Prologue: The Azure Sky Continent
The Azure Sky Continent, the super continent, subsuming about Eighty Percent of the entire world of Noah. The entire piece of land, is governed by a union of twelve country headed, by the country of Mirage. Among these is the country of Eugine, one of the most influential and prominent country of the Union. It is ranked third in this regard, just falling behind Mirage and Utrhos.
The area span of the Eugine, is estimated to be around 500 million km², which also earns, it the title of smallest country, a pebble compared to the Azure Sky Continent, whose size is estimated to be a Quintillion km². Yet, what earns it it’s title of being one of the most prominent, is not it’s military or power but, the Church of Light, which rules this country, consisting of the Peak Cultivators of the Mortal Realm who leads the church.
Cultivation, is one of the most sought after, path by the inhabitants of Noah, yet only a selected few, who have an exceptional affinity, with the world, and the force are barely able to qualify to even practice cultivation. This is the reason despite the continent having a uncountable populace, and a near infinite number of resources, cultivators as rare as finding an ancient simulacrum of gold. But, owing to an extremely large populace, there are more than a trillion, cultivators in the entire continent.
The world of cultivation is colossal. There are thousands upon thousands of techniques, to cultivate. Each has their good points, bad points and limitations. The path of cultivation is sub-divided to 10 Realms. For, every realm a bottleneck has to be broken, so as to attain next realm in cultivation. The real objective of cultivation is to attain immortality. Though, it sounds extremely easy to break through to the immortality, each subsequent realm in cultivation has a much harder bottleneck to break through. Roughly only two or three, immortals arise once a thousand years.
Even the most powerless of cultivator, can decimate an entire city of mortals. Thus cultivators are worshiped by the mortals and looked upon with envy and jealousy. Envy, for their power, and jealously, for respect.
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Unfathomable number of sects and clans comprises the entire Azure Sky Continent. Most of these sects and clans, are generally local, and engage in full-blown power struggles in their locality. For these, the concept of immortality is far too distant, and generally practice cultivation not, for attaining immortality, but amassing wealth and gaining a sphere of influence in their locality. This, world is not kind to the weak. Many, of the so called prodigies, born in smaller clans, are disposed of early, by the so called big clans. Thus, the surge of power in these small sects is quite slight, even after so many years.
The bigger clans however revel in variety of aids, which increases the pace of cultivation, the so called cultivation aids. These clans, are thus able to improve their young generation at an extremely fast pace, and maintain their, sphere of influence even after so many years. Those, who offend these big clans, are generally hunted down and disposed. The strongest clan in a locality, generally rules that place. If, one wants to rule their locality, they would have to completely wipe out the ruling clan, which is an extremely common occurrence in Azure Sky Continent. Thus, even at local stage, the disputes are bloodcurdling.
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Author’s Note: This is an introduction, to the Azure Sky Continent. My English is not as good as your average American web novelist. I started this project, to improve my English, for various reasons. I’m from India. Hope you like the story. Any criticism is welcome. I’ll try to improve myself. Releases won’t be regular, as I am a minor, in 12th standard, and have to study hard for University Entrance Exams, and boards. Releases, would be done as soon as I complete a chapter.
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