Chapter 744 - 224: Night Talk in the City of No Return
Saying this, the person proceeded to introduce some matters of the City of No Return to Chen Yan.
The City of No Return is a major city in the Southern Border—though not the largest, it ranks among the top.
The city governance of this Domain Realm is much the same, each city governs one area, each city has a government office responsible for management.
The city is divided into inner and outer, separating immortals and mortals.
However, compared to West Platform City, the City of No Return has some differences.
Other cities merely separate immortals and mortals, with cultivators residing in the inner city, and mortals living in the outer city (mortal city).
But the City of No Return is divided into three parts.
Besides the inner city and outer city, the City of No Return has another area, which is the [Demon City], a district within the city where local demon cultivators dwell.
However, among demon cultivators, there is no concept of immortals and mortals—among the Human Race, even mortals are at least advanced beings with intelligence.
But this concept does not exist for the Demon Race.
Demon cultivators are undoubtedly advanced beings, on par with cultivators.
But a Demon Race that has not yet begun cultivation... technically doesn’t exist.
A Demon Race that hasn’t started cultivation is actually just an animal without intelligence!
Rather than calling them demons, it is better to call them beasts.
The Southern Border is vast, twice as large as the Western Border.
And the entire Southern Border is divided and ruled by three powers.
The first is naturally the territory of the Human Race, where cities in this area, like West Platform City, are occupied and governed by humans.
However, the territory of the Human Race in the Southern Border is actually the smallest.
The territory covering the largest area is occupied by the Demon Race.
The territory of the Demon Race in the Southern Border stretches over ten thousand miles, with vast forests, numerous mountains, rivers, and lakes. It is said that there are no less than several thousand mountain ranges and peaks. And even several ancestral lands of the Demon Race are within the territory of the Southern Border’s Demon Race.
The so-called ancestral land of the Demon Race is the homeland of demon tribes that have produced a Saint Tier Venerable.
The Demon Race nominally respects the Domain Immortal Platform, obeying the Immortal Platform’s rule, but usually does not interact much with the Human Race, nor do they exchange goods. Only a few noble families that have produced Venerable Saints are allowed into the Demon Race’s territory for mutual exchange and trade.
Except for these, other cultivators are generally unwilling to enter the Demon Race’s territory.
Besides the Human Race and the Demon Race, the other major power headquartered in the Southern Border is... the Ghost Race!
"The Southern Border has the ghost domain of the Ghost Race, with tribes numbering in the millions. There are eighteen prefecture cities set up, with no government offices in the city, but instead a palace of the dead is established, each city has a palace of the dead governed by a Yama.
Similar to the Demon Race, the Ghost Race usually does not like to interact with the outside world and only symbolically obeys the rule of the Immortal Platform in the Domain Realm.
Historically, the Ghost Race has been relatively peaceful with humans, but has a deep-seated enmity with the Demon Race. Although they both belong to the myriad beings of the Domain Realm and obey the Immortal Platform, there have been many private conflicts between them.
In recent years, it is said that the ancestral Venerable of the Ghost Race has been in seclusion, pondering the Heavenly Dao, and hasn’t issued a decree for many years. Without the protection of the ancestral Venerable, the Ghost Race has been bullied by the Demon Race, and some of the ghost domain’s territory has been encroached upon by the Demon Race over the decades."
Here, the crew member whispered, "You inquired about the City of No Return, it originally belonged to the Ghost Race, but was later seized by the Demon Race.
When the Immortal Platform learned of this, they issued a decree, ordering the Demon Race to return the City of No Return to the Ghost Race. However, the world is vast and remote, and although the decree has been issued, the Demon Race’s nature is wild, and they may not comply, even if they do, it would be with great reluctance.
Thus, as of now, only half of the City of No Return has been returned by the Demon Race to the Ghost Race, the other half remains in the hands of the Demon Race.
Currently, the City of No Return is divided into eastern and western cities.
The eastern city belongs to the Ghost Race, governed by a Yama in the palace of the dead, while the western city is occupied by a demon king from the Demon Race.
Now in the City of No Return, there is East Ghost and West Demon, with no territory of the Human Race. There are few human cultivators in the city, and they merely depend on the Demon Race or the Ghost Race."