Soul beast transformation was a special path available to ordinary soul beasts between one hundred thousand and two hundred thousand years old. After transforming, they had to enter the human world and continually interact with humans to keep increasing their cultivation.
Moreover, when facing the bottlenecks of the first six ranks, those undergoing soul beast transformation rebirth did not need to hunt soul beasts and absorb soul rings. Only after reaching seven rings did they become humans in the truest sense, and from then on, they needed to hunt soul beasts and absorb soul rings to break through.
Generally speaking, exceedingly few soul beasts chose transformation rebirth. The biggest reason was that, after undergoing it, their lifespans became the same as those of humans.
Compared with the long lifespans of soul beasts, the little time humans had might not even qualify as bait. Only soul beasts who yearned deeply for the human world, or were certain they probably could not survive their next heavenly tribulation, would consider choosing this path.
The most important thing when choosing soul beast transformation was to avoid being discovered by humans. The Snow Empress was a textbook example. She had begun transforming by possessing a hundred thousand year snow lotus, only to be captured during the process by a human carrying the God-Sealing Platform.
Now she remained in an embryonic state—and a dead embryo at that. She could no longer cancel the transformation, nor could she continue it because it had been interrupted. All she could do was obediently remain inside the God-Sealing Platform and wait to die.
The Lan Fozi Lin Jiayi mentioned was clearly the one Jiang Yue remembered, who appeared during the era of the third Douluo story: the only daughter of the former Deep Sea Demonic Whale King and the Demon