Beast Taming Immortal Clan

Chapter 430 Corpse Demon Beast [Please Subscribe]

Fengguo.

The Feng Kingdom has now become a front-line battlefield.

The original Feng Kingdom cultivators either joined the Heavenly Spirit Legion or fled to countries like Jing Kingdom.

The original strongholds of the Feng Kingdom forces were all transformed into fortresses by the addition of powerful magic arrays.

Conservative estimates suggest that the Heavenly Spirit Legion currently has over eighty Golden Core cultivators, at least five hundred Purple Mansion cultivators, and over six or seven thousand Foundation Establishment cultivators in Feng Kingdom.

As for the number of Nascent Soul stage cultivators, that's top secret information.

Under these circumstances, apart from the Tianling Legion cultivators who were out on missions, almost no other cultivators from the Tianling region dared to wander around the Feng Kingdom's wilderness.

Although Zhou Chun wanted to send Zhou Daoquan and the others something to save their lives, he did not rashly break into Feng Kingdom.

After arriving at the border between Jing and Feng, he went to a Tianling Legion base and, as the head of the Zhou family, inquired about the teams and bases to which Zhou Daoquan and his group belonged.

Then, through the Heavenly Spirit Legion's own intelligence system, he sent a letter to each of his three elders, informing them of his return and implying that they should wait at their post for him to come and deliver things to them.

As for handing the items directly to the Heavenly Spirit Legion and asking them to deliver them, that's perfectly fine.

The problem is that the life-saving items Zhou Chun wants to give to the three elders are all very valuable.

He found it hard to believe that those who delivered things on behalf of others wouldn't be tempted to embezzle them once they discovered the items were valuable.

After all, the Heavenly Spirit Legion can't guarantee that the items will be delivered. The situation on the front lines is so complicated, who knows if the delivery team will be attacked halfway?

It's perfectly normal to lose some things in the future.

Therefore, apart from things like letters that have no cost, few people would actually entrust valuable items to the Heavenly Spirit Legion for delivery.

After sending the letter, Zhou Chun obtained a certificate from the Tianling Legion, proving his true identity and indicating his purpose for entering the Feng Kingdom battlefield.

In this way, if he encounters a patrol of the Heavenly Spirit Legion on the Feng Kingdom battlefield, he can avoid being attacked and can also enter the relevant fortresses to rest and avoid disaster.

In order to obtain this certificate quickly, Zhou Chun spent three thousand spirit coins on bribes.

This made him marvel at how those people were good at making money; it really is true that if you don't use your power, it will expire!

After completing all the formalities, Zhou Chun officially entered Fengguo and then chose to walk to his destination.

Fengguo is now a battlefield, but Zhou Chun is completely clueless about the situation and has no idea which places are dangerous or which are combat zones.

This military intelligence would never be made available to someone like him who wasn't a cultivator from the Heavenly Spirit Legion.

Therefore, in order to avoid rushing into the battlefield and being surrounded, or attracting trouble by being too conspicuous, walking is undoubtedly the best choice.

Of course, Zhou Chun's so-called walking did not mean walking on his own two legs, but rather riding a dragon-scaled horse.

He had come prepared and brought two dragon-scaled horses with him for easy switching.

Zhou Chun had only been in Feng Kingdom for less than half a day when he happened to witness a small-scale war between the Tianling Legion cultivators and the Yuanmo Legion cultivators.

The battlefield of this war was near a mortal city. It seems that the Yuanmo Legion cultivators were slaughtering mortals to refine magical artifacts when they were captured by the Tianling Legion cultivators, which triggered the war.

In terms of numbers, the Heavenly Spirit Legion clearly had the advantage, with as many as fifty or sixty people, which was the size of two small teams.

The Yuanmo Legion only had about thirty people.

However, the war situation did not quickly become one-sided.

Although the number of cultivators on the Yuanmo Legion's side is small, their actual combat strength is not much lower.

On the battlefield, corpses shrouded in aura were being driven by the Corpse Demon Cult disciples to attack the Heavenly Spirit Legion cultivators.

Then there were some strange cultivators dressed in black robes, waving black banners and magical artifacts in their hands, releasing gray-black ghosts that rushed towards the cultivators of different Heavenly Spirit Legions.

Those black ghosts were merely condensed yin energy, without any physical form. Magical artifacts like flying swords had limited effect on them. Among the ordinary five elements spells, only fire spells could deal normal damage to them; the others were less effective.

Moreover, they seemed to have strong penetrability to other elemental shields, and almost all the Tianling Legion cultivators present chose fire elemental shields to protect themselves.

It was precisely because of the direct attacks and harassment raids by these refining corpses and ghosts that the Heavenly Spirit Legion, despite having a numerical advantage, struggled to gain an early lead and establish a true advantage in the initial stages of the battle.

"Those cultivators who control the Yin Ghosts must be the Yin Ghost Sect cultivators mentioned in the intelligence report. It's said that these Yin Ghosts they control are refined from the souls of immortal cultivators, and each Yin Ghost represents an immortal cultivator who died at their hands!"

On a mountain peak, Zhou Chun hid in the shadows, observing the situation on the battlefield from afar, his expression quite solemn.

Clearly, compared to the Corpse Demon Sect, which uses the corpses of dead cultivators to create puppets and corpses, the cultivators of the Yin Ghost Sect are undoubtedly much more evil and more repulsive to orthodox cultivators.

After all, corpse refining is at most a disrespect for the corpse of the dead. Even if cultivators are somewhat disgusted by it, they will not take it to the point of wanting to exterminate these people.

This is also an important reason why the Corpse Demon Sect was able to survive in Feng Kingdom for so many years.

However, using the soul of a cultivator to refine a Yin ghost is truly abhorrent and infuriating.

After all, when a low-level cultivator dies, their soul dissipates.

Therefore, to use their souls to refine Yin ghosts, it must be done before they have completely died, which is equivalent to using living people to practice magic!

Moreover, although most cultivators do not believe in the concept of an afterlife, if they are truly on the verge of death, they will certainly prefer to believe that reincarnation is real.

Once a soul is refined into a demonic ghost, there is absolutely no possibility of reincarnation!

Therefore, the Corpse Demon Sect might still be tolerated by the cultivators of the Heavenly Spirit Realm, but the Yin Ghost Sect, a demonic force, would absolutely not be accepted!

Zhou Chun also found it hard to accept this.

Moreover, as far as he knew, the cultivators of the Yin Ghost Sect would usually drive the Yin Ghost Demons to devour the souls of mortals to strengthen themselves in order to make them even more powerful.

Human souls are too weak to be refined into Yin Ghosts or Demons, but they can still serve as resources for the growth of Yin Ghosts or Demons.

For a low-grade first-level Yin Ghost Demon to advance to a mid-grade first-level, it must devour at least hundreds or thousands of mortal souls, which means hundreds or thousands of lives!

This is an evil deed that no orthodox cultivator can ignore!

Looking at the Yin Ghosts and Demons rampaging on the battlefield, Zhou Chun frowned and muttered to himself, "If I were to encounter a Purple Mansion cultivator from the Yin Ghost Sect, I'm afraid all my own methods would be useless. Only Lei Jiao Bai Bai could effectively restrain them."

Heavenly Thunder Slays Evil: Thunder magic is the most effective spell for dealing with evil spirits and demons, and it can be extremely effective in countering them.

In particular, Lei Jiao Bai Bai's [Heavenly Divine Thunder] is driven by pure heavenly thunder power. If used to deal with Yin Ghost Demons, it would probably severely injure or even kill a fourth-order ghost equivalent to a Golden Core cultivator.

The problem is that Zhou Chun doesn't dare to easily expose Lei Jiao Bai Bai's existence right now.

Otherwise, not only would it be difficult to fool the Qinglian Temple and the Jiaolong Clan, but also the demonic forces such as the Yin Gui Sect would likely list him as a major wanted person and offer a high reward for his death!

Of course, if you act cautiously and don't let the news leak out, it's okay to do it occasionally.

Thinking of this, Zhou Chun couldn't help but turn his gaze to the other demonic cultivators on the battlefield.

Those demonic cultivators were all dressed in dark red robes, as if they had been stained with blood. The magical weapons they wielded were also dark red bone swords, blood-red banners, and the like.

Whether it's the dark red sword energy and light unleashed by the bone sword or the blood-red clouds released by the blood-red banner, both have the effect of corroding other magical artifacts and spells, and they perform quite well on the battlefield.

These people were clearly cultivators from the Blood Bone Sect.

This group of demonic cultivators from the Yuanmo Realm was composed of disciples from three sects: the Corpse Demon Sect, the Yin Ghost Sect, and the Blood Bone Sect.

The other cultivators from the Valley of Love and the Palace of Beasts have not yet been seen.

After watching for a while, seeing that both sides had suffered casualties, Zhou Chun immediately stopped watching and directly patted the spirit beast pouch at his waist, releasing the Golden-Winged Tiger to assist in the battle.

Roar!

A tiger's roar resounded through the sky, and a golden tiger with wings sprouted from its ribs swiftly descended upon the battlefield.

Just as both sides were taken aback by this unexpected turn of events and showed signs of vigilance, the Golden-Winged Tiger flapped its wings, and hundreds of densely packed cyan wind blades materialized out of thin air and shot towards the Yuan Demon Realm cultivators.

Then it opened its mouth and spat out a golden beam of light that struck a second-tier armored zombie, instantly shattering the zombie's notoriously tough body into countless fragments.

Seeing this from a distance, Zhou Chun nodded secretly and a smile appeared on his face.

Although the Golden-Winged Tiger is currently unable to intervene in his battles with others due to his cultivation level, it is still very strong at the second tier.

It can fight and run, and ordinary late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivators are no match for it.

When it comes to easily defeating weaker opponents, it is even more professional than Zhou Chun's other spirit pets.

Moreover, Zhou Chun then realized that the Yin Ghosts and Demons of the Yin Ghost Sect seemed to have no good way to deal with the Golden-Winged Tiger. Several Yin Ghosts and Demons that pounced on it were directly shaken away by its powerful blood and qi.

With its help, the cultivators of the Yuanmo Realm quickly found themselves unable to hold out and could only scatter and flee like birds and beasts.

At this moment, Zhou Chun discovered something else noteworthy.

Those were a few Foundation Establishment cultivators of the demonic path. Almost everyone knew the Blood Burning Escape Technique, which allowed them to escape at an extremely fast speed, making it extremely difficult for ordinary Foundation Establishment cultivators to catch up.

Despite his best efforts, the Golden-Winged Tiger only managed to catch one of them.

This incident also made Zhou Chun secretly take note that if he were to fight against demonic cultivators of the same level in the future, he would have to be wary of them using this kind of escape technique.

Defeating an opponent only counts as having skill, but killing an opponent is what counts as merit!

In response to the invasion from the Yuanmo territory, the Tianling Alliance offers substantial rewards to cultivators who slay demonic cultivators.

Nowadays, the head of a demonic cultivator in the early Foundation Establishment stage can be exchanged for a reward of two thousand spirit coins and a hundred battle merits.

Whether it's getting a promotion or exchanging for rare spiritual items like "Foundation Building Pills," it all depends on one's battle merits.

Only when one's battle merits reach a certain standard can one purchase those rare spiritual items at market price.

It is said that in order to attract people to join the Heavenly Spirit Legion, the Heavenly Spirit Alliance has not only placed a large number of orders for Foundation Establishment Pills in countries such as the Great Zhou Kingdom, but has also prohibited the sale of Foundation Establishment Pills and Foundation Establishment Aid Spiritual Items in domestic markets and sects.

As a result, any cultivator who wants to use Foundation Establishment Spiritual Objects to assist in Foundation Establishment has no choice but to obediently join the Heavenly Spirit Legion.

Zhou Chun could understand this situation; he would have done the same thing in his place.

After all, talking about national righteousness with those rogue cultivators is completely useless. They have nothing to lose and nothing to fear. If the Yuanmo territory attacks, they can simply seek refuge there or flee to another country.

Expecting them to voluntarily join the army to defend their country is a joke.

However, while the purchase of spiritual items such as "Foundation Building Pills" has been permitted, the private sale of these items is prohibited.

Those rogue cultivators who still harbor any desire to reach the Foundation Establishment stage will definitely join the army to fight for a better future.

At this time, after the Golden-Winged Tiger finished chasing the enemy and returned, Zhou Chun had no intention of contacting the Heavenly Spirit Legion cultivators who came looking for him, and soon drifted away.

Seeing the fleeting golden light, the victorious Heavenly Spirit Legion cultivators understood Zhou Chun's meaning and bowed in gratitude in the direction he left.

During the next day or so, Zhou Chun encountered several more demonic cultivators, and was even attacked by a group of them.

However, since none of those demonic cultivators were at the Purple Mansion stage, they all died easily at his hands.

After traveling for a day or two, Zhou Chun arrived at the place where Zhou Jiapeng was stationed and quickly went inside to meet his uncle.

However, upon seeing him, Zhou Jiapeng showed no joy. Instead, he looked at him with a helpless expression and sighed, "Zhengchun, you shouldn't have come in person. Feng Kingdom is in chaos right now, and there are even Golden Core stage demonic cultivators patrolling the battlefield from time to time. If anything were to happen to you, we would be doomed!"

"Uncle Twenty-Seven, what are you saying? You and Aunt Thirteen are willing to risk your lives for the family. I am also a member of the Zhou family. What's wrong with me coming here to visit you?"

Zhou Chun retorted, feigning displeasure.

Before Zhou Jiapeng could say anything more, he raised his hand, patted the storage bag at his waist, took out a brocade box that he had prepared in advance, and handed it to the other party.

"These are some magical talismans that I brought back from the Great Zhou Kingdom. Uncle Twenty-Seven, please keep them safe. If you encounter any dangerous situations in the future, please don't hesitate to use them!"

Seeing this, Zhou Jiapeng felt a warmth in his heart, and his eyes softened considerably.

After a slight hesitation, he reached out and took the brocade box, then said softly, "I naturally understand these principles and will protect myself. Zhengchun, you must also be careful, as the future of the family depends on you."

"I will. Then take care, Uncle Twenty-Seven. I won't stay here any longer."

Zhou Chun nodded and quickly took his leave.

Half a day later, Zhou Chun found Zhou Jiahe's camp again and presented him with a brocade box containing a life-saving talisman.

However, just as Zhou Chun continued his journey to Zhou Daoquan's garrison, he encountered a major battle!

On a plain, hundreds of Heavenly Spirit Legion cultivators and hundreds of Demonic Path cultivators were engaged in a fierce battle, the booming sounds of their combat could be heard from hundreds of miles away.

The reason why these two sides would engage in such a major battle is still unknown, and perhaps it is not important.

However, as the battle between the two sides dragged on, more and more cultivators from both sides rushed to provide support.

Zhou Chun was passing by when he was attracted by the roaring sound.

There were many experts on the battlefield this time, including cultivators at the Purple Mansion stage. Zhou Chun was afraid of being discovered, so he used the "Insect Puppet Technique" to observe from a distance.

He was then quickly drawn to two of the battlefields.

Above the battlefield, a scantily clad witch, wearing a pink blouse, held a jade-bone pipa and played enchanting melodies, causing the two Purple Mansion stage cultivators who were besieging her to mistake each other for enemies and attack each other.

Even though the two were quickly awakened by others using mind-clearing techniques, when they attacked the witch again, they were still occasionally distracted and mistakenly attacked others as enemies.

Without a doubt, this witch was the Enchanting Valley cultivator whom Zhou Chun had never met before, and she was a witch with profound demonic arts.

Meanwhile, in another part of the sky, a demonic cultivator who was two zhang tall was also fighting two cultivators at the Purple Mansion stage by himself, and was also gaining a certain advantage.

This creature, through some unknown secret technique, has now transformed into a half-human, half-beast monster.

He was two zhang tall, with six arms growing from his ribs. In addition to two human hands, he also had four hairy black ape arms.

His four ape arms are extremely flexible, and each one wields magical artifacts such as swords and shields, allowing him to multitask and balance offense and defense simultaneously.

Moreover, his physical body seemed to be as strong as that of a demon beast of the same level, and he was also wearing a black iron armor. He did not dodge or avoid weaker attacks and directly withstood them.

Two cultivators from the Heavenly Spirit Legion at the Purple Mansion stage fought him, constantly on guard against him suddenly rushing close to attack them.

"So these are the cultivators of the Beast Demon Palace? It's said that before they reach the Foundation Establishment stage, these demonic cultivators will find a suitable demonic beast to raise as a spirit pet. After successfully establishing their foundation, they will use the secret methods of the Beast Demon Palace to devour the essence, blood, and soul of the demonic beast, combining it with their own demonic arts to cultivate a demonic battle body, thus achieving dual cultivation of magic and body, and gaining combat power far exceeding that of ordinary cultivators!"

"This kind of demonic technique does seem somewhat similar to the 'Dragon Transformation Secret Manual,' but its entry barrier is undoubtedly much lower!"

Zhou Chun observed the battle of the Beast Demon Palace cultivator through the "Insect Puppet Technique," analyzing the strengths and weaknesses of this demonic divine power in his mind.

Based on the information he had gathered, the Beast Demon Palace's secret techniques were far more applicable than the "Dragon Transformation Secret Manual," meaning they could devour all sorts of demonic beasts.

Moreover, although the "Dragon Transformation Secret Technique" can greatly enhance a cultivator's combat power, it is actually impossible for a cultivator to master the powerful supernatural abilities of a dragon before reaching the fifth level.

However, the secret techniques of the Beast Demon Palace allow cultivators to directly inherit the innate divine abilities of demon beasts, and they can continue to develop more innate divine abilities in the future, just like truly turning people into demon beasts.

Compared to the other two, "The Secret of Dragon Transformation" seems somewhat inferior.

However, Zhou Chun knew that things should be viewed from two sides.

While the secret techniques of the Beast Demon Palace can greatly enhance a cultivator's strength, the process of devouring and fusing the essence and soul of demonic beasts will certainly not be smooth sailing and will inevitably be accompanied by great danger.

However, the "Dragon Transformation Secret" has almost no such concerns.

Secondly, while the secret techniques of the Beast Demon Palace grant cultivators powerful innate divine abilities and physical strength from demonic beasts, their temperament is also affected. It is not surprising that they are easily dominated by instincts and even lose their own will.

Furthermore, demonic arts usually carry the risk of backlash. The higher one's cultivation level, the more likely one is to encounter backlash. The secret techniques of the Beast Demon Palace may seem powerful, but there might actually be some hidden pitfalls behind them.

Otherwise, with the formidable combat power of the Beast Demon Palace disciples, they should have long since become the most powerful sect in the Yuan Demon Realm.

"These demonic sects each have their own unique characteristics; no wonder they say demonic arts are unpredictable and difficult to defend against!"

After a moment of reflection, Zhou Chun withdrew his attention and stopped looking at the battlefield.

The scale of this war is now beyond his ability to get involved.

If he were to join the war, he would inevitably have to reveal a significant portion of his true strength in order to help the Heavenly Spirit Legion.

Moreover, with the battlefield now expanded to this extent, it's hard to say whether it will attract the attention of Golden Core cultivators, and he doesn't want to appear too outstanding in front of them.

So he quickly and quietly left the battlefield and continued on his way to Zhou Daoquan's stronghold.

What Zhou Chun didn't expect was that he ran into Zhou Daoquan on the way, who was leading troops to support the battlefield!

"Looks like there's really no way to avoid it!"

Zhou Chun muttered something to himself in frustration, and had no choice but to immediately appear and stop Zhou Daoquan and the others.

"Third Elder, please wait!"

In mid-air, Zhou Chun rode his Golden-Winged Tiger and soared into the sky. With a loud shout, he stopped Zhou Daoquan, who was riding the Blood Flame Dragon Python carrying twenty or thirty cultivators on his way to provide support.

"Masaharu, what are you doing here?! How did you get here?!"

On the python's back, Zhou Daoquan looked at Zhou Chun with surprise, equally astonished by his appearance.

Seeing this, Zhou Chun could only smile helplessly and say, "This junior came to deliver something to you, Elder, but I didn't expect to see you bringing people over."

Upon hearing this, Zhou Daoquan quickly understood Zhou Chun's intention in appearing at this moment. A warm feeling immediately appeared in his eyes, and then he nodded solemnly, saying, "I understand. Then give me the things and leave this place quickly. This is not a place for you!"

Before these words were even finished, a woman in red with mid-stage Purple Mansion cultivation, who had been flying alongside the Bloodflame Dragon Python, immediately spoke up: "Is this fellow Daoist a member of your clan, Fellow Daoist Zhou? I see that this fellow Daoist's cultivation is extraordinary. Could you please ask him to accompany us to support our comrades at the front?"

Upon hearing the woman in red's words, Zhou Daoquan's expression immediately changed, and he hurriedly said, "No, Zheng Chun is the patriarch of my Zhou family, and he is not a member of the Heavenly Spirit Legion!"

At this point, seemingly realizing his tone had been somewhat inappropriate, Zhou Daoquan quickly bowed to the woman in red and said, "Commander Li, please forgive me. I had no intention of offending you, but please do not mention this matter again!"

Seeing his reaction, the woman in red glanced at Zhou Chun's relatively young face and roughly understood why he was reacting so strongly.

He didn't insist on his previous suggestion, but simply nodded slightly and said, "Since Fellow Daoist Zhou feels it's inappropriate, then let's pretend I never said anything. However, the battle situation is urgent, so please don't waste any more time, lest you miss the opportunity!"

"Thank you for your understanding, Commander. I'll be right there."

Zhou Daoquan thanked him again, then looked at Zhou Chun and said sternly through telepathy, "Zhengchun, give me the things and return to the family immediately. Don't let me become a sinner of the family because of this!"

He rarely spoke in such a stern tone, and this time he was clearly worried that Zhou Chun would go to the battlefield with him.

Zhou Chun naturally understood his meaning and didn't say anything more. He quickly nodded and said, "This junior understands. Third Elder, please take care of yourself!"

After speaking, he took out a prepared brocade box and a mid-grade third-tier defensive magic weapon and handed it to Zhou Daoquan.

"Go back now, I'll take good care of myself!"

Zhou Daoquan reached out and took the two items, then waved to Zhou Chun before letting the Bloodflame Dragon Python continue flying towards the battlefield.

Watching the Bloodflame Dragon Python and the flying boat disappear into the distance, Zhou Chun also rode the Golden-Winged Tiger and landed on the ground.

However, after landing, he did not actually leave. Instead, he quickly raised his hand and patted the spirit beast pouch at his waist, releasing the Golden Armor Mountain-Carrying Turtle Stone.

He gave the stone some instructions, and the golden-armored mountain-carrying tortoise stone nodded slightly, then suddenly transformed into a beam of yellow light and disappeared underground.

"With Stone lying in wait underground, even if the Heavenly Spirit Legion is defeated, they should be able to safely take the Third Elder away!"

Zhou Chun muttered to himself, and soon found a place to hide, quietly waiting for news.

I was reflecting on the comments on the book recommendations I read today, and I'm finding it quite strange that so many readers find it odd that a protagonist in a "mortal cultivation" novel becomes a well-rounded expert in everything from alchemy and weapon crafting to talisman arrays. I'm thinking, in those wildly popular classic "mortal cultivation" novels, including Han Li Tianzun, which protagonist isn't proficient in alchemy, weapon crafting, talisman arrays, and so on? Why is this something to criticize? If I weren't writing a family-based novel, giving other family members a chance to shine, I'd also like to write a protagonist who can refine weapons and alchemy. It's really strange how you all think! And you even question my taste, which I find unbelievable. If I say the book I'm recommending is a "mortal cultivation" novel, then it definitely is. After all, if I don't like a book, no matter how good its ratings are, I won't read it!

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