Beast-controlling fairy clan.

Chapter 114: Small gains, planning to build a foundation [Subscription required]

After leaving the Hongyan Mountains, Zhou Chun thought about what happened before and felt deeply moved.

What happened today really illustrates an eternal truth: sweet dogs will never die a good death!
At any time, regardless of gender, once you choose to be a sweet dog, you are destined to be toyed with by the other party.

In this world of cultivating immortals, the price that Tian Gou pays will not only be money and feelings, but also his life!
At the same time, the story of the beautiful woman taking revenge for her husband also served as a warning to Zhou Chun.

If you make enemies with someone again in the future, don't show mercy if you can beat him to death on the spot!
Even if you fail to kill the enemy on the spot, you must remember his appearance and find an opportunity to kill him later. Don't ignore him just because he is weak.

After all, this is a world of cultivating immortals, a world where one can potentially inherit peerless magical skills by jumping off a cliff!

The weak who are ignored today may be blessed with destiny in the future and inherit the legacy of a strong man, thus successfully counterattacking and coming to seek revenge on me with powerful skills and treasures.

At that time, not only will you suffer, but your family and relatives will also be affected.

You can't be soft-hearted!
After his magic power was almost used up in one breath, Zhou Chun took a break to recover his magic power and also took the opportunity to count the spoils.

Among the three people he killed this time, one was at the twelfth level of Qi Refining Stage, and two were at the ninth level of Qi Refining Stage.

Therefore, Zhou Chun obtained two first-grade superior magic weapons and five first-grade mid-grade magic weapons at one time, including a first-grade mid-grade flying magic weapon.

The total number of spirit coins in the three people's storage bags was 453, which was considered a considerable fortune.

Other miscellaneous items such as elixirs, talismans, etc. are estimated to be worth more than a hundred spirit coins in total.

In addition, Zhou Chun also found a method of practicing a secret technique in the storage bag of the sweet man, called "Spirit-Seeking Technique", which is a relatively rare secret technique.

According to the records in the esoteric book, this "Spirit-Seeking Technique" is equivalent to an enhanced version of the Qi-Gazing Technique.

After performing the secret technique, one can not only see the cultivation level of cultivators at a higher level, but also see the spiritual light emitted by the spiritual herbs and monsters in the mountains and forests.

The sweet dog man was able to cultivate to the twelfth level of the Qi Refining Stage at an age that looked to be in his fifties or sixties, and he also possessed two first-grade top-quality magical weapons, one for attack and one for defense.

In addition to his good qualifications, the biggest reason is that he has successfully practiced the secret technique of "Spirit Seeking", and his success rate in searching for spiritual medicines is much higher than others.

However, although the cultivation requirements of this "Spirit Seeking Method" do not seem to be high, according to the above statement, it is extremely time-consuming to cultivate it successfully.

According to the records in the Tiangou man's own practice notes that Zhou Chun read, he started practicing this secret technique when he was eighteen years old and reached the fourth level of the Qi Refining Stage. It was not until he was thirty-two years old and reached the seventh level of the Qi Refining Stage that he truly succeeded in practicing this secret technique to the point where he could use it to find elixirs.

According to his own somewhat proud statement, this was considered relatively fast.

It took his master nearly twenty-five years to master this secret technique!
This made Zhou Chun's originally passionate heart cool down.

Things are different now. Zhou Chun is no longer the person who would be ecstatic when he obtained a secret technique.

His knowledge of various types of esoteric arts was also far beyond what his previous self could have known.

Secret techniques like the "Spirit-Seeking Eyes" are indeed precious.

But in fact it is very useless!

First of all, it can be confirmed that this method is of little use to cultivators above the Foundation Establishment Stage.

Because the spiritual awareness of cultivators in the Foundation Establishment Stage is much stronger and the detection effect is better, they will not be worse than it in finding spiritual medicines.

And which immortal cultivator, after reaching the foundation-building stage, would go around the mountains and fields searching for elixirs that are less than a hundred years old, or barely a hundred years old?

Another thing is that it can be seen that the effect of the cultivation of cultivators at a higher level is mostly ineffective against cultivators at the Purple Mansion Stage.

In this case, considering the ten or twenty years of training time, isn't this method useless to a cultivator like Zhou Chun who has no difficulty in building a foundation?

Only those casual cultivators who make a living by searching for spirits and collecting herbs would regard this thing as a treasure and be willing to spend a long time and hard work to cultivate it.

"However, this method is not without use to the family. We can ask the clan leader to give it to some ordinary clan members who are not qualified to practice secret arts. If someone succeeds in practicing it in the future, they can also make a fortune with it!"

Zhou Chun's eyes flashed, and he thought of the use of this "chicken rib".

After counting the harvest and meditating to restore his magic power, Zhou Chun continued on his journey.

A month later, Zhou Chun returned to the Zhou family again.

He was lucky this time and soon found a mine with rich gold energy. Not only did he cultivate two "Xin Jin Sword Qi" in the mine, but he also collected enough gold energy to replenish three "Xin Jin Sword Qi".

As soon as he returned to Jiufengling, Zhou Chun learned good news.

After three months of seclusion, Zhou Jiahe, the head of Baozhi Peak, who took the Shengling Fruit to impact the foundation building, succeeded in building the foundation!

In this way, Zhou Jiahe not only became the fifth foundation-building cultivator in the Zhou family, but also the only female foundation-building cultivator.

Moreover, her success also diluted the negative impact of another Zhou family cultivator who died due to failure in building his foundation, allowing the other two who had not yet taken the Shengling Fruit to build their foundation to see hope and regain their confidence.

"This time, I was able to successfully build my foundation. Zhengchun, you helped a lot. I won't say more. If you need help from me when building your foundation in the future, I will definitely support you with all my strength!"

On Baozhi Peak, when Zhou Chun, who had just returned, learned the news and came to visit and congratulate Zhou Jiahe, the new foundation-building cultivator of the Zhou family immediately looked at him seriously and gave him a guarantee.

Upon seeing this, Zhou Chun immediately bowed and thanked her, saying, "Then I would like to thank Aunt Thirteen in advance!"

I was also very happy in my heart.

Next, Zhou Chun went to visit his parents and brothers and sisters. He then handed over the secret technique of "Spirit-Seeking Technique" to the family and explained his suggestions to the clan leader Zhou Daoyi.

Zhou Daoyi also agreed with his suggestion and rewarded him with another 300 points of family merit.

Then he announced the good news to the whole family.

In order to lay a mass foundation for Zhou Chun, Zhou Daoyi also specifically pointed out who presented the "Spirit-Seeking Method" and who suggested opening it up to all the cultivators in the clan to practice.

This series of operations indeed made many ordinary and even elite members of the Zhou family grateful to Zhou Chun.

After all, they were originally not qualified to practice the family secret skills, but now they are qualified.

In the following six months, there was a constant stream of cultivators queuing up in the Zhou family library to receive the secret techniques for practicing.

If Zhou Chun was not really too busy to be away, it would be much easier to win people's hearts if he personally distributed jade slips to every Zhou family cultivator who received the secret technique of cultivation.

Half a year later, after taking four Golden Bud Pills in succession, Zhou Chun finally succeeded in breaking through to the twelfth level of the Qi Refining Stage.

At this point, he only needs to open the last eight acupoints and he can start building the foundation.

At this time, he was only in his early 34 years old.

A 34-year-old Qi Refining Stage 12th Level cultivator was the first among the more than 100 Qi Refining Stage cultivators in the Zhou family. The last cultivator who reached the 12th level of Qi Refining Stage before this age was Zhou Zhengkang, who had died several years ago.

With this level of cultivation at this age, even if Zhou Chun is just a casual cultivator, he has a good chance of building a foundation in the future.

"Very good, Zheng Chun, you have finally reached this level of cultivation!"

"Next, you just need to slowly open the last eight acupoints one by one. I will find a way for you to get the foundation-building pill. You should have a chance soon!"

Inside the Zhongping Palace, Zhou Daoyi was delighted to see that Zhou Chun's cultivation had finally broken through to the twelfth level of the Qi Refining Stage. He nodded repeatedly and felt very satisfied with it.

Then he brought up the old matter again, and directly stated that Zhou Chun didn't need to worry about the Foundation Establishment Pill.

Zhou Chun was deeply moved when he heard this.

He immediately showed curiosity and asked, "What does the Patriarch mean by opportunity?"

Hearing his question, Zhou Daoyi didn't keep him in suspense and immediately looked at him and said, "You also know that in the past few years, the Hualong Sect has been making more and more trouble in Yunzhou. Even many foundation-building casual cultivators and some small families in Yunzhou have been lured by them and left Jingguo with their people to practice around their new headquarters."

"This is beginning to shake the foundation of Qinglian Temple in Yunzhou!"

"So I heard that Qinglian Temple has used a batch of reserve materials to prepare some foundation-building pills as rewards to reward those immortal cultivation families and independent cultivators who performed well in dealing with the Hualong Sect."

"If that's the case, my Zhou family will definitely not let go of this opportunity!"

Is that so?

Zhou Chun nodded thoughtfully and understood what Zhou Daoyi meant.

By now, a lot of information about the Hualong Sect has been uncovered through investigation.

From what we know, after the Hualong Sect was exterminated in Jingguo, the remnants should have fled into the vast Longyuan Lake.

After more than 800 years of silent development, the Hualong Sect has now established another human settlement in the wilderness outside of Jingguo, and its overall strength is likely to be no weaker than that of the Qinglian Temple, or even stronger!
This time they chose to enter Yasukuni Shrine to stir up trouble. I am afraid that their real intention was to poach talents, not to avenge their past.

After all, even if their strength has recovered well, it can never be compared with their strongest period in the past.

It should be known that as long as the major sects in Jingguo still exist, it is impossible to truly allow them to return to Jingguo.

But if they want to grow stronger and establish a country ruled by the Hualong Sect outside of Jingguo, they need enough manpower.

Then we can only focus on Yasukuni.

And the Qinglian Temple will obviously not sit idly by and watch this matter. It is impossible for them to allow a large number of Jingguo monks to join the Hualong Sect and weaken their own strength and strengthen the enemy's strength.

Therefore, in order to avoid this from happening, the only thing they could do was to severely crack down on the Hualong Sect members who had sneaked into the country to cause chaos, while at the same time giving them benefits to stabilize people's hearts.

As long as your hands are stained with the blood of the Hualong Sect members, there is naturally no possibility of surrendering to the enemy!
As for the Zhou family, which had just moved to Lanzhou, it was definitely impossible for them to join the Hualong Sect.

Then, when the Qinglian Temple's foundation-building pills are really taken out to win over people's hearts, and everyone works hard to fight against the Hualong Sect for the foundation-building pills, the Zhou family can naturally follow the trend and become one of them.

At that time, even if some of the foundation-building envoys of the Hualong Sect were really killed, they would not be the first to be exposed. They could also use this opportunity to show their determination to the Qinglian Temple, which could be said to kill three birds with one stone.

After understanding this, Zhou Chun really stopped worrying about the Foundation Establishment Pill.

On this day, because the family's poisonous spiny fish mucus used to make "Touch of Despair" was exhausted, Zhou Chun went to the underground river to fish again.

What is certain now is that this poisonous stickleback fish cannot be artificially bred.

In other words, it cannot be artificially cultivated due to environmental limitations.

The poisonous spiny fish raised by the Zhou family either died or the mucus on their bodies gradually disappeared after they were taken away from their original environment, and they no longer produced the mucus after several rounds of collection.

Therefore, if we want to make the "Touch of Despair" now, we have to continue sending people to that underground river to fish and obtain mucus.

Zhou Chun had suggested several times before that the Zhou family should directly occupy the mountain where the pool was located.

But they were all temporarily rejected by the clan leader Zhou Daoyi.

According to Zhou Daoyi, the Zhou family currently has limited manpower and can barely defend Jiufengling. If they set up another branch, it would be difficult to take care of both sides.

After being rejected several times, Zhou Chun no longer mentioned the matter.

However, after arriving at the pool this time, Zhou Chun looked at the deep pool in front of him and couldn't help but want to explore the underground river again.

Now his cultivation has reached the twelfth level of the Qi Refining Stage, and the Silver Electric Thunder Python has become a first-class superior monster that is equally powerful in water.

Even if we were besieged by a large group of poisonous spiny fish as we did before, it should not be difficult to escape unscathed thanks to the strong paralyzing effect of the Thunder Spell in the water.

Do it when you think of it!

After a moment's hesitation, Zhou Chun released the Silver Lightning Thunder Python Baibai, cast a "water-avoiding spell" on himself, and dived into the water with the Silver Lightning Thunder Python Baibai leading him.

It might be that the Silver Lightning Thunder Python Baibai had initially acquired some of the pressure of a mid-level monster. This time, Zhou Chun was led by it as they advanced in the underground river, and all the monsters they encountered were scared away in advance.

He also easily reached the underground water cave where they had failed in the past.

After entering the underground water cave, Zhou Chun encountered some poisonous spiny fish again.

But when these monsters saw the Silver Electric Thunder Python Baibai, they were so scared that they fled deep into the underground water cave. I don’t know if they went to call for reinforcements.

Zhou Chun also secretly became more alert in his heart.

Sure enough, after advancing for a distance, Zhou Chun saw again the scene that had caused them to fail.

Dozens of poisonous spiny fish were seen rushing towards the place in a ferocious school, stirring up the originally calm underground water cave into a turbulent undercurrent.

"Xiao Baibai, it's up to you!"

Zhou Chun took a deep breath and immediately jumped off the python's back, allowing the Silver Thunder Python to take the initiative and launch an attack.

I saw a silver-white lightning ball spewing out of Baibai's mouth, and it instantly fell into the school of fish and exploded.

All of a sudden, even though they were dozens of feet away, Zhou Chun felt his body go numb, as if he had been touched.

Several of the poisonous spiny fish were killed on the spot, and the rest were twitching all over and their speed dropped sharply.

At this time, the Silver Lightning Python Baibai swung its tail and bravely attacked the school of fish!

(End of this chapter)