After roughly asking about some basic information, Chen Qiu sat silently atop a pile of snow, lost in thought.
On the Mystic Heaven Continent, there was no concept of nations.
There were only sects, lineages, and the like.
There were many human gathering places such as cities, marketplaces, villages, and towns. Cities and marketplaces were often built by sects or lineages, and each year, they had to pay a certain amount of tax to the sect behind them. In return, the sect provided corresponding protection.
Some older Outer Disciples whose cultivation could no longer advance would also go to marketplaces or cities to oversee their sect's businesses. Or they would establish a lineage of their own. Though it was not a direct superior-subordinate relationship with their original sect, it was more or less the same.
The town behind him was called Deathknell Town.
It had not been built by a sect. Rather, it had naturally formed because countless hunters had gathered there.
Before this town stood an enormous cliff face. At its foot, it could shield people well from blizzards and freezing winds, making it a relatively safe area. At first, only one hunter had built a stone house there. Later, more and more hunters built stone houses there as well. Then some elderly hunters began doing business, selling food, leather armor, talismans, and the like.
The snow mountain behind them was called the Boundless Snow Mountains. It stretched for tens of thousands of li, its peaks too high to see, and was blanketed by blizzards for nearly half the year.
The region they were in fell under the jurisdiction of the Fate Sect. Aside from them, four cities were also properties of the Fate Sect, and these four cities were normally among the Fate Sect's main sources of Spirit