Chapter 665 - 30: Godly Imperial Power, Horn of Plenty

Chapter 665: Chapter 30: Godly Imperial Power, Horn of Plenty

Changyang Mountain, Xingtian City.

Since the Kunlun conflict five years ago.

This place has become the hub of communication between the Hundred Lands Mountain Range and Great Xia, and all intelligent beings.

The collision of various ideas, technologies, and cultivation methods has made everything here appear so prosperous.

Every year, every month, even every day, there are earth-shaking changes happening here.

Due to the sheer number of people coming and going each day.

A single mountaintop city like Xingtian City cannot possibly accommodate such a massive influx of people.

Therefore, starting from a few years ago, Xingtian City has been expanding outward, eventually building five new cities at the foot of the mountain.

Xingtian City at the mountaintop serves as the main city, while the five new cities at the foot are satellite cities, forming a massive array barrier altogether.

To be truthful, this is extremely rare in this era.

In an era when the population isn’t too large, a city can be claimed with merely tens of thousands of inhabitants, thus establishing a Fang Kingdom.

A Fang Kingdom would have a capital city and at most a few nearby villages, already considered a thriving nation.

But just look at present-day Xingtian City, with its area spanning thousands of square kilometers and a population nearing ten million.

Even excluding the transient population, the native Xingtian Clan population exceeds a million.

Beyond cities with towering skyscrapers that have relieved conflicts between humans and land in the twenty-first century, this population size is exceedingly extravagant in any era.

Surveying the capitals of each feudal dynasty at its peak, the population is roughly this size.

To manage such a colossal population, the internal system of Xingtian City is evolving at a terrifying pace.

In just a few years, the Xingtian Clan transitioned from primitive clan-based and city-states to an era approaching the feudal dynasties’ "theocratic monarchy."

This is a system never before seen in this world, characterized by the current Xingtian Clan’s highly centralized authority.

As a bearer of the Xingtian Clan’s power, the contemporary Xingtian is an embodiment of divine authority.

To manage the ever-expanding native and foreign population, the current Xingtian establishes various systems and rules with absolute authority.

Thus achieving the dream of countless monarchs — a high unification of divine and royal power.

No, it cannot simply be described as unification here.

As long as Xingtian remains a divine ruler, divine authority and royal power are indistinguishable.

The present Xingtian is both God and King, a monstrous embodiment of power that could only be conceived in a mythical era.

If the mortal Xingtian didn’t have the capacity for death, the priests of Xingtian City would never allow such a monstrosity to be born.

The first Witch King of Great Xia showed later generations through actions.

Only through orderly life and death and power transitions can true vitality be sparked, creating a vibrant nation.

Of course, corresponding to this flaw is its efficient operation mode.

As long as Xingtian is not a tyrant or incompetent ruler who places personal greed above the clan, its effectiveness far surpasses other systems.

The transformations in Xingtian City over these few years are enough to prove this point.

During the clan’s period of ascent and reform, a wise, authoritative divine king is irreplaceable by any system.

As long as this divine king maintains their wisdom, achieving hundreds of years’ worth of normal civilization development in just decades or even years is entirely possible.

Earth veins and water veins are connected through roads and waterway transportation, collectively forming a huge array barrier.

All outsiders entering this array barrier must first acquire the corresponding identification.

Though this cannot completely prevent outsiders from sneaking in, it maximizes stable operation throughout the city.

Floating in the high sky are satellites and power stations from the Hundred Lands Mountain Range.

These satellites not only ensure communication for the entire Kunlun region but also provide sufficient electric energy to Xingtian City.

Furthermore, as exchanges between the Hundred Lands Mountain Range and Xingtian City strengthen, its unique "spatial compression technology" is also applied here.

Qiankun pouches, treasure gathering bowls, treasure boxes, hidden treasure caskets, golden cabinets, bronze carriages...

No matter their external form, their essence is an enormous storage space differing from normal space.

Through these containers inscribed with Qiankun Talisman, Xingtian City engages in massive material trade every moment.

Consequently, bronze currency from the Hundred Lands Mountain Range also becomes a semi-officially recognized currency.

Because those who sell these space equipment are often mountain people or Gods from the Hundred Lands Mountain Range, they only accept bronze coins as the sole trading currency.

It is said that if you can provide enough bronze coins, the mountain people even do not mind creating customized space equipment for you.

A citizen from overseas once exchanged his hard-earned bronze coins for a magical treasure named "Horn of Abundance."

In that rumor, the "Horn of Abundance" can endlessly produce rice, wheat, fruits, and various quality seeds, once becoming a symbol of prosperity and abundance.

Of course, some suspect this is a scam orchestrated by the mountain people.

After all, space can be compressed, but whence do the rice, wheat, fruits, and seeds come from out of thin air?

"The divine power of the Hundred Lands Mountain Range... really defies logic!"

Gently stroking the horn in his arms, an elderly man sighed thus.

This elderly man is precisely the overseas citizen who purchased the "Horn of Abundance."

Behind him, a group of puppets with stiff faces and coordinated actions silently advance.

Besides these eerie puppets, the livestock pulling bronze carriages also move in stops and starts, maintaining a certain consistent pattern.

Among these stiff-featured puppets and beasts, only a young girl frolics happily, occasionally running up to the old man to tug at his sleeve coquettishly.

This old man and young girl are puppeteers from Yanshi Kingdom overseas, skilled in the art of intricate machinery.

The so-called art of intricate machinery actually involves using wood, stone, and minerals to create various precision mechanical devices.

With the popularization of the Luo Book, now the four seas and Eight Desolates have mastered some similar technologies, with water engineering technologies spreading most widely.

However, Yanshi Kingdom possessed intricate machinery technology even before the Luo Book was widespread.

They are renowned not for creating large-scale engineering machinery but for replicating humanoid and beast-shaped "puppet beings."

The strange beings trailing behind this old and young pair are the legendary "puppet beings."

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