Soul Power

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Power Progression

Soul Power has its own ranked realms, distinct from Dou Qi cultivation. The documented advances below belong to its users.

Abilities & Uses

Soul Perception

• Soul Power can extend the user’s senses: Yao Lao sweeps Stone Desert City to find Qing Lin, while Xiao Yan tracks flying treasures in the Book Repository 15 51.
• Strong perception can reveal concealed presences. Xiao Yan detects a chamber beneath the Gate of Life and Death’s stone platform and later notices an unusual soul aura around Qing Lin 115 198.
• Perception has limits: Yao Lao cannot probe the glowing spheres in the Dou Sheng ruins, and the Sheep Talisman can block even his Spirit Realm Grand Perfection senses 146 22.

Pressure and Combat

• Xiao Yan can release Soul Power as pressure, overwhelming Song Qing without a physical attack and later projecting a towering, visible soul form before the Little Pill Tower’s elders 168 169.
• He uses it to suppress the Nine-Headed Ancient Heavenly Snake’s soul and prevent Protector Wu from detonating his own 198 110.
• Soul Power can form a giant hand capable of capturing intelligent Ninth-Grade pills and forcing them back into pill form 160 173.

Soul Techniques and Control

• The Seven-String Spirit-Quelling Melody uses Soul Power to vibrate Dou Qi. Its first movement can soothe souls and speed cultivation; Xiao Yan also uses the technique against Protector Wu’s soul-based formation 52 101 110.
• Xiao Yan sends Soul Power into ancient puppets to erase their existing imprints and replace them with his own 144 147.
• With the Sheep and Tiger Talismans, he draws souls from ten Dou Zun puppets and fuses them into a stronger soul for a new puppet 176.

Alchemy

• Reaching Early Spirit Realm makes Xiao Yan’s perception sharp enough to qualify him for Eighth-Tier alchemy, though he still needs practical refining experience 69.
• A Heaven Realm soul is required to suppress the will of a newly formed Ninth-Grade pill. Xiao Yan uses his to complete his first Ninth-Grade Treasure Pill 160.

Talisman Interactions and Borrowed Power

• The Sheep Talisman strengthens Xiao Yan’s Soul Power, supports its passive growth, blocks outside Soul Perception, and lets his soul leave his body. While projected, he can pass through walls and restrictions but cannot touch physical objects 22.
• Yao Lao can pour his Soul Power into Xiao Yan to grant him temporary strength. This raises Xiao Yan’s apparent power to Dou Zong against Medusa and, later, to Dou Zun beneath the Heavenly Flame Refining Tower; the borrowed power is not Xiao Yan’s own cultivation 17 60.