"About three thousand years ago, the aura suddenly began to recover, and soon after, the first batch of strong people who broke through the innate realm appeared, and those strong people began to explore the depths of the Great Rift Valley. Every year after that, there would be a master of the Innate Realm who ventured deep into the Great Rift Valley. But in the first years, everyone went and never returned, and it was not until more than 200 years after the first people entered the Great Rift Valley that someone finally returned from the depths of the Great Rift Valley. ”

Ye Ze knew that these were all from the history class of Yuzhou University, in addition to the top 100 list updated once a month in Yuzhou City, there is also a list of 1,000 people updated once a year.

Only those who are on the list of 1,000 people can become official students of Yuzhou College, and they have five days a week to enter the college to listen to lectures and practice. As for the others, they only have one day a week to enter the college, and they can only go to the marginal subjects of history, medicine, geology, botany, and so on.

Ye Ze paused for a moment to think back to what he had heard in his history class before continuing: "Those who came back found a city in the depths of the Great Rift Valley, and found many advanced secrets in it, and soon after they returned, they founded the Nine Sects and Thirty-six Sects. Until now, not only the nine sects and thirty-six factions, but also the innate realm masters of other forces have gone deep into the Great Rift Valley every year to find opportunities. ”

"But apart from the first group of people who found the city, the people who entered the Great Rift Valley never found any trace of the city. ”

Ye Ze continued: "It wasn't until more than a hundred years ago that the masters of the Thirty-six Sects of the Nine Sects found that city again. ”

"Found that city again?"

Zhou Ran interrupted Ye Ze and asked, "Will that city still move?"

"This ......"

Ye Ze thought for a while and shook his head and said, "I don't know either." ”

"More than 100 years ago......"

Zhou Ran closed his eyes and thought about it, he clearly remembered that the military materials clearly recorded that the first wave of aura tides appeared one hundred and thirty-seven years ago, was there a connection between the two?

Thinking of this, he immediately opened his eyes and looked at Ye Ze and asked, "Was it one hundred and thirty-seven years ago?"

Ye Ze was taken aback by Zhou Ran's sudden look at him, but he didn't answer immediately, but thought about it very carefully, and finally nodded: "It should be one hundred and thirty-seven years ago." ”

"Is it a coincidence?"

Zhou Ran thought silently and motioned for Ye Ze to continue.

"This time, the Thirty-six Sects of the Nine Sects brought out a lot of treasures from there, one of which was the Heaven Interception Tower. Since then, the Thirty-Six Sects of the Nine Sects have worked together to open the Tower of Heaven every ten years. ”

Ye Ze's eyes suddenly lit up, and his voice couldn't help but raise a few points, he said: "Every time the Heaven Interception Tower is opened, only eighty-one people can enter, and these eighty-one people can be people from the thirty-six sects of the nine sects, or people outside the thirty-six sects of the nine sects. No matter what kind of background he is, if he can grab one of these eighty-one places, he will definitely become a disciple of the Nine Sects. ”

Ye Ze is one of the hundreds of thousands of people at the bottom of Yuzhou City, and his biggest dream is to live intact with his younger brother Ye Chen until he is eighteen years old, and then become an outer disciple of the Thousand Peerless Sect, so that the Ye family where they are located can be related to the Thousand Peerless Sect, and let the Ye family have one more talisman.

The 36 powerful factions are divided into the upper nine, the middle nine, and the lower eighteen.

In the eyes of Ye Ze and these people, the Thousand Peerless Gate Realm, which has a power all over the three major regions in the northwest of Jizhou, is definitely a super existence like a giant, even if the Thousand Peerless Gate is only the last few in the bottom of the Eighteen Gates.

The Nine Sects are super powerful existences above the thirty-six sects, and Ye Ze surmised from the few words he heard about the Nine Sects that it seems that the upper nine sects of the thirty-six sects together are not comparable to the Wanyang Sect, which ranks last among the nine sects. And with his extremely limited imagination, he couldn't understand how powerful the Nine Sects were.

For those nine major sects who had the confidence to set up their sects within the Great Rift Valley, Ye Ze would only occasionally dream of them when he was dreaming. If it weren't for Zhou Ran asking about the Heaven Interception Tower at this time, he might never have had the opportunity to say what he knew in his life.

The person who spoke was extremely excited, but Zhou Ran's reaction was flat.

Seeing this, Ye Ze controlled his emotions a little, and he thought that Zhou Ran didn't seem to know about the Heaven Interception Tower, so he couldn't help but explain again: "Young Master, it is said that as long as you enter the Heaven Interception Tower, you can attract the superior star power to achieve the innate realm. ”

When Zhou Ran heard this, his eyes lit up and asked, "The Heaven Interception Tower is related to the Innate Realm?"

Ye Ze was finally sure that the person in front of him really didn't know what the Heaven Interception Tower was, he nodded with a smile, and then said: "Many disciples of the Nine Sects and Thirty-six Sects will deliberately stay in the Returning Yuan Realm, just hoping to wait until the Heaven Interception Tower is opened, and use the Heaven Interception Tower to advance to the Innate Realm. The power of the stars attracted by the Heaven Interception Tower every time it was opened was extremely huge, so even if they couldn't become those eighty-one people, the success rate of advancing to the Innate Realm during the time when the Heaven Intercepting Tower was opened would be higher than at other times. ”

"I see. ”

Zhou Ran touched his chin that had only grown fluff, and the light in his eyes appeared from time to time.

Ye Ze knew that Zhou Ran was tempted, almost all of these masters on the top 100 list of Yuzhou City were in the realm of Guiyuan, although he didn't know what Zhou Ran's realm was, but he could let Bai Sijue, who ranked thirteenth, come to the door in person, and think about it, he also knew that the young master in front of him who rescued their brother was also in the realm of Guiyuan.

The Guiyuan Realm is indeed only one step away from the Innate Realm, but who dares to say that he will definitely be able to successfully cross this moat?

In addition, what kind of star power is attracted to advance to the innate realm is often related to the subsequent cultivation path.

It has been rare for an ordinary small family to appear in an innate realm for a hundred years, and they don't care so much about what kind of star power they attract. However, many of the children of the big families, and even the disciples of the thirty-six sects of the Nine Sects, attached great importance to every step of their cultivation. The innate realm is the first barrier of the cultivation path, and it is the most important thing.

As far as Ye Ze knew, the seven cities controlled by the Thousand Peerless Sect that screened disciples all had top 100 lists, adding up to nearly 700 Guiyuan Realm masters. The Thousand Peerless Sects ranked almost at the bottom of the Nine Sects and Thirty-six Sects, so how many people under the other sects stayed in this realm? In addition to the Nine Sects and Thirty-six Sects, how many forces were staring at the Heaven Interception Tower?

After following Zhou Ran to move to Wolong Mansion, Ye Ze's ambition was indeed a little bigger than before, but at most, he hoped to be able to enter the Thousand Towers in the center of the city before he was eighteen years old.

It's not a bad thing for people to have ambition, but if their strength is not worthy of their ambition, they are looking for death.

Ye Ze didn't know what Zhou Ran was thinking, he reminded stubbornly: "Young Master, the Thirty-six Sects of the Nine Sects did publicly say that the Heaven Interception Tower was open to everyone, but everyone knew that the eighty-one places were their forbidden place. Even if one or two people get lucky enough to grab the quota in the end, which one of them is not a demon with a talent against the sky? And in any case, they also snatched the quota from the disciples of the three six sects of the Nine Sects, does this count as offending the disciples of those big sects? If they are hated by those people......

At this point, Ye Ze looked up at Zhou Ran.

Zhou Ran also looked at Ye Ze, and didn't say more on this topic, he asked again: "What is the Great Rift Valley?"

How could this young master not even know about the Great Rift Valley?

Could it be the legendary hermit?

The so-called hidden people are big families or large sects that are almost cut off from the outside world, and the depth of the background is often beyond imagination.

Generally speaking, even if the three six factions of the Nine Sects are unwilling to fight against these mysterious forces, no one knows what kind of huge force they will provoke. Among the thirty-six sects, there were several sects that were either wiped out or collapsed because they provoked these people.

It is said that the Thousand Peerless Sect was also the Middle Nine Sect, but for some reason it provoked the Hidden World Sect, and it fell into such a bleak situation today.

In fact, Ye Ze didn't know if the people in the hermit didn't know the world at all, or if they knew more about the world than they could have imagined. He just couldn't imagine anyone who didn't even know about the Tower of Heaven and the Great Rift Valley, which connected Zhou Ran to the hermit he knew nothing about.

Ye Ze cleared his throat and said: "The world is divided into twelve continents, with a total of three hundred and sixty-five domains, and the city of Yuzhou, where we are located, is located in the westernmost Jizhou of the twelve continents, and it is also the westernmost Qingyuan domain of the twenty-five domains of Jizhou. In a city like Yuzhou City, there are about forty in the Qingyuan Domain. ”

Twelve continents?

Three hundred and sixty-five domains?

Such a large Yuzhou City is only one of the more than forty cities in the Qingyuan Domain?

Zhou Ran almost bit his tongue, from hearing that Yuzhou City, with a population of nearly one million, was only one of the seven cities where the Thousand Peerless Sect screened disciples, to hearing that the Thousand Peerless Sect, which had a huge power, was only the bottom sect among the three six sects of the Nine Sects, he had already estimated in his heart that the size of this world was beyond imagination.

After thinking that he had a general impression of the vastness of this world in his heart, Zhou Ran was not in a hurry to understand this world, but just asked the Ye Ze brothers to buy some books about Yuzhou City.

However, at this time, Zhou Ran realized that he seemed to think too little about this world before.

"The Great Rift Valley is located in the easternmost part of the Twelve Continents. ”

Ye Ze seemed to deliberately not let Zhou Ran go, and he continued: "The history professor of the academy said that the scope of the Great Rift Valley is very large, and the area currently explored by the Nine Sects and Thirty-six Sects is already larger than the territory of the Twelve Continents. But no one has yet said exactly how big it is. He said that there are countless masters who have gone deep into the Great Rift Valley for thousands of years, and only a small number of them have returned, and perhaps many have not died, but have been lost in the Great Rift Valley. ”

Zhou Ran didn't let Ye Ze say any more, he was afraid that he would hear more things and couldn't stand it.

After hearing that the Heaven Interception Tower was related to the Advanced Innate Realm, Zhou Ran had already decided to try it no matter what. For Ye Ze's worries, not only did he not take them to heart, but he was also looking forward to them. After all, if it was too peaceful here, he would definitely have to put a lot of effort into figuring out the three six sects of the Nine Sects. If the matter of the Sky Interception Tower can muddy the water here, he can just save a lot of effort.

But now, he felt a sense of powerlessness in his heart that he had never felt before.

"How can this world be so big?!"

Zhou Ran didn't doubt whether what Ye Ze said was true or false, after all, these are things that are almost common sense for people who have lived here since childhood. He just thought of Guan Ren, who he saw again ten years later, and he somewhat understood in his heart why that extremely determined person had changed so much.

The frog that jumped out of the well and saw the size of the sky and the frog that once lived in the well are no longer the same one.

Zhou Ran sat quietly all night, and he walked downstairs quickly early in the morning, and said to the Ye family brothers who were preparing breakfast: "If Bai Sijue comes over, let him come to Yuzhou College to find me." ”

Zhou Ran desperately wanted to know how big this world was, and if he wanted to figure this out, there was obviously no more suitable place than Yuzhou Academy.

But how can a person of unknown origin enter Yuzhou College?