After watching Fairy Lena Ling leave, Ian Song locked the canteen door and headed back to his hut. With more and more Jade Maiden Sect disciples coming to eat, Ian picked up a lot of new information about this world just by listening to their chatter.
Unlike Second Fool, who spent more than a decade in the Jade Maiden Sect but still knew very little, Ian wasn’t surprised—especially considering how badly his predecessor was cheated by those vegetable and meat vendors.
The Jade Maiden Sect is located within the Tang Dynasty.
The largest cultivation sect in the Tang Dynasty is the Prime One Church, which is also the state religion. As for the Jade Maiden Sect, it’s just a third-rate cultivation sect within the Tang Dynasty.
So how big is the Tang Dynasty?
It’s several times larger than the total area of Earth.
As for administrative divisions, from top to bottom they are: province (zhou), commandery (jun), county (xian), town (zhen), and village (cun).
The Jade Maiden Sect is situated in Yozhou Province, Yuyang Commandery, Hwangvale County of the Tang Dynasty.
In all of Hwangvale County, the Jade Maiden Sect is the only immortal-cultivation sect. The Four Beasts Sect, which Fairy Lena Ling wanted Ian Song to join, is located in Fuyang County. Since the Jade Maiden Sect doesn’t accept male disciples, local boys usually choose the Four Beasts Sect as their master. Because of this, relations between the Jade Maiden Sect and the Four Beasts Sect are fairly good.
Whether there are other countries outside the Tang Dynasty, or how big this world truly is—those are things the Jade Maiden Sect’s disciples never discuss, and Ian Song has no way of knowing.
As for the ordinary people in town, their knowledge is even more limited, so if Ian wants to learn the full truth about this world, he’ll have to figure it out slowly on his own.
Besides that, Ian Song also learned something rather shocking: true Immortals really do exist in this world.
For example, the Prime One Church actually has an Immortal overseeing it.
Because the Prime One Church is the Tang Dynasty’s state religion, the empire has managed to thrive for thousands of years since its founding.
In the last fantasy world, the strongest beings were Martial Gods, equivalent to cultivators at the Soul Formation stage.
This is another Silver World, but it actually has Immortals—clearly, this Silver World is far more dangerous than the last.
Ian Song, whose mid-Nascent Soul cultivation let him dominate both the main world and the previous fantasy world, is only considered an ordinary expert here. After all, even a third-rate sect like the Jade Maiden Sect has multiple Golden Core experts.
The first-generation disciples of the Jade Maiden Sect are all in seclusion, but they can’t escape Ian Song’s spiritual sense. Deep within the sect, there are six Golden Core experts.
Refocusing his mind, Ian Song considered whether it was time to start the second phase of his plan.
Now that the canteen’s food is famous throughout the Jade Maiden Sect, Ian’s first phase is complete. But that’s not enough—he needs to make the sect truly unwilling to let him go.