"The end?"
The Silver Dragon King gave a soft, cold laugh. Several whirlpools appeared in the Lake of Life, sending Life Spirit Liquid splashing everywhere. Her draconic might abruptly grew sharper, and the chill in the air instantly pierced to the bone.
"This end you speak of means having Soul Beasts lower themselves, willingly offer their strength, and approach humans of their own accord, just so humans can grow stronger more safely. Is that right?"
Lan Changsheng shook his head but said nothing.
His reaction only made the Silver Dragon King angrier. She continued to roar, "Human greed knows no bounds! Their desires are a bottomless abyss! A million years of blood-deep hatred lies before your eyes, and you! What makes you think your Symbiosis Laws can erase all of it? That they can make Soul Beasts lay down their hatred! Willingly let humans use them!"
"Today, you call it equal symbiosis between Soul Beasts and humans. Tomorrow, once humanity's wings have grown strong, they will still raise their butcher's knives! Against our kin!"
"This isn't salvation. You're helping humans domesticate Soul Beasts!"
Every word the Silver Dragon King spoke was a pearl of truth, every sentence barbed.
This was the wariness buried deepest in her heart, and every Soul Beast's greatest fear of the Soul Spirit Symbiosis Method.
Because she could not defeat the gods of the Divine Realm, she could endure lying low for a time and avoid their sharp edge.
But she could never accept her fellow Soul Beasts becoming humanity's dependents for generations, reduced to the tools and puppets of Soul Beasts!
Faced with the Silver Dragon King's fierce rebuttal, Lan Changsheng did not grow angry. He merely listened quietly, only speaking slowly once she had finished, his tone firm and forthright. "This is the vicious