Chapter 1: The Gift of Spring
Kaiyang Continent - East Acropolis
The East Acropolis has been hot and windless these days, and it seems to be holding back a heavy rain. People in the streets hurried to and fro in heavy robes, and they didn't seem to feel the heat.
On the side of the wide road, the hawkers shouted loudly,
"The spirit stones that are newly mined are all in the upper, middle and lower levels!"
"The best crystal sword, buy and fight now, don't go to the Xuan level and don't need money!"
"A newborn yellow-rank riding beast, two hundred middle-rank spirit stones!"
Outside the city gate, there was a sudden sound of rumbling iron hooves, accompanied by the roar of a demon beast, and the earth seemed to tremble.
"It's the Su family's personal guard!"
"It's the two genius young masters of the Su family who are back, I heard that they hunted a ground-level demon beast in the Linyuan Forbidden Land!"
"Ground-level demon beast?! Isn't that equivalent to the existence of mortal immortals? ”
"Yes, the future of these two young masters is limitless!"
A large group of people rode the demon beast across the street quickly, and in the iron cage at the back of the team was a bloodied sun beast - equivalent to an immortal cultivator in the late stage of mortal immortals.
In the back garden of the Su family, the bamboo shadow is mottled, the dark fragrance is floating, and there is no heat at all, and a young man in a cyan robe is standing respectfully talking with a richly dressed old woman.
"Child, you have a long way to go, you must succeed, and the future of the Su family is in your hands." As he spoke, he handed a dark stone into the young man's hand.
"Don't worry, master, I'll not disgrace my life!" The young man in the green robe clutched the stone given to him by the old woman and said solemnly.
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The Kaiyang Continent is a world of cultivating immortals with martial arts as the respect, and people are always eager to prolong their lives and have stronger force. The strong are respected, this is the rule of the Kaiyang Continent.
The center of the Kaiyang Continent is a column that goes straight to the sky, occupying a circle of eight hundred miles, the whole body is jet black, so black that it seems to suck all the light in, and there are many incomprehensible Yin carving lines on it. No one knew how high the column was, and for tens of thousands of years countless people could not suppress their curiosity to fly down the column to its end, but no one ever succeeded; There were also people who wanted to dig down and see where it came from, and no one succeeded.
It is said that this pillar has existed since the moment the continent was born, and it has remained unchanged for eternity. Some people say that this is the pillar that holds up to the sky, without which the sky will fall; Some people also say that this is the secret book left by the true god, and if you understand the lines, you can soar to become an immortal.
People worship it as a holy object and gather under the pillar to practice in the hope of attaining the Heavenly Dao. People can always divide their ethnic groups into three, six, nine and so on, especially in the Kaiyang Continent, some people are born with the cultivation of the Jindan period, but some people have to practice from scratch.
In the first few thousand years, immortal cultivators married each other, and four powerful families were formed under the survival of the fittest: the Su family, the Qin family, the Wang family, and the Chu family. Their clansmen were not only born in the Jindan period, but also had good martial arts and martial arts inheritance to help them cultivate.
These four families developed rapidly with the martial arts they had realized, and they occupied more resources on the continent by force, and they were even more powerful, and gradually controlled the entire continent after 10,000 years. In order to monopolize the right to comprehend the sacred relics, the four major families built their own cities around the column: the Sujiadong Acropolis, the Qinjiabei Acropolis, the Wangjiaxi Acropolis, and the Chujianan Acropolis.
The stars have shifted, the timeline has turned to more than 400 years ago, and countless generations of the Su family have had a huge crisis.
The Su family is different from the other three, it is a family headed by a woman, and their family has a family heirloom black stone, which is said to have fallen from the prehistoric column, and happened to hit the ancestor of the Su family who was cultivating next to the column, and directly formed a soul contract with her, so this stone is called the soul stone.
Legend has it that this soul stone has a natural connection with each generation of Su family heads, whenever a new family master is born, the soul stone will shine, the Kaiyang Continent will shake the mountains, and the black pillar will also shake a few times, and at the same time, a baby boy will be born in the direct blood relatives of the Su family, which is the destined person of the new family owner.
After the birth of this baby boy, the Su family will continue to give birth to many extremely talented children in the five hundred years of the mainland, which is why the Su family has always been the strongest family.
But the new head of the family will not be a member of the Su family in most cases, not even necessarily a person of this plane, the soul stone will guide him from the age of 18, leading him to find a new family master, when the new family master and the soul stone conclude a contract, the Su family is no longer the Su family, and everyone in this family will use the surname of the new family master, except for the boy.
The Su family has been faintly completed in recent years, and it is precisely because of this that the four families are the weakest. The current head of the family and his wife are already more than four thousand five hundred years old, for the peak of the Immortal Venerable who has no hope of breaking through to become an Immortal Emperor, five thousand years old is already the maximum lifespan, and those talented sons have also withered, and now there are few masters of the Su family!
After the previous head of the family and her husband both broke through to the Immortal Emperor, they went to travel all over the world, experiencing life in various planes, and they were more than 8,000 years old, I don't know if they are still in the world, maybe they have broken the void, and it is unknown if they have become gods. There are few people who can save the Su family!
At this time, the next head of the family is still nowhere to be found, even if she is born, it will take a long time to find her and wait for her to become an immortal, the Su family is afraid, the other three families covet the soul stone for 10,000 years or 20,000 years, and there are many emerging sects and families outside the Four Acropolis. It was good to say that the Su family was as strong as a cloud, and they didn't care at all. Now it's different, although the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, but being unable to continue is really the most vicious curse on a family.
In the past three hundred years, the Su family has been worried, and the adults have ordered their heirs not to cause trouble outside, and they have invested a lot of resources in the children with a little talent, hoping that the Su family can have the power to protect themselves after the head of the family goes.
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Until that spring 18 years ago, the sky was full of brilliance, the underground shook the mountains, the new head of the Su family and her destined person were born, and everyone else in the Kaiyang Continent was disappointed.
The Su family named the boy Su Zhiqi. Su Zhiqi, the auspicious omen of the Su family. He has been carrying the hopes of everyone in the Su family since he was born, and now that he is born, the Su family has also begun to look forward to his arrival at the age of 18.
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-Nowadays-Su's Back Garden-
The young man in the green robe turned around firmly, left the courtyard, and made a secret oath: I will definitely save the Su family, but not in that way, I will definitely be able to save the Su family by my own strength, definitely!
He is Su Zhiqi, Su Zhiqi who is regarded as a treasure by the Su family.
As a person destined by the head of the family, he also has a talent that even those geniuses can't match, and he has been instilled with a thought by the Su family since he was sensible: his only mission is to cultivate hard, find a new family master, and fight against the monks of the other three families with her, leading the Su family to a new peak.
But he doesn't, who is not young and frivolous when he was a teenager, Su Zhiqi thinks that he can save the Su family by himself, and that woman, love can't come. He Su Zhiqi is an independent individual, why let a woman who doesn't know where he is determine his value!
So he cultivated fiercely without being urged by others, and in the eyes of others, he was for the Su family, which attracted the praise of the Su family, and he was talented and diligent. Adults turn their heads every time they think of Su Zhiqi to train their children how they are not as good as Su Zhiqi, the children are not convinced but they haven't been able to justify, who makes Su Zhiqi for us?
Only Su Zhiqi's little cousin, Chu Yunchen, knew that his cousin was cultivating hard not only for the Su family, but also for himself.