Su Qi's heart tightened.

The Eight Desolation Sword quietly unsheathed and hung above his head, a wisp of sword light spat out, and his divine sense swept around, especially the vast forest sea behind him, and he always felt that there seemed to be a lot of enemies lurking there.

He had heard of the name of the Soul Refining Sect.

Nanling is vast, and the number of sects is actually several times higher than that of Zhongzhou, especially the kind of small sect with only a dozen or twenty people, and it is as vast as a sea of smoke, and there are often inextricable relationships between these sects, such as this soul refining sect, although the number of people is not many now, from the sect master to the disciples, there are only more than 30 people, but in fact, the ancestors are famous, and they were also famous in the war between the two clans seven thousand years ago, and even the sword immortals have praised them for their soul skills that are unparalleled in the world.

However, at that time, the Soul Refining Sect was still known as the Soul Forging Sect, and there were as many as three or four hundred disciples of the sect, and the station was in the vast forest of a hundred miles south of Nanjiang City, the Soul Forging Sect was good at secret techniques related to the soul, the means were strange and inexplicable, and they often killed people invisibly, and the gods unknowingly let the opponent die in their own caves, and it has always been a bone that is difficult to gnaw in Nanling, and the reputation is also fierce。

The Soul Forging Sect dispatched twenty-one monks, including the sect master, to stop and kill the demon clan in Baile Mountain in the north of the Nanling Mountains, killing 7,600 demon clans with the Great Soul Forging Technique, and refining the souls of these dead demon clans into a soul sword, separated by a distance of 800 miles, and forcibly wiped out a big demon, this kind of record was even targeted by the first demon, if it wasn't for the sword immortal to personally stop it, the first demon who was still a half-emperor at that time would personally go south to hunt them down.

However, soon after the war between the two clans was pacified, the Soul Forging Sect split and became two sects, which greatly damaged the strength of the sect, but in fact, this is also a very common thing in Nanling, and there are many sects that are famous in history without a trace.

All of this stems from Nanling's unique way of inheritance.

Like most sects in Donghuang and Zhongzhou, the masters of the Nanling sect are often selected from the core disciples, especially the personal disciples of the contemporary sect masters, almost all of whom have the qualifications to inherit the sects, but in the Eastern Wilderness and Zhongzhou, all the sects will be carefully selected among these core disciples, set up some assessments or conditions, and sometimes there will be a big competition, which will be eliminated layer by layer, until the last person remains, he will become the next master after the contemporary master retires.

But Nanling is different, although the sect here will also set some conditions, but it is not demanding to select only one of the most outstanding disciples, but there will often be several disciples who pass all the assessments and become candidates for the head of the sect, and after the retirement of the contemporary master, these disciples all have the power of inheritance, and the sect will also be divided, the strongest has the mountain gate and most of the disciples, and the other candidates will leave the sect and set up another mountain with their cronies, if the relationship with the strongest is good, the new sect will often be very close to the old sect and take care of each other, but if the relationship is very poor, it is very likely to migrate to other places in Nanling, and no longer interact with each other。

This tradition seems strange and difficult for the monks of Donghuang and Zhongzhou to understand, but it actually has a lot to do with the past of Nanling, and it is a custom that has been passed down for tens of thousands of years.

Although Nanling is rich, but the environment is harsh, there are many dangers, even the monks here are not easy to survive, there are often monks who die before they grow up, at that time the biggest enemies of the Nanling monks are not each other, but this vast land, here is full of terrible poisonous insects and beasts, their venom can not even be resisted by the Tianyuan monks, there is also a poisonous miasma that can easily wipe out the monks of Kongming, and they will die when they enter, and there are many ancient relics buried under the ground of Nanling, they are left by the ancestors of the human race, and they are left behind when they conquered this world after crossing from the boundary road, but these things are often very dangerous。 god

Therefore, in order to ensure the continuous inheritance, there is a custom in the two worlds of Nanling, that is, there is never a single successor, and each generation is qualified to inherit the family business for at least three, sometimes even as many as seven or eight people, this custom can also find a shadow in the barbarians, and to this day, in the barbarian family, every child still has the right to inherit, regardless of men, women, old and young.

This allowed the Nanling Monks to survive in this harsh land, and to preserve the oldest heritage of the entire human race.

However, with the passage of time, many dangerous places in Nanling have been leveled by the human race, and the environment is no longer as bad as in ancient times, and the rapid rise of the sects of Zhongzhou and Donghuang has also put great pressure on Nanling, and some sects have begun to change, changing this ancient way of inheritance, and vigorously accepting the customs of Zhongzhou and Donghuang, in this process, it is naturally accompanied by blood and cruelty, but it has also allowed some Nanling sects to begin to rise, and they have the qualifications to be equal to the Zhongzhou sect.

However, at any time, there will always be opponents in the pursuit of change, and it is often difficult to tell right from wrong.

Soul refining sect is a representative of the traditional faction, they refuse to change, those who accept the Zhongzhou culture of the sect as a betrayer, and even have a hunting behavior, more than a hundred years ago, this kind of hostility is extremely strong, the entire Nanling is almost divided, always on the verge of a big war, the vendetta between the sects continues, even the secular dynasty of Nanling is also stormy, one year the emperor of Dayue even changed four in a row, each of them died in vain.

The turning point of the matter lies in the Tianji Pavilion.

In order to solve the chaos, those sects that seek change have to extend a hand to Zhongzhou for help, under the leadership of Tianji Pavilion, Zhongzhou sects are also simply, asking people to give people, asking for money to give money, the strength of these sects for change has risen sharply, and they have begun to suppress those traditional sects, under the continuous suppression for decades, these traditional sects have almost collapsed, lost two-thirds of the control of Nanling, and can only retreat in the southern part of Nanling, the land north of the 100,000 mountains.

And these traditional sects are naturally hostile to the Heavenly Machine Pavilion, and the Soul Refining Sect is one of their leaders, south of the Nanjiang River, these traditional sects still have quite strong strength, and they are extremely protective of food, even the monks in other parts of the Nanling Ridge are not willing to trespass on their territory.

Under the strange inheritance of Nanling, the Soul Forging Sect continued to split, and by the time of the current Soul Refining Sect, more than a hundred sects had been split, of which eighty percent had died out, and the rest were all sects that cultivated the Great Soul Technique, they were all traditional sects, and most of them also respected the orders of the Soul Refining Sect, so what the monk who was hidden in the forest just now, 'In the name of my Soul Refining Sect, I invite all of you to work together' was not a lie, nor was it a simple threat.

It's about telling the truth.

The traditional sect of Nanling is probably coming.