Episode 9 Tiannanzhou's past

Although Lin Da's purpose in rescuing the woman was just to find an excuse to intervene in Tiannanzhou, he didn't expect that the princess of a country he rescued would suddenly raise the target of their visit to the level of national leadership.

However, this woman, who calls herself Ye Qian, the eldest princess of the Yueling Ye Clan, seems to be in big trouble, and it may not be a simple matter for Linda to use her as a breakthrough and open the situation smoothly.

"You're... The princess of the Ye family, well, hello, Her Royal Highness the Princess!" Linda said in a little surprise, still showing a certain courtesy to this woman who claimed to be a princess.

"In front of the two adults, how dare the little woman call herself a princess? Today, the little girl has received a great favor from the two adults, and she will never forget, if she can return to the clan smoothly, she will definitely repay her!" Ye Qian said respectfully.

However, when Sonia saw her embarrassed appearance, she couldn't bear it, so she threw a healing charm to the woman and suggested: "Let's find a suitable place first, it's the first time for the two of us to come here, and we want to know a lot of things." You're not in a good situation right now, so let's take a break. ”

Ye Qian borrowed Sonya's healing charm and said very gratefully: "More gifts from adults! The little girl is fine, but I know that there is indeed a quiet place nearby, if the two adults don't dislike it, please come with me!"

"Well, please lead the way, princess. Linda and Sonia smiled at each other and said with a smile.

Soon, the three of them were in a valley dozens of kilometers away. The size of this place is no more than dozens of mother land, overgrown with pear blossom-like trees, snow-white flowers hanging on the branches, green grass on the ground, a stream slowly passing, the air is pleasant, warm and quiet, really as beautiful as a fairyland on earth. Let the two Linda who traveled all the way be very happy.

"Tell us about Tiannanzhou! We should be meeting for the first time, right? But why do you call us Atvatan? Tell us everything we want to know!" After sitting down in a clean place in the valley, Linda couldn't wait to ask Ye Qian.

"Yes, two adults. Ye Qian replied respectfully, and then patiently and meticulously told Lin Da and the others.

Tiannanzhou, like Dongyanzhou, is also a continent with a long history. Tiannanzhou is also a closed continent, the snow flowing down from the Maya Mountains in the north, converged into the long Borneo River, from northwest to southeast across the entire Tiannanzhou, giving birth to countless creatures and races, but also created a splendid and colorful Tiannan Prefecture Xiuzhen civilization.

Because it is located in the tropics, there is plenty of rain, fertile land, and abundant products, so it has raised a large number of people, according to incomplete statistics, the population of the entire Tiannan Continent is almost more than 10 billion people, almost more than three times that of Dongyanzhou. There are many races here, religion is extremely developed, and almost everyone is religious. And the race here is also slightly different from the people of Dongyanzhou, most of them have darker complexions, stout figures, few handsome and beautiful people, and many ugly and short people, only a few ethnic minorities in the north have fair complexions, three-dimensional facial features, and look much better, these ethnic minorities have also become the most dominant clan in Tiannanzhou, and have become the largest force in Tiannanzhou.

Like the rest of the Terran Continent, Tiannanzhou is also a place where cultivators are in charge. But the strange thing is that although the population base of Tiannanzhou is large, there are not many local monks, and there are fewer people who meet the qualifications for cultivation, and only one in every thousand people meets the conditions for cultivation, so the monks in Tiannanzhou can be said to be rare, and the number of high-level monks is even smaller. This point is quite consistent with Linda's original conjecture.

In the Terran Continent, cultivation means power, and it is also a symbol of the strength of a country and a race, and a country without a strong cultivator will certainly not last. Although there are not many cultivators in Tiannanzhou, it has not been threatened by many foreign invasions, this is because in addition to the geographical barrier, Tiannanzhou also has its own unique cultivation system, which constitutes another powerful force guarding Tiannan. In addition to cultivating spells, the locals also have a unique way of cultivating, which is the cultivation of body alchemy.

Alchemy was originally an important exercise in the cultivation system, in terms of strength, ordinary first- and second-order refiners could compete with Qi realm cultivators, third-order refiners were equivalent to Dan realm cultivators, and fourth-order refiners were equivalent to infant realm cultivators. And the cultivation of alchemy to the highest realm is not much different from cultivation in essence. Although the people of Tiannanzhou are not suitable for cultivating spells, the people here have invented several kinds of alchemy techniques that are suitable for the characteristics of the human body of Tiannanzhou people. In addition, Tiannanzhou is quite rich in cultivation resources, so it has created a large number of cultivators, and almost all the ordinary soldiers in Tiannanzhou are first- and second-order body refiners, and the dozen or so Dulin Army monster cavalry who confronted Lin Da before, three or four of them are second-order body refiners.

It is precisely because there are a large number of body refiners in Tiannan Continent that they can compete with other parts of the Terran Continent in the event of a conflict, and the geographical location is quite isolated, so that they can maintain their independence in the Terran Continent that is surrounded by heroes.

As early as more than 2,000 years ago, the Kshatriya tribe at the foot of the Maya Mountains in the north of Tiannanzhou gradually became stronger, this tribe went all the way south to the Borneo River, and constantly conquered various small tribes on the Great Plains, and finally unified the entire Tiannanzhou and established a huge super dynasty, which was called the Mauryan Dynasty by the Tiannan people.

Unlike the rest of the Terran Continent, the Peacock Empire did not have absolute authority over the various parts of Tiannan Continent. There are more than 100 tribes in Tiannanzhou, although all the tribes respect the Mauryan Dynasty on the surface, except for paying tribute to it regularly and irregularly every year, in fact, they are all in their own affairs, and the Mauryan Dynasty is more like an alliance leader most of the time, and does not directly interfere in the internal affairs of each tribe. And the strength of this Peacock Dynasty is not weak, although the number of monks is not much, but there are many high-level monks, there are more than ten strong people in the infant realm, and there is more than one strong person in the half-void realm who is in the clan, which is not a weak force.

Under the loose rule of the Mauryan Empire, the entire Tiannanzhou was in a relatively stable and stable environment. Although the living conditions of mortals did not improve because of the small number of cultivators, but instead appeared more ignorant and backward under the influence of the prevalent religion in Tiannan Continent, on the whole, Tiannan society was still in a peaceful environment, and it was not like Dongyanzhou before, which was shrouded in the clouds of war all year round.

But more than 100 years ago, the peaceful environment of Tiannanzhou was finally broken. Several large indigenous tribes near the northern mountains are suddenly aided by a mysterious alien power, and their power has grown by leaps and bounds overnight, reaching a point where it can almost rival the Mauryan Empire. Driven by their growing ambitions, these tribes banded together to form an allied tribe called the Asura and launched an attack on the Mauryan Empire, which was in the middle of Tiannanzhou, with the intention of overthrowing its rule.

If it is just an ordinary dynasty change war, it has little to do with ordinary people, and it is only aimed at the top of the other side. However, the Asura tribe's method of warfare is to adopt the mode of genocide, and for any tribe or city that dares to resist its invasion, it even adopts the method of slaughtering the entire tribe, and uses extremely brutal means to force the tribes of Tiannanzhou to submit. Under this threat of violence, there are constantly tribes who choose to surrender to the Asura clan, including the Titan clan to which the dozen or so monster riders just now. The Mauryan Empire was also defeated by the enemy's continuous and powerful blows, and the control of the low region retreated from the northern region to the central region, and nearly half of the country's territory was occupied by the Asura tribe.

This protracted war has led to a large number of civilian casualties, and the brutality of the war has created a great horror for the reality of the population and a great desire for peace. I don't know when a prophecy related to the war began to circulate among the tribes of Tiannanzhou. Legend has it that the main god Romeo, whom the people of Tiannanzhou believe, will send his brave and fearless warrior Atwatan to come to the world from the east on the biplane Vimana at some point in the future, and he will hold a famous sword to eradicate evil, save the people of the world from fire and water, rebuild the "perfect world", and restore peace in Tiannanzhou.

This prophecy spread widely among the people, from the top of the tribe to the mortal three-year-old child, and everyone hoped that Atvatan would soon appear and destroy the evil Asuras. And at this time, Linda and Sonia appeared in a plane. There is no doubt that the appearance of the plane is very similar to the appearance of the prophesied biplane Vimana, and the strength of Linda is so powerful, and he has come here from the east, which completely echoes the image of the prophecy. Therefore, as soon as Ye Qian and a dozen monster riders saw Linda and the two, they immediately connected with the prophecy and decided that Linda and the two were the legendary Atvatan.

"So, Lord Atvatan, please save us!" Ye Qian pleaded sincerely to Linda.

"Stupid!"

"Superstition!"

Lynda and Sonia had these two thoughts in their minds almost at the same time, and the two looked at each other with a smile, but they couldn't hold back from saying it.

After a few moments, Linda gathered her thoughts and asked, "Okay! Are we your legendary Atvatan, let's talk about that later." You were hunted down and killed by those people before, what was going on? Why did you look a little different from them? But you knew us a little? The surname Ye shouldn't be Tiannan's local surname, right? Is the Ye family related to Dongyanzhou?"

When Ye Qian heard this, her face suddenly turned red, as if she had been poked at a secret hidden somewhere in her heart for a long time, she was silent for a moment, and then tactfully told the history of the Ye clan.

It turned out that this Yueling Ye clan was also a nobleman of the Chu State of Dongyanzhou back then, and it was not a small clan, and there were even strong people at the peak of the Dan Realm in the clan. Thousands of years ago, the Ye clan was named the king of Nanzhao by the Chu royal family, and its fief was near Tengcong City in today's mermaid country. The king of Chu sealed the Ye clan here in order to let it shoulder the heavy responsibility of defending against the barbarians of Tiannanzhou. Unexpectedly, hundreds of years after the Ye people obtained the fief, because they were far away from the central area of the Chu Dynasty, they gradually developed a heart of self-reliance. He even secretly discharged envoys, colluded with the Peacock Dynasty in Tiannanzhou, and was willing to cooperate with the Peacock Dynasty to lead the army into Dongyanzhou, hoping to use external forces to meet its ambition to dominate one side.

At that time, the Mauryan Empire had just completed the great unification, and its founders also intended to test the east, so the two forces colluded. After a long period of conspiracy and planning, a great war broke out between the Mauryan Empire and the Chu State. The Ye tribe's plan to attack the Chu State was very thorough, and even contacted the Chiyou tribe, the most powerful minority group in the southern part of the Chu State that had not yet been conquered at that time, as an alliance, and skillfully let the Chiyou tribe come out everywhere and become the vanguard of the attack on the Chu Dynasty, but he hid behind the scenes and secretly commanded.

When the Chu Dynasty heard of the attack of the Mauryan Dynasty, the whole country was shocked. But at that time, the state of Chu was still one of the top two powerhouses in Dongyanzhou, and there were more than three strong people in the infant realm in the country, and they immediately gathered hundreds of thousands of troops across the country to resist the attack of the Mauryan Dynasty and suppress the rebellion of the Chiyou tribe. At that time, the expeditionary force sent by the Peacock Dynasty to invade Dongyanzhou was not the most elite force, the number was only about 300,000, and the combat effectiveness was not the opponent of the elite division of the Chu State.

After repelling the invaders, the state of Chu began to purge the tribes involved in the rebellion, and almost the entire tribe of Chiyou was wiped out, and the culprit of the Ye tribe also knew that a catastrophe was coming, and quickly retreated to Tiannanzhou before the state of Chu encircled and suppressed it, and since then has joined Tiannanzhou and become a tribe under the rule of the Mauryan Dynasty.

Because of the stain of betrayal, the Ye family's situation in the Peacock Dynasty was not very good, not only was it disliked by other tribes, but the Peacock Dynasty was not very at ease with it, and it had always been more guarded against it, but it was only because the Ye family had more high-level monks and its strength was intact, so it did not make further moves. But the Ye family has also been suppressed and excluded from the mainstream of Tiannanzhou. It wasn't until thousands of years later, when the Shura tribe invaded, that the Ye family was finally forced to participate in the war, and Ye sent an army to the front line to fight. And Ye Qian is one of the commanders of this army, the reason why she was chased and fled just now was that in a battle not long before, the Tiannanzhou Alliance army where the Ye family was located was defeated by the Asura army, and she herself was separated from the large army, so she was chased and killed by the pursuers all the way to this point.

After listening to Ye Qian's words, Linda and Sonia had different opinions in their hearts at the same time, Linda was thoughtful and eager to try, while Sonya's eyes showed disdain, and her heart showed a trace of disgust for the betrayal of the Ye family.

Lin Da was silent for a while, and then said something shocking: "I see! Ye Qian, how about I give you a proposal now? Your Ye clan cooperates with us, if it succeeds, then your Ye family will not only be able to make a comeback, and from now on have real independent sovereignty, and may even replace the Mauryan Dynasty and usher in a new era of development, what do you think?"