Ruixuan Town, Yimingxuan Teahouse.

When Qian Chao arrived, he still saw the old shopkeeper who was always smiling, and after saying hello, Qian Chao walked into the backyard of the teahouse, in the small courtyard, Mr. Zhuang had already set up the chessboard, chess pieces and teapots and teacups, waiting for the arrival of Qian Chao.

Qian Chao was not in a hurry to say all his doubts, but sat down with the chess pieces and began to play against Mr. Zhuang while laughing, and in the process of playing chess, he told the recent events in the cold pool, especially the experience of his fight with the ram, and also described the ram's methods to Mr. Zhuang in detail.

Mr. Zhuang was obviously very interested in this matter, and the more he listened, the more he became fascinated, and then he simply stopped falling, and listened to Qian Chao's experience of the cold pool, and asked questions while listening, and finally Mr. Zhuang said:

"Ram Huang, surnamed Ram, well, it's a little familiar, you said that the man's eyes are somewhat similar to yours and mine, right?"

Mr. Zhuang said and looked at Qian Chao, his eyes were already a jade white color in this short period of time, the whites and pupils in his eyes were gone, and the eye sockets exuded a soft luster like two pieces of mutton fat jade, compared to the dazzling white light emitted from the ram's eyes, the light in Mr. Zhuang's eyes was much softer.

Seeing this, Qian Chao simply also showed his "blue eye technique", and said with a blue light in his eyes:

"The light in that person's eyes is a little dazzling and conspicuous, but Mr. Zhuang's gaze is not."

"Well," Mr. Zhuang nodded, and then his eyes returned to normal, and said, "Qian Xiaoyou, there is a saying about the remnants of Xianzhou in Zhongzhou, you should know something, right?" ”

"Recently, I just heard some stories from the seniors in the sect for me, it is said that they are extraterritorial monks who stayed in the Central Continent after the 'Thousand Year War', but the age is too old, and even the seniors in the sect don't know much about the remnants of the Xianzhou."

"Well, almost, the ram didn't know that your eyes would be like this, but it was actually a spell method created by yourself, so he guessed that you were a remnant of Xianzhou, and his eyes were somewhat similar to mine, so did you have a guess, or did you have a guess about the origin of the old man?"

"How dare the juniors suspect Mr. Zhuang indiscriminately, but the juniors now feel that Mr. Zhuang is probably not a monk from Middle-earth."

"Haha...... Yes, you guessed it, the old man was indeed not born in Middle-earth, alas, he came to Middle-earth, just to avoid trouble. ”

"Oh?" Hearing the word 'avoid trouble', Qian Chao was surprised.

Mr. Zhuang sprinkled the chess pieces in his hand into the chess basket and said:

"Well, today you came with a stomach full of questions, so let's not play chess for the time being, and the old man will tell you some things, so that you don't keep it in your heart, so that you can increase your knowledge and let you understand the origin of the ram. The old man Zhuang Qi, the place of origin is not known how far away from Zhongzhou, there is a vast sea in the middle, there is called Yingzhou, slightly smaller than Zhongzhou, the treasure of the world, outstanding people, it is a treasure land of flowers at four o'clock, the aura is strong, the abundance of products, it is far from incomparable in Zhongzhou, the common haunting between the mountains and forests is the rare birds and beasts that cannot be seen in Zhongzhou, and the strange flowers and plants all over the mountains are rare in Zhongzhou. Although the population of Yingzhou is much less than that of Zhongzhou, any person is born with a spiritual root, that is to say, all the people of Yingzhou are monks, which is also incomparable to Zhongzhou, although there are many people in Zhongzhou, but seven or eight out of ten are ordinary people who cannot practice, so the monks of Yingzhou are much more than Zhongzhou, in the past, Yingzhou people called the land where they lived 'Xianzhou', and Yingzhou people also proudly called themselves 'people of Xianzhou', note that it is not the first first, but the immortal of the gods. ”

When Mr. Zhuang described Yingzhou, he raised his head slightly and looked at the top of Qian Chao's head, as if he could see his hometown Yingzhou from there, and his eyes revealed a deep attachment, Qian Chao saw Mr. Zhuang for the first time, thinking that he just said that he came to Zhongzhou to avoid disaster, then he must miss his hometown very much, in addition, what Mr. Zhuang said also shocked Qian Chao, and he didn't speak, just quietly listened to Mr. Zhuang.

"In addition to these, Yingzhou is different from Zhongzhou, where there is no big sect like Wulingzong or Muyangzong, but there are seven surnames in Yingzhou, namely Ram, Gongyi, Sima, Situ, Lu, Ji, Zhuang, in fact, simply put, there are seven powerful families in Yingzhou, and the entire Yingzhou is basically divided and controlled by these seven great families, of course, there are many other small surnames, but they are all attached to the seven surnames of Yingzhou, well, It is not much different from those large and small families who are attached to your Five Spirit Sect. The old man's surname is Zhuang, and he is naturally from Yingzhou Zhuang, but although Zhuang's is one of the seven surnames in Yingzhou, it is ranked last in terms of strength, but don't think that Zhuang's strength is weak, in fact, if Zhuang's strength is placed in Zhongzhou, it is not much worse than your Five Spirits Sect and Muyang Sect combined. And the ram is the most powerful surname in Yingzhou. ”

Only then did Qian Chao understand that the ram who had fought with him was probably the strongest family from Yingzhou.

"Although Yingzhou and Middle-earth are far apart, they have long been entangled, and there have been two protracted and earth-shattering wars in the past in Middle-earth, one is called the 'Millennium War', and the other is called ' The battle across the sea', you should have heard of these, the old man will not hide it from you, it was the monks of Yingzhou who provoked the two wars, or the seven surnames of Yingzhou discussed together before launching an invasion of Zhongzhou, of course, when conquering Zhongzhou, there was not only Yingzhou, in the second cross-sea battle, the seven surnames of Yingzhou also united the monks of several other continents to invade Yingzhou, but the main planning of the two wars was the seven surnames of Yingzhou, as you know, they all ended in failure, speaking of which, are you curious, since I said Yingzhou so well just now, Zhongzhou is so much worse than Yingzhou, why Yingzhou has to plot Zhongzhou again and again？ ”

Hearing this question, Qian Chao nodded again and again.

Mr. Zhuang continued:

"This has to be explained from the fundamental difference between Yingzhou and Zhongzhou, in the land of Zhongzhou, if you dig down with a shovel, as long as you can do it, no matter if you dig down Qianxun or Wanzhang deep, even if you dig to the nine secluded places, there are still mud and stones below, and the top is just a dark river dug underground, that is to say, the land of Zhongzhou is a real piece of land, which is firm and unusual, and it is extremely stable here. And Yingzhou is not, Qian Xiaoyou, you may not believe it, when I was your age, I heard the legend that the land of Yingzhou was left by the immortals, and the immortals once lived, when the immortals were there, the land of Yingzhou was very stable, but with the departure of the immortals, the whole land of Yingzhou was not stable, and it was like a boat or driftwood in the vast sea. To put it simply, Yingzhou and Zhongzhou are fundamentally different, Yingzhou is not like Zhongzhou like an island with a stable position in the sea, Yingzhou is active, some people say that Yingzhou is a boulder floating in the sea, and some people say that Yingzhou is a giant turtle that does not know how huge, all Yingzhou people live on the back shell of this turtle, mountains, rivers, rivers and lakes are all on the back of this turtle......"

"This ......" Qian Chao was shocked when he heard this, and interjected, "How is this possible, is it true that there are people from Yingzhou who have been digging down, digging into the seawater, or really seeing the true face of this huge turtle?" ”

"Hehe, of course not," Mr. Zhuang smiled, then pointed to the star-like chess pieces on the chessboard and said, "It was found against the star map, does Qian Xiaoyou know the star map?" ”

"The younger generation knows something, this world is huge, it is likely to be boundless, if you have the opportunity to go to an extremely distant place, it is easy to get lost and can't find the way back, therefore, the most accurate way to identify the direction is to compare the star map ......"

Mr. Zhuang nodded appreciatively:

"Well, yes, you actually know the star map, then it is much more convenient to explain to you, this is discovered by the ancestors of Yingzhou a long time ago, they observed the stars in the night sky, and then were surprised to find that the star map observed in the same place after a period of time apart is always different from the records in the classics, there are always some deviations, and even the star maps observed each time are slightly different from the last one. This begs the question, what happened to the stars in the sky or what happened to the earth beneath our feet? In Yingzhou, all people know that the stars in the sky are almost eternal except for the cyclic changes with the seasons, so the only thing that can change is the earth under your feet, that is to say, the changes in the star map observed every other year mean that Yingzhou has drifted with the waves for a distance, maybe this distance is not large, but it has always existed, according to the contrast of the star map, Yingzhou is almost every moment towards the north, and the north, is the ancient legend of Yingzhou in the extremely cold sea, People describe it as an ice prison, it is said that even the soul of the monk will be frozen forever, this conclusion will naturally cause great panic among people, Yingzhou people are different from the people of Zhongzhou, Yingzhou people are more good at cultivating together, and live longer, many people who live long and have achieved cultivation are deeply worried about this, so people have begun to delve into the secrets of Yingzhou itself, in fact, it is also a blind toss, even if so many people who have cultivated to the top run around, In the end, it was only said that Yingzhou was either a boulder floating in the sea or a turtle left by the immortals, but no matter what, the drift of Yingzhou to the north could not be avoided or stopped. ”

This statement was the first time Qian Chao had heard it, and he was deeply fascinated.

"Since it is impossible to prevent Yingzhou from drifting northward, then one day Yingzhou will enter the extremely cold sea, no matter how long it is from that ending, Yingzhou's fate is destined to be unchangeable, but the people of Yingzhou never want to enter the ice prison with it, in order to find a place for the people of Yingzhou to live in the future, the seven surnames of Yingzhou have sent a lot of people to venture outside to explore, during this period, they have also found several continents in the same situation as Yingzhou, they are also facing the same ending, and they are sparing no effort to find a wayIt was at that time that the monks sent out by Yingzhou discovered Zhongzhou, and the Yingzhou people set foot on Zhongzhou earlier than all your classic records, but the Yingzhou people have set foot in too many places, and there was no Zhongzhou land at the beginning, there were more suitable places to make the Yingzhou people at that time moved, but unfortunately, at that time, there were local monks in the places where those people were in the middle of the picture and they were overcome by the power of Yingzhou, or those places were the places where the high-level true spirits lived, and the Yingzhou people did not dare to use their brains there, There are also some places where Yingzhou people have tried, but later found that the price to pay is too great and not cost-effective, so they gave up, and finally chose Zhongzhou here with some reluctance. Because of this, there are records of the 'Millennium War' and the 'Battle across the Sea' in your historical classics of Middle-earth, well, what the people of Yingzhou never expected is that in the land of Middle-earth, which they looked down on and even didn't have a phase at the beginning, the monks here could actually burst out with great strength to defeat them again and again. ”

Qian Chao interjected here and asked:

"Mr. Zhuang, according to what you just said, the monks of Yingzhou are better at cultivating than the monks of Zhongzhou, so they should be more powerful, but why did they fail to attack Zhongzhou twice in a row, shouldn't they?"