Chapter 1: The Green Jade Institute (I)
The creation of heaven and earth in the world has always been wonderful and abnormal, although the sacred mountain is shrouded by a mysterious and terrifying force, which makes people unable to set foot in it, but when it reaches the bottom of the sacred mountain, this power gradually begins to weaken, but it has produced a miraculous change.
With Mount Kinabalu as the center and a huge ring stretching out for thousands of miles, the most vibrant but also the most dangerous and terrifying wilderness forest on this ancient continent has been nurtured here, and countless demonic beasts that are far more powerful than the rest of the continent inhabit here.
Eighteen great rivers originating from the depths of Mount Kinabalu flow through this vast land called the "Inner Ring of Mount Kinabalu" and flow to the wider outer ring, the Great Wilderness.
There, the Terrans who own the Holy City live on this continent alongside the many desolate tribes that were once powerful.
For the Terrans, the mysterious power in the inner ring of the Sacred Mountain has always been a terrible threat, but it is also extremely desirable, and to some extent, this powerful force can even be said to be the highest goal of all the dreams of the Terrans in history.
The reason for this is that the ancestor of the human race, the legendary sage, left a strange book with ten prophecies written before he died, and it is said that in the scroll called "Mortal Scroll", the first of the ten prophecies directly stated that there is a great secret hidden on the top of the sacred mountain, and if the human race can get it, it will rule the entire continent and gain eternal life.
There is nothing greater in this world than supreme power coupled with eternal immortality.
So for thousands of years, the growing human race has always coveted that sacred mountain, hoping to step into it and obtain the treasure secret that the sage said.
However, the truth is cruel, the terrifying and powerful force on the sacred mountain is devastating to the vast majority of living beings in the world, not to mention the ordinary human race, even if it is a person who has cultivated the most powerful witchcraft handed down by the ancestors of the human race, he will also not be able to support it on the sacred mountain for too long, otherwise he will soon be destroyed by that power and die miserably.
Even, not only the Divine Mountain, but also the Inner Ring Land under the Sacred Mountain—the place where the mysterious power has weakened a lot, it is still difficult to adapt according to the current ability of the human race.
Humans who practice witchcraft are often referred to as "sorcerers". In fact, after most wizards enter the inner ring, they will cause a backlash of spiritual power, and then gradually fall into pain, and finally be burned alive by their own witchcraft power.
On the contrary, some human races who are not qualified to practice witchcraft, as long as their bodies are strong enough, they can stay in the inner ring for a longer period of time, but that's all, after a long time, everyone is still dead.
This mysterious power seems to be the natural enemy of the Terrans, and it has always coldly and harshly rejected the hopes of the Terrans to yearn for the sacred mountain, and kept the Terrans out of the sacred mountain.
Therefore, over the years, the powerful and prosperous human race has established a majestic and majestic holy city, defeated the former powerful desolate tribe, and ruled a large area of land, but still cannot get a single step close to the sacred mountain.
The greatest dream that has been passed down since ancient times is still far away from the human race.
This painful situation lasted until 70 years ago.
By chance, someone in the human race suddenly found a strange stone in the eighteen great rivers that flowed out of the sacred mountain, because this stone was blue in color and stone-like jade, so it was named green jade.
The specialty, or rather the magic, of green jade is that it can almost perfectly isolate the terrifying power on the sacred mountain. In other words, as long as a house is built with green jade, and all the materials, including the floor, are made of green jade, then the human race will be able to avoid the mysterious power on the sacred mountain.
This discovery shook the entire human race, and then, not surprisingly, the dream, which had seemed ethereal and illusory for many years, suddenly became clear in front of everyone's eyes.
Power and immortality!What could be better in this world?
A grand and crazy plan, quickly worked out among the Terran powers!
For that dream, they were going to build a miracle road to Mount Kinabalu. And the plan is actually very simple, enter the inner ring and build a large green jade house every five miles, just like a springboard, so that the human race can go to the sacred mountain of their dreams one by one.
Among the Terrans, they call the green jade house built in the inner ring land "green jade house".
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This is a medium-sized green jade house, in order to isolate the strange power outside, at night, the green jade house will completely close all doors and windows until dawn.
Yin He woke up in the darkness, and then felt a little depressed.
A chill came from the ground on his back, making him feel uncomfortable, and he reached out and grabbed the blanket on his body and wrapped it tightly, only then did he feel better. It's just that the chill always lingers, like a faint needle, which is upsetting.
Yin He knew that it was the cold air emanating from the green jade, each piece of green jade stone was formed after being tempered and tempered for countless years in the eighteen divine rivers, they were born with this kind of cold aura, and the human race had no better way to do this, but to endure it silently.
Moreover, these uncomfortable, pinprick chills are the only safe reliance of Yin He and nearly 100 other people in the Inner Ring Land.
Although it was still dark in front of him, and he couldn't see his fingers, Yin He knew that it should be early morning outside, and the morning light had just fallen on the land in the inner ring of the sacred mountain, and everything was waking up from the silence of the night, of course, there were more unknown dangers to wake up at the same time.
As for why he was depressed after waking up, Yin He gradually understood the reason, because there were still ninety-seven people who stayed with him in this dark green jade place for the night.
It's cold, stuffy, and dark!Of course, it doesn't feel good to stay in this green jade house, but Yin He has no intention of complaining about this, because just yesterday, there should be a hundred people in this green jade house.
However, two people died yesterday.
Of the two people who died, one of them stumbled and fell into a bush on the side of the road while carrying the green jade stones, and his arm was scratched by the spikes of a black vine, and his whole body stiffened and died after half an hour;
The tragic howl of that person before he died, and the terrifying scene of blood spraying into the air, were all clearly seen by Yin He, and until now, he seemed to be able to smell the bloody breath.
He lay quietly in the dark, without saying a word, enduring all the discomforts he could bear, waiting for a new day to begin.
Then, the day finally began.
There was a sudden light of fire in the darkness, and it was a torch that was lit, and then a tall figure with a hint of fierceness appeared behind the firelight, strode towards the sleeping crowd lying on the ground, roared loudly, and kicked with his feet, awakening those who were still asleep from their sleep.
"Get up, get up, get ready to work!" the man with the torch shouted loudly, breaking the peace in the jade room.
Some people snorted in pain, but no one resisted or hurled, and most of them stood up silently, and after tidying up their belongings a little, they took out the food they had brought in the package and ate it.
After a while, suddenly, a heavy sound came from the wall of Qingyu, and everyone in the darkness subconsciously looked back, only to hear the rumbling sound rolling like thunder, and after a while, a bright light shone into the darkness.
At dawn, the captain opened the door, and in the treacherous place of the Inner Ring, the Heavenly Road built for the dream of the entire human race was presented to everyone, and a new day began......
Yin He swallowed the last piece of hard cake in his hand, silently hoping in his heart that he would be able to survive the day, and then walked out with the crowd, leaving the only green jade place that could shelter them safely.
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On this day, the weather is good, the blue sky and white clouds, the breeze is refreshing, the forest in the inner ring is flourishing, full of vitality, and there are often crisp birdsong between the grass and trees.
Standing here, it seems to be no different from the ordinary mountains and wilderness in the world, and it is a comfortable and comfortable scene.
But this group of people walked here, one by one, as if they were facing a great enemy, always doing their own thing cautiously and carefully, and from time to time carefully looking at the quiet jungle around them.
It was not an easy task to build this heavenly path to the sacred mountain, in fact, it was quite difficult, and the people who could enter the inner ring to build the road would not be wizards with great strength, they did not have the qualifications to practice witchcraft, but they had a strong physique, and then they were selected to do this extremely dangerous work.
So far, the human race has built fifteen green jade places on this heavenly road in the inner ring, but as they go deeper and deeper into the inner ring, the speed of construction is getting slower and slower.
In addition to the various dangers and dangers encountered, there are also more and more demonic beasts, and many accidental casualties occur from time to time, which makes transporting blue jade also a great burden.
People had to carry the collected green jade stones from one green jade to the next. Because of the restrictions of the strange forces in the Inner Ring, people cannot work for more than six hours in a day, which is also an important reason for slowing down the speed of road construction.
The Qingyu Institute, where the Yin River is located, is the thirteenth Qingyu Institute according to the number, which is very deep into the inner ring.
And except for the soldiers in the deepest fifteenth Qingyu Institute, the only mission of those of them in the other Qingyu Institute is to send the Qingyu stone transported from the rear to the front Qingyu Institute as soon as possible, and then return to carry it again, again and again, never stopping, just like ants.