Chapter 5: The Cursed Zhang Family?
Looking at this earth dog called "lazy cat", wagging his tail like a triumphant general, the father and son, who were still a little upset because of the trouble, also burst out laughing.
When everyone dispersed, Zhang Zhibi didn't care about repairing the courtyard gate, sat on a chair in the courtyard, pulled his son to the side, and smeared the bruises on Zhang Jingyi's body little by little with bone-setting wine.
"Dad, why didn't you scold me this time?" Zhang Jingyi asked, "Every time I fought before, you would beat and scold me, but this time you ......"
"Stinky boy, why don't you scold you for being uncomfortable, right?" Zhang Zhibi was happy to ask.
Seeing that his son's depressed mood also disappeared, Zhang Zhibi sighed, glanced at the sky, and seemed to hesitate, but finally spoke.
"Jingyi, I rarely mention your mother, it's not that I don't care, but I just want you to live a peaceful life. This was said to me by your mother when she was leaving, and she asked me not to go to her, or if I didn't have the strength, don't go to her, otherwise our family will be wiped out. ”
Zhang Zhibi has always kept silent about Jing Yi and his mother, even if his son asked him many times, he just changed the topic, but this time he took the initiative to talk about it, which made Zhang Jingyi quite surprised.
"Since you were a child, I have taught you physical martial arts, just hoping that one day you can get ahead and welcome your mother back. Speaking of which, Zhang Zhibi's words were a little embarrassed. "But our father and son are not spiritual root physiques, and they can only look for death when they come to the door, so I have never told you about it, because I am afraid that you will be too impulsive. ”
Listening to his father's narration, Zhang Jingyi probably knew the origin of his mother, Zhang Jingyi's mother's name is Xu Ruxuan, and she is the eldest disciple of the Xuanming Sect, one of the four major sects of the Xuan Domain, and her father, that is, Zhang Jingyi's grandfather, is also in a high position in the sect, and is said to be an elder. However, because of something, they rebelled against the order of the sect master and were chased and killed all the way.
In the end, Zhang Jingyi's grandfather died in order to cover Xu Ruxuan's escape, and his mother was seriously injured before he was exiled to this wilderness, and was rescued by Zhang Zhibi who went out hunting. However, only a few years later, when Jing Yi was only three years old, the people of the Xuanming Sect searched here.
In order to protect Zhang Zhibi's father and son, Xu Ruxuan gave up resistance and was taken away by the people of Xuanming Sect. And because Zhang's father and son have no spiritual roots, they are both mortal bodies, and the people of the Xuanming Sect don't think that this is a trouble, so they leave.
Regarding why Xu Ruxuan's father and daughter fell out with Xuanming Sect, Zhang Zhibi never knows, Jing Yi's mother never said it, and he didn't ask. After all, that was already a matter of the cultivation realm, and it was not something that he could meddle in as a mortal.
Although she knew that Xu Ruxuan had betrayed the sect, after all, the Xuanming Sect had not publicly said that she was a traitor, so the Wu family in this sphere of influence was polite to the Zhang family and his son, in case Xu Ruxuan recovered her status, the strength of such a big sect was not something that this kind of family could resist.
"If you want to blame, blame your father for being born too ordinary, and he can't reunite your mother. Zhang Zhibi sighed and said.
This is the first time Zhang Jingyi knows his mother's origin, and he feels a little uncomfortable, but he also knows that this is not only him, but also an untiring knot in his father's heart.
"Dad, is it possible that a mortal body without a spiritual root can't cultivate? There's no way to compete with those cultivation masters?"
"Not really, even a mortal body can kill a cultivator, but the price it needs to pay is very high. The body refining martial arts I gave you is to endlessly improve the potential of the human body and reach the limit of the mortal body. Zhang Zhibi said.
"This is the body refining martial arts handed down from our ancestors, before we were exiled here, we used to be a small family, at that time we controlled several cities, relying on this body refining martial arts, to form an extremely strong mortal army, even able to compete with some ordinary cultivation sects. However, then there was a large-scale animal tide, and the entire family evacuated to protect the civilians and forcibly resisted, and finally almost the entire clan was wiped out. ”
"At that time, in order to preserve the bloodline, the elders of the clan once withdrew the younger generation in advance, but the beast tide was too fierce, and most of them died in exile. No one knows how much he survived in the end, but your grandfather was relatively lucky at the time, and was rescued by a big Xiuzhen faction who came to defend against him, so he ended up here. ”
"Speaking of which, our family used to be kind to the Wu family, so their older generation is still more grateful to our only remaining descendants of the Zhang family, and as for the current younger generation, it may not be very polite. However, whether we are protected by the Wu family or not, strength is the capital that can really speak. Whether it is to make those younger generations respect you, or to save your mother, you need a strong foundation. ”
"Hmm. I know. After listening to the origin of the family, Zhang Jingyi nodded thoughtfully. "Dad, you also said that there is a limit to the potential of mortal bodies, if a relatively weak monk can still fight, then how can we defeat a sect like Xuanyin Sect with many masters?"
"This is the difference between a mortal body and a spirit body, if you have a spirit body, you can absorb the spiritual energy for your own use, which is equivalent to an extremely powerful boost, and the combat power is more than ten times that of the mortal body. However, the strange thing is that no matter how big our family is, whether it is the main family or the division family, there is no one with a spiritual root body from beginning to end, which is something that all ancestors are puzzled by. Zhang Zhibi was also a little disappointed.
The body of the spiritual root is affected by genetic factors, the stronger the talent, the higher the strength of the master, the offspring is naturally excellent, even if a fool is born, it can be a spirit body, which is why the big family can basically dominate one side for a long time as long as it does not experience large-scale tearing and vitality injuries.
However, even ordinary mortals will have a certain probability of being able to have a spiritual root, after all, the entire continent is full of spiritual energy, and as long as the population is large enough, a certain spiritual body will still be produced in various variables. Although the probability is extremely low, less than 1 in 10,000, it is just that every family, even a family can have a person with a spiritual body, must be very happy, not to mention that they can get ahead at least in a certain village or town.
And the Zhang family can be regarded as an extremely unlucky family, they used to be not weak strength, the number of the main family and the branch family in the heyday was no less than 100,000, not to mention that there are so many generations of ancestors, the number of family members adds up to tens of millions, but there has never been a person with a spiritual body.
Even if Zhang Jingyi's mother can embark on the path of cultivating the truth, and she is a natural spirit body with excellent talent, but with such good genes, Zhang Jingyi who was born is still only a mortal body, which is a lot of probability.
After all, Jingyi's grandfather is an elder of the Xuanming Sect, and his mother is also a leader of that generation, and everyone else can embark on the path of cultivating immortals even if they are stupid, why is Zhang Jingyi so healthy and strong, but he is still a mortal? Originally, he hoped that Zhang Jingyi could rescue Xu Ruxuan, but after the results of the later tests, Zhang Zhibi was also disappointed.
Regarding the matter of bloodline, Zhang Zhibi once asked his wife, after all, Xu Ruxuan is a cultivator and understands it higher. Xu Ruxuan is also unclear about this, but she thinks that the reason why the Zhang family has never had a spirit body physique is probably due to some kind of curse, or something has happened in the bloodline of the ancestors, otherwise it is impossible to really decline so much.
After all, in this land where Ru Mao drinks blood and has great strength, life and death dramas are staged every day, and a physique born with spiritual roots determines the starting point that is vastly different from the mortal body.
Just like that Wu Ba is lazy and lazy on weekdays, he basically doesn't practice, and his talent is scum to the extreme, but this kind of cultivation method of fishing for three days and drying nets for two days can also reach the five-fold realm of quenching the body, so that he can harm one party. Even if it is a little more restrained in the town, there are no more than 20 people in the entire Wujia Town who have the potential to cultivate the spirit body, and Wu Ba can still bully the market even if he is worse.
After his father said this, Zhang Jingyi was a little depressed, there must be an upper limit to the mortal body, so how can he save his own mother?
Xu Ruxuan left when he was three years old, and although Jing Yi was young at that time, he already had memories, and he can still remember his mother's voice and smile. is that since he was a child, as long as someone scolded him for being a motherless child, Zhang Jingyi would always rush forward with his fists, even if he couldn't beat him, and he was never afraid of being beaten in the end.
"However, it is not impossible to improve the physique, the spirit body is divided into innate and acquired, and the innate spirit body is a talent that you are born with. The acquired spirit body relies on some spiritual herbs to improve the physique, so that the spiritual root is condensed in the mortal body, so as to become a spirit body. It's just that this elixir is quite rare, not to mention that we don't have money, even if we have money, we can't buy it, so I can only run to Qiaoling Mountain when I'm fine, hunting, and try my luck to see if I can find any elixir. Zhang Zhibi said.
Hearing this, Zhang Jingyi's eyes lit up, even if it was difficult to find, at least there was a chance, so he secretly made up his mind to study herbal medicine hard in the future, and go hunting more with his father in the mountains, at least he had to try his luck.
After some conversation, Zhang Jingyi forgot about the previous unpleasantness, after all, he is still a teenager, and he has some childish heart.
Since his family's "lazy cat" also helped him during the fight, Zhang Jingyi was not stingy, gave Xu Mo a big meat bone, and then took it around.
Although Xu Mo is just a dog in the Zhang family's father and son's family, he is self-conscious, but he does not feel the feeling of being treated as a beast here, and the father and son treat pets very well. made Xu Mo live very comfortably, perhaps because he was used to being chased and killed in the previous dozens of reincarnations, which made him feel at ease.
Resemble...... Feeling at home?
Xu Mo hadn't felt the warmth of home for a long time, and since he knew that he would be chasing and killing in reincarnation, he had been away from his family every time he was reincarnated. Because he knew that as long as he was found by the organization that he couldn't remember, then the whole family would be wiped out.
So he only had to cultivate to the death, making himself stronger to fight against fate, but it was a feeling of home...... It seems far away and vague.