Beast Taming Immortal Clan

Chapter 274 Something's Strange: Three Purple Mansions in One Family [Please Subscribe]

People are happy when they are happy.

The series of happy events that occurred in the Zhou family kept Zhou Chun, the clan leader, in a state of joy.

He has smiled far more often in the past few years than before.

In a great mood, he almost forgot about another troublesome matter.

Until that matter came knocking on their door again.

That day, Zhou Chun, who had returned to his residence to rest, was suddenly invited into Su Yuzhen's room.

Inside the room, Su Yuzhen brewed a cup of tea for Zhou Chun and then looked at him, saying, "Judging by the time, it's been two years since I came to the Zhou family. I wonder if Fellow Daoist Zhou is ready yet?"

Are you ready?

Zhou Chun was taken aback at first, but then quickly understood what Su Yuzhen meant by "preparations".

To be honest, if Su Yuzhen hadn't brought it up now, he might have really forgotten about it.

Perhaps it was the passage of time, but now when he recalls this incident, he no longer feels any resentment.

Perhaps it was because of the two years they had spent together that he realized he didn't actually feel any aversion or disgust towards Su Yuzhen!

Time is indeed a great healer in many ways.

Things that are important to us at a certain time may lose their importance after a while.

In short, after taking a sip of tea, Zhou Chun calmly nodded to Su Yuzhen and said, "I have no problem with that. Miss Su, when would you like to begin?"

"Seven days from now, Fellow Daoist Zhou. You can find someone to hand over family affairs in the next few days. You may also need to go into seclusion for one or two months."

Su Yuzhen glanced at Zhou Chun and whispered the exact start time.

"Zhou understands."

Zhou Chun responded, downed the rest of the tea in his cup, and got up to leave the room.

The seven days passed quickly.

That day, after arranging everything, Zhou Chun returned to his courtyard and activated the formation to hang up the sign indicating that he was in seclusion.

Inside the room, Su Yuzhen had already made preparations.

When Zhou Chun entered the room with mixed feelings, she saw that Su Yuzhen had already taken off her clothes and was lying on the bed with her eyes closed as if she were asleep.

Upon seeing this, his breath caught in his throat.

Then, gritting his teeth, he strode toward the bed.

When it comes to sex, Su Yuzhen is undoubtedly a complete novice, completely stuck on theoretical knowledge.

However, once she truly got into the zone under Zhou Chun's guidance and development, she immediately took the initiative.

This is because the "Plain Maiden Mystic Art" she cultivates is essentially a dual cultivation technique.

During the dual cultivation process, she instinctively activated the technique and took control of the cultivation.

Throughout the entire dual cultivation process, she was like a bottomless pit, constantly absorbing Zhou Chun's magical power.

Strangely enough, even Zhou Chun himself found it extremely difficult to withstand Zhou Chun's domineering and fierce Golden Soup magic power at the time.

However, after Su Yuzhen absorbed this magic power, she easily contained it without causing her any harm.

After circulating through her body, this magical power returned to Zhou Chun's body, becoming even purer and more restrained.

This discovery greatly surprised Zhou Chun and completely put her worries at ease.

Over the next three months, Zhou Chun and Su Yuzhen practiced dual cultivation more than ten times.

Both of them benefited greatly from this dual cultivation process.

Su Yuzhen goes without saying. As the dominant party in the dual cultivation process, she has raised her own cultivation level to the limit of the late Foundation Establishment stage after being nourished by Zhou Chun's pure metal element magic power.

Meanwhile, Zhou Chun's cultivation level improved slightly after obtaining her primordial yin power through dual cultivation. The effect of three months of cultivation was almost equivalent to three years of normal cultivation.

On this day, after another round of dual cultivation, Su Yuzhen took the initiative to say goodbye after each of them finished their meditation.

She raised her hand and brushed aside her loose hair, tidying it up. Then she bowed to Zhou Chun and said, "Thank you for your help these past few days, Fellow Daoist Zhou. I have now completed my cultivation and must return to my family to try to open my Purple Mansion."

Hearing her words, Zhou Chun was also taken aback.

Then, looking at the female cultivator in front of him with whom he had engaged in dual cultivation more than ten times, he opened his mouth as if he wanted to say something, but no sound came out.

In the end, he simply sighed and said, "Then I wish Miss Su all the best and that she achieves her goal!"

After saying that, he got up and left the room.

Not long after, the sound of Su Yuzhen leaving the courtyard reached Zhou Chun's ears in the master bedroom.

He stood by the window, watching the departing figure, his mind filled with the intimate scenes they had shared over the past three months.

For some reason, he clearly didn't have any feelings for Su Yuzhen.

But when the two were alone in a room, he couldn't help wanting to do something with her.

"Something's strange, very strange!"

Zhou Chun calmed himself down and felt that this matter was very strange, and that he might have unknowingly fallen into a trap.

However, no matter how he examined himself, he found nothing unusual.

Moreover, although he was somewhat intoxicated by the enjoyment during each dual cultivation session, he never completely let his guard down. If Su Yuzhen had used any tricks on him at that time, he couldn't possibly have been completely unaware.

Zhou Chun was quite confident in his own consciousness and will.

After pondering for a long time without finding a solution, he temporarily suppressed that strange idea and returned to normal life.

Not long after, another member of the Zhou family collected 5,000 points of family merit and successfully exchanged them for a Foundation Establishment Pill from Zhou Chun.

Zhou Chun was quite familiar with this clansman; he was Zhou Jiafei, the "Jia" generation cultivator who had once led him back to the Zhou family.

Zhou Jiafei was already over sixty years old at this time. In order to accumulate five thousand points of family merit, he begged and pleaded everywhere, and even took a concubine and had six or seven children.

After receiving the Foundation Establishment Pill from Zhou Chun, he didn't wait a moment longer and quickly entered the secluded cultivation chamber on Pagoda Peak to begin his seclusion.

However, it is unknown whether this overly eager feeling was what caused him harm.

More than three months later, having failed in his Foundation Establishment attempt, he emerged from his secluded cultivation chamber with a look of utter despair.

Zhou Jiafei was not the first in the Zhou family to fail to establish his foundation after taking the Foundation Establishment Pill.

However, he was the first person to fail at Foundation Establishment after taking out a debt to exchange for Foundation Establishment Pills.

This failure not only meant that he would almost never have another chance to successfully build a foundation in his life, but also that he would have to desperately repay his debts in the years to come.

The path of spiritual practice is like this; often it's a step to heaven or a step to hell.

Only those who consistently succeed can go far on this path.

Zhou Jiafei's failure quickly became a negative example for others, prompting those Zhou family cultivators who desperately wanted to exchange their merits for Foundation Establishment Pills to calmly consider the consequences of failure.

If we fail, we'll never be able to turn our lives around!

Not long after Zhou Jiafei failed to establish his foundation, Zhou Chun's third spirit pet, the Golden-Winged Tiger, also reached the critical point of advancement.

The Golden-Winged Tiger is already a mid-level demon beast, and there are no obstacles for it to break through from the first level to the second level.

Therefore, after it had accumulated enough, Zhou Chun fed it the seven-hundred-year-old golden ginseng he had bought to help it advance in its cultivation level.

It could be that the medicinal power of the golden ginseng is too strong, or it could be that the golden winged tiger itself has accumulated enough strength.

After consuming the golden ginseng, it successfully advanced to become a second-tier low-grade demon beast in less than four months.

Only after advancing to the second-tier demon beast did the Golden-Winged Tiger's powerful talents truly come into play.

At this moment, the Golden-Winged Tiger was over four zhang long from head to tail, with a wingspan of over two zhang. Its size suddenly increased, surpassing that of the Golden-Armored Rock Turtle, making it the number one spirit pet under Zhou Chun's command.

Of course, it wasn't just its size that skyrocketed, but also the Golden-Winged Tiger's strength.

As a naturally mutated species with both gold and wind attributes, the Golden-Winged Tiger mastered the most second-tier spells among Zhou Chun's three spirit pets after advancing to the second-tier demon beast.

The second-tier wind magic includes "Storm Tear Shot", "Hurricane Barrier", "Wind Wings", and "Deadly Wind", while the second-tier metal magic includes "Armor-Splitting Golden Light", "Armor-Piercing Golden Needle", and "Golden Roar Shot".

With these seven second-tier spells, the Golden-Winged Tiger's strength caught up with that of the Golden-Armored Rock Turtle, who had broken through almost ten years earlier, shortly after its breakthrough.

Furthermore, in a one-on-one battle, he defeated the Vajra Spirit Monkey, who had been called in by Zhou Chun for sparring.

Such a performance pleased its master, Zhou Chun, who felt that the beating he had suffered in the Hualong Sect had not been in vain.

With his Foundation Establishment cultivation, Zhou Chun became the first person in the Zhou family in five hundred years to control three second-tier demonic beasts.

In the past five hundred years, he was the only one in the Zhou family to have achieved this.

At this point, not counting the two elders of the family, Zhou Chun had already achieved the best in the Zhou family in terms of beast breeding.

Good things come in pairs. Just two months after the Golden-Winged Tiger broke through to the second tier, Zhou Daoquan, who had been in seclusion for several years, also emerged from seclusion!

With the assistance of the two spiritual items, the Mysterious Heart Purple Rejuvenation Pill and the Ghost Face Soul Mushroom, Zhou Daoquan successfully opened his Purple Mansion and became the third Purple Mansion cultivator in the Zhou family.

With three members reaching the Purple Palace level, the Zhou family finally regained its former glory as a Golden Core aristocratic family!

"Congratulations, Third Elder, on the opening of your Purple Mansion! A Golden Core is within reach!"

On Flying Stone Peak, Zhou Chun arrived after receiving the news and was overjoyed to see Zhou Daoquan, who had already reached the Purple Mansion stage. He immediately expressed his congratulations.

He and the Third Elder Zhou Daoquan had a deep connection. It was with the help of the Third Elder Zhou Daoquan that he was able to obtain such an excellent spirit pet as the Silver Lightning Python.

Later, in order for him to successfully switch to cultivating the "Golden Cauldron Profound Art", the Third Elder Zhou Daoquan accompanied and escorted him on several long journeys.

Therefore, when Zhou Chun saw that Zhou Daoquan had successfully opened his Purple Mansion, he was genuinely happy for him, even from a personal perspective.

Faced with Zhou Chun's congratulations, Zhou Daoquan, while pleased, waved his hands repeatedly and said, "Clan leader, you flatter me. Being able to open my Purple Mansion in this life is enough to fulfill my wish. As for forming my Core, I have never dared to even think about it!"

Zhou Daoyi once told Zhou Chun that even for cultivators from immortal cultivation families like theirs, being able to open their Purple Mansion in this lifetime would already be a perfect achievement.

As for the Golden Core stage, most people only dare to think about it; no one really believes they can achieve it.

Although Zhou Daoquan had already successfully opened up his Purple Mansion, he still didn't dare to even think about forming his Golden Core.

Of course, Zhou Chun was just saying something auspicious at this time, and did not actually believe that Zhou Daoquan had the potential to achieve the Golden Elixir.

Seeing Zhou Daoquan say this, he smiled and changed the subject.

Next, one by one, the Zhou family elders who had heard the news came to congratulate Zhou Daoquan. Finally, the two Zhou family elders, Zhou Mingde and Zhou Daoyi, also arrived.

After this round of congratulations, Zhou Mingde immediately proposed, "Daoquan's successful opening of the Purple Mansion is the most celebratory event for our Zhou family in recent years. We should hold a special Purple Mansion celebration to invite guests from all walks of life to come and congratulate him, thus enhancing the prestige of our Zhou family!"

"The Supreme Elder is absolutely right. Such a joyous occasion should indeed be announced to all corners of the world to enhance the prestige of our family."

Zhou Chun nodded repeatedly, becoming the first to respond to Zhou Mingde's suggestion.

For a cultivation family, a cultivator at the Purple Mansion stage is the most outstanding existence. The family has gained another pillar-level figure like this, and there is no reason not to celebrate.

However, Zhou Daoquan declined, saying, "Isn't that inappropriate? When Brother Daoyi successfully opened his Purple Mansion, the family didn't even hold a Purple Mansion celebration for him. How can you do this for me?"

In terms of age, Zhou Daoquan is more than ten years older than Zhou Daoyi, making him the second most senior member of the Zhou family.

Now that both of them are at the Purple Mansion stage of cultivation, he can call him "brother" quite naturally, without any psychological burden.

Upon hearing this, Zhou Daoyi smiled faintly and waved his hand, saying, "Brother Daoquan, there's no need for that. I had special circumstances back then and had no other choice."

Then his expression turned serious, and he looked at Zhou Daoquan with a solemn expression, saying, "Moreover, this Purple Mansion celebration is nominally to celebrate for you, Brother Daoquan, but in reality, it is to enhance the prestige of our Zhou family, so it cannot be not held!"

"Daoyi is right, Daoquan, please stop refusing and being polite. Let's just leave it at that!"

Zhou Mingde spoke again, making a decision in a deep voice.

Hearing them say that, Zhou Daoquan could no longer insist and could only agree.

At this moment, Zhou Mingde raised his hand and patted the storage bag at his waist, taking out an item.

It was a white monster egg with dark red patterns.

"This Bloodflame Dragon Python egg was obtained from the battlefield. Now that Daoquan has successfully opened his Purple Mansion, this egg is entrusted to you for cultivation."

As Zhou Mingde spoke, he handed the monster egg in his hand to Zhou Daoquan.

In fact, when Zhou Mingde returned to his family and learned that Zhou Daoquan's spirit pet, the Earth Armor Bear, had died, he had thought about giving the monster egg to Zhou Daoquan to hatch.

However, considering that Zhou Daoquan was old and was preparing to break through to the Purple Mansion realm, Zhou Mingde held back a plan.

After all, if Zhou Daoquan fails to break through to the Purple Mansion realm, he might only have thirty or forty years left to live. In that case, it would be a waste for him to hatch the Blood Flame Dragon Python egg.

Now that Zhou Daoquan has lived up to expectations and successfully opened his Purple Mansion, it would be most suitable for him to hatch and nurture this Blood Flame Dragon Python egg.

Zhou Daoquan had no idea about these things.

When he saw the intermediate-level demon beast egg that he had longed for appear right in front of him, he was both surprised and delighted.

He murmured to himself, "Is this really for me?"

"Besides Daoquan, no one else in the family is more suitable to nurture it."

With a smile on his face, Zhou Mingde placed the monster egg in Zhou Daoquan's hand.

This time, Zhou Daoquan didn't hold back when faced with something he truly liked and cared about.

He held the monster egg in both hands and nodded vigorously, saying, "Please rest assured, Elder, I will definitely take good care of it."

I'm experiencing writer's block and don't know how to connect the story to what follows. There's a transition period between the plot I've envisioned and what I'm writing now, and I haven't figured out how to bridge that gap, so it's making writing very difficult! I can only update once today!

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