The Qi country of the East China Sea can be described as a prosperous immortal gate and a declining immortal gate.

There are many scholars who slander in private, saying that although the Qi royal family claims to be a three-thousand-year-old dynasty, it is actually just a puppet, and it is the Xianzong who really determines the change of dynasty and the length of the country.

From this point of view, the last 'dynastic change' of the Qi State was nearly three hundred years ago.

At that time, the 'immortals' from the 'Crystal Palace' sat in the Tianque Palace, and protected the country as the teacher of the Tai Kingdom.

Soon after, the decree of the State of Qi changed from the development of the sea to the land, which developed from the original peninsula country to the current five states and thirteen islands.

And the whole country of Qi, after experiencing nearly three hundred years, is indeed more accustomed to the protection of the 'narcissus'.

Specifically, it is mainly reflected in the marine industry, the fishery harvest, the sea transportation is also safe and fast, the thirteen islands, and the coastal cities, forming the premier economic circle of the Qi country.

It is on this basis that the state of Qi first extended its economic tentacles to the inland countries, and then raised a large army, armed to the teeth, and expanded inland, which became the first country in the East China Sea.

About 120 years ago, the king of Qi ordered the capital to be moved, which took 50 years to complete.

The population exceeded 3 million more than 30 years ago.

In less than 40 years, nearly 500,000 people have been added. During this period, it was also affected by the Xiujie War, and the prosperity of Shangdu can be seen from this.

The name of Shangdu spreads 70,000 miles away, and people come here every day to open their eyes or find the life they want here.

But all of this came to an abrupt halt with the collapse of the Abyss.

Although the Abyss is located at sea and is not the core area of the Thirteen Islands, but a volcanic island in the northeastern rim, the monsoon winds from the ocean have successfully blown the ash inland.

In addition, the coast is already humid, and the summer sun is scorching, even if it is not the rainy season, a large amount of dark ash mixed with water vapor will also form rain due to heaviness, coupled with the push of the monsoon, and some man-made manipulation, it will form a terrifying storm and dead rain.

When Zhou Xing was in Binh Duong to rescue the disaster, Shangdu suffered the baptism of this kind of rainstorm.

At the beginning, it was not much stronger than the intensity of Pingyang, but after receiving the information of Xie Changsheng's clone, the Taixu Palace monk here manipulated the wind and rain, and the situation deteriorated rapidly.

At that time, the Tianjiao of the Hanhai Sect and the Houtu Sect were busy talking to each other, ignoring the demons' troubles.

Of course, the two major sects are not really stupid enough to understand the value of mortals, but because their thinking is far from being as simple as Zhou Xing's, it has led to very different results.

These Tianjiao have factional inheritance and division teams behind them, and they have already begun to study various issues in it, including political factors, long before the 'Tianjiao Victory'.

For example, the overall environment of the battlefield includes both the natural environment and the human environment.

Among them, the perception of the human environment involves political factors, and to a considerable extent determines the attitude of the monks towards mortals.

In the eyes of the Houtu Sect, the East China Sea is a region that has been under the control of its own family for nearly three hundred years, and the Qi State is a country that has been supported by the Hanhai Sect with one hand.

Knowledgeable people in the sect pointed out that not only is it difficult to control, but its economic structure is also unfriendly to the Houtu sect.

If the sect wins this time, the Hanhai Sect will at least remove all kinds of marine protection, then the problems of finding fish and dealing with stormy waves will suddenly become prominent.

In other words, even if the Hanhai Sect did not secretly make it bad, it was very likely that the economy of Qi and even the East China Sea Region would decline, resulting in a lot of complaints.

And this will only make the Qi country miss Hanhai Sect more and more.

People of insight pointed out that if we want to reverse public opinion, we need at least two to three generations to forget, accept fate, adapt, and complete the change.

Not to mention that after two or three generations, it is not far from the next 'Tianjiao competition', and it is not ideal to say that investment and return.

So in the end, the attitude of the Houtu Sect was to support the Wei State on the western edge of the East China Sea and replace the Qi State.

Further west, the Wei State entered the traditional territory ruled by the Houtu Sect.

Among them, the Daqian Dynasty, which is adjacent to the Wei State, has an imperial system of 2,000 years and is the suzerainty of the Wei State.

Wei has always been very deferential to the Great Qian and the Houtuzong, and from the perspective of the administrative system, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is the monkey version of the Great Qian Dynasty.

The Houtu Sect decided that once it won the suzerainty of the East China Sea region, it would not rush to dismember the Qi State first, but rather relax the policy and even rule by doing nothing.

At that time, the Hanhai Sect will withdraw all kinds of favorable protection from the ocean, and the people of the Qi State will not be able to complain about the head of the Houtu Sect, but will only 'promote Mien and fight against the Hanhai Sect'.

What Houtuzong wanted to do was to strengthen and consolidate the power and influence of Wei in the East China Sea region in the first hundred years.

In this way, even if the 'Tianjiao Victory' Houtu Sect loses in the next hundred years, Hanhai Sect will most likely treat the Wei State like the Houtu Sect treats the Qi State now, and there is no way to be ruthless.

Because that would not only be unprofitable, but would also make the Wei people hate Hanhaizong, which was equivalent to helping Houtuzong consolidate its position in the eyes of the Wei people.

'Three hundred years, we are three steps behind each other, counting on one step to catch up, the step is too big will only pull the egg, that is not in line with our steady style, we want to win step by step, to believe, the time, people, are on our side, the next few hundred years, we can also continue to sit in the bank's ......

This was the core attitude of the Houtu Sect towards the East China Sea region before.

The ability to win and the winning streak is not self-absorbed, but based on a lot of intelligence analysis.

The Third Cultivation War is only more than ten years away from today, and for the monks (high cultivation), that is, the refining time of a furnace of high-end pills, it is really not a long time.

And in this war, the Hanhai Sect suffered the heaviest losses among the five greats.

Yunxiao Sect was originally the least damaged, but because of the purge caused by Xuan Chenzi's defection and the assassination of the head and his wife, he came out on top.

But this could not hide the embarrassment of the Hanhai Sect.

The main reason why the Hanhai Sect suffered heavy losses was that it fought on two fronts.

Originally, the geographical advantage of the Hanhai Sect in the Cultivation War was very obvious, and few people could really chase into the deep sea, harming the foundation of the Hanhai Sect on a large scale and for a long time.

Therefore, the Hanhai Sect can be called offensive and retreating, and it has even been repeatedly envied by some monks of other sects: 'Look at people, only I beat people, no one beats me'......

Another advantage of the Hanhai Sect is that the ocean is vast and rich in resources.

But Hanhai also has a disadvantage, that is, it is adjacent to the demon clan.

This is the pot next to the door of the immortal road back then, and some demon giants were so big that they didn't bother to search and kill them when they were driven to the deep sea.

This is not simply arrogance or laziness, but with the pattern of the immortal road at that time, it has already taken advantage of the world.

The comparison between the two sides is like a multinational group and a handicraft workshop, the handicraft workshop starts 24 hours a day, and it is impossible to compare the production capacity of a multinational group.

However, creation makes people.

The multinational group collapsed, and its successors not only did not develop for more than 10,000 years, but also regressed!

The handicraft workshop has been working hard for more than 10,000 years without being disturbed......

An important reason why Hanhai Sect acquiesced to the appearance of Tianhaimen was that it felt lonely in terms of the ocean.

In the distant past, he even had a honeymoon period with the Houtu Sect, and deliberately helped him open up the ocean channel, just to pull the Houtu Sect into the water.

The Houtu Sect has indeed tasted the sweetness of the ocean, and has never forgotten some of the outputs there.

But the Houtu Sect was not stupid, not only saw the intention of the Hanhai Sect, but also realized that one of the purposes of the Hanhai Sect's series of actions was to leave a way back for its sect, so that the pressure on the survival of the ocean would be too great the next day, and then the focus would be shifted back to the coast.

Of course, Houtu Sect was not happy, and said in his heart: "Eat the fattest in the sea into your stomach, give us a few meat bones and let us fight the demon together, even if it is okay, who let some resources in the ocean be really good, and actually think about 'retirement' to become a rich man on land?" It's too beautiful to think about! You have to be the first line of defense against the demons. ”

Because of their own selfish intentions, the two sides gradually disagreed, until a big fight, and then the perennial cold war.

In the Third Realm Cultivation War, the War God Temple coveted the northern territory of the Houtu Sect, so on the grounds that the Houtu Sect was shameless and swallowed a large part of the territory of the original Chiyan Sect, but refused to cede half of the benefits to other sects, it united with the Hanhai Sect to attack the Houtu Sect together.

Originally, the situation was favorable to the Hanhai Sect, after all, after three hundred years of domination of the East China Sea, this landing site could be regarded as useful. Seeing that he could go further, he dispatched troops, planning to unite with the God of War Temple, fight a few beautiful decisive battles, sign a covenant with the Houtu Sect, and pocket the East China Sea.

As a result, the demon clan attacked in a big way, and three big battles came, the Hanhai Sect lost people and land, and the forward of the demon clan even approached the location of the Hanhai Sect.

The Hanhai Sect had to swallow its anger and sign an alliance under the city, in order to transfer people back to defend the sect. The whole process was arduous and painful, and it hurt many sect elites.

It is precisely with these backgrounds that the Houtu Sect is optimistic about this 'Heavenly Pride Victory'.

And I began to think about what kind of attitude to deal with the mortal kingdom in the East China Sea region in the future, and what kind of foreshadowing should be done at this time.

Then I was disgusted by the collapse of the Abyss.

And the Hanhai Sect was originally bound to win this 'Tianjiao Competition'.

After all, the Qi State was regarded by it as the mortal foundation for the future sect to land. It can be understood as the reserve of the Cloud Sect Dengyun City.

After the three wars, the next big problem that the world's Xuanmen needs to collectively face is how to survive the long turbidity winter.

In the background environment of turbidity invading the world and thin aura, it is basically impossible to expect any immortal seedlings to be born in the mortal world.

Only when the spiritual energy is sufficient can the spirit fetus be nurtured, so the immortal seedlings of the mortal world mostly appear in remote mountain villages.

So how is the Xuanmen inherited? Naturally, it relied on obtaining disciples from an immortal city like Dengyun City.

In the immortal city, the relevant immortal seedling cultivation system has actually been formed a long time ago.

For example, the lineage inheritors of the bloodline, those who have declined in the power of the bloodline, are eliminated by the family, and transferred to the immortal city for the people, but due to the environment, there is still a high probability that the awakening of the next generation will occur. Once it appears, it can even feed back to the clan.

Another example is the master-apprentice faction, there are special people who travel to the clouds to find the son of heavenly fortune, and the child, even in his mother's belly, is brought back to Dengyun City to cultivate, even if it is not selected in the future, its bloodline has a high probability of good achievements.

Some of the great cultivators of life cultivation even said that those who reincarnate and recultivate, after experiencing several lifetimes of reincarnation, regain their cultivation qualifications, are often more likely to be reincarnated in the Xiancheng family.

These are the main meanings of the existence of immortal cities such as Dengyun City, otherwise, if there is just a lack of sweeping servants, mortals, how can they be like spirit slave puppets?

However, because of the particularity of the ocean, the Hanhai Sect did not have the ability to build its own undersea immortal city on its own.

The underwater country involves civilization, which can not be done simply by building a few undersea ecological parks.

At the end of the day, information is still underdeveloped in this world.

Even the cultivators of Shou Yuan, who are hundreds or thousands of years old, have not advanced the information industry to the level of the modern earth because they are obsessed with professional affairs.

It can even be said that cultivators have that ability, but they lack that awareness.

Of course, it's not that there are no 'enlightened' people, such as thanksgiving.

Through Xie Changsheng's doppelganger network, Xie Tianci's information control is used and used, and the play is not too cool.

It is precisely the background of the traverser that makes Zhou Xing also an information-sensitive person, so he quickly analyzed that Xie Tianci can go from a low-level gangster like Nie Zhang to an invisible giant in today's transcendent circle, transcending the information system of the times and playing an irreplaceable role.

Not to mention whether he is a master or not, from a cognitive point of view, Xie Tianci can definitely be regarded as an enlightened person among the natives.

This is also the reason why Zhou Xing decided to chop Xie Changsheng with the first knife.

He wants to let Xie Tianci, an old demon addicted to the Internet, and a master of the temple, feel the pain of 'no Internet'.

Speaking of returning to the Hanhai Sect, since there is no immortal city of its own, considering the needs of the cold winter of Xuanmen, he wants to build one as soon as possible.

For thousands of years, they have been paying attention to the performance of other major sects in this regard, secretly recording and learning.

Although there will inevitably be problems of one kind or another when turning from theory to practice, the monks of the Hanhai Sect believe that with the mature technology and experience they have mastered, they will be able to establish their own immortal city with a run-in period of about three hundred years.

As a result, the turbidity tide suddenly came, completely disrupting their steps.

It was immediately suggested that the original landing plan was no longer worth implementing.

If he is weak, he will be migrated, built in a big way, and will be splinted from beginning to end, and the Hanhai Sect will be in danger of collapsing at that time.

Fortunately, the cunning rabbit still has three holes, and the Hanhai Sect will not be desperate to take precautions, and they have other backup plans.

Millions of miles south of the Endless Sea, where the Tianhai Gate is located, there is an uninhabited wasteland, and there is another retreat that the Hanhai Sect has secretly operated for many years.

Back then, a faction of the Hanhai Sect became independent from the sect and went to the Endless Sea, among which there was a secret son of the Hanhai Sect, who had always had dealings with the Hanhai Sect.

It was they who explored the wasteland and helped build a long-distance shipping route that included a series of relay nodes.

It's just that the wise people of the Hanhai Sect believe that there is a profound truth in the original Immortal Dao side sect choosing to establish a sect in the jurisdiction of the current Houtu Sect.

Even if the sect split later, it still took the region as the core and formed a circle of cultivation. Geographically, it is the center of the world.

If you want to become the top of the cultivation world, you have to develop and compete here, which is the real stage for politicians who try to make great achievements in Gyeonggi, a country, and being a chicken head in a remote place is very easy to say, but in fact it is like exile.

Therefore, the Wasteland is the backup plan.

But now, the pressure of survival has outweighed the need to show ambitions.

The Hanhai Sect planned to shrink its territory, shift its focus, and use the thousands of years of looting and accumulation in the ocean to recuperate in the Wasteland, and now the Sect is used as a branch in order to return to the 'temple' the next day.

If such a plan was only favored by some high-level monks of the Hanhai Sect before, then with the collapse of the Abyss, it has become the consensus of almost all high-level monks.

The East China Sea has collapsed into a rotten land, like a good piece of fertile soil, not only ushered in the Xiaoice period, but also maliciously sprinkled salt on a large area, fighting for uselessness.

Since this is the case, Hanhai Sect's attitude towards 'Tianjiao Fighting for Victory' and Qi Guo has also undergone a huge change.

The head of the Hanhai Sect urgently notified the person in charge of this competition and interaction, saying: If the Houtu Sect is still willing to read some friendship of the same path, then the Hanhai Sect will take the relatively complete Qi Kingdom as a gift and give it to the Houtu Sect.

Why is it more complete?

Mainly because the mortal foundation cultivated by the Hanhai Sect is mainly reflected in the thirteen islands, and further down, the islanders are not very counted, and the so-called sea people are the immortals of the Immortal City that the Hanhai Sect values, and a considerable part of them are deliberately guided and cultivated.

Therefore, regardless of whether the abyss collapses or not, the people of the sea will be moved to the wasteland.

It was precisely because the Hanhai Sect attached great importance to the Thirteen Islands that the shock wave tide of the collapse of the Abyss, as well as the later Gray Death Rain, did limited damage to the Thirteen Islands that were relatively close.

From the beginning of the outbreak, the Wave Barrier Array was activated, and except for four of the islands, which suffered baptism due to malfunction and man-made destruction, the rest were successfully protected by a super large water cover like an ecological dome.

Although the water in this water cover is not thick, it is a constantly flowing living water, and the infected water keeps flowing away, so as to achieve a good isolation effect.

It can be said that these industrial bases, which are blessed by extraordinary powers, can be said to be the economic pearls of this world and this era.

If the Houtu Sect can take over smoothly, while cutting out the land army, it can raise a strong navy to better deal with the erosion of the coastal island chain by the demon clan after the shrinkage of the Hanhai Sect.

But the Houtu Sect did not show even the slightest understanding, and the attitude revealed in its words and actions was full of schadenfreude and even falling into the ground.

Hanhai Sect reciprocated the favor, and said in his heart: Lao Tzu would rather ruin all the hard work of three hundred years, and he will not be cheap for you turtle grandson, wait for the demon patriarch to drive straight into your side and stab you in the ribs!

This is the deep-seated reason behind the affection, immorality, and intellectual retardation shown by the monks on both sides. Of course, it is true that they do not treat ordinary people as human beings even more than the mortal magnates.