Beast-controlling fairy clan.

Chapter 355 Reindeer Snow Crystal Worm [Subscription Request]

The half-month deadline set by Huoyang Sanren passed quickly.

After the time expired, he did not appear at the Hongyu Peak stronghold.

This made Zhou Chun feel more or less confident, realizing that this person would not dare to use any means against the Hongyu Peak stronghold for the time being.

As for whether it is embarrassing to say such a thing and not keep one's word.

A high-level cultivator like Huoyang Sanren, who had grown up from a low-level cultivator, would certainly not care too much about this kind of face.

Anyway, there is no way this matter will be spread.

Since the threat from Huoyang Sanren was temporarily lifted, Zhou Chun immediately asked Lin Wan'er to restart the mining of [Earth Yuan Crystal Jade] ore.

None of the independent cultivators in the entire Hongyu Peak stronghold knew that there was a [Earth Crystal Jade] mine in the back mountain outside the formation behind Lin Hongyu's cave.

Because this side is right next to the residences of the top leaders of the Hongyu Peak stronghold, there are usually very few cultivators coming here, for fear that some foundation-building cultivator or even Lin Hongyu would be seen and thought they have ulterior motives.

At the same time, because it is close to their residence, the foundation-building cultivators in the Hongyu Peak stronghold have formed a sense of "darkness under the lamp", and no one would think that there is a spiritual mine so close to their residence.

And because the entrance to the stronghold is on the other side, these foundation-building monks usually do not go to the mountain behind it when entering and leaving the stronghold.

Therefore, for such a long time, no one has noticed the existence of the [Earth Crystal Jade] mine.

That night, under the protection of Zhou Chun, who had gained absolute control over the stronghold's protective formation, Lin Wan'er quietly left the stronghold from the back mountain without alerting the monks guarding the front mountain.

It was not until the next night that she returned under the protection of Zhou Chun.

"Okay, I have asked those people to resume mining. From now on, they just need to go there every half a month to collect the accumulated ore!"

After returning to the base, Lin Wan'er reported to Zhou Chun the progress of her trip as soon as they met.

After hearing her words, Zhou Chun felt relieved.

Then he said to Lin Wan'er, "I have to go to the market in Dayun Country next. It may take a few days. I will leave this base to you, Elder Lin."

"Don't worry, Patriarch. I will take good care of the family."

Lin Wan'er nodded slightly and agreed readily.

So Zhou Chun handed over the control flag of the protective formation to her and left the stronghold alone.

A day later, Zhou Chun appeared in a market town in Dayun Kingdom.

Zhou Chun came to Dayun Kingdom to buy a set of formations to help him train the wood spirit.

Mu Mei's ability to escape is too strong. If there were no formation restrictions, even if Zhou Chun released a few spirit pets to guard it, it might not be safe.

Therefore, he had to use the power of the formation to restrict it, making it difficult for it to use its Wood Release Technique.

If he were in the Zhou family, Zhou Chun could directly ask the family's formation master to set up this kind of formation, but now he can only buy one set himself.

"This [Small Eight Gates Golden Light Formation] may meet your requirements. Once this formation is activated, anyone who enters the formation will be restricted by the layers of golden light. Not only will it be difficult to identify the direction, but the movement will also be greatly restricted. If you don't understand the formation, even a cultivator in the late stage of foundation building will find it difficult to escape in a short time!"

"And this set of [Three Talents Soul Imprisonment Formation] also has a very strong enemy-trapping effect. Once activated, it can imprison and suppress the mana of the cultivators within the formation, making it difficult for them to exert their full strength. It can almost suppress the cultivation of a cultivator in the late stage of foundation building to the middle stage of foundation building."

"But the best confinement formation in our store is still this set of [Heavy Mysterious Magnetic Light Formation]. Once this formation is activated, it can stimulate the gravity magnetic light to suppress the monks in the formation, making it difficult for their bodies to move. It is even more effective when dealing with monsters!"

In a shop, after learning of Zhou Chun's purpose of visit, the shop owner personally took out the store's collection of high-quality goods for him to choose from.

Among the four kinds of treasures, elixirs, weapons, talismans and formations, formations are actually the hardest to sell.

Ordinary monks cannot afford this thing. Those who can afford it usually have ways to buy it at a cheaper price from the forces behind them and other channels.

Therefore, unless it is a rare fine product, it is difficult to sell it at a normal price.

Moreover, the biggest limitation of the formation prevents it from circulating, and that is the method of arranging the formation.

Even if you have a complete set of formation flags, formation plates and other formation tools in your hands, if you don't know how to arrange them and you are not a person with profound attainments in formation, you will be at a loss and find it difficult to arrange them.

As for the formations they purchased, most cultivators would destroy the methods of setting them up after they had memorized them.

It is also because of the existence of these restrictions that it is difficult for formation masters to appear among independent cultivators, because no matter how talented an independent cultivator is, it is difficult for him to make money with this skill.

In this situation, it was a rare opportunity to meet a big customer like Zhou Chun, so the shop owner naturally had to treat him warmly.

Zhou Chun was well aware of the market price of formations. He had obtained many formations over the years, but most of them were left in the family for clan members to study because they did not know how to set them up. Only a few could be sold.

Therefore, although he urgently needed a formation to help him tame the wood spirit at this time, he was critical of the formations that the shop owner had brought out and pointed out some of their weaknesses without any hesitation.

Even if there are no flaws, people will criticize them with catchphrases such as too rigid, too rigid, and too unadaptable.

Although the shop owner knew what he meant by doing this, he still had to make concessions in certain aspects.

After all, formations are really hard to sell, and it is common for customers to find fault with you and lower your prices when doing business.

After bargaining for a long time, Zhou Chun finally bought the [Small Eight Gates Golden Light Array] for 15,000 spirit coins.

The price is too expensive compared to the magic weapons, which is one of the reasons why the formation is difficult to sell!

Fortunately, Zhou Chun knew how to set up this [Small Eight Gates Golden Light Array]. Even if it was no longer useful after taming the wood spirit, he could sell it at a discount, so he wouldn't lose much.

After purchasing the formation, Zhou Chun did not stay in the market for long and quickly returned to the Hongyu Peak stronghold.

After that, Zhou Chun handed over all the affairs of the stronghold to Lin Wan'er, and he set up the [Small Eight Gates Golden Light Formation] on an independent mountain peak, concentrating on taming the tough guy Mu Mei.

To tame an adult monster, the method is actually not much different from the way ordinary people tame beasts. It is nothing more than various tortures and beatings.

After Zhou Chun activated the [Small Eight Gates Golden Light Formation] to seal off an area, he released Mu Mei from the seal, and then tortured her physically and mentally every day with a stick in one hand and a carrot in the other.

Honestly speaking, if the taming value of Mu Mei wasn't so great, Zhou Chun wouldn't have tried to contract and tame such a powerful adult monster.

Because if you tame a monster in this way, you really have to be on guard against it from attacking its master.

If Zhou Chun were to be seriously injured one day and had no strength left to suppress the wood spirit, this thing would most likely take the opportunity to attack him.

In the past, many cultivators in the Zhou family coveted the convenience of directly taming adult monsters, and chose to capture adult monsters and tame them as spiritual pets. As a result, in times of danger, the spiritual pets not only failed to stand up and save their lives, but instead became the ones who killed them.

After more and more such examples, the Zhou family began to strictly prohibit the younger generations from taking shortcuts and forcibly taming adult monsters. As the clan leader, Zhou Chun's forced taming of the wood spirit this time was strictly speaking a violation of the clan rules.

Time passed slowly, and the Hongyu Peak stronghold did not change much despite the loss of four foundation-building cultivators and the addition of Zhou Chun.

He usually lives in seclusion and rarely shows up in public. Even for Fu Changqing and the other three foundation-building cultivators, it is not easy to see him.

Although those low-level cultivators knew that the person who had the final say in the stronghold had changed, they did not care much about it. On the contrary, they were even happier.

Because Zhou Chun not only did not participate in the sharing of the stronghold's income, he also took the initiative to improve their treatment, allowing them to receive more spirit coins every year.

And the Huoyang Sanren, who was originally hostile to the Hongyu Peak stronghold, never caused any trouble again.

Before he knew it, Zhou Chun had spent a year at the Hongyu Peak stronghold.

On this day, after Zhou Chun activated the [Eight Gates Golden Light Formation], he released the wood spirit sealed in the tree branch.

After a year of torture and suffering, and without any replenishment from the forest, Mu Mei now looks weak.

Originally, after it came out, it would fight with Zhou Chun and try to escape.

But after countless failures, now whenever it comes out and sees the golden formation shield all around it, it will just lie on the ground and break into pieces.

Anyway, it now realizes that no matter how Zhou Chun tortures itself, he will not kill itself.

"Lu'er, Lu'er, it's been more than a year. Haven't you figured it out yet? Don't you think you've suffered enough?"

Looking at the green deer lying on the ground, Zhou Chun also had a headache.

He still underestimated the difficulty of taming an adult monster, and even more so underestimated the intensity of the wood spirit's rejection of him.

During this year, he really tried every possible means, whether it was using golden energy to give Qinglu a massage and bath, or locking it in a small dark room for a month without letting it out for fresh air, but he could not make this monster bow its head and surrender.

Although Mu Mei had given up resisting and struggling, she still refused to submit to him.

"If one year doesn't work, then two years. If two years doesn't work, then three years. I don't believe I can't defeat you!"

Zhou Chun gritted his teeth, raised his hand and summoned the magical weapon [Flame Bird Pot] to give Qinglu a "hot wash" first.

It was fortunate that the wood ghost had no flesh and blood, otherwise its body would have collapsed long ago after being tortured by Zhou Chun.

This is also the most important reason why Zhou Chun has not been able to tame it so far.

In this way, the fire continued to torture Qinglu for another two hours before Zhou Chun put it back into the branches and sealed it.

Then he released all the evil insects and began to practice the art of expelling insects.

During this year, because Zhou Chun did not have to spend a lot of time dealing with family affairs like he did in the family, in addition to his daily practice of meditation to consolidate his cultivation, he also had a lot of free time to do other things.

Besides taming the wood spirit, he also devoted most of his free time to practicing the art of repelling insects.

When catching wood spirits, the mature "Black Armor Golden Feather" undoubtedly played a huge role, which made Zhou Chun more enthusiastic about practicing the art of repelling insects.

He was looking forward to the day when he could command thousands of mature "Black Armor Golden Feathers" to fight against the enemy. By that time, most ordinary Purple Mansion early stage cultivators would probably be able to defeat them.

Day after day, soon another hundred days passed.

That day, Lin Wan'er came to find Zhou Chun and said that the amount of [Earth Yuan Crystal Jade] ore in stock was enough to be transported back to the Zhou family, and wanted to ask who of them should escort the ore back to the Zhou family.

Of course Zhou Chun is the most suitable person for this kind of thing.

But he is now busy taming Mu Mei. If he takes Mu Mei on the road with him, there might be accidents. If he leaves Mu Mei on the road alone, he is also worried that something might happen.

So in the end, Lin Wan'er had to do this.

After Lin Wan'er took the ore and set off for Zhou's home, Zhou Chun had no choice but to personally take over the management of the base and handle related matters.

Compared with the various complicated affairs of a large family like the Zhou family, the affairs in the stronghold are much simpler.

Zhou Chun mainly pays attention to the daily income of the stronghold, and then participates in the formation's rotation of vigilance. If there are new cultivators joining or old cultivators leaving, he has to review and approve them.

In fact, the flow of personnel is a very common thing in the strongholds of independent cultivators.

Most independent cultivators, when their cultivation level is low or when they have someone in need of care, will choose to join a certain stronghold in exchange for a stable cultivation environment.

When their cultivation level is high and they are no longer burdened, they will no longer be satisfied with the meager income subsidies provided by the stronghold and will want to leave the stronghold to adventure in treasure hunting.

Most of the strongholds will not make it difficult for those independent cultivators who want to leave.

Similarly, for independent cultivators who want to join the stronghold, there will not be a high entry threshold, unless the stronghold itself is almost full.

But what Zhou Chun didn't expect was that on the fifth day after Lin Wan'er left, he suddenly received a large number of applications from independent cultivators to withdraw from the base.

At first he didn't notice anything unusual, but after approving five independent cultivators to withdraw from the base within one day, more independent cultivators came to apply to withdraw, and he realized something was wrong.

Then he hurriedly called Fu Changqing and others over and started investigating the cause.

It would have been fine if he hadn't checked, but once he did, Zhou Chun frowned.

"So, the reason why these independent cultivators want to leave the base is because they want to go to the snowfield and try their luck at catching snow crystal bugs?"

It turned out that according to the investigation, the real reason why the independent cultivators wanted to withdraw from the base was because of a piece of news that had been leaked recently.

It is said that the Xuepo Palace, a major existing sect in Yang State, has suddenly issued a bounty, and any cultivator who can offer three snow crystal insects can exchange them for a foundation-building pill.

After this news was confirmed, it has caused a sensation in various markets and strongholds of Yang State. Many low-level cultivators have been lured to the snowfields in the northwest of Yang State to look for snow crystal worms.

After hearing the news, many low-level cultivators at the Hongyu Peak stronghold couldn't help but have this thought.

Zhou Chun didn't understand why the Xuepo Palace suddenly wanted so many snow crystal insects, but this was obviously not a good thing for the Hongyu Peak stronghold.

Therefore, after a brief hesitation, he quickly ordered Changqing and the other two, "Tell those cultivators that although the Snow Crystal Bug has no offensive magical power, its ability to escape on the snowy plains is even better than that of the Foundation Establishment cultivators. Even if they are lucky enough to discover this monster bug, they will not be able to catch it."

"Tell them that anyone who is willing to stay here at this time will be given an extra five spirit coins as a subsidy every month!"

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