Standing in line before the pavilion, Song Ciwan listened as the Chanting Officer up ahead announced the names of the guests, her mind lost in a strange train of thought.
The Great Zhou World was divided into the Nine Provinces.
These Nine Provinces were Jizhou, Qing State, Xuzhou, Yangzhou, Jingzhou, Yu State, Liangzhou, Yong State, and Yingzhou.
Among them, Jizhou was also known as the Central State. It was the center of the Nine Provinces and the seat of the Capital—the very heart of the Great Zhou Immortal Dynasty.
As for Yong State, where Song Ciwan currently was, it was a remote region—a fact hardly worth mentioning.
Song Ciwan knew little about the other provinces, like Qing State and Xuzhou. Though she had read about them in the *Nine Provinces Chronicles*, how could a few scant pages ever capture the true vastness of the world?
And then there was Yingzhou—
