After the Astral Express mediated, the Interastral Peace Corporation ultimately opted for a relatively amicable approach to the issue.
A few days later, the company officially sent a delegation to Spirit City. The person in charge of this negotiation was Aventurine from the Strategic Investment Department.
Compared to the advance team who were only responsible for investigation, Aventurine was clearly more suitable to sit at the negotiating table. After arriving in Spirit City, he did not rush to propose conditions, but first looked at the minerals, Soul Beast materials and Martial Soul research records prepared by the Spirit Hall, and then began formal negotiations with Qian Daoliu and Bibi Dong.
The direction of cooperation ultimately determined by both parties is very clear.
The Spirit Hall will provide Interastral Peace Corporation with minerals, medicinal herbs, naturally shed materials from Soul Beast, and some research data on Martial Soul unique to the Douluo Continent. At the same time, the company's researchers will be allowed to conduct research on Martial Soul, Soul Power, and Soul Ring systems under the supervision of the Spirit Hall.
One of the most important tasks is to find a way to obtain Soul Ring instead of hunting Soul Beast.
Soul Master needs Soul Ring every ten levels, and the vast majority of Soul Ring come from Soul Beast. As long as this rule doesn't change, the conflict between human Soul Master and Soul Beast will never truly end.
The company possesses a wealth of research data on life and energy from different civilizations. Although it cannot guarantee that it will be able to create Soul Ring at the moment, it is willing to include this direction in a formal research project.
After reviewing the materials compiled by the Spirit Hall, Aventurine simply smiled and said, "As long as this research can prove its value, the company will never be stingy with Credits on worthwhile projects."
In exchange, the company will gradually provide Douluo Continent with basic industrial technology, material processing equipment, and some production systems suitable for the current level of civilization, and help develop special minerals that could not be effectively utilized in the past.
The Douluo Continent will also gradually be integrated into the company's trade and financial network.
Credits will not directly replace Gold Soul Coin; initially, only limited exchange and interstellar trade settlement channels will be established. Further development will be decided once the scale of trade between the two parties expands.
After the company reached a preliminary agreement with the Spirit Hall, Xianzhou also gave a formal response.
Fu Xuan, representing Luofu, established a friendly cooperative relationship with the Spirit Hall. The Xianzhou would share some information with the Spirit Hall about Borisin, the Abominations of Abundance, and common dangerous forces in the Star Sea. In return, the Spirit Hall would share the locations and changes of spatial rifts discovered in the Douluo Continent with the Xianzhou.
Lin Yuan also took this opportunity to formally introduce Di Tian to both parties.
When Di Tian first met with the representatives of Aventurine and Xianzhou, his attitude was far from friendly. He had lived for far too long and knew better than anyone what humans had done to Soul Beast. Naturally, he wouldn't easily believe a few people from the Star Sea just because they said a few nice words.
But when the conversation turned to the current state of Soul Beast, he chose to sit down.
The company is very interested in the life system of Soul Beast that can live for tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of years through their own cultivation. The Xianzhou is also interested in researching the bloodline growth and energy accumulation methods of Soul Beast.
But this time, the cooperation did not come at the cost of hunting Soul Beast.
The Soul Beast only provide naturally shed scales, fur, blood samples, and some cultivation records they are willing to disclose. The company and the Xianzhou are responsible for studying the growth patterns of the Soul Beast and trying to find ways to solve Soul Beast current predicament.
The dependence of Soul Master on Soul Ring, the long growth cycle of Soul Beast, and the problem that high-level Soul Beast cannot continue to advance to higher levels have all been included in future cooperation projects.
Di Tian finally agreed.
For the Soul Beast Clan race, this is at least a path that has never appeared before.
With the tripartite cooperation gradually confirmed, the Spirit Hall no longer concealed the existence of the extraterrestrial visitors.
A joint announcement issued by the Pope Hall and the Worship Hall quickly spread throughout the continent through various Spirit Hall Branch.
The Spirit Hall officially announced that Douluo Continent has established contact with multiple civilizations from the starry sea.
On the day the news spread, the various Spirit Hall Branch were almost overflowing with people coming to inquire.
Most ordinary people simply cannot comprehend the sheer size of the so-called "sea of stars," but the very fact that "there are other worlds beyond the heavens" is enough to send the entire continent into a frenzy.
Immediately afterwards, the Spirit Hall announced its second matter.
A continent-wide Soul Master exchange competition will be held ahead of schedule.
This time, however, it is no longer limited to high-level Soul Master Academy.
To fully showcase the Douluo Continent's Martial Soul system to visitors from the Star Sea, the competition will cover Soul Master of different ages and cultivation levels, and will simultaneously set up three main competition areas.
The Heaven Dou Empire Division is located in Heaven Dou City.
The Spirit Hall's directly affiliated competition area is located in Spirit City.
The Star Luo Empire Division is located in Star Luo City.
The three major competition zones will hold their own competitions, and Soul Master Academy from various regions can register to participate according to their age and cultivation level. Younger students will enter the junior group, while intermediate and advanced academies will enter their respective groups, so that there will no longer be situations where six- or seven-year-old children fight on the same stage as Soul Master in their teens or twenties.
However, the results of the matches in each region are not the final outcome.
According to the rules announced by the Spirit Hall, after each age group is completed, the best performing group of Soul Master will be selected from the entire competition area. They will no longer be restricted by the original academy teams, but will instead form a new elite team representing their respective regions.
The geniuses selected from the Heaven Dou Empire region will form the Heaven Dou Empire representative team.
The outstanding Soul Master selected from the Star Luo Empire competition region will form the Star Luo Empire representative team.
As for the Spirit City competition area, the strongest individuals will be selected from the academies affiliated with the Spirit Hall, its branch halls in various regions, and young Soul Master willing to participate in the directly affiliated competition areas to form the Spirit Hall representative team.
Each age group has its own representative team.
In other words, the previous regional competitions were not only about vying for rankings, but also about competing for the qualification to represent the entire faction in the final competition in Spirit City.
After the three major competitions conclude, all participating teams will travel together to Spirit City.
The final match will also be held in Spirit City.
At that time, personnel from the Astral Express, the Xianzhou Alliance, and the Interastral Peace Corporation will be invited to attend the event. The Spirit Hall hopes that through the final competition, these forces truly from the Star Sea will see the most outstanding group of young Soul Master from the Douluo Continent, and also use this opportunity to judge the potential of different Martial Soul in actual combat, growth, and teamwork.
After this rule was announced, the significance of the competition suddenly changed completely.
Some forces that originally only wanted to give the young people in the academy experience have also begun to take it seriously.
Because once you stand out from the competition area, you're no longer just representing one college.
Instead, they represented the entire nation, standing before guests from across the sea of stars.
Outstanding contestants from all three regions will receive rewards, with the top performers also receiving special materials and cultivation resources jointly prepared by the Spirit Hall and the company, as well as the qualification to enter the Future Star Sea Research Project.
After the news reached the Heaven Dou Empire, Xue Ye summoned Cong Jichen that very day.
The Spirit Hall has already taken the lead in establishing contact with the Star Sea Civilization. If the Heaven Dou Empire refuses to hold the regional competition at this time, it would be tantamount to voluntarily giving up all the opportunities to showcase its young Soul Master.
Ultimately, the Heaven Dou Imperial Family agreed to open Heaven Dou City as the competition venue and requested that all eligible Soul Master Academy within the Empire decide for themselves whether to register.
This order was quickly relayed throughout the imperial administrative system.
The Heaven Dou Royal Academy, the Five Elements Academy, and a large number of small and medium-sized Soul Master Academy received the notification one after another.
The message traveled south, eventually reaching even the Fasinuo Province.
Nuoding Junior Soul Master Academy also received an official file from the Heaven Dou Division.
The Star Luo Empire's reaction was even more direct.
Since both the Spirit Hall and Heaven Dou were preparing to showcase their young Soul Master, Star Luo Empire naturally couldn't be absent. The Dai Family quickly announced that they would host the Star Luo Empire competition, while also increasing the rewards for their own region, Remembrance their intention to compete with the other two.
In an instant, all the Soul Master Academy on the continent began to take action.
Meanwhile, in a classroom at the Nuoding Academy, a notice bearing the joint seal of the Heaven Dou Empire and the Spirit Hall was delivered to the academy's dean.
The notice only had a few eye-catching words at the top.
Continental Soul Master Exchange Tournament.
Junior group.
At this moment, Tang San was unaware that this competition, which had been brought forward due to extraterrestrial visitors, would soon draw him into it.