So what was the difference between the two?
Standing outside the city, Wen Xu saw no difference at all. Both were cages, one large and one small. In the large one, violence was forbidden; in the small one, anyone was free to use force.
Most importantly, good and evil were separated completely. The good enjoyed a relatively spacious, well-appointed place to live, while the evil were allowed to use violence and force, with life and death left to chance.
What a crude, blunt view of good and evil. It was almost like... sorting tools into categories.
Wen Xu stopped near the courtyard where they were staying. Order was so good here that lost property lay untouched in the street and households left their doors unlocked. As soon as he reached the gate, he saw Chunchou and Seventh Young Master Shu busy preparing the hotpot stall.
Seventh Young Master Shu was forging a copper pot. One soon took shape in his hands. It was a "Shu Weapon" with absolutely no power to harm, so it could enter No-Shu City and be used by its residents. Swords and other magical implements capable of harm, on the other hand, were put away and confined as soon as they were discovered.
No matter how those swords and magical implements fought among themselves or injured themselves, the established rules looked on with cold indifference.
And if a "harmless" tool showed that it could cause harm, the rules would immediately send it to prison and restrain it. They would not destroy it, but neither would they use it again or grant it better treatment.
Wen Xu thought the person who built No-Shu City was very likely an artifact refiner—perhaps even one who had grown weary of fighting.
How curious. Shu Jinze had once told them outright