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Chapter 787 The Zhou Family's Fourth Dragon [Please Subscribe]

Kunwu Mountain.

Moved by the passing of Su Yunniang, Zhou Chun decided to cease his seclusion until the two most important elders of his family passed away.

He doesn't currently face any threats that urgently require him to improve his cultivation level to resolve, so there's no need for him to leave himself with a major regret in the future just to improve his cultivation.

Zhou Chun wasn't in a rush to cultivate, so he spent most of his free time with his elders and relatives, and even took the time to give pointers to the younger members of the Zhou family.

Often, after finishing his daily meditation and cultivation, he would go to Zhou Mingde's place to have tea, reminisce with the two elders about the past, discuss the events that the Zhou family had experienced over the past few hundred years, and even talk about some Zhou family cultivators who had long since passed away or died.

This kind of thing, which used to seem like a complete waste of time, now has a unique flavor when you actually experience it, leaving you with a sense of感慨 and感慨.

That day, Zhou Chun received good news from Zhou Xinyan, who was taking over the management of the Zhou family affairs in place of Zhou Daoyi.

The three mutated monster breeding techniques that he exchanged with the "Qiankun Zhuanling Jue" have all been verified and proven to be effective.

The three mutated monster breeding methods were for the mutated Thunder Crane, the mutated Golden-Eyed Rat, and the mutated Horned Wood Wolf.

Among them, the mutated golden-eyed rat and the mutated horned wood wolf have long been proven to be feasible because there is no shortage of test subjects.

However, the mutated Thunder Crane has not been successfully verified because the number of Thunder Crane monsters is small and there are not many subjects to test on.

More than a decade ago, the Zhou family found a rare flock of Thunder Cranes through intelligence channels and captured them all, bringing them back to the Kunwu Mountains.

After more than a decade of cultivation, the leader of the crane flock has finally mutated into a Thunder Crane and broken through to the third rank.

This third-tier Thunder Crane looks incredibly majestic. While the feathers of ordinary Thunder Cranes are silver-gray, itss are silver-white and shimmer with a silvery glow in the sunlight, making it look like a luminous crane.

Lei Guanghe's most commendable ability is its flight speed.

This Thunder Crane, which had just advanced to the third-tier low-grade demon beast, was flying at full speed, even faster than an ordinary late-stage Purple Mansion cultivator!

It can also fly in the gale-force winds above the heavens, undaunted by the gale-force winds.

After seeing the bird, Zhou Chun immediately had Lord Yishan take his son Zhou Xinyuan back to the family.

Sure enough, even Zhou Xinyuan, who was focused on sword control, showed obvious fondness after seeing the Thunder Crane.

So Zhou Chun took it upon himself to give him the Thunder Crane as his third spirit pet.

With Zhou Xinyuan's current cultivation level at the mid-Foundation Establishment stage, it would have been impossible for him to form a contract with such a third-tier demon beast.

However, this Thunder Crane had already been grateful to the Zhou family for advancing to the third rank with their help. Furthermore, Zhou Chun had specially summoned Feng Yuanjun to make a trip. Under the intimidation of the Fire Phoenix Demon King, who was known as the "King of All Birds," how could the Thunder Crane dare to disagree?

Only after personally witnessing Zhou Xinyuan and Lei Guanghe sign the soul contract did Zhou Chun feel relieved.

As for the Zhou family cultivator who nurtured this Thunder Crane, he will naturally receive some additional rewards.

The Thunder Crane itself belongs to the family, and the spiritual materials they use to cultivate it are all provided by the family.

Now that the feasibility of the three mutated monster techniques has been verified, the Zhou family can encourage some talented and wealthy members to cultivate these three monsters in the future.

In particular, the mutated golden-eyed rats have the talent to find spirits and treasures. If a certain number of them can be cultivated, it will greatly benefit both the individual cultivator and the family.

Since he had nothing else to do, Zhou Chun took the opportunity to learn about the current situation of the younger generation in the family.

The Zhou family is now quite large and prosperous, and there are quite a few talented young people among its descendants.

According to Zhou Chun's understanding, among the Zhou family cultivators below the Golden Core stage, there are seven cultivators with superior spiritual roots. Five of them, including Zhou Xinyuan, are Zhou family members, while the other two are relatives of the Zhou family.

The Zhou family currently has 26 core members at the Purple Mansion stage and 134 elite members at the Foundation Establishment stage.

Roughly every thirty years, the Zhou family would release one or two opportunities to exchange for Core Formation spiritual items.

Unfortunately, ever since Zhou Cunxin successfully formed his Golden Core, the next three Zhou family cultivators who attempted to break through to the Golden Core stage all failed.

However, as long as the Zhou family maintains a stable supply of Core Formation spiritual items, there will definitely be a steady stream of Golden Core cultivators appearing in the future.

With the territory and resources the Zhou family currently possesses, they should not have to worry about the number of Golden Core cultivators exceeding the family's capacity for at least the next thousand years.

Zhou Chun, who has always been concerned about the inheritance of his family's alchemy, artifact crafting, and talisman array skills, also made a special effort to learn about the Zhou family's talent pool in this area.

Unfortunately, as far as he knew, although the Zhou family had produced master-level members in alchemy, artifact crafting, and talisman arrays, these achievements were mostly due to the accumulation of large amounts of materials. There were no truly outstanding geniuses with the potential to reach the grandmaster level.

Fortunately, with Luo Qingni's help in alchemy, there's not much to worry about for the next thousand years; magic weapons can be sourced from the Heavenly Fire Sect to make up for the shortfall; as for formations, as long as they're not forbidden formations, ordinary formation masters are sufficient; talisman making is similar to formations, and master-level talismans are enough to meet the needs of most of the family's cultivators.

The Zhou family's greatest advantage is that the Nascent Soul stage cultivators in the family are still very young, possess a profound and complete set of inheritances, and have a large amount of resources that can be used at any time.

If a genius-level member of the clan emerges in the future, they will be able to leverage these advantages to smoothly ascend to the Grandmaster realm.

Both Zhou Chun and the Zhou family can afford to wait.

"Ultimately, there are still too few cultivators. If my Zhou family had tens of thousands of cultivators, the chances of various geniuses emerging would naturally increase greatly!"

Zhou Chun thought this way, but did not try to make any further changes.

The number of cultivators in the Zhou family is already growing rapidly, so it is not appropriate to introduce any further policies to stimulate it at this time.

The greater a power, the more cautious it must be in introducing certain policies.

Many policies that seem to benefit a family may, over a century, turn out to do more harm than good.

Even if corrections and changes can be made later, the resources wasted in the process are truly wasted.

Zhou Chun knew this, which is why, although he used to like reforming the family, he has rarely changed the family's existing rules and policies in recent centuries.

More often than not, it's simply about filling gaps and making things that were previously difficult or not important to small families more conscious of and standardized.

For example, internal corruption and collusion, and relying on the Zhou family's reputation to act tyrannically and oppress the good.

What happens that is difficult to occur within smaller factions is difficult to prevent and repeatedly occurs within larger factions.

Those cultivators in the Zhou family who had reached a certain level knew that Zhou Chun, the patriarch, detested those who corrupted the family's reputation. He would severely punish any clan member who did something that disgraced the family and would never tolerate it.

Therefore, at present, the Zhou family's family tradition is still quite upright, and in the eyes of cultivators from vassal and allied forces, they are worthy of loyalty and friendship.

Time passed by in this way, and seven years went by in a flash.

After seven or eight years of easing of tensions, Su Yuzhen finally emerged from the grief of losing her loved ones and returned to the Zhou family.

With a Golden Core cultivator currently in charge of the Su family and backed by the Zhou family, she has no need to worry about anything.

Zhou Chun was naturally very pleased with this, and specially took his family of three on a trip for another six months.

However, not long after Zhou Chun and his family of three returned from their trip, Wu Yuzhu, an elder of the Zhou family who had previously made great contributions during the demon invasion, came to bid him farewell.

As her cultivation progressed, Wu Yuzhu encountered the same problem that Zhou Yuanlian, the Golden Core Elder of the Zhou family, had faced. Due to a lack of follow-up cultivation techniques, the toxins in her body began to backfire on her.

In this situation, if she wanted to preserve her life and cultivation, she had no choice but to venture into the Myriad Poisons Secret Realm in the Yuanmo Territory to find the subsequent parts of the "Myriad Poisons True Scripture".

After hearing her reasons for leaving, Zhou Chun fell silent.

Since the Zhou family regained a Golden Core cultivator, Zhou Yuanlian was the first Golden Core elder of the Zhou family to die unexpectedly.

When Zhou Yuanlian went to the Yuanmo Territory to find the follow-up techniques of the "Ten Thousand Poisons True Scripture" and died, Zhou Chun felt very sorry for her.

After all, the path of poison cultivation is inherently fraught with danger, and those who successfully form their core have endured countless hardships.

As a result, just a hundred years after successfully forming his core, he had to travel to a foreign land due to the nature of his cultivation method, and eventually died far from home!

Wu Yuzhu today also has a tragic background and suffered a lot before successfully forming her core.

The result is that, just like Zhou Yuanlian, they have to travel to a foreign land to risk everything in order to obtain the next cultivation technique.

This made Zhou Chun suddenly feel that he should help these younger generations and not let them continue to be moths drawn to a flame because of their cultivation techniques.

After all, the family had spent a lot of resources to train these younger generations to successfully form their cores.

Thinking of this, he immediately said to Wu Yuzhu, "How about this, you go to the Yuanmo territory first to scout out the area and investigate the situation. A few years later, after I've seen off my two elders, I'll also take some time to visit the Yuanmo territory and see if I can help you obtain the next generation of inheritance!"

His answer was clearly beyond Wu Yuzhu's expectations, and she was immediately stunned.

If you ask her if she ever thought about asking Zhou Chun for help, she definitely did.

However, she was also very clear that with Zhou Chun's current cultivation level, he didn't care whether the Zhou family had one more or one less Golden Core cultivator, so why would he be willing to waste his time on her?

Furthermore, she was not a member of the Zhou family and had no suitable reason to seek Zhou Chun's help.

Unexpectedly, the request that she had hesitated and struggled with for so long, never daring to utter, was now brought up by Zhou Chun herself.

This filled her with both surprise and joy, immense delight and excitement.

After a moment of stunned silence, she bowed deeply to Zhou Chun with a look of delighted surprise, saying, "Thank you so much for your kindness, Clan Chief! Your great kindness is something I can never repay!"

"Just because you called me clan leader, it's only right that I, Zhou, lend you a hand."

Zhou Chun said calmly, then waved his hand and said, "Alright, let's settle it like this. You should also be careful."

"Yes, this junior will take his leave."

Suppressing her excitement, Wu Yuzhu respectfully replied and then withdrew.

Three years later, the Azure Dragon Qingqing and the third-tier Thunder Dragon actually succeeded in giving birth to offspring, laying a dragon egg.

"Wonderful! Wonderful! To witness the emergence of the fourth dragon in my Zhou family before my passing is another merit I have earned when I meet my ancestors after my death!"

At the edge of Leilong Marsh, Zhou Mingde and Zhou Chun came over after hearing the news and saw the dragon egg. They clapped their hands and laughed with smiles on their faces.

After returning the dragon egg to the Azure Dragon Qingqing to take back to its nest and care for it, Zhou Daoyi said with a smile, "Yes, yes, to be able to see Qingqing lay a dragon egg before I pass away, I can say that I have fulfilled another wish and have one less worry!"

He then turned to Zhou Chun and said, "Zheng Chun, what do you think we should do with this dragon egg? How about we form a Heart-to-Heart Contract? While I'm still here, Qingqing shouldn't object!"

"There's no need for that. Xin Yuan's black jade python is just as good, and it has a high chance of transforming into a dragon in the future. Besides, his mind isn't on these spirit pets. Giving it to him would be a real waste!"

Zhou Chun shook her head slightly, directly rejecting Zhou Daoyi's good intentions on behalf of her son.

He was a true pragmatist; he wouldn't hesitate to give his son things he deserved.

However, he doesn't simply give all the good things to his son.

When he refused, Zhou Mingde and Zhou Daoyi were both taken aback.

However, these two elders knew his character and quickly understood his meaning, so they did not try to persuade him further.

Zhou Daoyi quickly added, "If we don't give it to Xinyuan, who else in the Zhou family can contract with this dragon egg? Why don't we have Zhiying raise another dragon?"

Upon hearing this, Zhou Chun quickly shook his head and said, "Ying'er is already a Nascent Soul cultivator. Even if we give her a fourth-order dragon, it would be of little use except for when she goes out. There's no need for that."

"Which junior do you favor, Zheng Chun? I'll leave this to you; you can make the arrangements."

After being rejected twice, Zhou Daoyi stopped making suggestions and simply handed the choice over to Zhou Chun.

He naturally trusted Zhou Chun's judgment, and since his lifespan was nearing its end, he should indeed heed Zhou Chun's advice in this regard.

Zhou Chun seemed to have indeed given it some thought, and immediately chimed in, "In my humble opinion, there's no need for us to rush into choosing a master for this dragon egg. Even if it hatches first, it's fine. As long as it's well-trained from a young age, we can naturally help it become a partner when outstanding descendants emerge in the family!"

"Will this work?"

Zhou Mingde, who was standing to the side, frowned and questioned him with some doubt.

Zhou Chun replied confidently, "It will definitely work! As long as Silver Dragon Lord and Qingqing are both in the Zhou family, the dragons that grew up under their influence shouldn't refuse to form contracts with our Zhou family's outstanding disciples, because that way they'll have a chance to leave this Thunder Dragon Swamp and see the outside world!"

"Yes, Zheng Chun is right. I also think this is a good idea, and I will explain this to Qing Qing!"

Zhou Daoyi nodded repeatedly, agreeing with Zhou Chun's statement.

Clearly, he didn't want to casually hand over the dragon egg to a junior member of the Zhou family, lest he entrust it to the wrong person.

Seeing this, Zhou Mingde naturally couldn't raise any further objections, so he could only nod and say, "Since you all think it's feasible, then let's do it this way."

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