Ji Hao left the Forest of Tranquility and at the same time got rid of the pursuit of more than a dozen descending Holy Spirits.
On the grassland outside the forest, there are a large number of indigenous tribes of the Wood and Water tribes, and their level of civilization is much better than that of the indigenous tribes in the jungle. While the natives in the jungle were still living a primitive life of relying on the sky for food, the natives on the grasslands had opened up a large amount of farmland and developed a farming civilization.
Stable food income and fertile soil that cannot be taken away have allowed the indigenous people on the grassland to establish fixed settlements.
Ji Hao walked and inquired all the way, and found out that the indigenous people on the grasslands had already formed the prototype of a country, forming a power structure similar to a city federation. Each settlement formed its own army. The professional army gave them an advantage in fighting with the tribes in the jungle.
The emergence of professional armies also made the battles between these settlements more bloody and with greater mortality. At the same time, their ordnance is more powerful, more sophisticated, and the forging technology used is more advanced.
Along the way, Ji Hao secretly sneaked into the forging workshops of at least a hundred city-states and secretly learned many of the indigenous forging secrets.
The Wood Tribe's 'Natural Growth Technique' and the Water Tribe's 'Wave Tempering Technique', these innovative and unique forging secrets are very interesting. The weapons and armors forged each have their own advantages. After Ji Hao eliminated the bad and retained the good, his The art of refining weapons has made great progress.
Among them, the Wood Clan's natural growth technique is the most wonderful, and it actually has a bit of the charm of heaven and earth in it. In these Wood Clan city-states, the top weapons and armors are grown naturally from various plants. During the growth process, the Wood Clan's weapon refiners continue to inscribe various runes and formations on the plant fruits. Can produce powerful weapons and armor.
Ji Hao secretly learned the natural growth technique and even stole a large number of plant seeds. After he planned to return to the big world, he would plant these seeds in the Yaoshan Territory and use them with the secret weapon refining techniques he learned from Abao. He didn't know how strange things would grow.
On the grassland, Ji Hao also met many messengers of the Holy Spirit. They were running back and forth on the grassland as if their butts were on fire, busy spreading the news of the arrival of the 'evil from outside', and ordering the leaders of all city-states to summon their armies to prepare.
But the main atmosphere of this world is restless and warlike. The leaders of the city-states on the grassland are obviously not as honest and honest as the tribal elders in the Forest of Tranquility. They have just sent the Holy Spirit messengers out of their homes, and then they continue to convene them. The army fought with its sworn enemy.
Even because of the arrival of the 'evil from outside', the leaders of these city-states found better excuses to cover up their killings. All the casualties were attributed to the 'Demon from Outer Heaven', and the city-states on the grassland fought more and more fiercely.
They fought lively, and Ji Hao took advantage of the chaos.
Not only did he steal the secrets of cultivation, forging, and other civilizational crystals from these city-states on the grasslands, he also secretly sneaked into the warehouses of many city-states and stole the rare materials they had hoarded, including those precious demon pills. How many.
Ji Hao was a little numb in the end as to how much these things were worth.
But he calculated that if the demon pills he stole were exchanged for jade coins in Puban, he would probably be able to buy two more lands in Yao Bo Territory.
In a new world, 'opening up wasteland' and 'hunting for treasure', the benefits are really terrible.
After traveling slowly for more than a month, Ji Hao left the endless grassland.
Here, Ji Hao saw the city for the first time. Made of huge rocks and molten iron, it has various city defense facilities. The streets inside the city are scattered like a chessboard, and the city outside the city is criss-crossed by farmland.
The scale of the city here is incomparable to that of Yaoshan City, and some places are still very crude. However, the emergence of the city, the spacious roads connecting the cities, and the traffic of caravans on the roads mean a stable governance system.
After Ji Hao passed through several cities, he secretly captured a few prisoners and tortured them. Sure enough, the concept of a country had appeared here.
In this vast land, unlike the city-state system on the grassland, several large ethnic groups such as the Wood Tribe, Shui Tribe, Fire Tribe, Tu Tribe, and Jin Tribe have established hundreds of countries, large and small.
These countries have a population of more than 10 billion, and a population of about a billion or so. Driven by the Holy Spirit enshrined behind each other, these countries are constantly at war with each other. War breaks out basically every day, and hundreds of countries have no One day to stop.
The national system has come a long way compared to the city-states. The stable national system allows the power of all ethnic groups to become more concentrated and the level of civilization to develop is higher. In other words, the armies of these countries have sharper weapons, greater lethality, stronger armor, and stronger defenses.
Ji Hao saw some strange and large-scale ordnance, and the power of some oversized war equipment made Ji Hao's scalp feel numb.
Unlike the natives in the grasslands and forests, where the Holy Spirit only occasionally descends, in the capitals of these large and small countries, the Holy Spirit is present all year round. Especially for several powerful countries with a population of over 10 billion, their kings are simply the Holy Spirit.
Ji Hao didn't notice this at first. He sneaked into the treasury of a big country and wanted to steal the sheep. As a result, he was surrounded by the king and several important ministers. The beating made Ji Hao run around in a panic, and he finally escaped from the opponent's pursuit.
The opponent's treasury was full of all kinds of rare things. Ji Hao had just taken away three boxes of extremely high-quality demon pills when he was discovered. Then he started beating them up. Ji Hao couldn't let go and has been wandering outside the opponent's capital for the past few days. , planning to find an opportunity to empty out the other party's treasury.
What surprised Ji Hao was that the king of this country said that he broke into the treasury of this country at night as the work of an important minister from a neighboring country. After the two countries exchanged official documents and started a war of words, tens of millions of troops were mobilized on the border of the two countries at the same time, and a national war began with great vigor.
On the front that stretches for nearly ten thousand miles, more than ten million troops are deployed on both sides, and conflicts of various sizes continue to break out.
Within a few days, after a period of tentative attacks between the two countries, a full-scale war finally broke out.
Ji Hao hid in a mountain on the border between the two countries and watched in horror as the soldiers from both sides strangled each other like crazy ants. They were members of the Tu tribe on one side, and members of the Jin tribe on the other. All kinds of powerful weapons were sent to the battlefield, and tens of thousands of soldiers were beaten to pieces every day.
Five days after the war broke out, Ji Hao finally discovered something wrong on the battlefield.
(End of chapter)