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Chapter 389: Golden Armor Rock Turtle Advances, the Means of Qinglian Temple [Subscribe]

How far Zhou Xinyan can go in practicing the equally dangerous "Jia Mu Xuan Gong" depends on his own luck.

After a cultivator has established his foundation, his path will almost become fixed.

There are so many cultivators in the Zhou family who are in the Foundation Establishment stage, but only a few of them choose to practice the same techniques.

Everyone practices different skills, and when they encounter some difficulties in practice, most of the time they can only find ways to solve them by themselves.

It seemed that Zhou Chun had never practiced the "Jia Mu Xuan Gong". When Zhou Xinyan encountered difficulties in practice in the future, he could not give much advice.

This is why after building the foundation, one must be extremely careful in choosing the technique.

Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, another two years have passed.

During the past two years, Zhou Chun had basically been practicing in the family's mountain gate, except for occasionally going to the wilderness to deliver supplies to the stronghold and visit the Sky Frost Bees. Zhou Daoquan returned to the Caiyu Mountain stronghold to take charge in his place.

Although his cultivation level could not be improved much in just two years, he did cultivate the Golden-Armored Rock Turtle to the upper second level.

The main reason was that half a year ago, a Qi-refining cultivator from the Zhou family was exploring the wilderness in Yunzhou and luckily discovered a stalactite cave, in which a pool of "earth-oriental spiritual milk" had condensed.

"Earth's Spiritual Milk" is a spiritual object formed by the essence of earth's essence condensed by stalactites that have absorbed it for thousands of years. It has a very good body-tempering effect and is also an important auxiliary material for refining many elixirs.

But for Zhou Chun's Golden-Armored Rock Turtle, it is the best spiritual object to improve his cultivation, even better than elixirs.

If a cultivator uses the "Earth's Spirit Milk" to temper his body, he must first remove the turbid evil spirit in it, and then mix it with other spiritual medicines to avoid being poisoned by petrification.

But the Golden-Armored Rock Turtle can directly take this thing to improve its cultivation.

Therefore, Zhou Chun directly used two thousand points of family good deeds to buy all the "Earth's Spirit Milk" and fed them all to the Golden-Armored Rock Turtle.

As a result, the Golden-Armored Rock Turtle, whose cultivation level was not far from being promoted to a second-level upper-grade monster, easily broke through to the second-level upper-grade level.

As a monster famous for its defensive power, after the Golden-Armored Rock Turtle mutated and was promoted to a second-rank superior monster, its defensive power was strong enough to withstand several attacks from an early Purple Mansion cultivator.

Even the Silver Thunder Python's Baibai's "Tianlei Qi" could hardly tear its hard shell.

In this way, if he were to fight against an ordinary Purple Mansion early stage cultivator again, Zhou Chun could release it and the Silver Lightning Thunder Python as helpers to put pressure on the enemy.

Now Zhou Chun is just waiting for the news that Lin Hongyu has come out of seclusion, and then he can plot his plan for the Millennium Dragon Grass.

On this day, Zhou Chun was meditating at home as usual, when he suddenly heard that an envoy from the Qinglian Temple had come to announce a decree.

He was so surprised by the news that he hurried to the mountain gate to greet them.

When he arrived outside the mountain gate, Zhou Chun discovered that the cultivator who came to announce the decree was just a foundation-building cultivator from the Qinglian Temple.

This made him secretly relieved.

According to the unwritten rules of the world of immortal cultivation, the level of cultivation of the cultivator who announces the decree is closely related to the level of importance of the decree he announces.

Given the current status of the Zhou family, if one really wants to mobilize the Zhou family to do something important, one would need at least a Purple Mansion Stage cultivator.

However, although he felt relieved, Zhou Chun still welcomed people to the Pagoda Peak with a serious face and summoned all the elders to welcome the decree together.

The decrees in the world of immortal cultivation are usually issued by cultivators in the Jindan stage. Naturally, there would be no such thing as obeying the will of heaven, and it is even more impossible for people to kneel down to receive the decree.

Zhou Chun and the others simply stood in a row according to their status and arranged their appearances. Then the monk from the Qinglian Temple took out the decree and read it aloud: "The decree of the temple master, the Lanzhou Zhou family has a long heritage and a large population. Since taking root in Lanzhou, it has made great contributions and is a role model for other families. I hereby reward you with a talisman, three inner disciples, and ten outer disciples!"

After the reading, the envoy from Qinglian Temple handed over the edict in his hand, bowed to Zhou Chun and said, "Senior Zhou, I am only responsible for reading the edict. You have to go to our sect in person to receive the relevant rewards."

"Zhou understands. Thank you for your hard work, fellow Taoist."

Zhou Chun nodded calmly, raised his hand to take the decree from the man, then turned to Zhou Jiarui and said, "Fourth Elder, please take this fellow Taoist to rest. You must treat him well."

After watching Zhou Jiarui lead the guests to rest, Zhou Chun turned around to look at the elders behind him and found that everyone had a different expression on their face, some were worried, while others were happy.

This made him sigh in his heart, as he actually knew exactly what these people were thinking.

Until now, few members of the Zhou family have joined Qinglian Temple.

This is because the top leaders of the Zhou family, including Zhou Chun, are interested in controlling this matter.

After all, the Zhou family had always been short of people. How could they be willing to let their clansmen go to Qinglian Temple when their own family did not have enough manpower?

But things are different now.

Now the number of Zhou family cultivators has exceeded three hundred. Although the family can afford to support these people, the number of people who can have the opportunity to build a foundation in the family is still very small.

And now that Qinglian Temple is willing to give three inner disciple places to the Zhou family, it means that as long as the Zhou family sends people to occupy these three places, all three of them will be rewarded with the Foundation Establishment Pill.

This kind of reward of directly granting inner disciple quotas is also a special favor from large sects like Qinglian Temple to the immortal cultivation families under its command. Generally, only families that have made great contributions can obtain it.

Therefore, those elders were naturally happy because they thought that some of their descendants could compete for this spot.

But Zhou Chun knew clearly that the reason why Qinglian Temple suddenly rewarded the Zhou family with these benefits was not only because the Zhou family had performed exceptionally well in the battle to destroy the Jiang family, but also probably because they were wary of the Zhou family.

By rewarding Zhou family monks with disciple quotas and allowing them to join Qinglian Temple, it can indeed motivate other families. Secondly, it can also make the Zhou family and Qinglian Temple more closely connected. Thirdly, if there is a conflict between the two sides in the future, these Zhou family members who have joined the sect can also play some special role.

In fact, Zhou Chun, Zhou Mingde and others were mentally prepared for this day to come.

However, at this critical juncture, the fact that Qinglian Temple suddenly issued such a decree is indeed intriguing.

"Elders, please go back first. I will send the decree to the Grand Elder for review!"

Even though Zhou Chun had a myriad of thoughts in his mind, his face showed no emotion. After waving his hand to let the elders disperse, he went into the cave on the top of the mountain.

In the cave on the top of the mountain, Zhou Chun handed the Qinglian Temple's edict to Zhou Mingde and Zhou Daoyi who had rushed over.

After the two of them finished reading, Zhou Mingde sighed and said, "This matter has finally come!"

"Yes, although I knew this day would come, I didn't expect it to come now!"

Zhou Daoyi also sighed, feeling very emotional.

After sighing like this, Zhou Mingde looked at Zhou Chun and asked, "The Qinglian Temple has issued a decree. There is absolutely no room for shirking this matter. Zhengchun, what do you think the family should do about this matter?"

In the past, Qinglian Temple only granted the Zhou family the Immortal Order, or some people hinted that the Zhou family could send someone to worship in Qinglian Temple. For these, the Zhou family could still pretend to be ignorant and keep it unused.

But now it is Qinglian Temple that directly issues the decree, which is a notification rather than a discussion.

The Zhou family did not want to be accused of being ungrateful and disobeying orders, so they had no choice but to do as ordered.

Therefore, after hearing Zhou Mingde's question, Zhou Chun immediately replied: "If it is up to me, the three inner disciples should be selected from the late Qi Refining cultivators in the family who are expected to break through to the foundation building stage. As for the ten outer disciples, it is better to select some younger clansmen with slightly weaker qualifications!"

"Well, this arrangement is reasonable, but in my opinion, it would be better to arrange for more female members to go there."

Zhou Mingde nodded slightly and also put forward his own opinion.

Female cultivators from immortal cultivation families do not have to get married. Many of them devote themselves to Taoism and remain single all their lives.

But for a family of immortal cultivators, with the same spiritual roots and qualifications, male cultivators are definitely more useful than female cultivators.

Not to mention that male cultivators are more efficient in continuing the family bloodline, male cultivators are also generally stronger than female cultivators in fighting.

Moreover, by sending female cultivators to the sect, there is no need to worry about them spreading out and establishing a new Zhou family. Secondly, if they form a Taoist couple with the cultivators in the sect, it is equivalent to bringing one more useful person to the family, which can be said to kill two birds with one stone.

So Zhou Chun was not surprised that Zhou Mingde would make such a suggestion.

He actually agreed with this because for those female cultivators, going to a sect would be better than staying in the family, except for the separation from their loved ones.

At least when they go to the sect, they can not only get the sect's benefits, but the family will also definitely provide them with subsidies in order to maintain their emotional ties to the family.

At this time, he quickly nodded and agreed, "Junior understands. Then let's arrange nine female cultivators and four male cultivators."

"Then let's do this. Zhengchun, you will personally lead people to the gate of Qinglian Temple and collect the talisman treasure awarded by Qinglian Temple. It will also be an extra protective item for you."

Zhou Mingde waved his hand and made the final conclusion.

By the time Zhou Chun returned from the cave on the top of the mountain, news about the Qinglian Temple's decree had already begun to spread among the Qi Refining cultivators of the Zhou family.

Many Qi-refining cultivators of the Zhou family who originally thought they had little hope of building a foundation now felt that their chance had come. As long as they had no missions to perform, they all came to Pagoda Peak, wanting the clan leader Zhou Chun to notice their presence.

They all knew in their hearts that the family would definitely not send those with outstanding qualifications to Qinglian Temple, and if they were going to send them, they would have sent them long ago.

So this is a once-in-a-century opportunity for them, and they all want to fight for it.

The issue of how to assign the three inner disciples did give Zhou Chun some headaches.

The reason is that there are too many cultivators in the Zhou family who meet the requirements, and he cannot just randomly designate three, as that would be difficult to convince others.

So he could only say in a deep voice to the tribesmen who were wandering outside: "I know what you are thinking. Those who are in the late stage of Qi Refining and under the age of 60 who want to compete for the three inner disciples, come and sign up. I will see how many people there are first!"

As soon as the words were spoken, within half a day, as many as twenty-three people signed up, and these were only the people within the family’s mountain gate.

Zhou Chun did not favor those family monks who were out on missions or traveling, and he also ordered the Intelligence Hall to try to contact them and explain the matter.

After a month, the final number of applicants had reached forty-two people, including eight people at the twelfth level of Qi Refining!

Zhou Chun was not surprised by this situation. He just sighed helplessly and said, "Sure enough, in the face of the temptation of foundation building, even decades of family education and blood ties cannot make people choose to stay!"

To say that those who signed up are not loyal to the family is not the case.

But to say that they are loyal enough to give up their own future for the sake of their family is obviously not the case.

Immortal cultivators are selfish. Blood ties and family ties can only bind them when there is little hope.

Once they are given tangible hope, not many of them would give up the opportunity to move forward because of blood ties.

Zhou Chun asked himself, what if one day he was trapped in the late Purple Mansion for hundreds of years and had no hope of forming a pill?

If suddenly a large sect was willing to provide him with a set of spiritual objects to assist in forming the elixir and allow him to join them, he might not necessarily stay for the Zhou family.

After all, the Zhou family will not be unable to survive without him.

But if he doesn't have the set of spiritual objects to assist him in forming the elixir, it may be that he will never have the hope of forming the elixir in his lifetime!
All the Zhou family cultivators who have signed up now have this idea.

Moreover, in the minds of many people, even if they join a sect, they can still help the family.

He might even be thinking that if he succeeded in building his foundation in Qinglian Temple and became a foundation-building cultivator there, he would be able to better help the Zhou family.

Under this psychological influence, they will not have any hesitation in signing up.

"Well, in order to convince them all, let's decide the winner by fighting!"

Zhou Chun's eyes flickered, and after some hesitation, he decided to use the most commonly used method in the world of immortal cultivation to decide the candidate.

Apart from this, methods such as drawing lots and grabbing the first birthday can easily make people feel that there is something fishy going on and easily lead to dissatisfaction.

Of course, there must be some shady dealings in the fight. At least Zhou Chun, following the principle of more women than men, has decided to sponsor treasures to several female tribesmen who have registered.

After deciding on the method, Zhou Chun did not delay. He immediately gathered everyone together and announced his decision.

Two days later, Zhou Chun personally presided over the martial arts competition on the arena that the Zhou family often used for martial arts competitions.

"This time, we will have a duel to decide the three candidates. Except for not using secret techniques that damage your own vitality, there are no restrictions on other techniques you can use. I will personally host the competition, and you can rest assured to show off what you have learned!"

On the stage, Zhou Chun looked at the dozens of registered monks calmly and announced the rules, and then asked these people to go on stage one by one to fight according to the results of the draw.

The clan leader personally presided over the event, which indeed put the worries of the Zhou family cultivators who had registered to rest. Soon, one by one, the Zhou family cultivators stepped onto the stage and fought with all their might to compete for this hard-earned opportunity to build a foundation.

Then, during the fight, some Zhou family cultivators were depressed to find that several female fellows who had not performed particularly well in the past had become rich women today. They threw rare talismans around as if they were free and defeated them with their money offensive.

According to their subsequent inquiries, these female cultivators from the family who suddenly became wealthy all borrowed money from the clan leader to buy the talismans by promising to marry a Qinglian Temple disciple in the Foundation Establishment Stage after they passed the test.

Regarding this kind of thing, although the defeated Zhou family cultivators resented the favoritism of their clan leader Zhou Chun in their hearts, they could only hate themselves for not being female cultivators and therefore unable to get married.

After all, it is much easier for a female cultivator in the Foundation Establishment Stage to marry a male cultivator in the Foundation Establishment Stage than for a male cultivator in the Foundation Establishment Stage to marry a female cultivator in the Foundation Establishment Stage.

The final result of the martial arts competition ended with two female cultivators and one male cultivator taking the top three places.

First update, there are still three and a half hours left, let’s see if we can repeat yesterday’s miracle!
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