White Ring Descends into Mortal World

White Ring Descends into Mortal World is the physical manifestation of the Great Dao law of Innate, appearing as an ordinary white circle while reducing most dead matter to its natural energetic basis. (Chapters 1305, 1383–1389)

History

Li Fan selects the plain ring when inheriting a previous life's items through Truth. The text says the Holy Emperor had earlier fished it up, but does not show its manufacture or establish whether it originally came from beyond the High Wall. Once manifested, the ring needs no refinement, cannot be seized from Li Fan, and immediately reduces Jieli Mountain to ordinary spiritual energy. Li Fan later uses it to expose hidden soul flowers, disassemble dead True Immortal flesh, and guard dangerous research. (Chapters 1305, 1313–1314, 1325–1330)

In a later failed life, Li Fan casts the ring into the Immortal Domain's Wordless Stele. The interaction manifests the True Immortal seal-script law Innate and strengthens the Celestial Pillar against the Dao Annihilation Calamity. Truth restores the ring in the next life, where its aura awakens rather than destroys a same-source mechanical humanoid, supporting—but not conclusively proving—Li Fan's theory of a connection beyond the High Wall. (Chapters 1383–1385, 1389–1391)

Description and function

The relic is a smooth, plain white ring, cool to the touch and devoid of detectable spiritual-energy fluctuations. It expands to encircle its target and descends through the enclosed region. Its output from ordinary matter is normal local spiritual energy, with no detectable distinction from energy naturally produced by the surrounding world. (Chapter 1305)

Abilities and limitations

Descent and disassembly

The ring decomposes nonliving matter throughout the volume it encloses. A mountain disappears layer by layer, Ring-Shaped Mountain yields its hidden soul flowers, and detached True Immortal flesh is judged dead matter and broken down. The result is not always useful: the flesh produces corruptive black mist rather than immortal spiritual qi, and that residue can survive a world's destruction and threaten later contamination. (Chapters 1305, 1313–1314, 1325, 1330)

Innate-law response

When offered to the Wordless Stele, the ring resolves into the seal-script character Innate, described as almost comparable to Creation. Li Fan cannot independently comprehend its Dao because the world's Innate principles appear already concentrated in the object. A related mechanical humanoid changes the ring's light from white to green and is reactivated instead of disassembled, showing that the relic can recognize or respond to a compatible source. (Chapters 1383–1385, 1389)

Restrictions

The ring does not simply erase every target. It fails to activate its dismantling function against the Boundless Mirror, which Li Fan interprets as a special restriction concerning Immortal Artifacts rather than proof of insufficient force. Living beings on Jieli Mountain are not disassembled with the terrain, and the same-source humanoid is preserved. Its judgments therefore distinguish categories that Li Fan does not yet fully understand. (Chapters 1305, 1315, 1389)

Custody and users

Truth manifests and binds the ring directly to Li Fan, giving him natural control and preventing seizure. In one life he expends or loses its visible form when throwing it into the Wordless Stele, then retrieves it again through Truth's retained-item mechanism in the next cycle. No other character independently commands it in the supplied corpus. (Chapters 1305, 1383–1385, 1389)

  • Wordless Stele: Reveals the ring's underlying Innate law and converts that law into a complete True Immortal seal-script character. (Chapters 1383–1385)
  • Truth: Manifests, binds, preserves, and restores the ring across Li Fan's cycles. (Chapters 1305, 1384, 1389)
  • Boundless Mirror: Demonstrates that the ring's disassembly has restrictions against at least some Immortal Artifacts. (Chapter 1315)