Chapter 72: The Unexpected
In the past few days in the Wu family, except for Ding Zhengyi, who wanted to return to the family earlier due to inconvenience in cultivation, the other three had just arrived, and they were happily playing, which was quite happy.
However, at this time, since the four of them had already embarked on the journey home, they did not have any reluctance to give up, and they even had no intention of appreciating the beautiful scenery around them, and they all showed a look of returning to their hearts.
Continuing the strategy of the previous few days, Ding Zhengyi still explored in the front, Ding Zhongyuan and the other three followed closely, and rarely communicated with each other, and they all hurried up non-stop.
It's just that Ding Zhongyuan and his wife have not practiced the body forging technique, and their physical fitness is extremely limited, even if they use the light body technique with all their might, the speed is still not comparable to Ding Zhengyi, and it is far from it.
However, this kind of forward speed also happened to make Ding Zhengyi run forward and backward with ease, and he looked around for possible dangers, not knowing whether it was the top of the bad luck last time, or today's good luck, this road was calm and smooth, without twists and turns.
On the way home, except for a lunch and a break for a stick of incense, the four of them were in a hurry at the rest of the time, without any stop.
When the spiritual vein of the Ding family appeared in front of Ding Zhengyi and the others, the sun was still shining on them, and the time spent returning to the family was less than half of the time to go to the Wu family.
At this time, Ding Zhengyi and Xiaoqiu were still calm and their faces did not change, while Ding Zhongyuan and his wife were tired and panting, and there was still some crystal sweat hanging on their sideburns.
It wasn't until they entered the range of the family's spiritual vein that the four of them breathed a sigh of relief, don't look at the smooth journey, but their hearts have always been lifted, ready to deal with sudden crises at any time.
The huge consumption of mental strength and physical strength made the four of them not interested in talking, until they saw their own bamboo building, they took a few steps one after another, pushed open the hidden door, and sat down separately.
After half a pillar of incense, Ding Zhongyuan and his wife recovered a little, and they began to talk about the trip again, and Ding Zhengyi was still worried about cultivation, so he had to retire first.
When he was about to go out, he didn't forget to make a gesture to Xiaoqiu and ask her to pay attention to the time of cultivation.
Going straight to the cultivation retreat room upstairs, Ding Zhengyi tidied up a little, and then he opened the formation and devoted himself to his daily cultivation.
The aura poured into the spiritual network, and the spiritual aura continued to refine it into vitality, and that simple and comfortable feeling also followed, and Ding Zhengyi was immersed in it wholeheartedly, completely forgetting the concept of time.
When he opened his eyes again, it was dark, and it was obviously past dinner time, Ding Zhengyi showed a wry smile on the corner of his mouth, he simply took out a few snacks from the storage bag, and filled his stomach with a wolf spit.
After that, Ding Zhengyi came to the bamboo couch, he closed his eyes and brewed for a while, then spread out the talisman paper, took out the talisman pen, and directly began the practice of talisman making.
Early the next morning, although Ding Zhengyi, who had cultivated until late at night last night, was still a little tired, he still insisted on crawling out of bed and finishing washing up as if he was awake.
He was thinking about whether to take advantage of the lack of people in the morning and hurry to the ancestral hall to hand over the ink feather eagle egg to the patriarch, when he suddenly faintly heard Ding Changshou's familiar voice.
It's just that his tone doesn't seem to be as calm and peaceful as usual, but full of impatience and anger.
After listening carefully for a while, Ding Zhengyi figured out the reason for Ding Changshou's abnormal mood, which seemed to be related to their going to Wu's house, and he didn't think too much about it, so he hurriedly walked out of the room.
When he came to the staircase, Ding Zhengyi saw that his father was standing in front of the small building with low eyebrows at this time, and his grandfather, who was full of voice, was pointing at his nose and was still chattering and reprimanding.
Seeing Ding Zhengyi come out, Ding Changshou's gloomy face improved slightly, and he immediately let go of Ding Zhongyuan, whose forehead was already slightly shining, and turned around and walked towards the living room.
Seeing this scene, Ding Zhengyi also understood that his grandfather wanted to talk to him alone.
So he waved his hand to his father, and hurriedly walked a few steps, following Ding Changshou into the living room with his front and back feet.
"Yi'er, do you know how reckless you went out this time!"
As soon as the two of them stood still in the living room, Ding Changshou said impatiently with a look of anxiety.
"There is a lot of danger outside, the threat of demon beasts and alien races is still second, and the scattered cultivators and sect monks are all eyeing us, especially the Wu family...... , alas, don't say it!"
Without waiting for Ding Zhengyi to explain, Ding Changshou sighed in a low voice.
"In fact, you don't need to care too much about the feelings of the people around you at all, only when you are really strong, will you have enough ability to protect your relatives and help the weak. ”
Ding Changshou's uncertain face was full of helplessness, and he continued in a serious voice.
In a short period of time, Ding Changshou's continuous tone changes revealed his extremely complicated mood at this time.
At this time, the anxiety and concern on his face were intertwined, as well as the heartfelt and bitter persuasion, which touched Ding Zhengyi's heart.
However, Ding Zhengyi still had some doubts at this time, for this outing, he had thought it through, except for the suppression of the Wu family, all other possible crises were expected by him, and they were enough to deal with it calmly.
From his grandfather's expression and words, Ding Zhengyi could clearly feel that the risk of this outing was great, and it was obviously beyond his expectations.
Just as he opened his mouth to ask, Ding Zhengyi saw his grandfather's slightly trembling fingers, still subconsciously tapping on the table, knowing that Ding Changshou still had something to say, so the inquiry that had just arrived at his mouth was swallowed by him again.
Both sides remained silent, plunging the living room into a long silence, and even Ding Changshou's somewhat heavy breathing sound was extremely harsh.
"I know that with your character, you will definitely be prepared for this trip, but you still underestimate the attention of the hostile forces to you, in the past two days, during the routine inspection led by the elders, I found that many strange monks were wandering around the family, many of them were Qi cultivation perfect monks, and their target was very likely to be you!"
After half a cup of tea, Ding Changshou gradually calmed down in silence, and he let out a long sigh before he said something that shocked Ding Zhengyi.
Facing Ding Changshou's solemn expression, this is obviously not his trickery.
It turned out that Ding Zhengyi still felt that his grandfather was making a big fuss, and he was a little unimpressed by this, but at this time, he realized how lucky they were to be able to come back safely this time.
Although he didn't know the specific reason yet, the hostile forces obviously wanted to get rid of him quickly, and such patience and persistence seemed a bit incredible to Ding Zhengyi, which was really beyond his expectations.
"Your trip has even alarmed the patriarch, he has a rare rage over this matter, and that anger has made us elders tremble, since you are back, then hurry up and meet the patriarch. ”
Seeing Ding Zhengyi's thoughtful expression, Ding Changshou also let go of his worries a little, but then he suddenly thought of something, his face turned pale suddenly, and he hurriedly added.
After saying this, Ding Changshou got up and left, obviously urging Ding Zhengyi to see the patriarch.