Chapter 2642: Cultural Differences and Ethnic Integration

Now, Xia Duo allows the Mulan to enter Daxia Territory in batches, actually harboring the idea of gradual integration through small, frequent groups. After all, the Mulan are an alien ethnic group completely different from the current primary ethnic group.

It is not just an alien status in terms of nationality and region; they even come from an Other Plane.

Their customs and habits are vastly different. For instance, the Mulan have Faith in gods, but they believe they are offerings to the High Gods and must remain clean to serve them. Therefore, in Mulan culture, the higher one's status, the more hairless their body is.

Even ordinary Mulan regularly shave their hair, so saying that the Mulan are all bald is completely accurate.

Besides being bald, there are tattoos. Of course, tattoos are generally more common among women, with the purpose of protecting fertility or purely out of Faith.

Compared to bodily cleanliness, women of higher status also have more tattoos, while men's tattoos are generally because they are engaged in a certain profession and have achieved certain accomplishments, carrying a meaning somewhat like military medals.

As for details of daily life, such as dietary habits and table etiquette, it is not easy to notice if you don't meet often, but appearance cannot be hidden; it is inevitably seen the moment you meet.

Among a group of people with hair, if a bald, tattooed person suddenly mixes in, the Netherese might only have prejudice, but the Langasi, besides prejudice, might even show hostility.

Being bald has a certain effect, but the main reason is the tattoos. In Langasi culture, tattoos are the exclusive domain of Wizards, mainly face tattoos, and the Mulan tattoos happen to include forehead and scalp tattoos, which are equivalent to face tattoos.

Yet those tattooed Langasi happen to be Wizards who are respected, so it is effectively equivalent to offending a Wizard.

And today, I spread out the Linshui Village renovation plan submitted by Laidun; what I saw first was not a design plan for the Linshui Village renovation—

Actually, the threats of the Demon Descendant and the Dragon Madness Mythallar crisis have not been resolved, but the latter is hard to find clues for. Xia Duo has predicted many times without finding direct clues related to the Demon Descendant; most are still speculations.

It just needs a little time.

Therefore, the two biggest crises of the Main Plane can actually be classified as the same thing for me now—developing the Territory, strengthening the grassroots power of the Tower of Time, and actively cultivating more Magic talents.

……

After all, the older generation who grew up in the old culture and old customs are still alive; how could they completely abandon the past in just a few short years?

Of course, advanced culture has an assimilating and absorbing effect on backward culture. Under the Guidance of Xia Duo, the Netherese and the Feileisi have gradually integrated, forming the Daxia Culture and Daxia Custom unique to Daxia Territory.

Although that ancient Elf sacrificed themselves to extend the collapse time of the Dragon Madness Mythallar to eighty years, I cannot do nothing within these eighty years.

Tower of Time, top-floor Study.

I can already start this part of the work, but it mainly depends on the large number of talents cultivated by the Tower of Time; doing this alone is very difficult.

……

On one hand, this is indeed because I want more population; on the other hand, it is because the Langasi are about to launch an uprising or a major riot in Imaska. This may involve the participation of Cormanthor, and a new god may be born at that time.

Although Daxia Territory has achieved significant results in ethnic integration over these years, it is more about developing some new culture and new customs under the Guidance of Xia Duo, rather than completely abandoning the old ones.

Correspondingly, Imaska is not made of paper, so the Mulan Prophet requested Xia Duo to take away more Langasi, so that even if the uprising in Imaska fails and is suppressed and exterminated, there can still be a branch of Langasi multiplying and growing outside.

I can only deal with things as they come. Currently, I have placed the investigation direction on the Mist Event mentioned in the prophecy, but this also requires waiting. After all, I cannot personally run into the territories of Yierlan and other countries to search extensively.

In reality, it goes without saying that the Northland Alliance, especially the Elven Nations within it, monitors the movements of the Demon Descendant almost every moment. Even they have not been able to catch the true weakness of the Demon Descendant, and it is very difficult for Xia Duo alone to do so.

Xia Duo has enough confidence in himself, but not to the point of being conceited.

If it weren't for the fact that I was indeed liver-painfully busy before and desperately needed to relax and release, I wouldn't even give myself a day off.

In fact, Xia Duo does not require the Langasi or Netherese to completely abandon the past, but as long as they follow the existing moral norms—that is, the New Natural Philosophy and the Daxia Code—then whatever old culture or old customs they have can be maintained.

Among them, the iconic building, Code Plaza, is the most conspicuous and maintains its original size, while the Altar Square to the south has changed drastically!

Therefore, Xia Duo is destined not to be able to fully adopt the plan provided by the ancient Elf, so he needs to continue researching on the basis of the Dragon Madness Secret Scroll to find a new plan for repair or safe dismantling within the Netheril Magic System.

Now, I am waiting for the Projection to finish inspecting the Mulan fortress and determine its own operating state and its state with the Dragon Madness Mythallar, then see if it is possible to carry out a maintenance first.

Since it has been decided to start work, the inspection of the Mulan fortress in the Arctic will continue; this will be left to the Projection, while my main body will continue the Plane Domain research that was interrupted several times for various reasons.

Although Niya went to the Laboratory, when Xia Duo is not conducting practical research, he is used to sitting in front of the Projection Window here, looking at the real-time Projection of various places in the Territory while thinking about his own problems.

……

Time quickly arrived at the end of November. Laidun submitted a Linshui Village renovation plan, and taking this as an opportunity, Xia Duo began a rare vacation.

Xia Duo will certainly support such a righteous matter, but the pressure of ethnic integration is indeed a bit high. However, I also believe that the new culture and new customs developed under more advanced productivity will certainly be able to assimilate and absorb the old ones.

I am not a corporate slave working for others now; I won't think about taking a vacation every day. On the contrary, I am fighting for my own career every day.

Some things must be tried. Furthermore, the complete repair plan of the ancient Elf requires more than five hundred high-level Mages; eighty years is certainly not enough to cultivate so many, but three hundred years might make it possible.

As for the Dragon Madness Mythallar crisis, since the discovery of the Mulan fortress in the Arctic, this crisis can be considered to have a clue. Although it is very difficult to solve it completely, it is not like the past where one could only pin hopes on undiscovered Dragon Madness Secret Scrolls.

And at this time, the addition of the Langasi seemed a bit abrupt. Xia Duo had not expected that a trip to Imaska would bring back nearly one hundred thousand Langasi.