Since the Battle of Magdeburg, the Mingdou Continent has always been divided for a long time, and there have been many dynastic changes in the long history of 8,000 years, and now the largest empires on the continent are the Mingdou Empire in the middle, the Loulan Dynasty in the west, the Storm Empire in the north, the Dawn Empire in the east and the Huansheng Dynasty in the south. The strongest of these empires is the Mingdou Empire, and the slightly inferior are the Dawn Empire and the Huansheng Dynasty, then the Loulan Empire, and finally the Storm Empire. Because the Ming Dou Empire was located in the middle of the rich region, it was inevitably harassed by the Zhou State every year. The Huansheng Dynasty was crisscrossed by rivers, and its grain output occupied the first place on the continent all year round, and one of the other two empires had grain transactions with it. The Dawn Empire prides itself on being the first country to be illuminated by the sun, so there is a faint sense of superiority from the royal family to the people, and it is disliked by the other three countries, the national strength of the Loulan Dynasty was originally very strong, but since the fall of Emperor Jingde, the royal family has developed a luxurious living habit, and the ministers of the court have learned the same, and gradually luxury has spread throughout the dynasty. The current national strength of the Loulan Dynasty is empty, and it is far from having the strength to compete with the Ming Dou Empire back then. The Storm Empire is the weakest of the four empires, but the other three empires will not attack the Storm Empire as a last resort, not because the Storm Empire has any strong protection, but because the Storm Empire is located in the north of the continent, close to the extremely cold land of the continent, the Storm Empire has heavy snow all year round, the temperature is extremely low, which is unbearable for ordinary people, and the armies of other empires are uncomfortable here, the army of the Storm Empire is not affected because it grows here, and it is difficult for the Storm Empire to be broken under the growth of one or the other, and the other four countries are not fighting against the Storm Empire for non-major reasons after trying a few times。

Since ancient times, the imperial power has come out of the clan, and the emperor has the final say in the empire on the surface, but most of the real power is still in the hands of the clan, and the emperor is not a dictator. Although the imperial power has been weakened a lot, the clan generally does not interfere in the emperor's rule, and the general practice is to arrange some outstanding talents of the family to enter the court to assist the emperor in ruling the entire empire. The clan headquarters is generally in its own fiefdom, and the fiefdom of the clan is also called "fort". Like the Li Jiabao of the Ming Dou Empire, the Yang Jiabao of the Dawn Empire, the Lanjia Fort of the Loulan Empire, and the Leng Jiabao of the Storm Empire are known as the four major forts of the Ming Dou Continent. Of course, those who can be emperors are not all fools, and the emperor is also secretly cultivating his clan power in order to resist the clan's seizure of power. In recent centuries, a number of new families have slowly emerged.

Ningjiabao is the first fort in the north of the Mingdou Empire, the reason why the Ning family can be called the first big family in the north of the Mingdou Empire is because the first generation of the Ning family, Ning Tianbao, once followed the founding emperor of the Mingdou Empire, Li Wei, to lay down a large area of the territory of the Mingdou Empire and made great achievements in it. Emperor Li Wei read his conscription and personally sealed Ningjiazhuang as Ningjiabao. The five Zhuang towns around Ningjiazhuang were merged into Ningjiabao, and Ningjiabao could have 5,000 soldiers. The lord of Ningjiabao is a hereditary prince. Within the boundaries of Ningjiabao, the Ning family has the right to set the tax rate, and thirty percent of the annual tax revenue is submitted to the state treasury, and the rest belongs to the Ning family. Therefore, by the time of the fifteenth generation of the Ning family, Ningjia Fort had become the largest fort in the north of the Ming Dou Empire.

Today, the central square of Ningjiapu is full of people, and everyone is sitting around a circular open space with a radius of five meters. There is a statue in the center of the clearing, and if you look closely, you will see that it is a statue of a double dragon playing with pearls. The two dragons on the left and right are carved from white marble, a specialty of the south, and this dragon is about one meter long and half a meter high. The dragon balls guarded by the two four-clawed jade dragons were the size of immortal peaches. From a distance, it was crystal clear, emitting bursts of brilliance under the sunlight, and when I walked in and looked again, the runes inside it loomed. At this time, it was discovered that this bead was actually made from the soul core of a gold-level soul beast. On the Ming Dou Continent, the levels of soul beasts are divided into five levels: bronze, dark iron, silver, gold, and diamond. Each rank is further divided into three tiers. Bronze-level soul beasts are the weakest, and gold-level soul beasts are the most powerful, and it is not an exaggeration to say that they are the overlords of one side. It is precisely because of the strength of the gold-level soul beast that its soul core can be said to be truly valuable and marketable, and every year there is no shortage of human powerhouses to hunt gold-level soul beasts for the soul core and be hunted by soul beasts. At this time, seeing that the soul core of a gold-level soul beast was used as the altar in the awakening ceremony, it gave people a feeling of being violent, which also showed the strength of Ning Tianbao as the first fortress of the Ming Dou Empire.

Said "Awakening Ritual" I have to talk about the history of the Mingdou Continent, the earliest documents record that before the war of gods and demons, the master of the continent was not actually a human being, but a soul beast, some powerful soul beasts are like the current human emperors to draw the land and rule, according to their respective force values to determine the size of their own domain, at that time human beings were still living at the end of the food chain, every day in order to avoid the predation of soul beasts and hiding, gradually people found that a few or a dozen people can fight a few soul beasts that one person can't beat, although there will be casualties in the middle, but in the end it is still victorious, isn't it, the people who survive not only do not have to worry about life safety but also have meat to eat, fur can be worn. Slowly, people began to live in groups as tribes. Of course, not all soul beasts can be beaten, but at least some of them can be beaten, and the rest are blocked with fences, scare away some with fire, and then dodge some, and life can go on. Despite this, the number of human beings is still very large and has developed greatly, and in the world of the jungle, if the force value is too weak, it will only be beaten.

Until there was a person named A Luo Xing who was born in the Dragon Monarch tribe, legend has it that this person watched the sky at night and studied a set of exercises suitable for human cultivation, named A Luo Heart Method. The reason why the soul beast is powerful is that its body has a soul core, and the role of the soul core is to help it absorb the aura of nature and transform it into soul power to run itself, and the second is to be a place to store soul power in peacetime, and humans may be the fault of the creator and do not have this function, so human beings are not as powerful as soul beasts.

Arrow's mind is about how to absorb and transform the aura of the natural world into its own soul power, because humans do not have a soul core, so when the aura absorbs a certain amount, it will be emitted into the blood of the human body and no longer exist, and only after the "awakening ceremony" can it continue to absorb the aura and transform. Humans who have participated in the "Awakening Ritual" will automatically generate a virtual image of a bracelet, and this virtual image can be fused with a bracelet made of special ingredients to form a soul pet bracelet when combined with the mental method. The soul pet bracelet is the medium for humans and soul beasts to sign a contract, that is, where human beings store soul power, A Luo Xing is the first to awaken the bracelet, his bracelet is a gold product, and later the ancient people under the leadership of A Luo Xing drove away the soul beast to occupy a mountain, developed their own tribe, and laid the foundation for the future war of gods and demons. Later, in the battle of gods and demons, people defeated the black dragon ink armor and drove the soul beast into the deep mountains, and the Mingdou Continent truly belonged to humans. It has been 10,000 years since the war of gods and demons, and human beings have evolved from the weak at that time to the strong today, from the various tribes at that time to the various empires today, and the only thing that remains unchanged is the Arrow Mind Method, which has been passed down for 10,000 years as an introductory mind method to guide countless people to the top of the world.

The "Awakening Ritual" in ancient times was very grand, and with the development of society, people are becoming more and more aware of this world, and now this ritual only needs to have a high-energy ball with an awakening rune carved inside. This "awakening altar" of the Ning family is given to the Ning family by the current royal worship of Li Chunfeng as a gift to the Ning family as the first birthday gift of Ning Lan, the head of the Ning family, yes, yes, it is a first birthday gift, Li Chunfeng and Ning Lan's father, who is the head of the Ning family in the previous generation, Ning Hai is close friends.

Noon is approaching, the noisy crowd is gradually quieting, the originally slightly empty north does not know when there is a group of people, from the clothing should be the Ning family's clansmen, because each person wears a carved very exquisite badge on the clothes, if you look carefully, you will find that the style of the badge is a crape myrtle flower, this badge is also called crape myrtle badge, crape myrtle badge is the symbol of the Ning family. At this time, a group of ten people entered the open space from the north, led by Ning Feng, the official contemporary head of the Ning family, and the ten people in this line walked to a distance of ten steps from the Awakening Altar under the leadership of Ning Feng. Ning Feng's side, a man about 40 years old dressed in green clothes walked to the side of the Awakening Altar, only to see him holding the dragon ball in both hands, chanting words in his mouth, first his voice began to be low, and as his speed of speech accelerated, his voice slowly became high-pitched, and when his last word came out, the white light on the dragon ball was released, and suddenly countless milky white lights were scattered on everyone bit by bit. At this time, people only felt warm and indescribably comfortable. The man in Tsing Yi straightened his collar, which was slightly messy due to the use of soul power, looked at the front and secretly mentioned a soul power and said: "The awakening ceremony of Ningjiabao Gregorian Calendar 3048 starts now, and the child who has just turned ten years old this year has come to stand beside me and is ready to carry out the awakening ceremony." He said this sentence in a loud voice, but everyone around him heard it clearly. It can be seen that his soul power is strong. This person is Ning Qing, the youngest elder of Ningjiabao, who is 42 years old this year and has a soul power of the third order of silver, and has a good chance of rushing to the gold level before the age of fifty. It was for this reason that the elders agreed to his exceptional entry into the cabinet.

As soon as his words fell, a child dressed in dark green walked out of the crowd in the north, and as soon as this person came out, the originally quiet crowd became noisy again, and the child in dark green clothes shook his head and slowly walked to Ning Qing's side. Ning Qing looked at the tense face of the child who walked to the side, and a smile also appeared: "Little Fan'er, don't be afraid, you will definitely be able to do it." The child's body shook slightly after listening to Ning Qing's words, and then returned to normal, and said softly: "Thank you Fifth Grandpa for your concern, I will succeed." Ning Qing breathed a sigh of relief when he heard his words, as long as he had confidence, he was not afraid of not succeeding.

"Ning Jiabao, Ning Fan, ten years old, participate in the 'Awakening Ceremony', Ning Fan, stand in front of the Awakening Altar."

In Ning Qing's loud announcement, Ning Fan stood in front of the awakening altar and held the dragon ball with both hands to run his soul power with all his might, as the child's soul power flowed, the light on the dragon ball became more and more prosperous, and a light and shadow slowly appeared above the dragon ball, and slowly and slowly the light and shadow became clearer and clearer, and suddenly there was a bang, it turned out that the child was sitting on the ground in collapse due to the exhaustion of soul power, and the light and shadow on the dragon ball stabilized with the interruption of soul power, and Haoran looked at it as a bronze bracelet. As the bracelet appeared, a bronze five-pointed star lit up in the Dragon Ball.

"Ning Fan, the awakening is successful, and the grade is bronze." Ning Qing first announced loudly before he went to pick up Ning Fan, who was sitting on the ground.

Ning Fan limped back to the crowd in the north under the fiery gaze of everyone. There is no way that Ning Fan, as the son of Ning Feng, the contemporary head of the Ning family, was hailed as a 'genius' as early as seven years old, and he only had a bronze grade at the 'awakening ceremony', alas, this is really a slap in the face. In the commotion of everyone, Ning Fan covered his face and ran into the crowd.

With Ning Fan's departure, a child in yellow clothes walked out of the crowd in the north, halfway through, he turned his head and glanced at Ning Fan, who had already approached the crowd, a trace of gloom flashed, and after watching Ning Fan walk into the crowd, he turned around and approached Ning Qing, walked to Ning Qing's side and bowed and said, "Hello Grandpa Qing." "Well, it's Chen'er, are you ten years old this year, alas, the years are urging people to get old, when you were just born, you were very cute and the old man was very happy, so I said that your grandfather allowed me to hug you, but I didn't expect you to pee on the old man just in your arms, oops, you are already so old in a blink of an eye, okay, let's not talk about it, go to the awakening altar, let the old man see how your talent is."

"Uh-huh, okay, goodbye Grandpa Qing, I won't disappoint you." Ning Chen smiled shyly, turned around and approached the Awakening Altar, holding the Dragon Ball tightly with both hands. The light of the dragon ball is enhanced, and the light and shadow slowly emerge, and finally freezes into a reddish-brown bracelet, and two reddish-brown five-pointed stars appear in the dragon ball.

"Ning Chen, the awakening is successful, and the grade is the fifth grade of bronze." Ning Qing announced loudly.

With Ning Qing's announcement, the crowd below let out bursts of exclamations, after awakening, it was the bronze five grades, and Ning Chen's talent was very good.

'Awakening ceremony' is the place where a person's talent is most highlighted, the higher the grade of the soul pet bracelet after awakening, the better the person's talent, and vice versa, the soul pet bracelet level awakened by every famous person in history is not lower than the silver level. The 'Ritual of Awakening' is actually a ritual that stimulates the potential of human beings.

The grade of the bronze five grades is relatively good, although it is not enough to wake up to the Xuantie level compared to those families who have been "forts" for nearly a thousand years, but for the Ning family, which has only been a "castle" for a few hundred years, the second grade of the dark iron is already very good.

"Okay, good, the little guy is good, he will definitely be the pillar of our Ningjiabao in the future, hurry up and go down, tell your mother the news." Ning Qing patted Ning Chen's thin shoulder with a relieved expression.

"Hmm", Ning Chen nodded heavily, and ran out of the clearing and ran in the direction of his home.

In the next awakening ceremony, most of the remaining twenty-eight children succeeded, but there were also a few unlucky ones who failed to awaken, when the last child returned to the crowd, it was already dark, Ning Qing raised his hand, and a lighting technique shot into the air, and suddenly the air lit up, as if a bright moon rose into the air, and the crowd suddenly cheered, Ning Qing smiled slightly, and turned around to return to where the ten people were before, Ning Feng, the head of the Ning family, slowly walked to the center of the clearing with a smile, and with his appearance, the slightly impetuous crowd slowly quieted down again。

"Folks, today we are gathered here to witness these little guys' Awakening ceremony', I am honored to be able to witness the success of so many children's martial soul awakening in my lifetime, a total of thirty children, twenty-two children have succeeded, far exceeding the success rate of sixty percent of the empire last year, the success rate reached more than seventy percent, in order to commend these outstanding children, I have prepared some good prizes at tomorrow's soul pet selection ceremony, I hope you can have a better performance tomorrow, then the next is the time for us to celebrate, strong men, the bonfire is up, the wine is brought out, the food is put out, the girls, the song is sung, the dance is danced”。 Before his words could reach the ground, a crowd had already swarmed towards the freshly set up campfire, and the night was destined to be a sleepless night.