Before long, Lin Su understood.
There were natives on the Heartless Sea as well!
The world was just this wondrous. No matter how lofty a hall might be, there would always be natives. The Holy Hall was so, Outer Heaven was so, and so was the Heartless Sea, coveted in the dreams of top Cultivators.
Time was the most miraculous thing. Given enough length and stability, it could create an enormous population.
Within that population, classes would form as well.
Where there were people at the top, there would naturally be people at the bottom.
The total population of this Human Race settlement was measured in hundreds of millions!
This was practically a prosperous human kingdom. It had everything a human kingdom ought to have—literature, martial arts, the Cultivation Way, administrative systems, a framework of government...
Only, there was no monarch. There were only city lords.
Without a monarch, the city lord governed the territory, and the city lord himself was the monarch.
This city's main city was called Li City. Tens of thousands of cities surrounded it like stars paying homage to the moon, guarding the main city.
Lin Su's golden boat had already changed shape. It was no longer golden, but had become a wooden Swallow Boat, half-old and not quite new. He could not quite bear the looks in the fishermen's eyes when they had first seen his golden boat.
The Swallow Boat skimmed over the Heartless Sea and entered a great river.
From the fishermen, he learned that this river was called the Li River.
Li River, Li City, Li River...
They were all Li. Perhaps this was the sentiment of certain people in power within the Human Race settlement. Having left home, the word "leave" carried extraordinary weight in their hearts, so they named everything