From Ling Yongsheng's words, Ling Bingtian learned that it turned out that the Ling family did not take root in Jibing City at the beginning. But more than 4,000 years ago, due to the collision and fusion of the continents, the emperor of the newly established Tianhun Empire was transferred to Jibing City from a city in the north of the empire.
As the main city of the Tianhun Empire, Jibing City has an extremely important strategic position. Its status can even be said to be ranked first among the four major cities, second only to the Imperial Capital. This is due to two reasons.
On the one hand, the northern part of Jibing City faces the largest gathering place of ice attribute soul beasts in the entire continent - the Far North. And although most of the soul beasts in the Far North will never step outside the Far North, the Tiandou Empire, which has not yet been divided, still believes that it is necessary to set up a fortress here to guard against the possible emergence of the Far North. The spirit beast riot phenomenon.
From this, the original Jibing City was born.
However, Jibing City at that time was just a fortress city, with only some generals and soldiers stationed in it. There was no prosperity at all, let alone becoming a main city.
The opportunity for Jibing City to become the main city came from the continental war caused by changes in the earth's crust more than 4,000 years ago. At that time, the Heaven Dou Empire was unable to defeat the Sun Moon Empire's fierce soul guidance device attack. Under the baptism of war, the Heaven Dou Empire split into two factions.
And these two factions eventually split half of the Tiandou Empire after the war, and established the Tianhun Empire and the Douling Empire respectively.
After the two empires were established, Jibing City's strategic position was greatly improved.
As a fortress city, it can not only protect the country from the possible tide of beasts from the Far North, but it also happens to be not far from the national boundary between the Sky Soul Empire and the Dou Ling Empire.
This attracted great attention from the emperor of the Tianhun Empire at that time. He originally wanted to assign a prince to Jibing City to take charge. However, due to the extremely tragic mainland war, the only powerful prince left in the country had been sent by him. Go to the westernmost city of the empire and sit down, facing the Sun and Moon Empire from a distance.
In desperation, the emperor could only persuade a powerful marquis in the northern part of the empire to move to Jibing City and establish himself as the Lord of Jibing City. From then on, he would sit in the northern reaches of the empire.
In order to appease the Marquis, the emperor elevated the status of the fortress city of Jibing City to the status of a main city, exempting it from tax burdens. He only needed to pay a symbolic tribute to the royal family of some specialties from the far north every year to show his loyalty. At the same time, the marquis who was originally just an ordinary marquis was promoted to a duke, and at the same time, he was given hereditary rights.
However, the emperor is obviously not a fool. If the Duke is completely delegated power, it will be tantamount to raising a tiger.
Therefore, he did not give the marquis complete military power, but instead established a position as an extreme northern general to check and balance the future hereditary duke.
Of course, this extreme northern general was appointed by the royal family. In name, he assisted the hereditary duke in training and fighting, but in fact, he was supervising in the name of supervising the war.
This hereditary duke naturally has no objection to this, and of course, he does not dare to have any objection. He also knew clearly that if the emperor was not allowed to install this general here, I am afraid that his "hereditary" would not last long. Therefore, he maintained an attitude of no objection to the establishment of the position of general.
At this point, a new era of Jibing City under the joint rule of the city lord and general began. It was also from this time that the extremely rapid development stage of Jibing City arrived.
In more than 4,000 years, there has been no beast tide in the Far North, but the friction between the Sky Soul Empire and the Dou Ling Empire is constant.
Under the intervention of Shrek Academy, there were no big battles but constant small battles. Therefore, the strategic position of Jibing City against the Douling Empire has not changed at all in these more than 4,000 years. It still maintains a very high status in the Tianhun Empire and has received strong support from the Tianhun Empire's royal family.
Time has passed, and now, Jibing City is no longer the ordinary fortress city it was back then. Now Jibing City, under the leadership of the hereditary duke family and the great generals of the past dynasties, has developed into the most developed city in the northern part of the Tianhun Empire.
The hereditary duke family is naturally the Ling family. The Guardian Clan mentioned by Ling Yongsheng also started when the Ling family moved to Jibing City.
According to Ling Yongsheng, not long after the Ling family arrived in Jibing City, a family ancestor discovered a secret place in a snowy mountain range in the far north.
The ancestor mistakenly entered a cave in the Cold Snow Mountains. Because of the heavy snow, the ancestor did not choose to stay at the entrance of the cave. Instead, he explored further into the depths to see if there was any prey.
Unexpectedly, this exploration would open a new door for the entire Ling family.
When our ancestors first entered the cave, they didn't feel it was any different from other caves. But the further they went, the more the ancestor felt a sense of discomfort, which was a kind of discomfort originating from the depths of his martial soul.
After identification, the ancestor realized that he had arrived at a mine area with thorny ice rocks.
Thorny Ice Rock is an extremely special mineral material that is only found in the mines at the junction of the outer and inner circles of the Far North. It often exists at a depth of 20-50 meters underground.
In the far north, due to its special transmission effect, the ice-piercing rock is an existence that is disgusted by beasts.
Once a person or animal uses ice-attributed soul power to move on a rock like the Ice-Spiking Rock, the ice-attributed soul power will stimulate the internal structure of the Ice-Spiking Rock, causing it to change rapidly, with sharp ice streaks piercing out from the inside. prick.
And because the ice spikes are so fast that they often pierce into the bodies of people or beasts before they can react, so in the far north, ice-piercing rocks are often seen by those ice attribute soul beasts. When it comes to existence, everyone shakes his head.
In the area where the ice-piercing rock exists, not many ice-attributed soul beasts are willing to live there. This is also the only place worthy of comfort for soul masters.
Because, if you really go deep into the Far North and encounter danger, the area where the Thorny Ice Rock is located is a good refuge.
The problem is that the ancestors clearly remembered that the distance they walked down into the cave was definitely not 20 meters deep. The fact that there are thorny ice rocks here can only mean one thing, and that is that these thorny ice rocks were laid here artificially.
Sensing the strangeness, the ancestor continued to explore downwards, and after walking about 10 meters, the ancestor slightly felt an invisible film blocking his face, and at the same time, it was slightly absorbing his soul power.
The strange situation surprised the ancestor, but this did not scare him away. Instead, he became bolder and made the wisest decision in his life.
He drew out the soul power from his body and input it into the thin film. The thin film didn't absorb much of the ancestor's soul power, so it turned into energy and dissipated.
The mutation suddenly increased at that time. After the film disappeared, the ancestor only felt a strong sense of dizziness rushing into his mind, and then he fainted. When he woke up again, what he saw was a completely different scene. world.
Pieces of snowflakes fell from the sky. There was no sun in the sky, but the space was filled with light like sunlight. Trees covered with pure white snow stood around the ancestors. There was also a white light on the ground, and the air was full of light. Full of natural winter atmosphere.
In front of the ancestors, there was only one place with obvious traces of human transformation.
It was an altar.
The altar as a whole is not particularly large. The total area is only the size of a normal playground and about four feet high. The strange thing is that not a single bit of the white snow in the sky fell on the altar. After the ancestor woke up, he continued to boldly explore forward and walked up to the altar. The ancestor saw mysterious carvings all over it. On the eight corners of the entire octagonal altar, there is an ice crystal shining with ice blue light.
From the ice crystal, the ancestor who was the Soul King at that time felt a terrifying power, a power that completely crushed the level of soul power. Later generations speculated that what was contained in it might be the divine power of the Ice God!
In the center of the altar, there is an ice-blue crystal tablet. When the ancestor was observing outside the altar, he only felt that the crystal tablet was only one or two people high and two feet wide. But when the ancestor actually stepped onto the altar, he saw the true face of the crystal tablet.
The ice-blue crystal tablet quickly grew in length after the ancestor stepped into the altar, and soon it pierced the sky, and its width also quickly expanded to about six feet.
Later, the ancestors truly saw the legends in the world on the crystal tablet.
god!
Ice God!
After a series of conversations that have not been passed down, the ancestor was appreciated by the Ice God. Unfortunately, due to insufficient talent, he was not given the qualification to become a god. However, the Ice God also gave him hope and assigned him to establish a family or a force to protect this land chosen by the gods until a soul master could inherit his throne.
From the ice god's mouth, the ancestors also learned the truth about this place. That piece of heaven and earth turned out to be a small plane. It was a small plane that naturally fell off the Douluo Continent after the Ice God became a god. After being captured by the Ice God, it became his divinely chosen place.
At the same time, the ancestor also received a gift from the Ice God. Not only did the martial spirit transform from the ordinary black ice chain gun into the top martial spirit of the cold soul chain dragon gun, but he also prepared a black-level divine test for the ancestor, so that the ancestor could After that, when you break through each major level, you will receive a god-given soul ring. This also caused the four soul rings that the ancestor absorbed after the Soul King to reach the limit that his body could bear.
From then on, with the help of the Ice God, the ancestors became the most powerful people in the north in that era. It was also from this time that the Ling family began to truly take root in Jibing City. This ancestor is also the most important figure in the Ling family tree since the first generation of Jibing Duke.
It is a pity that since the ancestor who talked with the Ice God, even the geniuses with astonishing talents and full soul power have not been able to get in touch with the Ice God again.
After thousands of years of exploration, the Ling family also discovered some patterns. The entrance to that small plane is the cave full of thorny ice rocks discovered by the ancestors, and that layer of film is also the detection entrance to the small plane.
Only soul masters with innate soul power higher than level eight and a half are qualified to step into this small plane while cultivating below Contra.
In other words, the existence of that thin film is more to identify the qualifications of a soul master. Only soul masters with qualified qualifications are qualified to step into it.
And if you can reach the realm of Contra, you can also directly step into the small plane through the membrane.
Therefore, for thousands of years, the Ling family has never lost its connection with this small plane.
Finally, Ling Yongsheng said with a serious face what Ling Bingtian wanted to hear most.
"Xiaotian, tomorrow, grandpa will take you to this small plane to see if you can get in touch with the great Ice God in the God Realm again."
Even, inherit his divine throne!
After thinking deeply, the hearts of the three elders present were once again filled with enthusiasm.
