Chapter 117 In the Sound of Swords in the Deep House
"I know everything." A tattered boy was sitting at the stack of the highest point of the courtyard wall. He said. Long Ji felt a little surprised. The distance was so close. She didn't find when the boy came to herself. Sit quietly before jumping on the wall. I can't see the appearance of the boy from her perspective. The moonlight illuminates the broken little silhouette. Long Ji has never seen such a figure. The bandage, the wound that ruptured again as soon as the crust, the poisonous sores flowing and blood, and the uneven skin, the muscles that are shaken like the bacon hanging on the clothes rod. This body should not belong to a living person And it belongs to a deceased, a corpse, and an undead.
Little Long Ji did not say particularly surprising. When she was 49 days old, the dragon family owner with the title of storm knight personally presided over the "Ming wedding" ceremony. The corpse was married for about. Of the three babies, only Long Ji successfully activated the ancient abilities in the blood. The only elite of the fourteen generation of the dragon family has the power of "Ming marriage". Even the various blood veins of the Long family The ability is like a sea of smoke. "Understanding" has always been stable in the top three. Because the corpses have unlimited growth potential in the other world. As long as it is fake, it is inestimable to enter the country. The mind was influenced by the lovers of the alien. It began to become indifferent, blurred, and distorted. I feel that every day in the world wearing a mask performs. Only at a certain time every day. The moment the lovers communicated. It was truly free. In this mental state of looking at the world across a layer of light yarn. The five -year -old Long Ji retracted his eyes. He asked lightly: "Who are you?"
"I am Long Yue." The broken boy said.
"You are the first generation. I have seen the young people of the fourteen generations of Zongjia. You are not among them." Long Ji asked.
"Fourteen generations." The boy replied.
"Then why don't you receive training in other courtyards." The girl asked.
"I come from the side of the wall." Long Yan fingered at the outside of the wall.
Long Ji was surprised this time. The children of the Zongjia family were in the middle and lower part of the main house of the dragon family. The large courtyard is in a round shape. A curved courtyard wall divides the house into two parts entangled with each other. It looks like a spectacular Tai Chi map. The roof on the side of the clan, the ground and the courtyard walls are covered with light gray hemp stone of Liang Sui national -made specialty products. . It looks sturdy and clean; the part of the separate side is built by the thick dark brown mountain rock. It is also part of the main house of the dragon house. The houses on both sides are clear. Two portals are imaginative. The wall of this main house is called "dragon ridge". It is up to four feet and seven feet. It is wide to two feet and one foot. The width is enough Patrol day and night. There are beacon and arrow tower every half in half.
These martial arts are not defending foreign enemies. It is to prevent interoperability. Crossing the dragon ridge is an absolutely prohibited behavior. Apply to the elders of the clan. After reviewing and approval by the Presbyterian Council, the handheld order, seal, and via two portals go. And return within the designated hour. The crime of standing. There is no need to judge the prisoner. Any internal affairs have the right to be the right to stop the tactile.
The place where Long Ji is sitting is the low wall outside the courtyard. Behind the low wall, the towering heavy building is the "Dragon's Back". The boy said he came from the other side of the wall. There is no doubt that he is a person who has crossed the Dragon's Back privately. The children of the branch family who came here. In the long history of the Long family for nearly a thousand years, countless children of the branch family have tried to climb the Dragon's Back. Every year, dozens of heads are hung on the high wall and slowly dried. Over time, they appear on the other side of the wall. A long ribbon made of heads was formed. The human head dried by the wind shrunk to the size of a grapefruit. It appeared in various colors due to different causes of death. It collided with each other in the wind and made a crisp sound like a nut. This was only visible to the Long family. The unique scenery. A cruel witness to the entangled fate of an ancient family.
All the resources, wealth, splendor and glory of the Long family are concentrated in the Zong family mansion. One-third of the financial resources of the Liang Sui Kingdom are concentrated here. It has a huge team of foreign envoys that dwarfs the Seventeenth Eastern Family. It undertakes various small-scale armed operations and hires. (Can even start a war). It manages three million acres of land and 600,000 tenant farmers. It exports dozens of top sword-wielding guards to the entire Eastern Continent every year. The Long family guards are the dream of the imperial court and the rich in the entire continent. Protectors. Even if they do not use bloodline abilities, these clan elites can still stand at the top of the mainland's powerful strength by virtue of the "Nine Laws". The clan's children can accept various bloodline ability stimulation rituals, receive systematic education, and can learn as much as they like." The "Nine Methods" are exquisite. You can eat nutritious food, get carefully crafted equipment, and get countless opportunities to practice and progress. In the end, you will become a strong person who can stand alone.
On the other side of the "Dragon's Spine", everything is completely different. The children of the split family are regarded as the heirs of inferior blood. They work at the lowest level of their lives and survive on food rations. The Long family is the darkest and most shady person. The action is completed by the children of the branch family. In the eyes of the Presbyterian Church, these people are a "sacrificable" group. If a few more people die, the population density of the branch family mansion can be reduced a little, so as to avoid the crowding of descendants born from generation to generation. In a house that cannot be expanded, it causes food shortages and disease problems.
No one can say exactly when the isolation between the clan and branch families began. The outline of the dragon's spine is clearly drawn on the oldest genealogy. The ancestral instructions are enshrined on the incense-filled altar table in the ancestral hall of the Presbyterian Church. It is said that the Long family is not pure blood. They are actually people with foreign surnames. The ancestors of the Long family believe that the children of the split family should not be given the surname "Long". But unfortunately, the blood of the Long family flows in their veins. They can only build black Courtyards and high walls imprison these filthy bloodlines in the main house and isolate them from generation to generation.
The cause of all this is the word "blood". The so-called "bloodline heir" profession is passed down from generation to generation among family members by virtue of the mysterious bond of "bloodline". Each family's bloodline is different. Various attributes, abilities and changes will also produce various strange mutations. These mutations are uncontrollable, but usually they will not deviate too far from bloodline abilities.
But the Long family is different. The bloodline ability of the Long family itself is a kaleidoscope that includes everything. It has countless changes in form. For example, the fourteenth generation including Long Ji (full name Yishen Ji Long Fourteenth Generation) The history of the Zong family and the Long family has been too long to be verified. Every twenty generations is one era. According to the cycle of heavenly stems and earthly branches) a five-year-old child is an example. The abilities of the twelve children are different. No two people have the same or even the same power. Similar. There are one thousand and twenty types of abilities that can be tested in the Long Family classics. This is a paranormal phenomenon that no family in the entire continent can possess. So far, no one has been able to explain it from the perspective of mysticism, magic or metaphysics. explain.
In addition to one thousand and twenty kinds of abilities, the classics also record twelve thousand five hundred kinds of "malignant transformation". The so-called "malignant transformation" means that the bad power in the blood has awakened and transformed human beings into some kind of terrifying monsters. There are countless such stories circulating in the early history of the Long family. The parents were swallowed by children who turned into wolverines in their sleep. When the hairpin ceremony was held, the children turned into five-foot-long poisonous snakes. At that time, the chance of the Long family becoming evil was greater than the awakening of power. Much later, this big family gradually discovered the secrets hidden in the bloodline. They completely eliminated the bloodline that was prone to "malignant transformation". They banned intermarriage, built high walls, cut off communication, and gradually eliminated the impure elements in the bloodline. After a long period of time, the clan family and the branch families were formed. Now the chance of a descendant of the clan family turning evil is extremely slim. And every descendant of the branch family has the possibility of turning into a monster before reaching the age of sixteen. The clan family and the branch families are pure. Blood and unclean blood. Bloodline ability and malignant transformation. This is the cause of this tragedy. The tragedy has been going on for so long that now both the clan and branch families have become accustomed to everything and accepted this cruel setting.
If the children of a separated family want to get ahead, there are only three ways to choose:
First, entering the "external bone pit" at an early age forces the bloodline ability to awaken. Although less than five out of a hundred people will survive, it is easy to gain powerful offensive power. The baby will immediately get the clan's attention and be able to escape. The dark life of a separated family;
Second. Those who have not "maligned" after adulthood and are talented can apply to join the Shadow Sect, learn the nine methods of the Long family, and get some opportunities to escape from the sea of suffering. The "Shadow Sect" is a secret force active in the branch house. The original intention of its establishment is to eliminate Monsters transformed into monsters to prevent them from causing large-scale destruction. Later, their functions gradually became diverse;
Third. Cross the dragon's spine. Escape from the pursuit of the internal affairs envoy and hide. Go to the Council of Elders to surrender when you reach the age of sixteen. You can receive amnesty. Those who can do this are often powerful warriors with extraordinary talents. .There are only a few people recorded in history.
Now that tattered boy turned out to be the heir of a branch of the family who came over the wall. How could this not make Long Ji secretly frightened. She glanced at the high dragon's spine, but found no trace of the internal affairs envoy. The horn did not sound. The beacon was not lit yet. As if he guessed what she was thinking. The boy smiled and said: "I want to go back. They are just asleep. So, do you want to know, can I tell you something... Yes Yes. What’s your name?”