Beast-controlling fairy clan.

Chapter 368: The Way of Relaxation and Tension [Subscription Request]

The Golden Sword Bamboo was indeed very hard. Even with Zhou Chun's cultivation level at the early stage of Purple Mansion and a third-rank medium-quality magic weapon in his hand, he still had to slash it seven times in a row before he could cut it down at the roots.

This plant is born and raised in the soil. Once it is out of the soil, it will lose all vitality and it will be impossible to transplant it.

This is why Zhou Chun chose to chop it down violently after discovering it.

After cutting down the entire spiritual bamboo with its roots, Zhou Chun did not trim the branches and just put them into the storage bag.

After finishing this, he immediately put his feet on the ground, sat cross-legged, and practiced the "Golden Tripod Mysterious Art" for a while.

Soon he shook his head, stood up, and quickly left the place.

It turned out that he thought that the golden sword bamboo grew here, and there might be some spiritual gold veins hidden underground.

But when he was practicing just now, he did not absorb too rich and pure gold energy from this place, which was enough to prove that there was no spiritual gold vein underground.

Come to think of it, Zhou Chun now actually misses the days when he was an undercover in the Hualong Sect and practiced inside the Golden Dragon Branch Mountain Gate.

The "Golden Tripod Mysterious Art" he practiced required the absorption of gold energy to promote his practice, but there was no place with rich gold energy inside the Jiufengling Mountain Gate of the Zhou Family.

Therefore, Zhou Chun has always relied on purchasing gold energy to assist in his practice.

However, now that his cultivation has reached the Purple Mansion Stage, the amount of gold energy consumed during his daily practice has increased a lot compared to before. It is calculated that the amount of spirit coins he spends every year just on purchasing gold energy is as high as thousands.

Zhou Chun felt painful every time he thought of such an extra expense.

Maybe he just felt that the Zhou Family Mountain Gate was a little too small in other aspects before, but after opening up the Purple Mansion, he discovered that the Zhou Family Mountain Gate Jiufengling was really too small, so small that it could no longer meet the cultivation needs of their family's high-level cultivators.

Not to mention the behemoth like Qinglian Temple, even the Jiangzhou Su Family Gate, which Zhou Chun was most familiar with besides the Zhou Family, was several levels better than Jiufengling.

The inner area of ​​the Su family's mountain gate is two and a half times the size of the Zhou family's mountain gate, and there are several places that are particularly suitable for cultivators who practice corresponding techniques.

For example, where his Taoist partner Su Yuzhen lives in a cave, there is a natural spiritual spring. The spiritual energy overflowing from the spring has a significant beneficial effect on Su Yuzhen's practice.

This is also one of the reasons why Su Yuzhen spends most of his time practicing in the Su family.

These are the foundation of a Jindan family, but the Zhou family, which has fallen from a Jindan family, is now far behind in these aspects.

The next direction that the Zhou family should focus on should be to train a Jindan-stage cultivator for the family while working hard to recover the lost foundation.

After getting a golden sword bamboo, Zhou Chun was no longer greedy and immediately took Mu Mei to the forest where he had promised it.

There is no shortage of primitive ancient forests like the Qianye Forest in the wilderness. The place where Zhou Chun took Mu Mei this time was a primitive ancient forest he had discovered when he was undercover in the Hualong Sect.

There are many towering ancient trees growing in this primitive ancient forest, which is like the tropical rain forest in Zhou Chun’s previous life.

Yo yo yo!
The clear and ethereal sound of a deer calling echoed through the forest. Just as Zhou Chun had expected, Mu Mei fell in love with this environment as soon as she arrived here.

Seeing this, Zhou Chun told the green deer who was about to go to the forest to have fun, "You can stay here for two months. I will come to visit you after two months. Remember not to just play around, but also help me keep an eye out for the places where the spiritual medicines grow."

Now he has reached the Purple Mansion stage, while Mu Mei is only at the second level.

Such a difference in realms was enough to make him not have to worry at all about Mu Mei breaking free from the contract and running away from him.

He had personally witnessed the wood spirit's ability to survive in the forest, and he didn't think there were any monsters in the forest that could harm it.

In this case, giving Mu Mei a space to live freely and letting it have fun for a while can also help enhance the relationship between master and servant, and make Mu Mei feel that being his spiritual pet is not a bad thing at all.

Of course, this kind of thing must be done in moderation. Zhou Chun will strictly control the degree and will not let Mu Mei live alone in the wilderness for a long time.

In short, after letting Mu Mei move around alone in the forest, Zhou Chun returned to his family with his harvest.

After returning to the family, Zhou Chun first told Zhou Mingde about his first interview with the Scale Frog alien warlock Ukulu, as well as his own thoughts on suppressing the Scale Frog aliens' cooperation.

Zhou Mingde also strongly agrees with his views and ideas.

After all, when it comes to ruthlessness, Zhou Chun is far inferior to Zhou Mingde.

Afterwards, Zhou Chun took out the golden sword bamboo he had cut down as if he was presenting a treasure.

"What a good thing! This thousand-year-old golden sword bamboo is a rare treasure that is hard to come by. Whether it is sold at an auction or kept for future exchange for rare spiritual objects of the same level, it will be very useful!"

Zhou Mingde looked at the whole golden sword bamboo in front of him with bright eyes, and could not help but nod repeatedly and said: "It seems that Zhengchun, you need to go to the wilderness more often in the future. Who knows, your chance to form a pill in the future may fall on this spirit-seeking wood spirit!"

Hearing what he said, Zhou Chun also responded with a smile: "I think so too. When the family situation is completely stable in the future, I must go out and have a look around more often. I can't waste Mu Mei's talent for finding spirits!"

After coming out of Zhou Mingde's cave, Zhou Chun summoned Zhou Xintie, the current head of Zhou family's Baiyi Hall. He is also the best weapon refiner in the Zhou family and is already able to refine first-grade top-grade magical weapons.

"Junior greets the clan leader. I wonder what instructions the clan leader has for calling me here."

In Zhongping Palace, Zhou Xintie was summoned and after paying his respects to Zhou Chun, he curiously asked the purpose of calling him over.

He also knew that Zhou Chun had rarely been involved in matters after he opened up the Purple Palace, and he didn't know why he suddenly summoned him to the Zhongping Palace.

Zhou Chun looked at the younger generation who seemed older than him, and after a brief silence, he said, "Xintie, the customer was very satisfied with the cold iron trident you refined earlier. Next, you should temporarily stop other weapon refining tasks and concentrate on refining this type of magic weapon. First, refine fifty similar spears and forks."

Hearing his words, Zhou Xintie's slightly dark and rough face was stunned for a moment, and a look of deep surprise appeared in his eyes.

Of course Zhou Xintie remembered the cold iron trident. At that time, he didn't understand why Zhou Chun asked him to refine this magical weapon, wasting good materials.

You should know that in order to make the freezing effect of the Cold Iron Trident meet Zhou Chun's requirements, the entire magic weapon is made of refined cold iron.

The cost of materials alone is nearly two hundred spirit coins.

However, the cold iron trident could not even be refined, let alone controlled by spiritual consciousness to attack.

For a magical weapon like this, if Zhou Chun hadn't specifically requested it, Zhou Xintie would not have tried to refine it. Even an apprentice who had just learned the art of refining would not have wasted the materials in this way.

At this moment, when he suddenly heard Zhou Chun say that he needed to refine fifty such magical weapons, how could he not be extremely surprised.

I saw his lips moving slightly, as if he wanted to say something.

But remembering what an elder had taught him, he suppressed the words that were about to come out and whispered, "Junior understands, but I wonder if the clan leader has any requirements for the delivery time?"

"Twenty pieces in half a year. Just deliver at this rate."

Zhou Chun pondered for a moment and then gave the answer.

Hearing his answer, Zhou Xintie immediately responded: "If that's the case, I promise to complete the task." "Do your best, and when you complete this task, I will give you a great gift!"

Zhou Chun said this and waved the other person away.

Afterwards, he summoned Zhou Xinlan, the head of Baiyaotang, and asked him to refine more elixirs with moderate and mild effects to improve magical powers.

Although the alien scaly frog sorcerers cannot practice human martial arts, they have their own unique method of breathing and refining the spiritual energy of heaven and earth. Some elixirs refined by immortal cultivators can also be used to improve their magical powers.

In the past, the Zhou family had many concerns and did not dare to refine too many of these elixirs for trade. In addition, the pleasure items used by Lu Ran at that time accounted for half of the trade share, so there was no need to use these elixirs to attract the scaly frog aliens.

But now Lu Ran is about to pass away, and once he dies, the alien scaly frog warlocks like Ukulu will definitely have a much lower demand for those pleasures.

At that time, if one wants to exchange those rare water treasures from Ukulu, one will have to rely on this kind of magic power-enhancing elixir and special magic weapon.

After arranging these two matters that were crucial to trade, Zhou Chun called Zhou Zhengqing, who was currently in charge of the Intelligence Hall.

Although Zhou Zhengqing and Zhou Chun are of the same generation, he was actually not even born when Zhou Chun came into this world, so he ranks 29th among his peers.

Because the Intelligence Hall is an important branch of the Zhou family, it must be managed by someone of high status.

After Zhou Chun inspected several foundation-building cultivators in the family, he finally chose this cousin to take charge.

Seeing Zhou Zhengqing coming in at this time, he immediately asked, "Twenty-ninth brother, how is the information about the bandit cultivators that I asked you to collect going?"

After hearing what he said, Zhou Zhengqing thought for a moment and then replied respectfully, "To answer the clan leader's question, after receiving the task assigned by you, the Intelligence Department arranged for the clan members to go to the markets in Jing, Shen, and Feng to gather relevant intelligence. Currently, eleven places where bandit cultivators are relatively active have been identified."

Zhou Chun nodded and said, "Well, it's well done."

Then he suddenly asked, "How many family intelligence stations have been established so far?"

"Seven have been established, six in the Yasukuni states and one in Toyokuni."

Zhou Zhengqing answered without hesitation.

Then Zhou Chun asked again: "If we want to contact the intelligence station of Fengguo, how many days can we do it at the earliest?"

"If we send the Eagle Message as quickly as possible and relay it through the Yunzhou Intelligence Station, we can deliver it to the Fengguo Intelligence Station within ten hours."

Zhou Zhengqing calculated with his fingers and quickly gave a detailed answer.

A day consists of twelve hours, and the distance from Jiufengling to the intelligence station in Fengguo is at least three thousand miles.

The speed at which this information is transmitted is already faster than that of a Foundation Establishment cultivator traveling on the road.

After all, a cultivator in the Foundation Establishment Stage cannot fly three thousand miles in one breath. He must stop in the middle to rest and recover his magic power.

Therefore, Zhou Chun was very satisfied with the result and nodded immediately, saying, "Very good. The number of intelligence stations can continue to increase. You can apply for the funds and personnel you need and recruit them from within the clan. The clan will definitely fully support this."

"Yes, I will definitely live up to the clan leader's expectations!"

Zhou Zhengqing responded respectfully, with a look of joy on his face.

After dealing with some important clan affairs, Zhou Chun returned to his residence to meditate.

Two months flew by.

When Zhou Chun went back to the primitive ancient forest in the wilderness to look for Mu Mei, he got a lot of high-year spiritual medicines under the guidance of Mu Mei.

Mu Mei herself also seemed to have gained a lot, and her aura had obviously increased.

The way a monster like Mu Mei increases its cultivation level is completely different from that of ordinary monsters.

The way they increase their cultivation is to absorb and refine the wood spirit power condensed by the ancient trees, spiritual trees, and spiritual medicines in the forest.

This kind of absorption must be done on the premise of not harming the life of ancient trees or spiritual trees, and it will be very slow for ancient trees or spiritual trees that have had their wood spirit power absorbed to recover, usually taking dozens or even hundreds of years.

Therefore, when a wood spirit resides in a forest, its cultivation level will increase rapidly after a period of time, and then will grow very slowly afterwards.

But if the wood spirit can continue to migrate to other forests to practice, its cultivation level will increase very quickly.

However, just like every time Zhou Chun breaks through a major realm, the quality of the gold energy needed to recast the broken cauldron must be improved.

The higher the grade of the wood spirit, the less effective the lower-level wood spirit power will be in improving their cultivation.

At the same time, if they want to break through to a higher level, they also need to absorb higher-level wood spirit power to promote their own evolution.

For a wood spirit like the one Zhou Chun tamed, if it were to absorb energy from ordinary trees, the power of the wood spirits must be the power condensed from a thousand-year-old tree in order to have any effect on it.

However, if one wants it to break through to the third level, the quality of the wood spirit power condensed by ordinary ancient trees is simply not enough. It must be the kind of spiritual wood that can absorb and exhale spiritual energy to strengthen itself, and it must be spiritual wood of good quality.

In fact, Zhou Chun now has a way to help Mu Mei break through to the third level.

But he didn't do that.

After all, it wasn't long before he subdued Mu Mei, and he did it by force.

If Mu Mei were allowed to break through to the third level so quickly, there was a possibility that he might retaliate.

Besides, he also has to take care of the emotions of the other three pets.

Ordinary people feel jealous even when they raise cats and dogs, let alone monsters with higher intelligence.

Among Zhou Chun's other three pets, except for the Golden-Armored Rock Turtle which has a more Buddhist personality and doesn't compete for favors, the Silver Lightning Python Baibai and the Golden-Winged Tiger all like to compete for favors.

If he allowed Mu Mei, his later spiritual pet, to break through to the third level so quickly and let it ride on the heads of the three of them, who knows what kind of fuss those two vying for favor would make.

Even now, even though he knew that Mu Mei's cultivation could improve if he continued to stay in this primitive ancient forest, Zhou Chun still ignored its protests and took it away.

This kind of spiritual pet that has been forcibly subdued cannot be spoiled like the spiritual pet that has been raised since childhood. It must be treated with a certain degree of relaxation and control so that it always remembers who its master is.

This time Zhou Chun forcibly took Mu Mei away, and it would indeed be unhappy.

But next time if Zhou Chun asks it to do something and promises that it can come out and play for a while after it is done, it will definitely perform hard.

(End of this chapter)