Grant

Biodata

Power Progression

• Rank discrepancy: Chapter 14 briefly calls Grant a Soul Emperor. His explicit combat rank is 57, while a later account still describes Soul Emperor as a possible future ceiling rather than an attained realm 4 14 27.

Background / History

Education and Return to His Hometown

Grant came from an ordinary village background and graduated from Heaven Dou Royal Academy twenty years before the academy’s leadership discussed his connection to Su Lin. Rather than pursue his promising future elsewhere, he returned to his hometown and spent twenty years developing an impoverished settlement into prosperous Wealth Village 20 50.

As village chief and orphanage director, he provided for children whether or not they could become Soul Masters. He sought adoptive families for them and arranged apprenticeships with reliable craftsmen or shopkeepers for those who remained unadopted 20.

He initially considered recruiting outside Soul Masters to strengthen the village guard. After encountering recruits who treated villagers as inferiors, he abandoned that approach and built a force from local residents whose backgrounds he knew 21.

Su Lin’s Awakening and First Soul Ring

Grant escorted the orphanage children to their Martial Soul Awakening ceremony. When Su Lin revealed innate rank-nine Soul Power, Grant challenged Su Yuntao’s attempt to recruit him into Spirit Hall. Su Lin chose to remain with Grant, who taught him a meditation method before the academy term began 1 2.

After Su Lin reached rank ten, Grant personally accompanied him to the Soul Hunting Forest. He repeatedly gathered suitable-age Soul Beasts, allowing Su Lin to reject several batches because conventional Soul Ring advice did not fit the Poké Ball Martial Soul 3.

Grant eventually captured a mutant Lightning Rat and stood guard during Su Lin’s contract attempt. He then witnessed Su Lin obtain a yellow Soul Ring without killing the beast—an outcome he had never thought possible. The pair rested at the forest’s safe area before returning to Wealth Village 4 5.

Junior Academy and Forest Training

Grant enrolled Su Lin at Nuoding Junior Soul Master Academy, explaining that strength did not make him a qualified teacher. He wanted Su Lin to receive systematic instruction and build relationships beyond Wealth Village. Before leaving, he warned him against becoming involved with Yu Xiaogang’s unverified cultivation theories 7 8.

When Su Lin returned with Xiao Wu and requested six months of forest training, Grant accepted the need for battle experience but refused to let the children live there alone. He organized supplies, twelve veteran guards, and his trusted guard captain Sean as their escort 19 20.

Grant bought a furnished courtyard residence in Rhode Town near the Soul Hunting Forest, giving the children a secure base rather than a permanent forest camp. He returned to village business the following morning and visited occasionally during the early months of their training 21 27.

Heaven Dou Enrollment

After roughly nine months of training, Su Lin received Grant’s letter directing him and Sean to leave for Heaven Dou City. Su Lin realized that Grant’s recent absences had been connected to arranging his further education and felt overwhelmed by the care invested in his future 27.

Grant secured enrollment opportunities at Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s affiliated intermediate academy through his old friend Samuel. Samuel nevertheless insisted that Su Lin and Xiao Wu pass the academy’s normal entrance assessments 45.

Grant met the arriving party at Heaven Dou City alongside Ning Fengzhi, whose interest came from Su Lin’s actions rather than Grant’s own influence. After settling the children and overseeing their enrollment, Grant returned to Wealth Village with Sean and the guards, having been away for nearly two months 43 45.

His connection to Su Lin later benefited the village: Xue Nuo ordered a city-level development plan for Wealth Village after learning that its chief was Su Lin’s adoptive father and a royal academy graduate 50.

Appearance

• General appearance: A refined-looking, lavishly dressed middle-aged man in his forties 1.
• Martial Soul possession: Dark-purple mist surrounds him, and enormous bat wings marked with fine dark patterns unfold from his back 3.
• Wings: Gray-black membranes acquire a flowing purple glow along their edges when he activates Shadow Wing Swift Assault 4.

Personality

Grant is normally gentle, steady, and openly affectionate toward the orphanage children. His care does not depend on cultivation talent: even after Su Lin’s exceptional awakening, he continues planning for the children who awakened no Soul Power 3 20.

His protectiveness is practical rather than purely restrictive. He accepts Su Lin’s need to fight and explore, but provides trusted escorts, supplies, and secure accommodation instead of relying on unfamiliar hired Soul Masters 20 21.

Grant recognizes the limits of his expertise. He abandons the idea of formally taking Su Lin as a disciple because he cannot reliably guide the unprecedented Poké Ball Martial Soul. Likewise, he prefers professional academy instruction to assuming that his superior cultivation makes him the better teacher 3 7.

By Su Lin’s enrollment at Nuoding Academy, Grant places Wealth Village’s future above further increases in his own Soul Power. He takes visible pride in Su Lin’s potential while remaining conscious of the limits of his own standing among Heaven Dou City’s influential figures 8 43.

Abilities & Skills

Shadow-Eroding Spirit Bat

A Beast Martial Soul of fairly good quality, suited to Grant’s agility-focused combat style 3 4.

• Manifests large wings that enable flight and rapid movement through woodland terrain 3 4.
• Receives additional benefits in nighttime darkness 3.
• Improves his eyesight at night, allowing him to identify the mutant Lightning Rat in dim conditions 4.
• Allows him to carry Su Lin while pursuing a fast-moving target at low altitude 4.

First Soul Skill: Shadow Wing Swift Assault

A speed-enhancement skill activated through his first yellow Soul Ring 4.

• Coats the edges of his wings in deep-purple light.
• Sharply increases his movement speed.
• Enables him to overtake the mutant Lightning Rat and cut off its escape route 4.

Second Soul Skill: Corrosive Sound Bewildering Barrier

A sonic attack activated through his second yellow Soul Ring. Grant rapidly vibrates his wings and releases shadow Soul Power as a fan-shaped sound wave 4.

• Spreads through a semicircular area with a thirty-meter radius.
• Disorients and incapacitates the fleeing Lightning Rat, causing its legs to fail before it strikes a tree and loses consciousness 4.

Cultivation and Soul Beast Guidance

Grant has extensive practical experience with conventional Soul Ring selection, despite lacking specialist knowledge of unusual Martial Souls 2 3.

• Teaches Su Lin basic Soul Power meditation and explains cultivation fundamentals and taboos 2 5.
• Identifies Soul Beast traits, likely combat roles, suitable ages, and habitats 3.
• Recognizes the Lightning Rat’s mutation from its unusual coloration and exceptional speed 4.
• Cannot apply traditional age ratios and complementary-attribute principles reliably to Su Lin’s Poké Ball Martial Soul 3.

Equipment / Items

• Dark-purple carriage — Decorated with a silver-thread Shadow-Eroding Spirit Bat emblem and an amethyst at each corner. Its appearance is widely recognized around Nuoding City, where travelers know to give way 7.
• Bat-emblem wax seal — A dark-purple seal depicting a bat with spread wings, used on his letter directing Su Lin to Heaven Dou City 27.

Relationships

• Su Lin — Adoptive son and a child Grant regards as Wealth Village’s future. Su Lin trusts him enough to explain his Martial Soul’s battle-based growth and considers his kindness impossible to repay 20 27 50.
• Xiao Wu — Receives Grant’s protection, accommodation, and educational support alongside Su Lin. His attentive care reminds her of her mother 20 21 45.
• Sean — Trusted guard captain and longtime subordinate. Grant entrusts him with Su Lin and Xiao Wu’s forest expedition rather than hiring outsiders 20 21.
• Su Yuntao — Familiar acquaintance whom Grant teases about his Spirit Hall assignment; their friendly exchange turns pointed when Su Yuntao tries to recruit Su Lin 1 2.
• Principal Jiang — Old acquaintance who personally welcomes Grant and oversees Su Lin’s enrollment at Nuoding Academy 7 8.
• Samuel — Old friend at Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s affiliated intermediate academy who secures the children’s enrollment slots without exempting them from assessment 45.
• Yu Xiaogang — A theorist Grant distrusts as a prospective mentor for Su Lin, fearing that untested methods could endanger the boy 7.
• Ning Fengzhi — Meets Grant through the sect’s interest in Su Lin. Grant remains respectful and recognizes the considerable difference in their social standing 43.