Soul Beast

Biodata

Power Progression

Huo Yuhao witnesses the life of an unnamed soul beast advancing through the following cultivation stages 361.

Characteristics

• Soul beasts include animal and plant forms. Plant-type soul beasts are generally rooted in place, while animal-type soul beasts can move freely 201.
• A soul beast with more than ten thousand years of cultivation can possess intelligence comparable to, or greater than, a human’s 6.
• Hundred-thousand-year soul beasts are commonly regarded as comparable to Titled Douluo in strength 114 307.
• Soul beasts also fight one another; in the Star Dou Great Forest, defeated beasts may become food for the victor 340.
• Their abilities vary by species. The Time Shadow Spider has a time attribute and can form wings from its spider legs and silk, while the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger possesses six attributes, including time and space 61 256.

Soul Rings and Human Relations

• Traditionally, a soul beast produces a soul ring when killed. Its body may also yield a soul bone, though the chance is low 118.
• Hunting soul beasts for rings became standard practice among soul masters. As the number of soul masters grew, continued hunting threatened soul beast populations 6 117.
• Soul beasts have their own thoughts and attachments. Bibi Dong comes to recognize this after meeting the Snow Empress and witnessing her farewell to the beasts of the Extreme North 143.

Soul Ascension

Electrolux develops the Soul Ascension Method as an alternative to killing soul beasts for soul rings 117. Its defining features are:

• A soul beast fuses with a soul master, providing a soul ring while retaining its consciousness. It can reside in the soul master’s Sea of Spirit and emerge to assist in battle 175 271 318.
• An ordinary soul master needs three Soul Ascension partners—one each at the hundred-year, thousand-year, and ten-thousand-year stages—rather than hunting a new beast for every ring. Additional rings can come from energy beings in the Living Semi-Plane 117 161.
• The fused partners share a life bond. If the soul master is killed, the soul beast dies too; if the soul master dies naturally, the beast can regain a physical body and its freedom 118.
• A soul master seeking a partner must challenge the beast and earn its sincere submission. Losing and then having someone else intervene, or killing the beast, makes the soul master an enemy of soul beasts 358.

The Living Semi-Plane supplies renewable energy beings that form soul rings when defeated. Unlike soul beasts, these beings have no self-awareness; they can also provide food for soul beasts 161 340.

Story Role

• Di Tian and other fierce beasts witness the Soul Ascension Method and the Living Semi-Plane, then express gratitude for a possible solution to their race’s survival problem 160 161.
• Di Tian agrees to cooperate with Huo Yuhao’s Bright Cult, with the method and semi-plane intended to support coexistence between humans and soul beasts 162 272.
• After the method is demonstrated publicly, soul beasts begin fighting alongside soul masters in competition 318 319. By the novel’s end, the first Soul Ascension Tower is complete and hunting soul beasts for rings is gradually being phased out 366.