"Just now, Super Spiritual's upper limit is only 1%. Can it take the two of us to climb Gyro Mountain?" Li Xiu said thoughtfully.

He thought to himself that if the Jedi Knight could not take the two of them to Gyro Mountain together, then the Dragon Vein Spirit would be exposed.

Li Xiu had not originally intended to expose the Dragon Vein Spirit, a life-saving demonic spirit, to the public so soon.

"One percent of super spirituality is enough. Super spirituality and non-super spirituality are two completely different concepts. As long as you can be super spiritual, even if it is only one percent of the upper limit of super spirituality, climbing the Gyro Mountain should be no problem." Sha Chu smiled and said, "I should have thought of it earlier. How could someone like you come to Changshengtian without perfect preparation?"

"It's good that you can get in. Tell me the situation in Changsheng City in detail." After Li Xiu came here, he realized that his understanding of Changshengtian seemed too one-sided.

"You have seen that Changshengtian is divided into two parts, Changsheng City and Wangsheng Town. Although Wangsheng Town is inhabited by low-class people, you should not underestimate Wangsheng Town. Many trialists in the town have inextricable ties with the four major families in Changsheng City. Every time Changshengtian opens a new trial gate, the trialists in Wangsheng Town go to explore the way first. The water here is very deep. Just like the fire knight you defeated today, his real name is Mo Ruhai, and he is a member of the Mo family, one of the four major families in Changshengtian. He was exiled to Wangsheng Town for some reasons. As long as he is strong enough, he can return to Changsheng City at any time."

"But Mo Ruhai was exiled by the Mo Clan. Even if he returned to Changsheng City, he would never be able to return to the Mo Clan again. That's why he wanted to take your invitation card, hoping to join another faction and find a new backer."

"Wait, what four major families? Aren't there only six generals in Changshengtian who can recruit members?" Li Xiu frowned.

"The six general directors are responsible for summoning people from outside, but before the Changsheng Society was established, there were already eight major families living in Changsheng City. However, with the changes of the times and the changes of power, there are only four major families left in Changsheng City. However, this does not mean that the other four major families have completely disappeared, they have just been integrated into the current four major families."

"The four major surnames in Changshengtian are Li, Mo, Han, and Sun. The Li surname is the lineage of the president of Changshengtian. The power of the other three surnames in Changsheng City is almost equal. Many of the members and super members who joined later want to marry with people of the four major surnames so that their descendants can live in Changsheng City and enjoy the welfare benefits of Changshengtian from an early age. They can also receive trial training earlier."

"Isn't the Wan Chao family one of the four major surnames?" Li Xiu asked with some surprise.

"The Wanchao family was originally one of the Eight Great Families, but it declined later on. Moreover, they did not have the surname Wanchao before. Later, a very powerful person emerged and helped the Wanchao family stand up again. They changed their surname to Wanchao. After several generations of hard work, although the Wanchao family is not one of the four great families now, it has already become a great family. It is very likely that the four great families will become the five great families in the future."

"The four major surnames represent the aboriginals of Changsheng City. There are also some other aboriginal families, which are basically headed by the four major surnames. You will learn more about them later. In addition to the four major surnames, there are six groups managed by the six general managers you are familiar with. These six groups are mainly composed of trial takers. In addition to the six groups, there is also a special magic costume group. This magic costume group is a bit special. It is managed by Vice President Bai himself. It does not belong to any group and has no general manager. All magic costume masters recruited into Changshengtian, no matter which general manager recruited them, need to enter the magic costume group and cannot stay in the groups of the general managers."

"In a place like Changshengtian, the magic suit group is actually the least popular group. After all, if we really count the high-end combat power, it is still difficult for the magic suit masters to compete with the super-spiritual trialists. Moreover, the magic suits cannot enter the trial grounds and can only be used to guard the trial gates. To put it bluntly, they are used to guard the house, so you can imagine their status."

"A magic costume master who is admired by the world outside has such a low status here?" Li Xiu was a little surprised.

"There's nothing we can do about it. Magic Armor Masters have too high a talent requirement and are too dependent on magic armor. With the current magic armor level, it's hard for them to compete with Super Spirit Trialists. It's normal that they don't have a high status." Sha Chu smiled and said, "Look at the people in Wangsheng Town. In fact, many of them have the talent of Magic Armor Masters. If they are willing, many of them have the opportunity to join the Magic Armor Group, but they would rather endure the hardship and enter the trial ground to become trialists rather than become Magic Armor Masters. This shows what the status of Magic Armor Masters is in Changshengtian."

"Outside, magic armor masters have never been so despised. It's exactly the opposite here." Li Xiu said with a smile.

"In addition to Group 6 and the Magical Costume Group, there are two vice presidents. Vice President Bai is in charge of the Magical Costume Group and some affairs within the association. Vice President Han was nominated by the four major families and is considered the spokesperson for the four major families. He is also a member of the Han family among the four major families."

"The ten elders are personally selected and appointed by the president. They enjoy very high treatment and reputation, but generally speaking they have no real power. They also have to do the dirty work of guarding the trial gate. However, if you can become an elder, you can get the opportunity to impact the super spirit. There are still many people willing to give it a try, but the position of elder is not so easy to get."

After Sha Chu's detailed explanation, Li Xiu roughly understood the main structure of Changshengtian, but it was not so easy to figure out the network of relationships involved.

There must be intricate connections between the four major families and each group, and even Sha Chu can't quite figure out the conflicts of interest and power struggles involved.

"Which force does the old fellow, the Lord of Hongsha City, belong to? Before, I thought he was the president of Changshengtian. I didn't expect that Changshengtian has so many indigenous forces. However, the four major families should not have the power to invite outsiders to join, nor do they have the power to issue invitation cards. I guess it is most likely that the Lord of Hongsha City is the president of Changsheng." Li Xiu thought to himself.

"Okay, that's all I know. Since the Jedi Knight has reached super spirituality, it is more than enough for him to climb Gyro Mountain. Let's set off for Changsheng City now to avoid any more trouble." Sha Chu stood up and said.

"Okay." Li Xiu followed Sha Chu out of the door and walked along the shabby alleys in Wangsheng Town towards the direction of Gyro Mountain.

In the muddy alley, one could see pairs of eyes looking at them through cracks in doors, windows, and walls; there was confusion, curiosity, envy, and even jealousy and resentment in those eyes.

There were only a few elderly people who were so old that they could hardly walk, sitting on the stone steps outside the door, looking at Li Xiu and Sha Chu with their dim eyes without fear.

"Why are there only children and old people here?" Li Xiu asked Sha Chu who was standing beside him.

"In order to survive in Wangsheng Town, in addition to entering the Trial Gate, they also need to go out to sea to fish. There is not enough land for farming in Changshengtian, and the food is mainly seafood." Sha Chu said.

"Why not transport food in from outside?" Li Xiu was a little confused.

It took less than two hours from the time he entered the coffin to the time he entered Changshengtian. With such a short distance, it was easy to transport food in from the Southern Cross Federation.

"I'm not sure about that." Sha Chu obviously didn't know why food was not transported in from outside.

As the two were walking, they suddenly heard the wooden door next to them open. A figure rushed out from the door and opened his arms to block the way of Li Xiu and Sha Chu.

Li Xiu and Sha Chu were both a little surprised. The person who blocked their way was just a kid who looked about seven or eight years old. He was only wearing a pair of torn pants, with his skinny upper body exposed. He looked dark and thin.

The child was holding a knife in his hand. The knife was not big, and the blade was a mixture of rust and blood, but the blade was very bright and glowed with blood.

Judging from the shape of the knife, it should be a knife for killing fish, not a weapon for fighting.

Li Zhengxing was about to ask the child why he was blocking their way when he saw the nearby wooden doors open one after another and children walked out of the doors. The oldest was only about ten years old, and the youngest had just learned to walk.

Soon, both sides of the alley were filled with such children, blocking Li Xiu and Sha Chu in the middle of the alley.

These children all held the same fish-killing knife in their hands, and their eyes were fixed on Li Xiu and Sha Chu.

"Siren, what do you want to do?" Chu Sha frowned and shouted towards the alley.

Li Xiu had heard from Chu Sha before that there are currently four major forces in Wangsheng Town. Their leaders are known as the Four Generals, and the Siren is one of them.

With a creak, a wooden door not far ahead opened, and an old man with gray hair and a walking stick limped out. The children who were blocking his way retreated to both sides of the alley and made way for him.

"My two honorable lords, are you ready to return to Changsheng City?" The old man's voice was hoarse and there was a strong smell of fish on his body.

Shachu looked at the old man and said, "Siren, what do you want to do by letting these children block our way?"

"Nothing, I just want you two to listen to me." The sea monster looked at Li Xiu and said, "This must be Li Xiu, the Lord of the City of Light, right?"

"You know me?" Li Xiu was not surprised. When he showed his Jedi Knightness, he already realized that he would be recognized.

"The Magic Spirit Contest and the name of the Lord of the City of Light have already spread throughout the world. Although there is no television in Changshengtian and we cannot watch the Magic Spirit Contest, we can still hear about your name and the reputation of your magic spirit from people who have returned from outside." The siren laughed.

"Siren, you should be aware of my current situation. How can I help you?" Sha Chu frowned.

"Of course you can't, but the city lord can." The siren stared at Li Xiu with her cloudy eyes and said.

"Tell me, how can I help?" Li Xiu asked the mermaid with interest.

The siren suddenly dropped the cane in his hand, knelt on the ground with a plop, and bowed directly in front of Li Xiu: "Please give our child a chance to survive."

The children nearby dropped the fish-killing knives in their hands, knelt down like sirens, and bowed down in front of Li Xiu and the others.

"What do you mean?" Li Xiu looked at the mermaid prostrating on the ground with some astonishment.

The mermaid knelt on the ground, without getting up or looking up, and just said word by word: "We are all sinful and lowly people. We go out to sea to fish and risk our lives. That is our life, but the lives of these children should not be like ours. They should not see death from birth, should not have no hope in their lives, should not be born here and die here. Please open a way for them to live."

"Siren, are you crazy? This is Changshengtian, and there are Changshengtian's own rules. What ability do we have to help them find a way to survive?" Sha Chu scolded.

The Siren looked up at Li Xiu, her expression calm but her eyes burning like fire: "No, if there is anyone in this world who can open a way for our child to survive, it is only you, sir, who can do it."

"This is strange, why don't I know that I have such great abilities?" Li Xiu said to the mermaid.

"My lord, you have set a precedent for the Magic Spirit Contest, allowing the trial-takers to be known to the world and allowing all mortals to practice. This is a blessing for mortals and for sinners like us. If everyone is a trial-taker, the gates of Eternal Heaven will surely be wide open. Only then will our children have hope and a way to survive. No matter what difficulties we encounter, please be sure to persevere. If you can use us in any way, we will not hesitate even if it means we will be torn to pieces. Please open a way for our children to survive. We are willing to be the stones of this road and die with our bones and blood." The mermaid said and bowed to the ground again.

At some point, more and more people, smelling of fish, came out from inside and outside the alleys, prostrated themselves on the ground, and prayed in unison: "Please open a way for our children to live. We are willing to be the stones of this road, and we will die with our bones and blood to build the foundation without regrets."

"Let's go." Li Xiu glanced at the mermaid and the people on the ground and said nothing. He just called Sha Chu and walked past them.

These people did not stop them, but just watched them leave and saw them out of Wangsheng Town.

"Most of these people under the Siren are prisoners brought in from outside to be used as cannon fodder to explore the Trial Gate. Every once in a while, a group of them will be sent in. Most of them died inside the Trial Gate, and a small number of them survived by chance and no longer have to explore the Trial Gate. These children are their descendants. Although these people are no longer forced to be cannon fodder inside the Trial Gate, they still have to go out to sea to fish. They are called fishmen and provide food for Changsheng City. They basically have no chance of becoming trial-takers. They are considered the lowest group of people in Changshengtian."

"After the Magic Spirit Competition, there were two voices in Changsheng City. Some high-level officials believed that since everyone would be a trialist in the future, Changshengtian should also reform the existing system, one of which was to allow the descendants of these fishmen to have the opportunity to become trialists. However, other high-level officials believed that fishmen were fishmen, and they only needed to provide food for Changsheng City. There was no need to waste resources to make them trialists. Anyway, everyone would be a trialist in the future, and they could just get more trialists from outside to be cannon fodder or fishmen. There was no need to waste resources on these fishmen."

Sha Chu smiled bitterly and said, "The Siren hopes that you can persevere. This does not only mean that you can continue to hold the Magic Spirit Competition, but also that you can speak up for these fishmen in Changsheng City and give their children the opportunity to become trial-takers."

"I'm a person who hasn't joined the club yet, but he has high expectations of me." Li Xiu was joking, but there was no smile in his eyes.

"This matter started because of you and the Magic Spirit Contest. The high-level reform was also caused by you and the Magic Spirit Contest. No matter how high or low your status is after entering the city, I'm afraid you will have trouble with this matter." Sha Chu sighed and said, "In the beginning, I always advised you not to hold the Magic Spirit Contest because I was afraid that Changshengtian would do you harm. Now the situation is already very good. At least there are still people in Changsheng City who support you in holding the Magic Spirit Contest."

"Let's talk about it after we enter the city." Li Xiu and Sha Chu came to the foot of Gyro Mountain again. Looking at the Gyro Mountain that was like a pillar and a dome, although they had seen it once, they still couldn't help feeling shocked.

In front of the gate of Changsheng City, several people in luxurious clothes were chatting and laughing.

"The Lord of the City of Light is finally coming. I'm really looking forward to it." A young man with long hair said with a smile.

"It's hard to say whether you can climb up Gyro Mountain. Maybe you can go down the mountain later to see his body which has been smashed into a pool of rotten meat." The man in blue armor said disdainfully.

The long-haired man looked at the two beautiful women beside him and said, "Qing Yi, Bai Ying, you have dealt with him before. What is his strength? Can he climb this Gyro Mountain?"

Bai Ying curled her lips and said, "That person is quite capable, but it may be difficult for him to climb this Gyro Mountain."

Seeing the long-haired man looking at him, Li Qingyi pondered and said, "The Lord of Light's own level should not be high, at least not S-level. If he wants to climb the mountain, he will probably have to rely on his magic spirit. I wonder if he has a flying magic spirit. If he has a flying magic spirit, it should not be difficult to climb the mountain. If not, even though the Jedi Knight is already S-level, it is still not easy to bring him up. I don't know who summoned him to join the guild, and why didn't they pick him up?"

"I'm also curious about who brought him here. If he joins the gang at this time, he will be in dire straits." The long-haired man laughed.

"If he didn't owe us something, no one would care about his life or death. He is lucky. Even if he can't get up by himself, we can only help him." Bai Ying said and looked at the long-haired man: "Mo Liu, I'm afraid you will have to take action later."

The long-haired man, Mo Liu, smiled and nodded: "Don't worry, if he is unable to do so, I will definitely protect his life and bring him up."

After a pause, Mo Liu continued, "He didn't kill Mo Ruhai, so he has to repay his kindness."

"He is lucky." Bai Ying said with a pout.

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"Come on." Sha Chu took a deep breath and looked at Li Xiu with a firm gaze.

Li Xiu nodded slightly, then summoned the Jedi Knight. The Jedi Knight's sword was hung on his waist. He held Li Xiu and Sha Chu under his armpits in each hand, then jumped up with both feet and stepped on the mountain wall.