Ji Hao left the Silent Forest, and at the same time, got rid of over ten holy spirits.
On the grassland outside the forest, large numbers of green-kind and water-kind people lived. Their civilization was much stronger than that of the local people living in the forest. While those local people living in the forest were still living a primitive life, living on the grassland people had already opened up large numbers of farmlands and developed a farming civilization.
With a stable source of food and fertile land that couldn't be taken away, the natives of the grassland built their own permanent residences.
Ji Hao walked and asked around. These local people on the grassland had already formed a country, with a power structure similar to a federation of cities. Every settlement had its own army. Professional armies gave them an advantage when fighting against the local people living in the forest.
The emergence of professional armies also made the fights between these settlements more bloody, and the death rate was higher. At the same time, their armaments were more powerful, the workmanship was better, and the forging techniques used were also more advanced.
Ji Hao sneaked into at least a hundred forging workshops in those cities and learned quite a few secret forging skills from local people.
The 'natural growth magic' of the green-kind and the 'wave-strengthening magic' of the water-kind, these unique forging skills were quite interesting. The weapons and armors forged by these skills all had their own advantages. After Ji Hao removed the impurities and retained the impurities, his tool-forging skills had improved largely again.
Among all of these, the 'natural growth magic' of the green-kind was the most magical. It even seemed to be created by nature itself. In these cities, top-grade weapons and armors were all grown naturally from all kinds of plants. During the process of growth, Green Kind treasure forgers would carve all kinds of spell symbols and magic formations on the fruits of plants, and thus, powerful weapons and armors would be produced.
Ji Hao secretly learned the 'natural growth magic' and stole a large number of plant seeds. He planned to plant these seeds in Yao Mountain territory after he returned to the big world. With the secret tool-forging skills he learned from Po, he wondered what kind of weird things could grow from these seeds.
On the grassland, Ji Hao ran into quite a few holy spirit messengers as well. They had been rushing around on the grassland as if their butts were on fire, trying to spread the news about the arrival of outer space monsters, and ordered the leaders of all cities to gather their armies and prepare for battle.
However, the main atmosphere of this world was restless and belligerent. The leaders of the cities in the grassland were obviously not as simple and honest as the tribal elders in the Tranquil Forest. After sending off the Holy Spirit Emissaries, they immediately gathered their armies to fight against their sworn enemies.
Because of the arrival of the 'extraterrestrial demons', the leaders of these cities found a better excuse to cover up their massacre. All the casualties were put on the heads of the 'outer space devils'. Cities of different sizes on the grassland began to fight more and more fiercely.
They were fighting fiercely, and Ji Hao took advantage of the chaos.
Not only did he steal the secret cultivation methods, forging methods, and other civilization crystals of these big and small city-states on the prairie, but he also sneaked into the storehouses of many city-states and stole many of their precious materials, including those precious monster cores.
By the end, Ji Hao didn't even know how much those things were worth.
However, he did a rough calculation and found that if he exchanged those stolen monster cores into jade coins in Pu Ban City, he might be able to buy two more pieces of Earl Yao's territory.
'Exploring' and 'treasure-hunting' in a new world was way too profitable.
Unhurriedly moving forward for around a month, Ji Hao finally left the boundless grassland.
In this place, Ji Hao saw a city for the first time. These cities were cast from giant rocks and molten iron, with all kinds of defensive facilities. Inside the cities, the streets were scattered like a chessboard, while outside the cities, farmlands were crisscrossed.
The scale of the cities in this area couldn't compare with that of Yao Mountain City, and some areas seemed to be rather rough. However, the cities were connected to each other by broad roads, on which caravans came and went. This meant that a stable governing system had been established.
Ji Hao passed by a few cities, sneakily captured a few captives and interrogated them. As he thought, the concept of a country had already emerged in these cities.
In this vast area, different from the city-states on the grassland, the green-kind, water-kind, fire-kind, earth-kind, gold-kind and a few other large clans had already built over a hundred different sized countries in this vast area.
The population of these countries was over ten billion, while the population of the smaller ones was around a billion. Driven by the holy spirits they worshiped, wars had been going on between these countries. Basically, wars would break out every single day. Over a hundred countries had never stopped for a single day.
Compared to city-states, the system of a country was much more advanced. The stable system of a country allowed the powers of all clans to be more concentrated, and the development of a civilization had reached a higher level. In other words, the armies of these countries had sharper weapons and greater lethality. Their armors were also more sturdy and had greater defensive capabilities.
Ji Hao saw some oddly shaped large-scale armaments. Some extra-large armaments were so powerful that even Ji Hao's scalp numbed.
Different from local people living in forests and grasslands, holy spirits would occasionally descend from those places. But in the capitals of these countries, holy spirits would be guarding them all year round. Especially for the few top-grade large countries, which had over ten billion populations, the emperors of these countries were holy spirits.
At first, Ji Hao didn't notice this. He sneaked into the national treasury of a powerful country and tried to steal something, but ended up being beaten up by the emperor and a few senior ministers of the country. Ji Hao was beaten so badly that he covered his head with his hands and fled like a rat. Finally, he managed to get rid of them.
All kinds of rare and precious treasures were piled up like mountains in the national treasury. Ji Hao had only taken three boxes of spirit Dans with extremely high quality before he was discovered, then started a crazy round of beating. Ji Hao couldn't let this go. Therefore, he had been wandering around outside the capital of the country, planning to find a chance to empty the national treasury.
What surprised Ji Hao the most was that the king of this country had accused him of breaking into the national treasury of this country, and accused him of being an important minister of a neighboring country. The two countries sent a series of official documents to each other and started a war of words. Then, tens of millions of warriors were gathered on the border of the two countries, and a war between two countries started.
On the battlefront that extended for nearly ten-thousand miles, tens of millions of warriors had been mobilizing on both sides, and different sized conflicts had been breaking out from time to time.
Within a couple of days, the two countries launched tentative attacks against each other for a while, and finally, a full-scale war broke out.
Ji Hao hid in a mountain on the border of the two countries, watching warriors from both sides killing each other like crazy ants in shock. On one side were earth-kind people, while on the other side were gold-kind people. All kinds of powerful armaments were sent to the battlefields, and every day, tens of thousands of warriors would be crushed.
Five days after the war broke out, Ji Hao finally found something wrong on the battlefields.
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