Beast Taming Immortal Clan

Chapter 488 Spirit Beast Advancement, A Reprimand to Subordinates [Second Update, Please Subscribe]

Tuyunling.

Outside Zhou Chun's cave, in the valley, the Golden-Winged Tiger and the Thunder Flood Dragon Bai Bai were playing a cat-and-mouse game.

One of them used the Lightning Escape Technique, constantly transforming into a bolt of lightning and flying back and forth in the valley.

One of them constantly uses the "Flash of Space" technique, appearing and disappearing unpredictably and then reappearing just as suddenly.

Meanwhile, the Wood Spirit sat atop the purple mulberry tree, watching the show.

Speaking of which, this purple mulberry tree has been rooted in the Zhou family for decades. Under the dedicated care of the wood spirit, the tree is now a second-grade high-quality spiritual tree, and it is estimated that it will be promoted to a third-grade spiritual tree in less than ten years!

Furthermore, given the foundation of this tree, the third-tier spirit wood is not its upper limit for growth.

Within a hundred years, it may become a fourth-order spirit tree!

However, before it becomes a fourth-tier spirit wood, the Wood Spirit may break through to the fourth tier first.

Just half a year ago, Zhou Chun took Mu Mei to the wilderness and killed a third-tier low-grade demon beast, the Green-haired Ape. Then, he had Mu Mei absorb the entire area of ​​Green Pear Tree Forest that the Green-haired Ape had occupied, including three Green Pear Trees that reached the third tier!

After learning his lesson in the wilderness, and having witnessed the demonic cultivators incurring the wrath of the fourth-tier Three-Headed Black Serpent for slaughtering third-tier demonic beasts, Zhou Chun was unwilling to easily slaughter third-tier demonic beasts in the wilderness again.

However, the attributes of that Green-haired Ape were too compatible with those of the Zhou family's Green Wood Spirit Ape, which made him unable to resist the urge to kill the demon and obtain its core.

The Green Wood Spirit Ape, who guards the Zhou family's library, is considered a veteran and meritorious member of the Zhou family.

When Zhou Chun was still weak, this ape helped him a lot.

However, ever since this ape was promoted to a second-tier high-grade demon beast, it seems that its bloodline potential has been exhausted, and there is no hope of breaking through to the third tier.

As a second-tier demonic beast, this ape's lifespan is not much longer than that of a Foundation Establishment cultivator, roughly only three or four hundred years.

Now, this ape is in its twilight years, relative to its lifespan.

Zhou Chun didn't have any good solutions to this either, since his path of raising several third-tier demonic beasts was almost impossible to replicate.

He couldn't possibly go to great lengths to find a breakthrough item for this ownerless Green Wood Spirit Ape.

However, since Zhou Chun had just encountered a suitable third-tier low-grade demon core for the Green Wood Spirit Ape, he had no reason not to try and secure one for it.

After killing the demon and obtaining the demon core, Zhou Chun quickly returned to his family with the Wood Spirit and then gave the demon core to the Green Wood Spirit Ape to consume and digest.

As for whether the Green Wood Spirit Ape will ultimately succeed, that's up to fate.

After absorbing the accumulated wood spirit power of hundreds of first and second-tier green pear trees, and then absorbing the wood spirit power of three third-tier green pear trees, the Wood Spirit's cultivation level naturally broke through to the middle grade of the third tier.

As for Zhou Chun, the spirit pears that grew on those green pear trees all became his spoils of war.

These spirit pears don't taste very good; they're sweet and sour with a slightly astringent aftertaste. Low-level cultivators might even experience mild poisoning symptoms after eating them, so they're not suitable for direct consumption.

However, they can be used to make pear wine.

After Zhou Chun picked all the spirit fruits, he immediately had several thousand catties of spirit pears used to brew fruit wine, which he planned to drink slowly in the future.

Just then, as Lei Jiao Bai Bai and Jin Chi Hu were chasing each other and having a great time, Zhou Chun's figure suddenly appeared in the valley.

Upon seeing their master appear, the two demonic beasts immediately stopped playing and flew to him, acting coquettishly and seeking his favor.

"Alright, alright, how old are you all? You're still acting like children!"

Zhou Chun looked at the enormous tiger head and dragon head that had come close to him, feeling both amused and speechless.

They could only touch each of them, take out two pieces of frozen meat from their storage bags and feed them before finally getting rid of them.

In fact, now that all of his spirit pets have been exposed, Zhou Chun's control over them has become much less strict.

As long as they don't leave the protective array of Tu Yunling Mountain, Zhou Chun allows them to roam freely inside the mountain gate.

However, aside from the Golden-Winged Tiger occasionally going to fight Zhou Mingde's Fire God Jackal, and the Wood Spirit occasionally sneaking out to run wild, the Thunder Dragon Bai Bai and the Golden Armor Mountain-Carrying Turtle Stone don't like to move around.

These two brothers basically sleep whenever they have free time; they can sleep better than each other!

After leaving the cave, Zhou Chun went to Zhongping Hall to handle clan affairs.

After observing Zhou Xinyi for several years, he found him to be steady and reliable, and Zhou Xinyi had earned his approval.

Now, Zhou Chun basically only needs to go to Zhongping Hall for an hour each day to gather information from various sources and handle some clan affairs.

After Zhou Chun arrived at Zhongping Palace today, Zhou Xinyi had already placed the important intelligence information he had compiled on his desk for him to review.

Zhou Chun soon saw an eye-catching message on it.

Li Qianyang, a core disciple of Zhengyang Palace, has successfully formed his core!

"Wow, that's fast! It's only been less than five years since the war ended, and he's already ahead of the pack! So all these guys were delayed in their Core Formation opportunities because of the war?"

Zhou Chun put down the intelligence report in his hand, feeling a sense of urgency.

He knew in his heart that Li Qianyang was just the first person to walk ahead.

As one of the "Seven Heroes of the Heavenly Spirits," he was well aware of how much the others had benefited from the war.

Now that Li Qianyang has taken the lead, others will surely follow suit one after another.

Zhou Chun couldn't afford to fall too far behind others in this regard.

This has nothing to do with his reputation; it's just that he doesn't want to fall behind others.

"Soon, in another two or three years, I'll be able to take that step!"

He thought to himself, and then looked at other intelligence reports.

Soon another piece of intelligence caught his attention.

However, the Heavenly Spirit Legion announced that it had achieved initial success in eliminating the remaining demonic cultivators, and that more cultivators would be allowed to retire and return to their hometowns.

On the other hand, the Heavenly Spirit Alliance issued a call to action, advocating that all cultivation families and sects in various regions form a joint demon-slaying team to regularly patrol and eliminate demonic cultivators causing trouble within their territory.

This is just an advocacy document, not a mandatory requirement.

However, with this advocacy document in place, the families that want to establish a joint demon-slaying team will have official endorsement and will not be regarded as illegal armed organizations by the local ruling faction.

"This is indeed an opportunity. Perhaps we can work around it and have the Supreme Elder and Xu Fu retire under the pretext of returning home to form a demon-slaying team. Then, my Zhou family can take the lead in forming a demon-slaying team!"

Zhou Chun's mind raced, and an idea immediately came to mind.

After some thought, he asked Zhou Xinyi, "Have the results of the family's selection of members willing to join the Moon Wheel Sect been released?"

Upon hearing this, Zhou Xinyi quickly replied, "The results have already been released. This junior will bring the list to you, clan leader, right away."

As he spoke, he took out a document report from the filing cabinet in the hall and handed it to Zhou Chun's desk.

As Zhou Chun requested, the first page of these reports directly listed the names, genders, ages, qualifications, and other information of the relevant personnel. The following pages contained more detailed personal information, such as their background and how their teachers at the family academy evaluated them.

Today, the Zhou family is no longer lacking in cultivators with mid-grade spiritual root aptitude like Zhou Chun.

Therefore, as long as someone does not have a superior spiritual root aptitude, they will be included in the list if either the person or their family wants to send them to the Moon Wheel Sect.

The first batch of Zhou family disciples sent to the Moon Wheel Sect are a pledge of loyalty to the Zhou family, and they certainly cannot be treated as perfunctorily as they were treated with the Green Lotus Temple!

After reviewing the information on dozens of people in the file, Zhou Chun circled the names of the people he had selected. He then handed the file to Zhou Xinyi and said, "Have someone bring these ten people I've circled here so I can take a look. If there are no problems, I will personally escort them to the Moon Wheel Sect's mountain gate in a few days!"

"Yes, I'll take care of it right away!"

Zhou Xinyi respectfully responded, then immediately took the document and went to handle the matter personally.

Soon after, ten Zhou family children of appropriate age were brought to the Zhongping Hall.

These ten people were exactly five men and five women, the oldest being fourteen years old and the youngest eight years old. Their ages all met the standards for recruiting disciples of a major sect like the Moon Wheel Sect.

Of course, without the Zhou family's connections, the three children with low-grade spiritual roots would never have had the chance to join the Moon Wheel Sect.

As the largest sect in Jingguo, the Moon Wheel Sect requires its disciples to have at least a mid-grade spiritual root.

The Zhou family was given ten spots by the Moon Wheel Sect, and since it was the first time the Zhou family was recruiting disciples, there were no restrictions on spiritual root aptitude.

If any members of the Zhou family wish to join the Moon Wheel Sect in the future, they will have to go through the proper channels and send them over when the Moon Wheel Sect opens its gates to recruit disciples.

Since they were all teenagers and children, Zhou Chun didn't preach any grand principles to them. He simply checked their spiritual roots and aptitudes again to prevent any hidden gems from being overlooked.

Once it was confirmed that everyone's situation matched the information in the file, Zhou Chun instructed Zhou Xinyi to take them back to their families so they could say goodbye.

Three days later, Zhou Chun rode a dragon and led ten children from the Zhou family directly to the Moon Wheel Sect's mountain gate.

At this time, Zhou Chun was already famous far and wide. After arriving at the Moon Wheel Sect, he was easily welcomed into the sect's gates. He then watched as the cultivators responsible for instructing new disciples completed the check-up and registration for ten young children from the Zhou family and held an initiation ceremony.

After the relevant procedures and ceremonies were completed, Zhou Chun comforted the family's children and then personally went to pay his respects to the Moon Worshiping Immortal.

Zhou Chun's main purpose in coming to pay respects to Master Baiyue was to express his gratitude to the Moon Wheel Sect for protecting the Zhou family, to demonstrate the Zhou family's loyalty, and to discuss the number of demonic beasts the Zhou family would offer as tribute in the future.

Perhaps because of his large and powerful family, Master Baiyue readily agreed to the material conditions proposed by Zhou Chun.

He made only one request of the Zhou family: that they pay tribute with a certain amount of dragon blood every year.

Zhou Chun couldn't refuse this request, because it was one of the conditions that enabled the Moon Wheel Sect to agree to protect the Zhou family.

He could only silently apologize to the two dragons, Qingjiao Qingqing and Leijiao Baibai.

After agreeing on the terms, Zhou Chun first drew some of the white dragon blood from Lei Jiao and gave it to Bai Yue Zhenren, then told him about the matter of Zhou Daoyi and the others retiring and returning home.

As the saying goes, "He who takes a bribe is bound to be lenient," and after the Zhou family began to take concrete actions to fulfill their obligations as a vassal family, Master Baiyue quickly agreed to Zhou Chun's request, telling him to go back and wait for news.

After waiting at home for less than three months, Zhou Daoyi, Zhou Xinyan, Zhou Xintie and other Zhou family cultivators retired and returned to the family one after another.

However, Xu Fu did not retire and return. Instead, he wrote a letter to Zhou Chun to explain that he wanted to stay in the legion to continue to earn battle merits and exchange them for spiritual items that could open up the Purple Mansion!

Clearly, he was well aware that, given his background, the Zhou family would never provide him with any spiritual objects to help him open his Purple Mansion.

"This kid, he's really grown up!"

Zhou Chun looked at the letter of apology that Xu Fu had sent back through someone, and his expression turned slightly cold.

Xu Fu chose to stay and serve in the army for his own spiritual path, which was indeed his personal choice and there is no fault in it.

However, it is also true that he disobeyed the will of Zhou Chun, the clan leader, for this reason.

This is not a good sign!

"Does he think that by staying in the legion and having the protection of the legion and the alliance, he can escape the control of my Zhou family?"

Zhou Chun muttered to himself, feeling it necessary to teach this disobedient servant a lesson and let him know the power of his master.

Immediately, Zhou Chun personally wrote a letter to Wei Yong and arranged for someone to send it over as quickly as possible.

Then, less than a month later, Xu Fu was transferred to a large unit of the Tianling Legion stationed in Lingzhou.

This brigade was stationed in the former Donglingfang market of Lingzhou, only a few hundred miles away from Zhoujiatuyunling.

Xu Fu, who was suddenly transferred to this location, would certainly know why he had been transferred here.

When he came to Lingzhou to take up his post, he didn't even bother to report to the Donglingfang Market first, and rushed to Tuyunling to apologize to Zhou Chun.

"Bang, bang, bang! Your subordinate knows he was wrong. Please, Chieftain, consider my loyalty and give me a chance to reform!"

Inside the Zhongping Hall, Xu Fu, who had been summoned by Zhou Chun, immediately knelt down and kowtowed, begging for mercy.

He wisely refrained from trying to explain further, and simply asked Zhou Chun to give him a chance.

Zhou Chun stared at him coldly, making him break out in a cold sweat and tremble before speaking in a low voice, "Xu Fu, remember this: although you don't have the surname Zhou, you are still a member of the Zhou family. No matter where you go or what status you have, you must not forget this!"

"Since my Zhou family has enabled you to reach this point, to possess your current level of cultivation, we can also leave you with nothing, your soul scattered and destroyed. Do you understand?"

Finally, Zhou Chun's voice suddenly boomed like thunder in Xu Fu's ears, making his head buzz.

Then, as if by reflex, he hurriedly and respectfully replied, "Yes, Your Majesty, I understand. I will certainly remember the clan leader's admonition today and will never forget my place!"

"That had better be; I'll be watching you!"

Zhou Chun gave him another warning before waving him away.

However, after Xu Fu left, Zhou Chun watched his departing figure and remembered a secret technique that had been sealed away for a long time.

"It seems that after I reach the Core Formation stage, I need to master the Soul Control Technique as soon as possible. Otherwise, trying to subdue someone like this through normal means would be far too exhausting and resource-intensive!"

Zhou Chun didn't want to waste his energy on these things, nor did he dare to bet on the other party's loyalty.

The best way, of course, is to use a secret technique like the "Soul Control Technique" to control his life and death, so that he will completely give up the idea of ​​leaving the Zhou family!

Although it's a bit late, I've still managed to write the second update! Thank you everyone for your monthly votes, and I'd also like to ask for your votes for July!

(End of this chapter)