The Taklamakan Desert is the largest desert in China, and it occupies about 82% of the Tarim Basin.

There are many different opinions on the reasons for the formation of the Taklamakan Desert. Some say it is the cause of crust collisions, and some say it is the cause of low rainfall and high evaporation.

However, no matter how modern people argue, in the game, the Taklamakan Desert does not exist, and the entire central part of the Tarim Basin is full of grasslands, forests and swamps.

Chinese players are happy about this strange phenomenon and are also deeply confused.

What does the Taklamakan Desert mean?

In order to find out, many players have personally visited there after randomly visiting the Orcs, but due to the lack of professional tools, everyone eventually returned to nothing.

Just when many people were about to let things go and no longer ask questions, a scholar who studied Caspian tiger proposed a possibility.

Caspian tiger, also known as Xinjiang tiger, Persian tiger, Caucasian tiger, Tulan tiger, West Asian tiger, and Central Asian tiger, is the third largest subspecies of tigers.

The Caspian tiger was once widely distributed in Xinjiang, China, and disappeared in China in 1916.

Regarding the extinction of Xinjiang tigers, the academic community generally believes that it is caused by human production activities.

Xinjiang tigers live in forests, rivers and wetland areas, and their main food is wild boars.

Due to the large-scale land reclamation by humans, the wetland area has continued to shrink, Lop Nur dried up, and the number of wild boars has dropped sharply, causing the food chain with Xinjiang tigers as the top of the pyramid to break, and eventually led to the extinction of Xinjiang tigers.

In order to convince people, the scholar took Guloulan as an example and put forward his own unique insights.

As the hometown of the Caspian tiger, Loulan once gradually became an important transportation hub in the Western Regions due to its superior geographical location.

With the increasing population, forests were cut down in large areas, overgrazing and pastures were cultivated, resulting in rivers being cut off and land desertification was severe. The prosperous ancient Loulan Kingdom eventually declined.

Like Loulan, the Caspian tiger also encountered unprecedented disasters. Losing the forest means losing its food source and its beautiful home, so a large number of Caspian tigers died.

Today, the once prosperous ancient Loulan area has turned into a piece of yellow sand, and only some broken walls still stand there tenaciously, telling people that there was once a prosperous ancient city here.

From point to surface, ancient Loulan can transform from a rich land into a barren desert due to human activities, so there is nothing impossible in the Tarim Basin.

After all, there are so many rivers flowing from the Tianshan Mountains, Kunlun Mountains and Alkin Mountains into the Tarim Basin. It should not be a barren desert, and even if there is sand, it should not be that large.

The only possibility is that as the number of predators at the top of the Caspian tiger's food chain gradually decreases, the number of herbivores cannot be suppressed.

When a large number of pastures were over-eating by herbivores and could not be restored, the land began to undergo a scattered desertification, which eventually led to a serious imbalance in the ecological environment of the Tarim Basin, and finally formed the vast Takramakan Desert with yellow sand.

The Tarim Basin in the game has not been developed by humans, and few orcs living there are engaged in large-scale agricultural production activities, so it still looks lush now.

In the center of the Tarim Basin, there is a small hill with the appearance of a goat head - Chiyang Mountain.

Chiyang Mountain

The only natural wonder, the mountain peak, one of the secret realms of the Seven Sheeps, from a distance, the entire mountain looks like a huge goat head. Because the peak representing the two goat horns is red, it is named Chiyang Mountain. If you settle nearby, you can get a little scientific research value every day.

Red-horned goats: There is a one-way portal in the Red-horned goats similar to the goat's mouth in the Red-horned goats. At noon every day, the portal will spit out a thousand adult red-horned goats.

Sheep, sheep, sheep: The growth rate of all sheep livestock in the territory increased by 30%.

Qiyang Kaitai: After collecting seven secret realms such as Chiyang Mountain, you will get the natural blessing effect of Qiyang Kaitai. The growth rate of all livestock in the territory is increased by 30%, and the growth rate of sheep livestock is increased by 70%.

Chiyang Mountain produces 1,000 red-horned goats every day, 30,000 per month and 360,000 per year, which is even more exaggerated than a pie falling from the sky.

However, the attributes of the only natural wonder are so unreasonable that people are beaten to death in order to compete for each unique natural wonder.

In addition to the 360,000 red-horned goats given free every year, Chiyang Mountain can also increase the growth rate of sheep livestock in the territory. This attribute is like a tiger's wings for countries dominated by animal husbandry.

Chiyang Mountain made an indelible contribution to the Tiger Man tribe where Hu Xiaotian was able to gradually develop from a small tribe into a large empire covering an area of ​​millions of square kilometers.

It is precisely because of Chiyang Mountain that Tiger Roaring Sky can afford so many saber-toothed tigers.

If it weren't for the fact that there were only two saber-toothed tiger secret realms in the entire Tarim Basin, Hu Xiaotian could not obtain a large number of saber-toothed tiger monster eggs, then let alone tens of thousands of saber-toothed tigers, even if there were tens of thousands more, Hu Xiaotian could afford it.

The Linhai Empire became famous on Chiyang Mountain. Without Chiyang Mountain, there would be no Linhai Empire today. Therefore, the importance of Chiyang Mountain is better than anyone else.

The reason why the Tiger Man Clan can stand proudly above other orc races is because Chiyang Mountain is always under their control.

In order to ensure that the Tiger Man clan can always enjoy a unique status in the Linhai Empire, Hu Xiaotian built the Tiger Man's royal city in the location of Chiyang Mountain, and surrounded Chiyang Mountain in the middle with obsidian walls.

In this way, even if the enemy army is approaching, the Tiger Man clan can hold on to the Tiger King City.

As long as the city wall is not broken, they can stick to it forever, because one thousand red-horned goats every day are enough to feed many tiger warriors.

In addition to the 10,000 tiger guards, there are also tens of thousands of tiger royal families living in the Tiger King City. Those tiger royal families are Hu Xiaotian and his subordinates' families and relatives. Other orcs are not allowed to enter the Tiger King City without orders.

When Ma Wanli led the Condor’s cavalry regiment into the Tarim Basin, the Tiger Man royal tribes who received the news immediately recalled all the Tiger Man guards back to the Tiger King City, and then closed the city gate, preparing to defend the Tiger King City to the death.

When the Condor Heroes surrendered all the other orcs in the Tarim Basin, only one tiger king city was left in the entire Xinjiang region and was still outside the rule of the Condor Heroes Empire.
Chapter completed!