"Phew! Success. The Heavenly Dragon Horse's soul has merged into the soul ring. Once she finishes absorbing it, it'll enter her Sea of Spirit."
"Retaining its intelligence certainly won't be a problem, but with the Heavenly Dragon Horse's spiritual power, it may have trouble adjusting and need to rest for a long time."
"Mm-hmm, that's already great. Guyi also got a soul bone over twenty thousand years old. We've gained quite a lot this time, but most importantly, we've proven that wisdom soul rings are viable."
A soul bone over twenty thousand years old was already immensely valuable. More than ninety percent of soul masters in the Soul Master World had no such soul bone.
Some soul masters might even go their entire lives without ever seeing what a soul bone looked like.
"Don't celebrate too soon. The drawbacks of letting soul beasts survive by attaching themselves to soul masters are far too obvious. If this method becomes the mainstream, soul beasts will only become humanity's dependents."
"If the relationship between soul beasts and humans really becomes one of masters and dependents someday, Di Tian might just kill me outright, right?"
"Don't worry. It's only an experiment. We don't know what the future will look like yet. We should have faith in it, shouldn't we?"
Jiang Yue voiced his concerns through the encrypted channel between him and Di Qiu'er, but she wasn't particularly bothered.
Giving soul beasts another path was a good thing for now. At least they had made a good start. The practice of killing soul beasts for soul rings, which had existed for who knew how long, had finally developed a crack.
Di Qiu'er believed the future would surely be better, and that humans and soul beasts would truly be able to coexist.
A faint warmth stirred