Uncle Ma said, "Productivity determines production relations, and the economic base determines the superstructure."
If it were in a previous life, science relied on the collective intelligence of humanity, which would inevitably be led by governments and nations.
If it were a cultivation world, driven by individual prowess and wisdom, it would inevitably be dominated by cultivation families and religious sects.
But in this world where demons and evil spirits rampage without the suppression of major cultivation sects, the role of the nation is elevated once more, so millennial dynasties are not uncommon.
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It has been nearly a thousand years since the founding of the Qian, and the Imperial Capital Haojing is naturally a scene of prosperity, with even a random bluestone brick on the ground exuding ancientness and vicissitudes.
