Why do I say that? Because this continent has boundaries.
There is a barrier at the border of the continent. This barrier is hemispherical and covers the entire area within the hemisphere.
Outside the hemisphere, there is a white fog.
It seems that the people and monsters here are all livestock raised by some powerful person.
Some people say that as long as one cultivates to the highest level, the peak of the sacred realm, one can break through the barrier and leave this huge birdcage.
It’s a pity that it is too difficult to cultivate to the sacred realm. No one has been able to do it in tens of thousands of years.
People have become accustomed to living with monsters, and no one knows what the outside world is like.
Generation after generation of people were born, grew old, got sick, died, and reproduced here. This was their home, and no one had any idea of breaking through that barrier anymore.
Anyone who can practice cultivation here is called a cultivator.
But not everyone can practice it. Only half can practice it.
Those who cannot practice cultivation are called mediocre people. Yes, this is a "respectful name" for ordinary people.
The social status of mediocre people is very low. They can only serve others or do hard labor. Even if they are born into a noble family, they cannot escape such a fate.
After a cultivator reaches the spiritual realm, he will no longer be affected by gravity and can move freely in the air.
There are only dozens of powerful people in this continent who have cultivated to the level of Lingkong or above.
Every time a beast tide comes, the high-level strong ones take the dominant position and attack the monsters, so you can imagine their status in the world, it is very high.
Strength is respected and heroes are not judged by their origins. This is fully reflected here.
In terms of strength, the next level is calculated squarely.
I heard that a powerful God-level warrior can kill a hundred powerful Spiritual Void warriors in seconds.
The strength of a powerful divine being is even more terrifying. It is said that he can destroy a city in an instant.
Zi Yan is the illegitimate daughter of the Zi family, one of the most prominent families in Tianming Kingdom.
The Zi family successfully became one of the first-class families in Tianming Kingdom because they produced a powerful god-like person more than two hundred years ago.
However, Zi Yan's life was not very good. Her mother passed away not long after she was born.
I heard from some servants that her mother was as beautiful as a fairy, but unfortunately, she was just a mediocre person and could not practice.
Although her mother was also a lady from a noble family, she was rejected by her family.
Later, she was given as a chess piece to Zi Yunqi, the head of the Zi family who was over a hundred years old, as a concubine.
In other words, Zi Yan is actually the daughter of the head of the Zi family.
Zi Yan, who had been an orphan since childhood, was left to be taken care of by a mother, who was also a mediocre person.
Mom is good in everything else and takes good care of Zi Yan, but she is very greedy.
After Zi Yan followed her, she learned a lot of her mother's living habits.
After all, the Zi family is a first-rate family, and of course they would not restrict the food of a servant.
What's more, she was considered a respectable person in the Zi family because she took care of the master's concubine's daughter, so no one would say anything no matter how much food her mother took.
Under her mother's care, Zi Yan has transformed from a cute little girl into a heavyweight, greasy and silly girl.
When Zi Yan was six years old, the whole family took a talent test, and the result showed that her talent was the worst among all the children in the Zi family.
It means that you have just crossed the threshold of mediocrity.
She was already not valued, and became even less valued.
In a world where strength is respected, if one does not have talent, even if she is the daughter of a family head, she will be ostracized and despised.
There are more than a dozen girls and more than a dozen boys of the same generation as her in the Zi family, and the talents of all the other children are not bad.
In this comparison, Zi Yan is at the bottom.
In contrast, her other half-sister, Zi Meng, was found to have extremely high talent and could be called the number one genius girl in Tianming Kingdom.
Originally, her younger sister, who had a similar status to her, received the full support of the entire Zi family, and a huge amount of resources were spent on her.
Zi Yan suffered a huge psychological gap. She felt sad and inferior. She could no longer control her appetite, and her body shape became more and more out of control.
Children here have to enter the college for systematic education at the age of seven.
The main purpose of learning is to enhance children's combat effectiveness and improve their ability to resist monsters.
The highest institution of learning in Tianming Country is called Shenyu College, which is located on the west side of the capital of Tianming Country. The teachers in the college are all strong men in Tianming Country. Those who are rich and have good family backgrounds send their children there.
Children from poor families can only be sent to primary schools in various states.
Unless the child is particularly talented, the academy will enroll him/her for free.
Although Zi Yan had poor talent, she was the daughter of the head of the Zi family after all. Therefore, when she reached school age, she was also sent to the Shenyu Academy.
In the Zi family, whether servants or masters, they all call Zi Yan "Fat Ya".
After entering the college, her classmates also called her Fatty, and sometimes, the teachers in the college would call her that too.
Her name seemed to have been forgotten.
Although Pang Ya is not talented, she is very hardworking.
In her second year of studying at the academy, she finally overcame the first hurdle in her training and entered the initial stage of body tempering. She was finally able to store a little bit of strength in her dantian.
She was happy about this for a long time. After crossing this hurdle, she finally got rid of the label of a mediocre person.
Although my training speed is slower than other children, at least I am not completely unable to practice.
When others teased her for being mediocre, she finally had a reason to refute.
Because of her body shape, Zi Yan was often ridiculed and despised by her classmates, so she seemed a little timid when she was in college.
And her younger sister Zi Meng is a genius girl and is very beautiful. She gained countless fans as soon as she entered the academy and is loved by everyone.
When Zi Yan was ten years old, good luck suddenly came to her.
In order to win over the aristocratic families, the royal family planned to marry the princes and princesses with the young ladies and sons of the aristocratic families.
Zi Meng was promised to the eldest prince, who is now the crown prince.
And because Zi Yan was the daughter of the head of the Zi family and had just reached the age of marriage, she was promised to the third prince Xuanyuan Minghua.
At that time, Xuanyuan Minghua was thirteen years old and was the school idol of Shenyu Academy.
His unparalleled handsomeness was secondary. The most important thing was his extraordinary talent. He had already advanced to the initial stage of spiritual silence at the age of thirteen.
The third prince's talent for cultivation is even better than that of the eldest prince.
It’s a pity that he is only the third child. With his eldest brother’s outstanding performance as an example, he can only take the back seat.
Just because his father, the emperor, wanted to win over the Zi family, he casually arranged a marriage for him.
The most talented and handsome man in Shenyu Academy is actually engaged to the fat and ugly girl in the academy.
This incident was even more shocking than someone suddenly reaching the divine realm.
It can be said that everyone in the college knows the school hunk Xuanyuan Minghua, and he is a beautiful landscape of the college.
Zi Yan must know him too.
She had never dared to imagine that such a beautiful boy would be her future husband.
The girls in the college were jealous of her and initially just laughed at her, but later on started bullying her.
If it weren't for the Zi family's background, there might have been violence.
Because of this, she went home to find her father, hoping to ask him to help her.
But his father coldly refused, saying that he was too busy.
Not only did the father refuse his daughter's request for help, but he also scolded her, calling her a waste and bringing shame to the Zi family.
She went to look for other members of the tribe, but they ignored her.
The kids in the academy bullied her even more unscrupulously later on, because there was no one in the Zi family to stand up for her.
Even those from small families dared to bully her.
Poor child, he lives in fear and silence every day.
But even so, she still insisted on going to school every day and never missed classes.
Just because she wanted to improve her own strength and didn't want to be called a waste or a mediocre person.