"Brother Guide, is it possible for the Soul Beast to devour the Final Giant Beast, then fuse with the Pseudo-rule Imprint within the Final Giant Beast, and finally create it into a Special Life Soul similar to a Summoned Beast?"

Faced with the inquiry, Guide provided an answer:

[It's feasible, but the rules related to the Soul Beast are not within the Challenger System, requiring a complete reshaping of this part of the Rule Power before connecting with the Challenger System. This requires a significant consumption of sacrificial power, and additionally, creating a Pseudo-rule would also incur extra costs... totaling 4.29 million sacrificial power. Essentially, this is about turning the Soul Beast and Pseudo-rule into a Life Soul, with your Final Giant Beast having a very small role in the fusion process, only providing flesh energy, which means providing attributes.]

[Secondly, the fusion of two different rules into one rule, the Soul Shaping Rule and Devouring Pseudo-rule, has serious logical conflicts. You need to have a rule-level framework to bind these two logical abilities, and building this framework will require an extra expenditure of 7 million sacrificial power.]

Hearing Guide's offer, Little Mage was taken aback.

The former is fine, but the framework for integrating different Rule Powers would cost 7 million, which is simply an astronomical figure.

"Wait, rule framework... how about this?"

Suddenly thinking of something, Little Mage took out a black fragment from the Space Bag.

This was the Rule Fragment: March of the Dead, which he had acquired for 800,000 sacrificial power.

[Feasible, but this rule framework does not fit the Soul Shaping Rule and Devouring Pseudo-rule, so an additional 1 million is needed to simply modify the rule framework, totaling 5.29 million sacrificial power.]

With confirmation of feasibility, Little Mage's spirits lifted.

The Pseudo-rule "Devour" within the Final Giant Beast is an energy derived from the Source of the Spirit Breath World, accumulated over time and collected by the War Sacrifice.

Since the Spirit Breath Clan's inception, only eight Pseudo-rule Imprints have been born through long years of accumulation.

These are controlled by the eight strongest leaders of the Spirit Breath Clan.

Namely, the Eight Kings now.

Within the Super Beasts they control, each is fused with a Pseudo-rule Imprint.

If a previous King dies, the Pseudo-rule Imprint will also be extracted and merged into the Super Beast controlled by the new King.

The Pseudo-rule grants the Super Beast the "Devour Optimization" ability.

This is entirely different from the Soul Beast's Devouring Possession.

The Devouring Possession of a Soul Beast directly acquires all non-rule system abilities from the other party, including memory, combat talent, thought logic, etc.

But the Soul Beast has an obvious shortcoming.

Even though its body can infinitely expand external forces, its life form cannot achieve full compatibility.

Assume a Soul Beast devours a bird and a fish.

In fish form, even though it has merged with the bird's physical fitness, it cannot possess the ability to flap wings for flight.

The Qi Blood Strength, Spiritual Strength, memory bank... these can all merge, but the life form's structural differences present compatibility issues.

In other words, while the Soul Beast can perfectly inherit the internal traits of the devoured life, it cannot break through the basic logical confinements of the life form.

It's akin to a computer that can infinitely install plugins, continuously expanding databases and computational abilities, yet, ultimately constrained by the physical characteristics of its foundational architecture.

When the Soul Beast devours a bird, it can fully inherit the bird's muscle memory, visual neural responses, even the perception talents related to airflow.

After devouring a fish, it can likewise replicate the fish's breath-holding ability, pressure adaptability mechanism, and perception system. 𝒻𝓇𝑒𝘦𝘸𝑒𝒷𝓃ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝒸ℴ𝘮

However, during the utilization of certain talents, it will still be limited by the specific structure of its life form.

Besides wings, certain internal life structures can only partly exist because of compatibility issues, preventing the full manifestation of a particular special talent.

For a real-world animal instance, when a Soul Beast attempts to sprint like a cheetah in snake form, the snake's multi-directional spinal joint structure is destined to be unable to store force unidirectionally like a cheetah, ultimately leading to skeletal dislocation.

Therefore, the Soul Beast specializes in its devouring ability for a specific form to approach perfection in a particular area.

By stacking attributes, it makes one of its forms increasingly powerful.

Unlike the Soul Beast's "compatibility and possession," the devouring mechanism of the Super Beast involves extremely harsh genetic optimization.

It's similar to the most obsessive engineer who mercilessly dissects, selects, and reconstructs all life blueprints of the devoured object, retaining only the genetic fragments most valuable to the current form.

When a Super Beast devours an eagle.

It might quickly grow a pair of wings, retaining the lightweight structure of Bone Wings and the aerodynamic genes of feathers.

Then it eliminates the fragile digestive system of the bird, and parts that cannot strengthen the Super Beast's life form.

After successful devouring, the Super Beast then acquires the ability to fly through wings.

Devouring other life forms is similar; the Super Beast can implant related genes through optimization, evolving into a life form with three heads and six arms and multiple pairs of wings.

In comparison, unlike Soul Beasts that are limited by original forms, Super Beasts optimize themselves with each devouring.

The downside is that each devouring involves serious wastage, nor can they absorb completely like Soul Beasts.

The Soul Beast's drawback is the incompatibility of many abilities, but it can enhance a single life form by stacking attributes.

Combining both, it achieves the optimization of life form while turning the parts discarded by the Super Beast into energy for the Soul Beast to enhance attributes.

Achieving perfect absorption and growth.

To simplify, a Soul Beast is like a library; the more books (devoured life) it has, the better. More books mean the Soul Beast reads through them more efficiently, but it can only read one book at a time (limited by current form).