Notting Academy.
After watching the commotion, Lin Chen took out his Black Diary and prepared to finish writing today's entry.
Just as he was about to write about some everyday events and earn a reward,
one blood-red line of text after another appeared on his Black Diary, drawing all of Lin Chen's attention.
[Please complete today's diary entry, Host. Diary Theme: The Future of Soul Masters and Soul Beasts.]
Looking at the blood-red text on his Black Diary, Lin Chen pondered for a while, unsure what the Diary System was up to.
But since today's Diary Theme had already been set, Lin Chen had no choice but to start with that.
With a thought, one blood-red line of text after another appeared on his Black Diary.
At the same time,
blood-red text began appearing in the Exclusive Instances of the Diary Copies owned by people all over the world.
The commotion made all the women, who had been discussing how to torment Jade Little Sword in the Chat Group, stop talking and focus their attention on Lin Chen's updated diary entry.
Xiao Wu, Ah Yin, and Gu Yuena were especially attentive.
The three of them were Soul Beasts and belonged to the Soul Beast faction in the Chat Group, so they desperately wanted to know whether Soul Masters and Soul Beasts could ever live together in peace.
[The news that Jade Little Sword had been castrated was exposed today. What a relief! A scum like him, who had made a name for himself through deception, deserved this kind of retribution long ago.] [What surprised me, though, was that this Diary Copy actually set a theme for me: writing about the future of Soul Masters and Soul Beasts.] [I'd originally planned to record some everyday events today, but it looks like I can't. I have to write about this Diary Theme.] [The future of Soul Masters and Soul Beasts... How should I put it? Along the original course of events, the future of Soul Masters was bright, while the future of Soul Beasts was utterly bleak.] [In this era, Soul Beasts were still more numerous and held the upper hand, while humanity was at a disadvantage.] [But as time went on, humans gradually caught up with Soul Beasts after ten thousand years, and surpassed them completely after twenty thousand.] [What's more, Soul Beasts would only grow fewer with time. By twenty thousand years from now, only the Soul Beasts in the heart of the Star Dou Great Forest and some Sea Soul Beasts would still be alive. By then, Soul Beasts would be all but extinct.]
Lake of Life.
When Gu Yuena saw Lin Chen's entry, boundless fury surged within her.
She couldn't bear the thought of Soul Beasts going extinct.
In her heart, no matter how dire their circumstances became, Soul Beasts deserved a place in the world. But why, twenty thousand years from now, would only the Soul Beasts in the heart of the Star Dou Great Forest still be alive?
Why was this happening?
Were humans really that gifted? Would there be countless top experts among them twenty thousand years from now?
Gu Yuena was deeply troubled. How could she accept that Soul Beasts would be on the verge of extinction in another twenty thousand years?
But she didn't dare reveal herself now. The Divine Realm loomed above, and there were still Divine Being inheritance sites on Douluo Continent.
If she dared attack humanity, she would have to face the Five God Kings of the Divine Realm immediately.
Besides, her injuries hadn't healed yet. Forget the God Kings—even facing a Level 1 God would be a struggle.
[In my view, there are three ways to resolve the Soul Beasts' predicament, but all of them are fraught with difficulties.] [The first is to completely change the Soul Master cultivation system, so that Soul Masters no longer need Soul Rings to advance their strength and can grow stronger through cultivation alone.] [Under the Soul Master system, Soul Masters must obtain Soul Rings if they want to grow stronger. That inevitably leads to a decline in the number of Soul Beasts.] [Ten thousand years from now, the Soul Beast system will be abolished and replaced by the Soul Spirit System. But essentially, it will still be part of the original Soul Master cultivation system. Soul Spirits will give Soul Rings to Soul Masters, and under those circumstances, Soul Beasts will go extinct even faster.] [Because humans will have found Soul Spirit Soul Rings as a substitute for Soul Beasts, they will hunt Soul Beasts relentlessly to study the secrets of Soul Spirits and make the technology more advanced.] [With the Divine Realm above, if Soul Beasts try to wipe out humanity, they will cross the line for the Divine Beings of the Divine Realm. And with human ingenuity below, Soul Beasts can't maintain a balance with humanity, preserve this delicate relationship, and ensure their kind continues to reproduce.] [Only Soul Beasts that are at least a hundred thousand years old have intelligence comparable to that of ordinary humans. How difficult would it be for them to keep up with humanity's development?] [The Soul Master World will enter the age of Soul Tools ten thousand years from now, the age of Battle Armor twenty thousand years from now, and the age of Space Battleships thirty thousand years from now.] [Meanwhile, Soul Beasts will still rely on the primal law of the jungle to survive. Just the products of human ingenuity—Battle Armor, for instance—will be enough to give Soul Beasts a hard time. Battle Armor can greatly enhance a Soul Master's strength, allowing humanity to completely surpass Soul Beasts.] [I don't know which genius came up with the Soul Master cultivation system on Douluo Continent. It's so poisonous that it leaves Soul Beasts with no way out.] [The cultivation system in the God Seal World next door is pretty good. Cultivators there grow stronger by cultivating Spiritual Power, and the Magical Beasts there don't face the threat of extinction. Most of them are cultivators' partners under contract, and they coexist.]
As he wrote this, Lin Chen couldn't help feeling sorry for the Soul Beasts. Their predicament on Douluo Continent was simply too harsh.
The Soul Master cultivation system wasn't just a scourge for Soul Masters; it also threatened Soul Beasts with annihilation.
The Soul Beasts were in an awkward position now. Even if Douluo Continent had the Divine Beast Silver Dragon King and the Soul Beast faction was still at its peak, it wouldn't make a difference.
First, Soul Beasts couldn't wipe out humanity. Most of the Divine Beings in the Divine Realm were human, and they wouldn't allow that to happen.
Second, Soul Beasts couldn't stay ahead of Soul Masters forever and maintain their position. Human ingenuity far surpassed that of Soul Beasts, and humans were far more capable of developing technology.
Notting Academy.
A few hundred meters away from Lin Chen, someone sighed.
"Alas, are things really this difficult for us Soul Beasts?"
After reading Lin Chen's diary, Xiao Wu felt utterly despairing, her voice full of helplessness.
Their Soul Beast Clan had it so hard, so miserable. Not only were they hunted for their Soul Rings, but in tens of thousands of years, their entire kind would be nearly extinct.
Xiao Wu would never have believed it if she'd heard this in the present day.
"But is it really possible to change the Soul Master cultivation system?"
The first solution Lin Chen had described for the Soul Beasts' predicament—to change the Soul Master system completely—seemed far too difficult.
She was only an ordinary hundred-thousand-year-old Soft Bone Charming Rabbit. Forget changing the Soul Master cultivation system; even studying theoretical knowledge was almost too much for her.
"In my next life, I'm not being a bunny."
As a Soul Beast, she felt weighed down by tremendous pressure. Not only did she have to worry about her life being in danger, but in the future, she would also have to face the threat of her entire kind going extinct.
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