(Explanation coming in a couple of days~)
Kang Prefecture belongs to Dahuang Continent, one of the nine continents under heaven. Over ninety-five percent of the vast territory of Dahuang Continent belongs to a region called the Great Desert. Only in two small corners, in the east and the west, are there two lands belonging to humans where they can multiply generation after generation. They are respectively called Kang Prefecture and Zhao Prefecture. Deep within the Great Desert, the environment is harsh and monster beasts run rampant. Even those with successful cultivation have a hard time surviving, let alone ordinary mortals who possess almost no combat capability whatsoever.
Yet the so-called cultivators must rely on a massive population of mortals as the foundation for their development. Without mortals, cultivators are nothing more than pavilions in the air. Even if they are strong for a time, the entire race will gradually decline and slowly be submerged in the tides of history.
Of course, from ancient times to the present, it is not as if there have been no powerful sects that expanded their territory into the Great Desert. They established one impregnable city after another for mortals to reproduce and thrive in. But in the end, it would always fall short due to beast tides, food, natural disasters, plagues, and other reasons, causing countless humans to die as a result. This also caused the humans of Dahuang Continent today to huddle entirely within Kang and Zhao prefectures, relying on natural barriers and fertile land to gradually develop to the present.
Yet a sparrow may be small, but it has all its internal organs. For the vast majority of low and middle-tier cultivators, although they clearly know the world is very big and Kang Prefecture is very small, to those cultivators who simply