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Chapter 331: Thunder Lizard Island, Zhuyuan Fruit Tree [Subscribe]

Needless to say, the benefits of using Foundation Building Pills to build the foundation are obvious.

But for the Zhou family cultivators, the disadvantages of failing to build the foundation using the Foundation Building Pill are obvious to all.

Apart from Zhou Jiacheng, who failed at the beginning and has now passed away, let’s not mention him.

Zhou Zhengtao, who used 5,000 points of family good deeds to exchange for foundation-building pills but failed to build his foundation, is a living example.

At the beginning, he collected 5,000 points of family merit by borrowing money, but failed to build the foundation.

This not only made him penniless, but also left him in debt of two to three thousand points of family good deeds.

In order to pay off his debts these years, he has been busy like a top and has little time to rest.

But even if he was trying very hard to pay off the debt, the debt of up to two or three thousand points of family good deeds would not be paid off in ten or eight years.

Under normal circumstances, by the time he pays off his debts, he will only have another 10 to 20 years left to live.

Even his descendants will have a much lower starting point than the descendants of other members of the same clan in the future because they will not be able to inherit much from him.

This kind of borrowing money to exchange for Foundation Establishment Pills was originally a green light given by Zhou Chun to help the tribesmen exchange for Foundation Establishment Pills.

But now it seems that if luck is bad, good things may turn into bad things.

In view of this, now that the Foundation Establishment Pills are running out, Zhou Chun feels that it is time to make changes to the original temporary mechanism.

He quickly proposed to convene a meeting of elders, inviting the two supreme elders and the elders inside the gate of Jiufengling Mountain. He explained the situation that the Foundation Establishment Pills were running out, and proposed to revise the amount of good deeds required to redeem the Foundation Establishment Pills.

"At the beginning, the reason why I exchanged 5,000 points of good deeds for the foundation-building pill was because the family was still in a period of decline, and we needed to use this to stimulate the confidence of the clan members, so that they could cheer up and work towards this goal."

"But now the family has long since come out of its decline. Whether it is the Purple Mansion Stage cultivators or the Foundation Establishment Stage cultivators, the number has more than doubled compared to that time. The difficulty for the family members to earn merit has also been reduced relatively speaking."

"Under this circumstance, if we insist on the preferential policy of exchanging 5,000 points of merit for Foundation Establishment Pills, and also ensure sufficient supply, the family finances will be emptied sooner or later!"

Inside the Zhongping Palace, Zhou Chun confidently explained why he wanted to revise the exchange standards for the Foundation Establishment Pill, and then turned his gaze towards the elders.

In fact, he was not worried that his proposal would not be passed, because any cultivator with common sense would know that the Foundation Establishment Pill, which cost 5,000 spirit coins per pill, could not be bought on the market.

The Zhou family had implemented this preferential policy because several elderly foundation-building elders were about to pass away, and in order to quickly train a sufficient number of foundation-building cultivators to replace them, the family had implemented this preferential policy.

Now all of the Zhou family's Foundation Establishment cultivators have been replaced by middle-aged and young people, and the number has more than doubled than before. There is no need to continue to maintain this preferential policy.

"Then according to your opinion, how many merits should be required to redeem the Foundation Establishment Pill?"

Sure enough, not long after Zhou Chun finished speaking, the fifth elder Zhou Jiahe asked about the standards for the revision, and directly skipped the issue of agreeing or disagreeing with the revision standards.

Upon hearing this, Zhou Chun immediately replied: "In my opinion, the exchange standard for Foundation Establishment Pills should be raised to at least 7,000 family merits."

After hearing his answer, before Zhou Jiahe expressed his opinion, the fourth elder Zhou Jiarui frowned and said, "Isn't 7,000 merit points too much? Generally, it only costs 7,000 to 8,000 spirit coins to buy a foundation-building pill!"

"That's true, but you also know, Fourth Elder, that if no family comes forward to buy the Foundation Establishment Pill, even if a Qi Refining cultivator has so many spirit coins, it will still depend on luck to buy the Foundation Establishment Pill, and there is no guarantee that he will be able to take the Foundation Establishment Pill alive!"

Zhou Chun said this and continued, "Moreover, the purchase price of the several foundation-building pills that the family has purchased recently has not been less than 8,000 spirit coins. It is expected that it will be difficult to buy foundation-building pills at normal prices in the future!"

What he said was true.

In fact, because Jingguo and Fengguo had suffered wars in succession in the past hundred years and lost many foundation-building cultivators, the foundation-building pill markets in several nearby countries had experienced a buying spree.

Those immortal cultivation families that had lost their foundation-building cultivators were willing to use their resources to buy foundation-building pills to restore their vitality. Some cultivators who had made money in the war were also willing to pay a higher price to buy foundation-building pills.

This buying spree has pushed up the selling price of Foundation Establishment Pills, and there is no hope of a price drop in the short term.

However, even if Zhou Chun's words made sense, Zhou Jiarui still showed a worried look and said, "But if it really reaches 7,000 points of good deeds, I'm afraid it will easily make many tribesmen lose confidence!"

"So I plan to prepare some more spiritual objects to assist in foundation building in addition to the foundation building pills. Their exchange price will be only half of the foundation building pills, or even less!"

"In this way, the tribesmen can do what they can according to their own situation, without having to risk everything to pursue a foundation-building pill. This also avoids the tragic situation of having to spend the rest of their lives paying off debts if the foundation-building fails!"

Zhou Chun stated his plan with a serious expression, having already considered what Zhou Jiarui said.

"If that's the case, then there won't be much of a problem. However, if that's the case, the demand and consumption of those spiritual objects that assist in building the foundation will be enormous. Can the family provide a stable supply?"

When Zhou Jiarui said this, he looked at Zhou Chun with a puzzled look on his face.

Based on his understanding of Zhou Chun, Zhou Chun must have had relevant methods before making such a plan.

But he really didn't know where Zhou Chun could find so many spiritual objects to assist in building the foundation to supply his tribe members.

Just when he was about to listen to Zhou Chun's opinion, Zhou Mingde suddenly changed his expression and interrupted, "Zhengchun, are you planning to take over that Yuan-building Fruit Tree?"

"Zhu Yuan Fruit Tree? What Zhu Yuan Fruit Tree? Where is it?"

Zhou Jiarui kept muttering to himself with a puzzled look on his face, his eyes scanning Zhou Chun and the two supreme elders one by one.

I already knew it in my heart, but I was afraid that this was another secret that was unknown to me and others.

Facing the gazes of the elders, Zhou Chun nodded slightly and said, "Yes, I do want to transplant that Yuanzhu fruit tree here!"

"With the current strength of our Zhou family, if we go all out, there should still be a great hope of accomplishing this!"

The Zhou family now has three Purple Mansion Stage cultivators, a third-order low-grade green dragon, and a third-order middle-grade demon beast, the Fire God Jackal.

The group of thunder lizard beasts guarding the Yuan-building Fruit Tree consists of two third-level thunder dragon lizards and dozens of second-level thunder lizard beasts.

If the Zhou family goes all out, the Green Dragon and the Fire God Jackal will be enough to hold back the two third-level Thunder Dragon Lizards.

Although the remaining dozens of second-level thunder lizards were numerous, they were no match for the three Purple Mansion cultivators. After hearing what Zhou Chun said, Zhou Daoyi immediately said, "Zhengchun is right. At this point, with the current strength of our Zhou family, we are fully capable of transplanting the Yuan-building Fruit Tree back."

His words undoubtedly indicated his agreement with Zhou Chun's proposal.

"In that case, let's do it!"

Zhou Mingde nodded and quickly agreed.

Then he explained to the other confused elders, "Don't worry. The matter of the Yuanzhu Fruit Tree involves a big secret of the family. It is not convenient to disclose it to too many people. You just need to know that it happened."

It was useless for him to say this, but because of his different status, even though the other elders had some doubts in their hearts, they did not dare to say anything more and could only agree.

After some further discussion, the elders' meeting finally unanimously passed a decision to raise the exchange standard for the Foundation Establishment Pill to 7,000 points of family merit, and to also price the Foundation Establishment Fruit, which had not yet been obtained, at 3,000 points of family merit.

At the same time, the age limit for exchanging Foundation Building Pills and Yuan Building Fruits has been revised. The age of the exchanger of Foundation Building Pills must not be higher than seventy years old, and the age of the exchanger of Yuan Building Fruits and other auxiliary foundation building spiritual objects must not be higher than sixty years old.

All monks who have exchanged these two spiritual objects must only use them themselves. Violators will be severely punished!
However, before obtaining the Zhuyuan Fruit Tree, these two resolutions will not be announced, and only elders and above will know about them for the time being.

In order to ensure a smooth process of seizing the Zhuyuan Fruit Tree, the Zhou family decided to send out all their main forces this time.

Not only will all three Purple Mansion Stage cultivators go into battle, but even Zhou Chun will follow them.

Zhou Family Mountain Gate asked Zhou Chun to invite Su Yuzhen to help take care of the family.

After making these preparations, Zhou Mingde personally led the team, and Zhou Daoyi and Zhou Chun followed him to Longxing Valley, and then met up with Zhou Daoquan there to go to Longyuanze together.

Because after hearing the news about the Zhuyuan Fruit Tree from Lu Ran, they had never been to the site to check it out. Before officially going deep into Longyuanze, they went to find Lu Ran again and asked him to help lead the way.

The two parties have been cooperating for decades now, so Lu Ran would naturally not refuse this small request from the Zhou family.

Under his personal leadership, the four members of the Zhou family went deep into Longyuanze for nearly three thousand miles before they arrived at the island where the thunder lizard herd was.

This island, located deep in Longyuanze, is very large. It is shaped like a scallop, nearly two hundred miles long and seventy to eighty miles wide.

The island has lush vegetation and abundant spiritual energy, making it an extremely good treasure land.

Unfortunately, because this precious land is located deep in Longyuanze, it is impossible for it to be occupied and developed by immortal cultivators.

After bringing the Zhou family to the vicinity of the island, Lu Ran pointed at the island and said to the four Zhou family members, "The Yuanzhu fruit tree is located next to a pond in the middle of the island. The Thunder Lizards also mainly build their nests near there. Fellow Daoist Zhou, you can go there by yourselves. I will not go there."

Hearing his words, Zhou Mingde's eyes suddenly flashed with strangeness, and he couldn't help asking: "Based on my understanding of Fellow Daoist Lu, Fellow Daoist should not be a coward, so why are you not even willing to go over and watch the battle with us?"

"It's not that I'm afraid of trouble, but I'm already this old and don't want any more accidents to happen!"

While answering Zhou Mingde's question, Lu Ran continued, "And I would like to add one more thing. It is best for you to stop fighting with the lightning dragon lizards at the right time and not to hurt their lives, otherwise it is very likely to cause an accident!"

"Why is this? Does Brother Lu know something else?"

Zhou Daoyi's eyes narrowed, and he looked at Lu Ran and asked.

"It's not that I know any inside information, but I feel that these lightning dragon lizards and thunder lizard beasts can dominate this island, and they must be protected by a fourth-level monster. If any of them die, it is likely to completely anger the fourth-level monster and start hunting down the Taoists to the death!"

Lu Ran did not hide it and directly stated his guess.

These words instantly made the faces of several people in the Zhou family change, and their expressions instantly became solemn.

"Indeed, what Fellow Daoist Lu said makes a lot of sense. We were indeed not thoughtful enough in this regard!"

Zhou Mingde nodded solemnly, admitting on the spot that he had not considered it carefully, and then slowly said: "But since we are here, we will not be willing to give it a try!"

Hearing this, Lu Ran nodded and said, "I have some understanding of your strength, Fellow Daoist Zhou. As long as we fight quickly and only seize the Yuan-building Fruit Tree, we should be able to achieve our goal in less than half an hour."

Having said this, he gave another polite blessing and went home directly.

This time he just came to lead the way and didn't care about the rest.

Now that his mission of leading the way has been completed, he naturally will not stay in such a dangerous area any longer.

Looking at Lu Ran's departing figure, the four members of the Zhou family looked at each other, quickly nodded, and rushed towards the depths of the island.

The island, which looks large in size, is actually not that big compared to the flying speed of a Purple Mansion Stage cultivator.

The four members of the Zhou family galloped all the way and reached the central area of ​​the island in less than a quarter of an hour. They soon saw the Yuan-building Fruit Tree that Lu Ran mentioned.

This spiritual root grows in the cracks of rocks beside the pond. The tree is about ten feet tall, like a loquat tree, but the fruit it bears looks like persimmons, except that the color of the fruit is purple-black.

At this time, there were still more than a dozen spiritual fruits hanging on the fruit tree, and they all looked ripe.

But just when the four members of the Zhou family set their eyes on the Zhuyuan Fruit Tree, two angry roars quickly distracted their attention.

In the jungle beside the pond, two blue giant lizards with a body length of more than five meters suddenly took off into the air, raised their heads and looked at the few people, roaring angrily.

Both of these blue giant lizards have a single silver horn on their heads with blue arcs of electricity jumping on it. Judging from their aura, they are all third-level intermediate-grade monsters.

With the appearance of these two blue monitor lizards, a roar soon sounded on the ground.

In the jungle on all sides of the pool, thunder lizards, each about thirty or forty feet long, were rushing towards the pool at lightning speed, roaring and calling for other members of the same species as they ran.

Seeing this, Zhou Mingde immediately gave an order in a deep voice: "The old man and Daoyi will deal with these monsters, Zhengchun, you assist Daoquan to transplant this Yuan-building fruit tree as quickly as possible!"

After saying that, he and Zhou Daoyi released their respective spirit pets.

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