The Cangyuan Realm was a middle thousand world discovered by the Immortal Alliance's Heaven-Patrolling Department. It had earned its name from its abundant water qi and numerous rivers.
The Cangyuan Realm was vast, with the Three Rivers and Four Seas spanning east to west and crisscrossing north to south. Countless cultivators gathered there, forming a cultivation nation called Great Qian. Unlike the lowly little nations of the Southern Wasteland, Great Qian was a unified nation established by the human cultivators of the Cangyuan Realm, powerful enough to overawe the entire realm.
Even powerful cultivators had to submit to the authority of Great Qian's officials and laws.
"Interesting."
Chen Beiwu stirred his divine sense and continued reading the intelligence in the jade slip.
Unlike the Immortal Alliance's mainstream cultivation methods, the Cangyuan Realm had no immortal cultivators. Instead, it was a world where the martial path flourished.
However, this world's martial path was rather savage and brutal. It required demon blood to temper the body, demon hearts to refine qi, demon souls to refine the spirit, and demon bones to forge weapons. It comprised eight realms: Meridian Opening, Blood Fusion, Meridian Circulation, Bone Forging, Blood Replacement, Core Condensation, Ancestor Return, and Sainthood.
Lower-realm martial artists, such as those in the first four realms of Meridian Opening, Blood Fusion, Meridian Circulation, and Bone Forging, possessed strength equivalent to the Immortal Alliance's mortal Qi Refining cultivators. In appearance, they differed little from Immortal Alliance cultivators, but their blood qi was impure, and their minds were contaminated by demon blood, making them irritable, explosive, and violent.
Martial artists at Blood Replacement and above gradually lost their human appearance and developed demonic features, growing single horns, vertical pupils, wings, scales, and various other characteristics of demons. In Great Qian, Blood Replacement martial masters could be