Gardnan, recognized by the Federation of Eagles as an Eastern Colleton populated state and the stronghold of the Orientals.

At least in this state, the people of Colleton who fled the Xiaoice of natural disasters on the eastern continent hundreds of years ago can have the same job opportunities and the same social status as the Romans...... Don't think it's easy, it's on someone else's land.

The Nine Cities of the East does not refer to the nine cities that are connected together, but to the nine Oriental families in Gardnan, who echo each other and help each other, and their power penetrates the political and business worlds, black and white, and jointly protects the interests of the Oriental ethnic group.

The city of Provence is one of the nine cities in the East, the city where the Shi family is entrenched.

The powerful forces in this city are not only the Shi family, but also three or five other powerful families and gangs, not because the Shi family can't deal with them, but because the Shi family always has to deal with the Romans federal government that runs Provence.

The phrase "if you are not of my race, your heart will be different" is not only understood by Orientals. Many Romans feel very uncomfortable just seeing people of color.

Dongling Mountain, called by the Teton Mountains by the Romans, is the largest and most magnificent vein near Provence, and two hundred years ago, the Shi clan of the Eastern Colleton spent a huge amount of money to buy a large area of land as the foundation of the clan.

There is a thick white fog in that area all year round, and many old people who have lived in the city of Provence all their lives think that it is a primeval forest, because they have never entered it, and only a few people know what is hidden behind that thick fog.

Red walls and yellow tiles, men, women and children, tall young men and women, deep mansions, young children running around the small lake pavilions, and in the depths of the ancient garden, is a magnificent building of rolling scale: Shi's ancestral hall.

Because of the long years of sacrifice and the convergence of people's aura, ordinary people can faintly feel the weight of history and the responsibility of inheritance as long as they come here.

At this moment, more than a dozen old men sat at the front of the ancestral hall, and three old men sat in the center below the tablet, and they constituted the supreme power of this ancient family.

"Worship the ancestors, worship the ancestors!"

"Seven hundred years ago, if it weren't for the Shi family's patriarch Yifu who overcame all obstacles and came to this barren land to establish a family and spread out his branches, many of us would not exist, and if we were fortunate enough to be born, be grateful......"

In front of the ancestral hall, the person who presided over the entire ceremony was the white-haired and white-bearded elder Shi Yan, who was upright and close, abided by the etiquette and religion all his life, was responsible for the etiquette in the clan, treated people leniently, and was strict with the law, so although he was not close to people many times, he still enjoyed a high reputation in the family, even the great elder Shi Hao, who was very authoritative, had to bow his head and ask him in matters of etiquette.

Because of the existence of Shi Yan, over the past few decades, the young men and women of the Shi family have relatively more abided by the constraints of etiquette and law, which has increased a lot of family fame, and thus gained a lot of benefits for the family.

Shi Yan said to himself: "I have only lived one face in my life." ”

But in this life, it is not easy to live a face, and it is an achievement that is difficult for most people to achieve.

The process of sacrificing ancestors is long and cumbersome, but fortunately, most of the time it will not be like this, and the ancestors have a family responsible for worship every year, and only when major decisions are made, will they summon back the young people who are out of the family to make large-scale sacrifices.

frequency, about once every three to five years. It's okay if you're too busy with work to come back, but if you're missing something out because of it, don't blame the family for not warning you in advance.

Finally, a whole set of processes is over, and it is also the link where the outstanding disciples in the family can pay for the benefits of the family, which is also the most favorite link for women and children in the clan.

People love harvest and hate loss, and the stronger the family, the quality of life and living security of those present often improve year-on-year.

Therefore, a man whose family has a lot of worship can hold his head high and have glory, and a man whose family has less worship will be despised and even scorned and cursed.

In such a traditional family, the behavior of the dead fat house alone is not allowed, a living normal person must contribute to the family, the same way, the family will not allow you to die alone in old age, insulation death, in case you die in the prime of life, the elderly in the family will have someone to support, the children in the family will be raised, not to mention how good the support and parenting, at least not allowed to die alone, the whole family is not allowed to die such a tragedy.

This ancient and traditional large family business model suppresses people's individuality, but also improves the individual's ability to resist social risks and survival risks.

Just like at this time, young people worship the family, it is not that the family takes advantage of the clan, in fact, the worship is also converted to the corresponding value of the family worship, when young, the person who enters the worship is old to become the elder of the family, it needs a lot of consumption of offerings, and it can also be used to exchange property and family property.

Moreover, the Shi family is also a secret family with a very long history, and there are even life-prolonging potions within this family, which can be exchanged with family offerings, but they can't be bought with money alone.

Shi Yi was dressed in a cloth shirt, his waist was so straight that he was standing with the disciples of the clan around him, his old god was in the presence of his eyes closed, and he was confident that he would enter the offerings.

Because through the letter that the Great Elder had passed on to the disciples outside the clan before, Shi Yi faintly judged that the Shi family would make a big move next, so he smashed most of the items that he couldn't use for the time being, just to win this opportunity, anyway, he could also exchange it for the corresponding family worship, even if he guessed wrong, he couldn't talk about the loss at all.

There are probably nearly 100 disciples of the Shi family who have entered the family this time, but most of them have limited ability, and they are only engaged in the worship to meet the basic quota, and they are not even qualified to enter the ancestral hall.

may be because of the influence of the blood of the red dragon, the Shi family has more men and fewer women, the yang is prosperous and the yin is declining, and most of the people standing in the same column with Shi Yi at this moment are men.

After the ancestor worship, the worship ceremony begins.

Among the belongings of more than 20 people, there were items, treasures, swords and magic weapons, and the most straightforward thing was simply a check with a very exaggerated amount filled on it.

In this process, the family will send a special appraiser to identify the secular value of these offerings on the spot, and then convert them into the value of offerings, after the appraisal, the appraiser will ask if they approve of it, if they do not recognize that the valuation of the appraiser is much lower than the actual value of their own offerings, then they can also choose not to enter the worship or invite multiple elders to re-evaluate.

Although the outside world is already a modern society, in the Shijia ancestral land inside Dongling Mountain, as soon as the door is closed, those elders even have the authority to determine people's life and death.

Although it has been many, many years since he killed anyone, it is not unheard of in the past few years to anger the elder and be directly imprisoned for a lifetime.

Shi Yi vaguely remembered that the last time, it seemed that a woman in the clan committed adultery with someone, and when she was broken by her husband, she seriously injured her husband in the chaos, and then the woman and the adulterer were imprisoned and sentenced to hard labor for the rest of their lives...... This is the use of public weapons for private purposes, this is stealing royal power in their own hands, challenging the law enforcement authority of the federal government, but it is also the most powerful weapon for the major families in the East to unite and protect themselves in the Western continent.

Democracy, to put it bluntly, is the side with more people who has the final say, but in the New World, the people of Colleton are originally a minority, and they completely believe in democracy, and those white-skinned people want you Cleedon men to be wiped out, take possession of your wives and daughters, and plunder your wealth.

Therefore, it is impossible for the Eastern race to play in the Western Continent completely according to the rules of the Western Continent, otherwise it will be tantamount to the self-destruction of the race.

"Shi Weidong, enter the first-order demonization item Burning Sword, the estimated price is 680,000, and the family worship of your twenty is recorded, do you approve of it?"

"Elder Xie, Shi Weidong approves."

"Shi Meng, enter the second-order demonization item Suyue Shield, the estimated price is 1.82 million, and remember that you have seventy-two family offerings, do you approve of it?"

"Elder Xie, Shi Meng approves."

"Shi Qingqing, a check for 20 million yuan, and 600 family offerings for you, do you approve of it?"

"Elder Linglong, Shi Meng's 1,820,000 records of seventy-two family offerings, why do I only record 600 family offerings in my 20 million checks? That's too much, isn't it? "This is a wealthy local tyrant girl, wearing a clan uniform at this time, with a thin waist and long legs, bright eyes and bright teeth, she asks when she is not convinced, and she is not afraid of the majesty of the elders in the clan.

However, her appearance at the moment is more that the junior is coquettish to the elder, so it is not offensive.

"Family worship, family worship, of course, the more the family needs, the more in exchange for the offering, now the family is not short of money, you simply use the money to smash, the offering will naturally be reduced."

"Qingqing, don't mess around." At this moment, among the people of the Shi family around, a burly middle-aged man in simple clothes walked out, and he shouted at the girl like this.

Then, the man hurriedly bowed again and apologized to the appraiser, Elder Linglong: "Elder Linglong, we very much agree with your assessment, you continue, you continue, don't let my naughty little girl disturb your work." ”

"Dad~~"

"Alright, you shut up for me."

Shi Qingshan is in his fifties, and his daughter Shi Qingqing is only in her teens and less than twenty, and her old daughter is obviously spoiled, but Shi Qingshan is the richest man in the clan, and the Shi family has been more or less affected by some benefits, so no one has said anything.

The little girl is just a little more delicate, and Shi Yan on the elder's table is drinking tea with her eyelids closed, and no one is stirring up trouble.

"Shi Xiaotian, enter the Feng ......" opened a gorgeous long box, and Elder Linglong took out a dark cyan long sword with a gorgeous and solemn shape and inlaid with brilliant gems.

"It seems that Xiaotian has gained a lot from going out this time."

"This kid has been clever since he was a child, so this time he will have good luck, and he will be able to seize the opportunity."

Listening to the discussions around him, the young man next to Shi Yi who looked slightly thin was full of irrepressible pride.

After a long time, Elder Linglong stroked his sword and asserted:

"Shi Xiaotian enshrined a fake remnant sword, and the price is assessed at two hundred yuan, this is not possible to transform the family worship, Xiaotian, do you approve of it?"

Approval?

Shi Yi could clearly see that Shi Xiaotian's face was green on the side, how could he approve. What's more, there was an uproar all around, and this face was embarrassing.

"Grandpa Linglong, you, please take a good look at it, take a good look at it, this is the Angel Hunter Sword that I spent all my savings to buy! Not to mention its historical value, there are magic fluctuations on it, how can it be worth only two hundred yuan? ”

Seeing that the kid in front of him didn't look like a fake, Elder Linglong, the appraiser, glanced at Shi Xiaotian with some pity, and then in front of him, he pressed his hand against the sword surface and pressed it on the ground to exert force, and with a bang, the long sword was broken.

At that moment, Shi Xiaotian's face turned pale, and his blood receded. Because it is impossible for a real demonized item to be damaged so easily.

"Xiaotian, you have been deceived, this is not some Angel Hunter Sword. This is an antique fake with a little more elaborate craftsmanship. The real Angel Hunter's Sword, that is a famous artifact in ancient times, if you really can't distinguish the difference between a genuine and a fake, I will teach you the easiest verification method, you see if you will be hunted down after you get it, if you will be hunted down, the more ruthless you are hunted down, the more it means that what you have in your hand is real, if no one simply pays attention to you, then this thing in your hand, the eight achievements are fake. ”

Shi Xiaotian sat on the ground in despair, and was finally dragged out by others, which became a joke.

The Sword of Angel Hunting, according to legend, is the sword of the Supreme Archangel of the Temple of Light in the last era, the sword of the chief of the Angel Army, Arie, in myths and legends, the Lord of Light swept away all the old enemies and became the strongest main god, but he did not reward his angel chief for his merits.

As a result of the disappointment and darkness in Ariel's originally pure and unblemished heart, it fell from the kingdom of God and was reborn in hell.

And the Angel Hunter's sword, which is its companion sword tainted by darkness, is extremely powerful...... If such a thing is really in hand, it will be a blessing and a curse for the Shi family, either a great blessing or a great disaster, either take off or destroy the clan.

Fortunately, it was a fake, and it was broken by Elder Linglong on the spot, otherwise once it spread, I don't know how much turmoil it would cause.

The artifact of that level fell into the hands of the Shi family, who was backed by the Goddess of Darkness, and the Shi family directly had no room for maneuver, either to give it to the Goddess of Darkness and gather the strength of the entire church to face the forces of all parties, or to switch camps and give the sword to the government or the Holy Church, but it would also fill the hatred of other related forces, and it would be a disaster to exterminate the clan at every turn.

Artifacts are of course good things, but artifacts are not so easy to pick up, and if you are not careful, you will die because of it, and many people will die.

After Shi Xiaotian's farce, Elder Linglong, who was in charge of the appraisal, walked in front of Shi Yi.