readx;? came and went, and half an hour passed in a blink of an eye. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 When Li Ding and the three of them returned to the previous living room, Mrs. Zhang had already prepared wine and food and stood at the door waiting.

Seeing the shopkeeper Zhang coming back, Mrs. Zhang greeted her and said, "I heard that you went to the second uncle's side?"

"You don't know about Zhang Xing's injury, right?" asked the shopkeeper with a solemn face.

"I know, I know, but I don't hear it, or he will cry and make a fuss in front of me, and now is an extraordinary time, let him lie in bed for a few days, and rarely go out to make trouble. Mrs. Zhang replied.

"Hmm...... So be it. Shopkeeper Zhang nodded, turned around and smiled again, and immediately led Li Ding and Wang Lei into their seats, while Mrs. Zhang quietly retreated.

Seeing that there was good wine and good food on the table, Li Ding chose a few light and delicious things to eat and drink two glasses of wine. Maybe because of what happened just now, Shopkeeper Zhang drank a lot of wine, but he didn't say a few words, and the atmosphere on the table was somewhat dull.

Shopkeeper Zhang, I have a friendship with you for almost 20 years, I have long regarded you as a big brother in my heart, but I am used to the name of the shopkeeper, and this mouth can't be changed. ”

These words made the shopkeeper Zhang stunned for a moment, and said: "Brother Wang is not drunk, why did he suddenly say this." ”

"I'm not drunk, I just want to say that if Shopkeeper Zhang really encounters any trouble, even if he speaks, as long as I Wang Lei can do it, I will never refuse. ”

Wang Lei was originally a carefree person with wine, and he would suddenly say such things while drinking, obviously seeing that the shopkeeper Zhang was preoccupied.

Li Ding couldn't help but put down his chopsticks and asked, "Is Shopkeeper Zhang still worried about the Alchemist Conference?" Didn't you just say that you had great faith?"

"That's because I mislooked the situation. Shopkeeper Zhang said, and then paused. After sighing, he said, "Brother Wang and Lei Gongzi don't know anything, so I must advance to the third-grade alchemist." In addition to fighting for himself, in fact, it is to keep this family business, but also for the reputation of his ancestors. ”

After speaking, Shopkeeper Zhang immediately looked sad, as if he had changed a person in an instant.

"What the hell is going on?" Wang Lei put down his wine glass violently and said with a straight face.

Shopkeeper Zhang sighed heavily again and said: "This has to start with a grievance from my ancestors, Brother Wang's family has been trafficking medicinal materials for generations, have you heard the older generation mention that there is an alchemist named Zhang Wei?"

"Zhang Wei ......" Wang Lei tilted his head and thought for a while, and suddenly his eyes glared: "Shopkeeper Zhang won't be talking about Zhang Wei, the former national teacher of the Southern Ming Kingdom." It is said that he is an eight-grade alchemist, but unfortunately he mysteriously fell forty years ago. ”

"Haha......" Shopkeeper Zhang suddenly smiled bitterly and said: "Mysterious fall, is this the rumor about him from the outside world, I didn't expect that the reason for the disappearance of the world's No. 1 alchemist back then no one knows." ”

Looking at the complicated expression of the shopkeeper, Li Ding sensed something and asked, "I don't know this Zhang Wei...... What does it have to do with Shopkeeper Zhang?"

"He was my grandfather, just like my father, who disappeared thirty years ago. I don't see anyone alive. Shopkeeper Zhang said gloomily.

"Is there such a thing?" Li Ding and Wang Lei were both shocked.

Just now I heard that Shopkeeper Zhang's father was a five-grade alchemist, which was already a surprise, and it was already surprising to know that Zhang's grandfather was actually the number one alchemist in the world back then. Eight-grade alchemist, the national teacher of the Southern Ming Kingdom. What a heavyweight figure this is, dead without seeing the corpse, and disappearing without seeing the living. How can people believe this, not to mention that the shopkeeper Zhang said that his father also suffered the same.

"I didn't expect the family background of the shopkeeper Zhang to ......," Li Ding stopped talking. He wanted to be relieved, but he didn't know what to say. So he said: "After so many years, has the shopkeeper found out anything?"

Shopkeeper Zhang shook his head, but there was a hint of hatred in his eyes and said: "What happened is in the past, what I want to say is that no matter how prominent and majestic my Zhang family was back then, it has been reduced to the point of being bullied by others when it came to my generation, and now the family business is not guaranteed, I am really sorry for the ancestors." ”

Li Ding's heart was gloomy, but the shopkeeper Zhang failed to inherit the power of the ancestor's bloodline, and the strength of his cultivation was there, and he was destined to be unable to revive the family style. Imagine that the path of cultivation is a matter of rebellion against the sky, no matter how you fight with the heavens and the earth, your strength cannot be improved, and everything will be in vain.

"Isn't Shopkeeper Zhang saying that as long as you advance to the third-grade alchemist, you can reach the level of Dan Master, even if you can't restore the prestige of your father, there is no problem at all to keep this family business, right?" Li Ding said.

"It's a pity, judging from the current situation, I am afraid that I have advanced to the third grade, and there is no place for my Zhang family to stand in Wangcheng, maybe I still have to worry about my life. ”

"Why?" Wang Lei suddenly slapped the table and stood up. The shopkeeper Zhang became silent, causing Wang Lei to say, "Is there anything that you and my brothers can't say?"

"Because of a person's words, forty years ago, one of my grandfather's enemies said that I must drive my Zhang family out of the royal city. Shopkeeper Zhang said, the hatred in his eyes became more and more intense.

Wang Lei glared angrily, picked up the wine jug and poured two sips violently, and said, "Who is it?"

"What's the use of saying it?" Shopkeeper Zhang shook his head again and said, "This person's current power and strength are not something you and I can fight against at all. ”

Wang Lei punched the table, and was about to say something, Li Ding waved his hand, Wang Lei also understood, sat down angrily, and the shopkeeper Zhang continued: "Although my ancestors died back then, they were outstanding because of their meritorious achievements, and the king once explicitly ordered the descendants of the Zhang family to live here forever and enjoy the protection of the royal forbidden army, so they can enjoy peace in this place until now, but everything has slowly changed. ”

"You mean Zhang Xing was beaten?" Li Ding asked.

Shopkeeper Zhang nodded and said: "Back then, because of the king's strict order, even if my strength was not good, no one in this royal city dared to do anything to my Zhang family." Perhaps it is precisely because of this that the young Zhang Xing has developed a lazy and lazy personality with no one in his eyes, blaming me, the eldest brother, for not disciplining him well. ”

"So, the person in Zhang's shopkeeper's mouth is not related to the person who hurt Zhang Xing. Li Ding said.

"Do you see it?" Zhang's face sank, and he said: "He's just a villain who tends to be inflammatory, just like Zhang Xing said, such a cat and a dog dare to bully us, it is conceivable that the person who can say that sentence has already gained more power, but I didn't expect him to be so rampant that he even dared to ignore the king's orders." ”

"Shopkeeper Zhang, you want to treat me as a brother, whether you can help or not, you just say who that person is. Wang Lei couldn't help but roar.

This made the shopkeeper Zhang's face pale, and the corners of his mouth twitched and said three words: "Du Yunhai." ”

As soon as these words came out, Li Ding and Wang Lei were all stunned, and the anger on Wang Lei's face weakened even more, and he poured a few sips of wine before he said: "How could it be him? You can be the shopkeeper of the Spirit Grass Hall, which means that you are also their cronies, so why bother targeting you?"

"What kind of cronies, I have been a dog in the Spirit Grass Hall for decades, and the exclusion and suppression I have been subjected to are just unknown to outsiders. If it weren't for this family, and for the sake of practicing the art of elixir, how could I swallow my anger to this day. Shopkeeper Zhang said.

"What kind of grudge is it, it has been decades, and this Du Yunhai is inevitably too narrow-minded. Wang Lei said angrily.

Li Ding also has this idea, Du Yunhai is the national teacher of the Southern Ming Kingdom, and such an identity and status is indeed something that the shopkeeper cannot fight, but what kind of grudge is it that makes such a person with such a prominent identity remember it for decades, and he has to force the other party's descendants to a dead end.

Shopkeeper Zhang took a glass of wine and drank it all, and sighed: "The cause of everything is because of a pill. ”

"Pill?" Wang Lei's eyes lit up, and he looked puzzled.

Li Ding's heart moved, and he nodded slightly. For cultivators, the elixir that can help them cultivate is undoubtedly terrifyingly alluring, and a high-grade elixir can completely cause a bloody storm, and it is normal to have a grudge against each other. And pills like Xiao Dan caused the chaos of the Seven Kingdoms that year, causing chaos in the world.

Thinking like this, Li Ding's hand unconsciously touched his chest, but he heard the shopkeeper speak again, and finally told a little-known past.

It turned out that Du Yunhai and Zhang Wei, the grandfather of Zhang's shopkeeper, were actually from the same school, and both of them were Tianjiao in the division back then, and they almost touched the opportunity to break through Ming's state of mind at the same time. However, at this time, their master failed to break through the Xuankong Realm, and the Yuan Dan burst and the meridians were broken.

Before the master ran out of oil and the lamp dried up, he called Du Yunhai and Zhang Wei to him, saying that he had a seven-grade 'Soul Gathering Pill' in his hand that had been passed down from his ancestors, and whoever of them suddenly understood his state of mind first could get this divine pill that could help people advance to the Soul Gathering Realm.

However, this original means of motivating disciples to practice hard did not want to lay the root cause.

Because Zhang Wei was more talented, he broke through the Ming Mind Realm a year earlier than Du Yunhai, and naturally obtained this Soul Gathering Pill, and then after nearly ten years of hard work, he broke through to the Soul Gathering Realm in one fell swoop after taking the Soul Gathering Pill.

Because of the improvement of the realm, Zhang Wei's alchemy level naturally improved by leaps and bounds, and it only took less than five years to successfully refine the eight-grade pill, becoming the first alchemist in the world at that time, and naturally sat in the position of the national teacher of the Nanming Kingdom.

But at this time, Du Yunhai's strength was still struggling in the middle of the Ming state of mind, although he had the strength to refine the seven-rank pill, but because he failed to successfully refine the seven-grade pill at the alchemist conference, he could only barely be called a seven-grade alchemist.

Seeing that the gap between him and Zhang Wei was getting bigger and bigger, Du Yunhai couldn't help but feel jealous, but he didn't find the reason from his own cultivation, but stubbornly pointed the finger at Zhang Wei, thinking that Zhang Wei robbed him of his creation.

Gradually, a gap began to arise between the originally harmonious brothers and sisters, but the two went from occasional disagreements to final opposites, but it was because of the great changes in the Nanming royal family more than 40 years ago.

Political discord and entanglement of interests made the two really stand on opposite sides until they fought for life and death.

(To be continued.) )