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It’s a mess, for starters, the structure of the land is completely different.
All landmasses are smushed together, with two oceanlike lakes or perhaps two lakelike oceans placed right in the middle. To the extreme east there seems to be a third mass of water barely mapped, and the west ends abruptly.
Whether this means the rest has not been mapped yet or simply cannot be mapped is something you’ll have to see for yourself.
The map is divided into ten major territories, eight named after the trigrams, and two with independent names… The Holy State of Zhou and the Khanate of Shimo. Furthermore, of the trigram named territories, two have a prefix that separates them from the rest. The Union of Dui and the Dominion of Gen.
Lastly, in the very edges of Shimo, bordering on the northern snowlands is the Clear Sky Temple, a minuscule independent territory. Accessing Ming Bei’s residual memories gives you a very basic idea… To his knowledge there was only Divine Zhou and its vassal territories, and Shimo, the land of barbarians.
You quickly locate Guang city in the territory of Li and realize it is beyond a mountain range, being closer to Shimo than the rest of the Zhou’s lands. This, in combination with the desert located in Southwest Li that engulfs most of northern Kan and almost the entirety of Zhen, as well as a “small” portion of Qian, makes the city very hard to access.
<span class="mu-i">”It’s locked out of Zhou.”</span> You mutter under your breath.
From the perspective of a mortal or someone within the lower end of the earth axis, procuring goods from any of the western territories might as well be impossible if the distances are the same as you remember. Trade with Shimo does not seem too feasible due to their tribes living to the east, leaving Northern Kan, Gen and Dui as potential sources. This explains the lack of talent and riches, and how clans that don’t go beyond the Earth Axis can flourish as they have.
Giving the map one last check before purchasing it along with about five acupuncture books you find, you see that the other locations Ma Xiaolong mentioned… Rusnah and Malsi are all relatively far from Zhou, even if they are still closer.
The bill is, of course, footed by the magnanimous Ming clan members who have been following you since you left the Silken Teahouse. You arrive at the Ming Estate, have something to eat and lay down. Your body with limitless potential is still that of a mere insect after all, no matter how long your consciousness can stay active, the rest of you still needs some rest.
You find this
>Vexing, there’s so much to be done.
>Natural, even immortals like to sleep sometimes.
Once you wake up you will
>Skip to cultivate, you will accumulate more starlight while in the Qi Gathering stage
>Prepare to break through to Foundation Establishment
Do you want to check on Lifu or Xiaoliang before you do anything?
