True Martial World

(People from ancient times weren’t silly. If they were willing to exchange their children for food, what else could they not eat? Cocooned’s family was located near the seas and mountains. The fish in the seas were much more than in the lakes. There were even mushrooms and rabbits, but yet we still starved. Cocooned’s mother had experienced the famine. According to her, during the starvation period, there wasn’t even grass growing on the mountains. Why? First it was dry, and secondly, all the grass roots were uprooted and eaten. It was extremely hard to hunt for rabbits. As for fish, going to the ocean to fish needed a boat and nets. Commoners did not have that, and even in the shallow seas or lakes, if you did not rear the fish specially, there would be few fish. Since it was originally few, after fishing, it became even fewer. This resulted in the cost to fishing to become extremely high. So for a person like Cocooned, if I were to fish, the small fish I capture might be less than the energy I expended. Not to mention catching insects as it expended energy faster, and was equivalent to suicide.)

(In this book, the setting of the vast wilderness is even more barren that many places on Earth. Even the land was described by Cocooned, such as littered with black ironstone, which caused farming to be extremely difficult. And from the food production capabilities of ancient China, the production quantity is pathetic. There was no such thing as genetic modified grains or combiners. As for other details, Cocooned feels that explaining it one by one will make it seem rife with nitty-gritty details. A small lake with such low number of fishes that it will lose you more energy to catch it than not doing anything, frogs without poison would have been eaten clean early on. When people become hungry, nothing really matters be it insects or worms. Using a lake and a frog pond to rear a tribal clan with a thousand households is quite impossible. Cocooned tried to cut down on those details, but has resulted in controversy. So I decided to explain it in one detailed paragraph.

(Also some people asked why didn’t Yi Yun hunt. The book has explained, only in the Purple Blood realm could a person have the ability to hunt fierce beasts. Some may ask what do fierce beasts eat? Although Cocooned thinks Xuanhuan books don’t need to delve into all the unknowns, but Cocooned had planned an entire setting for this world, and tried to construct it without any loopholes. As the story progresses, it will be slowly explained.)

(I’m thankful for everyone’s opinions. And I would accept any constructive criticisms.)

(After explaining with a thousand characters, I’m also drunk. I won’t go into such details in the future. I sincerely hope people will think more and doubt less. It isn’t because there are plot holes, but because Cocooned didn’t want to go into too much nitty-gritty details. And some might miss things that were written. Thank you everyone.)