I have a little bit of talent

Dongzhou is the easternmost of the Thirteen States of the Great Zhou Dynasty. It borders Taizhou to the west, Yuzhou to the north, the vast mountains to the south, and the boundless sea to the east.

As a large coastal province, Dongzhou has suffered from invasions by various monsters from the sea since ancient times. Many ferocious sea creatures live in the boundless sea. Over the past thousands of years, they have invaded the land, slaughtered lives, and destroyed cities and strongholds. The human beings of the entire Dongzhou have been living in dire straits and are insecure.

At that time, the founders of the three religions had not yet been born, and there were few methods of cultivation spread by the human race. People often practiced by imitating the methods of the demon race, taking many detours, and their achievements were naturally limited. Not to mention the masters of the realm of true people with the Three Flowers Gathering at the Top of the Head, there were not many even grand masters.

This is the general environment of the entire human race. In Dongzhou, there are also many human geniuses with excellent talents and physique who choose to practice under the sea clan. There are indeed some masters above the grandmaster level, but there are still no masters in the Three Flowers and Five Qi realm. At that time, although the human race in this world is born to practice, they are inherently weak and have no suitable skills. Therefore, even though there are many people, they are still at the bottom of the food chain and are enslaved by many monsters and demons.

As time goes by, the destined protagonist of this world is still the human race. Three innate sacred beings awakened almost at the same time and were reborn as humans.

These three innate saints were born extraordinary. They had consciousness since the birth of the Great Zhou world. They were born before the earth and the sky. Their self-realization method was silent for many years. Finally, they awakened and were born into the world thousands of years ago. They spread their self-realization method throughout the world, which laid the foundation for the cultivation of the human race and laid the foundation for the human race to resist the invasion of evil demons for thousands of years. Finally, thousands of years after the three innate masters left to seek the way, they waited for the first master of the post-celestial race to appear. This person was naturally the founding emperor of the Great Zhou, and these three innate saints are also the ancestors of the three sects of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism.

The founder of Buddhism was a native of Chanzhou, where he was born from a Bodhi tree. He later spread the Buddhist teachings to the world. That is why Chanzhou has become the headquarters of Buddhism today. This is the result of thousands of years of accumulation and has a profound foundation.

There has never been any record of the origin of the Taoist founder, but he achieved enlightenment in Yizhou and passed down many Taoist traditions in Yizhou. His disciples even established many Taoist sects, including the three holy places of Taoism that have been prosperous for thousands of years.

The Great Sage of Confucianism was actually a native of Dongzhou. Before he attained enlightenment and became a great master, he was just an ordinary teacher who taught children to read and write in a small town in Dongzhou. But once he was enlightened, he understood countless scriptures, understood great principles, and enjoyed great freedom!

Although the Great Sage later established an academy in Jingzhou and pioneered the Confucian school, when asked about which province in the world had the most prosperous literary fortune, nine out of ten people would mention Dongzhou.

Thousands of years since Taizu established the Great Zhou Dynasty, Dongzhou has always been a place where literature flourished. While public schools flourished, private schools also sprang up in large numbers. Each city might not have other buildings, but it would definitely have academies of all sizes, which had cultivated many pillars for the Great Zhou court.

In terms of reputation and practice, these academies in Dongzhou are naturally far inferior to the academies in the capital, the holy land of Confucianism. But in terms of reading and learning, there are also a few academies that can compare with the academies in the capital.

Haoran Academy in Haoran City is one of them!

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The topography of Dongzhou is somewhat similar to that of Yangzhou. A Tianshui River flows from west to east for more than 100,000 miles, leaving behind large tracts of alluvial plains. The river is connected to water lakes deep in the inland. It is backed by green mountains and has continuous lakes at its feet. The scenery is beautiful. In addition, it is very close to the boundless sea, has abundant rainfall, and is suitable for the growth of animals and plants, and is also suitable for human habitation.

The name of Haoran City is taken from the Confucian spirit of righteousness. This city has a long history. The great sage of Confucianism was an ordinary teacher in this city before he became enlightened.

For this reason, Haoran City highly respects Confucianism, and almost all the people are proud to send their children to Haoran Academy to study.

Although Haoran City is generally located in a plain area, there is a mountain about two thousand meters high dozens of miles away from the city. The mountain is called Yandang, which is the highest peak in Dongzhou!

Although the Yandang Mountain is only about two thousand meters high, which would not even rank among the top 100 in Yizhou, it is a rare peak in Dongzhou where plains and hills are everywhere!

Due to the prevalence of spiritual practice in the world of Great Zhou, there are now countless sects, large and small. Any place such as mountains and valleys that are far away from the world and have a strong aura of heaven and earth are basically occupied by various sects and families. Just like most of the famous peaks in Yizhou are basically the mountain gates of sects affiliated with the Yizhou Sect Alliance. Even the Taoist holy places and top sects that have their own small world will choose a quiet place as the place where the big and small worlds are connected.

This is the case in Yizhou, and the situation in Dongzhou is similar. Most of the lakes and mountains have their own owners. Yandang Mountain, the highest peak in Dongzhou, is no exception.

However, the one occupying Yandang Mountain now is not some sect, but a family, the Chen family, one of the top families in Dongzhou!

That’s right, it was the Chen family where Chen Qingfeng, the good friend Fang Mu met in Dushan City whose brain often crashed due to brain overload, lived.

It is winter now, and everything is asleep. The whole Yandang Mountain is covered with a layer of white snow, as if entering a dreamlike world. The peaks, trees and rocks are all covered with snow, forming a scene of silver. The streams in the mountains are also frozen into ice, like a crystal clear jade belt winding and flowing. The cold air is filled with the breath of ice and snow, giving people a sense of tranquility and mystery. Without the greenery and birdsong of summer, it has the unique charm of winter.

If you look down at the earth from the sky, you can easily see a complex of dozens of houses of different sizes on the hillside of Yandang Mountain. That is where the Chen family of Yandang Mountain is located!

The history of the Chen family is not long. Its ancestor was originally just an ordinary Confucian scholar who studied at Haoran Academy. Later, he had some kind of adventure that transformed him and he entered into spiritual practice. Eventually, he achieved the state of the Three Flowers Gathering at the Top of the Head. Later, he lived in seclusion in Yandang Mountain, married, had children, and had many children. It has only been about 200 years, which is far from those thousand-year-old families.

Moreover, more than a hundred years ago, the ancestor of the Chen family encountered a bottleneck in his practice and was unable to break through for many years. He had no choice but to travel far away in the universe and the sea of ​​stars to look for opportunities. There has been no news for decades and he may have died in the outside world. Therefore, the Chen family has not had an easy time in recent years.

Occupying the highest peak in Dongzhou, a blessed place for cultivation, there turns out to be the Three Flowers Immortal, and other forces don't have much idea about it.

But as time passed, it was almost certain that the ancestors of the Chen family had died outside, and the other major forces in Dongzhou began to eye the Chen family covetously.