Beyond the Borders stretched a boundless expanse.
Across the vast, endless grasslands, green fields lay beneath blue skies, and looking up, one almost felt one could touch the heavens.
Here, there was either desert or grassland. Mountain ranges rose and fell in succession, with the occasional lake shimmering in the light, lending the landscape a distinctive beauty.
Buildings, however, were rarely seen.
Most of the Hundred Tribes of the Grasslands lived as nomads, with no fixed abode.
Since ancient times, the grasslands had been steeped in chaos, with the great tribes waging war year after year, attacking one another.
To evade their enemies, most tribes would not remain in one place for long.
Besides, wandering with their herds also allowed them to escape the bitter cold and seek places with abundant water and grass for grazing.
This situation had continued until three hundred years ago.
Three hundred years ago, a powerful leader had emerged from the Mongols: the first emperor of the Great Yuan Dynasty, Borjigin Temüjin.
After Temüjin became the Great Khan of the Mongols, he fought campaigns far and wide. In just a few years, he unified more than half of Mobei, then established Mongolia Country, earning the revered title of Genghis Khan from the various tribes.
During his subsequent reign, he expanded Mongol territory even further, utterly conquering the Xiongnu, the Turkic Khaganate, Liao, Jin, Tubo, and other states in the eastern grasslands. He unified the entire north and ruled over tens of millions of people from other tribes.
It could be said that the Great Yuan Dynasty owed its continued standing among the powers of the Divine Land and its dominion over the grasslands entirely to the shelter of Genghis Khan's legacy.
Otherwise, how could the Mongols alone possibly control these tens of thousands of li