Beast Taming Immortal Clan

Chapter 188 Golden-Winged Tiger, Purple-Striped Golden Peach Tree [Please Subscribe]

Leaving aside the reactions of Qinglian Temple and the Zhou family after learning that Zhou Chunshen was at the Jinlong branch altar.

Meanwhile, Zhou Chun and the other two Golden Dragon Cult Masters escorted sixty-seven new followers through the wilderness for nine days before finally arriving at the Golden Dragon Branch Altar.

Along the way, perhaps because their group was large and they were following a route that had been scouted beforehand, they encountered few attacks and their numbers did not decrease.

It can be said that the mission was successfully completed.

"Good job, you did a great job on this mission. Here's your reward."

Inside the Golden Dragon Hall, Grand Protector Guan Cheng received the three returning members. Upon learning that the mission had been successfully completed, he nodded in satisfaction and immediately distributed rewards to the three.

The reward Zhou Chun received this time was neither spirit coins nor sect contribution points, but two dragon blood spirit items.

When handing the two dragon blood artifacts to Zhou Chun, Guan Cheng looked at him meaningfully and said, "Instructor Zhou, you still need to cultivate your 'Dragon Transformation Secret Technique' to the second level as soon as possible. Only then can this protector and the hall master feel at ease entrusting you with more important tasks. Do you understand?"

"Yes, Your Majesty."

Zhou Chun bowed slightly and responded respectfully.

"Then you may all step back. If there are any more missions, I will send someone to inform you."

Guan Cheng waved his hand, dismissing the group.

But in reality, only Zhou Chun and Instructor Yang actually stepped down; Instructor Song returned shortly after stepping down.

He then reported the process and results of the day's probing to Guan Cheng.

After listening to his explanation, Guan Cheng's eyes flickered slightly, and he nodded thoughtfully, saying, "In that case, it seems that I was overthinking things."

After saying that, he said to Instructor Song, "Instructor Song, you should also go back. Remember to keep this matter strictly confidential and do not let more people know about it, understand?"

"Yes, Your Majesty, I will certainly not let you down!"

Instructor Song responded and immediately withdrew from the Golden Dragon Hall.

After he left, Guan Cheng's expression darkened, and he muttered to himself again, "You've passed this time. I hope your performance next time will be just as good!"

After returning to her residence, Zhou Chun first took a good nap.

After waking up, he took out the two dragon blood spiritual items that Guan Cheng had given him and pondered them.

The early stages of cultivation in the Dragon Transformation Sect's "Dragon Transformation Secrets" rely heavily on external aids.

Without a sufficient number of dragon blood spirit objects to assist one, even the most outstanding talent is like a skilled cook without rice—it's impossible to cultivate this secret technique to a higher level.

Therefore, the Dragon Transformation Sect also relies on monopolizing dragon blood and spiritual objects to make ordinary members obediently work for the sect.

After all, the improvement in strength of ordinary followers from this secret technique is visible to the naked eye, and once they have tasted its benefits, it is hard to give it up.

But Zhou Chun knew that the higher one's mastery of this secret technique, the harder it would be to break free from the Dragon Transformation Sect's control.

Therefore, he was somewhat undecided about whether to cultivate this secret technique to the second level as soon as possible.

"Enough! You can't catch a wolf without risking your cub! Since we're already in the wolf's den, let's dance with the wolves!"

Zhou Chun gritted his teeth and finally made the decision to dance with the wolves.

He quickly consumed a dragon blood ginseng that was over two hundred years old, and then began to cultivate using the "Dragon Transformation Secret Technique".

Time passed slowly, and soon another two months had gone by.

During this period, Zhou Chun refined both dragon blood spiritual objects, and his progress in cultivating the "Dragon Transformation Secret Technique" increased significantly.

During this period, he finally mastered the "Flowing Light and Golden Rainbow" secret technique, which he had been practicing diligently but had failed to achieve.

While Zhou Chun was out hunting for the tiger cubs, he secretly tested the power of the "Flowing Golden Rainbow" secret technique.

He was very satisfied with the result.

Although he had only just begun to master this secret technique and there were still many obstacles in using it, its power was extraordinary.

Zhou Chun especially liked its effect on escaping.

Enveloping himself in this golden rainbow during his escape would allow him to increase his speed several times over in a short period, reaching a flight speed comparable to that of a cultivator in the Purple Mansion stage.

Although the escape distance is not very long, it can currently only travel tens of miles at a time.

But at times, that was enough to save his life.

After witnessing the immense power of this secret technique, Zhou Chun became even more dedicated to cultivating it. He immediately decided to focus on mastering this technique and push it to its limits first.

However, what made Zhou Chun happiest during this period was not the completion of the "Flowing Light Golden Rainbow" secret technique, but the growth of the little tiger cub.

Six months after its birth, the little tiger cub finally successfully awakened its bloodline and officially became a first-tier low-grade demon beast.

This awakening also confirmed that it was a naturally mutated species.

Not only did it awaken the wind magic "Wind Blade" and "Wind Control", it also awakened the metal magic "Sharp Metal" and "Golden Arrow".

At this moment, the little tiger cub's golden fur shone brightly, and its two sharp teeth were clearly visible, displaying its kingly might.

With such an appearance, the name "Winged Tiger" was no longer sufficient to describe its power, so Zhou Chun gave it a new racial name—Golden-Winged Tiger.

After officially becoming a first-tier low-grade demon beast, the Golden-Winged Tiger could be put into the spirit beast bag, which saved Zhou Chun a lot of trouble.

Moreover, the Golden-Winged Tiger was already weaned by this time, and from then on, it would only need to be fed raw meat, which saved Zhou Chun a lot of trouble.

However, this good fortune didn't last long. Zhou Chun had only been able to cultivate in peace for less than three months when Guan Cheng assigned him a new task.

"Outside the branch altar, there is a purple-veined golden peach tree where the golden peaches are almost ripe. To prevent the demonic beasts guarding the peaches from eating them after they ripen, we need two instructors to take turns guarding them. Instructor Zhou, you and Instructor Yang will take on this task together!"

Inside the Golden Dragon Hall, Guan Cheng sized up Zhou Chun and Yang Chi, the two instructors who had come to answer the call, and then solemnly explained the contents of this mission.

"Your subordinate obeys."

Zhou Chun responded to the instruction from Instructor Yang and immediately left the main hall to carry out the order.

Then, the two of them took the map given to them by Guan Cheng and left the branch altar. They traveled more than 700 li in the wilderness and arrived at the location marked on the map.

It was a fissure canyon, with the bottom of the canyon being thirty or forty feet below the ground. The vegetation inside was sparse, and there were reddish-brown stones and soil everywhere.

The purple-veined golden peach tree that Guan Cheng mentioned is located on a cliff in the canyon.

The peach tree was less than two zhang tall, with purplish-red bark, and seven large, golden peaches were hanging on it.

After Zhou Chun and the other person lingered on the spirit peaches on the tree for a while, they looked down at the canyon floor below the tree.

On the reddish-brown gravel ground, a venomous snake, the exact same color as the ground, hid among the pebbles, secretly guarding the spirit peach tree on the cliff.

"A second-tier low-grade demon beast, the Rusty Poisonous Python, is not strong enough to guard those seven spirit peaches. No wonder the guardian master asked us to take turns guarding them."

Yang Chi turned his gaze away from the venomous snake and spoke calmly.

Zhou Chun chimed in, "Since this rusty venomous python is guarding the spirit peach tree, we can relax a bit and wait until the peaches are truly ripe before eliminating it."

"Good idea, that's what Yang thought too."

Yang Chi nodded and agreed immediately.

So the two agreed to take turns guarding the peach tree every three days.

The shift was changed every three days. Zhou Chun didn't know what Yang Chi would do, but he certainly didn't stay there obediently.

Although three days was not enough time for him to contact the outside world, it was enough for him to explore the area surrounding the Golden Dragon Branch and collect spiritual medicinal resources in the wilderness.

In areas like the Golden Dragon Branch Altar, there is an abundance of various medicinal herbs in the wild.

Those medicinal herbs that are one or two hundred years old are not exactly everywhere, but they are not difficult to find if you look carefully.

Perhaps ordinary missionaries of the Dragon Transformation Sect would look down on such common spiritual herbs that can be found everywhere.

But Zhou Chun is different.

He himself doesn't need this, but the Zhou family can!

Collecting these things and handing them over to the Zhou family when the opportunity arises would be a contribution to the Zhou family.

Not only does he not overlook spiritual herbs, but when he occasionally discovers a monster laying eggs, Zhou Chun will also catch all the monster eggs. These things are also of great use to the Zhou family.

It's all money!

In this way, by taking advantage of the time he was away guarding the Purple-Veined Golden Peach Tree, Zhou Chun collected more than two hundred spiritual herbs, more than twenty low-level demon beast eggs, and a lot of ordinary spiritual fruits that could be used to brew wine in just five months.

These things filled most of his storage bag, making him feel like a hardworking little squirrel.

On this day, Zhou Chun, who had just returned to the vicinity of the Earth-Cracked Canyon and was preparing to hand over the reins to Yang Chi, suddenly discovered that the rusty venomous python, which had been hiding on the canyon floor, had somehow climbed up the purple-veined golden peach tree.

Despite having "python" in its name, the rusty python is actually not very large.

It was only a little over ten feet long and about as thick as Zhou Chun's arm; it was just a large snake.

However, this snake contains potent venom, and the poisonous clouds it spews can even kill a Foundation Establishment cultivator.

During the five months Zhou Chun spent staking out this place, he witnessed it repeatedly spewing poison arrows and poison clouds, easily poisoning and killing first-tier demonic beasts that came to steal fruit.

"Are the purple-veined golden peaches almost ripe?"

Looking at the rusty venomous python coiled in the tree, Zhou Chun seemed to understand why it had suddenly climbed from the canyon floor to the treetop.

So when Yang Chi arrived to take over his shift, Zhou Chun quickly shared his guess.

After hearing his words and seeing the rusty venomous python indeed climbing the tree, Yang Chi quickly nodded and said, "I also agree with Instructor Zhou's guess. Then let's not change shifts anymore. Let's deal with this rusty venomous python first, and then wait together for the spirit peaches to ripen!"

"That's how it should be."

Zhou Chun responded and immediately discussed with Yang Chi how to lure the rusty venomous python down from the spirit peach tree.

After such discussions, Zhou Chun, who was at the early stage of Foundation Establishment, was chosen to take on the task.

Unfortunately, if it were Yang Chi, who was at the mid-Foundation Establishment stage, the rusty venomous python might have realized it couldn't protect the spirit peaches and would have eaten or destroyed them beforehand.

Neither of these scenarios is acceptable to Zhou Chun and the others.

Therefore, it was Zhou Chun, who was in the early stage of Foundation Establishment, who had to take the lead.

Zhou Chun strode towards the cliff top where the spirit peach tree was located, immediately startling the rusty venomous python on the tree.

In an instant, a snake hissed, and a reddish-brown poisoned arrow shot towards Zhou Chun.

Zhou Chun had already witnessed the power of this poisoned arrow, so he dared not underestimate it. He immediately raised his hand and unleashed a golden sword aura to intercept it.

The poisoned arrow and sword energy collided in mid-air and immediately dispersed into a cloud of poisonous water that fell to the ground.

Wherever the poisonous water touched, whether it was stone or grass, it was instantly dissolved into red poisonous water!

After scattering the poison arrow with this sword energy, Zhou Chun preemptively attacked the rusty venomous python before it could launch another attack. He used "Golden Cauldron Mystic Light" to condense a golden sword and slashed at the python on the treetop, seemingly intending to cut it and the tree in one fell swoop.

This instantly enraged the rusty python.

With a snap of its mouth, it spat out a highly condensed jet of venomous water that struck the golden sword, instantly dissolving it in mid-air.

Then, with a swift movement, the snake leaped from the tree and sped towards Zhou Chun.

It's now!

A cold glint flashed in Zhou Chun's eyes, and he immediately unleashed the "Flying Dragon Snatch" magic weapon to attack the rusty venomous python that was leaping into the air.

At the same time, he raised his hand and patted the spirit beast pouch at his waist, and the Silver Lightning Python Bai Bai, which had recovered, made a dazzling appearance!

The poor rusty python finally realized it had been tricked.

But it was all too late.

The poisonous cloud it spewed was easily pierced by the crimson gold talons, which then gripped its body tightly, the talons piercing right through it.

Immediately afterwards, a bolt of silvery-white lightning struck it, blasting it to the ground.

In just a few moves, the rusty python on the ground was already dead.

Yang Chi, who had retreated to a distance to observe, noticed this scene and his expression changed slightly.

He had heard of Zhou Chun's reputation before and knew that Zhou Chun's strength was no less than that of a mid-Foundation Establishment cultivator.

However, without having seen it with one's own eyes, one naturally harbors doubts.

Now that they have witnessed Zhou Chun's strength firsthand, they feel that the rumors may have underestimated his abilities.

"Instructor Zhou is indeed formidable. Even if I, Yang, were to personally take action, I fear I would find it difficult to eliminate this rusty venomous python in such a short time!"

When he got closer and saw Zhou Chun skinning the rusty python and extracting its gallbladder, he couldn't help but sigh from the bottom of his heart.

"Instructor Yang, you flatter me. I was only able to win so quickly because I had an advantage that was not my own."

Zhou Chun responded and quickly disposed of the rusty python's carcass.

Only the skin, gallbladder, fangs, and venom sacs of this venomous snake are useful to cultivators; the rest of its flesh and bones may contain toxins and have little practical value.

Therefore, after retrieving the useful items, Zhou Chun burned the corpse, then gazed at the spirit peach tree on the cliff and murmured, "I wonder when this purple-veined golden peach will truly ripen. I hope it won't cause any more trouble!"

"It should be in the next few days!"

Yang Chi said something somewhat uncertainly, and then he and Zhou Chun took turns guarding the purple-veined golden peach tree on the cliff.

My editor suddenly contacted me today and said that I can't update once a day anymore, because it's not good for my dear readers and will make me lose my beloved readers! So starting today, I'll resume two updates a day, with another one around 10 pm tonight!

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