Chapter 69: Between Gains and Losses
Although the master and apprentice forces of the Xuanshan faction have been proud of the spring breeze over the years, they have always been cautious and step by step.
Even if the Wu family has completely lost hope of rising, they have not forgotten to continue to suppress it, if it were not for the help of several friendly families, including the Ding family, it is unknown whether the Wu family can exist now.
Wu Lin used his low and hoarse voice to tell Ding Zhengyi about the tragic history of the Wu family, and there seemed to be a hint of something in his words.
But after that, the old man seemed to suddenly be much haggard again, and he just buried his head in the road, and remained silent all the way.
Ding Zhengyi, who followed behind Wu Lin, was full of anger and apprehension, and listened to these sad secrets.
However, after his grandfather fell silent, Ding Zhengyi quickly adjusted his mood and quickly returned to his former composure.
Looking at the old man who was hurrying in front of him, and his back was no longer straight, Ding Zhengyi couldn't help but figure it out in his heart in addition to speeding up his pace to keep up.
Judging from the information he has now, Ding Zhengyi guessed that the catastrophe suffered by the family in the shallow sea in the past two years may not only be as simple as the competition for resources, but also the warning of the Xuanshan faction's master and apprentice forces to the Ding family.
They suppressed the Wu family, perhaps there was something deeper hidden in this, and the Ding family's move to protect the Wu family was obviously a provocation to it.
As for the actual situation, Ding Zhengyi does not know.
However, he was sure that even if the facts deviated a little from what he thought, they would not be too different, because according to the style of the master and apprentice forces of the Xuanshan Sect described by Wu Lin, they would often do whatever it took to achieve their goals, and they were interlocking and would not be untargeted.
Thinking of this, Ding Zhengyi was suddenly startled, he seemed to feel that an invisible big hand was slowly stirring the muddy water of Xuanshan Kingdom, and a sense of urgency arose.
In Ding Zhengyi's eyes, a powerful enemy is not terrible, as long as he deals with it carefully, but if this enemy is still proficient in strategy, it will make it difficult for him to sleep, plus he acts freely and without scruples, this is simply a disaster.
Only by improving the strength of oneself and one's family as soon as possible can one cope with the next challenges, but the improvement of strength is inseparable from a large number of cultivation resources, which is an unavoidable problem in the cultivation realm.
After countless years of continuous development, the development of various cultivation resources has almost reached the extreme, and any force that wants to develop and grow will inevitably encroach on the interests of other forces.
If you don't have strength, you can't win in battles, and if you want to increase your strength, there will inevitably be strife, which is simply a contradiction that can't be solved at all.
continued to frown and think for a long time, but did not get any results, Ding Zhengyi also experienced Ding Changming's feeling of powerlessness at this time.
Just when he exhaled helplessly and was about to comfort Wu Lin for a few words, Ding Zhengyi realized that the two of them had unknowingly walked back to the Wu family's spiritual vein.
Although looking for an opportunity is just an empty joy, hearing such a secret made Ding Zhengyi feel a lot of emotion and thoughts, which made him feel that the trip was worthwhile.
At this time, Wu Lin seemed to have recovered a lot, he turned around and explained a few words to Ding Zhengyi, and then walked directly to the family spiritual field.
Looking at the back of his grandfather leaving, Ding Zhengyi wanted to follow him to Lingtian to help, but in an instant he remembered the experience just now.
This made Ding Zhengyi feel that the burden on his body seemed to be a little heavier, so he could only return to the bamboo building silently alone.
Wu Lin's house was silent at the moment, Wu and his grandmother and others were gone, and Ding Zhengyi was not surprised, it is estimated that they also went to Lingtian and repeated their daily busyness.
In front of the bamboo building, only Xiaoqiu was still practicing the body forging technique, and the incomparably standardized moves were repeated in her hands, beads of sweat kept sliding down from her forehead, and her swollen red face was wrinkled into a bun.
Seeing Ding Zhengyi approaching, Xiaoqiu's forging movements began to slow down, and she seemed to have the idea of stopping her cultivation.
Seeing this situation, Ding Zhengyi hurriedly waved his hand to Xiaoqiu, signaling her not to interrupt her cultivation, and he didn't have the heart to say more, so he walked directly past her and went upstairs to his room.
Sitting in the Hidden Spirit Gathering Array, Ding Zhengyi thought for another moment, but in the end he still couldn't understand the essentials, so he simply put these things aside for the time being, and prepared to continue his cultivation.
Before the formal Qi training, Ding Zhengyi casually picked up the Ink Feather Eagle Egg, wanting to cultivate it again, just as he stroked the smooth egg shell and enjoyed this temporary comfort, a flash of light suddenly flashed in his mind.
More than half an hour ago, where Wu Lin found the array flag, the raised rock that Ding Zhengyi swept past for the last time clearly appeared in his mind with the appearance of this bright light.
Although the few marks left on the stone were very faint, Ding Zhengyi was still keenly aware of them, and they were the claw marks of the Inkfeather Eagle, because they were exactly the same as the ones he saw when he retrieved the eggs in the eagle's nest.
"Array Banner, Ink Feather Eagle, Low-level Spirit Grass ......"
These names constantly collided and blended in Ding Zhengyi's mind, bursting out with a trace of inspiration, and gradually formed a complete clue.
At that time, in the Eagle's Nest, Ding Zhengyi was very puzzled when he saw a large number of scrapped low-level spirit grass, but it was only because of the urgency of the situation that he didn't think about it.
Now combined with this array flag, Ding Zhengyi has made a reasonable inference.
That is, this Ink Feather Eagle should have found a hidden spiritual vein, and this spiritual vein was still under the shroud of the formation.
It's just that due to the relationship of time, the formation has become ineffective when it has not been effectively maintained for a long time.
The low-level spirit grass hidden in the spirit vein, after being discovered by this ink feather eagle, was brought out by it, and a formation flag was also mixed in at the same time.
In the process of returning to the nest, I don't know what happened, the Ink Feather Eagle flew down on the rock that Ding Zhengyi had just seen, and inadvertently dropped the array flag.
For the Moyu Eagle, the array flag has no value, and there is no need to pick it up again if it is dropped, so there is such a strange thing as Wu Lin picking up the array flag in the wilderness.
As for why those low-level spirit grasses couldn't have come from the land of the family spirit veins, or the nearby ownerless spirit veins.
The reason is very simple, in the dense family residence of monks, those low-level demon beasts will instinctively sense danger and are very resistant to approaching this spiritual vein.
This is also the reason why there are very few demon beasts in the land of the general family spirit vein, even if there are occasional accidents, it is impossible for the family cultivator to let the demon beasts have a chance to get close to the spirit grass.
And those ownerless spirit veins that are not suitable for the family to take root, they are often located in the land of mountains and rocks, the land is barren, and there is very little place for the growth of spiritual creatures.
Moreover, there are countless scattered cultivators who are constantly searching, and even if there is something missing, it may only be very few, and there will definitely not be a situation where a large number of spirit grasses are left unattended.
After combing through the complete clues again, Ding Zhengyi was not excited about it, only to see him frowning, obviously still having a lot of doubts.
Since the Ink Feather Eagle had discovered such a hidden spiritual vein, why didn't it build a nest there?
The danger is difficult to explain, since the Ink Feather Eagle can bring out so many low-level spirit grasses, and even a formation flag is also among them, it shows that there is no danger that can endanger its safety in the hidden spirit vein.
Excluding external factors, then we can only find internal reasons, for Ding Zhengyi, there is only one explanation that makes sense, that is, the environment of hidden spiritual veins is not suitable for birds to live for a long time.
In his understanding, apart from underwater and deserts, only narrow terrain such as caves could meet this condition.
And as long as it is a place of spiritual veins, even if it is hidden, there will inevitably be spiritual energy escaping outward, and the concentration of spiritual energy in its location must be abnormal, which is a self-evident sign.
The Eagle's Nest was probably in the northeast of the Wu family, and then thought of the location where the array flag fell, pulling the two locations into a straight line, and the location of the hidden spiritual vein was about to come out, which pointed out the direction to Ding Zhengyi.