Chapter 176 (1/2)
The eastern Shuxuan Xianzhou has a vast territory and many Xiuzhen sects, of which there are thousands of Xiuzhen families, a large number of small sects and casual sect organizations. Although there is no exact statistics, there are always tens of thousands.
These forces, large and small, occupy one side of the land. Generally speaking, people are used to roughly dividing and distinguishing the region by four parts: Southeast, northwest and northwest. For example, zivientiane gate is located in the east of Xianzhou.
In the middle of Xianzhou continent, there is actually an area with a small area and a radius of only hundreds of miles. However, for a long time, although it can not be said to be secretive, few people have mentioned that this place is only the size of a palm compared with the mainland, let alone the title of the middle of Xianzhou.
Because this place is a taboo area and even a taboo topic in Xianzhou.
Because, here, it is an extremely mysterious and almost non-existent death area.
Nevertheless, there is still a formal name here, which is called ”central patio”. I don't know who first came up with and called this name.
No one knows when and why the central patio appeared. According to legend, the central patio has existed since the formation of the mainland.
For thousands of years, no matter how the terrain and landform of the mainland have changed, and how the territory of various forces has changed, the central courtyard has always been the same. No force dares to touch here, and even few people will approach here. It seems that people selectively forget that there is such a place in Shuxuan Xianzhou.
The main reason is that it's too dangerous here. It's so dangerous that almost no one has come out alive, or once in a while, but the people who come out are either crazy or forget their experiences. Of course, it doesn't rule out that some people dare not disclose.
In a word, it is said that at the beginning, it was said that some friars were given a great body and amazing treasures after entering the country, and soon became immortals. Therefore, for a long time, they attracted a large number of friars from the mainland, but they all disappeared, and many sects lost a large number of high-level friars, Even the inheritance has been affected.
After a long silence, some people still don't believe in this evil. From time to time, top experts of the big family of Damen sect or powerful casual practitioners venture into it, but in the end, they all use their lives to verify the statement of the land of death and the forbidden area of monks.
After countless explorations and many years, although there is never a lack of practitioners who do not hesitate to fight with their lives in order to fly and live a long life, this result of ten deaths and no life and no return has finally dispelled people's greed. People think that there is no such place in Xianzhou and lose their interest in exploration.
Since then, the cultivation world has consciously or unconsciously stopped mentioning this place. When they have to pass by, they always take a detour from a distance. It can not be ruled out that there will still be a friar who doesn't go to the end of his life and has no hope of flying up, or a desperate man who is chased by his enemies. He will try to go in with the mentality of death, but no one cares about their whereabouts.
However, the history of thousands of monks' life is not nothing. People have found at least one law:
Every once in a while, the pressure around the central patio area will be greatly weakened, and it often takes several months to recover.
These months are called the decline period of the central patio.
The weakened pressure is not easily borne and broken by the monks in Xianzhou, so it is of little significance. People still know almost nothing about the environment and secrets in the core area of the central patio.
But one thing has gradually been noticed.
It is found that when the central patio is in a weak period, a transition zone as wide as 100 Li will appear around its core area.
The environment in the transition zone is changeable and unpredictable. There is no law. It is also a dangerous area, but it is an area that monks in this sector can barely enter, and there will be many items left by monks who disappeared and died in previous explorations. In all previous periods of decline, some people have obtained the treasures of cultivation masters hundreds of thousands of years or even tens of thousands of years ago, and some are even enough to become the treasures of the town school.
Driven by such tempting interests, a large number of monks will explore the transition area regardless of the high and alarming mortality in each decline period. For a long time, this behavior has become a practice of practitioners in Xianzhou. It is called ”death ventilation”, which means risking death to rob treasure during a rare ventilation period in the central patio.
The interval between the decline of the central patio is very long. At first, it was as long as thousands of years. Later, although it decreased every time, it was only a few decades less. In today's era, it has been shortened to about 600 years.
In the long history of Xianzhou, it is rare to know that monks who live to the age of 600. In a sect, 600 years means the interval between generations of disciples, and the last decline of the central patio occurred 300 years ago.
Therefore, if you take zivientiane gate as an example, from the leader to the real person, including Su Lao of his previous generation or two, to the generation of hualanting and the disciples of the next two or three generations, it should be unrelated to the death and ventilation activities in the central courtyard.
Therefore, no one in Xianzhou usually cares about and talks about it.
However, it happened that just half a month ago, the sky in the central courtyard suddenly changed, and countless strong auras of different colors and attributes rushed straight into the Xiaohan, which can be seen hundreds of miles away.
This is an important sign of the decline of the central courtyard.