In feudal times, it was always transportation and distance that stood in the way of rule.

Even if you conquer a certain area for a short time, once the center of power is weakened, you will not have time to take care of the surrounding areas.

In the far border area of the Tiangao Emperor, there will inevitably be rebellion or self-reliance, which is a problem that is almost universally acceptable.

Although there are extraordinary powers such as cultivation sects in the Great Wilderness Realm, there are also means of transportation such as wind boats and cloud chariots that can cross long distances.

But the problem is that the wind boat and cloud chariot, or some riding beasts, are rare items that cannot equip troops on a large scale, and in this case, at most, they can only be used as a deterrent when the center is strong.

Therefore, when the era of "great contention" came and the whole world entered the chaotic times, the center lost its binding force on the locality.

All kinds of ghosts, demons and monsters will inevitably jump out and dance wildly, which can imagine how chaotic the four monsters of Zuzhou are today.

Disputes between countries, between countries, and between clans, mixed with all kinds of internal and external troubles, banditry, and banditry...... In short, it's a mess!

What the Western Cloud Empire is preparing to attack is the small countries of "Biye Kingdom, Chaoyun Kingdom, and Siyu Kingdom" in the northwest border of Nanwan Basket, which are ready to use this as a springboard to enter the Four Rafts of the Eastern Continent.

It is said that it is a "small country", but in fact, it is not small at all in terms of population and area, just think about the area of the four baskets in the Eastern Continent.

In a remote corner, the land area of Nigumo has reached 30 billion square kilometers, which is equivalent to 60 Earth's land area.

The four baskets of the Eastern Continent are several times larger than those of the Western Cloud Raft, ranging from hundreds of billions of square kilometers to hundreds of billions of square kilometers.

The vastness of the territory is unimaginable to Bai Yuqi, who is an earthling, even if he has mastered all kinds of unscientific arcane civilization technology, and can create a vehicle like a floating ship that moves at a speed of thousands of kilometers per hour, such a long distance is still a little beyond the reach of the Western Cloud Empire.

Therefore, what Bai Yuqi and they have to do is to lay down a base on the eastern continent first.

Then all kinds of resources and troops on the Xiyun Basket will be continuously transferred to the Eastern Continent, so that they can have the qualifications to compete for hegemony with the local forces in the Eastern Continent.

In the northwest of Nanwan, there is a sunken inland sea, with an area of about 50 or 60 million square kilometers.

The water is bottomless, and there are huge whirlpools everywhere, which makes the water appear deep black, so it is called "Blackwater Bay".

And Heishui Bay is close to one of the three ancestral mountains, "Gully Ming Junji Mountain", a branch of "Liusha Mountain".

The mountain was weathered badly by the violent sea breeze from the Xiyan Sea, and a large amount of sand and gravel flowed down the steep mountain, forming a sea of sand at the foot of the mountain.

Whenever the wind blows, the air currents that hit the quicksand mountain roll back because they can't cross the towering mountains, blowing a large amount of sand into the black water bay.

It stands to reason that for thousands of years, Heishui Bay should have been filled with the constantly flowing sand river.

However, the black water bay is bottomless, and the whirlpool formed by the water potential is strong, and the inflow of sand is constantly swept away.

So much so that such a quicksand waterfall has been formed into the sea, but it has never been able to fill the natural wonders of this inland sea.

The country is located on the north shore of Blackwater Bay, west of the Quicksand Mountain.

The Chaoyun Kingdom and the Siyu Kingdom are on the west shore of Heishui Bay, on the east of Liusha Mountain, and they are far away from each other across Heishui Bay.

Chaoyun and Siyu are smaller, but they are adjacent to each other.

Although the country of Biye is larger than the two countries combined, it is isolated by the Quicksand Mountain in the northwest corner of Nanwanzhen.

If you want to enter the inland of Nanwan, you can only bypass Heishui Bay by sea and pass through the territory of Chaoyun and Siyu, so some of them are subject to the two countries, and there are many conflicts in history because of this.

But here's what's interesting.

The lands of Chaoyun and Siyu are surrounded by the neighboring "Yu China".

In other words, if these three countries want to obtain inland resources, they must open up the passage to China.

But Yu China was stronger than both countries combined, so much so that the two countries had to join forces to resist the invasion of Yu China together.

Although the territory of the Biye Kingdom is bordered by the "Ming Junji Mountain" in the north and the desert in the east, and is not adjacent to any country, if you want to obtain inland resources through Chaoyun and Siyu, you have to support them to fight against Yu China.

This is only the tip of the eastern continent and the southern Wanwan, and the forces are so complicated, let alone the inland areas.

Strange to say, in later generations, the coastal areas were usually more prosperous and developed than the inland areas.

However, in the Great Wilderness, it is the opposite, the more inland the more abundant resources, while the coastal areas are more difficult to survive because of the wind and tsunami.

The fleet of the Eastern Continent Wind Boat that was captured by the Western Cloud Empire was actually a team of cultivators in the three kingdoms of Biye, Chaoyun, and Si Yu, uniting to seek resources overseas.

In the countries of the Four Rafts of the Eastern Continent, the cultivation sect and the national political system are often interdependent and mutually supportive.

Some small countries were even established by cultivation sects, so it was difficult to explain the relationship between them.

Someone asked, since these three kingdoms have cultivation sects and master wind boats that can sail across the sea, why don't they go inland by air, since they can't go by land?

For example, what kind of "Ming Junji Mountain" is to go to the middle of the river in the north to find resources?

First, since there is a flying tool such as a wind boat in the Great Wilderness, there is naturally an air defense means to counter the wind boat, and it is not safer to take the air route than to take the sea and land routes.

Second, among the four rafts in the Eastern Continent, the Zhongyou Raft is the strongest, the South Vietnamese Raft has more grain, the Donglan Raft is the most chaotic, and the Nanwan Basket is not up or down, and it is not known who eats who eats the Pond when they rush into the Pond.

Thirdly, "Gully Ming Junji Mountain" is not so easy to turn.

There are "18,000 thousand" Tianling Mountain and "8,800 Lingji Mountain" on Xiyun Pond, but compared with the three ancestral mountains in the Eastern Continent, it is not even a small hill!

No one knows how high the "Gully Ming Junji Mountain" is, and the branch vein "Liusha Mountain" alone is "88,000 miles", which is converted to an altitude of 200,000 meters!

Mount Everest is only 8,800 meters above sea level, what is the concept of 200,000 meters high? At an altitude of 200 kilometers, it has already entered perigee on the earth, right?

Although whether it is "eight thousand eight, one thousand eight" or "eighty-eight thousand", it is just an exaggerated description of the Great Wilderness.

But you can also refer to its height, its steepness is not a mountain at all, it is a screen!

Therefore, as an artificial aircraft, it is impossible for the wind boat to fly so high and turn over.

With such three factors, it is no wonder that the Fengzhou fleet of the Three Kingdoms Alliance would rather spend more time crossing the sea to Xiyun to pick soft persimmons.

But what they didn't expect was that the soft persimmon was not pinched, but it provoked a "strong dragon across the sea"!