The largest tribe in the Northern Wilderness stretched ten li across.
It had a permanent population of three hundred thousand and a full range of facilities.
There were clinics, academies, warehouses, barracks, and all manner of workshops.
The academy was rather crude compared with those in the Central Wilderness, but it was still the largest building in the Northern Wilderness.
Two hundred meters from the teaching building lay twenty mu of open ground. A platform had been built there, with a large, simple thatched shelter below it.
Stoves and chairs were neatly arranged beneath the shelter, with one stove for every six chairs.
A blackboard hung on the platform, with several pieces of white chalk beside it.
It was now the depths of winter, and the crowd below the platform huddled around the fires.
Some held small boards with a few sheets of thin paper clipped to them, while others had larger wooden boards braced between their legs.
Everyone had brought a copy of the Book of Changes, which the Ritual Bureau had distributed not long ago. Every household in the Northern Wilderness had one.
From that moment on, every household had its own scripture that was hard to decipher.
The crowd whispered among themselves as they waited for the Human Ancestor to expound the Dao.
This was an annual winter event. In previous years, it had always been held in the Central Wilderness; this year, it was in the Northern Wilderness.
People had more free time during this season, so Feng Xu had been giving lectures at fixed times these past few days. On one hand, he was enlightening the Human Race; on the other, he was building his prestige.
This time, however, a few people who rarely attended his lectures had come.
Feng Xu stepped onto the platform,