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**Realm history:**

Forty-two thousand years ago, human philosophers discovered a way to cultivate magical power, giving humans the ability to establish a foothold on this land.

Twenty-six thousand five hundred years ago, humans discovered the secret of magic formations, causing a substantial increase in productivity, enabling civilization to make the transition from tribes to empires.

Fourteen thousand two hundred years ago, humans learned how to craft talismans. Since then, wars erupted and empires grew bigger. Talismans became a cultivator’s most important consumable. Talismans were associated with the strength of a cultivator, the strength of an army, and the strength of a country.

**Grades of Material:**

Grade was determined by its attributes, the grade of the material depended not just on quality, but also age, the grades from low to high were: herbal medicine, elixir, holy medicine, immortal medicine, and god medicine.

An ordinary herbal medicine would be a few hundred years old and once it was past a thousand years old, it was an elixir. If it was grown for ten thousand years it would be a holy medicine, immortal medicines and god medicines depend on the overall quality of the material, a normal herb will not evolve to this stage no matter how long it is grown for.

**Southern Summer Country:**

*The Four States Lake, the largest lake in the Southern Summer Country. There was Central State to the west, Thunder State to the north, Southern State to the south, and Qing State to the east.*

The entire lake covered an area of four hundred thousand kilometers squared. There were plenty of aquatic products with no dangers from miles upon miles. Most of the rivers in the Southern Summer Country came from the Four States Lake, so the Four States Lake had a great significance to the Southern Summer Country.

“The so called ruler’s token is the token of a ruler. There are only three ranks in the Southern Summer Country, Marquis, Ruler, and King! The Marquis rank refers to the eight marquis of the Southern Summer Country, the Ruler rank refer to the three lords of the Imperial City, and the highest King rank refers to the king of the Southern Summer Country!”

Three ruler lords?

They had a higher status than the eight marquis?

Meng Qingwu continued to explain, “The three ruler lords of the Southern Summer Country are the Burning Sun Ruler, Nangong Yan, the Calm Martial Ruler, Dongfang Gan, and the Refined Ruler, Shangguan Cangfeng!”

Burning Sun Ruler, Calm Martial Ruler, and Refined Ruler?

Even if Chu Tian was a fool, he would be able to recognize that these people were from the Three Great Clans of the Southern Summer Country!

It was no wonder the Three Great Clans had that kind of reputation, the three Ruler ranks were all in the Three Great Clans’ hands. The Calm Martial Ruler was the Dongfang Family’s head. It could be said that the Dongfang Family was in control of the country’s military, controlling the majority of the armies, cavalries, and fleets.

It could be said.

The Calm Martial Ruler had the highest might out of the three Rulers and could be considered the protecting god of the Southern Summer Country in the citizen’s eyes. He had led the over a million people army to fight against the Spirit Beasts, allowing the over two hundred million citizens of the Southern Summer Country enjoy peaceful lives. Otherwise, if the northern frontier broke, the beasts would sweep through the Southern Summer Country, exterminating it!

The Thunder State’s talents included, the Golden Arrow Marquis’ successor, Jiang Shan, Thunder State grand general’s son, Lian Pojun, and Thunder State large family successor, Lin Changge.

The Southern State talents included, the Western Marquis’ successor, Shangguan Zhenfei and the other two were called Wei Long and Wu Yang, who were from large Southern State families.

Jiang Shan and Shangguan Feichen were both at the 5th Awakened Soul Layer.

Lian Pojun, Lin Changge, Wei Long, and Wu Yang were all at the peak 4th Awakened Soul Layer!

The Southern Summer Eight Marquises were at the peak of the 9th Awakened Soul Layer!