High in the air, an enormous Disaster Fish Saint King was locked in a stalemate with Xue Bentao, Sashanghai, and Xu Xin. Their powers intertwined overhead, holding one another in check and forming a delicate balance.
Xixi gazed at the blood-colored swan in the distance. Its strange yet majestic appearance stirred her curiosity. "What is that?" she asked.
(Let's still call Bo Saixi "Xixi" here; it suits her age better.)
"That's a Blood Swan, a mutated Swan Martial Soul," Chen Xiaojun explained as he stepped out of the Watchtower and came to Xixi's side. "Alongside the Emerald Swan and Holy Swan, it's one of the three ninth-grade mutated martial souls that frequently awaken in the Heaven Dou Imperial Family."
Hearing this, Xixi took a few more looks at the blood-colored swan. She could feel its imposing presence, as though it were a creature from another world.
"Why does it look so much like the Blood Angel of Spirit Hall's Qian Family in the books?!"
"I don't know. Many factions suspect that the Heaven Dou Xue Family and the Angel Qian Family have some murky connection, or even share the same origin."
"Let's put that aside," Chen Xiaojun continued. "Although they're all mutated martial souls, the Blood Swan differs from the others. Most branches that inherit other types of mutated martial souls break away and become independent, but the Heaven Dou Imperial Family never lets those who awaken swan-type martial souls leave the imperial family."
"Why?" Xixi asked curiously.
"Because they guarantee the imperial family's fighting strength," Chen Xiaojun answered briefly.
Strangely enough, the awakening rates of these swan-type martial souls were irregular, and most descendants of those who awakened them reverted to the Swan Martial Soul.
After hearing this, Xixi could not help feeling curious about those who awakened these