Beast Pleadge

Beast pledges were much like blood oaths. It was a pledge which the beast swore on their blood, vowing that they would give their lives to the cultivator whom they pledged to.

Unlike the soul contract, the beast pledge was a master servant relationship, and it was a bond which was affirmed by blood. This meant that the cultivator and the beast were just that, a cultivator and a beast. They were unable to communicate with each other, until the beast had a high enough intelligence to learn the human tongue which usually would not happen before they reached the ranks of an Emperor or King.

A beast would never lower themselves to volunteering a beast pledge, while many would rather die than becoming a human’s servant. If this happened, the cultivator had the option of catching the soul of the beast and ingesting it.

To catch a beast soul one needed an inscription pattern created by a water affinity cultivator. These inscription patterns would not allow for the soul to move into the netherworld, but instead link it to the person who activated the inscription, and while swallowing the soul it would be linked to their cultivation base, forcing the soul to lend its strength and abilities to the human cultivator.