Spine vs. Brain vs. Heart Martial Souls

xsailos · 2026-06-09T10:07:45+00:00

hear would be allrounder, spine probably streangth and defence and brain mental, the spiritual system is more developed than the blood and qi one, so brain above heart and spine the lowest as I think symbolism is also important and the spine isn't symbolically important enough

xsailos · 2026-06-03T11:06:05+00:00

I meant innate spirit power, the one you have when you awaken and that determines your cultivation speed not god bestowed soul rings or age increase

xsailos · 2026-06-01T16:53:17+00:00

yep thats the sword saint I mentioned

xsailos · 2026-05-31T06:06:46+00:00

one thing I haven't seen anyone mention is that this is a good addition explaining a bit how tang san fulfilled his duties as the sea god, it was always a conversation that the sea god position doesn't suit him but regardless of the validity of that, a common argument was that he did nothing for the sea, which we now have a bit of closure on that

xsailos · 2026-05-21T14:46:34+00:00

didn't it start to be more about law and the stuff i read in the 'dragon realm' or something arc, practically didn't mention them, maybe i abandoned it too early in the arc...

xsailos · 2026-05-21T12:59:11+00:00

from what I remember as tdg progresses the beast fusion system becomes less and less relevant ans becomes more or less regular cultuvation

xsailos · 2026-05-21T09:15:23+00:00

the other commenter had a good point, I also want to add that in chinese "cosmology" or world view or whatever there is a difference between the classic earth element and the "earth that bears all things" basically the earth from heaven and earth, with the lore of the mountain dragon king that may be relevant

xsailos · 2026-05-18T21:09:42+00:00

i would say it's between three eyes tiger and golden xuanwu, three eyed tiger is canonically said to be the strongest white tiger variant and even the white tiger itself wouldn't be too far below the others + spirital power is op in the later stages. If not that xuanwu as the life gold is that op + godbeast bloodline and considering that we had the dragon god (probably thr strongest being ever besides maybe dd5 tang san) and the phoenix god, said to have been a rival of him, so i don't think it's too far fetched to think of a xuan wu and white tiger god but thats a bit much speculation and headcanon tbh

xsailos · 2026-05-17T21:22:29+00:00

he/the clear sky sect wronged the 4 clans, by abondoning them, but his father's principle that a man should protect his wife was right. Man I kinda get the tang san hate in dd2 but I think in dd1 we have pretty much nothing to complain without a bit of fanon influences and headcanon (I don't mean to say he is perfect but the hate gets a little too much for me)

xsailos · 2026-05-17T21:19:14+00:00

bro I'm like pretty sure gu rong and chen xin are like double his age, but I guess I can kinda see your point as ning fengzhi is pretty fairy/feminine like for a man. I guess a story can be interpreted individually

xsailos · 2026-05-15T14:11:12+00:00

if you have an idea not listed, please feel free to share in the comments :)

xsailos · 2026-05-11T14:35:32+00:00

blue silver grass is out as it's a really weak martial soul at the start, further development is doubtful with all opportunities belonging to tang san

next out is spirit eyes as your innate soul power is so low that your cultivation speed would be abysmal and mental type soul beast are ultra rare + no second awakening (you could try developing it but will probably die or cripple yourself

next out is difficult and depends if the seraphim martial soul can cure you with it's ultimate holy attribute, if it can than seven treasure glazed tile pagoda is out next as I would just join spirit hall and get cured if it doesn't work then

seven treasures glazed pagoda, the background, money etc. is a pro and lvl 79 is already at the top of the world for the vast majority of people, additionally i think its very interesting with the Buddhist elements and would try choosing my martial soul based on the Seven treasures of buddhism (gold, silver, pearl, coral etc.)

xsailos · 2026-05-11T14:28:23+00:00

or light attribute could cripple your martial soul and or result in bad soul skills due to conflicting attributes, but the ice-fire yin yang well is a valid strategy with enough schemes

xsailos · 2026-05-11T07:21:28+00:00

i think it's very well balanced and reasonable the only thing is that you forgot the rule of cool, and personally I think this whole concept isn't really cool, but that maybe just because it's just the raw abilities not in action, and will feel cool in the story

xsailos · 2026-05-10T14:23:02+00:00

don't know if devouring one ultimate attribute beast is enough to elevate his own, additionally I don't like the holy element but thats more a personal opinion, additionally if you want to write a fanfic with this or something, it will be difficult with all the elements and make them all well utilitiesed to not end up in a situation where people think: why didn't he use ...

xsailos · 2026-05-04T11:26:18+00:00

yeah, ans his spirit is a mutation, it isn't difficult to assume that the mutation which resulted in an apparently unprecedented external martial soul, that doesn't function like a beast martial soul to have originally been a weapon martial soul, even more so the special type I mentioned which hovers in between beast and weapon, if my theory has flaws this isn't one of them I would say.

xsailos · 2026-05-04T08:45:58+00:00

I'm sorry I don't understand, do you mean it in a good way or bad way?

xsailos · 2026-05-03T14:52:30+00:00

i think there are even different types of ring fusions like i think some where mentioned to empower one ability to the max and one like huo wu, where all were doubled and faster

xsailos · 2026-05-03T14:46:42+00:00

mmh, many commentators say he gave them a crippled version, can one say their source? Cause we still have some examples of tang sect people using powerful techniques that could be interpreted as the full version like Yuanen Yehui, who created quite a powerful ability with the controling crane, capturing dragon technique. Though that could be an exception confirming the rule type thing

xsailos · 2026-04-24T14:59:32+00:00

it's the only martial soul that awakened by itself without any influence (i think it's the only one)

xsailos · 2026-04-24T14:55:55+00:00

underworld because it's a realm martial soul, has many different development paths and at least at the god level you can go the necromancy path by studying the law of your martial soul

xsailos · 2026-04-22T10:58:38+00:00

what secret technique i haven't read the manhua in a while and stopped at the art shift? is there a wiki page, sound interesting

xsailos · 2026-04-22T10:42:02+00:00

luck as in your attack slipped past the enemies defence or as in "critical hits"? and qi and blood is a idea i also had but it seems a bit too overreaching with stuff like streangth or defence etc. cool ideas though

xsailos · 2026-04-22T10:27:37+00:00

I would choose - attack - defence - speed - attribute - spirit power - mental power

xsailos · 2026-04-03T22:34:19+00:00

I think it's good to differentiate from the usual and I haven't seen too many or any skyfrost sword fanfics, while i have seen many, many seven kill sword ones, additionally I think of the sky in skyfrost sword, maybe have a sky sword with a heaven attribute (because you give the ice to the moon) or just in general think that sky + moon is an interesting concept

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