According to Zhu Ba, Yangxian was extremely prosperous, but after the Jiaolong in Yixing Water and the White-browed Tiger in South Mountain began wreaking havoc, Yangxian had visibly fallen into decline.
Anyone with even a little wealth had left, heading for safer county seats.
The county seat had tall, sturdy walls, and county soldiers armed with bows, crossbows, and weapons. Compared with this completely undefended village, it was incomparably safer.
They were also worried that if they left Zhu Xiaofang at home with no one to look after her, the child might run off heedlessly and be eaten by a ferocious tiger that had come down from the mountain.
That was why the husband and wife had brought Zhu Xiaofang out fishing.
The encounter with Ding Ling on Pengze had deeply shocked all three members of Zhu Ba's family. However, Ding Ling had said that he was human, not Long Wang.
Although the three of them were half-convinced, they thought that someone as divinely powerful as Ding Ling had no reason to deceive ordinary people like them. Their hearts began to burn with hope as they wondered, Wouldn't it be wonderful if Ding Ling could eliminate the three scourges?
Boom!
The moment the thought of "eliminating the three scourges" crossed the Zhu couple's minds, thunder suddenly exploded out of nowhere!
It was accompanied by a rumble of thunderclaps.
In his daze, Ding Ling seemed to hear a sigh, as though something had awakened. Then, a streak of Spiritual Light descended from the heavens and, with astonishing speed, plunged into the center of Ding Ling's brow.
It was extremely compatible with the mana of Ding Ling's Jade Clarity Immortal Method, causing his mana to condense more than tenfold, then a hundredfold in an instant. He actually broke through to the Foundation