Beast Taming Immortal Clan

Chapter 773 Eight Years in the Blink of an Eye [Please Subscribe]

Kunwu Mountain.

Eight years have passed since Zhou Chun went into seclusion in the cultivation room.

During this period, he only came out a few times, and each time was very brief.

The matter previously discussed with Xie Yunjin of Jin Yuezong has also been successfully completed.

Even another sect called Qingyun Sect was slashed by Zhou Chun, who stole a lot of profits without Zhou Chun noticing.

Over the past eight years, the Zhou family has been developing and building their own mountain gate and the cultivation world of Yu Kingdom in a step-by-step manner according to the plan.

The first market town, Kunwu Market Town, has been successfully built on a spiritual peak near Kunwu Mountain. Cultivators from the Jin Yue Sect and Qingyun Sect can come here to buy and sell supplies.

Meanwhile, thanks to the propaganda of the three sects, many daring independent cultivators and cultivators from small and medium-sized forces have already entered the territory of Yu Kingdom from Heng Kingdom to adventure and search for treasures.

These adventurous cultivators, together with the cultivators of the three major forces in the Yu Kingdom, attacked and swept away the demonic beasts throughout the Yu Kingdom, effectively opening up many safe areas.

After sending people to personally investigate the situation in Yu Kingdom, some cultivation families also considered relocating their entire clans there.

Currently, the three major powers have offered many preferential policies to cultivation families willing to relocate and independent cultivators willing to settle in Yu Kingdom.

Taking the Zhou family as an example, they can not only send flying boats and demonic beasts to help them relocate low-level cultivators, but also provide spiritual vein lands for free.

All they had to do was become a vassal force of the Zhou family, serving the sect leader's power according to the standards of a vassal force.

To put it simply, it's just a change of owner!

However, after changing owners, not only did their spiritual vein land become of a higher grade, but their territory also became larger, and the surrounding area was still a resource-rich, undeveloped land.

Therefore, for some adventurous cultivation families, this is definitely an opportunity to change the fate of their family and a chance for their family to take off!

Opportunity always favors the risk-taker.

Years later, some cultivation families that achieved great success through this adventure will feel immense respect and pride for their ancestors' decision.

On this day, Zhou Chun walked out of the cultivation room and scanned the area with his divine sense, only to find that his Daoist partner Su Yuzhen and son Zhou Xinyuan were not on Kunwu Peak.

Fortunately, he had given instructions before going into seclusion that if the two of them left the mountain gate, they must take either Lu Yuanjun or Fu Shanjun with them.

At this moment, following his connection with Lu Yuanjun, he quietly left the mountain gate and searched for her.

After flying a thousand miles, Zhou Chun discovered the presence of his wife and children.

In a valley, Zhou Xinyuan, who had successfully established his foundation two years prior, along with two other foundation-establishing cultivators from the Zhou family and fifteen Qi-refining cultivators, were clearing out a pack of demon wolves that inhabited the area.

The wolf pack contains five second-tier demon wolves, with the alpha wolf being a high-grade second-tier demon beast.

However, the combat strength of the Zhou family cultivators can never be measured by their cultivation level.

For example, all three Foundation Establishment cultivators at this moment have second-tier spirit pets, totaling four second-tier demonic beast spirit pets!

The Foundation Establishment cultivator who alone possessed two second-tier demonic beast spirit pets was not the Zhou family cultivator with late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivation, but Zhou Xinyuan, who had only successfully established his Foundation Establishment two years prior.

As the only son of Zhou Chun, a Nascent Soul cultivator, Zhou Xinyuan was born with a silver spoon in his mouth, and his spirit pets were certainly not ordinary.

During the previous war of the demon race's invasion, Zhou Chun and the Zhou family cultivators obtained many high-quality demon beast eggs.

After bringing Zhou Xinyuan back, considering that he was already mentally mature, Zhou Chun gave him two monster eggs.

These two monster eggs contain two different creatures: one is the Jade Python, a third-tier monster with pure Jade Dragon bloodline, and the other is the Golden Armored Dragon Turtle, a third-tier monster with Golden Dragon bloodline.

After hatching, the two monster eggs grew for more than eight years and have now successfully advanced to the second-tier low-grade level thanks to ample resources.

In the valley, the several-zhang-long black jade python was surrounded by black light. It spewed out a mouthful of black demonic mist, which poisoned dozens of first-level demonic wolves in the valley, causing them to collapse and die on the ground.

Even those second-tier demon wolves, after accidentally inhaling the poisonous mist, were weakened and their combat power greatly reduced.

The Golden Armored Dragon Turtle, under the influence of the Beast Taming Secret Technique "Mysterious Spirit Beast Armor," transformed into a golden turtle shell that covered Zhou Xinyuan's body, releasing golden spiritual light to protect him within.

Whether the demon wolves unleashed spells at him or pounced to tear him apart, they were all blocked by the golden spiritual light and could not harm him in the slightest.

With no worries about defense and the Jade Python weakening the demon wolves, Zhou Xinyuan only needed to focus on using a flying sword to slay the demon wolves.

Interestingly enough, although Zhou Xinyuan is Zhou Chun's son, he is not actually very interested in raising and breeding demonic beasts. Instead, he prefers the art of sword control.

Even after reaching the Foundation Establishment stage, he considered practicing specialized sword cultivation techniques.

However, Zhou Chun and Su Yuzhen jointly stopped this.

Zhou Chun had tested his son and found that while he wasn't entirely without talent in kendo, he certainly wasn't very talented.

However, the path of sword cultivation places the greatest emphasis on talent and comprehension.

Without this talent, even if one can form a core with the help of resources, it will be virtually impossible to pass the Nascent Soul stage in the future.

Because a sword cultivator who cannot comprehend the sword intent will absolutely not be able to overcome the "inner demon tribulation"!

This is an ironclad rule that countless sword cultivators throughout history have proven with their lives!

Therefore, Zhou Chun could not allow his son to act recklessly, and in the end, he only allowed him to cultivate a top-level technique that was neither very strong nor very weak, called the Nine Revolutions Golden Light Technique.

This top-level cultivation technique is not as dangerous as the "Golden Cauldron Profound Technique," or rather, it basically has no risk of going into qi deviation. It just tests one's perseverance and aptitude.

After practicing this method, if you want to break through to the middle stage of Foundation Establishment, you must use the secret method to dissipate most of the magic power that you have cultivated to the peak of the early stage of Foundation Establishment, and return to the state of just successfully establishing the foundation. You must repeat this three times to succeed. Then, you must do this three times from the middle stage of Foundation Establishment to the late stage of Foundation Establishment, and from the late stage of Foundation Establishment to the Purple Mansion stage.

After that, regardless of whether one is in the Purple Mansion stage, Golden Core stage, or Nascent Soul stage, this "Nine Revolutions Golden Light Technique" requires one to disperse one's energy nine times!

Therefore, practitioners of this top-level cultivation technique are generally either cultivators with top-grade spiritual roots like Zhou Zhiying, or second-generation immortals like Zhou Xinyuan with powerful backgrounds and abundant resources!

Although Zhou Xinyuan followed her parents' arrangements and cultivated the "Nine Revolutions Golden Light Technique," she did not give up her interest in sword control. She always worked hard to cultivate the family's sword control techniques and often sought advice from Zhou Zhiqian, a Golden Core sword cultivator.

Zhou Chun and Su Yuzhen naturally couldn't interfere further, lest they provoke a rebellious attitude in him.

As long as he doesn't neglect his main cultivation technique, he can do whatever he wants.

With the help of demonic beasts and spirit pets, and the advantage of magical artifacts, Zhou Xinyuan was able to handle the battle with ease, and soon he beheaded a second-tier demonic wolf.

The wolf pack, which was already at a disadvantage, collapsed instantly after the death of this second-tier demon wolf.

Even as the wolf pack began to scatter and flee, Zhou Xinyuan and the others did not stop their pursuit.

Finally, with the second-tier superior demon wolf being surrounded and beheaded a hundred miles away, this den of demon wolves that had plagued the surrounding hundreds of miles was completely wiped out!

After killing the wolf pack leader, Zhou Xinyuan, alerted by her spirit pet, suddenly noticed a person above her.

Upon seeing that familiar figure, his face lit up with joy, and he exclaimed, "Father, you've emerged from seclusion!"

Upon hearing his words, the other two Foundation Establishment cultivators from the Zhou family present immediately sprang to their senses and hurriedly bowed to Zhou Chun, saying, "Junior Zhou Baijun (Zhou Fujian) greets the Clan Chief!"

"No need for formalities. You may stay and finish things up. I will take Xinyuan back with me."

Zhou Chun waved his hand and immediately left the scene with Zhou Xinyuan.

Meanwhile, Lu Yuanjun and Su Yuzhen, who had been secretly protecting him from a distance of more than ten miles away, quickly appeared and followed him back to Kunwu Mountain.

After returning to their cave on Kunwu Peak, Zhou Chun looked at his son, who was slightly taller than him, and patted him on the shoulder with a face full of satisfaction, praising, "Not bad, not bad. It seems that in these past few years, Xinyuan, you have not forgotten your father's teachings and have not indulged in comfort and pleasure."

"Of course, Father, I would never forget your teachings."

Zhou Xinyuan nodded vigorously with a big smile, her eyes full of admiration as she looked at Zhou Chun.

The older he got, the more he learned, and the more he admired his father, and the more proud he felt of having such a great father.

Naturally, he easily began to hold himself to the same standards as his father, aspiring to become a person as great as his father.

Parents' natural influence on their children is often more effective than any other educational method.

Of course, Zhou Chun would not neglect the education of his children.

After praising his son, he also earnestly advised, "However, you must not be arrogant or complacent. You should know that you have advantages that most of your peers cannot have, so it is only natural that you can achieve results that surpass theirs!"

"As your father, I don't have many demands on you. I only hope that you can live a peaceful and happy life, and that you won't become a spoiled brat. That's enough for me!"

Hearing this, Su Yuzhen quickly chimed in, "Yes, yes, Xinyuan, your mother and father are content as long as you live peacefully and happily!"

"I understand, Father and Mother. I will always remember your teachings and will never become the kind of person who bullies others by relying on their power!"

Zhou Xinyuan nodded solemnly, keeping these words firmly in mind.

After instructing his son in this way, Zhou Chun also took the time to guide his son in various magical arts and secret techniques.

This kind of guidance, besides helping the son correct his mistakes, is also a way for fathers and sons to get closer.

After all, they are all cultivators, and Zhou Chun is almost eight hundred years old. It's impossible for him to do those childish things like playing games.

After Zhou Chun's guidance, Zhou Xinyuan happily went out to find someone to verify what she had learned.

Only then did Zhou Chun turn his gaze to his Daoist partner, who had been quietly watching him and his son chat for a long time.

He looked at his Daoist partner with gentle eyes and said softly, "Since Xinyuan was born, I haven't had much time to take care of and teach him. It's all been done by you, my wife. You've worked so hard!"

Hearing his heartfelt words, Su Yuzhen quickly shook her head and said, "Husband, you flatter me. Taking care of a child is such a small matter; it would be a waste of your talents to have a Nascent Soul cultivator like you do it!"

At this point, she said with a touch of emotion, "Moreover, these are all things I truly want to do. My husband, you will have plenty of time to spend with Xinyuan in the future, but for me, every day that passes is one less day to live, so how can I not cherish them!"

Upon hearing this, Zhou Chun opened his mouth slightly, then remained silent for a long while.

Su Yuzhen was several decades older than him, and had lived for over eight hundred years.

He had previously taken the [Jiazi Longevity Pill] to extend his lifespan by seventy years, but now he only has a little over two hundred years left to live.

Therefore, she could only accompany Zhou Xinyuan for a maximum of two hundred years.

Even with Zhou Chun's abilities, this was not something he could change.

So after a moment of silence, he smiled slightly and said, "Madam, don't say such discouraging things. We have a long time ahead of us. Xinyuan will grow up and get married and have children. Even without us by his side, he will take good care of himself."

As he spoke, he stepped forward, embraced his Daoist partner, and carried her towards the bedroom.

After spending several days with his wife and children, Zhou Chun finally went out to inspect the family.

More than ten years have passed, and under the construction of more than two thousand cultivators from the Zhou family, Kunwu Mountain has already taken on the appearance of a blessed land of immortals.

The Zhou family is no longer a poor family without any foundation. In addition, the mountain gate of Kunwu Mountain is not expected to be changed for a long time. The Zhou family is extremely concerned about the construction of this place.

The various buildings left behind by the original barbarian tribes have all been demolished, and some damaged areas have been repaired.

Furthermore, because the wilderness of Yu Kingdom was rich in resources, when the Zhou family cultivators were clearing out the monsters, they also dug up many rare flowers, herbs and spirit trees and transplanted them back to their mountain gate.

In addition, the various exotic flowers and herbs that the Zhou family themselves sowed and cultivated made the mountain gate a scenic spot, filled with the fragrance of flowers and plants.

Moreover, because there are many spiritual veins in Kunwu Mountain, the Zhou family now raises most of their monsters outside the mountain, except for a very few rare species that are kept inside the mountain gate. Some are even free-range!

Without these demonic beasts causing trouble inside the mountain gate, the mountain gate, which the Zhou family had transformed into a blessed land of immortals, looked even more like a celestial abode.

Zhou Chun strolled through the mountains. Because he used magic, even those cultivators at the Purple Mansion stage could not detect his presence as they brushed past him.

He soon arrived at a cave.

Above the cave, the three characters "Hot Spring Cave" were prominently displayed.

In addition to being protected by a formation, the entrance to the cave was also guarded by members of the Zhou family, demonstrating the importance the Zhou family attached to this place.

Zhou Chun used an illusion to confuse the guards, and with a slight activation of the secret technique "Minor Five Elements Breaking Restriction Mystic Light," he easily entered the cave.

He followed the passage deeper and deeper, and soon arrived at the deepest part of the cave.

There was a steaming hot spring pool with yellowish-brown water at an extremely high temperature.

Two Zhou family cultivators at the Purple Mansion stage were currently soaking in the hot spring, concentrating on using their body-refining secret technique to temper their bodies with the power of the spring water.

This hot spring is a companion spring of the spiritual vein at the foot of Kunwu Peak. It contains unique spiritual power that can temper the physical body.

It can be used by human cultivators, barbarian races, and other alien races, as well as demonic beasts.

However, it has little effect on fourth-tier demonic beasts or Nascent Soul stage cultivators.

Because of the existence of this spiritual spring, many mid-to-high-level cultivators of the Zhou family now come here to bathe and temper their bodies when they have free time. Even their demonic beasts and spirit pets come to bathe together!

Zhou Chun lingered in the hot spring cave for a while before quietly leaving.

Soon after, he appeared on a sacred peak inside the mountain gate.

The Zhou family's array masters specially set up an array to seal off the entire spiritual peak.

On the summit of Lingfeng, a lone Golden-Crowned Black Roc was imprisoned. Despite possessing the power to soar through the heavens, it had become a caged bird.

On another spiritual peak not far away, another [Golden-Crowned Black Roc] was in the same situation.

The Heavenly Roc bloodline of these two Golden Crown Black Rocs is extremely rich. If they can leave offspring, even if it is a hybrid bloodline, it will definitely form a high-level demon beast bloodline.

However, because they were already quite intelligent and had witnessed their birth mother being killed by Zhou Chun, they were basically impossible to subdue, let alone willingly leave behind their bloodline.

Therefore, for now, we can only imprison them, wear down their will and pride, and wait for an opportunity to breed them with the demonic birds raised by the Zhou family.

The dragon-horned blue lion, which Zhou Chun had captured along with the two golden-crowned black roc, was no longer in his hands.

When he borrowed a large transport magic weapon from the Huangfu family, he gave away this demon as payment.

Aside from the two Golden-Crowned Black Rocs, the Zhou family's mountain gate currently only houses a handful of other demonic beasts, such as Thunder Lizards and Five-Colored Phoenix-Tailed Pheasants.

Zhou Chun soon reappeared by a large lake.

This large lake was artificially excavated according to the guidance of the Celestial Mystery Master. Buried at the bottom of the lake are many water-attribute spiritual objects that Zhou Chun obtained from the Dragon Abyss, used to make up for the lack of water-attribute spiritual energy in Kunwu Mountain.

The great lake is called Leilongze, which is twenty or thirty miles wide. There are even two mountain islands in the lake, where Silver Dragon Lord and Zhou Daoyi's Azure Dragon dwell.

As if sensing Zhou Chun's arrival, the Silver Dragon Lord's figure quickly emerged from beneath the lake and came to Zhou Chun on the shore.

"Bai Bai, your aura has strengthened considerably. It seems you're almost finished digesting that [Electric Water Dragon Beast]'s demon core!"

Zhou Chun reached out and patted his pet's head, saying with a smile.

"Master's insight is indeed keen; it will certainly take at most six months to fully digest it."

Silver Dragon replied softly in human language, his tone filled with joy.

A demon core of the same attribute and rank as a demon king was indeed of great benefit to him, directly putting his cultivation level among the top demon king spirit pets, second only to Lu Yuanjun.

"That's good. You've suffered a lot these past years following me. You've really had a tough time!"

Zhou Chun nodded slightly and sighed with emotion.

Looking back, it's true that Silver Dragon suffered the most.

Since transforming into a dragon, it has experienced countless instances of having its blood drawn and scales plucked, and has repeatedly used its potential-enhancing supernatural powers to fight for its life. Even after becoming a demon king, it was still unable to avoid these things.

Only now, with the Zhou family relying on the Tai Geng Divine Venerable and Zhou Chun possessing the combat power of a Great Cultivator, can this matter finally be declared completely over.

However, the Silver Dragon Lord didn't seem to care much about the past hardships. He simply shook his head and said, "Master, you flatter me. If I hadn't followed you, I'm afraid I wouldn't even have had the chance to hatch, let alone achieve what I have today!"

At this point, he said firmly, "For my master, I, Xiaolong, would gladly give my life!"

"Nonsense! As long as I, your master, am alive, I will never let any of you go first!"

Zhou Chun gently scolded his beloved pet, then patted its head with a smile and said, "Alright, you can stay here and cultivate in peace. I'll go check on the others."

After saying that, he left the place.

Not long after, Zhou Chun's figure appeared thousands of miles outside the Zhou family's mountain gate.

There is a dormant volcano here, and Feng Yuanjun dwells in the fire vein below.

Several years ago, the early Nascent Soul cultivator who had received Zhou Chun's promise of thirty drops of Fire Phoenix essence blood came to his door, and Zhou Chun fulfilled his promise to him.

This action would normally deplete Feng Yuanjun's vital energy.

However, because of the existence of that "meat spirit mushroom", Feng Yuanjun not only quickly replenished the vital energy she had lost, but now, with the help of the large amount of fire essence she had swallowed, she has successfully recovered to the level of a seven-feathered fire phoenix.

Moreover, with the help of the "Flesh Spirit Mushroom", it is estimated that in another 10 or 20 years at most, she will be able to recover to the level of the Eight-Feathered Fire Phoenix!

Therefore, although Lu Yuanjun and Yinlongjun's cultivation levels are both increasing rapidly, the spirit pet that will most likely be the first to break through to the fifth-order mid-grade demon king is still Feng Yuanjun!

Zhou Chun met with Feng Yuanjun in the volcano, checked the condition of the "Flesh Spirit Mushroom" that she was keeping, and then left the place.

Next, he toured the entire Yu Kingdom and found that cultivators could be seen in many places.

The protective formations at the mountain gates of the Jin Yue Sect and the Qing Yun Sect have also been set up.

However, compared to the Zhou family, these two factions are truly impoverished and lack resources.

Even with a Nascent Soul stage cultivator in charge, it would take them four or five hundred years to see any hope of truly developing.

Therefore, Zhou Chun didn't take them seriously at all.

After completing this round of inspections, Zhou Chun returned to his cave on Kunwu Peak to continue his seclusion.

He had two [Purple Flower Crimson Pearl Pills] left, and he planned to consume and refine them all in one go during this seclusion.

By the time he emerges from seclusion next time, the great pill refined by Venerable Yuanyang should be ready. At that time, he can use the medicinal power of the great pill to cultivate directly to the peak of the early stage of the Nascent Soul realm in one go, and then seek out Venerable Taigeng to obtain a spiritual object to break through the barrier of the middle stage of the Nascent Soul realm!