Volume 3 Chapter 94 - Embarrassment (1/2)
Chapter 94: Embarrassment
What is your name? Where do you come from?” Qing Yaoyin looked at Ding Ning’s calm features and asked seriously.
Ding Ning said humbly, “White Goat Cave, Ding Ning.”
“White Goat Cave?”
Qing Yaoyin was shocked.
Before he had asked Ding Ning, the names of many prominent cultivation places had been in his mind. In his thoughts, Ding Ning was a cultivator from one of those places. Yet, White Goat Cave was an unfamiliar name. He spent a few moments to recall it. This appeared to be an unknown cultivation place in Changling.
“Astounding!” Qing Yaoyin said, after a moment of silence.
Ding Ning did not respond and waited quietly.
The anger and puzzlement in Qing Yaoyin’s eyes disappeared completely to be replaced by admiration and pity.“You have major problems with your health.” He looked at the dots of white in Ding Ning’s hair roots and sensed the energies in Ding Ning’s body.
Ding Ning looked at him and nodded. “So I need to win the sword trials and obtain the opportunity to study in Min Mountain Sword Sect.”
Qing Yaoyin’s eyes flashed. He nodded and said, “Not bad.”
“You may leave.” Then he pointed at the distant green palace and said, “There is the exit.”
Ding Ning bowed slightly in thanks. Then he prepared to put down the black ice worm he had been holding in his left hand all this time to leave. But at this moment, Qing Yaoyin’s brows shifted and he said, “Do you understand the meaning of my words?”
Ding Ning looked up and said, “Elder means that I do not need to attend this test and can leave through there?”
Qing Yaoyin had not expected Ding Ning to completely comprehend his intentions and stilled. He instinctively said, “You really understand?”
“Since Elder says that my actions were correct, had Elder not appeared, I could defeat these imperial insects at a low cost and successfully pass this test.” Ding Ning looked calmly at Qing Yaoyin and said, “Elder telling me the green temple is the exit, means that I do not need to stay here. But I do not understand why Elder stopped me from killing these imperial insects and killed those black ice worms.”Read more new novels on listnovel.com
Ding Ning looked at the dark red sea of brambles and said, “Since many students have entered this sea of brambles, I think there must be many swarms of insects and worms. The ones here are just some of them.”
Hearing Ding Ning’s opinion, Qing Yaoyin’s eyes lit up. ” You understand that the changes of these insects are interlocked. For you, damaging one of them will damage all. Just like how the circulation of vital energy in us cultivators cannot form a complete cycle if multiple meridians are blocked. But what I am doing will form a certain cycle and obtain what I want in the end. The interactions are extremely complex. Some swarms have to be maintained at a certain number so they will not go extinct. Some swarms will need to have enough power so they will not be eliminated.”
Qing Yaoyin paused slightly as his gaze landed on the dark red worm in Ding Ning’s hand.
Then he said with a rare thread of severity, “In this process of transformation and cycles, the most taboo matter is the natural predator and prey relationship between the hunted and the hunter. For example, the wild rabbits of the plains are prey for the hawk. Rabbits are born to be food for hawks and naturally fear the hawk. Yet, if one day, a certain rabbit swarm became fearless of hawks due to an unknown change and obtained the ability to fight the hawks, the cycle would be completely changed. For example, us humans drank blood and couldn’t compete with ancient beasts in primal times. The rulers of the world then were the powerful beasts. When humans comprehended the technique of weapons’ creation and cultivators appeared, us humans completely changed the world and became its master.”
Ding Ning glanced at the dark red black ice worm in his hand and the black ice worm swarm that Qing Yaoyin had destroyed. He completely understood Qing Yaoyin’s words and his left hand relaxed, about to put down the black ice worm.
But at this time, Qing Yaoyin spoke.
“Of course, I cannot just swing my sword for this black ice worm.”
Qing Yaoyin glanced at Ding Ning and the black ice worm in his hand. He said coolly, “It is rare that you can think of this solution and force me to appear. We count as having karma. If you do not mind how ugly it looks and don’t want to kill it for me, you can take it as you leave.”
Ding Ning stilled.
How could he not hear Qing Yaoyin’s intentions of giving this? While black ice worm was common in this secret land and was not very strong right now, it may possibly become the reason that the food chain in this place was destroyed. It was not a natural swarm of the world, and he feared that this was the only one left in existence. The one in his hand was at least the leader of the swarm and more importantly, since someone like Qing Yaoyin mentioned gifting it, then this black ice worm may likely have unpredictable changes.