The Ji family's forbidden family area is located deep in the back garden of Ji Mansion.
Ever since Ji Tianxing began to remember, he had been strictly warned not to go near that area.
Not only that, except for the head of the family, anyone in the Ji Mansion who approaches the forbidden area will be severely punished.
Such strict rules make the area called "Yanqing Lake" a taboo for everyone in the Ji Mansion, making it very dangerous and mysterious.
Except for the previous heads of the family who were able to enter the forbidden area, no one in the Ji Mansion has ever entered.
No one knows what secrets are hidden in that forbidden area.
Ji Tianxing had already made a decision, no matter how dangerous the forbidden area of Yanqing Lake was, he still had to break through it.
After making some preparations, he left the lobby of Jifu and went to the back garden.
Ji Rufeng also took the elders and principals and followed Ji Tianxing to the back garden.
In the huge back garden, there are both a rockery pavilion and a lotus pond and bamboo forest. There is also a cool breeze blowing, and the scenery is full of flowers, grass and green leaves, and the scenery is pleasant.
Ji Rufeng and others sat in the pavilion with their swords and swords, and let the maids bring tea and fruits, and chatted with smiles on their faces.
Ji Tianxing walked alone into the depths of the garden, passed through a dense bamboo forest, and came to an old high wall.
This high wall is made of dark blue boulders. The wall is covered with cracks and has a lot of green moss growing on it. It looks dilapidated.
In the high wall ten meters away in front of him, there was a five-meter-high bronze gate.
The bronze door was closed tightly and had a lot of green patina on it, making it look mottled.
The high wall was surrounded by weeds half as tall as a man, which looked very desolate.
Ji Tianxing had never been here before, and he had no idea that there was such a desolate and dilapidated place in Ji Mansion.
Moreover, the broken high stone wall and the rusty bronze door are full of ancient and mysterious atmosphere.
He stood in front of the bronze door and looked around with keen eyes.
I saw a black stone tablet more than ten feet high exposed in the grass not far to the left. There were three large dark red characters on the stone tablet.
Yanqing Lake!
Ji Tianxing stared at the black stone tablet and murmured in a low voice: "This is the Yanqing Lake forbidden area of the Ji family. I don't know what dangers are hidden behind the bronze gate?"
Full of doubts, he walked to the bronze door, stretched out his hands to hold the rusty bronze door knocker, and pushed the bronze door hard.
However, the bronze door remained motionless and glowed with a faint yellow light.
It was a palm-thick light curtain, but as solid and thick as a city wall, firmly protecting the bronze gate.
He immediately had a premonition that something was wrong and subconsciously wanted to let go of his hand, but it was too late.
"Bang!"
Amidst the muffled sound, the pale yellow light curtain burst out with powerful force, sending him flying backwards, tumbling and falling into the grass ten meters away.
Ji Tianxing was thrown so hard that he felt dizzy, his arms were numb and weak from the shock, and he temporarily lost consciousness.
He shook his somewhat groggy head, got up from the grass, and said solemnly: "It's protected by a formation! No wonder you are not allowed to get close here. Only the head of the family can enter."
"If that's the case, then the owner of the family must have a way to open the bronze door..."
Thinking of this, he quickly took out the family head order hanging on his waist and searched the bronze door with keen eyes.
He immediately discovered the clue. There was a diamond-shaped groove next to the bronze door knocker, only half the size of a palm, and the shape exactly matched the family leader's order.
So Ji Tianxing put the family leader's order into the groove.
As expected, the bronze door responded, slowly opening to both sides, making a dull sound of "crack, roll, roll, roll, roll, roll, roll, roll, roll, roll, roll, roll, roll, roll, roll, roll, roll, roll, roll, roll, roll, roll, roll, roll, roll, roll, roll, roll, roll, roll, roll, roll, roll, roll, roll, roll."
The light yellow light curtain protecting the bronze door also disappeared immediately.
The bronze door was fully opened, and a black stone path covered with moss and weeds appeared behind the door.
Ji Tianxing stepped through the bronze gate and walked into the Yanqing Lake forbidden area along the black stone path.
On both sides of the path were woods covered with weeds and thorns, and many green vines stretched out, paving the black stone path.
Ji Tianxing walked along the black stone path for hundreds of meters. Before he reached the end of the path, he felt a cold air blowing on his face.
He looked ahead and saw a small inner lake.
Judging from the mottled bluestones and countless towering trees beside the lake, this inner lake has been built for at least a hundred years.
There is no doubt that this is Yanqing Lake.
But what surprised him was that the water in Yanqing Lake actually condensed into ice, glowing with a light blue light!
It was noon in April, and the sun was shining brightly in the sky.
But the ice on the lake was extremely thick, constantly emitting a cold air, causing white mist to appear when Ji Tianxing breathed.
He stood by Yanqing Lake, looking at the lake with a puzzled face, secretly speculating in his heart.
At this moment, a huge black shadow suddenly appeared under the ice in the center of the lake and quickly floated up from the bottom of the lake.
"Bang!"
The huge black shadow instantly broke through the thick ice on the lake, and the figure appeared above the lake.
Countless broken ice cubes splashed out in all directions, like streaks of ice-blue sword light.
The entire ice surface of Yanqing Lake also cracked, with dense cracks extending in all directions.
Ji Tianxing subconsciously stepped back and avoided countless ice cubes.
When he raised his head and saw clearly the huge black shadow in the center of the lake, his pupils suddenly tightened, revealing a deep expression of disbelief.
That huge black shadow is a huge monster!
Its appearance is like a giant python, and it also looks like a legendary dragon. Its body stretches out of the lake and stands in mid-air, with a height of ten meters!
Its body, as thick as a water tank, was covered with dark scales, which exuded a metallic luster in the sunlight.
There is also a sharp horn on the huge head, and there are two rows of black dragon whiskers on both sides of the wide and flat mouth!
Under its belly covered with black dragon scales, there are two pairs of dragon claws shining with sharp cold light.
It looked down at Ji Tianxing from a high position, with a pair of dark golden eyes revealing a gloomy and cold aura.
Ji Tianxing stared at it with wide eyes, shocked and excited, and his body was trembling slightly.
His heart was surging, his heartbeat was also speeding up, and he secretly shouted in his heart: "That's not an ordinary monster, nor a giant python, that's a dragon! It's the legendary dragon!"
Although dragons only existed in legends, he had never seen them with his own eyes. He had only seen some fragmentary descriptions and records in historical travel notes.
But this dark, cold behemoth in front of me, with its incomparable divine appearance and powerful and frightening aura, is no ordinary monster.
That's why Ji Tianxing dared to conclude that it was the legendary dragon!
However, he quickly calmed down, and deep doubts welled up in his heart.
"The legendary dragon is a powerful mythical beast that can fly into the sky and escape from the earth, move clouds and spread rain. It almost never appears in the world."
"Our Ji family is just an aristocratic family in the small Qingyun Kingdom. Why is there a dragon in the family's forbidden area?!"