Beast Taming Immortal Clan

Chapter 774 The Zhou Family's Third Dragon [Please Subscribe]

Time flies, and three years have passed in the blink of an eye.

Inside the cave, after three years of arduous cultivation, Zhou Chun had completely refined the two [Purple Flower Crimson Pearl Pills]. His own magical power cultivation was also about to reach the barrier of the mid-stage Nascent Soul realm, thanks to the power of the pills.

The effect was even better than he had estimated, probably because his cultivation conditions had improved in recent years, and he had been consuming the flesh and blood of fifth-order demon kings regularly.

However, after refining the pill, Zhou Chun did not rush to leave seclusion. Instead, after a moment's thought, he opened his mouth and summoned his natal magic weapon, the Myriad Transformations Golden Cauldron.

For Zhou Chun now, the power of this natal magic weapon is really not enough.

Although among top-grade magic treasures, the [Myriad Transformations Golden Cauldron] is still among the best, it can still play a significant role when facing early Nascent Soul cultivators or fifth-tier low-grade demon kings.

However, Zhou Chun is now facing an opponent of this level, so there is no need for him to even activate this treasure.

After obtaining the [Nine-Nine Profound Heaven Sword Gourd], cultivators below the mid-Nascent Soul stage almost never need to use a second magic weapon.

Therefore, he has been thinking about how to strengthen his natal magic weapon, the [Myriad Transformations Golden Cauldron].

However, this treasure is already a top-grade magic weapon, and there's no way to expect it to be upgraded to a spiritual treasure in the short term.

The natal magic weapon is closely related to oneself, and Zhou Chun could clearly sense that this treasure was still far from transforming into a spiritual treasure.

Come to think of it, while it must have used a lot of precious materials when this treasure was made, which of those veteran Nascent Soul cultivators or those mid-Nascent Soul cultivators would use inferior materials for their natal magic treasures?

Even though they couldn't obtain as many precious materials as Zhou Chun when they were at the Golden Core stage, they could still slowly melt down and replace the low-grade materials in their natal magic treasures after they formed their Nascent Souls.

Moreover, compared to Zhou Chun, who had only reached the Nascent Soul stage two or three hundred years ago, their natal magic treasures had been nurtured and refined for more than twice as long.

In this situation, their natal magic treasures failed to transform into spiritual treasures, which shows how difficult it is for a top-grade magic treasure to transform into a spiritual treasure!

In fact, the treasure that Zhou Chun currently possesses most likely to transform from a top-grade magic weapon into a spiritual treasure is still the [Heavenly Gang Thunder-Slaying Sword] in the hands of the Silver Dragon Lord.

This sword was most suited to him, and through a stroke of luck, it was infused with the treasure [Heavenly Thunder Meteorite Iron]. Furthermore, it absorbed the essence of heavenly thunder in its repeated battles against heavenly tribulations, undergoing heavenly thunder tempering. Both the sword body and the demon soul of the Thunder Dragon Demon King within it were greatly sublimated.

Perhaps once Silver Dragon Lord breaks through to the fifth-tier mid-grade demon king, or encounters another opportunity, he will be able to transform into a spiritual treasure!

Even if it cannot be transformed into a spiritual treasure, the [Myriad Transformations Golden Cauldron], as a top-grade magic weapon, is clearly not yet at its limit and has the potential to continue to improve.

After examining his natal magic weapon for a moment, Zhou Chun suddenly raised his hand and patted the storage bag at his waist, taking out the beast bones of the Golden Horned Beast.

He picked out a small piece of golden beast bone, held it in his hand for a moment, and then threw it into the golden cauldron. He then spat out a breath of pale golden infant fire, which landed below the cauldron and began to heat it.

The [Myriad Transformations Golden Cauldron] has been refined and nurtured by Zhou Chun for so many years. It cannot be said that it is completely free of impurities, but it is certainly not something that can be easily extracted using infant fire now.

So he was actually using weapon-refining techniques to temper that beast bone.

After being calcined and tempered with infant fire for several days, Zhou Chun extracted most of the impurities present in the animal bones.

The remaining impurities cannot be extracted in just a few days.

Therefore, he stopped doing this futile work and began to use his secret technique to activate the [Myriad Transformations Golden Cauldron] to melt the beast bone.

Half a month later, Zhou Chun successfully melted the golden beast bone into the [Myriad Transformations Golden Cauldron], making it part of this natal magic weapon.

After the golden beast bone was incorporated, Zhou Chun, as the owner of the magic weapon, clearly felt that the magic weapon's spirituality had increased significantly. It seemed that the golden beast bone itself had the effect of enhancing the magic weapon's spirituality!

This is a delightful and unexpected discovery!

However, Zhou Chun was more concerned about whether the golden beast bone's ability to condense and purify spiritual energy had been inherited by his natal magic weapon.

He quickly conducted an experiment on this matter.

It seems that it does have a slight effect?

Inside the cave, Zhou Chun looked at the golden cauldron in front of him, a thoughtful expression on his face.

During the experiment, you could definitely feel a difference.

However, perhaps because the amount of animal bones incorporated was too small, the effect was so weak that it was hard to believe that one might be mistaken.

Let's try again!

Zhou Chun gritted his teeth and this time chose a larger animal bone to begin tempering.

The process was repeated, and after a month of integrating the beast bones into his natal magic weapon, Zhou Chun felt that the magic weapon's spirituality had increased.

This time, when he conducted the experiment again, the sensation became much more pronounced.

Therefore, it can be said with almost certainty that after the bones of the Golden Horned Hou were melted into the Myriad Transformations Golden Cauldron, their ability to condense and purify spiritual energy was indeed preserved!

Having confirmed this, Zhou Chun had no more reason to hesitate and immediately began to smelt all the bones of the Golden Horned Hou.

Two years later, all the bones of the Golden Horned Hou were melted down by Zhou Chun and put into the Myriad Transformations Golden Cauldron.

After melting down all the bones of the Golden Horned Hou, the Myriad Transformations Golden Cauldron underwent a qualitative change!

At this moment, the magical artifact spirituality of the Myriad Transformations Golden Cauldron has been greatly enhanced, and it can even condense a phantom of a [Golden Horned Hou]!

It seems that after the bones of the Golden Horned Beast were melted down, the spirit of the magical artifact was also affected by the power within the bones, and the artifact spirit automatically took the form of the Golden Horned Beast.

Of course, the magical artifact is currently only extremely powerful; it's too early to call it a spirit.

However, Zhou Chun felt that if he were to nurture this treasure for several hundred years and break through to the mid-Nascent Soul stage, it would have a good chance of forming a true artifact spirit, at which point it would be able to transform into a spiritual treasure on its own!

Besides the significant increase in the magical artifact's spiritual power, after fusing all the bones of the Golden Horned Hou, the Myriad Transformations Golden Cauldron indeed fully inherited and revealed the characteristics of the beast bones, possessing an extremely strong effect of condensing and purifying spiritual energy.

Zhou Chun only needs to place it in the cave, and it will automatically absorb the metallic spiritual energy between heaven and earth, condense and purify it, and store it in the cauldron.

These purified metallic spiritual energies were very suitable for Zhou Chun to absorb and refine, and were much more effective than his own meditation and cultivation to absorb and refine the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.

After careful estimation, the spiritual energy condensed and purified by the [Myriad Transformations Golden Cauldron] for a month, once fully absorbed and refined, would be roughly equivalent to the cultivation efforts of six or seven days!

This means that the existence of this treasure can increase his cultivation speed by another fifth!

Moreover, the spiritual energy condensed and purified by the [Myriad Transformations Golden Cauldron] can be refined and used not only by Zhou Chun, but also by other cultivators.

With such purity of spiritual energy, it is nothing short of a miraculous elixir for metal-attribute cultivators below the Golden Core stage, and can be used to assist in breaking through the barrier of a minor realm!

In this way, not only will Zhou Chun himself be able to use this treasure to assist in his cultivation, but his son Zhou Xinyuan will also be able to enjoy the benefits in the future!

This result greatly pleased Zhou Chun, who felt extremely fortunate that he had not chosen to have Tai Geng God Venerable use the bones of the Golden Horned Hou to refine spiritual treasures.

If it were truly given to Tai Geng Divine Venerable to refine a treasure, it could certainly create a spiritual treasure to aid cultivation, but its upper limit would be fixed from then on.

Now, by fusing this item into one's natal magic weapon, not only will it retain the effect of assisting cultivation, but it can also greatly enhance the spirituality of the natal magic weapon, making it possible for the natal magic weapon to transform into a spiritual treasure!

The key is that we don't have to waste the opportunity to ask the Divine Lord Tai Geng to refine a spiritual treasure!

Judging by the time, the magical treasure that Tai Geng Divine Venerable tailored for him should be almost ready by now.

Once he emerges from seclusion, he can visit the incarnation of the deity Tai Geng and inquire about this matter.

Before leaving the seclusion, Zhou Chun placed his natal magic weapon in the cultivation room, allowing it to condense and purify spiritual energy on its own!

After Zhou Chun emerged from seclusion, he soon received some good news.

The Zhou family has gained another powerful member!

It turns out that he had previously obtained a lot of [Dragon Transformation Grass] that was over a thousand years old in the two dragon king caves in Dragon Abyss, and stored it in the family treasury.

In recent years, Zhou Daoyi had specially asked Luo Qingni to help him refine five [Dragon Transformation Pills] in order to reward the cultivators who had made contributions to the family.

Just over a year ago, Zhou Yuanxin, a cultivator in the Purple Mansion stage of the Zhou family, successfully transformed his second-tier superior-grade [Thunder Lizard Beast] into a third-tier Thunder Dragon after consuming a [Dragon Transformation Pill] and a drop of Silver Dragon Lord's essence blood!

Although this third-tier thunder dragon, like Zhou Daoyi's azure dragon, had the lowest-grade dragon bloodline, it only grew two dragon claws.

But a dragon is a dragon, not comparable to a dragon-blooded monster.

The appearance of this thunder dragon undoubtedly dispelled the doubts in the hearts of many Zhou family cultivators, proving to them once again that demonic beasts with dragon bloodlines do indeed have the opportunity to evolve into dragons through the [Dragon Transformation Pill]!

With this new example, the Zhou family cultivators who spent a lot of effort cultivating dragon-blooded demon beasts and spirit pets but ultimately failed to cultivate a dragon can finally find some relief.

It's not that they took the wrong path, it's just that they were unlucky and didn't become one of the lucky ones!

With this example, no one will doubt the Zhou family's long-standing claim that the Dragon Blood Monster has the potential to transform into a Jiao (a type of dragon), and the sales of the Dragon Blood Monster will inevitably become booming again!

Therefore, after learning about this, Zhou Chun specially summoned the junior named Zhou Yuanxin to meet the Thunder Dragon.

This newly formed third-tier thunder dragon looked quite similar in size to the Silver Dragon Lord who had successfully transformed into a dragon.

However, compared to the Silver Dragon King, who caused the "Fish Leaping Over the Dragon Gate" phenomenon and successfully leaped over the Dragon Gate to evolve into a four-clawed, three-toed bloodline, this Thunder Dragon is much less appealing.

It evolved from the Thunder Lizard Beast. Although it now has the body of a dragon, it still looks like it has some traces of a lizard beast, probably because its bloodline is not pure.

However, this is not a big problem. As long as one possesses the body of a dragon, and as one's cultivation improves and one's bloodline is gradually purified, one will eventually completely shed the traces of one's original beast form.

So after examining the thunder dragon, Zhou Chun nodded with a smile and said, "Not bad, not bad. With this little guy around, Lord Silver Dragon won't be lonely anymore."

He then smiled at the junior in front of him, who was bowing his head slightly and not daring to look him in the eye, and said, "If you don't mind, junior, you can let it find a place to live in Thunder Dragon Swamp, and keep company with Silver Dragon Lord and Azure Dragon in the future. This will also help it to better purify its own bloodline."

Hearing this, Zhou Yuanxin was flattered and quickly bowed, saying, "On behalf of my spirit pet, I thank the clan leader for his kindness. The clan leader's kindness is immense, and I am deeply grateful!"

Then they left happily.

Zhou Daoyi, who personally brought him here, said softly to Zhou Chun, "This junior is indeed quite good. He was able to cultivate a third-tier Thunder Flood Dragon, which shows he has some good fortune. In terms of future Core Formation spiritual treasures, we should give him priority consideration!"

"Since you put it that way, then we'll take care of him a little when the time comes."

Zhou Chun smiled slightly and did not object.

Seeing this, Zhou Daoyi sighed with regret, "It's a pity that this Thunder Dragon, like the Silver Dragon Lord, is a male dragon; otherwise, our Zhou family might have had the opportunity to produce our own pure-blooded dragon!"

Upon hearing this, Zhou Chun couldn't help but smile wryly and said, "If you're really interested in this, you might as well try to matchmake the Azure Dragon and this Thunder Dragon later. Their bloodlines are quite similar, so they might be more likely to hit it off!"

In fact, this was not the first time Zhou Daoyi had mentioned this matter, and Zhou Mingde had mentioned it several times as well.

But things weren't as easy as they thought!

The Silver Dragon Lord, who already possesses the bloodline of four claws and four toes, already finds it difficult to leave behind any descendants. Moreover, his standards are extremely high, and he would never look favorably upon those inferior dragons with low bloodlines!

Admittedly, if Zhou Chun were to forcefully give the order, Silver Dragon Lord would most likely not disobey.

But the problem is, since it is known that even if the Silver Dragon Lord were to mate with the Thunder Dragon of the same race, it would not be easy for them to reproduce, how could Zhou Chun hurt the heart of his powerful spirit pet for something with such a low probability?

He is willing to sacrifice some personal interests for the Zhou family, but that depends on the specific circumstances.

Forcing the Silver Dragon to mate with a dragon he dislikes is clearly not something he considers acceptable sacrifices!

After hearing his words, Zhou Daoyi hesitated and said, "Let's see first. I'll see if Xiaoqing is interested in this thunder dragon."

This reaction made Zhou Chun secretly chuckle to himself.

To avoid him dwelling on the matter further, Zhou Chun quickly changed the subject, asking, "I previously placed quite a few demon cores into the family treasury. Have no new fourth-tier demon beasts appeared in the family over the years?"

Upon hearing this, Zhou Daoyi immediately replied, "Speaking of fourth-tier demonic beasts, the Bloodflame Dragon Python that my cousin Daoquan had previously possessed did indeed advance to the fourth tier thanks to the Bloodflame Flood Dragon King's essence blood bestowed upon it by you, Zheng Chun. Unfortunately, it still failed to successfully transform into a flood dragon!"

"As for the other demonic beasts, although there were a few more third-tier demonic beasts, they were not worth mentioning."

Upon hearing this, Zhou Chun shook his head, clearly not satisfied with the result.

However, he also knew that it was not easy for a third-tier demon beast to advance to the fourth tier, and in many cases, failure to advance could lead to the death of the demon beast.

Therefore, some Zhou family cultivators may not be willing to force their spirit pets to consume demon cores to advance without a certainty of success.

At this point, all we could say was, "Now that the Bloodflame Dragon Python has advanced to the fourth rank, let it use its remaining strength to breed with other python demons. We can't let it just freeload within the clan!"

"That's natural. I've already arranged for it to breed with several second- and third-tier demonic pythons, and it's been quite cooperative!"

Zhou Daoyi nodded and said with a smile.

"That would be perfect!"

Zhou Chun nodded slightly, seemingly satisfied.

He then learned more about the family's current situation in detail, and after gaining a clear understanding, he did not waste any more of Zhou Daoyi's time.

After Zhou Daoyi left, Zhou Chun seemed to remember something and suddenly came to a certain place at the foot of Kunwu Peak.

When he arrived at this place, a yellow light suddenly surged in the open space in front of him, and a long, dark brown worm covered with hair appeared.

This dark brown worm was none other than the Thunderworm Beast that Zhou Chun had previously released into the Qinglian Mountains.

After the Zhou family moved to Kunwu Mountain, he naturally did not forget the long snake and specially brought it with him.

Before he went into seclusion, he also gave him a high-grade fourth-tier earth-attribute demon core to consume.

Now that this beast has digested that demon core, its cultivation level has also risen to the middle-grade fourth-tier demon beast.

Zhou Chun glanced at the silver horn on the beast's head, thought for a moment, and then decided not to rush to collect it.

He kept this Thunderworm Beast as a way to plan for the future.

If he ever has the chance to break through to the Nascent Soul stage in the future, the single horn on the beast's head might come in handy.

However, for the Thunderworm Beast to be effective against the Nascent Soul Heavenly Tribulation, its cultivation level must be at least at the fifth rank!

However, apart from its single horn that can absorb and neutralize the power of heavenly lightning, this beast is otherwise quite weak. Its chances of surviving the heavenly tribulation are probably no higher than those of Lu Yuanjun back then.

After all, it was a genuine demon beast, and it was necessary for its physical body to undergo the tempering of heavenly lightning, while Lu Yuanjun did not have this concern at the time.

Therefore, Zhou Chun actually had no confidence whatsoever that it could survive the Heavenly Tribulation.

Currently, the plan is to wait until it breaks through to the fourth-tier high-grade demon beast level, then take its horn and refine it into the [Heavenly Gang Thunder-Slaying Sword] to enhance the magic weapon's ability to absorb and neutralize heavenly lightning.

After checking the beast's condition, Zhou Chun fed it another low-grade fourth-tier earth-attribute demon core and then let it leave.

Next, Zhou Chun visited Luo Qingni's cave dwelling.

"Qingni, you've worked hard these past few years. There shouldn't be anything important that requires your attention anymore. If you wish to travel or go into seclusion, just let me know, and I will not stop you!"

In a quiet bamboo house, after drinking the medicinal tea prepared by Luo Qingni, Zhou Chun looked at the beautiful woman in front of him with a gentle expression and spoke his heart.

During the years he was in seclusion, Luo Qingni did not get much rest!

He and the Zhou family cultivators obtained many demon cores and spiritual herbs during the war, and also harvested a large number of spiritual herbs when they moved.

In order to prevent the medicinal effects of these things from fading, and also to reward the family cultivators for their merits, Zhou Chun entrusted Luo Qingni to lead the family alchemists to help refine various spiritual pills.

Therefore, over the past ten years, Luo Qingni has averaged refining pills a dozen or twenty times a year.

Although she is a Nascent Soul cultivator, she shouldn't be so tired from this.

However, such frequent alchemy still takes a toll on the mind and spirit, which is easily perceptible from the fact that Zhou Chun is now communicating with her face to face.

That's why Zhou Chun said those words at this moment.

Faced with his considerate concern, Luo Qingni felt a warmth in her heart and did not refuse his kindness. She simply nodded slightly and said, "There are still a few batches of spirit pills left to refine. After I finish refining these batches, Qingni will go into seclusion to rest!"

"Yes, that's fine. I will discuss this with the two elders. When Fellow Daoist Luo goes into seclusion, you just need to inform them."

Zhou Chun nodded and readily agreed.

After leaving Luo Qingni's cave, he went to the mountain where the incarnation of Tai Geng God Venerable was located to gather information.

After hearing his purpose, the avatar of the Tai Geng God Venerable said directly, "Your spiritual treasure has indeed been refined, but you do not need to go to retrieve it yourself. I will come here to bestow the treasure upon you after I have finished my work."

"As for the pills from Yuanyang, you really have to go and get them yourself."

Upon hearing this, Zhou Chun quickly thanked him, then said with a worried expression, "If I go directly to Senior Yuan Yang to get the pill, will he make things difficult for me?"

"Don't worry about that. Yuan Yang is a Nascent Soul stage Venerable. Since he has already promised to wipe the slate clean in front of me, he naturally won't make things difficult for you anymore!"

The avatar of the God Tai Geng waved his hand, offering him reassurance in a resolute tone.

With this assurance, Zhou Chun breathed a sigh of relief and immediately nodded, saying, "Then I am relieved. I will not disturb Senior Tai Geng's cultivation any longer."

Then he voluntarily withdrew.

A few days later, after explaining the relevant details, Zhou Chun left Kunwu Mountain with only Yishan Jun, a demon king spirit pet.

He wouldn't be going to any dangerous places on this trip, so there was no need to disturb the other demon kings' spirit pets' meditation.

Bringing Lord Yishan along was just in case.

After leaving the Yu Kingdom and heading south, Zhou Chun did not rush to the Yuanyang Temple where Venerable Yuanyang resided. Instead, he first went to the Bingyi Kingdom.

When he arrived in the Ice Kingdom, his second Nascent Soul incarnation had already come to greet him.

Since the Zhou family moved to Kunwu Mountain, with the incarnation of Tai Geng Divine Venerable in charge, Zhou Chun no longer needed to keep his second Nascent Soul incarnation by his side. Therefore, he sent it to cultivate in seclusion near the Xuanming Water Eye in the Ice Plains.

Now, more than a decade later, the second nascent soul and the physical body have finally become completely integrated, and with the help of the Xuanming Cold Qi, the cultivation technique "Heavenly Frost Xuanming Technique" has been directly promoted to the nascent soul stage.

With his physical body and nascent soul completely fused together, and his cultivation technique reaching the nascent soul stage, Zhou Chun's second nascent soul incarnation was truly complete.

After meeting the second nascent soul incarnation, Zhou Chun took back the [Purifying Heaven and Earth Divine Jar] that he had previously given it to use, and then used a secret technique to assimilate its memories to prevent the second nascent soul from having any hidden dangers.

Then he said to the second nascent soul incarnation, "Although Snow Dragon Ridge is a bit remote, it's still enough for your cultivation. Next, you should subdue some rogue cultivators from the Ice Barbarian Kingdom and go there to establish your own cave dwelling and training ground. If I ever need your help in the future, I will summon you!"

"Bingming obeys the order."

The second nascent soul avatar cupped its hands in greeting to him, responded, and then separated from Zhou Chun's main body.

This is the mystery of the second nascent soul incarnation.

Even without the need for the user to consciously control it, it can go out and do things just like a normal person.

Zhou Chun placed this second Nascent Soul avatar in the Ice Barbarian Kingdom, both to facilitate its cultivation and to conceal a backup plan.

Only after separating from his second Nascent Soul incarnation did he truly head to his destination: the Yuan Yang Temple, a sacred sect in the cultivation world of the Yuan Kingdom.