1, Chenlin Village
The administrative system of the Heaven Dou Empire is divided into five levels: province, prefecture, city, town, and village.
Fasinuo Province, Wushan Prefecture, Lin City, Godin Town, and Chenlin Village.
Wushan Prefecture is bordered on the north by Fasinuo Prefecture, where Fasinuo City is located. It derives its name from the five branch peaks of the Xieluo Mountains within the prefecture. Among them, the two mountains on the right boast abundant water volume and lush vegetation, forming tall forests standing among the mountains, named Dalin Mountain and Shaolin Mountain.
Lin City is located not far from the junction of Dalin Mountain and Shaolin Mountain. A small stream flows down in a winding and twisting manner from each of the two mountains. The locals simply call these two streams Dalin Stream and Shaolin Stream. Later, they converge at the intersection of the two mountains to form a river named the Lin River. Lin City was built along the Lin River, hence its name.
Godin Town sits twenty or thirty miles out from Lin City. It was formed by the gathering of families of guards who originally defended against the Soul Beasts and wild beasts on Shaolin Mountain. Godin, Godin-this is a small town that flourished due to military preparedness.
On the side of the small town lies a lake several miles wide, formed by the Shaolin Stream flowing through this low-lying area, called Shaolin Lake. Therefore, the names of the surrounding villages either contain the character for forest or the character for lake, and Chenlin Village is one of them.
Chenlin Village has a narrow and elongated layout, running southwest to northeast, situated between Shaolin Lake and the southernmost foot of Shaolin Mountain. Shaolin Lake lies to the west, facing Godin Town across the water. The Chen clan serves as the village leaders, and so it is called Chenlin Village for that reason.
Except for Shaolin Lake to the west, the village is surrounded in all other directions by small hills about a hundred meters high. Strictly speaking of the terrain, it is a hilly region enclosing the village, with only two openings to the southeast and north where stone walls have been built, each leaving a gate as an exit. The southeast side connects to a main road, and a few miles out the northern exit lies a small forest formed by the extension of Shaolin Mountain's peripheral spurs.
The village is located at a straight-line distance of four hundred li south of Fasinuo Fortress. Here there are mountains, forests, and a lake; with abundant sunlight and fertile soil, it sits right at the border of the two empires. Heading north along the southeastern main road leads directly to Fasinuo City. The villagers live off the mountains and the lake, the harvests from the fields are high, the economy is quite good, and daily life is quiet and peaceful.
2, The Xieluo Mountains
On the western side of Douluo Continent.
The Xieluo Mountains rank third among the mountain ranges on the Douluo Continent, second only to the Hundred Thousand Mountains in the south of the continent and the Eastern Great Rift Valley.
The mountain range curves toward the southeast from a location near the sea in the upper-western part of the continent, lying horizontally across the land like a flying dragon. With majestic momentum, it stretches for thousands of miles. The further it penetrates the interior, the higher the mountains become, so people regard the end of the mountain range deep inland as the dragon's head and the starting point by the sea as the dragon's tail, commonly known as the Giant Dragon Mountains.
Facing the Tianyun Mountains under the jurisdiction of the Spirit Hall on the western side of the Star Dou Great Forest from hundreds of miles away, it is one of the three major natural boundaries between the northern and southern empires.
Counting from northwest to southeast along the Xieluo Mountains on the Heaven Dou Empire side, they are lined up in order: the Haagen-Dazs Kingdom, Fasinuo Province, and the Balak Kingdom.
In the middle of the mountain range lies a large pass known as Xieluo Pass, which leads directly to the Star Luo Empire. It is the only direct confrontation route between the two empires rather than a buffer zone passage of vassal states, and it has been the place of direct military clashes and the most wars between the two empires for thousands of years-a strategically vital terrain contested by military strategists.
Both empires have built a defensive fortress by the passage at the pass, and the fortress on the Heaven Dou Empire side is called Fasinuo Fortress.
Twenty or thirty miles behind the fortress, Fasinuo City was built, initially used for overall coordination, logistical supply, and the settlement of military families. Later, due to its location on the passage between the two empires, flourishing commerce, and crowds of people, it developed into one of the few major cities in Fasinuo Province. In the early days of the empire, it was even the capital of Fasinuo Province, showing its importance.
It was only later, when the border guards stabilized, that the capital was moved to Marineford City, a central city capable of radiating influence more easily across the entire province.
The Xieluo Mountains are not only the western boundary mountains between the northern and southern empires of the continent, but also the dividing line for geographical, climatic, and resource differences between the north and the south.
In winter, the Xieluo Mountains block cold waves from moving south into the southern regions; in summer, they block moist sea breezes from entering the northern regions. South of the Xieluo Mountains belongs to a subtropical climate with southern-type natural conditions, while north of it belongs to a warm temperate climate with northern-type natural conditions. There are also significant differences in agricultural production characteristics between the north and south of the Xieluo Mountains.
With different climates and soils come different social and living habits in diet, architecture, transportation, and more, which over time evolved into differences in overall social customs.
(PS: It can be simply understood as the broad Qinling Mountains in the Heavenly Realm, starting from the Kunlun Mountains in the west, passing through Longnan and southern Shaanxi in the middle, and reaching the Dabie Mountains in Anhui, Henan, and Hubei in the east, as well as Zhangbaling near Bengbu.)
The Xieluo Mountains are the third-largest mountain range on the continent, spanning two to three thousand kilometers east to west, with the shortest north-south distance being over 300 kilometers, or more than 600 li.
Longer sections, such as the tail end of the mountain range, form the nearly 500-kilometer-long famous Balak-Southern Corridor Pass with the opposite Tianyun Mountains, also briefly referred to as the Banan Pass.
The Xieluo Mountains can be roughly divided into three sections: western, middle, and eastern. Using these three sections as natural boundaries, they divide the Haagen-Dazs Kingdom, Fasinuo Province, and the Balak Kingdom.
Each section has countless branch ranges, with two to three hundred having names big and small-for example, the five mountains of Wushan Prefecture, and Babel Mountain within the borders of Haagen-Dazs is likewise one of them.