With matters on Tang San's side settled, Lan Changsheng turned his attention back to the training grounds before him.
Dugu Yan and the Shadow Python had already been training for two hours. But it was mainly Dugu Yan doing the training, while the Shadow Python simply absorbed Soul Power nearby.
On this visit, Lan Changsheng found that Dugu Yan's mood had improved considerably. The Shadow Python's soul had also grown more condensed, allowing it to exert greater strength.
Lan Changsheng had now figured out this mode of "symbiosis" between Dugu Yan and the Shadow Python.
Yes, symbiosis.
Dugu Yan had absorbed the Soul Bone housing the Shadow Python's soul, and that Soul Bone then served as the link connecting her to the Shadow Python.
Lan Changsheng could already replicate this arrangement.
But he was not satisfied.
He could hardly make every Soul Beast sacrifice its own Soul Bone to form a pact with a Soul Master. That would make Lan Changsheng a traitor to the Soul Beasts.
His aim was to ease relations between humans and Soul Beasts, not to make Soul Beasts bow their heads and pledge allegiance to humans.
Besides, if Soul Beasts bowed to humans, would he, Lan Changsheng, also have to find a human, kneel before them, and beg them to take pity on him?
At the thought of that scene, Lan Changsheng curled his lips and rolled a bead in his hand. The pattern of a section of arm bone was imprinted on its surface.
During this time, he had found some more Soul Bones, hoping to find the lingering souls of those Soul Beasts within them, though fewer than one in ten contained remnants of a soul.
He had awakened all the souls within those Soul Bones.
He also discovered that most of those