Every nation had its own cultural differences. Setting foot in the territory of the Great Moon Dynasty, Bai Yang found its customs and way of life gave him an entirely different impression.
As he traveled toward the Great Moon Dynasty's capital, Bai Yang noticed that, perhaps because the emperor was a woman, women seemed to enjoy a higher status than men in this country!
This wasn't baseless speculation on Bai Yang's part. The fact that more than half the officials in the country were women was proof enough.
All Bai Yang could say was that one kind of rice fed a hundred kinds of people. If a society where the status of men and women was reversed existed, then there was a reason for it.
The Great Moon Dynasty's capital was called Bright Moon City. Its streets and alleys were lined with a special plant known as Moonlight Grass. The plant was pure white all over and gave off a moonlike glow even during the day. When night fell, countless Moonlight Grass plants shone together, and the whole city seemed bathed in moonlight, so beautiful it could make one's heart swoon.
The royal palace of this country was also situated in the sky above the city. It wasn't one enormous floating island, however, but a collection of more than ten thousand floating islands, large and small. The palace buildings stood on those islands.
Nor were these floating islands made of ordinary stone. They were formed from a kind of pure-white stone that glimmered faintly. Arranged in a special formation, the tens of thousands of white islands formed a crescent moon hanging in the sky, as if the moon itself had appeared overhead.
The city was so beautiful that anyone would want to live there forever. Bai Yang strongly suspected that