There are many princes in the Imperial Clan, but not many have their own independent palaces. Even among the Imperial Clan, competition is very fierce.
Without power, one can only be reduced to the margins.
Only by reaching the Hidden Dragon Ranking and proving your potential will you be given your own palace.
In a star-catching pavilion deep in the palace.
The two men stood there with their hands folded, overlooking the majestic imperial city.
A man, wearing a golden dragon robe, with two bulges on his forehead, dark golden eyes with two blood-red vertical marks in his eyes, as indifferent as a god, exuding the aura of looking down on the world.
There is also a man with fair skin, handsome and elegant, like a handsome young man in troubled times.
If Long Xiaoshan were here, he would definitely recognize him as Xue Ren's brother Xue Pan.
Xue Pan shook his folding fan and said with a slight smile: "Your Majesty the Eighth Prince, the Qianlong Ranking held every three years is here again. In the last session, you unfortunately lost to His Majesty the Fifth Prince, who won the championship. However, His Majesty the Fifth Prince is now the winner. You have passed the age limit, and this term is your best chance. As long as you win the championship and have good luck, I will convince the Council of Elders and let the Tiandao Council fully support you in your fight for the throne."
The Eighth Prince Long Zhen.
The supreme genius of the Imperial Clan, ranked fifth in the last Qianlong Ranking, but he is one year younger than Long Yin, and is only thirty years old this year.
This shows his natural strength.
Long Zhen said calmly: "In the last competition, I happened to have a hidden injury, which allowed Long Ye to win the championship by luck. This time, there will be no more accidents. The championship of the Hidden Dragon Ranking will definitely be under my control."
Xue Pan smiled and said: "There is no need to doubt His Highness's strength, but you still have to be careful with a few people. The Dugu Domain of the Haotian Sword Sect was ranked third on the Hidden Dragon Ranking last time, and there are also Garuda and Shakian of the Pure Land of Paradise. Lu Yuanba of the sect was the top figure in the previous session. Three years have passed and things are probably different from the past. Moreover, even in your imperial clan, many people have begun to exert their strength. His Highness the Eleventh Highness and His Highness the Thirteenth Highness. , By the way, there is also Long Yin, who was very popular in Qianlong Academy a few days ago. It is said that he defeated Wang Ao of the Fire Python Sect with his bare hands."
"Long Yin?"
Long Zhen smiled indifferently: "Just a bastard, what qualifications do you have to appear in front of me."
Xue Pan said in a faint tone: "His Highness does not pay attention to him, but this son's ambition is not necessarily small. He got involved with the Xiahou family and secretly accumulated strength, and his plans are not small."
Long Zhen laughed loudly: "The light of a grain of rice dares to compete with the sun and the moon. I really thought that we didn't notice his little moves. If he didn't move, he was just too lazy to move. He was like an ant. He really wanted to jump over me. If you are an eyesore in front of you, you will be trampled to death."
"Your Highness is wise."
Xue Pan's eyes flashed and he also laughed.
In fact, he didn't take Long Yin seriously either.
However, Xue Ren was blackmailed by Long Yin last time and took away five Taoist pills. He kept nagging in his ears.
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As time continues to pass.
The selection competition for the Qianlong Battle has also ended, and the places in each competition area have been competed for.
In the fierce competition, the best talents in the empire are competed.
These 10,800 people will go to Tongtiantai in Zulong Mountain to fight the Battle of Qianlong.
Zulong Mountain is the legendary burial place of the ancestor of the Qianlong Empire. It is said that in ancient times, the Lingxu Continent was still a single piece, with various forces and constant wars on it.
The founding emperor of the Qianlong Empire was unparalleled in tyranny and blood. He was a descendant of the ancient true dragon. He unified the continent with overwhelming force and was known as the Ancestral Dragon. However, within a few years of his reign, due to his bloody cruelty, the whole world rose up to attack him.
Zulong single-handedly fought against tens of thousands of Nascent Soul monks.
It is said that in that battle, the earth shattered and the sea poured in. The blood of the ancestral dragon returned to its ancestors and truly transformed into a true dragon. It tore the entire Lingxu Continent into pieces and has been separated by endless seas ever since.
In the end, the high-level monks of Lingxu Star were almost extinct.
The Zulong was also seriously injured and fell to the Zulong Mountain. Finally, it turned into a huge dragon vein and entrenched itself here. This was the origin of the Qianlong Empire.
It is said that it was precisely because of that battle that the Lingxu Star was disabled.
The vitality was consumed too much, and the environment of the world changed drastically from then on. The Nascent Soul disappeared and was almost hard to see anymore.
This is what Long Xiaoshan saw in the origin book of the Imperial Clan.
Now that he has the status of Longyin, he naturally needs to be familiar with the history of the Imperial Clan.
The current Qianlong Empire is of course not the huge empire established by the "Ancestral Dragon" to rule the entire Lingxu Planet, but they claim to have the bloodline of that Ancestral Dragon.
Long Xiaoshan didn't know if this was the Qianlong Emperor clan trying to put money on his face.
It is even unclear whether Zulong Mountain is the place where Zulong was buried, because the history is too far away and it is difficult to verify it after descendants continue to process the myth.
However, Zulong Mountain has always been regarded as a sacred mountain by the Qianlong Emperor Clan.
There is indeed mysterious luck here.
Zulong Mountain has been shrouded in strange and unpredictable misfortune all year round. Once you step in for no reason, you will be cursed and die for no reason. Even the golden elixir monks are no exception. Over time, people here have disappeared all year round, making it mysterious and unpredictable.
And only at a fixed time every three years, the bad luck in Zulong Mountain will dissipate.
The Tongtian Tower on the top of Zulong Mountain is opened.
Surrounded by the luck of the ancestral dragon.
Only young people under the age of thirty-five can ascend to the Tongtiantai Battle. Once they win the final seventy-two places, they will be blessed with luck. The higher the ranking, the stronger the luck.
This kind of luck is not an illusory thing, but something that can actually be felt.
It can make the monks have smooth sailing in their future practice, with opportunities coming one after another, and their cultivation will be unstoppable. In almost every Qianlong Ranking, they will be the heroes of the empire in the future.
It's like the legendary "protagonist halo".
It is precisely because this destiny is so mysterious and seems to be cheating that it attracts all the geniuses in the entire empire.
Three days before the Qianlong Battle.
The vast land at the foot of Zulong Mountain, three thousand miles away from the imperial capital, has already been crowded with a large number of monks coming from all directions. The crowds are densely packed.
Although there are only 10,800 people who have qualified for the Battle of Qianlong.
But this battle is a battle between the strongest geniuses in the empire. Even if you are not qualified to participate, it is already a blessing in life to be able to see it up close.
To put it bluntly, in the world of monks, these geniuses on the Qianlong List are like the most dazzling stars in the mortal world.
Countless young people flocked here to see their idol.
Of course, there are also various forces with various purposes who want to witness this battle with their own eyes.
Not to mention, the 10,800 contestants, and the sect family forces behind them, regard this battle as a battle of sect luck. Generally speaking, as long as the sect has a genius on the Qianlong List, the luck will be With the addition, even the sect will benefit from it, develop smoothly, and its strength will continue to rise.
Underground, the sounds of "Ang——" and "Ang——" suddenly came from the ground, distant and mighty, like the long roar of an ancient real dragon.
Rumble.
Zulong Mountain shook violently in a radius of thousands of miles.
