Beast Taming Immortal Clan

Chapter 487 Zhou Chun's Bold Idea [First Update, Please Subscribe]

Zhou Zhengyong's successful opening of the Purple Mansion is definitely a joyous occasion for the entire Zhou family.

This joyous occasion also dispelled the somber atmosphere brought about by Zhou Jiarui's passing more than a year ago.

He thus became the fifth Purple Mansion stage cultivator in the Zhou family clan, and the second Purple Mansion stage cultivator of the "Zheng" generation.

"I still feel like I'm dreaming!"

"I never imagined that I would one day successfully open my Purple Mansion!"

"This is unbelievable, so unreal!"

Inside Zhou Chun's cave, Zhou Zhengyong, who had just emerged from seclusion, came to meet him, and his expression was one of dazed uncertainty.

He had already successfully opened up his Purple Mansion, but he himself seemed to be the one who least believed it was true!

This situation is probably like a beggar being told that he is the lost crown prince, then being welcomed into the palace, put on a dragon robe, sit on the dragon throne, and receive congratulations from the court officials on the new emperor's ascension to the throne.

What a wonderful surprise!!!

Seeing this, Zhou Chun smiled faintly and said, "There's nothing unbelievable about it. I've said it before, Brother Yong, your success rate in opening your Purple Mansion isn't low; it's just that you haven't believed it!"

Zhou Chun failed once when he was building his foundation.

However, he opened his Purple Mansion in one fell swoop, and it was very easy for him. The spiritual item he used to help open his Purple Mansion, the Snow Soul Pill, was less effective than the Purple Profound Pill and the Profound Heart Purple Return Pill.

Therefore, in his view, many cultivators are unable to open their Purple Mansion because they are limited by resources and cannot purchase spiritual items that can assist in opening the Purple Mansion.

Without the assistance of these spiritual objects, even awakening the soul is difficult, and the success rate is naturally not as high as that of a Qi Refining cultivator attempting to break through to Foundation Establishment without consuming any spiritual objects.

In addition, when opening up the Purple Mansion, the cultivator's own willpower, belief, and luck are also very important.

Over the years, Zhou Zhengyong has followed the Zhou family in battles across the country, experiencing life-and-death crises many times. His personal character and will have been tempered by these life-and-death crises, making him no less than any cultivator.

At the same time, he had no psychological burden about opening up his Purple Mansion this time, and it didn't matter even if he failed.

In addition, he has always been quite lucky.

It wasn't particularly surprising that he was eventually able to successfully open up the Purple Mansion.

After chatting with Zhou Zhengyong and helping him calm down, Zhou Chun immediately offered to hold a Purple Mansion celebration for him, so that all members of the Zhou family could share in the joy.

Zhou Zhengyong did not refuse.

Even for a Golden Core family, having an additional Purple Mansion stage cultivator is equivalent to having an extra layer of foundation.

Holding a Zifu celebration to unite people's hearts is still very necessary.

However, due to the special circumstances, the Purple Mansion celebration was not held in a grand manner. Basically, only the Zhou family's own cultivators and some independent cultivators who were invited to attend the ceremony were present. Among the family forces, only the Su family and a group of other cultivation families that were not under the jurisdiction of the Green Lotus Temple were invited to send people to attend the ceremony.

Nevertheless, the festive atmosphere brought smiles to the faces of the Zhou clan members, who had been living in fear for so long during the war, and they celebrated with singing and dancing.

"Fellow Daoist Luo, what do you think of the disciples of my Zhou family? How do they compare to the Golden Core families of the Great Zhou Kingdom?"

At the banquet, Zhou Chunxu was in a really good mood and drank a lot of spirit wine. When some of the younger clansmen were performing magic duels, he couldn't help but smile and ask Luo Qingni, who had been invited to watch the ceremony, for her opinion.

After he finished speaking, Lin Hongyu, Zhou Mingde, and other high-ranking members of the Zhou family, who were sitting at the head of the table, all looked at Luo Qingni with curiosity, wanting to hear the opinion of this high-level cultivator from the Great Zhou Kingdom.

To be fair, apart from Zhou Chun not yet forming his core, the Zhou family's strength in all aspects is no weaker than that of the Zhou family during the Three Absolutes Sect era.

Even in the later stages of the Three Absolutes Sect, the Zhou family was not as strong as it is now.

Looking at all the Golden Core families in Jingguo, there are very few that can consistently outnumber the Zhou family in terms of both the number of Purple Mansion stage cultivators and the number of Foundation Establishment stage cultivators.

Therefore, when the Zhou family leaders saw so many elites of their clan gathered together at today's celebration, they felt quite satisfied and proud.

Because all of this is the result of their joint efforts and hard work.

Faced with the eager anticipation of the Zhou family, Luo Qingni frowned.

She originally didn't want to attend the celebration, but Zhou Chun insisted on it repeatedly before she agreed.

Even so, she originally only intended to go through the motions and have a few cups of tea.

She never expected that Zhou Chun, who had always been composed in her mind, would suddenly ask her such a question.

If she didn't answer at this point, it would be tantamount to disrespecting Zhou Chun and embarrassing him in public, which would only worsen their relationship.

But when asked to answer, she had absolutely no idea how to respond.

After pondering for a long time, she slowly shook her head and said, "Qingni doesn't know much about the Zhou family, but judging from the cultivation levels and ages of these younger generations, they are quite good, comparable to ordinary Golden Core families in the Great Zhou Kingdom!"

"Can it only be compared to ordinary Golden Core families in the Great Zhou Kingdom?"

Zhou Mingde muttered to himself, seemingly somewhat dissatisfied with Luo Qingni's answer.

He had witnessed the Zhou family's prosperity and believed that, apart from the Golden Core cultivators, the current Zhou family was almost as prosperous as it had been in the past.

However, even so, in Luo Qingni's eyes, they could only be compared with ordinary Golden Core families in the Great Zhou Kingdom.

It's about comparison, not surpassing!

This inevitably made him feel disappointed.

However, Zhou Chun was somewhat brought back to her senses by Luo Qingni's answer and realized that she had been somewhat rash and impetuous just now.

However, in front of so many people, he couldn't very well apologize to Luo Qingni directly. He could only nod slightly to her with a hint of apology in his eyes and then say, "The Great Zhou Kingdom is the center of the cultivation world, a land of outstanding people and abundant resources. It is truly an honor for my Zhou family to be able to compare with the Golden Core families of such a great nation!"

Having said that, he picked up a cup of spiritual wine, raised it to the assembled cultivators, and said, "Come, this cup is to Fellow Daoist Luo, to thank her for gracing our celebration today!"

Upon hearing his words, the numerous cultivators below immediately raised their cups in salute to Luo Qingni, saying, "To Senior Luo!"

Then they all drank the spirit wine from their cups.

After this incident, nothing tense happened again at the celebration, and everything was joyful until the end.

When the celebration ended and they were seeing Luo Qingni off, Zhou Chun once again bowed to her with an apologetic expression and said, "I was a bit presumptuous and impetuous during today's celebration. Please forgive me, Fellow Daoist Luo."

Faced with his apology, Luo Qingni simply shook her head slightly and said, "It's such a small matter, Qingni won't mind."

Then, with a serious expression, he looked at Zhou Chun and asked, "But when exactly does Fellow Daoist Zhou plan to depart with Qing Ni to the Great Zhou? You must know that although Qing Ni doesn't have a large family to take care of like you, Fellow Daoist Zhou, it's still not advisable for her to leave Tianyuan Immortal City for an extended period!"

She is a renowned alchemy master in Tianyuan Immortal City, with numerous alchemy commissions from there.

Although she had temporarily stopped accepting alchemy commissions before coming to the Zhou family to find Zhou Chun.

But that doesn't mean she doesn't care about this money-making job.

It is foreseeable that if she does not return to Tianyuan Immortal City for a long time, her old customers will definitely switch to other alchemy masters, directly reducing her market share.

This will be quite detrimental to her future cultivation.

Faced with her urging words, Zhou Chun frowned and said, "This..."

He then suddenly switched to telepathy and asked, "Fellow Daoist Luo, do you think it would be feasible for me to form my Golden Core in that secret island and then use my Golden Core cultivation to help you retrieve the treasure?"

"What? Fellow Daoist Zhou, you want to form your Core within the secret island!"

Luo Qingni was taken aback, stunned by Zhou Chun's bold idea.

She stared at Zhou Chun in shock, but after seeing that Zhou Chun's expression didn't seem to be joking, she slowly calmed down and began to carefully consider Zhou Chun's words.

After thinking about it for a while, she whispered, "I'm afraid this won't work. Putting aside the fact that once you form your core in that secret island, Fellow Daoist Zhou, it might immediately trigger the forbidden spell and teleport you out, it's not worth risking your cultivation for the sake of the treasures there."

At this point, she explained to Zhou Chun with a serious expression: "As Fellow Daoist Zhou knows, when one successfully forms a Golden Core, a massive amount of spiritual energy from heaven and earth is absorbed in order to support the energy required to condense the Golden Core."

"If you were to form your core on that secret island, without a purification array to cleanse the turbid and malevolent energy contained within the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, the intrusion of a large amount of this turbid and malevolent energy into your body would inevitably lead you into a state of demonic possession!"

"Moreover, even if Fellow Daoist Zhou possesses great perseverance and astonishing willpower, and is able to overcome the difficulty of cultivation deviation, the massive influx of turbid and malevolent energy directly into your golden core will be extremely difficult to remove in the future, and may even be impossible to eradicate!"

Having reached Luo Qingni's level of cultivation, she naturally knew that the "turbid evil energy" was not insurmountable.

Moreover, when she was cultivating in seclusion at Jiufeng Ridge, she had seen the fragrant musk deer raised by the Zhou family and knew that the spiritual fragrance produced by this kind of demon beast could dispel "turbid evil energy".

But she knew even better that most spiritual objects that could dispel "turbid evil energy" could only dispel trace amounts or small quantities of it.

If we follow Zhou Chun's explanation, forming a core in the secret island will inevitably lead to the accumulation of a large amount of "turbid evil energy" in the body.

Such a large amount of "turbid and evil energy" is not something that ordinary spiritual objects can dispel.

"If Fellow Daoist Zhou truly harbors such an idea, it would be best to abandon it. You should know that for us Golden Core cultivators, our physical bodies and magical power are so immense that many ordinary spiritual items are no longer effective against us. The spiritual fragrance produced by your Zhou family's fragrant musk deer may be quite effective for Qi Refining and Foundation Establishment cultivators, but for us Golden Core cultivators, its effectiveness will certainly be greatly reduced!"

Luo Qingni genuinely considered Zhou Chun a friend and did not disregard Zhou Chun's life or death just because she wanted to obtain the treasures inside the secret island.

Zhou Chun was deeply moved by her sincere words of comfort.

Regardless of whether Luo Qingni's words were entirely sincere, her attitude at least made people feel comfortable.

He then revealed some details to Luo Qingni, saying slowly, "I appreciate Fellow Daoist Luo's kindness, but my idea is not just wishful thinking."

"To be honest, Fellow Daoist Luo, the Zhou family currently possesses another spiritual fragrance that is even more effective than the Fragrant Spirit Musk. Back then, a cultivator at the Purple Mansion stage relied on this substance to cultivate in the wilderness for decades and was able to maintain his mind. Therefore, I have considerable confidence in this substance."

"Furthermore, the leader of our Jingguo Moon Wheel Sect, the Venerable Master Baiyue, cultivates a powerful divine ability called [Moonlight Purification]. This divine ability is extremely effective in purifying and eliminating 'turbid and evil energy,' and can even cleanse and purify the soul of a cultivator!"

Therefore, Zhou believed that if preparations were sufficient, this matter was worth a try!

His real strength, of course, is not what he claims to be.

However, this does not prevent him from using these as excuses to deceive others.

To be precise, it was to deceive Luo Qingni!

After all, if Zhou Chunzhen did this, then the only person who would know that he had formed his core in the secret island would be Luo Qingni.

In fact, he had this idea when Luo Qingni told him that Golden Core cultivators could no longer enter the secret island.

After all, if he didn't do this, he would only have one chance to enter that secret island, and he certainly wouldn't be able to take away the truly precious treasures inside.

Entering a treasure trove only to leave empty-handed is not his style.

After hearing his explanation, Luo Qingni looked at him with a strange expression and fell silent.

After a period of silence, she gently shook her head and said, "If Fellow Daoist Zhou is truly determined to do this, Qingni won't say anything more. However, from Qingni's own perspective, I would never take such a risk!"

She has done more than enough by speaking so frankly.

After all, she knew in her heart that Zhou Chun's real intention in doing this was not to retrieve the treasure for her, but to plot the even more precious Nascent Soul stage True Person inheritance within the secret island.

If one simply tries to persuade or obstruct, it may be seen as hindering someone's path.

Zhou Chun had expected her answer.

He immediately smiled and looked at her, saying, "If Fellow Daoist Luo doesn't object, then you can cultivate peacefully at Nine Peaks Ridge for a few more years. If everything goes smoothly for me now, I should be able to achieve perfect cultivation and meet the requirements for Core Formation in about three to five years!"

In Zhou Chun's view, being able to use this as an excuse to keep Luo Qingni around for a while longer was a sure-fire way to make money.

Luo Qingni would never have imagined that what she considered risking her own life and future path was actually not dangerous at all for Zhou Chun.

After listening to Zhou Chun's words, she pondered for a moment, then sighed softly, "In any case, I advise Fellow Daoist Zhou to think things through more calmly. Qingni will take her leave now."

After saying this, he bowed to Zhou Chun and left.

Since she did not reject Zhou Chun's suggestion, it meant she agreed!

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