Located in the south of the world, the Rhône has the most diverse terrain and is rich in species.

In the north of the Kingdom of Jianuo, there is a plateau, and its name is the Northland Plateau. More than 1,000 years ago, it was a land that even enemy armies did not want to set foot in, but it was also a place where ancient soldiers would fight.

The Northland Plateau is rich in fine camel beasts and powerful and easily tamable war beasts, and this vast land is also full of all kinds of resources, from salt lakes on which people depend for their livelihoods, to ordinary iron mines, to crystal mines that are almost open-pit...... The land began to gain fame with its output.

When the famous highland goblins were forced to retreat to the snowy mountains by the hunting of mercenary groups from the mainland, and when the savage and fierce werewolf tribes were defeated by the kingdom's heavy army, the Northland Plateau was completely controlled by the Kingdom of Jianuo.

A family surnamed 'Tuo'an' had taken root in the land, and with them were thousands of cavalry regiments and a reorganized corps of mages. In the following nearly 100 years, the To'an family strengthened itself and defeated all competitors who had come to develop the Northland Plateau by overt or covert means, becoming the only great nobleman in this land.

In order to counter the discontent from the royal family, they recruited troops so that the royal family had to treat them carefully, and at the same time tried their best to declare their loyalty to the kingdom, and at the same time began to win over the native races that were once on the Northland plateau-

Werewolf tribe!

They intermarry werewolves, solidify their domination over the Northland Plateau, and seek better offspring. They recruit academic mages with lucrative salaries to develop more powerful magic weapons and create more powerful war monsters. They became the de facto rulers of the Northlands......

This is the famous Wolf Family of the Northland, a behemoth that has not faded for thousands of years.

Until now, the Kingdom of Jiano and the Kingdom of the Iron Horse have disappeared from the stage of history, but the descendants of the Wolves of the Northland still occupy important positions in various fields such as politics, military, commerce, culture, and magical studies.

But all of this is no louder and more dazzling than another name that also comes from the Northland Plateau -

Kunzhen!

Not only is the Wolf of the Northland inferior to him, but his light alone has even overshadowed that entire era!

This person, who is hailed by later generations as the most intelligent person in the history of the entire plane, was born on the shores of Yanhu Lake in the Northland Plateau, where the original headquarters of the Wolf of the Northland were located. Later, due to strategic reasons, the Wolves of the Northland left this place, leaving only a castle as a military garrison to guard Yanhu, the largest salt-producing area of the Jianuo Kingdom at that time.

Kunzhen was born into such a family of salt workers, with no illustrious background and no gilded surname.

At that time, the Wolf Family of the Northland was at its peak, and in order to respond to the kingdom's decree to train mages, and in order to accumulate more strength for themselves, they established eight magic academies throughout the plateau. Like most magic schools in the world, this academy is extremely tolerant of students' origins - whether you are a commoner who migrated from the hinterland or a small nobleman who came to pan for gold, whether you are a goblin, an orc, or some other intelligent being, as long as you can prove that you have the talent to practice magic, do not trigger the laws of the kingdom and the rules of the academy, and meet the admission rules, you can join the academy.

One of the colleges is located on the edge of Yanhu Lake.

This is an opportunity to leap into the dragon gate, a hundred times more than the college entrance examination.

Many salt workers in Salt Lake have the mentality that "anyway, the test has a government subsidy and doesn't cost money, and if you don't have a loss, you won't suffer, and once you pass, you will be developed", and send their children to the magic academy in batches for magic compatibility testing.

Some succeed and some fail.

It has been more than a hundred years since they came to the Northland Plateau, and under the policy of the To'an family, many of the existing civilians have more or less highland goblin or werewolf blood on their bodies. Not to mention their magical talents, at least one-third of them can meet the minimum requirements for Kingdom College admissions with magical compatibility. This means that as long as you are not a fool and work hard for a few years, you have at least an eighty percent chance of becoming a trainee mage. With a little training, a person who can use spells and knows a lot about runes and magic will be very popular whether he joins the army or goes to work.

On that day, there was a strong wind blowing in Yan Lake, and there seemed to be many small water droplets floating in the air, and the taste was salty in the mouth. The children who were sent to the Glacier Magic Academy for testing are back—

Some of the children of the little nobles rode in horse-drawn carriages, others well-off children rode skinny horses or deer, and more were the children of the salt workers who were crammed into the hardboard wagons and endured bumps and had to hold on to the planks to prevent them from falling. The children, who were no older than fifteen or seven or eight years old, had different expressions, some of them had irrepressible joy on their faces, some were full of frustration, and some of them had tears sliding down their cheeks.

Cheng Yun saw at a glance in his dream the handsome young man sitting alone at the end of a board car. His eyes were red, and he had clearly failed the academy's tests. But at this time, he can't let himself cry uncontrollably, because he must firmly hold on to the cart and at the same time firmly fix his body to the cart, otherwise the bumps on the road will not only make his butt bloom, but may also turn him down at any time!

He kept looking at a few teenagers of the same age around him.

These are all from the same village as him, and they can't be said to have a good relationship, but they are all very familiar. Originally, everyone was an ordinary salt worker's child, but after a test, almost everyone else passed the test because of a few tenths of the bloodline passed by a member of the Wolf of the Northland family decades ago, and there was another person whose magic compatibility was very good, and he was the only one who failed the test.

Since then, he is still a child of salt workers, and it is estimated that in the future, he will be mining salt in Yanhu Lake like his parents until he dies of old age, but his fellow villagers who were as ordinary as himself in the past have become students of the magic academy, and his identity has suddenly opened.

How willingly he was!

Following his gaze, he could see a tall and thin young man dressed in a very wide cloth robe, this young man was already relatively old, at least older than everyone around him, and compared with the people around him, he seemed thinner, more mature, and more calm. He was one of the few who did not rejoice or grieve.

When the cart stopped on the shore of the Salt Lake, all the children of the common people got out of the car, and when they saw their parents, they either shouted or cried loudly with joy, and they all trotted up to meet them.

The handsome boy was still staring at the tall and thin boy.

They tested together, and the young man heard from the apprentice mage who tested them that his companion's magic compatibility was very good among the children of the commoners, and even among the children of the nobles. But he also heard the apprentice mage say that his companion was too old, and he came from a poor family, not only did he have poor material conditions, but he also lacked the corresponding education since he was a child, and it was probably impossible to meet the conditions to become a mage.

The young man was still very unwilling, even a little jealous, and he even cursed in his heart that his companion would be rejected by the Academy of Magic—so that he could at least find a little balance.

The tall and thin boy he was jealous of was Kunzhen.

Failing to fulfill his wishes, the young old master reluctantly passed the admission of the glacier and snow field, and adopted the method of signing a 'work agreement' with the Wolf family of the Northland to exempt him from tuition fees. To this end, he must serve the Wolf Family of the Northland during his studies and even for ten years after graduation, and obey the Wolf Family of the Northland. And he didn't have the right to choose which discipline he studied, and he had to choose which discipline the Wolf of the North needed.

The old master was assigned to one of the worst classes, and except for the first time, he had very little time to study every day. Most of the time he used his limited knowledge as a screw to work for the Wolf of the Northlands.

It's like entering a small magic workshop......

No one in that world knew how the old master had completed his magic cultivation in such an environment, and it only took him a little more than a year to graduate from the Glacier Academy and escape from that dark little workshop.

At that time, the surrounding Iron Horse Kingdom began to rise and expand wildly, and a large number of troops were needed on the border to cope with the pressure from the Iron Horse Kingdom. In response to the kingdom's mobilization order, the Wolf of the Northland family had to send some of their newly graduated magic students to war training camps for training. When he was young, the old mage had already attracted the attention of the academy mage and was not on this list, but he voluntarily chose to go to the training camp.

It was only here that he began to come into contact with the knowledge of the Eight Classics of Magic, rather than the enlightenment education of the Glacier Academy.

It took two years for the old mage to obtain the honorary title of the kingdom, to break the agreement signed with the Wolf family of the Northland, and to leave the battlefield to find the truth of knowledge on his own.

He was unable to prevent the fall of the kingdom of Garno, but unlike the old age that he could not save his parents from - he was already strong at that time, but he never joined the army again, and traveled more freely around the world in search of wisdom.

At the same time, he continued to spread knowledge and wisdom, and gradually, the world developed to a critical point.

The old man has been waiting for this day for a long time.

The old mage, who was already one of the most powerful mages in the world at that time, stepped forward and united many people who were revered as great men by later generations to promote the progress of magic technology, and in this way, to promote changes in the world situation, culture, ideas, social classes, racial barriers, and other aspects.

The transfer of interests caused by the development of magical technology has led to world wars, the racial conflicts, hostility and discrimination caused by the rapid integration of planes have led to unimaginable annihilations, the fall of old empires and the rise of new powers, the establishment of alliances and the merger of old nations, and many people have died, and many have come forward......

It took nearly two hundred years for people to completely overturn everything in ancient times, and a modern magical civilization with infinite possibilities appeared in this world, but the old mage who was admired by everyone disappeared-

He went in search of his truth.

This is the first time that Cheng Yun has appeared in his dream, and the first time he has dreamed of the old master himself.

Unavoidably.

He would probably remember this mage named Kunzhen for the rest of his life.

Kunzhen is his real name, but not his real name. A mage's real name is not fixed, it changes with the mage's understanding of magic and progress on the path of magical practice, and it is almost impossible for unrelated people to know a mage's real name unless the mage says it himself.

Cheng Yun knew his real name, but he only understood what his real name meant, the string of words was too obscure, it was an incomprehensible language, and he couldn't pronounce it.