Beast Taming Immortal Clan

Chapter 367 Treasure Hunt in the Wilderness, Golden Sword Bamboo [Please Subscribe]

Zhou Chun's first meeting with the Scaled Frog Sorcerer Ukuru left a fairly good impression.

Although these alien races don't really understand human etiquette, they undoubtedly have a great fondness for the magical artifacts and elixirs made by humans.

As long as they have this pursuit and develop a dependence on it, they will be bound to the Zhou family and are unlikely to betray the Zhou family.

After all, apart from the Zhou family, no other human cultivators were making such a deal with them.

Meanwhile, the Scaled Frog Clan received excellent weapons and elixirs from the Zhou family to enhance the cultivation and strength of their sorcerers, which greatly helped them in their search for even more precious and rare aquatic treasures within the Dragon Abyss Marsh.

Most of these rare aquatic treasures will eventually end up in the hands of the Zhou family, becoming part of their wealth and resources.

"Fortunately, Lu Ran is unaware that Senior Lin has joined the Zhou family and successfully formed his core. This way, once he passes away, if the number of third-tier sorcerers among the Scaled Frog alien race becomes too large, Senior Lin can eliminate a few, preventing them from achieving a qualitative leap through quantitative change and giving birth to fourth-tier sorcerers!"

After leaving the Water Mansion, Zhou Chun glanced back at Lu Ran and Wukuru, who were still watching him leave in the distance, and had already thought of a way to prevent any trouble from happening.

Those who are not of our kind are bound to have different hearts.

Foreign races are foreign races after all, even if they seem honest and easy to fool now.

However, once they truly gain sufficient strength, they will surely reveal their ferocious side.

The third-tier Scaled Frog alien sorcerer, due to the limitations of his own strength, can only operate within the area along the shore of the Dragon Abyss Marsh.

However, if a fourth-tier scaled frog alien sorcerer were to be born, he would definitely have the ability to travel across the wilderness to human territory, and also the ability to go deep into Dragon Abyss to pay homage to the dragon clan.

By then, it will be impossible for the Zhou family to control these alien races as easily as they do now.

Therefore, in Zhou Chun's view, it is acceptable to help the scaled frog aliens improve their living environment, but they must never be allowed to grow so powerful that they can threaten the Zhou family.

After leaving the Water Mansion, Zhou Chun did not rush back to his family, but instead began exploring and searching for treasures in the wilderness.

He brought the Wood Spirit with him this time, hoping to use its special talent to find spiritual herbs.

For safety reasons, Zhou Chun did not search for medicinal herbs in unfamiliar areas, but instead searched in the area around Longxing Valley that Xu Fu and others had repeatedly explored.

"Good deer, it's your turn today. If you behave well, I'll take you to a forest with a better environment than where your original body was, so you can have a good time there!"

In the mountains and forests, Zhou Chun clapped his hands to release the Wood Spirit from the spirit beast pouch, and then gave it some instructions, explaining the relevant situation.

Having received his assurance, and being in a desolate, uninhabited forest, the green deer that the wood spirit had transformed into quickly became excited.

After hopping and leaping through the forest, it quickly led the way.

Not long after, on the mountainside, in a thicket of bushes, Zhou Chun, guided by the green deer, dug out a root of Smilax glabra that had been buried more than ten feet underground and was over five hundred years old.

Later, in a hollow of an ancient tree, Zhou Chun picked a black cloud mushroom that was over 600 years old.

After traveling several dozen miles, Zhou Chun, guided by the green deer, dug up a red blood ginseng that was over 800 years old at the foot of a slope in the forest.

And so, led by Qinglu, Zhou Chun traversed mountains and valleys, his footprints covering thousands of miles, and in just two days he found seven medicinal herbs that were over five hundred years old.

These medicinal herbs were things that Xu Fu and his companions had never discovered before; they were hidden gems that had been overlooked.

But there are far more medicinal herbs that have been overlooked on this land than these, but Zhou Chun simply doesn't want those that are too young.

In addition, during his search for the elixir, Zhou Chun also discovered a weakness of the Wood Spirit.

Or perhaps it can't be called a flaw.

That is, when it is carrying out certain fixed orders from Zhou Chun, it can basically only find medicinal herbs of sufficient age, such as ginseng, poria cocos, and lingzhi, which are easy to identify.

It also cannot determine the age and value of other spiritual herbs that exist in the form of spiritual grasses, fungi, vines, or fruits from a distance.

This should be a limitation of its innate perception, and it should also be related to the fact that it has not learned systematic knowledge of identifying spiritual herbs.

So Zhou Chun simply let it do its own thing, letting it find the spiritual objects it considered precious.

Surprisingly, this approach actually yielded good results.

With the wood spirit free rein, it led Zhou Chun to find many rare and precious spiritual herbs and fungi.

On this day, Mu Mei led Zhou Chun in search of medicine in the mountains, and suddenly took Zhou Chun to a stone forest in the mountains.

Strangely enough, the surrounding area is full of lush mountains and forests, but this area is full of rubble and strange rocks, covering an area of ​​tens of thousands of acres.

Led by Qinglu, Zhou Chun quickly arrived at a large rock deep in the stone forest.

Then, guided by the green deer, he soon spotted the magical creature it had discovered.

That was none other than a silver-black spirit bamboo!

It grows under an arched cave formed by two large rocks, and is less than two zhang tall. Its bamboo stalk is slightly thinner than Zhou Chun's wrist.

What's most interesting are its bamboo leaves, each one as thin and long as a sword blade, and very straight, just like they're cast in iron.

Such unique bamboo leaves a lasting impression at first glance.

Zhou Chun quickly recognized their origin.

"It's actually a Golden Sword Bamboo! Judging by its height, this spiritual bamboo must have been growing for over a thousand years!"

Zhou Chun stared at the spirit bamboo with a look of surprise and delight.

Golden sword bamboo is a very rare and precious bamboo.

This bamboo is a unique bamboo that grows naturally in the world. It does not flower, bear fruit, or produce shoots, and cannot be cultivated by humans.

The most unique aspect of this rare bamboo is that it is an extremely rare spiritual bamboo with both metal and wood attributes, and the metal attribute is stronger than the wood attribute.

However, in the classification, this rare bamboo was classified as a wood-element spiritual object.

For some Golden Core cultivators who practice Wood-based techniques, Golden Sword Bamboo is one of their favorite materials for crafting their natal magic treasures.

In particular, flying swords forged from it are not only hard and sharp in themselves, but can also be well integrated with iron essence, gold essence, silver essence and other substances that enhance the power of flying swords. Moreover, these metal spirits are perfectly integrated with the material of the flying sword itself, without being rejected in any way.

It should be noted that when Golden Core cultivators using the Wood Element Technique refine their natal magic treasures, they often face a difficult choice.

In the cultivation world, there are many spiritual materials that can be used by Golden Core cultivators of the Wood Element cultivation method to refine their natal magic treasures, and 99% of them are various kinds of spiritual wood.

However, apart from certain special types of spirit wood, most spirit wood is restrained by metal and fire, and its material itself is difficult to withstand the slashing of metal-elemental magic weapons and the burning of fire magic powers of the same level.

Therefore, the natal magic treasures crafted by Golden Core stage cultivators using the Wood Element Technique are often characterized by their supernatural transformations, while avoiding direct confrontation between the magic treasures themselves.

This was actually a choice made out of necessity!

However, if one could use a wood-elemental spiritual material like Golden Sword Bamboo to refine magical artifacts, the outcome would be entirely different.

Wood-elemental magic swords, or other magic weapons, crafted from Golden Sword Bamboo, are no less hard and sharp than metal-elemental magic swords. They also perfectly complement the magic power of Golden Core cultivators using wood-elemental techniques, maximizing their ability to avoid being countered by opponents.

In this situation, the thousand-year-old golden sword bamboo, which can barely be used as a material for magical artifacts, becomes extremely valuable.

If a Golden Core cultivator urgently needs such spiritual materials, selling this Golden Sword Bamboo for two or three hundred thousand spirit coins wouldn't be a problem.

With such a priceless treasure right before his eyes, how could Zhou Chun not be extremely tempted?

"The ancient texts say that the Golden Sword Bamboo is extremely domineering. In the area where it grows, other plants and trees will be killed by the golden energy it emits. No wonder this stone forest is so large, yet there isn't even a single weed to be seen nearby!"

Zhou Chun looked at the golden bamboo under the boulder, then swept the barren ground around him to make sure he hadn't mistaken the treasure for something else.

Then, after gazing at the golden sword bamboo for a moment and pondering, he patted his storage bag at his waist and summoned a golden longsword magic weapon.

After he opened his Purple Mansion, the second-tier magic artifacts he used before were no longer worthy of his current cultivation level and status, so he refined three third-tier magic artifacts.

This golden longsword magic weapon may seem unremarkable, but it is actually a genuine mid-grade third-tier magic weapon.

Golden bamboo is hard, and even with this mid-grade third-tier magic weapon in hand, Zhou Chun was not entirely confident that he could cut it off at the root.

If that doesn't work, then we'll have to go back and think of another way.

But just as Zhou Chun was about to unleash his magic weapon to chop the bamboo, a silver light suddenly burst forth from the ground, knocking away the falling golden longsword.

Immediately afterwards, a monster resembling a badger suddenly emerged from the ground.

The beast was not large, about the size of a lioness, with thick, dense silver fur and tusks like those of a wild boar.

Judging from the aura emanating from it, it was clearly a low-grade third-tier demonic beast.

Zhou Chun looked at the strange-looking monster but couldn't recognize its origins.

But judging from that silver light just now, this demon should also be a metal-element demon beast.

Thinking of this, Zhou Chun couldn't help but look at the golden bamboo.

Sure enough, upon closer inspection, it was discovered that some bamboo leaves on the branches were clearly missing, and the lengths of the bamboo leaves on some branches were also different.

This made him realize that the monster had eaten the leaves of the Golden Sword Bamboo.

The bamboo leaves it ate must have helped the monster grow, which is why it built its nest near the Golden Sword Bamboo to protect this extraordinary bamboo at all times.

Perhaps sensing that Zhou Chun was not easy to deal with, the monster did not immediately attack him after it appeared. Instead, it watched him warily, making low growls like a wild cat with its fur standing on end.

At the same time, after this monster appeared, the green deer that the wood spirit had transformed into was so frightened that it fled to the distant forest, not daring to face it.

"Very well, it just so happens that I haven't fought anyone at full strength since I opened my Purple Mansion. Today I'll use you, you beast, to practice!"

Zhou Chun met the gaze of the demonic beast on the ground, and a fighting spirit immediately appeared in his eyes.

Monsters are very sensitive to such hostility. As soon as Zhou Chun showed any fighting spirit, the monster knew that a battle was inevitable and immediately launched an attack.

It opened its mouth and spat out a silver rainbow light that shot towards Zhou Chun like a flying sword.

At the same moment Hongguang uttered those words, its figure transformed into a streak of silver light and pounced towards Zhou Chun.

But while it acted quickly, Zhou Chun was not slow either.

Then Zhou Chun let out a low shout, and a dense golden light burst forth from his body, protecting him like a mountain peak that was thick at the bottom and pointed at the top.

From a distance, Zhou Chun looked as if he were carrying a mountain of gold on his back.

This is the defensive spell "As Solid as a Golden Mountain" that comes with the second chapter of his "Golden Cauldron Mystic Art".

The silver rainbow light struck the golden mountain like a giant hammer, causing it to shake, but it could not cause any real damage to Zhou Chun inside.

At this moment, Zhou Chun locked onto the figure of the monster that was rushing towards him. He raised his right hand slightly, and a ball of golden light emerged from his palm, condensing into a golden blade that shone brightly.

Then he raised his hand and waved it, and the golden blade slashed towards the demon beast that was attacking his protective golden mountain with its claws, which was very close at hand.

The sharp blade whistled through the air and landed on the monster in the blink of an eye.

This monster was indeed quite capable; its thick silver fur could be connected into one piece, as if it were wearing a soft armor.

Zhou Chun's attack technique, which included the offensive spell "Sky-Splitting Blade," struck the creature, but nearly half of its force was absorbed by the fur on its body. After severing a tuft of fur, it only left a shallow bloodstain on the creature's body.

This minor injury seemed to ignite the beast's ferocity. Its claws gleamed with silver light, and in the blink of an eye, it unleashed dozens of strikes, instantly tearing apart most of Zhou Chun's protective golden mountain. It was incredibly fierce.

Seeing this, Zhou Chun, to be on the safe side, immediately patted his storage bag at his waist and summoned another low-grade third-tier defensive magic weapon.

He then summoned a yellowish-brown inkstone, a magical artifact, with a wave of his hand. As he channeled his magic power, a thick, yellowish-brown cloud, as dense as ink, gushed forth from the inkstone, quickly transforming into a protective shield that enveloped him.

Then, with a thought, the golden longsword suddenly shone brightly and slashed fiercely at the demonic beast.

The demon beast seemed to know the power of the golden longsword and dared not confront its blade head-on. Immediately, its body flashed with silver light, and it split into three figures, leaving the spot.

Although Zhou Chun relied on his powerful divine sense to quickly distinguish the real and fake figures, his slight delay was enough for the demon beast to escape hundreds of feet away.

Just as he was about to chase after the monster, he saw it suddenly burrow into the ground and dig a deep hole in the blink of an eye, hiding underground.

"Giving up already?"

Zhou Chun was slightly taken aback, not expecting the monster to be so decisive.

He tried to use his divine sense to track the monster through the hole in the ground, but found that the monster had blocked the passage inside the hole, and his divine sense could not penetrate the thick soil and rocks to track it.

Seeing this, he had no choice but to give up.

"Forget it, let's just run away. Let's cut down this golden sword bamboo first!"

Shaking his head, Zhou Chun immediately urged his golden longsword to slash at the root of the golden bamboo.

For the next few days, there might only be one update per day. I received news today that my brother injured his leg playing basketball, tore his ligaments, and needs surgery to graft them. I have to go to the hospital to visit him in a few days, and I probably won't be able to leave before the 20th. So, I'll try to save up a few chapters in the next few days and write some more while I'm with him. I'll try my best to keep updating! Sigh!

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