Soul Guardian

*Ward your Dao with an eternal protector.*

## Summary

Soul Guardian is one of the fourteen "top-quality" E-Grade skills available on the second floor of the Towers of Myriad Dao, and one of the six related to one of the base attributes. It is an Wisdom-based skill that creates an avatar that acts as a dummy to take mental attacks. It was the last skill **Zac** learned in the **Dao Repository** when he first opened the second floor.

## Acquisition

* Zac quickly activated [Soul Guardian], the sixth and final skill he’d learned in the Dao Repository. **Book 7, Chapter 51**

## Skill Location

**Forehead**

* The skill had taken the spot of **[Mental Fortress]** ... **Book 7, Chapter 51**

## Skill Window

[E] Soul Guardian - Proficiency: Middle. Ward your Dao with an eternal protector. **Discord**

## Early Proficiency

* A small golden avatar appeared above the soul in his mind as an inscrutable pattern appeared on his forehead. ... and acted as a dummy to take on all kinds of mental attacks. **Book 7, Chapter 51**

## Middle/Late/Peak Proficiency

* Skill shown as middle proficiency in **Discord** posting by author on 10 September 2021 when chapters set in the Twilight Ascent were being posted on Patreon.
* By this point, almost all of his skills were already pushed to E-grade Peak Mastery, **Chapter 978**
* No other textual information.

## Evolution to D-Grade

* Neither his overwhelmingly powerful soul nor recently upgraded Soul Defense skill seemed to be of any use against the mysterious threat. In other words, it wasn't a mental attack, but neither was it strictly a curse. Chapter **1,129**

## Commentary

* Six of the fourteen skills were heavily related to the six base attributes, without possessing a connection to a specific Dao. They also seemed to follow the concept of greatness from simplicity, which not only made them powerful but also easy to fuse with other skills down the line. **Book 6, Chapter 70**
* His raw defenses were most likely inferior compared to when he’d used **[Soul Guardian]** on his old soul, but that was to be expected from an E-grade Mental Defense Skill. **Book 7, Chapter 70**
* It turned out that mental defensive skills and similar items didn’t work in this trial, which hadn’t been mentioned in the information missive at all. **Book 7, Chapter 71**
* A trial that blocked mental defense skills would test one’s soul, but also one’s willpower and focus. **Book 7, Chapter 74**
* He still couldn’t completely block out the illusion even with his defenses, but he could still somewhat discern the truth like a superimposed reality. ... “Oh! What powerful mental defenses! The contestant can even withstand a five-layered mental attack!” the announcer screamed, **Book 7, Chapter 78**
* The shard pushed straight into his soul aperture before Zac had a chance to re-form his cage, completely ignoring the defenses of **[Soul Guardian]**. **Book 8, Page 620**
* The situation had become untenable for the ghosts, and an infuriated shriek rippled through the Twilight Harbor. Zac felt his mind blur as his soul was covered in cracks, but the churning oceans in his Soul Aperture along with **[Soul Guardian]** thankfully absorbed enough of the wail for his soul to remain intact. **Chapter 786**
* Zac felt confident that **[Soul Guardian]** was more than enough at this point, but he had a talisman ready just in case. **Chapter 871**
* **[Soul Guardian]** was already running at maximum capacity, and Zac even activated **[Empyrean Aegis]** as a precaution. **Chapter 941**