To welcome the Guardian of Kunlun, the contemporary "Iron Fist" Danny Rand, the island in the middle of the lake organized a bonfire. Steward Huang found someone to set up a barbecue grill on the beach on the island. After the sun sets, the temperature by the lake gradually drops, the bonfire is lit, everyone eats barbecue, drinks beer, and tells some interesting stories in the sect.

Near midnight, Li Qianhuan was still young, and after drinking, he felt sleepy and went back to sleep first. The three young men sat on the rocks by the lake, soaked their feet in the cold water, and chatted.

The three of them touched the cups and poured a beer, Liu Zheng asked casually: "Danny, Kunlun should be our Chinese sect, how did you join as an American?" ”

The playful expression on Danny Land's face disappeared, replaced by a wry smile on his face: "15 years ago, our family's plane crashed in Kunlun Mountain, and I was the only one who survived. Kunlun's patrol found me, so..."

"Uh..." Liu Zheng was extremely embarrassed, why did he want to ask this stupid question, he quickly got up and apologized.

Danny smiled reluctantly and said, "It's already very lucky, if I don't meet the patrol, I'll either freeze to death or be eaten by wolves, anyway, it's a dead end." ”

Shangqi patted Danny on the shoulder and comforted: "There is no feast in the world, and the strength of the living is the best comfort for the dead." ”

"Yes, yes!" Liu Zheng hurriedly said, "You still have us fellow martial arts brothers!" ”

Happy families are all alike, but unhappy families have their own misfortunes. Danny Rand's parents died, Liu Zheng's parents disappeared mysteriously, Shangqi's mother died and his father abandoned the house, and the three of them couldn't help but feel sad and silent when they thought of their own lives. However, they were all strong-hearted people, and they soon came out of their sad past, comforted and encouraged each other, and the atmosphere gradually became lively again.

"Oh, yes. The language you two speak during the day sounds like Mandarin and Cantonese, and the language is the same as classical Chinese, what kind of language is it? ”

Shangqi replied: "This is the 'ancient Chinese language', that is, the language spoken by the ancients, because the environment in which we live is different from the outside, so the ancient text is well preserved, and now, it has become a common language between our various secret realms." ”

"Wait a minute, Secret Realm?" Liu Zheng discovered a new word, "What else did I hear you say today, Shaolin Realm, Kunlun Realm, is the 'Secret Realm'?" What is it? ”

Liu Zheng has only heard of the Shaolin Temple and the Kunlun School in martial arts novels, is this different from the "secret realm" in their mouths?

Shangqi and Iron Fist looked at each other, and Shangqi was the first to speak.

"Since you're the Dragonborn that Iron Fist is looking for, you're one of us." Shang Qi said lightly, "Tonight, I'll tell you all about our people." ”

He stood up, arched his hand to Liu Zheng, and said slightly apologetically: "Some secrets involve the inheritance and development of our secret sects, so although you are the one introduced by my father, I still kept a large part of the information before and did not tell you. ”

Liu Zheng said that he didn't mind, he positioned himself as a martial arts student, and never thought of getting involved in their sect. Danny says he's a Dragonborn, but he doesn't even understand what a Dragonborn is.

"First of all, you have to know one thing – the world is not just what we see." Shangqi looked at Liu Zheng, his eyes reflecting the golden light under the reflection of the bonfire, "The old man often says, don't believe in ghosts and gods." But what I'm going to tell you now is that although the forms of existence and the legends are not quite the same, they are all real in this world. ”

Liu Zheng didn't know how to face this conclusion. Believe it or not, a series of recent events have long since fallen out of the realm of science; If you want to believe it, it feels very unreal, whether it is a dragon or a ghost or a god, it is contrary to the education I received since I was a child...

Shangqi looked at Liu Zheng, who was silent, and did not stop to wait for him to think. Shangqi knew that these things he said were not so easy to believe, it didn't matter, he would believe it when he saw it with his own eyes, it was a matter of time.

Ancient qi practitioners, martial artists, and cultivators could use the aura of heaven and earth to help themselves reach the realm of the unity of heaven and man. At that time, there were many sects, and the use of martial arts and metaphysics reached a climax. However, with the rapid development of social economy in modern times, not many people are still willing to settle down and spend time and energy to practice martial arts. Later, with the social turmoil, the sectarian forces completely withdrew from the stage of history. In order to avoid the disturbance of the world, those who continue to cultivate on the mountain borrow some mysterious power from the alien world to create a formation that can tear apart the void to form a pocket space and hide a certain area in its entirety, this is the "secret realm"!

So even if a historic mountain is developed into a scenic spot and receives countless tourists every year, it will not have much impact on the hidden sect on this mountain. The Taoist temples we saw in the tourist area were either newly built and fake, or they were just a superficial part of the sect open to tourists. Those old immortals who seem to be immortal are basically charlatans, and even if there are some sects, they are just outer disciples or miscellaneous servants who make money for the sect.

Where the real sect is, we can't see. Like a one-way mirror, they can see the world, but the worldly people cannot see what is in the secret realm. Each "secret realm" has a passage connected to the outside world, and any inconspicuous place may be an entrance or exit, and if the formation is adjusted, the passage will also change. So we occasionally hear that someone strayed into the fairyland because of a coincidence, lived for a few years and then returned to the world, and had all kinds of adventures. The most famous stories are the Peach Blossom Garden, the White Stone Cave and so on.

Liu Zheng listened to Shangqi's words, and suddenly opened his mouth, with the current prosperity of China's tourism industry, it is a mountain government to add a gimmick to hype it up, if these legendary sects were not hidden by special means, they would have been made public a long time ago.

"Oh, so you're 'Shaolin Realm', as well as Danny's 'Kunlun Realm', are all hidden sects that ordinary people can't reach, although they are also in Songshan and Kunlun Mountain, but they are hidden in another space, they can't be seen or touched, and the current Songshan Shaolin Temple and Kunlun Wuji Palace are not the same system." Liu Zheng struggled, "I believe it's all true." But what does the affairs of your sect have to do with me? Danny came all the way from Kunlun Mountain to find me, saying that I was a 'dragonborn', and I didn't understand..."

Danny Land didn't speak before, just played with the empty can in his hand, stood up at this time, and stuffed an iron lump into Liu Zheng's hand. Through the moonlight, Liu Zheng saw that it was a lifelike little dragon, which Danny pinched out directly with a pair of iron hands with a can.

"Let me tell you what happened next!" Danny slapped off the iron filings on his hands, and his expression became extremely solemn, "Senior Brother Liu's understanding of Kunlun Realm must not be very much, let me introduce it first."

Our Kunlun realm is in the Kunlun Mountains, and there is a legend that it only appears once in 15 years, which is of course wrong, we are the same as other secret realms, as long as we find a passage, we can enter and exit at any time. There will be so many misunderstandings, because the terrain of Kunlun Mountain is dangerous and the climate is harsh, so there are basically no people, and few people go there, and there is very little contact with the world.

Our patriarch, the Queen Mother of the West, is a highly respected and powerful goddess. There is also the leader of the immortals, the Jade Emperor, who often descends on Kunlun. ”

When Danny Land talked about the Queen Mother of the West and the Jade Emperor, Liu Zheng glanced at Shangqi, the legendary immortals, it turned out that there were in Kunlun Realm.

"To say that Kunlun is different from most secret realms, we have guardian beasts. The divine beast of the Kunlun Realm is a dragon called 'Shou Lao', its life is endless, and it is an immortal dragon. Shou Lao's real body lives in the Jade Void Dream Realm, which is a special space that is as long as the history of Kunlun Mountain. In the dream world, except for Shou Lao, only the Dragonborn can enter. ”

mentioned the matter of "Dragonborn", Liu Zheng was in good spirits.

"'Iron Fist' is both a title and a weapon, and every Iron Fist has to assume the responsibility of guarding the Kunlun Realm. We Kunlun people will hold a martial arts competition, and the person who wins in the end will be qualified to meet Shou Lao. If he is recognized by Shou Lao, he will be given the power of an iron fist.

Not long ago, I received the empowerment of Shou Lao and became the new 'Iron Fist'. That day, I learned a lot of secrets that I wasn't qualified to know before! ”

Hearing Iron Fist talk about Kunlun's secrets, Shangqi immediately stood up and left under the pretense of having a pretense, and Danny gave him a grateful look. Liu Zheng looked at Shangqi's back, and while admiring Shangqi's openness, he was more solemn about what he was going to listen to next. When he was gone, Danny continued: "Hundreds of years ago, the Jade Emperor sensed that a destructive force from the universe was about to pass through the earth, and it happened that Shou Lao had fought with a part of this force, and it said that this was the 'power of the phoenix', and no god could compete with it. But the Jade Emperor was unwilling to give up, he came to the mortal world to look for something that could stop the phoenix, and finally he found two treasures, one of which was a girl named Wu Fengji who was born with red hair and blue eyes, and the Jade Emperor once dreamed that she controlled the phoenix; The second is an ancient book called "The Power of the Dragon"! ”

Dragon's Power! Liu Zheng's mind was racing, this martial art was lost from Tantra back then, but it was taken away by the Jade Emperor.

"The Jade Emperor brought Wu Fengji to Kunlun, asked the Queen Mother of the West and Master Lei Gong to teach her martial arts, and gave the "Power of the Dragon" to Shou Lao, who combined this martial art with its own magical powers to create the real 'Dragon Power', and then taught it to Wu Fengji. Wu Fengji is a martial arts genius, and her compatibility with the power of the dragon is extremely high, and it even makes people feel that she should have been a dragon in the first place, because of this reason, Shou Lao named her 'Dragon Descendant'.

It turned out that the Jade Emperor was right, Wu Fengji released the power of the dragon to fuse with the phoenix when it came, and successfully absorbed all the energy of the phoenix, and she herself was promoted to a new immortal. The catastrophe of the earth was avoided, but the power of the phoenix could not stay on the earth for a long time, so Wu Fengji had to carry the incomparably powerful power of the phoenix and flew into the depths of the universe, never coming back. ”

This world is not as simple as I imagined... Liu Zheng sighed. He knew that the story of Iron Fist was not finished, so he just waited quietly.

"Before Wu Fengji left, she wrote the 'Power of the Dragon' into a volume of cheats and returned it to Shou Lao, and begged the Kunlun saints to protect this divine skill. It is so powerful that if it falls into the wrong hands, it will surely cause a catastrophe. For hundreds of years, Kunlun has kept the 'power of the dragon' strictly secret, including the 'Iron Fist' of the past generations, and he did not know that the 'power of the iron fist' he learned was actually part of the 'power of the dragon'.

The Council of Elders has done its best to protect this magic skill from being known to the outside world, but some... Our interior has rotted first. Danny's tone became cold and hard as he said this, "Decades ago, the five elders of Kunlun suddenly rebelled, and the rebel forces wreaked havoc in the city, and they took advantage of the chaos to steal the Dragon Power and some of the ancient dragon remains. ”

He let out a long breath, as if trying to shake off the negativity, "I have read the record in the 'Book of Iron Fists', and many people died that night, and there was a river of blood. Kunlun was founded nearly a thousand years ago, and it was the most serious civil strife. Later, Kunlun was the power of the whole territory to track down the whereabouts of these five people, and there were many fierce battles, but they were never caught. Thankfully, we got the news that the scroll containing the Dragon's Power was lost during a major war and never reappeared in the world again.

Although the five people did not receive the divine power, the dragon bones they stole together were heavenly treasures, and even had the miraculous effect of the flesh and bones of the living and dead. They were originally powerful figures, and they possessed these treasures, and later, in the United States, they relied on coercion and lure and bought people's hearts to create the 'Hand Clan', and they have been doing shady things in the past few years.

These five people are now very hidden, the Hand is openly controlled by a group of recruited villains, they never show up easily, Kunlun's people have been tracking, but there has been no result. Since that incident, every Iron Fist has added an extremely important task, which is to completely destroy the Hand and find those five people! ”

This kind of extremely secret thing is really inconvenient for people from other factions to hear, Liu Zheng nodded secretly for the cautious approach of the iron fist just now, it seems that this young man in his early twenties is well-trained and very reliable.

"It is Kunlun's responsibility to lose the 'power of the dragon', and we have never given up searching for it all these years. Shou Lao waited in the Jade Void Dream Realm every day, waiting for another 'Dragonborn' to appear. Danny Land looked up and looked directly at Liu Zheng with burning eyes, "Until a few months ago." Senior Brother Liu, Shou Lao saw you! ”