Eighty-one: Heaven and Earth are Wide, This World is Boundless (II)

And the several volumes of travelogue he left behind have also become the most introduced documents to the outside world on the Shenzhou Continent, but the original volumes have long been scattered, and the manuscripts are usually hidden in the scriptures and pavilions of the major sects, which are difficult for ordinary people to see. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info, however, on the cover of this travelogue, everyone knows it - it is the words "the sky is high and the earth is wide, and the world is endless".

After that, the topic shifted from the whole world to the Shenzhou Continent itself and its countries - in Huang Chang's mind, since this Shenzhou Continent is so big, the countries and populations above it must also be incredible. When he was waiting in the capital for several months, he had heard people say many times: I have a large circumference of thousands of miles, a strong country, and one of the largest states in the whole world. Since this world is so big, this Great Zhou Dynasty is also huge? However, Huang Chang is also a little strange because of this: although there are immortal magic and Taoism in this world, the means of state rule seem to be still the same as those of traditional feudal dynasties, and with this primitive means of rule, it seems impossible to effectively control the territory of the earth far beyond the earth?

However, Lingxuzi smiled after hearing his doubts, and a noncommittal expression appeared on his face:

"Great Zhou, it is indeed one of the best states on this Shenzhou continent. It's just that if you want to say how big it is, it's not necessarily. ”

After that, he briefly introduced a number of counties that constituted the Great Zhou Dynasty, and Huang Chang roughly estimated it, and found that it was only about the same as the traditional Central Plains Dynasty in his previous life, which was not small for a feudal dynasty. But compared to the huge landmass, it is definitely not big.

"Then we should have already left the land of Great Zhou by this time, right?"

Huang Chang pointed to the soles of his feet, saw Lingxuzi nodding, and asked:

"So, what country are we in now?"

Lingxuzi smiled and shook his head again:

"There is no country, a large part of this is a wasteland, and it is impossible for ordinary people to stay. ”

Huang Chang was puzzled, and Lingxuzi had to explain again, before Huang Chang realized that he had made another preconceived mistake - this world is different from the earth, and the expansion ability of human beings is far from the point where they can ignore the surrounding environment. In fact, in this Divine Continent, there are not too many places where mortals can gather and live.

And most of the areas of this continent are still full of witches, monsters, spirits, and ghosts...... and so on, the fierce ** supernatural power race, for ordinary mortals, of course, it is also a barbaric realm full of dangers. Only monks dare to enter and leave it - but not all. A large part of the reason why Huang Chang's Xiangyun Flying Boat needed to fly for so long was because they needed to take a detour - many places were so dangerous that even monks above the Fa Yuan did not dare to enter rashly, and if they were unlucky, even the Great Monks of the Golden Pill Stage might fall into it.

Therefore, on this continent, a country is basically an independent human settlement, usually sheltered by a certain immortal cultivation sect. For example, the Great Zhou Dynasty, which is located in the western part of the Shenzhou Continent, is composed of West Kunlun as the protector sect, while protecting the country from the threat of supernatural forces such as demons and monsters, it also obtains the most important resource for the continued development of the Immortal Cultivation Sect from this mortal realm: talents.

Further west of the Great Zhou, there was another country called Qin, and the Qin people were originally a tribe that raised horses for the Zhou royal family, and then gradually developed and grew. Because of their courage and good fighting, they guarded the western frontier for the Zhou royal family, and were considered vassals of the Zhou Dynasty, and Kunlun Mountain occasionally took care of them.

As for the Qishan Sword School, which is as famous as Kunlun, it is the protector sect of the great eastern countries of Qi and Lu; in the south of the mainland, there is another vast country called Chu; as for the central and northern regions, due to the scattered areas of human settlements, a number of small and medium-sized countries have been formed: Zhao, Wei, Han, Yan, etc., basically every country is also protected by a fairy gate, but whether it is a country or a sect, its scale is far inferior to the Western Zhou and Eastern Qi and the Kunlun and Qishan behind them.

"Isn't this the situation in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period...... What is the relationship between this world and my previous life, and how can it be so coincidental in its name?"

Huang Chang was quite curious about this, but he couldn't find an answer for a while. However, the relations between the nations of this world were far less chaotic than those of his previous warring states, and there were very few wars between the nations - because they could not be fought. The borders of various countries are basically not bordered, and there are often thousands or even tens of thousands of miles of wild and dangerous areas between them, and there is no use for throwing ordinary mortal soldiers into them except for suicide.

Of course, there are also roads between the countries, but most of them are opened up with the help of the Xianmen, and they often set up relevant points in dangerous places, and a little elite soldiers can ensure that they are impregnable. Moreover, these roads usually have to be maintained by the Xianmen to help keep them smooth. Attacking this kind of place is equivalent to being unable to get along with other people's protector immortal gates, and it is a labor force to attack far away, and the chance of victory is extremely small, so unless the immortal gates fight each other, most ordinary mortal monarchs probably don't have the courage to cause trouble.

This peace has lasted for thousands of years, and it should continue if nothing else. And this is what the major immortal sects are happy to see today-they don't want to have a large number of casualties among mortals because of the war, which will affect their absorption of new forces from the human world.

However, Huang Chang thinks that it may be this kind of peace led by the Xianmen that has made the development of the entire human society very slow - after thousands of years, although each country has set up counties and counties, in the overall system of the countries, it is still a "feudal state" The princes of the feudal system are the mainstream: the monarchs of the two dynasties of the Great Zhou and the Great Chu call themselves the Son of Heaven and the Emperor, while other slightly smaller states such as Qi, Lu, Zhao, Wei, Han and other countries are called kings, and the smaller ones are self-proclaimed dukes and marquis, and the lowest level of the title that can be torn apart is called Fang Bo.

And it is somewhat similar to the Spring and Autumn Period in Huang Chang's previous life: the Great Zhou Dynasty here is still respected as the "co-lord of the world", with strong strength, and theoretically other princes should often come to worship, but due to the distance factor, there is not much communication between the countries. Basically, except for merchants, rangers, and cultivators who would run from country to country, there was very little contact at the level of state power, and everyone lived behind closed doors, not caring about the outside situation.

Huang Chang and Lingxuzi's conversation made the surrounding disciples in Tsing Yi also fascinated, these young people are still inexperienced, in this life, except for worshipping the West Kunlun Mountain, most of them have never been out of their hometown for a hundred miles, at this time they can finally imagine the huge and magnificent world, and they can't help but be amazed.