Dongzhou, Qingdi City.
Qingdi City is one of the largest cities in Dongzhou, and it is located at the junction of the Lishui and Taijiang Rivers, with intensive and developed trade through ships. With this unique geographical location, Qingdi City has gradually grown from a small village to a leading big city in Dongzhou.
Miao Feng, the lord of Qingdi City, is also a well-known powerful cultivator.
It is said that his cultivation has reached the Heavenly Venerable Realm, and it is only one step away from the Transcending Tribulation Realm.
He also has many powerful cultivators under his command.
Relying on his strong cultivation base and the background of Qingdi City, Miao Feng secured his position as the city lord and also deterred and intimidated all parties from easily offending Qingdi City.
As long as there are strong people sitting in every big city, this is already the subtle consensus of the entire Upper Domain of the cultivation world.
This is not out of respect for the strong, but a compromise that has to be made in order to survive.
In the eyes of powerful cultivators, mortals are just ants, and their life and death are insignificant, so there are often powerful cultivators who destroy a city at every turn. This is true for both sides of the cultivation path, regardless of righteous and evil.
For the righteous path, at least they have to come up with an excuse for destroying a whole city, so as not to tarnish their clan or sect’s reputation.However, the devil path acts according to their own likes and dislikes.
In many cases, they will even destroy the city just because they don’t like the name of the city.
In the face of a powerful cultivator, mortals without the ability to cultivate can only resign themselves to fate.
After all, they have no strength to resist, and no one can stand up for them.
The only thing they can do is to seek strong backing as much as possible in order to achieve stability.
Because of this, many cities with powerful cultivators have become the first choice for mortals to live in.
However, it is not so easy to live in those big cities.
Big cities mean heavy taxes.
Especially in a big city like Qingdi City with a population of one million, almost every household in the city has to spend two-thirds of their annual income to pay for taxes.
However, although the taxes are heavy, at least it guarantees life.
They will not freeze to death nor die from starvation, nor will they be killed at will.
What’s more, a cultivator’s cultivation requires a lot of resources and money, and the taxes they provide can also meet the needs of a cultivator, making cultivators shelter them, which can be regarded as a symbiotic relationship where each party takes what they need.
This is the unique social model of the cultivation world.
This world does not have the concept of a country, but a scattered alliance formed with multiple cities as the basic structure.
The relationship between these city alliances is based on interests, usually relying on in-laws and resource exchanges as connections between cities.
But there are no eternal friends, only eternal interests.
Therefore, these city alliances are actually quite fragile, and sometimes they even part ways just because of some small conflicts of interest.
The reason why no country has been established in this world is not because no one has thought of doing so, but because the characteristics of this world made the birth and founding of a country extremely difficult.
Due to the existence of cultivation, the gap between individual strength is infinitely widened, which also makes it impossible to establish an army composed of mortals. After all, a cultivator in the Transcending Tribulation realm can wipe out millions of mortal troops with a single palm strike.
As for the establishment of an army composed of cultivators, this matter is also somewhat unrealistic.
Because the cultivation of a cultivator needs the absorption of spiritual energy, and spiritual energy is mostly nurtured in the mountains.
If spirit stones are used to support the army instead, the consumption will be too huge, which means each city can only maintain and support a small group of cultivators, making it difficult to build a real army.
As for those forces of small groups of cultivators, the scope of their protection is limited to the surrounding area, and it is difficult to spread out in a large area.
Even if a cultivator army is formed using the background of a city alliance, it can only achieve self-preservation. It won’t be able to guarantee the security of a country’s territorial area, let alone aggressively wage war and conquer.
If an army cannot be established, a country will naturally be difficult to establish.
Without the existence of a country, it is difficult for ordinary people to have a basic guarantee of survival.
Therefore, mortals in this world are really like ants. They can only live in the cracks of various forces.
It’s good to be able to find a big city as a backer, but for the mortals who can’t even find a backer, how many of them will be slaughtered by random cultivators like cattle and sheep every time?
Isn’t there some particularly lucky mortals who have gained powerful strength through cultivation, and in turn protect their own group?
It is true that there are such people, but they are very few.
Many mortals, who started from humble beginnings, made great aspirations when they first embarked on the path of cultivation, wanting to protect their ethnic group or their beginnings with their own strength.
Indeed, many of them found opportunities, enough to defy the impossible, and finally achieve great achievements.
However, after reaching the top, most of these people would have forgotten the original intention of their cultivation, and instead, like other cultivators, they regard ordinary people as ants.
Because in the process of their growth, countless realities told them that in this world, the strong are respected.
As long as you are strong enough, you can do whatever you want.
As long as you are strong enough, you can disdain all living beings.
As long as you are strong enough, you can ask anything from anyone.
As long as you are strong enough, you can ignore justice in this world.
So their goal is to become stronger and stronger. In order to become stronger, they even dare to trample on the dignity of others and the life and death of all mortals.
And mortals, facing a powerful cultivator, the only thing they can do is to live and hope to survive.
Because they do not deserve to have dignity in front of the cultivator.
This situation has been going on for hundreds of thousands of years.
Maybe it will continue on like this, without any change.
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