Since Xingyue and Shi Lei had just broken through in the "Magnetic Heavy Secret Room", after coming out of the secret room, the two of them had been sweating and consolidating in the Shi Clan's martial arts arena.

Shi Huang hoped that Shi Lei and Xingyue could be familiar with the physical strength after the breakthrough through continuous competition with each other, so as to stabilize their respective ascended realms.

“...... Xingyue, you can't let me go back! You're tyrannical to me every time!"

At this moment, Shi Lei, who was covered in blue and purple, said with a face full of grievances.

"Hehe, grandpa has said it, let me do my best to help you stabilize your realm!"

"Your cultivation in the 'Magnetic Heavy Secret Room' has improved too quickly this time, and your foundation is very unstable, I have to listen to my grandfather, and I will beat you and beat you, haven't you noticed it?

Although Shi Lei begged for mercy with an aggrieved face, Xingyue still said with a serious face.

"It seems like this, my strength has indeed increased a lot...... Let's continue to compete!"

"But you can't always take care of my head, do you...... my head is about to turn into a pig's head."

Shi Lei still said to Xingyue with a look of grievance on his face.

But Xingyue didn't pay attention to Shi Lei's "begging for mercy" anymore, and still "greeted" Shi Lei.

Seeing Xingyue's serious appearance, the helpless Shi Lei also understood that Xingyue was doing this for himself, so he didn't say anything more, and went up hard, only hoping that Xingyue would be a little lighter and stop beckoning his head.

The two of them competed in the martial arts arena for more than half a month, and the realm of the two was completely stabilized.

Next, Xingyue happily wandered around the stone city for a few days under the guidance of Shi Lei, relaxing her tense nerves.

......

On this day, just as the two of them were leisurely sitting on the ground in a quiet corner of the stone clan castle and chatting about interesting things in the stone city, the old servant next to the patriarch suddenly came over.

"It turns out that the young master and the prince of Xingyue are leisurely here! The patriarch asked you two to go to the main hall quickly, and there is something important to say to you two. ”

Hearing the old servant say this, the two immediately got up and went to the main hall with the old servant without delay.

At this time, the two people walking on the road were guessing what was going on, which made Grandpa so anxious.

After a while, the two followed the old servant to the stone emperor.

In the main hall, seeing the long aura exuded by Shi Lei and Xingyue's bodies from the inside out, Shi Huang understood that the realm of the two of them was now completely stabilized.

Immediately, Shi Huang nodded at the two of them with satisfaction.

Then, he opened his mouth and said: "I called you two over, because someone from the Five Elements Holy City has informed us that the Stone Clan has been informed, and the Imperial Dabi will be opened in the Five Elements Holy City in two months, and we have two places in the Stone Clan, I want you two to go and see and temper your knowledge." ”

"Grandpa, didn't the Imperial Dabi start next year, why did it take so long this time?"

Hearing what Shi Huang said, Shi Lei's face was full of doubts, and he asked with some confusion in his heart.

And Xingyue is even more confused, what is the "Imperial Competition", and he doesn't know what is in his heart.

"As far as I know, among the younger generation of the other four clans, except for the young master of the Fire Clan, whose strength is slightly weaker, the cultivation of the other three has already entered the spiritual realm, and the reason why the empire is so early this time, the old man feels that it is clear that he wants to directly eliminate our Shi Clan!"

"It would be good if the strength of the two of you could enter the spirit realm, at least there would be a chance to compete for places!"

At this time, I saw the patriarch Shi Huang ponder for a while, and the deep eyes flashed with a wise light and explained to Shi Lei and Xingyue.

"They are too despicable and shameless, isn't this an obvious collusion in secret?

Shi Lei heard his grandfather's analysis and said indignantly.

"Child, you are still too young, you have experienced too little, no matter what time you are on this Nine Domains Continent, you are 'respecting martial arts', and only if you have a certain strength can you have the qualifications to talk about rules with others, otherwise you will be humiliated. ”

Hearing Shi Lei's voice of resentment, the patriarch's grandfather sighed sadly, as if there was an endless unspeakable hidden in his heart.

"Grandpa, don't worry, I will definitely work hard to cultivate, and one day I will have this qualification. ”

At this moment, Shi Lei clenched his fists and said through gritted teeth.

"Grandpa, Shi Lei, what is the 'Imperial Competition' you are talking about, tell me specifically. ”

At this time, Xingyue on the side asked a little eagerly.

"It's better for grandpa to tell you about it!"

"In fact, the Imperial Contest is a competition for the Proud Imperial Empire to select talents for the Proud Imperial Clan. ”

"The Imperial Great Contest is held every three years, and it is a competition to select young disciples for the Five Elements Divine Sect in the Five Elements Holy City, and the martial cultivators with excellent results in the competition can enter the Five Elements Divine Sect to cultivate, and even become the closed disciples of the top powerhouses in the Divine Sect. ”

And most of these selected disciples will eventually join the forces of the Proud Empire, protect the Empire, and be loyal to the Proud Imperial Clan. ”

In this way, we can continuously send fresh blood to the empire, so that the overall strength of the Proud Imperial Clan will always be in a peak state, so that the rule of the Proud Empire will be more stable. ”

Gradually, the status of the empire in the minds of the martial cultivators of the Qianyu region will become higher and higher, and more and more irreplaceable, and in the end, even the martial cultivators in the five affiliated families of gold, wood, water, fire, and earth are proud to be able to enter the power of the empire. ”

"After so many years, after countless imperial competitions, countless talents have been cultivated for the proud empire. ”

"Now that the strength of the Proud Emperor Clan is in full swing, it is getting stronger and stronger, and there is no longer any force in the entire Qianyu that can threaten the rule of the Empire. ”

"Shi Lei, haven't you always wanted to know about the great change in our Shi clan? It's time to talk to you about it now!"

I saw that the patriarch's grandfather pondered for a while with a sad and indignant expression, and finally decided to tell this silent history to Shi Lei and Xingyue.

That was a long, long time ago......

At this time, the patriarch Shi Huang slowly said to Shi Lei and Xingyue with a sad tone, mixed with the pain and depression in his heart.

"At that time, the strength of the Shi clan was as strong as the sky, and it was extremely strong, far surpassing the other four clans, ranking first among the five major Five Elements families, and even the imperial family was also polite. ”

"Maybe it was because the Shi Clan was too eye-catching back then, and the people in the Shi Clan were already upright, so they offended a lot of forces, and it also made other clans full of deep jealousy towards the Shi Clan, especially the Shi Clan made the empire feel the slightest threat. ”

Thus, a shocking conspiracy around the Shi Clan began. ”

"Back then, Shi Lei's eldest brother - Shi Hao was a rare genius of my Shi clan in a hundred years, he cultivated at a young age and reached the Xuan Realm, and he was the first person in the young generation of the entire Qianyu at that time, and it was almost foreseeable that Shi Hao would inevitably win the Qianyu in the near future and become the top few people in the Qianyu, and the status of the Shi clan would be upgraded to a higher level again. ”

Obviously, the other clans also understood this truth, so how could they give Shi Hao enough time to grow. ”

As a result, other small forces hostile to the Shi Clan, led by the three major Five Elements Families of the Jin Clan, the Ice Clan, and the Wood Clan, began to design and besiege Shi Hao. ”

"And after my Shi clan got the news, I immediately mobilized ninety percent of the family's forces to come to the rescue, and all the top martial arts cultivators in the clan poured out, who would have thought that our Shi clan would fall into a bigger trap because of this. ”

"Countless strong people are hiding in the shadows to wait for work, waiting for the arrival of the strong men of our stone clan. As soon as the martial cultivators of our Shi clan arrived, they encountered a deadly sneak attack, and then a shocking battle broke out. ”

"That battle was fought to the ground, and the sky was dark, and the blood flowed like a river. In that battle, the people of my Shi clan were killed and wounded, and none of them survived, among which my eldest brother, Shi Jingtian, the patriarch of the Shi clan at that time, and the powerhouse of the Ninth Order Emperor Realm also fell in that battle. The whole battle was over, and there were very few people left. ”

"That day was simply the end of the world for my Shi clan, which made my Shi clan go from heaven to hell overnight, and the martial arts cultivators of the Shi clan were almost dead, and I and the newborn Shi Lei happened to stay in the clan that time, so we escaped this catastrophe. ”

"This is also the reason why Xingyue, you see, why there are only two people of the Shi clan in the huge stone city castle, Shi Lei and my grandson. ”

"After that battle, maybe it was my eldest brother's unwilling soul that remained in this world, and soon he entrusted me with a dream, so that I could see the cruel scene of the whole battle, and I understood the reason. ”

"I always suspect that there are the top forces in the Empire's Proud Emperor Clan behind this, otherwise with the strength of my eldest brother's ninth-order Emperor Realm, how could he die there. ”

"And my Shi clan has undergone such an earth-shattering change, and the empire really doesn't know what to do, ignores it, turns a blind eye, closes one eye, and allows the Shi clan to decay from this. ”

"And the Jin clan, the Ice clan, and the Mu clan who experienced that battle also suffered heavy losses, and their strength was greatly reduced, and in the end, they only let the Proud Emperor Clan reap the benefits of the fisherman, and at the same time weakened the strength of the four major Five Elements Families without spending a single soldier, eliminating the growing influence of the four clans on the Proud Empire, especially the Shi Clan. ”

"Later, the high-level leaders of the Jin, Bing, and Wood clans also understood the reason for this, and they were also 'dumb and unspeakable', and in the face of the unshakable strength of the empire, they all finally chose to remain silent, and still maintained a good relationship with the empire, as if this incident had never happened. ”

"It's just that I pity my Shi clan, now that the strength is declining, there is no longer the glory of the past, and gradually, the empire is less and less interested in us, which can be seen from this imperial competition. ”

"Hey......"

As he spoke, the patriarch Shi Huang sighed, with a deep helplessness in his heart.

The Proud Emperor Clan is like a mountain lying across the heart of the patriarch Shi Huang, facing the entire Proud Emperor Clan, he feels so powerless, and he has a feeling of being out of breath.

At this time, Xingyue also felt that everything that the Shi clan had suffered was so bitter, and her heart was even more inexplicably uncomfortable and depressed.

"Grandpa, don't be sad, when I dominate a domain one day, I will revive my Shi Clan!"

Suddenly, Xingyue said with great firmness, at this time he had already regarded himself as a member of the Shi Clan.

"Xingyue, grandpa believes in you!"

Hearing Xingyue say so confidently, Patriarch Shi Huang was very moved in his heart.

"Xingyue...... Thank you!"

Shi Lei said even more chokedly.

At this time, Shi Lei understood how heavy the burden was on his shoulders, but Xingyue didn't care and was willing to bear it with him.

"Then grandpa, how can Shi Lei and I break through to the spirit realm faster, I want to go with Shi Lei to participate in the Imperial Competition, that is where we should go. ”

At this moment, Xingyue had secretly made up her mind to obtain better cultivation resources through the Imperial Great Competition, and then her strength would increase by leaps and bounds.

"How can I break through to the spirit realm as quickly as possible?"

......

"Maybe only by obtaining the Earth Sacred Heart in the Godless Prairie can you two successfully break through to the Spirit Realm in a short period of time, otherwise there is no other way. ”

"However, the Earth Sacred Heart is a supreme holy relic, it can be met but not sought, the last time you two were able to meet by chance, it is a great opportunity, it is difficult to get it!"

"If not, I will have to give up this imperial competition. ”

Shi Huang looked in the direction of the "Godless Grassland", thought for a while, and said helplessly.

"Grandpa, I believe that since we can meet once, we can meet a second time, besides, we haven't gone yet, who can know the result, we will enter the godless grassland again, Shi Lei, what do you think?"

Hearing Shi Huang talk about the Earth Sacred Heart in the Godless Grassland, Xingyue suddenly wanted to enter the Godless Grassland again to find the traces of the Earth Sacred Heart, so Xingyue looked at Shi Lei, who was silent and thoughtful, and asked.

"Okay, that's what I mean, then let's go to the godless grassland again, and I believe we will be able to find the 'Earth Sacred Heart'. ”

The two hit it off and immediately decided to go to the godless grassland again.

"Okay! Since you two are so confident, then go! Grandpa believes in you and waits for your good news!"

After Shi Huang said that, he saw Xingyue and Shi Lei leave the main hall under the gaze of Shi Huang and the old servant, and rushed to the godless grassland without stopping.