For the first tens of thousands of years, the secret realm of the shrine was occupied by that sect. Until a hundred thousand years ago, the secret realm changed, and two more entrances appeared in the northern part of Hezhou, but they were very unstable, and those who entered never came back.
Later, the first sect learned about the two entrances and strictly ordered no further entry into the two places.
However, the scope of Hezhou was extremely wide, with the central and northern parts far apart. The first sect was also beyond its reach, so they negotiated with the locations of the two northern entrances and finally stipulated the time and number of people to enter.
That regulation was naturally very unreasonable, and it was basically still controlled by the first sect until tens of thousands of years ago, when that sect declined and was replaced by other sects. Later, the three places negotiated again and finalized the time and number of people, which continues to this day.
Judging from the records, the cultivators who entered at that time ranged from the divine realm to Tianyuan. Later, the divine realm and golden elixir masters gradually stopped entering the secret place.
In addition, the book also mentions the aboriginal people in the secret realm.
Originally, when the secret realm was discovered, there were no aboriginal people in it. It only appeared hundreds of thousands of years ago. There were also masters of the divine realm, numbering about 10,000.
Needless to say, those ten thousand people must be from the Ming clan.
What shocked Zhou Yang was that among these ten thousand people, there was actually a master of the divine realm, and there was more than one!
However, magic weapons and elixirs are not allowed to be brought in, and the masters of the divine realm are restricted to a certain area. If they leave that area, they will be killed by powerful people from the outside world.
After reading this, Zhou Yang finally understood the causes and consequences of the secret realm of the shrine.
It turns out that this secret realm is not a secret. Many people know it, but they, low-status cultivators, don't know it. But what was extremely ironic was that at this moment he understood that the secret realm had completely disappeared.
"What was the battle between the Ming Clan and Hezhou Xiujie like?" Zhou Yang was very curious about this question. The version circulated in Dingbeicheng was not like this. They said that the entire Ming Clan was wiped out. There are also different opinions.
However, Zhou Yang saw the descendants of the Ming clan in the secret realm with his own eyes, which shows that Dingbeicheng's version is not accurate.
"This battle should be regarded as a major event in Hezhou's cultivation world, and it will definitely be recorded in the major events of the general history." Thinking of this, Zhou Yang's eyes lit up and he hurriedly flipped through the jade slips.
"Yes!" After searching for a long time, he finally found relevant records on a jade slip.
"During the Rengui Year of the Thirty-fourth Yuan of the Destiny, the Red Moon did not disappear for a hundred days, and there were strange movements in all directions, indicating a sign of great misfortune. After a hundred days, the Red Moon disappeared. However, there was a destiny demon rising in the far north, and within Jiazi, it overwhelmed the state. In the north, Dahe is poisoned. The Ming clan is rebellious and cruel. The Dahe cultivator world is devastated, and thousands of corpses are lying...
The demons gradually became the common enemy of the cultivators, and the demon chiefs were even more murderous. They also wanted to dominate the northern part of the state and aspire to greatness. The responsibility of defending the Dao fell on Xingxu, and Xingxu raised its arms and the whole state responded. Thousands of righteous cultivators, more than a hundred spiritual cultivators, tens of thousands of golden elixirs, fought against the Ming Demon in the extreme northern wilderness. For more than three months... they moved the remnants of the Ming Demon to the forbidden land and never set foot in Hezhou forever. "
After Zhou Yang saw it, he was deeply shocked.
Tens of millions of cultivators, led by the Xingxu Sect, the largest sect in Hezhou, started a war with the Ming Clan, including hundreds of divine masters and tens of thousands of golden elixir cultivators!
My God, what a spectacular scene this is! No wonder the mountains tens of thousands of miles high were turned into abyss and swamps, and the land for cultivating the world was turned barren. Naturally, the result was that the Ming clan was defeated and almost exterminated.
However, they injured one thousand enemies and suffered eight hundred losses themselves. The Hezhou cultivators also suffered heavy casualties and were unable to fight anymore. Later, the two parties reached an agreement, and the remnants of the Ming clan moved to a secret realm and were not allowed to reappear on the Hezhou continent for generations to come.
This record is completely consistent with the aborigines mentioned in the Secret Realm chapter. According to official history, the Ming clan has committed extremely heinous crimes and is the public enemy of Hezhou, anyone can find and kill them.
However, at this time, Zhou Yang had become much more mature in his view of the matter. Historical books have always said that there are curved writing and straight writing. Only those who experienced it at that time can tell the right and wrong.
Of course, those who continue history must speak from the standpoint of orthodoxy in the cultivation world, and it is inevitable that they will have their own tendencies.
There is another sentence in the record that puzzled Zhou Yang: The Demon of Life disappeared in Hezhou, and the Demon Sect was also wiped out from the world.
Demon sect, which demon sect is it?
Judging from this tone, it doesn't sound like a sect within the Ming Clan, but rather a sect that has a very good relationship with the Ming Clan. However, there is no detailed explanation of the Demon Sect in the general history.
Zhou Yang closed the book and couldn't calm down for a long time.
Scenes of ancient wars flashed through his mind, and the matter of the Demon Sect also puzzled him.
When he was in Anping and Dingbei, he had heard about the Baisong Mountain Demon and the Ghost Sect, but it was inconsistent with what was recorded in the general history, and it was obviously not the Demon Sect in the records.
But besides the Demon Sect and Ghost Sect in Baizong Mountain, what other sects are called Demon Sect?
There was another point that made Zhou Yang ponder for a long time, and that was the three possible secret realms. These three secret places have been circulated for hundreds of thousands of years, but they have never been discovered.
But the two sentences mentioned in the book are very thought-provoking: "Xuanwu spits out pearls, and the phoenix reaches nirvana. The sun and moon rise together, and Tianzang reappears."
These two sentences refer to a speculated secret in the northern part of Hezhou. They are prophecies realized by a Tongxuan master in ancient times who observed the sky at night.
The book also records that for hundreds of thousands of years, Hezhou cultivators have discussed these two prophecies a lot, and their explanations are different.
Some people say that only by the gathering of Xuanwu and Phoenix, and with the help of powerful people, can this huge secret be found.
Others say that Xuanwu refers to a direction, namely the north. It is said that when the Phoenix is reborn in the north, it is the day when the secret treasure is opened.
However, the phoenix is just a legendary bird, and the basalt is a sacred beast that no one has ever seen. So later, some people asserted that this secret realm will never be opened, and it is still unclear whether it is a secret realm.
While meditating, the white fish belly appeared on the horizon.
Zhou Yang packed up, led the spirit deer, and flew straight to the southwest gate.
When we reached the intersection of two streets, we saw a sea of people, bustling and converging in one direction.
Zhou Yang was puzzled, so he stopped someone to ask, and the person said: "Today is the day when Xinfeng Yinyue Tower issues cards."
"Xinfeng Yinyue Tower?"
"Don't you even know about Xinfeng Yinyue Tower?" The man looked at Zhou Yang, who was dressed in ordinary clothes, and secretly thought that he was really a country bumpkin.
Zhou Yang shook his head.
"The most famous brothel in Southwest City, Yaozi, do you understand?"
"Oh." Zhou Yang was stunned for a moment, then clasped his fists in thanks.
"The name of a brothel is so elegant. It's really hard for literati and poets to imagine." Zhou Yang shook his head secretly.
As for things like dealing cards, he was not interested in asking any more, so he urged Linglu to continue running.
Zhou Yang really guessed correctly that the former owner of Xinfeng Yinyue Tower was indeed a down-and-out scholar.
This building was originally named Xinfeng Yinyue Building. However, this scholar loved playing music, chess, calligraphy and painting all his life, so his cultivation was ruined and his family was in ruins, so he sold the building to others.
After changing hands several times, Xinfeng Yinyue Building became the current brothel, and the word "wind" in the name of the building was also changed to the word "phoenix".
Later, the brothel became more and more prosperous. By this time, it had already become famous far and wide. Not only in the southwest city, but also practitioners from other cities came here to spend a lot of money and linger around.
The brothel is booming, which is naturally due to the beauty of the girls, especially the oiran of Yin Yue.
Xinfeng Yinyue Tower selects an oiran once a month. However, the oiran is not selected internally. Instead, cultivators from all over the city are invited to come here and jointly select among several candidate beauties. After the oiran is selected, the auction will take place on the spot, and the one with the highest bid will have the night to himself.
In fact, this is just a gimmick for Yinyuelou to earn spiritual stones.
The so-called handing out signs is to place red boxes in front of the Yinyue Tower with the names of the candidate beauties written on them, and then distribute the signs with the names of the candidate beauties to everyone. If they like someone, then their sign will be given to everyone. Throw it into someone's box.
Finally, the number of cards will be counted on site, and the person with the most cards will naturally be the oiran of this month.
At this time, outside the Xinfeng Yinyue Building, there was already a buzz of people, and many big red boxes were placed on a high platform, making it very lively.
But the brothel door was not open yet.
"Hey, little girl, you look like a fairy. It's no problem to be elected as the oiran, but you are not the girl of my Silver Moon Tower. How did you choose?"
In Xinfeng Yinyue Building, a middle-aged woman in her mid-teens was looking up and down at the girl in front of her.
The middle-aged woman's appearance is not bad, but she has a thick layer of makeup on her face, which makes her look very awkward and affluent.
This person is naturally the old bustard in Crescent Tower.
The girl in front of the old madam is twenty-eight years old. She has a slender and graceful figure, black hair like a waterfall, and a beautiful and pure face. Especially her pair of big and smart eyes, which makes this girl more innocent and playful.
She was wearing a light green dress with a swaying hem, revealing a pair of delicate and small embroidered shoes. She was negotiating something with the madam.
"Does it have to be a girl from Xinfeng Yinyue Tower? That's easy to handle. All I have to do is join you in Silver Moon Tower!" The girl's voice was very pleasant, but she spoke very quickly.
"Miss!" A maid behind the girl was shocked when she heard this and hurriedly went to pull her.
"Shut up!" The girl turned around and glared at the maid, who was so frightened that she quickly lowered her head.
"Are you telling the truth?" The madam was overjoyed. If the lovely girl in front of her could enter the Silver Moon Tower, there is no doubt that she would be a well-deserved oiran. With such an appearance, she would not be able to make a fortune every day!
"Of course it's true. From today on, I will live here. By the way, when will the election start?"
"Hey, that's great. As long as you agree, we will start the election immediately! By the way, little girl, how many spiritual stones do you want?" The old bustard said in his heart with a smile on his big white face, and the powder was falling down. There really is such a thing as pie in this world!
"Just give it to them and send them away!" the girl pointed at the two maids behind her.
"Okay, let go..." The madam was about to say don't worry, but suddenly stopped.
She looked at the two maids up and down for a while, but became a little hesitant.
