Dragon Clan Foundations, First Meeting with the Dragon Venerable

Ye Li passed through layer upon layer of Grotto-Heavens, the scenery before his eyes constantly shifting.

Great demons occasionally swept past him, their pressure seeping out like a rising tide. All of them were beings above the Grandmaster Realm.

Ye Li swept his gaze across them. Most of what he saw were dragon-kind—Azure Dragons, Horned Dragons, Crimson Dragons, Coiling Dragons—

From some of the dragons, Ye Li sensed a faint feeling of shared origin. They were all fellow cultivators of the Azure Dragon Deliverance Method.

The Demon Race differed from humanity. Their Traits were not randomly assigned, but inherited through bloodlines.

Among humans, even the son of a Martial Saint Realm expert might randomly receive a white Trait. Though there were means to raise a Trait's strength later on, the foundation would ultimately be lacking from birth.

Among the Demon Race, however, according to bloodline inheritance, the offspring of a pure-blooded True Dragon would begin with a purple Trait one hundred percent of the time.

And because an Epic Trait was unique in the present age, only after the True Dragon possessing that Epic Trait died could one of its direct descendants possibly be born with the same Trait.

As for Legendary Traits, since each had been singular throughout the ages, only extremely rare mutant species could give birth to such a Trait. Every one that died meant one fewer in the world.

Thus, in terms of average combat strength and lifespan, the Demon Race surpassed humanity.

Yet because humanity's sample size was simply too vast, with uncertainties as numerous as the sea, their upper limit at the highest levels had always eclipsed that of the Demon Race.

Listening to the Dragon Maiden's explanation, Ye Li nodded inwardly. As he observed those demons, the demons likewise fixed appraising gazes upon