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Chapter 356: Mu Mei surrenders and heads to the snowfield [Subscribe]

Hongyu Peak stronghold.

Although Zhou Chun discovered the problem in time and took measures to retain the employee.

But the temptation of the Foundation Establishment Pill is too great.

Many young cultivators who still had some aspirations did not want to miss this rare opportunity, and set out on the journey to the snowfield regardless of any attempts to stop them.

The departure of these people undoubtedly had a huge impact on the stronghold.

Because of their departure, the remaining monks will have to take on heavier tasks and will never be able to return to their previous easy life.

Therefore, it is necessary for Zhou Chun to give everyone a monthly spiritual coin subsidy.

Without this "overtime pay", these independent cultivators would definitely not be willing to spend a lot of time every day guarding the "Pure Spirit Pavilion".

"Pay attention to the news and find out why the Xuepo Palace suddenly issued such a bounty. Then, we will increase the salary for recruiting people. As long as newcomers join the base, they will be subsidized from the first month, and an additional subsidy of ten spirit coins will be given after six months!"

In the meeting room, Zhou Chun frowned as he gave orders to Fu Changqing and the other two.

After the three people left, he began to look for information about the snow crystal worms.

Han Yuan of Qianling Sect had practiced in Yang Country for many years, and he also had research records on the snow crystal worm, a demon worm that existed on the snowfields of Yang Country.

Zhou Chun quickly found the information about this demon insect from the demon insect illustrations he left behind.

According to the notes on the illustration, snow crystal worms are a special kind of monster insects unique to the snowy environment. They look like earthworms and are snow-white in color. They like to move in snow and ice and will only appear on the snow when a blizzard comes.

This monster insect has no fighting ability, but its ability to escape is very strong.

They can easily burrow their bodies into thick snow or ice just like wood spirits blending into trees, and when they hide in the snow and don't move, even the spiritual sense of a Purple Mansion Stage cultivator can hardly detect anything unusual.

Therefore, it is extremely difficult to capture this kind of evil insect, and you can basically only try your luck during a blizzard.

This is also the reason why the Xuepo Palace, whose main gate is clearly in the snowfield and has tens of thousands of inner and outer disciples, still issued a bounty to buy this kind of evil insect.

But even Han Yuan, who was very knowledgeable about demon insects, didn't know what unknown and precious uses the snow crystal insects had.

After all, Han Yuan's main ambition is to cultivate a demon insect with powerful combat capabilities, and the fact that the snow crystal insect can only survive and move on snow and ice fields is destined to make it difficult for him to conduct in-depth research on this demon insect.

"I hope this matter can be over as soon as possible!"

With a slight sigh in his heart, Zhou Chun put away the book and stopped caring about the matter.

Less than two months later, Lin Wan'er returned safely to the Hongyu Peak base and brought back a letter from home to Zhou Chun.

The family letter was written by Zhou Jiarui, mainly describing the various things that happened to Jingguo and his family during the more than one year since he left his family.

There are only three things here that deserve Zhou Chun's attention.

One is that the Zhou family monks in Longxing Valley have moved to the new base "Caiyu Mountain", and the mining of the spiritual jade vein has been put on the agenda.

The second is that Zhou Zhengbai, a foundation-building cultivator from the Zhou family, married a female cultivator from the Li family. This was the first marriage between the two families after they moved to Jingguo.

This matter also had the permission and consent of Zhou Mingde.

The third was that Qinglian Temple suddenly issued a "tax collection order", requiring all immortal cultivation families in the three states under its jurisdiction to pay a tax to Qinglian Temple based on the number of immortal cultivators in the family.

The amount of this tax is not very high. Each Qi Refining Stage cultivator needs to pay ten spirit coins, each Foundation Establishment Stage cultivator only needs to pay one hundred spirit coins, and each Purple Mansion Stage cultivator is exempt from tax.

According to this calculation, given the size of the Zhou family, they would probably have to hand over more than 4,000 spirit coins.

To be honest, this kind of "tax collection order" is nothing new. Many major sects sometimes collect taxes from the immortal cultivation families under their command.

But Qinglian Temple has not done this for hundreds of years, and now that they are suddenly levying taxes, it is hard not to think too much.

Zhou Chun now has no idea what Qinglian Temple is trying to do, but just as Zhou Mingde said at the time, no matter what happens, the Zhou family, with its limited size, can only go with the flow and is powerless to change anything.

So after reading the letter from home, he didn't think too much about it.

Lin Wan'er's return allowed him to return to his previous life and no longer have to worry about things at the base.

Time passed slowly, and after more than five months, Zhou Chun and Mu Mei's battle of patience finally bore fruit.

After more than two years of torture, Mu Mei finally couldn't bear it anymore and chose to surrender.

Zhou Chun was able to sign a contract with it and took it in as his fourth pet.

With Mu Mei being successfully subdued, Zhou Chun finally put his mind at ease and was freed to act.

He immediately couldn't wait to take Mu Mei to the deep mountains and forests of Dayun Kingdom to test Mu Mei's ability to find medicine and his magical powers.

After returning to the forest, Mu Mei was also very excited.

After being tortured by Zhou Chun for more than two years, it suffered a serious loss of vitality. After returning to the forest, it immediately restored its vitality by absorbing the vitality of those ancient trees.

The older the ancient trees in the forest are, the more vigorous and powerful their vitality will be as long as they are not attacked by diseases and insects.

Wood spirits are naturally able to absorb the vitality of ancient trees to heal their wounds.

To it, this pure vitality of plants is more useful in healing than any panacea.

In just less than half a day, most of the vitality it had lost due to Zhou Chun's torture was restored. This recovery speed also shocked Zhou Chun greatly.

Zhou Chun then began to order Mu Mei to use her talent to find elixirs for him.

Perhaps because he had suffered enough in the past, or perhaps because of this hard-earned freedom, Mu Mei did not have much resistance to Zhou Chun's orders and quickly acted according to his orders.

As a result, in just half a day, it found for Zhou Chun a 300-year-old spiritual ginseng, five 200-year-old polygonatum, ginseng and other spiritual herbs, and 15 other 100-year-old spiritual herbs.

These spiritual medicines are almost all the high-year spiritual medicines that can be found within a radius of 100 miles.

This result also made Zhou Chun very satisfied.

Because he knew very well that the forest he chose was not some sacred mountain or blessed land, and it must have been visited by many wandering cultivators over the years.

Under such circumstances, Mu Mei was still able to find so many spiritual medicines within half a day, which fully demonstrated his powerful ability in finding spiritual medicines.

"Very good, very good. It's worth my effort to subdue you. Lu'er, you really are a treasure-hunting deer!"

Touching the green deer's head with satisfaction, Zhou Chun smiled and put all the spiritual medicines into the storage bag. He was just testing the ability of Mu Mei to find spiritual medicines now. When he returned to the Zhou family, it would be time to show his skills.

With the existence of the Wood Spirit, those elixirs that are difficult for ordinary people to find in the wilderness will no longer be able to escape from him!

Next, Zhou Chun asked Mu Mei to demonstrate all the magical powers he knew.

The magical spells that Wood Spirit knows are all wood-related spells, covering many areas such as attack, defense, trapping enemies, illusion, concealment, escape, and treatment.

However, being able to do everything means having no specialization.

In terms of attack, Mu Mei's lethal spells are not very powerful, especially those attack spells that directly attack the air.

Defense and trapping enemies are much stronger than attack, especially in a forest environment, where you can get a huge home advantage.

In terms of transmogrification and healing, Mu Mei can only be said to have related spells, but they are not used much.

Escape and concealment are its two strongest talents, and Zhou Chun has already witnessed the power of these two talents.

In addition, Mu Mei has a special magical power, which is the kind that Zhou Chun has seen before, which can greatly enhance its cultivation and magic power.

That kind of magical power is called "Gift of Life" and it can only be used under special circumstances.

As the child of the forest, Mu Mei is loved and blessed by the forest, and also has the responsibility to protect the forest.

When the forest is threatened with destruction, or the wood spirit itself is in danger of death, the spiritual consciousness of the plants and trees in the forest will transfer their own original vitality to the wood spirit at the cost of sacrificing themselves, enhancing the wood spirit's cultivation strength and allowing it to gain the power to protect the forest and itself.

Judging from the description and actual effects, the magical power of "Gift of Life" is undoubtedly extremely domineering and powerful. It will not even cause the strengthened monsters to fall into weak sequelae like "Ancestors' Resurrection", and the duration is also quite long.

Unfortunately, the prerequisites for activating this magical power are a bit too difficult.

First of all, if Mu Mei or Zhou Chun took the initiative to create a disaster that destroyed the forest, it would definitely not be able to trigger the conditions. Instead, it would make the spiritual consciousness of the plants and trees abandon Mu Mei, making it unable to cast spells such as the Wood Escape Technique.

Letting Mu Mei fight the enemy head-on and put him in danger of death is also a way of dancing on the edge of a knife. If you are not careful, Mu Mei may really die.

Therefore, although the magical power of "Gift of Life" is powerful, it cannot be truly used as a regular combat force.

To sum up, in view of the special abilities of Wood Spirit, Zhou Chun positioned it as an auxiliary spirit pet. It can be used to control the situation and strengthen defense in battle, and it can also be used to heal other injured spirit pets after the battle. There is no need to confront it head-on.

After staying in the deep mountains and forests of Dayun Kingdom for a few days to allow the wood spirit to fully recover its vitality, Zhou Chun brought it back to the Hongyu Peak stronghold.

As soon as he returned to the Hongyu Peak stronghold, Zhou Chun learned a piece of news that surprised him very much.

"What did you say? Xuepo Palace is now willing to give out elixirs that assist in opening up the Purple Palace as rewards?"

Inside the stronghold, Zhou Chun looked at Lin Wan'er in surprise, shocked by what she had just said.

It turned out that during the few days when he was in Dayun Kingdom, the bounty offered by Xuepo Palace had changed again.

This time, the Snow Soul Palace offered another bounty, stating that if anyone could deliver a Snow Crystal Bug King, one of them could be exchanged for a [Snow Soul Pill] that could help open up the Purple Palace.

As soon as the reward notice came, Fu Changqing at the Hongyu Peak stronghold immediately reported to Lin Wan'er and had already headed for the snowfield.

Lin Wan'er knew that she couldn't stop the other party, so she had no choice but to agree to it.

"What purpose does this snow crystal insect have that made the Snow Soul Palace spend so much money on it?"

Zhou Chun muttered to himself, his eyes revealing a look of excitement.

The elixir that helps to open up the Purple Mansion is exactly what he is currently seeking!
"If you want to go, then go ahead. I can handle this base by myself."

As if she had seen through Zhou Chun's inner thoughts, Lin Wan'er immediately spoke softly and supported him.

After hearing this, Zhou Chun's eyes flickered, and then he nodded and said, "Then it's Elder Lao Lin."

Having made the decision, Zhou Chun did not delay and set off after a short half-day rest.

During the previous "Thousand Cricket Disaster", the snowfield in the northwest of Yang State was the only place that had not been harmed by the "Thousand Crickets". It could be said to be the last piece of pure land in Yang State.

The Xuepo Palace, which built its mountain gate on the snowy plain, was able to preserve its power and became the best-preserved sect in the Yang State after the war.

On the way from the Hongyu Peak stronghold to the snowfield, Zhou Chun also ran into many fellow travelers. Among them were cultivators in the Qi Refining Stage, cultivators in the Foundation Establishment Stage, and even cultivators in the Purple Mansion Stage.

The latest bounty issued by Xuepo Palace is extremely attractive to cultivators below the Jindan stage.

Even for a Purple Mansion Stage cultivator, if he catches a Snow Crystal Worm King, he can make a net profit of at least 100,000 spirit coins.

In order to facilitate the purchase of snow crystal insects, it is said that the Xuepo Palace has now sent out hundreds of inner disciples with foundation-building cultivation to set up purchasing points throughout the snowfield.

As long as someone catches a snow crystal worm, they can go to the nearest purchasing point to exchange rewards with disciples of the Snow Soul Palace.

Xuepo Palace has even thoughtfully prepared relevant information on the living habits of snow crystal worms, which anyone can get for free.

All these actions show their current desire for snow crystal worms.

It took Zhou Chun almost three days of travel to reach the snowfield. This was mainly because there were too many people on the road, and he did not dare to change trains too ostentatiously.

After all, Yang Guo is not Jing Guo. If he is too ostentatious, he might attract the attention of a Purple Mansion Stage cultivator, and that would be big trouble.

This was not the first time Zhou Chun climbed a snowy mountain in this world, but it was indeed his first time to come to the snowfield.

The snowfield area of ​​Yang State is very large, much larger than the four states previously under the jurisdiction of Qinglian Temple. The altitude is also very high, with an average height of more than 1,800 feet.

On this snowfield, most of the area is covered with snow, and there are eternal glaciers everywhere.

Only in some low-lying valleys will grass and trees grow, birds and animals be active, and humans settle.

These valleys with grass and trees growing on them are scattered across the snowfield like lakes on earth, and are countless.

The larger ones can support hundreds of thousands of mortals, while the smaller ones are only the size of a hundred acres of land.

The disciples sent by the Xuepo Palace to purchase the snow crystal insects stayed in various snow valleys.

After Zhou Chun arrived on the snowfield, the first thing he did was to find these people to obtain intelligence information about the snow crystal worms.

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