On the eighth day of September, the head of the Lei family was dismissed from his position as head of the family by the Li Hall for his inability to manage the family. The Lei family was ordered to replace the new head of the family, and hundreds of people in the Lei Wu family were exiled to the ancient land of the deserted city, never to return to the Shengyuan Continent.
The great scholar Lei Tingyu was reprimanded by the Rites Hall and threatened Xu Sheng, and was exiled to the ancient land of Haiya to serve for three years.
After the judgment of the Criminal Court, the Lei family was cursed by many people, and Fang Yun’s name was constantly mentioned.
Changing the head of the family and exiling Leiwu's family did not cause much controversy, but sending a great scholar to the ancient land of Haiya caused great controversy on the discussion board.
Even Fang Yun, who was preparing for the Double Ninth Festival Literary Festival on September 9th, was stunned when he heard the news.
Ao Huang on the side gloated: "Haha, it seems that the elders of the Li Palace and the Criminal Palace have become more and more dissatisfied with the Lei family. Even if they are punished to go to a dark battlefield like the Zhenyu Sea, it is better than the three famous traitor ancient lands such as the Haiya Ancient Land!"
Fang Yun put down the scroll in his hand and said, "I know about the three traitors, but they are almost forbidden to be mentioned in the books sold by the human race. Even the ancient book given to me by the royal family of Jingguo only mentioned it briefly. There should be a lot of rumors in your Dragon Palace, right? There are many words on Wucuo Novel Network."
"Haha, yes, I just treated it as a joke... Ahem, you don't mind, do you? There are not many words on Wucuo Novel Network," Ao Huang said with a grin.
"It doesn't matter. I only know that the ancient land of Haiya was cursed by the demon saints. When the semi-saints of the human race discovered it, it was too late and difficult to purify it, which made the scholars there betrayed. The ancient land of Xinqin was established by the scholars of the Qin Dynasty and Qin III. The Han royal family gave it a break and the Saint Academy temporarily ignored it, but who knew that a few decades later, the Ying family lost power and became puppets. At the beginning, the ancient land of Xinqin wanted to destroy the Han Dynasty, but then gradually alienated from the human race. In the end, like the ancient land of Haiya, it also had a holy temple and worshipped the saints, but did not listen to the orders of the Saint Academy and other countries. It did not completely betray the human race. It would never surrender to the demon world, but it helped during the battle between the two worlds."
"Yes, you are right about these two ancient places, that's it." Ao Huang said.
"Please tell me more details." Fang Yun said.
"The Haiya Ancient Land and Xinqin Ancient Land rarely interact with the human race. It is said that unless the human race is in danger of extinction, they will only communicate once every five years. As for the third 'Xuemang Ancient Land', it is even more peculiar. It only communicates with Shengyuan Continent once every ten years."
"You also know about the Blood Mang Ancient Land?" Fang Yun asked.
Ao Huang smiled proudly and said, "Then you have asked the right person. A dragon king from our East Sea Dragon Palace came back from the Blood Mang Ancient Land last year. The Blood Mang Ancient Land can be said to be more special than the previous two ancient lands. It is very, very easy to become a university scholar in the Blood Mang Ancient Land. But it is a hundred times more difficult to become a great scholar than in the Shengyuan Continent. Moreover, ordinary people who become university scholars can easily live to the age of ninety, but once people in the Blood Mang Ancient Land become university scholars, they can only live for another ten years at most, and it is impossible for them to live beyond the age of seventy!"
"So strange?" Fang Yun was extremely surprised.
"Of course. It is said that the Blood Mang Ancient Land is the place where an ancient demon ancestor died. It is filled with extremely strong murderous intent. Saints who go there will inevitably be attacked by the murderous intent. Great scholars who go there will also be slowly corroded by the murderous intent. On the contrary, people with lower strength will be less corroded. It is precisely because of the erosion of the ancestor emperor's murderous intent that people who go there will gradually regard themselves as another kind of human race and refuse to submit to the Saint Academy."
“So the proportion of reverse species in these three ancient lands is very large?”
"That's quite big. And to them, the rebels are just hostile forces and cannot enter the Holy Temple. It's not like the Shengyuan Continent where they call for war and killing, and even interacting with the rebels is fine. However, they are human after all, and they need the Holy Temple after all. And those ancient lands also have monsters and barbarians competing with them for living space, so they still maintain a certain connection with the human race. It's impossible for all of them to be rebels."
"Since they don't obey the Holy Court, isn't that against Confucian ideals?"
"So most of them don't focus on Confucianism, but focus on Miscellaneous School, Military School, Diplomacy School, Legalism or Mohism, etc. But if they can insist on practicing Confucianism, they can form a self-consistent holy way, which is exceptionally powerful. However, the living environment of these three ancient lands is very harsh, so although those people's holy ways are not as good as those of Shengyuan Continent, their actual combat capabilities are particularly strong. The Holy Academy didn't care before, but after the Battle of Liangjie Mountain, it wanted to subdue the three traitorous ancient lands, but the other party didn't seem to appreciate it." Ao Huang said.
"The world is so big that there are all kinds of strange things." Fang Yun shook his head.
Ao Huang chuckled and said, "Let me tell you something even more shocking. There are no Half-Saints in the Haiya Ancient Land and Xinqin Ancient Land now, but they had Half-Saints in the past! Even the Xuemang Ancient Land almost had a Half-Saint, but it was a pity that it fell short."
"What? But all the saints enshrined in the holy temple are from the Shengyuan Continent." Fang Yun said.
"There is no other way. The Holy Academy invited the two semi-saints to return home, but they refused, saying that they were guarding their own ancient lands and could not integrate into the Holy Yuan Continent. The Holy Academy had no choice but not to include the two semi-saints in the Holy Temples. However, the two semi-saints also helped the human race, so generally speaking, the Holy Academy still regards the three traitorous ancient lands as their own, otherwise they would have called them the three traitorous ancient lands long ago."
"So that's how it is." Fang Yun shook his head and sighed. He really didn't expect such a strange thing to happen.
"There are too many secrets in the world. Some places are more mysterious than the three ancient places of traitors." Ao Huang said.
Fang Yun smiled and said, "What you said just now is correct. This time, Lei Tingyu was exiled to Haiya Ancient Land for three years. This should be a heavy warning to the Lei family, implying that the Lei family is only one step away from being a traitor to the human race and may rebel at any time."
"Huh? You humans are really cunning. I never thought of this step." Ao Huang felt helpless.
As soon as the two finished their conversation, the official seal emitted a special vibration. Fang Yun knew that it was important information from the Holy Academy and immediately read the letter.
After reading it, Fang Yun fell into deep thought.
"What's wrong?" Ao Huang stretched his neck and brought the dragon head in front of Fang Yun, with his dragon whiskers fluttering.
"Nothing. The three-valley battle will be advanced. After September 9, the selection of three Juren, three Jinshi and three Hanlin to participate in the battle will begin. I am one of the Jinshi candidates."
"Then I will quickly urge Grandpa Dragon Saint to give you the title of Dragon Lord so that you can gain the power of the dragon clan and become stronger before the three valley battles." Ao Huang said.
"If I remember correctly, no one in the human race can become a Dragon Lord, right? But every semi-saint and the head of the Lei family can obtain the honorary title of Dragon Lord." Fang Yun said.
Ao Huang raised his head proudly and said, "Of course, you are probably the first human in the history of the Dragon Clan to obtain the true Dragon Lord. You have to know that in ancient times, the Dragon Lord was only awarded to saints who were not of the Dragon Clan but surrendered to the Dragon Clan. And ordinary semi-saints have no chance, at least not the top semi-saints."
"Will the other Dragon Saints stop us?"
"The Dragon Saint of the South Sea is cunning and treacherous. He found out that the Ancestral Dragon Saint Fang had abandoned the Dragon Saint of the West Sea, so he became neutral. However, the Dragon Saints of the West Sea and the North Sea suffered a great loss this time, so naturally they are unwilling to give you the title of Dragon Lord."
Fang Yunqi asked, "Wasn't the Ancestral Dragon Sacred Tooth snatched by the Dragon Saint of the East Sea?"
"My grandfather, the Dragon Saint, is powerful, but he is not powerful enough to snatch the sacred object from the West Sea Dragon Palace across hundreds of thousands of miles. I think that the reason why the Ancestral Dragon Sacred Fang was thrown into my Great East Sea was because I angrily scolded the West Sea Dragon Saint on the top of the city wall, which led to the Ancestral Dragon Sacred Fang disliking Ao Min! I have made a great contribution!" Ao Huang put his two little dragon claws on his waist, boasting proudly.
(To be continued…)