While this pair of martial practitioners who had been escorting Hua She had accidentally allowed Hua She to escape the cage, causing immense damage, they had mostly maintained their composure in the face of danger and death, also cooperating in battle in an orderly fashion.
Looking at their clothes and weapons, they were also neat and of high quality.
Yan Zhaoge judged that their backgrounds should not be bad.
Indeed, these martial practitioners belonged to a major power of the Furan Kingdom's capital, Kanghe City, the Eagle Feather Sect.
Yan Zhaoge and the others had limited understanding of this Eagle Feather Sect, but there was a bright yellow insignia on that damaged prison carriage.
Yan Zhaoge already knew that in the various kingdoms of the Floating Life World, the royal family was similarly used to using bright yellow as the insignia. Like the Eight Extremities World, they all imitated the ancient etiquette of pre-Great Calamity times.
While they had developed their own civilisations and started anew, the martial practitioners of the Floating Life World cultivating in completely different ways, many things were still influenced by the civilisations of pre-Great Calamity times.
For a sect to flourish in the capital of a kingdom, either their strength surpassed that of the kingdom or they had a close relationship with the royal family.
The Eagle Feather Sect was not the Blood Cloud Clan, not possessing such great strength. Asking them to help escort the prisoner carriage, it clearly belonged to the latter, that they were following the royal family of the Furan Kingdom for a living.
Yan Zhaoge was extremely satisfied with this.
While they were currently pretending to be people from the wilderness, the royal family of the Furan Kingdom probably hoped to recruit experts or those with ability to submit to them.
Yan Zhaoge had no interest, nor did he have the time to be a guest. What he was interested in was who had taken away the stone inscription left behind by his mother.
At the same time, conversing with these Eagle Feather Sect martial practitioners, Yan Zhaoge also gained a greater understanding of the Floating Life World from the perspective of martial practitioners.
The higher echelon experts of the Floating Life World were known as the Three Demons and Four Clans. The Blood Cloud Clan was one of the Four Clans, currently the strongest power of the Floating Life World.
In this world, the cultivation of demonic bloodline martial practitioners was rather special.
This was because even as they guided the demonic beast bloodline into their bodies to cultivate, the demonic beast bloodline would also unceasingly influence the martial practitioner's mind.
If they lost control, the demonic bloodline martial practitioner might break through the taboo boundary, causing the demonic beast bloodline that they had refined into their bodies to awaken.
In such a state, demonic bloodline martial practitioners were often called semi-demonised martial practitioners, being much more powerful than their original selves. At the same time, if they continued cultivating with the demonic beast bloodline as their foundation, their rate of improvement would also be much faster than that of ordinary demonic bloodline martial practitioners.
However, their humanity had diminished and their bestial instincts had awakened. They were unable to recover and became half-beast half-human.
Although it was possible for them to change back to their original appearance, the nature of a half-demon martial artist was more like a demon beast that had refined its own bloodline. They were bloodthirsty, brutal, and began to crave human flesh.
Cannibalism by half-demon martial artists was a common occurrence.
Because of their familiarity with human society and human warriors, the semi-demon warriors were often more ferocious and terrifying than many demon beasts when they wreaked havoc.
Yan Zhaoge stroked his lower chin, "In the primordial forest, that leopard that was killed by me, when the power of thunder and lightning on his body manifested the silhouette of a Six-Legged Flying Lightning Leopard, its gaze was filled with wild greed and bloodthirstiness, its strength abruptly rising to a whole new level. That should have been it transforming into a semi-demonised martial practitioner after losing control, right?"
Xu Fei said, "After you crippled his arms, he was stimulated, and the Demonic Beast bloodline in his body awakened a step further. In the end, he completely shed his human form and became a true Six-Legged Flying Lightning Leopard."
Although the temperament of a semi-demonized cultivator had changed greatly, they could still cultivate according to the Demonic Bloodline cultivator's methods and increase their strength.
However, if they lost control a step further, allowing the Demonic Beast bloodline in their body to completely awaken, the final result would be a great increase in their strength, but they would still turn from human into a demonic beast.
From a certain perspective, it was like a demonic beast obtaining new life with the body of a human.
Yan Zhaoge curled his lips, "I've really sinned ah."
Generally speaking, semi-demonised cultivators were hated by everyone. Under the influence of certain psychological factors, people's wariness and hostility towards semi-demonised cultivators surpassed that of true demonic beasts.
Meanwhile, the 'Three Demons' of the so-called Three Demons and Four Clans did not refer to the demonic beasts or the demon race in Yan Zhaoge's memories. Instead, they referred to the current three strongest semi-demonised cultivators of the Floating Life World.
Because they had become semi-demonised and their strength had skyrocketed, these three semi-demonised cultivators could basically also be viewed as the current three strongest experts of the Floating Life World.
While the demonic bloodline cultivators of the four clans were as numerous as the clouds, in a one on one battle, not a single one of them would be able to stand against the Three Demons.
Normal demonic bloodline cultivators would mostly surround and kill semi-demonised cultivators as a group.
Gradually, the semi-demonised cultivators also began drawing closer to the 'Three Demons', being recruited by them, resembling demonic beasts surrounding the side of a beast king as they resisted the human martial practitioners.
Other than the Three Demons and Four Clans, the Floating Life World also existed some pure, powerful demonic beasts, existences that people did not dare to provoke lightly.
Demonic bloodline cultivators and demonic beasts, semi-demonised cultivators and demonic beasts, all of them clashed with each other. True demonic beasts and semi-demonised cultivators also rarely interacted, mostly fighting and devouring each other's flesh and blood to increase their own strength.
The entire Floating Life World appeared violent and bloodthirsty.
Ah Hu asked curiously, "Young Master, even if Madam was not born in this world that year, she should still have left behind some traces here, right? There's no news of Madam? "
Yan Zhaoge shrugged, "At the very least, this person of the Eagle Feather Sect indeed seems to be unaware of it. Of course, it would not be good for me to ask too deeply."
Thus, they travelled together, entering the capital of the Furan Kingdom, Kanghe City.
While the architectural style of Kanghe City also appeared crude, it was naturally much more prosperous than Muzi City by the southern border.
That Eagle Feather Sect martial practitioner Chen Shuo was a rather forthright person as he treated Yan Zhaoge and the others courteously, also introducing them to his Master, the Chief of the Eagle Feather Sect, Gao Fang.
Gao Fang was an old man with white hair and a ruddy complexion, looking hale and hearty.
This old man seemed to have the same forthright personality as Chen Shuo, but being shrewd with age, he unceasingly attempted to probe out the background of Yan Zhaoge and the others as they conversed.
The cultivation techniques of demonic bloodline cultivators were vastly different from the martial civilisation of the Eight Extremities World.
If they were true demonic beasts, they would instead be able to deduce from the fluctuations of their demonic power and spiritual qi.
However, the source of demonic bloodline cultivators' power as well as the foundation of their cultivation all lay within the demonic blood within their bodies, after which numerous formless runes were inscribed on their bodies.
These things would usually not appear when they were not fighting.
Their qi cultivation levels were also very shallow, causing Yan Zhaoge and the others to be very hard pressed to determine the strength of these Floating Life World martial practitioners.
As for Gao Fang, Chen Shuo and the others, after Yan Zhaoge and the others had intentionally retracted their auras, they were also unable to see through their cultivation bases, leaving them only able to guess.
As for Gao Fang's probing, Yan Zhaoge dealt with it as it came. While Gao Fang, Chen Shuo and the others still couldn't understand each other's language, Gao Fang, Chen Shuo and the others still couldn't help feeling suspicious, they still managed to get over it on the surface.
After Gao Fang and the others had taken their leave, Yan Zhaoge left his lodgings and strolled about Kanghe City, gaining a greater understanding of the Eagle Feather Sect from the mouths of others.
This sect was indeed attached to the Furan royal family, being one of the few major powers of Kanghe City.
And the news that drew the most attention in the Furan Kingdom in recent days was that an envoy of the Blood Cloud Clan would be arriving, holding a talent selection meet in Kanghe City. The young geniuses of the Furan Kingdom and the surrounding countries would all be able to participate in it, being a major event.
"While it's a different world, many things are the same," Yan Zhaoge returned to his lodgings, an attendant serving tea.
As the tea reached his lips, Yan Zhaoge's nose twitched slightly, his gaze instantly hardening slightly. (To be continued.)
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