Peerless Tang Sect: Hurricane Infinite Wind

Chapter 426 Meteor Dragon Continent
"Friends?" Wu Xuan and Wang Qiu'er exchanged a glance, both speechless.

So you've become friends already? Well, your friendship seems a bit low-class!

"Hey Xiao Lan, do you live in the nearby sea? Is it far from the mainland?" Since they were friends, Wu Xuan naturally wanted to ask some useful questions.

“Yes, our clan has lived in the coastal area of ​​the Meteor Dragon Continent for generations. It’s not far from the mainland! Didn’t you know?” Little Blue asked in confusion.

"The Meteor Dragon Continent!!" Upon finally hearing news about this new continent, Wu Xuan almost cheered out loud.

"Weren't you traveling to the seas from the Meteor Dragon Continent?" Xiao Lan asked, looking at the excited expressions on Wu Xuan and the other person's faces.

Wu Xuan shook his head slightly and said, "No, we come from another continent. We encountered a tsunami during our voyage and drifted on the sea for several months before finally ending up here."

"Wow! You're all so pitiful." Little Blue burst into tears upon hearing this.

Wu Xuan was speechless; this 100,000-year-old soul beast was far too naive.
“Little Blue, don’t be sad. Can you tell us about the Meteor Dragon Continent?” Wu Xuan stepped forward and asked.

Xiao Lan sobbed a few times, and Wu Xuan comforted her again before getting to the main topic.

"The Fallen Dragon Continent! I heard this name from my elders. Legend has it that more than one true dragon fell on this continent. Because the blood of the true dragons irrigated and nourished this land, all the soul beasts and humans on the continent have a certain dragon bloodline," Xiao Lan said slowly.

"They all have dragon blood? Dragon blood is too cheap here, isn't it?" Wu Xuan glanced at Wang Qiu'er beside him and couldn't help but tease her.

Wang Qiu'er was stunned by Xiao Lan's words. All the soul beasts had dragon blood. What did that mean? It meant that the overall strength of the soul beasts living on this continent was far superior to that of the Star Dou Great Forest.

"No, no, you've misunderstood me. Although the humans and soul beasts of the Fallen Dragon Continent all possess some dragon blood, the differences in their bloodlines are quite significant. Some races are born kings, with unimaginably rich bloodline power, while others are like weeds on the ground, containing a very mixed dragon bloodline," Xiao Lan explained.

Upon hearing this, Wang Qiu'er breathed a sigh of relief. She had thought that the soul beasts on the Meteor Dragon Continent would be incredibly powerful, but it turned out they were all the same.

The top-tier soul beast clans occupy absolute territory, while the weaker clans remain as weak as ever.

"Little Blue, what about human Soul Masters? What's their situation? Is Soul Power cultivation the mainstream?" Wu Xuan continued to ask.

"Hehe, I happen to know this. On the Fallen Dragon Continent, only a minority of humans cultivate soul power, and it is this minority of humans who rule over all of humanity. Besides soul power cultivation, the cultivation of their own dragon bloodline is dominant. Humans call this profession Beast Soul Knights," Xiao Lan said proudly.

“Cultivating one’s own dragon bloodline? This bloodline can be cultivated?” Wang Qiu’er asked in shock.

As someone with the bloodline of the Golden Dragon King, she was the most qualified to speak on this matter. She had never heard of cultivating one's own bloodline. Wasn't the purpose of bloodlines simply to stimulate one's own potential and then unleash power beyond oneself?
"Oh! I don't know. That's what I heard from the elders in the clan," Xiao Lan said, shaking her head.

In the subsequent conversation, Wu Xuan extracted a lot of useful information from Xiao Lan, which he then organized and summarized. Among the two major races of the Meteor Dragon Continent, humans and soul beasts, the soul beast race is far stronger than humans.

However, soul beasts are divided into two camps: one is dragon-type soul beasts, and the other is soul beasts with dragon blood.

Because of the discord between these two major groups, humanity has managed to survive in the cracks. The systems here are even less sophisticated than those of the papal system in Douluo Continent ten thousand years ago; this place is somewhat similar to a hybrid of ancient Greek city-states and medieval Europe from the previous era.

Soul beasts occupy seven-tenths of the territory, while the remaining three-tenths is where humans barely survive. Even this three-tenths of territory is still very small, fragmented into countless pieces by city-states of all sizes.

The strongest are naturally the various families that possess top-tier martial soul inheritances, and having a titled Douluo is one of the necessary conditions for becoming a top-tier family.

The top-tier families possess the noblest status, vast tracts of land, and large populations. Weaker Soul Master families naturally become vassals of these top-tier families.

Next were the Beast Soul Knights who cultivated their own dragon bloodline. Finally, there were the ordinary commoner slaves whose bloodline power was so diluted that they could not cultivate.

This is the strict hierarchical identity system in the human world of the Meteor Dragon Continent.

So-called Beast Soul Knights are those who haven't awakened their soul power, but whose dragon bloodline is pure. Based on this, humans rely on their own bloodline to devour and refine the soul of a soul beast. In this way, they can use their own bloodline power to activate the beast soul within them.

By fusing the soul of a spirit beast with one's own, achieving a state similar to the possession of a martial soul, one can then engage in combat.

The strength of dragon bloodlines is divided into four grades: A, B, C, and D.

A Class A bloodline allows a Beast Knight to fuse with a high-level Dragon bloodline, ideally a thousand-year-old Beast. With the complete fusion of the Beast Souls, the Beast Soul Knight can eventually reach a level comparable to a Soul Venerable, although it may not be able to defeat a Soul Venerable of the same level in a one-on-one fight.

The upper limit of a Class B bloodline is that it can only fuse with a hundred-year-old soul beast with dragon blood, ranging from five hundred to eight hundred years, and can obtain power comparable to a Great Soul Master.

Those with a Class C bloodline can only fuse with mixed-blood hundred-year-old soul beasts, and two hundred years is the limit they can withstand, allowing them to obtain power comparable to a level ten or more soul master.

Those with the D-grade bloodline, due to its excessively mixed nature, can only barely fuse with beast souls accumulated over about ten years. Therefore, they exist as the foundation of the lower classes, performing various tedious corvée labor and cultivating farmland.

Finally, there are those humans who cannot even reach the lowest rank of bloodline, and these people generally become slaves. However, they only constitute a very small minority, about one-tenth to one-twelfth of the total population. This is because the conditions that determine one's bloodline level are not innate, but rather cultivated.

To strengthen one's dragon bloodline, the mother only needs to consume the flesh of a soul beast with dragon blood for a long period of time before the child is born. The higher the grade of the soul beast flesh, the stronger the awakened bloodline will be.

Beast Soul Knights are like that; although they claim to be comparable, they are simply no match for opponents of the same level. To be able to defeat someone one level below them is an extraordinary feat.

Every battle a Beast Soul Knight goes through will cause a deficiency of their own blood energy. If they cannot replenish themselves with a large amount of soul beast flesh and blood in time, it may even affect their bloodline level.

Therefore, the Beast Soul Knight profession is extremely expensive, but there's no need to worry, as the higher-ups will provide them with plenty of soul beast meat.

Ordinary people are affected by their own bloodline and do not have a powerful martial soul inheritance. Therefore, without innate soul power, they have virtually no chance of becoming a soul master. Thus, becoming a beast soul knight is an opportunity that the vast majority of common people crave, because it is equivalent to defying fate and leaping out of class.

In conclusion, the emergence of Beast Soul Knights is merely a way for humanity to be driven to a dead end, thus providing those at the bottom who cannot become Soul Masters with the power to fight against Soul Beasts.

(End of this chapter)