Beast Taming Immortal Clan

Chapter 560 Escape [Please Subscribe]

Among Zhou Chun's four spirit pets, the Wood Sprite and the Mulberry Tree are the most unique.

The other three spirit pets, whether it is the eldest Golden Armor Mountain-Carrying Turtle Stone, the second Thunder Flood Dragon White White, or the Golden-Winged Tiger, have all been with Zhou Chun since they were spirit beast eggs or cubs.

For a long time, when their intelligence was still limited, they regarded Zhou Chun as their mother.

Therefore, Zhou Chun holds a very special place in their hearts, and they would never betray him.

But Mu Mei and Mu Sang are different.

It had once fought a great battle with Zhou Chun, but was defeated and captured.

Later, in order to subdue it, Zhou Chun also tortured it a lot, forcing it to submit.

In the end, it was only because it could no longer bear the torment that it bowed its head to Zhou Chun.

Therefore, if a better place comes along, it's hard to say whether Mu Mei and Mu Sang will abandon Zhou Chun and join someone else's side.

Therefore, when the Demon King Chongxuan mentioned the Wood Spirit and the Mulberry Tree, Zhou Chun immediately became extremely nervous.

Listening to his seemingly feigned ignorance, the Demon King Chongxuan looked at him meaningfully and said, "Although the Wood Spirit Clan is not as extinct in this cultivation world as the Mountain-Bearing Turtle Clan, they are still very rare, and most of them struggle to reach the Demon King level!"

At this point, she bluntly questioned him, "Young man, where did you obtain this wood spirit pet?"

"I encountered Mu Sang in a forest in the Shen Kingdom. At the time, it was being chased, and the forest it was in was burned down. I took it away from there, nurtured it to the third rank, and then helped it break through to the fourth rank!"

After hesitating for a moment, Zhou Chun realized that he couldn't hide it from the demon king, so he gritted his teeth and answered the question from Chongxuan Demon King.

Hearing this, the Demon King Chongxuan nodded in satisfaction and said, "Young man, you've been honest this time. If you were to say again that you raised it from a cub, I would kill you right now!"

Upon hearing this, Zhou Chun's expression immediately changed, and he secretly rejoiced.

He didn't think the Demon King Chongxuan was threatening him; he could only be thankful that he had made the right choice.

But then the Demon King Chongxuan quickly looked at him with a half-smile and said, "Don't worry, although the Wood Spirit is rare, I don't want it left in the Misty Immortal Ridge, and it won't help its growth much anyway!"

After saying that, he changed the subject and continued, "However, if you ever manage to help it cultivate to the fifth level, you'll need to bring it back to Misty Immortal Ridge to do me a favor!"

"No problem. If Mu Sang is fortunate enough to survive the Heavenly Tribulation and advance to the fifth rank, I will definitely bring it back to Misty Immortal Ridge to see Senior Chongxuan Demon King!"

Zhou Chun felt relieved and immediately agreed without hesitation.

If that day ever comes, he will surely have already successfully formed his Nascent Soul. When he comes to see the Demon King Chongxuan again, their positions will be reversed!

However, the Demon King Chongxuan's statement also gave Zhou Chun an opportunity.

Immediately, a thought struck him, and he mustered his courage to say, "Senior Demon King Chongxuan is knowledgeable and experienced, and surely knows that if a wood spirit like Musang wants to grow quickly, it needs to absorb more of the wood spirit power contained in those rare spiritual trees and herbs. If you wish for it to advance to the fifth rank as soon as possible, why not let it absorb all the wood spirit power accumulated in the high-level spiritual trees and herbs within this Misty Immortal Ridge, thus aiding its growth!"

Upon hearing this, the Demon King Chongxuan's expression darkened, and he looked at him with hostility, saying, "You little brat, you certainly know how to push your luck! You've only just escaped one calamity and you dare to scheme against me again!"

Upon hearing this, Zhou Chun quickly lowered his head and admitted his mistake, saying, "This junior wouldn't dare. I was just offering a suggestion out of concern for you, senior. If you have no intention of adopting it, just ignore what I said!"

"Hmph, I don't need your advice, nor do I need you to tell me how to do things!"

The Demon King Chongxuan let out a cold snort, his tone quite unfriendly.

But the next moment it said calmly, "Of course I know better than a mere human junior what a wood spirit needs to grow. You don't need to worry about this; I will take it to various parts of the mountains to absorb the power of the wood spirit!"

After saying that, he ordered Zhou Chun, "You stay quietly in my palace and don't go anywhere. Otherwise, if anything happens, don't blame me for not warning you!"

Without waiting for Zhou Chun's response, he grabbed the wooden spirit and left the underground palace.

Seeing this, Zhou Chun was also stunned, and then fell silent.

To be honest, he felt very strange about this Chongxuan Demon King and couldn't understand him.

The other party's style of doing things is indeed that of a demon king.

However, through conversation with the other party, Zhou Chun discovered that the other party seemed to know a lot about the human race, as if he had once been a human.

Furthermore, it can be sensed that the other party does not seem to have a particularly strong desire to kill human cultivators, unlike the demon kings recorded in those ancient texts who wanted to kill and devour human cultivators as soon as they saw them!

"Could it have once disguised itself as a human and lived in the cultivation world? Or was it once a cultivator's spirit pet?"

Zhou Chun pondered this in his heart and felt that there were only two possible reasons.

Currently, aside from the fact that the final choice of the Golden Armored Mountain Tortoise Stone still causes some concern, his life safety seems to be guaranteed.

This is undoubtedly the best news.

After pondering this for a while, Zhou Chun suppressed his distracting thoughts and patiently began to meditate and comprehend the supernatural power of "Golden Escape Technique".

The underground palace is the lair of the Demon King Chongxuan. To avoid exposing the existence of the [Purifying Heaven and Earth Divine Jar], Zhou Chun would certainly not meditate and cultivate here.

Then the remaining time can only be spent comprehending supernatural powers.

After waiting for more than a month, the Wood Spirit Mu Sang, who had been fed and watered to her heart's content by the Demon King Chongxuan, finally returned to the underground palace with him.

Upon returning to the underground palace, the Demon King Chongxuan glanced at Zhou Chun a few times, then nodded slightly and said, "Young man, you're quite sensible; you actually managed to refrain from making any moves!"

"Senior, is there anything else you need? May I leave now?"

Zhou Chun lowered her eyes and spoke softly, asking about leaving again.

Putting aside the fact that Luo Qingni was still waiting for him outside, he also had to go back to the Zhou family to continue teaching his disciples, so as not to miss the best period of education.

Therefore, he is now in a great hurry to leave this place.

But then the Demon King Chongxuan slowly said, "Letting you go is not impossible, but to prevent you from playing tricks on the soul contract, I need to leave something on you!"

Upon hearing this, Zhou Chun immediately became alert.

He immediately said, "Senior, you are overthinking it. I have always regarded the stone as family. How could I use the soul contract to do anything to harm it!"

He then looked at the Demon King Chongxuan with a sincere expression and said, "Besides, knowing that doing this would anger you, senior, how could I do something so unwise when I am already out of danger!"

"Heh heh, do you think I'd believe your one-sided story? Besides, even if you don't harm that little turtle, you can still avoid me. Who will I ask then to break the soul contract on that little turtle?"

The Demon King Chongxuan said with a cold smile, not believing Zhou Chun's words at all.

Seeing this, Zhou Chun could only helplessly say again, "Senior, if you are still worried, I can swear an oath of my Dao heart that if I don't return to see you before reaching the late Golden Core stage, I will never be able to break through to the late Golden Core stage. Is that alright?"

"A vow of faith?"

The Demon King Chongxuan looked at Zhou Chun and pondered.

It does indeed have a deep understanding of human cultivators; otherwise, it wouldn't have been able to so easily control Zhou Chun before.

Therefore, it also knows that for some human cultivators with great potential, leaving certain restrictions on them that control their life and death will indeed affect their Dao heart, making it difficult for them to continue to advance bravely.

If it doesn't care about Zhou Chun's future achievements at all, then there's no problem with doing this.

However, it does want to use Zhou Chun to do some things, but Zhou Chun's current cultivation level is not high enough to help it do those things.

Therefore, if Zhou Chun were to have his Dao heart clouded and lose his courage and determination to advance due to the methods he left behind, it would not be in his best interest.

After pondering for a long time, it finally nodded and said, "Alright, then I will trust you this once, young man. Just make a vow of your Dao heart."

Hearing this, Zhou Chun breathed a sigh of relief and immediately made a vow in front of the Chongxuan Demon King.

After making the oath, Zhou Chun immediately looked at the Demon King Chongxuan and asked, "I have made the oath, senior, may I leave now?"

Upon hearing this, the Demon King Chongxuan immediately waved his hand impatiently and said, "Alright, since you're in such a hurry to leave, I naturally don't have time to keep you any longer!"

Then, his eyes flashed coldly as he looked at Zhou Chun and said, "But remember this: it will definitely take less than a hundred years for the little tortoise to break through to the fourth rank and successfully carry the mountain. So if you don't come within a hundred years, don't blame me for breaking my promise!"

"This junior has remembered and will never forget the promise I made to you, senior."

Zhou Chun nodded solemnly, agreeing to the matter.

"In that case, get out!"

As the Demon King Chongxuan spoke, he waved his sleeve and unleashed a ball of yellow light that enveloped Zhou Chun, instantly isolating him from all perception of the outside world.

When the yellow light dissipated, he was already on a mountain peak in the outer area of ​​Mixianling.

Besides the wooden spirit and the wooden mulberry tree, there was also a blood-stained storage bag at her feet!

"This is……"

Zhou Chun looked at the storage bag at his feet, a look of surprise and uncertainty flashing across his face.

At this moment, the wood spirit Mu Sang lowered her head and explained the situation to him through telepathic communication.

It turns out that when the Demon King Chongxuan took it away to absorb the wood spirit power contained in high-grade spiritual woods, he also asked it some questions about Zhou Chun, including why Zhou Chun entered the Misty Immortal Ridge.

The storage bag at Zhou Chun's feet was the relic of the Golden Core Elder of the Earth Fire Sect who died at the hands of the Mountain Moving Bear and the Earth Armored Pig.

This was originally a rule set by the Chongxuan Demon King: all storage bags obtained by high-level demon beasts in the mountains from killing human cultivators of the third rank or above must be handed over to a fixed location outside his underground palace and guarded by one of his trusted subordinates.

Then, whenever it has time, it will open and inspect the accumulated storage bags.

The storage bag of that Earth Fire Sect elder was still inside, as the Demon King Chongxuan hadn't had time to open and inspect it yet, and the original owner's residual divine consciousness imprint was still there.

The fact that this item is now at Zhou Chun's feet is clearly a sign that the Demon King Chongxuan is doing him a favor!

However, Zhou Chun showed no joy at completing the task. Instead, he looked at Mu Mei and Mu Sang with a serious expression and questioned, "Mu Sang, what else did you say? You didn't betray all my secrets, did you?!"

His secrets were perfectly clear to his spirit pets.

Whether it's the [Purifying Heaven and Earth Divine Jar], the [Moon Toad Pearl], or that secret island, the spirit pets know about them all.

If these secrets are all exposed, he'll be in real trouble.

Fortunately, Mu Mei and Mu Sang seemed to know what was important, or rather, they knew whose hands controlled their life and death.

Faced with Zhou Chun's questioning, it shook its head repeatedly, trying to defend itself.

According to it, it only mentioned some of Zhou Chun's origins and indirectly confirmed what Zhou Chun had previously told the Demon King Chongxuan. It did not reveal any of the secrets about Zhou Chun.

Zhou Chun largely believed this claim.

Putting everything else aside, if the Demon King Chongxuan really knew about the [Purifying Heaven and Earth Divine Jar], he certainly wouldn't have let Zhou Chun leave like this.

Even so, Mu Mei and Mu Sang's actions this time made Zhou Chun secretly wary.

He secretly resolved that before he shattered his core and formed his nascent soul, he would never allow the Wood Spirit to meet the Demon King Chongxuan again, and he would also try to prevent it from meeting any other demon kings, lest it be sold out by this old deer one day!

His expression immediately softened slightly, and he nodded, deliberately letting the matter drop, saying, "You've also gained a great deal this time. Go back and properly cultivate to digest what you've learned!"

After saying that, he put the Wood Spirit and Wood Mulberry into his spirit beast bag, and then left Misty Immortal Ridge with the storage bag of the Earth Fire Sect elder.

Although the journey into Mixian Ridge was extremely dangerous and we even temporarily lost a spirit pet, we were fortunate enough to achieve our ultimate goal.

Moreover, the Golden Armor Mountain-Bearing Turtle Stone was incredibly fortunate this time, as it was able to obtain the inheritance left behind by a powerful member of the Mountain-Bearing Turtle clan.

If he can digest that inheritance and return to Zhou Chun's side, his future strength and potential will be limitless, and he will definitely be able to regain his position as the team's leader!

In addition, Mu Mei and Mu Sang also reaped great benefits, and it is estimated that they will have the foundation to advance to the middle-grade fourth rank in the future.

If we include the two Dendrobium nobile plants that Zhou Chun will soon obtain from the Cold Crow Sect, which are over three thousand years old, the harvest can be considered quite substantial.

Barring any unforeseen circumstances, he has already pushed open halfway to the mid-stage of the Golden Core realm!

Thinking of all this, Zhou Chun breathed a long sigh of relief as he walked out of Mixianling.

No matter how tortuous and dangerous the process was, the result was not too bad. He could now look forward to the harvest of the [Jade Dew Golden Glow Pill].

Not long after, Zhou Chun met up with Luo Qingni, who had been waiting anxiously.

Upon seeing Zhou Chun return, Luo Qingni breathed a sigh of relief, but also looked at him with surprise and asked, "Fellow Daoist Zhou, did you encounter some danger inside? Why haven't we heard from you for so long?"

Hearing her words, Zhou Chun couldn't help but sigh with regret, "Isn't that right? I almost lost my life inside this time!"

Upon hearing this, Luo Qingni turned pale and exclaimed in surprise, "What exactly happened? Why do you say such a thing, Fellow Daoist Zhou!"

"Alas, this matter is complicated, and I, Zhou, have sworn not to reveal a single detail, so Fellow Daoist Luo, please do not ask any further!"

Zhou Chun shook his head with a cryptic expression and changed the subject, saying, "In short, although the process was tortuous and dangerous, I fortunately fulfilled my mission and successfully found the relics of that Earth Fire Sect elder. I believe that should be enough to give the Cold Crow Sect an explanation and obtain what we want!"

Upon hearing his words, Luo Qingni was shocked, but also showed a hint of joy.

She's now even more focused on refining the Jade Dew Golden Glow Pill than Zhou Chun is.

Therefore, upon hearing that the mission had been completed, she was happier than anyone else.

She wisely refrained from pressing Zhou Chun about what had happened in the Misty Immortal Ridge, and instead looked at him with gratitude, saying, "Fellow Daoist Zhou, you've gone to great lengths. If you succeed in refining the [Jade Dew Golden Glow Pill] this time, your contribution will be immense, and Qing Ni will have suffered greatly!"

Hearing this, Zhou Chun felt embarrassed to continue playing the victim and could only humbly reply, "Fellow Daoist Luo, you flatter me. Without your information and mediation, we wouldn't have been able to gather all the materials. Besides, to refine the elixir, we'd need your skillful hands!"

"Please rest assured, Fellow Daoist Zhou, Qingni will do her utmost and will not waste the spiritual medicine that you risked your life to obtain!"

Luo Qingni nodded solemnly, pledging her allegiance.

After exchanging pleasantries, the two returned to Black Mountain Market together.

Once outside the market, Zhou Chun did not go in directly. Instead, he used a communication talisman to send a message to Zhou Shijie, inviting him to meet outside the market.

This was done to prevent the cultivators of the Zhenyang Sect from having any ill intentions towards him in the market after learning the news.

He had just escaped one danger and didn't want to fall into another!

(End of this chapter)