Hearing Lin Da's question, Shen Bing suddenly booed with one hand, blinked his eyes, and pretended to be cautious: "Shhh Pen %Fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info"

"Your grandfather, I see! No wonder you know so much!" said Linda.

Shen Bing nodded, and said with a little resentment: "Although Grandpa is the county magistrate of Xiaoyu County appointed by the royal family, he is not a good county magistrate, not only responsible for collecting the taxes of the entire county, but also responsible for security and defense, at best, he is just a leader designated by the Xiuzhen family to be responsible for managing the place and collecting tribute, but it is not as good as those family officials of the royal family and aristocratic families." Moreover, grandpa is kind-hearted and has always taken good care of ordinary mortals, although he is polite to the royal family and nobles on the surface, but secretly he is extremely dissatisfied with their wanton and tyrannical behavior. Over the years, our family has paid no amount of taxes for the royal family and nobles, and we have often been harshly reprimanded by the royal family for various reasons. There is also the monk Shen Hao, who has been cultivated by our family with great difficulty, and he is often excluded by them, and he can't enter any good sects and get good cultivation at all. Grandpa often talked to himself, saying that the entire Gui Kingdom was just the world of the royal family and those Xiuzhen families, and mortals were just their tools in their eyes. At the end, Shen Bing sighed softly.

Lin Da nodded, quite agreeing with Shen Bing's words, which also verified his judgment, mortals are not living in stability under the rule of cultivators, it seems that exploitation and oppression are not only on the earth, but also in this world, and more serious. Because of the same point of view, Lin Da's favor for Shen Wen and others has increased a lot.

After turning a few low streets, Shen Bing inadvertently brought Linda to the huge city wall of the county seat, looking at the 10-meter-high city wall, thinking of the strict guards he saw when he entered the city yesterday, Lin Da asked puzzledly: "Why does Xiaoyu County want to build the city wall so strongly?"

"To guard against pirates and monsters. Xiaoyu County is not a happy land, it is located in the most remote southeast of Guiguo, and thousands of miles away in the southern sea is the famous Ranjiao Island, where a group of pirates occupy there all the year round, they are supported by Jiapu State, either plundering passing ships, or sneaking attack on the coastal cities and counties of our Gui Kingdom, so we also have to guard against it. As for the demon beasts, at a certain time every year, a certain scale of demon beast tide will break out in the nearby sea area, but they are generally just some sea beasts living on the sea, which is not a big threat to our county, as long as the city gate is closed during that time, it will be safe. Shen Bing patiently analyzed as he walked.

"Oh, if those pirates or demon beasts suddenly attack Xiao County, what can you do to deal with it?" Lin Da looked at a guard standing at intervals on the city wall, and wanted to inquire about Xiao Yu County's military strength.

"Of course, it depends on the county's city defense team. Our Xiaoyu County has not been guarded by the government's Xiuzhen army, so grandpa organized the residents of the county to spontaneously form this army, with thousands of people. ”

Linda nodded, looking at the thick city wall, a solemn expression flashed in her eyes. The mortals here have such a hard time surviving, and they don't know how many resources they have to spend to build such a huge project in order to ensure their own safety, and they can't help but sigh in their hearts when they think that all the people of their autonomous group can survive unharmed on that nameless island.

The day's journey was soon over, and the enthusiastic Shen Bing brought Linda home for dinner, and Linda was a little embarrassed to stay for dinner.

The next day, seeing that Lin Da was quite curious about the customs and customs of the Terran Continent and the cultivation of truth, Shen Bing took him to the only bookstore in the county, and found some books dedicated to introducing the human geography of the Terran Continent and Gui Kingdom, as well as books about introducing the cultivation realm of the Terran Continent.

Lin Da was pleasantly surprised when he saw these books, although he couldn't read the words here, Shen Bing was very enthusiastic about translating for him. For several days in a row, Lin Da was immersed in the study of all aspects of the Terran Continent, which opened his eyes and shocked his heart.

Through various information, Lin Da learned that in the Terran Continent, cultivators were divided into three levels: upper, middle, and lower according to the realm of cultivation. Among them, the lower realm is the two realms of qi and earth, the middle realm is the two realms of Dan and infant, and the upper realm is the two realms of void and truth. Each realm is divided into three levels, the higher the realm, the stronger the strength, and the longer the lifespan.

There are hundreds of millions of cultivators on the Terran continent, but there are very few people who can reach the upper realm, and the rulers of most countries are infant realm cultivators. If a Void Realm Monk can appear in any country or sect, the power where he is located will immediately soar to the ranks of the first-class forces in the continent, and the True Realm Monk is a legendary existence, with this kind of monk in charge, it is the existence at the top of the Terran Continent and even the entire Otherworld.

It is rumored that if a monk can break through the true realm, he can directly soar to a higher level of the immortal realm and become a true immortal in the sky. Therefore, the pursuit of continuous improvement in the realm has become a major event that cultivators are eager to pursue. For cultivators, the most important thing in the world is to improve one's cultivation and break through the realm, and everything else must serve this. In order to better obtain resources, some powerful cultivators have established their own countries or forces, and hundreds of countries or forces on the Terran Continent have been established for this, and the strength of the cultivators also determines the strength of the country or force.

For example, the Gui country where Lin Da is located is ruled by a Xiuzhen family surnamed Gui, and the highest cultivation in the clan is a strong person in the infant realm, and the cultivation of other monks is below the Dan realm. In the Gui State, the Gui people established a feudal dynastic ruling system, they named the country after their family names, and many cultivators or mortals with low cultivation in the Gui clan served as rulers at all levels of the dynasty, while the real elites in the family were behind the scenes, dedicated to cultivation, and everything in the dynasty had to serve them, becoming an existence above the entire country.

In addition to the Gui family, there are also four medium-strength Xiuzhen nobles in the Gui Kingdom, as well as hundreds of small Xiuzhen families, which serve as the nobles of the Gui Kingdom and assist the Gui family in ruling the entire Gui Kingdom together.

Lin Da also learned about the situation of loose cultivation through books, which was more detailed than what he had learned about at the Shen family's banquet before.

On the Terran continent, monks who do not belong to the royal family, nobles, or any force are called loose cultivators. Scattered cultivators account for the majority of cultivators, and most of their sources are cultivated by mortal families themselves. For example, the monk named Shen Hao of the Shen family in Xiaoyu County is a typical casual cultivator.

Because the casual cultivators are not from the ruling class, they are limited by the Xiuzhen family, and the cultivation world they can access is extremely limited, and the cultivation resources of a country are often in the hands of the Xiuzhen royal family, and the scattered cultivators do not get much resources, and the cultivation is generally not very high, and the magic power of the exercises is also weak.

Of course, there are also some people with outstanding talents in casual cultivation, who rely on their personal chances and efforts, or inadvertently pick up some exercises, or get the inheritance of some masters, or break into some dangerous places to get some heavy treasures, cultivate powerful supernatural powers, and even create a new cultivation force, there are also many people in the history of the Terran Continent.

For a long time, the Xiuzhen royal families and nobles of various countries have generally suppressed the scattered cultivators, that is, they cannot let the power of the scattered cultivators grow too fast and threaten their rule, nor can they lead to the rebellion of the scattered cultivators because they are too suppressed.

Therefore, the Xiuzhen royal family suppressed the loose cultivators and wooed them at the same time. Once an ordinary mortal family cultivates a casual cultivator, he is immediately included in the system of managing the country by the Xiuzhen family, and can receive a certain amount of money, but must assume positions such as the guardian of the city where he is located. In the event of a security crisis in the city where they are located, or if the state is requisitioned for the needs of war, it is incumbent upon them to do so.

Moreover, the various cultivation forces also recruit a part of the scattered cultivators from the people every year, and after training, they either join the major sects subordinate to the royal family, or directly join the army of the royal family, and enjoy certain resources and hold certain positions according to their merits every year. The casual cultivators had a way out, and naturally they were loyal and obedient to the royal family. As for some scattered cultivators who have special opportunities and are powerful, the various Xiuzhen royal clans will generally try their best to recruit them, so that these people can become the family's guest elders or diners to strengthen their own strength. As for those casual cultivators who did not have the opportunity to become strong and could not receive the favor of the royal family, although the number was extremely large, but their strength was extremely weak, as the lowest existence in the cultivation realm, most of the work they could engage in was the most arduous and heavy chores, almost no different from ordinary mortals.

In addition to the cultivators, the Terran Continent is a mortal who has an absolute advantage in numbers, but the difference in status is extremely large.

In the realm of cultivation, the attitude of cultivators towards mortals is by no means equal, but rather as second- or even third-class residents. Most countries divide their citizens into five different ranks, the first class is the dominant cultivator, the second class is the members of the Xiuzhen family, the third class is the mortals and ordinary cultivators of the Xiuzhen family, the fourth class is the mortals who belong to the Xiuzhen family, and the fifth class is the ordinary mortals who have a large number.

Ordinary mortals at the bottom of society not only had to pay a certain amount of taxes every year, but also had to engage in a certain amount of forced labor, building palaces, fortifications, and so on for the Xiuzhen royal family. And those mortals in the Xiuzhen royal family and nobles who did not have the qualifications to cultivate the truth, as well as their subordinate mortals, also existed as a ruling class. Some of these special mortals were even higher in status than many loose cultivators, and they also owned a large amount of land. The Xiuzhen royal family and nobles, relying on their own strong strength, occupy vast lands and resources, rule over the vast number of loose cultivators and mortals at the bottom, and live an arrogant and lascivious life. The social form of the Terran continent is not much different from the feudal society and even the slave society on the earth.

Lin Da learned about these situations, partly from the introduction in the book, partly from Shen Bing's complaints, and the other from his observation and analysis in the past few days in Xiaoyu County. In fact, these are indeed not far from the real situation in the Terran continent.

Linda's mood unconsciously became heavy. At the beginning, he still had illusions and hopes about the Terran Continent, thinking that he had finally found a paradise suitable for the life of the Blue Star Clan, but now it seems that the reality is very different from what he hoped, but the Blue Star Island where they are located is the utopia to avoid this chaotic world.

Thinking of these heavy things, Linda's mood was not happy at all. locked himself in his room for several days and didn't go out, and when Shen Wen and the others saw Lin Da like this, they thought he was sick. Three days later, there was a sharp knock on the door of Linda's room, and he hurriedly went out to see that it was Shen Bing who came to the door again.

"Brother Lin! There is a new cultivation shop in the county, specializing in selling things for cultivators, do you want to open your eyes?!" Shen Bing hurriedly exclaimed with great interest as soon as he saw Lin Da.

"Xiuzhen shop, haven't we been to the county store once, why did you open another one?" asked Linda curiously.

"This is different, this shop is opened by our Shen family! The annual demon beast tide is coming, grandpa said that in order to attract the demon hunting team from the open sea to come to our Xiaoyu County, this is the special opening of such a store, specializing in the purchase or sale of cultivation materials, so that our Xiaoyu can attract more cultivators and merchants!" Shen Bing said with a smug face.

"Demon Hunters, what's that?" asked Linda curiously.

"Oops! I'll slowly explain this to you later!Do you want to go?!" Shen Bing urged a little impatiently.

Lin Da thought about it, so he immediately agreed, and walked out of the door under the leadership of Shen Bing.