Beast Taming Immortal Clan

Chapter 420 Mountain Soul Pearl [Please Subscribe]

Having obtained three thousand-year-old jade marrow fungus in one go, Zhou Chun was even more excited about what might happen next at this exchange meeting.

He is now quite wealthy; many Golden Core cultivators, even without selling their magic treasures, wouldn't be as wealthy as him.

But unfortunately, he possesses many precious items that neither he nor the Zhou family cultivators currently have any use for.

Having things you don't need is like keeping money in a bank; you can only look at them, but they can't actually improve your life.

If given a choice, he would naturally want to exchange them for something that would be useful to him and the Zhou family right now.

According to the rules, after Fairy Chen, it was the cultivators who had previously exchanged items with Master Wu who began to display their treasures.

However, since the cultivators who made exchanges with Master Wu were mostly cultivators at the Purple Mansion stage, the number of treasures they displayed was relatively small, consisting mostly of ordinary thousand-year-old spiritual herbs or magical artifacts and materials.

Zhou Chun did not find what he needed among them.

After those people finished exchanging items, it was his turn to make a move.

Most of the things Zhou Chun had were stolen goods, which were not easy to sell.

Fortunately, those elixirs were produced in ancient ruins, and many cultivators now possess them.

Therefore, he was not reluctant to show some of them.

Of course, to avoid being targeted, he would not display anything that was too valuable or eye-catching.

At this moment, he raised his hand and patted the storage bag at his waist, and a pile of things appeared in front of him, mainly some thousand-year-old spiritual herbs, fourth-order spiritual wood, and several magical treasure materials.

Then he said in a low voice, "I need quite a lot of things, and they're quite varied. Whether it's spiritual herbs like the Thousand-Year Jade Core Grass, the Thousand-Year Transformation Grass, and the Thousand-Year Fusion Spirit Grass, or treasures that help second-tier metal and earth attribute demonic beasts advance to the third tier, or magical treasure materials like the 'Yellow Dragon Stone,' you can trade with me for all of them. I will do my best to ensure that you fellow cultivators are satisfied!"

Not long after he finished speaking, he received several telepathic messages from people who were discussing with him the spiritual items they needed.

But just then, a voice transmission from a special person rang in his ear: "I have a 'Mountain Soul Pearl' here. If you can offer me a thousand-year-old treasure that will tempt me, I might be willing to trade it for it!"

Upon hearing this, Zhou Chun was startled and his gaze involuntarily turned to Tianzhi Sanren.

It turned out that the person who sent him the message was the very person who initiated the exchange.

Tianzhi Sanren's words immediately plunged Zhou Chun into a state of inner turmoil.

He certainly still had the thousand-year-old elixir, but the problem was that he had already made an exchange with Fairy Chen using such a treasure.

If he were to take out another one at this point, it would be hard not to suspect that he might have many more.

Don't forget, Tianzhi Sanren is the initiator of this exchange meeting. Others may not be able to discover Zhou Chun's cultivation level and identity, but this person will definitely know.

It's hard to guarantee that the other party won't risk ruining their reputation by attacking him because of the thousand-year-old precious medicine.

Therefore, although he desperately wanted the "Mountain Soul Pearl" mentioned by the other party, he could only reply with great regret, "I only have one thousand-year-old precious herb, which I have already given to Fairy Chen. If you are willing to accept a thousand-year-old spiritual herb, I am willing to exchange four thousand-year-old spiritual herbs for the 'Mountain Soul Pearl'!"

Upon hearing his reply, Tianzhi Sanren quickly shook his head slightly and said, "A thousand-year-old elixir has no effect on me. Since you cannot produce a thousand-year-old treasure, then let's pretend I never said anything!"

After saying that, he cut off the contact.

But Zhou Chun did not come away empty-handed.

He successfully traded two of the thousand-year-old spiritual herbs he needed, and also used the "Water Essence Jade Mother" magical material he had obtained from the wilderness to exchange for a "Yellow Dragon Stone".

Unfortunately, the "Yellow Dragon Stone" was not big enough, weighing only about one-third of what the [Nine Palaces Yellow Dragon Formation] required, which was far from meeting his needs.

However, Zhou Chun was already very satisfied with being able to exchange for these three necessary items.

As for the "Mountain Soul Pearl" in Tianzhi Sanren's possession, since he knows that the other party has such a treasure, he can naturally find another way to indirectly exchange it for his own.

At the subsequent exchange meeting, Zhou Chun watched as one treasure after another was brought out and displayed by the cultivators present, which truly broadened his horizons.

He had never heard of many of these things before, and he had only heard of many of them by name, but today he finally saw the real thing.

Unfortunately, he never encountered the spiritual object he was destined to obtain again.

It's not that he looks down on those spiritual items, but rather that after making several attempts, he doesn't want to flaunt his wealth again for spiritual items that aren't essential.

The exchange continued for about six or seven hours until everyone had finally shown off their treasures.

At this point, Tianzhi Sanren decisively announced the end of the exchange meeting and instructed the attendees to leave the attic one by one at half-quarter intervals.

For the participating cultivators who were at least at the Purple Mansion stage, a half-quarter of an hour was enough time for them to quickly disappear into the street.

Zhou Chun did the same. After leaving the pavilion, he quickly returned the cloak and mask to the manager of "Tianzhilou" and then left the secluded street where "Tianzhilou" was located, entering the bustling Xiancheng Street outside.

In Tianyuan Immortal City, while cultivators at the Purple Mansion stage are not as common as cabbages, they are not unattainable beings either.

With his early-stage Purple Mansion cultivation, Zhou Chun could walk down the street without being recognized by cultivators who had come from the exchange meeting. Even if they suspected he had participated, most wouldn't believe he was the one who had exchanged a thousand-year-old precious medicine for three thousand-year-old jade marrow mushrooms.

After arriving at his residence, he quickly changed his appearance again, this time to resemble Zhou Zhengyong.

In this way, even the manager of "Tianzhilou" wouldn't recognize him to his face.

After changing his appearance, Zhou Chun moved to another inn.

Over the next month, he changed his residence multiple times and disguised himself three times.

After repeatedly checking and confirming that no one was following him, he finally left the city disguised as Zhou Daoyi.

When leaving the city, Zhou Chun observed carefully and followed behind two other cultivators at the Purple Mansion stage. He flew hundreds of miles in the same direction as the two of them.

Only after confirming that no one was following him did Zhou Chun dare to embark on his journey back to his family.

With Zhou Chun's current strength, as long as he doesn't provoke Golden Core cultivators on the way back to his family, he won't encounter any trouble.

Several months later, he returned safely to the Zhou family.

However, since he was going to travel to the Great Zhou Kingdom later, Zhou Chun did not make a big fuss about his return.

He went straight back to his cave dwelling on Tuyun Ridge and invited Zhou Mingde and Zhou Daoyi to his cave dwelling to discuss matters.

"...In short, that's all for my experience on this trip to the Great Zhou Kingdom. After a few years of seclusion in my family, I will still go to the Great Zhou Kingdom to find Master Luo to refine pills."

Inside the cave, Zhou Chun openly shared his gains from his trip to the Great Zhou Kingdom, even showing off the Five Elements Spiritual Fruit to his two elders.

If there's anyone in the Zhou family he can completely trust, it's these two elders.

Therefore, he had nothing to hide from these two elders and could tell them about all his gains.

After hearing his story and seeing the Five Elements Spirit Fruit he produced, Zhou Mingde couldn't help but exclaim in amazement, "This is the Five Elements Spirit Fruit? It truly lives up to its legendary status! I never imagined I would have the chance to see such a rare treasure!"

"Indeed, it is a rare treasure! Even a powerful and ancient sect like the Moon Wheel Sect might not be able to produce such a spiritual item. It seems that you, Zheng Chun, have the good fortune to obtain it. It appears that you are destined to successfully form your core!"

While marveling at Zhou Chun's fortuitous encounter, Zhou Daoyi also looked at him intently and said, "With this Five Elements Spiritual Fruit in hand, Zheng Chun, you must work even harder to improve your cultivation. I am very much looking forward to you leading the Zhou family back to its former glory as a Golden Core clan after you form your Golden Core!"

These words immediately drew praise from Zhou Mingde: "Excellent, excellent! Dao Yi is right. If I could see the Zhou family return to the ranks of Golden Core clans, even in the afterlife, I would have the face to meet the ancestors of the Zhou family!"

It's easy to tell from their conversation that neither of them coveted the Five Elements Spirit Fruit that Zhou Chun had taken out; they were only thinking about Zhou Chun consuming it to form his core.

Such a thing would be impossible even within major sects, even among disciples of the same master.

In the world of cultivation, it's not uncommon for fellow disciples or even masters and disciples to fight each other for a chance to form a core.

Not to mention the Five Elements Spiritual Fruit, a treasure for Core Formation that can increase the success rate of Core Formation by 30%!

However, in the Zhou family, in the hearts of Zhou Mingde and Zhou Daoyi, they truly never thought of competing with Zhou Chun for the opportunity to form a core.

Although both of them opened their Purple Mansions before Zhou Chun, Zhou Mingde had already entered the mid-stage of the Purple Mansions realm.

However, from beginning to end, neither of them thought about their own core formation, but placed their hopes on Zhou Chun.

The two were well aware that, not only were they a hundred or two hundred years older than Zhou Chun, but their cultivation techniques for rapidly increasing magical power also made their success rate in forming the Golden Core completely inferior to Zhou Chun's.

Furthermore, even if they were to successfully form their cores by consuming the Five Elements Spiritual Fruit, they would still be among the lowest-ranking Golden Core cultivators, completely incapable of leading the Zhou family to a higher level.

Furthermore, this [Five Elements Spiritual Fruit] was an opportunity that Zhou Chun obtained at great personal risk. As elders, how could they shamelessly snatch away the opportunity for their junior to form a core?

If we really do that, what kind of cohesion will the family have left?

For these two individuals who value their family far more than themselves, this kind of thing, which could be considered digging up their family roots, is something they would never do.

Zhou Chun was so confident in these two elders that he showed them the Five Elements Spirit Fruit without reservation.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have revealed it to anyone else, let alone shown it to them.

Because once the news that he possesses the Five Elements Spiritual Fruit leaks out, even hiding next to a Golden Core cultivator will not be able to protect it.

Faced with the earnest expectations of his two elders, he nodded solemnly and replied, "I will try my best, but this item is too precious and I am really worried about carrying it with me. I would like to trouble you, Elder, to keep it safe for me."

"Give it to me for safekeeping?"

Zhou Mingde was taken aback, then looked at Zhou Chun with a complicated expression, and said half-jokingly, "Are you really willing to entrust such a precious treasure to me for safekeeping? Aren't you afraid that I'll cultivate to the late stage of the Purple Mansion realm before you, and then I won't be able to resist the temptation to devour it?"

Although he knew he was joking, Zhou Chun still replied solemnly, "If I can't even trust the two of you, then there's no one in the Zhou family I can trust!"

"You little rascal, you sure know how to flatter this old man..."

Zhou Mingde pointed at Zhou Chun and smiled, then immediately took the Five Elements Spirit Fruit from Zhou Chun's hand. He then said with a serious expression, "Don't worry, even if I die and the Zhou family is gone, this item can only be yours!"

Zhou Daoyi, who was standing nearby, smiled and didn't take it to heart when he heard the two talking like that.

It's interesting to say that, although the three core members of the Zhou family are of different generations, none of them ever use their seniority to intimidate others when they communicate.

Even when Zhou Chun was only at the Foundation Establishment stage, his elder Zhou Mingde would respect his opinions and ideas most of the time and would not force him to obey as an elder.

The relationship between the three is one of respect and care between elders and juniors, but it is more of a relationship of fellow travelers. They are all trying to revitalize the Zhou family, and it is no exaggeration to call them "fellow Daoists".

So sometimes, the three of them would even joke around with each other.

Now that the matter of the Five Elements Spiritual Fruit had been settled, Zhou Daoyi looked at Zhou Chun and said, "Zheng Chun, release your Thunder Flood Dragon so I can see just how magnificent a dragon with superior bloodline aptitude truly is!"

Zhou Chun had naturally told them about the "Fish Leaping Over the Dragon Gate" opportunity that Bai Bai encountered when he transformed into a dragon.

As someone who also possesses a dragon as a spirit pet, Zhou Daoyi was very envious of Zhou Chun's Bai Bai's fortunate encounter with such an opportunity.

At the same time, he wanted to see with his own eyes what kind of extraordinary abilities Lei Jiao Bai Bai, who had been shaped into a superior bloodline through the "Fish Leaping Over the Dragon Gate" opportunity, possessed.

Faced with the request from his elders, Zhou Chun naturally wouldn't refuse.

He immediately laughed and said, "Then you'd better take a good look."

As he spoke, he walked outside the cave, patted the spirit beast pouch at his waist, and released the Thunder Dragon Bai Bai.

As soon as the silver dragon appeared, it soared and roamed in the air outside Zhou Chun's cave. Lightning flowed over its body, and its four claws danced under its belly. It was truly majestic and incredibly powerful.

"What a magnificent four-clawed thunder dragon!"

Looking at the thunder dragon soaring in the sky, Zhou Mingde couldn't help but exclaim in admiration.

The saying goes, "Without comparison, there is no harm."

Before seeing Lei Jiao Bai Bai, Zhou Daoyi's green dragon looked quite good.

But now, compared to the majestic four-clawed thunder dragon in the sky, Zhou Daoyi's green dragon looks rather rustic.

Especially that python tail, it immediately lowered the overall quality.

"It's truly extraordinary!"

Zhou Daoyi sighed softly, unsure whether to be happy for Zhou Chun or feel sorry for his own spirit pet.

But he still patted the spirit beast pouch at his waist and released the azure dragon he had brought with him.

It was clear that when Qingqing, the Azure Dragon, came out and saw Baibai, the Thunder Dragon, her eyes showed obvious envy and awe.

The intelligence of a third-tier dragon is already quite high. The Azure Dragon itself evolved from the Azure Cloud Python and had seen Bai Bai's appearance after transforming into a dragon through the "Ancestor's Revival" secret technique before. Therefore, it naturally knows the origin of the third-tier Thunder Dragon in front of it.

Before releasing it, Zhou Daoyi also told it about how Lei Jiao had encountered the "Fish Leaping Over the Dragon Gate" opportunity and developed a superior dragon bloodline.

Therefore, at this moment, it was naturally filled with envy for Lei Jiao Bai Bai.

At the same time, the difference in bloodline aptitude and strength made it involuntarily feel a sense of awe towards the Thunder Flood Dragon.

Fortunately, Lei Jiao Bai Bai did not have the arrogance of those wild dragons, nor did he look down on the Qing Jiao whose bloodline aptitude was much worse than his own. On the contrary, he was very happy to see this fellow clansman.

It immediately let out a low groan and greeted the Azure Dragon.

Upon hearing the call, the Azure Dragon quickly responded with a low hum and soared into the air, joining the Thunder Dragon in flight.

Two dragons, one blue and one white, danced and soared through the air together, a sight that left the three Zhou family cultivators marveling at the spectacle.

Zhou Mingde couldn't help but clap his hands and laugh, "Two dragons flying together, two dragons dancing in unison—if outsiders saw this scene, it would probably spread throughout Jing Kingdom very quickly!"

After saying that, as if he had thought of something, his face suddenly lit up with anticipation, and he said with longing, "If you, Zheng Chun, successfully form your core in the future, we can have a double dragon chariot at the Golden Core Ceremony. At that time, I'm afraid even those Nascent Soul cultivators will hear the name of our Zhou family, and the name of you, Zheng Chun!"

Upon hearing his words, both Zhou Daoyi and Zhou Chun couldn't help but recall the scene he had described.

Then Zhou Chun quickly coughed lightly and said, "Ahem, let's forget about it then. If we do that, we might get attention, but it could also attract unnecessary trouble!"

A carriage pulled by two dragons—this kind of spectacle is usually reserved for Nascent Soul stage cultivators, and even many Nascent Soul stage cultivators cannot put together such a display.

If Zhou Chun dared to use twin dragons to pull a cart right after forming his Golden Core, what if some petty Nascent Soul cultivators overheard this and shamelessly came to forcibly demand the Wind and Thunder Twin Dragons?

It's nice to think about such a wonderful thing, but I'd rather not actually do it.

"Yes, I was careless just now. There's really no need to do something so high-profile!"

Zhou Mingde snapped out of his daze, nodded awkwardly, and readily admitted that he hadn't thought things through.

After discussing some more matters, Zhou Mingde and Zhou Daoyi left first.

Since Zhou Chun cannot show his face, Zhou Daoyi will have to mobilize the Zhou family's resources to collect the auxiliary materials for refining elixirs such as "Zengyuan Dan" or other auxiliary materials for refining Foundation Building Dan.

Meanwhile, Zhou Chun wasn't idle either.

After seeing off the two elders, he took out the root of the "Ten Thousand Year Purple Mulberry Wood" and released the wood spirit.

"Deer, are you confident you can make these few stalks sprout new buds and grow new branches?"

On the open ground in front of the cave, Zhou Chun handed several sticks to the blue spirit deer and asked for its advice.

In fact, if several roots of the "Ten Thousand Year Purple Mulberry Wood" can be rejuvenated, it will be of great benefit to the wood spirit.

In the future, its habitat can be transformed into this spiritual root, and perhaps a forest of purple mulberry trees can be planted for its cultivation.

When Zhou Chun asked the question, Mu Mei observed the several roots for a while and then nodded slightly, indicating that it was worth a try.

When it comes to the skill of planting trees, wood spirits are undoubtedly far superior to human cultivators.

If it weren't for the fear that its extraordinary behavior would expose its true identity, Zhou Chun would have handed over the Zhou family's herb garden to it long ago.

Hearing it say that it was worth a try, Zhou Chun no longer hesitated and immediately found a place outside the cave to bury the tree roots.

Once the tree roots were planted, the azure spirit deer immediately displayed its supernatural powers, drawing a large amount of spiritual energy from the surrounding vegetation and condensing it into drops of azure spiritual rain that watered the tree roots.

The tree roots were also quite miraculous, accepting all the spiritual rain without hesitation, like thirsty travelers in the desert, eagerly absorbing the rain from the sky.

As the spiritual rain was absorbed, the abundant vitality already contained within the tree roots became unprecedentedly active, as if catalyzed.

Soon, under Zhou Chun's divine sense, a tiny purplish-blue spore sprouted from the tree root, slowly growing upwards and breaking through the soil, eventually growing into a sapling about three inches tall.

Become!

Seeing the saplings sprouting from the soil, Zhou Chun felt relieved, and a joyful smile immediately appeared on his face.

Yo yo yo—

The ethereal and melodious call of the deer echoed through the valley, and the blue spirit deer was also happy for the sapling that had broken through the soil.

"Good deer, you'll take care of it for now."

Zhou Chun smiled and reached out to touch the antlers of the blue spirit deer, decisively entrusting it with the task of caring for the purple mulberry seedling.

Zhou Chun's consistent belief is that professional matters should be left to professionals.

Wood Spirit was naturally very happy to accept his arrangement.

If this purple mulberry seedling can be nurtured to the fourth rank, it will be of great benefit to it. Perhaps the opportunity for it to advance to the fourth rank in the future may lie here.

After assigning the tree-planting task to the Wood Spirit, Zhou Chun took the Thunder Flood Dragon on a trip to the wilderness.

He was going to check on the nest of "Heavenly Frost Frost Bees" and, while he was at it, release the few "Heavenly Frost Frost Bees" from his spirit beast bag back to rest and recuperate, replenishing the "Heavenly Frost Frost Qi" he had consumed.

In addition, Zhou Chun also planned to explore the various waterways in the wilderness to see if he could find a few more third-tier demonic beasts with dragon bloodlines.

With the Thunder Flood Dragon now in his possession, even a third-tier high-grade dragon-blooded demon beast wouldn't be able to withstand the combined attack of master and servant under the same cultivation level.

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(End of this chapter)