Beast-controlling fairy clan.

Chapter 169 Zhou Chun's Conditions [Subscription Request]

The rat infestation in Cangzhou actually has a long history.

This place is full of mountains and mines, making it a paradise for gold-eating rats.

Every few years, there is a rat infestation.

In history, there was even an incident where a third-level rat king led hundreds of thousands of gold-eating rats to capture a mine.

That time, hundreds of thousands of gold-eating rats dug away most of the spiritual gold ore in a mine in just a few days.

And because the third-level rat king was extremely sensitive to danger and was proficient in earth escape and gold escape techniques, even if several Jindan-stage cultivators took action personally, they would not be able to hurt it at all.

Later, it was a cultivator in the Nascent Soul stage who took action personally and used his great supernatural powers to kill the third-level rat king and several second-level rat monsters, thus quelling the rat plague.

Compared to that major event, the appearance of the second-order mutated gold-eating rat king this time was nothing at all, and was not enough to alarm the Nascent Soul cultivators.

After listening to Hu Changyou's words, Zhou Chun hesitated for a moment, then looked at him and said, "It's not a big problem to ask me to exterminate rats, but how do you plan to calculate the reward?"

Upon hearing this, Hu Changyou immediately replied, "The reward is easy to negotiate. As long as Fellow Daoist Zhou can kill the second-order mutant gold-eating rat king, he will be rewarded with 2,000 spirit coins. The remaining gold-eating rats will also be paid in the same way as the previous rat extermination missions."

When Zhou Chun heard his answer, he immediately shook his head and said, "No, this reward is too low. That's a second-level mutant gold-eating rat king. Its corpse alone is worth hundreds of spirit coins!"

"Fellow Daoist Zhou has misunderstood. This time, as long as you can kill the mutated gold-eating rat king, its body will also belong to you."

Hu Changyou hurriedly explained.

But Zhou Chun still shook his head and said, "That won't work either. I am not interested in doing something where the risk and reward are not equal."

After saying this, in order to avoid Hu Changyou's further persuasion, he continued: "Besides, Fellow Daoist Hu must have known Zhou's true identity. A mere two thousand spirit coins is not a huge sum of money for Zhou."

After hearing what he said, Hu Changyou also fell silent.

He had made some inquiries in the market town in the past few days and had a basic understanding of the Zhou family's situation.

Naturally, he knew that Zhou Chun’s current identity was the deputy patriarch of the Zhou family, and that he was a person of power who lived up to his name.

Judging from Zhou Chun's words, he is obviously not satisfied with the remuneration offered by Cangzhou and wants a higher remuneration.

At the moment, he could only nod and say, "Okay, then I will go back and convey Brother Zhou's intentions. I wonder if Brother Zhou has anything else that he wants me to convey?"

After hearing this, Zhou Chun thought about it for a while, and then whispered, "Friend Hu, you can say that I am not short of spirit coins, but I am short of some spirit objects that can help my spirit pets advance to the second level. If you can provide me with spirit objects such as Earth Spirit Milk, Fifth Level Earth Spirit Mushroom, Earth Dragon Fruit, or related information, I will go there immediately."

"Okay, I'll remember what you said, and I'll take my leave now."

After Hu Changyou finished speaking, he looked at Zhou Chun deeply, turned around and left.

"Doctor Hu, please go away."

Zhou Chun replied and soon returned to the family gate.

He is not in a hurry. If the rat infestation was so easy to eliminate, it would not be a rat infestation.

Once mice start to multiply, their numbers are quite astonishing.

The condition that restricts the reproduction of this kind of organism is often food.

Once the monster beast like the gold-eating rat is allowed to reproduce, it will have no problem giving birth to two litters a year.

Therefore, if the rat infestation cannot be eliminated in time, as the rat population grows larger, they will inevitably steal large amounts of spiritual gold ore from the veins and consume it in order to survive.

By then, the loss would be many times greater than the compensation Zhou Chun is asking for now.

Sure enough, less than a month after Zhou Chun separated from Hu Changyou, Hu Changyou came to Lanzhou again and headed straight for Jiufengling.

"Fellow Daoist Zhou's request has been agreed to. As long as Fellow Daoist Zhou can eliminate the rat infestation, they will give you a bowl of Earth Spirit Stone Milk."

When the two met again on Pagoda Peak, Hu Changyou directly explained his purpose.

"Is it just a bowl of earth spirit stone milk?"

Zhou Chun frowned, seeming somewhat dissatisfied with the reward.

Seeing this, Hu Changyou couldn't help but explain: "One bowl is already a lot. Generally, the milkstone that produces earth spirit stone milk can only produce about one basin in a hundred years, which is less than ten bowls!"

"Moreover, this item has a wide range of uses. It is usually used whenever you need it, and it is difficult to find easily."

When Zhou Chun heard this, his brows relaxed.

Then he looked at him and said, "Fellow Daoist Hu, please tell us first, who is the employer this time?"

Upon hearing this, Hu Changyou immediately replied, "The main cause of the rat infestation this time is the mine occupied by the Zhao family in Cangzhou. It is a valuable copper mine. Their family spent a lot of money to occupy this mine. They can't just sit there and watch those gold-eating rats destroy the mine."

"The Zhao family in Cangzhou, I remember there was a Jindan-stage cultivator, right? Even the Jindan-stage cultivator in their family couldn't catch the mutant Gold-eating Rat King?"

Zhou Chun was surprised and couldn't help showing astonishment.

Although everyone has their own expertise, Jindan stage cultivators do not know everything.

However, with the ability of a Jindan-stage cultivator, whether it is finding a rat's nest or splitting the earth and opening the mountain, it is not too easy at all.

"This is the most troublesome part. The nest of the group of gold-eating rats is built right at the node of the earth vein near the Yaojin iron ore vein."

"If a Jindan-stage cultivator uses his magical power to split the earth and open the mountains to destroy the rat nest, it will inevitably damage the earth veins. The impact on the mineral veins at that time will definitely not be worse than the losses caused by the rampage of the gold-eating rats."

“And if it is impossible to split the ground and open the mountain, the rat nest hidden two or three hundred feet underground will not be easy for even a Purple Mansion stage cultivator who has practiced the earth escape technique to escape to that depth.”

Hu Changyou told the truth with helplessness on his face.

For the forces with Jindan-stage cultivators, if they didn't happen to encounter something that the high-level cultivators couldn't help with, how could they be willing to put aside their pride and ask others for help.

After hearing his reason, Zhou Chun nodded and said, "I see. I understand."

Then he bowed to Hu Changyou and said, "Then please wait for a moment, Fellow Daoist Hu. I will go to explain the situation to the family's supreme elder and hand over the clan affairs to the clan leader."

"As you should, Brother Zhou can go by himself."

Hu Changyou responded and started waiting in the reception hall.

After Zhou Chun went to meet the supreme elder Zhou Mingde, Zhou Mingde, who understood the situation clearly, did not object to his trip.

He just looked at him and said, "Since the Zhao family of Cangzhou is a Jindan family, I think nothing will happen to you on this trip, but just in case, you should bring the Fire God Jackal with you for self-defense!"

"Yes, I would like to thank the great elder for his kindness."

Zhou Chun thanked him and settled the matter.

Then he rushed to Cangzhou with Hu Changyou.

Because he needed to take care of Hu Changyou on the road, Zhou Chun had to slow down, flying with him and stopping from time to time, resting and meditating at several places where monks gathered along the way to restore his magic power.

The two flew for five or six days before they arrived in Cangzhou.

Then, under the leadership of Hu Changyou, Zhou Chun followed him and flew in Cangzhou for more than a day before arriving at the location of the Zhao family's Yaojin iron ore vein. Then the two of them soon met the Zhao family's Purple Mansion cultivator who was responsible for dealing with the rat infestation.

"Senior Zhao, I have invited fellow Daoist Zhou Zhengchun to come."

In a stone house, after Hu Changyou entered the room, he immediately bowed to an old man in blue sitting at the head, and introduced the identity of Zhou Chun next to him.

Then he extended his hand and introduced Zhou Chun: "Fellow Daoist Zhou, this is Senior Zhao Deyan from the Zhao family!"

Upon seeing this, Zhou Chun immediately bowed to the old man in green and said, "Junior Zhou Zhengchun, greetings to Senior Zhao."

"You are welcome, Brother Zhou. You two have been very tired from traveling all the way. Please sit down and have a cup of tea first."

The old man in green waved his hand, motioning for the two to sit down.

"Thank you, senior."

Hu Changyou and Zhou Chun thanked him again and then sat down at the bottom.

After the two of them politely took a sip of tea, the old man in green looked at Zhou Chun and said, "Fellow Daoist Hu should have explained the situation to Fellow Daoist Zhou. How confident are you that we can eliminate the rat infestation this time?"

Upon hearing this, Zhou Chun immediately replied, "If the mutant Gold Devouring Rat King's cultivation is really only at the lower level of the second rank, I should be 60 to 70 percent sure. If it is at a higher level, then I would only be 20 to 30 percent sure."

Under the same cultivation level, no matter how strong the mutated gold-eating rat king is, he cannot withstand Baibai's few attacks and it is difficult for him to escape.

But if its cultivation level is higher, its earth escape technique will give it great escape ability, and Baibai may not be able to stop it in time.

So Zhou Chun didn't dare to say too much.

But his answer already surprised Zhao Deyan.

Soon he said, "The mutant gold-eating rat king is a second-level low-grade monster. I can guarantee this."

After that, he also promised in person: "If Daoist Fellow Zhou can really kill this beast, I will definitely not give you a drop less of the bowl of Earth Spirit Milk I promised you!"

"Junior, do your best!"

Zhou Chun nodded, but still didn't dare to say anything definite.

After a short rest, Zhou Chun followed a foundation-building cultivator from the Zhao family to the location of the gold-eating rat's nest.

Before he came, the Zhao family had already found the rat path leading to the nest, but they were unable to destroy the rat nest through the narrow rat path.
"This is it. We have previously found many cultivators who have tamed monsters to try it out. Among them, there is a fellow cultivator who has tamed a second-level low-grade monster fox."

"But even after the Blue-Eyed Fire Fox went down, it was also injured by the Mutated Gold-Eating Rat King and almost couldn't come back."

In front of a rat hole with a diameter of nearly two feet, the Zhao family cultivator who was leading the way pointed at the rat hole and explained the situation to Zhou Chun.

Zhou Chun was not surprised at all when he heard what he said.

Although the gold-eating rat is weak, such a weak monster, if it can be promoted to the second level, will usually master some extraordinary spells.

What's more, it was a mutated gold-eating rat.

As a mutated monster, even its original natural enemy monsters would most likely not be its match.

If the Silver Lightning Thunder Python Baibai was not a powerful dragon-born monster, and Zhou Chun still had the trump card of "Ancestors' Resurrection" in his hand, he would not dare to say that it would definitely be able to defeat the mutated gold-eating rat.

Especially since the battlefield is still underground.

"Thank you, Daoist Brother Zhao, for telling me. I will let my pet be careful."

He responded with a word, then immediately slapped the storage bag on his waist and released the Silver Electric Thunder Python.

The Zhao family cultivator was not surprised to see him release a second-level demon snake.

After all, a cultivator who was specially invited by a Purple Mansion stage elder must have some abilities.

But when he saw the Silver Lightning Python go in and Zhou Chun was about to get into the rat hole, he was surprised.

He hurriedly called out, "Friend Zhou, what are you doing?"

"What do you mean, Brother Zhao? Zhou will naturally go down and kill the mutant gold-eating rat king!"

Zhou Chun looked at the other person in surprise and answered the question as a matter of course.

Hearing his words, the Zhao family cultivator frowned and said angrily, "Fellow Daoist Zhou, do you know how dangerous it is to continue like this? There is not even enough space for you to stand up. If you are attacked by a swarm of rats, you will not be able to fight back at all. You may even be cut off by the rats and die in there!"

If it were feasible to enter through a rat hole and kill the mutated gold-eating rat king, their Zhao family would have sent people to do it long ago.

But the problem is that the person who goes down has too high a cultivation level, and the mutated gold-eating rat king will escape immediately.

The people who go down have low cultivation levels, and once their retreat is cut off, they are almost certain to die.

Zhou Chun asked his pet to go down and give it a try, and of course there was no problem.

Anyway, even if something serious happened, it would just be the death of a spiritual pet, and at most the Zhao family would just compensate him with some spiritual coins.

But if I go there in person and die, it would be unreasonable for the Zhao family not to pay a large sum of compensation as a person invited by the Zhao family.

When Zhou Chun heard what he said, he understood what he meant.

He immediately looked at him and said, "If you are worried, you can go and tell Senior Zhao Deyan about the situation. I am willing to sign a life and death agreement. Once I go down, my life or death will have nothing to do with the Zhao family!"

Upon hearing this, the Zhao family cultivator was also surprised at his courage.

After looking at him deeply, he nodded and said, "Okay, since Fellow Daoist Zhou said so, then Daoist Fellow, please wait for a moment. I will go and ask the elders for instructions!"

Then I went to report the situation.

After a while, Zhao Deyan came to the scene in person.

When Zhao Deyan arrived at the scene, he first swept his spiritual sense over the silver electric thunder python Baibai, and a hint of surprise flashed in his eyes, as if he recognized Baibai's background.

Then he looked at Zhou Chun deeply and said, "Fellow Daoist Zhou, since you come from a beast taming family, I think you know better than me the dangers of facing the underground rat swarm alone!"

"In that case, Zhao will prepare a banquet at home and wait for good news from Brother Zhou!"

However, there was no mention of asking Zhou Chun to sign a life and death agreement.

This is not because he believes Zhou Chun will not be in danger.

Rather, he was confident that even if Zhou Chun could not come back, his words could give the Zhou family an explanation, and he was not afraid that the Zhou family would blackmail the Zhao family.

This is the confidence of the Zhao family as a Jindan family!

"I will definitely live up to Senior Zhao's expectations."

Zhou Chun clasped his fists and bowed, then, under the gaze of Zhao Deyan, he went into the rat hole with the silver lightning python Baibai.

Second update today!

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