The East Continent was populated by tribes of Hybrid beastmen. This was Tao Jue's initial design, and had allowed God full authority over the continent, as well as all others.
Although Tao Jue had been occasionally watching over the development of the civilizations in the East, he was surprised at the combat ability of those at the highest level.
The East had a hierarchy of rank based on power, a primitive but effective way of controlling the masses.
The established power scale was from the lowest to highest: Mortal, Warrior, Master, Grandmaster, Void Soul, Protector.
The mortal, warrior, master and grandmaster realms are split into three minor realms of early, intermediate and peak. A Beastman would improve internal energy throughout the mortal, warrior and master stages, each increasingly improving their internal power, and a grandmaster would begin to harness both external and internal energy.
The Void soul realm coincides to the Nascent soul realm of central continent; and gives the warrior the ability to utilise soul attacks and possession. These warriors were extremely rare and would typically be the tribe leader of Supreme scale tribes, living for hundreds of years.
The protector realm is a legendary stage comparing to the Tribulation stage of cultivation, and only one or two of these beings existed in the entirety of Eastern continent. They would not show themselves unless the continent was on the verge of destruction and would typically be in isolated cultivation.
This was unlike the central continent, that had widely adapted the cultivation system under Tao Jue's influence.
Since the Eastern Continent was so large, there were also grades of tribes based on power and population.
At the lowest power of the East, were the small and medium sized tribes. These tribes were numbered in the thousands and spread out throughout the continent, usually under a stronger power as a subordinate tribe. They typically had Warriors at the Master level for village elders and Peak-Masters as their Tribe leader.
Large tribes would have thousands of warriors in the Master level, and dozens of Grandmaster ranks as elders. One could see by the ratio that Grandmaster was a realm difficult to break into. The village tribe leader would be a peak grandmaster realm.
Finally, the ten supreme tribes of Eastern continent were the height of power. They had tens to hundreds of large and medium scale tribes under their rule and had one or two Void Soul realm masters within as the Tribe leader and Grand Elder.
The Snow Lion tribe, was a large tribe under the rule of the Phoenix tribe - A supreme tribe ruling a large portion of the south of Eastern continent.
At this time, Phoenix tribe and the representatives of the tribes under them were in a meeting discussing the invasion. Currently, the invaders were marching north towards the Pheonix tribe territory.
The Phoenix tribe leader, A Void Soul realm master, glanced around the room at the solemn elders. Hundreds of grandmaster powerhouses were collected in this room; a never seen before war was about to break out.
Standing up, Xia Fei, the Phoenix tribe leader, spoke to break the silence.
"Our scouts reported the invaders have massacred fourteen villages far south. A survivor was lucky enough to flee to give us information."
He paused and sighed. Xia Fei knew what he was about to say would break morale before the war even started. The enemies were just too strong.
"Close to ten-thousand Dragon hybrids. The average dragon is at Grandmaster strength, a few dozen at the Void Soul, two leaders at the Protector realm."
The second he came out with this new information, the great hall broke into a frenzy. Some elders even wiped cold sweat from their backs. This was completely above expectations.
"Tribe leader Xia, there is no chance for victory, why wait for slaughter? Let's retreat to the northern territory! we can combine forces with other supreme tribes!" Other elders seemed to agree with him, shouting their arguments.
Other brave elders advised a defensive stance, holding the line for northern or eastern reinforcements.
"How can we migrate so quickly? We have millions of tribesmen with elderly and children! We don't have the capability to take them with us! We must wait for reinforcements, tribe leader, please advise!" He bowed in Tribe leader Xia
Shouts and arguments broke out, some even resorted to physical fights. The grand hall was in a mess.
Suddenly, Tribe Leader Xia shook his head. Either choice would result in the massacre of most of his people, all he could do is choose the one with the most likely chance of success.
He coughed lightly, instantly, the power of the Void Soul realm quietened down the hall to silence.
"Sigh, I will contact the northern White snake tribe. They have an ancestor in the Protector realm. Migrating will only cause us to lose our people without any achievement, and our people are not faster than hybrid dragons. We will establish a defensive line with our men in front and civilians fifty kilometres behind. We buy time."
Some elders clenched their fists, others had eyes filled with resolute emotions, ready to give their lives.
Although the continents had different cultures, people and power systems, they all knew about Heaven and Hell. This was spread purposefully by the Angels and Devils. Death was not the end, but a new beginning.