Chapter 52: The Land Where the Moon Landed

South of the Silver Moon City.

The vast wilderness was shining silver under the reflection of the moon.

The moonlight wrapped the uneven ground in a silver coding.

There were uncountable mysterious craters of all sizes, randomly spread across this whole area.

Between the craters were countless stone paths connecting all of them together.

This place is the most magical place of the Silver Moon Empire: The Forbidden Land of The Fallen MoonThe Forbidden Land in short.

It was said that thousands of years ago fragments of the moon fell from the sky, creating these holes.

The capital of the Silver Moon Empire was built near this place, and the name of the empire was also named after this area.

The spiritual energy in the Forbidden Land was chaotic and complex all year round, not suitable for low-realm cultivators to stay for a long time.

For the past thousand years, countless cultivators come here to explore.

Among them were even the top-ranked cultivators from the Land of Genesis and the Land of Extinction.

Some lucky cultivators were able to find some of the broken fragments of the moon and gain insight into some of the most advanced methods, while others found themself items that worth quite a fortune…

Once a long time ago, this land attracted hundreds of cultivators to here, causing endless conflicts between clans and sects.

Even the most powerful cultivators couldn’t avoid the risk of attempting to explore this place.

Given that, after hundreds of years of exploring, almost all the hidden secrets had already been dug up and revealed.

For the recent three hundred years, no one had found anything groundbreaking from the Forbidden Land.

Gradually, people stopped coming here, especially the people from powerful sects.

Instead, it became a training ground for the younger generations of cultivators in the Silver Moon Empire.

No one expected these young people to find anything extraordinary from this place.

They only hoped to find some artifacts from their ancestors.

For all those years, countless cultivators had died here, and some might hide a book or method containing their experience somewhere so that people could later inherent their teachings.

Every ten years, the Silver Moon Empire would arrange for some people to explore the Forbidden Land.

But despite being open to the public, some areas were still off-limits.

Only one-fourth of the area was allowed to explore. Simply because these were the only place where the spiritual energy was stable enough to not cause harm.

As for the rest three-quarters of the land, Her Majesty, along with some of the most powerful cultivators in the empire, explored three times.

All three times were ended terribly with traumatizing casualties.

Her Majesty kept the details as a secret, making these parts of the land a mystery to most people.

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The entrance of the Forbidden Land.

The soldier in silver armor, holding a silver spear, waited solemnly.

Nearly a hundred silver-white boulders were piled into a circular arch with a height of about tens meters. One side of the arch was the Forbidden Land and on the other side stood the empire’s most prominent figures.

A large cart with the flag of the Lin Clan led by two Ice Golems slowly came towards the entrance.

With every breath that the Ice Golem exhaled, ice crystals scattered on the ground.

These rock-like beasts were rare in the Land of Qianxuan. They were both level three beasts, with attacking power similar to those of a Yellow Hall Realm cultivator.

These two golems were gifted by the Cold Shadows Sect to Lin Zhuyun.

Lin Zhuyun was probably the only person in the empire that owned beasts of this kind.

Therefore, just by seeing these two, the others from the Silver Moon Empire already knew who was here.

“Lin Zhuyun.”

Among the group, Su Yin frowned, and said, “This girl will be your strongest opponent. She has reached the late stage of the Yellow Room Realm. This time going into the Forbidden Land she is very likely to reach the Dark Burst Realm. Soon, the elder from the Cold Shadows Sect will come to pick her up.”

Su Yan, standing beside him, casually glanced at the cart and didn’t say anything.

“Don’t be so cocky.”

Su Yin stared at her father and said, “The five largest clans in the empire can form their own teams, and the rest forms teams based on their city of origin. I have known that it will be a competition between us.”

“Needless to say, Lin Zhuyun will lead the team from the Lin Clan.”

“And you will lead our clan’s team. Don’t lose to that girl.”

This exploration among the juniors in the Forbidden Land also affects the reputations of the major clans and cities, so the Queen would get reports on this event as well.

“Don’t worry about me.” Su Yan finally spoke. “Uncle, if I want to, I might be able to step into the next realm too.”

Su Yin’s eyes lit up and said, “Really?”

“Well, I still want to wait for a better opportunity. Maybe a new insight will pop up.” Su Yan responded.

“I heard that your clan stop buying herbs from the Yu Clan?” Lin Hanyu started walking toward them with a weird smile on his face. “What? These brats dared to bother you?”

“The Yu Clan from the Dark Moon City?”

“Isn’t the Yu Clan their in-laws?”

“I heard that the Su Clan and Yu Clan stopped doing business with each other all of a sudden.”

The people from the other clans seemed to know about this, some were less familiar.

For the majority, they only knew about the marriage agreement between the Yu and Lin Clans, but nothing much about what happened afterward.

After all, the Dark Moon City wasn’t even close to being ranked as the major cities of the empire.

“The only thing impressive about the Dark Moon City is that beautiful lotus that it has!”

“Ah, you can never forget about that woman after first sight.”

“I heard that she is coming this year as the mayoress, can wait to see her again.”

Those who were talking about the Yu Can soon change the topic to Yuan Lianyao.

Obviously that she was more popular.

“Hey, Lin, you seem to have more troubles when you are at the Dark Moon City, am I right?” Su Yin grinned. “What is that loyal servant of yours called? Oh, Yin Jue? He got killed in the Yu Clan right?”

Lin Hanyu’s face suddenly became ugly when he said this.

Those around them never heard about this before and suddenly became interested.

However, before they could continue questioning the Su Clan, someone shouted.

“The people from the Dark Moon City are here!”

“Yuan Lianyao is almost here!”