Ancient Races

*Not to be confused with Ancient family*

**Ancient Races** (古族 *guzu*) or Ancient Clans are the mixed offspring of Xuan Beast and Human intermarriage. Although nominally neutral, they think they are superior to humans.

The ancient races usually lived in seclusion, rarely interacting with the rest of the world. They were too powerful to provoke.

## Examples

* Fullmoon clan, met before entering Wangu Road
* Feather race
* Wind Leopard
* Giant Eagle Race
* Scarlet Blood Salamander Race
* Barbarian Elephant Race
* Shadow Devil Tiger Race
* Scarlet Blood Gold Ape

### Formations

The ancient races' tribes were different from the human race's sects. They had no protective formations around them. First of all, they didn't need them because no one dared to touch them. The second reason however... was rather embarrassing. It was because they had no idea how to set formations up.

## Ancient Races vs. Ancient Families

* Ancient families refer to human families, whereas Ancient clans / Guzu are not necessarily human

## Origins

*See also: Xuanshou, Evil Path/History*
Guzu are the hybrid descendants of interbreeding Xuanshou and Humans. A small group of humans opposed this mixed race marriage, so they began slaughtering the Xuanshou. This group was then condemned by other humans and xuanshou alike, who began to persecute this group. Before this group died, they were saved by the Evil God and formed the Evil Path. The Evil Path then began targeting the human Righteous Path, so the xuanshou became spectators to the humans' internal strife.

### History

These ancient races felt themselves to be above the human race. In truth, Long Chen also looked down on them, because they were actually the descendants of humans mating with beasts.

They possessed the human race's blood, but they also possessed the blood of ancient beasts. The strength of their physical bodies was many times stronger than an ordinary human cultivator due to that influence, giving them a large advantage.

There were some ancient beasts who possessed pure bloodlines. They were not called Magical Beasts. Instead, they called themselves Xuan Beasts, and they were able to transform into a full human form.

In ancient times, there had been a period of peace when human experts had intermarried with Xuan Beasts, birthing children that had inherited a portion of both their strengths.

Later, for some unknown reason, there had been an immense battle between the Xuan Beasts and the human cultivators. Their relationships had also fractured.

That caused an awkward consequence. The descendants of the two sides had ended up being abandoned. Neither side accepted them.

Then for some other unknown reason, the Xuan Beasts had declined. Many of them had disappeared. As for the human race, they had also been greatly weakened. The ones possessing both their bloodlines ended up becoming the greatest force back then. They had called themselves the ancient races. It was said that they had led the Martial Heaven Continent for quite a long time.

Ouyang Qiuyu guessed that the only reason that had occurred was because an immense war had been fought between the humans and the Xuan Beasts. Their inheritances were severed as their elites fell. As for the ancient races, they had become the greatest benefactors.

Later, the human race had finally erupted after being suppressed by the ancient races for too long. An intense war was fought. During that prolonged war, the human race gave birth to several shocking experts, allowing them to suppress the ancient races.

In the end, the ancient races had no choice but to compromise. The two sides formed an agreement, saying neither side would attack the other. As a result, the battle between the human race and the ancient races had only just ended when the human race's interior fragmented again.

Back then, a portion of the human race had said that they should destroy the ancient races while they could. They wanted to pull them up by the roots and make them completely extinct.

There was another portion who thought there was no need to slaughter them all. Even if they won and the ancient races were exterminated, it would cost them dearly. And after all, they still possessed a blood connection.

As a result, the disharmony in the human race grew more and more. In the end, weapons had been raised. They had met on the battlefield. One side felt that the other was being excessively merciful. They were leaving behind a disaster for their descendants that would sooner or later erupt. The other side felt that their opponents were too cruel. The ancient races weren't Magical Beasts. Even if they couldn't be treated as humans, they couldn't be treated as beasts.

After all, the ancient races' numbers had been enormous back then, and their appearance was similar to humans. They had women and children. How could they bring down the butcher's knife on them? Why not give them a chance so that there could be peace?

In their fury, the experts who had proposed slaughtering them directly left the human race's army and began a slaughter of the ancient races on their own. Their numbers were too low, and so they were unable to face the ancient race's army head-on. The only thing they could do was target their weaker members.

Those weaker members were the ancient race's women and children. An enormous number of them were slaughtered by those human experts. They were extremely vicious, and any member of the ancient races would be slaughtered. They said that enemies were enemies, and they wouldn't give them time to grow.

Their actions infuriated the ancient races and the human race. Both sides joined together to handle them. As a result, through numbers and power, those vicious human experts suffered defeat after defeat.

But then they were saved by the Evil God, and so the Evil Path was formed. See Evil Path/History for more info.

### 'Neutrality'

Although the ancient races announced that they were neutral, they felt a profound hatred for the human race, especially the Corrupt path. They still remembered when they ruled this world. But now they had to stand on the same level as the inferior human race. So they would often provoke the human race, as they always tolerated it. That made their arrogance greater and greater until they stopped giving a damn about the Righteous path's people.

## Location

### Current State

Other races besides humans live in Tianwu. Some of them are known as the Ancient Clans or Guzu.

Shui Wuhen solemnly said, "The Eastern Wasteland might be a desolate place, but there are still countless sects and hundreds of races. Some of those races are even stronger than our Xuantian Dao Sect."

More precisely, they're stronger than our Eastern Wasteland's branch sect. Our branch sect's power is a drop in the ocean compared to the head sect in the Central Plains.

"As for those races, there are some who have inherited bloodlines from the immortal era. They rarely interact with the rest of the world. In order to keep the purity of their bloodline, they never marry outside of their race.

"There are many races, and it's very easy to recognize them. If you can avoid it, don't provoke them. Their clans are very protective, in addition to being domineering and unreasonable!" warned Shui Wuhen.

### World

An endless range of mountains had appeared in front of them along with countless ancient buildings.

These buildings were built into the mountains, which had many caves. It looked very primitive.

This was the world of the ancient races. In all of history, there had been four cases of the ancient races expanding their territory.

The ancient races split their territory amongst themselves, with each race getting their own land. It was easy to recognize the land of each race because they would have a giant statue at their front gates. That statue was their symbol and signified which race they were.

## Powers

When the ancient races activated their Spirit Blood, their combat power would multiply, as they had the bloodline of the Xuan Beasts.

This was different from when the human race activated their Spirit Blood. The Spirit Blood of the ancient races contained their Xuan Beast bloodline, but their bodies were in human form. They were unable to endure such terrifying power for a long time.

That was why the ancient races also considered the human race as absolute garbage. The human race bloodline affected their combat power, making it so they were unable to fully unleash the power of the Xuan Beast bloodline within them. So they hated the human race.

Now that the Eagle-eyed expert activated his Spirit Blood, his combat power crazily soared. However, his body wouldn't be able to endure this kind of power for long. He had to end the fight quickly.

### Bloodline

The ancient races had the blood of the human race flowing within them. If they expelled that bloodline, their intelligence would sharply drop. It was true, a great deal of their power came from the Xuan Beasts and the divine abilities they inherited were also from their bloodline. However, plenty of their abilities also came from the human race's bloodline.

"Hmph, without your human blood, you'd become a pack of animals who wouldn't even know how to cultivate. Remember your ancestor's words: the power you obtain belongs to you. Don't bring up such childish words about cheating," sneered Long Chen.

### Magical arts

He immediately understood that this was a magical art, not a divine ability. The ancient races' magical arts were learned from the human race. Due to the eventual fracture between them, the magical arts that the ancient races possessed were not top tier. Their actual power wasn't very great.

As for Split the Heavens, it was extremely effective against any defensive magical art. It broke this magical art very easily.

This attack from the Netherpassage expert instantly exposed where he came from. A human's magical art couldn't possibly be so garbage. As for the Xuan Beasts, they didn't use magical arts. It was completely obvious.

## Relationships

* They disdained working with humans, including the Bloodkill Hall.
* Considering the ancient races' arrogance and viciousness, they usually did not get along with the Martial Heaven Alliance. There was constant friction between them. Although it hadn't grown into a full-scale war, there was plenty of hostility between them.

## Trivia

* Those half-human half-beast people have powerful bloodline powers. Once they reach the fourth rank, their bloodline power completely awakens, granting them immense power.
* A habit of the ancient races: They were used to using absolute martial strength to suppress others in order to show their prestige and dominance. Although the ancient races claimed to be neutral and didn't provoke trouble, that was actually something from the ancient era. In the recent era, the ancient races were growing more and more hostile. There would often be stories of ancient race disciples incurring the hatred of other experts. They were getting tyrannical.
* The ancient races were also known for their power. That was thanks to inheriting the bloodline of the Xuan Beasts. Power had always been their proud point, but today, they witnessed what true power was.
* They had inherited part of the essence of the Xuan Beasts when it came to brains and weren't too good at thinking about long-term consequences. So despite having the blood of the human race, they were unable to control high level magical arts and were forced to rely on their inherited divine abilities.

## References

1. ↑ Chapter 1739 (Wuxiaworld)
2. ↑ Chapter 941 (Wuxiaworld)
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Chapter 851 (Wuxiaworld)
4. ↑ Chapter 1746 (Wuxiaworld)
5. ↑ Chapter 753 (Wuxiaworld)
6. ↑ Chapter 1745 (Wuxiaworld)
7. ↑ Chapter 1222 (Wuxiaworld)
8. ↑ Chapter 1740 (Wuxiaworld)
9. ↑ Chapter 1743 (Wuxiaworld)
10. ↑ Chapter 1223 (Wuxiaworld)
11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 Chapter 1761 (Wuxiaworld)
12. ↑ Chapter 902 (Wuxiaworld)
13. ↑ Chapter 1239 (Wuxiaworld)
14. ↑ Chapter 1554 (Wuxiaworld)