Beast-controlling fairy clan.

Chapter 387 Easy to grasp, unexpected gains [Subscribe]

After getting Lin Hongyu's guarantee, Zhou Chun felt relieved.

To seize the Millennium Dragon Grass, Lin Hongyu, a Jindan-stage cultivator, is an indispensable link.

And the risk she would take was not small.

If she is unwilling to help, Zhou Chun really has no way of finding a replacement.

While Lin Hongyu went north to Yangguo to find Xuepo Palace to sell the cold jade mine, Zhou Chun took over the Caiyushan stronghold in her place.

After a few years, the Caiyushan outpost was established in an orderly manner.

Most of the captured independent cultivators have accepted the reality that they cannot escape, and have begun to settle down here as the Zhou family expected.

However, what made Zhou Chun feel a little regretful was that the Yuan-Building Fruit he had given to Xu Fu before did not create another Foundation-Building cultivator. Instead, the person who took it failed in his attempt to build a foundation and died in the secret room.

In fact, spiritual objects like the Zhuyuan Fruit, which assist in building the foundation, definitely have their own effects.

But in fact, the real function of these spiritual objects is to give confidence to cultivators who are building their foundation.

Confidence is very important.

If there were no spiritual objects to help with foundation-building, faced with the serious consequences of failure in foundation-building, either death or injury, not many cultivators would be able to muster the courage to attempt to build their foundation.

This is even more obvious among the monks from family sects.

Most of the independent cultivators in the world of immortal cultivation who have successfully established their foundation actually do not have foundation-building pills or spiritual objects to take to assist in building their foundation. The fact that they have succeeded in establishing their foundation is entirely due to their belief that they will die if they fail, and their luck.

Behind every successful independent cultivator, there are many invisible failures.

Most of the losers end up dead.

Of course, from the perspective of a high-ranking cultivator like Zhou Chun from a cultivation family, he certainly doesn't want the cultivators in the family to risk their lives in order to establish their foundation.

After all, it is not easy for the family to train these members. After much effort, they have grown up to be useful. How could they be willing to see all these years of investment go to waste?

For a family, as long as the family income is stable enough, they can basically get a steady supply of foundation-building pills and ensure that someone can successfully build a foundation.

There is no need to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs and let the tribesmen risk their lives to attack the foundation-building level.

If a sixty-year-old cultivator at the twelfth level of Qi Refining does not build his foundation, he will create enormous wealth for his family in the remaining decades.

Therefore, unless the families are so impoverished that they cannot produce foundation-building cultivators through normal means, normal immortal cultivation families will never advocate building the foundation on their own, let alone instill this idea into their members.

Zhou Chun didn't even want to instill this idea into the Zhou family's assassins, so as to prevent these assassins who the family had cultivated with great difficulty from seeking their own death.

On this day, in the Caiyu Mountain stronghold, Zhou Chun was inspecting the entire stronghold accompanied by Xu Fu, and unknowingly brought up the topic of this foundation-building cultivator from the Zhou family. "I didn't expect that Xu Fu would break through to the middle stage of foundation-building so quickly. It seems that the advantage of the upper-grade spiritual roots is much stronger than the middle-grade spiritual roots."

Xu Fu listened to his praise and replied very humbly: "Patriarch, you are too kind. The reason why my cultivation has improved so quickly is mainly because my family has provided a good cultivation environment and bestowed precious pills to help me cultivate."

Zhou Chun waved his hand and said, "You are too modest. In terms of cultivation environment and resources, none of the elders of the Zhou family is worse than you. Many of them are not as busy as you, but none of them can improve their cultivation faster than you."

After saying that, he looked at him with emotion and said, "Come to think of it, Elder Lin Wan'er is still in the middle stage of foundation building, but you, a subordinate she trained back then, have already caught up with her in terms of cultivation!"

Hearing this, Xu Fu bowed hurriedly and said, "I am afraid and dare not compare myself with Elder Lin!"

"That's not necessary. Although you and I are different, I have always treated you as my junior. I have seen and remembered your performance over the years."

Zhou Chun personally helped the man up, then looked at him seriously and asked, "If I let you join my Zhou family as an honorary elder like Elder Lin Wan'er, would you be willing?"

As if he didn't expect him to say that, Xu Fu was obviously stunned after hearing this.

Then he responded with a look of surprise: "It is my honor, why wouldn't I accept it!"

His voice was trembling slightly, that was due to excitement.

Indeed, as the leader of the Zhou family's death squad, being able to become an honorary elder of the Zhou family is definitely a huge improvement in his status.

Although the leader of the death squad holds a high position of power in this wilderness, he is actually a family death squad member and is not considered to be in the public eye. Even many Zhou family cultivators may not know that there is such a person as him.

But the title of honorary elder of the Zhou family must be announced to the entire clan, and all the cultivators of the Zhou family will know that there is such a person as him.

Moreover, when walking inside the Zhou family's mountain gate, all the Zhou family cultivators who had reached the Qi Refining stage had to bow to him, and even the Foundation Establishment elders could no longer order him around in public.

As for other benefits, there are even more.

All of these were things that Xu Fu had only dared to fantasize about in his mind before.

Now that his dream has come true, even a man like him who has experienced life and death crises many times and has an extremely strong will cannot help but show his joy on his face, with no one to express his happiness.

Seeing his happy expression, Zhou Chun couldn't help but smile slightly, seeming to be very satisfied with him.

Then he patted him on the shoulder affectionately and said, "Don't make this public for now. When I return to the family, I will do it for you. If you can train a successor to replace you here in the future, you can return to Lanzhou to serve the family."

"Yes, I will keep my mouth shut!"

Xu Fu nodded heavily, with a hint of uneasiness in his eyes.

He thought that Zhou Chun told him this matter because it was a decision that had been passed by the family.

However, he didn't expect that this was just an idea in Zhou Chun's mind and had not yet become a reality.

How could he not feel uneasy?

But this is exactly what Zhou Chun wanted.

The most important thing in governing subordinates is to reward and punish.

If you don't reward people for their merits, it will be difficult to convince them; if you don't punish people for their mistakes, it will be difficult to establish your authority.

There are many ways to reward people.

It is best to fulfill small favors immediately, as this will produce the fastest results.

Important rewards, however, should be issued with a delay, so that people can feel how hard it is to get the reward while they are waiting, and cherish the reward even more.

For Xu Fu, being promoted from a servant to an honorary elder of the family was undoubtedly a great reward, a step to heaven. Delaying him at this time would only make him work harder and cherish this status more in the future.

Zhou Chun stopped talking about this matter shortly afterwards and began to concentrate on inspecting the base and understanding the various situations.

In the following months, Zhou Chun stayed at the Caiyushan stronghold, concentrating on meditation and practicing secret techniques.

While he was practicing, he assigned tasks to his spiritual pets, including the Wood Spirit, Silver-Horned Thunder Python, Golden-Winged Tiger, and Golden-Armored Rock Turtle, and sent them out to do things.

Mu Mei is mainly responsible for finding elixirs, while the other three pets act as thugs to help Xu Fu collect elixirs.

According to Zhou Chun's idea, now that these spirit pets have been trained, they should also learn to work for themselves and earn resources for cultivation.

With the strength of his four spiritual pets, even if they encounter an ordinary third-level low-grade monster, they have the ability to fight, and they are not afraid of anything happening in the wilderness.

In just three months, the four spiritual pets brought back hundreds of spiritual medicines for Zhou Chun, including some precious ones that were seven or eight hundred years old.

At the same time, after three months of hard training, Zhou Chun finally mastered the secret technique "Concentric Golden Lock".

After successfully practicing this secret technique, the first target for testing it was a third-level monster in the wilderness.

On a lake, Zhou Chun, under the protection of the Silver Lightning Python and the Wood Demon, quickly formed seals with his hands and then shouted.

Suddenly, a golden light shot out from his hand and shot towards a green-scaled dragon fish hundreds of feet away like a golden chain.

The green-scaled dragon fish was so huge that it had no time to dodge before being hit by the chain.

Then the golden chain directly ignored the green spiritual light and the protection of the hard dragon scales on its surface, and drilled into its body.

In an instant, it seemed as if an invisible shackle was put into its body, locking up its magic power and making it difficult for it to cast spells freely.

This frightened it so much that it immediately shook its tail vigorously and dived down to the lake surface below, intending to escape back into the lake.

But at this moment, the silver-horned thunder python Baibai not far away suddenly let out a long roar, and silver-white lightning surged on its body, converging towards the foot-long horn on its head.

Immediately afterwards, there was a flash of silver-white lightning, and a several-foot-long thunder blade composed purely of silver-white lightning jumped out from the top of the Silver-Horned Thunder Python's head, and instantly landed on the left gill of the Green-Scaled Dragon Fish like a silver lightning.

Then the skin and flesh were torn apart, broken scales and gills flew everywhere, the aroma of barbecue filled the air, and wisps of black smoke rose.

This "Heavenly Thunder Cut" directly opened a huge gap in the left gill of the Green Scaled Dragonfish, and the fish bones inside were clearly visible.

However, although this injury is serious, it is not fatal compared to the Green Scaled Arowana's strong vitality and recovery ability.

As long as it is put back into the water, it will recover in less than half a year.

Therefore, the Silver Electric Thunder Python’s attack was not over yet.

After breaking the defense of the Green Scaled Dragon Fish with the "Tenraikiri" which was good at piercing armor, it took advantage of the opportunity that the Green Scaled Dragon Fish's magic power was still locked, and it swung its tail quickly, and its figure instantly turned into a silver-white lightning and disappeared in the distance.

When it appeared again, it had appeared under the green-scaled dragon fish through "lightning and thunder".

Then it raised its head high, using the horn on its head as a spear. The horn was surrounded by lightning, and it hit the wound of the green-scaled dragonfish like a spear of lightning, and half of the snake head was pushed into the body of the green-scaled dragonfish.

This blow almost pierced through the head of the Green Scaled Dragon Fish. The sharp dragon horn pierced directly into its brain. The surging lightning force directly smashed and burned the Green Scaled Dragon Fish's brain.

With such injuries, most monsters would not be able to survive, except for some extremely special species.

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As the sounds of two falling into the water were heard one after another, the bodies of the Green Scaled Dragon Fish and the Silver Electric Thunder Python fell into the lake together.

It was not until this time that Zhou Chun took the initiative to disperse his secret technique.

Then they began to collect the bodies of the green-scaled dragon fish.

Although this green-scaled dragon fish is a third-rank low-grade monster, it has the blood of a dragon and its dragon scales provide excellent defense. Its scales can be used to refine third-rank low-grade defensive magic weapons.

In addition, fish eyes are also an excellent treasure. After being processed and taken, they have the effect of improving eyesight and can greatly enhance vision.

Other things such as fish fins, blood, bones, and fish meat are also rare spiritual objects.

And its inner elixir is the most precious thing.

The Green Scaled Arowana belongs to the water element. Its inner core is aqua blue, about the size of an egg, and emits a charming glow.

Zhou Chun did not intend to sell this item, but planned to ask someone to refine it into pills when he went to the Great Zhou Kingdom in the future.

He had seen a kind of elixir called "Dragon Spirit Pill" at an auction in the Great Zhou Kingdom. It was very helpful for Purple Mansion Stage cultivators to improve their magical powers. The most important ingredient in refining this elixir was the third-level Dragon Bloodline Demon Pill.

At that time, when the auction was taking place, the auctioneer, while introducing the elixir, mentioned in passing the identity of the alchemist, who was a well-known free-spirited alchemy master in the Great Zhou Kingdom.

Such independent alchemy masters usually take on alchemy tasks to help others make alchemy. This way, they can obtain materials and accumulate alchemy experience for free, and earn a considerable amount of alchemy rewards.

At this time, after carefully storing the demon pill in a jade box, Zhou Chun began to deal with the corpse of the green-scaled dragon fish.

He first removed the fish scales and eyes, collected the fish blood, and then used the newly acquired Golden Rainbow Sword to scrape off the fish meat and cut off some useless bones, leaving only a spine.

After this preliminary processing, he put all the spoils into the storage bag.

Then he pondered for a moment, stepped onto the white snake back of the Silver Thunder Python, and ordered it to lead him to the bottom of the lake to find the nest of the Green Scale Dragon Fish.

Generally speaking, the places where third-level monsters live are not ordinary places, especially the green-scaled dragon fish, a monster with the blood of a dragon. It is a place where even the phoenix will not land without treasures.

Under the guidance of Baibai the Silver Lightning Python, Zhou Chun didn't spend too much effort to find the nest of the Green Scaled Dragonfish, which was located in a cave at the bottom of the lake more than 500 feet deep.

After entering the cave, he soon discovered that there was a water crystal jade vein hidden here. He also found dozens of high-quality water crystal jade and a piece of magic weapon-level spiritual material water crystal jade mother in the green-scaled dragon fish's nest.

"Being able to produce Crystal Jade Mother, this Crystal Jade mine must be at least a large mine. This is really a big harvest!"

In the underwater cave, Zhou Chun looked at the water crystal jade mother as big as a millstone in his hand, his eyes full of joy.

He originally just wanted to hunt for rabbits and see if he could get some unexpected gains in the Green Scale Dragon Fish's nest.

I didn’t expect the harvest to be so huge, it was really unexpected!

I’m much better today. I’ll update once first, and I’ll try to update one chapter tomorrow morning, and another chapter in the evening!
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