464 Rise and fall
According to the records left by the ancestors of the previous family, it was an incomparably long time ago from the present 100,000 years ago.
At that time, the Guanlan Great World did not have the current world of transformation and governance, and it was almost still chaotic.
Although there are also Saint Monarch powerhouses, these Saint Monarch powerhouses do not let each other go, and they occupy their own side of the power entrenched. The establishment of sects and factions, intrigue with each other, and the fight of the Holy Monarch is a common thing.
I heard that there were still a few Holy Emperors in the Guanlan Great World at that time, and they were the real masters of the world at that time.
It's a pity that the world changed dramatically later, and the beginning of the change was the fire rain that fell in the sky.
The rain of flames landed in the world, which is not a rare thing in the three thousand worlds full of martial artists, after all, martial artists practice against the sky, and it is common for heavenly calamities to come.
In particular, the Heavenly Tribulation in the form of Flame Rain is even more common, but no one who has ever seen it will appear in a Flame Rain covering a large world.
And it was there tens of thousands of years ago.
That terrible catastrophe is known as the Great Tribulation. It was a terrifying catastrophe that changed the entire Guanlan world.
It is said that the two true gods who landed in the Great World of Guanlan with the flames were the two true gods. Their true bodies came and fought each other, directly breaking the laws of the Guanlan Great World, and even opening up the passage from Guanlan to other Great Worlds in their battles.
Several large worlds in the sky overlapped each other, and the laws were mottled against each other. Heaven and earth are under a terrible rain of fire.
The martial artists of the Guanlan Great World had nothing to do about it, whether it was the Supreme or the Holy Monarch, or even several Holy Emperors who were cultivating in the Guanlan Great World, they all appeared.
But unfortunately, in the battle between those two terrifying gods, they could only tremble like ants. Even a casual glance from the gods could easily destroy the Saint Emperor powerhouse.
After a great battle, countless worlds were shattered, and the Guanlan World was also hit hard, and the two gods fell almost at the same time. It fell within the Guanlan Great World that was lucky not to perish in the Great War, and one of them fell in front of the ancestors of the Li family!
The ancestor of the Li family's generation was named Li Lian, who was originally just a foot-walking merchant who walked between various cities, and he accidentally saved a god.
The Celestial God was severely injured, his vitality was greatly damaged, and he lost his cultivation. was carefully taken to his home and hidden.
The god of heaven has been recuperating in a deep well arranged by the formation of the gods at the back of Li Li's house, and because he lives in Li Li's house, the gods have also repaid him.
Specially wrote exercises and martial arts for the descendants of the Li family. And also arranged the incomparably terrifying Celestial God Formation as a guardian in the Lijia family, and in the countless years since, the Lijia has made a great name in the Guanlan World with this terrifying formation and the exercises and martial arts written by the Celestial Gods.
At the time of the extreme victory, there were even three Saint Monarch powerhouses.
One of the three holy monarchs, the Li family at that time could be said to be extremely prosperous, so that the people of the entire Guanlan world did not dare to face it.
And the demarcation of the hegemony, at that time the Beihe boundary was not called the Beihe boundary, its name was called Li Wangcheng.
Yes, the Beihe Realm, which was comparable to the Shenwu Continent, was an unprecedentedly huge city at that time. It is also the strongest force in the Guanlan Great World, except for the hidden Saint Emperor.
For a while, he was in the limelight and could be called a hegemon.
But prosperity and decline are eternal truths in the world, and even the Heavenly Dao itself cannot escape this kind of reincarnation, let alone a mere calendar.
After gaining an incomparably glorious status and terrifying strength, the descendants of the Li family began to lose their rules and forget the warnings of their ancestors, and they began to become arrogant and reckless.
In the era when the Li family was at its peak, there were more than 100,000 children of the Li family alone. This is indeed a very rare outlier among martial artists who don't pay much attention to reproduction.
The more offspring, the greater the trouble.
Finally, a descendant of a branch of the Li family provoked a person they shouldn't have provoked, a Holy Emperor!
Holy Emperor, what a terrifying existence. A Saint Emperor powerhouse is definitely not something that the three Saint Monarchs of the Lijia can deal with.
The Holy Emperor's anger burned to the city of Li Wang. The incomparably huge Liwang City, known as the first city in the world, was destroyed almost instantly.
A thought of the Holy Emperor swept over, and the hundreds of thousands of children and grandchildren of the Li family, no matter the good or the bad, all turned into powder!
Only a few people from the main branch of the Lijia family survived relying on the formation left by the gods.
However, although the formation of the gods was strong, due to material limitations, its power was limited after all, and it could barely support it under the terrifying attack of the Holy Land. But after the attack, it was downgraded several levels, and finally became the killing array of the Ancestral Immortal Realm.
After the terrifying Saint Emperor vented his anger, he still let go of the children of the Li family who survived by relying on the killing array. But before leaving, he still used his great power to drive the Heavenly Dao of the Guanlan Great World to issue restrictions.
Since then, all the disciples of the previous family have not been able to cultivate beyond the supreme realm, otherwise they will encounter great misfortune.
At first, the children of the Li family were not impressed with this, and they were still practicing the exercises and martial arts passed down by the gods, but later they were horrified to find that the will of the Holy Emperor was really impossible to disobey.
Any disciple of the Li family who has cultivated to the supreme level, or even as long as he is close to the supreme level, will all die.
The Holy Emperor can already interfere with the world will of the Guanlan Great World, forcibly imprint some of their ideas on the world will, and make it an iron law.
It is precisely because of this that it is impossible to have even a supreme calendar that will completely decline.
If it weren't for the Beihe Realm Lord Zhou Immortal who was still thinking about the friendship between the Li family and him back then, I am afraid that the current Li family would have been wiped out long ago even if there was a killing array left by the ancestors.
This is also the reason why the Li family is reluctant to improve their cultivation, and it is also the reason why Li Guiyu and his wife were surprised and arrogant when they heard Ye Chen say that their strength had reached Daozun.
They don't want their children to cultivate too high. I am afraid that he will provoke the will of the world of the Guanlan Great World and provoke the disaster of killing.
Ye Chen smiled bitterly in his heart when he heard this, when the real Li Chong was killed by himself, he was indeed about to break through to the supreme level.
It seems that the idea left by the Holy Emperor is still in effect, and Li Chong has not been able to escape, and even he, Ye Chen, has been unknowingly used by the will of this world. It's really, hehe.
And another thing that shocked Ye Chen was that the god who fell to the mortal world hundreds of thousands of years ago, he was very likely to be alive!
And in one of the deep wells in this compound!
Ye Chen carefully poked out his divine sense, and indeed found a deep well at the back of the courtyard. Dream life
The deep well was already covered with vines, and it could be seen that the plants covered by the wellhead had an incomparably amazing terrifying vitality.
They are all ancient plants that have lived for an unknown amount of time. And it's still alive.
Looking at the wellhead, it should have been an unknown number of years since anyone approached, and that should be the place where the gods are.
Ye Chen didn't know the depth, and he didn't dare to use his divine sense to probe the situation in the well too much, after all, there might be a real god inside, who was more powerful than him, a god who had lost all his strength, but he didn't know how many times.
After a little perceiving, Ye Chen withdrew his divine sense and continued to ask the husband and wife of the Li family. He decided to listen to the story and pondered what to do next.
This time, the topic turned to the third child that Li Guiyu just mentioned.
is different from what Ye Chen thought, the third child in Li Guiyu's mouth is not a descendant of his family. It's not a branch bloodline of the Li family.
It was a big family in Daishan City, the Chao family.
This dynasty family and the Li family have a deep relationship.
When Li Wangcheng was still there, the Chao family was a loyal servant who served the Li family. After the destruction of Liwang City and the restriction of the descendants of the Li family by the Holy Emperor, the people of the dynasty still did not abandon the descendants of the Li family.
is still extremely loyal to serve and even protect the descendants of the Li family, which is also one of the reasons why their Li family can be broken without extinction.
It was precisely because of the loyalty of the Chao family that the Lijia family, who could not be promoted to the supreme level at that time, decided to give the Chao family the surname Li. simply absorbed them into the Li family.
And teach some of the martial arts of the past to this newly absorbed group.
The so-called emaciated camel is bigger than a horse, even if the Li Wang City has been destroyed, there are still a lot of precious materials and rare martial arts in the hands of the Li family.
Under the cultivation of efforts, the Chaojia branch quickly grew and developed.
But as the saying goes, it's not more than three lives. Righteousness is difficult through the ages.
The original dynasty family was still extremely loyal to the Li family, although it had far surpassed the descendants of the Li family in terms of strength, but they still regarded themselves as loyal servants and did not do anything arrogant.
But all this changed in the end, and just after several generations of ancestors of the Chao family died, the relationship between the two Chaoli families began to change.
At first, the dynasty family only set up the Li family, but on the surface, they still respectfully served the descendants of the Li family as masters. Although it is only superficial, it can still get by.
But as time went on, it got worse and worse.
After a long time, in the entire Guanlan Great World, except for the powerhouses above the Holy Monarch who have an almost infinite lifespan, no one will remember the glory of the Li family anymore.
The Chao family no longer felt any glory as a slave of the descendants of the Li family, and directly abolished the surname Li, and restored their original surname, Chao.
Things have taken a turn for the worse at this point, and the people of the dynasty family not only no longer care about the descendants of the Li family, but they have been bullied in many ways, forcing them to take out the accumulation of their ancestors little by little and send them to the dynasty family.
Later, they even began to assassinate some hard-line Li family children.
For example, Li Chong, he actually has two older brothers on it, both of whom are talented and decisive characters.
But when they were about to reach the supreme realm of cultivation, they died in the hands of the Chao family.
This may be the continuation of the thought left by the Holy Emperor back then, Li Guiyu killed two sons in a row, and he was powerless to take revenge. He gradually changed from initial resentment to compromise. He gave up, he no longer wanted revenge, he only hoped that he could leave a trace of blood to continue, so that the Li family would not be extinct.
Therefore, he is extremely doting on Li Chong, and he is not even required to have a strong cultivation, as long as he lives peacefully.
even married his only daughter Li Mingdao to the third young master of the Chao family as a concubine.
To be a concubine, the dignified descendants of Li Wangcheng, the direct bloodline of the Li family actually made concubines for the servants of the year. What humiliation and helplessness this is.
But even so, the Chao family still had no intention of letting go of Li Chong. As long as Li Chong leaves this mansion protected by the formation, he will find an opportunity to prepare to assassinate him.
If it weren't for the proper suppression of the Beihe Realm Lord, no one dared to kill people in the street, then Li Chong would have been dead for many years.
But there are only a thousand days to be a thief, and there is no thousand days to prevent a thief. Since he has been remembered by the court, Li Guiyu made a lot of money and sent his only son Li Chong to Beihe Palace, hoping to protect this only bit of bloodline with the help of the name of Beihe Palace.
Since Li Chong entered the Beihe Palace, the Chao family really didn't dare to make a move. What does it mean to assassinate the disciples of Beihe Palace? No one dares to do it, and no one even dares to think about it.
It's a pity that Li Chong died in Ye Chen's hands after all. The curse of their family has finally not been broken, and it is really dead.
As for the third child in Li Guiyu's mouth, he refers to this generation of the head of the dynasty, who is broken day and night. A powerhouse of the Supreme Realm. The Supreme Realm can be regarded as a top-notch existence in this small Daishan City.
That's how it happened.
Ye Chen sighed slightly after hearing this, this family can be regarded as a bad time.
However, he would not show remorse for killing Li Chong, Li Chong was a dead hand at that time, and he had no reason to let that guy go.
Besides, with Li Chong's character, even if there is no Ye Chen, I am afraid that he will not live long.
Ye Chen thought about it, and did not release the shackles of the happy world, and walked towards the deep well behind the courtyard of the Li family.
He was indeed a little hesitant, not knowing if it would be appropriate to contact the real Heavenly God powerhouse with his current strength, but in the end he decided to take a look. Maybe someone you know?
Behind the courtyard of the family, there is a large open space behind a house. The clearing caverns downward, as if it were a deep pit. Ye Chen felt it, and he could still feel a faint trace of the heavenly aura in this deep pit.
It should be a faint breath left by the great war back then, and only Ye Chen, who is also a god, can keenly feel it, and other people, even if it is a holy emperor or a celestial, should not be able to sense this breath.
The hollow is covered with all kinds of plants, and it seems that no one has ever visited.
As soon as Ye Chen's feet stepped on the ground, several terrifying formations were in operation. Unlike the courtyard in front, the formation here is still very strong and terrifying. At least it's a killing array at the level of a saint monarch. It seems that this was specially arranged by the gods to protect themselves back then. And the one in the front yard is a gift for the Li family.
Ye Chen didn't care, and when his footsteps were raised, he had already walked towards the center of the depression. The mottled light rose again, intertwining and submerging Ye Chen's figure.