To be precise, the Nancui area is not a country.
It is the territory controlled by most cultivation sects.
This place is warmer and the terrain is more rugged than that of Bolan Country.
Several huge mountains converge here and then spread outward.
If I have to use a metaphor, this is almost the center of the plane.
Hundreds of cultivation sects, large and small, are distributed here, forming circles of influence.
The cities here are all managed by outer sect deacons and disciples sent by those cultivation sects, and there is no government at all.
Countries in the true sense only exist outside the Nancui area. More than ten countries, large and small, such as Bolan Country, Huangsha Country, and Binhai Country, are like guards surrounding the Nancui area.
The relationship between these countries and the Nancui region is very subtle.
The cultivation sects in the Nancui area occupy the best position and territory in this plane. They regard the lands outside the Nancui area as barbarian lands.
But after Fang Xiaoyue compared Yang Feihe's memory, he found that in terms of culture and other aspects, the countries outside the Nancui area were actually at a higher level.
Think about it, this is not surprising.
The purpose of the cultivation sect is to cultivate the truth, to continuously make progress on the path of cultivation and become stronger!
Anything other than this purpose is undoubtedly not worthy of careful consideration.
As for the rulers and ruling classes of those countries, in order to maintain their rule and prevent the people from rising in rebellion, they have to consider more people's livelihood issues.
For example, the development of all walks of life, the use of imperial examinations to constrain the minds of scholars, etc.
After all, the people's wish has always been to have enough food and clothing, and their further needs are to honor their ancestors and gain a higher level of face.
But it’s different in the Nancui area.
In the eyes of the cultivation sect, the ordinary people here are just the soil used to produce cultivation seeds!
To put it more directly, it is just rubbish that you don’t need to pay too much attention to.
In the eyes of some cultivators who think highly of themselves, ordinary people are just trash. If they weren’t trash, why don’t you come and cultivate yourself?
From this we can also know how ordinary people live in the territory of the cultivation sect.
One thing to note is that there is no law here.
Everything is decided based on the size of a fist!
This is the case for everything from disputes between cultivation sects to disputes among common people.
If you have big fists and can win, your principles are correct.
It’s just that in order to avoid too many unstable factors in the cities they manage, some cultivation managers will imitate those countries and set up some legal provisions to restrict ordinary people.
As for acquired warriors, they are not allowed to harm mortals in the city, but innate cultivators are different. Innate cultivators have privileges, because killing mortals for some things is a trivial matter, and the most they can do is to pay a fine to the city manager.
Of course, there are some differences here. If a Xiantian from a first-rate cultivation sect kills someone in the city of another sect, he will not even be punished.
No way, my fists are big!
You, a city manager from a second- and third-rate sect, have no time to curry favor with the other party, so how can you dare to make an assassination?
After entering the Nancui area, the first city Fang Xiaoyue came to was called Lengmu City.
It is said that the origin of this name is because a kind of medicinal material called cold wood once produced here. However, its medicinal effect was so good that it was over-harvested. Now, except for the medicinal gardens of some cultivation sects, there are still some.
Basically it can't be found.
Compared with the city of Bolan Kingdom, this Lengmu City is built taller and more majestic. The city wall alone is more than fifty meters high. Countless runes are carved on the city wall. While the city wall is reinforced, it is also smooth and protective.
Etc. effects.
Completely eliminates the idea that acquired warriors want to directly climb over the wall and enter.
Of course, even if there are innate cultivators who climb over the wall, they will still face attacks from patrols on the city wall.
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It’s just that, generally speaking, as long as they are not wanted by any major sect, innate cultivators do not need to climb over the wall at all.
Well, the biggest difference between this place and the city of Bolan Kingdom is that there is no city tax collected here.
There are some defenders standing behind the huge city gate, but they do not stop the flow of people in and out.
The reason why city tax is not collected here is very simple. This is the Nancui area, and a large area here is covered with mountains and forests. There are too many wild beasts and monsters living in the mountains and forests.
Small villages like those in Bolan Kingdom do not exist here.
Wild beasts and monsters will regard humans as food. A village that is too small cannot resist the attacks of wild beasts and monsters.
Here, the smallest human gathering place is a town with a population of at least tens of thousands.
These towns have walls about twenty meters high to ward off wild beasts and monsters that may appear at any time.
Of course, nearby cultivation sects will also send some outer disciples to settle in these towns to train warriors to provide protection for the towns.
After all, a large part of the medicinal materials, ores, etc. needed by the cultivation sects need to be picked by mortals.
Except for necessary outings for practice, those cultivators are generally not willing to waste time on collecting medicinal materials, unless some extremely rare medicinal materials appear.
And Lengmu City, with its walls as high as fifty meters like the one in front of you, was built to resist the annual tide of beasts.
There is a very strange phenomenon in the Nancui area, that is, on the second day of February every year, wild beasts and even monsters in the mountains and forests will gather in groups, and then sweep across the human gathering places in the Nancui area.
By this time, it was difficult for those towns with walls as high as 20 meters to resist the attack of the beast tide.
After all, wild beasts cannot climb such a high wall, but monsters can.
As a result, large cities like Lengmu City need to take on the important task of recruiting humans from other towns and resisting the tide of beasts.
After all, if the number of mortals in the Nancui area drops too sharply, it will also have a huge impact on the reserve forces of various sects and even the output of medicinal materials.
Hence, cities like Lengmu City are generally relatively safe.
And the major sects do not need to collect taxes from mortals like human dynasties do, so things like city entry taxes naturally do not exist.
You must know that transactions between cultivators basically rely on barter for pills, medicinal materials, ores, etc.
As for precious metals such as gold and silver, they are also of some use, but their value is not as great as in the human kingdom.
After entering Lengmu City, Fang Xiaoyue asked the old coachman to buy a yard. It had a facade facing the street and a yard behind it, so he could stay there temporarily.
After that, he slightly renovated the front and opened a grocery store, which mainly sold some daily necessities and purchased medicinal materials and ores.