Chapter 357: Boundless Sea, Mulan People

"In that case, the current Yue Kingdom is truly chaotic enough!" Han Li suddenly said with a light laugh.

These inexplicable words gave the other four a feeling that he was unfathomable, and they could only accompany him with dry laughs.

"Fellow daoists, continue your chat! I'll go elsewhere to take a look." Han Li stood up and said gently.

"Senior, please!"

"Senior, take care!"

The four watched Han Li leave respectfully.

Han waved his hand casually and called out to Qu Hun, who had been standing outside the whole time, and walked toward other stone pavilions.

Two hours later, Han Li stood in a corner of the mountain peak, lowering his head in thought.

He had just inquired about the situation in the Yue Kingdom's cultivation world from several groups of cultivators in a row. As a result, the current Yue Kingdom could only be described with the word "chaotic."

Under such circumstances, he now had two paths to choose from.

One was to fly away using his magic tool, far away from the Yue Kingdom and other nations, and find another suitable location to continue his cultivation.

The second was to find a way to repair that ancient teleportation formation and gamble on his luck to see where he would be teleported. After all, such an expensive ancient teleportation formation couldn't have been built underground for no reason; it must have led to another extremely distant location.

At first glance, he should naturally choose the first option, as it was much more stable.

But as soon as Han Li considered it carefully, he felt that this decision was no better than the other.

Because to the east and west of the Yue Kingdom were the demonic path's lair, the Heavenly Luo Kingdom, and the Righteous Alliance's Fengdu Kingdom, so the only places he could go were north or south.

Fleeing north through the Yuanwu Kingdom, although there were more than ten small and medium-sized nations, it was clear that the cultivation worlds of these nations couldn't resist the attacks of the demonic path or the Righteous Alliance. Some of these nations had long since attached themselves to the two major forces and become puppets, having fought secretly for a long time.

Otherwise, the border between the Heavenly Luo and Fengdu nations was small, and they wouldn't have been able to form large-scale conflicts in the past.

These nations could become battlefields for the demonic path and the Righteous Alliance at any time, so Han Li naturally couldn't stay.

But if he risked passing through several nations and continued north, he would reach the far north of the Tiannan region and encounter the "Boundless Sea," which was known as a place where even immortals could hardly fly.

This sea was not only extremely turbid and boundless, but also rarely had fish surviving in it. The few types of fish that could survive were all extremely ferocious, no less powerful than high-level land demon beasts, and even Core Formation stage cultivators were extremely dangerous if they fell into the sea.

As for wanting to fly across this sea, that was even more of a delusional thought!

Because a high-level expert who had reached the Nascent Soul stage was once extremely curious about what was at the end of this sea.

Under well-prepared circumstances, he flew along this sea for over a year, but what met his eyes was still endless seawater, and he hadn't even seen a place to land.

And at this time, only a small half of his pills and spirit stones remained. Under such circumstances, this high-level expert had no choice but to return empty-handed.

Otherwise, without spiritual energy replenishment, even a Nascent Soul stage cultivator would only be trapped and die in the sea.

Han Li naturally wouldn't have the delusional idea of crossing the sea.

As a result, he could only look to the south.

To the south of the Yue Kingdom, passing through five or six nations such as the Zijin Kingdom, was the "Nine Nations Alliance," a close alliance formed by nine nations.

This alliance was formed under the leadership of the cultivation worlds of the nine nations.

It was to deal with a powerful and crazy opponent, the invading army composed of Mulan tribe "Fa Shi" (Dharma Masters).

Speaking of the Mulan tribe and Fa Shi, one had to mention the Mulan Grassland adjacent to the nine nations and the Mulan tribe people living on it.

The Mulan tribe people were completely different from the Yan tribe people of the Yue Kingdom, Yuanwu Kingdom, and others. They were a purely nomadic people, not only extremely fierce and loving to dance with swords and guns, but also formed thousands of large and small tribes on the Mulan Grassland.

These tribes varied in size, with small ones having only hundreds of thousands of people, and large ones having tens of millions of members.

And within these nomadic tribes, there were also cultivators. Only, the Mulan people didn't call them cultivators, but respectfully called them "Fa Shi."

Generally speaking, these Fa Shi were no different from ordinary cultivators, and their division of realms and basic cultivation techniques were all extremely similar.

The only difference from outside cultivators was that these Fa Shi didn't pay much attention to external objects like magic tools and talismans before reaching the Core Formation stage. Instead, they practiced the five-element Daoist arts to perfection and even combined them with some native secret arts of the grassland to research more powerful and strange new magic arts, thus forming the Mulan people's own unique school of magic arts. They called them—"Spirit Arts."

Relying on these sharp "Spirit Arts," Mulan tribe Fa Shi could even contend with cultivators of the same rank and have a slight upper hand.

Later, as the number of Mulan tribe "Fa Shi" increased, the spiritual veins and spirit stones they needed also surged, gradually failing to satisfy the normal cultivation of the "Fa Shi."

After all, the Mulan Grassland was a place extremely lacking in cultivation resources.

Thus, from some point on, the Mulan tribe's Dharma practitioners set their sights on the Nine Nations, which had more spiritual energy and richer resources. They began frequently going to these nations to seize large quantities of things that cultivators regarded as their very lives, such as spiritual veins and spiritual mines.

And the cultivation world of the nine nations was unwilling to let these resources go to these wild cultivators in their eyes, and a bloody battle of magic arts broke out completely.

At first, the nine nations all resisted the enemy independently, and as a result, they were defeated by the integrated Mulan tribe coalition, even losing a small half of their territory and resources.

Later, the cultivation world of the nine nations, knowing the opponent's power, hurriedly learned their lesson and formed the "Nine Nations Alliance," and began to frequently use tricks and other unsightly means, finally defeating the Mulan tribe Fa Shi bit by bit and regaining the occupied land.

But the Mulan tribe Fa Shi, who had just tasted sweetness, naturally wouldn't give up. In the endless years that followed, they kept entangling with the cultivation world of the nine nations, and the hatred between the two sides grew deeper and deeper because of the straight-line increase in the number of deaths, which affected the secular world and made the Yan tribe people and Mulan tribe people mortal enemies.

Today, although the Mulan tribe people dare not step into the range of the nine nations, there will never be any Yan people living within a hundred miles of the Mulan Grassland.

Speaking of which, how many people the Mulan tribe has, no one really knows.

Because the Mulan Grassland is too large, and the Mulan tribe tribes entangled with the nine nations alliance are only a small part of it.

Although the "Mulan Grassland" is not as endless as the Black Demon Sea, it is passed down from generation to generation by the Mulan people that if one were to nomadize from one end of the grassland to the other, it would take the tribe five full springs and autumns to do so.

And "Mulan Grassland" is only what the Mulan people call it themselves; at the other end of the grassland live the Mulan people's true mortal enemies, the "Tulu people."

These people, who also live by nomadism, call this huge grassland "Tianlan Grassland" because they have believed in the legendary "Tianlan Beast" as their guardian god for generations.

Being nomadic peoples living on the same grassland, they naturally became mortal enemies without any reason.

For this reason, the warriors and cultivators of the two ethnic groups have fought for countless generations.

Anyway, every hundred years, they will definitely launch a great battle in the middle of the grassland. Millions of mortal warriors fight on the ground, while thousands of cultivators fight in the sky.

Of course, the final victory is decided by the battle in the sky.

All of this, Han Li learned from various classics and rumors.

And it is said that at the other end of the Mulan Grassland, there is a huge empire that is unbelievable; it is said that the entire Tiannan region combined is not even one-tenth the size of the other side.

Han Li found this rumor truly hard to believe.

He couldn't imagine how big a country that was ten times larger than the entire Tiannan region would be!

Of course, these had nothing to do with Han Li's current plan; they were just miscellaneous thoughts that surged out of his mind involuntarily.

When he excluded these miscellaneous things, he still thought after consideration that the six sects would not stay in the nearby nations after retreating, but would definitely detour to the Nine Nations Alliance.

After all, with the situation where the Mulan tribe Fa Shi fought small battles every few years and big battles every ten years, they would definitely welcome the six sects as a major help.

Of course, which nation in the nine nations they would settle in and what kind of spiritual vein land they would obtain would depend on the six sects' abilities.

Looking at it this way, unless he returned to the Huang Feng Valley sect and continued to be cannon fodder, the south of the Tiannan region definitely couldn't be gone to either.

Although he had already had a clear understanding of these problems, thinking about them again now still made his head ache!

It seemed that he could only repair the ancient teleportation formation first. If it was really repaired, he would consider whether he really wanted to teleport away.

At most, if he wasn't satisfied with the place he went to, he could just teleport back. Of course, he would have to take some risks!

Han Li thought with a bitter smile.

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