"I know everything. A tattered boy sat at the top of the courtyard wall at the battlement, said. Long Ji was a little surprised, so close, she didn't even notice when the boy had come to her, or had she sat there quietly before jumping on the wall? Crumbling muscles like salted meat hanging messily on a clothespole, such a body should not belong to a living person, but to a dead person, a corpse, an undead soul.

The little dragon queen was not particularly surprised. When she was 49 days old, the head of the Long family, who had the title of Storm Knight, personally presided over the "Underworld Marriage" ceremony, allowing three children of the Long Family Clan who were born on the same day to sign a marriage contract with three child corpses. Even though the various bloodline abilities of the Long family are as vast as a sea of smoke, the "Underworld Marriage" is always firmly among the top three, because the child corpse has unlimited growth potential in the other world, as long as it takes time, the entry is immeasurable. It was from that time that her immature mind was affected by her lovers in the other world, and began to become indifferent, confused, and distorted, feeling that every day in the world was a mask to perform, and only at a certain moment every day, when the spirit and time coincided with the time to communicate with the lovers in the other world, was the real liberation. In this mental state of seeing the world through a light veil, the five-year-old Long Ji retracted her gaze and asked lightly: "Who are you?"

"I'm Long Chang. The tattered boy said.

"What generation are you? I have seen all the teenagers of the fourteenth generation of the Zong family, and you are not among them. Ryuhime asked.

"Fourteen generations. The boy replied.

"Then why don't you train in the courtyard?" the girl asked.

"I'm coming from the other side of the wall. Long Chang pointed to the outside of the wall.

This time, Long Ji was slightly taken aback. The Sect Courtyard is the middle and lower part of the entire Long family's main mansion, the edge of the Zong family's mansion. If you look down on the entire main house of the Long family from the air, you can see that the courtyard of 3,500 acres is in the shape of a perfect circle, and a curved courtyard wall divides the courtyard into two parts that are entangled with each other, like a spectacular Taiji diagram. On one side of the clan, the roof, floor, and courtyard walls are covered with light gray granite stone, which is a specialty of the Sui Kingdom, and it looks sturdy and clean, while on the side of the clan, the houses are made of dark brown mountain rock. It is also a part of the main house of the Long family, but the houses on both sides are distinct, separated by high walls, leaving only one up and down two portals to figure out. The walls that stretch across the main house, known as the "Dragon's Back", are four feet and seven feet high and two feet and six feet wide, wide enough for a carriage to gallop on. There are internal envoys patrolling day and night on the dragon's back, and there are beacon towers and arrow towers every half a mile, which are heavily guarded.

These weapons are not to defend against external enemies, but to prevent internal communication, crossing the dragon's spine is an absolutely forbidden behavior, unless summoned by the Elders, the children of the clan are not allowed to step into the courtyard of the clan for the rest of their lives, and if the children of the clan want to go to the courtyard of the clan, they must apply to the elders of the clan, and after the approval of the elders, they will go through the two portals with the edict, seal, and slip, and return within the appointed hour. Going to the house in anticipation of not returning is the same crime as crossing the dragon's spine without permission, and it is not necessary for the torture hall to judge, and any internal envoy has the right to behead the person who violates the prohibition on the spot.

The place where Ryuhime sits is a low wall on the periphery of the courtyard, and behind the low wall, the towering heavy building is the "Dragon's Back". In the long history of the Long family for nearly 1,000 years, countless children of the family have tried to climb over the dragon's back, and every year dozens of heads are hung on the high wall to be slowly dried, and over time, a long ribbon of heads composed of skulls appeared at the end of the wall, and the heads dried by the wind shrank to the size of grapefruit. This is a unique scenery that only the Long family can see, and a cruel testimony of the fate of the ancient family.

All the resources, wealth, glory, and glory of the Long family were concentrated in the Zong family mansion. Here is concentrated one-third of the financial resources of the Liang Sui State, with a huge team of foreign envoys who dwarf the seventeen families in the East, undertaking all kinds of small-scale armed operations (and even starting a war), managing three million acres of land and 600,000 tenant farmers, and exporting dozens of the top guards with knives to the entire Eastern Continent every year, the Long family guards are the protectors that the imperial court and the wealthy of the entire continent dream of, even if they do not use the bloodline ability, these clan elites can also rely on the "Nine Laws" to stand at the top of the strength of the strong people in the mainland. The children of the clan can receive various bloodline ability stimulation rituals, can get systematic education, can learn the subtleties of the "Nine Laws" to their heart's content, can eat nutritious food, get well-built equipment, and get countless opportunities to hone and progress, and finally become a strong person who can take charge of himself.

And on the other side of the "dragon's back", everything is completely different. The descendants of the divided family are regarded as the inheritors of inferior blood, doing the lowest jobs all their lives, living by food rationing, and the darkest and most disgraceful actions of the Long family are done by the children of the divided family, in the eyes of the presbyterians, these people are a group of "sacrificeable", and the death of a few more people can also reduce the population density of the divided mansion a little, so that the heirs born from generation to generation will not be crowded in the house that cannot be expanded, causing food shortages and diseases.

No one can say exactly when the separation between the clan and the branch began, and the outline of the dragon's spine is clearly drawn on the oldest genealogy, and the ancestral precept enshrined on the incense-filled offering table in the ancestral hall of the presbyterian church has a cloud: the dragon family is not pure-blooded, but in fact it is a foreign surname. The ancestors of the Long family thought that the children of the separated family should not be given the surname "Dragon", but they had no choice but to build black courtyards and high walls to imprison these filthy bloodlines in the main house and isolate them from generation to generation.

The cause of all this is this word "blood". The so-called "bloodline heir" is a profession that is passed down from generation to generation among family members by virtue of the mysterious bond of "bloodline", each family has a different bloodline, has a variety of attributes, abilities and changes, and will also produce all kinds of strange mutations, these mutations are uncontrollable, but usually do not deviate too far from the bloodline ability.

But the Long family is different. The bloodline ability of the Long family itself is a kaleidoscope that includes all things, with countless form changes, just take the fourteenth generation including Long Ji (the full name is Yishen Ji Dragon surnamed fourteenth generation Zongjia, the history of the Long family has been so long that it is impossible to verify, every twenty generations is one era, according to the cycle of the heavenly stem and the earthly branch) five-year-old children, the abilities of the twelve young children are different, and none of the two is the same or even similar in strength. There are one thousand and twenty types of abilities that can be examined in the Dragon Family classics, which is an extraordinary phenomenon that no family in the entire continent can have, and no one has been able to explain it from the perspective of occultism, magic, or metaphysics.

In addition to the 1,000 and 20 abilities, the classics also record 12,500 "malignant transformations." The so-called "evil change" is the awakening of the bad power in the bloodline, transforming the human being into some kind of terrible monster, in the early history of the Long family There are countless such stories, parents were devoured by the evil child who turned into a wolverine in their sleep, and the young child turned into a five-foot long poisonous snake during the ceremony, and the probability of the dragon family's evil transformation was much greater than the awakening of the power. Later, this large family gradually discovered the hidden secrets in the bloodline, completely eliminated a bloodline that was prone to "viciousness", forbade intermarriage, built high walls, cut off contacts, and gradually eliminated the impure elements of the bloodline. After a long period of time, the clan and the clan were formed, and now the chances of the heirs of the clan becoming vicious are very small, and every descendant of the clan has the possibility of turning into a monster before they reach the age of sixteen. Sects and families, pure blood and impure blood, bloodline ability and malignant transformation, this is the cause of this tragedy. The tragedy has been played out for so long that now both the clan and the split family are accustomed to everything and accept this cruel setting.

If a child wants to get ahead, there are only three ways to choose:

First, entering the "outer bone pit" at an early age forces the bloodline ability to awaken, so that although less than five out of a hundred people survive, it is easy to obtain aggressive power, and the baby will immediately get the attention of the clan family, and be able to escape from the dark life of the separated family;

Second, those who have not been "malignant" and have talent after adulthood can apply to join the Shadow Sect, learn the Nine Methods of the Dragon Family, and get some opportunities to escape from the sea of suffering. The "Shadow Sect" is a hidden force active in the mansion of the Split Family, and its original intention was to destroy the monsters incarnated by the malignant and prevent them from causing large-scale destruction, and its functions gradually became diverse.

Thirdly, if you cross the dragon's back, escape the pursuit of the envoy and hide yourself, and surrender yourself to the Council of Elders when you reach the age of sixteen, you can obtain amnesty. It is often the most talented and powerful warriors who are able to do this, and there are only a handful of people in history.

Now that tattered boy turned out to be the heir of a separate family who had come over the wall, how could this not make Long Ji secretly frightened? She glanced at the dragon's spine high above, but found no trace of the internal envoy, the horn did not sound, and the beacon fire was not lit. As if guessing what she was thinking, the boy laughed and said, "I'm going back, they're just asleep." So, do you want to know? Let me tell you something?...... By the way, what's your name?"