"What? A hundred-thousand-year soul beast transformation embryo? How is that possible?"
Xu Jiawei exclaimed in shock. As the sovereign of a nation, he knew a great deal, including something about soul beast transformation.
After cultivating for a hundred thousand years, a soul beast faced two choices. If it broke through the hundred-thousand-year threshold, it could gain another ten thousand years of life. But after those ten thousand years, it would face the heavenly tribulation of a hundred-and-ten-thousand-year ferocious beast. If it failed to survive, the tribulation would strike it dead.
This was a road to certain death.
Even now, the ferocious beasts on the continent could be counted on one hand. In other words, practically every hundred-thousand-year soul beast that faced the heavenly tribulation had died.
The second choice was to transform into a human, an option even riskier than facing the tribulation.
Upon success, it would completely shed its beast body and become human. Before acquiring seven rings, it would still have to worry about being discovered. After seven rings, however, not even a Titled Douluo could detect anything amiss, because by then, the transformed soul beast would have become entirely human.
Although killing it would still yield a soul ring and soul bone, at that point, it truly was no different from killing a person.
Transformation was extremely dangerous for a hundred-thousand-year soul beast. Being discovered before it had fully matured would bring a catastrophe crashing down upon its head.
Thus, very few hundred-thousand-year soul beasts chose this path, and even those that did would undertake it somewhere extremely remote and well concealed.
Encountering a hundred-thousand-year soul beast was a one-in-a-hundred chance.
Encountering a human transformed from a hundred-thousand-year soul beast was a one-in-ten-thousand chance.
And happening upon a hundred-thousand-year soul beast in the middle of its transformation,