Li Ding, who came out of the island, naturally didn't know what the Jiyuan was, and the little mistake in Xiao Cui's words didn't cause Li Ding to care in the slightest, but just followed Xiao Cui's words and asked: "I heard that those people are very hateful, Sister Xiao Cui must have suffered a lot, right?"

"Well, don't call me sister, just call me Xiaocui, you are the person brought by the old Yu clan, I can see that your identity is not ordinary, I should call you young master." Xiao Cui suddenly stood up and said.

"Young Master?" Li Ding frowned inexplicably, and said: "My name is Li Ding, not a young master, in fact, I was also rescued by Yu Lao, if it weren't for Yu Lao, I would have died in the sea." ”

"Oh!" Li Ding's words made Xiao Cui stunned for a moment, and exclaimed: "Is that the case......?

Before Xiaocui's words were finished, Li Ding smiled and said: "Sister Xiaocui is older than me, I should naturally call you sister, I have been an orphan since I was a child, if only there was a sister like you." ”

"Alas......" Looking at the smiling Li Ding, Xiaocui sighed, sat down in a daze and said, "Li Ding, is it? It seems that you are also a hard-working person!"

"It's okay, the head man is very good to me, it's just ......" Saying that, Li Ding couldn't help but have a trace of sadness on his face, but he gritted his teeth, instantly retracted the sadness, and changed the topic: "Sister Xiaocui, I saw the appearance of the second master of the Feng and the third master of the Yu clan to the elders of the Yu clan before, and the status of the elders of the Yu clan in the Qing clan should not be low, right?"

"Hmm. Xiao Cui responded and said: "There are four major clan elders in the Qing clan, and the Yu clan elder is one of them, and there are also three clan elders in the clan, namely the Feng clan elder, the Wang clan elder, and the Zhang clan elder. The four clans of Yu, Feng, Wang, and Zhang are the largest families in the Qing clan, and their status in the clan is almost the same, but the Yu clan is always the cousin of the current patriarch, and he is kind and kind, and everyone respects him more. ”

"In this way, the Qing are a large ethnic group. Li Ding said in surprise, as if he had forgotten his previous sadness.

"Hmm. I have heard that Lingyan Island is the birthplace of the Qing people, and now there are almost tens of thousands of people, and the status of the Qing people here is naturally not low, but if it is placed in the Nanming Kingdom, the Qing people can only be regarded as a minority. Xiao Cui thought for a moment and said.

"Oh. Li Ding listened, his face was not unusual, but his heart was difficult to calm down, and asked: "Tens of thousands of people, such a huge ethnic group is still just a minority, so what will those big ethnic groups on the continent look like?"

"It's not what you think. If I really go to the mainland, in fact, there is much less awareness of ethnic groups, at least in Gusang City, where I used to live, there is no ethnic distinction, where everything is respected by the royal family. ”

"Gusang City, the royal family, did Sister Xiaocui live on the mainland?" For these unfamiliar words, Li Ding felt more and more shallow, as Huang Gui said before, there were too many things he needed to learn.

Speaking of the royal family, Xiao Cui's eyes suddenly flashed with yearning, and she muttered: "Well, the royal family is in the middle of the Nanming Kingdom, in charge of everything in the Nanming Kingdom, the king's palace is as high as a mountain, and the people are all dressed in beautiful clothes and live in a garden like a fairyland." ”

"Have you been to the royal family?" Looking at Xiao Cui's intoxicated appearance, Li Ding didn't feel a little yearning. Xiao Cui smiled and said: "I just heard that how can I really go, the place where the king lives is not something that ordinary people can go to, unless they become cultivators like the old Yu clan and them, and they must reach a certain realm." ”

"Practice, Sister Xiaocui also knows how to practice?" As soon as he heard the word practice, Li Ding's curiosity surged up.

Xiao Cui smiled and said: "Although I am a subordinate, but when I was just rescued by the elders of the Yu clan, I happened to meet the Qiyuan ceremony in the Qing clan, although I am fortunate to have succeeded in Qiyuan, but unfortunately my cultivation talent is too poor, and I can't enter the Yuan realm in a few years, otherwise I may really be accepted by the Qing clan and become a member of the Qing clan." ”

"Sister Xiaocui is also a cultivator?" Li Ding couldn't help but be surprised, opened his mouth slightly, and asked again: "In this way, cultivation must be very hard. Also, do the Qing also accept people from outside the group?"

I remember that when I was still in the tribe, it was difficult for the old people in the tribe to accept outsiders, unless they were intermarried with other tribes. The head man's father once said that if Li Ding wasn't a baby, maybe he wouldn't be accepted.

Regarding Li Ding's ignorance, although Xiao Cui was a little surprised, he didn't have the slightest solution, shook his head and said: "Cultivation is naturally a very bitter thing, I have not been able to break through to the Tongyuan Realm, half of it is because the power of my bloodline is too weak, and it has a lot to do with the fact that I can't endure hardship." Li Ding, if you really want to practice, you can't endure hardship. Just like Brother Huang Gui, he used to be a miscellaneous subordinate like me, but now he is in the Ning Yuan realm, otherwise he would not follow the Yu clan to the sea. ”

Yu Lao once said to Li Ding that Huang Gui's ability is not even a fart in the eyes of real cultivators, although until now Li Ding can't really understand what cultivation is and what Qiyuan is all about, but he knows that the higher the realm of cultivation, the greater his ability. The Nine Desolations Records record the saying of "going against the heavens, enlightening the Yuan with blood, gathering spirits and cultivating the body, and leading to the heavens in eight parts", that is to say, there are as many as eight layers of cultivation, Huang Gui is the realm of Ning Yuan, and the means that are not in the eyes of Yu Lao have surprised Li Ding, so what will the higher realm look like?

"Brother Huang Gui is indeed powerful, what is the realm of Yu Lao, it shouldn't be low, right?" Li Ding shifted the topic to Yu Lao again, he still wanted to know more about the Qing clan.

This time, Xiao Cui thought for a while before saying, "It should also be a clear state of mind, because the other clan elders are all in a clear state of mind." However, the highest realm in the Qing clan is still the patriarch, and he is the peak of the late Ming heart. ”

Li Ding didn't expect that Yu Lao turned out to be in the Mingxin realm, but he was even more curious about the patriarch in Xiaocui's mouth, and hurriedly asked: "In the later stage, is there a difference between the same realm?"

When he was on the boat, although Yu Lao also talked about many things about cultivation, he didn't say much about these details.

In response to Li Ding's question, Xiao Cui finally sighed and said: "Why don't you understand anything! The way of cultivation is a process of gathering the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, the more spiritual energy gathered in the dantian, the deeper the degree of the realm, and there will naturally be a difference, although the boundary of the difference is not so clear, but if two people with the same realm make a move, it is even more difficult for a person who has just broken through to defeat a person whose realm has been stabilized." ”

Li Ding's thoughts kept changing rapidly. No wonder Huang Gui said to him that day that if those bandits didn't get out of the way, they would disappear into that sea forever. Huang Gui's ability to kill the blood snake, the kind of monster-like creature that makes people talk about it in the tribe, is as easy as picking vegetables in Huang Gui's hands, you can imagine what the result will be if Yu Lao makes a move.

Li Ding also felt that he was indeed a little wordy today, shook his head and smiled: "Trouble Sister Xiaocui, I told me so much." It's just because I've never heard of this in a very small place before, so I keep asking curiously. ”

"Oh, no wonder. Looking at Li Ding's sincere appearance, Xiaocui also shook her head helplessly.

For Li Ding now, life has changed from the moment the bandits attacked his tribe, and he was still a child, but he had to start facing a whole new world alone. The passage on the boat made him stronger and stronger, but what should happen next? Yu Lao seemed to show him a way, but where would this lead him?

It's just that what Li Ding didn't expect was that his life trajectory was destined not to be so dull.

Maybe it was because the conversation just now was too much, and when the two of them quieted down, they found that the meal on the table was only half eaten, Xiaocui planned to heat the meal, but Li Ding divided the cold rice by two. When it was over, the cheerful laughter of the two came from the wooden building.

Outside the window, the night shrouds the quiet town, and the noise of the day seems to turn into a few stars far away, corresponding to the sporadic lights below. Occasionally, there will be one or two barking dogs in the town, indicating that the town is not sleeping peacefully.

On the roof of a house, two deep eyes were staring at the wooden building where Li Ding was, the owner of the eyes was wearing a black robe, his face hidden under the black robe had a cold expression, and his hands were clenched tightly, as if he could see everything in the wooden building from such a distance.

"Whoosh. ”

With the sound of breaking wind, a black shadow appeared beside the black-robed man, and said in a low voice: "It's been checked, there are almost a thousand." ”

A gleam flashed in the black-robed man's eyes, his chin tapped, and he responded in a low voice, "Tell the brothers to prepare." Immediately, the black shadow disappeared in place.

The night breeze blew, bringing up a few dry leaves on the roof, and the black-robed man held one in his hand, and when the firelight flickered, the leaves turned to ashes in an instant. "Yu Xiong, if you don't eat the toast, don't blame me for being ruthless. After speaking, the figure of the black-robed man also disappeared from the roof in an instant.