Chapter 0: Soul Land III Glossary

AN: Just to be clear, searching and copy pasting this from wiki is no easy task when you only use a phone with slow internet connection. So expect some information missing.

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Soul Master:

Soul masters are humans on Douluo Planet that possess a Martial Soul and has soul power. Since the beginning of when humans first appeared, Soul Masters are regarded as the noblest profession for a person to have. This has continued to the modern era of SL3, where there are other jobs normal humans and spirit masters can both do like piloting a Mecha or soul jet. With the invention of soul devices and soul weapons, normal humans are able to fight on par with a Soul Grandmaster. With a Mecha, they can fight on par with a Soul King.

With the invention of Battle Armour, a Soul Master can increase their physical and other abilities to a higher level. A Soul Sage, with Battle Armour, can fight on par with a normal Titled Douluo.

A normal human in SL3 can never hope to fight against a Soul Douluo or even a Titled Douluo.

Every Soul Master has Soul power, spiritual power, and bloodline power, the same as spirit beasts.

Soul Masters are divided into two classes, Battle Soul Masters and Utility Soul Masters. Just like in the name, Battle Soul Masters mainly focus on cultivating with the goal of fighting like joining the military or taking part in martial competitions. Utility Soul Masters focus on cultivating to use their spirit for things like aiding them in work like blacksmithing, plowing a field, or designing a blueprint.

After a person becomes a spirit master, he/she will receive a monthly stipend of Soul federal coins, which can barely cover the cost of tuition at an intermediate academy. The amount per month will increase once he/she becomes a soul grandmaster.

In advanced spirit academies, students are required to pick a second profession, mainly to help them build themselves battle armor or a mecha. The professions are blacksmithing, mecha designing, mecha mechanic, and mecha manufacturing. Some will try to do both battle armor and mecha, but it is not recommend because it wastes too much energy and time. Most ended up stopping when they upgrade their battle armor to three-word or their mecha to black rank and just focus all their time and energy on the other one.

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Spirit Rings & Spirit Souls:

For Soul Masters, if it wasn't a breakthrough in soul power, then it had to be one in comprehension of laws, intent, spiritual power, or etc, which is absolutely vital in progressing further in cultivation. In SL and SL2, spirit masters gain spirit rings by killing spirit beasts. Since there are very few spirit beasts left in SL3, spirit masters rely on spirit souls to get spirit rings, but the higher the grade of spirit souls, the higher a spirit master's spiritual power must be in order to absorb it. Spirit masters can usually only get artificial spirit souls. For this reason, most spirit masters can only raise their spirit rings to the 10,000 year level because there are no 100,000 year old artificial spirit souls currently.

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Spiritual Requirements:

A spirit master only needs their spiritual power to reach the spirit abyss realm to become a Titled Douluo, but almost every Titled Douluo has a foundation of spirit domain. After that, they need to reach the spirit domain realm in order to become a Limit Douluo. It's said that all Title Douluos are blessed by the laws of the world, with them starting on the path of learning about the planar laws. It's when they reached the Limit Douluo level and have a Spirit Domain that they can unleash the laws of the world, able to add it to their own attacks. Limit Douluos are also able to utilize a limited amount of Heaven and Earth laws to suppress their opponents and add it to their own attack.

Spirit masters that rely mainly on their spiritual power to unleash their spirit skills or combat techniques are referred to as spiritual masters. Spiritual Masters always have high spiritual power.

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Spirit/Soul Power:

The energy all spirit masters cultivate in order to increase their spirit ranks. Soul power is easy to cultivate for the first thirty ranks, but the growth speed would slow from there on. "When a soul master reached rank 40, their advancement speed would plummet. This wasn't due to a decrease in soul power growth speed. Rather, the root of the issue lay in the difficulty in compressing soul power." There are different levels to compressed soul power. The ranks between 50 and 60 is regarded as a watershed by Tang Hao. It took him 5 years to reach rank 60 from rank 50. This is considered fast during his time. When a spirit master reaches rank 70, they form a spirit core within their spirit sea. They have a chance to form a second one when they reach hyper douluo.

For a Titled Douluo, cultivating from rank 91 to 95 is considered the easy part compared to the next 5 ranks after it. From then on, reaching each rank thereafter becomes increasingly difficult that the power a spirit master has between each rank is like a chasm.

It again becomes more difficult when reaching the rank 99 bottleneck, known as the Limit Douluo Rank. After Soul Land 2, Limit Douluos are further categorized in three more ranks.

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Soul Power Concentration Level:

When a spirit master has achieved a certain level of soul power, the quantity is not important anymore, but its quality. The concentration level is its quality. In simple terms, a nine-ring Titled Douluo's soul power achieved through the consumption of heaven and earth treasures is completely different than the power achieved through cultivating little by little until rank-90. The concentration levels are at least different by three levels. The higher the concentration level, the more condensed one's soul power is. Each level corresponds to a rank. For a soul power concentration level of level-6, this signifies that if a spirit master has a four-ring cultivation base, in reality, his/her soul power's condensation level is equal to a Soul Emperor achieved through ordinary cultivation. When these two factors are multiplied together, the actual rank is comparable to a rank-52 Soul King.

The soul power condensation level's elevation is even more difficult than cultivating one's soul power. It's especially difficult to elevate to the next level after one has achieved level-5.

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Spiritual Power:

Before the existence of spirit souls, there were no official rankings for spiritual power. But when spirit souls first appeared, the previous generations gradually realized that fusing with a spirit soul required much more spiritual power than fusing with a spirit ring. After extensive research, they created an official ranking list for spiritual power. It was only in the last two thousand years or so that the rankings were completed.[6]

A strong spirit soul requires spiritual power equally as strong to fuse with.

From low to high, spiritual power is divided into: Spirit Origin, Spirit Connection, Spirit Sea, Spirit Abyss, Spirit Domain, and Divine Origin. These six realms are quite simple. Everyone is in the Spirit Origin realm when they are born. As for the meaning behind Spirit Origin, it means that it's the single origin everyone starts from. Afterwards, nature takes on a new look. This is the most basic of soul levels.

A human's spiritual power would grow naturally as their body matured, increasing all the way until they reached 40 years old. After the age of 40, however, an ordinary person's body would begin to deteriorate, but Soul Masters could continue increasing their spiritual power until they were 60 years old. The Federation can read the maximum spiritual power of a soul master.

1 - 99: Spirit Origin realm:

•The moment one was born, they would be in the Spirit Origin realm with the most basic of spiritual power.

•Spiritual power in the intermediate rank of Spirit Origin realm, one would be able to support a yellow spirit soul.

•The range for the elementary level was 1 - 30 points, the intermediate level was 31 - 60 points, the advanced level was 61 - 90 points, and the perfect level is 91 - 99 points.

100 - 499: Spirit Connection realm:

•The Spirit Connection realm was when the heart could connect with the spirit, conveying simple thoughts.

•At this level, one would be able to truly control one's spiritual power and have it move to one's needs as well as being able to support 2 yellow spirit souls or 1 purple spirit soul.

•The threshold for the elementary level was 100 points, the intermediate level was 150 points, and the advanced level was 350 points.

500 - 4999: Spirit Sea realm:

•In the Spirit Sea realm, the spirit was as vast as the sea and one's spiritual power could be considered to have finally attained a high enough level to be considered the foundation for an expert.

•The ones who want to be God Rank Mecha Masters would need to have at least reached the Spirit Sea realm.

•At this level, one would be able to support 5 yellow spirit souls or 3 purple spirit souls. In fact, one could even support a single black spirit soul!

•Apart from the effects on spiritual power, the Spirit Sea realm could also help a Soul Master cultivate to 6 or 7 rings. Thus, to become a powerful Soul Master, it was necessary to reach the Spirit Sea realm.

5000 - 19,999: Spirit Abyss realm:

•The Spirit Abyss realm was like an abyssal prison, both heaven and hell.

•The upper boundary was heaven while the lower boundary was hell. Everything the mind could grasp was gathered into one. Peak spiritual power was fundamental to possessing a legendary spirit soul.

•At this rank, one could fuse with any level of spirit soul, even orange or red spirit souls.

°If one had already fused with an orange or red spirit soul, then their remaining spiritual power would only be at the Spirit Sea rank.

°If one hadn't had an orange or red spirit soul, it was possible to fuse with a maximum of 5 spirit souls of any color, with no limits on their ranks.

•Normally speaking, the Spirit Abyss realm was the limit for humans.

•A person could clearly sense the most minute changes in every part of his/her body. He/She could also use it to feel any signs of disturbance in the outside world at a great distance.

20,000 - 49,999: Spirit Domain realm:

•Every Titled Douluo had the spiritual power cultivation base of Spirit Domain as a foundation. It was said that one could never enter the realm of demi-gods without achieving the spiritual rank of Spirit Domain.

•Spirit Domain was already the highest level achievable by ordinary human beings. It was said that when one achieved the Spirit Domain spirit cultivation base, a spiritual domain would be produced on its own in the person. Everyone's spiritual domain was different but undoubtedly, having one was highly beneficial for the person's cultivation base while also significantly amplifying one's fighting capabilities.

•Similar to the Boundless Realm that Tang San reached, they can read and sense the thougths of those around them.

•With the strength of their mental power, they can pressuse those weaker than them. Suppressing their strength to the point they can't move or do anything and even forcing them to the ground.

•They can tell the condition and health of the person they sensed with their spiritual sense.This includes a Soul Master cultivation strenght and the level of their own mental power. Their Spiritual Sense also allows them to predict their opponent next movement and is able to grant them a high level of danger intuition.

•Give them the ability to communicate with each other telepathically.

•A person could distinguish the elements of the formless energy molecules in the air. The outstanding feature of the Spirit Domain was its clear distinction of elements.

50,000 - 99,999 : Divine Origin realm:

•Those who broke through to rank 100 and above will be in the Divine Origin Realm.

•When one attains this rank their spirit sea capacity is increased by over a millionth of its potency and capacity when compared to someone with a Spirit Domain Rank.

•Their spiritual sea turns golden with them being able to control the elements around even better than before and distinguish every change easily. As well being able to control the laws of the plane and the natural elements around them.

•At this rank, they can make it seem like they didn't exist in the world at anytime. Only being able to be sensed by others who have their own divine sense.

•Can create God Level illusions that can't be seen through by those with a weaker Divine Origin Realm and is also able to see through all Illusions created by those who are weaker.

•Divine Sense allows the user to sense their opponent weak point, allowing them to capitlize and target it. As well allow them to hide their own weak point and not allow anyone weaker than them to gain information on them. Such as their strength, health and condition of their body.

•A person with Divine Sense can invade a person's mental world and soul, allowing them to either control them or attack them on that level. They are also able to gain control the energies of others.

•They can instantly move anywhere their Divine Sense is at to the point it's considered constant teleportation.

•They can scan a person on a bilogical level, allowing them to notice their bloodline and if they are apart of their family line.

•Those at the Divine Origin Realm are able to control 3-Dimensional and 4th Dimensional spaces with their divien sense, able to percive the higher-dimensional space.

100,000 - ? : Godking Realm:

•It was said that one's spiritual power could never achieve that realm unless one became a True God with a god position or godhood.

•With this one is able to convert the energy from the universe and planets around to form Immortal Qi to create a God Realm.

•They can also control all of the planets around them.

Spirit Origin realm can be ranged between level 1 to 100 spiritual power. Levels 30 and below are elementary ranked. Levels 30 to 60 are intermediate ranked. Levels 60 to 90 are advanced rank. Levels 90 to 100 is the peak of Spirit Origin. A spirit master with Spirit Origin intermediate ranked spiritual power will be able to fuse with a yellow spirit soul.

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Spirit/Spiritual Sea:

The Spiritual Sea is a realm located in the mind of a spirit master's and spirit beast's body. It is where their spiritual power and parts of the soul is stored. When they transcend to Godhood, it evolves into a Divine Consciousness. A Spirit Core is stored within the sea to helped them restore their spiritual power faster than normal. It is also the location a spirit master's spirit souls reside. It changes size and form as one cultivates their spiritual power.

Spiritual power is initially used to control one's own emotions and focus/observe the user's surroundings. However, after cultivating it further, it can be used to wield more control over one's soul skills or even be directly used offensively to affect another person's spiritual sea.

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Bloodline Power:

When a spirit master is born, they are born with a certain bloodline. The bloodline is usually related to the spirit master's martial spirit. There are cases when it is not related like with Tang Wulin. He inherited the bloodline of the Golden Dragon King. Over the course of time, a spirit master's bloodline can become diluted. Bloodlines can be purified or evolve by using certain techniques or items.

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Bloodline Suppression and Enforcement:

Suppression occurs when a spirit master fights with another spirit master with a stronger bloodline. This can cause a feeling of weakness on the spirit master with the weaker bloodline, but the weakness can be negated to an extend by the difference in their cultivation rank or battle prowess.

Enforcement occurs when a team of spirit masters fight together, the spirit master with the stronger bloodline can boost the one with the weaker bloodline like the case of Tang Wulin using his Golden Dragon King bloodline spirit abilities.

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Becoming a God:

Rank 100 represents a spirit master stepping into godhood, but before a spirit master can become a God, they must first become a Limit Douluo. Becoming a Limit Douluo means the spirit master is half a step to gaining the strength of a God. A Limit Douluo must be able to sense the World Principles or Law of Heaven and Earth, have a suitable martial soul, and that one chance or sudden moment of enlightenment in order to have a path to Godhood. Not all martial souls can achieve Godhood. Some might not be able to advance to the next stage after God Rank. The number of tribulations determine how far a person can go once they reach Godhood.

In order to prepare for the tribulation, many will suppress their cultivation and build up their physique and mentality for a higher chance in succeeding in the tribulation.

"To become a god, not only cultivation and mental strength are required, but firm belief is also essential."

When the tribulation starts, a beam of light shoots up to the sky from the spirit master. If they survive, they had stepped into Godhood. No one can help the spirit master during this process. The number of tribulations determines weather the spirit master has the potential to reach the Super God level and beyond. When the spirit master steps onto the bridge of heaven and earth, a beam of light forms on the spirit master shooting towards the sky. The spiritual power of heaven and earth and the breath of life gather onto the beam. The beam must reach beyond the sky and communicate with the world to overcome the tribulation and reach godhood.

Elemental Tribulation - Four-Elemental Thunder Tribulation

This is the first tribulation a spirit master must face. The sky drastically changes as Four-Colored Thunder appears as a beam of thunder and bombards the beam of light. Each beam feels as though it can destroy the earth and is around a hundred meters thick. The spirit master must endure this catastrophe with their body, but it can also help them reshape or transform their body and sublimate themselves. Surviving means they might be able to reach the True God Rank in the future.

Heaven and Earth Tribulation - Seven-Elemental Thunder Tribulation

The second tribulation. Having this tribulation appear means the spirit master has the potential to reach the Super God level. This thunder is smaller by 9/10 but is more powerful and deadly. Same as the first tribulation, the spirit master must withstand the thunder with their body, while tempering their body at the same time.

Universe Tribulation - Nine-Elemental Thunder Tribulation

The third tribulation. Those who survive have the chance to reach God-King Rank. Same as the first and second tribulation, the spirit master must withstand the thunder with their body, while tempering their body at the same time. This thunder is so destructive that it can completely kill a Super God if they are struck by it, since it contains the world principles.

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Systems:

Control System – A soul master that excel in controlling the various aspects in combat. Soul master need abilities that can change the flow in the middle of combat, such as binding, giving disturbance on the field in combat, etc. This is usually done through secondary means such as building defenses or release of chemicals, rather then engaging in combat directly. When below rank 60, they can defeat an opponent 10 ranks higher than them if their powers are used correctly. Control System spirit masters have an advantage against Power Attack System spirit masters.

Assault/Power Attack System – A soul master that excel in dealing great damage, and basically has great vitality as a main and front attacker. Their spirit power is also usually influenced by other systems. Some attackers have mobility not far from the speed system and others have endurance not far from the defense system.

Defense System – This system belongs to a person who has great natural defensive capabilities as their spirit soul, along the lines of shields or defensive animals like turtles. Most defense systems tend to be immune to most attacks from attack systems 2 ranks down. They mainly act as a shield or blocker for other spirit masters, but this does not mean they do not have offense capabilities.

Auxiliary System – Spirit Masters that have spirits with support abilities fall within this class. This can range from providing regenerative food to a straight up increase in a single or multiple attributes. Other support abilities can range from attribute increases to immunity to certain conditions like poison, confusion, or etc. Some particular support abilities do have side effects or backlashes. All food system spirits fall under the auxiliary system. It is taboo for auxiliary system spirit masters to buff or provide support to one another because it can cause backlashes or even death. Food System spirits are harder to cultivate compared to the other systems.

Speed System – Masters of this system focus of a fusion of speed and attack power, observation and recon and thereby have less than average combat potential. Even the weakest agility-type soul master with a seven-ring rank could break through the speed of sound. This system can include spirit masters with space abilities and abilities that allow them to blend into the background, become almost undetectable.

For an agility-type, lethality is even more important than speed. One critical strike, the ability to drift from one place to another while being completely unpredictable, a quintessence of agility-system soul masters.

Healing/Cure System – Spirit masters from this system mainly deal in healing others from injury or abnormal conditions like a doctor. While it is possible for this category to fall under auxiliary, the difference is that this system is not usually used during combat.

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Training Methods:

Assimilation – The most basic and used training method for spirit masters. It is the basic cultivation described in the novels and in the manga. The advantage is that the improvement rate is consistent, but its flaw is that it is extremely slow. It's hard for one to break through the Titled Douluo realm even after training for their entire life with this method.

Inheritance – To inherit the energy contained in the spirit rings and the spirit bones or to inherit the gift of other powerful beings. The advantage is that it is fast, but the chances are very slim. Humans only have a chance of gaining a total of nine spirit rings in their entire lives. Spirit bones and immolation are harder to come by. Immolation became a lot easier in SL3 because of the invention of spirit souls.

Robbing – Direct absorption of the spirit beasts' and even the spirit master's soul energy. In order for robbing to be effective, the spirit master must find soul energy that is compatible with their spirit. This method can also be used to evolve an external spirit bone.

Killing – Evil soul masters use dark and shady methods to cultivate. It comes in many forms and the rewards are plentiful. This method allows the evil soul master to cultivate much more rapidly than orthodox soul masters, up until rank 70, where it takes more than twice as much effort and sacrifice than orthodox soul masters. However, this form of cultivating has several negative effects on the person's mental and causes them to think differently.

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Soul Core:

A metaphysical condensed energy crystalization of soul power or bloodline essence indicating the advancement of one's martial soul comprehension or one's bloodline's evolution to a higher life stage as well as cultivation foundation. Depending on the source from when a soul core is condensed, the possessor's potential is permanently amplified on the path of that source and the affinity is increased to that source. A soul core functions as a storage collecting unit, allowing the possessor to lessen the rate of loss:recovery of its source. Soul cores can also be voluntarily controlled by their possessors. The soul core can be condensed within living beings by their own cultivation progress. However, there are different types of soul cores, depending on the method used to condense it. Such are standard soul cores that follow the basic rules of soul core formation, as well as divine cores and bloodline cores that exist outside these rules.

A soul core was a synonym for a high level Soul Master. In general, the solidification would only succeed when one reaches the realm of seven Spirit Rings. As the core of one's Soul Power, it would get rid of the old to bring in the new and it would allow the Soul Master's combat strength to increase substantially.

The concept of soul cores pre-date mortal humans, existing since the era of the Dragon God and his Douluo Divine Realm as natural cores derived from Divine Beast bloodline essence and Divine Cores of true Gods. Such knowledge was pass down to his Dragon Clan spirit beasts, such as Di Tian, and instinctively to all spirit beasts. Over time, as human spirit masters advanced their cultivation ranks, they encountered the circumstances of soul core condensation after becoming Titled Douluos, allowing advancement in their comprehension and cultivation.

The standard information of a soul core was not widely spread in the cultivation circle until Huo Yuhao's era. At the time, the most knowledgable of soul cores was Di Tian except the Gods of the Divine Realm.

Before Yuhao's era, mortal human Titled Douluo powerhouses condensed soul cores after becoming Titled Douluos through their higher spiritual power and higher physique, as exhibited in the Spirit Ranks of Soul Land and Soul Land II concerning Quasigod Douluos. With the later era's widespread information about soul cores as well as the rise of spiritual power and physique level necessary to contract Spirit Souls, eventually human cultivation ranks at Rank 70+ and Rank 90+ changed to reflect this, as seen in Soul Land III and Soul Land IV.

By Tang Wulin's era, mortal human cultivators have standarized soul core knowledge into cultivation practice, with the condensing of a soul core after attaining Spirit Sage rank as a mark to become a Titled Douluo, a later second soul core after attaining Hyper Douluo rank to mark a potential Limit Douluo and a third soul core at Limit Douluo rank to mark a potential mortal God. Each new soul core may fuse with previous ones or affect them because of the instinct to evolve into a Divine Core.

The common method human cultivators use to form their subsequent soul core is through the resonance technique.

Rules: The limit of standard soul cores a mortal cultivator under the human Rank 100 can condense are three standard soul cores. The first soul core can be easily condensed once reaching an average Titled Douluo (later Spirit Sage) level's spiritual realm and physique. The second soul core can be condensed once as a Hyper/Super Douluo to allow cultivation to a Limit Douluo. The third soul core is a mark to a Limit Douluo for future cultivation and possibility to attain strength to break away from the world's rules (Rank 100) to ascend to the Divine Realm.

The three standard locations of these soul cores are the head's spiritual sea, the chest's heart and the abdomen's dantian. The three soul cores can be condensed at these locations no matter what order depending on the possessor's cultivation path. However, most cultivators condense their first soul core at the their chest for future efficient cultivation. Any failure at forming a soul core at these three locations could minimally stall one's cultivation or permanent damage at that location: vegetable mind, heart rupture or negative cultivation deviation.

The formation of a soul core requires great spiritual power and a high physique level to successful execute. With a higher Spiritual Realm and a Titled Douluo level body that can handle the process's strain, a cultivator can condense the first soul core at the equivalent human Rank 70+.

Hence, if the first soul core still not formed before one turned 40, the Soul Master will never have the soul core in his or her lifetime.

Beyond human Rank 100, one can condense a Divine Core.

Types of Soul Cores:

*Soul Core (Standard): A condensed solidification of soul/spirit power (depending on internal source) through high enough spiritual power. The soul core, depending on the location of condensation, can be spiritual or elemental type. These are usually located in the possessor's chest.

•Spiritual Core (Standard): A soul core condensed in the spiritual sea of the possessor, hence its name. It cements one's spiritual realm as completely reaching the Spirit Domain realm. As one of the most dangerous locations during soul core condensation, if the process fails, the possessor most likely will become a vegetable. With Soul Land III, the Spiritual Core became a standard in mortal human cultivation to become a successful Super/Hyper Douluo.

•Spiritual Dragon Core: A subtype Spiritual Core that can be formed through one's Dragon Clan bloodline after reaching the human Spirit Domain Realm and human Rank 60.

•Elemental Core (Standard): A soul core condensed from the possessor's affinity and comprehension of the universal elemental laws. The Elemental Core is common among spirit masters and spirit beasts with element related martial souls or law comprehension.

•This soul core is named _?_?_?_- Core depending on what element source it is condensed from, such as an Ice Core for Huo Yuhao's Ultimate Ice, and Space Core for both Di Tian and Huo Yuhao in their comprehension of Space elemental laws.

°Races:

–Spirit Beasts: With their naturally higher physiques than most mortal humans, spirit beasts can voluntarily condense their first soul core with certain success.

–Humans: A race born with physiques that require rigorous cultivation to improve and handle condensing a soul core, requiring an average Titled Douluo spiritual power and body in Soul Land I and Soul Land II (eventually a Spirit Sage spiritual power [Spirit Sea Realm] and average Titled Douluo body in Soul Land III and Soul Land IV) to condense the first soul core. Unlike spirit beasts, human cultivation has a higher rate of more soul cores.

*Bloodline Core: It naturally occurs during the cultivation of organisms with high enough bloodline essence concentration, with the core purity dependent on bloodline purity. It once can condensed anytime if the concentration is high enough. The Bloodline Core does not follow the rules of standard soul cores and only restores bloodline essence over time. However, because of the source, this soul core can help evolve both the possessor's physique and spiritual realm.

•Dragon Core: A soul core derived from one's Dragon Clan bloodline essence concentration. Can be evolved from a previous standard soul core if the possessor's bloodline later changes to the Dragon Clan's or one's original Dragon Clan bloodline increases in purity and concentration

°Dragon God Core: A subtype soul core derived from the Dragon God bloodline at once the possessor has reached human Rank 50, condensed during a strenuous breakthrough.

°Spiritual Dragon Core: A subtype Spiritual Core that can be condensed through one's Dragon Clan bloodline after reaching the human Spirit Domain Realm and human Rank 60.

*Divine Core: A soul core exhibiting one's divinity. At this stage, the Divine Core can also function as a divine tool if the user has high affinity with the core. This soul core can be condensed after the cultivator attains a God-rank cultivation or a God's Position and it can continously evolve further.

°Divine cores are divided as:

–Third Class God rank:

–Second Class God rank:

–First Class God rank:

–God King's Core: These Divine Cores can hold the possessor God's true essence, cultivation and or God's Position. It is essentially the God's heart and reservoir of power. The Divine Cores at this rank can be super divine tools.

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Battle Armor: Battle Armor is a personalized human-shaped armor like mecha created by blacksmiths and mecha craftsmen. Spirit Masters who have battle armor are known as Battle Armor Masters.

Just like mechas, battle armors had their own rankings. However, this particular ranking system was strange.

At its core, a suit of battle armor was similar to a super mecha. This was because both were forged personally by a soul master and acted as an extension of and became a major component of the user's strength. A battle armor master would be twenty soul ranks stronger than any soul master of the same soul power rank.

If a soul master had five rings and equipped a one-word battle armor, his strength would be equivalent to that of a seven-ringed soul master. A two-word battle armor master could match a soul master with eight rings, and so forth.

Using the blueprint of a Human-shape Soul Guidance Device which was a legacy left by Huo Yuhao, future soul masters perfected it, giving birth to Mecha technology. Simultaneously, soul masters invented techniques to create Battle Armor, a mecha type, but it can merge with oneself.

The common thing between Mecha and Battle Armor is both must be created by forging metals. Battle Armor will improve physical power, spiritual power, defense, and the effect of soul skills of a soul master to a higher level, dependent on characteristics of metals and compatibility with essence spirit.

All Battle Armor Masters are Mecha Craftsmen or Blacksmiths. The first battle armor prototypes exist because of the discovery of spirit refining by blacksmiths.

Battle armors are like a circuit carved into the user's martial soul that granted the martial soul its own set of armor and sublimating it.

Battle armor masters held a supreme position throughout the entire continent. Even government officials would withdraw from any disputes involving one of them. In the end, they would be forced to call in another battle armor master aligned with the government to settle the problem. Indeed, only a battle armor master could face another battle armor master.

On the Douluo Continent, they were the most regal of existences.

Battle Armor 11 Components + Wings:

•(4)Arms: °(2) L/R Pauldron (Shoulder) + Rerebrace (Upper arm) °(2) L/R Gauntlet (Hand) + Vambrace (Forearm)

•(4)Legs: °(2) L/R Cuisses (Thigh) °(2) L/R Greaves (Calf) + Boots (Feet)

•(1)Belt- Fauld (include waist armor + battle kilt): °It acts as the core for a battle armor because it is the closest to the abdomen, where Spirit Masters condense their spirit power. Powerful Spirit Masters will guide their spirit power into the belt then disperse it throughout the battle armor, which will give them the best results.

•(1)Helmet or Crown with mask: °It enhances the soul master's defense from any physical attacks aiming at the head, from spiritual to soul attacks. Its design depends on the spirit and combat style. Some helmets are designed to enhance the wearer's spiritual realm, allowing a Spirit Domain Realm to reach half-step Divine Origin Realm. A mask is usually added with the helmet.

•(1) Breastplate, bottom half is Plackart (Chest/Back): °The piece with the core component of the battle armor that allows the complete set to function as a unified power. Its appearance during the production of a 1-word battle armor signifies the set's eventual completion. Depending on the design, this piece can have its core component on the chest or abdomen.

•Wings: °An external component equipped at the 2-word level. Wings allow the master to fly faster and better, or attain aerial movement if the master's martial soul does not possesses that aspect. Its designs is based on the wearer's aesthetics.

Level Classification: Battle Armor is divided into 4 levels, with each increase in level, another word (character) would be added to the battle armor's name. It is also possible due to circumstances to discard the previous characters and rename the battle armor with a whole new character set.

To attain higher levels of the battle armor, soul masters must enhance their spiritual power and physique to handle the increase demand the battle armor. For advancement in battle armor level, the required blacksmith must have high ability in fuse forging (Harmonizing Refinement) to allow 1 tier higher refined metal/alloy to merge with the battle armor and advance the armor's refinement tier level, also to improve the battle armor's capabilities through the additional metals'/alloys' original characteristics. The wearer's bloodline also impacts the growth of the battle armor because to initially fuse with the battle armor, one's blood from the specific corresponding body part is used to bind the corresponding battle armor piece to the body, leading a high influence on its manifestation.

1. One-word Battle Armor: The best quality of complete battle armor set must be made using thousand refined metals; This level has its sub-grades: white, yellow and purple grade, depending on materials used and completeness of the set. If top sub-grade, black grade is the rarest.

°Requires 5 soul rings minimum to use the entire armor.

°It can also be made using spirit refined metal but is very uncommon.

•Shrek Academy Outer Court students must have this level, under the age of 20, and pass a test to enter the Inner Court. They can also ordinarily graduate when they have a one-word battle armor while over the age of 20.

2. Two-word Battle Armor:

°Every piece is made with spirit refined metal.

°Requires 6 soul rings minimum to use.

°Wings component and minimal protective shield become available.

°All battle armor by this stage can merge completely with the user.

°The metal composing a suit of battle armor existed as an extension of one's body; as such, it was like another part of their martial soul, and all-powerful battle armors shared this trait.

•Shrek Academy Outer Court students under the age of 30 must have a two-word battle armor to try and enter the Inner Court.

3. Three-word Battle Armor:

°Every piece is made of soul refined metal, allowing self-repair if not severly damaged.

°The metals become a crystal like appearance and texture.

°Requires 7 soul rings minimum to use.

°The battle armor is considered a living being - a companion to the soul master. It is considered as the sublimation of a person, allowing a domain innate to the armor, located as a ring under the feet.

°At this stage, it is said that the battle armor is akin to a soul master's second life because it is made out of soul-refined metal.

•Most Titled Douluo have Three-word Battle Armour, limited to this stage because of resources and necessary divine craftsman.

4. Four-word Battle Armor:

°Every piece was made of heavenly refined metal (forging metals invite tribulation lightning, the standard refinement metals for 4-word must invite 1-7 colors calamity lightning). Top heavenly refinement has 7 colors lightning.

°The metals shine a color sheen depending on the heavenly refined metals used during fuse forging from 3-word to 4-word battle armor.

°Requires 9 rings minimum to use.

°Allows domain innate at 3-word to evolve to its own world, using Laws that solidy the four-word battle armor domain.

°The battle armor can portrary itself as a projection avatar external of the body, such is called Out-of-void Armor Condensation.

°Out-of-void Armor Condensation and the solidification of the domain are the main characteristics of this battle armor level.

The armor can evolve and use their owner's techniques on its own.

°The four-word battle armor is obviously the most integral part of any four-word battle armor master. It was like the most important organ in one's body.

°When the four-word battle armor had taken form during creation, a soul master would even need to sacrifice 1/3 of the blood flowing in his body to awaken it because it was akin to a form of life. The formation of any set of four-word battle armor is a life and death experience for a battle armor master. If one could break through the calamity then the master could successfully create four-word battle armor, but if failed, the master could possibly die.

•Mortal rank: needs soul circuit engravement prior to formation as with any other 4-word battle armor.

•Divine tool-rank: No sacrificed needed. No soul ciruit engravement needed because the mortal rank style is for commoner battle armor (Divine tool battle armor perspective).

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Soul Mecha: Soul Masters have been the most essential profession within the last several tens of thousands of years. Soul Masters were not only rare, but the majority of them were also weak. But with the advent of Soul devices, this paradigm had shifted. Low-rank Soul Masters could now become much more powerful by relying on their Soul Power and Soul devices. Afterward, Soul mechas began to appear, allowing Soul Masters to become even stronger.

Soul Mechas are operated by using soul power from Soul Power batteries, thus allowing it's user to display strength far surpassing their own. The first Soul Mechas were developed in a larger form. The factor being that the larger they were, the larger the Soul Power battery they could install as well as the number of weapons it could be equipped with.

As technology progressed, Mechas became operable by ordinary people with sufficiently strong bodies. From then on, Soul Mechas became the main weapon of the modern army.

In the history of Mecha development, there have been periods where the form was small, medium, and large. This is the basic outline of Mecha development. This was a process of trial and error and it's resulting improvements. It involved the perfection of Soul circuits, various innovations, and the advancement of technology by leaps and bounds. Mechas have only grown increasingly more important in wars ever since their creation.

With the aid of Soul devices, an ordinary person might be able to match up to a Soul Grandmaster, and with a Mecha, they could even possibly contend with a five ring Soul King. Mechas truly do offer tremendous power to its user, but even so, it cannot give an ordinary person the fighting power of an eight ring Soul Douluo or a nine ring Titled Douluo. At the very least, it is impossible at this point in time.

The Mechas one can commonly see range from 5 to 8 meters in height and have some peculiar differences depending on what type of Mecha they are. These are the modern medium-sized Mechas. From their research, Soul Guide Masters came to the conclusion that a combination of bulk and flexibility along with a balance of offensive and defensive capabilities were the most suitable for the army. But these are just the standardized mechas for ordinary people. White and yellow mechas are of the same category. All Mecha Masters who own Red Mechas tend to choose a Mecha Profession.

Soul mechas are the main combat weapons of the federation.

Structure and Operation: In addition to battle armor, mechas also used metals forged by blacksmiths during the manufacturing process. Furthermore, the higher grade the mecha, the better the metal needed. Even among black-grade mechas, apart from their circuit cores, it was the quality of their metals that determined superiority.

All mecha cockpits had enough space to accommodate two pilots, although only one operated the mecha at a time usually. The second pilot only came into play when they engaged in long distance combat.

Typically, the higher the grade of the mecha, the smaller it was. The standard issue yellow-grade mechas stood over twelve meters tall while the purple-grade were around ten meters. Black-grade mechas were around eight. Red-grade mechas were supposedly no more than six meters tall. In contrast to mechas, battle armor fit snugly to its user without any excess bulk.

A typical mecha contained a human-shaped groove for the pilot within the center of the cockpit, located at its belly region. Here, the pilot controlled the mecha's every movement, mecha operation relying mainly on the pilot's own movements, supplemented by their thoughts. Due to the method of operation, strong bodies was a must for pilots. Partial control of the mecha could be given over to the mecha's operating system during combat, but high-grade mechas had minimal such programs and operation relied mainly on the pilot.

Mecha Pilots: Becoming a Mecha Master/Pilot is very easy as long as the person is strong enough for the training, but becoming a good one is the hard part.

Both strength and money were needed to become a mecha pilot. If the pilot didn't come from a wealthy clan, then they would have to earn the money necessary to advance, be it via their salary, bonuses, or sponsorships. It also can take a long time for a Mecha Master to upgrade their Mechas, since the number of high-level blacksmiths is very small, so many pilots built relationships with the blacksmith association.

Mecha pilots tend to treated their mecha as their second life, an extension of themselves. After all, they taken the time and energy to customize and upgrade their mechas.

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Spirit Souls: Spirit Souls are a soul beasts in an energy form that are used by soul masters as a complement of the soul rings. It can be a animal, plant, tool, or elemental spirit. By becoming a spirit soul, soul beasts only change their form and not their existence by binding their spiritual and life origin to the contracted soul master.

The inventor of spirit soul is Electrolux, the Necromancer, teacher of Huo Yuhao. The first spirit soul is Snow Empress which her life is binded to Huo Yuhao by Electrolux. Under Di Tian's supervision, Huo Yuhao was able to create a general technique for spirit souls' creation.

After mastering the technique to create the spirit soul, a life-bound contract method derived from light element necromancy, Huo Yuhao and Di Tian built the Spirit Transferring Pagoda. Since then, soul masters must go to the Spirit Transferring Pagoda to get or purchase a spirit soul.

Spirit souls are superior to conventional soul rings because the age or quality of soul rings given by them could be upgraded or evolved. But generally, it could only be done in the Spirit Transferring Pagoda's Spirit Ascension Platform. Strong spiritual power is necessary to contract higher ranks of spirit souls.

Spirit souls actually place their complete cultivation as spirit rings that take up space on their contracted soul master. As a result, if the spirit soul voluntarily leaves, the contracted soul master permanently loses those rings.

Once bound, spirit souls merge their bloodlines into their contracted soul master and allow physical improvement. If their bloodline or compatibility is high, the bloodlines can possibly affect the soul master's martial soul and evolve them, awakening it. The bloodlines of the spirit souls also attain counter-resonance from the soul master's rising cultivation rank and the martial soul evolution, allowing the improvement of their bloodlines and their spirit beast existence to a higher quality.

The three founders of spirit souls are:

1. Electrolux - Created the foundation technique, resulting in the Snow Empress as the first spirit soul.

2. Huo Yuhao - Elux's disciple who refined and established a general purpose form of the foundation technique under Di Tian's supervision, then with Di Tian's spirit beasts support, created the Spirit Pagoda.

3. Di Tian - Provided insight and perspective of spirit beasts, involved in creating the general purpose form of the foundation technique, he also participated in helping Huo Yuhao create the contract technique because of his higher knowledge as an ancient being.

Original of Spirit Souls: The original intent for founding spirit souls was to make soul masters completely dependent on spirit beasts, for example, a ten thousand years soul beast can provide maximum of 4 Spirit rings, saving time and effort in cultivation while promoting communion between spirit beast and soul master. With this subordination to soul beasts, soul beasts would have been held higher as nobility in soul master society.

However, humanity's greed for power and dominance without the presence of the Douluo Divine Realm since Soul Land 2.5 induced the bloody path of artificial spirit souls.

Artificial Spirit Souls: Artificial Spirit Souls are still reliant on the genes of the Soul Beast they were created from. As a result of the gradual extinction of Spirit Beasts, Soul Beast genes had also unceasingly depleted. The researchers of the Spirit Pagoda had tried many times to use non-Soul Beast genes to create a Spirit Soul and see if the result was acceptable. The experiment was a success, but the fact was, the Spirit Souls made from those genes were pitifully weak. Basically, no one would be willing to buy them. Spirit Souls could take on the form of non-living objects, like a piece of metal or a hammer.

When a spirit soul is being manufactured, it won't necessarily succeed every single time. Sometimes, defective ones may appear. The defectives ones are also very expensive to manufacture and they can also be fused with too. Low level spirit souls (before reaching 10,000 years) do not have any sort of intelligence.

Once a soul master gets a spirit soul, they have 24 hours to absorb it, otherwise it will die.

The more powerful a spirit soul was, the more intelligent it would be. A spirit soul above the purple rank was even capable of communicating with its host. Legends say that a spirit soul that surpassed that rank could even help the host in battle.

Spirit Soul Acquisition: There are four ways of obtaining Spirit Souls since Soul Land III:

1. Geniuses with an exceedingly fast cultivation speed can obtain the first Spirit Soul free of charge from Spirit Pagoda.

2. Ordinary individuals can purchase a Spirit Soul for a fee proportional to the Spirit Soul's age.

3. Individuals with no background and is dubbed as an orphan but awakened a Innate Full Soul Power with a high tier martial soul can get the first Spirit Soul free of charge from Spirit Pagoda.

4. Make a contract with a spirit beast with mutual agreement.

The price of a 10 years Spirit Soul is 70,000 coins and 100 years Spirit Souls cost 1 million coins. There are also random Spirit Souls that cost 30,000 coins. You can try your luck in a lottery to get a 10-year spirit soul, or a 100 year Spirit Soul, for a certain price. There's a very high chance that the Spirit Soul gotten won't be suitable for the user's Spirit. It's also possible to obtain a defective Spirit Soul.

In battle, Spirit Souls could appear and those who have more than 100 years can help the soul master in combat with unleashing a spirit skill or other abilities.

Rank of Spirit Souls: The various ranks of Spirit Souls can bestow a Spirit Master with one or more Spirit Rings:

•+10 years Spirit Soul: Can bestow maximum one White Spirit Ring.

•+100 years Spirit Soul: Can bestow maximum two Yellow Spirit Rings.

•+1000 years Spirit Soul: Can bestow maximum three Purple Spirit Rings.

•+10,000 years Spirit Soul: Can bestow maximum four Black Spirit Rings.

•+100,000 years Spirit Soul: Can bestow maximum four to five Red Spirit Rings.

•+200,000 years Spirit Soul (Ferocious Beast): Can bestow maximum four to five Orange Spirit Rings.

•+1,000,000 years Spirit Soul (Divine Beast): Can bestow Gold Spirit Rings, with different tints depending on the contracted Divine Beast.

•Ranks: White → Yellow → Purple → Black → Red → Orange → Gold

•The higher the ranks, the greater the spirit soul's cultivation and solidified the spirit soul's form.

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Soul Ranks:

Rank 1 – 10: Soul Scholar (Trainee)

Rank 11 – 20: Soul Master (Rank 1 Soul Master)

Rank 21 – 30: Soul Grandmaster (Rank 2 Soul Master)

Rank 31 – 40: Soul Elder (Rank 3 Soul Master)

Rank 41 – 50: Soul Ancestor (Rank 4 Soul Master)

Rank 51 – 60: Soul King (Rank 5 Soul Master)

Rank 61 – 70: Soul Emperor (Rank 6 Soul Master)

Rank 71 – 80: Soul Sage [Saint] (Rank 7 Soul Master)

Rank 81 – 90: Soul Douluo (Rank 8 Soul Master)

Titled Douluo (Rank 9 Soul Master)

Rank 91 – 94: Average Titled Douluo

Rank 95 – 98: Super Douluo

Rank 99: Limit Douluo

Rank 100: God

God Officer(1 Divine Ring)

3rd Class God(3 Divine Rings)

2nd Class God(5 Divine Rings)

1st Class God(7 Divine Rings)

God King(9 Divine Rings)

Supreme God(12 Divine Rings)(Fused with a God Realm Divine Core)

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Spiritual Power Ranking:

Spirit Origin Realm – 1 - 99 – One White or One Yellow Soul Ring

Spirit Connection Realm – 100 - 499 – Two Yellow or One Purple Soul Ring

Spirit Sea Realm – 500 - 4,999 – Five Yellow or Three Purple or One Black Soul Ring

Spirit Abyss Realm – 5000 - 19,999 – 5 of Any Soul Ring (including Orange Gold)

Spirit Domain Realm – 20,000 - 49,999 – Unknown

Divine Origin Realm – 50,000 - 100,000+ – Unknown

God-King Realm – Unknown – Unknown

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Spirit Rings:

Spirit Rings are usually divided into categories based on their age.

White: 10 Year Spirit Ring

Yellow: 100 Year Spirit Ring

Purple: 1,000 Year Spirit Ring

Black: 10,000 Year Spirit Ring

Red: 100,000 Year Spirit Ring

Gold: 1,000,000 Year Spirit Ring

However, in the case of million-year-old spirit rings, it may appear in different colours depending on the attribute.

Optimal Spirit Rings:

1st Spirit Ring: Less than 423 years old Spirit

2nd Spirit Ring: Less than 764 years old Spirit Beast

3rd Spirit Ring: Between 1,300 ~ 1,800 years old Spirit Beast

4th Spirit Ring: Between 3,000 ~ 5,000 years old Spirit Beast

5th Spirit Ring: Around 12,000 years old Spirit Beast

6th Spirit Ring: Less than 20,000 years old Spirit Beast

7th Spirit Ring: Between 30,000 ~ 50,000 years old Spirit Beast

8th Spirit Ring: Between 50,000 ~ 100,000 years old Spirit Beast

9th Spirit Ring: More than 100,000 years old Spirit Beast

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Twin Spirits:

During the Spirit Awakening Ceremony, those who have two Spirit Essences are known as having Twin Spirits.

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Innate Full Spirit Power:

During the Spirit Awakening Ceremony, those who have already reached Rank 10 or even higher in Spirit Power are known as having Innate Full Spirit Power. Can be used as a gauge of how talented a spirit master is for combat cultivation.

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Soul Bones:

Soul Bones are the bones which are left following the death of a Soul Beast. The chances of a Soul Beast dropping a Soul Bone is extremely rare. But the possibility of dropping a Soul Bone does increase if the Soul Beast feels huge amounts of resentment before getting killed, dies willingly or if the Spirit Beast are grateful for their death.

Soul Bones are considered as extremely important, as much as Soul Rings, as they provide new abilities to the wielder. A person can use 6 Soul Bones on 6 parts of the body, which cannot be overlapped. According to their importance they are:

•Torso Bone

•Skull Bone

•Left Arm Bone

•Right Arm Bone

•Left Leg Bone

•Right Leg Bone

A Soul Bone cannot be removed from a person unless they are killed or amputated.

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Spirit Domain:

A domain is a large-area ability centred on the Spirit Master using it. It provides effects based on what type of domain it is, mainly increasing the strength of the user and decreasing the strength of any opponents within range. Domains are extremely rare amongst Spirit Masters, Even among Titled Douluo. 100,000 Year Spirit Beasts all seem to have innate domains.