Chapter 1277

Han Li left the alley and continued to stroll around the vicinity. 【WM Web】

As a result, not long after, he discovered the true purpose of his leaving the Tian Dong Trading Firm group on another street: a bookstore specializing in selling various classics.

He walked in with an impassive expression.

The bookstore was not small, and the variety of books inside was very extensive, covering astronomy, geography, and a hundred schools of thought; it was quite rich.

Because it was just an ordinary mortal bookstore, one naturally shouldn't expect to find any jade slips or books on cultivation.

Han Li was not interested in useless books, and his gaze fell entirely on the classics introducing the environment, customs, and society of the Spirit Realm.

Only through these things could he gain a preliminary understanding of the situation in the Spirit Realm and no longer be ignorant of everything.

He did not stand on ceremony and picked out several thick books in a row, and finally bought a map of the surrounding area from the bookstore.

Han Li did not carry any gold or silver on him, but spirit stones were extremely rare to ordinary mortals. After he paid one low-tier spirit stone, the bookstore owner was overjoyed and even returned some silver taels to him.

He held these books in one hand, found a restaurant, sat down in an inconspicuous corner, ordered a few ordinary dishes at will, and began to read the books quietly.

Although Han Li's spiritual sense could not leave his body, his ability to never forget what he had seen naturally still existed. Even though each of the books was exceptionally thick, under Han Li's unhurried reading, his speed was shockingly fast, and every single word was firmly imprinted in his mind.

Han Li's expression remained calm, but his heart had already been churning incessantly as he understood the contents of the books.

To say nothing else, the detailed description of the environment and geography of the Spirit Realm alone left Han Li extremely shocked.

It turned out that the Tianyuan Realm, which he had often heard the people from the Tian Dong Trading Firm mention on the road, was the human territory ruled by the Tianyuan Holy Emperor, one of the Three Human Emperors.

Besides this, the places occupied by humans included the Xuanwu Realm controlled by the Xuanwu Hegemon Emperor and the Tianling Realm controlled by the Tianmiao Spirit Emperor. These two emperors were usually referred to simply as the "Hegemon Emperor" and the "Spirit Emperor." The Tianyuan Holy Emperor, who was originally a human body cultivator but later switched to cultivating Confucian methods, was known as the Confucian Emperor. The Tianyuan Realm he ruled was also the place where the customs and habits were closest to the Mortal Realm where Han Li had been.

This could be considered his good luck.

These three human territories were all immensely vast, with hundreds to thousands of large and small human cities established within them.

According to the classification of cities in the book, a city like Anyuan City, which could house nearly a hundred million people, was indeed considered a small city in the Spirit Realm. Other medium and large cities far exceeded Anyuan City in both area and population. The Tianyuan City, where the Tianyuan Holy Emperor resided, was so large in area that it was comparable to a small country in the Mortal Realm.

However, compared to the main human cities of the other two realms, Tianyuan City was still the most normal existence.

Because the Xuanwu City, where the Hegemon Emperor resided, was built on the back of an ancient giant turtle called the "Canling," making it a massive moving city on the sea. The Tianling City of the Spirit Emperor was even more peculiar, built directly on a sky-piercing spirit tree with a diameter of a hundred miles, which was said to lead directly to the Immortal Realm.

Seeing this, Han Li's shock could be imagined.

What surprised him even more was yet to come.

According to these classics, besides the Three Emperor Realms inhabited by humans, there were also the Seven Demon Lands ruled by the Seven Demon Kings nearby. The relationship between the demon race and the human race was actually half-enemy and half-friend.

The reason for saying this was that even if the areas occupied by the Three Realms and the Seven Demon Lands were added together, they were but a drop in the ocean in the Spirit Realm.

Outside the areas ruled by the two races lay the world of other alien creatures.

Most of these creatures were original inhabitants of the Spirit Realm, such as the countless savage ancient beasts of the Spirit Realm, ancient giants, and other races. There were also other alien races that, like the human race, had forcibly broken through the interface to arrive in this realm. Although there was not much contact with these races, the few that were known were all powerful races not inferior to the human and demon races, all possessing unique divine abilities and strength not at all inferior to the human and demon races.

Furthermore, in the Spirit Realm, there were many individuals almost as powerful as the immortals of the True Immortal Realm, such as the terrifying existences known to Han Li like the Luo Hou, Kun Peng, and True Dragon, who could to a certain extent ignore the power of the interface.

Under such great dangers, although the human and demon races produced many individuals with great divine abilities, they could only barely gain a foothold in the Spirit Realm. Although they were usually very hostile and occasionally had small fights, the two races had to join forces to resist the enemy when facing powerful foes.

This situation only improved significantly after the Three Emperor Realms and the Seven Demon Lands were formally established.

Because the first generation of the Three Emperors and the Seven Demon Kings, along with the many individuals with great divine abilities among the human and demon races of that time, joined forces to set up a super-large formation, shrouding all Three Realms and Seven Lands within it.

It was said that this formation was profound and divine, an ancient immortal formation passed down from the True Immortal Realm, specifically targeting those overly powerful alien creatures. The more powerful the individual, the more they would be blocked by this barrier and unable to invade the areas protected by the formation. Conversely, those alien existences with strength comparable to low-to-mid-tier demonic beasts were not subject to this restriction.

This super-large formation had a total of ten formation eyes, distributed throughout the Three Human Realms and the Seven Demon Lands.

The book did not mention the formation eyes in the Demon Beast Lands, but the formation eyes in the Three Emperor Realms were the Tianyuan Holy Mountain where Tianyuan City was located, the "Canling" ancient turtle in the Xuanwu Realm, and the sky-piercing spirit tree where Tianling City was situated. Unless the Holy Mountain, the ancient turtle, and the spirit tree could be destroyed, the barrier controlled by humans would remain safe and sound.

The formation eyes within human territory were already this incredible; it was believed that the other formation eyes in the Seven Demon Lands would definitely not be simple either.

If those powerful creatures really wanted to invade the areas occupied by the human and demon races, it would be wishful thinking unless they could simultaneously resist the power of the ten formation eyes.

Relying on this super immortal formation, the human and demon races were able to prosper in the vast Spirit Realm and finally occupy a place of their own.

As for how large the entire Spirit Realm was, no one had ever been able to explore it clearly since humans first appeared in the Spirit Realm; it could only be described as boundless and endless.

Seeing this, Han Li had a trace of doubt in his heart. Since the area controlled by the human race occupied such a small part of the Spirit Realm, how could it be guaranteed that cultivators ascending from the lower realms would accurately land in the areas controlled by the two races? If they happened to be outside the super-large immortal formation, wouldn't it be extremely dangerous?

This doubt in Han Li's heart was not mentioned in these books, so he had to temporarily put it aside.

Through some descriptions in the books, Han Li also discovered that the overall strength of the demon race in the Spirit Realm was slightly superior to that of the human race. However, the high-tier cultivators of the human race seemed to be slightly stronger than those of the demon race.

In this way, the two races formed a strange balance, which led to the first generation of the Three Emperors and the Seven Demon Kings sitting down to jointly establish a series of agreements to maintain the interests of the two races.

These included that high-tier cultivators in the human realm were not allowed to arbitrarily wipe out low-to-mid-tier demonic beasts living in remote areas, nor were they allowed to participate in the beast tides that erupted periodically in various large and small cities. Also, the demon race was not allowed to wantonly plunder, abuse, or kill humans in their areas, and they had to specifically establish residential areas for humans and provide them with protection, and so on.

The reason why such agreements appeared was naturally because when the Three Realms and Seven Demon Lands were first divided, the areas inhabited by the human and demon races were in great chaos. Although they had tried their best to select areas with the highest concentration of humans and demonic beasts to divide, there were still a large number of the other race's population in both areas.

For those high-tier human cultivators and demon cultivators, this was naturally not a problem; they could easily move away.

But for those ordinary beast herds that had not opened their spiritual wisdom, and ordinary humans, they simply could not easily travel such long distances and could only honestly stay where they were and continue living, accepting the rule of the other race.

At first, bloody incidents of wantonly killing the other race naturally occurred, and the human and demon races even fought several major wars over this. It was only after many twists and turns that the current agreements were signed.

Of course, the classics in Han Li's hands only mentioned the most important agreements and did not explain them very clearly. However, he had specifically picked out a related book about the beast tides and understood it quite clearly.

The so-called "beast tide" was merely a situation where some ordinary beasts, because of their overly strong reproductive ability and the protection of the agreement between the Three Emperors and the Demon Kings, could not be wantonly wiped out by high-tier human beings with great divine abilities. As a result, they had to fight and struggle with each other every once in a while due to territorial issues to maintain their own survival.

But if there were human cities near these areas, the low-tier demonic beasts born among these beasts would coincidentally guide the unevolved beasts to launch semi-suicidal attacks on human cities.

In this way, except for some particularly huge cities, most human cities would suffer from the harm of beast tides periodically. The more remote the medium and small cities, the more frequent the beast tides would be.

Although not many cities had actually been breached by beast herds over the years, every time a beast tide erupted, the low-tier existences among humans would inevitably suffer huge casualties.

However, because of this, situations where those low-tier body cultivators and cultivators suddenly broke through bottlenecks between life and death appeared repeatedly. Compared to the casualties of ordinary personnel, the breakthrough of these people's bottlenecks was naturally of greater value, and instead, it could better increase the strength of the entire human race in the Spirit Realm.

Under such circumstances where misfortune and fortune depended on each other, the high-tier human existences in the Three Emperor Realms acquiesced to the continuation of the beast tides and had no intention of changing the agreement with the demon race.

The eruption time of beast tides in each city was not certain, but the most frequent and common ones were only two types of beast tides: the wolf tide that generally lived on the grasslands and the snake tide that could survive in various areas.

Both types of beast herds were famous for their strong reproductive ability, and they would inevitably launch a beast tide every hundred years or so.

If a city happened to encounter two or more beast herds erupting in a beast tide at the same time, it would naturally turn into a major beast tide, and the danger could be imagined. The few times human cities were breached by beast herds in the past were almost all caused by major beast tides.

Therefore, once a city determined that a major beast tide was about to erupt in its vicinity, the high-level officials in the city would naturally be terrified, desperately summoning body cultivators and low-tier cultivators from the vicinity, and immediately shrinking their defenses, preparing for a life-and-death battle.

Seeing this, Han Li sighed and finally closed the last book slowly.

Without a doubt, the city he was in now was about to experience a beast tide, and since this city was so close to the grasslands, it was estimated to be the most famous wolf beast tide. However, looking at how nervous the city was, he hoped he wouldn't really run into some major beast tide.

He drank the cup of wine in front of him silently, narrowed his eyes, and pondered secretly.

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