Chapter 31: The Three Great Strata of the Otherworldly Continent
To understand why Lou Meiniang can have such a transcendent status in the Epiphany Pavilion, we have to mention the class division of the otherworldly continent.
In the otherworldly continent, there is a natural and insurmountable gap between martial artists and ordinary people.
To be precise, the entire Otherworldly Continent is divided into three classes: the warrior class, the middle class, and the ordinary bottom.
The warrior class, the prestige of fame, is a class composed of warriors.
This class rules the whole of the Otherworld, and is the master of the direction of the continental power structure: peace comes because of them, and war arises because of them.
However, not all warriors belong to the warrior class, only warriors who join the tribe belong to the warrior class, because this class competes for the right to speak in the otherworldly continent in the form of tribal groups.
And if you want to join the tribe, whether it is a large tribe or a small tribe, you must be a warrior who can generate soul nameplates at level 3 or above.
The first and second level martial artists are generally called junior martial artists, and the martial artists below the fourth level (including the fourth level) are collectively referred to as low-level martial artists; the fifth to seventh level martial artists belong to the category of intermediate martial artists; and the martial artists above the eighth level (including the eighth level) can be honored as high-level martial artists; as for the ninth-level martial artists, the high-grade ninth-level martial artists, and even the tenth-level peerless martial artists are the most noble existences in the otherworldly continent.
In terms of individual force value alone, the third-level martial artists are not much stronger than the first- and second-level junior martial artists, and they both belong to the category of low-level martial artists. But there is a qualitative difference, after breaking through to the third-level martial artist, you can generate a soul nameplate. This makes many small tribes eager for talents also extend an olive branch to recruit third-level martial artists.
Join the tribe and enshrine the soul nameplate in the ancestral shrine of the tribe, and the title nameplate will automatically appear on the battle robe. Such a martial artist can use energy magic weapons such as Suiqian, Gaoqian, and Acceleration Pills, and he is a veritable martial artist.
The middle class is composed of a large number of first- and second-level junior martial artists, ordinary people with huge wealth, and a small number of middle and senior martial artists who have not joined the tribe.
The first and second level junior martial artists, because they can't generate soul nameplates, can only be scattered outside the tribe, and there is not much difference from the living state of ordinary people. But many big families, rich people with amazing wealth will hire these junior warriors with a lot of money, one is to put on a show, and the other is indeed to seek safety in troubled times.
Naturally, compared with ordinary people, junior martial artists with martial arts still have a superior social status, and with them as the main body, a class - the middle class is slowly formed. In addition to junior martial artists, ordinary people with a lot of wealth, and some scattered middle and high-level martial artists who have not yet joined the tribe, all belong to this class.
A few middle and high-level warriors who have not joined the tribe for some reason do not exist stably in the middle class. With the soul nameplate, they can take the olive branch extended by the tribe anytime and anywhere, and thus leap into the highest class of the otherworldly continent: the warrior class.
All in all, the middle class is a huge group, and it is the largest class in the Otherworldly Continent. They draw nourishment from the lower strata, support the warrior class above, and maintain the ecological operation of the entire continent.
The ordinary bottom is made up of ordinary people.
People of this class lack the talent to learn martial arts, have no martial arts, and do not have the special skills to earn huge wealth, so they can only live hard by hard work. The ordinary people at the bottom are the sentient beings who are wholeheartedly protected by the top martial artists who are in high positions and have great avenues in their hearts, and they are also the basic nourishment for careerists in the otherworldly continent to climb the pinnacle of power.
The hierarchical class gap makes it basically impossible for ordinary people and tribal warriors to intersect. In fact, even the junior martial artists scattered outside the tribe are like a mountain to ordinary people.
In places such as the "Epiphany Pavilion", the main guests are wealthy ordinary people, and it is rare to see the figure of a warrior.
The reason is very simple: if a person who practices martial arts wants to succeed in martial arts, "keeping the essence and cherishing himself" is the most important physical maintenance.
Of course, there will always be some martial artists lingering in the land of fireworks, and most of them are also low-level martial artists, who will use indulgence to anesthetize themselves when there is no hope of advancing to the rank in this life. These people have the name of warriors, but they do not have the perseverance of warriors, and they have been reduced to weak people like ordinary people.
And the first guest received by Lou Meiniang was not only a warrior, but also a tribal warrior who was like a fake.
It's just that the warrior who called himself Inter didn't come because of his beauty, but was attracted by Lou Meiniang's piano sound.