Chapter 50: The Lonely City Lord
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This is a high stone platform, and the stone is mined in the nearby Liuguang River, but I am afraid that except for the glacier that claims to flow with jade, there is no such large jade material in this world.
Yes, this platform is made of raw jade that has not been cut and polished, and if one day in the distant future the jade reserves of the Liuguang River are depleted, then this platform will become the largest jade reserve in the world.
This is the Moon Observatory, the highest place in the entire Tianlan City, but except for a very few people, no one else is qualified to come to its feet.
It's just that all the residents of Tianlan City can see the high platform standing in the distance as long as they raise their heads, as quiet as a mountain in the clouds and mist, they all know the amazing wealth that this high platform represents, and they are also intimidated by the power and prestige of the Tianlan City Lord.
The Ren family of Tianlan City has grasped Tianlan City for more than 1,000 years, although it has gone through twists and turns, but it has never declined, so this moon watching platform built by the first ancestor has never been fortunate enough to pry off a piece of jade.
Tianlan City is already extremely high, but the Moon Observatory is even higher, it is built on the peak of the lone peak closest to Tianlan City, and below the peak is the manor of the Tianlan City Lord.
This is a very strange thing, the City Lord's Mansion is not built in the city, but it is a well-known thing to be placed in Tianlan City.
Because when the first head of the Ren family settled in Tianlan Mountain, there was no Tianlan City.
Mochizuki Peak is a good family domain, but it is not suitable for building a castle.
The head of the family built the Moon Observatory and built the Moon Moon Villa, and then for hundreds of years, under the leadership of the Ren family, Tianlan City was built one after another at the bottom of this mountain valley.
First there was the city lord, and then there was Tianlan City.
This is also common knowledge for the residents of Tianlan City.
The Lanye Empire should not have a feudal official, because she had just given birth to one of the three greatest emperors in the history of the continent, and the power of the political system was divided between the emperor and the parliament, and the authority of the central government was extremely strong.
However, for Tianlan City, whether it was the emperor or the later council, they all maintained a respect close to Ye Ye City.
The day after Emperor Yuantai took over Yanshi City, Ren Xiasheng, who was the lord of Tianlan City at the time, conveyed his intention to surrender to the emperor through a messenger, and Emperor Yuantai gave him two choices at that time.
The first option is to move the family to Lanlan City, and Tianlan City will be managed by the branch, and at the same time, the Tianlan Ren family will no longer exist, and it will be replaced by the seventh family of the Lanye Empire, surnamed Lan.
The second option is to continue to live in Tianlan City, and you can choose whether to become one of the members of the fifth family surnamed Lan.
For this empire, the surname Lan is a symbol of the top nobility, and the resources and preferential treatment he enjoys even exceed those of the royal family in the conventional sense, and becoming the seventh family surnamed Lan symbolizes close to full autonomy, and they can compete with any surname Lan without any scruples.
But Ren Xiasheng refused.
His reply was only eight words.
"Although Liang Yuan is good, it is not my hometown."
After receiving the reply, Emperor Yuantai laughed loudly, summoned the messenger, and ordered them one by one, and said that he would do so.
So from then on, the Tianlan City Lord became one of the two city lords in the Council of Ten People.
The position of Lord of Tianlan City was passed down from generation to generation by the Ren family, and the empire recognized it and supported it when necessary.
Tianlan City leads its own army, and the three thousand miles of snow fields under the Holy Snow Mountain are all the territory of Tianlan City.
Not without reason.
It is also in view of the unique historical status of Tianlan City, so Lan Mu will entrust Ye Qing to send his handwritten letter to this Qiuke, the director of Tianlan City, who has not been in the Holy Snow Mountain for decades, and hopes to send this favor to Ye Qing.
Just like no one would dislike the friendship of a princess, but in the same way, the friendship of the Tianlan City Lord is not too much for anyone.
Ren Qiuke stood on the moon platform at this time.
The moon platform is extremely high, so high that the clouds and mist are undulating, and the mountains are like smoke, and the entire Tianlan City is crawling under the feet like a model.
It's just that at this time, standing on such a high jade platform alone, you can't help but feel lonely.
It's just that Ren Qiuke himself is a lonely genius.
The Tianlan Ren family has the top family heritage, but Ren Qiuke is incomparably dazzling even in the history of more than 1,000 years.
He began to practice at the age of four, and showed the same outstanding potential for demonic martial arts, if he was an ordinary genius, I am afraid that he would directly choose the path of a demonic swordsman.
However, at the age of six, he gave up magic and specialized in martial arts.
Strictly speaking, specializing in kendo.
Since then, he has been unbeaten.
At the age of nine, he began to do kendo and advanced to the green rank, and since then the ordinary samurai in the family are no longer childish opponents.
Fourteen-year-old kendo Xiaocheng, broke through to the realm in one fell swoop, and went down the mountain with a sword on the day of promotion, alone with a single sword, crisscrossing three thousand miles of snowfields, killing more than a thousand enemies in March, and finally sacrificing the sword with blood.
By the time he was twenty-four years old, he had reached the peak of the twenty-eighth level and had touched the threshold of the Heavenly Realm.
However, this pause has been stopped for thirty years.
The path of the heavenly realm pays attention to the entrance without regrets, even if he indulges as much as the fourth spring of Qingli, he reached the twenty-eighth level at the age of seventeen, but he has suppressed himself for two years, even if he is on the line of life and death in the city of eternal night, he has never thought of advancing to the battle.
Therefore, once he advanced, he was like the sun rising in the east, and in the first battle, he assassinated Emperor Steqingli under the watchful eyes of tens of millions of people, and ascended to the city of Oden on his own.
It's just that the peak of level twenty-eight is an insurmountable level for anyone, even if it can advance to level twenty-eight, it is all a natural asset, but among them, those who can finally reach the heavenly realm are often less than eleven, and it is the Putian Continent, even if the martial arts development has flourished to the peak of ten thousand years after the three saints, but the people of the heavenly realm, if they do not include the hermit, are still only a hundred.
Therefore, even if Ren Qiuke was known as the first person under the Heavenly Realm for as long as thirty years, and was even able to remain undefeated in front of the Heavenly Realm, there were always people who believed that this Tianlan City Lord was extremely talented.
He is so obsessed with kendo that he is the only one with the sword, so it is more than ten times sadter for ordinary people to break the barrier between inside and outside and achieve the heavenly realm.
But for some, common sense is something to break.
Thirty years later, the fifty-four-year-old Ren Qiuke made an appointment to fight against the four Heavenly Realms of the Lanye Empire, single-handedly defeated four of them, advanced in battle, and defeated the four Heavenly Realm powerhouses with a single sword.
Since then, the name of the Tianlan City Lord has truly become an absolute powerhouse in the entire northern realm.
This matter has only been five years now, so the current Tianlan City Lord is fifty-nine years old.
For the Heavenly Realm powerhouse, as long as they have the heart, the lifespan of hundreds of years is lingering, and for them, sixty years old is just equivalent to twenty years old for ordinary people, and it is only the beginning of life.
But for Ren Qiuke, his life has been too long.
He was obsessed with swords, refusing to marry a wife when he was young, citing lack of energy, but by the time the elders of the clan realized that his energy could never be distracted from anything other than the sword, he was too strong for the clan to control.
So he still didn't take a wife.
Now the lord of Tianlan City is fifty-nine years old, but there are no heirs under his knees, fifty-nine years of life, spending time with the sword alone, it is simply unimaginable for ordinary people, but for him, it seems that he was born like this.
He has never been concerned about this matter, the Heavenly Realm powerhouse has a long life, he can at least be in the position of the city lord for more than a hundred years, as long as he succeeds a son and nephew, he can inherit his position, so he is overly worried.
However, the elder of the eldest clan soon discovered that he did not even plan to succeed his nephew for the time being.
Reason - or limited energy.
Therefore, this lonely city lord stood on the high platform, and he himself didn't feel anything, and all those who could see him couldn't help but think of these six words.
"Doomed to be lonely for a lifetime."
However, at this time, a voice slowly sounded behind him.
"Haoyue, meet the city lord."