Section 14: True Strength, Sleeping Elder

Among all living things beneath heaven, no species was more intelligent than humankind.

Humans were the wisest of all creatures, their inner spiritual radiance the most abundant. Thus, "man" became "the spirit of all things."

Yet all things were balanced, and the Heavenly Dao was utterly impartial.

Even as Heaven bestowed supreme spiritual radiance upon humanity, it also gave them the frailest bodies, brief lifespans, and the inability to directly absorb primal energy for cultivation.

At the dawn of heaven and earth, humanity struggled bitterly beneath the hunting of powerful Demon Beasts and amid the entanglements of strange, uncanny Demon Plants, living in dire misery.

At that time, an unparalleled hero—one without precedent and without successor, an eternal legend—appeared.

He was the Star Saint.

His emergence brought humanity its chance to rise~

The Spirit Beast Mastery Method!

By leveraging the advantage of spiritual radiance, humans could capture demon creatures and use them in battle. At the same time, the spiritual energy returned by those creatures could be absorbed by humans, strengthening their bodies and extending their lives.

The profession of Spirit Beast Master changed humanity, and it changed the entire landscape of the Star Continent.

After a long and distant course of development, demon creatures in human hands were no longer used merely for battle. The Spirit Beast Master profession, once a purely combat-oriented calling, had branched and flourished, giving rise to countless subdivisions.

There were alchemists who specialized in refining pills, culinary alchemists who specialized in creating dishes, weapon refiners who specialized in forging Demon Weapons, Relic Explorers who sought hidden places and explored secrets, Egg Appraisers who assessed Demon Beast eggs, pouch crafters who specialized in forging Immortal Pouches, and seal masters skilled in the Dao of sealing—branches of every kind. Among them was one profession more peculiar