“Come, one more… one more, drink…” Lan Xing murmured while lying on the table and holding the empty bowl in her hand. Then, in mere seconds, she started snoring.
“One more? In your current state, you wouldn’t even realize if I took advantage of you now. More my ass.” Bai Yang raised his brows and said.
Of course, he was just saying, he wouldn’t have the audacity to do anything to the young lady.
Why so?
Other than the fact that the young lady herself was a strong martial artist, her true identity was also not ordinary.
She was the one and only young miss of the De Yang Town’s Lan Family. She had five elder brothers and was the most treasured lady of the whole family. Harming even a single hair of hers and Bai Yang could say bye-bye to this world to hide on Earth forever.
De Yang Town had close to 600,000 residents, and only a handful would dare to go against her. Bai Yang surely wasn’t one of those in the list.
Speaking of De Yang Town, there were a few parties that one should be wary about.
First, there was the Niu Family that controlled most of the entertainment facilities in De Yang Town, such as the brothels and gambling houses.
Other than that, the Niu Family also controlled most of the hooligans and gangsters on the streets as well as profiting from restaurants, wine houses, and usurious loans.
Secondly, there was the young miss Lan Xing’s Lan Family.
The Lan Family was also a leading force in the De Yang Town. Most of its businesses were related to the sales of armories, medicinal herbs, and foods and grains. The Lan Family owned most of the lands outside of De Yang Town and had more than 100 thousand farmers working for them!
Lastly, it was the Che Family. The biggest business that the Che Family owns was the trades with the villagers in the Lost Forest. But other than that, the Che Family also had businesses across almost every sector, just that most of its businesses were not as successful as the Niu Family and Lan Family. Even so, the Che Family still added up to be a party strong enough to stand on par with the other two families, if not, even a little stronger than the two.
However, as the other two families were not happy with Che Family’s involvement in their respective business sectors, they had been suppressing the Che Family’s businesses. Therefore, although Che Family owned various businesses, it was stymied from reaching the top.
For the many years that the three families lived in De Yang Town, no single family managed to stand above and defeat the other two.
That being said, the strongest and most fearsome party in De Yang Town still wasn’t any of the three families.
The most fearsome party was of course, the feudal official. No matter how strong a party could be, it could never be as powerful as the feudal official. Any party that dared to defy or even go against the government’s will would be reduced to ashes in a single second…
All in all, Bai Yang wouldn’t dare to lay a single finger on the most treasured young lady of De Yang Town’s Lan Family. He was already more than happy to have Xiao Mao by his side, not to mention that Xiao Mao was not at all inferior to her, so why take the risk?
After nearly three hours of ‘friendly conversation’ where Bai Yang served her bowl after bowl of wine in between, the young lady finally couldn’t hold it anymore and fell asleep. Bai Yang was very satisfied with the conversation as he finally got the answers he has been looking for.
“No one touches her. Let her sleep.” Bai Yang warned the villagers around.
Although she was harmless now, she could not be touched.
Bai Yang walked to the side and took out the green metal piece he plundered from the Che Family’s young martial artist. The conversation with Lan Xing has bombarded him with too much information, he needed some time to sort things out.
According to her, this piece of green metal was the smallest unit of this country’s currency. It could afford him a piece of scone.
But due to the lack of comparison, Bai Yang was unable to judge the conversion rate of the currency here to the currencies on Earth.
After all, Bai Yang didn’t even know what a scone looked like here in this world.
The country they were in used the decimal number system for its currency. Ten green metal pieces convert to a red one, and ten red ones convert to a blue one.
And of course, the people here didn’t go around with boxes of metal pieces with them. They also had the banks and from what was described to him, their banking system was quite advanced as well. Bai Yang thought he should pay them a visit and open his eyes whenever he could.
So the dead Che guy only had like less than a thousand ‘dollars’ with him? What a poor guy, and you still call yourself a martial artist? Even I have more than a billion in my bank.
Bai Yang roasted the dead Che Nian in his heart from the standpoint of a rich man to the poor dude.
The country they lived in now was known as the Chen Kingdom. It was huge and accommodated a lot of people. The young lady wasn’t able to clearly state just how big the Chen Kingdom was in her drunk state. But perhaps, she still wouldn’t be able to even when she was sober.
The Chen Kingdom delineated its territory into a few levels of administrative divisions. From the biggest, there was the prefecture, then commandery, then county, town, and finally village. Of course, these were only terms converted to Earth’s language based on Bai Yang’s understanding.
The whole kingdom had seven prefectures with each prefecture had 10 to 13 commanderies, with countless more counties, towns, and villages.
Gosh, if De Yang Town is only one of the many common towns in this country, then just how huge is this Chen Kingdom? Just how many people did the Chen Kingdom have? More than a hundred billion? But even so, the Chen Kingdom is only one of the smallest countries in this world!
Bai Yang was dumbfounded when he learned this particular bit of information.
He just couldn’t imagine how vast this world was, how many people were living in this world. If a random “small” country here was already a few times bigger than the total population on Earth, what about the whole world…
Martial Dao cultivated one’s body strength, martial arts, and willpower. What’s that exactly? Only those who had successfully cultivated the Blood Qi was considered a true martial artist. The rest of the ordinary martial practitioners were just weaklings? How does one cultivate the Blood Qi? And then there’s the Divine Dao, I can’t even understand a single word she explained about it.
Bai Yang scratched his head and thought, but he couldn’t understand what exactly the Divine Dao really was.
There was no such thing as science and technology in this world, but only the cultivation of Martial Dao and Divine Dao.
To give an analogy, the Martial Dao was similar to the farmers back on Earth. Pretty much anyone could be one. For example, the villagers in the Gedo Village could also be said as “martial practitioners”, but they were at the lowest level. They didn’t have any proper way of cultivating and it was almost impossible for them to cultivate the Blood Qi, let alone becoming a true Martial Dao cultivator.
From Lan Xing’s explanation, there were different levels of martial artists, God knows what exactly were the terminologies.
On the other hand, the Divine Dao cultivators could be taken similarly to the scientists on Earth, at least that’s the closest description Bai Yang could provide. All in all, the Divine Dao cultivators were high and honorable and also incredibly mysterious.
In conclusion, Bai Yang himself was not sure what exactly Martial Dao and Divine Dao were. The young lady was also quite unsure of it herself when she was explaining them to Bai Yang.
Whatever, this is definitely a world of fantasy! What the heck man! I wonder if an atomic bomb can kill the powerful natives here? But even if the atomic bomb can, I wouldn’t be able to survive the blast myself too!
Bai Yang scratched his head sadly while at the same time, he grew even more curious about the true nature of this world. He felt the urge to capture some of the powerful cultivators and research them. Can they come back to life after death? Are they immortals? Can they live eternally? Can they destroy a mountain and move seas in a wave of hand?
But what puzzled Bai Yang the most was in this world of fantasy, how the heck did these countries manage all those powerful cultivators?
He wracked his head thinking about all these problems but was never able to figure it out!
One thing he was sure of was that the countries must have a force strong enough to deter the powerful cultivators from doing whatever they wanted.
Most interestingly, this world actually had something like ancient China’s imperial examination. There were two kinds of imperial examination, one for the martial artists and the other for the scholars.
On top of that, the generally harmless scholars in this world were more highly respected and the more powerful Martial Dao cultivators often only serve as combatants and fighters for the scholars. This, Bai Yang couldn’t even understand.
How the heck did these scholars make the Martial Dao cultivators bow their heads to them?
So effing strange, so effing fantastical!
Bai Yang could only warp up everything with this one sentence.
“Young master, young master, Young Master Lan has awakened…”
Bai Yang was pulled back from his thoughts by Xiao Mao’s call.
“What? Didn’t she just fall asleep not long ago?” Bai Yang was puzzled. He turned around and saw Lan Xing rubbing her head and waking up.
“Young Master, you’ve been in a trance for a long time already. The sun’s almost set already.” Xiao Mao winked her eyes and replied.
Bai Yang couldn’t even react for a second, he quietly took out his phone and checked the time. Oh gosh, I’ve been in my thoughts for almost eight hours since the conversation with young lady Lan?
“Oh… where am I?” Lan Xing was holding her head as she looked around and murmured.
Fantastic, this little girl just had an alcohol blackout and can’t remember anything at all…