Chapter 2 The world is divided, and the power is obvious

The direction of history has never been shifted by human will. The establishment and demise of a dynasty is like the ebb and flow of the tide, and generations are on a path of repeating the mistakes of the past.

No matter how perfectly arranged by Emperor Fu Mingyu, it failed to stop the historical process of the Tianyu Dynasty from going to extinction. Since her death, since her imperial brother Huang Fu Minghuan succeeded to the throne, the Tianyu Dynasty has passed on four more generations of emperors, and even within a hundred years, it has completely entered the road of destruction, collapsed abruptly, and disappeared.

In the next hundred years, the Yanhuang Continent was full of wars, and the princes of the Tianyu Dynasty showed all their means to compete for territory, establish a country and claim the emperor, and its vassal countries were not far behind, and after announcing their separation from the Tianyu Dynasty, they tried their best to carve up the territory that was once subordinate to the dynasty. During this period, there were more heroes and heroes, and there were many talents, and therefore, in the first 60 years, the dynasties changed most frequently, and how many once famous families were annihilated in the tide of history and disappeared. Of course, coupled with natural disasters that befall from time to time, the most bitter people are the people who are struggling at the bottom of their lives.

It wasn't until more than 20 years ago that the war situation in the Yanhuang Continent came to an end, and its power structure became different.

The eighteen tribes of the former Northern Wilderness were divided by the Qu clan, the Jin clan, and the Wu clan, and became the three kingdoms of Beiqu, Beijin, and Beiwu, also known as the Northern Three Kingdoms.

The original four kingdoms of Western Jiangxi, Southern Bobo, Southern Fujian, and Dongyi still exist, but the territory has changed, or there have been increases or decreases. Since the beginning of the Tianyu Dynasty, it has been subjugated, and the Nujiang Kingdom, which is known as the most loyal vassal state of the Huangfu Imperial Family, has been destroyed, and all the territory has been returned to the Dongyi Kingdom.

In addition to the territory of the Tianyu Dynasty, which was occupied by the above seven countries, the rest of the territory was divided into seven countries, which were Dongpu, Dongjing, Dongshao, Dongliang, Jingshu, Lanzhao, and the Tianyu Kingdom, which wanted to become an imperial dynasty one day.

Among these fourteen countries, the Heavenly Oracles Kingdom and the Western Jiangxi Kingdom are the strongest, and the other countries have their own merits. But even the strongest Heavenly Oracle Kingdom and the Western Jiangxi Kingdom have to make offerings to the Immortal Alliance on the Immortal Lin Island in the East China Sea of the mainland every year, not to mention the other twelve countries.

The Immortal Alliance, that is a group of "immortal" forces that claim to be superior, pursue the way of immortality, and want to realize the ancient legend of soaring into immortals. Although this group of "immortals" did not really soar to become immortals, and they couldn't even fly, they had really powerful force and were above the countries.

The Immortal Alliance has remarkable combat power, with one palace and four halls, namely: Heavenly Master Palace, True Martial Palace, Poison Gu Palace, Organ Palace, Formation Palace, and the old monsters above the Grandmaster Realm under it are even more ignorant. Therefore, it's not that no one doesn't want to destroy this immortal alliance that makes the royal families of all countries lose face, it's just that whoever thinks like this and does this usually attracts at least one old monster to come to the door to "visit", and now the grass on the grave is one person high, not to mention that the country is ruined.

Smart people don't hit stones with eggs, and those who can build a country and become emperors are not stupid, as long as they don't interfere in their government affairs and take away their rich and noble power, it's not unbearable, anyway, that group of crazy people who want to become immortals never covet imperial power. Therefore, even if the emperors of all countries need to accept the emperor immortal edict issued by the Immortal League to ascend the throne, and the shameless request to get their recognition has been accepted by the emperors of all countries, then other things like what are the annual offerings, the people who come to the Immortal League are treated as guests, the emperors of various countries are forbidden to set their own era names, and the era names of the entire continent are set as Zongwu, etc.

In addition to the Immortal Alliance, there are four major forces on the continent that are beyond the countries and are not controlled by the Immortal Alliance. That is the Shadow Alliance, which is famous for its assassinations, the lawless Barren Mountain bandits, the endless pirates who burn and plunder, and the three families of Jiagu who can be compared to the Immortal Alliance in terms of mechanism formations.

The Shadow Alliance, which only recognizes money and does not recognize people, has never seen its members, and it is said that even if they did, their bones would have long since disappeared. The Shadow League claims that "the Shadow is out, but not a single grass grows", "There is no target that the Shadow League cannot kill, only the money given by the employer is not enough". Even if it is an old monster of the Immortal Alliance, as long as someone offers enough price, the Shadow Alliance will dare to send someone to assassinate him.

And the fact is also true, from the appearance of the Immortal Alliance to the present, the only two old monsters above the Grandmaster Realm who have died have been killed by the killers sent by the Shadow Alliance, and they are still one against two. It is said that the man, a woman, personally landed on Xianlin Island, entered a no-man's land, killed two targets, and left unscathed.

Even if the face-hurting Immortal Alliance was furious and dispatched forces to destroy the Shadow Alliance, the result was that they couldn't even find where the other party's stronghold was, let alone the Shadow Alliance's lair. Of course, although the employer was not exposed by the Shadow Alliance, he also went crazy because he spent all the resources left by his ancestors to restore the country, and finally made a fuss and died at the hands of the Immortal Alliance.

The Barren Ridge Bandits, a name that made every caravan on the Yanhuang Continent change color and hate, actually first referred to the defeated clans of the Eighteen Divisions of the Northern Wilderness of the Continent. When they became the ferocious horse thieves in the northern barren mountains, and because the perennial yellow sand there was everywhere, the hills and sandy ridges everywhere were extremely desolate, and the living environment was too bad, they gradually migrated to the central and southern parts of the continent, and finally divided into bandit groups led by twelve clans.

The barren mountain bandits are distributed throughout the Yanhuang Continent, except for not daring to provoke the behemoth Immortal Alliance, they have never put the countries on the continent in their eyes, and they are haunted and robbed caravans everywhere, which is a headache.

Corresponding to it is the pirate group on the endless sea in the south of the continent. There are at least thousands of islands, large and small. Since the continuous war on the mainland, the long-dormant silence there has been broken. Waves of people who fled the continent became pirates, some forced to leave their homeland and some of them were murderous by nature. Today, there are more than 100 large and small pirate forces in this sea.

The rampant pirates forced the courts of the coastal states to promulgate a ban on the sea, but this did not improve their brutal plunder, but instead prompted them to join forces with the barren bandits on land, in short, the two forces were a headache for the officials of each country.

Jiagu Basin, located in the West Jiangxi, Nanbo, Southern Fujian, Jingshu, Dongjing five countries border of the valley mountain range, because of its special geographical location, only Hangu Pass, Nanjiaguan and Jianxia Pass three passes can enter, the basin is the richest mineral deposits, so from ancient times to the present has been a place for soldiers to fight. Coupled with the mechanism formation that the Tianyu Emperor Shangwu ordered people to build at the three passes during her reign, this basin that made the royal families of all countries very covetous, even easier to defend and difficult to attack, so that the army that sent troops to attack them had no return.

And this place where people can sell mineral deposits, and the rich oil is now in the hands of the Yan family, the Chai family, and the Qu family, known as the "Jiagu Three Clans".

In addition, there are two mysterious places on the Yanhuang Continent, which are the "Psychedelic Island" located in the depths of the southwest sea of the mainland and the "Ghost Fairy Realm" on the border of Dongshao, Jingshu and Dongjing.

The psychedelic island in the depths of the southwest sea is shrouded in fog all year round, and anyone who has seen it can only see its shadow in the strange fog that permeates it. However, no matter how close you feel to it, you can never reach it. Those who had been obsessed with going to the island were either wrecked by the silent, ghostly, skeletal-flagged black warship, or when the ship approached, the island was never seen again. As a result, there are many opinions about the existence of this island, and the psychedelic name is spreading far and wide in the coastal countries.

The Ghost Realm is actually a continuous mountain range on the border of the Three Kingdoms, and its fourteen peaks are high/towering into the clouds, but the strange thing is that seven peaks are like ghosts, and seven are like fairylands.

The seven peaks of the haunted realm are surrounded by a thick black mist, and the eerie scenery of the dead silence is terrifying, not to mention exploring what is wrong with these peaks, and occasionally there are creepy sounds coming from the mountains. There used to be many people who dared not believe in evil to enter, but in the end, people would find their bodies at the foot of the mountain, and they would die as if they had been sucked by ghosts, or mutilated, or blue, or like ink, and over time, people were so frightened that no one dared to approach these peaks again.

The seven peaks of such a fairyland are covered with white clouds and mist all the year round, the green mountains and green waters are looming, sometimes you can hear the beasts and birds crying, sometimes you can hear the flute accompanied by the piano, there are jade lakes and mountains next to you, the ethereal towers, faintly Tingzhou, like a fairyland on earth, such as a dream, it makes people feel refreshed and happy. Legend has it that only children who have been selected by the immortals in the fairyland can enter it, otherwise whether you want to take a boat through the jade lake next to it or climb up from the foot of the mountain, you will only find yourself always circling around it, and you will not be able to enter the mountain at all. No one knows whether there are immortals in this fairyland, but there are rumors that someone saw the immortals above flying on cranes, for this reason, the Immortal League also specially sent people to investigate, but after all, to no avail, and even some curious and bold people were damaged in the ghost territory next to them.

In the end, to avoid affecting the momentum, the matter of the damage to people in the realm of ghosts and immortals was banned by the Immortal Alliance, and only people at the level of the emperors and nobles of the countries would understand the horror there, and the common people would not know about it at all, and they would just use the realm of ghosts and immortals as a talking point.

Speaking of which, even though there are too many forces on the Yanhuang Continent, the countries have been in a relatively peaceful state for more than 20 years. The people are recuperating and recuperating, and the national strength of all countries is recovering. It seems that the bloody storm of war has completely moved away from this continent, but no one knows if this peace will be an illusion?

Because ambition and desire/hope are always things that will not be lacking in the hearts of those in power, and life experiences are even more mysterious and uncontrollable.