Among the five great powers, the Jin state was the latest and fastest to rise.

Shi Cheng, the lord of Yan, after getting the divine sword Chixiao, fought hard and relied on a divine sword to lay down the land of the current Jin Kingdom.

Compared with the other four kingdoms, the rise of the Jin kingdom and the fact that it can be ranked among the five great powers is an extremely incredible thing.

The Qin State is entrenched in the western part of the continent and has always had the support of the Huaqing Sword Sect, and has always been a powerful country in the West.

Before ranking among the five great powers, the Qin State went through the governance of 27 generations of monarchs, step by step from a small country to the wolf of the northwest, and its growth trajectory has gone through tens of thousands of years.

The Zhou State in the middle and the Qi State in the east, in the era of their founding, can be comparable to the great sects such as the Star Flower Sect and the Burning Soldier Pavilion.

They were originally the overlords of their respective regions, and they were the giant countries that grew up by slowly encroaching and annexing the surrounding small countries in the midst of countless wars.

Moreover, behind the Qi State and the Zhou State, there is also the support of the eight great families, and their rise is not accidental at all.

The state of Chu is even simpler, an immortal hall, one of the four major sects, is enough to support a big country, not to mention that it is still in the Southern Regions, where the overall strength is not strong and there is little contact with Central Continent.

Only the Jin State, under the attack of the Zhou State, the Chu State, the Qin State and the Qinglu Sword Plain, rose strongly and occupied a large territory from the wasteland in the north to the Chu State in the south.

If it is said that relying on Shi Cheng alone, he can indeed establish such a country in that war-torn era.

But then Shi Cheng died, and there was no cultivator as powerful as him in the Jin Kingdom.

Especially the monarch of the Jin Kingdom, although it is not mediocre, but there are indeed no heroes born.

And the Qin State in the West, seven generations of monarchs in a row, all of them were cultivated in the Yudan period, and each of them worked hard, and finally the seventh generation of monarchy, Fen VI Yu Lie, unified the western part of the continent with one sentence, integrated the Qinglu Sword Sect, and became the strongest country.

After Shi Cheng, the Jin State has never expanded an inch of territory, but it has never been invaded by anyone.

Such a country is really strange.

And all of this is because of the "earth qi" sealed in Stone City.

Earth qi is a mysterious "qi".

Like the vitality of all things and the aura of heaven and earth, this is a kind of qi that comes from the earth.

The atmosphere affects the terrain, the climate of a region, and even the personality, body, and longevity of the people who live there.

Those who are obsessed with the study of earth qi have found that different earth qi will give birth to different people.

And places with different local atmospheres are difficult to integrate into one country.

Unless there is a powerful person, forcibly unify a certain area, and then use the formation, Dao method and leyline technique to transform the local qi here, so that the local qi under his control is similar to that of the ruler.

For cultivators, transforming the earth's qi is a very important thing.

Because only souls born in the same piece of earth qi can produce more high-quality dragon jade.

Therefore, those powerful people will transform the atmosphere of the land as soon as they establish the country.

The reason why the Jin Kingdom has not been conquered for so many years is because even if the land is occupied by other countries, it is difficult to integrate because of the different geographical atmospheres of the two countries.

If the earth qi cannot be fused, it will not be possible to make a high-level realm, and even if it is occupied, it will have no meaning, because to make dragon jade, it is necessary to master the earth qi of this place.

Moreover, the local qi cannot be integrated, and the residents here have never had a sense of belonging to the new country, and it is easy to defect, so occupying the land of the Jin State is a thankless task.

Because of the special local atmosphere, the quality of the dragon jade produced by the Jin Kingdom is quite high, which is also one of the reasons why they can gain a foothold on the mainland and become the five great powers.

All these secrets are sealed under this mysterious meteorite.

After Shi Cheng established the Jin Kingdom, he knew that his country had no foundation and no foundation, so he chose to seal all the local qi of the Jin Kingdom.

He connected the earth qi of the Jin Kingdom into one qi, and then used the earth qi to establish a huge formation under the Jin Kingdom.

The eye of this formation is the "Trapped Dragon Lock" located in Stone City.

To be precise, this trapped dragon lock was only a part of this huge formation, and the formation that spread throughout the entire Jin Kingdom was a genuine ninth-order formation.

Under the seal of the ninth-order formation "Eternal Trace Earth", the earth qi of the Jin Kingdom could not be changed.

This is also the "dragon vein" of the Jin Kingdom.

A branch of the royal family, who is also the descendant of Shi Cheng's youngest son, chose to stay in Shicheng for the Jin Kingdom and suppressed the "dragon vein".

Each generation of Stone City City Lords is the suppressor of the Dragon Vein.

After they became suppressors, they couldn't step out of the stone city, otherwise the huge earth qi would leak out from here, forming a new terrain, and the effect of the "eternal land" would be lost.

The city lord of Stone City will not practice for generations, because only mortal souls can suppress such earthly qi.

This is the fate of the stone city lords of the past dynasties.

The city lords of Stone City are all passed down from generation to generation, which is due to the unique power in their bloodline, which can be said to be the curse of building the trapped dragon lock.

The Stone City Lord's family has worn it alone for generations, and this is the curse of their use of the "Eternal Earth" formation.

Shi Kangdang's family, every time a baby is born, their souls will be connected to the trapped dragon lock underground.

This is a secret that only the father and son of the city lord know, and even their mother is not qualified to know.

When their souls merge into the Trapped Dragon Lock, they will establish a connection with the Trapped Dragon Lock.

When they were young, this connection was very strong, and they could leave a certain range of Bushi City, such as studying in Yicheng.

But as they get older, this connection will get smaller and smaller, and the scope of their departure from Stone City will become smaller and smaller.

Eventually, they will be trapped in Stone City, never to leave.

Otherwise, the local qi of the Jin Kingdom will leak out.

This is why Shi Kangdang has never left Stone City for a single step since he was in his thirties, and he has not even left the City Lord's Mansion for half a step.

That's their fate.

But now, King Jin is trying in every possible way to force the Lord of Stone City to leave Stone City.

Shi Dangdang's son, Shi Qiliang, is also twenty-three years old, and the range of his activities is only three hundred miles around Shicheng, and he can't reach Yicheng at all.

Father and son, if either one leaves, the earth's qi will backfire.

If Shi Qiliang encounters an accident halfway, then Shicheng will have no successor, and eventually it will leak the earth's qi.

At that time, even if the Qin State does not attack the Jin State, it will be such a backlash of the earthly qi, and it will make the Jin State miserable.

Shi Dangdang didn't dare to take risks, he didn't know why the King of Jin would give such an order, it stands to reason that the person who didn't want Shi Dang to leave Shicheng was the one who wanted Shi Dangdang's family to leave Shicheng, it should be the King of Jin!

Therefore, Shi Dangdang always suspected that King Jin had been controlled by Chen Baiyang.

"Ma Xie, I want to get rid of you for one thing." Shi Dangdang said.

"You want me to find out if King Jin is under control?" Ma Xie said: "This is very simple, but what I want to know is that if you are allowed to leave the stone city out of the will of the King of Jin, then what should you do?" ”

"That's exactly what I'm saying." Shi Dangdang said: "If that is really the case, I and Qiliang will obey the orders of the head of the family, and we will also fulfill the obligations that a person of the Jin Kingdom should fulfill." ”

Shi Gandang paused for a moment, and then said: "But the people are innocent, whether it is the people of Shicheng or the people of the Jin Kingdom, they can't bear the pain of the earth's qi backlash, if possible, I want you to lead them out of here and save as many people as possible." ”

Only then did Ma Xie know that this was the real task given to him by the Stone City Lord.

If the Jin Kingdom perishes, then the power of the earth qi will explode, and the land of the Jin Kingdom will be reshaped, and then earthquakes and floods will break out frequently, and cultivators can obtain a large number of Great Dao Perceptions and various energies and resources from them, and mortals will be miserable.

Hearing this, Ma Xie couldn't help but ask, "The explosion of earth qi will also bring out the resources of Dao comprehension and cultivation?" ”

"Yes, the explosion of earth qi is part of the law of the operation of the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth, such a big change must be completed by the power of the Great Dao, and all kinds of resources and secret realms under the ground will be turned out, as well as those trapped spiritual qi, will gush out." Shi Dangdang said.

Ma Xie said: "If that's the case, I'm afraid I know why even Xuanyangmen came here so actively." ”

"Are you saying that there is the power of cultivators behind here, who wants to search for the things needed for cultivation through the changes in the earth qi of the Jin Kingdom?"

"It's very possible, but I don't know yet, who is this person, Linghu Chu, the master of Xuanyang Gate? Or Prince Qin's baby? Or even the king of Jin? Ma Xie named several possible candidates.

"I also feel strange when you say that." Shi Dangdang said: "This war has been fought for too long, and the two sides have obviously had a grudge for a long time, but they have not fought a decisive battle for a long time, as if they are waiting for me, and most importantly, many cultivators have participated, but they have not carried it out, and those who have died are mortals." ”

Speaking of this, cold sweat broke out on the backs of the two.

They all thought that at this time, among the cultivators on both sides, there were cultivators of various forces, and even cultivators of evil sects who refined flesh and blood and the undead.

However, these cultivators, as if they were watching a farce, watched mortals kill and kill here, but they got along with each other.

Whether it is the Jin State, the Qin State, or the Sanxiu State, this is the case.

Everyone has benefited from this war, except mortals.

If there really are people who are plotting to be angry, then there will be more deaths.

"I'll go to the capital of King Jin immediately, if King Jin is really controlled, as long as I recover King Jin's consciousness, maybe I can still let King Jin stop all this, as long as King Jin doesn't let you leave, Chen Baiyang won't be able to make much of a storm." Ma Xie said.

Shi Dangdang nodded, and the two of them immediately left here and returned to the City Lord's Mansion.

As soon as they came up, someone came to report it.

"City Lord, King Jin has come to ask for a meeting!"

"King Jin? Is he really coming? Ma Xie and Shi Dangdang couldn't believe it.

The King of Jin, who had been living in the royal city for a long time, was really willing to deign to come to the stone city?

With suspicion on their faces, they came to the hall.

At this time, Chen Baiyang stood in the hall, waiting for Shi Dangdang.