The secret area of Longcheng, Longmen Gorge.
Longmen Gorge, like Shengyuan Continent, is a complete world.
Ninety percent of the entire Longmen Gorge is sea water, and in the center of the ocean is a continent.
Ordinary land is higher than sea level, roughly in the shape of a "convex" character, but Longmen Continent is the opposite, in the shape of a "concave" character.
This land itself is a giant basin. The edge of the basin is higher than the sea level, which keeps the sea water out. The terrain gradually decreases from the outside to the inside. The lowest point of the basin is 10,000 feet below the sea level, which is a full 60 miles.
It would take several hours to walk this distance, and it would be hard to imagine if converted into height.
The interior of the Longmen Basin is uneven, and in the easternmost part, there is a gap in the edge of the basin. A large amount of sea water poured in from the gap, rushing from top to bottom, forming a mighty Longmen River that is 30 miles wide.
The terrain of Longmen River is steep within 300 miles from the sea. From there, it begins to branch out, turning into many tributaries that enter the basin and finally converge in the center of the basin.
Seen from high above, the 300-mile main waterway of the Longmen River looks like a piece of white silk, but starting from 300 miles, it is torn into strips.
At the fork of the Longmen River, there is an island in the middle of the river with a radius of three miles.
This island in the middle of the river is deserted all year round, and there is no intelligent life in the entire Longmen Gorge. The sea is full of water creatures without intelligence. Because the vitality of heaven and earth here is thin, even the dragons are unwilling to live here for a long time.
However, every once in a while, ranging from a few thousand to tens of thousands of years, this island in the middle of the river would occasionally become lively.
Every time at this time, nine dragon gates will rise in the Longmen River!
Whenever nine dragon gates are born, it is the day of leaping over the dragon gates.
In ancient times, every time the Dragon Gate Leap Day came, hundreds of millions of creatures would gather near the island in the middle of the river and attack the nine Dragon Gates.
Now, various tribes have arrived at Jiangxin Island one after another. But the scene is far less than that of the past. Including the water tribe, there are only more than 100,000 people.
Among all the races, the water race accounts for 99% of the population, and the creatures of the other races combined are no more than a thousand.
In the sky above the island in the middle of the river, there were twenty-nine thick white clouds, with a few scales and claws occasionally showing through the clouds, and at the same time, a heavy dragon might would be revealed. That was the aura of the dragon king!
The dragon aura emitted by one of the white clouds was the strongest, overwhelming all the other dragons. It reminded people of the Dragon Emperor, the strongest dragon species below the Half-Saint in the dragon legend.
Twenty-nine dragon kings are hidden in the white clouds. Their demon positions are equivalent to great demon kings. However, except for them, there are no great demon kings or kings in other water tribes or other tribes, only ordinary demon kings.
The east bank of Jiangxin Island is a place of chaos and demons, with a large number of aquatic creatures swimming in the water, including dragon whales that are larger than dragons, extremely long fish monsters, slowly swimming turtle monsters, swaying crab monsters, and spooky giant squids or octopuses.
On the shore, there stood people of various races.
There were common wolf monsters, bear monsters, tiger monsters, some huge ancient monsters that were more than ten feet tall, and some strange races, but they were not numerous.
The number of human beings is even smaller, including Fang Yun, there are only nineteen people.
Among the eighteen people, five were from the Lei family. Among the remaining thirteen, with one exception, they were all descendants of the Confucius family and the six sub-saint families. Yan Yukong was one of them.
The Dragon Clan gave two places to the Kong family and ten places to the Holy Academy.
The Dragon Clan gave six places to the Lei family, and the Lei family gave one place to the Zongsheng family.
That person was the famous university scholar of the Zongsheng family, Zong Chenli.
This man shocked the world with his essay "On Political Ordinance" when he was just sixteen years old. After that, he rose rapidly in career and his literary rank improved dramatically. Before he was forty years old, he became a Grand Secretary and a pillar of the human race.
This person was a model of all trades in handling government affairs. Even the patriarch of the clan praised him, saying that he was not as good as this talented person of the clan back then.
Zong Chenli resigned from the position of Prime Minister of Qing Kingdom three years ago and went to Zhenyu Sea to practice. He only returned to Shengyuan Continent a month ago, just to make the leap to the Dragon Gate.
He was originally one of the four great talents of the next generation of the human race, and his popularity was higher than Lei Chongmo. However, like a few children of the holy families, he took the initiative to write a letter to the Holy Academy to withdraw from the list of the four great talents and give others more opportunities.
The Four Great Talents are the most famous writers in the human race. They are legends in themselves and will surely go down in history. Many people would love to have them. However, the most outstanding children of noble families have their own pride. In their eyes, unless they are canonized like their ancestors, everything else is just empty fame.
Beside Zong Chenli stood five members of the Lei family headed by Lei Chongmo, while the other twelve were actually quite distant from them.
Yan Yukong kept looking towards where the East China Sea dragons were.
The king of the dragon clan hides in the white clouds, but other dragons under the king, such as the Dragon King and Dragon Marquis, gather in different places.
The dragons of the East China Sea are closest to the human race. The most eye-catching one among them is not the fire dragon with flames all over its body, nor the snow dragon with ice all over its body, but a yellow dragon, because there is a young man sleeping soundly on the back of the yellow dragon.
“This guy is really weird! On such a big day as Yuelongmen, he actually slept all the way here and didn’t take it seriously at all.” Green Dragon King Ao Qingyue shook his head helplessly.
“Hehe, Ao Huang said that Fang Yun broke into the Valley of Worry yesterday, but I don’t believe it. I think it was because he got married not long ago and was too tired, you know…” A sly expression appeared on the face of a black dragon.
Ao Huang rolled his eyes at the black dragon and said, "Stop talking nonsense. He came back late last night. He said a few words to Yang Yuhuan before going to bed and fell on the bed. He hasn't woken up yet. The Hundred Worries Valley is really ruthless, much more ruthless than this dragon!"
"Hehe, I don't care whether he goes to the Valley of Troubles or not, I only care about how Journey to the West is going. Ao Huang, you are close to the water and have the first chance to see the moon, have you read his manuscript?"
Ao Huang sighed and said, "Don't mention it. Ever since I listened to his version of Journey to the West, I have been thinking about it day and night. I always wanted to know what happened to the ape man named Sun Wukong. Fang Yun did reveal a few words, saying that after Sun Wukong made trouble in the Dragon Palace, he went to the Holy Court and made trouble in the East Holy Pavilion, stole the sacred objects of the holy land, and even injured a great Confucian scholar named Yuhuang. He was then suppressed by the East Holy Five Fingers and turned into a mountain. Only when he met a scholar named Tang Xuanzang could he release the suppression."
"What's next?" Ao Qingyue asked.
"There's nothing more below! I pestered Fang Yun every day, but he refused to tell me. He was so tight-lipped!" Ao Huang complained.
The black dragon seemed to be anxious, saying, "Sun Wukong's disturbance in the East Saint Pavilion must be very exciting!"
Ao Huang chuckled and said, "It would be even better if the elder named Yuhuang had the surname Zong. When Fang Yunyuelongmen finishes, I will force him to finish writing the story of making trouble in Dongsheng Pavilion. If he doesn't finish it, I won't let him sleep!"
"The Lei family looks at Fang Yun with an unfriendly eye." A green dragon sneered.
"What can the Lei family's trash do? Don't worry about it. But... that Lei Zhongmo is extraordinary. Even the Dragon King of Zhenhai praised him. That Zong Chenli is also a character. He actually cared about Fang Yun very much just now. He didn't seem like an enemy at all, but a good friend. And he didn't pretend at all. It's really scary."
(To be continued.)