Beast-controlling fairy clan.

Chapter 262 Zhou Zhengyong builds his foundation and breaks through the middle stage of foundation building [Subscription Request]

Good things come in pairs. Just two months after Zhou Mingde and his team returned, the Li family, which was in charge of the elixir, and the You family, which was in charge of the formation, relented again.

Although they still disagreed with the Zhou family taking a 40% share, they no longer insisted that they must take a 40% share.

After some discussion, the three parties finally agreed to each take a 30% share, and the remaining 10% would be handed over to Qinglian Temple as protection fee.

At the same time, the Li family and the You family also promised that if the Zhou family has any needs for elixirs and formations in the future, and wants to refine any elixirs or set up some formations, they can ask their family for help as long as they prepare the materials, and they will definitely give them the lowest price.

Seeing this, Zhou Chun was not polite at all. He quickly took out the high-year spiritual medicines looted from the Hualong Sect and asked the Li family to help refine some elixirs that could improve the magic power of the foundation-building cultivators.

There are now seven foundation-building cultivators in the Zhou family, and one or two more may appear in the future.

The Zhou family will have a great demand for this kind of elixir that can improve the magic power of cultivators in the Foundation Establishment Stage.

As for the formation, after Zhou Chongshan's death, the Zhou family really didn't have anyone who could do anything in this regard. When they needed help in the future, they could only rely on the You family.

After negotiating the cooperation agreement, Zhou Chun informed the Li family and the You family of the location selected by Lin Wan'er and asked them to be responsible for the construction of the stronghold.

Of course, for the sake of the Zhou family's interests, Zhou Chun still sent Zhou Jiarui, who had just recovered from his injuries, and four Zhou family cultivators to help, to show the Zhou family's presence.

Then there is the issue of how to distribute the two Foundation Establishment Pills.

There are now nearly twenty cultivators in the Zhou family whose cultivation level has remained at the twelfth level of the Qi Refining Stage. Even if those cultivators who are over eighty years old are excluded, there are still ten who are eligible to use the Foundation Establishment Pill.

There are too many monks and too little porridge, so it’s hard to distribute the foundation-building pills.

In other words, the news about the Foundation Establishment Pill is still hidden now, otherwise the Zhou family cultivators who came to Zhou Chun to beg for mercy would have already broken down his door.

But it is not a good thing to keep the elixir in hand all the time. Only by using it up sooner can the family strength be strengthened sooner.

Therefore, after much consideration, Zhou Chun finally made a decision.

He first privately found Zhou Zhengyong, with whom he had the best relationship, and handed him several rare spiritual objects that he personally owned, asking him to donate them to the family in his own name in exchange for good deeds for the family.

Zhou Zhengyong has served as the Zhou family's steward for many years, and with the support of his Taoist companion Sun Yujiao, he has accumulated nearly two thousand good deeds.

At this time, with Zhou Chun's suggestion, he presented several rare spiritual objects and gained more than 3,000 points of family merit.

In this way, with more than 5,000 points of family good deeds, Zhou Zhengyong undoubtedly met a family rule set by the Zhou family before.

Any member of the Qi Refining Stage who has more than 5,000 points of family good deeds will be automatically promoted to become the family's foundation-building seed and will have priority in enjoying the right to take foundation-building pills.

At this time, Zhou Chun used his family's good deeds to exchange those rare spiritual objects back, and at the same time announced the news that his family had two foundation-building pills.

As expected, once the news was announced, the entire Zhou family was in an uproar.

Those members of the Zhou family who had reached the eleventh and twelfth levels of the Qi Refining Stage all came to Zhou Chun one by one to inquire about the distribution of the Foundation Establishment Pill.

Even a few elders came over to inquire about the matter out of consideration for human relations.

Zhou Chun was naturally prepared for this. No matter who came, he would only give one answer. These two foundation-building pills would only be distributed according to the family rules to the family's "foundation-building seeds."

Since the Zhou family currently has no native cultivators with top-grade spiritual roots, nor any cultivators in the Qi Refining Stage who have made great contributions to the family like Zhou Chun did in the past, there are naturally no "foundation-building seeds" in the true sense.

Therefore, if you really want to obtain the Foundation Establishment Pill, you have to accumulate good deeds and make your good deeds exceed five thousand points, and then automatically be promoted to become the Foundation Establishment Seed of the family.

But just when those Zhou family cultivators were thinking hard about how to increase their family merits to 5,000 points as quickly as possible, they suddenly learned that someone had used up all the family merits and exchanged them for a foundation-building pill.

This surprised others.

However, after learning that it was Zhou Zhengyong who exchanged for the Foundation Establishment Pill, many people fell silent again.

No one is a fool. How could Zhou Zhengyong suddenly have so many good deeds for the family? Any Zhou family cultivator who knows the relationship between him and the clan leader Zhou Chun knows it clearly.

But even if they felt uncomfortable about this, they couldn't blame Zhou Chun or Zhou Zhengyong for anything.

After all, Zhou Chun was willing to give Zhou Zhengyong his own personal savings in exchange for family good deeds. This was his own business and others had no right to interfere.

If this point is not to be blamed, can they still blame Zhou Chun's method of distributing the Foundation Establishment Pills?

That would mean you are cutting off your own path to exchanging for the Foundation Establishment Pill!
In fact, Zhou Chun is already doing his best to maintain family justice by helping Zhou Zhengyong in this way.

All Zhou family cultivators who have some sense of the overall situation are aware of this.

So after that slight discomfort passed, the remaining Foundation Establishment Pill became the target of competition among other Zhou family cultivators.

At this time, only borrowing can help to gather the 5,000 points of family merit as quickly as possible.

However, the Zhou family had already stipulated that Foundation Establishment cultivators were not allowed to lend their good deeds to Qi Refining cultivators in such matters.

However, if one wants to emulate the practices of Zhou Chun and Zhou Zhengyong, not ordinary elders can support it.

After all, the treasures Zhou Chun gave were all fine items that were difficult for ordinary foundation-building cultivators to obtain.

In this situation, wanting to borrow so much good deeds from so many Qi Refining cultivators from many families still tests one's personal communication skills and character.

But this is not something Zhou Chun needs to worry about.

Now that he had arranged this important matter, there were not many things in the family that required him to worry about, and he could finally calm down and focus on improving his cultivation.

This is the rule of the Zhou family, or the rule of all sects and families.

Because the head of the sect and the clan leaders have devoted a lot of energy to the affairs of the sect and the family, they can get priority support and care from the family in terms of those elixirs that improve their magic power.

Therefore, most of the magic-enhancing elixirs that Zhou Mingde and his men obtained from Le Country ended up in Zhou Chun's hands.

Zhou Chun himself still had a lot of elixirs that he had obtained through various means before.

This made his practice very comfortable.

Other cultivators in the Foundation Establishment Stage may have to wait several years before they can take a pill that can improve their magical powers, or they may not be able to take such a pill at all after several years.

However, he was able to take a pill every three or four months while minimizing the effects of the poison.

The pure gold energy he needed for his cultivation had already been purchased in large quantities from outside.

In this way, once he calmed down and entered the state of cultivation, Zhou Chun's cultivation level improved rapidly.

Half a year later, Zhou Zhengyong successfully built his foundation after taking the foundation-building pill and became the eighth foundation-building cultivator in the Zhou family, filling the vacancy left by the second elder Zhou Chongshan who passed away.

"Congratulations to Brother Yong for successfully building his foundation!"

On the Pagoda Peak, Zhou Chun saw Zhou Zhengyong who had successfully completed the foundation building process, and immediately congratulated him with a smile on his face.

Hearing his words, Zhou Zhengyong's smile suddenly faded. He then bowed to him with gratitude and said, "Thirteenth brother, I have no way to repay you for your kindness to me. I can only express my gratitude to you in this way!"

Without waiting for Zhou Chun's response, he raised his head and looked at Zhou Chun, saying with a serious face: "From now on, if the clan leader gives an order, Zhengyong will never frown even if he has to climb mountains of swords or plunge into seas of fire!"

From his words, we can tell how grateful he is to Zhou Chun.

He knew very well in his heart that if it weren't for Zhou Chun, he, Zhou Zhengyong, would definitely not be where he is today.

No matter what he did, he could never repay Zhou Chun's kindness to him.

Therefore, in Zhou Zhengyong's mind at this moment, he could ignore anyone in the Zhou family, but he must not hesitate at all about Zhou Chun's words.

As the saying goes, a gentleman will die for his friend. If Zhou Chun really needs him one day, he is willing to repay Zhou Chun's kindness with his own life!

After hearing Zhou Zhengyong's words and looking at Zhou Zhengyong in front of him with a serious expression, Zhou Chun's heart was filled with emotion.

There is no doubt that when he became close to Zhou Zhengyong, he did have the intention of taking advantage of the other party.

But after so many years, he has long regarded Zhou Zhengyong as his brother and family member.

In fact, with his current status and position in the Zhou family and in the hearts of the elders, having one more Zhou Zhengyong supporting him or one less Zhou Zhengyong supporting him would not have any impact on his position.

But when he got the two foundation-building pills, the first person he thought of was Zhou Zhengyong.

This is brother!
Zhou Chun would not deliberately hide his brotherly love for Zhou Zhengyong.

A smile flashed across his face, and he stepped forward, shook Zhou Zhengyong's hand and said, "Brother Yong, you are too kind. It's mainly because you worked hard and succeeded in building the foundation in one go."

As someone who has been through it, Zhou Chun certainly knows the difficulties of building a foundation.

He had failed in building his foundation once!

Zhou Zhengyong was able to successfully build his foundation in one go, whether or not it was because he had better luck than he did before, he was indeed doing well.

At least in this way, no one would have any objection to Zhou Zhengyong exchanging for a Foundation Establishment Pill.

Next, Zhou Chun personally held a foundation-building ceremony for Zhou Zhengyong to celebrate his successful foundation-building.

Zhou Zhengyong's success in building his foundation undoubtedly gave a lot of stimulation to other Qi-refining cultivators in the Zhou family, making them even more eager for the remaining foundation-building pill.

As the patriarch of the Zhou family, Zhou Chun could clearly know which Zhou family cultivators’ good deeds were gradually approaching the 5,000-point mark.

What is more interesting is that several Zhou family cultivators have increased their family's good deeds to more than 4,000 points through the method of raising funds.

But the remaining few hundred points are difficult to borrow.

Because behind these people with more than 4,000 points, there are several monks with more than 3,000 points and more than 2,000 points of good deeds.

Zhou Chun did not interfere in this matter. After all, these people had similar cultivation levels and aptitudes. Whether they could succeed after taking the Foundation Establishment Pill depended entirely on fate, and it would be the same no matter who took it.

Time passed slowly, and soon another two years had passed.

On this day, with the magic power in his body surging, Zhou Chun finally succeeded in breaking through to the middle stage of foundation building.

This year, he was forty-eight years old.

He established his foundation at the age of thirty-six, and broke through to the middle stage of foundation building at the age of forty-eight. This speed is really fast!
You know, even those monks who practice advanced magic power and fast skills, without taking elixirs, still have to practice hard for forty to fifty years before they can break through to the middle stage of foundation building.

Even though Zhou Chun practiced the top-level martial arts "Golden Tripod Mysterious Art", his training speed was no slower than those martial arts that quickly improved magic power, this was still a very amazing speed.

After all, he does not have top-grade spiritual roots, but only middle-grade spiritual roots.

But in Zhou Chun's opinion, this is very normal.

Ever since he started to practice "The Mysterious Golden Tripod Art", he has almost always had elixirs to improve his magical powers, and the elixirs are of different types.

According to this calculation, in just six or seven years, he took at least twenty-six or twenty-seven pills.

These pills are suitable for cultivators in the Foundation Establishment Stage to improve their magical powers. The efficacy of each pill is almost equivalent to one or two years of normal meditation and practice.

All in all, he has actually been practicing for fifty or sixty years.

So it is normal for him to have such accomplishments at this age!
At this time, after Zhou Chun's feeding for several years, the golden-winged tiger has become a first-class upper-grade monster. Even the silver electric thunder python Baibai is being fed with the demon spirit pills that the family supplies first, and its cultivation is getting closer and closer to being promoted to a second-class middle-grade monster.

Once it is promoted to a second-order intermediate-grade monster, with the support of Zhou Chun, who has reached the middle stage of foundation building, the master and servant will work together and it will be hard to find an opponent in the foundation building realm.

Within a few days, the news that Zhou Chun had broken through to the middle stage of foundation building spread throughout the Zhou family. After hearing the news, many Zhou family cultivators came to congratulate him.

Zhou Chun is a 48-year-old cultivator in the middle stage of foundation building. According to his speed of improvement, he might have a chance to reach the Purple Mansion stage before he turns 100.

At this point, even a fool would know what Zhou Chun's status in the family is.

But before Zhou Chun could be happy about his breakthrough in cultivation for many days, a troublesome matter came knocking on his door.

"You said that a black crystal mine was discovered at the border of our Zhou family's base, and that we had a conflict with the Jiangzhou Su family? Someone died?"

On the Pagoda Peak, Zhou Chun's face changed when he looked at Zhou Jiarui who came to report the news in person.

It turned out that since Zhou Jiarui brought four Zhou family cultivators to the wilderness to open up the land together with the people from the Li family and the You family, it took less than two years to establish a pioneering stronghold. Then they began to open up and plunder the surrounding areas with the stronghold as the center.

Although no particularly rare treasures were obtained in this wave of pioneering and looting, some 200-300-year-old spiritual medicines, some spiritual trees, spiritual fruits, and monster eggs were obtained, allowing the three families to gain a lot.

This also made the three monks more and more excited.

Just half a month ago, the You family suddenly discovered a black crystal mine at the border of their stronghold.

This should have been a very good thing. After all, black crystal stone was a very good auxiliary material for refining equipment. It had the function of increasing the hardness of magical instruments and its sales had always been very good.

However, when the three families sent people to explore the scale of the black crystal stone mine, they were accidentally discovered by the neighboring Su family stronghold.

Then, because the Su family claimed that the black crystal stone vein was on their territory and should belong to them, the two sides quarreled and finally fought.

In that situation, once the fight starts, it is difficult for both sides to control their emotions and strength.

So after a fierce fight, several Qi Refining cultivators died on both sides, which made the matter a big deal!

And considering that the Su family is also a Jindan family, the people from the three families in the pioneer strongholds no longer dared to act on their own, so Zhou Jiarui returned to the family to report the news to Zhou Chun.

I have a slight fever and plan to rest early. This is just one update today!

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