Soul Beast

Biodata

Overview

Soul Beasts are creatures whose cultivation, bloodline, and attributes determine their strength and potential. Their cultivation is commonly measured in years, from low-level beasts to Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts and Fierce Beasts. Bloodline is particularly important: powerful bloodlines can suppress weaker Soul Beasts and determine their ultimate growth ceiling. 60 141 259

Historically, humans have killed Soul Beasts to obtain Soul Rings and Soul Bones. This creates a fundamental conflict between the two races, since human advancement depends on resources produced by Soul Beast deaths. 137

Classification

Traits

• Cultivation — Soul Beast strength is associated with accumulated years of cultivation. A Dark Demon Evil God Tiger with roughly 400,000 years of cultivation could contend with a Fierce Beast at the Ten Thousand Demon King's level due to its six attributes. 325
• Bloodline — Bloodline governs a Soul Beast's pressure, potential, and evolutionary prospects. A higher-ranking bloodline can make weaker beasts struggle to breathe. 259
• Attributes — Soul Beasts may possess elemental or specialized attributes, such as ice, wind, healing, transformation, evil, time, space, lightning, and power. 60 322 338
• Intelligence — Intelligence varies greatly. Some beasts act on instinct, while ancient Fierce Beasts and clan leaders can negotiate, make decisions, and pursue long-term goals. 95 173
• Human forms — Certain high-level Soul Beasts can assume or materialize human forms, as demonstrated by Ah Yin and the Snow Empress. 225 251

Relationship with Humans

Soul Rings and Soul Bones

Humans traditionally hunt Soul Beasts for Soul Rings, which are required for advancement, and Soul Bones, which can grant or enhance abilities. This system is described as the central obstacle to genuine human–Soul Beast coexistence. 137

• Soul Bones can be rare even when a species is known, especially for weak Soul Beasts such as Wind Baboons. 60
• A Soul Bone may grant a new skill or enhance an existing one; Little Gold's Dark Gold Dreadclaw skill gained a 40% damage increase after absorbing a matching Soul Bone. 60
• Conventional beast-controlling Martial Souls exist, but some control only beasts substantially weaker than their user, while Evil Spirit Masters may merely imprison beast souls. 78

Pet Beast Contracts

Su Wen's Beast Taming Martial Soul offers an alternative relationship: captured Soul Beasts become contracted Pet Beasts rather than producing Soul Rings. Each contract is permanent and occupies a limited Beast Taming slot. 182

• A contracted Soul Beast shares its master's cultivation speed and fights alongside them. 369
• Pet Beasts feed a portion of their attributes, such as defense and speed, back to their human partner. 369
• Contracted Soul Beasts possess multiple forms and evolve simultaneously when Su Wen reaches designated stages of strength. 95
• A Pet Beast can choose to leave after its human partner dies or remain and contract with that person's offspring. 369
• Su Wen's system allows his Soul Rings to function as independent contracted Soul Beasts. 182

Evolution

Evolution can raise a Soul Beast's bloodline, potential, form, and skills rather than merely increasing its cultivation. This is considered especially valuable among Soul Beasts because it can restore or surpass ancestral glory. 107 259

• Wind Baboon → Immortal Cloud Flowing Ape — Hurricane evolves into a more profound ape form and gains an evolved staff. 225
• Dark Demon Evil God Tiger → Chaos Evil God Tiger — The tiger evolves into a Qiongqi-like form after capture, retaining its exceptional multi-attribute potential. 325
• Mirror Shadow Beast → Trickster — Gains ultimate transformation affinity and replication-focused Heaven-tier abilities. 338
• Di Tian → World-Ending Black Dragon — Evolves after becoming Su Wen's contracted Soul Beast and gains support abilities. 408
• Gu Yuena → Dragon God — Her advancement is tied to her contract with Su Wen and opens the prospect of Soul Beasts inheriting godhood. 329

Notable Soul Beasts

• Hurricane — A Wind Baboon captured by Su Wen as his first Soul Beast; later evolves into the Immortal Cloud Flowing Ape. 4 225
• Xuan Ji — Formerly Little Gold, a Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear whose evolved combat power approaches that of a Limit Douluo in its second form. 225 326
• Snow Empress — A contracted Pet Beast who evolves into the Mystic Heaven Snow Woman and can freeze the sea for thousands of miles. 150 227
• Ah Yin — A plant-type Pet Beast who manifests a human form and grants Su Wen the Heaven-grade Golden Domain. 251
• Liya — A Sea Princess who undergoes a major bloodline evolution after contracting with Su Wen. 258 259
• Gu Yuena — The Silver Dragon King, later captured by Su Wen and advanced to Dragon God. 329
• Di Tian — A powerful dragon Fierce Beast who willingly joins Su Wen and evolves into the World-Ending Black Dragon. 408
• Golden Mastiff — A Golden Mane Lion Mastiff contracted as Su Wen's second Martial Soul; possesses the Law Deconstruction domain. 422

Universal Beastmastery

Su Wen seeks to replace the Soul Ring-based relationship between humans and Soul Beasts with a widespread Pet Beast system. His proposal combines contracts, inheritance arrangements, and improvements to the underlying “Soul Ring bug” in pursuit of coexistence. 273 369

The Spirit Transfer Pagoda later begins promoting Pokeballs as a replacement for Soul Spirits, providing access to small worlds where humans can contract Soul Beasts. 417

• The system shifts combat emphasis toward cooperation between humans and their Pet Beasts. 369 417
• Students at affiliated academies receive priority access to capture elves in the Elf World. 417
• The God Realm ultimately permits Soul Beasts to inherit godhoods, recognizing that even Su Wen's lowest-bloodline Pet Beasts qualify for Level One God inheritances. 329