souls require compatible resources and Soul Rings to approach comparable quality 323.

Soul Rings and Soul Skills

Soul Rings are attached to Martial Souls and grant Soul Skills. Their age, configuration, and compatibility influence a Soul Master's future growth and combat power 2 12 323.

• The standard nine-ring configuration described for high-level Soul Masters is yellow, yellow, purple, purple, black, black, black, black, black 1.
• Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Rings are especially valuable; without a God-Level Martial Soul, Soul Masters generally require one to break through to Rank 98 2.
• Soul Rings can unlock abilities directly tied to a Martial Soul's nature. Luo San's first ring gave his evolving Holy Dragon the enhancement skill Holy Dragon Ascension, increasing speed, attack, and endurance by thirty percent 323.
• Ring selection can damage a Martial Soul's development if it is incompatible. Yu Xiaogang's Thunderbolt Skunk and Sleepy Fart Pig rings further diverted Luo Sanpao from its Bright Holy Dragon path 325.
• Certain abilities can forcibly use another person's Martial Soul and Soul Rings. Qian Xunyi used Ning Fengzhi's Seven Treasure Glazed Pagoda and Tang Xiao's Clear Sky Hammer while their original owners bore the Soul Power cost and backlash 78 80.
• Qian Xunyi's Bing Secret Technique can seize weapon Martial Souls and use their Soul Skills through their original owner's Soul Power, while the Dou Secret Technique can copy, analyze, and improve observed Soul Skills and divine techniques 12.
• Soul Ring age can be raised through exceptional divine methods. Fire Dragon King Jialing increased each of Qian Daoliu's rings by fifty thousand years, changing his configuration to six black rings and three red rings 116.
• A Soul Pearl can generate a Soul Ring based on the recipient's endurance limit and may produce a ring that subsequently evolves to the Hundred-Thousand-Year level 223.

Availability and Soul Beast Secret Realms

Soul Rings do not exclusively need to be taken from permanent kills in the outside world. The Soul Beast Secret Realms contain renewable artificial Soul Beasts that yield absorbable Soul Rings and Soul Bones before regenerating 113.

• Secret Realms exist for Ten-Year, Hundred-Year, Thousand-Year, and Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts, enabling Spirit Hall to provide ring sources through the Title Douluo stage 114.
• Qian Xunyi later ordered a continent-wide Soul Ring Lockdown, under which humans entering natural Soul Beast habitats to hunt rings are to be killed 387.
• Access to Spirit Hall's Secret Realms is restricted. Possessing a Secret Realm Token or controlling an entrance does not grant entry without Qian Xunyi's permission 388.

Evolution and Mutation

Martial Souls are not necessarily fixed at awakening. Their quality and form can change through compatible Soul Rings, Soul Beast materials, Immortal Herbs, bloodline empowerment, and cultivation methods 107 122 313 323.

Compatible cultivation

External Martial Souls can be fed flesh and blood from Soul Beasts that match their attributes. Under targeted feeding, Luo Sanpao and the other Seven Cannons grew stronger and gained more stable Soul Power 313.

• Luo Sanpao consumed light-aspected draconic Soul Beasts, supporting its evolution toward a holy dragon 313.
• After absorbing a 410-year Bright Holy Dragon Soul Ring and consuming dragon flesh, Luo Sanpao shed its purple exterior, developed golden scales, grew from three to ten meters, and became the Golden Little Dragon 323.
• Properly matched Soul Rings can gradually improve even an ordinary tool Martial Soul; incompatible rings may instead cause degeneration 323.
• The Seven-Cannon Team's targeted feeding is designed as a replicable route for undeveloped Luo Sanpao-type Martial Souls, without relying on Immortal Herbs 313.
• A Martial Soul's potential may be lost if it has already been developed along an unsuitable path. Qian Xunyi states that dragon flesh and blood can no longer meaningfully correct Yu Xiaogang's fully formed Luo Sanpao 314.

Immortal Herbs

Compatible Immortal Herbs can raise Soul Power, improve Martial Soul quality, or trigger evolution 107 119.

• The Qiluo Tulip can evolve the Seven Treasure Glazed Pagoda into the Nine-Treasure Glazed Pagoda 107.
• The Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower can strengthen fire attributes and potentially evolve a compatible Martial Soul into a Phoenix 107.
• The Earth Dragon Golden Melon evolved Dugu Bo's Jade-Scale Serpent Emperor into the Jade-Scale Poison Dragon 114 119.
• The Golden Dragon-Infused Fruit granted Luo Sanpao intelligence and speech, enabling it to recognize and reclaim its suppressed Holy Dragon Origin 376.

Bloodline empowerment

Qian Xunyi's essence blood, containing the origin of the Gold Dragon King, can evolve compatible dragon-lineage Martial Souls and bind recipients to his loyalty 122.

• Tuoba Xi's White-Armored Earth Dragon evolved into the Bright Holy Dragon 122.
• Huyan Zhen's Diamond Mammoth evolved into the Diamond Dragon Elephant 122.
• Overlord-Blood Martial Souls gain greatly multiplied base attributes and can suppress similar Martial Souls through both numerical strength and bloodline 122 133.
• Empowered descendants can inherit the benefits of their progenitor's essence blood, allowing Tuoba Xi and Huyan Zhen to improve their clans' Martial Souls while binding those bloodlines to Qian Xunyi's authority 122.
• Dugu Bo's Jade-Scale Poison Dragon received the Overlord Domain after being empowered with Overlord Blood, making its attributes sufficient to suppress the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon and Golden Holy Dragon at equal rank 114.

Notable mutations

• Qian Xunyi's Six-Winged Angel mutated from gold to violet-gold, becoming the Overlord Angel, a Martial Soul stronger than the orthodox Six-Winged Angel but unrecognized by the Angel God Examination 4.
• Qian Xunyi's Heavenly Overlord Body awakened alongside his existing cultivation and influenced the Angel Martial Soul's mutation 4.
• The Overlord Body is a supreme exclusive Martial Soul unavailable through the Martial Soul Shop and is unable to absorb Soul Bones 4 57.
• Oscar's Sausage Martial Soul, despite Innate Full Soul Power, was forcibly destroyed by the Slave Merchants Guild chairman, showing that a Martial Soul can be permanently crippled or removed 301 302.
• Tang San's second Martial Soul diverged from the expected Blue Silver Emperor and awakened as a Scabby Giant Lizard, demonstrating that even the descendants of powerful bloodlines can manifest radically altered inherited traits 302 331.

External Martial Souls

External Martial Souls are independent manifestations that can continuously evolve when cultivated correctly. Their autonomous existence gives them greater endurance than possessed Martial Souls, as they can sustain themselves by absorbing energy from the outside world 313 354.

• Luo Sanpao is identified as the juvenile form of the Bright Holy Dragon and can advance toward the Golden Holy Dragon with an appropriate path 312.
• Qian Xunyi considers External Martial Souls suited to a separate summoning-type classification, with Soul Rings focused on enhancing the summoned creature rather than the master directly 323.
• Every member of the Seven-Cannon Team possesses a second Martial Soul in addition to their externally manifested juvenile holy dragon 323.
• The Seven-Cannon Team's dragon manifestations were created by Qian Xunyi, while their second Martial Souls are their original awakened Martial Souls; Luo San's original Martial Soul is a harvesting scythe 323.
• Tang San later describes External Martial Souls as capable of repeated evolution beyond the usual limits of Martial Soul awakening when their potential is properly stimulated 354.
• After gaining intelligence through the Golden Dragon-Infused Fruit, Yu Xiaogang's Luo Sanpao rejected its master, severed their connection, and withdrew its Holy Dragon Origin. This establishes that an External Martial Soul with sufficient self-awareness can actively refuse its master's control 376.
• Luo Sanpao attributes its degeneration to Yu Xiaogang's frail constitution, unsuitable Soul Rings, poor feeding, mistreatment, and refusal to acknowledge its Golden Holy Dragon bloodline 376.

Martial Soul Fusion Skills

Martial Soul Fusion Skills arise when compatible Martial Souls and their wielders resonate, combining multiple Soul Masters into a single greater combat expression 23 382.

• Yu Xiaogang, Flender, and Liu Erlong formed the Golden Iron Triangle fusion skill, with Yu Xiaogang occupying the dominant controlling position 23.
• Xiao Wu, Dai Mubai, Yu Tianheng, Bu Le, Da Ming, and Feng Xiaotian formed the unprecedented six-person fusion skill Ultimate Chimera, a five-headed beast whose strength reached the level of a Title Douluo 382.
• Luo San and six Spirit Hall teammates formed the seven-person White Silver Dragon, a Silver Dragon King-inspired fusion capable of controlling multiple elements 382.
• The clash between the Ultimate Chimera and White Silver Dragon demonstrated that large-scale fusion skills can surpass the previously known three-person limit and temporarily achieve Title Douluo-class power 382.
• Xiao Wu later claimed that residual power from her former fusion skills influenced the Martial Souls of her children, including White Tiger, Heavenly Gauze Twin Covers, Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon, Gale Two-Headed Demon Wolf, and Sky Azure Bull Python. Yu Xiaogang considered the explanation illogical, leaving the phenomenon unresolved 404.

Martial Soul Cards

The Martial Soul Shop provides purchasable Martial Soul Cards that can add a new Martial Soul to a target or replace the target's original Martial Soul 57.

• The Dragon God Martial Soul is priced at one billion Prestige Points 57.
• The Gold Dragon King and Silver Dragon King Martial Souls cost five hundred million and four hundred million Prestige Points respectively 57.
• The Golden Dragon and Silver Dragon Martial Souls cost eighty million and fifty million Prestige Points respectively 57.
• The Six-Winged Angel and Sea God Martial Souls cost thirty million Prestige Points each 57.
• Qian Xunyi's Overlord Body is classified as priceless and cannot be purchased; his Overlord Angel is appraised at one billion Prestige Points 57.
• Qian Xunyi purchased and fused the Golden Dragon King Martial Soul into himself, later acknowledging the existence of a third Martial Soul within his body 109 365.
• Martial Soul Cards and similar bestowal methods can supply Martial Souls beyond a recipient's original inheritance, as shown when Tang Yuehua received a Whip Martial Soul from Qian Xunyi 102.