Inside the office, Liu Yi was bewildered when she heard her husband. She couldn't pull herself together for a while. Since her husband rarely said something like that, Liu Yi wasn't prepared for it.
After she reacted, how could Liu Yi disagree? To her, there was nothing more important than being with Lu An. Even though she was good at strategizing, she still nodded. "Okay!"
Lu An looked at his wife happily. He held her hand, and the two of them disappeared from the office in just a blink of an eye.
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The Eight Ancient Continent, the human living area.
After the three-party alliance, the strange beasts wouldn't attack humans anymore. Moreover, if they sent humans to the human living area, they would be rewarded. That was why the human population in the human living area was increasing. It was much better than what Lu An had imagined.
If the Eight Ancient Continent was divided into two halves, the human living area would be located in the center of the east. Originally, Sengoku had planned to build the eastern part of the continent near the sea. That way, they could go to the sea to fish, and the transportation would be more convenient. However, the problem was that there were frequent earthquakes in the sea. From time to time, tsunamis would sweep over the border, which was too dangerous. The center of the east was the permanent residence of Sengoku during its eighty million years of rule. There were many rivers flowing through it, which made it a good place to live and reproduce.
The human living area was huge, as big as an empire. However, according to the statistics, the human population wasn't even as big as a small country. The total population was less than ten million. Before the strange beasts invaded the Eight Ancient Continent, the human population was more than ten billion, or even more than one hundred billion.
With less than ten million people, it wouldn't even be enough to cover the size of an empire. In fact, it wouldn't even cover the size of a small country. No matter what, humans were a social race. The three-party alliance had scattered the ten million people to twenty different big cities in the human living area. Each city had around five hundred thousand people. It was to prevent the Spirit Clan from launching a surprise attack and destroying the human world.
At this moment, in one of the cities, a man and a woman were walking on the street. They were Lu An and Liu Yi.
That's right. Lu An wanted to relax in the human world so that he could forget about cultivating. Furthermore, he hadn't been to a human city for a long time. Perhaps he would gain new insights here.
Among the seven girls, Lu An liked to be with Yao Yao, Liu Yi, and Beauty Yang the most. It wasn't because he spent the most time with the three women, but because he felt the most comfortable with them. Yao Yao's personality was gentle, Liu Yi liked to tease, and Beauty Yang was very obedient to his words. She was a listener. Lu An felt very relaxed when he was with the three girls, but when he was walking on the streets of this city with Liu Yi, Lu An felt like he was back in Ice and Fire City.
It was as if everything had returned to the beginning, when he was still a student, a Celestial. Thinking back to the time back then, although there seemed to be a lot of trouble, compared to the trouble now, it was a world of difference.
The days in Meteor Trail City were his earliest days.
Do you miss it?
He did miss it a little.
Do you want to go back?
No, Lu An did not want to go back at all.
Lu An had always been a person who looked forward. He was too weak in the academy, and the so-called happiness was too cheap. That kind of happiness was born under the protection and control of others. It did not truly belong to him. The happiness that could be controlled by his own heart was true happiness.
Although the hardships now were greater, he had gained far more than back then. He had Fu Yu, the seven girls, and was getting closer and closer to his revenge. Being able to control everything in his own hands was what he wanted.
Lu An and Liu Yi were not wearing their veil hats. After all, although most of the people in the headquarters of the three-way alliance had seen the two of them, they were all in the Heaven Tier. The survivors in these cities had not seen the two of them before. Moreover, both Lu An and Liu Yi had enough strength to protect themselves in the city. Lu An did not want to wrong Liu Yi to wear her veil hat all the time. Beauty was not a sin, and there was no need to hide it.
Ordinary clothes were not suitable for the Heaven Tier. That was because the aura released by the Heaven Tier was too strong. The slightest carelessness would cause ordinary clothes to shatter, not to mention in battle. The slightest release of power would cause clothes to be destroyed. Because of this, the quality of clothes worn by people of different tiers was different. The materials used were also different. They would only wear clothes of the same tier or higher than their own. The Heaven Tier would naturally wear the clothes of the Heaven Tier. Because of this, the quality of their clothes was different from that of others in the city. This was not a deliberate show of wealth; it was the only way. Clothes made of this level of material could not even be deliberately made old.
Because of this, looking at the clothes of the two of them, although many people peeked at Liu Yi's beauty, they did not dare to do anything.
The two of them walked on the street. Even for Liu Yi, it was the first time she had come to the city directly. It was not that she had never been here before, but it was only in the early days of the city's construction. She had observed the city from above. The construction and planning of the city did not require her to manage it personally. Moreover, there were not many people in the city back then. It was a desolate place with little vitality, which was far from what it was now.
Now, the city with a population of nearly 500,000 was very prosperous. There were no walls in the city. Because of this, people could build as many houses as they wanted, but they had to ensure that every house was occupied. Every family had their own house, and there was no glory or halo of the past. Everyone was equal and had to start over.
More importantly, there were no slaves.
This was not Lu An's request. Before the construction of the city, Lu An had already planned to make this request to Sengoku. However, during the meeting, there was no need for him to say anything. The Divine Master had taken the initiative to set this rule.
Abolition of slaves, equality for all.
Sengoku, which had always respected life, did not have any slaves during its 80 million years of rule. When the Divine Master had set this rule, Lu An's eyes had instantly turned red. He had even closed his eyes to hold back his tears, not letting others see his emotions.
Finally, it had come to this.
During that meeting, no one understood the bitterness better than him. He had been a slave since he was young. He had seen the pain and death of countless slaves with his own eyes. Only then did he know what slaves had gone through and how lowly they were.
Walking in a city without slaves made Lu An very happy. Although no one would dare to do anything to him even if he revealed his past 12 years as a slave, and he no longer had the inferiority of his former slave status, he was still very happy to see the changes in the human system.
It had to be said that humans recovered very quickly. Less than five months had passed since the establishment of the human city, but now the city was full of dazzling things, as if it had returned to its original state. If one had not experienced war, one would not even be able to tell the difference between the city and the past.
However, there were some differences. At least half of the people in the city were Heavenly Masters. After all, the Heavenly Masters had a higher chance of surviving the invasion of the strange beasts. Among those who were not Heavenly Masters, those who survived were basically young and middle-aged.
Under the leadership of Sengoku, they hoped that the humans could reproduce more. After all, the population was the guarantee of a race's development. Therefore, reproduction was encouraged, and the corresponding rewards were given. As there were many Heavenly Masters in the city, Sengoku sent 28 sects to each city to prevent them from causing trouble, to maintain order. After all, the war only required Celestial Beings, and the rest of the sects also had to contribute.
Not only that, but Sengoku also led the establishment of at least three academies in each city, so that the Heavenly Masters in the city could have something to do. They could cultivate with each other, and they could also teach the civilians. Sengoku did not require the sects to teach their secret techniques or Heavenly Skills to outsiders, but every sect was required to go to the academies regularly for guidance. Of course, Sengoku and the Spreading Star Clan would do the same, but they would go to the sects to learn from each other. There were elders and disciples in the sects who could become Celestial Beings in the future, so these people could get used to the methods and difficulties of fighting with extreme attributes in advance.
Because of the war, the martial atmosphere in the city was unprecedentedly high. Even the civilians who could not become Heavenly Masters were constantly training their strength and strengthening their bodies. In the face of danger, the people finally realized the difficulty of survival, and they kept working hard. However, if the people could keep doing this, perhaps even if the Hachiko clan went into hiding, the strange beasts would not dare to invade.
They were born in hardship, and they died in peace. The humans under the protection of the Hachiko clan were living too comfortably, and they had completely lost the will to fight.
Lu An thought as he walked, and he kept chatting with Liu Yi. At that moment, the two of them suddenly stopped. That was because there was a huge academy on the left side of the street.
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