In this situation, when the Flesh Body School suddenly researched a method to supplement bloodlines, they were met not with admiration from other schools, but with ridicule.
Accusations of going against the tide of history, of researching the bad instead of the good, and all sorts of criticisms emerged.
The Flesh Body School was thoroughly lambasted due to these remarks.
Quan carefully investigated the research directions and histories of various schools, gaining some understanding of them.
In general, none of the current schools could truly research the realm beyond the Core Condensation stage. Although they had some achievements, they were not enough to be considered the opening of a new realm.
In terms of achievements, the Primordial Spirit School and the Core Returning School were undoubtedly the leading ones, with the most cultivators in the Core Condensation stage. The Flesh Body School, the Multi-Core School, and other schools were all relatively small and not highly regarded.
According to regulations, cultivators who reached the Yin Sha realm could choose a school to join. Joining a school offered many benefits, such as the opportunity to exchange cultivation insights with other cultivators, and it was generally beneficial.
Within the Taihang Mountains, there were almost no cultivators who did not join a school. Quan naturally chose to follow the crowd and join a school, rather than drawing attention by not joining.
Among the many schools, Quan joined the Primordial Spirit School. No one noticed him, as the Primordial Spirit School was a large school that most people chose to join, making his choice unremarkable.
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Quan lifted the corpse covering his body and looked at the ground.
As he gazed at the land of mountains of corpses and seas of blood, he recalled the memories in his mind. Quan sighed, looking at the numerous corpses in the Taihang Mountains, as if he could see the scenes of him learning martial arts there in the past.
The path of cultivation had changed his life as a commoner, who lacked bloodline power.
The influence of cultivators was also extremely vast in the south. Even the largest human tribes had at most a dozen or so experts at the level of a small tribe chief. However, the Taihang Mountains had dozens of cultivators in the Core Condensation stage.
Ordinary Core Condensation cultivators were already at the fourteenth grade of bloodline. Core Returning cultivators who had undergone five transformations and five returns, and cultivators with fully developed Yin Spirits, could almost rival the twelfth grade of bloodline.
The power of cultivators was undeniable. Even if several large tribes attacked with their armies, they could be resisted. If all the southern tribes attacked, they might suffer heavy losses, but the southern tribes, with their internal conflicts, would never abandon all their differences and unite.
Therefore, the Taihang Mountain Cultivation Group could suppress the various tribes, making them afraid to speak out. When they went to the Qingyang Tribe to recruit many tribesmen to leave, the chief, though angry, dared not object.
Thus, the Taihang Mountain Cultivation Group could establish a foothold in the south and popularize various cultivation texts for cultivators in the south.
However, all of this changed when the previous Human King of the north died of old age and the current Human King ascended the throne.
This world was divided into prosperous and desolate lands.
The most prosperous land was naturally the north.
To the west of it was a desert, known as the Western Desert, extremely desolate with few inhabitants.
To the east was the Endless Sea, boundless and impossible to swim across.
To the north was the Misty Mountains, filled with poisonous creatures.
To the south was the Southern Wilderness, which was also the Qingyang Tribe and the location of the Taihang Mountains. The formal name for the south was the Southern Wilderness.
Although the Southern Wilderness was inhabited, it was also a desolate land. The fact that the founding chiefs of the tribes residing there were all banished by the Human King of that era indicated that the Southern Wilderness was not considered important or valued by the north.
Compared to the Endless Sea, the Western Desert, and the Misty Mountains, the Southern Wilderness was merely inhabited. However, truly noble-born individuals of high bloodline did not reside in the Southern Wilderness but in the prosperous lands of the north.
Since the first Human Emperor, the royal capitals of successive Human Kings had always been established in the north, not elsewhere. Therefore, the north was the political and power center of the human race.
In the eyes of the true high-ranking nobles of the north, the Southern Wilderness, a place where nobles were banished by the Human King, was insignificant regardless of what happened—why would they pay attention to such a desolate place far from the political center?
If even the high-ranking nobles held such views, how could the Human King not? Thus, the previous Human King never paid attention to the cultivators of the Taihang Mountain Cultivation Group, even though they had occupied the Southern Wilderness for many years, because he believed that the barren land of the Southern Wilderness was not worth his concern.
The Taihang Mountain Cultivation Group, due to the indifference of the Human King and the northern nobles, had spread for centuries, but luck does not last forever.
The new Human King ascended the throne, and unlike the previous one, was very interested in conquering the four directions.
She first went to the Misty Mountains in the far north and fought against the ancient poisoner hidden deep within—a post-natal spirit of the demon race.
Then, she sent many subordinates to see if the Endless Sea had an end.
Afterward, she went to the Western Desert to search for traces left by the ancient innate deities, the legendary starships capable of traversing the starry sky and flying to the ninth heaven.
Then, she noticed the Southern Wilderness, the spreading path of cultivation within it, and the land of the Southern Wilderness that gathered many cultivators and was the political core of cultivators.
Although the new Human King was female, the Savage World had never had a rule that the Human King must be male. Therefore, her ascension to Human King did not cause a strong reaction from the northern nobles—there had been many female Human Kings in history, so it was not unusual.
In this Savage World, where strength and status were determined by bloodline abilities, the distinction between males and females was no longer a manifestation of status. What truly determined the status of men and women was clearly bloodline ability, not their gender.
Having bloodline ability was the manifestation of status. The supposed innate weakness of females was not an issue at all when possessing bloodline power.
The main conflict of the human race was caused by the differences in bloodline abilities, not by gender.
The Human King was well aware that the conflict of status arising from bloodline abilities caused social contradictions far exceeding all other conflicts.
This level of terrifying social contradiction would have led to countless uprisings in other worlds, and nobles would have been overthrown many times. However, in this Savage World, commoner uprisings had no possibility of success.
A human with a nineteenth-grade bloodline could easily kill hundreds of commoner soldiers.
A noble with a seventeenth-grade bloodline could defeat an army of millions of commoners single-handedly.
As for humans with even higher bloodlines, they could annihilate an army of hundreds of millions with a single glance.
Under such a terrifying disparity in strength, all uprisings were impossible. Even if the nobles and those with high bloodlines oppressed the commoners severely, the commoners had no way to retaliate.