Soul Ring

Biodata

Power Progression

Appearance

Soul Rings manifest as colored bands around a Soul Master’s body. Their color generally indicates their age and quality, although disguises, mutations, divine power, and Soul Spirit contracts can alter or conceal that appearance. 49 130 193

• White — the lowest recognized grade; Huo Yuhao uses white rings as a disguise through Simulation. 49 193
• Yellow — a standard low-level Soul Ring color. 129
• Purple — commonly associated with thousand-year Soul Rings. 129
• Black — associated with ten-thousand-year Soul Rings. 83 129
• Blood-red — the recognized color of a genuine hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring; Zhang Lexuan’s ring gives off a desolate, bloody, murderous aura. 130
• Fiery red — Ji Siyuan’s unique Fate Soul Ring is burning fiery red with traces of gold, rather than blood-red. 107 130
• Orange / orange-gold — exceptionally rare colors produced by powerful Soul Spirits, including the Snow Empress and Xiaobai. 254 274

Mechanics

Acquisition and absorption

A Soul Master ordinarily gains a new Soul Ring after every ten levels of Soul Power. Soul Rings are commonly obtained by killing a suitable Soul Beast and absorbing the ring it leaves behind. 28 107

• The Soul Master must generally deliver the killing blow before absorption, as Ji Siyuan does against the Earth King. 28
• Soul Beast age strongly affects a ring’s power and the difficulty of absorption. 28 85
• High-level Soul Beasts may leave behind a remnant soul that attacks within the absorber’s Sea of Consciousness. 206
• Physical strength, spiritual power, martial soul quality, external treasures, and divine power can raise a Soul Master’s effective absorption limit. 28 85 210
• The widely circulated first-ring limit of 432 years is explicitly challenged in Ji Siyuan’s case; he successfully absorbs a thousand-year first ring. 6

Soul Skills

Each Soul Ring can grant Soul Skills, with higher-quality or exceptional rings capable of granting more than one. 107 210

• Ji Siyuan’s fifth hundred-thousand-year ring grants Desolation Ash Lotus Life and Death and Heavenly Anomaly Heart-Burning Absolution. 210
• Huo Yutong’s fifth ring from the Soul Spirit Liya grants Mermaid Duet, which enhances spiritual Soul Skills, and Lament Echo, which converts single-target effects into group control. 193
• Huo Yutong’s sixth Spirit Eye ring grants Dirge-Soulshaking Cry, which can temporarily seal Soul Rings below hundred-thousand-year grade, and Mourning Heart Resonance: Life Beyond Dreams, an illusion-like mental skill. 259

Ring evolution and concealment

Soul Rings are not always permanently fixed at their original apparent age or color.

• Ji Siyuan’s divine power causes his first ring to reach five thousand years and his second ring to become black. 184
• Huo Yutong uses Simulation to conceal the true colors of her Soul Rings, making them appear white. 193
• Wang Dong’er’s first ring changes from yellow to purple after her Sea God trial rewards, though she publicly attributes the change to the Clear Sky Secret Method. 232
• Ji Siyuan’s fourth ring is visibly illusory while he remains below Level 40, because it was forcibly fixed rather than absorbed through the normal process. 107 112

Soul Spirit Method

The Soul Spirit Method allows a Soul Beast’s soul to become a Soul Spirit rather than being destroyed for a conventional ring. The Soul Spirit can then provide its contractor with Soul Rings. 184 186

• Ji Siyuan and Huo Yutong form a Soul Spirit Contract with Liya to save her from dissipation after the destruction of the Ten Thousand Souls Banner. 184
• Ten- and hundred-year Soul Spirits can provide two Soul Rings; thousand-year Soul Spirits can provide four or five; Soul Spirits of ten thousand years or above can provide nine. 186
• Liya, a hundred-thousand-year Soul Spirit, provides Huo Yutong’s fifth hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring. 193
• The method can produce extraordinary colors: the Snow Empress produces Ji Siyuan’s orange-gold ring, while Xiaobai produces Huo Yutong’s orange ring. 254 274

Exceptional Soul Rings

Fate Soul Ring

Ji Siyuan’s fourth ring is a unique Fate Soul Ring created when the Three-Eyed Golden Lion gathers the Star Dou Great Forest’s flames of fate around him. It is described as a return gift from Star Dou and the plane for the fortune Ji Siyuan brings them. 106 107

• It forms at Level 34, defying the rule that a new ring is gained only every ten levels. 107
• It is fiery red rather than blood-red, with a faint gold radiance beneath its surface. 107 130
• It does not originate from a slain Soul Beast. 112
• It activates and strengthens the Eye of Destiny. 107
• Its known skills include Fate Flame Revelation, which lets Ji Siyuan see a being’s lifetime fortune, and Fate Flame Scheduling, which transfers or rearranges fate flames. 107 140
• During the Soul Fight Tournament, its color causes widespread false assumptions that Ji Siyuan possesses a hundred-thousand-year fourth ring. 129 130

Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Rings

Hundred-thousand-year Soul Rings are blood-red and exceptionally rare. They are commonly associated with hundred-thousand-year Soul Bones and the potential to become a Super Douluo. 130 246

• Ji Siyuan’s fifth ring comes from the mutated Fire Evil Tyrant. 206 210
• Huo Yutong’s fifth ring is provided by Liya through the Soul Spirit Method. 193
• A true blood-red ring differs sharply from Ji Siyuan’s fiery-red Fate Soul Ring in both color and aura. 130
• A hundred-thousand-year ring may provide two Soul Skills. 210 259

Related Entities

• Soul Beast — the conventional source of Soul Rings; its age, attribute, and remnant soul affect the resulting ring and absorption risk. 28 85 206
• Soul Spirit — a contracted soul that survives by providing its master with Soul Rings. 184 186
• Soul Bone — a separate Soul Beast-derived treasure that can strengthen a Soul Master and may be associated with a hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring. 129 246
• Soul Core — solidified Soul Power required for advancement toward Titled Douluo; unlike a Soul Ring, it is formed by condensing Soul Power rather than absorbing a Soul Beast. 272 273