Building a sect from scratch

The Nabahai tribe is the largest and most populous tribe among the surviving tribes in Tiangui Mountain.

According to Dai Min, the patriarch of the Nabahai tribe, who is also the only monk over a thousand years old living in Tiangui Mountain, there are only forty-three tribes surviving in the entire Tiangui Mountain imprisoned by the rift valley, including the small tribes attached to the big tribes - but this is the statistics three years ago, and it is hard to say how many there are now.

Don't listen to these forty-three tribes. It sounds like there are a lot of them compared to the three tribes of Hubuyu, Quanrong and Sushen that are talked about outside, but in fact, the two are completely different concepts.

Liuzhou is a place with bitter cold. Its initial civilization form is quite similar to the North Asian civilization form on the blue planet, such as nomadic and forest hunting.

The harsh living environment makes the "bloody sacrifice" custom in this place more intense. As early as when the Sword Sect was still prosperous, the mortal tribes in this place were popular with each other after plundering and killing all the people of the other tribe for sacrifice.

Of course, this does not mean that the people in this place are born particularly cruel, but because many customs and cultures, and even civilization forms, are closely related to geographical features and climate.

Compared with rich places such as Zhongzhou where people can eat for a lifetime by lying down and finding a few trees and a piece of land, the grain output of Liuzhou is almost comparable to that of the ancient Blue Star. In addition, there are abundant minerals here, and the soil is not suitable for farming, so the tribes of mortals can often only survive by plundering each other.

This survival mode can not only consume excess population, but also obtain more food, and has become the main form of civilization in Liuzhou for thousands of years.

As for the reason for "massacre", it is essentially a deterrent, a way to prove force to the outside world, but it is interpreted as culture in the customs of Liuzhou. In the legends of Liuzhou, if Liuzhou people are massacred, their souls will be trapped in the Nine Netherworld and tortured. Only by sky burial can the souls return to the Guixu Sea and obtain eternal peace.

This form of civilization that respects force has led to Liuzhou becoming almost a large-scale breeding ground for poisonous insects. The Liuzhou tribes that were not trapped in the rift valley could also exchange materials and trade with the forces and sects of the other ten continents and three islands. The larger tribes gradually developed by selling some specialties and minerals, and annexed those small tribes. Gradually, the entire Liuzhou formed the current three-legged situation.

Of course, this "three-legged tripod" is a very loose "three-legged". For example, the most famous Quanrong clan, their tribe occupied the grassland with abundant water and grass, and their civilization also evolved the concept of "king's tent". There are dozens of "small king's tents" or "small tribes" attached to the "king's tent". However, although these tribes attached to the king's tent of the Quanrong clan also called themselves the Quanrong clan, they actually called each other by the names of the people who actually controlled each fact. For example, the Bulaca tent was a tribe led by a small patriarch named "Bulaca".

Although the Hubuyu clan and the Sushen clan were slightly different from the Quanrong clan in terms of civilization, after all, the territories they occupied were mainly forests and mountains, and their eating habits were different from those of the Quanrong clan, which was mainly grasslands, but they were roughly the same. They were all relatively loose large tribes composed of many small tribes.

In comparison, the tribes in Tiangui Mountain were much more miserable. The Hubuyu clan could still obtain food by trading with other forces, but the Nabahai tribe had no way to do so. Even according to Dai Min's recollection, when the incident occurred, all the flowers, plants and trees in the Tiangui Mountain quickly withered within half a month, and the soil turned red, which could not be planted. The red fog made everyone feel gloomy and irritable, and those monks who became monsters would attack everyone indiscriminately.

Those days were really hard to endure. People died every day. Countless people did not give up and wanted to escape from this land of divine punishment, but all those who tried to cross the rift also sounded the alarm for others at the cost of their lives.

That's right, Dai Min called this land trapped by the rift valley, which is called "North Pole Flow Continent" outside, "the land of divine punishment."

"If the monks of the Sword Sect have all become monsters...how did you survive?"

The Jade Emperor sat in the "meeting house" of the Nabahai tribe, listened to Dai Min's story for a long time, and asked the question in his heart.

He hesitated and said tactfully: "It's hard for mortals...to compete with monks, right? What's more, the Sword Sect has a sword god..."

"Yes, at the beginning, they couldn't survive at all, and all the people were passively waiting to be killed or turned into food."

Dai Min's expression was a little trance, and his tone was very calm.

Wu Ke, who was standing by, was so frightened that he said, "Become food!?"

Dai Min sighed leisurely, "The flowers and trees have all withered, the birds and beasts have no food, and they have all starved to death. These livestock are gone, so they can only eat people."

The Jade Emperor frowned, unable to imagine what Dai Min said, "But, but haven't the monks been fasting for a long time!?"

However, the next second, Dai Min's words made the Jade Emperor almost unable to control his anger.

"Yes, they don't need food to survive, but they need food to practice."

"Beep——"

The Jade Emperor cursed, but unfortunately, it was muted by the system.

However, this little episode did not affect Dai Min's storytelling. He continued slowly, "Later, some monks rebelled against the Sword Sect. They believed that eating people to practice was no different from demons, so they could not accept this kind of thing."

Wu Ke couldn't wait to ask: "What happened next? What happened to the Sword God?"

Dai Min smiled bitterly and said: "The Sword God led the rebellion against the Sword Sect."

Wu Ke shouted in disbelief: "How is this possible!? If the Sword God opposed cannibalism, with his absolute strength, no Sword Sect cultivator could resist!"

The Jade Emperor retorted in a deep voice: "No, not necessarily. The Sword Sect not only has the Sword God, but also the twelve Sword Maidens who have cultivated into immortal bodies. I remember that Hong Gu seemed to be a golden immortal? If they all attacked the Sword God, the Sword God might not be able to escape unscathed."

"That's right," Dai Min nodded slightly, confirming the Jade Emperor's guess: "Many Sword Sect immortals and cultivators headed by the twelve Sword Maidens believe that only by practicing hard and proving the truth can they hope to leave here, but the Sword God disagrees."

Dai Min paused and looked at the two people with rosy and plump cheeks. A trace of envy flashed in his eyes, but soon returned to a pool of stagnant water.

He whispered: "The Sword God said that this is divine punishment and no one can escape." (End of this chapter)