Beast Taming Immortal Clan

Chapter 217 Class A Bounty Order [Please Subscribe]

Zhou Chun's experience of traveling on a magic weapon belonging to a Golden Core cultivator greatly increased his desire to cultivate to a higher realm.

If money could solve 99% of problems in his previous life, then in this world, cultivation level can solve 100% of problems!

With a high level of cultivation, one can obtain anything, including lifespan!

Therefore, he should cultivate himself with an even more diligent, intense, and positive mindset than when he was focused on making money, striving to one day reach the state where he can sever three thousand strands of afflictions with a single sword stroke!

"Masaharu, what's wrong?"

In the wilderness, Zhou Chun's unusual behavior finally caught the attention of others, and Zhou Daoyi immediately asked him a question.

This question immediately pulled Zhou Chun back from her wandering thoughts.

He collected his thoughts and sighed softly, "It's nothing, I just suddenly felt a little envious and impressed by the great supernatural powers of Senior Li and other Golden Core cultivators!"

Upon hearing his words, Zhou Daoyi and the other Zhou family cultivators who were also concerned about him seemed to remember something and all fell into deep thought.

Then Zhou Mingde sighed and said, "Yes, who doesn't envy the great supernatural powers of Golden Core cultivators! To reach for the stars and moon in the heavens, to cross the seas and slay dragons, to roam the four corners of the world—what a carefree and joyful life that is!"

After saying that, he shook his head repeatedly and said, "Difficult, difficult, difficult! There are so many cultivators in Jing Kingdom, but the number of Golden Core cultivators accumulated over the past thousand years is less than a hundred. How difficult it is to become a Golden Core cultivator!"

He used the word "difficult" three times in a row, which shows just how difficult it was for him to form the Golden Core.

The Zhou family has a history of over 1,700 years. Excluding Yu Jinghua, a Golden Core cultivator from another family, they have only produced three Golden Core cultivators, including the ancestor who founded the Zhou family!

This shows just how difficult it is to achieve the Golden Elixir!

Zhou Daoyi nodded in agreement, saying, "Achieving the Golden Core stage is indeed extremely difficult!"

Then, changing the subject, he suddenly looked at Zhou Chun and said, "But Zheng Chun, as long as you cultivate diligently, you still have some chances. If anyone in our Zhou family has a chance to achieve the Golden Core stage, it must be you, Zheng Chun!"

"Dao Yi is right. Zheng Chun, you are currently the only person in our Zhou family who has successfully cultivated a top-tier cultivation technique. If you are able to cultivate to the late stage of the Purple Mansion realm and form a Golden Core in the future, your chances will definitely be far greater than ours!"

Zhou Mingde nodded repeatedly, agreeing with Zhou Daoyi's words.

Upon hearing their words, Zhou Chun replied earnestly, "This junior will definitely strive to cultivate diligently!"

He made no guarantees, because making any guarantees now would be meaningless.

Once innate talent and aptitude can no longer be changed, all a cultivator can do in terms of cultivation is to "work hard".

Next, because they were in a hurry to return to their families to arrange other matters, Zhou Mingde, Zhou Chun, and the others each took one or two Qi Refining stage cultivators from their families with them and flew directly back to the Nine Peaks Ridge Mountain Gate.

After returning to the mountain gate, Zhou Mingde contacted Lin Hongyu using the contact information she had provided.

Meanwhile, the Hualong Sect also became tense due to the unusual move of the three major sects suddenly convening the "Hundred Clans Conference".

The higher-ups of the Hualong Sect are not fools; they can see through the true intentions of the three major sects in convening the "Hundred Clans Conference."

However, they are now eager to find out where the three major sects got the confidence to mobilize all the cultivation families in the country to fight them to the death.

If they don't figure this out, they'll be hesitant and afraid to go all out in this battle.

At the same time, information about the various families at the "Hundred Clans Conference" was also being sent back in droves through spies planted in the past.

Information on the top 30 cultivation families is a key focus.

Zhou Chun's final move, the secret technique of transforming a thunder python into a dragon, shocked the Dragon Transformation Sect's spies and agents, who then relayed it back to the sect as crucial intelligence.

This crucial intelligence not only included detailed written records but also accompanying portraits.

When the intelligence agents of the Hualong Sect retrieved the information sent back by their spies, they only stared at Zhou Chun's portrait for a while before immediately recognizing him as the spy and undercover agent wanted by the Jinlong branch!

Thus, driven by a thirst for the secret art of "Ancestral Revival" and a hatred for spies and undercover agents.

After reviewing the intelligence report, the Golden Core cultivator in charge of intelligence on the Dragon Transformation Sect immediately issued a Class A bounty on Zhou Chun, using a Class A bounty for Purple Mansion cultivators to encourage the sect's protectors to infiltrate Jing Kingdom and capture Zhou Chun alive.

This top-tier bounty notice quickly spread to all the Dharma Protector level cultivators of the Dragon Transformation Sect, including Lin Hongyu, a Dharma Protector of the Crimson Dragon Hall.

Upon receiving the bounty and the intelligence information about Zhou Chun and the Zhou family recorded on it, her expression immediately changed.

"Good, I knew they knew Guan Cheng of the Golden Dragon Hall had obtained several Purple-Veined Golden Peaches! Turns out they'd sent someone to infiltrate our sect long ago!"

She paced back and forth in the room, her face grim, muttering to herself, "Should I tell them the news? Or should I take this opportunity to teach them a lesson, to show them the price of playing tricks on me!"

Hesitantly, she struggled to make up her mind.

At this moment, she vaguely sensed that the Zhou family's attitude towards cooperation with her might have changed.

Perhaps the Zhou family no longer wants to cooperate with her as much as they used to.

But she didn't believe the Zhou family would really dare to sever this cooperation, nor did she believe they would really allow her to expose their secret collaborations.

Just as she was filled with doubt and hesitant, unable to make a decision, the secret contact she had arranged to communicate with the Zhou family suddenly sent new intelligence.

After reading the intelligence report from the Zhou family, she was both surprised and delighted.

"Hmph, at least they know what's what!"

She gave a soft hum, then her eyes flickered as she prepared to personally accept the bounty, making it easier for her to infiltrate Lanzhou openly and legitimately, while also repaying the Zhou family's favor.

To her surprise, when she went to accept the bounty, she learned that someone had already accepted the mission.

"Elder Gao, could you tell me who accepted the mission? I happened to be infiltrating Jing Kingdom to take care of some personal business and intended to complete this mission along the way, but someone beat me to it!"

Inside a grand hall, Lin Hongyu looked at the head altar elder who had issued the bounty order and said with some reluctance.

Upon hearing her words, Elder Gao immediately shook his head and said, "That won't do. Rules are rules. How could I violate the rules and leak such information!"

Then, changing the subject again, he suddenly said, "However, if Protector Lin wants a pretext to infiltrate Jing Kingdom, there just happens to be a mission here to investigate the truth behind the mysterious benefits of the Hundred Clans Conference in Jing Kingdom. You can try accepting it; if you complete it, the rewards will be considerable."

"Understood, thank you very much, Elder Gao!"

Lin Hongyu was delighted and immediately bowed deeply to the other party to express her gratitude.

Then he accepted the task and left.

Watching her departing figure, Elder Gao murmured to himself thoughtfully, "The private matter she mentioned must be referring to the Crimson Flowing Pearl Pill that appeared at the grand auction in Yunzhou. They got the news so quickly; it seems the Crimson Dragon Hall has excellent intelligence capabilities!"

Each branch of the Hualong Sect is almost equivalent to an independent sect, so each branch trains its own intelligence personnel to enhance its competitiveness.

Lin Hongyu held a high position in the Crimson Dragon Hall, so it's not surprising that she could have the Crimson Dragon Hall's intelligence agents working for her.

That's why Elder Gao did her a favor and gave her a chance.

Meanwhile, after receiving her mission, Lin Hongyu quickly handed over the matters concerning the Crimson Dragon Hall and then swiftly headed to Jingguo.

She didn't know who had taken on the task of dealing with Zhou Chun so quickly, nor did she have the time to investigate further.

Now we can only get to Jingguo as soon as possible and inform the Zhou family to prepare for defense.

It should be said that Lin Hongyu acted very quickly.

When the Zhou family received her notification, nothing had happened yet.

After receiving her notification, the Zhou family took the matter very seriously.

Zhou Mingde, Zhou Daoyi, and Zhou Chun immediately gathered in the mountain cave to discuss the matter.

Zhou Mingde spoke first, saying, "Right now, the enemy is in the dark while we are in the light. We don't even know if the enemy is male or female, or whether their cultivation level is late-stage or early-stage Purple Mansion. We are completely on the defensive!"

"Fortunately, we found out about this in advance, so we can take some preventative measures!"

He then looked at Zhou Chun and said, "Since the enemy's target is you, Zheng Chun, you should stay inside the family's mountain gate and not go out."

"Elder, you are mistaken!"

"There's no such thing as a thousand days of thievery, but a thousand days of guarding against thieves!"

Zhou Chun shook his head repeatedly, strongly disagreeing with Zhou Mingde's statement.

With a grave expression, he said, "In my humble opinion, since we already know the enemy is coming straight for us, why not create an opportunity for him to strike, and then seize the chance to kill him!"

Upon hearing this, Zhou Mingde immediately objected, saying, "No, that's too dangerous!"

He finished speaking in a heavy tone, adding, "If the enemy is a late-stage Purple Mansion cultivator, you won't even have a chance to hold out until I arrive!"

"Furthermore, even if we include Dao Yi's spirit pet, the Azure Dragon, our Zhou family doesn't have the ability to retain a late-stage Purple Mansion cultivator, and it would also expose the Azure Dragon's existence!"

Killing a cultivator at the Purple Mansion stage is extremely difficult.

In particular, the protectors of the Dragon Transformation Sect are all powerful and extremely difficult to kill.

With the Zhou family's current strength, they wouldn't even dare to say they could successfully kill an ordinary early-stage Purple Mansion cultivator, let alone a mid-stage or late-stage Purple Mansion cultivator.

As the supreme elder of the Zhou family, Zhou Mingde naturally did not want to risk the life of Zhou Chun, a descendant of the family on whom he had placed great hopes.

However, Zhou Chun was not convinced by his words.

Instead, he calmly analyzed, "The late-stage Purple Mansion cultivators of the Dragon Transformation Sect are usually the top three protectors in their respective halls. It's unlikely that a protector of this level would accept a mission to deal with an early-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator."

"I still have a high-grade third-tier defensive talisman given to me by Daoist Mingxia. With it as a backup, I can handle any danger."

"Furthermore, the Dragon Transformation Sect's bounty is to capture the junior alive and interrogate him for the secret technique of 'Ancestral Revival.' The enemy certainly won't kill him right away, so there's no need to worry about his safety in that regard!"

At this point, Zhou Chun frowned slightly and muttered, "If we want to keep them here, relying solely on the strength of our Zhou family is indeed too weak!"

"See? Since you, Zhengchun, know that our Zhou family can't hold them back with our strength, why take such a risk?"

Zhou Mingde shook his head again and said in a low voice, "As long as we don't arrange for any important clansmen to leave the mountain gate during this period, that person might give up and leave on his own if he can't find an opportunity."

"But Elder, you will be heading to the Azure Lotus Temple in a few days. If you leave, our family will be without a Purple Mansion stage cultivator to protect us. At that point, I'm afraid they might dare to openly storm in!"

Zhou Chun spoke calmly, and his words immediately made Zhou Mingde frown.

That's right, he's going to Qinglian Temple in a few days.

If you're going to put on a show, you have to go all the way.

Only if someone else actually goes to Qinglian Temple and shows genuine sincerity in reconciliation will no one suspect him when Lin Hongyu takes action.

After all, so many people saw the Crimson Bright Pearl Pill being bought by the Jiang family at the auction.

It is reasonable for the Zhou family to take the initiative to seek reconciliation because they were worried that the Jiang family's mid-stage Purple Mansion cultivator would break through to the late stage of Purple Mansion.

"Then why don't you come with me to Qinglian Temple, Zhengchun? With me by your side, that will be enough to deter them from making any rash moves!"

After thinking for a moment, Zhou Mingde offered his solution.

Upon hearing this, Zhou Chun said again, "But what if, after discovering that you, the Supreme Elder, have left, they choose to storm into the clan and seize the 'Ancestral Revival' secret technique? Even if the clan leader exposes the existence of the Azure Dragon and scares them away, there's no guarantee that no one in the clan will be killed or injured!"

Hearing this, Zhou Mingde couldn't help but sigh, "So, Zheng Chun, you still haven't given up!"

"Yes, that's just my personality. If I didn't know beforehand, that would be fine, but since I knew someone was after me, I don't want to be on guard against attacks all the time!"

Zhou Chun readily admitted it without any attempt to hide it, her tone very firm.

At this moment, Zhou Daoyi, who had remained silent until now, slowly spoke up, saying, "Since Zheng Chun is so sincere, let's not force him. Anyone in this situation would want to resolve it as quickly as possible!"

After saying that, he lowered his voice and said, "I do have an idea about how to kill that protector of the Dragon Transformation Sect!"

"Oh, Daoyi, what brilliant idea have you come up with this time?"

Zhou Mingde's expression shifted, and he and Zhou Chun looked at Zhou Daoyi.

But Zhou Daoyi simply said in a soft voice, "Long Yuanze, Lu Ran!"

The second update for today is here!

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