Su Ling

Biodata

Power Progression

• False public record: On the Sun Moon Continent, Su Ling presents himself as a level-57 Soul King with five rings and invents an earlier cultivation history. This is a cover identity, not a loss of his actual cultivation 178 179 182.

Background / History

The body Su Ling inherits belongs to Su Yun's son, a member of the Water Moon clan. The clan was affiliated with the Clear Sky Sect and fought Spirit Hall on its behalf. Twelve years before the early story, the Clear Sky Sect withdrew and abandoned its affiliated families; almost the entire Water Moon clan was killed. Seven-year-old Su Ling escaped because his father, Su Ran, and other clan experts protected him 5 115.

Flender subsequently rescued him and brought him to Shrek Academy. His family helped him obtain his first soul ring, while Flender and Shrek's teachers assisted with the next two. The original owner had innate level-seven soul power and had long held an advantage over Dai Mubai, though their strength gap narrowed as Dai Mubai grew older 2 5 51.

The current Su Ling transmigrates with knowledge of the original novel and animation, inherits his predecessor's memories, and recovers from the aftermath of a failed soul-ring absorption. He uses that knowledge to pursue opportunities before the original storyline can repeat itself, particularly the immortal herbs at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well 1 2 5 23 39.

He initially believes he is his clan's sole survivor. His later reunion with Su Ran and Su Xiaoxiao reveals that the Breaking Clan sheltered both of them. By securing treatment for Xiaoxiao and promising to restore Su Ran, he resolves the predecessor's lingering attachment to their suffering 100 115 116.

Appearance

Su Ling is repeatedly noted for his exceptionally handsome face and distinctive bearing, even when his clothing is not luxurious 17 60 119.

• Height: Slightly over 1.9 meters 105.
• Face: Described as flawless and handsome; Meng Yiran considers him the most handsome man she has ever seen 17 60.
• Disguises: Uses the Thousand Illusions Mask to conceal his identity or impersonate others 60 72 96.
• Martial Soul Avatar: Grows to more than ten meters tall while wielding a bow several meters long 118.

Personality

Su Ling is confident, protective toward his companions, and willing to oppose powerful families on their behalf. He accepts the danger accompanying Zhu Zhuqing's rejection of her arranged engagement, rescues her from Dai Mubai's drugging attempt, and later confronts Spirit Hall to save Xiao Wu 37 39 94.

His pursuit of affection is also calculated. He views eligible women as system targets, forcibly binds Zhu Zhuqing at their first meeting, and frequently arranges gifts or encounters to increase affection. He sometimes uses misleading promises or invented claims, including telling Zhu Zhuxin that Zhu Zhuqing asked him to bring her away when she had not 2 5 6 28 60.

In combat and politics, he favors preparation over unnecessary exposure. He conceals Shrek's strongest fighters during the preliminaries, retreats rather than risk the seven goddesses against Bibi Dong, and adopts a fabricated background on the Sun Moon Continent. His revenge is directed at those responsible for his clan's destruction rather than Spirit Hall indiscriminately; he explicitly acknowledges the organization's benefits to commoners 82 94 100 178 182.

Abilities & Skills

Martial Soul Evolution and Archery

Su Ling follows a Water Moon clan inheritance designed to evolve the Water Moon Bow by combining elemental soul rings. The method places severe strain on the body, particularly during the fourth and fifth absorptions 5.

• Initial limitation: His wood- and fire-ring skills are too weak for practical combat before the Five Elements War Bow forms 5.
• Five Elements War Bow: Produces soul-power arrows several times stronger than his earlier ordinary shots, but requires substantially more strength to draw 22.
• Primordial Origin War Bow: Incorporates further attributes until the seventh ring completes it. A close-range soul-power arrow can kill a Soul Douluo when paired with a surprise teleportation attack 111 112.
• Archery training: Inherits precise techniques from his clan's three-hundred-year legacy 5.
• Terminal acceleration: Can accelerate fired arrows by 40%, depriving opponents of the time they initially appeared to have to defend 147.

Goddess Binding System

Su Ling's system measures affection, awards chests, binds eligible goddesses, and grants associated skills and cultivation feedback 5 38 70.

• Binding threshold: Several later bindings occur once affection reaches at least sixty; Zhu Zhuqing's initial binding is explicitly forced 6 100 107 163.
• Cultivation feedback: Zhu Zhuxin's affection-72 panel grants 20% of her daily gains without reducing her cultivation speed. At affection 100, a goddess supplies 100% feedback 70 106.
• Stored gains: Feedback can accumulate for months before Su Ling extracts it in one cultivation session 103 138 149.
• Chest rewards: Rising affection provides chests containing money, pills, herbs, soul bones, soul rings, and other upgrades. Affection above ninety improves chest quality and the chance of Red Chests 5 38 75 77.
• Advice Listening: Uses this ability to induce Bo Saixi to follow his instructions; the same sequence restores her body to its eighteen-year-old state 211.
• Power of the Sea: Acquired when he binds Hai Ling'er; its precise effects are not detailed in the supplied passages 196.

Fusion and Companion-Derived Skills

His bindings provide skills that supplement his own martial soul and allow him to fight as more than a conventional archer 70 108.

• Shadow Clone: Zhu Zhuxin's documented version creates one clone with 40% of the original's attack power for three minutes 70.
• Skill Fusion: Combines two soul skills into one attack; unlocked when Zhu Zhuxin's affection reaches 72 70.
• Martial Soul Fusion: Fuses with seven goddesses during Xiao Wu's rescue. Their thirty-six rings appear around him before merging into his body 94.
• Ning Rongrong's enhancement: Increases strength, agility, soul power, and defense. When he uses her associated skill himself, the effect is halved from her normal enhancement 70.
• Yang Qingyu's physical enhancement: Raises all physical attributes by 30% for thirty minutes, with a twenty-hour cooldown 146.
• Xiao Wu-derived skills: Uses Invincible Defense and Teleportation together to survive an attack and counter from behind a Soul Douluo 112.
• Soul Power Recovery: Instantly restores 20% of his full reserves, with a sixty-minute cooldown when first documented 108.
• Dullness: Helps create the opening used to kill Golden Eagle Douluo; the encounter's later assessment stresses the importance of surprise 107 108.

Spiritual Power

Su Ling cultivates spiritual strength through the Concentration Art and the Spiritual Wisdom Skull, eventually reaching spiritual level 99 46 54 106 166.

• True Vision Eye: Dispels illusions, disguises, and obscuring barriers. Forms through the skull's interaction with the Autumn Dew Sight medicinal effect 54.
• Light of the Spirit: Instantly amplifies spiritual power to strike an opponent's soul 54.
• Soul Shock / Mental Shock: Spiritual attack used to knock Situ Lie Feng out of the sky and interrupt Golden Eagle Douluo's ninth skill 70 107.
• Detection and communication: Searches an entire town with spiritual power and transmits his voice to Zhu Zhuxin from more than two hundred meters away 73.
• Killing-intent control: His special soul power naturally suppresses killing intent; high spiritual strength keeps his own killing intent under control in Slaughter City 147.

Primordial Origin Domain

His domain first appears after the Primordial Origin War Bow is completed, then evolves through a Golden Chest 111 134 138.

• Spatial barrier: Restricts the battlefield during his duel with Xue Muyan 134.
• Speed and attacks: Provides spatially enhanced movement and offensive options 134.
• Tactical dismissal: Su Ling cancels the domain to evade Xue Muyan's strongest strike rather than trying to maintain it against the attack 134.
• Later grade: Recorded as a middle-level Primordial Origin Domain 145 166.

Cultivation and Close Combat

Su Ling combines his own training with system feedback instead of relying exclusively on instant rewards 138 149.

• Five Elements Breath Cultivation Method: Converts incoming ring energy into five-element soul power during his fourth absorption 20.
• Supreme Primordial Origin Scripture: His principal cultivation scripture; its later foundational stage strengthens the primordial origin power used against divine attacks 111 206.
• Carefree Journey / Carefree Hundred Transformations: Movement arts used to evade faster, higher-ranked opponents; later perfected with an additional comprehended movement skill 46 70 145.
• Eight Desolations Fist: Develops from major mastery to perfection, eventually unlocking Eight Desolations Unity 46 145.
• Radiant Sword Art: Recorded at major mastery by level 97 166.
• Weighted training: Uses weighted equipment during extended travel and academy training 36.
• Physical resistance: Ice and Fire Body Tempering improves resistance to poison, ice, and fire 32.

Medicinal Support and Formations

Su Ling uses system resources and harvested herbs to strengthen companions, repair damaged martial souls, and support recovery 116 201 226.

• Healing resources: Supplies Yang Wudi with rare ingredients for Su Xiaoxiao's treatment; Yang Wudi performs the medical treatment 116.
• Martial soul restoration: Restores Ouyang Qianqian's Starfire Sword with an Aromatic Silk Beauty 201.
• Martial soul correction: Uses a cockscomb phoenix-tail sunflower to transform Ren Yingying's Ghost Evil Phoenix into the Netherworld Phoenix 226.
• Teaching: Passes Spirit Jade Art and Carefree Journey to companions 201 226.
• Formation limit: Initially admits that he knows little about formation theory and only knows how to operate the two sets supplied by the system 61.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

Soul Bones

Other Equipment and Resources

• Thousand Illusions Mask — Conceals his face and enables impersonation, including a convincing disguise as Situ Lie Feng 60 72 96.
• Hundred-Forged Steel Sabers — System-provided melee weapons; uses a steel saber to kill the fifty-thousand-year Red Flame Python 40 60.
• Advanced Protective Formations — Protect cultivation sites and companions; possesses two by the return journey to Wind Snow City 77 107 138.
• Space Soul Tool and System Space — Carries resources in the former and transports Xiao Wu into the latter during the escape from Spirit City 94 178.
• Super Submersible Dragon Boat — Carries his party from Amethyst Island toward Sea God Island 196.
• Soul Bone Condensation Aid — Guarantees a soul bone from beasts under 100,000 years old, with a 10% chance of an external bone; used on the Six-Winged Wind-Thunder Falcon 48.
• Teleportation Card — An emergency escape resource that helps him escape Tang Hao 75.
• Soul Power Pills, detoxification pills, and supreme whale glue — Used for cultivation, emergency detoxification, and strengthening bodies for ring absorption 20 36 39 77.
• System soul rings — Ten-thousand-year rings can reach 99,999 years, have stable energy, and cause no soul shock. Later chest rewards provide multiple million-year rings 75 163 236.

Relationships

Family and Mentors

• Su Yun — Father of the body's original owner; manages Water Moon's medicinal-herb trade and dies protecting his son's escape 115.
• Su Ran — Older clansman and childhood protector. Su Ling reunites with him, supplies money and medicine, and promises to restore his disabled body 115 116.
• Su Xiaoxiao — Surviving clanswoman whose childhood injuries severely impair her health and growth. Su Ling obtains the ingredients needed for her treatment 116.
• Flender — Rescuer, headmaster, and long-term mentor. Supports Su Ling's ring hunts and agrees to preserve his dormitory during his training journey 5 19 23.
• Zhao Wuji — Teacher who tests his physical limits before the fourth-ring hunt and helps subdue the Golden-Armored Earth Dragon 19.
• Yang Wudi — Elder of a clan historically friendly with Water Moon; shelters surviving clansmen and treats Su Xiaoxiao 115 116.
• Qin Ming — Former Shrek student whom Su Ling knew during childhood; recognizes him when they meet the Imperial Fighting Team 51.

Goddesses and Companions

• Zhu Zhuqing — First forcibly bound goddess and early romantic partner. Su Ling protects her from Dai Mubai, supports her cultivation, and accepts the threat from her family and Star Luo. Their relationship becomes intimate after she is over twenty 6 37 39 172.
• Ning Rongrong — Arena partner and bound support companion. Their teamwork begins with a rapid two-on-two victory; he later entrusts her with a million-year torso bone for the Sea God trial 12 70 163.
• Liu Erlong — Training companion, lover, and major source of cultivation feedback. Saves him from hired pursuers, receives a fire-attributed bone from him, and accompanies him through Slaughter City 41 138 145 149.
• Zhu Zhuxin — Zhu Zhuqing's older sister, whom he rescues and brings to Shrek. Her binding grants Shadow Clone and Skill Fusion; they formally become lovers later 60 70 73 106.
• Feng Yu'er — Traveling companion and later lover. Receives Nine-Grade Purple Ganoderma, reaches level 47, and becomes bound; subsequently teaches at Shrek 35 48 106 107.
• Jiang Zhu — Healing-type companion whose cultivation he supports; remains part of his household and later training party 36 106 156.
• Xiao Wu — Protects her identity with Lovesick Heartbreak Red, rescues her from Spirit Hall, and supports her cultivation at the Lake of Life 41 94 96 113.
• Qian Renxue — Sworn sibling under her Xue Qinghe identity and later bound goddess. Provides his title and residence; he later supplies an external bone and a hundred-thousand-year ring for her advancement 100 211 229.
• Ye Lingling — Bound companion whose cultivation problem he investigates. Secures her family's safety and conceals her at Shrek while preparing their departure 105 107 154.
• Huo Wu — Romantic admirer who joins Shrek with Huo Wushuang after Su Ling's invitation; also supplies substantial cultivation feedback 28 85 106.
• Yang Qingyu — Childhood acquaintance from the Breaking Clan, linked to an old betrothal. Her associated skill provides Su Ling's emergency physical enhancement 114 115 146.
• Xue Muyan — High-level opponent turned bound goddess after he defeats, heals, and carries her home. Her cultivation becomes his largest source of feedback during several breakthroughs 134 138 149.
• Hu Liena — Slaughter City companion who falls in love with him. He supplies herbs, pills, a soul bone, and a special ring to help her reach level 70 148.
• Qian Miaomiao — Meets him through an arranged encounter in Sea Maple Town and accompanies him to the Sun Moon Church; he supplies pills and a soul bone for her growth 178 179 196.
• Dongfang Yueying — Sun Moon Church leader and private romantic partner. He wins their veil-removal wager and later helps her qualify for Yue Shen's nine trials 182 201 226.
• Hai Ling'er — Sea companion bound during the voyage from Amethyst Island; her binding grants Power of the Sea 176 196.
• Ouyang Qianqian — Restores her damaged martial soul, binds her after affection reaches 98, and teaches her Spirit Jade Art 201.
• Bo Saixi — Restores her youth and gives her the Sea-Calming Pearl as a second martial soul. She agrees to follow him but requests that her soul-power seal remain until he can face the Sea God 211.
• Yue Xingyao — Trains her with cultivation arts, medicines, and a special ring before binding her during preparations for her divine trial 226.
• Snow Empress and Ice Empress — Pursues closer relationships with both; exchanges fruit with the Snow Empress and later introduces them to unfamiliar human-world goods 126 219.

Rivals and Enemies

• Dai Mubai — Long-standing rival whose hostility escalates over Zhu Zhuqing. After rescuing her from his drugging attempt, Su Ling castrates him; Dai Mubai subsequently arranges attacks through mercenaries and Star Luo allies 2 15 39 41 70.
• Tang San — Initially owes him gratitude for assistance against the Bloodthirsty Demon Ants, but anticipates conflict over Xiao Wu and opportunities from the original story. Their relationship later becomes openly hostile 23 72 206.
• Yu Xiaogang — Rejects his assessment that Su Ling should support Tang San. Su Ling's refusal to attend his lessons triggers a wider boycott before Yu Xiaogang leaves Shrek 41.
• Bibi Dong — Pursues him after Xiao Wu's rescue and threatens the remaining Shrek members; Su Ling escapes rather than expose his companions to a direct battle 94.
• Golden Eagle Douluo — Participant in Water Moon's extermination. Su Ling kills him during a Spirit Hall ambush in Sunset Forest 107.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Notable Quotes

“I'm willing to shoulder all of that.”
— Accepting the dangers of a future with Zhu Zhuqing 37

“Zhu Zhuqing, I'll protect you from now on.”
— After rescuing her from Dai Mubai 39

“You dared lay hands on my people? Then all of you can die!”
— While attacking in his Martial Soul Avatar state 118