Beast Taming Immortal Clan

Chapter 515 The Three Yang True Fire Pot [8,000 words, please subscribe]

Zhou Chun's intention in summoning Zhang Liang was naturally to win him over and show goodwill.

After all, he was a near-master of formations, a true strategic talent.

The way Zhang Liang and his wife met him also made it easier for him to win them over.

After playing the emotional card, he then played his trump card.

"Upon my return this time, I heard that young friend Zhang has completely comprehended the formation method of the Five Directions Miro Formation, which makes me very gratified and happy."

"Since the passing of our ancestor Chongshan, our Zhou family has suffered from a severe shortage of talent in the field of formations. Although Xindie took up the mantle, her talent was ultimately limited, and she could not reach the level of our ancestor."

"Fortunately, we have the exceptional talent and comprehension of young friend Zhang. The couple worked together wholeheartedly to study the art of array formations, ensuring that the Zhou family's array formation skills did not fall into the wrong hands. This is truly gratifying and delightful!"

At this point, Zhou Chun looked at Zhang Liang with eyes full of satisfaction and expectation, saying, "Young friend Zhang, your talent in array formations is extraordinary, and you have the potential to become a master. If you can open your Purple Mansion, you will surely surpass our ancestor Chongshan in the art of array formations and become the first array formation master since the reconstruction of our Zhou family!"

"It just so happens that I acquired two [Spirit Opening Pills] during my recent trip. Given young friend Zhang's talent and contributions, he deserves one!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Zhang Liang's face was filled with joy.

Although he had a vague suspicion when Zhou Chun summoned him alone, he knew that he might receive support from his family.

But to everyone's surprise, Zhou Chun was willing to bestow a Spirit Pill that could help open up the Purple Mansion!

Before this, as a son-in-law of the Zhou family, he received the same treatment as other cultivators of his clan.

However, in some key competitions for spiritual objects, they were clearly excluded.

He knew perfectly well why this was the case.

Therefore, over the years, he has become accustomed to this differential treatment.

Many times, I just can't be bothered to argue!

However, when his cultivation had reached the late stage of Foundation Establishment for many years and he was still unable to make any further progress, he finally became anxious.

So when he discovered that the Zhou family had started to place special emphasis on technical talent, he devoted himself to studying the diagram of the Five Directions Miro Formation, hoping to attract Zhou Chun's attention and receive special treatment by demonstrating outstanding performance in this area.

In hindsight, he undoubtedly made the right bet!

Overwhelmed with emotion, Zhang Liang hurriedly stood up and knelt on one knee before Zhou Chun to express his gratitude: "This junior thanks the clan leader for his kindness and generosity. I will never forget the clan leader's great kindness and virtue!!"

"Get up, there's no need for such formality."

Zhou Chun waved his hand, and an invisible force lifted him up. Then, looking at him with a serious expression, he said, "You must be aware of the Zhou family's situation. Because of the traitor Yu Jinghua, the entire Zhou family is worried about the emergence of a second Yu Jinghua. Therefore, the family has always been extremely cautious in cultivating relatives like you, and dares not easily invest resources!"

"I made this decision under considerable pressure, and I hope you will not disappoint me and will live up to the Zhou family's expectations of you!"

Zhou Chun's words were partly exaggerated, but they were also true.

If it weren't for the worry about another Yu Jinghua appearing, a cultivator with Zhang Liang's superior spiritual root aptitude would have already had various tasks assigned to him by his family to accumulate merit points for exchanging for spiritual items that could help him open his Purple Mansion after he reached the late Foundation Establishment stage.

Such things cannot be kept secret, nor is there any need to hide them.

Zhou Chun didn't really expect Zhang Liang to be loyal to the Zhou family out of gratitude.

He was even more convinced that as long as the Zhou family continued to demonstrate sufficient competitiveness and possess the power to punish traitors, then the example of Yu Jinghua would not be repeated!

If the Zhou family had a second Golden Core cultivator back then, even if Yu Jinghua wanted to split the Zhou family, no one would listen to him!

The purpose of saying these things now is simply to make Zhang Liang understand how hard-won this [Spirit Opening Pill] is, so that he will work even harder for the Zhou family in the future.

Seeing how open and honest he was with him, Zhang Liang was deeply moved and immediately replied firmly, "I understand. I will definitely prove my loyalty to the clan and the clan with my actions, and I will not let down your trust and cultivation!"

"Yes, I trust my judgment, and I hope I haven't misjudged you!"

Zhou Chun nodded, looking very pleased.

Then he patted his storage pouch at his waist, took out a jade bottle containing a Spirit Opening Pill, and handed it to Zhang Liang.

After obtaining the Spirit Opening Pill, Zhang Liang left Zhou Chun's cave and immediately returned to his residence in excitement, sharing his joy with his Daoist partner, Zhou Xindie.

In terms of age, Zhou Xindie is actually several decades older than Zhang Liang, and is now over two hundred years old.

However, women are naturally fond of beauty and will buy some skin care and beauty pills to take. Therefore, she still looks like a graceful woman, like a middle-aged woman in her early forties.

Upon seeing the Spirit Opening Pill that Zhang Liang had brought back, Zhou Xindie's eyes lit up, and she smiled sincerely as she congratulated Zhang Liang, saying, "Congratulations, my husband, on finally achieving your wish! With the aid of this Spirit Opening Pill, opening your Purple Mansion should be no problem at all!"

"Hehehe, I have to thank the clan chief for his kindness in giving me this opportunity!"

Zhang Liang chuckled, his words brimming with confidence.

But he soon noticed the fleeting sadness in his partner's eyes after her initial joy.

This made him feel a lump in his throat, and a look of struggle flashed in his eyes.

Then he suddenly handed the Spirit Opening Pill to Zhou Xindie and said in a low voice, "Why don't you use this Spirit Opening Pill first, my wife? Anyway, I don't even have two hundred years left to live, and I'll have more opportunities to acquire such spiritual items in the future!"

Seemingly not expecting him to say that, Zhou Xindie was stunned on the spot.

When she came to her senses, her eyes immediately filled with tears, and she shed tears of emotion.

She couldn't help but throw herself into her Daoist partner's arms, sobbing with emotion, "What virtue or ability do I possess to deserve such love from my husband!"

Of course, she couldn't help but be moved.

Because only she knew how much effort and sweat her Daoist partner Zhang Liang had put in for this [Spirit Opening Pill]!

Countless sleepless nights could be seen as he racked his brains and tried every possible method to comprehend the diagram of the Five Directions Miro Formation.

Zhang Liang does indeed have a very good talent in the art of array formations, but his talent is far from reaching that monstrous level!

His current mastery of array formations is not only due to talent, but also to the immense effort and hard work he has put in.

Now, however, he is willing to hand over the [Spirit Opening Pill], which he obtained with countless sweat and effort, to his Daoist partner.

How could Zhou Xindie not be deeply moved, moved to tears!

She murmured to herself, deeply moved, "To know and love you in this life is the greatest blessing I have accumulated over many lifetimes. To receive such deep love from my husband, I would have no regrets even if I died!"

Hearing her heartfelt words, tears welled up in Zhang Liang's eyes, and he hugged her tightly, saying, "Die'er, you..."

He seemed to want to say something, but then fell silent.

Zhou Xindie shook her head slightly and said, "My husband, I appreciate your kindness, but I am already over two hundred years old. Even if I take this [Spirit Opening Pill], the chance of successfully opening my Purple Mansion is less than twenty percent. If I fail, the consequences will be even more unimaginable!"

At this point, she suddenly looked up at him and smiled gently, saying, "For me, to be able to see you successfully open your Purple Mansion in my lifetime, and to live to the end of your life without illness or disaster, is enough to make my life complete!"

She seemed to have already seen through everything, and didn't feel much resentment or regret about her life's path ending at the Foundation Establishment stage.

Upon seeing this, Zhang Liang's eyes dimmed, and he was speechless for a moment, only able to tightly embrace his Daoist partner.

Zhou Xindie let him embrace her, but said softly, "Husband, spend more time with the children. The second wife of the third son recently gave birth to twins, a boy and a girl, whom you haven't seen yet!"

"Yes, I'll listen to you. Tomorrow we'll go to the third son's house to visit our grandson!"

Zhang Liang responded softly, clearly understanding the meaning of "Daoist partner".

It was simply that the examples of Zhou Zhengyuan and Zhou Zhengqing made her somewhat worried that she might also encounter an accident.

Therefore, he wanted to spend more time with his family before he went into seclusion to open his Purple Mansion.

They had been a couple for many years and had three sons and one daughter. Unfortunately, only one son and one daughter had spiritual roots, and both of them had low-grade spiritual roots!

Now, apart from his daughter who is still unmarried, his other three sons have all started their own families and had children.

In fact, Zhang Liang's eventual gain of Zhou Chun's favor, which led to him being bestowed with the "Spirit Opening Pill," was also related to the fact that he had already fathered children and left behind his own bloodline in the Zhou family.

With the concern of his children and grandchildren, his sense of belonging to the Zhou family will be deeper, and he will work harder and more diligently to serve the Zhou family so that his children and grandchildren can have a bright future.

After investing in Zhang Liang, a promising stock, Zhou Chun did not rush to use the remaining [Spirit Opening Pill].

The Zhou family is not short of Foundation Establishment Pills, but they are still extremely lacking in spiritual items that can assist in opening the Purple Mansion.

However, it is foreseeable that there will be a severe shortage for a long time to come.

Therefore, such an important strategic resource cannot be freely opened up for exchange like a Foundation Building Pill.

According to Zhou Chun's idea, if most of the late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivators in the Zhou family want to open up their Purple Mansion in the future, they will still have to follow the example of their ancestors and go out to travel and seek opportunities.

The family can provide them with a sum of spirit coins as a subsidy.

Spiritual items like the [Spirit Opening Pill], which assist in opening the Purple Mansion, are only given to those who have made outstanding contributions to the family or have special talents. The family will cultivate them and directly bestow such spiritual items upon them.

This way, it will save those Foundation Establishment cultivators from having to scheme and plot all day long about how to get enough merit points to exchange for spiritual items to help them open up their Purple Mansion!

Relatively speaking, it's actually fairer!

In fact, not only the Spirit Opening Pill, but Zhou Chun also plans to modify the exchange rules for the Foundation Establishment Pill.

He had previously reviewed the clan affairs records and Zhou Xinyi's reports and feedback to him, and knew that the exchange of Foundation Establishment Pills in the Zhou family was now rife with chaos.

Because the Foundation Establishment Pills and Foundation Establishment Spiritual Items released by the family are always limited, and the family currently has dozens of Foundation Establishment cultivators, some Foundation Establishment cultivators are lending their merits to Qi Refining cultivators they are on good terms with for various reasons, and there have even been cases of usury!

This forced Zhou Xinyi to raise the exchange price of Foundation Establishment Pills, which has now risen to 12,000 family merit points per pill.

Even so, there are still quite a few late-stage Qi Refining cultivators who meet the exchange requirements, given that they can exchange merit points.

These people resorted to all sorts of methods to obtain the right to redeem their items.

Some people asked familiar Foundation Establishment elders to speak on their behalf and put pressure on Zhou Xinyi, while others wanted to bribe Zhou Xinyi to favor them. Among them, there were even female cultivators who were willing to sell their bodies for this purpose!

Zhou Chun found these chaotic phenomena utterly outrageous.

However, they also knew that in the face of something like the Foundation Establishment Pill, which could change one's destiny, anything truly outrageous could happen.

Therefore, in order to resolve this matter, he specially summoned several family elders and some core family members with Foundation Establishment cultivation to discuss solutions.

"This junior believes that perhaps we could prohibit Foundation Establishment cultivators from lending their merit points to Qi Refining cultivators; this might improve the chaotic situation!"

Elder Zhou Xinlan was the first to express her views and suggestions.

Hearing this, Zhou Xinyi shook his head with a wry smile and said, "The elder's suggestion is good, but it's a bit troublesome to implement and there will be considerable resistance. After all, Foundation Establishment cultivators also have descendants. We can't stop them from helping their own descendants, can we? Besides, even if they can't directly lend their merit points, they can still transfer them through missions!"

"How about we make a slight change? We stipulate that each Foundation Establishment cultivator can only exchange one Foundation Establishment Pill for their own junior, and we also allow a commission to be taken from posting missions."

After a moment's thought, Zhou Xinlan shared her own insights.

Unexpectedly, the first person to object to his words was his own father, Zhou Zhengyong.

Then Zhou Zhengyong glared at him coldly and angrily rebuked him, "Foolish! We are a family of cultivators, not a sect. If we do as you say, it's tantamount to severing the family's roots! You'd better shut up!"

After reprimanding his son, he gave a wry smile and bowed to Zhou Chun and the other family cultivators present, saying, "Please forgive me, everyone. My son only knows how to cultivate and refine pills. He doesn't even have a Daoist partner and doesn't understand the feelings of being a parent. Please don't take offense at him!"

Hearing his words, Zhou Xinlan was also a little confused and stood there for a moment, not knowing what to do.

Fortunately, Zhou Chun stepped in to help defuse the situation: "Brother Yong, there's no need to get agitated. Xinlan was just making a suggestion. I've already told the clansmen that they can speak freely at clan meetings without fear of saying anything wrong."

After saying that, he nodded to the others and said, "Alright, everyone else, please continue with your opinions."

Seeing this, everyone tacitly refrained from mentioning Zhou Xinlan's suggestion again, and each shared their own opinions.

In the end, it was Lin Wan'er's words that reminded Zhou Chun.

According to Lin Wan'er, since there are too many monks and not enough porridge, and there is no way to increase the amount of porridge, then everyone can only rely on their own abilities to get porridge.

After some discussion, everyone finally agreed on a plan.

That is, apart from clansmen with superior spiritual root aptitude, all other clansmen whose cultivation has reached the late stage of Qi Refining and who are under sixty years old can participate in a clan competition every three years.

Only those clan members who win the top two spots in the clan competition are eligible to exchange for Foundation Establishment Pills, while those who place third through fifth are eligible to exchange for other Foundation Establishment spiritual items.

This redemption eligibility is valid only for the current period and will expire after that period.

In this way, all those cultivators who wanted to pull strings can finally stop.

However, in order to appease the Foundation Establishment cultivators who had descendants, Zhou Chun still gave them a chance to benefit their descendants, which was to exchange Foundation Establishment Pills at the market purchase price.

At current market prices, a single Foundation Establishment Pill is being sold for 15,000 spirit coins, or even more.

After the reforms, the current annual welfare allowance for early Foundation Establishment cultivators in the Zhou family is only 400 merit points. This means that if they rely solely on basic welfare to exchange for Foundation Establishment Pills, it would take them 30 to 40 years to accumulate enough!

In this way, even if they do not spend their own good deeds, they can only benefit their descendants three or four times in their lifetime.

But in reality, this is very difficult to do, since cultivators who have reached the Foundation Establishment stage will all want to open up their Purple Mansion.

Unless they have realized that they have no chance of opening their Purple Mansion, they might turn to supporting and cultivating their descendants.

After the upper echelons reached a consensus, the new rules for exchanging Foundation Establishment Pills were quickly publicized.

Regarding this new rule, some of the lower- and middle-level cultivators in the Zhou family agreed with it while others opposed it; it was simply a matter of their differing opinions.

However, Zhou Chun and the elders reached a consensus and granted the core clansmen with Foundation Establishment cultivation a special privilege to take care of their descendants, so the dissenting voices could not make any waves at all.

After handling this important family matter, Zhou Chun first left a wisp of his divine soul power in a "Life Soul Tablet" made by Zhou Mingde to activate the soul, and then returned to the Great Zhou Kingdom.

Zhou Chun still needs to find someone to introduce him to the exchange meeting hosted by the Nascent Soul stage rogue cultivator "Huang Yun Zhenren".

Of course, he already had a target in mind.

Upon returning to the Great Zhou Kingdom, Zhou Chun visited Sun Yuanjing of Tianbao Pavilion, requesting that he act as his introducer.

After hearing Zhou Chun's words, Sun Yuanjing did not refuse and immediately nodded, saying, "This is easy to arrange. Senior 'Huang Yun Zhenren' has always enjoyed making friends with fellow Daoists from all walks of life. This exchange meeting is specially organized to celebrate his 1,500th birthday. Fellow Daoist Zhang only needs to prepare a gift to attend!"

Unexpectedly, Zhou Chun looked troubled upon hearing this and said, "To be honest, Manager Sun, I've made a few enemies while traveling throughout the Great Zhou Kingdom over the years. If I were to run into them at the exchange meeting, I might lose my temper and offend the seniors and fellow Daoists present. I wonder if it would be permissible to participate in the exchange meeting with my face covered?"

Zhou Chun's current identity as Zhang Liang is being disguised using the [Hundred Illusion Pearl].

However, the [Hundred Illusion Pearl] is only a third-tier magic artifact. It's already quite good if it can fool the eyes of a Golden Core cultivator. It's simply impossible to fool a Nascent Soul cultivator!

Therefore, if he were to attend the exchange meeting hosted by "Huang Yun Zhenren" under this identity, it would be very bad if this Nascent Soul cultivator exposed him on the spot.

That's why we have this problem now.

"If Fellow Daoist Zhang wishes to conceal his true identity, that's not impossible. Senior 'Huang Yun Zhenren' is a senior cultivator who has cultivated for thousands of years, so he can naturally understand these things. However, in that case, Fellow Daoist Zhang will have no choice but to go directly to the exchange meeting."

"After all, it would be extremely insincere and impolite to go to offer birthday greetings in secret!"

Sun Yuanjing added, "Even if you're only attending the exchange meeting, Fellow Daoist Zhang should prepare a gift in advance to give to the disciple of Senior 'Huang Yun Zhenren,' who will then lead you to the exchange meeting!"

"I see, I understand now. Thank you, Manager Sun, for clearing up my doubts."

Zhou Chun nodded with a look of realization, and immediately bowed to Sun Yuanjing to express his gratitude.

After that, he asked Sun Yuanjing to provide a letter of introduction, and then took the letter of introduction to the location of "Huang Yun Zhenren's" cave.

As a rogue cultivator in the Nascent Soul stage, the location of "Huang Yun Zhenren's" cave dwelling is naturally a blessed land.

This place is located in a place called "Huangyunjian" in the southeast of the Great Zhou Kingdom. Nearby is a market town called "Tongshan Market Town", which was opened by the family of one of the disciples of "Huangyun Zhenren".

Because of the great banner of "Master Huangyun", "Tongshan Market" was run very well. Although it was not as famous as those large markets, it was the largest market within a thousand miles.

After arriving at "Tongshan Market", Zhou Chun took the letter of introduction given by Sun Yuanjing and went directly to visit the disciple of the True Person.

"This is easily resolved. Since it was Manager Sun who made the introduction, Fellow Daoist Zhang, you can leave this matter to me, Guo. I will present the congratulatory gift to your master and explain the situation to him!"

Inside a cave in the "Tongshan Market," a middle-aged man with a mustache, after reading the letter of introduction brought by Zhou Chun and hearing what he was asking for, immediately agreed with a smile on his face.

"Thank you for your understanding, Fellow Daoist Guo. This is a birthday gift that I, Zhang, have prepared for Senior 'Huang Yun Zhenren'. Please pass it on to him. Also, this water-repelling pearl is a little trinket that I obtained by chance, and I am giving it to you, Fellow Daoist Guo."

After Zhou Chun finished speaking, he handed a jade box with a sealing talisman and a water-repelling pearl to the middle-aged man with the eight-character mustache.

Seeing how cooperative he was, the middle-aged man with the mustache smiled even more broadly.

He carefully put away the jade box and said directly, "Fellow Daoist Zhang is very thoughtful. When Master celebrates his birthday, you are welcome to come here and wait for me. Once the exchange meeting begins, I will have someone lead you there!"

"In that case, I, Zhang, thank you in advance, Fellow Daoist Guo!"

Zhou Chun clasped his hands in thanks and left without lingering.

On the way back to Tianyuan Immortal City, Zhou Chun couldn't help but shake his head as he thought about the price he had paid to participate in the exchange conference.

He wondered why that "Master Huangyun" would be so kind as to organize such an exchange conference to make things convenient for outsiders like them.

The relationship is just a pretext to receive benefits!

Using birthday gifts as tickets to the grand event, the birthday celebration brought in more and better gifts than Zhou Chun's Golden Elixir Ceremony.

Just like how he presented a low-grade third-tier magic weapon worth tens of thousands of spirit coins in order to participate in this exchange conference!

Others might not have given him such a high-quality birthday gift, but it's likely that at least a thousand-year-old medicinal herb would be included.

After all, if you're below this level, it would be like slapping a Nascent Soul stage cultivator in the face!

It has to be said, Nascent Soul stage cultivators are truly formidable.

Even a rogue cultivator without a sect or family has plenty of ways to earn resources, and people will even come to them to deliver resources!

Several months later, the birthday celebration of "Huang Yun Zhenren" was held on time. Cultivators gathered at the scene, and there were dozens of Golden Core stage cultivators who came from all over the country to celebrate his birthday!

After the lively birthday celebration lasted for several days, Zhou Chun, who had been waiting in the "Tongshan Market", was finally taken to the location of "Huangyunjian" by the clansmen of Guo Ziyuan, the fifth disciple of "Huangyun Zhenren".

Although the cave is called "Huangyunjian", it is actually not located in the mountain stream, but on a majestic peak that is over 1,700 feet high.

The "Huangyunjian" is just a mountain stream below this majestic peak, perpetually shrouded in yellowish-brown mist, said to be a strange phenomenon produced by the "Huangyun Zhenren" during his practice.

When Zhou Chun entered that majestic peak, he made a special comparison and found that the concentration of spiritual energy here was not much weaker than that of the main peak of Qinglian Temple. No wonder it was chosen by a Nascent Soul stage cultivator to be used as a cave dwelling.

After he arrived at the top of the majestic peak, he was quickly led by Guo Ziyuan, a middle-aged man with a mustache, to a certain hall.

At this moment, Zhou Chun's face had been transformed into Zhou Zhengqing's appearance through the [Hundred Illusion Pearl], and his name had also been changed to Zhou Qing.

When he followed Guo Ziyuan into the main hall, he saw that there were already fifty or sixty Golden Core stage cultivators gathered there, including many experts with late Golden Core stage cultivation.

After Guo Ziyuan led him in, many people cast their gazes at him, but under the watchful eyes of everyone, no one dared to use their spiritual eyesight to observe him.

After waiting inside the hall for a while, Zhou Chun quickly realized that he was not an isolated case.

After that, six more Golden Core cultivators were brought into the main hall by Guo Ziyuan and two other disciples of "Huang Yun Zhenren". Judging from their appearance, they probably all concealed their true identities.

Finally, when the number of Golden Core cultivators in the hall reached seventy-one, Nascent Soul cultivator "Huang Yun Zhenren" appeared.

Suddenly, a flash of yellow light appeared inside the hall, and a wealthy-looking old man dressed in a yellow robe sat down on the throne at the head of the hall.

Outwardly, this Nascent Soul stage cultivator looked like a wealthy businessman, with a prosperous appearance and a constant smile on his face, resembling an old man in his fifties or sixties.

His aura wasn't strong either; he didn't possess the imposing presence of a Nascent Soul stage cultivator that Zhou Chun had imagined.

However, a person's name carries the weight of a tree's shadow. At this moment, whether it was him or those late-stage Golden Core cultivators, upon seeing this portly old man, they all bowed respectfully and said, "Junior pays respects to Senior True Person!"

The old man smiled and waved his hand, saying, "Fellow Daoists, no need for formalities. Let's begin this exchange now!"

There wasn't a single wasted word; they went straight to the point.

However, although this exchange was hosted by "Huang Yun Zhenren", he did not seem to follow the rules and intend to show off his treasures first. Instead, he randomly pointed to a late-stage Golden Core cultivator to start.

Seeing this, the man was not intimidated. He immediately raised his hand, patted the storage bag at his waist, and took out several treasures to exchange.

This person truly lives up to his reputation as a late-stage Golden Core cultivator. The treasures he brought out were all extremely precious and rare, including thousand-year-old medicinal herbs with an age of over three thousand years, materials from fourth-tier demonic beasts sufficient to refine magic weapons, and rare magic weapon materials of the level of [Taibai Silver Star Iron].

But what he asked for was something that would make people shake their heads in disbelief.

"I intend to exchange these items, firstly, for spiritual objects or secret techniques that will aid in the formation of the Nascent Soul stage; secondly, for a mild-natured Ganoderma lucidum that is over five thousand years old!"

The low voices echoed in the hall, but no one responded for a long time.

The cultivators inside the hall were all at the Golden Core stage. Even if they possessed Nascent Soul stage spiritual items and secret techniques, they would not be able to exchange them with this person.

As for the warm-natured Ganoderma lucidum with a medicinal age of over 5,000 years, let alone whether they have it or not, even if they do, it is unlikely that they would exchange it for some spiritual items of a mismatched quality. Even if they exchanged several items for one, it would be the same!

Therefore, the late-stage Golden Core cultivator quickly put away his spiritual object with a somewhat unpleasant expression, and looked at "Huang Yun Zhenren" pointing to another late-stage Golden Core cultivator.

The second cultivator in the late Golden Core stage brought out equally precious items, including a powerful low-grade water-attribute magic weapon.

What this person sought were some rare, thousand-year-old medicinal herbs and a certain rare water-attribute spiritual object, and he successfully made two exchanges.

Then came the third late-stage Golden Core cultivator.

The moment this late-stage Golden Core cultivator made his move, he unleashed a fiery red demon core radiating powerful energy fluctuations—a fourth-tier demon core!

"I have a low-grade fourth-tier fire-attribute demon core from a wolf demon. In exchange, I'll give you a low-grade fourth-tier wind-attribute demon core, preferably from a bird. If any fellow Daoist is willing to trade, I'll also compensate you with a thousand-year-old precious herb!"

It's actually a fourth-tier demon core!

Zhou Chun looked at the demon core in the hand of the late-stage Golden Core cultivator, a strange look flashing in his eyes.

He also possessed a fourth-tier demon core, which was far more precious than this fire wolf demon core.

Unfortunately, he dared not take this item out to exchange with anyone now, otherwise, after leaving "Huangyunjian", he could not guarantee that no one would make a move against him.

To Zhou Chun's surprise, this late-stage Golden Core cultivator actually made the exchange, reaching an agreement with another mid-stage Golden Core cultivator!

This also gave him a direction.

Could he also exchange for fourth-tier demon cores at such exchange events in the future to help several spirit pets quickly advance to the fourth tier?

In any case, with the talents and aptitudes of Lei Jiao Bai Bai and Jin Jia Fu Shan Gui Shi Tou, there are no longer any bloodline constraints between the third and fourth ranks. As long as they can swallow a fourth-rank demon core that matches their own attributes after becoming third-rank high-grade demon beasts, they will have an almost 80% chance of advancing to the fourth rank!

After two more mid-stage Golden Core cultivators had passed the test, the third mid-stage Golden Core cultivator brought out an exchange item that instantly piqued Zhou Chun's interest.

"One low-grade magic weapon, the [Three Yang True Fire Pot], can condense and release 'Three Yang True Fire,' which is extremely powerful. Exchange it for a low-grade wood-attribute magic weapon, preferably a defensive one!"

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