Powerful military might and exquisite artifacts brought with them a powerful centripetal force.
More importantly, the spread of culture and the convenience of roads and transportation further accelerated the process of civilization's assimilation and evolution.
It could not be denied that beyond the Divine Province lay inferior lands. Though life still flourished there, the qi of those lives was exceedingly hollow and illusory.
Yet to Wisdom, qi was not absolute.
Spiritual wisdom was bestowed by heaven!
In ancient legends, the human body came from the earth, while the soul was molded from the void.
This was not empty nonsense.
In this world, the void and the earth had always interfered with one another. The birth of life naturally contained an element of the void.
Compared to the earth's weight and cohesion, the void was far more empty, remote, and unfixed. Thus, the birth of those of great wisdom did not follow the laws of qi.
Of course, this did not mean that lives born beyond the Divine Province were innately lowly. In the final analysis, it was merely a matter of struggle.
If people beyond the Divine Province could seize control of the Divine Province, then so long as they occupied a patch of land and multiplied there for three to five generations, their descendants would naturally possess powerful origins.
In the final analysis, it was nothing more than the word "struggle."
As for the various races now upon the Divine Province, their ancestors had all been victors.
The defeated either perished or fled far away.
The law of the jungle, survival of the fittest—here, it was displayed in all its fullness.
Great New's national policy, however, was to welcome all who possessed wisdom.
In the fifteenth year of Heaven-Answering, Great New began opening free schools in one market town