Douluo Jueshi: Picking up Firefly at the Beginning

Anyone with even a modicum of foresight knows that Soul Spirit technology will have an unprecedented and profound impact on the future development of the Douluo Continent.

For a long time, Soul Masters who wanted to improve their strength and advance to a higher realm had no choice but to embark on the path of hunting Soul Beasts to obtain Soul Rings.

However, the number of soul beasts is not infinite. As the number of soul masters continues to increase, the scale of hunting soul beasts is also expanding.

If this vicious cycle continues, the number of soul beasts will inevitably decrease drastically, eventually leading to their extinction.

Once all the soul beasts disappear, the soul master profession, which relies on soul rings to enhance its strength, will inevitably come to an end. Even those soul tools that rely on soul power will become useless scrap metal because they lose their source of soul power.

In fact, many people understand this potential crisis, but they are powerless in the face of the established cultivation rules of Douluo Continent and can only watch helplessly as the situation deteriorates step by step.

However, the emergence of Soul technology has undoubtedly brought a glimmer of hope to this dire situation.

Its appearance can obviously alleviate the survival pressure faced by soul beasts to a great extent.

Human Soul Masters can use this technology to reduce the large-scale hunting of wild Soul Beasts. Although it cannot completely eliminate hunting, it can at least greatly slow down the process of Soul Beast extinction and buy more precious time for Soul Beast populations to reproduce and thrive.

The announcement of Shrek Academy's Soul Spirit technology was like a bombshell dropped into a calm lake, instantly creating huge waves and making Shrek Academy famous once again, shaking the entire Douluo Continent.

However, this technology is currently in its early, well-developed stage. The so-called Soul Contract is extremely complex and demanding to create, and only the developer from Shrek Academy is currently capable of completing it.

There are deeper reasons behind Shrek Academy's high-profile announcement of this news to the entire continent and the unanimous support from the major empires.

Shrek Academy had already conducted a large number of rigorous experiments before officially announcing the technology.

They invited researchers from various empires to participate in the experiment. Under the guidance of Shrek Academy, these researchers successfully obtained soul spirits and even broadcast this amazing process to people all over the continent through soul guidance live streaming.

Although the technology is still in its early stages and has many shortcomings, the results it has already demonstrated are enough to excite and thrill countless people.

After all, the traditional soul hunting process is far too dangerous. No one can predict whether each time they step into the Soul Beast Forest to hunt souls, they will end up as food for the soul beasts, never to return.

Soul spirits, on the other hand, are completely different. A powerful soul spirit can provide a soul master with multiple high-quality soul ring effects.

Soul Masters no longer need to risk venturing deep into the Soul Beast Forest to hunt Soul Beasts whenever they break through their strength, as they used to, greatly improving their safety.

Shrek Academy also solemnly stated that they would not monopolize this technology, but would patiently wait for it to mature further before releasing and promoting it to the entire continent without reservation.

Shrek Academy made this decision with the intention of trying its best to alleviate the increasingly sharp conflict between humans and soul beasts.

In fact, in recent years, with the rapid increase in the number of Soul Masters and Soul Instructors, the living environment of Soul Beasts on the Douluo Continent has become increasingly harsh. Apart from the Star Dou Great Forest, which can barely maintain a certain size of Soul Beast population due to its unique geographical environment and powerful Soul Beast forces, the habitats of Soul Beasts in other places are being constantly squeezed and encroached upon by humans.

High-level soul beasts are becoming increasingly rare due to frequent hunting. Especially after the rise of soul masters, they used various advanced soul tools to carry out large-scale hunting of soul beasts, and even low-level soul beasts with ten or a hundred years of cultivation were not spared.

If this trend continues, when humanity can no longer obtain enough soul power, the entire civilization of Douluo Continent will face the crisis of collapse.

At that time, not only will the glorious profession of Soul Master become history, but even those once-glorious Soul Tools that relied on Soul Power will become a pile of useless junk.

The emergence of Soul Spirit technology undoubtedly provides an excellent opportunity to ease the seemingly irreconcilable conflict between humans and Soul Beasts.

If this technology can be successfully promoted throughout the continent, it can at least significantly slow down the decline in the number of soul beasts, giving them a precious respite and allowing the soul beast race more time to reproduce and recover.

Of course, if we want Soul Spirit technology to be promoted more quickly and widely and to be developed in depth, it is crucial to obtain strong support from the Soul Master community.

After all, the process of signing a soul contract requires the active cooperation of the soul beast itself. Generally speaking, for soul beasts whose lifespan is about to end, signing a soul contract with a human might be a good choice.

After becoming spirits, they can extend their lives, depend on human spirit masters, grow together, and achieve mutual benefit and win-win results.

However, in the end, it all depends on the choice of the soul beasts themselves. They are faced with a difficult choice: to give up their freedom and sign a contract with humans to survive, thus becoming closely bound to them, or to stick to their freedom and never compromise even when faced with the threat of death.

Survival and freedom are mutually exclusive choices.

When Meteor learned of this earth-shattering news, the first person that came to mind was Huo Yuhao.

Because he clearly remembered that Ice Emperor was originally Huo Yuhao's soul spirit, and Huo Yuhao had even used Ice Emperor's power during the All-Continent Advanced Soul Master Elite Tournament held in Mingdu.

According to Bingdi, this soul technology was the result of dedicated research by one of Huo Yuhao's teachers.

It was inspired by and based on the unique forms of existence of the Ice Emperor and the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm on Huo Yuhao. After countless experiments and improvements, it was finally developed into a spiritual body technology.

Gu Yuena showed great interest in this technology that had a significant impact on soul beasts.

After all, if it is as Shrek Academy claims, this technology is indeed a feasible way to effectively protect soul beasts.

Through a soul contract, a soul beast becomes the soul spirit of a human soul master. This allows the soul beast to avoid being hunted to some extent, while the human soul master gains a way to increase their strength, achieving a harmonious coexistence between the two. (End of Chapter)