Soul Beast

Biodata

Power Progression

Characteristics

Cultivation and Bloodlines

Soul Beasts cultivate over long periods, but cultivation age alone does not determine their actual strength. Bloodline quality and attributes can cause vast differences between creatures of the same age; a dragon-type Soul Beast may contain far more energy than an ordinary plant-type beast of equal cultivation. 41

• Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts are regarded as combatants no weaker than Title Douluo. 275
• Exceptional bloodlines can fight far above their apparent cultivation. A thirty-thousand-year Titan Giant Ape was stated to possess Soul Power and battle strength near the Hundred-Thousand-Year level. 319
• A Titan Giant Ape’s bloodline allows a hundred-year individual to rival an ordinary thousand-year Soul Beast, while a ten-thousand-year individual can contend with ordinary Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts. 319
• Soul Beasts in the secret realm’s core region were noted for unnaturally uniform cultivation levels, suggesting that some had been deliberately organized and released by age group. 363
• Superior bloodlines can exert direct suppression over weaker Soul Beasts and Beast Martial Souls. Di Hao’s awakened Double-Headed Black Dragon Martial Soul forced nearby low-level Soul Beasts to lower themselves and caused human Beast Martial Souls to tremble. 506
• Human-beast descendants produced by high-level Soul Beasts and high-level human Soul Masters tend to be closer to complete human form and possess stronger innate talent than descendants of weaker parents. 506

Intelligence and Human Transformation

Most ordinary Soul Beasts possess limited intelligence until they have cultivated for approximately ten thousand years. At one hundred thousand years, they may take human form, speak human language, and awaken Martial Souls. 434 439

• A transformed Soul Beast may still be in a juvenile stage, retaining detectable Soul Beast origins and bloodline traces. 437
• At the mature stage, a transformed Soul Beast is physically and spiritually indistinguishable from a true human by the Origin Disc. 437
• Traditionally, transformed Soul Beasts awaken Martial Souls based on their original forms. 439
• Ah Yin, the Hundred-Thousand-Year Blue Silver Emperor, gave birth before reaching maturity; her son Tang San inherited both human and Soul Beast bloodlines. 437 442
• The Wolf Bandit lineage demonstrates that repeated reproduction with humans can produce increasingly humanlike descendants that retain their Soul Beast ancestry, develop intelligence, and awaken Martial Souls. 350 351 439
• The first generation of Star Dou’s organized human-beast descendants included thirty-two children outwardly indistinguishable from humans and seventy-eight with residual traits such as ears, scales, or tails. 506

Soul Ring Condensation

Soul Beasts have developed methods that challenge the human practice of killing Soul Beasts for Soul Rings. Transformed Soul Beasts can naturally condense Soul Rings after taking human form, and the Soul Beast Clan has derived a cultivation method from this principle. 497

• The Ring Condensation Secret Art allows compatible users to form Soul Rings from their own bloodline and physical foundation without hunting Soul Beasts. 509 510
• Self-condensed Soul Rings are stated to be more compatible with the user’s body and capable of producing stronger Soul Skills than rings acquired through conventional hunting. 497 509
• The origin stele used by Star Dou can guide the formation of the first three rings, up to thirty levels of Soul Power; users must learn to condense later rings on their own. 510
• Di Hao used the stele at age six to obtain an approximately two-thousand-year first Soul Ring and an approximately five-thousand-year second Soul Ring, which his exceptional body and Dark True Dragon bloodline could withstand. 510
• Soul Skills created through self-condensed rings need not be treated as fixed gifts. Di Hao proposed that their principles could be studied, adapted, and recreated as techniques suited to different Martial Souls. 511

Relationship with Soul Masters

• Soul Masters hunt Soul Beasts to obtain Soul Rings, with compatibility determined by the Soul Master’s physical strength, spiritual resilience, Martial Soul attributes, and the target’s bloodline quality. 41 44
• Soul Hunting Forests are enclosed hunting grounds where Soul Beasts are kept for controlled acquisition of Soul Rings. 44 45
• Human prizes such as the King Ball and Prism Ball can forcibly capture Soul Beasts and establish obedience-based soul contracts. King Balls are effective against targets below fifty thousand years, while Prism Balls work on targets at or below one hundred thousand years; both are single-use items. 209 210
• Certain Martial Souls can contain and command Soul Beasts in battle. The Giga Battlenizer stores beast souls for revival and combat, while Ji Yi’s twelve-level tower releases dozens of mutated Soul Beasts. 321 374 376
• The Human Alliance’s anti-Soul Beast campaign led to indiscriminate hunting, including the slaughter of low-level Soul Beasts that had remained peacefully within their territories. 15
• The Soul Beast Clan’s Ring Condensation Secret Art could eliminate the need for its descendants to kill Soul Beasts for cultivation, undermining the economic and ideological basis of the traditional human Soul Ring system. 497 509
• Under Bafu’s implemented breeding program, captured human Soul Masters have been confined in a time-accelerated small world and used as reproductive resources for human-beast descendants. 442 506
• Tang San and Lan Xiao defected to the Soul Beast Clan after being rejected by human society. Tang San was subsequently assigned to teach foundational cultivation to the mixed-blood children. 497 498 509

Forms and Notable Types

Background / History

Humanity and Soul Beasts have existed in an openly hostile relationship for ten thousand years: humans cultivate through Soul Rings, while Soul Beasts are treated as dangerous wild creatures and resources. The Human Alliance declared transformed Soul Beasts an existential threat after Tang Hao’s relationship with Ah Yin became public, triggering investigations, bloodline paranoia, and widespread hunts. 15

Within Star Dou Forest, more than a dozen veteran Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts gathered at the Lake of Life after Tang Hao’s capture. They regarded both Tang Hao and Ah Yin as traitors: Tang Hao for abducting a Soul Beast ruler, and Ah Yin for abandoning the Soul Beast race and sacrificing herself for a human. 197

The growing human threat later forced the Star Dou ferocious beasts to confront their own stagnation. Bafu argued that low-level Soul Beasts were effectively born to become Soul Rings, while even those that survived long enough to cultivate faced human hunting and repeated heavenly tribulations. 438

The defense of Leighton City further intensified Star Dou’s sense of crisis. Di Tian, Bafu, Bear Lord, and Zi Ji observed that humanity could field multiple extraordinary “Children of Destiny,” advanced Soul Tool weapons, self-sacrificing combatants, and techniques capable of defeating even the Double-Jawed Beast. They concluded that direct extermination warfare would be unwinnable in the long term. 477

As human factions began investigating disappearances around Star Dou Forest and the activities of Orc hybrids, the Soul Beast Clan continued its integration program in secret. Its first confirmed generation of more than one hundred human-beast descendants demonstrated exceptional Martial Souls and innate Soul Power. 503 506 509

Beastman Evolution Plan

Bafu proposed that Soul Beasts evolve through beastman forms and ultimately become human, allowing them to survive inside human society rather than remain confined to forests. 439 440

• First step: Give Soul Beasts humanlike appearances. 439
• Second step: Develop human intelligence. 439
• Third step: Grant access to humanity’s Martial Soul cultivation system. 439
• Fourth step: Enter human villages, cities, sects, armies, and institutions; reproduce and spread their heritage. 439 440
• Ultimate objective: Produce Soul Beasts who can cultivate as humans, ascend to the God Realm, and challenge the order that defines Soul Beasts as prey and resources. 440

For high-level Soul Beasts, Bafu proposed reproduction with humans as the fastest route to humanlike descendants. For weaker Soul Beasts, he offered replicated human flesh and blood as a method of breaking reproductive isolation, supported by a small world where time passes thirty times faster. 442

Gu Yuena endorsed bloodline evolution under two conditions: participation must be voluntary, and evolved beastmen must retain their Soul Beast origins and recognize her as sovereign. Di Tian and the ferocious beasts subsequently agreed to support the plan and halt direct attacks on human cities while coordinating through Star Dou’s leadership. 441

Following the Leighton City battle, Di Tian formally treated the Transformation Integration Plan as the Soul Beast race’s only viable path to survival rather than an optional experiment. 477

• The program initially prioritizes Soul Beasts below ten thousand years of cultivation, while the long-lived Ferocious Beasts are exempt from compulsory participation. 441
• More than a thousand captured human Soul Masters were placed in Bafu’s time-accelerated small world, where six years passed in less than one external year. 506
• The resulting first generation included more than one hundred children, whose innate Soul Power was never below level seven; many possessed levels eight or nine, while more than a dozen had Innate Full Soul Power. 509
• The plan now combines human-beast reproduction, Martial Soul education, Ring Condensation Secret Art, and stele-assisted Soul Ring formation to establish a self-sustaining Soul Beast-derived cultivation system. 509 510 511
• Di Tian intends for the descendants of this program to emerge from Star Dou Forest, gain continental dominance, and eventually challenge the God Realm. 511

Notable Soul Beast Figures

• Gu Yuena — The Silver Dragon King and sovereign recognized by the Star Dou Soul Beasts; she approved voluntary bloodline evolution. 61 441
• Di Tian — The Beast God who leads the ten great ferocious beasts; initially opposed Bafu’s reforms but accepted them after Gu Yuena’s intervention. He later declared the Transformation Integration Plan essential to Soul Beast survival and recognized Di Hao as his son and heir. 438 441 477 507
• Sky Azure Bull Python — A Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast associated with the Lake of Life; helped convene the gathering over Tang Hao’s capture. 197
• Titan Giant Ape — A powerful top-bloodline Soul Beast associated with the Lake of Life and Star Dou Forest. 197 319
• Bafu — A half-sheep Soul Beast reformer responsible for creating beastmen and advocating the transformation of Soul Beasts into humans. He directs the bloodline-evolution program through replicated human flesh, accelerated time, and planned integration. 438 439 442 477
• Wolf Yong — A Wolf Bandit transmigrator who demonstrated that half-human, half-wolf descendants can awaken Martial Souls and cultivate as Soul Masters. 197 350 351
• Di Hao — Di Tian’s human-beast son and designated successor. He possesses the Double-Headed Black Dragon and Blood Spear Twin Martial Souls, Innate Level-Twenty Soul Power, and exceptional aptitude for self-condensed Soul Rings and technique creation. 507 510 511
• Bi Ji — A compassionate high-ranking Ferocious Beast who supported the voluntary-evolution condition, guided Tang San’s integration into the clan, and helped oversee the new descendants’ awakening. 441 497 506
• Scarlet King — A Ferocious Beast who questioned whether humanized descendants remained Soul Beasts, but later supported the plan and publicly revealed the Ring Condensation Secret Art to human captives. 440 442 509
• Tang San — Ah Yin’s mixed-blood son who formally joined the Soul Beast Clan. He can use the clan’s Soul Ring-condensation method and was appointed to teach foundational cultivation to human-beast descendants. 497 509
• Lan Xiao — A human Super Douluo who defected alongside Tang San, received stabilization for damage caused by Ring Detonation, and presided over the first generation’s Martial Soul awakening ceremony. 498 506

Notable Quotes

“True extinction is not becoming human. True extinction is being slaughtered to the last by humans.” — Bafu 440

“Beastmen are not the end. They are only the beginning. The ultimate plan is for beasts to become humans.” — Bafu 440

“One's origin does not lie in fur. Not in wolf ears. Not in wolf tails. Not in wolf legs. Still less in a beast's body.” — Bafu 440