Lu Yi's persuasion had indeed stirred something in Di Tian.
As human Soul Guidance Technology advanced, Di Tian had seen more and more humans wielding things he could not understand to hunt Soul Beasts. Even many Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts with exceptional bloodlines were no longer a match for them.
The Star Dou Great Forest—or rather, the entire Soul Beast Clan—was slowly becoming something humans could take at will.
If things continued this way, how were Soul Beasts supposed to survive?
If a Soul Master gained two or three Soul Rings by fusing with a Soul Spirit, that meant one or two fewer Soul Beasts hunted. It was that simple.
From what Lu Yi knew of the relevant statistics, roughly one in every hundred or two hundred people who awakened a Martial Soul now had Innate Soul Power.
That rate was nearly ten times higher than records from ten thousand years ago. The reason was that Martial Soul awakenings were no longer free.
People who lived by farming and struggled just to keep food on the table could never afford to awaken a Martial Soul.
Those who did were mostly from Soul Master families, sects large and small, the nobility, or wealthy households. The rest came from families that had scrimped and saved to scrape together the fee, hoping to defy fate and change their lives.
Without that last group, the odds of awakening Innate Soul Power would rise more than tenfold again.
And the vast majority of those lucky enough to awaken Innate Soul Power had only half a level or one level of it.
Without cultivation resources or a good Cultivation Method, only half could reach level ten and obtain their First Soul Ring. The rest might spend their whole lives stuck at level nine, scarcely stronger than ordinary