Ring Spirit

Ring Spirit housed in their soul manifests in most children at age 14. The Ring Spirit first appear on appear as a ring on the left hand of child in the form of a Spirit Ring. The Ring Spirits come from the Spirit World. The Ring Spirit will be bonded with its partner until they die. After their partner dies, the Ring Spirit will go back to the Spirit World and wait for another being with the necessary affinity to bond. Each human soul can only have one Ring Spirit in their entire life, with the exception of Jun Wu Xie. She is an exception because of the Devious Wyvern Beast Stone and the Seed of the Spirit Tree she absorbed; both link her soul to the Soul World.

Ring Spirits, when seeking for their Masters, base their choice of Master mainly on a person’s spirit properties - a.k.a. attributes. These seven attributes are hidden within the person's soul and only ring spirits with matching attributes would choose to submit themselves to that person.

Types
Ring Spirits are categorized into three types:


 * 1) Weapons type - the ring spirit takes the form of a weapon or piece of armor
 * 2) Beast type - the ring spirit takes the form of a beast
 * 3) Plant type - the ring spirit is able to take the shape of a plant and a humanoid

Affinities
And among these three types of Ring Spirits, the weapons type and beast type have seven different affinities which are:

Plant type Ring Spirits only have one affinity which is Wood.
 * 1) Darkness
 * 2) Light
 * 3) Metal
 * 4) Lightning
 * 5) Water
 * 6) Fire
 * 7) Earth.

Link to Cultivation
The core of spirit powers stem from the resonance between the soul and their Ring Spirits. In the Lower Realm, spirit powers are only differentiated by seven levels: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and purple. But the true differentiation of spirit powers are not limited to just that. In the Middle realm, this increases to add Silver and Gold. Finally the highest resonance are forms of "rings" or "hoops." See Cultivation Rank.