It was common knowledge that soul beasts had a chance of producing a soul bone after death. The older the soul beast, the greater that chance, and a hundred-thousand-year soul beast was guaranteed to leave behind a soul bone. Human soul masters coveted soul bones, and good ones could not be bought even if one had the money.
This naturally also drove soul masters to hunt soul beasts for their soul bones even when they did not need soul rings.
In the era ten thousand years later, Huo Yuhao had once received a Secret Method Soul Bone from Zhou Yi. These soul bones were produced by gathering soul beasts of the same kind and slaughtering them cruelly, which guaranteed the production of a soul bone. Although this increased the odds, the number of soul beasts dwindled rapidly.
During his time in the Divine Realm, Huo Yuhao had also considered the harm this practice caused. Viewed solely in terms of the sharp decline in soul beast populations, it was extremely shortsighted and wasteful.
Yet that perspective had made Huo Yuhao realize that he merely opposed large-scale hunting of soul beasts over a short period to obtain soul bones. He still supported hunting them over a long period, like a thin stream flowing without end, to obtain soul bones. The only difference between him at the time and those who produced Secret Method Soul Bones was how long the process took.
Afterward, Huo Yuhao had put himself in a soul beast's place to consider the issue. Suppose he were a soul beast, and one day a group of people arrived, surrounded the herd he lived with, and cruelly slaughtered them all. The members of his own kind who lived alongside him died one after another, and all those people sought to gain