Beast Taming Immortal Clan

Chapter 336 Jade Beads, Speculation [Please Subscribe]

At that moment, when the white toad pounced towards Zhou Chun, both Zhou Chun himself and Zhou Mingde beside him were terrified, their faces filled with horror.

At that moment, a number of unpleasant thoughts arose in the minds of the two.

Zhou Chun exerted all his strength to activate the "Golden Cauldron Mystic Light" to protect himself.

However, the protective golden light was as fragile as paper and was easily crushed by the white toad.

Then it crashed headfirst into Zhou Chun's body.

Finished!

Upon seeing this scene, Zhou Mingde immediately closed his eyes in despair.

At that moment, Zhou Chun was surrounded by a dazzling white light that completely obscured his entire body.

However, this strange phenomenon only lasted for a few breaths before quickly dissipating.

When Zhou Mingde opened his eyes again, Zhou Chun had already fainted and his fate was unknown.

As he looked at Zhou Chun, who had fallen unconscious on the ground, a mixture of surprise, suspicion, and fear flashed across his eyes.

He quickly struggled to his feet, gritted his teeth, and swiftly recalled the flying sword that had fallen to the ground. He then slashed at Zhou Chunfei with the sword.

Finally, the crimson flying sword stopped an inch above Zhou Chun's neck.

Then Zhou Mingde sat down cross-legged on the spot, staring intently at Zhou Chun, maintaining this position.

Based on what he had seen before, he suspected that Zhou Chun might have been possessed or taken over by the white toad.

If that's the case, Zhou Chun's soul has probably been erased, and he can be declared dead.

But that was just his guess.

Zhou Chun, however, is the patriarch of the Zhou family and the most promising cultivator in the Zhou family to reach the Core Formation stage in the future.

Unless absolutely necessary, Zhou Mingde would definitely not personally kill Zhou Chun.

After waiting for an unknown amount of time, Zhou Chun, whom Zhou Mingde was in sight, finally opened her eyes, her eyelids twitching slightly.

Seeing this, Zhou Mingde immediately shouted in a deep voice, "Don't move! Don't move!"

Hearing his tense and stern shout, Zhou Chun, who had just woken up, was stunned for a moment, blinked, and then noticed the crimson flying sword hanging above his neck.

This made his expression change, and he quickly realized why Zhou Mingde was so nervous.

So he quickly lay down obediently and replied, "Elder, please rest assured, without your order, this junior will not move an inch."

The familiar tone made Zhou Mingde relax a little.

But it was only a slight relaxation; I still dared not let my guard down in the slightest.

He slowly said, "You know what just happened, Zheng Chun. Now examine yourself and give me a credible answer!"

"I understand."

Zhou Chun responded and immediately used his divine sense to examine his own body and check his condition.

It was only when he investigated that he was truly shocked.

During the examination, he clearly felt a chill in his lower abdomen.

When he focused his mind on investigating that cold and gloomy place, he discovered that a white jade bead had appeared in his dantian without him noticing.

The white jade bead huddled in a corner of his dantian, motionless, like a dead object.

Zhou Chun's divine sense landed on it, but was directly repelled, as if it refused to communicate with him.

Zhou Chun felt as if they were looking down on him because his cultivation level was too low and he was not qualified to talk to them.

Seeing this, Zhou Chun didn't dare to do anything out of line. He could only check other parts of his dantian first. After finding nothing abnormal, he calmed down and told Zhou Mingde about the changes in his body.

"You said a white jade bead has appeared in your dantian?"

Zhou Mingde was slightly taken aback, a look of disbelief flashing in his eyes. He hadn't expected to hear this answer.

Zhou Chun also felt that this matter was too strange, but at this point he could only nod seriously and say, "Yes, everything I said is true, there is absolutely no falsehood in it!"

Seeing his serious expression, Zhou Mingde was at a loss for what to do.

The two stared at each other for a while before Zhou Mingde finally spoke slowly: "Alright, release your spirit pets and demonic insects. If you can still control them, I'll believe you haven't been possessed!"

The Zhou family cultivators mostly used the "Soul Control Blood Array" secret technique to contract spirit pets, which established a connection between their souls and the demonic beasts.

The demonic insects that Zhou Chun contracted also had similar situations.

If Zhou Chun has been possessed, the Silver Lightning Python Bai Bai and the Golden-Winged Tiger, among other demonic beasts, should notice and exhibit unusual behavior after emerging from their bodies.

And those demonic insects will definitely be even more obvious.

However, this is not absolute, because if the being who possessed Zhou Chun's body was of a very high level, it is hard to say that the other party would not have the means to make up for it.

But if that were the case, Zhou Mingde felt that even if he were to fall, it wouldn't be a complete injustice.

Therefore, he had already begun to believe Zhou Chun's story.

With Zhou Chun's intelligence, he naturally thought of this as well.

So he immediately reached out and patted the spirit beast pouch at his waist, releasing the three spirit pets and the two kinds of demonic insects.

It was clear that the three-headed beast and the two types of insects, suddenly appearing in the frigid ice cave, were extremely uncomfortable and let out hissing and growling.

However, they felt no sense of unfamiliarity with Zhou Chun, their master. They obeyed all of Zhou Chun's commands.

Upon seeing this, Zhou Mingde immediately relaxed and with a wave of his hand, he retrieved his flying sword.

Then, with a gentle wave of his hand, he said, "Alright, you can take them all back now!"

Hearing this, Zhou Chun breathed a sigh of relief and immediately recalled the spirit pets and demonic insects that were not well-suited to the environment.

After doing all this, Zhou Chun looked at Zhou Mingde and asked, "Elder, what should we do next? Do you know what that white jade bead inside my body is?"

"None of that's urgent, let's check the body first!"

Zhou Mingde waved his hand and immediately turned his gaze to the cold spring.

What made him and Zhou Chun's expressions change slightly was that the corpse was no longer visible in the cold spring.

"Could it have been shattered during the impact just now?"

Zhou Chun spoke with a surprised expression.

Upon hearing this, Zhou Mingde couldn't help but carefully recall what had happened earlier.

However, at the time, both of them were focused on the white toad and paid no attention to the corpse, so they didn't notice how it disappeared.

"Perhaps that's really the case!"

After thinking for a while without finding anything, Zhou Mingde could only sigh and nod.

Then he glanced at the icy spring emanating from it, then at the surrounding ice walls, and finally sighed softly, "Let's go. It seems there's nothing more to explore here. Let's go back first!"

After saying that, he walked out of the ice cave first.

Upon seeing this, Zhou Chun naturally followed in his footsteps and left.

After they reached the outside, Zhou Chun looked at the entrance behind him and asked Zhou Mingde, "Elder, do you think this entrance should be sealed off?"

"Forget it, there's no need for that. Let's just leave it as it is!"

Zhou Mingde pondered for a moment, then shook his head, rejecting the idea.

The two then returned to the Zhou family without going to Longxing Valley.

After returning to Jiufeng Ridge, Zhou Mingde took Zhou Chun directly to his cave.

"Sit down first, let this old man take a look at that white jade bead in your dantian and see what's going on!"

Inside the cave, Zhou Mingde looked at Zhou Chun in front of him and gestured for him to sit down and accept his examination.

Zhou Chun cooperated readily, immediately sitting down cross-legged and allowing him to examine her.

Soon, with Zhou Mingde's mind at ease and offering no resistance, he channeled his divine sense into Zhou Mingde's dantian.

However, to Zhou Mingde's great surprise, he was unable to see the white jade bead that Zhou Chun had mentioned in Zhou Chun's dantian!

"That's strange, Zheng Chun, are you sure there's that white jade bead in your dantian? Why haven't I found anything there!"

Zhou Mingde, having withdrawn his consciousness, looked at Zhou Chun with a face full of surprise and asked a question.

His words surprised Zhou Chun greatly, and she couldn't help but calm her mind and look inward at her dantian.

In his inner vision, the white jade bead remained quietly there, unchanged.

Then, with a firm expression, he nodded to Zhou Mingde and said, "This junior is absolutely certain of this matter; that thing is within this junior's dantian!"

"I understand. You may get up now!"

After a moment of silence, Zhou Mingde nodded slightly and told Zhou Chun to get up.

Then he lowered his head and thought for a moment, and said to Zhou Chun, "If everything you said is true, then this should be an opportunity for you."

"Based on my speculation, the white jade bead in your dantian is very likely a powerful magic weapon!"

"And the white toad we saw back then was very likely the spirit of this powerful magical artifact!"

His words shocked Zhou Chun.

He immediately exclaimed in surprise, "But aren't magic weapons only something that Golden Core cultivators can refine and use? And do things like weapon spirits really exist in this world?"

"It's true that only those with a cultivation level of at least the Golden Core stage can refine and use magic weapons, but Zheng Chun, you haven't refined that thing yet, have you?"

Zhou Mingde then added in a low voice, "As for the authenticity of the artifact spirit, since such legends have always existed in the cultivation world, it must mean that it truly exists!"

His explanation was reasonable and well-founded, and Zhou Chun had no way to refute it.

But Zhou Chun quickly remembered something and suddenly asked, "What about the strange roars from before? What about the inexplicable fear the Vulcan jackals showed? How can these be explained?"

"That strange roar must be coming from the artifact spirit!"

"As for why the Vulcan jackals are so afraid of the white toad, it might be related to the white toad's origins!"

Zhou Mingde continued answering Zhou Chun's questions, seemingly having truly seen through everything.

Hearing his answer, Zhou Chun frowned again and couldn't help but ask, "What are the roots of the white toad? What does the Supreme Elder mean by this?"

Upon hearing this, Zhou Mingde immediately coughed twice and said, "Ahem, I dare to guess that the white toad spirit's origin is likely the soul and primordial spirit of a fifth-tier demon king. Therefore, even after becoming a spirit and having its memories erased, it still possesses the aura of a demon king that can intimidate all demons!"

Upon hearing his statement, Zhou Chun was so shocked that her mouth dropped open.

"The demon soul and primordial spirit of a fifth-tier demon king? Elder, you really dare to think and speak so boldly!!"

Zhou Chun looked at Zhou Mingde with a strange expression, genuinely admiring the other's audacity.

He's always been a man of bold ideas, but he really hadn't dared to think about something like this.

What kind of existence is a fifth-tier demon king!

Such a powerful being, comparable to a Nascent Soul cultivator, is far rarer than even a Nascent Soul cultivator.

Let alone people like them, even those Golden Core cultivators might never see one in their entire lives!

To kill a fifth-tier demon king, extract its demon soul and spirit, and refine it into a magic weapon to become its spirit, one would need immense supernatural power.

Would a powerful being with such supernatural abilities simply perish silently in the wilderness?

Even if the man who disappeared in the cold spring was not the one who crafted this magic weapon, someone who could possess such a powerful magic weapon must not be a weakling, so how could he have died there?

When Zhou Chun echoed these points, Zhou Mingde replied with feigned seriousness, "Perhaps the cultivation level of those who possess magical treasures isn't as high as we imagine. Zheng Chun, don't you also possess this magical treasure now?"

This answer left Zhou Chun speechless for a moment.

Finally, he could only say, "Then what should I do next? Do you have any suggestions, Elder?"

"If I were to offer my advice, I would suggest that you leave it alone for now. Since this treasure has chosen you, it means you are destined to have it, and it shouldn't harm you in any way."

"Moreover, since I cannot detect it, it means that it also knows how to conceal its treasures. You don't need to worry about other high-level cultivators discovering that it is inside your body."

"As for why you can't establish contact with it now, it's mostly because your cultivation level is too low. From now on, you just need to focus on improving your cultivation!"

After a moment's thought, Zhou Mingde offered his opinion and suggestions.

He spoke so casually, but Zhou Chun couldn't be as relaxed as he claimed.

Zhou Chun didn't say anything more, but verbally agreed.

After returning to his residence from the mountain cave, Zhou Chun immediately began to focus his attention on studying the white jade bead.

He first tried tirelessly to touch the white jade bead with his divine sense to convey his goodwill.

But no matter how many times he tried, his divine sense was repelled.

He then tried to use his Golden Soup Magic to touch the white jade bead, but the result was the same—he couldn't touch it at all.

Untouchable and uncommunicative, the white jade bead was like a block of ice, ruthlessly rejecting Zhou Chun's advances.

Fortunately, Zhou Chun was not affected by the appearance of the white jade bead in his dantian while meditating.

From then on, whenever she had free time, Zhou Chun would unconsciously touch her lower abdomen, often frowning and remaining silent.

Just as Zhou Chun was worried about the unexpected white jade bead that had appeared in his body, Zhou Daoyi, who had been a source of concern for him, finally appeared outside Longxing Valley.

"Phew, we're finally here!"

Outside Longxing Valley, Zhou Daoyi, dressed in a simple animal skin coat, slowly emerged from the woods, a smile finally appearing on his pale face.

(End of this chapter)