Transmigrating Through the Heavens: Starting with the Silly Pillar of the Courtyard

Chapter 348 Thirteen Transmigrations (High-Martial Arts World)

The Great Xia Kingdom is one of the five superpowers on the Hanyun Continent, with a population of over one billion.

The other four superpowers are the Qin, Zhao, Yan, and Qi states.

Five superpowers control one-third of the territory of the Hanyun Continent.

The remaining two-thirds are occupied by hundreds of countries, and their existence is solely due to their vast territories.

Even a superpower can only control a maximum of ten million square kilometers of territory; any more than that and it will become uncontrollable.

At the same time, the five superpowers are too far apart. If it weren't for those smaller countries acting as buffers, the five superpowers would probably have already engaged in hand-to-hand combat.

The Vast Cloud Continent is a world of high martial arts, where people's only hope is to realize their dreams by advancing to a higher level of martial arts.

According to the ranking rules of the Temple of Martial Gods, an ordinary person can become a warrior once they break through the first level of their cultivation technique.

The first level is actually very simple: a vortex of true energy appears in the body, and a punch can easily deliver an attack force of 1,000 jin.

An ordinary person could never achieve such attack power, but it would be easy for a samurai.

After breaking through to the level of a samurai, one can join the army or take on special positions such as bodyguards or private bodyguards.

For ordinary people, samurai earn ten times more money than ordinary people.

A family can be considered middle class if it has a samurai.

Breaking through from a warrior to a master warrior is equivalent to advancing to the next level.

If warriors are merely the basic components of martial artists on the Hanyun Continent, then martial masters are like the first high-threshold filter.

A samurai can easily deliver a punch with the force of a thousand pounds.

A martial arts master can deliver an attack force of 10,000 jin with a single punch.

This is a tenfold difference, and it transforms into an attack power akin to a human tank.

The samurai were just ordinary guards, barely able to deal with ordinary people or samurai of the same rank.

Martial arts masters are at least the backbone of each faction, and at least mid-level cadres in each faction.

The Great Xia Kingdom is divided into provincial capitals with a population of five million, state capitals with a population of two million, and county capitals with a population of five hundred thousand, based on population distribution.

The head constable of Jufu, also known as the chief constable, is a martial artist of the martial arts master level.

His position was similar to that of a centurion in the army.

The army was divided into ordinary soldiers composed of warriors, with ten soldiers managed by a ten-man captain.

The position of centurion is held by a late-stage samurai or a early-stage martial artist.

A centurion must be a martial arts master.

As for the innate grandmasters, who are even more powerful, they are even more impressive.

A master of innate ability can directly break free from the continent's gravity and briefly remain suspended in the air at a height of ten meters.

Especially in terms of attack power, a single punch from a Grandmaster of the Innate Realm has the force of 100,000 jin.

The key is that it can concentrate its power at one point and also launch attacks from a distance.

Although it cannot take the enemy's head from a thousand miles away like the legendary flying sword, it can certainly behead within a hundred meters in the air.

Every Grandmaster of the Innate Realm is a guardian of the major families and a key force in the struggle between various factions.

A family without a Grandmaster-level martial artist is merely a family, not a clan. Even if the clan has dozens of martial artists, it doesn't count.

In the vast continent of Hanyun, the only standard for recognizing a family's founding is whether or not you have a Grandmaster of the Innate Realm.

Or, if a family's innate master dies unexpectedly and there is no successor innate master, the family will become an ordinary family.

Most importantly, the lifespan of a Grandmaster of the Primordial Realm is a full three hundred years.

Such a long lifespan is enough for the Grandmaster to bless the family with prosperity for a hundred years.

Samurai and martial arts masters do not live much longer than ordinary people; at most, they can ensure that their bodies remain healthy.

However, even a martial arts master at the peak of the late stage will die of old age after a hundred years.

Ordinary people can break through to the levels of warrior and martial arts master with sufficient resources and time.

Only one in a hundred martial artists can break through to the Innate Grandmaster level; in other words, even among a hundred late-stage peak martial artists, not one might be able to break through to the Innate level.

Grandmaster.

In small counties, when a new master of innate cultivation emerges, a grand celebration banquet is often held to congratulate him.

At the same time, a master of innate cultivation can also directly join the army. As long as their resume and background are clean, they can directly obtain the position of centurion.

Above the Innate Grandmaster level are Martial King level martial artists, whose attack power has reached millions.

Most importantly, unlike the Grandmaster of the Innate Realm who can only hover briefly in the air, King Wu can fly through the air with his physical body.

Even an early-stage Martial King can travel a thousand miles a day.

One hour of flight can cover more than 100 kilometers.

They only need to stop and rest after flying for several hours at a time.

Every Martial King is a core fighting force of their respective sect. The lifespan of a Martial King is even more astonishing, reaching a full eight hundred years.

A sect without a Martial King is not a sect. Just as a family without a Grandmaster of the Innate Realm cannot be called a family.

Only a Martial King is qualified to establish a sect, a consensus shared by hundreds of thousands of sects across the Hanyun Continent.

A Martial King-level expert is equivalent to a general in the military.

The Primordial Master is a commander of a thousand men.

A martial artist at the late-stage peak of the Innate Grandmaster realm can run for commander of ten thousand.

Only King Wu could directly become a general, commanding ten commanders of ten thousand men and leading an army of one hundred thousand to conquer the world.

Many small countries have military leaders who are at the Martial King level, which is the highest level of combat power they can invite.

Or they might be kings of different surnames from those small countries, sitting side by side with the king.

Above that are the legendary Martial Emperors. Currently, the Hanyun Continent has a population of tens of billions, but there are only five publicly known Martial Emperors.

It is said that the lifespan of a Martial Emperor can exceed a thousand years, reaching 1,500 years, and there was even a Martial Emperor who extended his life by two thousand years with the help of medicine.

They were the emperors of the five kingdoms: Xia, Qin, Yan, Zhao, and Qi.

Or rather, it's not that Empress Wu was unqualified to be the emperor of these five superpowers.

As for the lofty Martial God Temple, it was founded by the first Martial Emperor in the tens of thousands of years of history of the Hanyun Continent.

The Martial Emperor named Ma Yun was not only the founder of the Martial God Palace, but he also passed on his cultivation techniques, martial arts skills, alchemy, and weapon crafting methods to everyone on the Hanyun Continent.

Even though tens of thousands of years have passed, the basic cultivation techniques taught by the Martial God Ma Yun are still widely circulated in the Hanyun Continent.

This basic training manual not only includes cultivation methods, but also basic fist techniques, basic knife techniques, basic sword techniques, and basic footwork.

Among the most important are basic alchemy and basic weapon crafting.

Even after tens of thousands of years, most ordinary people still only have access to this set of basic martial arts techniques.

Those prestigious sects, or royal families, may have more exquisite techniques and martial arts skills, but they keep them secret.

Good techniques and secret methods are definitely more powerful than basic techniques, but the safest and most suitable for most ordinary people to practice is definitely not the second one.

Throughout history, countless brilliant and amazing martial arts geniuses have emerged, breaking through to the levels of Innate Grandmaster, Martial King, and Martial Emperor in a short period of time. However, the final level, the Martial Emperor realm, has kept everyone out.

In tens of thousands of years of history, there have been hundreds of Martial Emperors, but only two Martial Emperor-level powerhouses have ever appeared.

The first is Ma Yun, the God of War who founded the Temple of Martial Gods, and the second is Bai Qi, the founding emperor of the Great Qin Dynasty.

It was around that time that the Hanyun Continent went from having four superpowers to having five.

Emperor Wu of Qin, Bai Qi, rose from an ordinary soldier to become a general commanding a large army, and later directly rebelled to establish the Qin Kingdom.

When Bai Qi broke through to the Martial Emperor realm, he directly annexed several nearby small countries. Later, both the Great Yan and Great Qi imposed sanctions on him, but unexpectedly, Martial Emperor Bai Qi broke through to the Martial Emperor realm before his death.

In that battle, both Martial Emperors of the Great Yan Kingdom and the Great Qi Kingdom perished. If their two countries had not had a strong foundation and had not quickly produced new Martial Emperors, they might have fallen directly from superpowers to ordinary countries.

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