Beast-controlling fairy clan.

Chapter 337 The End of a Generation [Subscription Request]

Zhou Daoyi's return soon alarmed Zhou Daoquan, who was in seclusion in Longxing Valley to recover his strength.

After hearing about Zhou Daoyi's situation, he hurried out to visit Zhou Daoyi where he was resting.

"Daoyi, where have you been these days? How did you get injured like this?"

In the room, when Zhou Daoquan saw Zhou Daoyi, his expression changed and he could tell at a glance that Zhou Daoyi was seriously injured.

"I was unlucky. I encountered attacks and sieges from powerful monsters one after another. I was lucky to escape with my life!"

Zhou Daoyi smiled bitterly, shook his head, and whispered about his experience.

It turned out that after he and Zhou Chun and the others fled separately that day, he also used the secret technique of "Blood Shadow Escape" to speed up his escape.

Although he didn't know at that time that the fourth-level monster chasing him was actually a fourth-level thunder dragon, he rationally realized that if he continued to ride the green dragon to escape, he would easily be tracked.

After all, the Green Dragon was too big a target, and the aura it emitted was much stronger than that of a human cultivator like him, making it easy to track him.

But his luck was still not very good as he was chosen as the tracking target by the fourth-level thunder dragon!
Perhaps this is also related to the fact that he is the master of the Green Dragon and has a strong aura of the Green Dragon on his body.

Fortunately, the speed of "Blood Shadow Escape" is very fast, and the residual breath is much weaker than normal flying, so it is not easy to be tracked.

In short, Zhou Daoyi successfully got rid of the fourth-level thunder dragon through the "Blood Shadow Escape" and did not encounter it head-on.

But unfortunately, after the "Blood Shadow Escape" ended, Zhou Daoyi's whereabouts were exposed and he was attacked by a powerful monster in an unfamiliar water area.

The monster that attacked him at that time was a third-rank top-grade monster called "Dragon Scale Golden Shark", an aquatic fish monster with the blood of a dragon.

This monster was ferocious and powerful. Zhou Daoyi was no match for it. He could only summon the Green Dragon to help him fight, and he fought while he escaped.

But even with the help of the green dragon, the "dragon-scale golden shark" still held on tightly and chased the master and servant all the way.

As a result, not long after, because the noise of their fight was too loud, they attracted the attention of a third-level intermediate-grade monster called the "Poison-Eyed Water Monster".

Probably because of the water monster in Longyuanze, the "Dragon Scale Golden Shark" and the "Poison Eyed Water Monster" quickly united and launched an attack on Zhou Daoyi and his servant.

Two against two, his cultivation was suppressed, and his own blood and essence were greatly depleted. Even with the help of Qing Jiao, Zhou Daoyi soon fell into an absolute disadvantage.

Thanks to Qing Jiao's desperate fighting, he was able to successfully escape from the pursuit of the two monsters.

However, Zhou Daoyi's bad luck did not end just because he escaped from the pursuit.

When he finally escaped to the shore with the help of the green dragon, he just found a place to rest and recuperate, but unexpectedly he ran into two "Wind and Thunder Martens" with their cubs.

"Wind and Thunder Marten" is also a kind of high-level monster. Among these two "Wind and Thunder Martens", one is a third-level middle-grade monster, and the other is also a third-level low-grade monster.

The intrusion of Zhou Daoyi and Qing Jiao caused the two "Wind and Thunder Martens" with their cubs to have a great stress reaction, and they immediately launched a crazy attack on the master and servant.

How could Zhou Daoyi and his servant, who were already almost exhausted, be a match for the two third-level monsters that were eager to protect their cubs!
After a fierce fight, both the master and the servant were severely injured by the attack of the "Wind and Thunder Marten", which eventually forced Qing Jiao to spit out his demon pill and join the battle, and only then did he scare the two crazy "Wind and Thunder Martens" and allow them to successfully escape from their territory.

The series of battles, coupled with the consumption of blood and energy from performing the "Blood Shadow Escape", caused Zhou Daoyi's injuries to become extremely serious, and he couldn't even do basic long-distance flights.

At the same time, Qing Jiao was seriously injured in a bloody battle with two "Wind and Thunder Martens" and urgently needed rest.

In this situation, Zhou Daoyi could only find a place in the wilderness to take medicine, heal his wounds and catch his breath.

The rest of the story was simple. After his injuries had improved a little, he immediately set out on his journey home.

"I see, no wonder it took you so long to come back, Daoyi!"

After listening to Zhou Daoyi's story, Zhou Daoquan was also deeply moved by his rough experience.

Then he nodded again and again, "But it's good that you can come back. It's good that you can come back. If Uncle and Zhengchun knew that you were back, they would definitely be very happy!"

When Zhou Daoyi heard what he said, he immediately said, "My injuries have not healed yet, so I am afraid it will be difficult for me to return to the clan alone. I need you, my brothers, to help escort me back."

"No problem, this is what I should do. After I give Zhengyong a few words, I will escort you back."

Zhou Daoquan readily agreed, made some arrangements, and escorted Zhou Daoyi to the family.

When the two arrived at Jiufeng Ridge and saw Zhou Daoyi returning, Zhou Chun, who had not smiled for several months, finally smiled from the bottom of his heart.

"Thanks to our ancestors' blessing, it is great that you can return safely, Grand Elder!"

He was delighted at Zhou Daoyi's return, and all the sorrow in his heart disappeared at this moment.

As happy as he was, so were all the other members of the Zhou family.

Because Zhou Daoyi's injuries were so severe, he only had time to meet with Zhou Chun and other important members of the Zhou family, and then hurried back to his cave to recuperate.

The injuries he sustained this time were so severe that he would not be able to recover without three to five years of rest.

However, as long as he can come back alive, these will be small problems for the Zhou family.

After Zhou Chun put his worries aside, he regained his energy and dealt with various family affairs. He no longer studied the white jade bead in his body.

In the five years that followed, the situation of the Jingguo and Zhou families was relatively stable.

The Tianjing Sect probably also needed to digest and integrate the forces of those who had defected to it, and it has not made any surprising moves since then.

Of course, Zhou Chun would rather believe that Master Tianjing still needs time to settle down and become familiar with the power of the Nascent Soul stage.

The war in Feng State did not turn into a full-scale war as Zhou Chun had initially imagined.

The Zhengyang Palace seemed to regard the Corpse Demon Cult as an object to train its disciples, and sent many disciples to Feng State to participate in the war, but the purpose was not to capture cities, but simply to find the Corpse Demon Cult monks to fight.

The Jingyang Sect also seemed to have other intentions and was not in a hurry to capture cities. Instead, it was heard that they were recruiting disciples on a large scale and the number of members in the sect had increased a lot.

In short, in Zhou Chun's opinion, these two forces chose to be enemies with the Corpse Demon Cult not because they had any intention of eliminating demons and defending the way of righteousness, but all for the sake of profit!

Perhaps they also saw this, the Li family of elixirs and the You family of formations, who had been ready to make a move, became quiet and obedient again.

As for the Zhou family, in the past five years, the family has added two new foundation-building cultivators, namely Zhou Xindie and Xu Fu.

Both of them succeeded in building their foundation by taking the Yuan-building Fruit. The one Xu Fu got was a special reward from Zhou Chun, and it did not occupy the Zhou family's exchange quota. There are successes and failures.

At that time, Zhou Chun took out four Yuan-Building Fruits for the Zhou family members to exchange. Three of them were exchanged within five years, but except Zhou Xindie who succeeded, the other two failed.

The two failed people had very bad luck. They failed to save their lives and died directly in the secret room.

This situation really frightened many Zhou family cultivators.

Over the years, because the Zhou family has always been able to exchange foundation-building pills, most of the Zhou family cultivators have not taken the risks of foundation-building seriously. They think that as long as they exchange for spiritual objects that assist in foundation-building, they can save their lives even if they fail.

However, the successive deaths of two people at the foundation-building stage finally made them realize the difficulty of foundation-building, and they no longer dared to be as optimistic as before.

At the same time, the number of Zhou family cultivators who dared to lend their good deeds to others in exchange for foundation-building spiritual objects was also rapidly decreasing.

After all, no one can guarantee whether the person who borrows his good deeds will be able to walk out of the secret room alive or whether he can succeed.

As a result, with the number of cultivators willing to lend their good deeds decreasing significantly, the difficulty for other Zhou family cultivators to exchange for Yuan-building Fruits and Foundation-building Pills increased a lot, which invisibly eased the difficulty of supplying these auxiliary foundation-building spiritual objects.

On the other side, it was just as Zhou Chun had thought.

Xu Fu's success in building the foundation had a great motivating effect on those Zhou family warriors. From then on, they were completely determined to stay in Longxing Valley, and they all wanted to fight for a future for themselves like Xu Fu.

Zhou Chun also restarted the training of his family's loyal soldiers and began to search for mortals with spiritual roots.

The difference is that this time these people will be sent directly to Longxing Valley for training.

During these five years, Xu Fu and others in Longxing Valley had already drawn a map of the surrounding area within 1,500 miles.

Without considering the migrating and wandering monsters, as long as they follow the map, even a few Qi Refining cultivators can survive in the wilderness for a few days.

This progress is not much worse than the efficiency of the new frontier settlement in Yunzhou.

At the same time, during this period, Xu Fu and his team also found a spiritual jade mine.

That jade vein can be used to mine several types of jade with different uses, and its value is quite great.

Unfortunately, the location of the mineral vein is too far away from Longxing Valley, with a straight-line distance of more than 800 miles, and there are dangerous areas around it where third-level monsters are lurking.

This made Zhou Chun and the Zhou family not dare to have any ideas about it for the time being. They could only remember the location and take it slowly.

However, Zhou Chun still instructed Xu Fu and others to look for a new base in the direction of the Lingyu mine.

Longxing Valley is still too small, the surrounding resources are not particularly abundant, and have been almost plundered.

Therefore, it is imperative to find a better place to establish a base.

As Zhou Xindie successfully established her foundation, her skills in formations also improved greatly. Not to mention that she was able to set up a forbidden formation like the "Five-Directions Miro Formation" on her own, ordinary formations were no problem for her, and were enough to help her establish a stronghold.

In addition, relying on the large amount of resources collected from the wilderness, the Zhou family's elixirs, weapons, talismans, beasts and other aspects have also developed rapidly.

Not to mention low-level elixirs like the Beast Spirit Pill, even the Demon Spirit Pill that could improve the cultivation level of a second-level demon beast had been refined in several batches, allowing Zhou Chun and other cultivators who possessed second-level demon beasts to enjoy a feast.

As a result, Zhou Chun also got seven or eight demon spirit pills, which he put into the silver lightning python Baibai.

Now his own cultivation is very close to the late stage of foundation building, but the Silver Lightning Thunder Python Baibai is still a long way from being promoted to a second-level top-grade monster. Zhou Chun must focus on cultivating it.

In addition to Zhou Chun, other elders of the Zhou family also benefited from the improvement of the Zhou family's foundation and gained a lot.

Zhou Jiarui, who was the first to successfully build his foundation, has already improved his cultivation to the middle stage of foundation building, and Zhou Jiahe and Zhou Jiapeng are almost there too.

Moreover, the Blue-Feathered Fire Kite Egg that Zhou Jiahe exchanged at that time has now grown into a first-grade superior monster. With the supply of Monster Spirit Pills, it is only a matter of time before it is promoted to a second-grade monster.

As for those cultivators in the Qi Refining Stage, they felt even more comfortable.

The types of monsters that the Zhou family provides to these clansmen for contract now are completely incomparable to before, and the various elixirs and magical tools that they can exchange from the family are also much richer than before.

It might be difficult to find someone as outstanding as Zhou Chun among them, but their general strength was much stronger than that of the Zhou family's Qi Refining Stage cultivators at that time.

With sufficient resources, most of the Zhou family cultivators with mid-grade spiritual roots, as long as they work hard, can cultivate to the twelfth level of Qi Refining before the age of fifty.

Some people who have the support and care of their elders can even hope to reach this level at the age of 40.

Unknowingly, the ones who took up the responsibilities of the Zhou family had become the cultivators of the "Zheng" and "Xin" generations.

Most of the older generation of monks with the character "Jia" have passed away, while the new generation of monks with the character "Si" is thriving.

On this day, an invitation arrived, and Zhou Chun was filled with emotion after reading it.

The letter was delivered by someone from the Wang family of Hongyao Valley, who were on good terms with the Zhou family. The letter said that the previous patriarch of the Wang family, Wang Zhixiong, had passed away.

This made Zhou Chun think of the first time he met this person.

When he first met Wang Zhixiong, the Zhou family had just taken root in Jiufengling. They tried every means to squeeze into the Wang family's circle and were able to participate in the joint fighting competition of the five major immortal cultivation families.

At that time, even Zhou Daoyi, the head of the Zhou family, had to be humble in front of Wang Zhixiong.

But times have changed. Sixty or seventy years have passed. Zhou Daoyi has long since become a cultivator in the Purple Mansion Period, and Zhou Chun has also successfully established his foundation. The Zhou family's strength has surpassed that of the Wang family by several times.

However, Wang Zhixiong, the once high-spirited head of the Wang family, has now exhausted his old age and passed away.

"With the passing of Fellow Daoist Wang, the Wang family has lost another capable member. I heard that Senior Wang Guangping will not live long. Is the Wang family, which has been passed down for nearly a thousand years, going to decline?"

Zhou Chun sighed slightly, feeling very emotional.

Perhaps this is the inevitable fate of every force.

If there is no successor capable of taking over, the decline of a force is inevitable when the incumbents pass away one after another.

Perhaps the difference is that some big forces still have a chance to rise again after normal decline, while small forces are likely to disappear after their decline.

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