In the ancient times of the human realm, ancient demons from another world invaded the entire continent, causing it to shatter and split into regions such as the Northern Plains Cultivation World and the Eastern Region. These regions were separated by endless seas and were no longer interconnected.
The Eastern Region Cultivation World is vast, at least seven or eight times larger than the Northern Plains Cultivation World.
For tens of thousands of years, the Eastern Region has been extremely chaotic, with the righteous and demonic factions opposing each other and countless wars erupting. There is also the scourge of the sea demon clan outside.
Even internal strife among the human race gave the sea demon clan an opportunity to exploit, allowing sea demons to invade the Eastern Region Cultivation World and frequently devour humans.
It was not until twenty thousand years ago that a Transformation God Stage cultivator suppressed both the righteous and demonic factions with his own strength, and even used supreme divine powers to successively kill several Heavenly Demons who were no weaker than the Transformation God Stage. He deterred the overseas demon race.
The Eastern Region Cultivation World gradually stabilized.
Subsequently, this person established a cultivation family, the Dragon Family.
The Dragon Family once became the number one cultivation family in the Eastern Region at that time. In just a thousand years, more than a dozen Nascent Soul Stage cultivators emerged. This Transformation God Stage cultivator was the Dragon Family's old ancestor, the Dragon Flame Old Ancestor, also known as the Dragon Flame Emperor.
According to legend, the Dragon Flame Emperor devoted himself to cultivation and reached the late stage of Transformation God, successfully ascending to the Spirit World.
Originally, such a cultivation family, having lost the protection of its ancestor, should have seen its power decline.
Under the protection of the Dragon Flame Emperor, the Dragon Family controlled a large number of cultivation resources, spirit stone mines. Naturally, it attracted the covetousness of many cultivators, sects, and rogue cultivators.
As expected, after the Dragon Flame Emperor, the Dragon Family was suppressed by many cultivators and even nearly exterminated.
However, to everyone's surprise, after only a hundred years, another Transformation God Stage cultivator emerged from the surviving Dragon Family cultivators. The second Dragon Family Transformation God Stage cultivator, the Dragon Martial Emperor.
This person wiped out most of the cultivators who had attacked the Dragon Family's territory, whether they were rogue cultivators or sects. It even escalated, involving several long-standing sects, and the entire Eastern Region Cultivation World was stirred up, with everyone feeling insecure.
Eventually, it led to several Transformation God Stage cultivators who were secretly cultivating in the Eastern Region Cultivation World at that time jointly launching a campaign against the Dragon Martial Emperor.
But the Dragon Martial Emperor did not die.
Although Dragon Wu's strength was powerful, he could not cope with several Transformation God Stage cultivators on his own.
Rumor has it that these Transformation God Stage cultivators fought a great battle and finally reached an agreement. They agreed that Transformation God Stage cultivators should no longer interfere in the sect forces of the cultivation world.
Whether it is a sect or a cultivation family, once a Transformation God Stage cultivator disrupts the cultivation world, they will be jointly killed by other Transformation God Stage cultivators.
After the Dragon Family stabilized, most of the territory of the cultivation sects and rogue cultivator forces that had been destroyed by the Dragon Martial Emperor was integrated by the Dragon Family to establish a super empire, which is the Dragon Marsh Country.
After the establishment of the Dragon Marsh Country, it developed extremely rapidly. The territory it controlled was already not small, and a large amount of resources allowed the Dragon Family to produce many high-level cultivators in a short period of time. It once again became the number one cultivation family in the Eastern Region.
In this way, the Dragon Marsh Country gradually became a super immortal kingdom in the Eastern Region Cultivation World.
There were naturally many bloody storms in this process, and there were also disasters of extermination, but they would all be safely overcome. Cultivators or cultivation sect forces who had designs on the Dragon Family would mysteriously disappear or disband.
It was not until ten thousand years ago that it was rumored from some cultivators that the Dragon Family's bloodline was special and that it possessed a true spirit bloodline. They were more likely to break through to higher realms than ordinary cultivators. Even every one or two thousand years, a Transformation God Stage cultivator would emerge.
With a Transformation God Stage cultivator always in charge, the Dragon Family has this kind of atmosphere. They have ambitions to dominate the entire Eastern Region Cultivation World.
As for which true spirit bloodline the Dragon Family inherited, it is said to be the True Dragon bloodline. The Dragon Family did not explain these rumors, as if they were tacitly acknowledging them.
Gradually, the Dragon Family became extremely mysterious and became an unshakable existence in the Eastern Region Cultivation World.
The Dragon Family is indeed extraordinary, from the old ancestor Dragon Flame Emperor to the Dragon Martial Emperor. In the past twenty thousand years, there are at least three Transformation God Stage cultivators who have been clearly recorded to have appeared in the Dragon Family.
One is the Yellow Dragon Saint Monarch, who was quite mysterious ten thousand years ago. This Saint Monarch did not pass down any battle achievements, but he was exceptionally talented and collected many cultivation techniques, creating a powerful cultivation technique, the Royal Sky Dragon Scripture.
This is a Confucianism cultivation technique and has become the core cultivation technique for Dragon Family disciples.
After that, nine thousand years ago, there was also a Dragon Spirit Princess who led the Eastern Region Cultivation World to repel a large-scale invasion of the sea demon clan.
Another one is the Dragon Marsh Emperor of the Dragon Family, who was called the Dragon Marsh Emperor by the cultivators five thousand years ago. This person is also very mysterious and has only two records of taking action.
Once, several cultivators saw this Dragon Marsh Saint Monarch in a desolate swamp, mobilizing the heaven and earth vitality to instantly hunt down a powerful ancient beast.
The second time was in a secret realm in a certain sea area overseas of the East Continent Islands, where many Nascent Soul Stage cultivators saw the Dragon Marsh Saint Monarch fighting with a Phoenix bird suspected to be a Heavenly Demon.
In addition, it is said that the Dragon Family has also produced several other Transformation God Stage cultivators, but their names are not well-known and they are extremely mysterious.
"In this way, the Eastern Region Cultivation World is indeed stronger than the Northern Plains, and even adding the Flowing Cloud Sea that I have been to, it is not as good. Especially the Dragon Marsh Country's territory, which occupies most of the Eastern Region. That is indeed a great immortal kingdom."
In a simple stone cave, there are many jade slips and books on a stone table in front of Zhang Ling. He is checking the information recorded inside. At this moment, the golden jade slip in his hand records the history of the Dragon Marsh Country.
The place where he is now is no longer the Northern Plains, but the Eastern Region Cultivation World.
Compared to when he returned to the sect from the Ice Sea to retreat and refine the spirit replenishment treasure, thirty years have passed.
During this time, he has been in closed-door cultivation. A year ago, he encountered a bottleneck in his cultivation, so he planned to travel to the Eastern Region Cultivation World.
He wanted to see if he could break through the bottleneck during his travels, and of course, he also had the intention of seeking other opportunities.
In addition, he promised to help Blue Sparrow collect the best quality spirit stones, and he is still short of a best quality wood spirit stone. This is naturally also a goal.
What worries Zhang Ling is that Blue Sparrow has been in a deep sleep for such a long time and shows no signs of waking up.
He used the Void Bug's(虚空虫: Void Bug) spatial divine power to break into Blue Sparrow's cultivation room in the Sumeru Grotto several times to check on her. This guy just turned into a blue-golden ball of fire and could not see what kind of injury she had suffered.
Using his spiritual sense, Blue Sparrow did not respond at all.
Zhang Ling can only speculate that Blue Sparrow lost a lot of vitality in the battle with that Rakshasa woman, so it is difficult to recover.
Zhang Ling did not delay any longer and planned to return to the Flowing Cloud Sea once he found the best quality wood spirit stone in the Eastern Region.
Just like that, half a month ago, he successfully teleported to the Eastern Region through the ancient teleportation array hidden in the Ice Fire Eye, with the Flame Hoof Beast.
The books and jade slips in front of him were all collected from a nearby market these days, containing information about the Eastern Region Cultivation World.
In addition to the Dragon Marsh Country, there are also sects, rogue cultivators, and cultivation family forces in the Eastern Region Cultivation World.
However, the sects here do not have a clear distinction between righteous and demonic. Some sects inherit pure Taoist techniques, some sects inherit demonic techniques, and some sects inherit Confucian techniques. There are also a few that inherit Buddhist techniques.
Even extremely loose sects cultivate all kinds of techniques.
Looking at the entire map of the Eastern Region, the Dragon Marsh Country occupies the eastern region.
Outside the Dragon Marsh Country's territory, there are seventy or eighty small and medium-sized countries in the northwest and southwest. That is the territory of these sect forces.
These forces usually fight on their own, and of course, there are also some small alliances that often fight endlessly.
For the Dragon Marsh Country, these sect forces are called the Western Ridge Hundred Countries, with a vast Western Ridge Mountain Range as the boundary.
Even when large-scale cultivator wars occur among these sect forces, the Dragon Marsh Country mediates to ensure the stability of the entire cultivation world.
And the place where rogue cultivators gather the most is on the large and small islands overseas, which is called the East Continent Islands. It is also called the Inner Sea of the Eastern Region.
Of course, for most cultivators in the Eastern Region Cultivation World, the Dragon Marsh Country is a cultivation holy land.
The Dragon Marsh Country not only controls most of the Eastern Region, but the Yellow Dragon Mountain Range where the imperial city is located is also an extremely large high-grade spirit vein.
The Dragon Marsh Country is vast, divided into thirty-six states and seventy-two prefectures. Each prefecture has a Royal Pole Academy to manage the cultivation world of the Dragon Marsh Country.
The Royal Pole Academy is similar to a sect force. Every once in a while, high-level cultivators will appear to give lectures, addressing the cultivation confusions of some low-level cultivators. Every year, they also send a large number of cultivators to the mortal world to eliminate disasters and solve problems for the mortals.
These people also have an important task: to widely recruit children with excellent spiritual root aptitude to cultivate future generations of cultivators for the Dragon Marsh Country.
As long as you have excellent spiritual root aptitude and enter the Royal Pole Academy, you will have a lot of resources to cultivate.
The masters of the Royal Pole Academies(皇极书院: Royal Pole Academy) in each state and prefecture are also held by Nascent Soul Stage cultivators. Among them, the top ten masters are at least Nascent Soul Stage mid-stage existences or higher.
The top three are only held by great cultivators with Nascent Soul Stage late-stage strength.
On the surface, the Dragon Marsh Country has more than one hundred Nascent Souls just from these masters combined. Not to mention that these academies generally have more than one Nascent Soul Stage cultivator in charge.
The top three academy masters will also be granted the title of King. This is not like the princes and nobles of secular countries, who are mostly just nominal titles.
In the Dragon Marsh Country, cultivators who can be granted the title of King can not only enjoy a large amount of cultivation resources, but also have many privileges.
Rumor has it that a secret realm within the Dragon Family's control grows several longevity spirit fruits. Only cultivators who have been granted the title of King can enjoy the longevity spirit fruits and increase their lifespan.
They are even qualified to enter the core of the Dragon Family and be passed down secret techniques that help to break through to the Transformation God Stage.
As for the Dragon Family cultivators, although they will also enter the Royal Pole Academy to cultivate, they are not allowed to participate in the competition for academy master. Once Dragon Family disciples have achieved success in cultivation, they will enter the Royal Pole Hall to cultivate.
The Royal Pole Hall is very mysterious and is an independent space controlled by the Dragon Family.
There is a rumor that the Royal Pole Hall was left behind by the Dragon Family's first old ancestor, the Dragon Flame Emperor, and is the core of the Dragon Family.
The Dragon Family can control the vast territory of the Dragon Marsh Country not only because of its own strong power, but also because of the Royal Pole Academy that it has established.
Of course, there are still a small number of sects and other cultivation family forces in the Dragon Marsh Country. The Dragon Family has not completely wiped out these forces. As long as they submit to the Dragon Family, they can survive in the Dragon Marsh Country.
Among these forces, some also have Nascent Soul Stage old monsters in charge. If they were placed in the Northern Plains Cultivation World, they would not be small forces. But they cannot be said to be developing, they can only be considered to be shrinking in the cracks.
In today's Dragon Marsh Country, among the thirty-six states and seventy-two prefectures, there are a total of six cultivators who have reached the late stage of Nascent Soul.
In addition, the Dragon Family's Royal Pole Hall is permanently guarded by two great cultivators. Just the Dragon Marsh Country has eight Nascent Soul Stage late-stage cultivators. And this is only on the surface.
The Dragon Family has been able to control the Dragon Marsh Country for such a long time, and it must have hidden a lot of foundations.
Although no Transformation God Stage cultivator from the Dragon Family has been seen since the Dragon Marsh Emperor five thousand years ago, this does not diminish the Dragon Family's reputation in the slightest.
Regarding the Dragon Marsh Emperor, Zhang Ling had previously learned some secrets from the Flame Hoof Beast. This person is the biological father of the Dragon Phoenix Fairy.
According to the Flame Hoof Beast, the Dragon Marsh Emperor cultivated a secret technique and took a fancy to the Heavenly Phoenix bloodline of the Dragon Phoenix Fairy's biological mother, thereby giving birth to the Dragon Phoenix Fairy.
The Dragon Marsh Emperor also broke through to the mid-stage of Transformation God at that time because of this.
Moreover, the Dragon Family does inherit the True Dragon bloodline. Within the same realm, the Dragon Family cultivators have a lifespan that is much longer than that of cultivators of the same rank.
However, also due to the True Spirit bloodline, the Dragon Family has very few direct descendants. Many Dragon Family infants are difficult to be born, or die young early.
This kind of thing is not strange. The higher the cultivation level of the cultivator, the more difficult it is to leave descendants.
Before long, Zhang Ling finished reading the golden jade slip recording information about the Dragon Family and immediately picked up another cyan jade slip to check.
In the entire Eastern Region Cultivation World, in addition to the eight great cultivators on the surface of the Dragon Marsh Country, there are also six powerhouses in the western small and medium-sized countries, the Western Ridge Hundred Countries, who have reached the late stage of Nascent Soul.
In addition, there are four well-known rogue cultivator experts in the East Continent Islands, all of whom are cultivators with great divine powers.
This is the general situation of the Eastern Region today.
He just came to the Eastern Region Cultivation World, and understanding this information can also help him travel in this area.
As for where he is currently located, it is somewhat remote. It is located in the Western Ridge Mountain Range that borders the Dragon Marsh Country and the Western Ridge Hundred Countries.
Zhang Ling was teleported to the Eastern Region through the ancient teleportation array, and the location was in this mountain range.
