Longevity Thunder Ancestor

Chapter 325 The Current Situation of the Ning Family
"Boy, you did a good job. You didn't bring shame to our sect." Qiu Zheng walked up to Ning Fa and looked at him with admiration.

"Thank you, uncle master, for your help." Ning Fa thanked him immediately.

The Black King of Hell looked at him carefully and said with some regret, "It's a pity that Yun Jizi once sentenced me to death, saying that I can only accept seven disciples in my lifetime. Tie Niu is the last one, otherwise I really want to accept you as my disciple."

Ning Fa's heart moved. Who is this Yun Jizi and how could he be able to judge the fate of a Jindan cultivator?
"Master..." Cui Hong next to him shouted at Qiu Zheng with a complicated expression.

Qiu Zheng looked at him carefully, patted his shoulder with relief, and then left.

"Junior Brother Ning, are you okay?"

Only a pleasant female voice was heard, and it was Ling Yue and Li Tieniu who squeezed through the crowd. They looked at Ning Fa with concern, and Ling Yue asked worriedly.

After all, even a casual attack from a Jindan cultivator would definitely not be easy to deal with. Ling Yue thought Ning Fa was just holding on.

"I'm fine." Ning Fa looked at Ling Yue carefully, until Ling Yue turned her face away, unable to bear it.

Ning Fa smiled slightly, and then said to Li Tieniu jokingly: "Tieniu, I really have to thank your master for his help."

After coming out of the Yuanling Secret Realm, Qiu Zheng unexpectedly accepted Li Tieniu as his personal disciple, not knowing whether it was out of gratitude to Li Tieniu or for other reasons.

He also announced that Li Tieniu was his last disciple, which was quite big news in the sect.

After all, Li Tieniu is very ordinary in every aspect. If he hadn't been lucky this time in the Yuanling Secret Realm and obtained a large amount of contribution points, normally he would not be able to even enter the inner gate.

Li Tieniu and Ling Yue's masters Qiu Zheng and Fairy Bai Feng are both Jindan elders of the master-disciple faction. Naturally, they also came to the Heize Fairy City with the master-disciple faction's large group of people.

As for Zuo Guanglin and Kou Zhun, they are still outer disciples and cannot escape the sect's mobilization to expand southwards. It's just that it may take some time for them to get here.

Hearing Ning Fa's joke, Li Tieniu also smiled heartily.

Since entering the inner sect and being accepted as Qiu Zheng's personal disciple, Li Tieniu, who was previously introverted and not good at speaking, has become calm and measured in his behavior.

He has now reached the ninth level of Qi training, which is a rapid progress considering his aptitude.

"Everyone, I met a family member and he has something important to ask you, so I'll leave first." Ning Fa clasped his fists towards Ling Yue, Cui Hong and others, then left with Ning Hongye.

Ning Hongye's face was somewhat shocked. From his brief observation, it seemed that his nephew had already made quite a name for himself in the Huayu Sect.

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"Uncle San, what is the current situation of the family? You seem to be anxious to get high-level healing pills. Could it be that someone in the family is seriously injured?"

In a room of an inn in Hei Ze Xian City, Ning Fa asked in a deep voice.

He had already heard from Wei Shiqin that the Ning family was in a bad situation, but when he met Ning Hongye today, he realized that the Ning family’s situation might be even worse than he had expected.

Ning Hongye looked at Ning Fa, who was intimidating without even getting angry, and then thought of Ning Fa's amazing strength just now. He couldn't help but sigh at how fast Ning Fa had grown in such a short time.

He thought about it for a moment and began to tell Ningfa.

Ning Hongye talked for more than half an hour. After listening to him, Ning Fa's brows were tightly furrowed, and his heart was in turmoil.

Only now did he realize that the Ning family's situation was indeed far worse than he had expected.

When the alliance formed by the Ning family was about to completely defeat the Xue family, the envoy of Wanfamen suddenly appeared and forcibly recruited the anti-Xue alliance, including the Ning family, to go to the southern part of Yunhuang Lake to open up.

Because Xue Zongqi of the Xue family became the direct disciple of the deputy head of the Dan Hall of Wanfamen, the Ning family was also targeted by Wanfamen.

As a result, he was assigned to the worst development area, a dangerous place called "Black Water Lake" deep in the Black Horn Swamp.

Compared with the Black Water Lake, Qianbo Lake is like a fairyland.

The environment there is extremely harsh, with the unique miasma of the Black Swamp, endless ferocious monsters, and strange and unpredictable celestial phenomena that even the foundation-building monks are helpless to deal with...

This kind of harsh environment is difficult to withstand even for ordinary Qi-cultivating practitioners, let alone mortals.

Therefore, within a few years after the Ning family moved to this place, the bloodline of mortals dropped by as much as 30%.

The situation of the family monks is not much better, because they have to bear the many dangers in the outside world.

Not to mention, the Ning family not only has to contend with the environment, but they also have to fight with people.

Although the area of Black Water Lake is not small, there are not many spiritual veins there, which is far less than Qianbo Lake.

In addition to the Ning family, there are other cultivator families and independent cultivator forces there.

There are also many extremely vicious robbers who hide here to escape capture.

In order to seize the spiritual veins, the Ning family naturally had to snatch food from the tiger's mouth and compete with these local families and other forces.

Any force that can gain a foothold in a dangerous place like Black Water Margin is not a good thing. The Ning family paid a huge price and made sacrifices to barely have a foothold.

It was nothing more than a low-grade second-level spiritual vein whose spiritual energy reserves would be exhausted within a hundred years, plus a few inferior first-level spiritual veins.

Today, the number of Ning family cultivators has dropped sharply from 430 before the migration to 270.

There are also many people like Ning Hongye who are disabled and have no hope for their future.

Even so, the spiritual veins that the Ning family currently possessed were not enough for so many cultivators to practice. The Ning family's top brass had to make a decision.

Most of the opportunities to practice in spiritual veins are reserved for young family members with good qualifications. Practitioners from other families can only live on the edge of the spiritual veins and get some meager spiritual energy.

It can only barely replenish the consumed mana, and there is no way it can improve the level of cultivation.

The family's resources were also very carefully considered. They would rather split a spirit stone into two halves to spend. To say that they were stretched to the limit would be an understatement.

These cultivation resources can only be provided to the most talented children in the family. Those with average qualifications are basically cut off from cultivation resources and have to sacrifice for them.

Moreover, a considerable amount of resources must be invested in the family's protective formation. Otherwise, without the protection of a powerful formation, even without attacks from other forces, the harsh environment of the Black Horn Swamp alone would be enough to destroy the Ning family.

It is not easy for the Ning family to continue to develop, let alone survive.

Ning Fa remained silent for a long time after listening, then suddenly looked at Ning Hongye's right hand and asked, "Third Uncle, who injured your left arm? With the Third Elder's amazing strength, why was he injured so badly?"

Ning Hongye finally said that he came to Heize Immortal City from afar just to obtain high-level healing pills because the third elder of the family, Ning Zhongjiu, was seriously injured.

If there is no timely treatment with high-level elixirs, it is likely that the level of cultivation will be greatly reduced and it will be difficult to recover for the rest of his life.

However, Ning Hongye was vague about the specific reason, and only said that it was caused by a fight with other cultivators.

Ning Hongye fell silent.

Ning Fa's eyes flashed with coldness, and he said slowly: "The opponent is too strong. Are you worried that I will suffer a loss if I act impulsively? Looking at the way the Wanfamen disciples were looking for trouble before, it seems that someone from the Wanfamen did it? That should be related to Xue Zongqi, right?"

Ning Hongye's expression froze involuntarily, and then he smiled bitterly. It was obvious that Ning Fa's guess was basically correct.

He hesitated for a moment, then sighed and told the truth.

Although the local forces in Heishuipo are not easy to deal with, the Ning family is also a powerful force, especially since several elders of the family are not ordinary foundation-building cultivators, so they can still maintain it.

But half a year ago, a team from Wanfamen came to Heishuipo in person to preside over the development, and it seemed that they had discovered some precious mineral veins deep inside.

From then on, the Ning family's life became even worse.

Because the former head of the Dan Hall of Wanfa Sect, Yuanfa Zhenren, who was in the late Jindan stage, decided to go into seclusion in order to try to break through the Yuanying stage, and he also turned down all his sect duties.

And Master Yuxuan took over from him as the head of the Wanfamen Dan Hall, and the sect's status was greatly improved as a result.

The status of his disciples also rose accordingly.

And Xue Zongqi was his disciple.

Even though Xue Zongqi is only in the initial stage of foundation building, there are still many disciples in the sect who are in the middle and late stages of foundation building who are trying to make friends with him.

The one who led the Wanfamen team to Heishuipo this time was named Luo Xingjun.

This person is in the late stage of foundation building and is extremely powerful.

In order to please Xue Zongqi, he naturally suppressed the Ning family deliberately.

For example, forcibly conscripting members of the Ning family to carry out dangerous tasks and intervening in the struggle between the Ning family and surrounding forces.

Ning Hongye's right hand was cut off by this man three months ago.

The reason was that when Ning Hongye led the family monks to explore outside and returned, Luo Xingjun forcibly demanded their spoils.

Those spiritual resources were obtained by the Ning family cultivators at the cost of their lives, so Ning Hongye naturally could not hand them over easily. As a result, he had his left arm chopped off by this man.

Ning Zhongjiu was also seriously injured by this man.

Because Luo Xingjun suddenly announced half a month ago that he would double the Ning family's taxes, Ning Zhongjiu, who had been holding a grudge for a long time, challenged this man despite the dissuasion of the great elder Ning Zhongyuan.

However, although Ning Zhongjiu's strength is extraordinary, he is still one level lower than Luo Xingjun, and there is also a huge gap in their skills and magic weapons.

As a result, he was beaten seriously by Luo Xingjun, who played into his trap.

If Ning Zhongyuan had not seen that the situation was not right and paid a huge amount of resources to make Luo Xingjun stop, it is very likely that Ning Zhongjiu would have died.

Because the family's collection of high-level healing elixirs had long been consumed, Ning Hongye had no choice but to come to the Heize Immortal City to ask for elixirs.

But it was obvious that Luo Xingjun had already informed the Wanfamen disciples here, so he tried to stop Ning Hongye.

There was a loud "bang" sound.

Ning Fa stood up suddenly, and slapped the table in front of him with his palm in anger.

The round table made of century-old ironwood in front of the two of them was turned into ashes by his palm.

"Luo Xingjun, Xue Zongqi..."

Ning Fa muttered, his eyes flashing with murderous intent.

He took a deep breath, narrowed his eyes, and suddenly said: "This Luo Xingjun is pressing the family more and more, maybe he is watching my reaction... or to be more precise, he is watching whether the Duanmu family will react."

(End of this chapter)