Capítulo 1971: Chapter 923: Unifying the Soaring Dragon People (2)
This general once held the rank of sixth rank official in the Soaring Dragon Dynasty, making him the highest-ranking official among these Soaring Dragon People. Although not considered a major court official, he was nevertheless a local general responsible for defending a territory. The intelligence about the Soaring Dragon Dynasty he held was far beyond what ordinary Soaring Dragon People could compare to.
From them, Gaven learned more about the Far East.
That continent was far from the peaceful and prosperous land of legend, instead, it was filled with conflict.
However, the targets of conflict were no longer the nurous monsters in the wilderness, but among their own kind.
Just like any ancient empire, as the Soaring Dragon Empire’s establishnt aged, internal resources began to centralize, giving birth to massive families, which slowly turned into cliques.
Due to the decentralization of divine right, the situation of these family cliques beca especially severe.
With mortals wielding divine nature force for an extended period, not only did it fail to grant them life far beyond ordinary people, but it also posed a risk of backlash from not being able to suppress such power, leading to untily deaths.
Those Soaring Dragon People, who valued clan concepts heavily, naturally focused on family inheritance, trying every thod to pass their bloodline and abilities to the next generation.
Additionally, since the Nine Heavenly Paths Practitioners of the Heavenly Palace weren’t entirely free from worldly desires, under the relentless temptations of mortals, they more or less left their bloodlines in the mortal world, forming the foundation for many family cliques.
As mortals pursued becoming one of the Nine Immortals, they nad their practice process Immortal Cultivation.
They descended to the mortal world to cultivate and survive tribulations.
Families ford by them naturally ca to be known as cultivation families.
Over ti, the power within the Soaring Dragon Empire was dominated by these cultivation families.
Court officials of the third rank and above, like Guo Conglong who ca from humble beginnings, were extrely rare.
Ninety-nine percent of them erged from these cultivation families, and the Soaring Dragon royal family is the largest cultivation family. Most of the Soaring Dragon Empire’s output also went into their pockets, sustaining their horrifying consumption during cultivation.
And these cultivation families maintained joint governance through secular intermarriage, resulting in intricate entanglents within the Soaring Dragon Empire.
The palace intrigue commonly seen in secular dynasties also played out here.
A thousand years ago, the originally unified Soaring Dragon Dynasty split into two due to internal conflicts among cultivation families.
The North remained under the control of the Soaring Dragon Empire’s royal family.
The rebel cultivation families established the Earth Dragon Dynasty in the South of the empire.
Both sides considered themselves the true orthodox, attacking each other for years.
Due to their hostile relationship, the Golden Road could only extend to the Soaring Dragon Empire. Even what was harvested there alone t the current needs of the Felen Continent.
This led many Felen People to only know about the Soaring Dragon, but not the Earth Dragon.
The decentralization of divine right and the disorder of the court’s governance were not directly related.
Once turmoil erupted within them, tribes like Tukan, who they had suppressed on the ground for so long, would rise, causing no small amount of harm.
Only because this ti, Khan Yamun wielded Felen’s Slaughter Godhood Fragnt, leading to a series of exceptionally severe damages, did the Soaring Dragon Empire truly suffer.
Regarding the affairs of the Soaring Dragon Empire, Gaven considered them re cultivation tales because the Kyushu Barrier made traveling there more troubleso than heading to other planes, achievable only through mundane ans.
Gaven had reason to suspect that this situation was not unique to the Soaring Dragon Empire and that other continents of Toril had similar protective barriers.
Only such a notion could explain why, before exploring lands or oceans, those mages didn’t discover these continents.
If it occurred in one or two cases, one might explain it as naturally ford, but if it happened to all, it could only be attributed to human intervention.
It was possible that the locals built it for self-protection, or the True Gods of the area established it to guard their faith from being impacted by other continental pantheons.
Gaven believed the latter was more likely, suspecting that Felen might also be safeguarded by similar laws, unbeknownst to themselves.
“General Guo, what do you think we should do next?” Gaven’s question clearly carried a testing tone.
Due to the diverse governance of his own territory, Gaven was adept at managing subordinates of alien races.
Soaring Dragon People were different from the existing Humans of Felen. Was the difference greater than with those fae races naturally closed and conservative? Or those stubborn dwarves? Or the Hobgoblins born as a monster race?
When attempting to change a race’s inherent traits and customs, it equates to standing against that race, leading to diminished results.
However, if one actively harnesses their strengths and positions them aptly, the results can be exponentially beneficial.
Gaven intended to adopt this thod with the Soaring Dragon People.
To appropriately delegate power back to those existing ruling class of Soaring Dragon People, allowing them self-governance, and establishing a relatively traditional Soaring Dragon People territory by fully exploiting their strengths.
As for the strengths of the Soaring Dragon People,
undoubtedly, it was their farming attributes.
Thousands of years of agrarian civilization had ingrained a deep-seated attachnt to the land within them.
As long as they were given a territory, they could bloom with the dazzling sparks of their civilization.
And this was the best thod to tether these rootless wanderers.
These Soaring Dragon People might be grateful, but their loyalty was certainly negotiable, being entirely a matter of necessity.
If given a chance to return to the Soaring Dragon Empire, even if tens of thousands of kiloters away, with innurable hindrances, most of them would strive to return at all costs.
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