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Biodata
| Feature | Details |
|---|---|
| Name | Soul Ring (魂环) |
| Occupation/Role | Source of Soul Skills and a core component of Soul Master cultivation; can be naturally absorbed, received through sacrifice, or created through Xu Xiao's Spirit Pagoda. |
| Status | Active |
| First Appearance | Chapter 1 |
Power Progression
| Stage / Realm / Level | Chapter | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 600-year yellow first Soul Ring | 3 | Xu Xiao absorbs the Wild Fallen Earth Python's Soul Ring, advancing from level 10 to level 14. |
| 6,000-year bestowed first Soul Ring | 4 | Xu Xiao grants Yue Guan a perfectly suited first ring through Soul Bestowal; the tenfold bestowal principle is later confirmed. |
| 4,500-year purple second Soul Ring | 21 | Xu Xiao absorbs a black-and-white tiger's ring, reaching level 29. |
| 45,000-year bestowed second Soul Ring | 22 | Yue Guan receives a second Soul Ring and reaches level 24. |
| 100,000-year bestowed third Soul Ring | 60 | Ling Yuan receives a crimson third ring, gaining an offensive and a defensive Soul Skill. |
| 600,000-year self-bestowed fourth Soul Ring | 116 | Xu Xiao uses his fourth Soul Skill, Soul Bestowal, on himself; the ring contains separate ice- and fire-based skills. |
| 1,000,000-year self-bestowed fifth Soul Ring | 116 | Xu Xiao forms a platinum-white fifth ring and gains the ice-based Cold Sky Ice Dragon—Angry Dragon Limit Fist. |
| 260,000-year sixth Soul Ring | 152 | A Soul Beast sacrifice forms Xu Xiao's sixth ring and raises him from level 59 to level 64. |
| 1,000,000-year mutated seventh Soul Ring | 188 | The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King's nearly million-year ring mutates into a genuine million-year ring during absorption. |
| 10,000,000-year gray eighth Soul Ring | 189 | Xu Xiao uses Eighth Soul Skill: Soul Bestowal to amplify the mutated million-year foundation tenfold; the resulting ring is gray rather than platinum-white. |
Nature and Acquisition
A Soul Ring is formed from a Soul Beast's remaining energy after its death and can be absorbed by a Soul Master to provide a Soul Skill. Xu Xiao's first 600-year ring came from the Wild Fallen Earth Python and raised his Soul Power from level 10 to level 14. 3
Natural absorption and Soul Beast sacrifice can provide Soul Power, while rings created through Soul Bestowal do not. A bestowed ring instead breaks the recipient's current bottleneck, allowing Soul Power they had already accumulated through cultivation or other resources to manifest. 4 85 109
A Soul Beast that sacrifices itself can preserve its soul within Xu Xiao's sea of consciousness. Xu Xiao intends to reconstruct bodies for such souls after attaining godhood. 105 108
Documented Ring Colors
| Color | Documented age or condition | Example |
|---|---|---|
| Yellow | 600 years | Xu Xiao's first Soul Ring from the Wild Fallen Earth Python. 3 |
| Purple | Thousand-year to 6,000-year range | Gui Mei's thousand-year first ring and Yue Guan's 6,000-year first ring. 4 13 |
| Black | Ten Thousand Years or higher | Dugu Bo's Ten Thousand Year second Soul Ring. 56 |
| Crimson / red | Hundred Thousand Years | Ling Yuan's bestowed third Soul Ring. 60 |
| Platinum-white | Million Years | Xu Xiao's fifth Soul Ring; rings exceeding one million years are identified as platinum-white. 116 243 |
| Gray | Ten Million Years; special and unexplained | Xu Xiao's eighth Soul Ring. Its uniqueness and exact cause remain uncertain. 189 190 |
Soul Bestowal
Ring Creation and Compatibility
Soul Bestowal is the Spirit Pagoda's recurring Soul Skill. It creates a Soul Ring and Soul Skill tailored to the recipient's Martial Soul and attributes. 4 18
- Xu Xiao can bestow rings upon other people and, after discovering the method, upon his own Dragon Body Martial Soul. 18 34
- The created ring is ten times the age of Xu Xiao's corresponding foundation ring. A 600-year foundation produced a 6,000-year ring for Yue Guan, while a million-year foundation later produced a ten-million-year ring for Xu Xiao. 15 92 189
- The ability can be used for every Soul Ring position rather than only a recipient's first ring. 34
- A Hundred Thousand Year bestowed ring may grant two Soul Skills, as demonstrated by Ling Yuan's third ring. 60
- Although a million-year ring could theoretically contain four skills, Xu Xiao's Martial Soul can bestow only two. 60
Limitations
- Bestowed rings contain no additional Soul Power, forcing recipients to rely on cultivation, Immortal Herbs, sacrifices, or other resources for advancement. 2 85 116
- This limitation slows the cultivation of Xu Xiao's companions despite the exceptional quality of their Soul Rings. 5 116
- The skill has a cooldown. It initially returned to a ninety-day cooldown after use, though obtaining additional Soul Rings reduced the cooldown increase from ninety days to forty-five days. 13 16
- High-age Soul Skills consume extreme amounts of Soul Power. Xu Xiao can only use his million-year fifth Soul Skills four times before exhausting himself. 116
- His ten-million-year eighth Soul Ring provides four skills that can fuse into one attack, but even a single skill can only be used once at his current strength; the fused attack requires more Soul Cores or far higher cultivation. 190
Spirit Ascension Platform
The Spirit Ascension Platform is a space unlocked within the Spirit Pagoda after Xu Xiao refines Aromatic Silk Beauty. It allows combat-based Soul Ring age enhancement. 15
- Each floor is formed from the memories of a Soul Beast whose ring Xu Xiao possesses; its environment, Soul Beasts, pain, and apparent death are realistic. 16 22
- Death within the platform ejects the participant rather than killing them. 16
- The platform's enhancement ceiling is tied to Xu Xiao's own corresponding Soul Ring. When his first ring was 600 years old, rings could only be raised to 6,000 years. 15
- Yue Guan and Gui Mei could not improve their first rings because they had already been bestowed at the 6,000-year limit. 15
- Enhancing an existing ring increases its original Soul Skill's power but does not create an additional skill. 117
- The platform's memory-imprint function may preserve the experiences of powerful Soul Beasts, potentially allowing Xu Xiao to recreate locations, historical events, and even knowledge connected to the God Realm War. 22 91 92
Notable Recipients
| Recipient | Bestowed Soul Ring | Result |
|---|---|---|
| Yue Guan | 6,000-year first ring | Reached level 12 and gained Chrysanthemum Cry Explosion. 4 |
| Gui Mei | Thousand-year first ring | Broke through level 10 and reached level 12. 13 |
| Dugu Bo | Ten Thousand Year second ring | Advanced from level 20 to level 27. 56 |
| Ling Yuan | Hundred Thousand Year third ring | Gained Ten Thousand Fires Burn the Heavens and Holy Fire Heaven-Severing Radiance. 60 |
| Chen Xin | 600,000-year Soul Ring | Advanced from level 41 to the level-50 bottleneck. 85 |
| Snow Empress | Thousand-year first ring | Received a compatible purple ring after transforming into human form. 109 |
| Bibi Dong | Thousand-year first ring | Learns of Soul Bestowal after Xu Xiao directly creates her first ring. 205 |
| Ye Qing | Hundred Thousand Year third ring | Receives a crimson third ring through Soul Bestowal. 205 |
Significance to Soul Beasts
Soul Bestowal can eliminate the need for humans to hunt Soul Beasts solely to obtain Soul Rings. The Blue Silver Emperor regards it as a potential path to the Soul Beast clan's revival and prosperity. 34
Xu Xiao uses this possibility as the foundation for cooperation with the Silver Dragon King and Di Tian. In exchange for Soul Beast support and memory imprints, he offers a future in which Soul Beasts no longer need to be sacrificed for human cultivation. 91 92
The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King's ring demonstrates the system's greatest documented evolution: its original 990,000-year foundation was raised to one million years by the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings' energy, then amplified tenfold into Xu Xiao's gray ten-million-year eighth Soul Ring. 188 200
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