Chapter 53: The Civil-Martial Brothers

Ding Zhengyi, who was lying on the rocking chair, his face was a little pale, thinking of this, he still had palpitations, and he couldn't help but reach out and touch the cold sweat on his forehead.

If it weren't for the formation to assist in screening, then the mind and resources he spent would be wasted, and even his own safety would be seriously threatened.

Fortunately, these were discovered by him in time, and they did not cause unbearable consequences, but this also made Ding Zhengyi more vigilant, and he would rather choose partners in the future than indiscriminately, and be more cautious and cautious.

With a long breath, the fine sweat on his forehead had been carried away by the breeze at this time, Ding Zhengyi soothed his mood and continued to comb it.

Except for the two eliminated clansmen, the remaining two brothers were very satisfied with Ding Zhengyi.

These two brothers were originally named Ding Wen and Ding Wu, and I heard that this name was given by their grandfather, which means both civil and military.

Sometimes it's just like this, these two brothers have neither learned literature nor practiced martial arts, but have been detected to have spiritual apertures, and they are the kind of four spiritual aperture qualifications that are expected to touch the five spiritual aperture by dredging the spiritual network.

Their cultivation qualifications were directly included in the family branch, and they were given the word "Zheng", renamed Ding Zhengwen and Ding Zhengwu, and included in the ranking sequence.

Having grown up in the mundane land of the Ding family since childhood, they cherish the opportunity to cultivate more than the descendants of the spirit vein.

It's a pity that even if they work hard, they can't erase the gap brought by resources, although they are only two years younger than Ding Zhengyi, it didn't take long to step into the third layer of Qi training, and they are slightly inferior to Xiaoqiu of the previous three spirit tricks.

Ding Zhengyi also had a more detailed understanding of them before making formal contact with them, and it was this investigation that gave him an unexpected discovery.

The grandfather of the two brothers is more than eighty years old, and his identity is Ding Changshou's eldest brother, although there is a difference between monks and mortals, but according to Ding Zhengyi's understanding, grandfather Ding Changshou was taken care of by his eldest brother a lot when he was a child, so the two have a deep relationship.

Even now, they often have contact and are quite close, after the two brothers of Wenwu tested their cultivation qualifications, Ding Changshou also met a few times, and occasionally took care of some, otherwise their cultivation might be even more unbearable.

After making an appointment with them through Ding Zhengfeng's matchmaking, Ding Zhengyi found that the way they showed to behave in the world and the way they thought about solving problems made him very familiar, and he seemed to see his own shadow in it.

If that's all, it just shows that they have the potential to become Ding Zhengyi's qualified partners, and it's worth his trouble cultivating.

However, when the two brothers were in the psychedelic array, the inner emotions they showed were the root of Ding Zhengyi's great satisfaction.

From the brotherly love of brothers, friends and brothers, to the moral character of knowing etiquette and righteousness, knowing honesty and shame, as well as the spirit of being positive and enterprising, and willing to dedicate to the family, these all made Ding Zhengyi have to feel sincere admiration for him.

What the two brothers presented in front of Ding Zhengyi seemed to be a display of perfect humanity, which was enough to make him ashamed of himself.

A person with this personality may not be a qualified decision-maker, but he is definitely a reassuring executor.

When all the steps were completed, the more Ding Zhengyi looked at the two brothers, the more satisfied he felt.

He proposed on the spot, and in the future, they would be called brothers, and he immediately changed his name to Xiaowen and Xiaowu to show his closeness.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Ding Zhengyi also pushed the boat forward with a promise that he would fully supply the basic cultivation resources they needed in the future.

As for the oath, Ding Zhengyi didn't mention it, he felt that even if he wanted to, it was a kind of blasphemy against these two brothers.

When the two brothers heard what Ding Zhengyi said, they naturally couldn't help but be overjoyed, although the difficult cultivation career over the years had honed their indomitable will, but their cultivation was inevitably lagging behind a lot, and the anxiety in their hearts was just not easily revealed.

Now he can be a brother and sister with Ding Zhengyi, a role model who has been respected by the elders in recent years, and they no longer have to worry about cultivation resources in the future, so that they are like living in a dream.

The two brothers immediately bowed to worship, even if Ding Zhengyi couldn't understand these mundane etiquette, he could feel their kind of piety, which was impeccable.

It wasn't until Ding Zhengyi sent the two brothers away carrying Lingmi that he could still see the heartfelt gratitude on their excited faces.

Thinking of this, Ding Zhengyi's rock-solid heart also emitted warm enthusiasm, and the corners of his eyes revealed a trace of warmth that had not been seen for a long time.

After a while, Ding Zhengyi reached out and rubbed his face, and with the shaking of the rocking chair, he let go of these feelings and continued to think.

A few days after communicating with these two brothers, when Ding Zhengyi went to his grandfather to exchange for intermediate-grade rune paper, he pretended to talk about them casually.

Ding Changshou's impression of them is obviously good, and there is a look of pity between his words from time to time.

When Ding Zhengyi expressed that he wanted to recognize them as younger brothers and give them the corresponding cultivation resources, Ding Changshou was not surprised, but just gave him a meaningful smile.

From that smile, Ding Zhengyi could clearly see that his grandfather should know something.

Next, Ding Changshou did not raise objections and directly gave a supportive attitude, which also proved that Ding Zhengyi's guess was accurate.

Ding Zhengyi always remembered that his grandfather once had a private communication with him alone after a clan meeting a year ago for the sake of cultivating resources.

According to his normal concept, resources were of incomparable importance to the monks, and should never be wasted for unnecessary things.

But for the performance of this matter, Ding Changshou's attitude can be said to be contrary to his philosophy.

Ding Zhengyi suspected that he should have been instructed by the patriarch, but he didn't say anything.

Since this is the case, Ding Zhengyi also pretended to be confused, and the two of them tacitly laughed haha, and continued to talk about some trivial matters about the two brothers.

These small talks did not involve any hidden things, but they still solved a Ding Zhengyi's doubt.

Ever since he knew about the two brothers, Ding Zhengyi had never been able to figure out a question, but it was not good to ask around.

That is, he saw from the scriptures that the chance of an ordinary mortal being able to give birth to a spirit child was very small, generally not more than 1 in 10,000.

In this case, it would be a great deal of luck to have two brothers who are spirits.

In Ding Changshou's mouth, Ding Zhengyi knew that the mother of the two brothers was also a monk, which made him a little incredible.

However, with Grandpa's next explanation, Ding Zhengyi gradually understood that the monk was not as noble as he imagined.

In the entire Xuanshan Country, the Xuanshan Sect was able to find more than 1,000 spirits with spiritual apertures among millions of ordinary school-age children during the Xuanshan Sect's spirit body testing every five years.

Most of these children with spiritual apertures are cultivation qualifications below the four spiritual apertures, and there are only a few dozen people above the four spiritual apertures at most.

The Xuanshan Sect except for the requirement that children above the Four Spiritual Senses must join the sect, and the rest is ignored.

For these more than 1,000 children with inferior qualifications, the cultivation realm will not really let them fend for themselves, there are still four ways out for them to choose.

The first way is to join the Xuanshan Sect and become a miscellaneous disciple, without enjoying any welfare benefits, relying on labor in exchange for remuneration and maintaining basic cultivation.

The second path is to become a casual cultivator, relying entirely on self-reliance, pinning on those illusory opportunities to cultivate, and those who choose this path are those who have higher mental perseverance.

The third way is to marry into or join the cultivation family, although this can safely obtain some cultivation resources to maintain basic cultivation, but it is also unavoidable, and it requires hard work in the spiritual field.

The fourth path is very special, that is, to return to the mundane and marry into a big family, although there is no future in cultivation, but at least you can enjoy a luxurious life.

Although the proportion of these four paths varies from time to time the country is tested, the differences often depend on the first three.

The fourth item has maintained a relatively stable proportion, accounting for about half of the total number of people.

This is also related to the particularity of the fourth path, in the cultivation realm, the probability of having a spirit between a male monk and a mortal woman is not much different from that of a mortal, so no ordinary family will recruit a male monk with spiritual knowledge as a son-in-law.

When a female monk with spiritual knowledge marries a mortal, the probability of having a spirit in the children she conceives is basically the same as that between monks, and because they do not consider cultivation and labor, they often give birth to a large number of children, so the number of children conceived by each such couple is more than that of ordinary monk couples.

Ding Zhengyi was also the first time he had heard of such a strange thing, but after thinking about it, he could also understand that for those female monks who could not see the hope of cultivation, it was better to enjoy a luxurious life in the mundane world than to work hard or take risks to obtain resources.

From this incident, Ding Zhengyi thought of his mother Wu, how could she not yearn for such a life, but as a family monk, she couldn't help herself.

Sighing lightly, Ding Zhengyi shook his head, buried these feelings mixed with strong emotions into his heart, and continued to think about it.

Including the two brothers Xiaowen and Xiaowu, the number of people who have received his funding has reached five, which is in line with the number of people he originally planned.

Therefore, after this, Ding Zhengyi no longer bothered to choose his clansmen, and he was ready to spend his limited resources on himself and the five of them.

Only by cultivating the backbone can we drive the subsequent development of the team, and there are a large number of people at the beginning, which has no practical significance.

As for covering up the whereabouts of resources, which was a headache for the patriarch, Ding Zhengyi didn't pay too much attention to it, but his grandfather Ding Changshou directly helped him deal with it.

In the past six months, Ding Zhengyi frequently exchanged a large number of spiritual rice and other basic spiritual objects, which still made the family elders suspicious after all.

Ding Changshou shook out the matter of the two civil and military brothers in a timely manner, and at the same time showed a sense of frustration that hatred of iron could not become steel, and everyone praised Ding Zhengyi on the surface, but in fact they didn't think so.

In their view, resources are often worth fighting for for monks who still have hope for progress.

Ding Zhengyi's seemingly warm gesture was completely a sign of pedantic, and the elders just couldn't say it to their faces.

These were all things that Ding Changshou pretended to say unintentionally when he chatted with Ding Zhengyi afterwards.

However, Ding Zhengyi obviously understood what he wanted to express in his grandfather's eyes: "You don't have to worry about public opinion in the clan anymore, let it go!"

Later, this incident had an unexpected result for Ding Zhengyi, that is, when the clansmen used to talk about him, they would talk about his hard work.

Now he has added a name that pays attention to family affection and is kind and charitable, which also makes Ding Zhengyi gain a lot of favor among the clansmen.

Skipping these mentions, Ding Zhengyi sorted out the things he valued one by one, and generally felt that he had gained a lot.

After the official joining of the two brothers, the plan to train the team finally came to an end, which also allowed Ding Zhengyi to let go of the burden that had been hovering in his heart.

He stretched heavily, let out a long breath of turbidity, looked up at the rising sun, and estimated the time in his heart.

Ding Zhengyi realized that he had been lying on this rocking chair unconsciously for a long time, about an hour.

Sighing at the passage of time, he did not delay any longer and immediately got up from the rocking chair.

The short rest is over, Ding Zhengyi will continue to work hard, and all kinds of cultivation plans cannot be delayed, and he cannot be allowed to relax in the slightest.