To be precise, the Nancui region is not a country.
It is the territory controlled by most cultivation sects.
It is warmer here than in Bolan Country and the terrain is more steep.
Several huge mountains converge here and then spread outward.
If there is 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 managed by the outer 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. Bolan Country, Yellow Sand Country, Binhai Country and more than ten countries, large and small, surround the Nancui area like guards.
The relationship between these countries and the Nancui region is very subtle.
The cultivation sect in the Nancui area occupies the best position and territory in this plane. They regard the land outside the Nancui area as a barbarian land.
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.
Come to think of it, this isn't 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 common people's wish has always been to have enough food and clothing, and their further needs are to gain a higher level of face by honoring their ancestors and so on.
But it's different in the Nancui area.
In the eyes of the cultivation sect, the ordinary people here are just soil used to produce cultivation seeds!
To put it more bluntly, it’s just trash 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.
To be clear, there is no law here.
Everything is decided based on the size of your fist!
This is the case for everything from disputes between cultivation sects to disputes between 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 restrain 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 small fine to the city manager.
Of course, there are some differences here. If a Xiantian from a first-class 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 stab him?
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, it is still preserved. 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. Effects such as this.
It completely eliminates the idea of the acquired warriors wanting to directly climb over the wall.
Of course, even if there are innate cultivators who climb over the wall, they will still face attacks from patrols on the city wall.
However, generally speaking, as long as they are not wanted by various sects, 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 will not stop the flow of people in and out.
The reason why city taxes are not collected here is simple. This is the Nancui area. Large areas here are covered with mountains and forests. There are too many wild beasts and monsters living in the mountains and forests.
The small villages that bloom everywhere like Bolan Country do not exist here.
Wild beasts and monsters will regard humans as food, and 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 tens of thousands.
These towns have walls about twenty meters high to protect against wild beasts and monsters that may appear at any time.
Of course, nearby cultivation sects will also send some outer disciples to 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 to practice, those cultivators are generally not willing to waste time on collecting medicinal materials, unless some extremely rare medicinal materials appear.
Lengmu City, with its walls as high as fifty meters like the one in front of us, was built to resist the annual beast tide.
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 would be 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 gathering humans from other towns and resisting the beast tide.
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.
Therefore, cities like Lengmu City are generally relatively safe.
Moreover, various 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 the exchange of pills, medicinal materials or 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 on the street and a yard behind it, so he could stay there for the time being.
After that, he slightly renovated the storefront and opened a grocery store, which mainly sold some daily necessities and purchased medicinal materials and ores.
