Beast Taming Immortal Clan

Chapter 502 Aftermath [Please Subscribe]

The sudden, mocking voice caused the expressions of both sides fighting within Tu Yunling to change instantly.

Di Long, the Black Dragon Hall Master of the Transformation Dragon Sect, who was originally full of confidence, suddenly became panicked, his eyes filled with fear.

Zhou Chun and Lin Hongyu, who were initially terrified, were overjoyed, as if they were drowning people grasping at a straw.

Although the two were unfamiliar with the mocking voice, it was not difficult to tell from the information revealed in its words that the person was a senior Nascent Soul cultivator from the Jing Kingdom.

Then they must be accomplices on our side!

Therefore, Zhou Chun immediately had a thought and suddenly manipulated the formation to reveal a gap.

This gap appears to be for the convenience of Nascent Soul stage cultivators to enter, but it also makes it easier for Di Long to leave.

Zhou Chun didn't want a Nascent Soul stage cultivator to make a move within Tu Yun Ridge, as the aftershocks of such an action would cause immense damage to the Zhou family's mountain gate.

Although Di Long knew Zhou Chun's intention in releasing the great formation at this time, he had no choice but to obediently give up attacking him and head straight for the gap.

Although he was a master of formations, he was confident that he could break through the Nine Palaces Yellow Dragon Formation and escape before he came to assassinate Zhou Chun.

However, that is based on the premise that there are no Nascent Soul stage cultivators interfering.

Now that he knows that a Nascent Soul cultivator has come from outside, if he still dares to linger in Tu Yun Ridge, he's just waiting to be caught like a turtle in a jar!

However, just as he burst out of the gap, a golden beam of light pierced through the air and shone upon him.

Under the golden light, all the layers of protection he had set up were instantly pierced, and then he let out a miserable scream.

However, thanks to the powerful defensive capabilities brought by the fourth level of the "Dragon Transformation Secret Technique," Dillon actually withstood the attack from the Nascent Soul stage and quickly transformed into a black streak of light, flying away into the distance.

"Can you escape?"

A faint voice echoed through the sky, and another beam of golden light shone towards Dillon, who was fleeing.

Dillon in the air also knew that this was a time to fight tooth and nail.

So he quickly raised his hand and waved it, and a black dragon scale the size of a water vat met the golden mirror light. Instantly, it turned into a ball of black divine light and fought the mirror light to the death.

This was clearly a life-saving measure given to him by a Nascent Soul stage cultivator from the Dragon Transformation Sect, ensuring that he wouldn't be completely powerless when facing a Nascent Soul stage cultivator.

Unfortunately, this one-off measure can only protect him for a short time.

A figure flashed in the sky, and a golden figure suddenly transformed into a golden streak of light and chased after Dillon at a speed far exceeding his own!

During the pursuit, golden mirror light continued to sweep towards Dillon.

Even though Ti Lung could use various methods to block two or three attacks, he couldn't keep going indefinitely.

However, Zhou Chun did not see what became of Dillon in the end.

A late-stage Golden Core cultivator fleeing for his life was incredibly fast; a hundred miles could be covered in the blink of an eye.

Zhou Chun only learned afterward that Di Long ultimately could not escape the grasp of True Person Tianjing and died in the pursuit of this Nascent Soul cultivator.

It was only when Zhou Chun personally visited the Moon Wheel Sect to pay respects to the Moon Worshiping Immortal that he learned that the Jing Kingdom had long guessed that the Dragon Transformation Sect would not sit idly by while Lin Hongyu and Zhou Chun continued their antics, so they had been secretly arranging for people to stake out near the Zhou family's mountain gate.

The Hualong Sect probably guessed this before, which is why they never sent anyone to attack the Zhou family.

However, this time Zhou Chun held the Golden Core Ceremony in a high-profile manner, which the Dragon Transformation Sect obviously couldn't stand. They specially sent Di Long, the Black Dragon Hall Master, to infiltrate Tu Yunling in disguise and carry out an assassination operation against him.

Dillon clearly didn't expect that even though he deliberately waited until after the Golden Core Ceremony to make his move, and chose to assassinate from within, he still failed.

At the same time, he did not expect that the person Jingguo had arranged to secretly lie in wait for him was not the late Golden Core cultivator he had expected, but the Nascent Soul cultivator, True Person Tianjing!

A dignified Nascent Soul cultivator would patiently wait outside Tu Yun Ridge, secretly protecting a newly promoted Golden Core cultivator from a Golden Core family.

Dillon never understood why Master Tianjing did this until his death!

He was naturally unaware of the inner turmoil of the Heavenly Mirror Master.

Since his nascent soul was captured by Master Qingxiao, he was forced to accept the control of the "Forbidden God Technique," and a third of his primordial spirit was separated and invested into the "Forbidden God Token."

As a result, not only will he never have any hope of breaking through to the mid-stage of the Nascent Soul realm again in his future life, but his own life will also be in the hands of others, and he will lose his freedom.

On the surface, he is a high-ranking Nascent Soul cultivator, but in reality, he is just a high-level henchman controlled by the Moon Wheel Sect and the Flame Sun Sect. He dares not disobey the orders given to him by the Nascent Soul cultivators of the two sects!

Furthermore, Zhou Chun breathed a sigh of relief after seeing Di Long and Tianjing Zhenren disappear into the distance in a chase.

He then hurriedly restored the gap in the formation while simultaneously using his divine sense to search the entire mountain gate, in case there were still members of the Dragon Transformation Sect lurking inside.

Regardless of how Dillon infiltrated the Zhou family, it shows that their security system still needs improvement.

Zhou Chun wouldn't blame the clansmen who let Di Long in, but he absolutely couldn't tolerate such a thing happening again.

After all, being able to sneak into the mountain gate by a powerful enemy is a disgrace for any force.

Fortunately, Di Long's purpose this time was only to assassinate Zhou Chun and Lin Hongyu. Otherwise, with his late-stage Golden Core cultivation, if he had gone on a killing spree in Tu Yunling, the consequences would have been unimaginable!

After checking twice to make sure there were no more lurking enemies, Zhou Chun removed his protective gear.

However, all clansmen were still strictly forbidden from moving around and were required to stay where they were supposed to be until the ban was lifted.

"Masashi, are you alright? Were you hurt just now?"

Zhou Mingde had already arrived at Zhou Chun's side, but seeing that Zhou Chun had not lowered his guard and feeling Zhou Chun's undisguised and powerful divine sense searching within the mountain gate, he had suppressed his worries and remained silent. Now that he saw Zhou Chun lower his guard, he looked at Zhou Chun with a worried expression and asked.

At this moment, Zhou Chun's face was slightly pale, and he looked like he had lost a lot of energy.

Hearing Zhou Mingde's concerned voice, he couldn't help but shake his head slightly and say, "I'm fine, I've only slightly depleted my vital energy."

"It's good that you're alright. You're the pillar of the Zhou family now, so you must protect yourself!"

As Zhou Mingde spoke, he frowned and suddenly asked, "Was that Senior Tianjing Zhenren just now?"

"Judging from their methods, it must be Senior Tianjing!"

Zhou Chun nodded, confirming the matter.

In fact, he had met the Heavenly Mirror Master before.

However, the Heavenly Mirror True Man he met when he attended the Heavenly Mirror Dharma Assembly was his original body. The current Heavenly Mirror True Man is clearly a body that has been possessed and transformed, and his appearance and voice are different from the original.

However, for cultivators, appearance and voice can be easily changed, but supernatural abilities are difficult to fake.

That powerful golden mirror light was a technique that no other Nascent Soul cultivator in the Jing Kingdom, besides the Heavenly Mirror True Person, could master.

Then Zhou Mingde said softly, "If it really is Senior Tianjing Zhenren, then he can be considered our Zhou family's savior this time. Zhengchun, perhaps you could prepare a generous gift and go to thank him later!"

Upon hearing this, Zhou Chun was slightly taken aback. She glanced at Zhou Mingde and quickly understood his meaning.

He immediately nodded with a knowing look and said, "You are right, sir. I will go to Tianjing Manor in a couple of days."

However, he knew in his heart that Zhou Mingde wanted him to take this opportunity to see if he could establish a relationship with Tianjing Zhenren, a Nascent Soul stage cultivator.

As the saying goes, a close neighbor is worse than a distant relative. Even though the Zhou family is currently under the protection of the Moon Wheel Sect, their family's mountain gate is still closer to the Heavenly Mirror Manor.

If a similar situation were to occur again in the future, the Moon Wheel Sect would certainly be too far away to provide timely assistance.

Tianjing Manor is practically next door, ready to provide assistance at any time.

Therefore, if the Zhou family could establish a relationship with Master Tianjing, it would definitely be of great benefit.

However, Zhou Chun had a vague feeling that things were not so simple, and that Master Tianjing might not be as reliable as Zhou Mingde thought.

But this was just his own feeling, without any evidence.

In the following time, seeing that the Heavenly Mirror Master who had chased Di Long had not returned, Zhou Chun went out to clean up the battlefield.

Previously, Dillon was hit by the attack of the Heavenly Mirror Master outside Tu Yunling. One of his dragon scale shield magic treasures was directly destroyed by the golden mirror light and fell to the ground.

When Zhou Chun picked up the item, he found that the shield magic weapon had been broken into several large pieces and could not be repaired.

But he still kept these things safe, preparing to send them to Tianjing Villa later.

In any case, these are all the spoils of war of Master Tianjing.

Perhaps the other party doesn't care about such a small trinket, but the Zhou family cannot keep it for themselves.

Not long after, Zhou Chun received a message from Wang Qingyun, a Golden Core cultivator from Tianjing Manor, via his flying sword, informing him that Di Long had been killed by True Person Tianjing.

Upon learning of Di Lung's death, both Zhou Chun and Lin Hongyu breathed a sigh of relief.

Then Zhou Chun first lifted the ban on the cultivators within the clan, allowing the clansmen to resume their normal lives.

After meditating and recuperating in his cave for three days, he took a thousand-year-old precious herb to Tianjing Manor to pay his respects to Master Tianjing and express his gratitude in person.

Unexpectedly, Master Tianjing had no intention of receiving him at all. After accepting the gifts he brought, he simply sent someone to tell him "I know" and that was it.

This demeanor clearly indicates that she doesn't want to have much interaction with him.

Seeing this, Zhou Chun could no longer keep trying to win him over and continued to pester him.

He immediately took his leave and then went to the Moon Wheel Sect to pay his respects to the Moon Worshiping Master and report that he had been attacked inside his family's mountain gate.

It was also from Master Baiyue that he learned that the Moon Wheel Sect had been secretly staking out the area. He also received reassurance and assurance from Master Baiyue, who told him that he no longer needed to worry about retaliation from the Dragon Transformation Sect.

With this guarantee, Zhou Chun was completely relieved. After expressing his gratitude profusely, he returned to his family with peace of mind.

Upon returning to his family, Zhou Chun summoned the senior members of the Zhou family to discuss ways to improve security at the mountain gate.

Currently, the security checks at Zhoujiashan Gate mainly rely on the cultivators' own divine sense and relevant documents and tokens, as well as some demonic beasts with keen senses of smell.

However, since it is impossible to arrange for a Purple Mansion stage cultivator to guard the gate, divine sense detection is basically ineffective against Golden Core stage cultivators, and documents and tokens may also be misused.

The monsters' sense of smell is basically only used to detect people they know. If they encounter a situation like the Golden Core Ceremony, where thousands of strangers suddenly flood in, the monsters won't be able to detect anything.

After some discussion, Zhou Chun decided to improve the family's security measures from two aspects.

On the one hand, there is the setting up of formations that can detect the cultivation level of cultivators entering and leaving. Although such formations are not very effective against those who deliberately hide their cultivation level, they can sometimes play an unexpected role.

On the other hand, they are doing everything they can to find a kind of demonic insect called "Spirit Flea".

This "spirit sucker" is a very peculiar demonic insect. It likes to suck spiritual energy, and the higher the quality of the spiritual energy, the stronger its reaction after sucking it.

If we could find and tame this "spirit sucker," and have every outsider and Zhou family cultivator entering and leaving the mountain gate send out a burst of magic power for it to absorb and detect, we could completely prevent high-level cultivators from disguising themselves as low-level cultivators to infiltrate the mountain gate.

After all, one's cultivation level can be concealed through secret techniques, but the quality of one's magical power is difficult to change.

However, "spirit suckers" are extremely rare. Whether and when the Zhou family can find such a demonic insect depends on their luck.

After finalizing the two security check methods, Zhou Chun stopped paying attention to the matter.

Setting up an array to detect the cultivation level of cultivators entering and exiting is something that can be easily done by asking the array masters of the You family or by asking for help from the Moon Wheel Sect. Zhou Chun doesn't need to worry about it personally.

With the Zhou family officially regaining its status as a Golden Core clan, he no longer needed to do many things personally. He only needed to write a letter as a token, and many cultivators would naturally give him face after seeing it.

After handing the task over to others, Zhou Chun first returned to his cave dwelling and began to renovate it.

Dillon's previous attack caused great damage to his cave dwelling. Not only were all the array formations and restrictions broken, but many of the stone chambers inside the cave were also blasted and destroyed.

At this point, Zhou Chun could only summon the Golden-Armored Mountain-Carrying Turtle Stone and have it restore and repair the cave.

This kind of work was a piece of cake for Shi Tou. He easily moved all the broken stones and mud in the cave according to Zhou Chun's requirements and restored all the gaps to their original state.

However, Zhou Chun still needs to rearrange the array formations and restrictions inside the cave.

However, this matter was not in a hurry, and Zhou Chun did not rush to do it.

After a passionate encounter with his Daoist partner Su Yuzhen, he continued with what he hadn't finished earlier, taking stock of the gains from this Golden Core Ceremony.

This Golden Core Ceremony received a total of 137 gifts, including 38 thousand-year-old spiritual herbs, six kinds of magical treasure materials, six third-tier magical artifacts, six demon beast eggs, and various other spiritual herbs, pills, and spiritual materials.

Among those thousand-year-old spiritual herbs, two of them happened to be essential materials for refining the "Ancient Dust Pill," which was an unexpected bonus.

Among the magical materials, both the Millennium Black Iron and the Golden Essence given by the Su family patriarch can be used to refine one's natal magical treasure.

The other thousand-year-old spiritual herbs, magical treasures, and spiritual materials, as well as various pills, were of little use to Zhou Chun. At most, they would give him more leverage when exchanging for other spiritual items he needed in the future.

This includes those third-tier magic artifacts and monster eggs.

Zhou Chun planned to put all the monster eggs into the family treasury for the clan members to exchange.

As for the third-tier magic weapon, he would keep it for now, so that he could give it as a reward when a Zhou family cultivator successfully opened up his Purple Mansion in the future.

However, there was one exception among the third-tier magic artifacts, namely the third-tier superior-grade flying magic artifact [Thunderfire Flying Chariot], which was given to him by the weapon-refining master Zhu Wuyai.

This object resembles a bronze chariot, with a low chariot body and open sides. Inside the chariot is a reddish-brown round umbrella, with wheels on both sides and two long shafts at the front.

Although it is a flying artifact, its flight speed is actually not fast.

To fully utilize this vehicle's flight speed, it needs to be pulled by a lightning-attribute or fire-attribute monster.

If a third-tier lightning-attribute monster pulls the carriage, the [Thunderfire Flying Cart] will resonate and superimpose with the monster itself, making the monster fly much faster.

It is obvious that this [Thunderfire Flying Chariot] is a magical artifact specially made by Zhu Wuyai for Zhou Chun.

Moreover, the person was extremely thoughtful. Even if Zhou Chun didn't use this item, it could be given to Zhou Mingde, who possessed the Fire God Jackal, so that it wouldn't end up gathering dust in a storage bag like other third-tier magic artifacts given by cultivators.

"Zhu Wuyai is quite ingenious; he's a very shrewd and clever person!"

After examining the [Thunderfire Flying Chariot] magical artifact, Zhou Chun couldn't help but admire Zhu Wuyai's ingenuity.

This person may have been unable to break through to the level of a master weapon refiner due to a lack of talent and resources.

However, his craftsmanship in weapon forging and some of his ingenious designs are indeed quite unique, befitting his status as a master weapon forger.

In short, Zhou Chun himself was very satisfied with the [Thunderfire Flying Car] and planned to use it to make an appearance at some important occasions in the future, so as to show his noble status.

The world of cultivation is also very realistic; blindly hiding one's talents is not advisable, as it makes one easily overlooked.

Zhou Chunruo is a rogue cultivator, so this might be feasible.

But he wasn't a rogue cultivator; he was a pillar of a Golden Core family.

Therefore, in certain situations, he was destined not to be like some rogue cultivators who downplayed their existence and did not compete for fame or fortune.

After playing with the [Thunderfire Flying Chariot] magic artifact for a while, Zhou Chun put away the various gifts and lowered his head to ponder the situation of this Golden Core Ceremony.

Overall, this Golden Core Ceremony was a great success. The number of Golden Core cultivators invited and those who came uninvited was much higher than that of a typical Golden Core Ceremony.

However, it is not without its flaws.

The biggest flaw, of course, was that Qinglian Temple, which nominally ruled over Lingzhou and Lanzhou, did not send anyone to attend.

"The Qinglian Temple didn't even send a token congratulations this time. It seems that Abbot Yiyang harbors deep resentment towards my Zhou family!"

Zhou Chun's eyes flickered, and his mood became somewhat heavy.

A dead skinny camel is bigger than a horse.

Even without any Nascent Soul stage cultivators, Qinglian Temple's strength is still far beyond what the Zhou family can challenge.

Now, because of Daoist Qingchen's seclusion to form his Nascent Soul, Qinglian Temple has chosen to close its gates for self-preservation, allowing the Zhou family to live in peace.

Once Qinglian Temple is closed off again, they will probably try every means to suppress the Zhou family!

"It usually takes twenty or thirty years for a Golden Core cultivator to complete their Nascent Soul cultivation in seclusion. Less than ten years have passed since that Daoist Qingchen completed his Nascent Soul cultivation, so the Zhou family should still have another ten or twenty years!"

Twenty years is not a long time.

But it can still do quite a lot of things.

Zhou Chun pondered silently and soon came up with some ideas and decisions.

In the following months, the dragon-fish banquet at Zhou Chun's Golden Core Ceremony, and the subsequent attack on the Zhou family by late-stage Golden Core cultivators from the Dragon Transformation Sect, became hot topics of discussion among cultivators in Jing Kingdom and even several neighboring countries.

The fact that Zhou Chun had not perished or been injured despite being attacked by a late-stage Golden Core cultivator surprised many Golden Core cultivators, and they completely believed that he had killed a fourth-tier fish demon right after successfully forming his Golden Core.

Therefore, when discussing Zhou Chun, few people dared to treat him as a newly formed Core Formation cultivator anymore; they all treated him as a senior early-stage Golden Core cultivator.

After the Golden Core Ceremony was held, the Zhou family's status as a Golden Core clan was fully recognized and consolidated, and the status of Zhou family cultivators in the Jing Kingdom's cultivation world also rose accordingly.

From then on, even when traveling to other states in the Jing Kingdom, he could gain the respect of many small and medium-sized forces.

The Zhou family's various businesses are also getting better and better.

At the same time, the Zhou family's top executives also each received considerable benefits.

After confirming that the threat from the Dragon Transformation Sect had been eliminated, Zhou Mingde drank a jar of "Purifying Essence Water" given to him by Zhou Chun to purify the poison and turbidity in his body. Then, he took the [Holy Spirit Blood Pill] and other Core Formation spiritual items into his cave to cultivate in seclusion and form his core.

Meanwhile, Zhou Daoyi also received some pills from Zhou Chun and began to work hard to break through to the late stage of the Purple Mansion realm.

Previously, Zhou Chun had used the [Demon-Slaying Token] to exchange for three Core Formation spiritual items, all of which were prepared for Zhou Daoyi.

As long as Zhou Daoyi breaks through to the late stage of the Purple Mansion realm, he will have a chance to attempt to form the Core Formation.

More than ten years have passed, and Zhou Chun has received the first [Mysterious Heart Purple Rejuvenation Pill] he exchanged for. He handed the pill directly to Zhou Xinlan, who immediately went into seclusion after receiving it.

Zhou Chun himself was not idle either.

He first selected most of the unknown lotus seeds he had obtained from the secret island and planted them in a pond on Tuyun Ridge. He then gave the rest to his Daoist partner, Su Yuzhen, to take back to the Su family to plant.

Then, under the pretext of recuperating from his injuries in seclusion, he secretly left Tuyun Ridge with the Golden Armored Mountain-Carrying Turtle Stone and headed to the Desolate Spirit Desert.

Now that the core formation has been successfully completed, it's time to collect the [Earth Mother Profound Gold] from the deep abyss canyon in the Desolate Spirit Desert.

(End of this chapter)