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Biodata
| Feature | Value |
|---|---|
| Name | Soul Ring |
| Original Name | 魂环 |
| Role | A power-bearing component attached to a Soul Master's Martial Soul; it grants Soul Skills and contributes to a Soul Master's ring configuration. |
| First Appearance | 3 |
Function and Manifestation
Soul Rings are attached to a Martial Soul during cultivation. Each ring can grant a corresponding Soul Skill; for example, Ye An's first ring granted Razor Bone Thorn, while his fifth granted the Bone-Suppressing Domain 14 97.
When released, Soul Rings appear beneath their owner's feet. Their colors visibly indicate their cultivation age, making a Soul Master's configuration immediately recognizable in battle 13 21 88 106.
Acquisition and Absorption
Standard Acquisition
A Soul Master generally obtains a Soul Ring by killing a compatible Soul Beast, then meditating to draw the ring into their body. The ring becomes motes of light and fuses into the recipient during absorption 13 21 97.
- Compatibility between a Soul Beast and the recipient's Martial Soul is a major consideration when selecting a ring 11 13 21.
- Powerful Soul Masters commonly subdue the target Soul Beast, allowing the intended recipient to deliver the final blow and absorb its ring 13 20 21 51 97.
- A Soul Ring's energy can cause pain, physical strain, or spiritual shock if its age exceeds the recipient's limits 8 21.
Soul Beast Sacrifice
A Soul Beast may willingly sacrifice its life and soul to a human recipient. This transfers its cultivation into a Soul Ring and Soul Bone 73.
- The sacrifice must be voluntary to succeed 73.
- A sacrificial Soul Ring has complete compatibility with its recipient 73.
- It can bypass the recipient's normal rank limit and usual absorption tolerance 73.
- A successful sacrifice grants both a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring and a Soul Bone 73.
Age and Color Classification
| Soul Ring age | Color | Documented example |
|---|---|---|
| Hundred-Year | Yellow | Zhang Lexuan's first two rings were yellow Hundred-Year Soul Rings 7 37 |
| Thousand-Year | Purple | Ye An's 1,500-year first ring and 6,500-year second ring were purple 13 16 |
| Ten-Thousand-Year | Black | Ye An's 16,000-year third ring, nearly 30,000-year fourth ring, and 55,000-year fifth ring were black 21 51 97 |
| Hundred-Thousand-Year | Red | Zhang Lexuan's sacrificial sixth ring was red 73 106 |
Absorption Limits
A Soul Master's physical constitution determines the cultivation age of Soul Ring they can safely absorb. Before body tempering, Ye An's first-ring limit was estimated at roughly 400 years 5.
- Medicinal baths, Whale Glue, Soul Bones, and body-tempering cultivation can raise the age limit a Soul Master can endure 5 7.
- Hurricane Cave is used by the Body Sect to temper disciples through destructive astral winds, but its dangers require sufficient prior conditioning 8.
- Spiritual power is especially important for Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Rings because of Soul Shock, the spiritual impact associated with rings of that age 16 21.
- Ye An's Silver-Tier Second Awakening increased both his physique and spiritual power enough to support a Ten-Thousand-Year third ring 19 21.
- Despite his unusual endurance, Ye An considered the nearly 30,000-year Darkgolden Terrorclaw Bear ring—his fourth ring—to be his limit at the time 68.
Twin Martial Soul Cultivation
For Twin Martial Soul possessors, the established method is to first attach Soul Rings to one Martial Soul. After strengthening the body through Soul Bones and other treasures, the second Martial Soul can be given much older rings 3.
- Ye An has Twin Body Martial Souls: White Bone and Heart 2 76.
- He initially attached all five documented rings to his White Bone Martial Soul, leaving the Heart Martial Soul ringless 76 98.
- Du Busi planned for Ye An's White Bone Martial Soul to eventually carry two purple, three black, and four red rings, while the Heart Martial Soul could potentially receive nine Hundred-Thousand-Year rings 91.
Notable Ring Configurations
| Soul Master | Documented configuration | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Ye An | Two purple, three black | His first ring was 1,500 years, his third 16,000 years, his fourth nearly 30,000 years, and his fifth 55,000 years 13 21 51 97 |
| Zhang Lexuan | Two yellow, one purple, two black, one red | Her sixth ring was obtained through a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast sacrifice 37 73 106 |
| Yu Tianqi | Two yellow, three purple | An Evil Soul Master whose configuration exceeded usual expectations through devouring flesh, blood, and bones 32 41 |
Soul Skills Granted by Notable Rings
- Razor Bone Thorn — Ye An's first Soul Skill from the 1,500-year Razorbone Earth Dragon; fires bone spikes at range or grows iron-hard spikes from his finger bones for close combat 13 14.
- White Bone Tempering — Ye An's second Soul Skill; strengthens his bones and increases all attributes by 150 percent 37 98.
- Bone Vein Seal — Ye An's third Soul Skill from the Lockbone Black Tortoise; seals soul power flow, restricts Soul Skills, and can counter Soul Bone Skills 21 98.
- Bone-Suppressing Domain — Ye An's fifth Soul Skill from the Zhenyue Pterosaur; a domain that can combine with his other restrictions and amplifications 97 98.
- Moonlight Sky Thrust — Zhang Lexuan's third Soul Skill from the 3,500-year Silvermoon Mad Lion; stores moonlight essence to raise all attributes by 120 percent, then detonates it to damage enemies 12.
- Moon's Aurora and Minglan Domain — Zhang Lexuan's sixth-ring skills from a Hundred-Thousand-Year sacrifice; the former is a piercing offensive move, while the latter is a domain 104.