Beast Taming Immortal Clan

Chapter 139 Reforming the Family, Cultivating Beast Taming Techniques [Third Update, Please Subscribe]

After returning from the cave dwelling of the Supreme Elder Zhou Mingde, Zhou Chun had a heart-to-heart talk with the clan leader Zhou Daoyi.

After the private meeting, clan leader Zhou Daoyi officially retired from public life and devoted himself to cultivation.

Zhou Chun, on the other hand, began to officially exercise the power of the clan leader as the deputy clan leader.

He did three things first. On the one hand, he ordered the Spirit Beast Shop in the market to place an order with "Tianbao Pavilion" for two magical artifacts that could collect and contain golden energy.

On the one hand, they posted a task in the family to collect gold energy, asking the family's Qi Refining stage cultivators to use their gourd magic tools to collect gold energy.

Finally, he used his own and his family's connections to purchase the two kinds of elixirs, Protecting Meridians Pill and Nourishing Meridians Pill, as well as the refining materials for Golden Spirit Qi-Regulating Powder.

After making arrangements for his own cultivation, Zhou Chun began to reform the administrative management of the Zhou family in various aspects.

He first invited several elders and clan leader Zhou Daoyi to the Zhongping Hall to hold a high-level elders' meeting, where they approved the plan to appoint ordinary clansmen to work on the mountain.

Then he had someone bring a group of ordinary people that he had secretly gathered and trained to the mountain.

Now, after three migrations, the Zhou family has brought over nearly 50,000 ordinary people from Feng State, the vast majority of whom are young and middle-aged men and women.

Most of the Zhou family members who remained in Fengguo were old and weak and unable to adapt to large-scale long-distance migration, so they no longer had the ability to participate in large-scale long-distance migration.

Therefore, unless they have the willpower to travel thousands of miles to Jingguo to recognize each other, the Zhou family will no longer be able to relocate mortals there.

With these 50,000 mortal clansmen as their base, the Zhou family could multiply into hundreds of thousands of mortal clansmen in Jing Kingdom in less than a hundred years!

The group of mortals that Zhou Chun is now bringing up the mountain are carefully selected from among the 50,000 mortal clansmen.

There were seventy of them in total, the vast majority of whom were energetic young adults.

Zhou Chun left six of them on Pagoda Peak, and appointed four of them, who were skilled in arithmetic and statistics, as scribes to record the daily affairs handled by him, the clan leader.

Two burly men served as guards in front of the palace, specifically responsible for relaying messages.

The remaining twelve people, who were quite familiar with medicinal herbs, were sent to Hundred Herbs Peak to help take care of the mountain's spiritual herbs and do some odd jobs.

Thirty-six people were sent to the Beast Garden to help feed the monsters and do various chores.

Sixteen others were sent to the remaining eight peaks to assist the peak masters in compiling various statistical data.

This is the initial arrangement for ordinary people to go up the mountain.

But Zhou Chun's reforms to the Zhou family went far beyond that.

In his plan, the Zhou family would establish multiple halls, each corresponding to a specific aspect of affairs, and the peak masters of each peak would only serve as a symbol of honor.

However, to realize his plan, he not only needs to persuade the leaders of each peak, but also needs to find suitable leaders and people to do things for each branch.

Therefore, after all these mortals had arrived and taken their positions, he did a few other things.

First, the peak masters of each peak are required to record the changes in the cultivation level of each family's cultivators, and to submit a report monthly.

Secondly, we need to compile statistics on each cultivator's specialties, the spirit pets they possess, and the family missions they have previously undertaken.

On the other hand, he personally took time to call each clansman to the Zhongping Hall to ask them if they were interested in any particular matter or if they had any plans to serve the clan in any way.

Next, Zhou Chun asked his clansmen to recommend independent cultivators they deemed trustworthy, and to register and compile their information into a booklet for future reference.

Finally, Zhou Chun proposed setting up a list called the Family Contribution List.

The list will compile a list of the top ten clan members who have made the greatest contributions to the clan each year, and they will be given additional rewards.

The list will also include the five family members who made the lowest contribution to the family each year.

This list will be posted outside the Zhou family's ancestral hall, and all clansmen can go and check it at any time!

Because these measures and reforms did not touch upon the tribe's bottom line much, at most they only took up some of their time in conducting statistical surveys, so they were all successfully implemented.

As for the family contribution list, since it was newly established and the results of the first year had not yet been officially posted and announced, it had not yet attracted much attention from the Zhou family members.

While many Zhou family cultivators were busy with Zhou Chun's orders, he went to Flying Stone Peak.

Zhou Daoquan, the peak master of Feishi Peak, is currently in seclusion breaking through to the late stage of Foundation Establishment, and no news has been released.

Fortunately, the guardian of the library, Aoki Spirit Ape, continues to diligently protect this place.

When Zhou Chun arrived, he immediately reached into his storage bag and took out a few spirit fruits and a jar of spirit fruit wine.

Then, smiling slightly at the green-haired giant ape whose appetite was already whetted, he said, "Elder Ape, these few spirit pears and this jar of hundred-fruit wine were specially collected and purchased from the market by me. Would you like to try them and see how they taste?"

Upon hearing this, the blue-haired giant ape immediately cried out, "Good lad, it seems you haven't been a deputy clan leader for nothing! Let this old ape have a taste!"

Although it was ape language, Zhou Chun, who was already quite familiar with ape language, understood its meaning.

He immediately placed a drop of the substance into the other man's hand, nodded, and said, "Then please enjoy it slowly, Elder Ape. I'll go upstairs to choose a secret technique."

Back then, the clan leader Zhou Daoyi had promised Zhou Chun that after he reached the Foundation Establishment stage, all the cultivation techniques and secret arts of the Zhou family would be available for him to choose and practice.

He came to the library today to select secret techniques.

Since he couldn't learn the Golden Cauldron Mystic Art for the time being and his cultivation level couldn't be improved, Zhou Chun decided to use his original meditation time to practice several other secret techniques.

Of course, with his current cultivation level, he would definitely not cultivate the ordinary secret techniques on the second floor, but rather secret techniques that are also very useful to Foundation Establishment stage cultivators.

After Zhou Chun became the deputy clan leader, Zhou Daoyi taught him the techniques for activating the restrictions in places like the library.

He has learned and mastered it these days.

At this moment, he opened the forbidden gate on the second floor of the library, and all the secret techniques and cultivation methods collected inside appeared in his sight.

Seeing the bookshelf labeled "Cultivation Techniques," Zhou Chun's eyes flashed with a strange light, and he immediately walked over.

While the purpose of this trip is to select secret techniques, there's no harm in taking a look at these cultivation methods.

He casually picked up a martial arts manual called "Stone Dragon Manual" and began to read it.

This book, "Stone Dragon Manual," is the kind of cultivation method that allows one to master powerful supernatural abilities after cultivation. As long as one successfully cultivates the first level, one will be granted two powerful supernatural abilities: "Spirit Transformation Stone Dragon" and "Stone Dragon Battle Armor."

Judging from the descriptions above, the power of these two supernatural abilities is probably no less than that of the two supernatural abilities attached to the "Ten Thousand Wood True Skill".

To successfully cultivate the Stone Dragon Manual, one also needs to use valuable spiritual materials such as "Earth Elemental Stone" and "Earth Spirit Jade" as aids. There is no record of any danger in cultivating it.

However, the cultivation speed of the Stone Dragon Technique is extremely slow!

The above are examples left by the Zhou family's senior cultivators. Even if a cultivator with a superior spiritual root aptitude practices this technique, it would take almost a hundred years to break through to the mid-Foundation Establishment stage without taking any pills to enhance their magical power!

Based on this calculation, the time required to break through from the mid-Foundation Building stage to the late-Foundation Building stage will only be much longer!

Even if one could cultivate this technique to the Purple Mansion stage using the power of elixirs, the slow cultivation speed would make it incredibly difficult to improve one's cultivation level further.

After all, the higher the level, the fewer pills there are suitable for advanced cultivators to improve their magical power.

When Zhou Chun was in the Qi Refining stage, he could buy pills that could improve his magical power cultivation as long as he had spiritual coins.

However, pills that can improve the magical power of Foundation Establishment cultivators are in short supply and are difficult to buy in ordinary market shops.

Upon seeing this, Zhou Chun shook his head and put it back.

Then he took out a cultivation technique called "Condensing Yuan Technique" from the bottom layer and opened it to read.

Compared to the previous "Stone Dragon Manual", this "Condensing Yuan Technique" is completely the opposite.

Cultivating the "Condensing Yuan Technique" requires no spiritual materials and can be done by any cultivator who has just successfully established their foundation.

However, once this technique is successfully mastered, it will only grant one "Spirit Gathering Technique" supernatural ability that has no combat capabilities, allowing one to gather spiritual energy more quickly and accelerate cultivation.

Even a cultivator with a mid-grade spiritual root can reach the mid-Foundation Establishment stage within fifty years by cultivating this technique, with the blessing of the "Spirit Gathering Technique" and without consuming any pills to enhance their cultivation or mana.

Even the transition from the mid-stage to the late-stage Foundation Establishment takes less than eighty years, and there are very few bottlenecks encountered along the way.

In other words, under ideal circumstances, if a cultivator with a mid-grade spiritual root successfully establishes their foundation at the age of sixty and chooses to cultivate the "Condensing Yuan Technique," they will most likely be able to cultivate to the late stage of Foundation Establishment before the age of two hundred, and have the opportunity to break through to the Purple Mansion realm.

It looks pretty good!

But in reality, unless you are a descendant of a high-level cultivator, you can cultivate within the mountain gate without ever having to go out and fight with others.

Otherwise, they would eventually have to go out and fight with other cultivators and demonic beasts.

If it is a rogue cultivator who has just established their foundation and doesn't even have a second-tier magic weapon, after practicing this "Condensing Yuan Technique", they will probably only be able to bully first-tier demonic beasts. They would have to run away if they encountered a second-tier demonic beast.

Even if a cultivator from a family has a second-tier magic weapon provided by the family, they can only fight against weaker second-tier demonic beasts. If they encounter stronger second-tier demonic beasts, they still cannot defeat them.

Furthermore, if you encounter an enemy who is also a Foundation Establishment cultivator with a second-tier magic weapon, and whose cultivation technique is accompanied by powerful offensive divine abilities, then you might not even be able to escape!

Just like Shen Han, the Foundation Establishment cultivator that Zhou Chun fought before, it seemed that the other party did not use any powerful supernatural abilities to attack him from beginning to end, but relied on magic weapons and spells.

Most likely, he was a Foundation Establishment cultivator who was greedy for fast cultivation speed and practiced a technique similar to "Condensing Yuan Technique".

Of course, cultivation techniques like "Condensing Yuan Technique," which extremely emphasize cultivation speed, are not the absolute mainstream.

Many second-class cultivation methods, while also pursuing cultivation speed, often take into account aspects of self-defense and protection.

Just like the cultivation techniques practiced by the Foundation Establishment cultivators of the Zhou family, the cultivation speed is about 70% of the effect of the "Condensing Yuan Technique". At the same time, the accompanying supernatural abilities are mostly self-defense and escape techniques, which make them much more capable of saving their lives when encountering danger.

In short, after reading the introductions to these cultivation techniques, Zhou Chun felt even more fortunate about his decision to choose to cultivate top-tier techniques, and his resolve became even stronger.

He quickly left the area where cultivation techniques were stored and went to the area where secret techniques were kept.

The Zhou family has collected quite a few secret techniques suitable for Foundation Establishment stage cultivators, but many of these techniques have rather demanding cultivation conditions.

Zhou Chun is already struggling to cultivate just the "Golden Cauldron Mystic Art," so he has no energy left to spare for cultivating those overly complicated secret techniques.

Therefore, his purpose this time was very clear: to prepare to cultivate the beast-taming secret technique that the Zhou family relied on to pass down.

Speaking of which, although the Zhou family is a family of beast tamers, apart from most of the clansmen raising demonic beasts and spirit pets and knowing some skills in taming spirit beasts, they have never seemed to have revealed any powerful beast taming secrets.

It gives people the feeling that it doesn't live up to its name.

Actually, that's all an illusion!

Since the Zhou family regards the art of beast taming as a family-inherited skill, they must naturally have a matching secret technique for beast taming.

Leaving aside the "Soul Control Blood Array" and other contract techniques that Zhou Chun had used before, the Zhou family's truly powerful beast-taming secret techniques all require a Foundation Establishment stage cultivation level to practice, and many of them also have certain requirements regarding the strength of the demonic beasts and spirit pets.

Just like the beast-taming secret technique that Zhou Daoyi used back then, it could activate the dragon bloodline in the Azure Cloud Python's body, allowing it to transform into a dragon and wreak havoc everywhere!

Zhou Chun came to the library mainly for this secret technique.

He searched the bookshelf and quickly found the jade slip that recorded this secret technique.

"Ancestral Revival" can be used on some monsters that contain the bloodline of top-level monsters to stimulate the blood of their ancestors, allowing them to briefly enter the ancestral state and master some of the supernatural powers of their ancestors at that level.

The demonic beasts that are subjected to the spell must have a minimum cultivation level of 2, must have a contractual relationship with the spellcaster, and must not resist the spellcaster's power.

At the same time, the concentration of ancestral bloodline in the body must reach a certain level. The higher the bloodline concentration, the stronger the ability to be enhanced after surgery.

Indeed, the secret technique that Zhou Daoyi used was not the one Zhou Chun originally thought was specifically designed for the Jiaolong clan, but rather a secret technique that could be used against many powerful and potentially potent types of demonic beasts.

However, although every Foundation Establishment cultivator in the Zhou family can cultivate this secret technique, there are only a few Zhou family cultivators who have demonic beasts or spirit pets that meet the requirements for receiving the technique, so not everyone can cultivate it.

In addition to the beast-taming secret technique "Ancestral Revival", Zhou Chun also chose another beast-taming secret technique for himself, "Beast Spirit Battle Armor".

The "Beast Spirit Armor" can be used on demonic beasts to stimulate their own magical power and condense a powerful spiritual armor to protect them. The strength of the defense depends on the cultivation level of both the demonic beast and its owner.

In fact, the Zhou family has several other beast-taming techniques, but Zhou Chun knew that it's better to master more than one. He decided to focus on mastering these two techniques first before pursuing the others.

Phew, I did the extra chapter! I have two hours left, haven't showered yet, and can't finish another chapter. I'll update tomorrow morning's chapter at noon!

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