Soul Ring

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Soul Ring
Alias(es)	魂环
Occupation/Role	Cultivation resource bound to a Soul Master's Martial Soul; can grant Soul Skills and raise Soul Power. 3 16
First Appearance	A yellow Soul Ring emerges after Shiyu kills the Sky Soaring Beast. 3

Power Progression

Documented progression of the Soul Rings attached to Shiyu's Space Martial Soul.

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
First Soul Ring — near 400 years	3	Absorbed from a Space-attribute Sky Soaring Beast. Its Soul Skill is Aeronautics Technique, which enables flight and can affect the trajectories of targets or objects. 16
Second Soul Ring — thousand-year	28	Shiyu absorbs a thousand-year ring; its skill, Swap, can exchange Shiyu's position with a chosen target. 38 64
Third Soul Ring — over 6,000 years	91	Obtained from a Void Mantis. The age gap from his prior ring is far beyond the normal increase for a third ring, making absorption exceptionally dangerous. 91
Fourth Soul Ring — 20,000 years	196	Absorbed from a Territorial Mystic Tortoise after seven hours. Its associated Domain can create a spatial cage and was used to trap the Time-Space Butterfly. 196 259
Fifth Soul Ring — over 50,000 years	291	Evolved from a Space-attribute Soul Spirit. Its formation immediately triggers another passage through the Space-Time Tunnel. 291
Sixth Soul Ring — 95,000 years	347	Absorbed from the Void King Snake with King Kong's protection. Shiyu's body repeatedly cracks and rapidly heals during the process. 347
Seventh Soul Ring — 500,000 years	400	Created through a God-Bestowed Soul Ring. It grants Shiyu a Martial Soul Avatar and greatly expands his spatial perception and control. 400

Formation and Absorption

A Soul Ring can emerge after a Soul Beast is killed. Shiyu's first ring appears as a yellow ring after he kills the critically injured Sky Soaring Beast, while Tang San obtains a purple ring after killing a Man Faced Demon Spider. 3 5

• The absorber guides the ring's energy into their Martial Soul while seated in meditation. 3
• A Soul Ring normally must be absorbed where it appears; moving one requires a specialized Soul Tool. 259
• In Shiyu's era, a Soul Ring is normally restricted to the person who killed the Soul Beast, though converting it into a Soul Spirit can bypass that limitation. 410
• Unabsorbed rings dissipate after roughly one or two hours, although exceptionally powerful rings fade more slowly. 446
• Absorption can inflict swelling, tearing pain, internal injuries, and mental pressure when the ring exceeds the user's limits. 28 91 291
• Higher-ranked Soul Masters receive progressively smaller cultivation gains from rings of comparable age. 28

Lifespan and Color

Lifespan tier	Typical color	Documented example
Hundred-year	Yellow	Shiyu's first ring from the Sky Soaring Beast is yellow; he sought a ring close to 400 years old. 3
Thousand-year	Purple	The ring produced by the Man Faced Demon Spider is purple. 5
Ten-thousand-year	Black	The 20,000-year Territorial Mystic Tortoise ring is black. 196
Hundred-thousand-year	Red	Shiyu's seventh God-Bestowed ring becomes red upon reaching the hundred-thousand-year tier. 399
Near-million-year	Faint gold / gold with red traces	The Deep Sea Demon Whale King's nearly million-year ring is faint gold; a 999,999-year God-Bestowed ring appears gold with traces of red. 418 565
Million-year	Gray or special divine-grade manifestation	The Death God's gray tenth ring represents a million-year level and is distinct from an ordinary ten-thousand-year ring. 272

Soul Ring age can be increased after acquisition. Shiyu's Divine Trial rewards raise the ages of his existing rings by a combined ten thousand years, turning his first and second rings into ten-thousand-year rings. 290 Soul Spirits can also grow alongside their master; Shiyu's Dark Demon Evil God Tiger Soul Spirit rises from over 80,000 years to over 150,000 years within several months. 577

Attribute Compatibility

Soul Rings are most valuable when their source Soul Beast matches the user's Martial Soul or its attribute. A matching ring may provide a better skill, improve compatibility, encourage Martial Soul evolution, and increase the likelihood of a Soul Bone drop. 25

• Space attribute — Extremely rare and difficult to locate even through Shrek Academy. Shiyu consistently prioritizes Space-attribute Soul Beasts for his Space Martial Soul. 3 148
• Time attribute — Even rarer than Space-attribute Soul Beasts and described as scarcer than Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts. 148
• Mismatched attributes — A high-age ring can still be useful, but Shiyu declines several powerful rings when their attributes do not suit his Time or Space Martial Souls. 412 446 520
• Age limits — A user's physique, age, Soul Power, Soul Bones, and prior enhancement determine how much ring energy they can survive. 3 28 315

Types

Standard Soul Rings

Standard Soul Rings are produced by defeated Soul Beasts and generally supply power corresponding to the beast's age and attributes. Shiyu's Space-attribute rings come from the Sky Soaring Beast, Void Mantis, Territorial Mystic Tortoise, and Void King Snake. 3 91 196 347

Soul Spirit Rings

A Soul Spirit can provide multiple Soul Rings and continue evolving with its master, reducing the need to repeatedly hunt suitable Soul Beasts. 30 291

• Shiyu's fifty-thousand-year Space Soul Spirit produces his fifth ring. 291
• A Soul Spirit may be capable of providing several rings, but distributing its power across multiple rings can weaken each individual skill. 291 344
• Soul Spirit absorption places greater emphasis on resisting mental attacks than ordinary ring absorption. 291
• Stored Soul Rings and remnant souls can be converted into Soul Spirits through Spirit Pagoda technology. 462

God-Bestowed Soul Rings

God-Bestowed Soul Rings are divine rewards that generate a suitable ring based on the absorber's endurance. 288

• A Ten-Thousand-Year God-Bestowed Soul Ring grants the most suitable ring within the ten-thousand-year tier. 286 374
• A standard God-Bestowed Soul Ring can reach 999,999 years, but cannot naturally cross into the million-year tier. 288 546
• A God-tier God-Bestowed Soul Ring can surpass the million-year threshold. 288
• Shiyu uses a God-Bestowed Soul Ring to form his 500,000-year seventh Space ring. 399 400

Stored Soul Rings

Special Soul Tools can temporarily contain a Soul Ring and the corresponding Soul Beast's remnant soul. 411

• Storage allows a ring to be transported or preserved for later conversion into a Soul Spirit. 411 462
• Shiyu's storage tool can hold hundred-thousand-year rings, but a million-year ring would destroy it within approximately one day. 446
• Bibi Dong uses such a tool to store the Deep Sea Demon Whale King's ring until she can attempt absorption safely. 418

Known Soul Skills

• Aeronautics Technique — Shiyu's first Soul Skill. It enables rapid flight and can make opponents or objects rise, disrupting close-range and energy attacks by shifting their trajectories. 16
• Swap — Shiyu's second Soul Skill. It exchanges positions with a selected target, allowing him to displace allies or enemies from protected positions. 38 64
• Void Slash — Shiyu's third Soul Skill. It continually draws upon surrounding spatial power, allowing its strength to increase during an extended clash. 172
• Domain — Shiyu's fourth Soul Skill. It can confine a target in a compact spatial cage; he uses it to capture the Time-Space Butterfly in Outer Space. 259
• Martial Soul Avatar — Granted by Shiyu's seventh Space ring, marking a qualitative increase in his control and perception of space. 400

Connection to Time-Space Travel

Shiyu's Soul Rings are directly tied to his involuntary travels through time and space.

• Absorbing the first Space-attribute ring sends him ten thousand years into the past. 3
• After traveling between eras, Shiyu may be unable to manifest his rings even though he retains abilities derived from them. 31 38
• Absorbing the fifth Space ring from a Soul Spirit causes the Space-Time Tunnel to reappear immediately. 291
• Shiyu's first Time Martial Soul ring, obtained from the Time-Space Butterfly, distorts his perception of time during absorption. 259
• Once both Martial Souls possess seventh rings and their Martial Soul Avatars are activated together, their intertwined Time and Space powers form a black hole-like passage for controllable time-space travel. 582