Beast Taming Immortal Clan

Chapter 406 The Power of a Third-Tier Wood Spirit [Please Subscribe]

The Su family of Jiangzhou.

After Zhou Chun arrived at the Su family, he learned some good news: his Daoist partner, Su Yuzhen, was currently in seclusion, attempting to break through to the mid-stage of the Purple Mansion realm. According to the Su family patriarch, he was very optimistic about her success.

This made Zhou Chun marvel at Su Yu's truly exceptional talent.

It should be noted that Su Yuzhen has only been cultivating her Purple Mansion for about thirty or forty years.

It usually takes this long for a Foundation Establishment cultivator to advance to a minor realm.

This further solidified Zhou Chun's idea of ​​traveling far away.

With his spiritual root aptitude, without other opportunities to help him, he only has a slight chance of forming a core.

He was naturally unwilling to accept this outcome.

Originally, Zhou Chun was going to take this opportunity to tell Su Yuzhen about his upcoming trip, but since Su Yuzhen was in seclusion to break through her cultivation, he could only leave her a letter.

As for the matter of cooperating with the Su family to develop the express delivery business, after seeing the six-month revenue data of "Zhou Tong Tian Xia" that he brought, the Su family patriarch quickly agreed to the matter.

With the cultivation and knowledge of the Su family patriarch at the Golden Core stage, he could naturally see the bright future of this industry after the "Zhou Tong Tian Xia" profit model was introduced.

The fact that the Zhou family is now willing to take the initiative to cooperate with the Su family is certainly because they want to use the name of the Su family patriarch to maintain their influence, but they are also essentially giving the Su family money.

When such a good thing comes knocking on their door, why would the Su family patriarch hesitate?

He readily agreed to help "Zhou Tongtianxia" enter several states under the Moon Wheel Sect's control, and he had no objection to the Zhou family's proposed 60/40 revenue-sharing model for the regions.

After all, the idea was provided by the Zhou family, the mount was provided by the Zhou family, and the overall operation was also handled by the Zhou family. The Su family only needed to help find a place and provide some people to help with the work, and they could get 40% of the profits. It was already considered that the Zhou family was taking good care of them.

With the Su family patriarch's approval obtained, the specific details of the subsequent cooperation will be discussed and negotiated between the Su family patriarch and Zhou Chun.

Therefore, Zhou Chun quickly left the Su family patriarch's cave.

For the next six months, Zhou Chun personally oversaw and guided the Su family, opening the "Zhou Tong Tian Xia" trading company in the territory under the Moon Wheel Sect.

At this time, some cultivation families also saw the business opportunities in the express delivery industry and began to actively seek cooperation with the Zhou family.

Some families are willing to provide guarantees for their clansmen, hoping that the Zhou family will give priority to recruiting their clansmen as couriers.

Some families hope to join in and do business together.

Zhou Chun was prepared for this. He would agree to help families who simply wanted to find good jobs for their clansmen, as long as they had the ability to provide guarantees.

As for families who want to invest and cooperate, they need to carefully examine their strength and reputation.

The courier industry in the cultivation world may seem similar to the courier industry in Zhou Chun's previous life, but in reality, they are vastly different.

In Zhou Chun's previous life in the express delivery industry, some couriers had poor manners and would damage customers' packages at will, at most they would be fired.

If something like this happened in the cultivation world, it could very well result in death.

The Zhou family currently relies on its good family reputation to attract customers. If something happens that triggers a crisis of trust, it could very well damage the Zhou family's own reputation.

Therefore, Zhou Chun was very cautious about this from the very beginning.

Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, "Zhou Tong Tian Xia" trading company has been in business for two years.

Two years have passed, and most of the cultivators in the Jingguo cultivation world know about the "Zhou Tong Tianxia" merchant house that can help them send letters and items to relatives and friends far away. In the future, if they need to send a letter home while traveling, they only need to find the nearest "Zhou Tong Tianxia" merchant house branch.

Many monks are very cautious about sending items and will not easily choose this service.

Furthermore, the Zhou family is quite cautious about sending items and will not accept mailed items worth more than one thousand spirit coins.

However, when it comes to sending letters, thanks to the meticulous and efficient operation of "Zhou Tong Tian Xia," it has now basically completely monopolized the market.

Even many cultivation families have stopped assigning ordinary mail-delivery tasks to their members and instead delegate them to the "Zhou Tong Tian Xia" trading company.

Even some ordinary disciples of Qinglian Temple and Yuelun Sect began to use the "Zhou Tong Tianxia" trading company to send messages to their families.

It can be said that even Zhou Chun, the founder, did not expect that the "Zhou Tong Tian Xia" trading company would develop so smoothly and be accepted so quickly.

But now that I think about it carefully, it doesn't seem strange anymore.

The cultivation world is inherently unsafe. Once a cultivator leaves a place protected by an array, they are essentially entering an unprotected zone and are at risk of being ambushed and killed at any time.

This makes low-level cultivators hesitant to travel far, and they wouldn't risk their lives to deliver a letter that isn't particularly important.

However, not doing so does not mean they do not have the need; it simply means they have to suppress that need for their own safety.

The emergence of the "Zhou Tong Tian Xia" trading company allows them to send letters to relatives and friends thousands of miles away within a few days for only two or three spirit coins, perfectly avoiding the risks and time that they would have to take to deliver the letters themselves. It's so convenient!

"In a way, I've indirectly saved many cultivators who accidentally lost their lives while delivering messages; it's a good deed!"

Zhou Chun looked at the latest statistics in his hand and couldn't help but laugh.

Seeing that "Zhou Tong Tian Xia" trading company was developing so smoothly, he felt relieved.

He planned to observe for another year. If no major accidents occurred during that year, he could set off directly to travel to the Great Zhou Kingdom.

When Zhou Chun returned to his residence, a blue spirit deer immediately appeared before him, offering him a red spirit peach in its mouth.

This azure spirit deer was transformed from a wood spirit, and it is now a genuine third-tier low-grade spirit.

After advancing to the third tier, the Wood Sprite also underwent significant changes.

First of all, its spirit deer form is more realistic. Now, as long as it doesn't use its signature wood escape technique, cultivators below the Golden Core stage basically can't tell its origin and will only really regard it as a deer demon.

At the same time, its abilities in all aspects have been enhanced, especially its innate Wood Release technique, which has become incredibly proficient.

As long as it is in the mountains, and as long as it is not trapped first, even a Golden Core cultivator cannot catch it or find it.

In addition, it has awakened two new powerful supernatural abilities.

One is the "Sweet Dew Rejuvenation" supernatural power, which can heal other people's injuries and promote the growth of plants.

The spirit peach that the blue spirit deer is currently holding in its mouth is the result of its "Sweet Dew Rejuvenation" technique, which has ripened a spirit peach tree, causing it to flower and bear fruit in a short period of time, producing delicious and juicy spirit peaches.

When Zhou Chun learned of the effects of this supernatural power, he was overjoyed, thinking he had grasped the secret to wealth.

Unfortunately, after testing, it was discovered that although the "Sweet Dew Rejuvenation" technique could accelerate the growth of plants, it was probably limited by the cultivation level of the Wood Spirit. This supernatural power could only be effective on spiritual herbs that were no more than 500 years old, and at most it could only accelerate a 10-year-old ginseng into a 100-year-old ginseng.

Once the plants have been artificially ripened, they will stop growing.

According to the research and speculation of Zhou Chun, Zhou Mingde and others, the "Sweet Dew Rejuvenation" technique cannot actually make the ginseng have an extra hundred years of medicinal life out of thin air. It just makes the ginseng overdraw its next hundred years of growth time in advance.

If I'm not mistaken, this ginseng will not increase its medicinal age for the next hundred years.

Therefore, using this technique to accelerate the ripening of medicinal herbs for sale is not very feasible.

After all, as a third-tier magical ability, the Wood Spirit's use of "Sweet Dew Rejuvenation" consumes a considerable amount of energy.

Occasionally, when encountering medicinal herbs that are not mature enough but urgently needed, this supernatural power can be used to accelerate their growth. However, it is unrealistic to expect to make a fortune by using this supernatural power to accelerate the growth of medicinal herbs.

However, Zhou Chun still had the Wood Spirit cast the "Sweet Dew Rejuvenation" spell on the Zhou family's Foundation Establishment Fruit Tree and many other spirit fruit trees.

The result delighted him and Zhou Mingde, among others.

The Zhuyuan Fruit Tree, which had been planted by the Zhou family for decades, blossomed and bore fruit immediately after the Wood Spirit performed the "Sweet Dew Rejuvenation" technique, allowing the Zhou family to harvest as many as thirty-two spiritual fruits at once!

Although the growth of this Foundation Establishment Fruit Tree may remain unchanged for the next hundred years, with these thirty-two Foundation Establishment Fruits in hand, the Zhou family will have a relatively abundant supply of Foundation Establishment spiritual objects for at least the next twenty or thirty years.

Under the effect of the "Sweet Dew Rejuvenation" technique, the remaining spirit fruit trees also blossomed and bore fruit, bringing the Zhou family a considerable amount of spirit fruit.

Similar to its effect on ripening plants, the "Sweet Dew Rejuvenates" magic can also have an immediate effect when used to heal the injuries of cultivators. However, it can also deplete some of the cultivator's life force. If the injury is severe, Zhou Chun guesses that it may even deplete their life force.

Therefore, one should be cautious if using such supernatural powers to save people.

Besides the "Sweet Dew Rejuvenation" supernatural power, the other supernatural power that the Wood Spirit awakens and masters after advancing to the third tier is even more interesting.

This supernatural power was called "turning wood into soldiers" by Zhou Chun. Just like the legendary "scattering beans to create soldiers" supernatural power, it can bring ancient trees and even spiritual wood to life and turn them into puppet soldiers.

According to Zhou Chun's tests, if second-tier spirit wood is used as the target, it is possible to create a second-tier high-grade puppet soldier. Furthermore, these puppet soldiers themselves also possess some wood-based spells and are quite capable in melee combat.

With his current cultivation level, Mu Mei can only conjure up to eight puppet soldiers.

Unfortunately, these puppet soldiers have one drawback: they cannot leave the earth, otherwise they will quickly lose their vitality and die.

Conversely, if they remain rooted in the earth, they seem to be able to exist indefinitely.

Nevertheless, Zhou Chun valued and liked this "turning wood into soldiers" supernatural ability very much.

This supernatural ability will surely play a great role for him as he embarks on a long journey.

Those puppet soldiers are excellent for both protecting the Dharma and guarding the gate, as well as for scheming against people, and you don't have to worry about their lives.

"My little deer is so good; all my love for you has been worth it!"

Zhou Chun smiled, reached out and touched the head of the blue spirit deer, took the spirit peach, took a bite, and strode into the bedroom to cultivate.

In the courtyard, the Golden-Winged Tiger and the Silver Lightning Python glanced at the azure spirit deer with fierce glints in their eyes before lowering their gazes.

Although they deeply resent the fourth child for stealing their master's affection, they know they are no match for him and can only endure it for now.

The Wood Spirit naturally noticed the fierce glint in the eyes of the python and the tiger, but it was currently riding high and didn't care.

After it broke through to the third tier and demonstrated its powerful capabilities, Zhou Chun doted on it immensely and no longer restricted its freedom at all.

It can move freely inside and outside the mountain gate, as long as it is careful not to use the Wood Release technique in front of people.

This is also one of the reasons why its attitude towards Zhou Chun has changed so drastically.

After discovering that following Zhou Chun did indeed help it grow, and knowing that it was difficult to break free from the contract, it gradually accepted that it had become Zhou Chun's spirit pet.

On this day, a golden core level aura suddenly appeared outside the Zhou family's mountain gate in Jiufeng Ridge, indicating that a golden core cultivator had come to visit the Zhou family.

Zhou Chun, who was cultivating inside the mountain gate, sensed this aura and his expression changed slightly. He hurriedly put the Wood Spirit into his spirit beast bag and then quickly headed to the mountain gate.

Once outside, Zhou Chun looked up and saw an unfamiliar red-faced old man floating above the Zhou family's mountain gate, riding on a cloud of fire.

Upon seeing this, Zhou Chun quickly recalled the faces of the many Golden Core cultivators he had seen in the Jing Kingdom and soon found the corresponding person.

A smile quickly spread across his face as he flew out of the mountain gate, bowing respectfully to the red-faced old man in the air, saying, "Junior Zhou Zhengchun, head of the Zhou family, pays respects to Senior Zhu!"

However, he had already recognized the red-faced old man's identity and background, knowing that he was the Golden Core Ancestor of the Zhu family, a Golden Core family under the Yan Yang Sect, named Zhu Wuya.

The Zhou family and the Zhu family under the Yan Yang Sect had never had any dealings, but Zhou Chun had some guesses about the purpose of Zhu Wuyai, a Golden Core cultivator, visiting the Zhou family.

That's why he wasn't flustered at all at this moment, but instead greeted the other party with a smile on his face.

Faced with his smiling welcome, Zhu Wuyai did not put on airs and looked at him with the same kind face, nodding repeatedly and saying, "Not bad, not bad, young friend Zhou is indeed handsome and talented. No wonder the Zhou family has been thriving since you took over as clan leader, and has laid such a great foundation!"

"This junior is humbled and dares not accept such praise from a senior. It is windy outside, please invite the senior to come inside the clan for a chat."

While exchanging pleasantries, Zhou Chun ordered the mountain-protecting formation to be activated, welcoming Zhu Wuyai into the mountain gate with the highest honors.

When a Golden Core cultivator arrives, they cannot land and walk through the narrow passage like other cultivators, just as a wealthy family would not open a side door to welcome a distinguished guest.

"Haha, then I'll have to trouble you, young friend."

Zhu Wuyai laughed loudly and immediately flew down into the Zhou family's mountain gate.

Zhou Chun then received the Golden Core cultivator in the guest hall and inquired about his purpose.

As he expected, Zhu Wuyai's visit to the Zhou family was indeed aimed at obtaining the agency rights for "Zhou Tong Tianxia" trading company in the Yanyang Sect region, just like the Su family of Jiangzhou.

Prior to this, several major cultivation clans in the Yan Yang Sect region had already visited Zhou Chun, wanting to cooperate with the Zhou family to open up the market in the Yan Yang Sect region.

Second update, a bit late, but I still managed to finish it. Going to sleep now!

(End of this chapter)