Spirit Ring

Biodata

Feature	Details
Name	Spirit Ring
Alias(es)	Soul Ring
Original Name	魂环
First Appearance	7

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
First Spirit Ring	8	A yellow ring from a Saber-Toothed Beast over 400 years old. It strengthens Chen Yuan’s sword body and raises its attack power by 40%.
Second Spirit Ring	14	A purple 1,500-year Great Horned Bull ring, absorbed at roughly twice the ordinary second-ring limit. It grants Boiling Killing Intent.
Third Spirit Ring	19 20	A purple 5,000-year Golden Feather Divine Eagle ring. It grants Sword Wings Soar and produces the Golden Feathered Wings External Soul Bone.
Fourth Spirit Ring	68	A black 18,000-year Black Dragon ring. It grants Sword Qi Dragon Transformation, imbuing sword qi with the dragon’s corrosive and annihilating darkness attribute.
Fifth Spirit Ring	103	A black 50,000-year Dark Demon Evil God Tiger ring. It increases sword qi by 150% and grants Sword Moves the Nine Heavens, which commands wind and thunder over an area.
Sixth Spirit Ring	135 156	A nearly 90,000-year black-and-red ring. Its energy pushes Chen Yuan through the Rank 60 bottleneck; it is later refined into the Seven Kill Sword.
Seventh Spirit Ring	149 156	A 400,000-year Ferocious Beast-level ring from the Blood Red Nine-Headed Bat King, marked by Blood Demon Markings. It unlocks Seven Kill True Body with 700% amplification to attributes and Soul Skills.
Eighth Spirit Ring	172	A 700,000-year God-Given Ferocious Beast-level ring with seven golden markings. It grants Soul-Chasing Spirit-Snatching and Blade of Annihilation.
Ninth Spirit Ring	233	A Million Year ring contributed by the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King. After Chen Yuan’s Top-Ranked One Trial reward, it evolves into a dark crimson-gold God-level Soul Ring.

Formation and Absorption

Spirit Rings ordinarily form when a Spirit Beast dies: its remaining energy leaves the corpse as pale currents and condenses into a ring. The newly formed ring may be yellow, purple, black, red, or possess more unusual manifestations depending on its quality. 7 9 68 149

To absorb a ring, a Spirit Master summons their Martial Soul and draws the ring toward it. The ring merges into the Martial Soul, after which its energy enters the user’s body to be refined into Soul Power and a Soul Skill. 7 9 20

• Absorption can violently damage the user’s meridians, organs, limbs, and bones when the ring’s energy exceeds their tolerance. 8 20 68
• High-level rings can contain a Spirit Beast’s lingering resentment or remnant soul, which may resist the absorption process. 68 183
• Completion may take hours or days; Chen Yuan required nearly twelve hours for his 50,000-year Fifth Ring and seven days for his 700,000-year Eighth Ring. 103 172
• A successfully absorbed ring becomes part of the Spirit Master’s permanent ring configuration and can be summoned alongside their Martial Soul. 8 68 185

Compatibility and Limits

A ring must suit both the user’s cultivation rank and physical condition. Chen Xin considers a roughly 300-year ring optimal for most Rank 10 Spirit Masters, while a support Martial Soul provides less bodily reinforcement than a combat Martial Soul. 6

• The stated conventional limit for a Second Spirit Ring is 760 years; Chen Yuan breaks this standard by absorbing a 1,500-year ring after extensive physical training and consuming Whale Gel. 14
• Greater physique, Soul Power, soul strength, Immortal Herbs, Soul Bones, Domains, and Soul Cores can increase a Spirit Master’s absorption capacity. 68 100 135 172
• High-age rings provide correspondingly greater gains, but taking a ring beyond one’s limits can cause the body to rupture under its energy. 8 149
• Compatibility matters alongside age: Chen Yuan specifically seeks a Black Dragon ring because its breath and darkness attribute complement the Seven Kill Sword’s sword qi. 67 68

Documented Ring Manifestations

Appearance	Documented examples	Notes
Yellow	Saber-Toothed Beast and Great Strength Gorilla rings 8 9	Used as first rings by Chen Yuan and Ning Rongrong.
Purple	1,500-year Great Horned Bull and 5,000-year Golden Feather Divine Eagle rings 14 19	Chen Yuan’s Second and Third Rings.
Black	18,000-year Black Dragon and 85,000-year Blue Silver King rings 68 219	Associated with Ten Thousand Year-level Spirit Beasts in these instances.
Black with red tint	Nearly 90,000-year Sixth Ring 135	Its pressure makes the surrounding air feel dense and viscous.
Blood-red	Hundred Thousand Year Evil Orca King and Blood Red Nine-Headed Bat King rings 149 185	The Bat King’s ring also bears Blood Demon Markings.
Blood-red with golden markings	700,000-year God-Given Ring 172	Seven golden markings identify its Ferocious Beast-level quality.
Blue-gold	Dugu Yan’s divine ring and Chen Yuan’s God-level Ninth Ring 233	Represents genuine god-level power rather than merely accumulated cultivation.

Special Types

God-Given Soul Rings

God-Given Soul Rings are bestowed by Bo Saixi to trial participants who reach a cultivation bottleneck on Sea God Island. Unlike ordinary rings, they do not require hunting a Spirit Beast. 171 172

• Their golden energy rises gradually rather than erupting all at once, allowing the recipient to adapt while enduring increasing pressure. 171 172
• They can produce the Spirit Ring best suited to the user’s body and can be pushed toward the recipient’s physical limit. 171 225
• Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing obtain Sixth Rings of nearly 40,000 years through this method. 171
• Chen Yuan pushes his God-Given Eighth Ring to 700,000 years, while Dugu Yan obtains a 70,000-year Seventh Ring. 172

Ferocious Beast-Level Spirit Rings

Ferocious Beast-level rings possess distinctive markings and contain power far beyond ordinary high-age rings. The Blood Red Nine-Headed Bat King’s blood-red ring bears Blood Demon Markings, while Chen Yuan’s Eighth Ring displays seven golden markings. 149 172

• The Bat King’s ring is formed through the power it eroded from Tang Chen, explaining why its cultivation is measured in several hundred thousand years despite the beast’s inability to display equivalent strength in battle. 149
• Chen Yuan’s Seventh Ring is refined as a sacrifice that unlocks the Seven Kill Sword’s Martial Soul Avatar rather than directly supplying a unique offensive Soul Skill. 149
• Its absorption further strengthens Chen Yuan’s Wind and Thunder Wings, eventually raising their speed amplification to 600%. 149

God-level Soul Rings

A God-level Soul Ring differs from a Million Year Soul Ring in quality rather than age alone. A Million Year ring contains one million years of accumulated energy, while a God-level ring has undergone a qualitative transformation and contains genuine divine power. 233

Chen Yuan’s Ninth Ring becomes God-level after the reward for completing his Top-Ranked One Trial, which increases the cultivation of all nine of his rings by 50,000 years. 233

Ring Refinement

The Chen Clan’s Refining Rings technique suppresses a Spirit Ring’s energy and permanently incorporates it into a Martial Soul. Unlike Ring Detonation, which releases a ring’s power explosively and causes severe backlash, refinement produces stable power without the same aftereffects. 47

• The technique requires overwhelming Soul Power to solidify an energy-form ring, melt it into liquid energy, and fuse it into the Martial Soul. 155 173
• A refined ring appears on Chen Yuan’s Seven Kill Sword as a five-pointed star matching the ring’s color. 155 156
• Chen Yuan refines his first seven rings into the Seven Kill Sword, raising the weapon’s accumulated cultivation to 560,000 years. 156
• Refining the 700,000-year Eighth Ring raises the Martial Soul’s total cultivation to one million years and transforms the Seven Kill Sword into the Seven Kill Divine Sword. 173
• After all of Chen Yuan’s rings are tempered into his Martial Soul, the Seven Kill Divine Sword retains one million years of cultivation even without activating Soul Skills. 184

Relationship with Soul Bones

Spirit Rings and Soul Bones may originate from the same Spirit Beast, but obtaining one does not automatically guarantee the other.

• Chen Yuan receives the Golden Feathered Wings External Soul Bone while absorbing the Golden Feather Divine Eagle’s Third Ring; unlike ordinary Soul Bones, this External Soul Bone can evolve with its owner. 20
• Chen Yuan destroys the Man Faced Demon Spider’s unused Spirit Ring to force the corpse’s remaining energy to condense into the Eight Spider Lances. 37
• Absorbing a Spirit Beast’s ring and matching Soul Bone together can maximize their effects; Dugu Yan’s Evil Orca King Left Leg Bone merges especially smoothly because she has already absorbed the Evil Orca King’s ring. 185