Chapter 1 The True Soul of Those Who Desire Change in the Realm of Beasts

[Deeply buried in the heart, even when deprived of all means of resistance, there will still be a sense of unwillingness, a true soul desiring and fighting back]

[An innate quality that all intelligent life possesses]

[Using the evil souls of the divine bird Guiche, the divine dragon Yun Li, the divine tortoise Guasheng, and the divine toad Hetian, as well as the wishful souls of all the oppressed as raw materials – with the wishful souls as the core, combined with the fusion of many evil souls]

[Fuse with the heart to obtain the divine power of the fires of sin, comprehensively strengthening the powers of the Devouring Demon Lord]

[A life that desires to build an eternal order is destined to face an unsolvable problem, which is the endless greed and eternal dissatisfaction inherent in the nature of intelligent life, or rather, dissatisfaction with what it possesses and resistance to the present]

[Civilization can use ever-increasing wealth and power, endless benefits and resources, to fill this greedy desire. Or, it can strip intelligent life of everything, filling their shells with poverty and labor, making it impossible for them to have any superfluous thoughts]

[Just as even living in paradise, life still wants to leave Eden, and even living in hell, life still yearns for sunlight]

[Even if all they desire is a single grain of wheat that belongs to them, that is also a manifestation of greed, dissatisfaction, resistance, and unwillingness – their innate nature]

[This true soul is not yet fully formed]

"True soul..."

Repeating this word, Su Zhou lay on the bed in his camp room, gazing at the soul in his hand, where dimness and brilliance coexisted, and resentment and aspiration flowed together.

It was such a magnificent and strange object, as if it contained countless curses born in hell, and the prayers of those who yearned for light in hell.

At its core was a tiny grain of wheat. With a single thought, Su Zhou could integrate it into the wheat grain or extract it – and the act of extracting it would mean stopping the true soul from forming.

It seemed that the thing the little girl from the Realm of Beasts had contracted with him had become the core of condensed wish power and resentment. The wheat, originally just a mundane object, had now been imbued with pure transcendent power and transformed into a strange object.

Holding this true soul in his hand, he put his left hand behind his head to pillow it, and Su Zhou muttered to himself, "It's not a complete body yet... That's natural. How many beings in this Realm of Beasts intend to resist the rule of the divine beasts? And how many of their wishes have I fulfilled?"

"But even so, fusing with this incomplete true soul can still grant me the divine power of the fires of sin."

The true soul was a new kind of soul that Su Zhou had obtained after fusing evil souls and wishful souls.

Ever since he advanced to the Commander tier and obtained the wish power divine ability, Su Zhou had clearly known that both curses and wish power came from the human heart – and since the human heart was so changeable, curses and wish power, being forces that were originally one, could naturally be fused.

However, everything needed a medium. Just like this time, the prayers of those spirit beasts in the Realm of Beasts to Su Zhou overlapped with the curses and resentment of the spirit beasts who were devoured towards the divine beasts – the desire to change, and the desire to curse the world and its rulers, resonated. That's why the divine beasts' evil souls and wish power began to fuse, converging into this higher-level true soul.

Of course, there were indeed some spirit beasts who felt no resentment even when they were eaten, but most spirit beasts regretted it during the process of being eaten. This was the instinct of life, just like how many people regretted jumping off a building halfway through their suicide, but it was too late.

"Fires of sin, and strengthening the powers of the Devouring Demon Lord... Directly strengthening divine abilities and bestowing new ones. This is no less impressive than ordinary divine objects."

Su Zhou naturally understood the information contained within the true soul, so he couldn't help but ponder, "The sin fire divine ability does match the essence of my Devouring Demon Lord, but what does it mean to fuse with the heart?"

The Devouring Demon Lord's powers actually came with a kind of demonic fire, which was the Devouring Demon Fire that Su Zhou often used.

In essence, this was a manifestation of Su Zhou's own fire elemental spiritual power, a purplish-blue flame that had no temperature. Although it could not physically ignite anything, it could excessively strengthen and destroy the internal structure of an object, causing it to eventually turn into dust like after being burned.

It was derived from the power of the Devouring Demon Lord, so it was also a flame that could judge good and evil. For those whom Su Zhou considered good, or the tools he wanted to use, the demonic fire would only simply strengthen them. But for those whom Su Zhou considered evil, or the garbage that needed to be burned, they would simply be blasted into fragments by the excessively strengthened, vast spiritual power.

When Su Zhou used it, he generally used it on himself. For example, when he fought the many divine beasts earlier and smashed the head of the divine dragon Yun Li, he used this power – it was quite touching, the name of that cyan dragonic divine beast was actually Yun Li. Su Zhou only knew this by exploring the information in the evil soul.

"Every time, I only find out what the enemy is called after killing them. The same goes for the Water God last time. I only learned that his name was Tamboursa after killing him."

Thinking of this, Su Zhou couldn't help but be distracted. He narrowed his eyes, somewhat hesitant, "Should I start with the line 'Who goes there? Su will not slay the unknown!' before the next battle? That way, I won't have to face such an awkward situation."

This distraction only lasted for a moment. Soon, Su Zhou's thoughts returned to the true soul.

The fires of sin, as the name implied, should be a kind of karma fire specifically for sin.

[—As soon as sinful thoughts arise, the fires of karma blaze. It is not others who burn you, but you who burn yourself]

Vaguely, Su Zhou's instincts sensed that the so-called fires of sin were the karma fire that completely countered all evil beings.

As long as the evil person themselves believed that what they were doing was evil, then even if it was just a moment of regret, a moment of wavering, a moment of self-doubt, the fires of sin would ignite, igniting them from the curse condensed in the depths of their soul, causing them irreparable true damage in the depths of their essence.

Unfortunately, the fires of sin were not a one-hit kill – as long as the evil person's soul was strong enough and they were stubborn enough, even if they knew that they were evil and that what they were doing was evil, but they still refused to repent, then even if such a person was burned by the fires of karma, they would only suffer extreme pain in their soul, but they would not die.

Of course, this was not a very important thing, because this kind of pain originating from the essence of the soul would definitely affect combat power.

Even if the fires of karma could not kill them, Su Zhou would use his fists and knives to completely smash and chop up stubborn evildoers and monsters.

Monsters die when they are killed.

Su Zhou roughly understood the power of the fires of sin, but he did not know the specific effect of the strengthening of the Devouring Demon Lord's divine ability. However, it was precisely because of this that he was very much looking forward to the moment when the true soul was formed.

"The vast majority of the power of this true soul itself comes from the wish power prayed for by countless spirit beasts in the Realm of Beasts."

Su Zhou was very clear that the seven hundred or so spirit beasts he had rescued were just a drop in the bucket compared to the total number of spirit beasts in the entire Realm of Beasts, which numbered in the tens of billions, and the wish power contained within them was even more different than a drop of water and the sea.

The 'true soul of those who desire change' would have to wait until Su Zhou had brought a basic, different order to the Realm of Beasts before it could be formed – and this would not take long. According to the results of the joint meeting of high-level officials from various countries, the Earth's plan for the Realm of Beasts would be fully launched and implemented in a few days after the celebration banquet.

Su Zhou waited.

While Su Zhou returned to his room in the camp to rest and explore the power of the true soul,

The various forces on Earth did not stop their actions.

This exploration mission of the Realm of Beasts to the Great Tree of Life was not only successfully completed, but also, thanks to Su Zhou's activity, the mission ended with the slaying of the four most powerful divine beast kings of the Realm of Beasts, completely destroying the possibility of the Realm of Beasts hindering the Earth's entry into the Realm of Beasts in the first place.

Whether it was the news of the death of the Great Tree of Life, or the Realm of Beasts civilization, which had completely begun to descend into chaos and was in a state of complete bewilderment, it was excellent news for the Earth, representing that humanity no longer had to worry about the threat of the 'Celestial Venerable'.

And the numerous mature pseudo-Dao and gene technologies of the Realm of Beasts were an even greater treasure waiting for everyone to explore.

While chaos was rampant in the territories of the four tribes of the Realm of Beasts other than the Mao tribe, and many divine beasts did not even have the mind to enjoy food, but instead frantically searched everywhere to find out what monster had killed the beast kings,

Jin Qiong, representing the avian pseudo-Dao cultivators of the Zheng Nation, had already directly raised their banner, calling themselves the Venerable Golden Peng, and began to use the name of the divine beast to subdue the main city of the Yu tribe, which had been temporarily unguarded since Guiche's death.

The process of subduing them was so smooth that it was almost unbelievable – because the local spirit beasts were extremely cooperative, Jin Qiong only spent fifteen minutes occupying this former territory of the Divine Bird Peacock, temporarily belonging to the Divine Bird Guiche, and now nominally belonging to her Yu Tribe main city.

And these fifteen minutes were the time that all the local production and combat species gathered together, and the leaders of each team lined up to pay homage to Jin Qiong – mainly because the etiquette of the combat species was too complicated, otherwise the time could have been even shorter.

"These spirit beasts are so respectful that it's almost disgusting..."

Even though she had long known the brainwashing power of the divine beasts, Jin Qiong's heart was still filled with awkwardness when she personally experienced the worship of those spirit beasts with their eyes full of reverence.

When had the Golden-Winged Roc, who was used to being an angel idol online and being pulled over by Su Zhou for training in reality, ever encountered such a scene?

Facing those many spirit beasts who were respectful to the extreme, almost about to, or even already prostrating themselves to kiss her claws, she almost broke out in goosebumps... But this matter was indispensable for her, after all, as a genuine original divine beast, Jin Qiong's deterrence was greater than that of ordinary pseudo-Dao cultivators.

The Yu Tribe main city and the Yu Tribe territory were important entry points for the Earth's interference in the Realm of Beasts, and were the primary task related to the future of the two worlds, so it was impossible to slow down the progress because of her personal preferences.

Shrugging his shoulders, Su Zhou, who was guarding her side, said, "It's precisely because you hate this kind of behavior that you have to work hard to change it, isn't it?"

"That's true..." The divine bird, who was being pushed onto the shelf, muttered in a low voice, "If I had known that the divine beast life that Peacock promised me back then was like this, I would have refused long ago... Where would I have hesitated like I did back then?"

While the development of the Realm of Beasts was gradually getting on track,

News about this brand new otherworld was also being gradually disclosed to the network by the powers of various countries.