Soul Power

Biodata

Power Progression

The following records Su Mu's directly documented Soul Power milestones. Current reserves and maximum capacity are distinct: his meditation limit is stated as 210 at level 6, and later full recoveries also reach 210 43 62 169.

Nature and Effects

• Soul Space manifestation: Soul Power appears as scattered points of light. Newly awakened dungeon masters usually perceive these lights only faintly and must repeatedly concentrate to sense them 43.
• Development ceiling: Its strength determines the upper limit of dungeon construction and represents, in part, a dungeon master's level of life 22.
• Physical benefits: Stronger Soul Power extends lifespan and gradually improves overall physical condition 22.
• Combat role: Dungeon masters rely on their dungeons rather than personal strength or speed attributes. When monsters attack them, they are immediately pulled into their own dungeon space to fight through its forces 22.
• Direct application: Soul Power can also be projected outside the dungeon. Elder Xiu channels it to produce rune-covered chains that restrain an enemy 148.

Awakening

Soul Power matures at eighteen, making dungeon-theme awakening possible. A higher score increases the probability of awakening a high-grade theme, but does not guarantee a powerful result 1.

Uses and Costs

Dungeon Creation

Soul Power turns an unopened theme's cloud of chaos into a usable dungeon 4.

1. Connect consciousness to the theme's core.
2. Expand the chaos into a basic space.
3. Construct terrain, structures, creatures, and traps.
4. Place the core card to complete the binding 4.

• Terrain expenditure can increase a dungeon's combat index without supplying direct offensive power. Teachers warn that mountains and structures alone cannot kill invading monsters 17.
• Efficient construction depends on thematic compatibility. Unrelated plants can consume excessive Soul Power, while conflicting environmental and core-card attributes can reduce bonuses 7.
• Ye Qingxue's initial design is praised for producing “a hundred points' worth of effect” from seventy points of Soul Power 7.
• Seven days after Su Mu's awakening, teachers observe that his dungeon stretches over a hundred kilometers and infer an exceptional recovery rate from the construction required 114.

Card Embedding

Embedding costs depend on a card's grade and rise sharply at higher grades 13 18.

• These are basic embedding costs, excluding additional adjustment and trial-and-error expenditure 18.
• Wealth does not remove the requirement: a dungeon master without enough Soul Power cannot support a high-grade card merely by purchasing it 18.
• Su Mu embeds an E-grade Mountain-Patrolling Lesser Yaoguai for 30 points, then develops it into Little Drill Wind through thematic resonance, avoiding the 500-point upfront cost of embedding an A-grade card 18.
• He likewise embeds the E-rank Corpse King Card for 30 points before developing it into the Corpse Demon White Bone Spirit 62.
• High-grade cards can be partially embedded and completed over time. Su Mu spends 137 points to advance the Green Lion King to three-fifths embedding, then another 210 after recovery to finish. The Golden-Winged Great Peng King later begins at one-fifth of his base attributes while partially embedded 169 173.
• The secret realm restores Su Mu's reserve and supplies the power needed to embed the Dragon Gate, an exception to relying solely on his ordinary reserve 159.

Naming and Conceptual Anchoring

Soul Power supports names that anchor dungeon elements to their theme. More accurate names and deeper thematic connections produce stronger amplification 5.

• Flower-Fruit Mountain: Naming the mountain costs 10 points and raises the core stone from F to E rank 5.
• Mending Heaven: A further 10-point naming transforms the stone into the D-rank Stone Left Over from Mending Heaven 5.
• Little Drill Wind: Naming Lion Camel Ridge alone does not change the lesser demon's attributes. Naming the demon establishes the missing relationship and raises him from E to A rank; each naming costs 10 points 14.
• Physical refinement: Soul Power can reshape a creature's appearance and equipment to better embody its concept. Su Mu's later refinements help raise Little Drill Wind to SS and then SSS rank 43 44.
• White Bone Spirit: Naming White Tiger Ridge and the Corpse Demon White Bone Spirit raises the skeletal creature to D-rank, but her low conceptual affinity restricts her growth. Su Mu spends 100 points reshaping her skeleton, raising her to S-rank, and uses the Thousand-Faced Skin to develop a compatible human form and reach SS-rank 62 63.
• Three transformations: Su Mu spends 60 points recording an elderly woman's appearance for White Bone Spirit. Completing her three transformations with a white-haired old man's appearance raises her to SSS-rank 95 96.
• Aquatic spirits: Naming Ragged Rock Mountain, Jade Wave Pool, Golden Light Temple, and the monsters Benbo'erba and Babo'erben raises the two creatures to SS-rank 97.
• South Heaven Gate: Su Mu uses Soul Power to enlarge and decorate the gate, raising it from Yellow to Profound Rank. Its role as a thematic anchor strengthens the dungeon and its demons 161.
• Green Lion King: Su Mu spends 60 points adjusting the fully embedded king's mane and scales toward the Azure Lion's appearance, increasing his attributes and combat index by about twenty percent 173.

Appraisal and Summoning

• Appraisal: Su Mu projects Soul Power outward like invisible tentacles to inspect a wild monster's attributes 46.
• Summoning: Soul Power activates a passage between dungeon and reality, allowing Little Drill Wind to appear outside the dungeon 47.
• Neither action receives a numerical Soul Power cost in these passages 46 47.

Examination Resources

In one examination scenario, Su Mu receives a separate pool of one million Soul Power for construction and purchases. He spends 990,000 on wall sections, lookout platforms, and two military class cards. After the scenario's Soul Power usage phase, examinees cannot directly intervene and must observe as spectators 133 134.

Recovery and Growth

Leveling

• Killing monsters grants experience, and leveling restores Soul Power; Su Mu's early level-ups explicitly grant 10 points 21 22 33.
• Long-term accumulation depends on both natural growth through leveling and meditation 44.
• Exhaustion halts further development until more power is obtained. Su Mu spends all 210 initial points in just over an hour while establishing his dungeon 16.
• According to Su Mu's reading, dedicated Soul Power training requires First Transcendence. Training below that stage would damage one's Soul Power, and the methods are tightly controlled by universities 170.

Meditation

Meditation draws Soul Power into the Soul Space. Recovery depends on personal talent, soul quality, and maximum Soul Power 43 44.

• Daily meditation consolidates Soul Power and is described as a foundation for long-term advancement. It is not taught systematically until university, although Su Mu learns a method from his older female cousin beforehand 41 43.
• Su Mu's rapid recovery lets him replenish his daily construction budget far faster than ordinary dungeon masters, who may be delayed for days or weeks after heavy expenditure 44.
• Su Mu later recovers a full 210 points in about one minute on multiple occasions, including before completing the Green Lion King's embedding 62 95 169.

Distinction from Momentum

• Soul Power funds dungeon development and actions such as Appraisal and summoning 4 46 47.
• Momentum is a separate resource used to activate soul skills. Trial-dungeon kills do not build it, preventing soul-skill use during trials 29.
• Years Like a Blade costs 1,000 momentum points, not Soul Power. Its time acceleration offers Su Mu a way to mature his core stone 39 40.
• Flowers in the Mirror, Moon in the Water copies the most recently used soul skill without a Momentum Point cost, while sharing the copied skill's cooldown 82.
• World-Cleansing Radiance costs 500 Momentum Points and removes negative statuses from an ally. Su Mu later discovers that it can temporarily remove the Green Lion King's semi-embedded status 103 153.