Dawn Year 624.
The Road to Heaven Supply Zone had become a popular gold rush spot in the eyes of Star City's residents.
But everyone knew the risks involved.
The warband model was more like a mercenary mode that gambled with one's life. High risks also brought high returns.
If a weak race was successfully intercepted on a branch route of the Road to Heaven, the profits often brought enormous wealth to the warband participating in the raid—enough to cover several years of Blood Sacrifice cultivation expenses.
This gave cultivators who were not satisfied with free resources and wanted to advance further a way to actively acquire resources.
That year, Ji He compiled information on Domain Factions and convened a conference to establish a ranking system for them.
Ji He presided over the conference, and all those participating were leading scholars of Domain Studies.
The goal was to better assess the strength of different Domain Factions from a human perspective.
Humanity's knowledge of Domain Studies had already become extensive, but compared to the vast New World, it was only the tip of the iceberg. There were still countless unexplored regions and undiscovered Domain Factions.
This ranking system was primarily intended to help the Military Department, and even the Road to Heaven warbands, better understand Domain Factions.
Ji He published the results of the conference online.
Based on currently available information, Ji He divided Domain Factions into five tiers.
The first tier: weak races.
Races at this tier belonged to the lowest rung among Domain Factions. Their resources were scarce, their development difficult, and they lacked the ability to launch wars of plunder against neighboring factions. They could only obtain meager resources by extracting the few resource sites within their Domain Fields. At the same time, they lacked mature research and