Virtually all Soul Beasts rejected Soul Tools. Part of that rejection was psychological, born of the Soul Beasts' current predicament and the fact that all modern Soul Tools were created by humans.
Another reason was that the vast majority of Soul Beasts could not use Soul Tools, much less manufacture them. Otherwise, Xiong Jun would not have first transformed into human form before fiddling with the Soul Guidance Screen in his hands.
After all, with the enormous paws of his true form, a Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear, fiddling with the Soul Guidance Screen in his hands would have been far too difficult.
Yet Xiong Jun had always been one of the Soul Beasts who firmly opposed Soul Tools. He even mocked humans at every turn for relying on external objects like Soul Tools to take shortcuts.
But no matter how Xiong Jun mocked humans for using Soul Tools, the fact before his eyes could not be changed: it was because humans had popularized and developed Soul Tools that they had utterly crushed the Soul Beasts.
This had already been apparent ten thousand years ago, during the Beast Tide triggered by the Auspicious Beast's sacrifice. Back then, the Star Dou Great Forest had not yet become what it was now, and could still launch a large-scale Beast Tide.
But against Shrek City back then, even before humans had equipped themselves with such powerful Soul Tools, the Soul Beasts' losses had already been unbearable.
Perhaps they could have taken Shrek City at any cost back then, but with the remaining human cities still ahead of them, the Soul Beasts ultimately could not afford that attrition.
The Soul Beasts had already faced that problem then, and now things had come to this.
Even as he looked at the present Core Area and the