Zhix

## Appearance

"Their faces were mostly human, apart from their noses that were mostly two holes and a slight protuberance. The same could be said about their ears, almost looking like the cauliflower ears of professional wrestlers. Their eyes were almost human, though a bit larger and their irises were purple.

All in all their faces could have passed as ugly humans if it wasn’t for the two antennae on their heads and the fact that their skin was tinged a bit purple. Their skin was quite hard as well, but not to the point of being a chitinous exoskeleton of the Ayr Ants back on his own island.

They also had four normal appendages and even wore clothes." **Chapter 124.**

Normal Zhix were slightly shorter than male humans on average, with weaker anointed like Nonet reaching a bit over three meters. Herat, the Anointed he met during the hunt was another half-meter taller than that, but he was far from the largest one in this place. **Chapter 542**

## Communication

It turned out they possessed some sort of sonar sense and could create small vibrations that were too subdued for human ears but could be picked up by the Zhix though a unique organ. It was also this organ that helped them sense Cosmic Energy, or corruption as they called it, since the energy caused interference to their sonar sense. **Chapter 126**

Ibtep was able to listen in on a mentel conversation in the Zethaya Pill House, Zerathar Branch. **Chapter 633**

## Cultivation

The Anointed and a large group of Zhix scholars had started creating a unique Cultivation Manual made by the Zhix for the Zhix. It was still pretty rough, but over 90% of all Zhix warriors had still chosen to use it, displaying the characteristic unity of insectoid species. **Chapter 682**

The Hives are unable to nurture the kind of warriors needed to meet the challenges of this wider world. We are a communal race, where the Hive is all. However, the pursuit of the Dao is ultimately a personal journey of discovery, which is putting us at a disadvantage. The thinking of the average Zhix warrior was extremely rigid, and Zhix like Ibtep and Rhubat were extremely rare. If cultivation didn’t require insights into the Dao, they would probably have left the humans on earth far behind with their one-tracked mentality, but now they rather found themselves stuck. **Chapter 849**

## Society

### Anointed

Do you know what the Anointed are? It’s forced mutation through Alchemy. They call it the Rite of Anointment, but they only stuff themselves full of natural treasures, hoping the surge of energy won’t explode them.

They invented it to combat us [The Dominators] back in the day, you know?. The unenlightened needed quick boosts in power to combat our superior strength during the Great War. But that path to power has a price, they will never ascend to the E-Grade. Soon they will be irrelevant, left behind as symbols of a misguided struggle. **Chapter 232**

### Dominators

The Dominators are Zhix that follow Voridis in the hope that when he comes to claim their planet they will be chosen as his disciples and allowed to further their cultivation. They were unsuccessful in their attempt to conquer the Zhix home world and were forced into hiding only taking further action once their planet had been fused into the New Earth and the planet integrated .

The Dominators of old always followed one of three means of battle. Some controlled chains of enslavement. Others caused thousands of casualties with their spears. A few walked the path of pugilism as Adcarkas, rampaging through our ranks with their fists alone. **Chapter 563**

### Future

In preparation of the Anointed ceasing to be a major force in Zhix society many of them have chosen to take part in a Crusade in which they burn lifeforce in some way allowing them to demonstrate even greater power at the cost of having only a year longer to live (**Chapter 542**). Furthermore their society is being restructured with two major pillars; the clergy and the army. One would provide spiritual guidance and be in charge of running the non-combat side of things, while the Army would nurture the next generation of warriors and protect the hives. The true elites would still be interred into some sort of templar order, making sure there was a balance in power between the two factions (**Chapter 543**).

Thanks to Ibtep's efforts the Anointed managed to rid themselves of the chains that kept them in the F-Grade losing between 50% and 70% of their attributes in the process with Rhubat being an exception keeping 80% (**Chapter 682**). Most were unlikely to become proper Cultivators and reaching D-Grade is highly unlikely (**Chapter 633**). Nonet encountered this bottleneck at the middle E-grade. (**Chapter 849**)

### Second crusade

Rhubat announced the start of a crusade against the Kan'Tanu invaders during the sanctioned war.

Zac's brows rose slightly as he felt fate shift around the insectoids. Be it the Anointed or the normal-sized citizens, they seemed incredibly excited about Rhubat's declaration. In their first crusade, they had fought for millennia to rid themselves of the Dominators, but their victory had left them without purpose. **Chapter 1.082**

## Reproduction

The Zhix are neither. Or both. We both carry the seed of life and possess the ability to germinate it, but we need the blessing of the Anointed to create life. Without their blessing no child can be conceived.

So you give birth?

No, we create eggs. **Chapter 126**

As for their reproduction, it turned out that Anointed weren’t actually needed for that. From how Ibtep explained it back then it sounded like the Anointed were like hive queens that made it possible for Zhix eggs to be fertilized, but it wasn’t the whole story. They were simply the "alpha’s" of the hive, but the alpha didn’t necessarily need to be Anointed. **Chapter 543**

## Zhix Hives

* Hive Kundevi - in the Atwood Archipelago
* Hive Dahiti - near Westfort
* Hive Urbot - representative met during the Eastern Trigram Hunt
* Hive Arbak - strongest Hive in the Underworld