Beast Taming Immortal Clan

Chapter 141 Borrowing is Unacceptable, Unwelcome Guests Arrive [Please Subscribe]

Flying Stone Peak.

After seeing Zhou Chun off, Zhou Daoquan's feelings were very complicated.

He already knew that Zhou Chun was courageous, resourceful, and brave.

But I never expected Zhou Chun to be so bold!

Whether it was choosing to cultivate the "Golden Cauldron Mystic Art," which had been untouched for over two hundred years, or wanting to make major reforms to the clan's power structure shortly after becoming the deputy clan leader.

These are things that ordinary people wouldn't dare to do, or even think about.

"They say a newborn calf is not afraid of a tiger, and it seems that in some things, young people really do have more determination and drive than us old folks!"

He muttered to himself, a hint of anticipation creeping into his eyes.

He wanted to see if the reforms Zhou Chun spoke of were as good as he claimed.

I'm also eager to see if Zhou Chun can become the second Zhou family cultivator in a thousand years to successfully cultivate the "Golden Cauldron Mystic Art".

On the other hand, after gaining the support of the Third Elder Zhou Daoquan, Zhou Chun took his plan to see the returned Fourth Elder Zhou Jiarui and sought his support.

However, the Fourth Elder, Zhou Jiarui, was not as willing to express his opinion as Zhou Daoquan, and only said that he would act according to the circumstances.

As for the Fifth Elder, Zhou Jiahe, there's no need to elaborate. He received a great favor from Zhou Chun when he was building his foundation, so he naturally supports Zhou Chun's reform plan.

Besides these elders, Zhou Chun also focused on persuading the Second Elder, Zhou Chongshan.

This highly respected elder of the Zhou family is, in fact, the second most respected person in the Zhou family, regardless of his seniority, cultivation level, or status as the strongest formation master in the family.

If I can persuade him, my reform plan will be much more feasible.

Not long after, he appeared on the Zhenxuan Peak where the Second Elder was located and showed him his plan.

After waiting for the other party to look at the plan for a while, he observed their expressions and estimated that they should have finished reading it, so he spoke first: "This junior knows that Second Elder, you most hope that the Zhou family can develop steadily. Just like an array can only play its best role when it is operating stably."

"However, the art of formations also involves change. A formation that cannot adapt is merely a dead formation. No matter how high its grade or how powerful its strength, it can easily be found to have flaws and be broken!"

"If you consider your family as a kind of formation, you should also know that if a formation master can stably control the formation, and then adapt to the situation and make various beneficial changes, then the power and mystery of the formation can be brought into full play!"

In his previous life, Zhou Chun had also worked in sales for a period of time, so he knew a little about how to persuade others.

Catering to their preferences is undoubtedly a very good approach.

Zhou Chongshan, the second elder of the Zhou family, was conservative in nature and not very interested in anything other than formations. He had never even contracted a demon beast.

So before he came to persuade the other party, he did some research and read some annotations on the way of formations by formation masters.

At this point, he was putting what he had just learned into practice, applying the concepts of stability and change from the principles of formations to the governance of his family.

He hoped that the other party would understand his good intentions and agree to support him.

After listening to his words, Zhou Chongshan raised his head slightly, looked at him with deep eyes, and said, "But how can you be sure that these changes you are about to make will definitely benefit the family?"

"Although I am not very smart, I can see that many of the reforms you have made are just manipulating people's hearts."

"But people's hearts are fickle. Today, they may be inspired by your actions to strive for the family and themselves, but tomorrow they may become despondent because of criticism, or even betray the family!"

At this point, his tone shifted, becoming heavy as he continued, "And most importantly, our cultivation family values ​​unity above all else. A major reason for this unity is that we all share the same bloodline, making us naturally close and easy to help each other. Furthermore, higher-ranking cultivators within the family won't easily bully lower-ranking cultivators!"

"While the incentive and elimination systems you described might indeed unleash the potential of some clansmen and bring in more elite and core members with stronger cultivation, they would also hurt the feelings of some lagging clansmen, causing them to completely lose their sense of belonging to the clan and disrupting clan unity!"

Have you considered the serious consequences?

By the end, his tone had become strongly accusatory.

After hearing his words, Zhou Chun's expression changed slightly and she fell silent.

In fact, Zhou Chun's reform plan was mostly based on the company and country structures from his previous life, and some rules and regulations were directly copied or slightly modified and adopted.

The fact that countless companies and countries in the past have used this architecture demonstrates that it is indeed a very effective system.

This is why he was so confident that he could improve the overall strength of the Zhou family through this reform and make the Zhou family even stronger.

But now, after Zhou Chongshan's explanation, he suddenly realized that sometimes reform systems that seem good for the collective are not necessarily that good.

It might even be digging up the roots of the collective!

Just as Zhou Chongshan said, the Zhou family is a family of cultivators. The natural closeness brought about by the same blood makes the family cultivators naturally more united and reliable than the sect cultivators.

If someone betrays their sect for personal gain, half of ten unrelated cultivators might despise their behavior.

But if someone betrays their parents, children, and other family members for personal gain, nine out of ten unrelated cultivators would probably despise them!

If someone can betray even their own blood relatives, what is there that they cannot betray?

If the Zhou family adopts Zhou Chun's current reform plan, it may indeed greatly enhance the family's strength, but it will inevitably divide the feelings among the cultivators, creating obstacles between the strong and the weak, making it impossible for them to be as close as before.

If this continues, even if the family becomes stronger, what was originally a large family may be broken down into countless smaller families, with each family only being close to and taking care of a few of their true blood relatives.

If the family encounters a major crisis, it is almost impossible to get all the smaller families to unite and face the crisis together!

At that time, the Zhou family was practically defunct!

Thinking of this, Zhou Chun broke out in a cold sweat.

He exchanged a glance with Zhou Chongshan, his forehead covered in sweat, and hurriedly lowered his head, saying, "Second Elder's reprimand is correct. It was my oversight that led to this!"

Then, after a pause, he raised his head again with a firm expression and said, "I will go back and revise the reform plan. The new plan will focus on family unity and ensure that it truly benefits the family as a whole and every individual within it!"

"Then you should go back first. I'd like to see just how much stuff you can come up with!"

Zhou Chongshan waved his hand and said noncommittally.

At this point, Zhou Chun was too embarrassed to make any grand pronouncements.

They immediately retrieved the plan and slunk back to Pagoda Peak.

Not long after returning to Pagoda Peak, he was summoned by the clan leader, Zhou Daoyi.

When the two met at Zhou Daoyi's residence, Zhou Daoyi looked at him with a faint smile and said, "How was it? Did you get a scolding from the Second Elder?"

"Chieftain, how did you know?"

Zhou Chun looked at Zhou Daoyi with a face full of astonishment, surprised that he knew about her ordeal.

But he quickly recovered and shook his head with a wry smile, saying, "Yes, even the Second Elder could see it, how could you not!"

After saying that, he looked at Zhou Daoyi with a puzzled expression and asked, "Then why didn't you give the junior some pointers before?"

After he finished his reform plan, the first thing he showed it to was the clan chief, Zhou Daoyi.

At the time, Zhou Daoyi also said that he would do his best to help him promote the family reform.

Looking back now, Zhou Daoyi's words at the time were quite meaningful!

Faced with his question, Zhou Daoyi calmly replied with an unchanged smile: "Because I also want to see how much you hold in the hearts of the elders, and I also want to see what insights the elders have about the family reform."

At this point, he looked deeply at Zhou Chun and said, "Even if the Second Elder doesn't reprimand you, when you finally come to me, I will remind you that it's impossible to actually implement the reforms according to your plan."

"I see, I've learned a lot!"

Zhou Chun nodded with a bitter feeling in her heart, feeling somewhat hurt.

He had always had a smooth life and had never been hit like this before, so it was natural for him to be in a bad mood.

Seemingly sensing his thoughts, Zhou Daoyi comforted him, saying, "Actually, I and the elders know of your good intentions. I have also been considering reforming the family."

"But there are so many people in the family, and everyone has different needs and abilities. It is indeed very difficult to reconcile and balance the desire to meet their needs, develop their abilities, and not undermine their sense of belonging to the family."

"If you really want to reform the family, then spend more time and effort to carefully understand the thoughts of each family cultivator and find out where their bottom line is."

At this point, he added leisurely, "Remember, haste makes waste. We cultivators have plenty of time. Our family isn't in a situation where it will perish if we don't reform!"

After hearing his words of comfort, Zhou Chun did feel a little better.

I also realized that I had indeed been a bit too hasty before.

He immediately replied calmly, "This junior understands. This junior will certainly keep the clan leader's words in mind today and continue to do a good job in the reform!"

"Yes, I'm glad you understand."

Zhou Daoyi nodded slightly before letting him leave.

After that, Zhou Chun indeed stopped mentioning reforms and focused on diligently cultivating secret techniques and handling family affairs.

As instructed by clan chief Zhou Daoyi, we should investigate and understand each clan member's demands for the clan and their bottom line for reform.

About six months after Zhou Chun took over as deputy clan leader, the two magical artifacts that he had ordered from the market to collect and contain golden energy were delivered.

Both of these magical artifacts are shaped like treasure bottles. The golden energy collected in each artifact is enough for him to replenish four strands of "Xin Metal Sword Qi".

According to his estimate, the total amount of golden energy he needed to cast the cauldron for cultivating the "Golden Cauldron Profound Technique" would require filling about ten of these treasure bottles!

However, storing gold energy does not necessarily require such a special magical artifact.

The collected golden energy can be stored in some man-made secret chambers and restrained by array formations to prevent it from dissipating.

Unless stored for a long time, its natural dissipation rate will be very slow and almost negligible.

Therefore, two such special magical artifacts are enough for Zhou Chun's needs.

He paid a price of 1,800 spirit coins for this!

Once the magical artifacts were in place, Zhou Chun offered a high reward, asking the family cultivators to help him collect golden energy as a task.

The news was even spread to several families, including the Wang, Sun, and He families, so that cultivators from these families could also come and take on the mission.

Of course, if cultivators from other families outside the Zhou family accept the mission, they must first obtain a guarantee from their family patriarch.

Otherwise, Zhou Chun would really have to worry about someone stealing his magical artifact.

While it's rare for cultivators from friendly families to accept missions, it's not unusual. It's usually done when someone urgently needs something.

The Zhou family had previously helped other families find certain items, purely out of mutual benefit.

It was at this time that good news also came from the Yunzhou battlefield.

After receiving reinforcements from other forces in Jingguo, the Hualong Sect's forces that had invaded Yunzhou suffered a complete defeat, with many being wiped out and even two of their protectors being killed!

Having witnessed the determination and power of the Jingguo, the Hualong Sect seemed to have become fearful and withdrew its main forces.

Only a few members of the Hualong Sect remain in Yunzhou, looking for an opportunity to cause trouble.

After achieving such a great victory, the various forces in Jingguo did not seem to intend to continue the pursuit. Instead, they established several large gathering places for cultivators in Yunzhou as garrison areas.

From an overall perspective, the Hualong Sect undoubtedly lost this battle, and lost completely.

However, they also partially achieved their strategic objectives.

Not only did he single-handedly provoke the various factions of Jing Kingdom to unite against him and test the current relationship between the various factions of Jing Kingdom, but he also swept away thousands of cultivators and millions of mortals in Yunzhou!

After this battle, the reputation of the Hualong Sect spread throughout Jingguo once again, and the centuries-long ban imposed on various sects had become a mere shell of its former self.

Furthermore, no one knows whether this disturbance in Jingguo was merely an initial test by the Hualong Sect.

Whether the Dragon Transformation Sect will launch even more ferocious attacks is something even the Nascent Soul stage elders of the various factions in Jingguo probably don't know.

With the war in Yunzhou temporarily over, the various cultivation families in Lanzhou, who had been on edge for over a year, completely lifted their restrictions, allowing everything to return to the state it was in when the war in Yunzhou had just begun.

On the Zhou family's side, Zhou Jiapeng and another "Jia" generation cultivator who obtained the Spirit Ascension Fruit also took this opportunity to begin their foundation building in seclusion.

But just as the Zhou family, like other families, was completely freed from restrictions due to the end of the war in Yunzhou.

An uninvited guest arrived outside Jiufeng Ridge.

"The Zhou family of Jiufengling, this must be it!"

In a forest outside the Zhou Family Mountain Gate, a beautiful woman in red, looking up and gazing at the distant Zhou Family Mountain Gate, was seen.

The second update is here!

(End of this chapter)