Rank shackles, as the name suggests, are a shackle that binds grades.

From the beginning of the grade era to the present, this hidden concept idea was first proposed by the mountain movers.

The meaning is that when there is the highest strength in the world, if they are stuck in a certain realm and cannot move forward, then the strength of the entire world will also stop.

It's like a shackle that holds all of humanity forward.

In the past few decades, Jiupin has been stuck on the heads of all mankind like a big mountain.

As the number of peaks of the eighth grade increases, no one can take the lead in taking this step and enter the ninth grade in advance.

However, once someone is able to step into the nine pins first.

This undoubtedly broke the shackles, and the rest of the eight pinnacles were able to smoothly step into the ninth pinnacle.

The shattering of the shackles of rank means that future generations who want to step into this realm can enter with relative ease without paying as much as the first person.

In the world, as long as the first nine products appear, it is as if some natural laws have been touched, and the rest of the nine products will be born one after another in a very short time.

Emperor Han and his entourage listened quietly to this matter about the shackles of grade.

Jin Fenggu was not stingy, but finished talking about these things plainly.

"Pioneers."

After listening to it, Tianji muttered a noun.

Jin Fenggu nodded.

"That's right, that's the pioneer effect. When Columbus set foot on the Indian continent, he stepped out of this new land as a pioneer, and then the original American continent began to develop and take off, which is the effect of the pioneers. ”

"In the same way, the pioneer effect applies to the leap of grades."

Hearing the conversation between the two, Emperor Han seemed to understand something.

"So, this means that the Hidden Dragon may not be the first existence to step into the Nine Ranks."

Jin Fenggu and Tianji glanced at each other, then looked at Emperor Han and nodded.

"In terms of the time to step into the nine grades, I am still before him."

Jin Fenggu opened his mouth quite proudly.

Emperor Han frowned.

"Is the Sword God Senior the first existence to step into the Nine Grades?"

Jin Fenggu shook his head.

"I'm not sure, the world is big, it's nowhere near as simple as you see."

"In fact, human beings should be more united, not to aim at each other, today's countries continue to friction, as the strength of the national level becomes stronger, but the ambition is inflated, but also wants to invade other countries."

"When that time comes, the enemy in the shadows will seize the opportunity."

Hear here.

Emperor Han once again showed a confused expression.

"Enemy in the shadows? Who is it referring to? ”

Tianji thought of something, and then looked at the sword god, asking tentatively, with a slightly sideways expression.

"You mean them?"

Emperor Han looked at the expressions of the two people, as if he had touched on some special level.

"What are they?"

Tianji hesitated for a moment, then chose to speak.

"They come from the ocean."

"Ocean?"

"Fifty years ago, this was the first time we faced a strange presence from the ocean......"

Fifty years ago.

Magic City.

Remote port.

The young Tianji did not achieve such outstanding achievements as in the future, but was an ordinary port porter.

Tianji, who is in his early twenties, has exhausted his strength and hard work to build a new future in the city that is open to the outside world.

One day.

Tianji worked as hard as ever, and he usually got on and off the freighter and moved the goods up and down.

He sensed that something was wrong, the ocean-going freighter was shaking in its entirety!

Immediately, he shouted loudly, trying to deliver the news to the others.

As a result, when he shouted, the shaking disappeared.

Tianji showed a stunned expression.

The freighter in front of me seemed to be fixed, and it didn't move!

Immediately afterwards, everyone ran over, looked at the calm freighter, and then looked angry at Tianji!

Tianji tried to explain the shaking he had just seen.

"I really didn't lie to you, please believe me, I really saw this freighter shaking unusually!"

However, the captain of a freighter at the time was dismissive.

"I think you're trying to be lazy, and you've made up a whole bunch of reasons to convince us that you're hallucinating because you're tired!"

"It's weird if the hull doesn't shake in this water!"

Heaven is really indisputable.

When he was young, how could he have so much ability as he did later, and he naturally couldn't explain it in the face of this kind of thing.

For a while, Tianji even wondered if he was dazzled.

Then, the captain pulled out a wad of quaint coins from his body and threw it onto Tianji's chest.

The coins fell down Celestial's chest and scattered all over the ground in front of him.

"You can get out!"

"Since you're hallucinating from exertion, this job isn't for you."

Tianji was stunned and looked at the captain's expression.

Then look down at the scattered coins.

The group laughed and walked away, while their mouths continued to mock and joke about Tianji.

"Hehe, I'm afraid this person doesn't have a problem with his brain! It is estimated that it is a migrant worker in the countryside who has never seen the world, and he is a bun! ”

"It should be, this kid has never seen the sea, nor has he seen such a big freighter, that's why he said such ignorant words!"

"Forget it, let him get out of here, it's bad to see him here, and delay the time for the freighter to set sail."

“......”

Tianji clenched his fists, and in the face of the contempt and ridicule of these people when he was young, he finally chose to endure it.

Then, Tianji bent down and picked up the scattered coins little by little.

Back in his shabby rental house.

The next day.

Tianji saw the newspaper, and the front page on it published a blockbuster news.

"The ocean freighter departed at 2 o'clock in the middle of the night and mysteriously sank out of the port!"

Suddenly, the corners of Tianji's eyes jumped wildly!

He understood that the strange shaking of the hull he saw yesterday was not his hallucination!

The news in the newspapers confirmed his thoughts!

The 500 people on the ocean freighter were all sunk in the ocean, carrying all the cargo.

Tianji felt the hairs stand on end.

For some reason, he had a feeling of not being able to feel at ease.

As the one who witnessed all this, and probably the only survivor, could he have been targeted by something weird?

Will these things allow him to continue to live?

So, Tianji panicked and immediately packed up his things and fled from the magic capital.

Just as he cleaned up his things and escaped from the rental house.

Several strange figures appeared outside.

The group wore large black trench coats with huge brims that covered their faces, making it impossible for others to see what they looked like.

"You, who are you?"

Tianji was blocked by this group of people at the door, making his legs and feet weak for a while, and he couldn't help but take a few steps back, and then leaned against the door.

"Boom."

The figure in front of him made an unpleasant sound.

Then the head of the body slowly took off the brim of the hat, revealing something that Tianji will never forget in this life.

That's a scaly human face!

He swore that in his life he would never forget the horror of encountering such an inhuman creature for the first time.

"Ahh ~”

Tianji was just about to shout in fear and wanted to shout for help, but his mouth was blocked by someone who came.

It was a pair of hands covered with fish scales, but only two fingers, but they were still very strong and grabbed Tianji's neck.

"You, what do you want to do?"

Tianji closed his eyes and spoke in pain.

"Kill you, of course!"

This harsh, lame human language came out of the other's mouth.

Tianji immediately understood that this group of people was by no means human!

He thought the world was like this, but he experienced it one day!

"Why?"

"Of course you see something you shouldn't see!"

"Yesterday's cruise ship, is it your troublemaker?"

"Yes! We almost ruined our good deeds because you were exposed, but the result was good, and now we have traveled thousands of miles and finally walked on land at the cost of good fortune, the purpose of which is to kill you, a witness, and prevent you from telling these two-legged animals on land about our existence! ”

From the tone and content that existed in front of him, Tianji could clearly feel the other party's contempt and hatred for human beings.

But at the same time, it is not a simple thing for them to want to go on land.

There was a huge doubt in Tianji's heart.

What are these existences?