Transmigrating Through the Heavens: Starting with the Silly Pillar of the Courtyard

Chapter 349 Monster Levels

Aside from Bai Qi, the founding emperor of the Qin Dynasty, who became a powerful Martial Emperor, Bai Qi lived for a full five thousand years before his death.

After Bai Qi, there was never another Emperor Wu.

Later, as people gradually came to a consensus, the next time an emperor appeared, it would probably be on the birthday of the sixth superpower.

As for whether there are other realms above the Martial Emperor, no one knows.

However, for ordinary people, Martial Emperors and Martial Kings are just legends. Their first task is to break through to the Warrior realm, and if they can break through to the Innate Grandmaster realm, that would be enough to bring glory to their ancestors.

If one were to be so lucky as to become a Martial King, it wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that it would elevate the entire family to prominence.

Every country and city in the Hanyun Continent has its own martial arts school, mainly to facilitate the teaching of ordinary people.

Not everyone has family elders who can teach them martial arts; many ordinary people can only learn at martial arts schools.

At the same time, these martial arts schools were not free; the tuition fee of five taels of silver per month was already quite expensive for ordinary families.

The jobs that ordinary people can do are very low-level service jobs.

Or rather, the ordinary people of the Hanyun Continent are there to serve those martial artists.

An average adult's monthly income is between three and five taels.

Even if a couple goes out to work together, with the man doing manual labor and the woman doing needlework or other service work, they only earn three to five ounces.

It was just an ordinary family; both husband and wife worked, and their monthly income was no more than ten taels of silver.

Prices on the Hanyun Continent are relatively stable, and transactions between countries are settled using roughly the same amount of gold and silver.

An ordinary family, with two elderly people and several children, would need eight taels of silver per month for food, drink, and other necessities.

The smallest amount was in copper coins; one hundred copper coins could be exchanged for one tael of silver.

One hundred copper coins can buy fifty catties of flour or twenty catties of meat.

A family of several people needs to eat 200 jin of noodles a month, not including meat, and the biggest expense is burning coal or firewood.

The continent of Hanyun has a population of 10 billion. Half of its area is covered by ocean, and the rest is land, including mountains and plains.

In addition to teaching martial arts, the Temple of Martial Gods also provided a lot of knowledge about people's daily lives.

For example, finding mineral veins, how to use coal to make steel, or mining coal for heating.

Rich people burn coal at home, while poor people buy firewood or go to the mountains to cut firewood.

The Hanyun Continent is too vast; even cities with a population of several hundred thousand are surrounded by desolate mountains and wilderness.

In this era, apart from the powerful who can travel freely, ordinary people can only stay in the city their whole lives, and at most go out a dozen miles to chop some firewood.

Because there are more than just trees outside, and most importantly, the wild animals are too ferocious.

To be precise, the continent of Hanyun used to be ruled by various ferocious beasts.

At that time, humans were among the lowest-ranking beings on the Hanyun Continent.

Even if they were very clever, they learned to make tools and simple, sharp weapons to fight against wild beasts.

The continent of Hanyun is rich in resources, and due to special circumstances, the beasts here are several meters tall.

A fully grown wild beast can kill a group of ordinary people with a single pounce; if you try to slash at it with a sword, you won't even be able to scratch its fur.

Only when warriors and fighters line up in groups can they inflict damage on wild beasts.

Martial arts masters can deal with some small ferocious beasts one-on-one, but only innate grandmasters can kill ferocious beasts by temporarily staying airborne and using flying swords to injure people within a hundred meters.

Wild beasts do not have specific ranks; based on tens of thousands of years of history on the Hanyun Continent, they are classified as follows:

A beast about one meter in size is something an ordinary person could barely kill with swords and knives, but that would result in countless deaths.

After all, the speed, strength, and endurance of wild beasts are far beyond what ordinary people can compare to.

Normally, it takes a samurai to deal with a beast that is about one meter long.

Animals that are over one meter tall or reach about two meters are common wild beasts. They would require either dozens of warriors to kill them or a martial arts master to fight them.

Predators around one meter tall like to travel in packs, and if you encounter one, being outnumbered is basically just feeding the other.

A beast that is about two meters long is much stronger and more solitary in the wild, but it can only be hunted by a team led by a martial arts master.

If the opponent is determined to escape, even a martial arts master can't do anything about it, unless a group of martial arts masters surround and kill them, in which case they can succeed by relying on numbers.

Besides those around one or two meters tall, there are also ferocious beasts around three meters tall, and they are usually the kings of the beasts.

If you encounter this kind of ferocious beast in the wild, you're almost certainly dead.

Even if a master of innate level encounters it, most of them will choose to avoid it.

Because these ferocious beasts already possess inner cores, they can absorb and exhale the energy of the sun and moon like humans to increase their demonic power; or perhaps it would be more appropriate to call them demonic beasts.

Even if two innate grandmasters were to meet, the demon beast would still be stronger than the human martial artist in a fight.

Alternatively, a late-stage peak Grandmaster of the Innate Realm might be able to successfully hunt down a demonic beast in its early stages.

Basically, for humans of the same cultivation level, it takes three to one human to successfully hunt down a monster.

Only a Martial King-level expert can easily hunt down monsters.

However, even demonic beasts can advance in rank:

Animals around one meter tall are mostly wild beasts in packs, equivalent to warrior level, also known as first-class ferocious beasts.

Those around two meters tall are ferocious beasts, equivalent to martial arts masters, and are called level two ferocious beasts.

Those around three meters tall are demonic beasts, equivalent to innate grandmasters, also known as innate demonic beasts.

Then the monster advanced again, and its limbs took on a human shape. At this point, apart from its head, which remained the same, its limbs were exactly like those of a human.

They can also fly, and their speed, strength, and endurance are comparable to, or even stronger than, those of a Martial King-level expert. At this point, they are called Demon Kings.

Not only are they stronger than the Martial King, but the key is that every time a Demon King appears in the wild, a beast tide will occur.

Because the Demon King needs to unleash a beast tide to show humanity which areas are its territory.

The towering walls of human cities were built to resist beast tides.

Every beast tide is a terrible challenge for humanity.

This is also why it is difficult for human nations on the Hanyun Continent to occupy more territory on a large scale.

Even superpowers like the Great Xia Kingdom and the Great Qin Kingdom do not have enough manpower to defend more territory.

Each King of War has his own defensive zone; beyond that zone, there is nothing they can do to help.

Historically, there have been instances where King Wu, due to greed, was ultimately besieged and killed by a demon king.

If you venture beyond your own territory, you will inevitably face two demon kings.

This is about interests and each other's bottom line, so it's no wonder the other party will fight you to the bitter end.

Above the Demon King is the Demon Emperor, at which point you wouldn't dare to confront it.

Because the Demon Emperor has completely transformed into a human, with the same limbs, head, and even mouth and eyes.

Unless the opponent is fighting at full strength, they will not reveal their true identity. Otherwise, ordinary people have no way of knowing their identity.

Even King Wu couldn't tell; only Empress Wu could.

Historically, there was a demon emperor who openly roamed the human world for decades until he was recognized by the Martial Emperor.