Chapter 863

"Brother Su, you don't think highly of Great Qin at all?" Zhang Liang sighed.

"That's right."

Su Fan nodded. If Great Qin hadn't been so anxious and had continued to develop for a few thousand years in the hands of that First Emperor, with its foundation deepened, its chances of winning might have been greater.

"Zifang, why do you suddenly have such thoughts?"

Su Fan was also a bit puzzled, though he actually had some guesses in his heart.

"Cultivation!"

Zhang Liang said two words simply, and Su Fan understood instantly.

Heading to Xianyang City is clearly to join Great Qin and use Great Qin's luck to cultivate; it is easier to practice within the government.

For many loose cultivators, joining the government to obtain cultivation resources, especially cultivation methods and so on, is what they are in urgent need of.

But for someone like Zhang Liang, who has an extraordinary background—being a noble of the Han State and, secondly, a direct disciple of the Little Sage Virtuous Manor—

he is not lacking in resources or cultivation methods at all. Dharma, wealth, companions, and land—for Zhang Liang, he is actually not lacking in any of them.

If he follows the steps, becoming a Heavenly Immortal is not a problem, and becoming a True Immortal probably won't be too difficult either.

A True Immortal is already quite good in the Four Great Divine Continents of the Earth Immortal World.

In the Nanzhan Buzhou, apart from the Jiuzhou, there are many sects that are human sects.

Nanzhan Buzhou is very large, and the Jiuzhou only occupy a part of it, not even reaching one percent.

The Jiuzhou are the areas covered by Dayu's Nine Cauldrons.

After many years of continuous development by human dynasties, it has become the best living environment for the human race.

And outside the Jiuzhou, not to mention the other three great divine continents, just in Nanzhan Buzhou alone, the other places are not entirely barren lands.

On the contrary, in other places, there are lands with spiritual mountains and spiritual waters, and these spiritual lands are naturally occupied by many sects.

Most of them are human immortal cultivators.

The Hundred Schools of Thought and Taoism have only been established for eight thousand years.

But human cultivation can be traced back to ancient times, or even the late Primordial period, when the human race was born.

It's just that at that time, the human cultivation method relied entirely on their own exploration and was not the true Qi Refining Dao.

Even in the early Primordial period, there were many cultivation paths in the world, and the Dao Ancestor was not the strongest among them.

It was only later, after the Dao Ancestor became a Saint, that the Immortal Dao became noble.

Later, it was the Taiqing Saint who established the Human Teachings and spread the Golden Elixir Great Dao; only then did the trend of human cultivation arise.

However, before the Human Teachings, human cultivation was more similar to the Witch Tribe, focusing on body tempering, as the Witch Tribe and the human race had similar body types, and apart from being taller and larger than humans, there were no other major differences.

And since the Witch Tribe was powerful and the humans were eager to learn, they naturally learned from those ordinary Witches.

Some sages explored and created some body-tempering techniques.

At that time, when the human race was born, their bloodline foundation was not bad, especially the innate humans, whose foundations were extraordinary; even without cultivation, each one of them was immensely strong.

It was just that later, their bloodline continuously declined.

However, after Taishang spread the Golden Elixir Great Dao, human Qi refining became popular, and it has been passed down for nearly ten million years.

During this process, countless elites also established many sects.

Nanzhan Buzhou can be considered the base camp of the human race; the Jiuzhou are the land of dynasties, and sects rarely appear here.

After all, with the suppression of the dynasty's dragon Qi, those Qi Refiners do not respect royal authority and are naturally viewed with hostility by various dynasties.

Starting from the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors of ancient times, as tribes formed dynasties, they began to consciously drive away these sects.

By now, in Great Qin, there are almost no sects, and even if there are, they are mostly small and weak, hiding in deep mountains and old forests.

The true major sects are all outside the Jiuzhou, referred to by the Jiuzhou dynasties as "lands beyond the reach of civilization."

Of course, these "lands beyond civilization" are not necessarily barren lands.

Although those sects are mostly established in mountains and forests, sects also need disciples, so many sects have places where humans multiply.

Forming towns one after another, the mortals in these towns are all controlled by the sects.

The mortals under the major sects even reach the number of ten million.

Smaller ones also have hundreds of thousands.

Outside the Jiuzhou, the number of humans is also not small, and it is not even less than in the Jiuzhou.

It's just that these humans are not in the form of countries, but in the form of towns.

Among the four great divine continents, Nanzhan Buzhou is considered the base camp of the human race, where the human race is the most powerful, and sects are numerous, most of which were established by humans.

Among them, the most famous ones include several sects, such as the Shushan Sword Sect, Qingcheng, Huashan Sect, South Sea Sword Pavilion, and so on.

Among these sects, the powerful ones have Golden Immortals or even Taiyi Golden Immortals; as for Great Luo, that is the biggest secret of a sect and is rarely known.

And the weaker sects have Heavenly Immortals or True Immortals as their strongest members.

A sect that can possess Golden Immortal-level powerhouses is already the top-tier sect force, and there are not many in the entire Nanzhan Buzhou.

Even if placed among the four great divine continents, apart from the Heavenly Court, the Buddhist Sect, and the forces established by a few great supernatural beings, there are not many Golden Immortal-level forces.

This includes the Demon Race and other myriad races.

The myriad races were almost wiped out during the Primordial War, but that does not mean that all the myriad races are dead.

Some races, led by their high-level members, withdrew early and hid in some barren mountains and dangerous waters, or some forbidden areas.

In this way, they survived; later, when the Demon Race unified the myriad races, some still hid everywhere.

The Fengshen War, the war between Saints, shattered the Primordial world, and many races were also almost exterminated, but like the human race, they all had survivors.

These races that survived from ancient times are just like the Dragon Race; perhaps many of their powerhouses died, but as the younger generation grew up generation after generation, some also emerged.

However, most of the powerful ones died in one calamity after another.

Most of those left behind are below the Golden Immortal level; there are some Golden Immortals, either recruited by the Heavenly Court or converted by the Buddhist Sect.

Of course, these races are rare in Nanzhan Buzhou, but there are quite a few such races in the other three great divine continents.

For example, the six Great Sages who befriended the monkey in "Journey to the West"—these can be said to be the Demon Race, or they can be said to be survivors among the myriad races.

For example, that Bull Demon King belongs to the Green Bull Race, and the most famous of the Green Bull Race is the Green Bull under Taishang.

With his current divine soul secret technique, his attacks were enough to threaten Heavenly Immortal level cultivators.

However, the Demon Race has long since weakened.

Nanzhan Buzhou is the world of the human race, while Dongsheng Shenzhou is controlled by those major sects, such as the Chan Sect.

In Nanzhan Buzhou, reaching the Heavenly Immortal level is actually already considered an expert, and a True Immortal is a top-tier powerhouse of a major sect.

Reaching the Golden Immortal level makes one a true hegemon-level powerhouse in Nanzhan Buzhou.

Many experts have walked out of the Jiuzhou, especially during the heyday of the Hundred Schools of Thought, when many experts headed to Nanzhan Buzhou, which shocked many disciples of major sects.