In February 777, the Shanglin Festival kicked off. The Shanglin Festival has a long history, in the ancient era, an ancestor of the Chen family accidentally discovered the secret realm in the east of Shanglin, and then after dozens of generations of continuous exploration, it was determined that this secret place is called "Martyrdom", which is the burial place of a sage in the original era, and it is also created by this sage.

Sage is an honorific title for people who have made outstanding contributions to the human race or created great achievements. Not all sages are cultivators, there are also many ancestors in the era of ignorance and the age of fire not long after the birth of the human race, and there are many people who discovered the law, invented the talisman, and perfected the talisman cultivation system after the human race began to practice talismans.

The history of man is divided into several stages here, in order of the age of ignorance - the age of fire - the primordial age - the ancient era - the medieval era - the early ancient era - the pilgrimage era - the edict age. The era of ignorance and the age of fire is the era of the human race just after the birth of the era, in the era of ignorance, people drink blood, will only use some simple tools, and in the age of fire, the ancestor "Sui" discovered the fire, and successfully harnessed the fire, so that the human race entered a new era, gradually got rid of the darkness and ignorance, writing, painting, music, houses and clothes and other things that can greatly improve human life explosively.

In the primordial era, the ancestor "Gao" discovered for the first time that there was a power in the world, and successfully used this power using yellow rune paper, so the mystery of the "talisman" was revealed to the eyes of humans for the first time. The emergence of the talisman has greatly improved people's living standards and development speed, and mankind has ushered in a great explosion of productive forces and great strides in social development.

The later ancient era, the medieval era and the early ancient era were a period of steady development, and the Fu Gong gradually had a formed system, and one country after another appeared in human society, and human beings gradually became stronger, and finally became the protagonist of heaven and earth, standing at the top of the food chain.

But the good times did not last long, because of several eras, people became more and more dependent on the power of the talisman, and in the next era derived fanatical religious beliefs, imprisoning people's thoughts, which is why this era is called the "pilgrimage era". During this period, the development of society stagnated and even regressed, and the religion of the continent called "Holy One" ruled mankind, and violent organizations of "pilgrims" appeared, forcing people to bow to religion, otherwise they were considered "heretical" and eradicated by the sword.

During this period, the whole continent seemed to have returned to the era of darkness and ignorance, and the "Fu Gong" became a tool for religion to strengthen its rule, and the development of the Fu Gong was completely stagnant, and even many books were burned, resulting in a certain degree of regression. However, this period was not completely without development and progress, and it was precisely because of the emergence of religion that people discovered that there were really gods in the world, but they did not understand and study them in depth, but only discovered that the power that could extradite the gods was attached to the rune paper, enhancing the power of magic, and perfecting the cultivation system to a certain extent.

Until the end of the era, a sage "Yi Changtian" stood up and rebelled, leading the oppressed people to overthrow the rule of religion, so that mankind returned to the light, and mankind began to develop again.

This is the era of the edict, in this era, people re-established the only ideological concept of heaven and earth, the mind was emancipated again, the society took another step forward, and the Fu Gong continued to develop, and people began to have the idea of "research and speculation", which is also the source of the "Study Tower", people through the establishment of the study of the tower to study the nature of heaven and earth, study the Fu Gong, and face all the unknowns with a rigorous and critical attitude, rather than blindly pinning their trust on religion and the gods.

It can be said that this continent has a long and long history, which is also a prerequisite for the birth of so many sages. Without a long history, there would be no trial and error and progress of human beings. It can be said that no one does not want to be a sage, but not everyone can be a sage.

In the original era, he spent his life studying the five elements of reincarnation, and finally perfected the theory of the five elements of the Fu Gong, developed the cultivation system and the Fu Gong together, and achieved the name of "Sage", which went down in history.

"Martyrdom" is not only the burial place of Hu Lienan, but also the place of inheritance left by Hu Lienan, so every time the Shanglin Festival begins, it can always attract a large number of people to come, in order to enter the secret realm to find opportunities and see if they can have a chance to get the inheritance.

This year is the same, people from all over the world have entered Shanglin City one after another, waiting for the opening of the secret realm. At this time, it was the most lively and vigilant time in Shanglin City, the Chen family sent many cultivators and soldiers to guard various places in Shanglin City, the soldiers who checked at the city gate did not dare to slack off, and a team of soldiers patrolled the streets every quarter of an hour, and the Chen family and some important buildings were also carefully guarded by cultivators.

No wonder the Chen family is so cautious, although the Shanglin Festival has brought prosperity to Shanglin City, there have also been many times, killing people and seizing treasures, enemies attacking each other, people who have never known each other forming grudges, and there are many cases of cultivators killing civilians, after these things happened, the Chen family followed and set rules.

It is precisely because of this that the Chen family can win the hearts of the people, get the support of the broadest masses of the people, and be able to sit firmly in the position of the lord of Lin City, after all, there are only a few cultivators, and the common people are the most. The Chen family has set up rules, of course, there will be people who do not abide by them, but the Chen family is strong, and there are many cultivators under his command, and in the face of powerful forces, the people who break the rules will naturally disappear into the world, and the majesty of the Chen family will stand.

Therefore, now, although there are twice as many people in Shanglin City as before, under the majesty and arrangement of the Chen family, everything seems to be in order, without the slightest chaos. The business on the street was busy, and the Chen family also opened up an empty space in the east of the city for trading between practitioners, called the "Shanglin Trade Fair", attracting countless practitioners to come here or set up stalls to sell, or take quilts to find good things.

In addition to ordinary cultivators, many of them are still the city lord family of the city under the jurisdiction of Shanglin, like the "Blue Temple City" west of Shanglin, named after the city with a sea-blue temple tower, the city lord family is the "Bao" family, this time it is also the head of the family Bao Khotan came to Shanglin with his two sons and a group of doormen.

There are also the "Jiao" family of the two cities in the south, "Moyi City" and the "Luo" family of "Shuidi City", which are also well prepared and joined forces this time. There are also the "Yi" family in the southwest "Poyi City", the "Bu" family in the east "Basel City", the "Xiao" family in the northeast "Worth City", the "Mo" family in the north "Boer City", etc., all the city families from all over the country have come to Shanglin, not only to participate in the Shanglin event, but also to report to the Chen family for ten years of work and pay tribute.

This kind of tribute is not forced, but spontaneous, the Chen family came to the Shanglin area, hard work, not only to develop themselves, but also to help countless small families, so that they can unite around themselves, these families have developed to the family of each city. These families signed a covenant with the Chen family, expressing their respect for the Chen family as the lord of the Shanglin area, and the Chen family gave these families the city as a place to settle down and develop, and governed the Shanglin area on behalf of the Chen family.

In normal times, these families may have little contact with the Chen family, but during the Shanglin Festival, they must come to report to the Chen family on the governance work, if the governance is not good, they must be recorded once under the witness of each family, and if they accumulate three times, they must be expelled from the Shanglin area and replaced by another family to manage the city.

Each family finally has a piece of land, where will they not seriously govern the place, and then be kicked out, so one by one is also working hard to develop their own city, coupled with the development opportunities brought by the Shanglin Festival, the Shanglin area is getting better and better year by year, and the speed of development has been very fast.

Every time these families come over, they don't just bring people to participate in the Shanglin Festival, they are followed by caravans, large sums of money, special products under various autonomous departments, come to Shanglin to trade, and buy the things they need, every time they return with a full load, and then use these things to develop the city, and the profits they get from them must at least double, and they make fat one by one, and they are more determined to follow the Chen family.

The Chen family also got a lot of benefits from it, whether it was the tax drawn between commercial trade, or the tribute paid by each city, as well as the buying and selling of special products from various places, as well as the consumption of countless cultivators during each grand event, the Chen family earned a very large profit, and then used it to develop Shanglin City, like a snowball, the more they earned.

This is also an important reason why the Shanglin event is so grand, the world is bustling, all for profit; The world is crowded, all for profit, if there is no profit driven, Shanglin City and the Chen family will not develop to the point where they are today. The Chen family is also using interests to tie the various families together with themselves, with the Chen family eating a mouthful of meat, there are other families with a bowl of soup to drink, coupled with diligence and love for the people, loved by the people, the Chen family can now be said to be in full swing, and has developed to a peak.