Chapter 22: Understanding the New World
Although Yuxian Peak is not located in the center of the Tiantai Mountain Range, it is hundreds of miles away from the nearest eastern edge.
From Guoguo Mountain to Yuxian Peak, according to the straight-line distance, there are about 1,000 miles, but there are lofty mountains and mountains along the way, and if you want to go directly, it is simply difficult to climb to the sky, and you can only pass along the outer surrounding road.
Since coming to this world, Qixing has been to Guoguo Mountain as far as possible, this is the first time to go far away, and it is inevitable that he will be a little nervous to go so far. But after some teasing by the other two and Wu Jinyuan's careful comfort, the tension in Qixing's heart has been relieved, and there is also some faint excitement and expectation.
Qixing has been living in a poor mountain and remote area since she came here, and what she knows about this world, except for some knowledge that her parents told her that is not even a skin, is that she has heard some legends told by Grandpa Tai, and she doesn't know if it's true or not, so she is really curious about the outside world!
The three of them asked and answered, and went all the way.
Qixing listened to Wu Jinyuan tell her about the origin of this world, the customs of various regions, and some basic knowledge of cultivation, combined with some legends she had heard before, and gradually gained some understanding of this world.
Qixing doesn't know if it is now in the ancient times of the earth, in this world, there is also a history of Pangu opening the world, but there is no legend of Nuwa Nie creating people. And according to Wu Jinyuan, Pangu's groundbreaking thing is real.
This world is dominated by humans, and there are also demons, demons and other alien races.
The world's land is divided into five continents, of which the eastern, southern, western and northern continents are located in the four directions of the world's southeast, northwest and northwest, and the Zhongzhou continent is located in the center of the world. And where they are now is a country called Qixia, which is located in the southeast corner of the Dongzhou continent, so Qixing's hometown can be regarded as the edge of the world.
Since there are states in this world, there are of course rulers.
The so-called greater the ability, the greater the responsibility, and this world is respected by the Tao, so it is natural that the cultivators are strong and control all fields.
The current lord of the Qixia Kingdom is a powerful power.
However, even if it is powerful, it needs to multiply, so there are also various groups of officials, merchants, people, and slaves in this Qixia country.
Because the neighboring generations are prosperous, the lord of the country is wise and open, Qixia has trade contacts with neighboring countries, coupled with its own rich cultural heritage, so the national strength is strong, and it is a rare big country on the Dongzhou continent.
In the end, it is not a democratic society in the 21st century, and although the people in Qixia are open, there are serious differences in human rights.
Although the ruler did not make a clear division between ranks, power and money coexisted in that era, and those with deep money often had a much greater chance of gaining power than those of the poor, such as studying or becoming officials. Therefore, with the common disease of human thought since ancient times -- rich is the master! These rich or powerful people have naturally become "nobles" in the eyes of the people!
Whether it is a relative of the emperor or an official, a businessman with abundant money, or a leader of all kinds of big religions, in the eyes of the common people, these are all "nobles" who cannot be blasphemed! Naturally, they enjoy many special rights!
As a commoner, there is a lot of helplessness, if you can be self-sufficient, although you have no privileges, but relatively free, and once you sell yourself into slavery and are raised by the nobles, you have no freedom at all, and you become the lowest person.
After knowing this, Qixing secretly rejoiced: fortunately, he has lived in a poor countryside since he was a child, and although he has lived a hard life, he has not sold himself as a slave!
According to Wu Jinyuan's introduction, coupled with Qixing's own understanding, the cultivators in this world (Qixing is automatically understood as a super-grade animal, one level higher than ordinary humans) are divided into five races: witches, immortals, Buddhas, demons, and demons.
Of these, the first four can all be considered "legal citizens", with the exception of the fifth.
In this world now, demon cultivation is not common, because they have always been considered evil and are not allowed to exist.
But not allowing it to exist does not mean that it does not exist, secretly, demon cultivators do not know how many.
There are about two kinds of demon cultivation in this world, one is the innate demon race, this kind of demon cultivation is the descendant of the ancient demon ancestors, and is born with the blood of the demon race, and the other is the human or demon race who practice the demon exercises.
According to Wu Jinyuan's description, Qixing feels that the demons in this world are like the "underworld" in the 21st century, and they are the target of everyone's shouting and beating on the surface, but because of the temptation of many interests, many people secretly yearn for it, and they have been repeatedly banned.
Wu Jinyuan also told Qixing that all kinds of cultivators have realms.
Regarding these, Wu Jinyuan originally wanted to pass by, after all, Qixing had just come into contact with cultivation, and these things were of little use to her at present.
But Qixing was really curious, so Wu Jinyuan took the realm of Wu Xiu as an example and made a brief introduction to Qixing:
"Among cultivators, witchcraft can only rest the body, not the spirit, so the division of the realm of witchcraft is the simplest. At present, what we can know is mainly divided into seven realms: physical training, Tongyuan, condensation, asking the stars, praying for the gods, returning to the stars, and the great witch. Above the Great Witch, there should be those who have cultivated to a higher level, but no one has broken through for tens of thousands of years, and no record can be found. You know, the witch cultivators are different from other monks. With the growth of other monks, the lifespan of other monks will also increase significantly, and witch cultivation, even if it reaches the realm of great witches, the lifespan can only increase by hundreds of years, tens of thousands of years, for witch cultivators, it has long been updated for many generations, so many records have been lost because of this. “
Speaking of this, Wu Jinyuan seemed to be extremely sorry, and sighed before continuing: "Now, the Witch Dao has declined, and in the entire Dongzhou Continent, it is difficult to find even the Witch Cultivator of the Returning Star Realm, let alone the Great Witch. Even my grandfather was just seeking the realm of God!"
"Isn't it just the decline of the Witch Dao? Now, the three realms of immortals, Buddhas, and demons, which one still has the heyday of tens of thousands of years ago? The battle back then, which consumed too much, has long been lacking in the aura of this world!" Ah Jiu took over the topic of Wu Jinyuan and said, in his words, he seemed to be quite dissatisfied with the "that battle" in his mouth!
Qixing had heard Wu Jinyuan mention before that tens of thousands of years ago, the human race had united with other races to fight against the demons, and since then, the demons have rarely appeared.
"Yes, in that battle, although the demon race was defeated, some other races were also damaged to varying degrees, and the human race was not as good as before...... Wu Jinyuan sighed.
Ah Jiu snorted coldly: "This is the result of self-inflicted!"