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Chapter 771 Kunwu Mountain of Yu State [Please Subscribe]

Heng State.

On this day, several huge black shadows suddenly appeared in the sky above Heng Kingdom, which was still under reconstruction.

Upon closer inspection, they were clearly large magical artifacts flying through the air.

The Nine Yuan Sword Sect's large-scale transport magic treasures are giant ships, each capable of carrying over 15,000 people, and there are three in total!

The Huangfu family possesses two types of large transport vessels. One type is also a giant ship with a similar capacity, and there are two of them.

Another type is a magical treasure raft, which is a hundred feet long and several tens of feet wide. It can transport more than 20,000 people at a time, and there are two of them.

Indeed, those large transport vessels that have arrived over Heng Kingdom are the Zhou family's relocation fleet.

After nearly half a year of preparation, the first batch of mortals to be relocated were escorted to Heng Kingdom by Zhou Chun himself.

The settlement location had been scouted in advance; it was near the former capital of the Heng Kingdom's mortal kingdom. Although the area had been ravaged by foreign tribes, the farmland and pastures were well-preserved and very suitable for mortals to settle down.

The fact that Zhou Chun was able to settle the mortals of the Zhou family here is because Zhou Chun is now famous enough and has the permission of the Tai Geng God Venerable. The cultivators who rebuilt Heng Kingdom dared not have a conflict with him.

At this point, after the fleet arrived above the settlement, it immediately and slowly descended to a height close to the ground.

Then, stepping stones were lowered one by one, and the Zhou family members on the ship immediately stepped off the boat with different feelings, looking at the unfamiliar land beneath their feet.

After all the mortals disembarked, Zhou family cultivators led them to familiarize themselves with the place.

At this moment, Zhou Chun nodded slightly to the Golden Core cultivators of the Nine Yuan Sword Sect and Huangfu Family who were responsible for controlling the magic weapons and said, "Thank you for your hard work, fellow Daoists. I will need to trouble you to make a few more trips. I will arrange for spirit pets and clansmen to accompany you and escort you."

Upon hearing his words, the Golden Core cultivators hurriedly waved their hands and said, "We dare not accept such praise, it is our honor to serve Senior Zhou!"

They now know all about Zhou Chun's achievements and strength, and since Zhou Chun had already paid them in advance before they came, they didn't dare to show off in front of Zhou Chun after only helping him with a small favor.

Even the Nascent Soul stage cultivators of their own faction now treat Zhou Chun with utmost respect.

Zhou Chun was just being polite; he quickly handed over the task of continuing to transport the Zhou family's mortals to Feng Yuanjun and Zhou Xinyan.

Feng Yuanjun was responsible for leading those Golden Core cultivators back to Shen and Cheng Kingdoms quickly, escorting them along the way, while Zhou Xinyan was responsible for coordinating with the clansmen there.

As for Zhou Chun, he had no intention of staying in Heng Kingdom, but went directly to Tianman Plain.

The incarnation of the God Tai Geng is already in the Tianman Plain, and the news that the human race intends to expand its territory in the Tianman Plain has been clearly communicated to those alien races.

Now, on the newly designated land, virtually no fifth-tier alien races dare to show their faces. The places where fifth-tier alien races or fifth-tier demon kings used to be have all disappeared without a trace.

After Zhou Chun entered Tianman Plain, he could still see some Earth Barbarians and Five Elements Spirit Clan members along the way, seemingly seizing the opportunity to plunder and harvest the resources of this region.

Seeing this, he naturally showed no mercy and killed any alien races he discovered on the spot.

He even quickly made up his mind that after meeting the incarnation of the Tai Geng God, he would release the spirit pets and demon kings to kill those alien races, and he would make sure to terrify them!

After flying for more than two hours through the Tianman Plain, Zhou Chun arrived at the place where the incarnation of the Tai Geng God Venerable was located.

It was a sacred peak that didn't look particularly tall, but its body was very wide.

On this sacred peak, there are still many giant stone palaces and stone houses, which, judging from their style, were left by the local barbarian tribes.

The incarnation of the God Tai Geng was sitting in a stone hall on the mountaintop.

After Zhou Chun entered the stone hall and bowed to him, he slowly spoke: "This place was originally the largest settlement of the Earth Barbarian tribe besides the Holy City. In addition to this Spirit Peak, there are two other places in the nearby mountains with spiritual energy concentrations that are no worse than your Qinglian Peak. Within a radius of a thousand miles, there are more than a dozen mines left by the Earth Barbarian tribe, and the reserves are quite considerable."

"Furthermore, there is a hot spring inside this mountain. The spring water has excellent body-tempering effects, useful for barbarian warriors of the first to third tiers. As for human cultivators, even late-stage Golden Core cultivators can use this spring to temper their bodies!"

"There are three other places in the mountains that can reliably produce [Earthly Spirit Milk], and one place that produces [Spiritual Stone Milk]."

"And there are also spiritual trees in these mountains. Although there are no fifth-tier spiritual trees, there are twenty-seven fourth-tier spiritual trees, including eight spiritual fruit trees, and many remnants of medicinal gardens cultivated by the barbarian tribes!"

At this point, he looked at Zhou Chun and asked, "Such a blessed land, is it still pleasing to your eye?"

Hearing this, Zhou Chun, who was already deeply moved by his words, nodded repeatedly and said, "Such a blessed land is the foundation that I and my family have always dreamed of. Senior Tai Geng, you are so kind and virtuous, please accept my bow!"

After speaking, he bowed deeply to the incarnation of the God Tai Geng to express his gratitude.

"If you are satisfied, then the Yu Kingdom will be handed over to your Zhou family. I hope you will do your utmost to build this country and add another fertile land for our human race!"

Tai Geng, the Divine Lord, nodded slightly and took the opportunity to express his expectations for Zhou Chun and the Zhou family.

Upon hearing this, Zhou Chun immediately and solemnly declared, "Please rest assured, Senior Tai Geng, my family and I will do our utmost to contribute to the construction of the Yu Kingdom and will certainly live up to your high expectations!"

After speaking, he hesitated for a moment, then asked in a low voice, "This junior may humbly ask Senior Tai Geng, besides my Zhou family, what other forces might migrate to the Yu Kingdom?"

Upon hearing his question, the avatar of the Tai Geng Divine Lord immediately replied softly, "In this great war with the alien races from all directions, all factions of the human race have suffered considerable losses, especially in the border countries where entire families have been wiped out. As a result, quite a few spiritual lands have been vacated."

"Therefore, the only major power willing to establish a foothold in the Yu Kingdom this time is your Zhou family. In addition, there are two Nascent Soul stage cultivators willing to come here to establish their own sects. As for whether to accept other small and medium-sized forces to come here in the future, it is entirely up to the three of you!"

This answer left Zhou Chun unsure whether to be pleased or disappointed.

The good news is that if no other major factions come, the newly established Yu Kingdom will truly be completely under the control of the Zhou family.

Disappointingly, no other major factions came to help, making it much more difficult to build a country from scratch.

He paused for a moment before speaking again, "I understand, but I wonder where those two fellow Daoists are now? I also have some thoughts I wish to discuss with them!"

Upon hearing this, the avatar of the Tai Geng Divine Lord answered without hesitation, saying, "The two of them are currently traveling around the cultivation worlds of other countries, trying to recruit a group of independent cultivators and cultivation families to work for them. It may take quite some time before they can come over."

Upon hearing this answer, Zhou Chun's eyelids twitched. He felt that he had been somewhat hasty and should not have been so eager to relocate the mortals of his family.

He immediately kept this matter in mind, and then solemnly looked at the avatar of the Tai Geng God and said, "This junior has another matter I would like to ask Senior Tai Geng about, concerning the construction of the mountain-protecting formation here."

"The Zhou family currently lacks a formation master capable of setting up such a forbidden formation, and the mountain-protecting formation is of paramount importance, so we dare not easily allow outsiders to interfere in its setup. Therefore, we would like to request Senior Tai Geng to recommend a trustworthy person to help set up the formation!"

Upon hearing his request, the avatar of the Tai Geng Divine Venerable immediately waved his hand and said, "Don't worry about this matter. I have already made arrangements. As soon as the cultivators from your Zhou family arrive, the person who set up the formation will be here soon."

"I understand. I have no further questions."

Zhou Chun nodded and wisely refrained from bothering the other party any further.

He then consulted with the avatar of the deity Tai Geng, and after receiving a roughly drawn map of the Yu Kingdom, he began to inspect the entire territory of the Yu Kingdom.

The territory of the Yu Kingdom is about one and a half times the size of the Jing Kingdom, but mountains and plateaus occupy most of the land.

From this perspective, it seems unrealistic for the State of Yu to become a populous nation in the future.

On the bright side, this place is rich in mineral and medicinal resources, with numerous spiritual veins, making it an invaluable treasure for cultivators.

If there aren't any major safety issues, it will definitely attract many small and medium-sized forces and independent cultivators who need spiritual vein lands to come here to cultivate.

Therefore, Zhou Chun's most important task now is to explore all the spiritual veins and understand their specific conditions. Only in this way can he decide which places to open to small and medium-sized forces and independent cultivators, and which places to keep for the Zhou family to occupy first.

At this time, the two demon king spirit pets, Lu Yuanjun and Fushanjun, came in very handy.

One of them was skilled at finding medicinal herbs, and the other was an expert in prospecting; in this respect, they were better than a thousand soldiers.

Let them investigate and search first, then when Feng Yuanjun has time, let him use his [Fiery Eyes] to search again. That way, there's basically no need to worry about missing anything.

During their search for spirits and minerals, Zhou Chun and his spirit pets showed no mercy to any of the members of the three alien races they encountered. Regardless of their strength, they buried them all in the ground!

In the blink of an eye, another six months have passed.

After six months of investigation and visits, Zhou Chun drew up a very detailed map of the Yu Kingdom. It not only marked the various spiritual veins, but also indicated the locations of the discovered mineral veins, down to the quantity and quality of the mineral reserves.

Places suitable for planting certain special medicinal herbs and raising demonic beasts are also marked on the map.

Meanwhile, after six months of patrolling and collecting, Zhou Chun took advantage of his first-mover advantage and found eleven thousand-year-old precious medicinal herbs with an age of over three thousand years, seven kinds of magical treasures and spiritual materials, one hundred and sixty-seven thousand-year-old spiritual herbs, fifteen fourth-order spiritual trees, five third-order spiritual fruit trees, and two third-order spiritual tea trees.

He had Lu Yuanjun transplant all these spirit trees back to the Zhou family's mountain gate to serve as part of the family's foundation.

In addition, during this process, Zhou Chun and his spirit pet also killed twelve fourth-tier demonic beasts, five fourth-tier earth barbarians, one fourth-tier earth spirit, two fourth-tier gold spirits, and thousands of other members of the three major alien races!

After his massacre and cleanup, there were almost no fourth-order demonic beasts or fourth-order alien races left in the Yu Kingdom. There was no need to worry about the Zhou family cultivators' safety being threatened after they migrated here.

As for the demonic beasts with cultivation levels below the fourth rank, Zhou Chun didn't bother with them, intending to leave them for the younger generation of his family and other cultivators who would come later to deal with. This was considered a test and a reward for them.

When Zhou Chun returned to Heng Kingdom, all of the more than 900,000 mortals of the Zhou family had already been transported here.

Seeing this, he went to great lengths to personally travel to the Great Zhou Kingdom and send back the Golden Core cultivators who had been invited to help.

It wasn't that he was particularly polite, but rather that he knew the large transport magic treasures these people possessed were extremely valuable, and he was afraid something might happen to them on their way back.

If something really happens, the compensation he has to pay will be a very large sum!

In addition, when sending these people back to the Great Zhou Kingdom, Zhou Chun also took Zhou Xinyan with him, intending for him to use the Zhou family's name to promote the Yu Kingdom in the Great Zhou Kingdom and recruit some independent cultivators or cultivation families who wanted to take a chance to build the Yu Kingdom.

After finishing this matter, Zhou Chun led the Zhou family and the cultivators who had migrated with the Zhou family to the Yu Kingdom.

After all, the Zhou family had been rooted in Jing Kingdom for hundreds of years and had even been the leader of Jing Kingdom for a period of time. This time, they were able to rule the country alone and had the support of a Nascent Soul stage cultivator, so some vassal forces were willing to follow them.

This includes the Su family, to which Su Yuzhen belongs.

The Su family cultivators retreated to the Azure Lotus Mountains. Although there were some casualties in the war, the overall situation was not fundamentally damaged.

Their previous relationship with the Zhou family means that if they continue to stay in Jingguo, their fate will likely not be good.

So, after learning that the Zhou family was going to move to the Yu Kingdom, Su Yunniang and another Golden Core cultivator from the Su family who was now in charge of the family decided to follow them without much hesitation.

Anyway, given the relationship between Su Yuzhen and Zhou Xinyuan, the Zhou family would never mistreat the Su family, no matter who they mistreat.

Even this time, tens of thousands of ordinary people from the Su family migrated here, most of whom are relatives and descendants of the current Su family cultivators.

Zhou Chun naturally wouldn't mistreat the Su family.

Not counting the Zhou family's mountain gate, there are three other places in Yu Kingdom whose conditions are no worse than the Azure Lotus Mountain Range. After removing the places occupied by the other two Nascent Soul stage cultivators, Zhou Chun decided to give the remaining place to the Su family!

When Zhou Chun arrived at the Zhou family's mountain gate with a group of cultivators, he realized that he had forgotten to name the place when he was about to introduce it to Zhou Mingde and the others.

After a slight hesitation, he first consulted the avatar of the deity Tai Geng, who was recuperating on the mountaintop.

However, the incarnation of the Tai Geng deity did not overstep its bounds and name the object for him, but instead gave him the naming rights.

So he stopped being polite and said directly, "Then let's call it Kunwu Mountain Range, and from now on this place will be called Kunwu Mountain."

Zhou Mingde and the others obviously did not understand the meaning of "Kunwu", but since Zhou Chun had chosen this name, they naturally had no objections.

And so the name Kunwu Mountain was decided.

Subsequently, the group of cultivators embarked on a large-scale construction project on Mount Kunwu, building various architectural facilities.

This was certainly not something that Elders Zhou Mingde and Zhou Daoyi would need to handle, so they took the opportunity to explain the current situation of the Zhou family to Zhou Chun.

"After the war, the family still has 1,256 cultivators of the clan, 634 cultivators from the maternal relatives, and 550 retainers."

"In addition, there are a total of 893 cultivators from the Su family and other groups who accompanied us!"

"We've brought all the supplies that the family originally moved with us. That should be enough to support these people's cultivation for decades to come. After that, we'll have to see how well we make it here."

"In addition, the internal rewards for merits within the family have not yet been carried out, and many family members are quite concerned about this matter."

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After listening to their story, Zhou Chun pondered for a moment before quickly saying, "The Yu Kingdom is rich, and there are countless spiritual creatures in the wilderness. The harvests obtained by our clansmen on their future adventures will certainly not disappoint them. There is no need to worry about a lack of elixirs, magical artifacts, and talismans."

"As for the rewards within the family, let's make a note of that for now. We can deal with it after the mountain-protecting formation is completed."

Zhou Mingde and the other man had no objections to his arrangement and agreed to it.

Only after Zhou Mingde and others saw the map drawn by Zhou Chun did they truly gain a direct impression of the wealth of the Yu Kingdom.

"What a fertile land!"

"If my Zhou family can control 50% of these resources, it will be enough to keep our clansmen at over 5,000, more than enough to support 30 to 40 Golden Core cultivators!"

Looking at the map drawn by Zhou Chun in his hand, Zhou Mingde was overjoyed and excited, sighing repeatedly, feeling extremely happy.

Zhou Daoyi shook his head excitedly, saying, "Grand Uncle is being conservative. If we could truly control 50% of the resources, not only would maintaining the clan's population of 5,000 be no problem, but supporting tens of thousands of clansmen would be no burden at all. Furthermore, we wouldn't need to intentionally control the number of Purple Mansion cultivators and Golden Core cultivators anymore!"

Zhou Chun was not surprised by the excitement of his two elders.

Even he himself was amazed by the abundance of resources on the map he had drawn himself for the first time.

Once the two had calmed down a bit, he continued, "It's not a good thing to monopolize everything, so fifty percent is just right. For the more important places, the family needs to send people there as soon as possible to establish strongholds and declare sovereignty. We also need to mark the less important places so that we can have a legitimate claim when we occupy them in the future!"

"Zheng Chun is absolutely right. Let me handle this matter; I'll do a perfect job!"

Zhou Daoyi nodded repeatedly and immediately volunteered to take on the task.

Not long after, the array master mentioned by the incarnation of the deity Tai Geng also arrived at Kunwu Mountain.

Zhou Chun actually recognized this formation master; he was none other than the Grand Elder of Tianyi Sect, Tianxuan Zhenren, whom he had met before at Tianyi Sect!

"Fellow Daoist Tianxuan is a master of both talisman and array formations. He is a grandmaster of both talisman and array formations, and his array formation skills are expected to reach the grandmaster level in the future. With him setting up the protective array for your Zhou family, Fellow Daoist Zhou, you no longer need to worry about your safety!"

On Kunwu Peak, after the avatar of the Divine Venerable Tai Geng greeted the arriving True Person Tian Xuan, he also teased Zhou Chun with a hint of joking.

Seeing how casually Tai Geng Divine Venerable treated Zhou Chun, and having personally participated in the merit-rewarding ceremony and learned of Zhou Chun's amazing achievements, Zhou Chun's status in Tianxuan Zhenren's heart was elevated to another level.

He immediately replied humbly, "I dare not accept such praise from Senior Tai Geng. My skills in array formations are only barely passable."

Upon seeing this, Zhou Chun quickly said, "Fellow Daoist Tianxuan is too modest. Since even Senior Taigeng has such confidence in your array formation skills, it is evident that you are highly accomplished in the art of array formations. It is truly an honor for the Zhou family to have your help in designing and setting up this grand array. I will remember this favor!"

Seeing that he so readily accepted the favor, both the incarnation of Tai Geng God and the True Man Tian Xuan were extremely satisfied.

After all, True Person Tianxuan dared not accept a favor from Divine Venerable Taigeng, but if Zhou Chun was unwilling to even repay a favor, then his efforts in setting up the formation would have been in vain.

If Zhou Chun didn't even have this much awareness, he would definitely hold back when setting up the formation.

After the three parties had a pleasant conversation, Master Tianxuan quickly began to conduct an on-site investigation of the situation at Kunwu Mountain.

With his cultivation level as a late-stage Nascent Soul cultivator, exploring earth veins and spiritual veins was naturally much easier for him than for an ordinary array master.

In less than half a month, he came up with three plans for setting up forbidden formations based on the actual situation of Kunwu Mountain.

"The spiritual veins of Kunwu Mountain, apart from the water element, are relatively evenly distributed, with earth being the strongest and metal the second strongest. Furthermore, the three spiritual peaks—one main and two secondary—form a natural Three Talents formation. If the terrain can be modified to strengthen the water element, I believe that setting up this [Three Phases Annihilation Formation] would be most suitable!"

"With the foundation of Kunwu Mountain, if a complete version of the [Three Phases Annihilation Formation] can be set up, even if an army of 100,000 alien races and more than ten fifth-tier alien races come, as long as there are Nascent Soul stage cultivators stationed between the three peaks, and a sufficient number of cultivators to assist in controlling the formation, they can successfully resist for a considerable period of time!"

"Moreover, this [Three Phases Annihilation Formation] is a killing formation. Once three Nascent Soul stage cultivators preside over the formation, even a late-stage Nascent Soul stage cultivator would be severely injured upon entering. As a mountain-protecting formation, it is extremely intimidating!"

"Of course, if Fellow Daoist Zhou feels that the killing formation is not good, then setting up a set of the [Nine Gates Heavenly Palace Formation] is also suitable. This is a trapping formation that can trap a Nascent Soul late-stage cultivator, and its defense is also better than the [Three Phases Annihilation Formation]."

"As for the last set, the [Five Qi Heavenly Net Formation], I do not recommend it, because this formation mainly relies on illusions and trapping techniques, and its compatibility with Kunwu Mountain is quite poor!"

On Kunwu Peak, True Man Tianxuan spoke eloquently, revealing all his thoughts in front of Zhou Chun and the incarnation of God Taigeng.

After hearing his explanation, Zhou Chun couldn't help but turn his gaze to the avatar of the Tai Geng Divine Lord and ask, "Senior Tai Geng, which grand formation do you think is suitable?"

"This is your Zhou family's mountain gate, so of course you should make your own decisions. I just need a cave to live in."

The avatar of the Tai Geng God shook his head slightly, showing no intention of overstepping his bounds.

Upon hearing this, Zhou Chun also fell into deep thought, his face showing a thoughtful expression.

After pondering for a considerable time, he looked up at True Person Tianxuan and said, "Then I'll follow your advice, Fellow Daoist Tianxuan, and set up the [Three Phases Annihilation Formation]!"

"Very well, in that case, I will now give you the list of materials needed for setting up the formation, Fellow Daoist Zhou. Please gather the required items as soon as possible!"

Master Tianxuan nodded and immediately wrote out the list of materials and handed it to Zhou Chun.

No, I need to rest for a few days. I'll stick to updating 6,000 words a time. My back pain is really bad!