Beast Taming Immortal Clan

Chapter 631 Storming the Green Lotus Temple [Please Subscribe]

Both the dragon and the phoenix possess top-tier demonic bloodlines.

Any monster that possesses the bloodlines of these two monsters will be stronger and have greater potential than ordinary monsters of the same level.

Furthermore, many special elixirs, secret techniques, and even magical artifacts and talismans in the cultivation world require the bloodlines of these two demonic beasts as a medium.

The Zhou family's dragon blood demon beast is now widely known, and every year individual cultivators or immortal cultivation forces come to purchase its dragon blood.

Zhou Chun had also made transactions with several Golden Core cultivators who came to him seeking to purchase the blood of the Flood Dragon.

It can be said that the Zhou family can earn 10,000 to 20,000 spirit coins a year just by extracting and selling the blood from various low, medium and high-level dragon blood demon beasts.

Furthermore, this income is very stable; it basically only increases and never decreases.

As for the Fire Phoenix bloodline, which is on par with the Flood Dragon bloodline but even rarer, its value will only be higher.

In fact, after witnessing Zhou Chun's Fiery Phoenix, more than one Golden Core cultivator from the Flame Sun Sect came to him, wanting to exchange for the Phoenix True Feather, and offering very generous terms.

However, Zhou Chun naturally refused this offer outright and completely ignored it.

He wouldn't even compromise with Master Yan Cang, a grandmaster of weapon crafting, let alone these Golden Core cultivators.

As for the Nascent Soul stage cultivators of the Yan Yang Sect, unless they were deliberately trying to suppress him, they certainly wouldn't dare to make things difficult for a junior like him.

In short, the fact that he was able to give those Yan Yang Sect cultivators a few drops of fire phoenix essence blood was already considered as him showing consideration for the Yan Yang Sect's reputation.

Under these circumstances, the fact that the Zhou family has now cultivated a mid-level demon beast with the Fire Phoenix bloodline is naturally of great significance.

Regardless of whether these demonic beasts have any hope of condensing the true feathers of the Fire Phoenix and transforming into a real Fire Phoenix in the future.

Just considering the potential for industrial expansion that they could bring to the Zhou family after becoming Phoenix Blood Beasts, it is a treasure trove with boundless potential.

With the precedent of the Five-Colored Phoenix-Tailed Pheasant, the Zhou family can continue to develop along this line of thought and further explore and cultivate more varieties of Phoenix Blood Beasts.

Anyway, the Fire Phoenix's essence blood is only extracted in small amounts, so it won't affect the growth of the Fiery Phoenix too much. It can be replenished by eating a few thousand-year-old spiritual herbs.

Once the Five-Colored Phoenix-Tailed Pheasant and other phoenix-blooded demonic beasts have bred in large numbers, the Zhou family will be able to steadily earn a large amount of spirit coins simply by selling their feathers and spirit blood.

Therefore, Zhou Chun was very happy when he learned of this news. He even made an exception and personally met with the junior Qi Refining cultivator named Zhou Gaoping, and bestowed upon him a Foundation Establishment Pill, which is the most precious thing for a Qi Refining cultivator.

"This junior is deeply grateful for the clan chief's gift; I will never forget the clan chief's kindness!"

Having received the Foundation Establishment Pill, Zhou Gaoping, his hands trembling as he held the bottle, knelt on the ground with immense excitement, repeatedly kowtowing to Zhou Chun in gratitude.

He only has a low-grade spiritual root aptitude, and his parents are ordinary mortals. Now over sixty years old, he has only just reached the twelfth level of the Qi Refining stage. This is all thanks to the Zhou family taking over the Qinglian Mountain Range, which allowed him to enjoy the cultivation environment that only Foundation Establishment cultivators of the Qinglian Temple could enjoy in the past.

Given his circumstances, even within the Zhou family, there would have been absolutely no way he could have obtained a Foundation Establishment Pill.

Now that he has made a contribution and been received by the clan leader Zhou Chun, who personally bestowed upon him a Foundation Establishment Pill, giving him a chance to ascend to heaven, how could he not be extremely excited and grateful?

"Get up. This is your deserved reward. The family never mistreats anyone who has rendered meritorious service, regardless of their background. Anyone who makes a great contribution to the family deserves to be rewarded!"

Zhou Chun waved his hand, said some words of encouragement, and then dismissed the others.

The reason he summoned the other party and bestowed the Foundation Establishment Pill was merely to make a gesture for the other young clansmen and to reiterate the policies and clan rules he had established during his previous rule.

Any member of the Zhou family who makes a great contribution to the family, regardless of their background or qualifications, will receive a special reward from the family.

Whether it's Foundation Establishment Pills or spiritual items that help open the Purple Mansion, the family will be generous with their rewards.

As long as such upward mobility exists, even if some middle and upper-level members of the Zhou family abuse their power for personal gain, it won't completely deprive those clansmen without background or poor spiritual aptitude of the opportunity to pursue the Dao.

This is very important!

Speaking of which, as the Zhou family occupied the Qinglian Mountains and engaged in large-scale development, many clansmen have also gained personal opportunities in recent years.

The Qinglian Mountains were, after all, a sacred mountain and blessed land that the Qinglian Temple, a major sect, had cultivated for a long time. Even though it had been ravaged by hundreds of thousands of demonic beasts before, there were still many treasures that had been missed and had not been destroyed.

Furthermore, after the Qinglian Temple's mountain gate was breached, many Qinglian Temple disciples perished in the mountains during their escape, and some of their magical artifacts and storage bags were not damaged by the demonic beasts.

After the Zhou family took control of this area, many of their clansmen were fortunate enough to discover these things while patrolling and exploring the mountains, thus making a fortune.

The clan never demands that these clan members hand over what they have obtained through their own opportunities; they tacitly agree that it belongs to them.

Even if the hired rogue cultivators made some gains within the Azure Lotus Mountains, the Zhou family would not rob them.

Even Zhou Mingde didn't have that kind of idea.

As members of the Zhou family's decision-making team, he and Zhou Chun both knew that a good reputation was far more important to the Zhou family than petty gains.

Stealing the spoils of those rogue cultivators would not benefit the Zhou family much, but it would only offend the entire rogue cultivator community.

The higher-ups in their family would never do something that would be like picking up a sesame seed while losing a watermelon, and they would also forbid their family members from doing it.

What Zhou Chun should really pay attention to is the secret vault of Qinglian Temple, and the inheritances that Qingweizi and others took away.

A sect like Qinglian Temple, which has produced mid-Nascent Soul cultivators in the past, might even have Nascent Soul spirits in its secret vault!

After all, if such a sect were to truly need to use its secret treasury and wish to revive, it would require a Nascent Soul stage cultivator to oversee it.

Therefore, it is possible that the spirit objects of the Nascent Soul were stored in the secret vault for future generations to use.

Judging by the time, the protection period for Qinglian Temple is about to end, and Zhou Chun has already begun making preparations in secret.

Three years later, Gongsun Yuanji and his sister Gongsun Yuanzhi suddenly came to pay their respects to Zhou Chun and bid him farewell.

For over a decade, the brother and sister had been working for the Zhou family to pay off their debts. During this time, their work was delayed for several more years because they needed Zhou Chun to give them a thousand-year-old elixir to replenish their life essence.

Now, I've finally paid off all my debts and am free.

They clearly had no intention of staying at the Zhou family any longer, and since the Zhou family had already set up formations in all the places that needed to be set up, there was no room for them to play a significant role.

So at this point, the two of them came over to say goodbye to Zhou Chun.

"Since you two have ultimately decided to leave, then I, Zhou, will not say anything more to persuade you to stay. I wish you both a safe journey."

Inside the cave, Zhou Chun looked at the Gongsun siblings in front of him and did not try to persuade them to stay. He readily agreed to their request.

"Senior, you are so magnanimous! We, your younger siblings, are deeply grateful. We wish you a smooth path in your cultivation and everlasting success in the path of immortality!"

Gongsun Yuanji's expression relaxed, and he quickly expressed his gratitude before leaving with his sister, Gongsun Yuanzhi.

About three days after the two left, Zhou Xinyan suddenly came to pay his respects to Zhou Chun.

Upon seeing Zhou Chun, he took out a silver-white box and held it in his hands. He respectfully addressed Zhou Chun, saying, "Clan Chief, a Qi Refining stage clansman has come to see me today with this item. He said that Fellow Daoist Gongsun and his sister specifically asked him to pass it on. I dare not act on my own initiative, so I have come to pay my respects to the Clan Chief."

"Oh, is that so?"

Zhou Chun raised an eyebrow and immediately raised his hand to grab the silver-white box.

This silver-white box was clearly protected by some kind of restriction, making it impossible for an ordinary cultivator to open.

But for him, it was utterly insignificant.

He simply raised his hand and wiped the box, a flash of golden light, and the protective seal on the box was removed.

When he opened the box, he found a thick book inside, with the words "Detailed Explanation of Formation Techniques" written on the cover.

Zhou Chun took out the book, flipped through it casually, and then showed a look of surprise.

This book, "Detailed Explanation of the Way of Formations," was actually written by Gongsun Yuanzhi specifically for the Zhou family, as a teaching manual for formation masters.

This book does not record the secret formations of the Gongsun family. Instead, it uses some formations that are widely circulated in the cultivation world as models, and teaches formation masters and apprentices how to set up and break formations, how to learn a new formation more effectively, and how to build a complete formation system!

Much of the knowledge contained here is something that the array masters of the Gongsun family learned from a young age, and it's not exactly a secret within their family.

However, for a family like the Zhou family, which is not known for its array formations, it is an extremely valuable item.

Whether they are new apprentices in formations or formation masters like Zhang Liang, they will be able to avoid many detours in their research on formations through this book, "Detailed Explanation of the Way of Formations".

This shows that Gongsun Yuanzhi had indeed investigated the Zhou family's array masters before choosing to leave behind such a teaching book to help the Zhou family.

"Senior Zhou is a man of noble character and magnanimity, which Yuanzhi and her brother deeply admire and are grateful for. However, our lineage of array formations is the foundation of the Gongsun family, and we dare not do anything that would violate our ancestral teachings by passing it on to outsiders. Therefore, we offer this book to Senior Zhou, hoping that it may be of some benefit to the Zhou family's inheritance of array formations!"

Zhou Chun flipped to the last page of the book and saw the comments left by Gongsun Yuanzhi.

Seeing this, he nodded and muttered to himself, "She's quite thoughtful. It seems those thousand-year-old medicinal herbs weren't given away for nothing!"

He then tossed the book in his hand to Zhou Xinyan, who was still waiting, and said, "Have someone make a few copies of this book, and then give them to Zhang Liang."

"Yes, junior obeys."

Zhou Xinyan responded and then left with the book "Detailed Explanation of the Dao of Formations".

Time flies, and three years have passed in a flash.

On this day, inside Zhou Chun's cave, under his watchful gaze, four small insects, resembling six-winged ice silkworms, each spun silk to form cocoons, sealing themselves inside and beginning their own metamorphosis.

Up to this point, he had not discovered any remarkable abilities in the four little insects.

After waiting another year with such anticipation, Zhou Chun finally saw four small insects emerge from their cocoons.

The four small insects that emerged from their cocoons were actually smaller than before, perhaps because they hadn't eaten for so long.

Apart from having a slightly better ability to hide, they haven't changed much, nor have they grown wings.

This left Zhou Chun quite disappointed.

He then observed them for another six months and found that, apart from growing larger and larger with a sufficient food supply, the four worms did not exhibit any unusual abilities.

Such behavior left him completely disappointed, and he stopped paying much attention to them, only throwing them some food every now and then.

After more than a decade of construction and management, the Zhou family had finally brought the spiritual mountain of Qinglian Mountain under their complete control, and all the spiritual sites in the mountain were put into development.

Of course, due to a shortage of manpower, many places are simply set up with a simple array for protection, with people patrolling regularly, and the actual development level is not high.

Despite this, the Zhou family's savings were almost completely depleted due to the numerous formations they had set up and the hiring of many independent cultivators.

Zhou Chun, Zhou Mingde, and other high-ranking family members also personally contributed a lot of spirit coins.

Only then did the Zhou family have the energy to attend to areas outside the Qinglian Mountains.

For example, other cultivation families or independent cultivator strongholds in Lanzhou and Lianzhou.

These forces will all be directly controlled and led by the Zhou family in the future, and will nominally become vassals of the Zhou family.

At the same time, the right to operate markets in both locations will also belong to the Zhou family.

Some unclaimed sacred sites were also under the jurisdiction and allocation of the Zhou family.

Previously, because the entire central and southern parts of Jingguo were in a period of reconstruction, neither the Zhou family nor those other families had the mind to pay attention to these matters.

However, now that more than a decade has passed, each family has rebuilt its mountain gate and entered a recovery period, so these matters have to be addressed.

In particular, the markets where cultivators exchanged and traded were in dire need of reconstruction.

In light of this, Zhou Chun, in the name of the Zhou family, arranged for invitations to be sent to various forces within the two states, inviting the leaders of each force to come to the Qinglian Mountains for a meeting to discuss relevant matters.

"Clan leader, you are wise. There are no Golden Core families left in the two states. There are four major immortal cultivation families with Purple Mansion stage cultivators in charge, sixteen immortal cultivation families with Foundation Establishment stage cultivators in charge, and fifty-two smaller families that have established their own sects."

"As for the strongholds of rogue cultivators, there are two rogue cultivators from foreign countries who have taken advantage of the situation to occupy two mountain gates and spiritual lands that originally belonged to two major cultivation clans, and established cultivation strongholds. There are also six other strongholds established by Foundation Establishment stage rogue cultivators!"

While the invitations were still being distributed, Zhou Xinyan took the opportunity to report the intelligence gathered by the Zhou family on various forces within the country to Zhou Chun, so that he would be well-informed.

After listening to Zhou Xinyan's report, Zhou Chun also showed a surprised expression.

She couldn't help but look at him and ask, "Why is there so little? And didn't the Chen family of Lanzhou also leave back then? Did they even abandon their ancestral land?"

Zhou Chunke remembered that in the past, there were as many as six or seven major cultivation clans in Lanzhou alone, not to mention Lianzhou.

Even if the previous beast tide was too fierce and those families misjudged the situation and were unable to cope, they should not have been left with only a few families.

Upon hearing his words, Zhou Xinyan replied with a wry smile, "The Supreme Elder of the Chen family in Lanzhou unfortunately perished in the beast tide, and several of their high-ranking members were also lost. Furthermore, perhaps feeling that it would be difficult to maintain good relations with my Zhou family in the future, they have now relocated to Tanzhou, where they have secured a sacred site to rebuild their sect!"

"As for the other former powerful clans of the Purple Mansion stage, some lost their Purple Mansion stage cultivators and fell from grace, while others were wiped out in the beast tide. A few clans that were particularly close to the Azure Lotus Temple seem to have left with the temple!"

This answer left Zhou Chun speechless.

After a long silence, he smiled faintly and said, "Then let's leave it at that. Since those people don't want to come back, they don't need to come back in the future!"

In the cultivation world, there are ultimately more people than land. As long as the sacred mountain and blessed land are there, a suitable master will eventually come to reside there.

Those who lack confidence in the Zhou family and the forces that do so will regret their ignorance in the future!

However, with only a handful of people like this, the subsequent meetings became rather dull.

After the representatives of various forces arrived, Zhou Chun simply made a brief appearance, representing the Zhou family in acknowledging their sovereignty over the spiritual land they currently occupied and accepting their allegiance. He then announced that the Zhou family would rebuild the market as soon as possible.

As for how to deal with these vassal forces in the future, Zhou Chun, a Golden Core cultivator, doesn't need to worry about that.

Zhou Chun himself kept his word. Six months after gathering the vassal forces, the Zhou family started construction in both places at the same time, rebuilding new markets in the original locations of the markets in Lanzhou and Lianzhou, so that cultivators in the two places could exchange goods through the markets.

At the same time, the former "Zhou Tong Tian Xia" trading company also resumed operations.

But this only means that the situation in the cultivation world is beginning to improve.

In the mortal realm, Lanzhou and Lianzhou are still deserted for thousands of miles. A few mortals can only survive the threat of monsters and wild beasts and expand their population by relying on the protection of cultivators.

It would probably take at least two or three hundred years to restore the cultivation world and the mortal world in both places to the state they were in before the beast tide.

Spring has passed and winter has come; in the blink of an eye, another three years have gone by.

Inside Zhou Chun's cave, the four small insects underwent another metamorphosis, but the result was still not much different.

Meanwhile, Su Yuzhen had already entered a secluded cultivation chamber to begin her breakthrough to the mid-stage of the Golden Core realm.

"The two-hundred-year period has passed; young friend Zhou, it's time for you to take action."

On this day, the reclusive Master Tianjing, who had been living in seclusion within the Zhou family's mountain gate, suddenly whispered a reminder in Zhou Chun's ear.

Upon hearing this familiar voice that he hadn't heard in a long time, Zhou Chun was slightly taken aback before bowing respectfully towards the mountain where the Heavenly Mirror Master was located and saying, "Yes, this junior understands."

Several days later, without the knowledge of many Zhou family elders, Zhou Chun quietly left the Qinglian Mountains.

He first went to Tuyun Ridge and secretly took away the Golden Armored Mountain Tortoise Stone and the Wood Spirit Wood Mulberry, and then headed straight for the Kingdom of Joy.

Over the years, the Zhou family has never given up on gathering intelligence on the remnants of the Qinglian Temple.

It is now confirmed that Qingweizi, the former abbot of Qinglian Temple, has settled down in a certain place in Le Kingdom with most of the remaining cultivators of Qinglian Temple, and it seems that she has also received the protection of a major sect in Le Kingdom.

Zhou Chun guessed that Qingxiao Zhenren must have made some agreement with the Nascent Soul stage cultivator of that major sect in the Le Kingdom before his death, or that the other party owed him a favor, which is why he took care of Qinglian Temple, which was now like a stray dog.

However, such care is certainly limited. At most, it would leave a sacred place for the remnants of the Qinglian Temple to take refuge and protect them from persecution by local forces.

Moreover, as long as Zhou Chun acts swiftly and decisively, eliminating the remnants of the Qinglian Temple before that Nascent Soul cultivator receives the news, even if the other party knows that he was the one who did it, they will most likely be helpless.

We can't possibly go to the Qinglian Mountains and fight against Master Tianjing just for the sake of the Qinglian Temple, which has already been destroyed.

At this time, Zhou Chun concealed his identity and cultivation level along the way, and after traveling for several days, he quietly arrived at the place where the remnants of the Qinglian Temple were located.

This place is called Tongmu Ridge. It was originally a separate courtyard of the Liyang Sect, a major sect in the Le Kingdom. The size and grade of the spiritual land were comparable to the Su Family Mountain Gate, and it could accommodate several Golden Core stage cultivators.

The protective array set up on Tongmu Ridge is quite ingenious. Although it cannot compare to the forbidden array that can withstand Nascent Soul stage cultivators, it is in no way inferior to the [Yi Wood Coiling Dragon Array] currently set up by the Zhou family.

If a late-stage Golden Core cultivator were here, facing this situation, they would probably also find it difficult to make a move.

After all, this place is not open to the public and does not accept non-Qinglian Temple cultivators to enter. Even the Qinglian Temple cultivators inside rarely go out.

Even if one wanted to conceal their cultivation level and infiltrate inside to launch an attack from the inside, there would be little chance.

But Zhou Chun is different.

He has now mastered the second level of "Minor Five Elements Breaking the Restriction Mystic Light". As long as he gathers the five elemental spiritual objects required for the third level, he will soon be able to master the third level.

With the profoundness of this secret technique, coupled with the special talent of the Golden Armor Mountain-Carrying Turtle Stone in breaking formations, it was enough to forcefully break into the great formation.

Therefore, after observing the area secretly for a while, he deliberately waited for half a month before finally making his move on a rainy night.

Suddenly, in the rainy night, Zhou Chun's figure appeared at the edge of the protective array of Tongmu Ridge.

Then he formed hand seals and activated a secret technique, and a ball of five-colored spiritual light emerged from his hands, transforming into a beam of light that broke through the barrier and rushed forward.

Instantly, under the sweep of this five-colored, barrier-breaking light, the protective array of Tongmu Ridge was opened up with an unobstructed passage, allowing Zhou Chun to easily penetrate into the array without being detected.

It wasn't until he entered the deepest part of the great formation and was about to break through the entire defensive line that the anomaly was finally discovered by the cultivators guarding the formation, because the power of the Breaking Light could not easily break through the last invisible barrier of the great formation.

"Who goes there, daring to trespass at the gates of Qinglian Temple!"

With a furious shout filled with shock and anger, the originally restrained power of the Tongmu Ridge protective array immediately became violent.

Before the person who spoke could mobilize the array's power to deal with the person who had trespassed, Zhou Chun had already activated the [Heavenly Gang Thunder-Slaying Sword] in conjunction with the Breaking Restriction Mystic Light, forcibly breaking through the last layer of array barrier and entering Tongmu Ridge.

"Where is Qingweizi? Come out and face your death!"

Inside Tongmu Ridge, Zhou Chun roared as he rode his sword, summoning all five of his demonic beasts and spirit pets with a wave of his hand. He then mercilessly slaughtered all the Qinglian Temple cultivators inside!

Well, after watching the game, I actually still had time to write 6,000 words.

(End of this chapter)