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When initially condensing a spirit ring, the condensing speed is at its fastest. This is because the spirit ring has not yet taken shape, and it will condense the maximum lifespan the spirit master can withstand within the boundaries of the beast mark's lifespan.
However, if one wants to upgrade the spirit ring in the future, it has to be ground down over time.
The more beast marks one possesses, the faster this improvement speed will be.
The Method of the Beast Mark.
As Di Tian listened to Su Wen's brief explanation of the Method of the Beast Mark, he fell into silence.
This method was indeed beneficial to spirit beasts.
Do not just look at how the spirit masters suffered no losses and even gained a stable pathway to upgrade their spirit rings.
The spirit beast side did not get the short end of the stick either.
"What real-world impact will a spirit beast suffer if it dies in the Myriad Beast Realm?" This was what Di Tian cared about more.
"Also, what help does the Myriad Beast Realm provide to spirit beasts?"
He had asked the crucial questions.
"The impact depends on the choice the spirit beasts make themselves when they enter the Myriad Beast Realm. Using essence blood and soul origin as a guide to enter the Myriad Beast Realm, once they die, they will naturally suffer trauma in reality. It is possible they might be weakened for several years, or even decades."
Using essence blood and soul origin as a guide?
Di Tian frowned. He knew that human spirit masters required no conditions to enter the Scholarly Realm; they only needed to use a spirit mark to enter.
However, Su Wen had also said that it depended on the spirit beasts' own choice. Clearly, using essence blood and soul origin as a guide was just one option, and this option came with high returns alongside high risks.
"As for the benefits of the Myriad Beast Realm to spirit beasts, they are also obvious. Even without the disturbance of human spirit masters, slaughtering each other among spirit beasts is safer in the Myriad Beast Realm. Although the rewards are small--only allowing them to hunt a tiny bit of essence blood and soul origin--it wins on safety.
Secondly, you Savage Beasts can also leave behind inheritances in the Myriad Beast Realm, whether soul imprints or bloodline imprints, to nurture descendants among the spirit beasts who possess similar bloodlines.
Finally, there is counter-killing human spirit masters. Counter-killing human spirit masters will also grant a feedback of mental strength. This is the price human spirit masters pay for entering the Scholarly Realm. It is just that humans are born with wisdom and their mental strength recovers quickly, so this portion of mental strength can be swiftly restored by spirit masters."
In the past, when spirit masters entered the Scholarly Realm, it seemed to carry no price, but it actually cost a portion of their mental strength.
It was just that there was no conflict or death in the Scholarly Realm, so it would not cause any obvious damage to this portion of mental strength, making it appear as if there was no cost.
But if they entered the Myriad Beast Realm, that would be entirely different.
Furthermore, while the current Scholarly Realm seemed to have no conflict, it actually existed. The existence of the Spirit Fighting Arena was one example. Because of the safety of the Scholarly Realm, life-and-death battles that rarely appeared in reality were becoming more and more common in the Scholarly Realm's Spirit Fighting Arena instead.
After dying in this kind of spirit fight, a spirit master's mental strength would also be damaged, requiring a period of rest and recuperation.
This also set psychological expectations for the spirit master faction in advance. When the Myriad Beast Realm came out, the spirit master faction would not find it unacceptable.
"By using essence blood and soul origin as a guide, the rewards obtained in the Myriad Beast Realm will also have a vessel, making it more convenient to bring them back into reality," Su Wen explained the function of essence blood and souls.
Of course, while this was the effect of essence blood and souls for spirit beasts, their effect for spirit masters was naturally the difference in condensing speed during spirit upgrading.
The more he understood the Myriad Beast Realm, the more Di Tian became alarmed.
Because Su Wen was actually capable of achieving the opening of such a Myriad Beast Realm.
He had completely turned cultivation and the hunting between races into a game, introducing it into an illusory world like the Myriad Beast Realm, and could even transfer the benefits to each other through this illusory world.
This kind of method was too miraculous and inconceivable.
Even deities would probably find it very difficult to accomplish this, right?
The conflict between human spirit masters and spirit beasts had never been a difficult problem for Su Wen.
Because he had always had a direction for a solution. He had encountered bottlenecks in the development of specific techniques, but during his time on the Boundless Continent, he naturally broke through these bottlenecks. At that time, he had even taken the lead in establishing a wonder that aided rubbing and printing within the Scholarly Realm of the Boundless Continent.
Since future generations could develop soul tool technology to the level of artificial spirit souls, in theory, spirit masters could also cultivate without relying on spirit rings obtained from hunting, and could still achieve the enhancement of their martial souls.
After all, Su Wen did not recall any setting in the original work stating that absorbing a spirit soul could not provide feedback to a martial soul.
Artificial spirit souls could produce an effect on a spirit master's martial soul, so by the same logic, spirit rings generated using spirit beasts as a template could also influence and even evolve the martial soul.
It just required energy to maintain this evolution.
Therefore, the beast mark and the condensing room appeared.
In truth, this referenced the technologies of artificial spirit souls and the Spirit Upgrading Platform from the future generations in the original work. It was just that those in the future relied on soul tool technology, whereas everything Su Wen had now relied on his comprehension of the rules.
Along with his cultivation, even if he did not cognitively agree that a truly set system of rules existed, Su Wen still gradually began to refer to the laws he understood as rules.
These rules were not those rules.
Perhaps the emergence of rules was also because of this point. As cultivators reached a consensus on this concept, the rules came into being post-natally in response to the situation.
His comprehension of the rules and his utilization of the rules allowed Su Wen to be incomparably smooth in the process of creating the Myriad Beast Realm.
Even though he had only just returned to the Douluo Continent, he already had a draft in his mind, and the opening of the Myriad Beast Realm was merely a matter of time.
"Within half a year, the opening of the Myriad Beast Realm will be completed. When the time comes, I will have to trouble you, Di Tian, to have the spirit beasts of the Star Dou Great Forest enter the Myriad Beast Realm. Most spirit beasts lack wisdom, so you will need to issue the orders, Di Tian, even if they are mandatory." Su Wen looked at Di Tian and smiled, "After all, counter-killing spirit masters in the Myriad Beast Realm can absorb some mental strength. For low-level spirit beasts without wisdom, this is likewise an opportunity."
Di Tian fell silent.
The more spirit beasts there were in the Myriad Beast Realm, the more convenient it would be for the spirit master faction to hunt spirits.
However, what Su Wen said was also correct; this was similarly an opportunity for low-level spirit beasts.
Having wisdom was the key to the growth of the spirit beast clan.
If one observed carefully, they would find that among spirit beasts, races with high wisdom generally achieved higher lifespans. It was not that their bloodline upper limit was high, but rather that they understood how to pursue good fortune and avoid disaster.
They would avoid unnecessary battles if they could.
When hunting other spirit beasts, they would also analyze the strength of both sides instead of charging blindly.
Spirit beasts over ten thousand years old already possessed wisdom, and situations where they slaughtered each other rarely occurred. Instead, they each occupied a piece of territory, and even if there was a conflict, they rarely decided it by life or death.
Unless a mutual opportunity involving both spirit beasts was concerned.
Su Wen synchronized and published the information about the Myriad Beast Realm within the Scholarly Realm.
Just after a massive piece of gossip where the Pope was deposed, the Scholarly Realm was already incomparably bustling. Right now, everyone was still savoring this major event that had just occurred.
At this time, Su Wen announced the news that the Myriad Beast Realm was about to be opened and explained the function of the Myriad Beast Realm in advance, instantly shifting the attention of all spirit masters.
And at the same time, the first batch of Myriad Beast Realm testers could also begin making reservations.