Before the Calamity, in the ancient era, the Immortal Court was the absolute hegemon of this world. However, as the Great Northwest Frontier had been a land plagued by demons and monsters since antiquity, the light of the Immortal Court could not completely envelop it.
Therefore, back then, the Immortal Court enfeoffed many sects and families in the Great Northwest, the so-called Immortal Officials, using these Immortal Official sects and families to control the various regions of the Great Northwest.
The Huwei Wang Family was an Immortal Official family enfeoffed by the Immortal Court, dominating the Four Great Regions for a long time. In their efforts to plunder cultivation resources for the Immortal Court, the Huwei Wang Family was utterly tyrannical, plunging the Four Great Regions into misery and suffering.
It is worth mentioning that when Lord Chixiao was still roaming the Four Great Regions in his youth, the Huwei Family often sent people to hunt him down, pushing him into desperate situations several times. Later, after Lord Chixiao emerged from seclusion, he directly stormed into the Huwei Wang Family, slaughtering their clan head, several ancestral elders, and over a dozen Nascent Soul Elders on the spot, thus ending the Huwei Wang Family's era of dominance over the Four Great Regions.
Although the Huwei Wang Family was nearly wiped out by Lord Chixiao back then,
it was only nearly.
They were not completely exterminated.
After the Calamity, the Immortal Court was rebuilt, and the Huwei Wang Family also gained many benefits from this. As the saying goes, a starved camel is still bigger than a horse. Having cultivated numerous forces during their dominance of the Four Great Regions, the Huwei Wang Family, with a single rallying cry, secretly established the largest gang in the Four Great Regions. Its members numbered in the millions, rivaling the top sect, the Yuqing Sect. Now, having joined the Nine-Hua Alliance, they were even more untouchable.
As the young master of the Huwei Wang Family and hailed as one of the Ten Little Hidden Dragons, Wang He's innate talent and fortune were naturally outstanding. He too possessed a Nine-Layer Chromatic Spirit of the Great Nature's Five Realms, a Nine-Transformations Nascent Soul, a Taixuan Seed, and the extremely fierce Tiger's Majesty Bloodline, making him exceptionally formidable.
Whether it was Huo Dong, Tu Gao, or Wang He, all three were both young masters of Hua Pavilion and Little Hidden Dragons.
Their innate talents and fortunes were considered the pinnacle, and their status and backgrounds were equally so.
Looking across the entire Four Great Regions, among the younger generation after the Calamity, few dared to contend with these three.
Not to mention anything else, behind Huo Dong stood the Four Great Regions' long-established top sect. Tu Gao's status came from being the successor of the Four Great Regions' newly risen top sect, also known as the direct lineage of the Nine-Hua Alliance. Behind Wang He was the largest gang, backed by the illustrious Huwei Family.
In terms of status and background, there truly was no one in the Four Great Regions who could surpass these three.
Of course,
nothing is absolute.
At the very least, Ma Zhengtian and Xu Jintong did not fear the three.
Especially Ma Zhengtian, the young master of the Leiyun Branch. The Leiyun Branch was the largest Chizi Head branch in the Four Great Regions, with other branches like Dianyun, Fengyun, and Huoyun all looking to Leiyun as their leader.
Everyone knew what kind of existence the Chizi Head was.
As the young master of the Leiyun Branch, with such status and background, Ma Zhengtian feared no one.
His father was the current branch master of Leiyun Branch, and his martial grandfather was none other than Elder Fang, who presided over the Leiyun Branch and was once an incense master of the Chixiao Sect.
If it were only about status and background, Ma Zhengtian would not be ranked among the Ten Little Hidden Dragons.
His innate talent and fortune were also quite remarkable.
He too possessed a Twelve-Transformations Nascent Soul.
He too possessed a Nine-Layer Chromatic Spirit of the Great Nature's Five Realms.
He had an Innate Treasure Body.
It was said he also possessed a Taixuan Seed within him.
Most crazily, he bore a Dragon-Elephant Totem on his body.
Yes, bore.
He was not a Chixiao person, yet he possessed a Dragon-Elephant Totem. And his Dragon-Elephant Totem was different from Xu Jintong's. Xu Jintong's Dragon-Elephant came from a Dragon-Elephant Seed; while this could be called a Dragon-Elephant, it was only in name, a mere semblance. Ma Zhengtian's was different—his was the genuine article.
His Dragon-Elephant Totem was inherited from his grandfather. His grandfather had also once been a Chixiao person, but over a decade ago, his lifespan reached its end. Thus, sacrificing himself, he used his lifelong cultivation to pass the Dragon-Elephant Totem to his grandson, Ma Zhengtian.
What kind of existence a Dragon-Elephant was, everyone under heaven knew, no one was unaware.
With a Twelve-Transformations Nascent Soul, a Nine-Layer Chromatic Spirit of the Great Nature's Five Realms, plus an Innate Treasure Body, a Taixuan Seed, and a Dragon-Elephant Totem, how terrifying Ma Zhengtian's true strength was, no one knew.
Huo Dong and the other three were absolute leaders among the youth of the Four Great Regions, each with glorious battle records. Their strength was so formidable that it made the senior elders present, who had survived several lifespan tribulations and cultivated for thousands of years, feel utterly ashamed.
"I've heard that recently, a rather remarkable person has emerged in our Four Great Regions," said Huo Dong, dressed in a cyan robe, standing with his hands behind his back, appearing calm and composed. He looked at Ma Zhengtian, Wang He, and Tu Gao with a faint smile. "Surname Gu, given name Qingfeng, Daoist title Chiyan. Have the three of you heard of him?"
The four had begun closed-door cultivation several years ago because they all knew that major moves would be made during the Centennial Term at the end of this year. If not for Su Hua Fairy appearing in the Four Great Regions, none of the four would have emerged from seclusion.
"A mere upstart, not worth mentioning," said Tu Gao, his arrogance ever-present. Of course, everyone knew he had the capital and the right to be this arrogant.
"Tu Gao, in your eyes, is everyone an upstart?" Wang He said with a skin-deep smile, looking quite leisurely as he played with the bald eagle perched on his shoulder.
Tu Gao sneered, "So what if they are?"
"Ha! Tu Gao, it seems after so many years in seclusion, you truly haven't made much progress." Wang He teased the eagle with his finger, chuckling. "I've been out of seclusion for two days now, and in these two days, the name I've heard the most is that Gu Qingfeng. An upstart? Heh... Do you think if he were really just an upstart, twelve Chixiao people would kneel to him?"
"What of it? In my eyes, he's still an upstart not worth mentioning." Tu Gao was wildly arrogant, his arrogance ingrained in his very bones. He looked down on Wang He, the young master of the Huwei Family, and Huo Dong, the successor of the top sect. Similarly, he had never held the so-called Chizi Head in any regard, coldly sneering, "Just twelve Chixiao people? In my eyes, they're no different from ordinary folk!"
"Heh..." Ma Zhengtian's lips curled into a smile as he looked at Tu Gao. "Tu Gao, you can eat recklessly, but you shouldn't speak recklessly. It seems after so many years in seclusion, your old habits still haven't changed."
"Ma! Zheng! Tian!" Tu Gao flared up, glaring at Ma Zhengtian.
There was enmity between the two, and a deep one at that, at least in Tu Gao's eyes. Back then, he had arrogantly insulted the Chizi Head and was beaten up by Ma Zhengtian for it. Tu Gao had held onto this grudge ever since. Staring fixedly at Ma Zhengtian, he said through gritted teeth, "Ma Zhengtian, if you hadn't inherited that Dragon-Elephant Totem back then, would I have lost to you?"
Today's update is postponed.
Stuck again! The upcoming plot involves many characters and many events, my mind is a bit chaotic. Today's writing hasn't gone smoothly, so the update is postponed until tomorrow!!