The Throne Under the Starry Sky Chapter 117: The sound of swords in the deep house (middle)

"I know everything." A tattered boy sat at the top of the courtyard wall and said, Long Ji felt a little surprised. She was so close, she didn't even know when the boy came to her. , Or sitting there quietly before jumping on the wall, unable to see the boy's face from her perspective, the moonlight illuminates the dilapidated little silhouette, Long Ji has never seen such a figure, hideous sutures, Randomly bandaged bandages, wounds that ruptured just after scabs, pus-blooded sores, bumpy skin, and shaky muscles like bacon hanging on a clothes rail. Such a body shouldn’t belong. A living person should belong to a deceased, a corpse, an undead,

The little Long Ji did not express any particular surprise. When she was 49 days old, the Long Family Patriarch, who had the title of Storm Rider, personally presided over the "Night Marriage" ceremony, allowing three children born on the same day of the Long Family Family to share The three corpses were married, and among the three babies, only Long Ji successfully activated the ancient abilities in the bloodline and became the only elite with the power of "dark marriage" among the fourteenth-generation children of the Long Family. The abilities of various bloodlines are vast, and "Nether Marriage" has always been firmly in the top three, because the corpse of the child has unlimited growth potential in another world. As long as time, the advancement is immeasurable, that is, from that time on, she The immature mind was affected by the alien lovers, and began to become indifferent, blurred, and distorted, feeling that every day in the world is a performance with a mask, only at a certain moment of the day, when the spirit and time fit the time. The moment of communication with alien lovers is the real free relief. In this mental state of seeing the world through a layer of light gauze, the five-year-old Long Ji withdrew her gaze and asked faintly: "Who are you." "

"I am Long Chang." said the tattered boy,

"How many generations are you from, I have seen the fourteenth generation of the Zong family, and you are not among them." Long Ji asked,

"Fourteenth generation." The boy replied,

"Then why don't you receive training in another courtyard." The girl asked,

"I'm coming from the other side of the wall." Long Chang pointed to the outside of the wall,

Long Ji was slightly taken aback this time. The Zong Family’s Children’s Courtyard is in the middle and lower part of the Long Family’s main residence, on the edge of the Zong Family’s residence. The one-hundred-acre courtyard presents a perfect circle shape. A curved courtyard wall divides the house into two entangled parts, resembling a magnificent Tai Chi picture. The roof, ground and courtyard walls on one side of the clan are all made from the special products of the Liang and Sui Dynasty. Covered with gray granite, it looks firm and clean. On the side of the separation house, the houses are made of dark brown mountain rocks, which are both part of the main house of the Long family. The houses on both sides are distinct, separated by high walls, leaving only One upper and lower two doors figured out, this wall that traverses the main house is called "Dragon's Back." There are housekeepers patrolling day and night, and there are beacon towers and arrow towers every half a mile, and they are heavily guarded.

These weapons are not to defend against foreign enemies, but to prevent internal communication. Crossing the dragon's spine is absolutely prohibited. If the children of the split are not summoned by the elders, they will not be allowed to step into the clan courtyard for life; and if the children of the clan go to split the family The courtyard must apply to the clan elders. After review and approval by the Council of the elders, hold the decree, seal, and receipt, go through two doors, and return within the specified hour, and go to the branch. The same is the crime of beheading, and there is no need to be judged by the punishment hall. Any housekeeper has the right to behead the person who violates the ban on the spot.

Long Ji sits on the low wall outside the courtyard. Behind the low wall, the towering and heavy building is "Dragon's Back." The boy said that coming from the wall is undoubtedly a private The children of the separated family who came across the dragon’s spine. In the long history of the Long family for nearly a thousand years, countless children of the separated family have tried to cross the dragon’s spine. A long ribbon of skulls appeared on the other end. The human head that was blown dry by the wind shrank to the size of a grapefruit. Due to the different causes of death, it presented various colors and collided with the wind to make a nut-like crisp sound. This is the only dragon. The unique scenery that the family can see, the cruel testimony of the entanglement of the fate of the ancient family,

All the resources, wealth, splendor and glory of the Long Family are concentrated in the Zong Family Mansion, where one-third of the financial resources of the Liang and Sui Kingdoms are concentrated, and it has a large team of foreign affairs envoys that dwarfs the seventeen schools in the East, and undertakes various small scales. Armed operations hire (or even start a war), manage 3 million acres of land and 600,000 tenant farmers, and export dozens of top knife guards to the entire Eastern Continent every year. The Dragon Guard is the imperial court of the entire continent. With the protectors coveted by the rich, even if they don’t use their bloodline abilities, these clan elites can stand on the top of the power of the mainland powerhouse by virtue of the "Nine Techniques". The clan’s children can receive various bloodline abilities inspiring rituals and receive systematic education. Learn the exquisite "Nine Laws" to your heart's content. You can eat nutritious food, get well-built equipment, and get countless opportunities for training and progress, and eventually become a strong person who can be alone.

On the other side of "Dragon Spine", everything is completely different. Heirs of the separated family are regarded as the heirs of inferior bloodlines. The unobtrusive actions are completed by the children of the separation. In the eyes of the Presbyterian Church, these people are a group of "sacrifices". If a few more people die, the population density of the separation residence can be reduced a bit, so as not to be derived from generation to generation. ’S children are crowded in the house that cannot be expanded, causing food shortages and illnesses,

No one can say when the separation between the Qing clan and the division began. The outline of the dragon's spine is clearly drawn on the oldest genealogy, which is enshrined on the cigarette-wrapped altar table of the Ancestor Hall of the Presbyterian Church. This ancestor's motto says: The Long family is not pure blood, but in fact it is a foreign surname. The ancestors of the Long family believe that the children of the separated family should not be named "Dragon". Black courtyards and high walls were built to 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 profession of "blood heir" is passed on from generation to generation by virtue of the mysterious bond of "blood". Each family has its own blood. Different, with various attributes, abilities and changes, will also produce various strange mutations. These mutations are uncontrollable, but usually do not deviate too far from the bloodline ability.

But the Dragon Family is different. The Dragon Family’s bloodline ability itself is a kaleidoscope that includes everything, with countless changes in form. Fourteen generations of the clan, the history of the Long family is too long to be verified. Every twenty generations is a period, according to the cycle of the heavens, the stems and the earth.) Take a five-year-old child as an example. They are the same or even similar. There are 1,020 types of abilities that can be tested in the Long Family classics. This is an extraordinary phenomenon that no family in the entire continent can have. So far, no one can learn from occult, magic, or metaphysics. To explain from the perspective of,

In addition to the 1,020 abilities, the classics also record 12,500 "malignant transformations". The so-called "malignant transformations" are the awakening of bad powers in the bloodline, transforming human beings into some terrible Monsters, there are countless stories like this in the early history of the Long Family. Parents were swallowed by children who turned into wolverines in their parents’ sleep, and young children turned into five-foot-long poisonous snakes during the ceremony. At that time, the chance of the dragon family’s malignant transformation was greater than strength. The awakening was much greater. Later, this big family gradually discovered the secrets hidden in the bloodline, completely eliminated the bloodline that was prone to "malignant change", prohibited intermarriage, built high walls, isolated communication, and gradually eliminated the unfavorableness in the bloodline. After a long period of time, the clan family and the division family have formed. Now the chance of the clan family’s heirs becoming malignant is very small, and every descendant of the division family has the possibility of incarnation and becoming a monster before reaching the age of sixteen. Family, pure blood and impure blood, bloodline ability and malignant change, this is the cause of this tragedy. The tragedy has been performed for so long that now both the clan and the division of the family are used to everything and accept this cruel setting. ,

If you want to make a difference, there are only three ways to choose from:

First, enter the "external bone pit" at an early age to force the awakening of the bloodline ability. This way, although less than five out of a hundred people survive, it is easy to gain aggressive power and the baby will immediately get the attention of the Zong family. , To be able to escape from the dark life of the separation of families;

Secondly, those who have not "malignantly changed" in adulthood and are gifted can apply to join the Shadow Sect, learn the Nine Laws of the Long Family, and get some opportunities to escape from the sea of ​​suffering. The "Shadow Sect" is a hidden force active in the separated mansion, established The original intention was to eliminate the monsters that the mutators incarnate and prevent them from causing large-scale destruction, and their functions gradually became diversified;

Thirdly, cross the dragon's spine, escape the chase of the internal affairs officer, hide, and surrender to the Council of the Elders when you reach the age of sixteen, and you can get a pardon. Those who can do this are often gifted. Of powerful fighters, there are only a few people in history,

Now that tattered boy turned out to be the heir of the division who came across the wall. How could this not make Long Ji secretly startled, she glanced at the dragon's spine high above, and found no trace of the housekeeper. The horn did not sound, and the beacon was not lit, as if he had guessed what she was thinking, the boy laughed and said: "I have to go back, they are just asleep, then, do you want to know, I will tell you something, OK? ...By the way, what is your name."