Beast-controlling fairy clan.

Chapter 316: Unexpected Letter [Subscription Request]

"This is Longxing Valley. From now on, this will be the only place where you can rest and replenish supplies in the wilderness."

In a valley full of weeds and shrubs, dozens of Zhou family warriors and a dozen Zhou family cultivators who arrived here for the first time all opened their eyes wide and looked at the situation inside the valley with curiosity.

To be honest, without knowing the inside story, the valley did not give these people a very good first impression.

It is less than a hundred acres in area, which is really too small.

Not to mention the fifty or sixty monks here, even if there were only five or six monks living here, it would not be enough.

After all, cultivators are a group of people who attach great importance to personal privacy. Except for dual cultivation partners, few people would live under the same roof with other people.

This area is less than 100 acres. If we build an independent courtyard, I am afraid we cannot guarantee an independent courtyard for each person.

Therefore, although no one said anything, most people had frowns on their faces, and were obviously not satisfied with this place.

Among them, the most obvious performance was among the elders of the Zhou family.

Although these elders of the Zhou family are considered a group of people who can endure hardships in the Zhou family, they have never suffered such hardship in this regard since they embarked on the path of cultivating immortals.

When these elderly people thought that they might have to spend most of the rest of their lives in such a place, they immediately began to regret agreeing to come here.

Zhou Chun observed the people's expressions and when he saw this situation, he immediately spoke to calm them down.

"This place is indeed a little small, but this location is very good and can greatly reduce the possibility of being discovered."

"Besides you, no one else will come here. You don't need to worry about being disturbed during your daily practice."

"Of course, this is just a starting point. Once you have thoroughly understood the situation in the surrounding areas, the family will definitely choose another place to open up a larger base!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Zhou Daoquan immediately joined in and said, "Zhengchun is right. Don't just think that this place is small, you should also see the benefits here. This valley is the spiritual eye of the spiritual vein here. It is much better for you to practice here than in your original place."

"Besides, we are here to build our careers, not to settle down and retire. Having a place to live and rest is enough. Why should we ask for more?"

As the supreme elder of the family and one of the most senior cultivators present, he will also reside here permanently in the future. After Zhou Daoquan said this, the old men of the Zhou family finally felt a little more balanced and stopped sternly looking at him.

As for Xu Fu and other Zhou family warriors, they had already gotten used to the collective living environment inside the Zhou family's mountain gate. They also knew that they had no right to complain, so they were in a very peaceful state of mind.

After calming and stabilizing people's hearts, a group of people immediately began to work on the construction.

Now the purification array used to purify the turbid and evil energy in Longxing Valley has not been set up yet, so the top priority is to build this array and create a place for cultivation first.

Because the equipment for setting up the formation was ready-made, under the arrangement of Zhou Daoyi and Zhou Xindie, the Spirit Purification Formation was completed in less than three days.

Compared to the huge soul-purifying formation at Zhou family's Jiufeng Ridge, this soul-purifying formation is much smaller.

It only has three basic "Shensha Wells", which are distributed in a triangle on the peaks outside the valley, connecting to the ground veins below.

This means that only nine people are needed to maintain the operation of this soul purification array.

This is obviously a special arrangement made considering the shortage of manpower in Longxing Valley.

After Zhou Chun waited until the Soul Purification Array was successfully activated, he left with Zhou Daoyi and Zhou Xindie.

From now on, everything in Longxing Valley will be handled by Zhou Daoquan and Zhou Zhengyong, with Zhou Zhengyong mainly responsible for managing Xu Fu and others.

The relevant task plans have been listed in a book and handed over to them.

Next, Zhou Chun and Zhou Daoyi only need to come here every two months, regularly collect the harvest from them, and provide them with corresponding supplies.

Just after Zhou Chun and his companions left, Zhou Zhengyong led dozens of people to formally begin building the Longxing Valley stronghold.

He selected several family warriors in the late Qi Refining stage, such as Xu Fu, and asked them to each take four or five cultivators in the middle Qi Refining stage to go out and investigate the situation and draw detailed maps.

He, together with the elders of the Zhou family, led the remaining cultivators in the early stage of Qi Refining to start a large-scale construction project, building residences, warehouses and other buildings in the valley.

In just one month, more than a dozen wooden and stone buildings and several independent courtyards were built in the small valley.

Those independent courtyards were naturally for Zhou Daoquan and Zhou Zhengyong to live in. After all, they had different cultivation levels and identities, so it was impossible for them to live together with other people.

The ten elders of the Zhou family lived in those buildings separately from Xu Fu and others.

At the same time, after more than a month of exploration, Xu Fu and others had explored the area within a hundred miles of Longxing Valley and drew a very detailed map.

At this time, after Zhou Zhengyong got the map and listened to the explanation of Xu Fu and others, a look of surprise suddenly appeared on his face.

“No wonder Thirteenth Brother said that if Longxing Valley is well developed, the annual income alone can create a Foundation Establishment cultivator for the family. It seems that what he said is really true!”

He thought about what Zhou Chun had once said to him, and now he believed it whether he wanted to or not.

Because according to Xu Fu and others, just by exploring the area of ​​more than 100 miles, they discovered dozens of kinds of wild medicinal resources.

In Lanzhou, even some medicinal items such as ginseng and polygonatum that are seventy or eighty years old will be dug out by casual cultivators in exchange for spirit coins.

But in this wilderness, it is easy to see magical herbs such as hundred-year-old Polygonatum and hundred-year-old Ganoderma lucidum.

On the map in Zhou Zhengyong's hand, there is a mountain that is specially marked. In the notes at the back, it is said that a large number of wild Polygonatum sibiricum grows on this mountain, among which more than a dozen century-old Polygonatum sibiricum have been found.

The monster occupying such a mountain is just a first-grade top-grade monster, the Wind-fang Tiger.

This is absolutely unimaginable in Lanzhou.

In addition, there are many wild sacred trees in this wilderness, some of which are thousands of years old.

After these spiritual trees are cut down, they can be used as building materials, or in refining equipment and setting up formations.

Now that such a natural treasure trove is here, the Zhou family can use it at will.

When Zhou Zhengyong thought of this, he couldn't wait to lead the team out to hunt monsters and collect herbs.

Just when Zhou Zhengyong began to make great efforts and led people to collect various spiritual objects in the wilderness, Zhou Chun encountered another problem.

On this day, a casual cultivator suddenly came to Jiufeng Ridge, claiming that he was asked by a senior in the Foundation Establishment Stage to deliver a letter to the head of the Zhou family.

After Zhou Chun received the jade slip and checked the information inside, his face suddenly changed. Then he hurried to the cave on the top of the mountain to meet Zhou Mingde.

"You said that the traitor Zhou Yu sent someone to send you a letter, asking you to sell the black jade toad that they stole back then to the family?"

Inside the cave, Zhou Mingde was stunned and looked incredulous after hearing Zhou Chun's purpose.

"She did say that in the letter. She said that as long as the family gives her a foundation-building pill, she will hand over the Black Jade Toad to the family."

Zhou Chun nodded slightly and spoke out the contents of the jade slip in a deep voice.

It turned out that the owner of the jade slip was Zhou Yu, a cultivator from the Zhou family who defected from Lingshou Villa more than ten years ago.

No one knew what had happened to him, but he suddenly wanted to use the black jade toad he had stolen as a bargaining chip to exchange for a foundation-building pill from the Zhou family.

Because the matter involved a troublesome person like Zhou Yu, as well as treasures like the Black Jade Toad and the Foundation Establishment Pill, Zhou Chun naturally did not dare to agree on his own initiative and could only come to Zhou Mingde to discuss it.

"Of course, the value of the Black Jade Toad is not comparable to that of a Foundation Establishment Pill, but the problem is that Zhou Yu betrayed our Zhou family first, and then betrayed the Spirit Beast Villa. How credible can the words of such a traitor be?"

Zhou Mingde frowned, and his words were full of doubts about Zhou Yu's letter.

This is no wonder. Others may not know the function of the Black Jade Toad, but he and Zhou Chun both know it.

The black jade toads were a pair of strange beasts that a Purple Mansion stage cultivator from the Zhou family's ancestor found in a foreign country. The beasts themselves were weak and even many first-grade top-quality monsters could easily kill them.

However, they have a very long lifespan and have been passed down in the Zhou family for more than four hundred years.

If it were just that, it would be fine. There are so many long-lived creatures in the world, it's not something to be surprised about.

However, the toad venom produced by the black jade toad is of great use.

This toad venom is very toxic and can kill a cultivator in the Qi Refining Stage.

However, when it is combined with some spiritual medicines and made into spiritual incense, it becomes a rare spiritual item that can strengthen the soul of a Purple Mansion Stage cultivator.

In the past, if any cultivator in the Zhou family who reached the Foundation Establishment stage successfully opened up a Purple Mansion, he would receive a small box of this spiritual incense as a reward from the family.

Due to the limited production of toad venom from the black jade toad and the need to keep it confidential, this spiritual incense has almost never leaked out. Even within the Zhou family, not many cultivators know about it.

That is, after the Zhou family was forced to split up, Yu Jinghua gave this spiritual incense as a bargaining chip to Xiao Lingyan and other Purple Mansion cultivators in order to win over other Purple Mansion cultivators.

The black jade toad has such a great use. In terms of value, it is even more valuable than the spiritual objects used by Zhou Daoyi, Zhou Daoquan and others when they opened up the Purple Mansion.

Now Zhou Yu only wanted to exchange it for a foundation-building pill. How could anyone believe this?

Not to mention that Zhou Mingde didn't believe it, even Zhou Chun didn't dare to believe it in his heart.

But he still said: "No matter how credible this matter is, I think we should still treat it with an attitude of believing it is true. After all, the black jade toad is the legacy left by our ancestors to us, the descendants!"

Hearing his words, Zhou Mingde's eyes immediately condensed, and then he nodded and said: "Well, Zhengchun, what you said makes sense. Regardless of whether this is true or not, as long as there is a glimmer of hope, we should try our best to fight for it."

After saying that, he looked at Zhou Chun and asked, "Did she tell me how to trade? And where is the trading location?"

Zhou Chun heard this and immediately replied, "She said in the letter that if we agree to the deal, we will take the items to Jinchang Market in Fengguo to participate in an underground exchange meeting."

"Oh, so she fled back to Feng Country these years?"

Zhou Mingde's expression changed, and a look of realization appeared in his eyes.

Previously, Zhou Yu and others defected from Lingshou Villa and their whereabouts were unknown. Lingshou Villa and the Zhou family had offered a reward for their arrest, but there had been no news.

Now it seems that they chose to flee back to Fengguo to avoid this wanted list.

At this time, he couldn't help but sneer: "They are not stupid. They know that people from our Zhou family and Spirit Beast Villa dare not show up in Fengguo easily!"

After saying that, he nodded to Zhou Chun and said, "If that's the case, then I'll go to Jinchang Market myself!"

Unexpectedly, after hearing what he said, Zhou Chun smiled bitterly and shook his head, saying, "I'm afraid that won't work. She said in the letter that she would only accept transactions between the Fifth Elder and her. If a Purple Mansion Stage cultivator from the Zhou family appears, she will cancel the transaction!"

The fifth elder of the Zhou family is Zhou Jiahe. It was because she owed Zhou Yu a favor that she had to take Zhou Chun to see Zhou Yu.

Now Zhou Yu specifically asked her to trade with him, obviously thinking that he was more familiar with Zhou Jiahe and the transaction would be safer.

"Humph, she has quite a lot of conditions!"

Zhou Mingde snorted in dissatisfaction, and then said: "Then I will personally take Jiahe to Jinchang Market to see what tricks she is playing!"

Unexpectedly, Zhou Chun shook his head again and said, "It would be safer for you to go in person, Grand Elder, but I'm afraid that it would alert the enemy and make her afraid to show her head."

"In my opinion, I might as well accompany the Fifth Elder. Even if she finds me, I think she won't be as afraid of me as she is of you."

"And I can also take this opportunity to use the Blue Moon Butterfly to track her. Maybe I can follow the clues and find her hiding place!"

At that time, Zhou Chun chose the "Blue Moon Butterfly" demon insect for contract training. In addition to valuing the demon insect's ability to create illusions, he also valued the tracking effect that came with its butterfly powder.

Once the pollen of an adult male "Blue Moon Butterfly" leaves its wings, it turns into colorless and odorless particles. These particles stick to something, and the female "Blue Moon Butterfly" can smell them from more than ten miles away.

Therefore, when Zhou Chun finished reading Zhou Yu's letter, this plan had already come to his mind.

He didn't want to gamble whether Zhou Yu would really exchange the Black Jade Toad for the Foundation Establishment Pill. He just wanted to find an opportunity to capture Zhou Yu.

In this way, both the Black Jade Toad and the Foundation Establishment Pill will fall into his hands.

After hearing his words, Zhou Mingde only hesitated for a moment, then nodded and said, "Since you have this plan, Zhengchun, let's go together. I will not go into the market at that time, but will just wait for you outside the market. This way, you won't be afraid of being discovered, and I can also protect you from being plotted against secretly."

After all, he was still worried about Zhou Chun's safety, so he insisted on going there in person.

Zhou Chun certainly would not refuse the secret protection of a Purple Mansion cultivator, and immediately responded respectfully: "Yes, junior obeys your command."

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