Soul Power

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Power Progression

The documented progression below follows Xiao Yan’s Soul Power, rather than his Dou Qi cultivation.

Abilities & Skills

Perception and comprehension

• Soul Power lets Xiao Yan detect distant people, auras and concealed fluctuations. He senses Yao Lao within the Bone Flame Ring and identifies a Fourth-Grade Alchemist inside a carriage 7 57.
• Its early growth gives him photographic memory; stronger Soul Power later helps him absorb transmitted techniques and learn rapidly 2 12 64.
• At Half-Step Heaven Realm, he sweeps a hundred-kilometer radius inside a secret realm 222.

Alchemy and refinement

• Adequate Soul Power is fundamental to refining high-grade pills; Fa Ma judges Xiao Yan’s alchemical potential partly by his unusually strong soul fluctuations 58.
• A Spirit-Realm Soul can grant spirituality to pills, making it a prerequisite for Eighth-Rank alchemy 176.
• Xiao Yan uses Soul Power to coordinate large batches of medicinal herbs during pill refinement and to control the demanding process of creating Earth Demon Puppets 195 215.

Soul combat and control

• Soul-Binding Chain — Forms chains from Soul Power that bind a target’s soul and impede movement, Dou Qi and techniques. A target can break free if their soul realm is higher or their Dou Qi exceeds the user’s by more than one major realm 70.
• Soul Search — Extracts memories by entering a target’s soul. Xiao Yan leaves Yun Leng mentally incapacitated after using it on him 136.
• Great Heavenly Thunderclap — A soul attack whose effectiveness scales with the caster’s soul realm 173.
• Xiao Yan also uses Soul Power to establish contracts and marks, including a spirit link with Zi Ling and a contract on Lü Man 99 130.

Materialized soul

• At the Spirit Realm, Xiao Yan’s soul can leave his body and pass through physical barriers, enabling infiltration or surprise attacks 176.
• Operating without the body carries risks: exhausted Soul Power recovers slowly, and an exposed soul is vulnerable to enemies such as the Soul Hall 176.

Cultivation Methods & Items

• Great Evolution Divine Art — A Low Earth Tier, four-stage soul cultivation method. Each completed stage doubles Soul Power; Xiao Yan eventually perfects it 70 206.
• Great Spirit Pill — A high-grade Seventh-Rank pill Xiao Yan refines to help his Mortal Realm Perfection soul reach the Spirit Realm 174 175 176.
• Soul-Swaying Spirit-Suppressing Bell — A seventh-rank Dao Artifact rung with Soul Power. It can attack or imprison souls and protect the user’s sea of awareness 121.
• Emperor Soul Scripture — A high Heaven Tier, nine-layer soul cultivation method with the Emperor Realm as its stated endpoint. Xiao Yan begins practicing it after obtaining Xiao Kong’s inheritance 217 218.
• Heaven Soul Fruit — A reward stated to advance a Half-Step Heaven Realm soul into the Heaven Realm; Xiao Yan considers using it after strengthening his cultivation 217.