Jiuzhou Qiongming

There are two things in Jiuzhou - spiritual veins and crystal cores. Spiritual veins are energy gushing out from the ground. Practitioners can sense the spiritual veins and reach all the way to the sky. The royal family of the Ling Dynasty has relied on the destiny of the spiritual veins for thousands of years. The crystal core is the power extracted from the ore. When inserted into the equipment, it can drive the iron to run, shape the castings, and build cities and fortifications. The seven city-states of the Iron Alliance are all supported by the crystal core drive system. Sound complementary? But where the spiritual veins are strong, the crystal core will fail, and large-scale mining and core mining will cut off the spiritual veins and wither them. This conflict has been going on for a thousand years. The Ling Dynasty said that the crystal core must be banned as a blasphemy to the destiny, and the Iron Alliance said that the development of spiritual veins must be mined. On the surface, the two major civilizations are in their own land, but on the inside, they are scorching their bones. The sky seems to be intact, but underneath it has already collapsed inch by inch. And the remnants - those old ethnic groups who were pushed to the edge by the two major civilizations - silently guard something older than the way of spiritual veins and deeper than the way of crystal core: fusion. The Ling Dynasty calls it a taboo, the Iron Alliance calls it nonsense, and the gray market calls it a legend. But legends are sometimes more true than history.