Spirit Ring

Spirit Rings are the form a Ring Spirit takes when not in its beast/weapon/plant form - a "mirage" formed from the coalesced form of a spirit.

A Spirit Ring - as a ring - can be removed ONLY when the contracted human used his own spiritual power to envelope it. However, removing one’s own Spirit Ring posed a great danger to that person. The Ring Spirit in its Spirit Ring form is extremely weak and vulnerable. The Ring Spirit is unable to even transform into its Ring Spirit form. While in that state, the link between the human and the Ring Spirit would be at its most tenuous and delicate and if the human was attacked at that time, the Ring Spirit would not be able to do anything to retaliate in the slightest.

Spirit Ring Reforging
Ring Forgers are able to use the "Soul of Flame" to reforge Spirit Rings. Using common metals for the forging will only give the Spirit Rings insignificant effects and would not be able to draw on the Ring Forger’s abilities. Black Silver is much better than common metals and Black Gold even more so. When Spirit Rings are forged with Black Gold, its effects would exceed merely just adding on power and might; they can even change the form the ring spirits take!

In addition to using metals, Ring Forgers can also add Spirit Stones from Spirit Beasts which can enhance the Spirit Ring based on the rank of the Spirit Beast.

Finally, Ring Forgers also engrave ancient runes into the Spirit Rings to incite and draw out specific powers of the individual Spirit Ring. Different combinations of ancient runes are used for specific types of Ring Spirits. Jun Wu Xie refers to this process of using ancient runes to modify and enhance a spirit body as Spirit Reinforcement.