The sun and the moon turned, and when the years wiped the raised plateau in the center of the earth into a flat land, not many people can tell the story of how many thousands of years ago the legendary sky collapse was. The commoners of the Great Song Dynasty only knew that the current emperor was Emperor Yongchu, and although the border passes were not very peaceful, the lives of the people were quite rich and peaceful.

The territory of the Zhao and Song dynasties is vast, spanning 8 million miles from east to west, and nearly 10 million miles from north to south. Even if a BMW travels thousands of miles a day, if it wants to run around the border of the Great Song Dynasty, it will not be able to run in a hundred years.

Because the territory is too broad and the inheritance of the empire is too long, there are many princes in the entire Great Song Dynasty, and the attacks between princes and princes are quite frequent, with an average of one major battle every day, and the princes are eliminated every month. Even the princes and grand dukes who were separated by the royal family were not spared, and the slight difference was that they would not be exterminated like the princes with foreign surnames. After all, they are nominally part of the royal family.

Although there are not many areas directly controlled by the Great Song Emperor, their strength is extremely strong. Ordinary princes can sweep a large area as long as they can have a hundred monks, and the Great Song Dynasty Emperor has at least 100,000 or hundreds of generals at least infantile realm. Even if you gather the strength of all the princes, you can't resist the full force of the imperial family.

Therefore, although the princes were in their own affairs, and the area really controlled by the Great Song Emperor could only be counted as one great prince, no one dared to disobey the emperor's orders.

The reason why the imperial family is so powerful is mainly because they have inherited the bloodline of Tianzun. It is said that the Great Song Dynasty was established by Tianzun.

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600,000 miles northeast of Jiankang, the capital of the Great Song Dynasty, there is a big mountain range called Tiangen, which stretches for thousands of miles, the terrain is majestic, and the mountains and forests are deep. There are all kinds of fairy grass and rare beasts on the mountain, and the spiritual veins are innumerable, it is said that you can often find exposed spirit stones between the mountains and rocks, and the soul crystals that are a thousand times more precious than the spirit stones are found from time to time, and the frequency of appearance is also a thousand times that of other places. Therefore, there are many sects on Tiangen Mountain, there are fourteen large sect families, and there are nearly three hundred small sects and small families, not counting the light or dark side branches established by the outside sect families. As for those unnamed families and loose cultivators, no one can say the exact number.

The wind of cultivating immortals in the Great Song Dynasty is extremely strong, and any seven-year-old child can skillfully recite the entrance formula of cultivating immortals "Seven Whirlpools", almost every able-bodied person will practice according to the formula, and take the seven spirits as a guide to condense into seven spiritual energy vortexes in the body, so as to allow themselves to communicate with the aura of heaven and earth, and practice various Taoist magical powers.

It's just that after most people condense into the Seven Vortexes, it will be difficult for them to make no further progress in their cultivation, and they will eventually stay at the lowest level of the spiritual vein. Only those with extraordinary talents can break through the spiritual vein realm and become true monks.

However, even if they can't break through the spiritual vein realm, mortals only need to roughly run the exercises once a day to make themselves physically strong and prolong their lives. Therefore, even if they can't improve their cultivation, the vast majority of people still enjoy their cultivation.

And there are countless legends in the world, most of the protagonists in the legend are cultivated to stay in the spiritual vein realm, unable to improve for many years, and suddenly encounter a peerless opportunity to break through the spiritual vein realm, and then cultivate as if the clouds are straight up. These legends make ordinary people reluctant to stop practicing.

In most people's minds, the protagonists of these legends are not monks who are too lucky to be human, but those who are against the heavens. These coincidences include mystical exercises, powerful magic weapons, upside-down Taoist companions, and the ultimate soul crystals that often fall from the sky.

Although no one on Tiangen Mountain has ever been hit by a top-grade soul crystal falling from the sky, there are not many people who have picked up a mid-to-lower-grade soul crystal on the side of the road, but there are quite a few. It was enough to make passers-by on the side of the road excited, shouting and rushing to the grass on the side to pull for a long time, but found nothing, so they had to leave a bubble of wild urine to witness their visit.

The vast majority of people who go up the mountain to try their luck come and return with a bad luck, but every once in a while there are always rumors that a large piece of extremely high-quality soul crystals has been discovered, so there will only be more and more people going into the mountain to hunt for treasure.

Fortunately, Tiangen Mountain is big enough for ordinary people, and there is always a place that has not been set foot in.

Ji Kang is one of the many treasure hunters, or the leader of a group of people. Although he is only sixteen years old and only has sparse yellow hair on his mouth, he is the grandson of the Ji family, and he is also a figure in Shihou Town under the mountain.

The ancestors of the Ji family were once wealthy, and Shihou Town was named after the Ji family. It is said that the ancestors of the Ji family have successively produced ten strong men who are powerful on one side, and they have been recognized by the imperial family, and they have been sealed by the marquis, and the scenery is unlimited for a while. It's a pity that every time the Ji family is crowned a marquis, they are the first to stand and the second to die, and the marquis has never been passed down for three generations, as if under a spell.

Generally speaking, such a prosperous and declining family will be slaughtered, but the Ji family can continue to exist and break out from time to time. The reason behind this is that the ancestor of the Ji family is one of the founding ancestors of the Tianlun Sect.

Ji Kang was also known as a genius when he was a child, and he condensed all the seven whirlpools at the age of eight, while ordinary people could not achieve them until adulthood. When he was a child, Ji Kang was like a red sun in the sky, and he was pinned on the high hopes of the Zhongxing Ji family by the clansmen. Unfortunately, Ji Kang, who has grown up slowly, is the kind of example of becoming famous at a young age and then disappearing from everyone. At the age of eight, he was already at the beginning of the spiritual vein, and at the age of sixteen, he was still at the beginning of the spiritual vein.

Fortunately, Ji Kangsheng's heart is wide and fat, and other people's vicious words don't seem to have been heard at all.

At this time, Ji Kang was hiding under a pine tree on the mountain, quickly fanning the folding fan in his hand, even so, the beads of sweat on his head still kept flowing. The two servants who had gone up the hill together also walked up to him, fanning their sleeves up and down. However, the heat coming from them was far more than the cool breeze coming from the fan, and they were directly blasted aside by Ji Kang.

In the end, even the wind that he fanned out was hot air, and Ji Kang simply stopped. He had the heart to curse a few words, but in the end he just leaned on the pine tree weakly and scolded in his heart: "Damn Lin Hui, where did you go?" ”

It wasn't until the sun set in the west that Ji Kang saw a figure slowly approaching among the mountains and rocks in the distance, exerted all his strength, and roared: "Did you run to see the male monkey riding the female monkey again, why did you only come back now?"

The person who came was the young hunter who was called Lin Hui by Ji Kang. His face still had the immaturity of fifteen or sixteen years old, but his eyebrows were like swords, showing his extraordinary perseverance. The upper body is wearing a somewhat torn cotton coat, a deerskin skirt hanging from the waist, and the bare calf line is hard and full of strength.

Compared with Ji Kang, who was dressed in gorgeous clothes, Lin Hui's clothes were tattered like a beggar, but he had a terrifying momentum on his body, which made it impossible to look down on him.

Hearing Ji Kang's ridicule, Lin Hui ignored it, and while flattening the bow on his back on the ground, he said, "How many days are you going to hide this time?"

Ji Kang smiled slightly, turned around leisurely, looked at the sunset in the distance like pieces of fire dragon scales, carried his hands behind his back, and praised in the breeze: "The autumn breeze and the evening maple are dusk, what a wonderful scene." ”

"It's not autumn and there are no maple trees here. Lin Hui raised the little beast he had just caught in his hand and said flatly: "Fresh four-eared mink, do you want to eat it?"

Ji Kang didn't look back, kept his previous posture, and said equally calmly: "Yes." ”

"How many days are you going to hide?"

"A month. ”

Lin Hui didn't ask the reason, just sat down and slowly collected the prey in his hand, without looking at Ji Kang from beginning to end.

Ji Kang didn't seem to be willing to give up, and said: "You look at this ethereal artistic conception, I feel that every time I look at it, my cultivation is growing. It is worthy of being a treasure of Lingshan. ”

Lin Hui ignored him, still bowing his head and fiddling with the prey in his hand. Ji Kang was blown by the evening breeze, and suddenly felt very cold and shivered. So he reached out and untied his belt and peed directly. Watching the urine fall far down the mountain, a few birds under the mountain slowly rose into the air, I couldn't help but shiver again, the depression when I first went up the mountain seemed to have disappeared with the wind, Ji Kangha's laughter came out: "The chickens are floating with the wind,"

Lin Hui finally looked up, snorted coldly, lowered his head again, and spit out after half a sound: "The pig's head is also ethereal." ”

After sending the two servants back to Ji's house, Ji Kang stayed with Lin Hui. The place where Lin Hui lived was a small house made of pine wood, extremely simple, not even a window, only two exits covered with deerskin in the front and back. The roof is also made of several large pine planks stacked on top of each other, barely leaking from rain.

Ji Kang usually lives a life of fine clothes and food, and he lives in this simple hut, and he doesn't complain at all. Sunrise and Lin Hui went out hunting together, and Sunset returned with the prey together.

When he couldn't find his prey, Ji Kang and Lin Hui wandered around the mountains together, looking for an opportunity to be hit on the head by the soul crystal.

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Three years ago, Ji Kang, whose cultivation was stagnant, ran to the mountains alone, saying that he was looking for treasure, but in fact he ran away from home and wandered aimlessly in the wilderness. As a result, he didn't stay long before he almost starved to death because he couldn't find food. Lin Hui spotted him and took him back to his hut.

Lin Hui brought Ji Kang back because he had a lot of gold on him, and Ji Kang followed Lin Hui back because Lin Hui was wearing two soul crystals around his neck.

The people who can find the two soul crystals are not ordinary people, even if they are low-grade soul crystals. Thirteen-year-old Ji Kang knew that Lin Hui either had a strange talent or had bad luck.

Ji Kang lived in Lin Hui's hut for half a year, and did not leave until he was found by his family. During this period, Lin Hui found three more low-grade soul crystals.

When leaving, Ji Kang told Lin Hui that a low-grade soul crystal could be exchanged for a hundred spirit stones, and one spirit stone could be exchanged for ten taels of gold. However, Lin Hui still gave him five lower-grade soul crystals.

So the two became friends, and Ji Kang often ran to Lin Hui for refuge, and at the same time brought Lin Hui's favorite swords, bows, and arrows, as well as exercises and mantras and pill formations that were not available on the mountain. It's a pity that the Ji family is no longer as prosperous as it used to be, and what Ji Kang can come up with is only slightly better than loose cultivation, and it can't enter the eyes of those sect disciples.

But soul crystals are good things, even if they are low-grade soul crystals. As long as he can gather enough hundred lower-grade soul crystals, Ji Kang will be able to change the identity of an outer disciple in the Xuanyue Sect, which has an old relationship with the family. Although he is only an outer disciple of a small sect, it is enough for the current Ji Kang. Ji Kang has never been a high-minded person, and he knows that the reason why most people stop moving forward is because they think that they don't know that there is a road ahead, or they don't know how to go on the road ahead.

Ji Kang knew how to go on the road ahead, he knew that as long as he climbed one level higher, he would be able to see farther and know more, and then he would be able to go further

And the way Ji Kang is going to go now is to let Lin Hui take him to collide in the mountains, which is the opportunity to gather enough hundred low-grade soul crystals, not the opportunity to be smashed on the head by the top-grade soul crystals.

Lin Hui was different from Ji Kang in that he didn't condense all seven whirlpools until he was fourteen years old. But after only a month, he had broken through to the primary level of the spiritual veins and reached the intermediate level, a small but clear spiritual vein connecting all seven spiritual energy vortices. And only by breaking through the spiritual vein realm can one be called a monk.

This made Ji Kang even more convinced that Lin Hui's luck must not be ordinarily good.