After passing through Wuzhai Pass, one could enter Chu's Imperial Authority Eighteen Provinces.
The Yellow Springs Eighteen Provinces were directly administered provincial territories belonging to Chu.
Within the incomparably vast territory of the Devil Realm, "eighteen provinces" did not sound very large, but the truth was quite different.
The Yellow Springs Eighteen Provinces were enormous.
When Chu was founded, it established the Imperial Authority Eighteen Provinces as its directly administered provincial territories.
At first, the territory of the eighteen provinces was already several times broader than that of other provinces.
After so many years of development, Chu had continually annexed the provinces surrounding the Imperial Authority Eighteen Provinces and incorporated them into its territory, making the Imperial Authority Eighteen Provinces larger and larger...
For example... Chen You had just explained the history of Wuzhai Pass City.
Wuzhai Pass City had once been a province. After Chu conquered it, that province became Wuzhai Pass City, turning it into the gateway facing south from the Yellow Springs Eighteen Provinces.
Occurrences like Wuzhai Pass City were commonplace within Chu's former territory.
With province after province merging and being incorporated into the Imperial Authority Eighteen Provinces, its territory had grown increasingly vast.
It was no exaggeration to say that each province of the Imperial Authority Eighteen Provinces was now equivalent to "seventy times" the size of an ordinary province.
Simply put... any single province within the Imperial Authority Eighteen Provinces was equivalent in size to six Eternal Thirteen Provinces, or "seventy" Heng Provinces.
The eighteen provinces of Chu's Imperial Authority were named after the characters in "Heaven and Earth Profound Yellow, Azure Sea and Mulberry Fields, Overcome Enemies and Achieve Victory, Sun and Moon Same Sky, Mountains and Rivers Forever Solid."
Among "Mountains and Rivers Forever Solid," Yong Province was the ancestral land of