Beast Taming Immortal Clan

Chapter 792 Three Magical Treasures, A Joyous Event for the Zhou Family [Happy May Day]

Kunwu Mountain.

Unbeknownst to many, sixty years have passed since the deaths of Zhou Mingde and Zhou Daoyi.

On this day, Zhou Chun offered incense and paid his respects at the graves of his two elders, and then descended the mountain and left Kunwu Mountain.

A few days ago, a Golden Core cultivator from the Heavenly Fire Sect in the far west visited the Zhou family and delivered a letter from True Person Blazing Fire to Zhou Chun.

After decades of repeated attempts, Master Liehuo finally succeeded in refining a top-grade magic weapon!

The materials Zhou Chun gave him were enough for him to try again at least twenty times.

After using up so many materials, he only managed to refine three top-grade magic treasures and seven high-grade magic treasures.

In terms of success rate, it is undoubtedly very low.

However, Master Liehuo had also given an explanation in his heart.

He failed seven times in a row before successfully crafting his first top-grade magic weapon. He then tried fifteen more times and succeeded in crafting two more.

Furthermore, at the end of the letter, Master Liehuo confidently guaranteed that if he were to refine another top-grade magic weapon in the future, his success rate should be around 20%.

Of course, for Zhou Chun, his success rate of 20% or 30% is not a particularly important matter.

The important thing is that through this donation, Master Liehuo owes him a huge favor. If he needs to refine weapons again in the future, or if the Tianhuo Sect helps him refine some magical artifacts, he will definitely not dare to refuse.

Zhou Chun happens to have a weapon-refining task that he is about to hand over to the Heavenly Fire Sect.

Therefore, after making some preparations, he went out to Tianhuo Sect to retrieve the treasure and handed over the weapon-refining task to True Person Liehuo.

Several days later, Zhou Chun arrived at the Heavenly Fire Sect and was warmly received by True Man Liehuo.

"Fellow Daoist Zhou, please take a look. These are the three top-grade magic treasures that I, Dong, have refined. I have compared them all, and their quality is no worse than the top-grade magic treasures refined by Senior Brother Yan Cang before!"

Inside the cave, after entertaining Zhou Chun, True Immortal Liehuo took out the three top-grade magic treasures he had successfully crafted and gave a brief introduction.

He first spoke to one of the flying swords, saying, "This [Blood Flame Fire Dragon Sword] is forged primarily from the horn of the Blood Flame Flood Dragon King and [Fire Crystal Divine Iron]. Not only is it incredibly sharp, but it can also unleash blood flame demonic fire. Its accompanying divine power, [Blood Flame Divine Slash], is even more powerful, rivaling even spiritual treasures!"

Then, he picked up a pair of flying claw magic weapons and said, "This pair of [Heavenly Roc Deadly Claws] was forged primarily from the Heavenly Roc Demon King's claws and [Ink Abyss Profound Iron]. Its speed is faster than flying swords of the same level, making it more difficult to defend against. It also possesses powerful spell-breaking and shield-breaking properties, and contains two [Heart-Eating Wind Fiends] that even Nascent Soul stage cultivators would find difficult to remove once afflicted!"

Finally, he produced a longbow, a magical artifact, and said, "This [Flame Dragon Divine Bow] is crafted primarily from the bones and tendons of the Bloodflame Flood Dragon King and [Fire Crystal Divine Iron]. It is already a top-grade magical artifact, capable of unleashing powerful fire arrows. I also used some remaining dragon bones and the feathers of the Heavenly Roc Demon King to forge five [Flame Dragon Divine Arrows] for it. When combined, its attack power rivals that of a spiritual treasure!"

After introducing the three top-grade magic treasures, True Man Liehuo pushed them all in front of Zhou Chun.

Zhou Chun didn't stand on ceremony and immediately infused each item with his magic power to examine it.

As Master Liehuo had predicted, the quality of these top-grade magic weapons was indeed quite good, not at all like the work of a master craftsman who had just been able to forge top-grade magic weapons.

However, this is not surprising, because the materials used in the three magical treasures show that their ability to be refined into top-grade magical treasures is largely due to the quality of the materials used.

If the materials themselves are of high quality, the top-grade magical artifacts made from them will naturally be of good quality.

Similarly, the fact that all three top-grade items are offensive magic weapons also indicates that Master Liehuo still lacks some experience in refining other types of top-grade magic weapons.

Zhou Chun, of course, wouldn't expose someone's shortcomings like that. Instead, he nodded repeatedly with a satisfied expression, saying, "Not bad, not bad at all. These three magic treasures are indeed very good. It seems that Fellow Daoist Liehuo's weapon-refining skills will soon catch up with Senior Yan Cang!"

Hearing this, Master Liehuo felt relieved and breathed a sigh of relief.

Then he quickly waved his hand and said, "Not at all, Fellow Daoist Zhou overestimates me. My weapon-refining skills are still far inferior to Senior Brother Yan Cang's!"

"Hehehe, no matter what, being able to forge top-grade magic weapons, Fellow Daoist Liehuo, just based on this alone, your weapon-forging skills are among the strongest below the Grandmaster level. In the future, you might even have a chance to glimpse the Grandmaster realm!"

Zhou Chun chuckled and offered a meaningful compliment to Master Liehuo.

Hearing his seemingly pointed words, Master Liehuo immediately perked up and laughed, "Haha, then I'll accept Fellow Daoist Zhou's auspicious words. If that day truly comes, I, Dong, will die without regret!"

After this lighthearted conversation, Master Liehuo then took out the seven superior-grade magic treasures that had failed to be refined into top-grade magic treasures but were successfully salvaged and reforged, and handed them all over to Zhou Chun.

Among these seven superior-grade magic treasures, there are defensive magic treasures and magic treasures for trapping enemies, indicating that True Man Liehuo has also made attempts in these areas.

Because of the precious materials used, these top-grade magic treasures are the finest of the fine. Generally, a late-stage Golden Core cultivator who possesses one or two of them can greatly increase his combat power.

In addition, Zhou Chun had previously provided a large number of ordinary magic weapon materials to the Tianhuo Sect's weapon refiners for practice, and they had refined a total of one high-grade magic weapon, eleven mid-grade magic weapons, and seventeen low-grade magic weapons. True Man Liehuo also handed these magic weapons over to Zhou Chun.

After Zhou Chun put away these magical treasures, he looked at Fierce Fire True Man and said, "To be honest, Fierce Fire True Man, besides coming here at your invitation to retrieve these treasures, I also have a favor to ask of you."

Upon hearing this, True Immortal Liehuo was also taken aback, and couldn't help but ask, "Oh, with Fellow Daoist Zhou's current cultivation level, is there anything you can't solve? Is it something related to weapon crafting?"

"That's right, it's about weapon crafting. I, Zhou, wish to entrust Fellow Daoist Liehuo and the Heavenly Fire Sect with the task of crafting several large-scale transport magic treasures!"

Zhou Chun nodded slightly and solemnly stated the matter he had requested.

Large-scale transport magical artifacts are of little use in combat, but they are true national treasures that not every force can possess!

The materials used to forge one large transport magic weapon are enough to forge hundreds of ordinary magic weapons, and not just any master craftsman could forge such a weapon.

At the same time, crafting such a large transport magic weapon is extremely time-consuming and energy-intensive. Sometimes, it often takes several master craftsmen more than ten years of hard work to craft a single magic weapon.

Even some powerful large-scale transport magical artifacts require decades to forge.

Zhou Chun also considered that the Zhou family was now quite large, and that if the Yu Kingdom wanted to develop and grow stronger, it would often need to absorb a large number of people from outside, whether they were ordinary people or cultivators. This would create a great demand for large-scale transport magic weapons.

Upon hearing his request, Master Liehuo indeed frowned slightly.

He frowned and pondered for a moment before slowly speaking, "Refining large-scale transport magic treasures requires too much time. In principle, our sect will not easily accept such a commission!"

At this point, he glanced at Zhou Chun, then quickly changed the subject, saying, "However, Fellow Daoist Zhou has done me a great favor, and many of our sect's juniors have also benefited from Fellow Daoist Zhou's gifts and support. I, Dong, will make an exception for Fellow Daoist Zhou this time!"

"With Fellow Daoist Liehuo's words, I am relieved!"

Zhou Chun nodded, a smile appearing on her face.

His previous efforts to support Master Liehuo and the weapon refiners of the Tianhuo Sect were not in vain; he can finally reap some rewards now.

After the agreement was reached, Zhou Chun handed over a large number of magical treasures and spiritual materials that he had brought with him to Master Liehuo for inspection.

The amount of magical materials he prepared was more than enough to forge two or three large transport magical treasures. After all, he had almost emptied 80% of the Zhou family's treasury and even his own private treasury.

However, these magical materials are diverse and many are not suitable for crafting large-scale transport magical artifacts.

Therefore, he still needs to exchange them with the Heavenly Fire Gate.

As one of the most renowned weapon-refining sites in the far west, the Heavenly Fire Sect possesses abundant reserves of many common magical treasures and spiritual materials. However, they often treat these materials as strategic reserves and rarely use them.

They also have various channels for purchasing and exchanging magical artifacts and spiritual materials, allowing them to quickly collect a large number of common magical artifacts and spiritual materials.

Zhou Chun has always believed in leaving professional matters to professionals.

Master Liehuo did not object to his actions.

According to Zhou Chun's approach, the Heavenly Fire Sect actually still has a lot of profit to make, because many of the magical treasure materials that Zhou Chun took out are enough to refine high-grade magical treasures.

After carefully examining the magical treasures and materials Zhou Chun had taken out, True Person Liehuo put down his storage bag and looked at him, saying, "Our sect possesses seven blueprints for crafting large-scale transport magical treasures. Five of them are crafted using various spiritual metal materials, while the other two are mainly crafted using spiritual wood and animal bones!"

"Fellow Daoist Zhou, among the materials you provided, animal bones and spirit wood make up a significant portion. If we coordinate them, we can just enough to forge one large-scale transport magic weapon that uses all three materials!"

Upon hearing this, Zhou Chun immediately nodded and replied, "I have no objection. Fellow Daoist Liehuo, you can handle it as you see fit. If there's anything I need you to do, please feel free to speak up."

Having received this promise, True Immortal Liehuo didn't stand on ceremony and quickly said, "Spiritual metal materials are easy to obtain; our sect has abundant reserves, and forging a large transport magic weapon is not a problem at all. As for beast bones and spiritual wood, these are materials that are difficult to collect in large quantities in the cultivation world of our far west. You may need to collect some more yourself, Fellow Daoist Zhou."

At this point, he looked at Zhou Chun with a serious expression and said, "Furthermore, forging large-scale transport magic treasures is extremely time-consuming. Forging three large-scale transport magic treasures may take over a hundred years to complete. Fellow Daoist Zhou, you should be mentally prepared for that!"

"That works too. Then please, Fellow Daoist Liehuo, first refine that large transport magic weapon made primarily of spirit metal. I, Zhou, will try my best to gather the materials needed for the other two magic weapons before that one is successfully refined!"

Zhou Chun nodded slightly, agreeing with his statement.

However, this way, Zhou Chun didn't have to hand over so many magical treasures and spiritual materials to True Person Liehuo. So he retrieved most of the materials and quickly left the Heavenly Fire Sect.

After returning to his family from the Heavenly Fire Sect, Zhou Chun first distributed the three top-grade magic treasures.

The Bloodflame Fire Dragon Sword was assigned to Feng Yuanjun to enhance her offensive capabilities.

The Heavenly Canopy Deadly Claw was assigned to Lord Yishan, and this treasure, combined with his Void Walking ability, had a miraculous effect.

The Flame Dragon Divine Bow was assigned to Lu Yuanjun by Zhou Chun, also to enhance his offensive capabilities.

As for the remaining high-grade and mid-to-low-grade magic treasures, Zhou Chun put them all into his private treasury, intending to bestow them upon his family's descendants later, depending on the circumstances.

He then handed over the magical treasures and spiritual materials he had brought back to Zhou Xinyan, instructing her to arrange for the family's Golden Core cultivators to find people to exchange for fourth-tier spiritual wood and fourth-tier beast bones. In addition, the family also issued a task to collect these materials.

Given the Zhou family's current status, Zhou Chun doesn't need to personally handle this matter. As long as Zhou family cultivators use his name to find someone to exchange with, even if the other party refuses to give them face, they certainly wouldn't dare to do something like killing and robbing.

More than ten years later, several more happy events reached Zhou Chun's ears.

First, Zhou Zhiying's Heavenly Wind Thunder Eagle finally "successfully borrowed a seed" and successfully laid two bird eggs with the bloodline of the Golden Crown Black Roc.

Secondly, among the Zhou family's "Yu" generation of cultivators, there emerged a genius clansman with superior spiritual root aptitude, innate strong divine sense, and outstanding talent in array formations.

This young man, at the early stage of Foundation Establishment, already possessed a spiritual sense that surpassed that of some mid-Foundation Establishment cultivators, all without consuming any spiritual items to enhance his spiritual sense.

In terms of formation skills, he is far superior to Zhang Liang, the elder relative of the Zhou family who once had the most outstanding formation skills.

After personally inspecting this young junior named "Zhou Yufu", Zhou Chun had Zhou Zhiying take him in as a disciple, making him his grand-disciple, and bestowed upon him a bird egg laid by the Heavenly Wind Thunder Eagle for a contract.

The third piece of good news came from Zhou Zhiying. Through studying the two profound sword-controlling techniques, "Tai Xuan Fei Xian Sword Manual" and "Qing Ling Sword Canon," and with the help of the [Mysterious Heart Sword Stone] to comprehend sword intent, she finally succeeded in comprehending her own sword intent.

Having grasped the essence of swordsmanship, and combined with the supreme sword control technique of the "Tai Xuan Flying Immortal Sword Art," Zhou Zhiying would be considered among the strongest cultivators in the early Nascent Soul stage, even without using any spiritual treasures.

Just then, all the animal bones and spirit wood materials had been collected, so Zhou Chun asked Zhou Zhiying to deliver the materials to the Heavenly Fire Sect in the far west on his behalf.

I'm taking a short break today, so I'll only be posting 4,000 words!