"It could be compared to the human world, but the two must not be conflated."
As Zhou Qing spoke, he followed the bees ahead and became the first to leave the passage, entering a relatively dim space that did not hinder visibility.
After leaving the passage, the bees merged with bee formations arriving from other passages, forming a yellow-and-black torrent that "flowed" toward something resembling a hive.
Besides the bees, this space also contained countless swarms of different insects, forming streams and channels like rivers.
As far as the eye could see, they crisscrossed and wound onward without intersecting, presenting an orderly scene.
Everything!
Was operating with extreme efficiency!
Turning back to look down upon the passages leading into this space, Zhou Qing discovered that they seemed to have been woven from countless layers of spiderwebs.
Swarms of different species and sizes moved back and forth through those interconnected passages, as though they were—
The blood of the insect nest!
In that instant, inspiration flashed through Zhou Qing's mind. He realized that the "qi" of the Swarm Kingdom included not only wind and water, but the swarms themselves as well!
They were life in motion!
Having understood this, Zhou Qing gained a more precise direction for the future development of the forces that the Red Communion and Worker-Peasant Council would establish.
A nation could also be analyzed through Aura Field theory—
A nation's "field" encompassed its territory, mountains, rivers, seas, man-made buildings, altered terrain, and so on.
A nation's "qi"—naturally flowing things such as wind and water—was merely secondary. Given enough time, humans could alter them. The most important "qi" was the people within the nation itself.
This was the main reason Zhou Qing had responded to Dugu Bo with the first half of his statement: "It could be compared