"Are you the only one?" Jiang Lan asked thoughtfully as he stretched his muscles and walked out of the ruins, looking at the tall Azure Wolf Bandit.
There had been three Azure Wolf Bandits in the original story.
Two of the Azure Wolf Bandits had strength comparable to Dai Mubai when he was a Soul King.
And the strongest Azure Wolf Bandit was no weaker than Tang San when he had six rings.
However, that had all happened more than a decade later. The Azure Wolf Bandit before him was only as strong as a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast.
The other two Azure Wolf Bandits were nowhere to be seen either.
Either they had yet to grow into Azure Wolf Bandits, or there were two other Wolf Bandit tribes along the empire's borders.
As mongrel hybrids born from humans and wolves, Wolf Bandits possessed the advantages of both humans and Soul Beasts.
In other words, they had the cultivation speed of human Soul Masters, yet, unlike human Soul Masters, they did not need Soul Rings to break through their realms. They also possessed the physiques and innate abilities of Soul Beasts without their slow cultivation speed.
However, they had one sole—and fatal—flaw: their bloodline was far too inferior.
Although they possessed the advantages of humans and Soul Beasts in the early stages, their cultivation would slow once it reached a certain level.
After reaching the ten-thousand-year level, their cultivation growth would return to that of ordinary Soul Beasts. However, they could increase their cultivation by eating humans.
Still, being able to cultivate from infancy to the ten-thousand-year level in just over a decade was astonishing enough, whether for humans or Soul Beasts.
Moreover, Wolf Bandits had the characteristic of reproducing quickly.
A Wolf Bandit needed only a few years, or even