[PS: This flop of an author tweaked the cosmic laws a little, taking inspiration from the Battle Through the Heavens continent next door. What do you think? Would it work? If you have any good suggestions, please let me know. Many thanks.]
In the original story, after Huo Yuhao became a god, the Far North ultimately became the Holy Spirit Cult's headquarters.
Beiming Lieyang had come from the Far North and received the kindness of the Snow Empress and the Ice Empress.
He could not stand by and watch the place where he had grown up end up in the same miserable state as in the original story.
So he had decided on his path from the very beginning.
He would make the Far North a truly self-sustaining power, and even try to nurture a civilization belonging to soul beasts.
But to achieve that goal, he discovered that many crucial mechanisms needed adjusting.
Human soul masters on the Douluo Continent had to obtain a spirit ring every ten levels before they could break through their limits.
Without a spirit ring, even the most talented would remain trapped at their bottleneck.
Soul beasts had to attain ten thousand years of cultivation before awakening their intelligence, and a hundred thousand years before they possessed intelligence comparable to humans and could speak.
A ten-thousand-year soul beast had not necessarily lived for ten thousand years, but attaining that level of cultivation still required several thousand years of training, no matter what.
Even those that followed the path of devouring were no exception.
The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King had devoured frantically, yet reaching nearly a million years of cultivation had still taken him three hundred thousand years.
Soul beasts that cultivated normally progressed even more slowly.
Because of the Dragon God Prohibition, soul beasts