Qingfeng City
The Savage Lands Continent stretched on without end, and the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains were only one corner of it.
Around them lay the three great nations of Gu, Mang, and Bi, each spanning tens of millions of miles and vast beyond measure.
The nations of Gu and Mang were within the sphere of influence of righteous sects such as Kun Yun Sect. Even their emperors needed the immortals' approval to hold on to their thrones.
Bi, on the other hand, was purely a land of demonic sects, ruled by Li Hun Sect. They knew better than to drain the pond to catch the fish and did not engage in wanton slaughter, but their ways were still brutally cruel. Many commoners fled.
Dingbing Mountain, Qingfeng City.
The mountain lay at the junction of the three nations and stood apart from them. Five thousand years ago, the rogue immortal Immortal Lingfeng came here and built a city, attracting a large number of Rogue Cultivators and founding the Qingfeng Alliance.
The righteous and demonic sides watched each other warily. More than three thousand years later, Immortal Lingfeng disappeared, and the Qingfeng Alliance disbanded. But its headquarters, Qingfeng City, remained, becoming a gathering place for Rogue Cultivators from all three nations and a buffer zone between the righteous and demonic sides. It prospered in an oddly distorted fashion.
"Brother Situ, you should've seen the misery of those refugees fleeing Bi..."
A chubby little man dressed in fine clothes was boasting at length to Fang Yuan. "Taxes in Bi are crushingly heavy, and the people can't bear it, so they have no choice but to flee... But under Bi's laws, the moment they run, they're automatically demoted to slaves. Any disciple of Li Hun Sect can kill them at will and harvest