Due to their young age, the Spirit Dou Beasts were generally only Spirit Scholars, Great Spirit Masters, or even Spirit Beasts, currently secretly managed and coordinated by Grace.
As for why such an organization was built, the reason was simple.
Considering his own age and Soul Power level, Youshen realized that his future self would most likely be unable to stand at the absolute peak.
After the age of thirty, vitality would pass its peak, and the growth rate of Soul Power would continue to decline.
Considering the possibility of failing to break through to become a Spirit Saint, he had prepared for a rainy day, expanding on the unique case of Grace and gradually developing it into such a group.
Grace's white fox spirit was an advanced-grade spirit, and in Youshen's estimation, the talent of these beast-transformed mutants should generally not be poor.
And the facts proved this true. After his "adjustments" and "treatments," not a single low-grade spirit existed among these beast-transformed mutants.
Out of a hundred or so beast-transformed mutants, seventy percent possessed medium-grade spirits, thirty percent possessed advanced-grade spirits, and there was even one holder of a top-tier spirit.
Moreover, even those with medium-grade spirits had decent talent, with no one's comprehensive spirit rating falling below ten.
Perhaps useless now, in a decade or two, they would at least form a batch of Spirit Ancestors and Spirit Kings! Cultivated properly, by the time Tang San destroyed Spirit Hall, he would at least secure several top-tier Spirit Saints utterly loyal to him! That way, even if he himself could not reach the summit, he could still command power. However...
Now that the system had activated and he had gained new possibilities, the importance of the Spirit Dou Beasts naturally decreased significantly.
Enhancing his own strength had once again become Youshen's primary objective.
Of course, this did not mean he was going to abandon the Spirit Dou Beasts.
With Bibi Dong looming overhead, certain matters were not entirely convenient to handle personally, and at times like this, the Spirit Dou Beasts could naturally come in handy.
For instance, targeted by the higher-ups of Spirit Hall, he was no longer able to issue a single command and have research funding and materials automatically delivered to his doorstep.
At times like this, he could have the Spirit Dou Beasts help him gather research materials.
Or take another example... The invitations he had Grace send out—if the recipients were unwilling to come, he could easily have the Spirit Dou Beasts secretly kidnap them.
Well, fortunately, everyone seemed to be a reasonable person who gave him face, and none declined with excuses just because his status had become delicate.
In just three days, nearly half of the people had gathered.
Most of this group worked within Spirit City and its vicinity, and their talents belonged to the upper-middle tier.
Most of them had been invited by Youshen under the guise of a "class reunion" to visit the outskirts of Spirit City and his private villa.
By this point, everyone probably realized why Youshen had sent out invitations to invite others, right?
Youshen had invited former classmates, as well as quite a few former prominent figures...
Yet most of those were just a smoke screen; what he truly wanted to invite were the people who had conflicts with him over twenty years ago.
They were most likely candidates for subsequent quest targets.
In fact, at this stage, these candidates had basically all arrived.
After all, after Youshen defeated Ye Han and Jiang Liu, anyone who still dared to clash with him possessed a baseline of competence that was not too shabby.
Those with comparatively mediocre talents had basically been dispatched to serve as deacons in other branch halls, naturally lacking the upward mobility and potential of those employed in the main hall and its surrounding areas.
Youshen entertained these former classmates and teachers, utilizing his own profound knowledge to analyze and recommend Spirit Ring choices for them. Naturally, the atmosphere was warm and harmonious, and no one harbored any thoughts of being delayed.
"I will soon be taking up a post at another branch hall, and all of you will likely be caught up in your own affairs in the future, extremely busy, making it hard to say when we might have another chance to meet. As former classmates, teachers, students, and friends, there isn't much I can do for everyone. Recommending Spirit Rings so that everyone can go a bit further in the future can be considered my farewell gift." This was the explanation Youshen gave to the outside world.
Naturally, this left everyone ecstatic. Most of them knew very little about the sordid power struggles among the higher-ups of Spirit Hall.
They had spent the last twenty years growing up hearing the legendary tales of Youshen.
This was guidance from the most prominent research professor of the past few decades, a figure hailed as a master of spirit research!
How could they not be overjoyed?
Most of those present were around thirty-five or thirty-six years old, and basically all of them had hopes of acquiring their next Spirit Ring.
Driven by their personal interests, the scene naturally dissolved into an atmosphere where both host and guests thoroughly enjoyed themselves.
Analyzing spirits and tailor-making Spirit Ring recommendations naturally required a considerable amount of time.
Using this excuse, along with some rhetoric related to "classmate camaraderie," Youshen ensured that this gathering did not break up in a single day, but continued steadily over a short period.
Although he "wasted" quite a bit of time on these unremarkable people and engaged in a lot of pointless socializing, Youshen felt that considering his gains, all of this was entirely acceptable.
Just as Youshen had deduced from the frequency and timing of the quest triggers, the third quest had also refreshed around midnight on the very night he instructed Grace to send out the invitations.
The subsequent timing and instances were more than enough for him to gain a preliminary understanding of the system's quest-triggering mechanics.
Youshen currently summarized three rules.
Unlike those tardy systems in the stories he had read before, where subsequent quests triggered slowly along the timeline of decades after the first one, this late system was different.
The system's quests accumulated like a stack; whenever he solved one, the next one was triggered directly.
Time was bounded by midnight each day.
This was the first rule.
However, firstly, although Youshen had attracted much attention due to rising with an aptitude that defied his original talent, he was not the kind of protagonist who would step on someone no matter where he went.
Normal people, upon seeing a rising star emerge within the same faction, would react first by attempting to befriend them.
Only soul masters in the Douluo world essentially received no compulsory education.
Older soul masters who had been tempered by society were fine.
Younger people tended to be somewhat impulsive and single-minded, which made them prone to triggering quests.
Yet it was impossible for quests to trigger endlessly.
According to Youshen's recollection, only during the first two years had there been many people picking fights with him; by the time he turned twelve and published his first paper, essentially everyone greeted him with a smile.
After all, unlike Yu Xiaogang, Youshen considered himself to possess a bit of genuine substance.
Then, the strange part came.
Between the newbie quest and the second quest, not only had Ye Han continued to pick fights, but other figures had also made passive-aggressive remarks toward him.
Yet it wasn't until Jiang Liu made his move that the second quest was triggered.
The third quest after that was the same. Youshen flipped open his diary to check, and found it had triggered more than thirty days after the second quest.