Distance

This article discusses various measurements of distance in NSHBA.

## Units of measurement

The original Chinese text often uses Chinese units of measurement such as 里 li (unit) and 尺 chi (unit). Wuxiaworld usually translates distances using western units of measurement such as meters (scientific/metric system) and miles/feet (American system), which sometimes results in the rounding to a convenient number (which differs in measurement from the original).

In modern Chinese language, meter is translated as 米 or mi.

Apparently, throughout Chinese history, the definition of li has changed over time, but has usually been around 1/3 of a mile.

Nowadays, 1 li has been standardized to be equal to 500m, and 1 li can be divided into 1500 chi.

10 chi is equal to 1 丈 zhang (unit), and 1 chi can be divided into 10 寸 cun (unit).

For the sake of precision and the following table, the original Chinese text will usually take precedent over the English translation when determining the true value of distance.

Moreover, we will typically translate the geographical distances using meters.

## Examples

### Less than 1000km (1 Megameter)

In length:

* Crouching Dragon Mountain: 1000 li (500km), translated 300 miles (~480km) in radius
* Black Illusion Dragon Flame: 30km (grown)
* Great Dragon King: 30km (shrunk)

### Less than 10km

* Blackscale Soaring Serpent: over 3 miles long or around 4828 meters
* Black Illusion Dragon Flame: 3000 meters (800 years ago when young)
* Ghost Toothed Eel: 3000 meter fish
* Xie Qianqian's Flying boat: 3000 meters
* Willow tree in Spirit World: 3000 meters tall, considered small compared to surrounding World Trees
* Black Pot: can grow several thousand meters
* Barbaric Wind Beast: body at least a mile long
* Great Earthen Wall: many miles thick and tall

### Less than 1km

* Ironwing Horned Eagle: half mile wings (800m)
* Killing God statue: 300 meter tall altar
* Nine Dragon Generals: 300 meters (shrunk)
* Raging Flame Prison: 300 meter flame prison
* Hidden Ground Spider: 300m long, 150m tall
	+ Hidden Ground Gold Spider: can shrink to 3m tall
* Celestial Horses: 300m
* Six-Horn Silver-Scale Bull: 300m
* Barbaric Wind Beast: ~100 meters tall

### Less than 100m

* Spotted Ghost Mosquito: 30 meters
* Black Pot shield: 30 meters
* Spirit testing tablet: 30 meters
* World Tree fruit: 30 meter (assuming diameter) sphere
* Silverwing Heavenly King Ant: dozens of meters
* Night Devil: dozens of meters
* Aman: over 6 meters (post mutation)
* Scarlet Blood Spirit Fish:
	+ big fish: 2-3 ft (<1m)
	+ giant fish: 3m
* Ancient Devil Ape: 3m

## Conversion

* 1 mile

≈

{\displaystyle \approx}

 1609.34m
* 1 foot

≈

{\displaystyle \approx}

 0.3048m (so 3 feet is around 1m)
* For reference, the width of the continental USA from coast to coast is around 3 million meters.
* 1 li = 500m
* 1 chi = 1/3m

## References

1. ↑ Chapter 1042 (Wuxiaworld)
2. ↑ Raws says 一座方圆千里左右的高山 or a mountain of radius 1000 li (translating 方圆 fangyuan as radius)
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Chapter 1646 (Wuxiaworld)
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Chapter 1798 (Wuxiaworld)
5. ↑ Chapter 759 (Wuxiaworld)
6. ↑ Chapter 1106 (Wuxiaworld)
7. ↑ Chapter 1601 (Wuxiaworld)
8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Chapter 1409 (Wuxiaworld)
9. ↑ Chapter 1454 (Wuxiaworld)
10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 Chapter 344 (Wuxiaworld)
11. ↑ Chapter 1446 (Wuxiaworld)
12. ↑ Chapter 547 (Wuxiaworld)
13. ↑ Raws says the wingspan is 五百多丈 or 500+ zhang = 10/3 li = 5000/3 m or about 10/9 of a mile, so one wing is half of that or roughly half a mile
14. ↑ Chapter 629 (Wuxiaworld)
15. ↑ Chapter 807 (Wuxiaworld)
16. ↑ Chapter 544 (Wuxiaworld)
17. ↑ Chapter 785 (Wuxiaworld)
18. ↑ Chapter 609 (Wuxiaworld)
19. ↑ Chapter 432 (Wuxiaworld)
20. ↑ Chapter 1445 (Wuxiaworld)
21. ↑ Chapter 1481 (Wuxiaworld)
22. ↑ Chapter 1619 (Wuxiaworld)
23. ↑ Chapter 1420 (Wuxiaworld)
24. ↑ Chapter 64 (Wuxiaworld)
25. ↑ Chapter 1580 (Wuxiaworld)
26. ↑ Chapter 1819 (Wuxiaworld)
27. ↑ Chapter 814 (Wuxiaworld)