Protect Our Patriarch

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The estuary of the East China Sea in Changning.

this day.

The sky is clear and cloudless, and the wind is sunny.

On the rippling blue sea, ships come and go one after another, making it very lively.

These ships are of uneven size and structure, ranging from ancient wooden sailboats to giant iron-clad ships with steel skeletons and thick armor. The two are in sharp contrast and harmonious unity, just like countless stars dotted in the splendid galaxy. It shows a special flavor that is interlaced in time and space.

now.

A large wooden sailboat with the Dazhou flag hanging on its mast is passing through the estuary and slowly sailing into the Anjiang River.

This sailboat looks a few years old. The wooden boards on the hull are dark and dark with some mottled marks. Even the white sails hanging on the mast are slightly yellowed, full of vicissitudes.

The cargo warehouse of this ship is full of the special products of the Great Zhou Kingdom, some high-quality spiritual wood materials, metal ingots of various types of minerals after preliminary smelting, various grades of elixir raw materials, and some produced in the Great Zhou Dynasty. Zhou Lengshui sea area, belongs to the luxury-level spirit meat and spirit fish.

This Dazhou merchant ship has long-term exchanges between Daqian and Dazhou, and has earned handsome rewards by transporting goods. At the same time, they also do some passenger work, earning some extra high returns.

After all, in recent decades, the exchanges between Da Zhou and Da Gan have become more and more close, and the number of people traveling between the two countries has been much larger than before.

On the deck, a group of young men and women with high spirits and high spirits are excitedly watching all kinds of new things.

"Brother Liu." A young man with a folding fan in his hand and fluttering white clothes said excitedly, "Have you seen that boat? My God, it is more than seventy or eighty feet long, and its whole body is made of steel. It runs faster than our wooden boat. Soon. By the way, why does it have no sails? What does it sail on?"

"Brother Liu, are the shadowy buildings on the shore all tall buildings? How could the big cadres build the buildings so high?"

"Brother Liu... Is the flying cloud ray flying over the head? This is the first time I have seen the flying cloud ray."

"Uh... Brother Liu, is it my illusion? It seems that two people from the Zi residence passed by in the air just now..."

This young cultivator called "Brother Liu" is named "Liu Gaoliang". He is a straight child of an ordinary fifth-rank family in Dazhou. Now he is only sixty years old, and he is already on the third floor of the Lingtai Realm. From their family's contemporary celestial race, it is still a step above.

The reason why he changed his fate was that he traveled to Changning Wei with the fleet in his early years. He was shocked by the weather of Changning, and by chance, he joined the Changning County School as an international student. For many years, he has been actively studying. Excellent performance in the county school, won a lot of awards, and this is all the way to today.

And those young people surrounding him were a group of young students who came from Dazhou and were going to study abroad in Changning County. Most of their family backgrounds are "ordinary", and the one with the highest background is also a sixth-grade family, and it is not a direct line.

Fortunately, their qualifications are not bad. The family spends "a huge amount of money" to send them to study abroad. The purpose is very simple. It is to hope that they can find a way to develop in Changning County School, and even hope that they can develop and stay in Changning. A branch family with branches and loose leaves.

Liu Gaoliang looked at the young and ignorant schoolmates and recalled how he felt when he first arrived at Changning Wei, but he was not impatient, but patiently answered everyone's doubts one by one.

"This place in Changning is different from other places. The spiritual platform here is full of the ground, and heaven and man can be seen everywhere. It is not uncommon to see the master of the Zifu and the real person with supernatural powers. If you are lucky, you can occasionally meet the real Lord Lingxu." Liu Gaoliang said calmly, "Everyone sees the Venerable Master, the real person, and the true monarch in the future, don't make a big noise, and have a sense of equanimity."

When this statement came out, everyone was stunned.

In such a small place, there are so many bigwigs? True Monarch Lingxu, looking at the entire Great Zhou Kingdom, apart from the Holy Land, there is currently only the Great Emperor Yuanping, who is the only True Monarch Lingxu!

One of the young men in their early thirties saluted Liu Gaoliang and said, "Brother Liu, can you tell me more about the Wang family? Especially the Venerable Wang Shouye."

When the rest of the people heard it, they immediately became refreshed: "We have also heard the story between the senior Dan Wang and the emperor's daughter. Brother Liu, if you want to know some gossip, just tell us about it."

"Shh, be careful." Liu Gaoliang's expression changed when he heard the words, and he hurriedly said, "Senior Dan Wang is the ancestor of the Wang family, and his identity is indescribable. Li Mingtang, these days, you seem to be calm and reserved, quite reliable. Like, why are you doing the same nonsense as these guys?"

Liu Gaoliang is actually quite optimistic about Li Mingtang. Although he was only born in an eighth-rank family in the remote fishing industry, he is a rare little Tianjiao B-class bloodline aptitude. If you study hard, you will not be able to escape in the middle of the Heaven and Human Realm in the future.

If he can make great achievements, or be appreciated by a big boss, it may not be impossible to improve his bloodline qualifications further.

"Brother Liu, you misunderstood me." Li Mingtang hurriedly explained, "I want to know more about Senior Pill King, just to repay my kindness. Back then, our family did a small thing for the senior, but we were given a lot of spirit stone pills by the great kindness of the senior. Medicine, so the family life has been better, and I have been trained. Before I left, my ancestors once said that if I have the opportunity to meet Senior Pill King, I must repay."

"I see." Liu Gaoliang's face softened slightly, "Senior Dan Wang is indeed kind-hearted, kind-hearted, generous, and has helped many people indirectly or directly. It is good that you have the heart to repay your kindness, but, with your current strength, even I don’t even have the qualifications to be an alchemy boy, so how can I help? Instead of thinking about those who don’t have it, it’s better to calm down and go to school and cultivate well. If the Wang family can be of use to you in the future, you can perform well.”

"Thank you Brother Liu for your suggestion." Li Mingtang saluted deeply.

While everyone was talking and laughing, time passed quickly. Before you know it, the merchant ship has approached Xinping Port.

Under the guidance of the pilot boat, the large merchant ship they were on slowly docked at the 53rd berth of Xinping Port.

As an old Jianghu, Liu Gaoliang is already familiar with everything about this port. He took a group of young people who had never seen the world through the security check and went straight to the reception point set up by the Changning County School.

Today's Changning County School is not as simple as it was when it was first established. With the strong support of the Holy Land, the government, the Wang family, and the local gentry, today's Changning County School is the best in the country in terms of scale and quality of students. The top existence, in terms of status, is already second only to Wang Clanology.

Moreover, compared with the Wang Clan School, which mainly recruits clansmen, in-laws, and a limited group of local roots and Miaohong, the Changning County School has a wider enrollment range.

In recent years, it has also continued to expand the proportion of international students, and the number of students is even larger.

Today, one of the outstanding students of the county school, Dongfang Lingrou, is in charge of the work at the reception point of Changning County School.

She is already in her early fifties this year, but she looks like a girl in her teens, with beautiful youth and beautiful eyes.

This little girl who bravely entered the restaurant for her family and pleaded with Wang Shouye, has become mature and capable after years of experience, and she is full of self-confidence.

When Liu Gaoliang saw her, he immediately bowed his hands to her with a smile on his face: "Junior Sister Dongfang, you are actually on duty at the reception today, which is rare."

"It turned out to be Senior Brother Gao Liang. During this period of time, the number of foreigners has surged, so Dean Lu and the teachers of various departments organized students to join the departments to help, and by the way, did an internship in advance. Didn't I get arrested for a strong man?" Dongfang Lingrou returned the salute "I heard that my senior brother went back to Dazhou to visit relatives a while ago. Why did he come back so quickly?"

"Isn't this escorting our young people from Dazhou to school on the way to school? Moreover, Wang's family is holding a state banquet, and the rich and noble son is going to marry Princess Chuannan and Princess Zhaoyu. How can I miss such a lively scene that is rare in the world? ?"

Speaking of these two things, Liu Gaoliang's face was full of excitement, and then he sighed regretfully: "It's a pity that this wedding banquet is attended by bigwigs from all over the world, like me and I have no relationship with the Wang family for no reason. I'm afraid that you won't even be able to enter the periphery of the wedding banquet."

"Brother Liu wants to get close to the crowd, but it's not impossible." Dongfang Lingrou said with a smile, "This time, the state banquet and the wedding banquet were held at the same time, which attracted a lot of attention, even if you were invited or not, you wanted to come and join the fun. There are as many guests as carps crossing the river. Therefore, the Wang family is also recruiting some waiters in charge of reception."

"If Senior Brother Liu is willing, you can ask President Lu to write a letter of recommendation, and there will be additional remuneration."

Liu Gaoliang was overjoyed immediately: "And such great things? Not to mention getting paid, even if you don't get paid, you have to go. Junior Sister Dongfang, hurry up and help these children register..."

He was already looking impatient.

When all the young people from Da Zhou saw him like this, they all cast strange and complicated looks at him.

In their eyes, Junjie, who is so mature and knowledgeable, is so excited to hear that he can help Wang as a waiter? Why even treat them as a burden?

What exactly is this for? Is this opportunity really that rare?

"Don't worry, let's take care of these future junior brothers and sisters." Dongfang Lingrou led the people to start registering and instructed, "In recent days, everyone will be staying in hotels in Xinping Town. Everyone. You can take this opportunity to visit Xinping Town more, and after two days, when there are more people, go to the county school in Changning County together."

After some registration, Liu Gaoliang led the young students to board the bus to the hotel.

This bus is a large van with a lot of seats inside, enough to seat dozens of people. Although the speed is slightly slower, it is extremely convenient, especially suitable for a large group like them.

All the way, from the shops on both sides of the street to the way pedestrians dress and travel, there are all kinds of new things, which made the students of Da Zhou stunned and opened their eyes, as if they had come to a whole new world.

Even the hotel they stayed in was different from the traditional inn of Dazhou. It was clean, tidy, and had various advanced facilities inside, which was unheard of. But according to Brother Liu, this is just an ordinary hotel in Xinping Town.

If you go to those top hotels to stay for a while, it will be a human enjoyment.

However, those hotels are really not affordable for these students, and the most ordinary rooms have to be settled with spirit stones, and if you eat a meal casually, maybe the living expenses for a year will be gone.

After everyone completed their check-in and rested for a while, Liu Gaoliang took the excited students out for a walk. They visited some characteristic places in Xinping Town, such as the large parking lot full of cloud ray flying boats, etc. .

Along the way, they were not only shocked, but also shocked.

Some people have been to the capital of Dazhou, but compared with this place, it is a corner in the countryside, and it is basically two worlds.

Just pick out a person here, at least they are in the Qi Refining Realm, and most of the adults are in the middle and late Qi Refining Realm, and the cultivators in the Lingtai Realm can be seen everywhere. If you drop a brick, you can hit two or three.

These are all [Lingtai Patriarchs], even in a 7th-grade family, Lingtai is also a clan elder, a very majestic existence.

Here, it's just passers-by A, B, C, D.

Even on the streets, there are occasionally huge spirit beasts walking briskly across the city, occasionally stopping, taking out spirit stones, and buying items, except for their appearance, they are almost the same as ordinary people.

As for the other pedestrians on the street, the shopkeepers on the side of the road were obviously accustomed to such scenes, and their expressions were very calm.

"The front is Zhiwu Street."

Liu Gaoliang led the Dazhou students to a lively street.

The shops along the street here are all kinds of weapons and equipment, panacea, Xuanwu exercises, and even a dazzling array of Xuanwu halls.

"Spiritual tool, this high-grade spiritual tool is just sold in a showcase? Well, the price is 9,000 low-grade spiritual stones! It's so expensive, I can't afford it in my life."

"Isn't this... Heavenly Spirit Pills should all be auctioned? It's actually sold directly here... Not only Heavenly Spirit Pills, but even Marrow Washing Pills can be purchased at any time, 1,800 low-grade Spirit Stones... But they have to be registered, and only one can be purchased. It's not worth so much money to sell me."

In the face of this dazzling array of commodities, the students of Dazhou have only one thought in their hearts, and that is—why am I so poor?

"Don't be discouraged," Liu Gaoliang encouraged with a smile, "here, there are still many places to make money. After you enter the school, you can study hard to earn credits, or you can come out to find a job and do odd jobs. The former Dongfang Lingrou Senior Sister, have you all seen it? She is an alchemist, and she also works part-time in Wang's alchemy department, earning a year's worth of money... I'm envious."

Alchemist

Everyone looked envious.

As we all know, an alchemist is a very lucrative profession, but to cultivate an alchemist not only has to have talent, but also a lot of money. Without family support, it is not easy to train an alchemist.

"Brother Liu, is there a way to make money quickly?" Someone asked.

"Make money quickly? Yes." Liu Gaoliang laughed mysteriously, "Have you seen the arenas in the center of Zhiwu Street? If you can show enough fighting power, you can find a job in Xuanwu Pavilion, provided that Yes, you must have a spiritual stage cultivation base."

Hearing this, most people's eyes have dimmed, only two or three are eager to try, especially the eighth-rank family's Li Mingtang.

Now at the age of thirty-one, he has already entered the Lingtai realm, and is regarded as a well-known young hero in their local area.

Everyone was a Xuanwu cultivator, so they were naturally interested in the arena competition, so they quickly surrounded Liu Gaoliang to the front of the arena.

The first batch of more than a dozen arenas were all used in the spirit platform environment. The arenas were quite advanced. They were all made of precious materials and had protective formations to prevent accidental injury to passers-by during the competition.

However, these arenas are not free to use. If you want to start a spiritual arena, you must pay ten low-grade spirit stones.

At this time, there were Xuanwu cultivators fighting in several of the arenas. Everyone showed off their magic weapons, and they fought back and forth. They all looked like they were quite powerful.

"Changning Wei is not allowed to fight privately, and cultivators enter the ring, either to resolve conflicts or to challenge famous masters and make a name for themselves." Liu Gaoliang introduced, "If you are strong enough to be ranked in the top 100 on the Lingtai list, you will be prosperous. It's gone!"

"Top 100 on the Lingtai List?" Li Mingtang was eager to try.

He prides himself on his aptitude, and he has enough of [Little Tianjiao B and others, although they have just entered the spirit stage, but they also have a low-grade spirit tool next to them, and the two ancestors in the family are no match for him.

And he is obviously not the only one who thinks the same as him.

"What do you think?" Liu Gaoliang guessed what they were thinking by looking at their expressions, and couldn't help but laugh and cry, "Do you think that all cats and dogs can enter the top of Lingtai?"

"Brother Liu, have you entered the top 100 yet?" someone asked curiously.

"Don't bury me." Liu Gaoliang blushed and said, "With my strength, let alone the top 100, even the top 1,000, no, the top 10,000 can't get in."

Can't get in the first 10,000?

Everyone did not believe it and raised doubts.

"Then I'll show you guys." Liu Gaoliang led the big guy to the white jade stele that recorded the top 100 of the Lingtai List, pointed to the last one on the list and said, "Number 100, Chen Jinying, Donggang Chen's Young elite, forty-seven years old, the fifth floor of the Lingtai realm, the blood of Tianjiao!"

There are a total of one hundred grooves on the stone tablet. Each groove has a label in front of it. A nameplate is inlaid in the groove. The nameplate is engraved with the corresponding person's name and general identity information, which is clear at a glance.

"Tianjiao? The fifth floor of Lingtai Realm? With such strength, he can barely rank in the top 100?" Li Mingtang rubbed his eyes, a little unbelievable.

In the face of such a level of opponents, he doesn't know if he can hold up three moves!

"It's not so exaggerated at the beginning." Liu Gaoliang said helplessly, "For decades, the list has been changing, and it has gradually become like this. Now the top 100 on the Lingtai list, alas, it's hard to say."

"I saw the name of Senior Sister Dongfang." Suddenly, a young man shouted excitedly, "The 91st, Dongfang Lingrou, a member of the Dongfang clan in Jingang, a direct student of the alchemy department in Changning County, fifty At the age of six, he is the pinnacle of the fifth floor of the Lingtai realm, with the bloodline of Tianjiao."

"Wow, that gentle-looking senior sister Dongfang turned out to be No. 91." Everyone was shocked, "It's amazing, much better than Senior Brother Liu."

Liu Gaoliang's face turned red.

I'm just an ordinary student, how can I compare with Senior Sister Dongfang?

"Wait! What did I see..." Suddenly, someone else exclaimed, "No. 1 on the Lingtai Ranking, Wang Baoguang, a member of the Wang clan of Changning, a top student in the Wang clan, twenty-five years old, at the peak of Lingtai, a peerless genius blood."

Twenty-five years old, younger than the age of some of the students present, but people are so arrogant, they are already at the peak of the spiritual stage at a young age, and I am afraid that it is not far from breaking through heaven and man.

However, under Wang Baoguang, there is a series of Datianjiao bloodlines. The last one in the Datianjiao is only thirteen years old and is a child of the Liu family in Shanyin, but even so, he is ranked 87th on the Lingtai list. The combat power is still stronger than that of Dongfang-senpai.

Is this crazy?

Everyone was stunned.

"Where is this going?" Liu Gaoliang couldn't help smiling when he saw their ignorant expressions.

Back then, when he saw this list for the first time, his performance was not much better than them. Looking back now, it was like a dream.

"I'll take you to see the list of heaven and man, that is more exaggerated." Liu Gaoliang said, and dragged them to the list of heaven and man.

The Heaven and Human Ranking is also a white jade stele, but it looks taller, UU Reading www.uukanshu. The decorative pattern on the edge of the com stele is more complicated and gorgeous, and it looks more imposing than that of the Lingtai Ranking.

"No. 1 on the Heaven and Human List, Wang Jidie, a member of the Wang Clan of Changning, Princess Dagan Huarui, forty-seven years old, at the peak of the Heaven and Human Realm, his bloodline is unknown."

Forty-seven-year-old peak of Heaven and Human Realm? Isn't that one step closer to being the Master of the Zi Mansion?

Become the Master of the Zi Mansion before the age of fifty?

This is too exaggerated, right? Simply unseen, unheard of!

Liu Gaoliang was also very excited: "That's right. Now we generally believe that Princess Huarui is not only the first in Changning, but also the first in the world."

while they were talking.

Suddenly.

Someone next to him shouted: "Kicked the hall, kicked the hall! Hanyue Xianchao super-class Wu's Heavenly Human Realm Junjie, challenged Gongsun Chaoye, the ninth place in the Heaven and Human List!"

"Shen Tu Xingchen, a member of the royal family of the Red Moon Demon Dynasty, named Wang Luotong, the nineteenth on the Purple House List."

"Liang Guo's second-rank Situ Clan's direct descendant, challenging Lei Wansui, the twenty-first on the Heaven and Human Ranking..."

"Chao Qianrui, a first-rank nobleman of the Red Moon Demon Dynasty, challenged Shangguan Yunque, the thirty-ninth place on the Purple House Ranking."

As the loud shouts continued to sound, the surrounding suddenly became commotion.

Liu Gaoliang was also stunned for a moment, and then suddenly became excited.

This, is this the wind?

He knew that there were so many people who came to Changning to attend the state banquet and wedding this time, and it was so lively that these lists would definitely cause a lot of disputes. Those young talents from other countries really couldn't hold back!

Our parent Ning's arena list, this time I'm afraid it is really going to move closer to the world list.

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