Yundu City is the capital of the Northwest Province of the Tianfeng Northwest Empire, covering an area of 30,278 square kilometers and a population of 8.6 million. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The ancestors of the Duan clan have been meritorious from the dragon, since the beginning of the Tianfeng Empire, they have been sealed in this northwest frontier, for more than 2,100 years, they have been on the throne of the city lord, and they have never been left behind, which can be called the largest family in the city. In Yundu City, the vast majority of people only know the city lord, and they don't know what the royal family and royal family are.

September 16, Yundu City.

In four days is the Mid-Autumn Festival, one of the grandest festivals of the year, and also one of the legal holidays of the empire. But not in Cloud Capital City, because the city lord doesn't like this kind of meaningless excitement.

This is well known to the people in the city, all his energy is focused on cultivation, in order to cultivate, he refused to serve as the head of the Duan family three times in a row, just to resist the position of the city lord that followed after serving as the head of the family; in order to cultivate, he was willing to risk the disapproval of the world, separated from his wife, and even drove his wife back to the imperial capital's mother's house, ignoring it. It was also for the sake of cultivation, and he took on the position of city lord again, just to obtain snow lotus leaves that could help his cultivation.

Duan Jingyuan repeatedly showed that he was not interested in the position of the city lord, but he was driven to the shelves and achieved this position. When he became the lord of the city, he put all his energy into his own cultivation, ignoring the affairs of the city, so that all the subordinates in the city wanted to find the lord of the city, but they couldn't find anyone at all.

After the Mid-Autumn Festival, there is another major event that needs to be taken responsibility by Duanjingyuan, that is, the annual competition of all ethnic groups.

The big score of each group is under 20 years old and under 30 years, and those over 30 years old are not allowed to participate. Those who get the top 100 can get the opportunity to go to Maoming Snow Mountain in the ancient land of Duanshi and enter the secret realm.

The secret realm is a unique place in the Celestial Star Continent, and each time it appears, the location is uncertain, the time is uncertain, and the treasures contained in it are uncertain. Even if the time and place of the appearance of the secret realm can be predicted through the calculation of the Heavenly Book Pavilion, no one knows whether it can be gained after entering the Heavenly Book Pavilion.

According to genealogical records, the earliest ancestors of the Duan clan came out of this mountain and followed the founding emperor of the empire to create this thousand-year-old romance and eternal foundation. After the establishment of the empire, in order to recognize the merits of the ancestors of the Duan clan, His Majesty the Emperor gave him the land within 2,000 miles of the Maoming Snow Mountain as a fief.

Of course, this is already the old yellow calendar 2,000 years ago, the years have changed, the vicissitudes of life, the monolith of the year, has long been eroded by time like a sieve;

On the surface, the Duan clan is still respected, but the rest of the family is constantly making small moves under the stage, in addition to the competition for various interests in the city, each family has a stronger interest in the ancestral land of the Duan clan.

The ancestral land is located in the depths of the snow-capped mountains, the specific location is unknown, and there is even a rumor that the ancestral land can be moved, just like a secret realm. But unlike ordinary secret realms, the range of his movement will not exceed the area of Maoming Snow Mountain. As soon as this news came out, it immediately spread to the world. As we all know, the secret realm is a strange existence, and he has three inadmissibles, the first is the inaccuracy of the place of appearance, the inaccuracy of the length of appearance time, and the inaccuracy of the heavenly materials and earthly treasures inside. The only secret realm on the continent that has been fixed is located in the imperial capital, and that is the founding emperor of the empire with his superb cultivation, forcibly exerting anti-heaven means to separate this secret realm from the turbulence of time and space!

But this is a completely special situation, can not be used as a rule, until the rumors of the ancestral land were spread, monks from all sides of the mainland gathered in Maoming Snow Mountain, these guys had a calculation and could not hide from others, so angry that the head of the Duan family at that time was furious, and sent the city guard troops to drive away many times in a row, but how could the monks care about these people, everyone did it together, beat the city guard troops to the head, and fled back to Yundu City.

The city lord is even more angry, so he wrote to the imperial capital, but the effect of this practice is even worse, the mountain is far away, and the urgency is still secondary, the administrative order of the imperial capital is not as good as the papyrus for the monks, there is absolutely no respectful and solemn, kneeling to receive the holy decree, and the mountain shouts long live, if it is not for the people who come to convey the order from the city lord's mansion, they will almost start to drive people out.

The city lord used his brains, but it was useless, and he was really at a loss, and at this moment, a shocking change occurred in the Maoming Snow Mountain! According to the survivors who escaped later, after waiting for many days, the ancestral land finally appeared, and like all secret realms, the place where it appeared was a mountain wall facing north, first a cloud of fog shrouded, then like water waves, and then the fog dissipated, and a door to the secret realm with a height of twenty zhang and a width of seven or eight zhang opened, and the monks who had been waiting for many days were overjoyed, and they wanted to line up to enter, but unexpectedly, colorful neon was shot out of the secret realm, and the monks were shrouded in a thousand ways - later survivor analysis, this may be a special kind of bloodline testing.

The glow disappeared in an instant, and the roar of a wild beast suddenly came out in the secret realm and in the valley! The monks were taken aback, they had been waiting in the snowy mountain valley for many days, and they had not seen the slightest beast infested, where did the roar come from? Before this thought could flash, from the wide light wave gate of the secret realm, a flame leopard rushed out: "Oops, run, it's a level 7 spirit beast!"

When the spirit beast reaches level 6, it has already opened up its spiritual intelligence, some beast cultivators have done research, level 6 spirit beasts, their intelligence is similar to that of two or three-year-old children, and because of the special talent of spirit beasts, their bloodline power far exceeds that of human monks of the same level, and this is just the beginning, who knows how powerful spirit beasts will be in the future?

The progress of things is as expected, the 7-level flame leopard is just the pioneer, behind it, the 7, 8, and 9 level spirit beasts are pouring out like a sea tide, from the common elephant-trunked lion, short-tailed wolf, giant spirit ape, to the frost demon fox above level 10, below level 13, the winged tiger, the golden-topped silver-crowned snake, a cup of tea, the beast tide is swarming all over the mountains, the monk can suffer a great disaster, crowded in the valley, waiting for the monk to appear in the ancestral land, seventy or eighty percent were kissed by the beast, one or two percent even threw away the crown robe and crown, as for the spirit weapon that was carried, Magic weapons are thrown everywhere, and there is not one in ten who can escape with all the beards and all the shadows. This incident is known as the First Maoming Mountain Change.

After the monk escaped from the snow-capped mountain, he sorted out the team and began to think about countermeasures, some people said, is the glow that appeared for the detection of blood? This topic aroused everyone's agreement, since it is the ancestral land of the Duan family, it is obvious that only the Duan family can enter, if that is the case, find a few Duan family members as a guide, and the detection of the glow blinded is not enough?

Thinking of it, the monk found a few Duan family members, agreed the price, and went to the valley again, and then it was an incomparably long wait, five years after the first Maoming Mountain Change, the secret realm was opened again, and the location was 15 kilometers south of the last mountain wall! The monk was overjoyed in his heart, which proved very accurately that the Duanshi ancestral land was indeed a secret realm, and the place where it appeared was in this Maoming Mountain.

With the lesson of the last time, the monks had experience, and hurriedly pushed out those few Duan family members, but unexpectedly, after the glow swept over, the beast tide reappeared! This time, the secret realm seemed to be irritated by the monks' continuous disturbances, and thousands of beast tides poured out, chasing and killing the monks, and the casualties were even more heavy than the last time, and the few Duanjia children who had spent money to hire them bore the brunt of the attack, and there were not even bones and slag left! History is called the second Maoming Mountain Change.

Many monks returned home disappointed, while others did not give up, and when the limelight calmed down, they returned to the valley again, and were immediately stunned: the secret realm had disappeared, but those spirit beasts remained outside. That posture is very clear, these guys are watching the door!

The monks were in complete despair, packed their bags, and left. And after they left, the ancestral land finally returned to the hands of the Duan clan, and then the Duan clan people thought of a good way to use the valley, which was to send young disciples into the valley and use those spirit beasts left outside as trial objects.

This is indeed an excellent method, staying outside the level 6 or 7 spirit beast bloodline is extraordinary, but it is not to the point of being completely irresistible, although every trial will cause casualties, but compared to the goal of cultivating the monks in the clan, this little price is completely worth it. In the following hundred years, countless Duan clan teenagers walked into the valley under the leadership of the clan leader, and carried out a quaint entanglement with spirit beasts, and the two sides taught each other and improved together, becoming a virtuous circle.

This situation was until 170 years ago, in the 56th year after the second catastrophe, the secret realm ancestral land was opened again, when there was a group of young people in this trial, including 4 brothers, all of whom were children of the Duan family, the oldest was 19 years old, and the youngest was only 14 years old.

The division commander of the clan who led the team to the trial was stunned, scratching his ears and cheeks at a loss, if so, three days later, the four brothers were sent out again, according to themselves, they didn't know the speed of time in it, because in the secret realm, there was no alternation of day and night at all, a round of red sun hung high, and it was never depressed. In the beginning, the eldest of the brothers would calculate the time, and after that, he didn't know what to do.

After two catastrophes in a row, coupled with this incident, the Duan family came to the conclusion that the conditions for entering the secret realm of the ancestral land were very harsh, first of all, the direct bloodline of the Duan family, second, there must be an age limit, and third, the time flow rate inside was different from that outside, dozens of times more! With these conditions, the next thing was much easier, first of all, wait for the secret realm to appear again, and then arrange for the children with the right conditions to enter.

But the charm of the secret realm lies in this, after this time, for three consecutive years, there was a secret realm every year, and then it fell silent, until Duanjingyuan reached the right age, and he was fortunate enough to enter the secret realm for cultivation;

Another function of the Duan's secret realm is that it can greatly increase the monk's entry, taking Duanjingyuan as an example, before entering, it was just a mere yellow spirit realm, and after he was teleported out of the secret realm, he had reached the purple spirit realm, and he was actually promoted to two major levels, creating a legend in the cultivation world; If a genius with such qualifications can enter the secret realm, what kind of entry should he have?

It is also for this reason that everyone in the city is particularly dissatisfied with the practice of the Duan clan to control the ancestral land, and has repeatedly asked for the Duan family to open the ancestral land to all the monks in the city, but the Duan family naturally refuses, and the two sides have been fighting for many years, among which it is not uncommon to fight by force, and the Duan family has to agree to it, but the proportion has been reduced again and again, and later someone proposed that since they are all monks, simply put aside those rules and regulations, and determine the number with strength!

Originally, they were all monks and wanted to enter the secret realm, so let's talk about their strength, whoever has the strongest strength can get more opportunities and better resources!

Of course, that's what he said, but in fact, it's not so simple, since Duan Jingyuan entered the secret realm for nearly 70 years, the secret realm has never been opened once! Those monks who have worked hard to win the ranking of the Great Competition, in the snow-capped mountains and valleys, are waiting for more than a thousand days and nights, and only with the various spirit beasts in the valley as the training objects, although they can also get the cultivation effect, but compared to entering the secret realm, it is naturally not the same.

It's just that this kind of thing is not transferred by human will, unless there can be an earth-shattering means like the founding emperor - but if it really reaches that height, do you still need to enter the secret realm to cultivate?