Understanding the function of the lightning pearl, Zhang Ling felt a mix of hope and anxiety.
He naturally envied the Azure Lightning Sect for having such formations and secret techniques to assist cultivators in forming their nascent souls. However, he also learned that they were only applicable to cultivators practicing lightning-attribute techniques.
The most crucial aspect was likely the so-called Blood Lightning Curse. Such secret techniques were impossible to pass on to outsiders, and he wasn't even cultivating a lightning-attribute technique.
Since these formations and secret techniques were of no use to him, Zhang Ling didn't pay much attention to them. After calming down, he looked at Ding Ruozhao and still asked:
"The Azure Lightning Sect must have made thorough preparations to assist cultivators in breaking through. It's impossible for them to blame your Ding family just because of a lightning pearl. Besides, the Ding family has some influence in the Azure Lightning Sect, so how could there be any trouble?"
Hearing his question, Ding Ruozhao shook her head with a desolate and bitter expression.
"Including me, the Ding family does have three Core Formation cultivators. However, three years ago, the Ding family's old patriarch already exhausted his lifespan and passed away. The one currently in charge of the Ding family isn't a Ding family member, but an outsider surnamed Liu. This person was originally a rogue cultivator who married into my Ding family. His aptitude is indeed good. He broke through to the Core Formation stage two hundred years ago, and now he has also reached the late stage of Core Formation. As soon as the old patriarch passed away, this person seized control of the Ding family. Now the Ding family is divided into two factions. It's not as good as before, but outsiders don't know it. If I hadn't returned to the Ding family half a year ago, I'm afraid the Ding family would have already changed its name to Liu."
As Ding Ruozhao spoke, her eyes gradually turned cold, seeming somewhat angry.
Zhang Ling sneered inwardly, not with any sarcasm, but because the cultivation world was like this, where the strong with high cultivation levels always had the final say.
"You want to take back the Ding family."
"That's right, that's why I'm looking for you."
"Then what does this have to do with the Azure Lightning Sect's lightning pearl?"
"This matter is very important. The Liu surname wants to usurp the Ding family, and there is still one obstacle. My Ding family has a inherited spirit beast, the Lightning Fire Beast. Its strength has reached the peak of the seventh rank. This is also the reason why this person hasn't made a move yet."
"But now someone from the Azure Lightning Sect wants to form a nascent soul with the help of a secret technique, and they happen to need a top-tier lightning-attribute spirit beast."
"The Liu surname used this as an opportunity to offer the Ding family's Lightning Fire Beast. Regardless of whether the sect's elder can successfully break through in the end, the Lightning Fire Beast will definitely cease to exist. By then, it will be easy for the Liu surname to seize the Ding family. If the sect's elder successfully breaks through, then it goes without saying. The Ding family will immediately change its name to Liu."
Listening to Ding Ruozhao's account, Zhang Ling naturally understood her meaning.
An outsider wants to usurp the Ding family, and a powerful inherited family spirit beast is indeed a big obstacle. Offering the spirit beast to the sect can not only please the sect, but also weaken the Ding family's strength. It can be said to kill two birds with one stone.
Most sects and families cultivate such inherited spirit beasts, choosing some very potential demon beasts to nurture. They often go through several generations or even dozens of generations. It takes time and effort to cultivate them. After all, the time it takes for demon beasts to advance is generally very long.
But once they are cultivated, they can be used as the foundation of the family. High-level demon beasts themselves have very long lifespans. Fifth and sixth-level demon beasts can survive for one or two thousand years, enough to protect a cultivation family.
The Ding family is very powerful to have a seventh-level peak inherited spirit beast. But things are unpredictable. Now someone wants to seize his Ding family, and the first thing to remove is the inherited spirit beast.
Zhang Ling sighed inwardly. This is also a tragedy of a cultivation family. Especially a cultivation family that depends on the sect, which has both advantages and disadvantages.
The advantage is that it is good to enjoy the shade under the big tree of the sect, which can allow the cultivation family to develop better. But a sect will naturally not help family cultivators for free, and there is a certain degree of suppression.
Cultivation families rely on the sect, and the sect sucks blood from the family to expand its power. This is a very common thing.
Ding Ruozhao is now trying to win him over, obviously wanting to deal with the cultivator surnamed Liu, and even the Azure Lightning Sect.
Zhang Ling pondered for a moment and shook his head.
If the Ding family were an independent cultivation family, it would be fine to help once in consideration of his close relationship with this woman.
But the Ding family is a cultivation family attached to the Azure Lightning Sect. If something goes wrong, it may provoke the high-level officials of the sect. The pros and cons of this are self-evident, and it may even attract nascent soul-level old monsters. The risk is too great.
Seeing him shake his head, Ding Ruozhao understood his meaning, and suddenly stood up and glanced at him with complicated eyes.
Zhang Ling felt uncomfortable being stared at by her gaze, but this was also something that could not be helped. He himself would not be stupid enough to fight against any sect.
Ding Ruozhao frowned slightly and bit her lip as if she had made up her mind, staring at him with her eyes unblinking and said.
"What if I can help you break through to the late stage of Core Formation within twenty years?"
What!
Zhang Ling had originally planned to get up and leave, but he was stunned when he heard this and glanced at this woman in disbelief.
Ding Ruozhao frowned slightly, but her face showed a bit of perseverance, and at the same time, it also carried a bit of helplessness.
Zhang Ling thought he had heard wrong, but he saw this woman's body tremble slightly, and suddenly inexplicably stretched out her left arm and rolled up her sleeves, her beautiful eyes flickering a few times.
"Have you ever heard of a special spiritual body? I myself have the cultivation aptitude of a lightning spiritual root, but at the same time, I also have a special spiritual body, the Jade Phoenix Spiritual Body."
Special spiritual body.
Zhang Ling naturally knew about it, but the probability of human cultivators possessing a spiritual body is much lower than that of spiritual roots.
A spiritual body is also a cultivation aptitude, such as the Three Yang Spiritual Body, which is very suitable for cultivating fire-attribute skills, is born with charm, and is suitable for cultivating charm and illusion techniques. The Mysterious Yin Spiritual Body is suitable for cultivating yin-attribute techniques, and cultivating ghost and demonic techniques is twice the result with half the effort.
There are many types of spiritual bodies, and no one can understand all of them. And like the Jade Phoenix Spiritual Body that this woman said, although Zhang Ling had never heard of it, but looking at the literal meaning, it seemed suitable for dual cultivation techniques.
He couldn't help but turn his eyes to this woman. Her outstretched left arm was very fair, with a shallow white spiritual pattern on it. It was hard to find if you didn't look carefully.
The white spiritual pattern was very faint, like some kind of birthmark or tattoo. But Zhang Ling didn't see anything unusual about the white spiritual pattern. These spiritual patterns were only a few faint white lines, hidden under the skin, looming.
After staring at Ding Ruozhao's arm for a while, he couldn't see anything else on her arm except for these faint spiritual patterns. However, he could also confirm that these spiritual patterns were not traces that were revealed by using spiritual power.
It seems to be really natural.
Zhang Ling didn't know much about special physiques, and couldn't determine whether what she said was true or false for a while.
"It's not that I don't trust the fairy's words, but I have heard that although there is this kind of special spiritual body that can help people break through cultivation bottlenecks. But most of them have to cultivate yin and yang harmony techniques, and also have to maintain a perfect body, and it is only useful for the first time."
Zhang Ling asked with a strange tone.
