Beast-controlling fairy clan.

Chapter 315 Zhou Mingde breaks through and develops Longxing Valley [Subscribe]

The Zhou family already had rules regarding the use of foundation-building pills.

Either they have top-grade spiritual roots, or they have made great contributions to the family, or the family's good deeds have reached 5,000 points.

Therefore, if one of these three points cannot be achieved, even if one is the biological child of a Purple Mansion Stage cultivator in the family, they cannot obtain the Foundation Establishment Pill from the family for foundation building.

The Zhou family currently has three Foundation Establishment Pills that have not been used. In terms of quantity, the amount is more than sufficient.

Even if one foundation-building pill is reserved for Zhou Xinyan, who has superior spiritual roots, there are still two available for other clansmen to use.

But even though Zhou Chun is the patriarch of the Zhou family, he cannot openly violate family rules and arrange for the two foundation-building pills to be used by a certain member of the family.

Therefore, although he felt that Zhou Xinlan and Zhou Xindie both had value in cultivating and building their foundation, he could only create more opportunities for them to gain family merits within the scope of the rules.

Fortunately, these two are still relatively young, around 40 years old, and have plenty of time to accumulate good deeds.

In the following four years, Zhou Chun and the Zhou family devoted themselves to development and diligently cultivated their internal strength.

After four years of practice, Zhou Chun finally made a breakthrough in cultivating and optimizing the Jade Spirit Bee bloodline.

Through several experiments, he has fully mastered the method of evolving a first-level queen bee into a second-level queen bee.

And under his personal supervision, he successfully cultivated the queen bee in the Zhou family bee colony to the second stage.

When the queen bee evolved to the second stage, everything was just like what Zhou Chun had read in the Qianling Sect's classics. Almost all of the eggs it laid would become demon insects after hatching.

From then on, the last obstacle preventing the expansion of Zhou’s bee colony no longer existed.

With the existence of this second-level queen bee and sufficient flower supply, the Zhou family's bee colony will soon grow to thousands of bees, greatly increasing the production of spiritual honey.

If the evolution of the queen bee is the first happy event, then Zhou Mingde's breakthrough to the middle stage of Purple Mansion is the second happy event for the Zhou family in the past four years.

Zhou Mingde himself had been developing the Purple Mansion for sixty or seventy years. Now that his cultivation had broken through to the middle stage of the Purple Mansion, it could be considered a natural outcome.

As such, he, who is in the middle stage of Purple Mansion, together with the Fire God Jackal, which is also a third-level intermediate-grade monster, is more than enough to fight even against a Purple Mansion late stage cultivator.

Of course, for the Zhou family, which is changing every year, there are still many happy events.

For example, the Wind Shadow Dragon Snake that was bred a few years ago has successfully produced two nests of snake eggs and hatched more than a dozen Wind Shadow Dragon Snakes after several years of breeding.

Since then, the Wind Shadow Dragon Snake, a species of dragon-born monster, has completely taken root in the Zhou family.

Lin Hongyu, who had traveled far to Yang State, also sent Lin Wan'er back. According to Lin Wan'er, Lin Hongyu has now successfully occupied the location of the [Tuyuan Crystal Jade] mine and has begun to organize people to secretly dig the mine.

Lin Wan'er came back because she wanted the Zhou family to help her find sales channels to avoid being traced back to Lin Hongyu.

This matter did make Zhou Chun feel a little difficult.

Because once [Earth Yuan Crystal Jade] is sold on a large scale, people will inevitably know that the Zhou family owns such a mine.

Although the Zhou family's current power might not necessarily mean that they would be robbed directly, it would still add a lot of risks.

Therefore, after discussing with Zhou Mingde, Zhou Daoyi and other supreme elders, it was decided to let Lin Hongyu stockpile the excavated spiritual ore first, and then sell it on a large scale in several batches to avoid causing trouble.

In fact, the current Zhou family no longer lacks the share of the [Tuyuan Crystal Jade] mine.

Another benefit of the Zhou family's previous joint fighting competition was that the monster eggs and monster cubs produced by the Zhou family were easier to sell.

Now, many cultivators who have fought with Zhou family cultivators feel that raising a demon beast or a spiritual pet is much more cost-effective than purchasing one or two good magical weapons.

Therefore, they are willing to spend the spirit coins originally used to buy magic tools on purchasing monster eggs and monster cubs.

Once you have a spiritual pet, you will naturally have to buy some of the spiritual beast rations and elixirs such as the Beast Spirit Pills that the Zhou family sells at a discount.

This in turn boosted the sales of other supporting products.

One thing that is troubling Zhou Chun now is the monster-related issue. It is that the family beast garden has become overwhelmed due to the huge increase in the number of various monsters in the Zhou family.

To put it in a broader sense, the area of ​​the Zhou family's Jiufengling mountain gate can no longer accommodate so many cultivators and monsters of the Zhou family.

The place called Jiufengling was originally a stronghold established by several independent cultivators in the Foundation Establishment Stage. It is not a very good blessed mountain or land.

The Zhou family chose this place to build their mountain gate because they had just arrived and did not want to offend the local forces.

Past facts have also proved that the Zhou family’s decision to build the mountain gate here was a correct choice.

However, times have changed. With the increase in the number of Zhou family members and the increasing number of monsters they have raised, the small area of ​​Jiufeng Ridge has become insufficient.

The general solution to this problem is to expand the scale of the mountain protection formation and occupy more land.

This is not difficult. Although no one in the Zhou family can modify the "Five Directions Miro Formation" yet, the You family can definitely provide help in this regard.

But the reality is that the concentration of spiritual energy outside the Zhou family's current mountain gate does not even reach the standards of inside the mountain gate.

In this case, blindly expanding the land area of ​​the mountain gate may actually reduce the concentration of spiritual energy within the mountain gate and affect the practice of the tribe members.

So this method cannot be implemented at all.

Another solution is to find another place with rich spiritual energy to build a family villa and divert some clansmen there to reduce the burden on the mountain gate.

But this method is not so easy to implement.

Almost all the places in Lanzhou with rich spiritual energy have been occupied by people, leaving no place for the Zhou family to build a family villa.

If they use the same old tricks to seize territory again, they will destroy their own reputation and ruin the reputation they have painstakingly built over the past few decades.

This is obviously not worth it.

At present, the feasible solution seems to be that the Zhou family also arranges some clansmen to go to that pioneer base to practice, so as to achieve the effect of diversion.

However, people can be temporarily relocated, but it is difficult to relocate the monsters to the frontier outposts to be raised.

"Perhaps it's time to screen the monsters raised by the family, and eliminate the weak ones and keep the strong ones!" Zhou Chun murmured to himself, and immediately sent a message to the family's Beast Hall, asking them to count the number of all the monster species currently raised by the family and report to him for review.

Less than a day later, Zhou Zhengxun, the head of the Hall of Beasts, came in person to report the situation to him.

"Patriarch, please be advised. There are a total of 27 kinds of monsters raised in the family zoo, including 84 octagonal water deer, 42 dragon-scale horses, 16 red-eyed dragon eagles, 14 dragon-clawed giant lizards, 13 wind-shadow dragon snakes, 6 red-flame diamond monkeys, 20 red-flame wolves, 10 rock-armored pythons, 6 black-scaled pythons, 68 green-crowned flying snakes, 12 silver-backed black bears, 4 iron-feathered eagles... and 4 fragrant musk deer!"

In front of Zhou Chun, Zhou Zhengxun reported all the types and numbers of monsters raised in the Zhou family's zoo in one breath, without missing a single one.

When reporting these, Zhou Zhengxun's tone was clearly filled with pride.

After all, the types and numbers of these monsters experienced explosive growth, and it was all accomplished during his tenure.

He was praised and rewarded by Zhou Chun many times for this.

It's a pity that he is too old, now over eighty years old. Otherwise, he would really like to use all his good deeds to exchange for a foundation-building pill to give it a try.

But he didn't notice that Zhou Chun didn't look very happy after listening to his report.

Indeed, these impressive statistics always made Zhou Chun happy, because they represented the growth of the Zhou family’s financial resources.

However, the existence of these monsters may become a burden to the Zhou family.

That's right, as a family of immortal cultivators that passed down the art of taming beasts, the more species of monsters the family raised, the better, as that meant the family members would have more choices.

However, the reality is not so.

Except for a small number of cultivators with special preferences, the vast majority of Zhou family cultivators would still choose monsters with great growth potential and stronger strength when choosing spiritual pets.

Monster beasts like the Red Flame King Kong Monkey, the Red Eyed Dragon Vulture, the Dragon Scale Horse, and the Iron Feather Eagle are the types that the Zhou family cultivators most want to choose, so they don't seem to exist in large numbers.

The octagonal sambar deer, which was a popular choice in the past, is now chosen by fewer people.

After all, it can also be used as a spiritual beast for transportation. The Dragon Scale Horse is stronger than it in every aspect, not to mention the Red-Eyed Dragon Vulture.

In fact, for those monsters that not many people choose, the Zhou family has been selling them at low prices in recent years to reduce the family's breeding pressure.

Even so, the existence of those monsters has now become a de facto burden to the family.

Therefore, after weighing the pros and cons in his mind, Zhou Chun looked at the gray-haired Zhou Zhengxun in front of him and said, "Fifth brother, you have submitted several reports recently to explain the necessity of expanding the beast garden. I think you have also felt the difficulty of raising so many monsters."

"But you are also aware of the situation inside the family mountain gate. The place is limited, and the scale of the beast garden has already occupied 40% of it."

“If the Beast Garden is expanded further, not to mention that the normal range of activities of the tribesmen inside the mountain gate will be greatly squeezed, even the spiritual veins and spiritual energy may be in short supply.”

"So until we find a better solution, I'll have to trouble you, Fifth Brother, to control the population of those monsters that have little potential and low economic value. It's best not to let their number exceed five pairs!"

Ah!
Zhou Zhengxun looked at Zhou Chun in surprise. He didn't expect that he asked him to come here today just to say such words.

Zhou Chun's solemn expression clearly showed that there was no room for negotiation on this matter.

So after a brief silence, he nodded slightly and said, "I understand. I will follow your instructions when I return."

"Then I'll have to trouble you, Fifth Brother, for your hard work."

Zhou Chun patted Zhou Zhengxun on the shoulder and let him leave first.

Afterwards, Zhou Chun went to the cave on the top of the mountain alone.

"Are you planning to activate Longxing Valley soon?"

Inside the cave, when Zhou Mingde learned the purpose of his visit from Zhou Chun, he was quite surprised.

It turned out that Zhou Chun came to visit him this time because he wanted to activate the undeveloped Longxing Valley stronghold beside Longyuan Lake.

"Yes, now because the family's mountain gate is not large enough, it has affected the development of the family in many aspects."

"The development of Longxing Valley can not only relocate the family's dead warriors who are kept in the family's mountain gate, freeing up more space for the family's cultivators, but also bring new sources of income to the family."

"We can even send some elders from our family to help. These elders are experienced and their paths have basically been cut off. Even if they return to the family, they will definitely be able to keep their mouths shut and not leak the matter."

At this point, Zhou Chun further said: "The main thing is that now all the conditions for developing Longxing Valley are ripe. In terms of Purple Mansion Stage cultivators and Foundation Establishment Stage cultivators, the family can allocate personnel to take charge there, so that the place will not be left unsupervised!"

"In that case, let Daoquan come back and listen to his and Daoyi's opinions."

Zhou Mingde nodded slightly and immediately expressed his opinion.

Upon hearing this, Zhou Chun did not say anything else. He simply left and asked someone to notify Zhou Daoquan who was in charge of the pioneering base far away.

After a few more days passed, Zhou Chun and the three great elders of the Zhou family gathered in the cave on the top of the mountain to discuss the development of Longxing Valley.

After some discussion, the three supreme elders agreed to Zhou Chun's proposal.

Since the proposal was approved, Zhou Chun quickly drafted a relevant plan and ordered people to purchase relevant materials.

At this time, Zhou Daoyi took the Zhou family's formation master Zhou Xindie to Longxing Valley first. They had to check and maintain the formation base left by Zhou Chongshan, and put the formation tools that Zhou Chongshan had refined during his lifetime into it, and first set up the protective formation there.

After Zhou Daoyi and Zhou Xindie spent more than half a month to activate the protective magic circle of Longxing Valley, Zhou Chun also prepared the corresponding personnel and materials.

In addition to Xu Fu and other 48 family warriors, Zhou Chun also reached an agreement with 10 Zhou family elders over 70 years old. They are all willing to go to Longxing Valley to serve the family for a period of time.

In addition, Zhou Daoquan and Zhou family elders Zhou Zhengyong and his wife will live in Longxing Valley in the future.

So after Zhou Daoyi came back, Zhou Chun and Zhou Daoyi took the more than 60 people to Longxing Valley through the underground river.

In order to prevent the underground river from being exposed, while letting Qing Jiao Qingqing and Yin Dian Lei Mang Baibai carry these people to Longyuanze, Zhou Daoyi, Zhou Daoquan and Zhou Chun used a secret sealing technique to seal their magic power and five senses, so that they could only be placed on the backs of two spirit pets like a blind and deaf person and be carried forward.

It was not until they reached the land beside Longyuan Lake that they lifted the seal on these people.

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