Chapter 018: Know what the world is
Heavenly Boots @ Chapter 18 An Zhi Zhi
After reading through "Mainland Fengyunlu", Warren's ideological world suddenly became clear, and he was no longer the country boy who regarded Donghai County as the world and always thought of the capital far away. I finally knew that this continent is called Wuyuanzhou, and it is also called Zhongzhou by the outer regions, and the west is blocked by the holy beast mountain range with huge mountains and spirit beasts, and it is impossible to reach the Demon Yuan Continent, also called Xizhou, and the south is flooded by the thunder and thunder all year round, and it is impossible to communicate with Xingyuanzhou called Nanzhou, and to the north is the boundless desert known as the ghost devourer, and it is said that the northern world blocked by the ghost devouring desert is the North Continent Lingyuan Continent. To the east is the magnificent sea, because the birds can not fly across, the world is called the sea of swallowing the sky, the other side of the legend is the east continent beast Yuanzhou.
Just as Wu Yuanzhou advocates martial arts, cultivators practice martial arts and enter the Tao, refine the essence and spirit inside, refine the muscles and bones outside, and cultivate Yuangang to protect the body and attack the enemy. Similarly, the Demon Yuan Continent is prevalent in the Demon Yuan, and the cultivators use the five elements to control it, or strengthen themselves, or evolve magic. Xingyuanzhou cultivates Xingyuan, leads the light of the starry sky to exercise itself, and controls the star power to attack the enemy. Lingyuanzhou cultivates Lingyuan, based on his own divine thoughts, refining into a talisman deity, summoning the gods to drive the vitality of heaven and earth, or polishing himself, or directly attacking the enemy. The cultivators of the Beast Yuan Continent are the most unbearable, at the beginning of cultivation, they tortured and killed the spirit beast, so that their souls were separated from the body, and the beast souls were captured by the method of inheritance, and the beast elements were refined, so that they could strengthen themselves**, * control the beast elements to attack the enemy. Those who have reached the realm of the five continents can cross the intercontinental barrier and go freely, and then seek the immortal gate and cultivate the way of immortality.
Warren is not the kind of child who doesn't know how to cherish it, and after seeing the cultivation methods of the other four continents, he is not very curious, let alone eager. Although he doesn't have a full set of martial arts cultivation methods now, what he already has makes him very satisfied, and how many people in the world don't have such good luck as himself. Warren believes in a unique concept of life: what belongs to you can be obtained without fighting, on the contrary, what you can't get is impossible even if you bury what you have, even if it stays in your hands for a moment, it is a disaster that you are about to face. Sometimes, knowing how to give up is just the precursor to what you are about to have.
The most recorded in "Mainland Fengyunlu" is Wu Yuanzhou's memorabilia. The book tells the story of the division, merger and change of various empires, kingdoms, principalities and even city-states in Wuyuanzhou, as well as the role played by the various major sects in it. There are six empires in Wuyuanzhou, the most vast of which is the Shenwu Empire in the center of the continent. Now the Shenwu Empire has been passed down for more than 100 generations, and legend has it that when its national strength was at its strongest, in addition to the backward small countries close to the Holy Beast Mountain, Lei Fengze, Ghost Devouring Desert, and Swallowing Sky Sea, it once unified Central Continent and established an intercontinental empire that deterred the world.
Later, due to the royal strife, the empire gradually split, except for the central area of the continent that was still maintained under the rule of the Shenwu Empire, the rest of the region was divided and ruled by the Beast Martial Empire, the Lei Wu Empire, the Fengwu Empire, the Jinwu Empire, and the Cangwu Empire. Between empires, there are large and small kingdoms, principalities, and city-states that are divided into small and large as buffer belts. There were few major conquests between empires, and the city-states often existed independently under the constraints of a special interest, while the rest of the kingdoms and principalities often waged wars under various names for various reasons, and the people under their rule were not able to make a living.
The four-level governance institutions are the capital, the county, the county seat, and the township, and the capital is the centralized place of a country, and the number of skirt cities under its jurisdiction represents the national strength. The county seat has up to nine county seats, and the head is called the county guard. The county seat is under the jurisdiction of a hundred miles of radius, the head is called the county order, each county is divided into nine townships, and there is one person in the county. The town is mostly a place where business travelers gather in the countryside, and it is not a first-class administrative office. In addition, most of the towns are the residences derived from the establishment of fang markets by certain sects and families, and it is not the turn of the local government to dictate.
Qingyun Town is rich in purple jade shells, and it also has a special space in "Mainland Fengyunlu". Qingyun Gate is unknown, and it looks more like it was named because of the management of Qingyun Town. Qingyun Town is located in Haidu County, Donghai County, under the rule of the Muhai Principality. Muhai Principality is the feudal land of Mu Guogong of the Cangwu Empire, controlled by the four major families of Mu, Rong, Cheng and Xi, there are no major sects in the country, and there are very few sects with a maximum of 1,000 people such as Qingyunmen and Baishengmen. The Muhai Principality is based on the sea, and there are three counties under its rule, namely Donghai County, Fenglin County, and Nannuma County. Among them, Tokai County is the largest and only county near the sea, and is an important source of revenue for the principality.
Mu Haigong was divided here, and his duty was to control the output and sales of purple jade shells for the empire. In the Muhai Principality, capable families, sects, and even individuals can hunt and purchase purple jade shells on their own, but they cannot export them to other states, otherwise they will be regarded as smuggling, and they will be directly hanged when the government learns about it. A purple jade shell only has four gold coins purchased in Donghai County, and it will rise to 10 gold coins in the county town, and it can directly rise to 30 gold coins when transported outside the Muhai Principality. As a result, the peasants of the whole principality did not have to bear the burden of exorbitant taxes as in other countries, and even the brave could go to work as fishermen, and although they rarely became rich overnight, they could also buy houses and land and live a prosperous life after surviving for a few years. Of course, a large number of fishermen also lose their lives every year.
I have read "The Record of the Mainland" and know the general trend of the world. After reading "Chronicles of Mountains and Seas", Hua Lun felt that Donghai County was really a place for martial cultivators to find cultivation, and even speculated whether his parents lived in seclusion in Qingyun Town because of Donghai County, a unique place. Becoming a martial cultivator, especially a martial cultivator who continues to ascend to a higher realm, is inseparable from the elixir that assists in cultivation.
In the Central Continent, compared to other elixirs, the purple jade shell bead is the easiest spiritual material to obtain, and there is no one. As long as it is cultivated to reach the refining layer, it is really a matter of effort to harvest purple jade shells in the Swallowing Sky Sea. Even scholars who are unarmed and powerless can pay to buy the purple jade shell, a heaven and earth spiritual material. And other spiritual materials, such as breaking into the Holy Beast Mountain to hunt spirit beasts, stepping into Lei Fengze to collect thunder stone wind beads, and trekking to the ghost devouring desert to collect desert fungus plants, for ordinary people, it is really difficult to ascend to the sky. Even if it is a mid-level and low-level martial cultivator, it is also a fatally difficult task. Of course, in addition to the spiritual materials produced in the four places of the Holy Beast Mountain, Lei Fengze, the Ghost Devouring Desert, and the Swallowing Heaven Sea, the spiritual mountains and rivers in the six empires also produce a wide variety of heaven and earth spiritual objects, and the parts that contain the most spiritual energy can also be used as spiritual materials for refining elixir. Helplessly, for more than 10,000 years of development in the mainland, these spiritual mountains and rivers have been controlled by the royal princes or various sects, where can ordinary people get close.
"Records of the Continent" and "Chronicles of Mountains and Seas" made Hua Lun realize the fact that in order to develop in the Central Continent, he must have or be committed to the major families or sects, and it is difficult for a person to obtain cultivation resources if he fights alone. The three of them have not grown up for the time being, and can only lurk in Qingyun Town, Donghai County.