Chapter 50: Monster Race, Hybrid Race & The Zerg

Humans also use wild beasts for various purposes, utilizing their carcasses for armor materials and their bones or teeth for weapons.

But when the Zerg disaster came in full force, both humans and Monster races had to join forces to fight against the Zerg.

Initially, there was much friction between humans and the wild beasts or Monster races, as they adopted the name from many cultivation novels before the change.

However, when humans discovered that Zerg carcasses were superior to those of other monsters, they ceased secret killings and began actively capturing Zerg to explore their potential for sustainable material sources.

While humans sought carcasses, monsters developed a taste for Zerg meat, finding it more appetizing than human flesh.

Xu Qianghua still remembers nearly dying after tasting Zerg meat, highly toxic to humans but considered a delicacy by the Monster races.

Thus, humans and Monster races established a trade agreement: humans received Zerg carcasses, bones, and teeth, while monsters obtained meat and internal organs.

This trade continued for years, gradually bringing the races closer and leading to the creation of sub-species blending features of both parents.

Initially rejected by both races, these sub-species gained acceptance over time, particularly supported by kind-hearted yet powerful cultivators who saw them as a unifying force to protect the world.

But the difference between the sub-species or the Hybrids is that they have the blood of both the monster race and the human race.

While the monster race has to reach the Nascent Soul realm to change into human form, the Hybrid race can do it from birth.

However, they are not able to actively change forms until they master their bodies, which happens when they reach the Peak of the Golden Core Realm.

Before that, they would change into their monster form if their emotions are triggered to a high level, such as when they are really angry at someone.

To deal with this, the leading hybrid cultivators created a special cultivation manual along with the monster and human races to address this problem.

This is the only reason why such a crazy species of monsters survived and thrived until now.

So when the world with Xu Qianghua and others was slowly pushing back the Zerg soldiers, the Zerg queens sent many of their personal guards to kill off the high-ranking personnel of the alliance.

At first, it worked as the high-level cultivators did not think there could be anyone else higher than the soldiers, or else they would be on the front line.

But this was their mistake as this world is still a newly converted world which has led to a lot of information blind spots such as how the Zerg operate.

For the Zerg, the death of the soldiers is nothing as they can create more as long as they capture this planet and consume its inhabitants.

Although they were later killed, the death rate was 3 to 1, 1 being the Zerg personal guards while the 3 were the high-level cultivators.

But the good thing is that for some reason the personal guards dropped Family cards of the rank they were before they died.

This boosted the morale of the Family-style players as they were losing the most from this invasion as their members were being sent to the front line because they had better cultivation levels compared to the adventure players who were still lagging behind.

However, this disaster also gave birth to some important figures who would later lead their species to the top.

One of them is Hu Liwei, a cultivator from the nine-tailed fox race. This is one of the fox species, but they are one of the rarest as there are not many foxes with the bloodline of the ancient nine-tailed fox.

But she was able to completely awaken her bloodline, which led her to become one of the strongest cultivators in the monster race.

The other is Tian Meifeng, from the Hybrid Race. What is different about her is that she had the bloodline of the sky-swallowing serpent.

Tian Meifeng was born a hybrid, with her parents being a human and a snake woman, who generally never loved anyone other than their own species.

She is one of the rarest hybrids, but due to having the bloodline of an ancient beast, she quickly rose to prominence.