Beast Taming Immortal Clan

Chapter 171 Special Ore: Zhao Deyan's Shock [Please Subscribe]

It's done!

Zhou Chun's eyes narrowed, and he instantly decided to seize the opportunity to pull off this big heist.

The Zhao family of Cangzhou are well-known mine owners in Cangzhou, and they are extremely wealthy.

There's absolutely no need to worry about them not being able to pay.

Today, Zhou Chun is going to eat at the dog's house and have a prosperous New Year!

So, on a whim, he had Bai Bai bite and drag the unconscious mutated Gold-Eating Rat King out, first trapping it with snakes in a formation to prevent it from suddenly waking up and escaping.

Then he left Bai Bai coiled up in place, turning it into a lightning cannon, constantly unleashing lightning to bombard and kill those gold-eating rats.

Zhou Chun even released the Rock Tortoise to join the battle.

They, master and two servants, treated the lives of rats with utter disregard, frantically harvesting and slaughtering the lives of the gold-eating rats.

Toxic fumigation, electric shocks, fire, piercing the heart and crushing the skull...

One inhumane way after another played out on the gold-eating rat.

The poor gold-eating rats, preoccupied with rescuing their king, were completely unaware of the executioners' sinister intentions.

In the end, Zhou Chun and the Silver Lightning Python were both exhausted, so they had no choice but to use the golden nail magic weapon to kill the mutated Gold-Eating Rat King, thus scaring away the remaining rats.

The mutated Gold-Eating Rat King must die!

The Zhao family wouldn't be at ease until they saw its corpse, and they certainly wouldn't pay the Earth Spirit Milk as compensation.

This monstrous beast, which poses a great threat to mineral veins, must be eliminated.

Moreover, one shouldn't even expect to tame a king of such a large demon beast group.

Therefore, Zhou Chun never intended to spare its life in the first place.

After killing the Rat King and dispersing the rat horde, Zhou Chun continued to take the [Rejuvenation Pill] to restore his mana while counting the number of Gold-Eating Rats that had died at the scene.

Excluding the unfortunate rats whose remains have been completely destroyed, there were approximately 3,760 gold-eating rat carcasses left at the scene as evidence.

This doesn't even include the baby rats inside their nests.

Of course, the Zhao family would most likely not give spirit coins for the cub's corpse.

Even if Master Zhao is rich, he wouldn't spend his money like this!

Zhou Chun wasn't greedy; he would be content as long as the corpses of the other gold-eating rats were paid out in full.

Hiss (Hungry)

Just as Zhou Chun was estimating how many spirit coins he could earn this time, the Silver Lightning Python Bai Bai suddenly cried out that it was hungry.

"Go eat, eat as much as you want!"

Zhou Chun smiled slightly and immediately gestured for him to eat as much as he wanted.

Hiss!

Having received Zhou Chun's approval, Bai Bai immediately neighed happily and rushed out.

It naturally looked down on the charred and dried-out carcasses of the gold-eating rats, and directly followed the complex rat tunnels inside the rat nest, guided by its sense of smell, into the stone cave where the rat cubs were located, and began to feast on them one by one.

Given the size of this nest of gold-eating rats, there must be hundreds or even thousands of cubs inside, more than enough for it to eat.

At this moment, Zhou Chun released his divine sense to search for the Gold-Eating Rat's storage room.

Ordinary mice have the habit of collecting food for winter, and gold-eating mice naturally have the same habit.

They dug large storage chambers inside their nests to store food and the spirit gold ore they had mined.

Zhou Chun didn't care about the food, but the spirit gold ore was quite valuable.

This was actually one of the main reasons he came down with him.

Even if you discover the storage rooms where spirit gold ore is stored, you won't be able to take any benefits with you if you don't come down here yourself.

Just like when he helped Hu Changyou wipe out the group of gold-eating rats, he could only catch the rat king.

After switching to the "Golden Cauldron Mystic Art", Zhou Chun became quite sensitive to the metal energy, so he quickly found the storage room where the spirit gold ore was stored.

As he expected, the storage room contained a lot of spirit gold ore, most of which was produced by the Zhao family's Yaojin Iron Mine.

He checked the quantity and realized that he probably couldn't fit all the spirit ore in just one storage bag.

Fortunately, he was prepared for this and had already hidden two empty storage bags on his person.

At this point, they unceremoniously expanded the entrance to the storage room and packed all the spirit gold ore inside into storage bags.

Zhou Chun emptied the storage room by filling two empty storage bags almost to the brim.

After being filled with so much ore, the storage bag felt heavy and solid.

However, Zhou Chun did not stop plundering the rat nest. He then released his divine sense to slowly explore the stone chambers inside, searching for the "royal palace" of the mutated gold-devouring rat king.

After a thorough search, Zhou Chun found a stone chamber that was much larger than ordinary stone chambers.

As expected, the stone chamber also contained a considerable amount of spirit gold ore, and its quality was much better than the ore that Zhou Chun had previously packed from the storage room.

However, getting to that stone chamber was not easy, so Zhou Chun could only recover his magical power first.

After he recovered a significant amount of his magical power, he used his magical artifact to begin digging.

With the existing rat trail as a guide, Zhou Chun spent about half an hour digging out a passage several dozen feet deep that led directly to the stone chamber.

"Huh, what are these...?"

Zhou Chun, who had just dug out the nest of the mutated Gold-Eating Rat King, was slightly taken aback by a new discovery.

It turned out that besides the spirit gold ores such as the Radiant Gold Iron Ore, he had also discovered another extremely special thing.

That thing looked somewhat similar to Radiant Gold Iron Ore, but it also contained a rich elemental energy of Earth.

Zhou Chun didn't even recognize the origin of this thing!

But at this moment, he remembered the Earth Escape Technique that the mutated Gold-Eating Rat King had used before, which was a signature earth-based spell.

"Could it be that the mutated Gold-Eating Rat King ate this kind of ore, which is why it successfully mutated its bloodline and advanced to the second tier?"

A strange light flashed in Zhou Chun's eyes, and he made a bold guess.

As far as he knew, low-level demonic beasts like the Gold-Eating Rat, whose bloodlines were inferior, could only advance to the second or even third tier by relying on bloodline mutation.

The Zhou family has been taming demonic beasts for over a thousand years. In the family history, there have been members who developed deep feelings for their spirit pets. Later, after successfully establishing their foundation, they tried every means to find various rare spiritual objects to purify the bloodlines of spirit pets with poor bloodlines, hoping that they could advance to the second tier through this.

However, apart from a few rare cases where a demon beast with mutated bloodline succeeded, all the other demon beasts failed without exception.

Therefore, the Zhou family came to this conclusion.

If a low-level demon beast's bloodline is not mixed with the bloodline of other powerful demon beasts, it is very difficult for it to break through the bloodline shackles and advance to a higher level.

Currently, the only solution seems to be bloodline mutation!

However, bloodline mutations cannot be replicated. Even if it is the same kind of demon beast and uses the same spiritual object, if one of them mutates successfully, the other may not be able to mutate successfully.

Therefore, mutation is purely a matter of luck.

Fortunately, most low-level demonic beasts may contain some bloodline of mid-level or even high-level demonic beasts.

Therefore, as long as these demonic beasts consume certain specific spiritual items to stimulate the bloodlines of higher-level demonic beasts within their bodies, they have the opportunity to strengthen that originally weak bloodline and achieve resonance and sublimation with the main bloodline.

Just like Zhou Chun's spirit pet, the Rock Earth Turtle, its bloodline contains the bloodline of the mid-level demon beast, the Earth Spirit Turtle, and even the bloodline of the high-level demon beast, the Mountain-Bearing Turtle.

As long as Zhou Chun finds spiritual items containing pure earth elemental energy, such as Earth Spirit Stone Milk and Five-Turn Earth Spirit Mushroom, and allows them to consume them, there is a chance to stimulate the awakening of their bloodlines and help the Rock Earth Turtle complete its evolution.

However, the Golden-Eating Rat species is a relatively stable group of demon beasts, and rarely contains the bloodlines of other demon beasts.

Generally, these types of monster species with relatively stable bloodlines have some notable characteristics: they reproduce quickly, have relatively short lifespans, and are always led by a king.

Therefore, the only way for these individuals to break free from the shackles of their bloodline is through bloodline mutation.

But Zhou Chun wasn't sure if it was really as he suspected, so he could only carefully put the special ore away.

Their numbers are neither too many nor too few, probably around thirty to fifty kilograms.

After collecting all the spirit gold ore from the mutated gold-devouring rat king's lair, Zhou Chun met up with Bai Bai, the silver lightning python who had already returned after a full meal, and Bai Bai led him back the way he came.

"It's out! It's out!"

On the ground, as soon as the silver lightning python's white head poked its head out of the hole, gasps of surprise immediately rang out.

When Zhou Chun came out, he saw the Zhao family cultivator who had brought him here earlier looking at him with a face full of surprise.

However, Zhao Deyan was no longer there.

"How is it? Fellow Daoist Zhou, have you succeeded?"

As soon as Zhou Chun got up and stood up, the Zhao family cultivator looked at him expectantly and asked about the result.

Upon hearing the sound, he smiled faintly, reached out and patted the storage bag at his waist, and immediately took out the corpse of the mutated Gold-Eating Rat King.

Upon seeing the corpse of this giant golden rat, which was significantly larger than that of an ordinary gold-eating rat, and noticing the lingering aura on its body, the Zhao family cultivator's expression immediately changed, and he exclaimed in delight, "It really is the corpse of the mutated gold-eating rat king!"

As soon as he finished speaking, he quickly bowed to Zhou Chun and said, "Thank you, Fellow Daoist Zhou, for helping my Zhao family eliminate this scoundrel. I will go and report your merits to the elders immediately."

Seeing this, Zhou Chun couldn't help but say, "Fellow Daoist Zhao, you'd better ask Senior Zhao to bring a few more low-level cultivators and some storage bags, because there are still many Gold-Eating Rat corpses in that rat nest that need to be cleaned up."

The Zhao family cultivators who heard his words were still unaware of their deeper meaning.

He readily agreed, saying, "No problem, I will definitely convey this message to the elder."

Then he hurriedly flew back to report the news.

Zhou Chun didn't bother to collect the Silver Lightning Python and the mutated Gold-Eating Rat King's corpse from the ground. Instead, he changed his clothes, got rid of the rat droppings smell, and waited on the spot.

Less than half an hour later, Zhao Deyan arrived with the Zhao family cultivator and three Qi Refining stage cultivators.

As soon as Zhao Deyan landed, Zhou Chun stepped forward and bowed, saying, "Greetings, Senior Zhao. I have successfully completed your mission."

Upon hearing this, Zhao Deyan couldn't help but look at the mutated Gold-Eating Rat King's corpse on the ground.

Then, with great satisfaction, he nodded and replied, "Very good. Fellow Daoist Zhou is indeed a capable person. It is no wonder that Fellow Daoist Hu praised him so highly and invited him so many times!"

After saying that, he raised his hand and patted the storage bag at his waist, took out a sealed jade jar, and handed it to Zhou Chun.

"This contains the Earth Spirit Stone Milk that Fellow Daoist Zhou requested. You can verify its authenticity now."

"Then I will take the liberty of doing so."

Zhou Chun responded and immediately opened the lid of the jade jar to inspect it.

Inside the small jade jar was a jar of muddy yellow emulsion, which had a strange fragrance.

He dipped a few drops into his finger and tasted it. He immediately nodded repeatedly and said, "That's right, it is indeed Earth Spirit Stone Milk, and of excellent quality."

"I'm glad Fellow Daoist Zhou is satisfied."

Zhao Deyan smiled slightly, then looked at the mutated Gold-Eating Rat King's corpse on the ground and said, "Does Fellow Daoist Zhou want this mutated Gold-Eating Rat King's corpse? If not, I, Zhao, can offer one thousand spirit coins to buy it."

"This beast is a mutated monster, and it still has some research value for my family. I can only apologize to Senior Zhao if I want to take it back for research myself."

Upon hearing this, Zhou Chun immediately bowed to him to express his apology.

Upon seeing this, Zhao Deyan shook his head and said, "It's alright. I was just saying it casually. Since Fellow Daoist Zhou finds it useful, then keep it."

He then looked at the entrance to the rat hole and said, "Fellow Daoist Zhou said there are a large number of Gold-Eating Rat corpses down there that need to be collected. I wonder how many there are?"

"There must be three or four thousand of them!"

Zhou Chun answered in a low voice.

"What? You said how many?"

Zhao Deyan's gaze sharpened as he stared intently at Zhou Chun.

Seeing his gaze, Zhou Chun lowered his head somewhat guiltily and continued in a low voice, "According to my own count, there should be more than 3,700, and there will be more, not less."

"Three or four thousand corpses of gold-eating rats, Fellow Daoist Zhou, you truly possess remarkable skill!!"

Zhao Deyan's lips twitched, and he looked at Zhou Chun with a strange expression. At this moment, he even had the thought of killing her to silence her.

He had already understood Zhou Chun's meaning when he heard the Zhao family cultivator relay Zhou Chun's words.

He just didn't expect that Zhou Chun, in addition to killing the mutated Gold-Eating Rat King, had prepared such a big "surprise" for him.

At three spirit coins per Gold-Eating Rat carcass, three thousand seven hundred Gold-Eating Rat carcasses would yield a bounty of over eleven thousand spirit coins!

Of course, the Zhao family wasn't unable to come up with the money.

However, spending such a sum of money only to get a bunch of useless gold-eating rat corpses is undoubtedly a huge loss!

Zhou Chun could easily understand the meaning behind Zhao Deyan's words, "impressive skills."

He could only reply softly, "I'm ashamed, I'm ashamed. I originally intended to wipe out the entire rat swarm, but my strength was insufficient, and several thousand escaped in the end!"

"And a few thousand more escaped?"

Zhao Deyan was also taken aback upon hearing this.

Then the thought of killing him to cover it up vanished instantly.

He had already understood Zhou Chun's meaning.

Although the rat infestation has been eliminated, those gold-eating rats that escaped may cause new infestations in the future.

In order to eliminate the rat infestation as quickly and cost-effectively as possible, the Zhao family might have to hire Zhou Chun again to exterminate the rats.

For this reason alone, it's not worth making things difficult for Zhou Chun for such a small amount of money.

Not to mention Zhou Chun's family, which is not a small family either.

He quickly clapped and cheered Zhou Chun, "Well done! Well done! Fellow Daoist Zhou, rest assured, as long as there are corpses as proof, the Zhao family will reward you with three spirit coins for each Gold-Eating Rat corpse. We mean what we say!"

After saying that, he instructed the three Qi Refining stage cultivators he had brought with him: "Take the storage bags and go down to collect the corpses. Move all the corpses of the Gold-Eating Rats out of there."

Upon hearing his words, the three Qi Refining stage cultivators immediately responded in unison.

Zhou Chun then said at the opportune moment, "This junior will have the spirit pets guide them and protect them."

Then he had the three of them follow his method of going down into the cave, and the Silver Lightning Python dragged them down for nothing.

I recommend a friend's new book, "Beast Taming: I Can See the Evolution Plan." It's a world where humans tame extraordinary life forms and constantly evolve.

Animals, plants, spirits, machines, even mountains and rivers—everything can give birth to life and continue to evolve.

However, evolution is incredibly difficult.

While others were still painstakingly searching for ways to evolve their pets, various customized evolution plans had already appeared before Han Chen's eyes.

[Race Name]: Small Indian Cat

[Racial Rank]: Low

[Evolution Plan 1]: Feed 100ml of fire-attribute energy liquid every day for twenty days to learn the move "Flame Bullet". At noon, supplement with sunflower and fire-attribute energy crystal to evolve into the medium race "Flame Spirit Cat".

[Evolution Plan 2]: Feed the cat with high-nutrient foods every day to strengthen its physique and master the move "Great Strength"... It can evolve into the medium-sized race "Great Spirit Cat".

[Evolution Plan 3]: First, baptize with Holy Crystal for fifteen days, then consume... to evolve into the higher race 'Holy Spirit Cat'.

[Evolution Plan 4...]

(End of this chapter)