The next day, inside the thatched cottage, Hao Qi heard the air-raid sirens echoing from the distant city. In the sixteen years since his birth, he had heard this sound several times. Every time, it meant a powerful Ranked Creature was attacking the city. Over the past decade or more, Ranked Creatures had become increasingly scarce, and such alarms sounded less and less often, yet unexpectedly, it started blaring suddenly at a time like this.
Come to think of it, the people of Shenhun Dao were completely different from martial artists, and could even be said to be entirely different from the vast majority of people in this era. No matter what kind of person they were before practicing Shenhun Dao, once they began the practice, they would instantly cast aside their human identity. They considered themselves New Humans, while everyone outside of Shenhun Dao belonged to Old Humans, or were simply monkeys—creatures that could be slaughtered at will. In fact, precisely because of this, the martial artists' eradication campaigns against Shenhun Dao had never stopped. Even after the Termination war ended and Shenhun Dao retreated fully into the Black Sea, martial artists still conducted year-round campaigns and harassment against them on the borders of the Green Sea and Qinghai. It was only due to some peculiar traits of Shenhun Dao that the plan to completely annihilate them had never succeeded.
These were all records written in books, and Hao Qi did not know why people changed s…
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