Beast-controlling fairy clan.

Chapter 41 The Patriarch Born by Xiao Baibai

According to Zhou Daoquan, the monster bred in the snake egg in his hand is a mid-level monster called the Silver Thunder Python.

This silver electric python is proficient in thunder magic and is extremely powerful.

What's even more rare is that, like the Sky Blue Cloud Python of clan leader Zhou Daoyi, the Silver Lightning Thunder Python also possesses the blood of a dragon and has the potential to be promoted to a high-level monster or even a top-level monster.

As for why the silver electric thunder python inside this snake egg had not developed into normal life before, Zhou Daoquan guessed that it might be because it was a premature egg.

Some pythons do not lay eggs directly, but allow the eggs to hatch into baby snakes inside their bodies.

The Silver Electric Thunder Python also happens to belong to this category.

But for some unknown reason, the snake egg was excreted prematurely and was not put back in by the female snake.

This would cause trouble.

Because the egg needs the help of the mother to hatch, once it is in the mother's body, it will no longer be able to develop without the conditions for hatching.

But perhaps because of the powerful bloodline of the monster, or for some other reason, it did not exhaust its vitality and turn into a dead egg even though it had not developed and hatched normally for a long time.

As for how Zhou Daoquan made it grow again, he did not explain, as it probably involved some information that needed to be kept confidential.

In short, the snake eggs have now completed their normal development and can be hatched by the cultivator.

After explaining the whole story to Zhou Chun, Zhou Daoquan stuffed the snake egg in his hand into Zhou Chun's hand and said reluctantly: "Come on, make a contract in front of me. If you don't make a contract, I really don't feel comfortable letting you take this kind of treasure away!"

When he said this, his heart was truly filled with reluctance.

An intermediate-level monster like the Silver Lightning Thunder Python, which has great potential for cultivation, is exactly the favorite monster of beastmasters like him, not to mention that it is a dragon descendant with the blood of a dragon.

If he were to hatch and cultivate this silver electric thunder python, he would be able to promote it to a second-level monster within ten years, and to a second-level top-grade monster within fifty years.

After confirming that this was the egg of the Silver Thunder Python, he also had the desire to possess it and wanted to keep it for himself.

But in the end, he overcame the greed in his heart and did not do such a shameless thing as embezzling the treasures of his younger generations.

Of course Zhou Chun had no idea about the struggles Zhou Daoquan had gone through in his heart. At this moment, he was just full of gratitude and admiration for Zhou Daoquan.

After Zhou Daoquan's explanation, he also knew very well how precious the silver electric thunder python egg in his hand was.

It is no exaggeration to say that if this item were put up for auction, it would be sold for at least thousands of spirit coins, and even tens of thousands might be possible.

And Zhou Daoquan was able to return this item to him for free without charging any fees. Such noble personal sentiment and character are certainly worthy of his admiration and gratitude.

He made the right decision to come to the Zhou family!
"Yes, I will contract this item right away."

Zhou Chun nodded heavily, and then began to carve the "Soul Controlling Blood Array" in front of Zhou Daoquan.

After he completed the contract with the Silver Thunder Python Egg, Zhou Daoquan's reluctance was completely cut off.

An egg can only be contracted once. Even if someone kills Zhou Chun now, he cannot contract this silver electric thunder python egg again.

"The relevant information about the Silver Lightning Python, as well as some of the cultivation methods I have summarized, are all in this jade slip. You can take it back and read it carefully. If you encounter any problems or questions during the cultivation process in the future, you can always come and ask me for advice."

As Zhou Daoquan spoke, he patted the storage bag on his waist, took out a jade slip that looked like a bamboo slip, about one foot long and two feet wide, and handed it to Zhou Chun.

This kind of jade slip is a carrier for cultivators to record knowledge, and only cultivators can read the information in it through their spiritual consciousness.

Compared with paper books, stone tablets and other carriers, it has the advantages of being easy to carry and containing a large amount of information. Its disadvantage is that it cannot be preserved for a long time.

At this time, Zhou Chun was also moved when he saw the jade slip that Zhou Daoquan handed over. He immediately bowed deeply to him from the bottom of his heart and said, "Elder, I will remember your kindness in my heart and will definitely repay you generously in the future!"

Then he stretched out his hands and respectfully took the jade slip.

Zhou Daoquan has lived for more than a hundred years and has seen all kinds of people. Of course, he can tell whether what he is saying now is sincere or just a courtesy.

Therefore, a gratified smile appeared on his face, and he patted him on the shoulder and said, "Work hard. As long as you train this silver lightning python well, it shouldn't be a problem for you to succeed in building your foundation in the future."

"Yes, I will definitely keep the elders' teachings in mind."

Zhou Chun nodded heavily, then thanked Zhou Daoquan again and again, then happily took the snake egg back to his residence on Baozhi Peak.

For more than a month, Zhou Chun looked at the snake eggs he brought back every day, hoping that they would hatch soon.

After forty-seven days passed, when he was practicing the secret technique, the snake eggs finally hatched on their own.

When he returned to the bedroom from the quiet room, a spiritual connection made him look under the bed at the first moment.

He saw a small white snake as thick as a thumb coiled around one of the legs of the wooden bed, looking at him with its tongue flickering.

Seeing this, Zhou Chun couldn't help but smile happily and said, "Little guy, you finally came out!"

Then he walked to the bedside and stretched out his hand. Because of the contract, the white snake was not afraid of his approach. Instead, it quickly put its cold head on his palm, then crawled along the back of his hand to his wrist, and quickly wrapped around his wrist several times.

It looked like Zhou Chun was wearing several silver bracelets on his left hand.

"From now on, I'll call you Baibai, a little Baibai."

Zhou Chun stretched out his finger and gently touched the white snake's head, then smiled and gave it a name.

Newly born pythons need careful feeding and care.

Zhou Chun strictly followed the diet set by Zhou Daoquan, feeding the snake with bird eggs of appropriate sizes and a kind of baby snake ration specially made by the Zhou family every day, which was actually something like minced meat and ham.

This went on for half a month, until Xiao Baibai grew to the thickness of two fingers, and then Zhou Chun added some young birds, young mice and other living things to its diet.

Like turtles, snakes prefer quietness to movement.

Therefore, usually, Xiao Baibai would sleep wrapped around Zhou Chun's wrist.

The contractual relationship between the two makes it naturally regard Zhou Chun as its mother. Only when it smells Zhou Chun's scent will it feel safe and relaxed.

After the initial discomfort, Zhou Chun gradually got used to having a snake wrapped around his arm.

On this day, Zhou Chun received an invitation, inviting him to attend the full moon banquet at Xiangmu Peak three days later.

The person who sent out the invitation was Zhou Zhengjie, the ninth child in their "Zheng" generation, who, like Zhou Chun, was also in the Qi Refining Stage.

This man married a female cultivator from the Sun family of Jinfengling more than two years ago. A month ago, the female cultivator gave birth to a son for him, so he invited Zhou Chun and other members of the same generation to attend the full moon banquet.

Of course Zhou Chun couldn't refuse such a thing, so he prepared a gift and went to Xiangmu Peak with Zhou Zhengyong three days later.

When they arrived at Xiangmu Peak, Zhou Chun discovered that the Ninth Brother had not only invited fellow cultivators like them, but also many elders, even the clan leader Zhou Daoyi.

Before the banquet began, the clan leader Zhou Daoyi personally named the ninth brother's child and gave a speech.

"Today is a good day worth recording for our Zhou family. Zhengjie's child, Zhou Xinyuan, is the first member of the Zhou family born after our Zhou family came to Jiufengling and took root. He is also the first member of the Zhou family's Xin generation with spiritual roots!"

"Whether a family can prosper or not depends not only on how many high-level monks there are in the family, but also on whether the family has a large population and whether it can continue to produce talented descendants!"

"The birth of Zhengjie proves that our Zhou family has successors. It proves that the roots of our Zhou family tree have been thoroughly planted and can reproduce and bear abundant fruits!"

"As the clan leader, I am very pleased and happy about this matter. On behalf of the clan, I will reward Zhengjie and his wife with 100 family merits each. At the same time, I sincerely hope that the rest of our Zhou family members can also contribute to the family's reproduction and inheritance!"

At the banquet, clan leader Zhou Daoyi looked at the guests with joy on his face and gave a speech to promote childbirth.

That’s right, Zhou Chun figured it out. The clan leader Zhou Daoyi would attend the full moon banquet today just to induce labor.

Among the current Zhou family cultivators, most of those with the character "Jia" in their name are either too old and do not plan to have children, or have already had children.

However, few of the monks of the "Zheng" generation have married and had children.

If it was during the time of the Three Absolute Sects, this would not be a big deal. After all, with more than a thousand years of inheritance in Feng Country, the number of ordinary Zhou family members had already reached hundreds of thousands.

Even if the immortal cultivators do not give birth, a large number of mortals will.

As more mortals are born like this, there will always be a Zhou family member with spiritual roots.

But now it is impossible for the Zhou family to move all the Zhou family members here, nor can they conduct large-scale testing of the spiritual root qualifications of the Zhou family members born there as frequently as before.

Therefore, if you want to add fresh blood to the family, you can only promote the birth of current family members.

After all, if both parents are cultivators, then the chances of their offspring having spiritual roots are quite high.

Therefore, promoting the birth of immortal cultivators in the family is a far more efficient way than gambling on probability like ordinary people.

However, the premise of all this is that these Zhou family cultivators are willing to give birth!
When Zhou Chun thought of this, he couldn't help but look at the many "Zheng" generation monks present, as well as some "Jia" generation monks under the age of sixty.

It turned out that quite a few people were actually moved by Zhou Daoyi's words and looked thoughtful, including Zhou Zhengyong next to him.

This made him stunned at first, and then he suddenly lowered his head in shame.

He is judging others by himself and is thinking wrongly!

This was not the world of his previous life. In this world, even among mortals, there was a strong clan atmosphere, and having many children meant more blessings.

Even in a family of immortal cultivators like the Zhou family, if there are several direct blood relatives, there is a high probability that they can do better in the family than any other individual member.

Therefore, people don't have any aversion to having more offspring.

What might really prevent them from having children is finding a suitable partner first.

(End of this chapter)