Beast Taming Immortal Clan

Chapter 613 I'm about to make my move [Please subscribe]

Zhou Chun acted swiftly and decisively, wiping out the beast horde led by Black Wind Owl and Fire Dragon Lion in less than half an hour, and still had the strength to deal with the next beast horde.

Just as he was about to continue doing so, he suddenly received a message from his Daoist partner, Su Yuzhen, via her flying sword.

After reading the information carried by the communication flying sword, Zhou Chun's expression changed immediately, and he hurriedly set off to return to the Su family's mountain gate.

Upon returning to the Su family's mountain gate, he looked at Su Yuzhen with a serious expression and asked, "Madam, please tell me in detail how exactly the Baijiang Market was broken?"

The reason he was in such a hurry to return was because news of the fall of Baijiang Market had reached the Su family.

Upon hearing his words, Su Yuzhen quickly replied, "According to the ancestor's message, Baijiang Market was breached because a fifth-tier demon king suddenly appeared, broke the protective array, and killed the late-stage Golden Core cultivator and several mid-stage Golden Core cultivators who were guarding it!"

At this point, she added with a look of relief, "Fortunately, a Nascent Soul stage senior arrived in time at the crucial moment and stopped that demon king; otherwise, I'm afraid not a single person in Baijiang Market would have survived!"

Upon hearing her answer, Zhou Chun's expression changed drastically.

His worst fears came true!

For Zhou Chun, who was already invincible at the Golden Core stage, this great beast tide posed no threat to him whatsoever unless he encountered a fifth-tier demon king.

However, he also deeply understood that under such a massive beast tide, the fifth-tier demon kings might disregard the tacit agreement between the two races and bully those below the Nascent Soul stage.

After all, when such a massive beast tide is unleashed, it's as if the two sides have completely broken off relations, so there's no longer any need to abide by such a tacit agreement.

When this tacit agreement is broken, it is a terrifying and frightening thing for both the Golden Core cultivators and the fourth-order demonic beasts.

Because he didn't know when he might be slaughtered by a fifth-tier expert!

"Now that Baijiang Market can no longer be defended, where are the ancestors and the others?"

Suppressing his inner shock, Zhou Chunqiang asked further questions about the matter he was concerned about with a serious expression.

"When the ancestor sent the message back, he was breaking through to the north with the surviving members of Baijiangfang City. Their exact location is still unknown."

As Su Yuzhen spoke, a look of worry appeared on her face as she looked at Zhou Chun and said, "Husband, do you think we should go and meet up with the Ancestor and the others?"

"Don't panic, don't panic. There's no use rushing things now!"

Zhou Chun comforted his Daoist partner, calmly analyzing the situation: "Since the Ancestor was still able to send messages via flying sword while on the run, it means the situation hasn't deteriorated to the extreme. Now we just need to wait for further news after they've settled down. Even if we really want to go and meet them, we should wait until they contact us and report their location!"

Hearing his analysis, Su Yuzhen quickly calmed down and nodded in agreement, saying, "My husband is right. I was just confused because I was worried."

The two then sat at the mountain gate, patiently waiting for further news.

While they were waiting, the herds of beasts that had come from all over gathered near the Su family's mountain gate and surrounded it.

However, Zhou Chun clearly didn't take this mere fifty or sixty thousand demonic beasts seriously and didn't even give them a second glance.

If it weren't for the concern that being too conspicuous would attract the attention of a fifth-tier demon king, Zhou Chun could have led his men out right now to scatter all these demonic beasts!

But these herds of animals were clearly unaware of this.

After they swarmed together, they couldn't wait to launch an attack on the Su family's gate.

The protective formation of the Su family's mountain gate is different from the [Nine Palaces Yellow Dragon Formation]; it is a forbidden formation that balances offense and defense.

Seeing a large number of demonic beasts attacking from three directions in three groups, Su Yuzhen immediately controlled the formation to launch an attack.

Blue and white spiritual light gathered in the air and instantly transformed into a sky full of water arrows that shot towards the horde of beasts charging in one direction.

Under the barrage of thousands of water arrows, hundreds of the thousands of charging monsters fell instantly!

By the time the three hordes of beasts reached the edge of the formation, the water arrows had already fired six rounds, killing no less than four thousand low- to mid-level demonic beasts.

But this is just an appetizer.

When those low- and mid-level demonic beasts finally braved the rain of arrows to reach the front of the great formation, the Su and Zhou family cultivators who remained inside the mountain gate also took action, unleashing various magical artifacts and spells at the demonic beasts.

It should be noted that at this time, there were more than a hundred Foundation Establishment cultivators and more than ten Purple Mansion cultivators in the Su Family Mountain Gate!

With so many people attacking together, most of them only target monsters with lower cultivation levels than themselves. Basically, each round of attacks can take the lives of dozens or even hundreds of low- to mid-level monsters.

However, the attacks of those demonic beasts were all blocked by the formation, including the four fourth-order demonic beasts that appeared!

Thus, the attack lasted for less than half an hour before it had to be stopped because too many monsters participating in the attack had died.

Those fourth-tier demonic beasts were not fools. After this attack, they realized that they were not strong enough to break through the Su family's protective formation with their own strength. They needed more reinforcements!

In a way, they were lucky. Zhou Chun was hesitant to go out and harvest them because he had heard about what happened in Baijiang Market.

Otherwise, with just four fourth-tier demonic beasts, they would probably have been swallowed whole by Zhou Chun and Zhou Mingde before they even got close to the Su family's mountain gate!

Shortly after repelling the attack of the beast horde outside, the Su family patriarch finally sent another message via flying sword.

"How is it? Where are the ancestors and the others now? What's the situation over there?"

Inside the Su family's mountain gate, after hearing that the Su family patriarch had sent a new message, Zhou Chun hurriedly went to Su Yuzhen to inquire about the details.

Upon hearing his question, Su Yuzhen immediately replied, "Our ancestors are currently at the Tao family residence in Yuezhou. They have already joined up with a new batch of reinforcements. They may not be able to return for the time being, as they are going to join the reinforcements in a counterattack on Baijiang City!"

"Are you already preparing for a counterattack?"

Zhou Chun was slightly taken aback, also somewhat surprised by the news.

Unfortunately, the message from the Su family patriarch did not reveal any further details, and he did not know why those people above were so eager to launch a counterattack.

After a series of thoughts raced through his mind, he nodded slightly and said, "Now that the Ancestor and the others have settled down, I will personally use my flying sword to contact them!"

Then he personally used his flying sword to contact the Su family patriarch and told him some of his thoughts.

Flying swords cannot carry much information, so Zhou Chun only told the Su family patriarch one thing.

That is to reveal a little about his strength and request that a Nascent Soul stage cultivator be sent to secretly protect him, and preferably this Nascent Soul stage cultivator be from a foreign country!

As long as there are Nascent Soul stage cultivators secretly protecting him and helping him intercept any potential fifth-tier demon kings, Zhou Chun can fight without restraint and slaughter them all!

Otherwise, having invincible strength but being unable to use it due to various reasons would be too torturous for oneself.

Perhaps due to the urgency of the war, the Su family patriarch received a reply from Zhou Chun's message flying sword in just half a day.

After reading the reply, Zhou Chun was greatly encouraged. He immediately called his Daoist partner Su Yuzhen and Zhou Mingde together and said, "Madam, Supreme Elder, I have already contacted Ancestor Su. I will personally participate in the counterattack on Baijiang Market, while Ancestor Su and my great-aunt will return to guard the Su family's mountain gate with you!"

After saying that, he explained why he had contacted the Su family patriarch.

After listening to his words, Zhou Mingde pondered for a moment, then quickly nodded and said, "That's good. Zheng Chun, since you're traveling with the Nascent Soul stage cultivators, at least you won't have to worry about being bullied by those fifth-tier demon kings!"

After speaking, he looked at Zhou Chun with a solemn expression and instructed, "Even if a Nascent Soul stage senior is willing to protect you, Zheng Chun, you must be extra careful and not become careless, lest you be taken advantage of by the enemy!"

"Don't worry, these younger generations know what they're doing!"

Zhou Chun nodded slightly and readily agreed.

He then did not linger at the Su family's mountain gate any longer, and directly used the Golden Armored Mountain Turtle Stone to escape underground, quietly leaving the Su family's mountain gate.

Several hours later, Zhou Chun appeared inside the Tao family mountain gate in Yuezhou, where the Su family patriarch and others were located.

The Tao family of Yuezhou was also a family of Golden Elixir cultivators. Because its mountain gate was close to Jiangzhou, it became a resting point for foreign reinforcements.

When Zhou Chun arrived here, there were already as many as twenty-five Golden Core cultivators and hundreds of Purple Mansion cultivators gathered here.

Upon arriving at this place, he was immediately led by the Su family patriarch to a cave deep within the Tao family's mountain gate.

This cave dwelling originally belonged to the Supreme Elder of the Tao family, but now it has been given to an even more distinguished individual to reside in.

"Junior Zhou Zhengchun greets Master Qianmu!"

Inside the main hall of the cave, as soon as Zhou Chun entered, he respectfully bowed and paid homage to a thin old man in a blue robe sitting on the jade couch in front of him.

This thin old man is named Master Qianmu. He is a Nascent Soul stage cultivator from Shen Kingdom, a neighboring country of Jing Kingdom, and he comes from Yuanxu Mountain, the largest power in Shen Kingdom.

Previously, Baijiang Market was breached by a fifth-tier demon king. It was only because this Master Qianmu intervened in time to repel the fifth-tier demon king that Zhou Mingde and the others had a chance to break through and escape.

At this moment, facing Zhou Chun's bow, the thin old man only stared at him for a few moments before smiling slightly and saying, "Young friend Zhou, there's no need for such formalities. Please take a seat."

"Thank you for the seat, senior."

Zhou Chun thanked him respectfully, but then sat down in the lower seat without any hesitation.

Now that he has decided to show his talent and reveal some of his true abilities, he can no longer be too humble and hide his shortcomings.

Under normal circumstances, a late-stage Golden Core cultivator is absolutely qualified to sit in front of a Nascent Soul stage cultivator.

After he took his seat, Master Qianmu slowly said, "I am very pleased to hear that young friend Zhou has volunteered to fight the demon."

"At this critical juncture for the nation, it is precisely because of heroes like you, young friend, that we need to step forward and set an example to inspire people and boost morale!"

Upon hearing this, Zhou Chun quickly stood up and bowed, saying, "I am deeply honored by your praise, senior."

After expressing his gratitude, he immediately continued, "Although my cultivation is low, I have a heart to slay demons and serve my country. In this time of national crisis, I will not hesitate to lend a hand, do my utmost to kill the demons and restore our beautiful land!"

"Very good, young friend Zhou's words are exactly what I thought."

Master Qianmu immediately clapped his hands in approval, then looked at Zhou Chun with a deep gaze and said, "Next, the alliance will focus all its efforts on retaking Baijiang Market. I hope that young friend Zhou can bravely shoulder this great responsibility and let me witness your true strength!"

"This junior will certainly do my utmost and will never let my senior down!"

Zhou Chun responded firmly in a deep voice, his words filled with strong confidence.

That concludes their first meeting, and Zhou Chun soon left the cave.

Both he and Master Qianmu knew that whether Zhou Chun was worth a Nascent Soul stage cultivator's close protection depended entirely on his outstanding performance in the battle to recapture Baijiang Market.

This outstanding performance is definitely not just about demonstrating the strength of a late-stage Golden Core cultivator, something any late-stage Golden Core cultivator could do.

He must demonstrate strength far exceeding that of a late-stage Golden Core cultivator in this battle, and produce results that will convince True Person Qianmu, in order to gain True Person Qianmu's genuine willingness to provide him with close protection.

After Zhou Chun came out of Qianmu Zhenren's cave, the Su family patriarch and Lin Hongyu led their people back to the Su family.

This was a condition previously agreed upon with Master Qianmu. As the largest surviving stronghold in Jiangzhou, the Su family's territory could not be left without several Golden Core cultivators stationed there.

Zhou Chun only stayed at the Tao family mountain gate in Yuezhou for less than half a day before setting off with the army to Baijiangfang.

In this recapture of Baijiang Market, the Heavenly Spirit Alliance only dispatched Golden Core and Purple Mansion stage cultivators. Their main objective was to first repel and eliminate the beast tide army that was resting there, and then rearrange the formation to establish a stronghold.

As a Nascent Soul cultivator accompanying the group, Master Qianmu is only responsible for dealing with any potential fifth-tier demon kings and will not participate in the battle to subdue them.

From this perspective, it seems that the Heavenly Spirit Alliance still intends to abide by the tacit agreement with the Demon Kings for the time being, and that fifth-tier beings will not take action against demon beasts below the fifth tier.

Zhou Chun, however, was very understanding of this.

The reason is simple: the war is currently taking place within human territory.

If everything were truly unleashed, and higher-level beings were to freely attack lower-level beings, the human cultivators would be the ones who would truly suffer.

Because with the speed of fifth-tier demon kings, they could easily rush into Shen Kingdom, Cheng Kingdom and other places and wreak havoc, wiping out the mountain gates of various cultivation families and small and medium-sized sects!

Even if the human cultivators take countermeasures, it will be difficult to kill all the scattered demonic beasts.

Therefore, unless the demon kings have truly gone mad and done something that would completely enrage the entire human race, Nascent Soul cultivators like Master Qianmu will try their best to abide by the tacit agreement.

As for whether the demon kings would dare to go crazy like that, I guess most of them wouldn't!

Because if they actually did that, it wouldn't be a Nascent Soul cultivator taking countermeasures, but rather a Nascent Soul cultivator like Venerable Yuan Yang launching a dimensional reduction attack on them.

When the time comes, these demon kings who have gone through countless hardships to survive the heavenly tribulation will have to pay the price with their lives for their crazy behavior!

The fact that the human race has become the largest power in this world must mean that the number and strength of the top human race's elite members far surpasses that of the demon race.

The reason why a demon clan force like Long Yuanze can still exist is mostly because they are wary of the opponent's final, crazy, and self-destructive move.

Therefore, as long as the top beings of the demon race don't go mad, they can't allow those fifth-tier demon kings to run rampant!

However, Zhou Chun and nineteen other Golden Core cultivators, along with over a hundred Purple Mansion cultivators, rushed along and soon arrived outside the already occupied Baijiang Market.

Their movements had already been detected by some flying beasts, and when they arrived outside Baijiang Market, they were immediately surrounded by tens of thousands of beasts resting there.

Immediately afterwards, one after another demonic beast emerged from the river surface adjacent to the market, quickly filling the river surface that stretched for dozens of miles.

"Fellow Daoists, let's proceed according to the plan!"

A late-stage Golden Core cultivator in charge glanced at Zhou Chun and the others, then shouted and launched his magic weapon at a fourth-grade high-quality Crimson Fire Dragon.

Subsequently, the Golden Core stage cultivators and Purple Mansion stage cultivators also spread out and activated their magic weapons and divine abilities to attack their chosen opponents.

In terms of numbers, there are currently more Golden Core cultivators of the human race than fourth-order demon beasts in Baijiang Market.

However, there are still many second- and third-tier monsters on the monster side, who can also focus their fire to provide support.

Even a Golden Core cultivator would find it difficult to withstand the attacks of hundreds or thousands of second-tier demonic beasts at the same time.

After all, Golden Core cultivators don't have the powerful physical bodies of fourth-tier demonic beasts, which allow them to ignore attacks from second-tier spells. Once they use magic treasures and divine abilities for defense, they will continuously consume their own mana.

But Zhou Chun is clearly not included here!

Without any attempt to conceal it, he directly unleashed the "Dragon Transformation Secret Technique," covering himself with a layer of silver dragon scales.

With this layer of silver dragon scales protecting him, no attack below the third rank can even consume a single bit of his extra mana!

After transforming, he quickly patted his spirit beast pouch and released his three spirit pets: Thunder Dragon White, Golden-Winged Tiger, and Fiery Phoenix.

Compared to the Golden Armor Mountain-Carrying Turtle Stone and the Wood Spirit Wood Mulberry, these three spirit pets are relatively less attractive to Nascent Soul stage cultivators and are not things they absolutely must obtain.

So even if it's exposed, it will only cause some surprise at most.

To be honest, when he saw the three spirit pets that he released, Master Qianmu was indeed quite surprised.

With the discerning eyesight of a Nascent Soul cultivator, he could naturally see the extraordinary nature of these three demonic beasts.

Not to mention the Thunder Dragon and the Fire Phoenix, they are definitely the kings among monsters of the same level!

The key point is that after the Golden-Winged Tiger breaks through to the fourth rank, its spatial attributes are further enhanced, making it easy for Nascent Soul cultivators who have some knowledge of the Dao of Space to see its true nature.

"How strange! A winged tiger with spatial attributes—this is the first time I've ever heard of or seen one. Could it have consumed some rare and precious spiritual item with spatial attributes during its mutation?"

Master Qianmu was secretly amazed and couldn't help but look forward to Zhou Chun's performance.

Zhou Chun didn't keep him waiting long and quickly assigned tasks to the three spirit pets.

He and Lei Jiao Bai Bai teamed up and went straight for a mid-grade fourth-tier blue dragon, making this pure-blooded dragon their prey.

At the same time, the Golden-Winged Tiger and the Fiery Phoenix both set their sights on another mid-grade fourth-tier demonic bird, the Two-Headed Black Crow.

Both of these demonic beasts are extremely powerful among their peers, and are by no means easy targets.

Zhou Chun clearly knew that if he wanted Qianmu Zhenren to acknowledge his achievements, he absolutely could not rely on bullying those low-grade fourth-order demonic beasts to boost his record!

With a flick of his wrists, the [Dragon and Tiger Golden Rings] shot out, transforming into a golden dragon and a silver tiger that pounced towards the blue dragon.

Then he opened his mouth and spat out his natal magic weapon, the [Myriad Transformations Golden Cauldron], which flew out and transformed into a golden spear under his incantation, shooting towards the Blue Dragon Cave.

He actually used his real skills right from the start!

Under its master's command, Lei Jiao Bai Bai transformed into a streak of silver lightning and pounced towards Lan Jiao, preparing to engage in close combat.

Faced with such a sharp attack from their master and servant, the blue dragon also used all its skills with a serious expression.

Suddenly, the blue water clouds around him shone brightly, transforming into a protective divine power that shielded him.

After the golden dragon and silver tiger pounced, although they tore apart and shattered many of the layers of clouds, they failed to truly harm the ever-changing blue dragon within.

But as a bolt of silver lightning struck down, the water-attribute blue dragon shuddered and couldn't help but let out a roar of pain.

Its eyes burned with rage as it glared at the Thunder Dragon White, hissing and cursing it as a traitor and a disgrace for helping human cultivators to attack its own kind.

But Lei Jiao Bai Bai didn't pay any attention to it at all, nor did it feel any remorse. It just regarded it as prey and enemy with indifferent eyes and attacked it without any mercy!

In Lei Jiao Bai Bai's heart, Zhou Chun, the master who raised him from a small snake into a four-clawed thunder dragon, was the person he was truly closest to.

As for these so-called fellow clansmen, they didn't take them seriously at all!

It hadn't forgotten that the Thunder Dragon King's attack had almost cost it its life!

Because his movement was interrupted by Lei Jiao's attack, Lan Jiao had no choice but to condense a blue water shield to block the golden spear's attack.

But it seems to have underestimated the horror of that shot.

The blue water shield was pierced through by the golden spear in one blow, and then the spear pierced through its hard dragon scales, almost going right through it!

Then, the Geng metal power emanating from the spear within its body wreaked havoc, causing its body to twist and tremble in agony, emitting cries of pain.

Lei Jiao Bai Bai and Zhou Chun were not going to miss this opportunity to beat the dog when it was down. Whether it was the golden dragon and silver tiger transformed by the [Dragon Tiger Golden Ring] or the [Heavenly Thunder Annihilation Slash] unleashed by Lei Jiao Bai Bai, they both locked onto the blue dragon and bombarded it.

If those two blows land, they would at least take away most of the life of this mid-grade fourth-tier blue dragon, if not kill it outright.

But at that moment, the blue dragon suddenly opened its mouth and spat out a blue dragon scale covered with runes, which instantly emitted a rich spiritual light and transformed into a deep and heavy water-blue shield that protected itself.

(End of this chapter)