Beast Taming Immortal Clan

Chapter 315 Zhou Mingde's Breakthrough, Development of Dragon Rising Valley [Please Subscribe]

The Zhou family has long had rules regarding the use of Foundation Establishment Pills.

Either you have a superior spiritual root aptitude, or you have made a great contribution to the family, or you have accumulated 5,000 merit points in the family.

Therefore, if any one of these three points cannot be met, even the biological children of a family cultivator at the Purple Mansion stage cannot obtain Foundation Establishment Pills from the family for Foundation Establishment.

Currently, the Zhou family still has three Foundation Establishment Pills that have not been used, which is more than enough in terms of quantity.

Even if only one Foundation Establishment Pill is reserved for Zhou Xinyan, who has a superior spiritual root aptitude, there are still two available for other clansmen.

Even though Zhou Chun is the patriarch of the Zhou family, he cannot openly violate the family rules by assigning two Foundation Establishment Pills to a particular family member.

Therefore, although he felt that both Zhou Xinlan and Zhou Xindie were worth nurturing into Foundation Establishment cultivators, he could only create more opportunities for them to gain family merit within the rules.

Fortunately, both of them are still relatively young, around forty years old, and have plenty of time to accumulate good deeds.

For the next four years, Zhou Chun and the Zhou family focused on development and diligently cultivated their internal strength.

After four years of dedicated training, Zhou Chun finally made a breakthrough in cultivating and optimizing the bloodline of the Jade Spirit Bee.

Through several experiments, he has fully mastered the method of evolving a first-order queen bee into a second-order queen bee.

And under his personal supervision, he successfully cultivated the queen bee in the Zhou family's bee colony to the second stage.

Once the queen bee evolved to the second tier, everything was just as Zhou Chun had read in the Thousand Spirits Sect's records: almost all of the insect eggs she laid would hatch into demonic insects.

From then on, the last obstacle preventing the Zhou family's bee colony from expanding was no longer there.

With this second-tier queen bee and an ample supply of flowers, the Zhou family's bee colony will soon grow to several thousand, greatly increasing the production of spirit honey.

If the queen bee's evolution was the first joyous occasion, then Zhou Mingde's breakthrough to the mid-stage of the Purple Mansion realm was the second joyous occasion for the Zhou family in the past four years.

Zhou Mingde had already been cultivating his Purple Mansion for sixty or seventy years, and now that his cultivation had broken through to the mid-stage of the Purple Mansion, it was a natural progression.

With his mid-stage Purple Mansion cultivation, along with the Fire God Jackal, a mid-grade third-tier demon beast, he was capable of putting up a fight even against a late-stage Purple Mansion cultivator.

Of course, for the Zhou family, which changes every year, there are many more happy events.

For example, the Wind Shadow Dragon Snake, which was bred a few years ago, has successfully reproduced two clutches of snake eggs and hatched more than a dozen Wind Shadow Dragon Snakes after several years of breeding.

From then on, the Wind Shadow Dragon Serpent, a dragon-born demon beast species, was completely established in the Zhou family.

Lin Hongyu, who had traveled to Yang Kingdom, also sent Lin Wan'er back. According to Lin Wan'er, Lin Hongyu has now successfully occupied the location of the [Earth Element Crystal Jade] mine and has begun to organize people to secretly mine the mine.

Lin Wan'er returned because she wanted the Zhou family to help her find sales channels, so as to prevent people from following the trail and finding Lin Hongyu.

This matter did indeed present Zhou Chun with some difficulties.

Because once the [Earth Element Crystal Jade] is sold on a large scale, it will inevitably make people aware that the Zhou family owns such a mine.

Although the Zhou family's current power might prevent them from being directly robbed, it still adds considerable risk.

Therefore, after discussing with several elders including Zhou Mingde and Zhou Daoyi, it was decided to have Lin Hongyu stockpile the excavated spirit ore first, and then sell it off in large quantities in several batches later, in order to avoid causing trouble.

In reality, the Zhou family no longer needs the share of the [Earth Element Crystal Jade] mine.

Another benefit of the joint martial arts competition held by the Zhou family was that the monster eggs and monster cubs produced by the Zhou family sold better.

Many cultivators who have fought against the Zhou family cultivators now feel that raising a demonic beast or spirit pet is much more cost-effective than acquiring one or two good magic artifacts.

Therefore, they are willing to spend the spirit coins they originally used to buy magical artifacts on buying monster eggs and monster cubs.

Once you have a spirit pet, you'll naturally want to buy some of the spirit beast food and spirit pills that the Zhou family sells at discounted prices.

This, in turn, boosted the sales of other supporting products.

One thing that's bothering Zhou Chun right now is the sheer increase in the number of monsters in the Zhou family, which has overwhelmed the family's beast garden.

To put it more broadly, the area of ​​the Zhou family's Jiufengling mountain gate is already too small to accommodate so many cultivators and demonic beasts from the Zhou family.

Jiufeng Ridge was originally a stronghold established by a few Foundation Establishment stage cultivators. It was not a particularly good spiritual mountain or blessed land.

The Zhou family chose this location to build their mountain gate because they were newcomers and didn't want to offend the local powers.

Past events have proven that the Zhou family's choice to establish their mountain gate here was the right one.

However, times have changed. As the Zhou family's population has grown and they have raised more and more demonic beasts, the limited space at Jiufeng Ridge has become insufficient.

The usual solution to this problem is to expand the scale of the mountain-protecting formation and occupy more land.

This is not difficult. Although no one in the Zhou family can modify the "Five Directions Miro Formation" yet, the You family can certainly provide assistance in this regard.

However, the reality is that the concentration of spiritual energy outside the Zhou family's mountain gate is far below the standard inside the mountain gate.

In this situation, blindly expanding the land area of ​​the mountain gate may actually reduce the concentration of spiritual energy within the mountain gate, affecting the cultivation of the clansmen.

Therefore, this method is simply impossible to implement.

Another solution is to find another place with abundant spiritual energy to build a family villa, and send some family members there to reduce the burden on the main gate.

However, this method is not so easy to implement.

Almost all the places in Lanzhou with relatively rich spiritual energy have been occupied, leaving no place for the Zhou family to build a family villa.

If they were to resort to the same old tricks again to seize territory, they would be ruining their own reputation, destroying the reputation they have painstakingly built up over the decades.

This is clearly not worth it.

The feasible solution at present is for the Zhou family to also arrange for some clansmen to go to that reclaimed stronghold to cultivate, so as to achieve the effect of diverting the flow of people.

However, while humans can temporarily relocate, it's not advisable to relocate the demonic beasts to the pioneering settlements for breeding.

"Perhaps it's time to weed out the demonic beasts the family keeps, eliminating the weak and retaining the strong!"

Zhou Chun muttered to himself, and immediately sent a message to the family's Hundred Beasts Hall, asking them to compile statistics on the types and numbers of all the demonic beasts currently kept by the family and report it to him for review.

Less than a day later, Zhou Zhengxun, the head of the Hundred Beasts Hall, personally came to report the situation to him.

"Chieftain, you are wise to say that the clan's beast garden currently houses a total of twenty-seven kinds of demonic beasts, including eighty-four eight-horned water-splitting deer, forty-two dragon-scale horses, sixteen red-eyed dragon vultures, fourteen dragon-claw giant lizards, thirteen wind-shadow dragon snakes, six crimson-flame golden monkeys, twenty crimson-flame wolves, ten rock-armored earth pythons, six black-scaled pythons, sixty-eight emerald-crowned flying snakes, twelve silver-backed black bears, four iron-feathered eagles... and four fragrant musk deer!"

In front of Zhou Chun, Zhou Zhengxun rattled off the types and numbers of all the monsters kept in the Zhou family's beast garden without missing a single one.

When reporting these things, Zhou Zhengxun's tone was clearly filled with pride.

After all, the explosive growth in the types and numbers of these monsters was all accomplished during his tenure.

He was praised and commended by Zhou Chun on many occasions for this.

Unfortunately, he was quite old, now over eighty, otherwise he would have really wanted to use all his good deeds to exchange for a Foundation Establishment Pill to try his luck.

But he didn't notice that Zhou Chun didn't seem very happy after hearing his report.

Admittedly, these impressive figures used to make Zhou Chun happy, because they represented the Zhou family's growing strength.

However, the existence of these demonic beasts may actually become a burden to the Zhou family.

Indeed, for a cultivation family that has passed down the art of beast taming, the more diverse the types of demonic beasts the family raises, the better, as it means that the family members will have more choices.

However, the reality is not like that.

Aside from a small number of cultivators with particular preferences, the vast majority of Zhou family cultivators still choose demonic beasts with great growth potential and stronger strength when selecting spirit pets.

Monsters like the Crimson Flame Vajra Monkey, Crimson-Eyed Dragon Vulture, Dragon-Scale Horse, and Iron-Feathered Eagle are the types that Zhou family cultivators most want to choose, so they don't seem to be numerous.

The eight-horned water deer, which used to be a popular choice, is now less popular.

After all, both can be used as mounts, but the Dragonscale Horse is superior to it in every aspect, not to mention the Crimson-Eyed Dragon Vulture.

In fact, the Zhou family has been selling those monsters that few people choose at low prices over the years to alleviate the family's breeding burden.

Even so, the existence of those demonic beasts has now become a real burden on the family.

Therefore, after weighing the options in his mind, Zhou Chun looked at Zhou Zhengxun, whose hair had already turned gray, and said, "Fifth Brother, you have recently submitted several reports explaining the necessity of expanding the Beast Garden. I suppose you have also felt the difficulties of raising so many demonic beasts."

"But you know the situation inside the family's mountain gate. The place is only so big, but the Beast Garden now occupies 40% of it."

"If the Beast Garden is expanded further, not only will the normal activity area of ​​the clansmen inside the mountain gate be greatly squeezed, but the spiritual veins and spiritual energy will probably also be insufficient."

"So until we find a better solution, we can only trouble you, Fifth Brother, to control the populations of those monster species with low potential and low economic value. Ideally, their numbers should not exceed five pairs!"

Ah!

Zhou Zhengxun looked at Zhou Chun with a face full of surprise, never expecting that he had asked him to come here today just to say such a thing.

Zhou Chun's solemn expression clearly indicated that there was no room for negotiation on this matter.

Therefore, after a brief silence, he nodded slightly and said, "I understand. I will do as you instruct me when I return."

"Then I'll have to trouble you, Fifth Brother."

Zhou Chun patted Zhou Zhengxun on the shoulder and told him to leave first.

After that, Zhou Chun went to the cave on the mountaintop alone.

"Are you planning to activate Longxing Valley soon?"

Inside the cave, Zhou Mingde was quite surprised when he learned from Zhou Chun's purpose for coming.

It turned out that Zhou Chun had come to visit him this time because he wanted to activate the undeveloped Longxing Valley stronghold on the banks of Longyuanze.

"Yes, the fact that the family's mountain gate is not large enough has already affected the family's development in many ways."

"Developing Dragon Rising Valley will not only allow us to relocate the family's elite guards from the family's mountain gate, freeing up more space for the family's cultivators, but it will also bring new sources of income to the family."

"We can even send some elders from our family to help. These elders are experienced and have basically lost their roots. Even if they return to their families, they will definitely be able to keep their mouths shut and not reveal this matter."

At this point, Zhou Chun added, "The main reason is that all the conditions for developing Dragon Rising Valley are now ripe. The family can send people there to oversee both Purple Mansion and Foundation Establishment stage cultivators, ensuring the area isn't left unsupervised!"

"In that case, let Daoquan come back as well, and let's hear his and Daoyi's opinions."

Zhou Mingde nodded slightly and immediately expressed his opinion.

Upon hearing this, Zhou Chun didn't say anything more and immediately left to send someone to inform Zhou Daoquan, who was stationed at the reclaimed base.

Several days later, Zhou Chun and the three elders of the Zhou family gathered in the mountain cave to discuss the development of Longxing Valley.

After some discussion, the three elders agreed to Zhou Chun's proposal.

Now that the proposal has been approved, Zhou Chun quickly drafted a relevant plan and ordered people to purchase the necessary supplies.

At this time, Zhou Daoyi took Zhou Xindie, the array master of the Zhou family, to Longxing Valley. They wanted to check and maintain the array foundation left by Zhou Chongshan and embed the array artifacts that Zhou Chongshan had refined before his death into it, and set up the protective array there first.

After Zhou Daoyi and Zhou Xindie spent more than half a month activating the protective array of Longxing Valley, Zhou Chun's side had also prepared the corresponding personnel and supplies.

In addition to Xu Fu and 48 other family warriors, Zhou Chun also reached an agreement with ten Zhou family elders over 70 years old, who were all willing to go to Longxing Valley to serve the family for a period of time.

In addition, Zhou Daoquan and Zhou Zhengyong and his wife, elders of the Zhou family, will reside permanently in Longxing Valley in the future.

After Zhou Daoyi returned, Zhou Chun and Zhou Daoyi led the sixty-odd people to Longxing Valley via the underground river.

To prevent the underground river from being exposed, Zhou Daoyi, Zhou Daoquan, and Zhou Chun used a sealing technique to imprison their magical power and five senses when Qingjiao Qingqing and Yindian Leimang carried them to Longyuanze. This allowed them to be carried forward on the backs of the two spirit pets as if they were blind and deaf.

They waited until they reached the land on the shore of Longyuan Marsh before removing the seals from these people.

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