Guifang Kingdom, Cliff City.
This is the capital of the Guifang Kingdom, and also the only well-organized and large-scale city in the Guifang Kingdom.
It is different from the feudal era in Li Boyang’s impression.
This world is still in a relatively early slave-based primitive society, or even earlier tribal clans.
Mountain villages like Li Family Village are the mainstream of this era.
Only those powerful tribes would break away from the primitive life of fishing and farming, exhausting effort to build large cities capable of withstanding attacks from other tribes.
This Cliff City was built by the initial Guifang tribe over more than ten years, consuming countless slaves and captives.
Cliff City covers an area of about seventy square kiloters, using the Wuding River as a natural barrier, surrounded by water on three sides.
Due to the entire city relying on cliffs dozens of feet high from north to south as a barrier.
And with the Wuding River as a natural barrier, it forms a terrain that is easy to defend and hard to attack.
anwhile, during the long-term life of Guifang residents.
Cliff City naturally developed into inner city, outer city, residential area, comrcial area, and sacrificial area divisions.
Among them, the outer city is the outermost contour, allowing other tribes and mountain people to enter and trade basic goods.
As for the inner city isolated by two city walls to the east and west?
That is the core area that only true Guifang residents can enter.
In fact, this inner city not only has magnificent buildings and solid roads far beyond this era but also has specially built granaries for storing grains.
Walking along the roads of the inner city to the end, there lies the most important area of Cliff City and even the entire Guifang Kingdom—the Priest Temple.
Majestic buildings stand tall in this center, with hundreds or thousands of slaves laboring arduously within.
Under the protection of those majestic buildings, a high platform specifically for sacrifices is conducting a ceremony to worship the Five Directions Gods.
Starting from the most basic chickens, ducks, cattle, and sheep to slaves or prisoners chosen as human sacrifices...
Every ti a priest raises and lowers their knife, a vibrant life cos to an end.
When those rolling heads are thrown into the sacrificial pit, the watching crowd lets out excited howls.
Perhaps it is because this world has the presence of Gods...
Or maybe due to so other unknown influences...
This barbaric country still engaged in "living human sacrifices" has developed relatively complete bronze and iron tools.
The most primitive stone tools have long been eliminated, and various bronze utensils are everywhere...
As for those priests conducting the sacrificial ceremonies?
They each hold sharp iron tools, their faces full of longing and reverence for this sacrificial ceremony.
If Li Boyang were present at this mont, he would be shocked to find that the iron tools in the priests’ hands are much sharper and sturdier than he rembers.
Not to ntion comparing them to the iron weapons of the feudal era.
Even when compared to twenty-first-century high-carbon steel, these iron tools are not inferior.
Especially when the priests chop off the heads of human sacrifices, a faint glow appears on the corresponding sacrificial iron tools.
That glow is the blessing of the Five Directions Gods pleased by the sacrifice—also the fundantal reason these sacrificial iron tools surpass their material limitations.
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"What a crazy tribe..."
Overlooking the magnificent sacrificial altar below, the human-shaped Er Tu couldn’t help but mutter softly.
Er Tu has never seen such frenzied slaughter throughout the entire natural world.
Not for satiation, nor for survival...
Purely killing for killing’s sake, with most targets being their own kin.
Er Tu thinks that even those Evil Gods who are bound to bring calamity wouldn’t conduct such large-scale gratuitous slaughter.
"This isn’t called madness, it’s called faith."
A calm voice ca from inside the great hall, and a young man walked out step by step.
The young man was draped in exquisite black silk, holding a skull staff full of Guifang Kingdom’s style in his hand.
"The Five Directions Gods require our sacrifices, especially now that we’ve lost the Prison Soul Tripod..."
"We must acquire more human sacrifices and blood offerings to regain the favor of the Five Directions Gods!"
The young man nad Xuan Hui is the current candidate High Priest of the Guifang Kingdom.
He’s a genius who erged from nearly a thousand candidates and was already able to communicate with the Five Directions Gods before becoming a High Priest.
"More human sacrifices and blood offerings?"
Turning back in surprise, even a bit of terror, Er Tu looked at Xuan Hui and asked incredulously.
"You’ve killed so many people already, aren’t you afraid of sparking a war again?"
Er Tu, though a Spirit Monster, has mingled among humans for many years.
So Er Tu understands better than anyone what it ans if the Guifang Kingdom initiates such large-scale "living human sacrifices."
"People?"
"Are you referring to those mountain people?"
A slight contemptuous smile appeared at the corner of Xuan Hui’s mouth, making Er Tu feel afraid.
"They are just a bunch of two-legged sheep; they cannot be counted as humans!"
"Those ignorant mountain people are like endless weeds, sprouting from the mountain forests if given a slight opportunity."
"If their blood can please the Five Directions Gods, it would be their honor."
Xuan Hui’s words also represented the mainstream thought of the Guifang Kingdom and even the ideology of this era.
In the eyes of the rulers of this era, those mountain people are worthless.
Only in tis of war or sacrifice would they capture those mountain people in large numbers, using them as cannon fodder and human sacrifices.
At other tis, sending so tribe mbers to the mountain villages to collect offerings is considered already an enlightened rule.
Yes, this era doesn’t even have the concept of "taxation."
Collecting offerings and having mountain people worship their Gods is seen as a favor from the rulers of this era.
After all, this is a world where Gods truly exist.
Perhaps to outsiders, the bloodthirsty and cruel faith in the Five Directions Gods seems brutal.
But compared to those Desolate Gods in the wilderness who can’t even respond, they’re already considered very reliable true Gods.
Primitive, yet not so primitive...
This is the characteristic of the civilization of this era, and also the fundantal reason why Li Boyang can never determine what era this truly is.
One can only say that the existence of "Primordial Qi" has raised the world’s ceiling, while also lowering the era’s bottom line.
"Forget it, these are your human affairs."
Er Tu sighed lightly, no longer getting tangled in this issue but instead revealing the purpose of his visit this ti.
"I need so books, preferably related to dicine and Herb Scripture."
"And so ores; if possible, give so bronze and iron ingots too..."
After silently staring at Er Tu for a long ti, Xuan Hui eventually nodded.
"No problem, if that is your request..."
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