Beast-controlling fairy clan.

Chapter 108: Human Relationships, Tiantai Zhang Family [Subscription Request]

"Regarding the Heavenly Spirit Trial, this matter has to start from thousands of years ago."

"About seven or eight thousand years ago, the vast areas where the three countries of Jing, Cheng, and Shen were located were all oppressively ruled by a powerful immortal cultivation sect called Tianling Sect."

"It is said that when the Tianling Sect was at its most powerful, there were more than a dozen Yuanying-stage cultivators!"

"The Tianling Trial is a trial specially created by the Tianling Sect to select outstanding disciples."

"There are three trial sites for the Heavenly Spirit Trial, corresponding to cultivators at the Qi Refining, Foundation Building, and Purple Mansion stages. With Heavenly Spirit Orders of different levels, one can enter one of them for the trial."

"In each trial site, there are various dangerous tests and treasures arranged by Tianlingmen for the trial disciples. The better the trial disciples perform in the trial site, the higher the reward they will receive after the trial."

"However, the Tianling Sect has long been destroyed, and two of the trial sites for the Tianling Trial have been found to be cracked. Only the trial site for Qi Refining cultivators has not been discovered yet."

"Also because of the destruction of Tianling Sect, if you want to participate in the Tianling Trial and enter the Trial Grounds now, you can only rely on the Tianling Order to go to the Trial Grounds at certain special time periods through the teleportation altar at the Tianling Sect ruins."

"And as far as I know, every time the Heavenly Spirit Trial begins, there will be cultivators from the Three Kingdoms holding the Heavenly Spirit Order to enter the trial site to plunder the resources there. Someone even brought out a thousand-year-old elixir from there!"

In Zhongping Palace, facing Zhou Chun's question, Zhou Daoyi sorted out his thoughts a little and then told him everything about the "Tianling Trial".

After he finished speaking, he sighed with regret, "It's a pity that I wasn't there at the time. Otherwise, if it was just over 5,000 spirit coins, I could have tried to get the Heavenly Spirit Order and let you, Zhengchun, go to the trial site to check out the situation!"

Zhou Daoyi was very familiar with Zhou Chun's strength.

Now that the Rock Turtle and the Silver Lightning Python have both been nurtured and formed, coupled with the secret techniques he has practiced and the magical weapons he possesses, it will be difficult for anyone in the Qi Refining Stage to defeat him.

If you participate in that "Heavenly Spirit Trial", you should be able to gain good results.

However, Zhou Chun's attention at this time had been attracted by the powerful force Tianlingmen that Zhou Daoyi mentioned.

There was no reaction to his sigh, but she asked curiously: "As the clan leader said, how did the Tianling Sect fall when it was so powerful in its heyday?"

This time Zhou Daoyi shook his head and said, "I don't know. Thousands of years have passed. I'm afraid that except for those knowledgeable Jindan-stage cultivators who may know something, most ordinary cultivators will find it difficult to know the truth of this matter."

After saying that, he waved his hand at Zhou Chun and said, "Okay, it's enough for you to know a little about these things. There's no need to pay too much attention to them. From now on, you should focus more on cultivation and cultivate to the point where you can build your foundation as soon as possible!"

"Yes, junior understands."

Zhou Chun responded obediently, then said goodbye and returned to his residence.

Within a few days, the news that the family had obtained five Spirit-Enhancing Fruits spread throughout the Zhou family.

Unlike previous practices of selecting the best people to take the Foundation Establishment Pill to build the foundation, this time Zhou Daoyi put all five Spirit Ascension Fruits into the family treasury, allowing the clan members to exchange them for the family's good deeds.

The exchange price for each Spirit Upgrading Fruit is 2,000 points of family good deeds.

This price is almost the cost price, and there is even a slight discount.

However, among all the Qi Refining cultivators in the Zhou family, there are only two who have more than 2,000 family merits. One of them is Zhou Chun, who has no need for the Spirit Ascension Fruit, and the other is over 90 years old and basically has no hope of building a foundation.

So neither of them participated in the fight for the five Spirit-Upgrading Fruits.

But they did not fight for the Spirit-Ascension Fruit, while others were eyeing the good deeds of their family.

Soon after the news that the Spirit Ascension Fruit could be exchanged for the family's good deeds came out, several family elders came to him with only one purpose: to borrow good deeds from him.

It is no longer a secret that Zhou Chun is the one with the most good deeds among the Qi-refining cultivators in the Zhou family.

However, he still needs some time to break through the twelfth level of the Qi Refining Stage, let alone to open up all 108 acupoints in the body.

Therefore, those elders of the Zhou family who needed the Spirit-Upgrading Fruit but did not have enough good deeds in their own family would easily set their sights on him.

Faced with these elders' words, Zhou Chun was a little embarrassed.

If he doesn't lend it, his elders will inevitably say that he is stingy and have a bad impression of him.

Just lend it to him. There are so many elders, who should he lend it to?

So he could only ask clearly how much good deeds each person wanted to borrow, and then drag it out with the excuse that he needed time to consider, and weigh the pros and cons secretly.

First of all, he must borrow good deeds. If he doesn't, it may seem that he has not offended anyone, but in fact, he has offended everyone.

Moreover, if the good deeds lent out can successfully help someone build a foundation, it would be a great favor.

As a result, Zhou Chun had only been considering it for less than two days when two of the five Spiritual Upgrading Fruits were exchanged for one another.

However, someone had raised enough good deeds from other tribesmen and took the initiative.

Now the remaining members of the Zhou family became anxious, and Zhou Chun also faced greater pressure.

After much thought, he finally made a choice.

He first invited his twenty-seventh uncle Zhou Jiapeng, who came to ask about the situation, into his residence, and then said with a serious face: "Uncle Peng, I will always remember your kindness in supporting and caring for me. Since you asked, I will naturally borrow these 1,000 points of good deeds!"

After he finished saying this, he saw Zhou Jiapeng's face suddenly filled with ecstasy, and he cheered in delight: "Good, good, good, I knew I was right about you. Zhengchun, you are indeed a kind and righteous child who knows how to repay kindness!"

At this moment, Zhou Jiapeng was indeed ecstatic.

Because he also knew that compared with some family elders who also came to Zhou Chun to borrow good deeds, he actually only had this slight advantage, but was at a great disadvantage in other aspects.

For example, his cultivation had just recently broken through to the twelfth level of the Qi Refining Stage, and he would need to practice for at least another year before taking the Spiritual Ascension Fruit.

This alone gave Zhou Chun enough reason to exclude him first when considering lending out good deeds.

Not to mention that he had to borrow thousands of family merits at one time!

In this case, Zhou Chun was still willing to lend him thousands of points of good merit as he requested.

How could he not be extremely surprised and ecstatic?

He was so delighted at the moment that he promised on the spot: "Don't worry, Zhengchun, I will compensate you with these 1,000 family merits as soon as possible after I take the Shengling Fruit, whether I succeed or fail, and I will never let you suffer any loss!"

"Then I wish Uncle Peng all your wishes come true!"

Zhou Chun smiled and gave his blessings.

Then he gave Zhou Jiapeng a letter on the spot to transfer 1,000 family merit points, and asked him to take it to exchange for the Spiritual Ascension Fruit. After seeing off the ecstatic Zhou Jiapeng, Zhou Chun invited his aunt Zhou Jiahe to his residence.

"When I first arrived at Baozhi Peak, Fourteenth Aunt took great care of me. I have always remembered this kindness in my heart. Now that you have asked me, I naturally have to lend you these 650 family merits!"

Inside the room, Zhou Chun looked at Zhou Jiahe, whose hair had turned gray, and couldn't help but recall the time when he first arrived at Jiufengling twelve years ago.

At that time, he was only at the sixth level of the Qi Refining Stage and had just arrived in this world not long ago.

Although Zhou Jiahe was already 67 years old at that time, he did not look as old as he does now.

In fact, at Zhou Jiahe's current age, if he could take the foundation-building pill to reach the foundation-building stage, then there would be nothing to worry about.

After all, there was the precedent of Zhou Jiarui, who was over 70 years old, successfully building a foundation.

However, it is hard to say what the success rate will be if one takes the Spirit-Shenging Fruit to impact the foundation.

The most important thing is that if she fails, her physical condition at her age will make it difficult for her to withstand the backlash of failure.

Zhou Chun felt that the reason why the old man dared to take this gamble was probably because he had never been married in his life and there was no funeral affairs to worry about.

Even if you fail, it's nothing more than dust to dust.

When Zhou Jiahe heard that Zhou Chun was willing to lend the family's good deeds to him, he was also very happy, but he did not lose his composure like Zhou Jiapeng.

He just looked at Zhou Chun kindly and nodded repeatedly, saying: "Zhengyong is right. Zhengchun, you are indeed a person who cherishes the old times. I will remember this kindness today."

She didn't say anything about repaying him like she did with Zhou Jiapeng, but Zhou Chun wasn't worried at all that she would default on her debt.

We are all members of the same family, so there is trust.

So after giving Zhou Jiahe a letter borrowing the family's good deeds, Zhou Chun saw this family elder off from his residence.

Then, as for the remaining family elders, he could only express regretfully that his abilities were limited and he could do nothing to help them.

This will naturally disappoint those people and even cause them to have some opinions about him.

But he couldn't take care of everyone, so he could only let it go.

After Zhou Jiapeng and Zhou Jiahe each exchanged for a Spirit-Ascension Fruit, the last Spirit-Ascension Fruit was quickly exchanged by someone else.

As for whether these five spirit-enhancing fruits can eventually enable the Zhou family to produce new foundation-building cultivators, it will take time to test.

In short, this wave of profit is huge for the family.

Not only can 10,000 points of family good deeds be cancelled through the recycling of the Spirit-Upgrading Fruit, but it is also possible to gain one or more Foundation Establishment cultivators.

While the Zhou family was celebrating because they had obtained five soul-enhancing fruits, the Zhang family, another immortal cultivation family in Lanzhou, was mourning the death of their family elder who had passed away.

The Zhang family of Tiantai Mountain is an old-established immortal cultivation family with a long heritage in Lanzhou.

The ancestor of the Zhang family was just a casual cultivator who didn’t even have the cultivation level to reach the foundation-building stage.

However, he relied on taking concubines and having children, and gave birth to three sons and two daughters, five descendants with spiritual roots, one of whom even had the qualifications of a top-grade spiritual root.

Later, it was with the help of these three sons and two daughters, as well as hundreds of mortal children, that the Zhang family of Tiantai Mountain was established.

Up to now, the Zhang family has been passed down for seven or eight hundred years, with two or three hundred cultivators and hundreds of thousands of ordinary people.

This time, Zhang Yunjin, the second elder of the Zhang family, went to participate in the underground auction with a family mission. He wanted to see if he could bid for a foundation-building pill and add another foundation-building cultivator to the family.

However, what no one in the Zhang family expected was that just going out to carry out such a simple mission would cause Zhang Yunjin, who had the cultivation level of the late foundation building stage, to never return and die outside.

If the Zhang family had not used their connections to inquire from various sources, they might not even know how the family elder died and at whose hands he died.

"Clan leader, the news has been confirmed. The second elder was killed by the fire god jackal tamed by the Zhou family's supreme elder. What are you and the supreme elder still hesitating about? Why don't you bring us to the door to call for justice?"

"Yes, the Zhou family killed our Zhang family elders and took our Zhang family's property. If our Zhang family does not respond, how will outsiders view our Zhang family? And how will those clan members view us, the family elders?"

"I don't understand what you are worried about, Patriarch. The Zhou family is an outsider. In the past, we didn't cause trouble for them, and they should have been grateful. Now they dare to kill our Zhang family's elders. If we don't go to them and ask for an explanation, won't our Zhang family be laughed at!"

Inside the Zhang family's patriarch's office hall in Tiantai Mountain, several Zhang family foundation-building elders surrounded the patriarch Zhang Kaida, and in great emotion asked him to come forward and demand an explanation for the second elder Zhang Yunjin who had died outside.

It turned out that just as Zhou Jiarui had expressed his concerns to Zhou Daoyi at the time, when the Fire God Jackal tried to kill Zhang Yunjin, he was still seen from afar by several Foundation Establishment cultivators who had left the flying ship before and after them.

Although those people didn't know who died at that time, they at least knew that it was the Zhou family's Fire God Chai who killed a Foundation Establishment cultivator.

So when the Zhang family saw that the second elder Zhang Yunjin did not return to the family, they asked people everywhere. Naturally, someone was willing to do them a favor and revealed what they saw that day.

In addition, there has been no other force looking for the missing foundation-building cultivators recently, so the situation has become completely clear.

So now there is a scene where many foundation-building elders of the Zhang family are furious and want to go to the Zhou family to demand an explanation.

However, facing the angry questioning of many elders, Zhang Kaida, the head of the Zhang family, said angrily with an ugly face: "Raising an army to punish the culprit, it's easy for you to say!"

"Even if we know that the Second Elder was killed by the Zhou Family's Fire God Jackal, who is willing to come forward to testify for this?"

"Besides, the Second Elder may have been the first to attack, so it's hard for us to be in the right in this matter!"

"The most important point is that the Zhou family is no longer what it used to be. Don't forget that two years ago, Senior Mingxia from Qinglian Temple personally visited the Zhou family. The Zhou family also has close ties with the Wang family, the Mu family, and the Sun family, and they have fought together!"

"Without a legitimate reason and without support from other forces, how can we, the Zhang family, which only has one Purple Mansion cultivator, go to another family with a Purple Mansion cultivator and a third-level monster to question them?"

At this point, Zhang Kaida glared at the elders who were shouting happily and shouted angrily: "How can you rely on a few Foundation Establishment cultivators? Who among you can stop that Fire God Jackal? Who can fight against Zhou Daoyi who once rode a dragon and killed three Foundation Establishment cultivators alone?"

Fortunately, the sound insulation of this office hall is very good, otherwise Zhang Kaida’s roar might be heard by half of the monks in the family.

After being yelled at like this, several elders of the Zhang family looked at each other for a moment and did not dare to speak immediately.

It was not until a long while later that someone asked with an unwilling look on his face, "So is this the end of it? Did the Second Elder die in vain?"

"Of course I won't just let it go!"

Zhang Kaida responded with a gloomy face and said in a low voice: "We, the Zhang family, will keep this grudge in mind first, and when we have the chance, we will make the Zhou family pay a heavy price!"

(End of this chapter)