A melodious sound rose from the profound darkness, seeming to reverberate through their surroundings and giving both men a jolt of alertness.
Lin Feng looked into the depths, as though some monster lurked there.
"The price was the destruction of the One-Eye Country. While they were in Guifang territory, Guifang routed them and nearly wiped them out."
At first hearing, that seemed reasonable enough.
The people of the One-Eye Country were remnants of a fallen nation first and an agrarian civilization second. The lands Guifang occupied back then were not particularly suitable for farming.
Much less for a band of Remnants constantly on the run.
So it was perfectly normal that the One-Eye Country Remnants could not defeat Guifang.
But on closer thought, a problem emerged.
Something was wrong.
Setting aside the question of nomadic peoples versus agrarian civilizations, and looking purely at their relative military strength, Guifang was not a single tribe. It was a name for the northern nomadic peoples of that time, a collective designation for nomadic tribes.
They were a collection of nomadic tribes called Guifang by the Zhou Dynasty and the states of the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods. Later, Guifang was replaced by other nomadic nations. As for how powerful Guifang was, the answer could only be: mediocre.
Except during Di Xin's reign, when Yin-Shang's national strength declined at an unimaginable speed, Guifang and other small nations had always been vassals of Yin-Shang.
For a very long time, Guifang was even a nation used as a source of sacrificial offerings.
Most of Wu Ding's and Fu Hao's spoils of war came from Guifang. By the Zhou Dynasty, Guifang's fame fell far short of that of the Dog Rong.
What had the Dog Rong done?
The Dog Rong had breached the capital of