Chapter 296 - 293 Prospects
Tianhe.
A great river that cuts across the north and south of Qiantian.
In the era before divine weapons were born, the territory of the Daqian was not even a third of its current size.
With the advent of divine weapons, the previous Emperor Qian and the Imperial Advisor Tai A, with the power of the divine weapons’ radiance, swept clean the Eight Desolates and purified the Six Directions.
Once-surrounding regions like the Endless Mountains of Winter State, the Thirty-Six Tribes of Yan State, the Eighteen Islands of the Eastern Sea, and originally Rixiang Country, Nanyun Kingdom, and so on, became the Winter State, Yan State, Lizhou State, Island State, Mu State, and other parts of Daqian.
The territory of Daqian expanded by threefold.
It stretched north to the Endless Mountains, bordered the Vast East Sea to the east, extended into the deserts of Yan State to the west, and reached the Three Thousand Marshes to the south.
One could say that under the rule of the last Emperor Qian, Daqian had expanded to its extreme, fully encompassing the lands of Qiantian.
To expand further, they would either have to cross the Endless Mountains, home to countless fierce beasts, or traverse the vast East Sea, spanning thousands of miles, and additionally they would have to face the Tianyuan Dao, which at that time had a Saint stationed there. As for the western Yan State and the southern Mu State, there was the desolate desert even more vast than the Black and White Sand Sea on one side and the famous Three Thousand Marshes on the other, both being forbidden zones for life.
Top cultivators could easily cross, but if soldiers were to go, the cost would be unimaginable.