Spirit Rings

Spirit Rings are the part of the remains released by Spirit Beasts following their death, sacrifice, or contract with humans. Only the person who delivers the killing blow can absorb the Spirit Ring and is needed to be at a bottleneck (Rank 10, 20, 30, etc.).
==Description==
Spirit Ring is a special energy body that represents the cultivation of spirit beasts. In almost all cases, it does not represent their actual age as spirit beasts don't cultivate based on age, but with maturity. This is seen with how notable physical features are used to discern a spirit beast's cultivation. It is important to note that there are some instances where the cultivation of spirit rings does not correspond with the actual age of the spirit beasts; the Infernal Lightning Vine and Immortal Herbs for example.
Ordinary Spirit Rings are divided into five levels: ten-year spirit rings, hundred-year spirit rings, thousand-year spirit rings, ten thousand-year spirit rings, and one hundred thousand-year spirit rings. They need to be obtained by hunting spirit beasts when spirit masters break through a bottleneck (Rank 10, 20, 30, etc.); which are released following their death, sacrifice, or contract with humans. In addition, only the person who has dealt the killing blow can absorb the spirit ring. God-Level Spirit Ring is a spirit ring exclusive to gods or god-ranked spirit masters, also called a God Ring or Divine Ring. 
== Division==
Spirit Rings are usually divided into categories based on their age.
*White : 10 Year Spirit Ring 
*Yellow : 100 Year Spirit Ring 
*Purple : 1,000 Year Spirit Ring 
*Black : 10,000 Year Spirit Ring 
*Red : 100,000 Year Spirit Ring 
*Orange : 200,000 Year Spirit Ring 
*Gold : 1,000,000 Year Spirit Ring 
However, In the case of a million-year-old spirit rings, it may appear in different colors depending on the attribute.
(Ex: Blue-Gold, Dark Red Gold, Dark Gray, Green-Gold, etc.)
===God Bestowed Spirit Ring===
The spirit ring bestowed by the gods, and has no attributes. Known owners are Bo Saixi, Seven Sea God Holy Pillars Guardians, Sea God Island's spirit masters who have participated in the Black Level and above tests. One can get a god bestowed spirit ring when reaching a bottleneck, and the bottleneck happens to be completion of all the tests, thus not necessarily only one in number can be obtained. It can be absorbed according to the years of spirit ring absorption limit one can endure, and is also a spirit ring that is extremely suitable for one's own martial soul. It is called a God Pillar Stone in manhua.
===Orange Spirit Rings===
Fierce or Great Beast Spirit Ring is the spirit ring of Spirit Souls transformed from any soul beast exceeding 200,000 years in cultivation. Similar spirit ring color can be acquired from normal spirit beasts that have been at least 200,000 years old or with at least 200,000 years cultivation base before merging with a spirit master. They help develop spirit masters as a whole and can bring unbelievably great benefits to their bodies. 
However, there are also several circumstances that lead to a Fierce or Great Beast spirit ring to not provide an Orange spirit ring. For examples, the Ice Empress had already given Huo Yuling a Red spirit ring before a spirit soul was introduced. The Evileye Tyrant Emperor with the cultivation of more than 700,000 years gave Yuling a Dark Red ring because he was killed and didn’t become a spirit soul. The Ice Bear King with the cultivation of 300,000 years gave Yuling a Red ring instead of an Orange ring. 
===Million Year Spirit Rings ===
Every hundred thousand years, the spirit beasts undergo the heavenly tribulation. Some spirit beasts couldn’t pass the tribulation and died during the process. That’s the reason why some spirit beasts reincarnate as humans while some choose to become the spirit souls. There are only three known spirit beasts with million years in the soul land series. They are Deep Sea Demonic Whale King, Skydream Ice Worm and Demon Empress with the former two being the spirit rings. The spirit ring color of Deep Sea Demonic Whale King is Gold, later changed to Deep Gold and Dark Red Gold. The spirit ring color of Skydream Ice Worm is White Gold while in the sealed state is White.
=== Special Spirit Rings ===
A Spirit Ring can also have a unique or highly specialized color based on its association. This can manifest as a blend of two colors, as a wrapping or a nimbus on a pre-existing Spirit Ring, or as a combination of the two.
*Dark Gray: Death (Necromancer & Huo Yuling)
*Gold: Pure Divine Beast Bloodline (Golden Dragon King and Silver Dragon King)
*Green-Gold: Nature (Child of Nature)
*Rose Gold: Destiny (Three Eyed Golden Lion)
*White Gold: Mental (Daydream Ice worm)
*Purple Gold: Lightning (Thunder Hell Prison Vine)
*Sky Blue: Ice and Water (Bai Xiuxiu)
*Black with White tints: Yin and Yang (Yin-Yang Chaos Bird)
*Black with Gold tints: 10,000 years with Divine Beast Bloodline (Golden Fatty, Heavenly Dragon Horse)
=== God-level Spirit Rings ===
The color of the God-level Spirit Rings is also different depending on the attributes of the God.
*Blue-Gold: Water (Sea God)
*Dark Purple: 'Demonic' Slaughter (Rakshasa God)
*Dark Red: Slaughter (Asura God)
*Gold: Light (Angel God)
*Nine Colours: Nine Elements (Dragon God)
*Gold: God-level Ring (Wild Gods)
==Optimal Spirit Rings According to Rank==
There is an optimal age of Spirit Ring for every bottleneck that identifies the oldest possible Spirit Ring that can be absorbed without significant risks. Spirit Master can naturally absorb younger Spirit Ring, but the absorption of an older Spirit Ring can result in heavy injuries or even in death upon rejection.
Spirit masters can naturally absorb younger spirit ring, however there have been a rare few cases of Spirit Masters had successfully absorbed Spirit Rings beyond the optimal age. In normal cases, this may result to heavy injuries or even in death upon rejection, but with an exceptional physique, spiritual power, and will power, the odds can become more favorable. There is no official term for this event, but can be referred to as limit surpassing.
*1st Spirit Ring: Less than 423 years old Spirit Beast
*2nd Spirit Ring: Less than 764 years old Spirit Beast
*3rd Spirit Ring: Less than 1,300 - 1,800 years old Spirit Beast
*4th Spirit Ring: Less than 3,000 - 5,000 years old Spirit Beast
*5th Spirit Ring: Around 12,000 years old Spirit Beast
*6th Spirit Ring: Around 25,000 years old Spirit Beast
*7th Spirit Ring: Between 30,000 ~ 50,000 years old Spirit Beast
*8th Spirit Ring: Between 50,000 ~ 100,000 years old Spirit Beast
*9th Spirit Ring: More than 100,000 years old Spirit Beast
===Spirit Ring's Soul Shock===
Soul Shock is a special capability that arises after a high level spirit beast is dead, but before its soul has dissipated. Only ten thousand year spirit beasts or above can possess it. Generally speaking, to absorb a ten thousand year spirit beast’s spirit ring requires at least fiftieth rank or above spirit power. By that time the Spirit Master already possesses a certain degree of functionality in all aspects, and mental strength has also matured to a certain extent. Besides the energy contained in the spirit ring, there’s also the danger of this soul shock. To an adult, and moreover a fiftieth ranked Spirit Master, when both the body and mind has matured, the effect of such a soul shock would decrease substantially. Even if your body can endure the energy attack, if your mindscape is destroyed by the soul shock, you’ll become an idiot.
===Optimal Spirit Ring Combination===
Spirit Masters who have at least one Red hundred-thousand years spirit ring are considered exceptional. However, those who possess a complete set of spirit rings beyond the optimal color configuration are absolutely talented. Moreover, their spirit rings actually follow the best spirit ring arrangement per breakthrough initially, but in some special circumstances, they have undergone life increase after receiving divine inheritance trial rewards; through spirits or martial souls, bloodlines, or spirit souls evolution; spirit rings transfer; devouring method; and spirit beast's essence origin conferment; while most cases after the founding of the Spirit Pagoda have been strengthened through the Ten Thousand Beast Platform.
*2 Yellow, 2 Purple, 5 Black 
Note: Having a Red soul ring is rare, but is exceptionally powerful. Having even just one is always makes it better than an optimal configuration.
===Spirit Ring's Age Ascension===
A place called Spirit Pagoda has a platform called Spirit Ascension Platform. Here, you can increase the age or strengthen your Spirit Souls respectively by going in it. Depending on the owner's capability, it is possible to even strengthen it to 100,000 years. By using the Platform, the maximum that a spirit master could theoretically reach is: Red 9
But all of this is but a rough guide however. The true factor to that determines what the maximum age of a spirit ring that could be added was determined by Huo Yuling to be the spiritual power of a person. Every person has a set amount of mental capacity or "mental space" which the spirit ring(s) in question will occupy, where the amount of space the ring will occupy will increase with the ring's age. Regardless of the rings themselves, if there is enough space, the ring will be accepted into the martial soul (assuming its attributes don't clash with that of the martial soul itself). And although one's cultivation greatly increases one's mental space, it is ultimately independent of it.
For more information, see Spirit Pagoda & Spirit Souls.
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