Chapter 263: A Different Kind of Soul Beast Contract
The entire Sunset Forest was now engulfed in a vast ocean of green light, radiating an overwhelming surge of life energy.
What Ye Cheng was doing at this moment was essentially channeling the cultivation energy of countless plants within the forest into the Blue Silver Emperor, rapidly accelerating its growth.
Of course, this wasn't harming the forest the energy extracted from each plant was an insignificant fraction of their overall vitality. Under normal circumstances, these plants could recover naturally just by absorbing sunlight.
One plant's energy might be trivial, but when thousands upon thousands an entire forest's worth contributed, the accumulated life force became unimaginably immense.
As this surging tide of vitality flooded into the Blue Silver Emperor, its transformation became visibly dramatic.
The once small plant rapidly expanded, its massive golden leaves stretching across every corner of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well's basin.
Ye Cheng remained still, monitoring the changes with his divine sense. He could feel the Blue Silver Emperor greedily absorbing the vast ocean of life energy like a parched traveler stumbling upon an endless oasis.
Its cultivation age skyrocketed at an astonishing rate
100 years… 1,000 years… 10,000 years!
In just half an hour, it evolved from a barely century old soul beast into a 10,000 year old Blue Silver Emperor.
And this wasn't the end.
From all directions, more life energy continued to flow, spiraling above the plant like a vortex, all of it pouring into its core, further advancing its cultivation.
Two hours passed.
The transformation was now truly immense
The Blue Silver Emperor had expanded hundreds of times in size, its enormous leaves spreading throughout the valley.
Its cultivation age had already reached 99,000 years, standing on the verge of 100,000 years.
Meanwhile, the once boundless ocean of life energy had significantly diminished.
Previously, the entire forest had been bathed in a sea of glowing green light. Now, only the area around the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well still retained a significant amount.
"This should be just enough."
Ye Cheng, having been closely monitoring the Blue Silver Emperor's progress, knew exactly how much more was needed for it to reach 100,000 years.
He then ceased extracting life energy from the plants, allowing the remaining energy to naturally integrate into the Blue Silver Emperor.
Moments later, a new change occurred.
The Blue Silver Emperor's giant leaves, which had been spread throughout the valley, began to converge inward.
Each massive leaf was now saturated with immense energy, and even faint traces of Ye Cheng's divine power could be sensed within them.
By now, the entire plant had turned golden, its leaves rising and forming a massive cocoon, nearly ten meters in diameter.
It glowed brilliantly, exuding a formidable energy that pulsed from within.
Seeing this, Ye Cheng immediately understood
"This is the sign of a soul beast evolving to 100,000 years."
Once the Blue Silver Emperor emerged from its cocoon, it would officially return to the 100,000 year level.
At that moment, it would face two choices:
Transform into a human, starting its cultivation anew.Remain a 100,000 year soul beast, endure a heavenly tribulation, and eventually reach the 200,000 year threshold, where it could become a fierce beast and develop a human form.
"Why would it choose to become human? Does soul beast transformation even count as true humanization?"
Ye Cheng shook his head.
To him, the so called transformation of soul beasts into humans was nothing more than a trap set by the gods of the Divine Realm.
In this world, a soul beast turning human was a dead end.
No deity would ever grant a godly inheritance to a former soul beast.
No matter how talented a transformed soul beast was, it could never receive divine ascension instead, it would reach its limit and perish.
Moreover, once a soul beast transformed into a human, it could no longer walk the path of a God Ring Master.
Unlike regular soul masters, transformed soul beasts couldn't reset their spirit rings.
For normal soul masters, shattering their spirit rings resulted in severe energy depletion, but it was not fatal.
However, for a soul beast that had turned human, the first six spirit rings were formed from their own essence not acquired from hunting.
If they shattered these rings, they weren't just damaging their energy they were crippling their own core vitality.
This was the equivalent of mutilation severing limbs, destroying essential organs, permanently weakening themselves beyond recovery.
Thus, even if they practiced God Ring cultivation, they could never reach true heights due to these innate flaws.
Unless they could find a way to repair these defects, a transformed soul beast would never achieve anything beyond the mortal realm.
For this reason, Ye Cheng saw no future for soul beasts choosing to become human.
Unless they were lucky enough to obtain a godly inheritance, transformation was simply a dead end path.
And now, the Blue Silver Emperor, influenced by the memories of Ah Yin's past, was instinctively about to choose the human path.
But Ye Cheng would not allow that.
He had invested too much effort to let it become a useless ornamental figure.
After some thought, Ye Cheng formulated a plan.
Recently, he had been researching soul beast contracts and had developed an alternative method.
The original soul beast contract was a symbiotic pact a soul master and a soul beast would form a mutual bond, ensuring they shared each other's fortunes and struggles.
If one grew stronger, the other would also benefit.If one suffered harm, the other would feel the effects as well.If one died, the survivor would suffer significant damage, potentially crippling their cultivation.
However, after extensive research, Ye Cheng had unraveled the contract's secrets and created a new variation
The Master Servant Soul Beast Contract.
As the name suggests, this contract no longer established a balanced symbiosis.
Instead, it created a one sided hierarchy, where the soul master held absolute dominance over the soul beast.
Unlike the original contract, the master was no longer obligated to share their power with the soul beast.The soul master could freely control whether or not to transfer energy to the contracted soul beast.Even if the soul beast's cultivation was far lower, the soul master would not be weakened in order to maintain balance.
In essence, this new contract granted full control to the master, while the soul beast was completely bound by it.
And now, Ye Cheng intended to apply this new contract ensuring the Blue Silver Emperor would never go down the path of humanization and instead become a truly formidable existence under his command.
(End of Chapter)
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