The Eastern Continent covered a vast area. Outside the territory of Taixia Country, there were a lot of unpopulated wild lands, which were covered with poisonous animals and mutated beasts. As the population of Taixia Country surged over the past hundreds of years, the territory of Taixia Country was expanding every year. However, no matter how much Taixia Country expanded, there were still large areas of dark grey areas in the north and the west of the territory of Taixia Country outside those barren provinces. These dark grey areas on the map represented the unpopulated areas that had not been explored yet.
There were oceans in the east and the south of Taixia Country. Therefore, the unexplored dark grey areas were mainly in the north and the west of the territory of Taixia Country.
It was said that before the Catastrophe, there was only one continent in this planet, namely Kun 'ang Continent. After the Catastrophe, the Kun' ang Continent was fragmented due to the sharp geological movements. Those fragmented small areas were today's sub-continents. After the Catastrophe, the main body of Kun 'ang Continent was actually the Eastern Continent and the Western Continent. The difference was that the Eastern Continent was the eastern region of Kun' ang Continent while the Western Continent was the western region of Kun 'ang Continent. The two continents were connected on the land. However, there was an unimaginably huge unpopulated area between the two continents. In the middle of the unpopulated area, there was a larger black iron world which was known as the forbidden zone for living beings. Because of the isolation of the black iron world, the Eastern Continent and the Western Continent looked like two continents. The main traffic between the two continents was by sea instead of by land.
Before the first holy war, the black iron world was called the realm of disaster. This place was the place where the piece of God's Star fell and disintegrated over 900 years ago, which caused the catastrophe in this world. It was also the place where the piece of God's Star released its most terrifying power. Even until now, that continent was still a terrifying forbidden zone. Very few knights could survive inside it. It was the only place on the earth's surface that was even more dangerous than those perilous places in the Earth-elements Realm.
Those knights who had entered the Realm of Disaster and survived out of it would always describe it with one word — — terrifying!
The strange power brought by the Star of God did not seem to diminish with the passage of time. In the vast Realm of Calamity, the danger and terror brought by the chaos of the four great elements of earth, water, wind, and fire mixed with the strange power of space and time was unimaginable to ordinary people.
There were super ice storms at absolute zero, void fire pillars which could melt gold and iron, fission cracks which were constantly changing and could crush shadow knights into powder with one change, breathing water rivers which could drown everything, various environments full of mutated toxins and fatal traps composed of invisible space cracks …
Nobody was willing to go to such a place, not even knights.
For this reason, that place was originally called the Realm of Calamity.
However, the Realm of Disasters was the place where the Age of Black Iron began. As for humans, the Age of Black Iron was the beginning of a wholly new era for humans. It was of positive significance. Therefore, after the first holy war, the Realm of Disasters gradually had a neutral and commemorative name — — World of Black Iron in all the official statements of humans.
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Outside the territory of Taixia Country, the border of the World of Black Iron was still over 100,000 miles away from Taixia Country in the west and the north. Within this distance, there were vast wilds which could be developed and utilized by Taixia Country in the future.
According to a preliminary investigation conducted by the Finance Minister's Office of Taixia Country a few years ago, the territory of Taixia Country basically only occupied about 1/2 of the usable land area of Eastern Continent. It meant that a country as large as Taixia Country could be accommodated between the Realm of Disasters and the current territory of Taixia Country.
Therefore, Taixia Country was never worried that its population would explode and there would be no place for people to live. The officials of Taixia Country always encouraged people to reproduce …
Therefore, new cities would appear in Taixia Country every day. In each 10-odd years, those barren provinces on the border of Taixia Country would be promoted to lower provinces after accumulating enough population …
Therefore, Taixia Country would adopt the strategy of "blocking the border". Major clans in Taixia Country would intervene in the trade of border residents and constantly harvest population resources from subcontinents so as to rush the development of barren provinces in Taixia Country …
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However, although that usable land was vast, it could not be accessed everywhere. Being over 6,000 miles away from the barren provinces in Taixia Country, many places would not be inhabited for hundreds of years. Even herbal medicine diggers and powerful animal controllers who wanted to seek for heavenly materials and earthly treasures in the wilds and powerful animal controllers who wanted to seek for magical pets would not easily deepen to over 6,000 miles away from the periphery of the barren provinces. As for the places closer to the border of the World of Black Iron, they were over 100,000 miles away from the border of the World of Black Iron. Usually, only a few knights or clan members of major clans in Taixia Country could enter this region.
Due to the mysterious influence of the piece of God's Star, there were many rare high-level mutated magical beasts in the wilderness over 6,000 miles away from the border of the World of Black Iron. These mutated high-level mutated magical beasts became the targets of many knights of major clans in Taixia Country.
In Black Iron Age, knights were ranked by their cultivation bases on their chakras. It was not necessary to have a mount to be a knight. This point was utterly different than that before the Catastrophe. However, because of the title of knight, some knights always felt that they should have a powerful mount so as to be more eye-catching and accord with the identity and tradition of knights. Therefore, mutated magical beasts above LV 13 were very popular among some knights and a few dissolute disciples of major clans in Taixia Country.
Many mutated beasts above LV 13 could be caught in the hundreds of millions of mountains in the south border of Taixia Country. However, if one really wanted to go to the south border of Taixia Country, besides dealing with mutated beasts, he had to deal with those hostile local aborigines and powerhouses in the hundreds of millions of mountains in the south border of Taixia Country. Those people usually treated the mutated beasts in the hundreds of millions of mountains in the south border of Taixia Country as their own properties or spiritual objects. They were hostile to outsiders who came to hunt mutated beasts in the south border of Black Iron Country. Therefore, many people in Taixia Country with such a demand and ability would choose to catch mutated beasts in the place closest to the World of Black Iron.
Since the catastrophe in Xuanyuan Hill last year, Taixia Country had experienced the catastrophe of bloody figures. As a result, very few airboats were interested in catching mutated beasts here; especially in June this year, when the catastrophe of bloody figures had not been pacified and the summer crops across Taixia Country suffered a grain disaster, few airboats were interested in catching mutated beasts here. However, playboys and people who didn't care about worldly affairs were everywhere in Taixia Country. Of course, there were such people in such a large place as Taixia Country. These people were born with golden spoons in their mouths. In their eyes, bloody figures and grain disaster didn't seem to happen in their world at all.
At the beginning of July, a red airboat longer than 500 m was slowly moving over 2,000 miles away from Black Iron World.
On the ground, weeds that were taller than a person were rolling like waves. Six warriors, each of them at level 13, were shuttling through the lush weeds like arrows …
These six warriors were all wearing excellent runic leather armors, and each of them was holding a variety of weapons as they ran. One of them was holding a special heavy crossbow, another was holding a shield, and there were even some who were holding a sword …
More than a hundred meters in front of these warriors, a two-meter-long, majestic figure with a fiery red mane was also fleeing in the bushes.
It was a LV 13 mutated beast — — wind lion.
In the fight with the 6 human fighters just now, the LV 13 mutated beast had been injured. Therefore, it couldn't move fast. Even so, the wind lion's speed was still 3 times faster than that of common galloping horses. As it flashed in the weeds, it looked like a red wind.
As the wind lion escaped, its legs were covered with blood stains. From time to time, it would roar out of fury, revealing the sadness and despair of the king of the prairie.
The signal lights on the airboat flickered from time to time, reminding those fighters of the whereabouts of wind lions and the possible dangers that they might encounter.
Those fighters cooperated with each other tacitly and moved fast. With the warning of the signal light on the airboat, when the wind lion changed its direction, it had been surrounded by 6 fighters in an open land which was only surrounded by a few shrubs only after running over 10 miles …
"Net …" The head of the 6 fighters uttered in a low voice.
At a distance of more than 50 meters, the soldiers who were running with heavy crossbows aimed at the Wind Lion and pulled the trigger at the same time.
The heavy crossbow shot out with a whistling sound. The blunt arrowheads exploded in midair and turned into a net that covered the Wind Lion, blocking its three directions.
"Roar …" The Wind Lion suddenly sped up and roared. It bared its fangs and claws and rushed in the direction where there were no arrows.
"Shield …"
It seemed that the two fighters with shields had long predicted that the wind lion would rush out from this direction. They rushed forward and pushed the wind lion back with their shields.
The shields were rune shields which had the effect of dizziness. After being pushed back by the two shields, although the wind lion didn't become dizzy at once, it slowed down a bit. At this moment, the three heavy crossbows had been pulled and shot towards the wind lion once again.
This time, the wind lion was not as lucky as the first time. It was caught by two of the three nets at once. It fell down to the ground at once. Before it struggled for a while, the fighter who had shouted twice had charged at it and pierced a long, thin, black, sharp needle into the wind lion's neck. After struggling for a short while, the wind lion became still …
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