Beast Taming Immortal Clan

Chapter 355 Reindeer Snow Crystal Insects [Please Subscribe]

The half-month period limited to Huoyang Sanren passed quickly.

When the time came, he did not appear at the Hongyufeng stronghold.

This gave Zhou Chun a pretty good idea of ​​what was going on, and he understood that this person probably wouldn't dare to use any tricks against the Red Jade Peak stronghold for the time being.

As for whether breaking one's word is a loss of face.

High-level rogue cultivators like Huoyang Sanren, who rose from humble beginnings, naturally wouldn't care too much about such face.

Anyway, this matter is unlikely to be spread.

Now that the threat from Huoyang Sanren has been temporarily eliminated, Zhou Chun immediately instructed Lin Wan'er to restart the mining of [Earth Element Crystal Jade] ore.

None of the independent cultivators at the Red Jade Peak stronghold knew that there was actually a [Earth Element Crystal Jade] mine in the back mountain outside the array behind Lin Hongyu's cave.

This side is located right next to the residences of the high-ranking members of the Red Jade Peak stronghold, so very few cultivators usually come here, lest a Foundation Establishment cultivator or even Lin Hongyu be seen by someone and think they have ulterior motives.

At the same time, because it was so close to their residence, the Foundation Establishment cultivators in those Red Jade Peak strongholds developed a sense of "blind spot," and no one would think that there was a spirit mine so close to their residence.

Because the entrance and exit to the stronghold are on the other side, these Foundation Establishment cultivators usually don't go to the mountains behind the stronghold when they come and go.

Therefore, for so long, no one has noticed the existence of the [Earth Element Crystal Jade] vein.

That night, under the cover of Zhou Chun, who had gained absolute control of the stronghold's protective formation, Lin Wan'er quietly left the stronghold from the back mountain without alerting the guardian cultivators on the front mountain.

She returned the following night under Zhou Chun's protection.

"Alright, I've had those people resume mining. From now on, they just need to collect the accumulated ore every two weeks!"

Back at the base, Lin Wan'er immediately reported to Zhou Chun on the progress of her mission.

Hearing this, Zhou Chun felt relieved.

Then he said to Lin Wan'er, "Next, I need to go to the market in the Great Yun Kingdom, which may take a few days. I will leave the stronghold here in your care, Elder Lin."

"Clan leader, please go with peace of mind. I will take good care of the family."

Lin Wan'er nodded slightly and readily agreed.

So Zhou Chun handed over the control flag of the protective array to her and left the stronghold alone.

A day later, Zhou Chun appeared in a market town in the Great Yun Kingdom.

Zhou Chun came to the Great Yun Kingdom to purchase a set of formations to help him train the wood spirits.

The Wood Spirit's ability to escape is too strong. Even if Zhou Chun released several spirit pets to guard it, it might not be safe without the formation's restriction.

Therefore, he had to use the power of the formation to restrict it, making it difficult for it to use its Wood Release technique.

If it were the Zhou family, Zhou Chun could have had the family's formation master set up such a formation, but for now, he could only buy one himself.

"This [Minor Eight Gates Golden Light Formation] might meet your requirements, fellow Daoist. Once activated, anyone entering the formation will be imprisoned and restricted by layers of golden light, making it difficult to discern directions and severely limiting their movement. Without knowledge of formations, even a late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator would find it difficult to escape in a short time!"

"This [Three Talents Spirit Imprisoning Array] also has an extremely strong effect of trapping enemies. After activation, it can imprison and suppress the cultivator's mana circulation within the array, making it difficult for them to exert their full strength. It can suppress the cultivation of a late Foundation Establishment cultivator to the mid Foundation Establishment stage."

"However, our best confinement array is this [Double Profound Magnetic Light Array]. Once activated, this array can unleash gravitational magnetic light to suppress cultivators within, rendering their bodies immobile. It is especially effective against demonic beasts!"

Inside a shop, after learning Zhou Chun's purpose, the shopkeeper personally brought out the shop's treasured top-quality goods for him to choose from.

Among the four treasures—alchemy, artifact, talisman, and array—arrays are actually the hardest to sell.

Ordinary cultivators can't afford this, and those who can usually buy it from their powerful backers or other channels at a cheaper price.

Therefore, unless it is a rare masterpiece, it is difficult to sell it at a normal price.

Moreover, there is a major limitation that prevents the formation from circulating: the method of setting up the formation.

Even if one has a complete set of array flags, array plates, and other array-setting tools, if one does not understand the method of setting them up and is not a person with profound array skills, one will be at a loss and find it difficult to set them up.

Most cultivators, after memorizing the method of setting up the purchased formations, would destroy the method of setting them up.

These limitations also make it difficult for independent cultivators to become array masters, because even the most talented independent cultivator array master will find it difficult to make money from this skill.

In this situation, it was rare to encounter such a big customer as Zhou Chun, so the shopkeeper naturally had to treat him with great enthusiasm.

Zhou Chun was also familiar with the market for formations. Over the years, he had acquired many formations, but most of them were left in the family for clan members to study because he did not know how to set them up. Very few could be sold.

Therefore, although he urgently needed formations to help him tame the wood spirits, he was extremely critical of the formations the shopkeeper had brought out, pointing out their weaknesses without any politeness.

Even if there are no flaws, they will still use nitpicking words such as "too rigid" or "inflexible" to attack them.

Although the shopkeeper knew what he meant by doing this, he still had to make concessions in certain aspects.

After all, formations are really hard to sell, and it's common for customers to nitpick and push down prices when doing business.

After much haggling, Zhou Chun finally bought the [Minor Eight Gates Golden Light Array] for 15,000 spirit coins.

The price is too high compared to magical artifacts, which is one of the reasons why formations are difficult to sell!

Fortunately, Zhou Chun knew how to set up the [Minor Eight Gates Golden Light Formation]. Even if he couldn't use it after taming the wood spirit, he could still sell it at a discount, so he wouldn't lose much.

After purchasing the formation, Zhou Chun didn't linger in the market and quickly returned to the Red Jade Peak stronghold.

After that, Zhou Chun handed over all the affairs of the stronghold to Lin Wan'er, while he set up the [Minor Eight Gates Golden Light Array] on an independent mountain peak and focused on taming the tough Wood Demon.

Taming an adult demon beast is not much different from taming a beast by ordinary people; it's just a matter of various forms of torture and beating.

After Zhou Chun activated the [Minor Eight Gates Golden Light Array] to seal off a region, he released the Wood Demon from the seal and then subjected it to both physical and mental torture every day, wielding a large stick in one hand and a radish in the other.

To be honest, if the Wood Spirit hadn't been so valuable for taming, Zhou Chun wouldn't have tried to tame such a powerful adult demon beast through a contract.

Because if a monster is tamed in this way, you really have to be constantly wary of it turning on its master.

If Zhou Chun were to suffer a serious injury one day and were unable to suppress the Wood Spirit, that thing might very well take the opportunity to turn against him.

In the past, many cultivators in the Zhou family were greedy for the convenience of directly taming adult demon beasts and chose to capture adult demon beasts and tame them as spirit pets. As a result, in times of crisis, the spirit pets not only failed to stand up to save their lives, but instead became the ones who killed them.

After many such examples emerged, the Zhou family began to strictly prohibit younger generations from taking shortcuts by forcibly taming adult demon beasts.

As the clan leader, Zhou Chun's forceful subjugation of the Wood Spirit was, strictly speaking, a violation of clan rules.

Time passed slowly, and the Red Jade Peak stronghold did not change much despite the loss of four Foundation Establishment cultivators and the addition of Zhou Chun.

He usually lives a secluded life and rarely appears in public. Even the three Foundation Establishment cultivators, including Fu Changqing, find it difficult to see him.

Although those low-level rogue cultivators knew that the person who truly held the reins of power at the stronghold had changed, they didn't care much about it. On the contrary, they were even happier.

Because Zhou Chun not only did not participate in the revenue sharing of the stronghold, but also took the initiative to improve their treatment, allowing them to receive more spirit coins every year.

Huo Yang Sanren, who was originally hostile to the Hongyufeng stronghold, did not cause any more trouble.

Before he knew it, Zhou Chun had been at the Hongyufeng stronghold for a year.

On this day, after Zhou Chun activated the [Eight Gates Golden Light Array], he also released the wood spirit sealed inside the tree branch.

After a year of torment and suffering, and unable to replenish itself from the forest, the Wood Spirit now appears extremely weak.

Originally, after it came out, it would fight with Zhou Chun and try to escape.

After countless failures, now whenever it comes out and sees the golden array shield around it, it just lies on the ground and gives up.

Anyway, it now realizes that no matter how much Zhou Chun tortures it, he won't kill it.

"My little deer, it's been over a year already, haven't you come to your senses yet? Haven't you suffered enough?"

Looking at the green deer lying on the ground, Zhou Chun also had a headache.

He underestimated the difficulty of taming an adult demon beast, and even more so the intensity of the wood spirit's rejection of him.

Over the course of that year, he really tried every possible method, whether it was massaging and bathing the green deer with golden energy or locking it in a dark room for a whole month without letting it out to breathe, but he couldn't make this monster lower its head and submit.

Although the Wood Spirit has given up resisting and struggling as if it were giving up, it still refuses to express its submission to him.

"If one year isn't enough, then two years; if two years isn't enough, then three years. I refuse to believe I can't beat you into submission!"

Gritting his teeth, Zhou Chun immediately raised his hand and summoned the [Flame Sparrow Pot] magic artifact to give the Azure Deer a "hot wash".

It's fortunate that this wood spirit doesn't have a flesh and blood body; otherwise, with Zhou Chun's tormenting methods, its body would have given out long ago.

This is also the most important reason why Zhou Chun has not been able to tame it so far.

After tormenting the green deer with fire and scorching heat for another two hours, Zhou Chun finally put it back into the tree branch and sealed it away.

Then he released all the demonic insects and began practicing the art of insect control.

During this year, since he didn't have to spend as much time on clan affairs as he did in the family, Zhou Chun had plenty of free time to do other things besides his daily cultivation and meditation to consolidate his power.

He devoted most of his free time, apart from taming the wood spirits, to practicing the art of insect control.

When capturing the wood spirits, the mature "Mysterious Armor Golden Feathers" undoubtedly played a significant role, which fueled Zhou Chun's even greater enthusiasm for cultivating the art of insect repelling.

He looked forward to the day when he could command thousands of mature "Mysterious Armored Golden Feathers" to fight, at which point he estimated that even ordinary early-stage Purple Mansion cultivators would be able to encounter them.

Day after day, another hundred days passed quickly.

That day, Lin Wan'er came to find Zhou Chun and said that the stock of [Earth Element Crystal Jade] ore had met the requirements for transporting back to the Zhou family. She wanted to ask who should escort the batch of ore back to the Zhou family.

Zhou Chun would naturally be the most suitable person for this kind of task.

However, he is currently busy taming the Wood Spirit. If he takes the Wood Spirit with him on the journey, there is a risk of something going wrong. He is also worried that something might happen if he leaves the Wood Spirit on the journey alone.

So in the end, Lin Wan'er had no choice but to do this.

After Lin Wan'er set off with the ore to the Zhou family, Zhou Chun had no choice but to personally take over the management of the stronghold and handle related matters.

Compared to the complex affairs of a large family like the Zhou family, the affairs within the stronghold were much simpler.

Zhou Chun's main job was to keep an eye on the daily income of the stronghold, participate in the formation's rotation and vigilance, and approve any new or old rogue cultivators joining or leaving.

In fact, personnel turnover is a very common occurrence in independent cultivator strongholds.

Most independent cultivators, when their cultivation level is low or when they need someone to take care of them, will choose to join a certain stronghold in exchange for a stable cultivation environment.

Once their cultivation level is high enough and they are no longer burdened, they will no longer be satisfied with the meager income provided by the stronghold and will want to leave the stronghold to go on adventures and search for treasure.

Most strongholds won't make things difficult for these independent cultivators who want to leave.

Similarly, there won't be a high entry threshold for independent cultivators who want to join a stronghold, unless the stronghold itself is almost full.

To Zhou Chun's surprise, on the fifth day after Lin Wan'er left, he suddenly received a large number of applications from independent cultivators to withdraw from the stronghold.

At first, he didn't notice anything unusual, but after approving the withdrawal of five rogue cultivators from the stronghold in one day, and then more rogue cultivators came to apply for withdrawal, he realized that something was wrong.

Then he hurriedly called Fu Changqing and the others over to investigate the cause.

It would have been better if they hadn't investigated, because the investigation made Zhou Chun frown.

"So, the reason these rogue cultivators left their stronghold was because they wanted to try their luck catching snow crystal insects on the snowfield?"

According to the investigation, the real reason why the independent cultivators wanted to leave the stronghold was because of a recent piece of news.

It is said that the Snow Soul Palace, one of the major sects still existing in Yang Kingdom, has suddenly issued a bounty: any cultivator who can offer three Snow Crystal Insects can exchange them for a Foundation Establishment Pill.

After the news was confirmed, it caused a sensation in various markets and strongholds throughout Yang Kingdom, and many low-level cultivators were lured to the snowfields in the northwest of Yang Kingdom to search for snow crystal insects.

After learning of this news, many of the low-level rogue cultivators at the Red Jade Peak stronghold couldn't sit still and had the same idea.

Zhou Chun didn't understand why the Snow Soul Palace suddenly needed so many Snow Crystal Insects, but this move was clearly not a good thing for the Red Jade Peak stronghold.

Therefore, after a slight hesitation, he quickly ordered Changqing and the other two, "Tell those cultivators that although the Snow Crystal Insects don't have any offensive abilities, their ability to escape on the snowfields is unmatched even by Foundation Establishment cultivators. Even if they manage to find these demonic insects by chance, they won't be able to catch them."

"Also tell them that anyone willing to stay during this time will receive an extra five spirit coins per month as a subsidy from the base!"

The second update is here!

(End of this chapter)