The Soul Spirit Method, co-perfected by Tianhao and Electrolux, was not complex in its core principles, yet it completely overturned the traditional method of Spirit Masters hunting Spirit Beasts to seize spirit rings.
Its core lay in using Electrolux's original Necromancy formation as a medium when a Spirit Beast's life was coming to an end.
It guided the Spirit Beast's Soul and spirit power to leave its Physical Body while preserving its complete intelligence and most of its combat power, transforming it into an illusory yet truly existing Soul Spirit.
Subsequently, the Soul Spirit would complete a contract with a Spirit Master to become their exclusive spirit ring, residing within the Spirit Master's Sea of Consciousness to coexist with them.
In this manner, although the Soul Spirit lost its Physical Body, it did not truly perish.
Instead, it continued to live in a Soul form, able to follow its Host to perceive the mundane World of humans, learn human knowledge, and experience a completely different life journey.
In a sense, for some Spirit Beasts, this was a new life.
However, this benefit was not for all Spirit Beasts; it was limited to those elderly ones whose Lifespans were nearly exhausted and could no longer increase their strength.
Or perhaps endangered Spirit Beasts that were heavily injured, on the brink of death, and beyond help, or gentle Spirit Beasts that naturally bore no ill will toward humans and yearned for the human World.
For the vast majority of wild Spirit Beasts entrenched deep in the forests, naturally hostile toward humans, and steadfastly guarding their territory...
They still could not accept this method of transformation; the hostility between humans and Spirit Beasts remained deeply rooted.
Even so, the Soul Spirit Method still possessed advantages enough to shake the continent, advantages from which all Spirit Beasts could indirectly benefit.
Traditionally, every time a Spirit Master achieved a Breakthrough into a major Realm, they had to hunt a Spirit Beast of the corresponding age to obtain a spirit ring.
One Spirit Beast could only provide a single spirit ring, resulting in a massive consumption of Spirit Beasts.
But the Soul Spirit Method completely changed this rule; a single Soul Spirit could provide multiple spirit rings for its Host based on its own cultivation years and Bloodline strength.
hundred-year Soul Spirits had a weaker Foundation and could normally provide one to two spirit rings, though most ordinary hundred-year Soul Spirits could only stably provide one.
thousand-year Soul Spirits had slightly stronger Bloodlines and could provide two to three rings based on their heritage; ten-thousand-year Soul Spirits had increasingly pure Bloodlines and could provide three to four.
The rarest hundred-thousand-year Soul Spirits were top-tier existences among Spirit Beasts with incredibly powerful Bloodlines, capable of providing up to five spirit rings for their Host.
Even those with slightly inferior Bloodlines could stably provide three to five.
One must realize that Spirit Beasts with top-tier Bloodlines on the continent were few after all; the vast majority relied on long years to accumulate cultivation and had no special Bloodline Legacy.
So in practical application, most hundred-year Soul Spirits could only provide one spirit ring, thousand-year ones two, ten-thousand-year ones three, and hundred-thousand-year ones three to five.
But even so, this could drastically reduce the number of Spirit Beasts hunted by Spirit Masters.
In the past, for a Spirit Master to Break through to become a Titled Douluo, they needed to hunt at least nine Spirit Beasts of various ages.
Now, with a suitable Soul Spirit, perhaps only two or three would be enough to gather the required spirit rings.
The survival pressure on Spirit Beasts would be significantly lowered, which was the most direct contribution of the Soul Spirit Method to the Spirit Beast World.
Tianhao understood in his heart that as long as a Spirit Master's promotion still required spirit rings, and the power of spirit rings remained the core of a Spirit Master's Cultivation...
Then true peaceful coexistence between humans and Spirit Beasts would never be possible; this was an irreversible core contradiction.
But he never thought of resolving this grudge of hundreds of thousands of years in one fell swoop.
For now, he only needed to perfect and promote the Soul Spirit Method to enhance the strength of the Sun Moon Empire and buy himself enough time to grow.
As for the more distant future, the heavy responsibility of completely resolving the conflict between humans and beasts would have to wait until his own cultivation reached the summit and he possessed enough of a voice to implement it step by step.
When Tianhao brought the perfected Soul Spirit Method and several successfully transformed Soul Spirits before Xu Tianran, Kong Deming, Poison Immortal, and a group of other top powerhouses...
Everyone present was completely shocked by this unheard-of method, their faces filled with expressions of disbelief.
They listened carefully to Tianhao's explanation of the Soul Spirit Method's principles, advantages, and application methods.
Watching the scenes of successful Spirit Masters and Soul Spirits acting in unison and collaboratively unleashing Spirit Abilities, the shock in their hearts could not subside for a long time.
As the Crown Prince of the Sun Moon Empire, Xu Tianran was bent on strengthening the Empire's national power to sweep across the three nations of the continent.
Once Xu Tianran thoroughly grasped the power of the Soul Spirit Method, a burning light instantly ignited in his eyes, and he wished he could immediately break through rank ninety to become a Titled Douluo.
He secretly calculated that if he could contract a hundred-thousand-year Soul Spirit as his ninth spirit ring when he broke through to Titled Douluo...
Even if the Soul Spirit's combat power was slightly inferior to the Spirit Beast's state while alive, the strength of a hundred-thousand-year Soul Spirit would be enough to rival an ordinary Titled Douluo.
By then, his combat power would surely be unparalleled on the continent, and the Sun Moon Empire's hegemony would advance even further.
Such benefits truly made one's heart race with excitement.
As for Poison Immortal, after learning about the Soul Spirit Method, his heart was filled with regret.
He was already a Titled Douluo with a full set of nine rings; his spirit rings were already fixed, and he would have no chance in this life to contract a Soul Spirit or enjoy the combat power boost it provided.
But he quickly adjusted his mindset, thinking of how the younger generation of Disciples in the Body Sect was now producing many talents.
In the future, these juniors could all use the Soul Spirit Method to obtain Soul Spirit enhancements without having to frantically hunt Spirit Beasts.
The Sect's strength would bound to flourish in the future, so the regret in his heart faded quite a bit, and instead, his admiration for Tianhao grew.
After the group finished their discussion, Xu Tianran immediately slapped the table and made a decision to personally lead the promotion of the Soul Spirit Method, wanting to rapidly popularize this Heaven-Defying method throughout the entire Sun Moon Empire.
And for the first stop of the promotion, Tianhao and Xu Tianran coincidentally selected the largest Spirit Beast habitat within the Sun Moon Empire—the Evil Demon Forest.
The Evil Demon Forest was the area with the largest number and strongest Spirit Beasts within the Sun Moon Empire.
It was the primary location for Sun Moon Empire Spirit Masters to obtain spirit rings; as long as the Soul Spirit Method could be smoothly promoted in the Evil Demon Forest, its subsequent popularization throughout the Empire would follow naturally.
More importantly, the overlord of the Evil Demon Forest was the Evil Eye Tyrant Lord, who ranked second on the list of the ten great savage beasts.
This super Spirit Beast held supreme authority throughout the entire Spirit Beast World.
The Evil Eye Tyrant Lord's strength was matchless, making him the undisputed Dominator of the Evil Demon Forest.
As long as they could persuade the Evil Eye Tyrant Lord and gain the recognition of this top-tier Vicious Beast...
Then all Spirit Beasts within the Evil Demon Forest would follow orders, cooperating with the experimentation and promotion of the Soul Spirit Method without large-scale resistance or conflict.
Conversely, if they could not get the support of the Evil Eye Tyrant Lord, attempting to implement the Soul Spirit Method in the Evil Demon Forest would surely encounter layer upon layer of obstacles, potentially even triggering large-scale slaughter between Spirit Beasts and human Spirit Masters.
Therefore, taking down the Evil Demon Forest and persuading the Evil Eye Tyrant Lord became the key step for the full-scale promotion of the Soul Spirit Method.
This was also the core objective that Tianhao was going to focus on conquering next.