When Chen Hong discovered that the Sage Divine Mark (Mental Focus) could temporarily free living creatures from the ignorant state of biological instinct, a very crazy plan emerged in his mind.
Soul Beasts developed intelligence extremely slowly! Especially Plant-type Soul Beasts!
What did that mean?
It meant that as long as these low-intelligence Soul Beasts could suppress their urge to attack or hunt and begin to lucidly contemplate their own lives, then these blank-slate wills would be even easier to fool than university students with clear yet foolish eyes!
Of course, Chen Hong was not evil enough to deceive these ignorant, pure-as-blank-paper, dim-witted Soul Beasts.
He had merely awakened and temporarily enlightened the Withered and Flourishing Vine Soul Beast's rudimentary intelligence, then offered it a brand-new choice: survival or death. Pah, pah, pah. To live lucidly, or to live in ignorant chaos in accordance with life's instincts?
Faced with Chen Hong's choice and promise, the Withered and Flourishing Vine, which had never experienced the wickedness of the human heart and was as pure as a blank sheet of paper, used the ever-renamed 'Sage's Enlightenment' and ultimately made its choice.
To live more lucidly!
For a lifeform with only rudimentary intelligence, once it had experienced the wonder of the Sage—the wonder of wisdom—it would instinctively resist returning to its former state of ignorance.
It was like God giving you three chances to enhance an organ in your body. If you did not prioritize enhancing your kidneys and instead enhanced your brain, then once your brain was enhanced, it would no longer let you enhance your kidneys.
The example was rather crude, but that was the principle.
What slightly surprised Chen Hong was that he had never expected to succeed so easily.
The Withered and Flourishing Vine, which had only nine hundred