With a radius of more than 2,000 miles and a population of nearly 180 million, Jinchengguo is a relatively large country here. Jiutian County is one of the forty-six counties of Jin Chengguo, with a population of millions, which is the western border of the country and the only way for Zhou Yang and his party.

From there, after passing through the Fengcang Kingdom, they arrived at their destination, the Wu Hai Kingdom to which the Heavenly Star Sect belonged.

The above is the basic situation of the mortal country between the three cities of Dingbei.

The jade slip also mentions the conscription of mortal slaves by various sects.

Not all sects were required by mortals, and the conditions for their slaves were very harsh, and they had to be young adults between the ages of eighteen and thirty-five.

It is not that all those who meet the requirements will be made slaves, in which case the mortal state will not be able to exist.

The common rule is to draw two out of a hundred, that is, only two for a hundred eligible young adults, and all the only children in the family are not among them, and those who have had bad behavior are not allowed.

There are no special circumstances, and the rule of drawing two out of a hundred has always been implemented in the mortal realm here.

This move could not hurt the foundation of the mortal state, but also satisfied the demand for mortal slaves in the cities of the cultivation realm, which was also a rule set by the various sects after careful consideration.

Take Jin Chengguo as an example, with a population of nearly 200 million, and there are about 8 million young adults between the ages of 18 and 35, so the number of mortal slaves who need to be conscripted every year is 1560,000.

This is a country, Zhou Tianzong has two subject countries, and there are more than 300,000 young and middle-aged slaves a year.

So does Zhou Tianzong need to recruit such people every year? Not all, it has to be determined according to the demand of slaves, if there is not such a large demand this year, there will not be so many people, maybe 100,000, or 50,000 will be enough, and the rest of the quota will be reserved for the next year.

If there is a large number of slaves required in the year, then these places should be pooled together, but not more than the total number of places accumulated in the previous year.

These rules are also to ensure the healthy development of the mortal country, not to fish for the sake of exhaustion.

Speaking from the heart, this kind of rule is relatively humane, and will not lead to an imbalance in the population of a mortal country.

Zhou Yang scoffed at this so-called humanization.

They did this entirely to ensure their own interests, and it seemed that they were benevolent to the mortal state, but in fact they were both * and set up a memorial arch.

But the reality is that it is always the strong who have the right to speak, they are the masters of these mortal kingdoms, and they can take whatever they want, which is a matter of course.

Even Zhou Yang was no exception, his spiritual field was all taken care of by mortal slaves, and he had killed a lot of mortals by mistake when he was mad that day, and he only felt a little guilty afterwards and lost some spirit stones.

This is the rule of the cultivation world, the weak are born to be enslaved by the strong, and the various factions have formulated these slightly humane rules, which is already extraordinarily gracious.

Needless to say, mortals, even cultivators who are regarded as immortals in the eyes of mortals, there are many who are slaves. This is the law of the jungle, only by adapting can we survive, and only by becoming stronger can we protect ourselves and even enslave others.

In these mortal countries, the imperial court was naturally responsible for the recruitment of slaves, and the imperial court then assigned tasks to the officials of the various counties and counties, and these officials completed the recruitment and transfer.

The conscription of slaves was called to the outside world as a form of hard labor, for a period of time that was not paid, and was an obligation. However, to this day, there are only a handful of mortal slaves who can come back after being recruited.

Of course, there are also lucky people who are favored by their masters, or have good qualifications, and it is also possible to be cultivated as a reserve cultivator.

The matter of requisition is nominally two out of a hundred, but in practice it is flexibly controlled. There is no absolute fairness in the world, and there is no fairness for the common people and the poor without any rights.

Take the Nine Heavens County as the lord, among the millions of people, there are thousands of young and middle-aged people who meet various conditions every year, and these thousands of people are not evenly distributed among all households, and the powerful and large families will naturally not be born, so this part of the quota will be passed on to the commoners and the poor.

If the common people are not willing to leave, then they can spend money to settle the matter, and these places will naturally fall on the poor who have no money.

So for the poor, it's not two out of a hundred, it's three out of four out of a hundred, or even higher.

Young adults are the main labor force in the family, and when labor is drained, income will inevitably drop sharply, and the poor will become poorer, and in the long run, there will never be a day to turn over.

And the handle of the knife is in the hands of officials at all levels, and the common people and the poor can only passively accept it, unable to resist.

In addition to the requisition of slaves, all the resources and materials that are beneficial to cultivation must also be requisitioned, and these naturally have to be passed on to the commoners and the poor, and the powerful and large families will not come out.

Therefore, the poor people in the mortal realm have a harder time surviving than the low-level cultivators in the cultivation realm.

There is another thing that the major sects have to do every year, and that is to find people with cultivation qualifications in the mortal realm as a supplement to the cultivators of the sect.

Mortals belong to the martial arts sect in China, and those with extraordinary qualifications among the disciples of some sects will be regarded as key training objects and uniformly issued to the introductory cultivation method for cultivation.

Although the introductory exercises of each school of cultivation are different, they are all divided into three levels.

After one year of practice, if a martial artist can achieve the first level, that is, to open up the twelve meridians of the human body, he is considered to have the talent for cultivation and can be sent to various monastic sects to continue cultivating, and these martial artists are called quasi-cultivators.

Two years after joining the sect, if you can complete the last two introductory exercises, and then open up the eight veins of the Qi Sutra and develop the dantian, you will enter the Kaiyuan realm, transform your true qi, cultivate your Yuan power, and naturally become the outer disciple of the sect.

Therefore, once someone is selected to cultivate the Taoist sect, they will be envied by others, regarded as a fish leaping into the dragon gate, and become a quasi-immortal who is high above.

Of course, being able to cultivate the first level of the introductory exercises does not mean that you can achieve the second two levels. If a prospective cultivator does not cultivate Yuan Li within three years, he will naturally still be a martial artist, but he can stay in the monastic sect and take charge of some miscellaneous things, or he can choose to return to the mortal country.

However, even though they are in charge of the sundries within the Damen faction, these people are reluctant to return to their own countries.

Although it is unique for a mortal martial artist to become a cultivator, the base number of mortals is too large, so the quasi-cultivators are not less than the descendants of the cultivators, and many quasi-cultivators are sent to the various sects every year.

This task will naturally be done by the royal families of the respective subject countries.

And these quasi-martial artists come from the major martial arts sects in China, so the relationship between the martial arts sects and the royal family and the government is good.

If a martial arts sect sends out the most quasi-cultivators, especially the cultivators who come out with the most, the tide will naturally rise, and a lot of wealth and pills will be given, and the reputation will grow, and the more disciples will worship the door, so the more cultivators will come out, and a virtuous circle will gradually form.

The status of such a martial arts sect is somewhat special in the country, and the officials of the county governments do not dare to offend easily.

Seeing this, Zhou Yang already knew the reason why Zhou Tianzong set up a cultivator station, and he also understood why such a huge teleportation array was built. This was naturally to transport a large number of mortal slaves, supplies, or quasi-cultivators to Dingbei City.

The content at the back of the book is a change of course, talking about how mortals and cultivators were born, that is, the origin of human beings.

However, the author of the book stated that the source of the discussion on this matter is ominous, and its authenticity is judged by posterity.

Zhou Yang was stunned after reading it, that is to say, the source of this content cannot be verified, but it is hearsay, this writer is really interesting.

According to the text, when chaos first opened, heaven and earth were born, but there was a dead silence.

After an unknown number of thousands of years, all things were gradually born, but all things have no wisdom, only know how to move according to the operation of heaven and earth, and the cycle is endless.

After endless years, there was a great power between heaven and earth, and the powerful person gave life to all things, and even opened up the wisdom of some creatures.

Of course, the first to turn on wisdom are naturally human beings who look like the mighty, and then all kinds of beasts. But at this time, both humans and beasts are extremely ordinary, and the lifespan of humans is extremely short, while that of beasts is much longer.

Even other species without intelligence live longer than humans, and beasts are naturally stronger than mortals, which is the way of heaven, and all things are formed when they are born.

These ordinary human beings are the first mortals, mortals are not easy to survive, and they are constantly threatened by wild beasts and diseases.

Later, the wisdom of many mortals became higher and higher, and they were no longer satisfied with the longevity and survival status of more than ten years, so they initiated various research and unremitting pursuit to improve the longevity and living conditions of human beings.

But the beasts did not, they still follow the way of heaven and rely on their natural strength to survive.

Of course, the strong are relative to humans, and there are strong and weak among beasts, and the weak naturally become food for the strong.

As a human being, he is naturally weaker than beasts, and he cannot escape the fate of being hunted down by powerful beasts. This is the law of the jungle, and only by adapting to the environment and making yourself strong can you survive in this situation.

The long-term research and exploration of human beings and the way of heaven have naturally caused the longevity to become longer and longer, and their own strength has become stronger and stronger, so that the longevity of ordinary people has reached decades, and the more powerful ones have reached a hundred years, even surpassing some beasts.

The battle against the beast is no longer one-sided, but a win-lose game.

Later, some human beings not only had an extraordinary sense of the Heavenly Dao, but also realized some of the laws and laws of the Heavenly Dao, and then let themselves adapt to these laws and laws.

Even a very small number of human beings can create some laws and laws, and this part of the human race has naturally become extremely powerful, not only is the longevity several times higher than that of ordinary people, but also the ability they have is far comparable to that of ordinary people, this is the earliest cultivator.