Chapter 339: Discussing the Future of Soul Beasts

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"The Divine Realm will undoubtedly be a hindrance to human development!" Gu Yuena's eyes lit up as she emphasized her point.

Honestly, compared to leading the rise of soul beasts, Gu Yuena, after spending some time in human society, felt that soul beasts were indeed inferior to humans in terms of intelligence, creativity, and even courage.

Unless soul beasts could truly transform into humans, but then they would just be assimilating into the human collective...

However, these were considerations for after she returned to her true form. For now, she was more inclined towards avenging herself, fiercely beating up the five God Kings, especially the Asura God, making him taste the pain of being split in two!

"Let's not bring that up now. After all, we don't have access to the Divine Realm. We'll take it step by step," Tang San shook his head. "Since you are the leader of the soul beasts, you naturally lean towards them, right? But currently, humans need soul rings from soul beasts to break through the soul power limit. Self-consolidated soul rings are something I can achieve, but it's not yet widespread."

"Perhaps in the distant future, human soul masters might be able to generate their own soul rings to break through realms, but until we reach that point, countless soul beasts will fall prey to human soul masters."

This was an unavoidable issue for the Silver Dragon King.

However, Gu Yuena said, "Honestly, after spending time with you, I've come to realize those soul beasts are quite stupid. And I've come to terms with my own thoughts—I don't truly care about their lives or deaths. It's more about a sense of responsibility, wanting to find them a place where they can breed and live peacefully forever—"

"Death by comfort," Tang San interrupted.

"Can you let me finish?" Gu Yuena snapped, angry.

"No," Tang San yawned. "Honestly, listening to you talk about the reproduction of soul beasts is quite boring, especially considering you're their leader."

"I'm really mad now!"

"Calm down. I'm just saying, if you want soul beasts to have a permanent place to live, you might as well dream. It's a nice thought."

Tang San "reassured" her, ignoring the furious expression on Gu Yuena's face as he continued, "After all, you know more about the universe than I do. In that vast space, there are countless intelligent species. They too will develop and explore. Imagine if one day they came to the Douluo Star... Think about the capabilities an intelligent civilization from another star would have to travel light-years to reach us."

Gu Yuena rolled her eyes. "Listening to your alien stories feels even more distant than the Divine Realm."

This was a jab at Tang San's earlier comment about the Divine Realm being too remote.

"Isn't the Divine Realm another planet?" Tang San retorted.

"Well, it is." Gu Yuena thought for a moment and felt utterly speechless. After all, according to Tang San's "alien theory," the Divine Realm was a federation composed of local gods and gods from various planets, albeit with a very backward system advocating "survival of the fittest" and "the weak are guilty."

Moreover, each of the five God Kings in the Divine Realm had their issues.

"Don't change the subject," Gu Yuena refocused, narrowing her eyes. "I asked, if there were a war between soul beasts and humans one day, which side would you stand on?"

"Humans," Tang San replied without hesitation.

"Why?"

Gu Yuena didn't understand. After all, Tang San had half soul beast blood... well, in his view, a transformed soul beast, even if not fully matured, was still human.

Though she didn't want to admit it, Gu Yuena had to recognize that a transformed soul beast was fundamentally human, with the ten-thousand-year cultivation essence accumulated during its soul beast phase used to form the first seven soul rings.

"It seems you understand why," Tang San noted Gu Yuena's silence after her question and sighed softly. "I think you don't need to consider all soul beasts as your people."

"All?" Gu Yuena asked.

"After all, you can't change the food chain among soul beasts. Only those at the ten-thousand-year level can be considered your true people," Tang San explained.

Gu Yuena was skeptical. "Then how many people do I have? The ocean beasts won't even acknowledge me."

"Without intelligence close to humans, how can they be considered your people?"

Tang San looked deeply at Gu Yuena. "In your heart, you don't really consider soul beasts under fifty thousand years as your people, do you? They're more like expendable tools to you. As you mentioned before, you realized your true feelings toward the soul beasts—it's merely a sense of responsibility, driven by their worship of you. You feel you can't betray their admiration. That's probably the situation."

There was no doubt that in Tang San's eyes, whether it was the Gu Yuena from the original Douluo series or the real Silver Dragon King before him, she wasn't a qualified ruler.

Or rather, in an environment like the Star Dou Forest, it was impossible to form any effective rule, especially when Gu Yuena spent most of her time asleep.

In the original story, during the time when the Divine Realm was swept away by chaotic space-time currents, Gu Yuena directly led the soul beasts in a war against the humans of Douluo Star. This was more effective than her current method of "learning from the humans to defeat the humans."

What good was learning human technology?

Among the soul beasts, only a few fierce beasts could transform into human form. They couldn't match the vast number of humans in research.

Gu Yuena felt despondent and then asked, "Is there really no way for humans and soul beasts to coexist peacefully?"

"Coexistence is possible, as long as there's a way to erase the rule that soul rings are born when soul beasts die. But peaceful coexistence...," Tang San could only say, "The weak have no diplomacy."

This was an eternal truth.

Besides, among soul beasts, except for the Silver Dragon King and a few fierce beasts, there was nothing worthy of human respect.

Moreover, most humans were unaware of the existence of fierce beasts in the Star Dou Forest.

To humans, soul beasts were resources, not a faction.

At least on Douluo Star, if Gu Yuena wanted to secure a permanent, stable habitat for soul beasts, there was only one way: exterminating all humans on the planet and constantly preventing any species from evolving toward humanity, killing them early.

Even then, two problems remained.

First, whether hundred-thousand-year soul beasts that couldn't survive the heavenly tribulation should transform into humans.

Second, considering the factors of the Divine Realm.

For the first point, if Gu Yuena were ruthless enough, she could slaughter all the transformed hundred-thousand-year soul beasts; for the second, it was an inescapable hurdle.

"As for coexistence, humans and soul beasts already share the same continent," Gu Yuena sighed. "But if humanity continues to develop like this, soul beasts will eventually become extinct."

"You're overthinking it," Tang San shook his head. "As long as the world's energy remains, ordinary animals and plants will become soul beasts. It's just that high-level soul beasts will be rarer."

Gu Yuena: "..."

Regarding equality between soul beasts and humans:

I personally think it's impossible!

Soul beasts must either depend on or integrate with humans, becoming human.

From a high perspective, even humans fight among themselves, let alone adding an entirely new species.

Unless it's a world like Pokémon.

Or, non-divine intelligent beings are categorized as part of humanity, elevating the concept of humans.

(End of Chapter)