Soul Ring

Biodata

Power Progression

Acquisition and Selection

• A Soul Ring can manifest above a slain Soul Beast and be absorbed by a Soul Master; the Lion-Tiger Beast’s purple ring remained hovering after its death until Su Ge began absorption 19.
• Innate full Soul Power allows a person to immediately absorb a first Soul Ring and become a Soul Master, enabling them to claim a Spirit Hall stipend 8.
• Ring selection depends on more than age. Bloodline, martial-soul compatibility, and the Soul Beast’s combat traits are treated as major considerations 8 16.
• Su Ge rejected the Sharp Gold Tiger as a primary target despite its formidable offense because it was under 2,000 years old and had insufficient bloodline compatibility for the Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff 16.
• Higher-age rings carry greater risks, including the mental shock associated with Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Rings; Su Ge’s martial soul suppresses this backlash unusually effectively 25.
• Su Ge’s initial development plan was to stack enhancement-type Soul Skills before his seventh ring, then use later rings to compensate for weaknesses against specialized or rule-based abilities 2 3.
• Behemoth-blooded beasts, including the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear, and dragon-blooded beasts were among Su Ge’s preferred early sources because of their compatibility with the Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff 8.
• Hunting resources do not necessarily determine ring quality. Xiao Chenyu received a Ten-Year first ring despite access to sufficient resources for a Hundred-Year ring because his family chose conservative cultivation rather than the risks of stronger absorption 15.
• Su Ge attributed his ability to absorb a Thousand-Year first ring to both his martial soul’s suppression of Soul Beasts and the physical strength it granted him to withstand the ring’s energy 47.
• Physical capacity remains a restriction on absorption. After forming his Blood Essence Soul Core, Su Ge judged that Tang San’s rapidly forced cultivation had left his body unable to withstand another ring, explaining why his Blue Silver Grass sixth ring remained unabsorbed 129.
• By the Far North expedition, Su Ge considered martial-soul compatibility much less restrictive when selecting Soul Beasts aged 100,000 years or above 165.

Later-ring planning

• Su Ge initially prioritized a possible Hundred-Thousand-Year spatial-type beast for his sixth ring because it might provide movement or spatial support abilities. His alternatives were the Golden Tortoiseshell and the three Qianjun Ant Emperors, with the latter considered especially compatible 83 97.
• The seventh ring supplies the Martial Soul Avatar, and Su Ge regarded an older ring as preferable for maximizing that ability. He intended to choose nothing below 200,000 years and considered a Million-Year ring ideal, while acknowledging that absorbing one at that stage would be unrealistic without a willing sacrifice 97.
• Su Ge regarded the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King as a possible eighth- or ninth-ring target only after gaining sufficient strength. During his Far North expedition, he specifically planned to seek it for his ninth ring and began considering his eighth ring in advance 97 165.
• Su Ge and Deng Jilin traveled to the Far North to seek a suitable Hundred-Thousand-Year ring for Deng, treasures for increasing Su Ge’s existing ring ages, and a sufficiently powerful seventh ring as Su Ge approached Soul Saint. Su Ge’s seventh ring had not yet been acquired when these plans were stated 158.

Colours and Age Indicators

Soul Skill Inheritance

Skill inheritance

Absorbing a Soul Ring can pass on a Soul Beast’s defining traits as Soul Skills.

• The Lion-Tiger Beast’s combat-burst ability became Suanni Transformation, which increases all attributes by 300% until Soul Power is depleted 19.
• When enhanced by the Domination Domain, Suanni Transformation’s amplification reaches 450% 19.
• Sky-Ripping Claw converts attacks into percentage-based true damage, with effectiveness scaling against the target’s Soul Power 25.
• Heart absorbs surrounding Soul Power, vitality, and energy from enemy attacks, converting them into endurance 25.
• Steel continuously improves the user’s defense and body during combat, with a portion of the gains retained permanently afterward 25.
• At Level 44, Sky-Ripping Claw could give Su Ge’s attacks 50% proportional true damage against a Level 88 opponent. Against opponents below his own Soul Power Level, his attacks could deal 100% true damage 25.

Combined third and fourth Soul Skills

Heartsteel is the combined use of Heart and Steel, activating Su Ge’s third and fourth rings together. It supplies recovery while progressively strengthening his defense and physique during combat 65 150.

• Su Ge used Heartsteel alongside Suanni Transformation when fighting Dugu Bo 65.
• Heartsteel’s self-sustaining effect allows Su Ge to maintain enhancement skills whose consumption would ordinarily limit them to a single decisive attack 100.
• Su Ge regarded Heartsteel as one of his strongest resources for fighting opponents above his level, influencing his decision to prioritize enhancement of his third and fourth rings 108.

Fifth Soul Ring skill

• Evil God Domain was inherited from the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger’s ring 57.
• In the battle following the tournament, it provided a 50% increase to all attributes as part of Su Ge’s layered enhancements 150.
• The domain also participates in Su Ge’s devouring technique when used with the Radiant Nether Eight Wings, enabling energy to be redirected into ring enhancement 99 100.

Sixth Soul Ring skills

Su Ge’s two-hundred-thousand-year sixth ring granted two distinct abilities.

• Force of Qianjun — increases physical strength based on the Soul Power invested; at Level 61, expending all available Soul Power can produce up to a 600% increase 100.
• Strength Contest, also called Contest of Strength — forcibly locks onto a target and turns the exchange into a contest of strength. The winner’s attacks ignore defenses, while the skill can only be used once per day 101 108.
• The compulsory duel disregards the gap between participants. Its protection is asymmetric: if Su Ge loses, the damage he receives does not acquire the defense-ignoring effect 101.
• Su Ge combined Force of Qianjun with Suanni Transformation and Strength Contest to raise his strength beyond ten times its normal level against Tai Tan 108.
• During that confrontation, Force of Qianjun supplied a stated 610% strength increase. At Level 66, its stated increase reached 650% 108 150.
• Force of Qianjun’s enormous consumption would normally make it an all-out trump-card attack, but Su Ge’s recovery abilities and Heartsteel allow it to function as a sustained enhancement 100.

Deng Jilin’s Hundred-Thousand-Year ring skills

• Soul Slash — produces a slash carrying a soul attack whose strength depends on the sword energy invested in it. Deng can mix these attacks among ordinary sword-energy strikes to make them difficult to defend against 164.
• Winter’s Arrival — greatly strengthens Deng’s ice attribute, with the degree of enhancement determined by his Soul Power investment 164.
• Both skills permit adjustable output, allowing them to serve either as ordinary combat techniques or explosive bursts 164.

Ring Age Enhancement

• Soul Ring age is treated as a long-term foundation for combat strength; Su Ge considers opportunities to improve ring age more valuable than ordinary Soul Power growth 97 100.
• Su Ge used the Evil God Domain and Radiant Nether Eight Wings to drain the energy of two Qianjun Ant Emperors into the ring produced by the third, creating a single two-hundred-thousand-year sixth ring 99 100.
• The same process strengthened his fourth ring to approximately 40,000 years rather than converting all remaining energy into Soul Power 100.
• Da Ming warned that devouring power could corrupt Su Ge’s character and turn him into a servant of his own strength; Su Ge chose to pursue safer enhancement methods involving heavenly treasures rather than directly devouring Soul Beast essence 98.
• The two drained Qianjun Ant Emperors did not produce separate Soul Rings. Their energy passed through the feathers into Su Ge, while all three corpses were ultimately depleted enough to crumble into powder without leaving Soul Bones 99 100.
• Strengthening the fourth ring also improved the effects of its Soul Skill, providing an immediate combat benefit beyond Su Ge’s Soul Power breakthrough 100.
• Su Ge investigated whether the energy of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well could increase ring ages. He avoided initially strengthening his first and second rings because age changes could provoke a chain reaction, and improving his third and fourth rings offered greater immediate value 108.
• Although the sixth-ring absorption initially left Su Ge at Level 61, it retained the benefits of widened meridians and increased cultivation capacity. Replenishing energy brought him to Level 63 within half a month; he estimated that the accelerated recovery of cultivation would continue to Level 65 109.
• The Far North expedition continued his search for heavenly treasures capable of strengthening existing rings. No further completed increase in Su Ge’s ring ages was specified when he outlined the expedition’s aims 158.

Divine Examination comparisons

• Su Ge compared ordinary hunting with the potential benefits of Divine Examinations, reasoning that divine assistance could produce substantially stronger ring configurations and greater ring ages 98.
• He cited Qian Daoliu and Bo Saixi’s configurations of eight black rings and one red ring as examples of the foundations possessed by powerful divine representatives 98.
• Qian Renxue suspected that Su Ge’s unusual rings might be products of a deity’s Divine Examination, first upon learning of his two-purple, three-black configuration and later upon seeing his red sixth ring. This remained her speculation rather than the actual explanation for his sixth ring 75 100 135.

Ring Detonation

Ring Detonation allows Soul Rings to be shattered in combat to unleash a greatly strengthened attack. Tang Hao used it during his aerial battle with Su Ge, detonating four rings simultaneously after Su Ge’s taunts about his past and the secret behind his Hundred-Thousand-Year ring provoked him 152.

Public Recognition and Secrecy

• Su Ge initially avoided Spirit Hall registration because recording a Thousand-Year first ring would attract unwanted attention. He also refused Tang San’s requests for details about his ring, Soul Power Level, and Soul Skill, treating this information as private 20.
• His first major public revelation at Shrek displayed two purple and two black rings. The configuration challenged accepted absorption limits and prompted interest from Zhao Wuji, Tang Hao, and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect 29.
• Chen Xin initially doubted that a child could withstand the mental shock of a Ten-Thousand-Year ring, suggesting Twin Martial Souls or an illusion as possible explanations for the reports 35.
• During the tournament’s second round of grand finals, Su Ge openly displayed two purple rings, three black rings, and a red sixth ring before fighting the Thunderclap Team alone. Spectators regarded a Hundred-Thousand-Year sixth ring on a Soul Emperor as almost impossible 135.
• Tang San’s Purple Demon Eyes could not dismiss the red ring as an illusion, while its appearance devastated Yu Xiaogang’s confidence in his theories. News of Su Ge’s configuration was expected to spread rapidly across the continent 135 136.
• The tournament account describes a Hundred-Thousand-Year ring as a foundation capable of supporting a Titled Douluo’s advancement to Level 95 or above, reinforcing the significance attributed to Su Ge obtaining one so early 135.

Related Soul Bone Phenomena

• External Soul Bones are generally absorbed together with a Soul Ring, though some can be selectively absorbed after being obtained 48.
• The Lion-Tiger Beast Right Leg Palm Bone creates an armor-like phantom over Su Ge’s right foot and increases right-leg power by 200% 22.
• When resonating with Suanni Transformation, the bone’s enhancement reaches 600%; with the Domination Domain added, it can reach 900% and produce secondary burst damage on impact 22.
• A Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast is described as providing a guaranteed Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Bone alongside its ring, with the two resources supplying four Soul Skills in total 121.
• Deng Jilin’s Hundred-Thousand-Year ring and accompanying Soul Bone provided four Soul Skills, confirming this combination in his own advancement 164.

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