Deep within the mountain forests.
Here, green trees provided shade, birds flocked overhead, and flowers and grasses flourished in vivid colors. The air was fresh, and birdsong and insect calls often mingled with the rushing of flowing water.
The crystal-clear rivers were the source of life for every creature here. There were also waterfalls plunging down like the Milky Way pouring from the heavens, making this a veritable paradise beyond the mortal world.
In this beautiful place stood a village named Big Ox, also known as Big Ox Village.
This village was extraordinary. For generations, its inhabitants had all been men, as though it were the opposite of the Daughter Kingdom.
The men here had no need to reproduce, because every so often, newborn babies would fall from the sky into the village.
These newborn babies did not need anyone to raise them, because from the moment they were born, each had a big brother invisible to everyone else who took care of him. The villagers had nothing to worry about.
This was another of Big Ox Village's wonders. Its inhabitants saw nothing strange about this phenomenon, because things had always been this way since their own births.
The village also had a very strange rule: everyone had to undergo a coming-of-age ceremony. Once they came of age, they would leave the village to see the dazzling world outside.
Thus, over the years, people came and went, and the village never grew any larger.
Not every adult man in the village had the chance to attend a coming-of-age ceremony. Many were already seventy or eighty and had still never left. Their lives had essentially no connection to the outside world, and they could only spend them within the village.
All of this was because the requirements for participating in the