"Xiao Beiran, Xiao Beiran, Xiao Beiran!"
In the study, Shi Fenglan shook Jiang Beiran's shoulder and shouted.
Slowly opening his eyes, Jiang Beiran asked, "What's the matter?"
"You scared me to death. You didn't respond when I called you for a long time." Taking a long breath, Shi Fenglan replied, "We're home."
'Has the day passed so quickly...'
After visiting Fei Mansion yesterday, Jiang Beiran noticed that the formation eye of Fei Mansion was in the study on the second floor, so in order to investigate how the formation here was laid out, he sat in the eye and studied it.
However, before he could sort out any clues, a day had passed.
Thinking that finding out the structure of Feifu was not something that could be completed in a few days and nights, Jiang Beiran stood up and let out a long sigh of relief.
"Let's go."
It was dark again, and when he regained his sight, Jiang Beiran was a little dazed.
'what's the situation? '
At this moment, Jiang Beiran was surrounded by clouds and mist, as if he was in a fairyland. Looking into the distance, he saw a palace built with jade and carved railings standing in the clouds and mist.
'Asgard? '
"Xiao Beiran, let's go." Shi Fenglan said and was about to grab Jiang Beiran's hand.
Jiang Beiran took a step back and asked, "Where is this?"
"The top of Longpan Mountain is the highest mountain in Tong Kingdom."
Looking around for a while, Jiang Beiran was about to speak when he saw a young man in a brocade python robe falling in front of them from midair.
"Sister Fenglan is back." After greeting, he looked at Jiang Beiran and asked, "This is...?"
[Option 1: Let Shi Fenglan introduce you. Completion reward: Immortal Art of Forced Clouds (Earth-level low-grade)]
[Option 2: Leave here directly. Completion reward: Yuanjue Jianlu (Xuan-level middle grade)]
[Option 3: "A senior Xuansheng from the Shi family came to me." Completion reward: random basic attribute point +1]
'This is the beginning? '
Along the way, Jiang Bei really discovered the power of Feifu, and he didn't skip a single option along the way, which is enough to show that this is definitely one of the top transportation tools on the Xuanlong Continent.
'Hungry. '
But this time, the system is obviously busy again.
After choosing three, Jiang Beiran replied directly: "A senior Xuansheng from the Shi family is looking for me."
[The optional task has been completed, reward: agility +1]
The young man was obviously taken aback after hearing this.
'Why did the clan sage find such a brat, it looks quite ordinary. '
But since he was the guest invited by the clan sage, he didn't ask any more questions, and instead started a family routine with Shi Fenglan.
After chatting for a while, the young man said that he still had things to do, and after saying goodbye, he left in a cloud.
Looking at the figure of the young man leaving, Jiang Beiran couldn't help but sigh in his heart.
"The top sect is a cow... This person looks like he is only about twenty-five, but he is already at the peak of Xuanhuang. Did everyone in this family grow up eating elixir?" '
But Jiang Beiran discovered this when he went to Qi country last time.
In Sheng Kingdom, as long as they can reach Xuanling at the age of twenty, they are enough to be called top geniuses, and they will be the elites that the sect will focus on training.
But among the top sects in Qi State, if you are twenty years old and have not yet reached Xuanwang, you will be ashamed to say hello to others when you go out. Only those who can reach Xuanhuang at twenty can barely be called a genius.
The reason is also very simple.
The six countries are in the "eye of the storm" of the spiritual energy of the Xuanlong Continent, and the concentration is not comparable to that of a small border country like Sheng Kingdom.
Absolute congenital dysplasia, so how can it compare
In addition, the saying that dragon begets dragon and phoenix begets phoenix is vividly reflected in Xuanlong Continent.
The lineage of the descendants of the strong is much stronger than that of ordinary people, and it is easy to awaken their cultivation talents, and occasionally awaken some special physique, such as the spiritual root of the five elements, which is also very common.
Therefore, in a family with top powerhouses, the genes are usually very good.
For example, the vast majority of children in Sheng Kingdom can only awaken their talent for cultivation after they are ten years old, while the children in the top families of the Six Kingdoms of the Central Plains generally have started to contact the world of practitioners at the age of five, and those who are more powerful are already practicing Qi at the age of three. up.
There are even some who practiced in the womb, but Lin Yuyan said that she has only heard such legends, and she doesn't know if it is true, anyway, their family does not have such monstrous offspring.
Because the descendants are good enough, in the era when the first cultivators just awakened, the world of cultivators rejected ordinary people.
There is no other reason. Cultivators are undoubtedly the absolute rulers of this world. No matter what political system or power distribution, they will eventually become the ones with the biggest fists.
Possessing the force that can destroy a country and possessing a large amount of high-quality resources, it can be said that cultivators enjoy the best of everything on this continent.
Human nature is selfish, and practitioners are no exception. Of course, benefits are only given to their relatives.
Therefore, in the initial era, "educating nepotism" was the choice of most families of practitioners.
For a cultivator's family, the high or low aura affinity of a certain offspring, whether they have a special constitution or spiritual roots, are not the key considerations for investing in cultivation resources.
The blood relationship is far and near!
And doing so leads to a big problem.
Not every child of a strong man is good enough.
Although dragons give birth to dragons and phoenixes, dragons occasionally give birth to stupid sons, but many parents don't care about these.
Even if my child's aura affinity is low, I still use a lot of resources to pile it up. Although I can pile up a high level in the end, the upper limit and actual combat power are far inferior to a real genius.
This situation has lasted for a hundred years, and various problems began to emerge. Many people with a big picture found that the practice of "educating nepotism" is too low for the utilization of cultivation resources.
So they broke the old concept, thinking that the inheritance of their own cultivation knowledge is more important than the inheritance of their own blood, so they put forward the theory of "educating people only by virtue", and then the concept of "Zongmen" appeared.
For this reason, the first generation of cultivators set a strict assessment standard for the affinity of spiritual energy. Those with high scores in the assessment were defined as "talented", while those with low scores were considered garbage.
Based on this foundation, practitioners began to test the spiritual roots of all school-age teenagers in the areas they controlled, and brought "talented" teenagers to the sect for intensive training.
As a result, "talented teenagers of the right age" have also become a kind of cultivation resource and began to be contested, and this approach has indeed greatly improved the utilization rate of cultivation resources.
After all, even if your family lineage is good, how many people can a family have? Compared with the people of the whole continent, they are like a drop of water in the sea.
Even if there is only one genius out of 10,000 ordinary people, with such a huge base, there will still be more geniuses than descendants of geniuses in the family.
So naturally, the strength of the sect gradually surpassed that of the traditional family of practitioners.
That is to say, since then, strength has gradually become proportional to the territory controlled and the cultivation resources controlled, and a new comparison of strength will inevitably lead to new struggles.
Those traditional families in history did not immediately give up their idea of "educating nepotism", but came up with various methods to solve the problem of declining strength.
For example, families intermarry with each other, absorbing outstanding foreign cultivators into their own families.
Women are wives and concubines, and men are sons-in-law.
But the number of these people is still too limited, and although these people are generally united with the original members of the family, they still have their own little calculations.
Further setting up worship, elders of foreign clans, tied up these "people with foreign surnames" with interests.
It's a pity that outsiders are outsiders, and it's okay to contribute, but once it's time to work hard, it will be a catastrophe and everyone will fly away.
Finding that this path was not feasible, these families proposed a series of rewards for having more children. Many female practitioners did not have time to practice at all, and they were exercising for their offspring all day and all night.
That is to say, during this period of time, many dual-cultivation techniques were promoted, and after being revealed, many sects were created.
But no matter how a person lives, the number is still limited after all, and it can't solve any problems at all.
In the end, these traditional families were forced to have no choice, and some of the frenzied patriarchs came up with some heinous methods, which were completely deceiving themselves.
They will find excellent cultivation seedlings among the people, kill the child's family members, then take the child into their own clan, change his name and surname, as if he is also a member of the family.
This twisted and perverted method was quickly exposed, triggering many epic revenge stories.
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From a strategic perspective, any struggle is a competition between "systems".
Under the circumstances that traditional families can only come up with these bad methods, the sect of "educating people on merit" has not only gradually gathered stronger strength, but also has become more recognized by ordinary people due to the superiority of "system".
After all... who wouldn't want to have a chance to join the ruling class if they live their offspring
In the end, the Cultivation Clan was "disastrously defeated" by the Zongmen, and the consequence was that the real controller of a region could only be the Sect Master, and the Cultivation Clan, no matter how big or small, had the right to select talented mortals from their control area to join their sect and become the leader of the sect. Cultivate their talents.
This is also why most of the areas are served by families for the sect.
Of course, families with rich backgrounds like the Shi family and the Lin family have been passed down very well. After all, it is enough for the sect to win the general trend, and there is no need to spend a lot of manpower and material resources to make life difficult for these top families.
Therefore, the families that can be passed down to the present are generally very independent. Although all forces will sell them some face, the sect has the final say on the issue of sovereignty.
"Beiran, what are you thinking about?" Seeing Jiang Beiran in a daze again, she felt that Shi Fenglan, who was always neglected along the way, had a little resentment.
"Master Shi, do you have any brothers or sisters?" Jiang Beiran asked suddenly.
"Ah?" Facing Jiang Beiran's sudden question, Shi Fenglan froze for a moment before answering: "I have an older brother and a younger sister, why do you ask that?"
"Just curious."
The reason why Jiang Beiran asked this was because he suddenly remembered what Lin Yuyan said before.
The higher the cultivation level, the fewer children there will be.
As for the reason, no one has really figured it out until now, but it is also because the blood of the strong is very good, and many strong people often do things like "a lot of money to seek a child".
Therefore, there are quite a few people who are willing to study this issue, and various studies and experiments emerge in endlessly.
Putting away these associations, Jiang Beiran took a step forward and said, "Let's go."
"it is good!"
With a cheer, Shi Fenglan ran ahead one step at a time and brought Jiang Beiran back to the palace.
Without the routine inspection that Jiang Beiran had imagined, the two of them walked directly into the main entrance. According to Shi Fenglan's explanation, it was because the checkpoint was at the bottom of the mountain. Her flying mansion had a special mark, so she could fly directly to the top of the mountain, otherwise outsiders would If you go indiscriminately, you will be blocked by the mountain protection array.
Hearing the words "Hushan Great Formation", Jiang Beiran became interested again.
'I don't know what the name of this top-level sect's mountain guard formation will be. '
When he went to Qi State before, Jiang Beiran had already seen the extremely domineering formation of the national protection formation. I believe that the mountain protection formation here must be very different from the ordinary mountain protection formation.
Before entering the palace, the first thing that catches the eye is a three-story high platform built in the garden. In the middle of the high platform is a tall building named Jiangxiao.
It made Jiang Beiran feel that his previous palace was simply weak compared to it.
Seeing Xiao Beiran staring at Jiangxiao Tower, Shi Fenglan approached Jiang Beiran and whispered, "There are many treasures in this building."
'treasure? '
Jiang Beiran raised his brows. What Shi Fenglan could call a treasure naturally couldn't be common things like gold and silver treasures. At least it had to be a magic weapon of the mysterious level to catch her eyes.
'It's too swollen...'
Thinking that the Shi family put this kind of "exhibition hall" at the door, Jiang Beiran felt that the family should be quite high-profile.
"Want to go in and have a look?" Shi Fenglan winked at Jiang Beiran.
"No."
Although they are all placed at the door, they must be used to show off, so it doesn't matter if you look at them.
But firstly, Jiang Beiran didn't like to look at things that he couldn't get, otherwise his heart would be itchy and uncomfortable, and secondly, there were many gossips in this kind of place, so he thought it's better not to go there yet.
Just when Shi Fenglan was about to persuade Jiang Beiran a few more words, her expression froze suddenly. After a while, she poked Jiang Beiran's arm twice and said, "Uncle, send me a voice transmission, let's go in and see him quickly."
"Then go in quickly, I'm here to see your uncle."
"Hey~ I wanted to show off to you~ Let's talk about it after seeing uncle."
Following Shi Fenglan into the palace, the servants around saluted one after another, shouting "I met Miss Fenglan" and "Miss Fenglan Jin'an".
'Are all the servants mysterious... Probably this is the standard configuration of the big families of the Six Kingdoms. '
Walking through a long corridor and climbing up three flights of stairs, Jiang Beiran, led by Shi Fenglan, came to a gate carved with dragons and phoenixes.
"come in."
Before Shi Fenglan could knock on the door, a deep voice came from inside.