Chapter 1 The Ancient Desolate Continent
"There are countless spaces in the universe, and in these countless spaces, worlds are derived, and the worlds are derived into one, and one life is two, two is three, and three are all things, and all things are derived into worlds. “
"How big the sky is, how boundless, how wide the earth is, how vast and boundless, how deep the sea is, unfathomable, the land we belong to is called the Ancient Desolate Continent. “
"In this land, the land is vast, the land is vast, trillions of species are derived, and the human race is the existence at the top of all species. Since its birth, the human race has always regarded itself as the master of all living things, and has been fighting endlessly, leading to the extinction of many species. And the human race is still, doing its own thing, proud of the world, and self-righteous. “
"The Ancient Desolate Continent has been fighting each other since the birth of the human race, from creation to destruction, destruction to rebirth, and it has continued endlessly. After countless years of wars, separating forces, standing side by side, each dominating one side, hundreds of countries fighting each other, and finally the three major countries of "Chu, Qin, and Jiang" formed a situation to control hundreds of small countries around them. “
"Natural selection, survival of the fittest, is the most primitive survival law of the ancient wilderness continent. Most small countries have almost been reduced to vassals of large powers, small countries with no real political power. Forced by the deterrence of large countries, small countries rely on annual tribute to survive, and it is not an exaggeration to describe the situation of small countries with the words "surviving for a long time". “
Among them, Chu is the superpower among the great powers, located in the southern ridge of the ancient barren continent, controlling dozens of small countries around it, with strong national strength and great power, there has been no major war for decades, the people live and work in peace and contentment, and the economy is prosperous, which is unprecedented, and it has vaguely become the most powerful superpower among the three major countries. “
"Chu State, has a long history, has been more than 3,000 years since the founding of the country, it is rumored to create the first generation of the emperor of the Chu State, this is the country is ruined and the prince is down, the small country where it is located has long been extinct, only a single seedling remains, the first half of its life is muddy, depressed, the second half of the life travels the world, perhaps there is a fixed number in the underworld, there must be a loss and gain, without a chance to meet a sacred mountain in the middle of the tour, the sacred mountain here has a "magician", exists, and then worship into this sect, become a disciple of the sect. It wasn't until decades later that he returned to his homeland by bidding farewell to Mount Kinabalu. Not only did he destroy the enemies of the country, but he also restored the country and named it "Chu State". It reversed several times to expand the territory and expand the territory, and after several generations of expanding the territory, it was possible to achieve today's Chu State. “
The founder of the Chu State was a great emperor, and he once said: "How can I be invincible in the world, establish a country to take the world, and rule the world with the law." He also warned his descendants, "All things have gains and losses, there are causes and effects, just let it be." "Because of this, for thousands of years, the rise of the Chu State has become more and more powerful, and the achievements are even more extraordinary, which has amazed countless descendants, and some people have commented on the first emperor of the Chu State and the first emperor of the ages!"
"Located in the rising sun in the east, Jiangxia City is an ordinary city in the southeast of Chu State, with a population of hundreds of thousands. There are thousands of miles in the north and south of the region, and there are thousands of miles between the east and west, and there are one hundred and eight cities in the Chu country, compared to the size of Jiangxia City, other cities, Jiangxia City is less than the above, more than the bottom, some cities have a population of up to millions, the area spans thousands of miles, and some cities are inaccessible and uninhabited, tens of thousands of miles are desolate places, there are countless rivers, plains, hills, mountains, deserts, and the territory of Chu can be imagined, and the territory of Chu is vast and boundless. “
"Passing through the mountains, the big rivers, in a deep mountain in the east of Jiangxia City, a small village in the deep mountains and wilderness fifty miles away from Jiangxia City. “
This is an old man in Caokeng Village in front of the stone table in the village and a few children around the stone table. “
"In Caokeng Village, in front of the stone table, a group of children are immature and their faces are full of seriousness, listening to the old man tell the origin of this ancient desolate continent. Listen to the lecture with relish!"
"The children are very lively and active, they often get together to play, they like to listen to the old man tell stories, and they have almost no knowledge of the world, so every time the old man tells a story outside, the children are very much looking forward to it. “
"Caokeng Village belongs to the area under the jurisdiction of Jiangxia City, and there are dozens of villages in this area, and Caokeng Village is one of them. The village is not very large, there are more than 100 families and more than 500 people in men, women and children, the inside and outside of the house are made of boulders and mud, the villagers are simple, simple and natural. Farming, gathering, logging, hunting primitive life, there are two major surnames in the village, Zhong and Su, whose ancestors settled here hundreds of years ago. At this moment, in front of the stone table, Old Man Su Baidong told about the origin of the Ancient Desolate Continent!"
"Su Baidong, is one of the few people in Caokeng Village who has walked out of Jiangxia City, has a very high status in the village, is highly respected, and often plays with children on weekdays. Children like to call the old man Grandpa Bai Dong. “
"Okay, that's all for today!" Old Man Bai Dong's voice just fell. “
With a sound, the group of babies sighed for a while! A baby couldn't help but ask: "Grandpa Bai Dong, every time you talk about this, why don't you continue to talk about it, is there no follow-up?"
Another child continued: "That's it, Grandpa Bai Dong, every time I talk about this, I've listened to it many times, and I won't play with you anymore" This baby was a little angry, and the old man teased him more than once!
"Hehe!" This is a kind old man, with gray hair, a long white beard, and a healthy body, looking radiant and serious: "Children, I don't know the outside world, but I always like to ask and ask, okay, give you an ideal, when you grow up, you want to know the follow-up story, you can go and find the answer yourself!"
"Children, people, as long as they have dreams, they will continue to pursue answers, these stories, true and false, will be pursued forever, endlessly. “
"Cut!" all the children couldn't help but look at it with contempt, and rolled their eyes, it was this trick again, and they all used it badly. A group of children stared at the old man intently, looking dissatisfied, and the younger children almost couldn't hold back, ready to pull the old man's white beard, and looked like they didn't make it clear, but they were going to do it. “
Among the children surrounding the old man, there was a child of about eleven or twelve years old, with a uniform figure, not fat or thin, with a red face, a pair of clear eyes, long black hair, two curved eyebrows, like the crescent moon, clear eyes full of longing, but very attentive to the lecture, with a strong interest in the world outside the village. “
"This child's name is one" Su Chen. "The old man told about the origin of the Ancient Wilderness Continent, although he had talked about it many times, but every time he listened to it, he paid special attention to it, for fear of missing the details. After all, children have a longing for strange things, and the outside world is always curious and cares about it. “
There are seven or eight children in this group, ranging from six or seven years old to teens, around the stone table, Su Chen stands behind the old man, compared to other children, lively and active, it seems quieter, every time the old man tells a story outside, sometimes he can't help asking: "Grandpa, the outside world, there are all kinds of strange things, there are no strange things, but there are really ghosts?"
The old man didn't rush to answer, turned around and stretched out his calloused hand and raised it, touched Su Chen's head dotingly, smiled without saying a word, the child looked curious and serious, and the old man's eyes were full of like. “
"Nonsense, where are the ghosts in this world?" The old man said to Su Chen with a solemn speech. “
"Oh, is it?" After Su Chen was suspicious for a while, he thought about it and continued to ask: "Grandpa, Uncle Hu next door said that he has seen demon beasts with his own eyes, and demon beasts want to eat people, and the demon beasts are very big, like a behemoth like a house, and they are several feet tall, is this true?"
"Isn't the monster very powerful? Can it fly? Or can it escape from the ground?
"The demon beast is so powerful, how can people catch the demon beast?"
Su Chen asked a lot of questions at once, and his mind was full of questions. “
"A group of children heard that the "demon beast" suddenly came to their hearts, and they were as excited as chicken blood, almost coaxing, gossiping, you say a word to me!"
A little fat man who was about the same age as Su Chen, with a round body like a ball, and a fleshy face and a baby, then said, "My family also said that demon beasts are blessed, with huge bodies, fierce and mighty, extremely high intelligence, and can also transform into human form!"
"A few children approached the old man, chattering and gossiping, and kept asking questions at the moment, seeing the old man smiled, he just didn't want to speak, and the children were a little anxious!"
"Hahahaha!" Seeing the old man laughing and not speaking, the younger child couldn't help but pull the old man's white beard with his claws, and continued to pull, asking, the old man was a little overwhelmed, in pain, and wailed!
"An old man and a few children on the stone table, hippie and playful, warm people's hearts, and the scenery of joy makes people laugh!"
After tossing for a while, until the old man couldn't resist the claws of this group of babies, he begged for mercy and said: "Okay, children, don't pull grandpa's beard, oops, the old man wailed, this long beard is about to break, children, let go, oops, children, let go, grandpa will talk to you about ......." The old man couldn't stand it after repeating it a few times. “
Hearing these words, the children joyfully released their claws from the old man's beard, and returned to the stone table to surround the old man, watching the old man with great anticipation. “
The old man waved his hand, tidied up his long white beard, with a helpless look on his face, looking at the expectant eyes of the babies in front of him, although his heart hurt his long white beard, but the old man was not angry, but looked at the group of children with a kind smile, his eyes were full of high hopes, the children are the future of the village, with hope. The old man can't help but think of decades ago to the present, when he was a child, when he was a teenager, when he was menstruating, he experienced a lot of years, and then he was middle-aged and full of life, until he was full of vicissitudes of life, time turned, life was a hundred years, the sun and the moon were like a shuttle, and he couldn't help but forgive people with the years. “
Thinking of this, the old man couldn't help but sigh softly, raised his head and looked at the sky, and fell into a long contemplative memory, which was unforgettable for a long time!
Looking at the old man's expression and feeling the old man's emotional changes, several children were a little complicated, and suddenly, the children's laughter quieted down. “
Su Chen looked at the old man, a little worried in his heart, but Guan asked from the bottom of his heart, "Grandpa, what's wrong with you?"
His eyes were full of care, for fear that he would make his grandfather angry. “
"Su Chen asked!"
The old man came back to his senses and smiled: "Grandpa is fine, but I remembered the past for a long, long time." Looking at Su Chen, the child, the old man's eyes were full of love, and then he stared at every child in front of him and said cautiously: "Children, prick up your ears and listen carefully!"
"Next, what grandpa told is a story or not, waiting for you to confirm it!"
The old man said: "The outside world is cruel, all living beings are fighting, only the strong can survive and reproduce, and the weak can only be oppressed and destroyed." "There is a real origin of the Ancient Desolate Continent, and the history of the human race, it is too far away, the Ancient Desolate Continent is too big, the territory is vast, the vastness is endless, I don't know where the end is!
"The origin of the human race is probably difficult to verify, according to the recorded history books, the human race was born in the past 10,000 years, people are closely connected with each other from generation to generation, some people trace the origin of the continent, once said that the ancient desolate continent is not the end, but no one has yet to know. Some people have also said that the ancient desolate continent is just a forbidden land, and many kinds of theories on the continent have not been truly convinced. There are many living races that live in a certain corner of the continent, and they are not recorded in the history books, and grandpa knows only a lot. How many secrets have been hidden in the dusty past and endless history of the continent? Too many truths have been annihilated with the passage of time. “
The old man continued: "The existence of demon beasts calls themselves demon clans, such as flying snakes, fire-breathing wolves, winged tigers, and so on! As for the origin of the demon clan, the era is very old, and the demon clan existed before the birth of the human race. There is a more authentic record of the origin of the demon race in the world, and the demon race is also a mainland race, some of them are composed of beetles, scales, hair, feathers, kun, etc., in different forms, absorbing the essence of the sun, moon, heaven and earth for a long time, and deriving into demon beasts, and then reproducing offspring to become a certain race. “
"The demon race has a close relationship with nature, they come from the depths of the mountains, the ecological environment is harsh, they are not accepted by other races, in order to survive, they pay ten times as hard as other races. In the depths of the vast mountains, in the dense jungle, in order to survive and dignity, every member of the demon clan is fighting tenaciously and practicing hard until he succeeds in cultivation and becomes the lord of a land. “
"Some cultivators have become extremely powerful demon clans, they are ever-changing, when they know the sky, they know the location, they move the stars and change the fight, take the sun and the moon, shrink thousands of mountains, they are omnipotent, they can transform into human shapes, and there is no difference between them and the human race, even if they mix in the crowd, they are not easy to distinguish, this is the demon race. “
"The demon clan is so powerful, it was the lord of the earth in the past for a certain period of time, the times have changed, the peaks and loops have turned, and now the demon clan has declined. The human race is the master of the earth, no matter in any era, the human race in the eyes of the demon race, but like an ant-like creature, the power of the chicken is not bound, as the food in the mouth, for thousands of years, the human race and the demon race have been fighting endlessly, the war is raging, so that the blood of the human race is like a river, the bones are a mountain, the mountains and rivers are broken, forming a terrifying dark age. The sages of the human race, with countless hardships and hardships, went through the dark ages, created the era of the human race, and became the lord of the earth. “
"The human race has multiplied so far, it is the top creature of all races, the reason why the human race is overwhelming hundreds of millions of race creatures, not only is it extremely fast, but also has extremely high intelligence, creativity is better, and even above all races, these alone are not enough to overwhelm the demon race, the real reason is that the human race has a group of special people. They have always guarded the Terrans, maintaining the bridges between the Terrans and other races of the land. “
"Sorcerers" are the name given to them by ordinary people, a group of beings who exist almost like gods, and they are incomprehensible to mortals. They are trained by mortals through a certain way, discover their hidden potential, constantly break through themselves, break the principles of heaven, practice against the sky, and become an existence that countless people yearn for and awe. “
"Warlocks are different from ordinary people, they have vast magical powers, they are unpredictable, they do what they think, what mortals dare not imagine, they do impossible things, and they break the world that ordinary people know, so they are called magicians. They are beyond the scope of mortals, and since they have stepped into cultivation, they are no longer able to use the way of understanding of mortals, and some people have broken the confinement of mortal heavenly principles, changed their fate, and have existed for thousands of years, calling such people "cultivators, gods, ethereal gods, and so on." “
"Life is in the world, spring flowers are not autumn, cicadas are not winter, mortal life is not more than a hundred years, and a lifetime has passed in a hurry, pursuing the wealth and glory of the world, or living and working in peace and contentment. “
"For the magician", the mortal world, a hundred years, the prosperity and wealth of the world, but the clouds of the past, will eventually come to an end in a blink of an eye, everything is like a flower in the mirror, the moon in the water, a flash in the pan. They change the essence of mortals, seek the root of their destiny, look at it for a long time, and naturally merge with art or Tao as the ultimate pursuit and yearning, in order to cultivate their nature, practice, return to the pure, and return to the truth, in order to reach the supreme realm between heaven and earth. “
The old man said a lot of things, the origin of the ancient barren continent, the origin of the human race, the origin of the demon race, and some human sages and demon ancestors, etc., Su Chen and the children listened to it fascinated, the first time they heard such a strange thing, it was strange, although they didn't know whether it was true or false, but Su Chen and the children believed it was true and looked extremely satisfied, and before they knew it, an afternoon passed like this, the sun was setting, the babies scattered, rushed to their respective homes, and prepared to have dinner, Su Chen and the old man Bai Dong went home to the village together. “
"The red sun was setting in the west, slowly, close to the ground level, and for some reason, the clouds in the sky seemed to be burning, dyeing the whole sky red, as if it were on fire, which made people feel extremely uneasy. “