Monsters Die When Killed

"The Beast God Realm’s civilization is quite primitive, roughly on par with humanity’s feudal era. In terms of the populace’s mindset, it’s even more archaic."

Within the fortifications, researchers from various nations were analyzing intelligence brought back by the front-line action teams from Zhengguo and Europe, as well as photos and video footage collected by drones.

And they reached a unanimous conclusion: "Their method of warfare is basically melee combat. The development of Magical Artifacts is almost nonexistent. This civilizational model means that, aside from the Divine Beasts—most of which possess Extraordinary High-tier strength—the other Spirit Beasts and Slave Soldiers are hardly worth mentioning."

Magical Artifacts are the mainstay of low-level cultivators. By wielding a Magical Artifact, a low-level cultivator can unleash power beyond their own realm, allowing multiple such cultivators to resist a Cultivator of a higher tier.

Clearly, the Divine Beasts of the Beast God Realm would not allow such technology to mature. They dismiss it as unorthodox contraptions. Even if such items are needed, only the top echelons use them... While this policy is certainly effective for maintaining internal stability, it’s rather feeble when facing outside invaders.

The humans were quite self-aware of their role as invaders, and the researchers saw nothing wrong with this. "An Awakening Tier individual facing modern firepower is no different from an ordinary person. While someone at the Extraordinary Early Stage can withstand some bullets, they are still helpless in the face of an artillery barrage. Only at the Extraordinary High-tier can a Cultivator, relying on their various Divine Techniques and Superpowers, move and weave freely on a modern battlefield."

"But that doesn’t make them invincible. Look, we launched a surface-to-air missile at this Spirit Bird that was repeatedly harassing us and attacking the Great Array. At first, it didn’t realize what the object was. By the time it sensed the danger, it was too late. While it wasn’t killed outright, the explosion destroyed its ability to fly, allowing us to capture it."

One could see a half-crippled Spirit Bird lying unconscious in a makeshift, sterile medical room. Seven physicians were treating its injuries while simultaneously analyzing the Spirit Beast’s physiological data. Meanwhile, three powerful Extraordinary Tier Mimic Dao Cultivators from around the world sat nearby, guarding against the possibility of the Spirit Beast rampaging upon waking and harming the physicians.

Surrounding this sterile room were rows of identical medical bays. However, the subjects being studied inside them were not Spirit Beasts, but the Slave Beasts previously sent by the Feather Race commander to scout the area.

"They’re very advanced in biological modification."

This was the conclusion reached in a report submitted by a physician named Ning Shiyu. In it, she stated that the vast majority of Slave Beasts had undergone modifications to their brains, and even their Souls. This process completely stripped them of their capacity for associative thinking and resistance, turning them into biological machines that could only obey orders and would never rebel.

"After the initial modification, these creatures have bred for over three thousand generations. The Divine Beasts of the Beast God Realm seem to possess a strange form of Mimic Dao Technology that can maintain the long-term stability of the genetic modifications, making them extremely resistant to natural mutation." This was Physician Ning’s analysis. "If this technology could be adapted for humans, we might be able to completely eradicate all genetic diseases from the genetic level, perhaps even cancer... Of course, that’s just a concept for now."

Furthermore, a locally captured creature designated as a "Devotion Species" had also been thoroughly engineered at the genetic level. They bred with incredible speed, and... they were delicious.

Its aroma alone surpassed that of any Level 5A non-Spirit Beast Flesh on Earth.

This was a shocking discovery!

In reality, against the backdrop of the global Spiritual Energy Revival and universal Cultivation, the entire Earth Civilization had fallen into a food shortage.

To be sure, thanks to the diligent efforts of numerous researchers led by the Zhengguo Agricultural Saint, various hybrid Spirit Plant crops had already been developed. But this only addressed staple foods. A population-wide increase in appetite also meant a corresponding increase in demand for protein sources like meat. And unlike hybridizing Spirit Plants, modifying Spirit Beasts remained a complex problem fraught with technological and ethical issues, as all Spirit Beasts possessed the potential to gain sentience and practice Mimic Dao Cultivation.

This wasn’t some naive moralizing. With the Spiritual Energy Revival, it was only a matter of time before all life on the planet evolved into Spirit Beasts. Their very existence, in fact, represented a whole new source of intelligent life for the world.

Observational records of Zhengguo’s Iron-eating Beast population served as proof. The vast majority of Iron-eating Beasts that had gained sentience showed no reproductive desire for their non-sentient counterparts. They didn’t consider themselves to be the same species as the unintelligent Iron-eating Beasts—or at least, not close relatives.

In fact, an Iron-eating Beast that has gained sentience is a blank slate. With proper guidance, all such Iron-eating Beasts would gravitate toward human civilization. After practicing Mimic Dao Cultivation, they would gradually begin to mimic the human form, taking pride in acquiring a human identity.

These Iron-eating Beasts, having acquired a human identity, would become even more fervent and loyal than humans in their efforts to enlighten other Iron-eating Beasts, creating a self-propagating trend.

And their children, should they choose to be born in human form, would be human infants naturally possessing a degree of Mimic Dao Cultivation—the embryonic form of a Dao Mimic Clan.

Transforming beasts into people was the fastest way to bolster a faction’s Extraordinary Power and labor force. Modern nations with severely aging populations were particularly focused on this. In places like East Japan Fuso, the conservative factions that rejected the Mimic Dao had been utterly defeated and suppressed by the Innovation Faction. Through the Mimic Dao, the Innovation Faction had, at the very least, found a solution to their country’s demographic crisis.

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