In the Bloodmang Ancient Land, only scholars could establish lineages.
The smallest were Licentiate lineages, while the strongest were Great Scholar lineages.
However, the Bloodmang Ancient Land had not had a Great Scholar for many years. At present, Grand Academician lineages held the highest status.
In the Bloodmang Ancient Land, everyone belonged to a lineage, because anyone who did not could not survive there.
On the Saint Origin Continent, nations had their laws, and the Sacred Academy had its rules. But in the Bloodmang Ancient Land, there was only clan law-the laws of the lineages. Some were extraordinarily harsh, and they formed the most fundamental rules of the Bloodmang Ancient Land.
"I heard that after three days in the Bloodmang Ancient Land, its influence begins to affect you, causing a degree of mental confusion. Only eating dragon-pattern rice can ward it off. But the people here have lived here for generations, and subtle changes in their bloodlines allow them to resist some of the Bloodmang Ancient Land's power."
Walking the Blue Clouds was fast, and before long, Fang Yun approached the town and looked down to study it closely.
Unlike ordinary towns on the Saint Origin Continent, the towns here were tightly enclosed by walls, with only four gates, one in each cardinal direction, allowing passage. Nearly a hundred arrow towers stood within the four walls, and many soldiers drilled behind the ramparts.
The entire town contained roughly four or five thousand houses, with a population of around fifteen to twenty thousand.
Fang Yun nodded slightly. This town differed little from the descriptions in the information he had read. Because bear demons frequently harassed them, at least one in ten people in the Bloodmang Ancient Land served as soldiers even in ordinary times. Once fighting broke out, everyone took up