Martial Soul

Biodata

Power Progression

Qin Hao’s Little Sword Martial Soul has the most extensively documented progression. Its grade is distinct from Qin Hao’s cultivation realm.

Nature and Classification

• A Martial Soul lies hidden within a person’s body and forms a foundation for martial cultivation. Higher grades generally improve cultivation speed, comprehension, potential, and the strength gained by releasing the soul in combat 1 4 296.
• Martial Souls can take the form of weapons, beasts, or attribute-bearing manifestations. Qin Hao’s is a small golden sword; Liu Ruoxue possesses a water-attribute Martial Soul 2 4.
• The eight chiefly identified elemental attributes are Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, Earth, Wind, Thunder, and Light. A matching cultivation technique can greatly accelerate an elemental soul’s wielder 2.
• A fourth-grade elemental Martial Soul can be equivalent to an ordinary fifth-rank one. Xu Hongying’s fourth-grade fire-attribute soul is given as an example 50.
• Martial Souls are commonly judged by their awakened grade, but rare resources can raise that grade. Ordinary souls are said to advance by roughly six grades at most; souls on the Supreme Martial Soul Rankings can advance further. Qin Hao’s progression exceeds the stated ordinary limit 232 376.

Abilities & Skills

Cultivation and comprehension

A Martial Soul’s grade affects how quickly its wielder cultivates and develops martial understanding 27 296.

• Qin Hao’s first-grade Little Sword, paired with the Great Dao Spirit-Seizing Art, drew in spiritual energy faster than his original fifth-grade soul had done 4.
• At fifth rank, the same pairing absorbed spiritual energy at least three times faster than a cultivator with a Martial Soul of equal rank 117.
• Soul Power in the Myriad Forms Pagoda can heighten a Martial Soul’s aptitude during cultivation; Qin Hao’s Little Sword could also absorb enough of it to advance permanently 230 232 235.

Manifestation in combat

A sufficiently substantial Martial Soul can be released from the body to increase its wielder’s fighting strength 73 91.

• Qin Hao’s Little Sword solidified at fourth grade, an uncommon achievement for a Body Tempering Realm warrior 73.
• Manifesting his fifth-rank soul substantially increased his power in his battle with Pei Shan 124.
• At tenth rank, releasing it increased Qin Hao’s strength by at least fifty percent 433.

Advancement through soul-bearing resources

Certain treasures supply the power needed to strengthen a Martial Soul 278 376.

• Documented sources for Qin Hao’s Little Sword include pills, Stone Man Essence, pagoda Soul Power, Heaven Soul Grass, True Dragon Spirit Liquid, and Immortal-Demon Aura 13 199 235 333 497 551.
• Advancement grows increasingly demanding: Qin Hao needed 163 Body Tempering Pills to move from second to third grade, while fourteen Heaven Soul Grasses and one Heaven Soul Pill changed only a small portion of his tenth-grade soul toward Mystic Tier 13 434.

Subsidiary Martial Soul

• After Qin Hao’s Little Sword absorbed Stone Man Essence, it separated that essence into a second, subsidiary Stone Man Martial Soul. Qin Hao believed it might eventually enable a Stone Man Clone 198.
• The subsidiary soul has no stated rank; its strength is linked to the Little Sword’s rank. It can form rock armor, and a mysterious map appeared within it after it absorbed spiritual energy 199 201.
• Training with Twin Dragons Emerge from the Sea transformed it into the Glazed Stone Soul. The transformed soul absorbs spiritual energy and refines it into power Qin Hao can use for Glazed Body cultivation; its hidden map remained intact 248 476.

Notable Martial Souls