Directly north of Qingxi City, there is a castle covering an area of more than 400 acres, which is the famous Nie Family Fengyan Castle, which is named after the star title of the ancestor of the Nie family, Nie Fengyan. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

According to the laws of the Yuanmeng Empire, if there is a titled Star Venerable in each family, it will be automatically promoted to a seven-star family, enjoy the imperial salary, and be able to participate in expeditions held in the territory or state.

In Yuanmeng, people used to call the monks who had been promoted to the five-star level as Xingzun, because they were a hundred and ten times more powerful than ordinary monks. The Title Star Venerable specifically refers to the Star Venerable who has cultivated to reach the peak of the six-star and has finally won and survived by receiving continuous challenges from ten Star Venerables in the Imperial Star Venerable.

Dragon Slayer led the four major seven-star families, Dong Nie, Xi Yan, Nanduan, and North Xiao, each of which had a titled Star Zun, which stood out among the nearly twenty families of Dragon Slayer, and divided one side.

However, the seven-star family is not an eternal status, and within thirty years, if there is no second titled Star Venerable in its family, it will be tested by Star Venerable again.

If you win, you can maintain the family's status for another 30 years, and if you lose, you will be reduced to an ordinary family and lose your status.

As the saying goes, there is no such thing as a hopeless situation, only a person who is desperate for the situation. All the Seven Star Families of the Yuanmeng Empire have basically been under such a kind of pressing pressure like a man's back.

However, if you want to be a lord, your family must have at least one Titled Star King of the Seven-Star Peak Realm, and four Titled Star Venerable Elders must be assisted, and the most important thing is to make special contributions to the empire in order to obtain a territory.

The dragon slaying lord, his family has already moved to the higher Luolan state, and he can sit and wait for the four great families to make offerings every year. Because the land of the lord is basically the most barren, remote, and barren place in the empire's territory, and the aura and resources are extremely scarce, the lord family will never sit idly by and watch their family gradually decline.

In fact, the promotion history of every super family is a bloody expedition history.

Expeditions to foreign lands, slaying demons, conquering natives, plundering various scarce resources in Yuanmeng, and occupying rich territory are the meaning of expeditions.

From the imperial level, the five types of expeditions, namely, territory, state, county, marquis, and empire, differ only in the scale and the number of people involved, and they are essentially for plundering and occupying, in the name of protecting the empire from foreign invasion.

Every lord relied on the accumulation of countless expeditions to finally set foot on the throne of the Titled Star King, and only then was he given the territory to become an overlord.

The closer the Yuanmeng Realm is to the central imperial capital Dragon Domain, the richer the aura and resources, and the more scarce it is at the edge.

This is the fundamental reason why few lords live in their own domains.

Lords on one side usually attach their six-star families to stronger families in their states in order to gain more resources and opportunities.

And so on, all the way up to the Imperial Capital, the center of the empire, the Dragon Domain.

Every year, after paying a high challenge fee to the lord, ordinary families can launch a life-and-death challenge to the strongest person of the designated seven-star family, and if they win, they will be replaced, and if they lose, they will directly become vassals of the family, and they will lose their qualifications to challenge forever.

In the same way, the seven-star family can also challenge the six-star family, and if it loses, it will become a vassal and lose the status of the seven-star family, and its status will be changed to other ordinary families to sign up for a life-and-death battle to choose the final winner to inherit.

Like the Gu family attached to the Nie family, the four major families of Qingxi, although they all have their own industries and forces in Qingxi City, they have to accept the instructions of the Nie family at any time, and they dare not disobey it slightly, and in order to protect their own interests, they also have to make offerings to the Nie family, so as not to be manipulated by the Nie family and destroy themselves.

Therefore, if each family finds that there is a genius among its children, it will inevitably do its best to cultivate it, hoping that it can soar to the sky and change the fate of the whole clan. But such a genius is almost impossible to grow smoothly in such an environment, not to mention the secret suppression of the Seven Star Family, other ordinary families will also try their best to sabotage, and even send assassins to assassinate them, there are so many means that they are endless, and they spare no effort to protect themselves to the greatest extent.

On the surface, the four families are all attached to the Nie family, but in fact, they are secretly accumulating strength, and they can't wait for three or two stars to suddenly appear in their own family, and they will knock off the ancestor of the Nie family in one fell swoop. However, since the Nie family won the title of the seven-star family seventy-three years ago, the four families of Gu, Lin, Qian, and Du have not appeared in the Star Venerable, even if several families have broken through to the five-star peak or six-star peak, they do not dare to step on that Star Venerable.

After more than 70 years of accumulation, the Nie family's heritage has reached an appalling level.

At the same time that the three Xiao Nu brothers were surrounded by a group of monks in the Hundred Treasure Pavilion, in the secret room of the inner fort of the Nie family's Fengyan Castle, the senior leaders of the Nie family were having a secret talk.

The person sitting on the main seat and presiding over this secret conversation is the current head of the Nie family, Nie Qianlong, who has cultivated in the middle of the six-star period, that is, Nie Jiyue's father.

Nie Qianlong has no hair all year round, has a shaved head, a face full of meat, a fat head and big ears, and an image of a wealthy family. People always squint and smile, but those who know him know that he is the fastest and most ruthless person to turn his face.

The Nie family's ancestral five-star exercise "Wind and Smoke Jue" has been cultivated by him to the fifth level, and the second level will reach the Great Perfection. There is also a subtle sword technique to protect the body, and there are no less than ten high-grade star weapons on the body, where can the idle monk get close?

Below him sat Zhu Yuanchun, who grabbed Xiao Nu and the three of them that day, known as the Crazy Knife, a five-star peak powerhouse, and one of the three wind eagle knights of the Nie family.

After Zhu Yuanchun, there was a middle-aged man with a scarred face dressed as a scribe, holding a wicker in his hand, and from time to time he made a light sniff on the end of his nose.

Opposite the two of them sat the chief steward Qin Wuru and a young man with red lips and white teeth and a proud face, but that man was Nie Qianlong's eldest son, the real young master of the Nie family, a fourth-year genius student of Qingxi Academy, and Nie Lingtian who was at the peak of three-star cultivation.

If you are familiar with the details of the inner fort of the Nie family, you will be surprised to see this situation, if the Nie family has important matters to discuss, it is absolutely indispensable to have the three wind eagle knights, the chief steward of the qin, the young master, and the three heads of the wind and smoke knights (the elders of the Nie family).

As the main force of the Nie family in the exotic battlefield, the three Wind and Smoke Knights of the Nie family are all headed by the elders of the Nie family, and each elder has a six-star cultivation, and the group has never changed in the more than 60 years since its establishment.

None of the three captains were present today, and the most powerful of the three Wind Eagle Knights, the Blood Demon, was actually absent.

"Brother Qin, according to everyone's analysis just now, it is indeed imminent for my Nie family to form a Dark Smoke Regiment. In order to prevent other family forces from getting involved, who do you think is the most reassuring to be in charge of the selection of personnel this time?" Nie Qianlong's voice was hoarse, but there was an invisible coercion that had been in the top position for a long time.

"The head of the house, in my opinion, this matter ......"

Qin Wujian stroked his beard and just said half a sentence, but was interrupted by Nie Lingtian beside him.

"Father, you still need to think about this matter, just leave it to the child. Couldn't I pick out the dark smoke of the 30th?"

"Presumptuous! Your Uncle Qin dares to interject when he speaks, I think you have been too comfortable lately, and you are a little carried away?" Nie Qianlong was furious and slapped the armrest of the seat.

"The child knows that he is wrong, but the child does not dare. Nie Lingtian's face turned pale with fright, he stood up and bowed to Qin Wujian again and again to apologize, but when he sat down, a deep dissatisfaction flashed in his eyes.

Qin Wujian smiled and said: "It's okay, the young master is also eager to serve the family, why should the family owner be angry? But the young master is about to face the statewide joint examination next year, and it is a critical juncture, so you must not be distracted." If the young master can be admitted to any of the schools of Luo Lan or Wolf Warrior as he wishes, wouldn't he be overjoyed after Ling Zu got out of the customs?"

Nie Qianlong's face softened slightly, and he said with a smile: "Brother Qin is still thoughtful, I'm afraid that this kid is too arrogant and too late." ”

Qin Wujian laughed and said: "The master of the family is wrong, the young master has not only cultivated the "Wind and Smoke Formula" to the third level of imminent consummation, but also has to be taught by the bearded principal, and the cultivation is becoming more and more sophisticated, if you get a few more opportunities to participate in the scriptures in the stele forest, it is not impossible to obtain one or two peerless secret techniques, if it is supplemented by the excellent barrier-breaking pill cultivation, it is completely expected to break through to the four-star realm before the joint entrance examination, at that time, the young master will definitely soar to the sky and move the whole territory of Luolan, maybe the Nie family can also enter the eyes of a certain great family!"

Hearing the Grand Steward of Qin praise like this, Nie Lingtian couldn't hide the smugness on his face, and became more and more proud.

On the contrary, Nie Qianlong sighed and said: "Hey, Master Xu handed Xu San over to me, but I didn't expect such an accident to happen, if he comes to my castle to ask for someone in the future, how do you want me to deal with it? Besides, the master went to Luolan to participate in the pharmacist conference and did not return, who do you have to find to refine Tian'er's barrier-breaking pill? In the other three areas, the control of this kind of pill is very strict, and it is not so easy to find. ”

Qin smiled uninhibitably and profoundly: "The head of the family should not worry too much, just a three-star alchemist, he can only be angry in our Qingxi City." The head of the family and the young master, please rest assured, I have sent a heavy gift to Principal Hu Zi a few days ago, entrusting him to do one thing, and I believe that good news will come in the near future. ”

The father and son of the Nie family, as well as the other two Wind Eagle Knights, were all moved.

Lord Huzi, the principal of Qingxi Academy, is unfathomable in cultivation, it is said that he has three kinds of peerless learning, and there is even a king-level exercise that is said to be a six-star practice, he has always acted strangely and cherished words like gold and iron face ruthlessly, and treating Nie Lingtian well is only based on his excellent qualifications and potential, who would have thought that the Qin Steward, who usually stays at home, would have such a ability, please move his old man to come out.

Needless to say, it must be related to the Barrier Breaking Pill and Master Xu.

"Brother Qin, my Nie family will never fail you. Ling Tian, when I see your Uncle Qin in the future, I must pay respect, otherwise I will not blame you for serving my father's family!" Nie Qianlong roared at Nie Ling Tian, but the joy on his face could hardly be hidden.

"Ling Tian, thank you, Uncle Qin!" Nie Ling Tian got up again and thanked him.

"The head of the family, there is something unknown to my subordinates. Crazy knife Zhu Yuanchun suddenly got up and said.

"Yuan Chun, why bother to be polite, sit down and talk. ”

"Master Xie. The subordinates happened to go out to do a small thing a month ago, tracking down the stolen Xingdan......" Zhu Yuanchun told the ins and outs of the matter, "The head of the family, according to the observation of the subordinates, the potential of these three teenagers is acceptable, and it is more than enough to be selected for the dark smoke." ”

Qin Wujian nodded and said: "So that day, I went to the No. 5 mine with the young master of Jiyue to deal with Xu Sanyi, and secretly observed the three of them, it is really as Yuan Chun said, it is indeed a material that can be made." As long as the origin of the three people is ascertained, they can be selected for cultivation in the dark smoke at any time. ”

Nie Qianlong said with a smile: "It's rare that both of you value the three of you so much, so it's better to bother Brother Qin to pay attention to this matter." By the way, what do you guys say?"

Liu Qianye, who had never spoken, shook the wicker in his hand and said slowly: "Since this matter is very important, I will not rest assured if I want to hand it over to someone else to operate the family." The subordinates suggested that this matter should be handed over to the chief steward of Qin for the time being, and wouldn't it be good to hand it over when the young master or the little young master can act independently?"

Qin Wujian smiled bitterly and shook his head again and again.

But Nie Qianlong was determined: "Okay! This matter is settled." ”

After a pause, he said: "The opening ceremony of Qingxi Academy is about to begin, everyone will show me Jiyue's girl tightly, don't even fail the entrance test, then my old face has no place to rest." ”

"Yuanchun, Chiba, pay close attention to the training of the three legions, once you find an abnormality, you can deal with it first and then report!"

"In addition, he ordered to go down, and after seven days, the exchange of deeds of the wind eagle will be held as usual. If the blood does not return, report it to the full collar immediately. ”

Yes!"

On the other side, in front of the Hundred Treasure Pavilion.

"Looking at the appearance of a few of you, it seems that the miners who escaped from the Nie family's mine actually dare to come to the Gu family's Baibao Pavilion to make trouble, come on, take it for me!" The old man in charge of the Baibao Pavilion glared at Xiao Nu and the three of them and roared viciously.

The Gu family was about to rush up, when suddenly the person in charge raised his hand and shouted, "Wait!"

The Gu family didn't know what was going on, and said in their hearts, could it be that the shopkeeper took the wrong medicine today?

But I saw that the shopkeeper's eyes were shining, staring directly at the black-haired young man among the three young people, and that look was similar to the jet lag of an old bachelor who had been widowed for thirty years and suddenly saw a big beauty out of the bath.

The black-haired boy held a short dagger with a strange luster in his left hand, and there were a few glittering grains of sand in the palm of his right hand.

"God, is that the spirit sand?" exclaimed someone in the crowd.