First, recruiting disciples is crucial. It's impossible to only recruit female disciples; everyone who meets the requirements to become a Soul Pet Master must be recruited.
Since controlling Soul Beast resources effectively cuts off other Soul Masters' advancement paths, it's imperative to provide them with another way out. Therefore, recruiting Soul Pet Master disciples is essential.
Monopolizing resources without providing alternatives is tantamount to making an enemy of the entire Soul Master world.
Currently, the entire Soul Master world's attention is drawn to the Star Dou Great Forest, with few noticing the north.
The Ice God Palace can cultivate a number of Soul Pet Master disciples, taking the opportunity to develop its Soul Pet Master power.
Secondly, the cultivation technique, the Soul Meditation Method, will be disseminated.
This technique isn't particularly rare; according to Dragon Soul's narration, it's almost universally known throughout the Five Elements Continent, being the most basic Soul Pet Master cultivation technique.
There's no need to hide it; the more people cultivate this technique, the more Soul Pet Masters there will be, reducing the number of people killing Soul Beasts.
The Ice God Palace certainly cannot follow the system of the Heavenly Water Academy.
This is a completely new force.
The Tianshui Academy was too yin-heavy, an entirely female-dominated force that was inherently too extreme.
However, what Ma Hongjun valued most was their aloofness and their spiritual aura, untainted by worldly corruption.
Such a foundation aligned with Ma Hongjun's philosophy of separating the mortal and spiritual realms.
However, they couldn't be too aloof and isolated, after all, they weren't true immortals.
A balance needed to be struck.
The Spirit Hall, with its widespread influence, was the most grounded force from the perspective of spirit masters, systematically managing the entire spirit master world from the bottom up.
Ma Hongjun's idea was to find a balance by integrating the Spirit Hall and Tianshui Academy systems—
managing spirit pet masters without excessive interference in the mortal world.
This required Bibi Dong's help.
Bibi Dong, who had been kept by Ma Hongjun's side without any other unusual behavior, was curious about the Ice God Palace he had established, so she instructed Chrysanthemum Douluo and other subordinates from the Spirit Hall to observe the situation.
Her left leg had been severed, and she was slowly recovering.
That day, Ma Hongjun entered Bibi Dong's room alone.
Bibi Dong was resting on the bed with her eyes closed, wearing a thin black silk nightgown.
Her long hair was casually draped over her shoulders, her breasts full, the thin nightgown revealing her fair, jade-like skin.
This was the allure of a queen, voluptuous and alluring.
Seemingly sensing Ma Hongjun's entry, Bibi Dong slightly raised an eyebrow, her long eyelashes fluttering.
However, she did not open her eyes, continuing to immerse herself in cultivation.
At this moment, she was practicing the Soul Meditation Method that Ma Hongjun had mentioned. She
was extremely engrossed in her practice!
Bibi Dong possessed twin martial souls, meaning
she had two souls. Moreover, one of her martial souls was already fully equipped with nine soul rings.
This meant that her other martial soul, or soul position, was unrestricted.
Bibi Dong's second martial soul was the Soul-Devouring Spider King, a spiritual martial soul.
The Soul-Devouring Spider King devoured spiritual power.
Furthermore, there's the blessing of deities; the blessing of deities on spiritual power is incredibly powerful.
Take Shui Bing'er, for example. Her spiritual power wasn't originally strong, equivalent to the soul power of a Soul Master.
But after receiving the inheritance of the Phoenix God, her soul power directly rose to the level of Soul Saint. Combined with the later inheritance of the Snow Emperor's Decree, she directly broke through to the level of Soul Lord.
Bibi Dong's original spiritual power was already very strong, but without a soul cultivation method like Soul Meditation, her soul power wasn't fully developed and utilized.
Her spiritual soul skills also came from her soul rings.
Now, with Soul Meditation, her cultivation progresses rapidly, and she's utilizing all her spiritual power.
Under Ma Hongjun's gaze, the soul power on Bibi Dong's body slowly gathered, and a white halo emerged.
"Her soul power is very strong; it has already reached the level of Soul Lord!"
Long Hun exclaimed in surprise, expressing his astonishment at Bibi Dong's powerful soul power.
Ma Hongjun was also very surprised; although he also possessed Soul Lord-level soul power, it was due to Long Hun's help.
A Soul Master-level Soul Pet Master is the same as a Title Douluo-level Soul Master.
This means that Bibi Dong can condense the remaining six Soul Imprints at once, and open up six layers of soul space.
Once she finds a suitable Soul Beast and forms a contract, Bibi Dong can directly become a true Soul Master-level Soul Pet Master.
Under the white halo, Bibi Dong's hands clasped together, and quickly a milky-white Soul Imprint formed.
Bibi Dong is indeed a genius.
Although she has a strong foundation of spiritual power, her ability to comprehend the Soul Meditation Method and condense a Soul Imprint so quickly is truly remarkable.
"Your Holiness, you truly live up to your reputation. Even Hong Jun is impressed by your comprehension; you condensed a Soul Imprint in just one day after obtaining the technique."
Ma Hongjun was indeed not flattering her. Even with the guidance of the Dragon Soul, it had taken him a whole day to condense his soul imprint, while teachers like Crystal had taken about five days under his guidance.
"Are you mocking me?"
Bibi Dong was unmoved, speaking coldly.
For someone as young as Ma Hongjun to possess such strength, praising a senior like her for her talent sounded like ridicule.
Bibi Dong took out a phoenix robe and draped it over herself; she hadn't expected Ma Hongjun to barge in so abruptly.
When alone, Bibi Dong was very casual.
But when others were present, she usually covered herself completely.
"What do you want from me?"
"I want to cooperate with you!"
"Cooperate? I've already been defeated by you, what's there to cooperate with?"
"You've seen the establishment of the Ice God Palace, and I'm sure you understand my intentions.
I also want to unify the continent and promote the Soul Pet Master system.
You've just practiced the Soul Meditation Method, and I think you should have felt its benefits; it's no weaker than Soul Master cultivation."
"So what?"
"Right now, there aren't many powerful Soul Beasts suitable to become your Soul Pets on the continent, especially those over 100,000 years old.
I've learned some things about the situation in the Star Dou Great Forest.
Now I roughly know that this great war between humans and Soul Beasts was actually caused by the Evil God Cult.
After Ghost Douluo's identity as an Evil Soul Master was exposed, I think you should understand what's going on. The
Evil Soul Masters deliberately provoked this war.
As far as I know, the Star Dou Great Forest was also severely damaged not long ago due to a civil war launched by the Evil Soul Masters, and it's very likely they won't actively wage war against humans.
Therefore, the root of this war is temporarily with the Evil Soul Masters.
Eliminating the Evil God Cult can temporarily restore peace to the continent."
"What good would this do me? War isn't necessarily bad. The world will be cleansed later,"
Bibi Dong said calmly.
"Then let's talk about the benefits for you. Those three Spider Kings, each a hundred thousand years old, who were active in the war—I think you should be interested!"