Martial Soul

Biodata

Power Progression

The following record documents the development of Su Chen’s Great Sun Golden Crow, whose true identity is concealed publicly as the Three-Legged Fire Crow.

Awakening

Martial Souls are awakened through an awakening ceremony, in which Soul Power is channeled through an array to draw out the child’s inherent Martial Soul. The awakened form may be a mundane object, such as Blue Silver Grass, a hoe, or a carrot, or an exceptionally powerful beast-type manifestation. 1

Innate Soul Power is tested with a crystal ball after awakening. Tang San and Su Chen both test as possessing Innate Full Soul Power, a rare level of natural talent. 1

• A Martial Soul’s recorded identity can differ from its true nature. Su Yuntao records Su Chen’s Martial Soul as the Three-Legged Fire Crow, while Su Chen knows it is actually the Great Sun Golden Crow. 1 2
• Martial Soul quality can exert direct suppression over weaker Martial Souls. The Great Sun Golden Crow suppresses Su Yuntao’s Lone Wolf and forces Xiao Chenyu out of Lone Wolf Possession. 1 6
• A Martial Soul’s quality is treated as closely related to Innate Soul Power; Yu Xiaogang explicitly teaches that the two are directly proportional. 7
• Su Chen’s god-tier Martial Souls contain cultivation inheritances. The Great Sun Golden Crow contains the Solar Immortal Scripture, also called the Sun Immortal Scripture, while the Lunar Jade Rabbit contains the Lunar Immortal Scripture. Su Chen can comprehend them by calming his mind. 1 2
• An initial awakening need not reveal a Martial Soul’s complete nature. Tang San later undergoes a second awakening that reveals the Blue Silver Emperor bloodline hidden within his apparent Blue Silver Grass. 63 65
• Awakening ceremonies provide opportunities for rural children to become Soul Masters. After his promotion, Su Yuntao chooses to remain in Notting City and continue visiting villages annually to awaken children’s Martial Souls. 105

Classification

Martial Souls are divided into two stated primary categories. 7

Plant-based Martial Souls are also discussed as a distinct descriptive grouping, although Yu Xiaogang’s stated primary division remains Beast and Tool. Examples include Blue Silver Grass, Blue Silver Emperor, and Yue Guan’s Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum. 7 65

Martial Soul form is separate from a Soul Master’s combat specialization. Academy instruction distinguishes assault, agility attack, control, support, and defense roles. A powerful Martial Soul can span several roles: Su Chen combines assault-type strength with agility-type speed, while Dugu Yan’s evolved Martial Soul allows a control-type Soul Master to become an effective close-range attacker. 13 21 28 76 107

Martial Soul Possession

Martial Soul Possession manifests a Martial Soul’s power through the Soul Master’s body and is a standard combat state.

• Su Yuntao’s Lone Wolf Possession transforms him into a wolfman and raises his Soul Rings. 1
• Great Sun Golden Crow Possession gives Su Chen golden-red flame wings, enhanced speed, flight, and Golden Crow True Flame. 13
• The ability to fly immediately after possession is unusual for a low-level bird-type Soul Master; Gao Lu notes that most bird Martial Souls do not gain flight until three rings. 13
• Lunar Jade Rabbit Possession turns Su Chen’s hair white, gives him crimson eyes, manifests rabbit ears and a moon mark, and produces a cold, ethereal aura. 32
• Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Possession can dragonize part of the user’s body. At the Soul Elder stage, Yu Tianheng manifests scales and lightning around his right arm and employs the clan’s Dragon Transformation Secret Technique. 27
• The Great Sun Golden Crow’s protection allows Su Chen to withstand extreme cold while exploring the underground deposits of profound ice marrow. It also prevents the Mystic Phoenix’s black flames from harming him. 109 111

Martial Soul Avatar

Martial Soul Avatar is an advanced manifestation associated with the seventh Soul Ring and the Soul Sage stage. Its form depends on the Martial Soul: beast users can transform into their Martial Soul’s creature form, while the Clear Sky Hammer’s Clear Sky True Body manifests an enormous hammer. 59 80 117

• Su Chen unlocks the Great Sun Golden Crow Martial Soul Avatar by absorbing the Hundred-Thousand-Year Blazing Fire Phoenix as his seventh ring. Activating it transforms him into the Great Sun Golden Crow. 117
• At level 72, Su Chen considers the combination of his Avatar and a fully exerted Golden Crow Domain powerful enough that few Peak Douluos could match him. 117
• Other documented Avatar manifestations include Tai Tan’s Mighty Gorilla Avatar, Dugu Bo’s Jade Phosphor True Body, and the Avatars used by Spirit Hall’s Titled Douluos during the attack on the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan. 80 87 118

Soul Rings and Soul Skills

Soul Rings are absorbed from slain Soul Beasts and grant Soul Skills. Their age affects both the danger of absorption and the potential strength of the resulting skill.

• The commonly taught optimal configuration begins with two yellow rings, followed by two purple rings and five black rings. 18
• A first Soul Ring is generally believed to be safest below three hundred years; Su Chen defies this norm by absorbing an eight-hundred-year Blazing Pheasant ring. 12
• The Great Sun Golden Crow’s supreme flame nature suppresses fire-element Soul Beasts, stabilizing the absorption of compatible high-age rings. 12 19
• Su Chen’s increasingly powerful body, strengthened through the Sun Immortal Scripture, Whale Rubber, Immortal Herbs, and the Golden Crow Divine Body, enables him to absorb rings far beyond normal limits. 10 33 35 64
• Ring absorption can challenge both physical endurance and spiritual strength. The Blackflame Purplecloud Eagle’s ring attacks Su Chen’s sea of consciousness with the resentment of its remnant soul. 35
• Martial Soul and Soul Beast compatibility is important independently of ring age. Su Chen considers venomous Datura Snake rings poorly suited to the life-attribute Blue Silver Emperor but highly compatible with Meng Yiran’s Ink Jade Spirit Serpent Spear. 11 107
• Yu Xiaogang teaches that plant Martial Souls can absorb beast Soul Rings and beast Martial Souls can absorb plant Soul Rings. The possibility of absorption does not itself establish that a particular ring is the best match. 7 11 107
• A Martial Soul can impose a consistent skill specialization. Ye Lingling’s Sacred Heart Begonia grants healing abilities regardless of the ring absorbed, allowing the group to select suitable plant Soul Beasts for her advancement. 53
• Su Chen’s Hundred-Thousand-Year Mystic Phoenix sixth ring grants two Soul Skills rather than one and appears blood-red. His seventh, eighth, and ninth rings also come from Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts. 112 117 127
• Soul Skills can display stronger enhancement values as their user develops. Golden Crow Sun Bathing initially increases all attributes by 100%, while its use against the Mystic Phoenix is described as increasing them by 150%. 27 111
• Strengthening the body with Immortal Herbs and multiple Soul Bones permits Su Chen’s companions to exceed ordinary absorption limits as well. Ning Rongrong absorbs a thirteen-thousand-year fifth ring, while Zhu Zhuqing withstands a fifteen-thousand-year fifth ring. 107

Self-Formed Rings and Sacrifice

Slaying a Soul Beast is not the only documented way to acquire Soul Rings.

• As a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soft Bone Rabbit that has taken human form, Xiao Wu can form her first six Soul Rings herself. She secretly forms her black sixth ring while separated from the group, gaining intangibility. Su Chen conceals its origin by claiming that it came from a twenty-thousand-year Silver English Beast. 105 106 107
• The Sky Azure Bull Python and Titan Giant Ape later sacrifice themselves to Xiao Wu. By the end of their sacrifices, she possesses eight rings: two yellow, two purple, two black, and two red. 125

Ring Fusion

Ring Fusion is a separate technique from Martial Soul Fusion. Huo Wu merges her four Soul Rings and commits all her Soul Power to Huo Wu Radiant Sun, producing a blazing white fireball. The technique places severe strain on her body, bringing her to her physical limit. 71

Exceptional Martial Soul Forms

Twin Martial Souls

A Twin Martial Soul wielder possesses two awakened Martial Souls. Su Chen’s are the Great Sun Golden Crow and Lunar Jade Rabbit; he conceals the latter until revealing it at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. 1 32

• Twin Martial Souls are considered exceptional because the two Martial Souls are generally expected to have similar quality. 32
• Su Chen uses the Lunar Jade Rabbit for lunar cultivation, spiritual perception, herb identification, alchemy, and yin-based power. 3 31 32
• His two Martial Souls can be combined into the self-created Martial Soul Fusion Skill Sun and Moon in Radiance, Yin-Yang Great Millstone. 59
• Tang San possesses the Blue Silver Emperor and Clear Sky Hammer. His apparent Blue Silver Grass initially obscures why the two Martial Souls could awaken together, since their true qualities are not evident before his bloodline awakening. Bibi Dong is another known Twin Martial Soul wielder. 5 32 37 63
• Simultaneous use of two Martial Souls requires considerable control over Soul Power and divided attention. Tang San demonstrates this by wrapping Blue Silver Emperor vines around the Clear Sky Hammer to create Disorder Splitting Wind Meteor Hammer. Although he calls it a Self Martial Soul Fusion Skill, Su Chen judges that it does not appear to be a true fusion skill. 69
• The Lunar Jade Rabbit stores profound ice marrow energy that Su Chen refines into Soul Power. This supports the Great Sun Golden Crow’s advancement through Soul Sage, Soul Douluo, and Titled Douluo. 116 125 127
• After the Great Sun Golden Crow reaches Titled Douluo, Su Chen turns his attention to cultivating the Lunar Jade Rabbit. He plans to add ice-attribute Soul Rings because ice is the attribute most compatible with its lunar yin power; these rings are still a planned development at that point. 127

Martial Soul Resonance and Fusion

Highly compatible Martial Souls can cause their users’ Soul Powers to circulate together and may develop into a Martial Soul Fusion Skill. 20

• Su Chen’s Great Sun Golden Crow resonates strongly with Qian Renxue’s Six-Winged Angel because both possess solar authority. 16 18
• Their combined flames elevate Qian Renxue’s Sacred Flame into Solar True Flame and substantially improve Soul Power circulation and recovery. 18
• Qian Renxue identifies their compatibility as a potential basis for a Martial Soul Fusion Skill. 20
• Qian Renxue describes fusion skills as jointly performed abilities of identical or complementary Martial Souls. Their might increases with the users’ Soul Power, making them comparable to an additional Soul Ring skill that can grow. She states that even among ten thousand Soul Masters, there may not be two capable of performing one. 20
• Resonance has cultivation benefits before a combat fusion skill is used. During their return journey from the Star Dou Great Forest, Su Chen and Qian Renxue’s fused Soul Powers double her Soul Power recovery rate. 20
• The Great Sun Golden Crow also causes Ye Lingling’s Nine-Hearted Begonia to react with unusual excitement because of its supreme-yang nature. This reaction is documented as an affinity, not a demonstrated fusion skill. 24
• Su Chen’s refined profound ice marrow creates another beneficial affinity: Shui Bing’er and Shui Yue’er sense that proximity to him accelerates their Soul Power circulation. 113

Domains

A Domain is an exceptionally rare advanced ability that can awaken from a Martial Soul. Su Chen awakens the Golden Crow Domain while absorbing his third Soul Ring and comprehending the Sun Immortal Scripture. 26

• At its initial awakening, Su Chen can use only Burning; the remaining traits require further development. The sunlight-related trait is initially named Solar Eclipse, while the later account describes it as Sun-Erosion. 26 59
• Su Chen forcibly draws on Sky-Patrolling while still a Soul Ancestor during his first battle with Tang Hao. His Golden Crow Divine Body allows him to withstand the true solar power, but his flesh, meridians, and organs approach their limits, and the battle leaves him exhausted. This is an exceptional exertion rather than ordinary early access to the trait. 59
• Pushing the Golden Crow Domain to its limit again imposes severe physical exhaustion during the later assassination attempt. Ye Lingling’s Sacred Heart Begonia helps heal Su Chen afterward. 90
• The Domain’s pure-yang Golden Crow True Flame strongly counters dark-attribute Soul Beasts, as demonstrated when Su Chen weakens Zhu Zhuqing’s Shadow Leopard target. 107
• Tang San gains the Blue Silver Domain when the Blue Silver King awakens his Blue Silver Emperor bloodline. Su Chen later suspects that Tang San uses this Domain to conceal himself through surrounding vegetation and escape pursuit. 63 80

Ultimate Attributes

A Martial Soul’s elemental quality can affect cultivation as well as combat. The Great Sun Golden Crow’s Golden Crow True Flame is identified as Ultimate Fire. From the Soul Elder to Soul Sage stages, Su Chen’s ultimate attribute continually compresses his Soul Power, increasing its density but slowing the apparent growth of his level. 27 35

• Golden Crow True Flame overpowers ordinary lightning and restrains plant and dark attributes. 13 27 107
• Su Chen’s Solar True Flame suppresses the Hundred-Thousand-Year Mystic Phoenix’s nearly ultimate black Phoenix Flame. It prevents the beast’s Phoenix Rebirth from healing wounds inflicted during their battle. 112
• Profound ice marrow greatly accelerates Su Chen’s cultivation despite his demanding foundation. By level 70, he credits its refined energy with increasing his cultivation speed tenfold or even a hundredfold. 116
• The Lunar Jade Rabbit’s lunar yin nature makes ice-attribute rings Su Chen’s preferred choice for its future cultivation. 127

Martial Soul Evolution

Martial Souls can evolve through bloodline awakening, Immortal Herbs, Soul Bones, and refined medicinal treasures.

Evolution can change more than a Martial Soul’s name or cultivation ceiling.

• Tang San’s second awakening alters his appearance and grants the Blue Silver Domain. 63 65
• Dugu Yan’s Jade Phosphorous Dragon gives her substantial physical strength and offensive capabilities in addition to poison control. Her Jade Phosphorous Dragon Shadow Rush can contend with an Ice Phoenix fusion attack, while Jade-Phosphor Overlord Body grants three seconds of invulnerability followed by a 200% increase to all attributes. 76 106
• Ye Lingling’s Sacred Heart Begonia remains healing-focused and develops increasingly powerful restoration. Its sixth ring comes from a twenty-five-thousand-year Star Crown Flower selected for its ability to replenish stamina, Soul Power, and mental strength. 53 107
• Medicinal enhancement need not produce a named evolution. Su Chen gives Sword Douluo Gengjin Fruit to sharpen the Seven Kill Sword and Bone Douluo Netherbone Grass to strengthen his dark attribute. Both enter seclusion afterward; a completed transformation is not documented in that account. 103

Known Exceptional Martial Souls

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