Beast Taming Immortal Clan

Chapter 374 Confiscating Property! [Please Subscribe]

The Jiang family is gone!

A great clan of cultivators with a history of over a thousand years has vanished just like that!

The reasons for its demise can be traced back to the assassination of Zhou Chun by Jiang Shixian, an alchemist of the Jiang family, due to his own greed decades ago, and can also be attributed to the pursuit and killing of Zhou Zhengbo, a foundation-building cultivator of the Zhou family by Jiang Chuanxiong, a foundation-building cultivator of the Jiang family.

Both times, the Jiang family cultivators were blinded by greed and hatred, and did things that were detrimental to the family, ultimately leading to the family's destruction.

But the real reason clearly lies with the true power holders of the Jiang family.

Jiang Shicheng and the mid-stage Purple Mansion cultivator from the Jiang family who had been assassinated by Lin Hongyu decades ago.

They knew perfectly well that their own people had done something against the code of the cultivation world, that they had committed evil deeds and were killed in retaliation, yet they still refused to distinguish right from wrong, refused to accept the Zhou family's reconciliation, and were determined to avenge their people who deserved to die.

A member of the clan, knowing full well that the clan was in decline, failed to discipline his members or rectify the family's traditions. This led to the clan members making grave mistakes without considering the consequences, ultimately bringing about the clan's annihilation.

"The downfall of the Jiang family was their own fault, but we should all learn from their example!"

"As the heads of our families, we must manage them well and uphold good family traditions. We must not allow such a thing to happen to our Zhou family, lest our family suffer the same fate as the Jiang family!"

Inside the Jiang family mountain gate, Zhou Mingde looked at the still-burning flames and the bloodied corpses on the ground, and couldn't help but feel moved, sighing deeply.

He wasn't lamenting the demise of the Jiang family, but rather the cruelty of the cultivation world.

Many of the cultivators in the Jiang family hadn't actually done anything wrong and hadn't offended the Zhou family.

But their mistake was that they were surnamed Jiang and had the same blood as Jiang Shicheng, Jiang Chuanxiong, and others.

This shared bloodline, which had previously brought them many conveniences and benefits, has now become the direct cause of their demise.

Since the Zhou family has decided to destroy the Jiang family and kill those in power within the Jiang family, they will certainly not let go of these cultivators who also share the surname Jiang.

Otherwise, today's leniency could very well bring destruction to the Zhou family in the future.

Throughout the history of the cultivation world, such incidents are commonplace, making it impossible not to be wary.

Therefore, in order to survive in this cruel world of cultivation and protect one's family and friends from harm, this is often the only way.

"The Supreme Elder is absolutely right. History serves as a mirror, reflecting the rise and fall of dynasties. Although the Jiang family has perished today, we have no reason to rejoice. The Jiang family of today may very well become the Zhou family of tomorrow. We should take this as a warning, restrain our clansmen, and prevent such a tragedy from repeating itself in our Zhou family!"

Zhou Chun echoed Zhou Mingde's words with a look of agreement, but there was indeed no smile on his face.

After saying that, he frowned slightly and said, "Although the Jiang family has been wiped out, Zheng Bai's fate is still unknown. Perhaps we can send someone to the market to find out the news."

Upon hearing this, Zhou Zhengqing immediately chimed in, "If the clan leader trusts me, then let me handle this matter."

"Very well, now that you are the head of the Zhou family's intelligence department, no one is more suitable than you for this matter."

Zhou Chun nodded and agreed immediately.

Then he earnestly instructed, "Remember to be extra careful. If you encounter trouble, don't fight the enemy head-on. If you can escape, do so. If you can't escape, prioritize your own life and wait for your family's rescue!"

"Yes, I will certainly follow the clan leader's teachings."

Zhou Zhengqing responded and immediately set off to leave the Jiang family's mountain gate.

After they left, Zhou Chun and the others worked together to clean up the battlefield.

In this battle, apart from Zhou Jiarui and Zhou Xinlan who were slightly injured, no one else in the Zhou family was hurt. However, everyone's spirit pets were more or less seriously injured.

The number of enemies they killed was in the hundreds.

On the Jiang family's side, Jiang Shicheng, a cultivator at the Purple Mansion stage, and four Foundation Establishment cultivators were all killed without exception.

The Guo and He families, who came to the rescue, also suffered heavy losses. All of the Guo family's Purple Mansion cultivators and two Foundation Establishment cultivators perished, while the He family only managed to escape with one Purple Mansion cultivator and one late Foundation Establishment cultivator.

Meanwhile, as many as 276 corpses of Qi Refining stage cultivators were found inside the Jiang family's mountain gate. Some of the corpses had been completely destroyed by magic or divine powers, or swallowed by demonic beasts, so it was difficult to know exactly how many there were.

In short, based on Zhou Chun's observation at the time, there should be no more than ten Jiang family cultivators who managed to escape alive.

At this moment, the eight members of the Zhou family worked together to move all the scattered corpses together.

Then, at Zhou Chun's suggestion, after all the valuable belongings of the fallen Jiang family cultivators were taken from their bodies, their corpses were gathered at the clan cemetery inside the Jiang family mountain gate and cremated, which was considered a sign of respect for them.

After completing this task, everyone began searching everywhere for the treasures within the Jiang family's mountain gate.

As a local immortal cultivation clan with a history of thousands of years, the Jiang family's mountain gate is superior to the Zhou family's Jiufeng Ridge in terms of both spiritual energy concentration and area.

Inside its mountain gate are numerous valuable treasures.

First and foremost, there are spiritual herbs. The Jiang family has a remarkable lineage of alchemy skills, and they have cultivated numerous medicinal fields within their mountain gate, growing a vast quantity of various spiritual herbs.

Although many spiritual herbs were deliberately destroyed by the Jiang family cultivators before their deaths during the previous battles, the Zhou family cultivators still managed to gain a great deal during the looting process.

For example, on the main peak of the Jiang family, Zhou Chun discovered three well-preserved spirit fruit trees.

These three spirit fruit trees are a spirit pear tree, a spirit apricot tree, and a spirit jujube tree.

The spiritual fruits growing on the three fruit trees are not only delicious and sweet, but also contain pure spiritual energy, which can be directly refined to improve one's cultivation level.

In addition, there is a tea garden behind the main peak of Jiangjia Mountain, where more than twenty different varieties of Lingcha tea trees are planted.

Although these spiritual tea trees are not of any particularly rare varieties, they represent the accumulated heritage of the Jiang family over thousands of years.

In addition to spiritual herbs, fruits, and teas, the Jiang family, as a powerful clan with a history of cultivation spanning over a thousand years, naturally also has a dedicated spirit beast garden.

The Jiang family's spirit beast garden is not as large as the Zhou family's beast garden, but it still houses more than a dozen common demon beasts, including a rather rare low-level demon beast, the Five-Colored Pheasant.

The Five-Colored Pheasant is said to have a trace of Phoenix bloodline, making it the nemesis of all poisons. It is born to eat all kinds of poisonous insects, snakes, and ants. Its blood is full of spiritual power, making it an excellent auxiliary material for refining many elixirs, as well as a superior material for making talisman ink. Its eggs are also an exquisite delicacy.

The Jiang family's spirit beast garden happens to house eight five-colored pheasants, one male and seven females.

In addition, in a secluded corner of the Jiang family's mountain gate, a place for raising poisonous insects was discovered. It housed more than a dozen kinds of poisonous insects, including centipedes, scorpions, spiders, and venomous snakes, among which were powerful poisonous creatures capable of harming Foundation Establishment cultivators.

These things add up to a lot, so much that the eight members of the Zhou family simply cannot carry them all.

And these are all things that can be seen from the outside.

The most precious things in the Jiang family are those hidden in the treasure vault.

Like the books in the library, the magical artifacts and elixirs stored in the treasure vault, and the precious cultivation techniques and secret arts passed down in the secret treasury.

"Everything else is negotiable, but we absolutely must find the Jiang family's alchemy heritage; it's something our Zhou family desperately needs right now!"

Zhou Chun's eyes gleamed, his goal was very clear.

The Zhou family currently has two Foundation Establishment cultivators with decent alchemy skills, but the Zhou family's alchemy tradition itself is not very advanced.

The two of them, Zhou Zhengyuan and Zhou Xinlan, can only refine no more than five kinds of pills that are useful to Foundation Establishment cultivators, most of which are pills for healing and detoxification.

This simply cannot meet the needs of the more than ten Foundation Establishment stage cultivators in the Zhou family today.

The Jiang family's alchemy tradition is truly exceptional. In the markets and towns of Lingzhou, the pills sold by the Jiang family are renowned and highly trusted by cultivators in Lingzhou.

Therefore, Zhou Chun was determined to obtain the alchemy inheritance of the Jiang family.

He personally took action, first breaking into the Jiang family's treasure vault together with Zhou Daoyi.

As expected, the treasure vault contained a large number of refined pills, including many that could increase the cultivation level of Qi Refining stage cultivators.

This is what makes this family unique.

Besides pills, the treasure vault also contained a considerable number of magical artifacts, talismans, and spiritual herbs. Zhou Chun and his group even found several large boxes filled with spirit coins, totaling more than 50,000 spirit coins.

Zhou Chun and the others naturally didn't hold back when it came to the contents of these treasure troves; they took everything that could be stored in their storage bags.

Just as they had emptied the treasure vault, Zhou Mingde also discovered the Jiang family's secret vault.

Upon learning this news, Zhou Chun rushed to the location of the secret vault.

Unlike the Zhou family, who hid their secret vault inside a mountain wall, the Jiang family's secret vault was located at the bottom of a pool of water, and it would have been difficult to discover its existence unless Zhou Mingde had searched very carefully.

When Zhou Chun and Zhou Daoyi arrived at the scene, Zhou Mingde was using magic to drain the pool.

Seeing this, Zhou Daoyi immediately ordered the Azure Dragon to take action, and it quickly drained the pool of clear water, revealing the dark silt at the bottom.

Then the Azure Dragon created a tornado, which swept all the silt into the surrounding mountains and forests.

After the thick layer of silt, several feet thick, was cleared away, dark blue rocks appeared at the bottom of the pool. Mysterious spiritual patterns were engraved on the rock walls, emitting a hazy black light, and a stone door could be vaguely seen among them.

Seeing this, Zhou Chun couldn't help but whisper, "We didn't find the Jiang family's core alchemy inheritance in the library or Jiang Shicheng's cave. That thing must be in this secret vault."

After speaking, he turned his gaze to a female cultivator in blue behind him and asked, "So, Xin Die, are you confident you can break the array of this secret vault using normal methods?"

Most secret vaults have self-destruct mechanisms. Once an external force forcibly breaks the protective array of the vault, the self-destruct mechanism inside will be triggered, destroying the items stored inside.

Therefore, Zhou Chun can only place his hopes on Zhou Xindie, the best array master in the Zhou family, hoping that she can use her array master skills to break the protective array outside the secret vault and enter the secret vault without triggering the self-destruction arrangement inside.

Upon hearing his question, Zhou Xindie stared at the stone wall for a while before softly saying, "The formation on this wall doesn't seem particularly complicated. If I were given ten days or half a month, I would be fifty percent confident in breaking it."

"No, we don't have that much time. We need to leave by tomorrow at the latest!"

Zhou Chun immediately shook his head, rejecting the idea.

This is Lingzhou after all. Even if the Jiang family has been destroyed, and even if the Tianjing Sect is blocked by the Qinglian Temple and cannot directly take action, the Zhou family cannot stay in the Jiang family's mountain gate for more than ten days. That would be too dangerous.

Zhou Mingde then spoke up: "Let's force our way through the formation! Once it's broken, let the Fire God Jackal and the Azure Dragon charge in. We'll get whatever we can!"

Hearing what the two of them said, Zhou Xindie felt regretful, but still dutifully suggested, "If we want to forcefully break the formation, we can concentrate our forces to attack that stone door."

"Alright, then we'll do as Xin Die says, we'll all attack together!"

As Zhou Chun spoke, he summoned the golden longsword magic weapon.

He raised his hand and stroked the longsword, and instantly a burst of golden light flashed across the blade, giving rise to a golden blade aura several inches thick.

This is considered a special effect of the second chapter of "Golden Cauldron Mystic Art". It can enhance the sharpness of magical weapons such as swords and blades, just like enchanting them. The downside is that it consumes a lot of mana.

At this moment, with a low shout from Zhou Chun, the magical artifacts of the three Purple Mansion cultivators from the Zhou family simultaneously landed on the stone gate on the stone wall at the bottom of the pool.

Boom!

With a deafening roar, the stone gate shattered and exploded instantly under the attack of the three magical artifacts.

It's now!

The instant the stone gate shattered, the much smaller Fire God Jackal and Azure Dragon instantly transformed into two phantoms, one red and one green, and slipped through the opening.

At the same time, the intense flames shone through the opening into Zhou Chun and the others' eyes, as the self-destruct array inside the secret vault had been passively triggered, beginning to incinerate the treasures within.

At this moment, everyone could only hope that the Fire God Jackal and the Azure Dragon would have good luck and successfully bring out the Jiang family's alchemy heritage.

"They're out!"

A moment later, the Fire God Jackal and the Azure Dragon rushed out of the secret vault, which had turned into a sea of ​​fire, and landed in front of their respective masters.

Then they opened their mouths and spat out the treasures they had swallowed from the secret vault.

In their haste, they didn't bring out many treasures; the Fire God Jackal brought three items, and the Azure Dragon brought four.

Of these seven treasures, two are objects that embody the Dao: a stone tablet and a jade bell.

Among the other five treasures, two are third-tier magic artifacts, and there is also a jade book, a jade box, and a jade bottle.

Zhou Chun glanced at the treasures and then focused his attention on the secret vault.

The flames inside the secret vault had not yet been extinguished. The power of those flames was no less than that of earth fire. Even a third-tier magic weapon would find it difficult to remain intact in such a raging inferno without being activated.

"This appears to be a flame generated by the Heavenly Annihilation Earthly Fire Formation. This formation requires Earthly Fire Source Crystals as materials for its setup, and it can fully unleash the power of the Earthly Fire Source Crystals at once. The more Earthly Fire Source Crystals used when setting up the formation, the stronger the flames will be after activation!"

Zhou Xindie's gaze also fell on the secret vault, and based on her understanding of formations, she roughly figured out the origin of the self-destruct formation inside.

"Let's see if there's anything we want among these items!"

Zhou Chun nodded slightly and then looked away at the seven treasures.

(End of this chapter)