Beast-controlling fairy clan.

"Zhengchun, I understand that your Zhou family has had a hard time in recent years, but the interests involved in the Tianling Morning Post are too great for your family to handle!"

"Yes, I admit it, ancestor. Even if others want to imitate you and create such a newspaper, they can't collect and summarize information from all over the country as quickly as your Zhou family."

"But you also have to understand that even if others can't imitate you and do these things, it's not difficult for them to disrupt your Zhou family's intelligence transmission!"

"Money is the key to fame! The income from two copies of the 'Tianling Morning News' a month can buy a foundation-building pill. Such a huge profit is not something your Zhou family can easily take. If you eat it all by yourself, you will be envied!"

“Of course, I am not saying this to compete with Zhengchun and your Zhou family for food, but to tell you that the benefits here are too great and you Zhou family cannot grasp them!”

Inside the cave, the ancestor of the Su family looked at Zhou Chun with a serious face and told him the purpose of inviting him here today.

Zhou Chun also knew that the words of the Su family ancestor were not exaggerated.

To be honest, although he had expected that "Tianling Morning Post" would make a lot of money, he was still a little surprised when he actually saw the profits.

You must know that the "Tianling Morning News" has only been in operation for less than a year, and many aspects are still not perfect, and there is still room for improvement and improvement. Not all cultivators are in the habit of buying newspapers to read.

As it becomes more and more perfect and more cultivators start to buy it and develop a habit of reading it, the revenue will probably increase several times or even dozens of times!
People like the Su family's ancestor must have seen this.

If it were just that, the Su family's ancestor wouldn't have said that.

After all, which Jindan family doesn’t have a business that earns tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of spirit coins a year!

But the problem is that, in the eyes of most cultivators, this "Tianling Morning News" is a business with no cost.

You just need to collect and integrate the information that ordinary cultivators on the street know, and you can just arrange some Qi Refining cultivators to accomplish it!
And the more important point is that mineral veins will eventually be dug out, and refining medicine and equipment requires collecting materials and expending energy, and the resources will also decline with the death of skilled monks.

But as long as the "Tianling Morning Post" remains unique, it will be an inexhaustible gold mine.

How can such a business with low investment, high returns and endless rewards not arouse envy!
However, this is just the opinion of outsiders. Zhou Chun himself does not think so.

He immediately complained, "Old Ancestor, you make it sound easy, but in reality you only see the thief eating meat, not the thief being beaten!"

As he spoke, he began to complain: "Do you think that the Tianling Morning News can achieve its current effect just by having a good idea? I won't talk about anything else, just the fact that it can be sold simultaneously in all the markets across the country, is this something that any company can do?"

"Do you know how much spiritual coins my Zhou family invested in buying a shop? How many monks were hired to sell newspapers on the streets? How much manpower and material resources were spent on transporting newspapers?"

"And you just mentioned intelligence gathering. Do you think it costs nothing for my Zhou family to build intelligence gathering stations? Doesn't it cost money to maintain these intelligence stations? The spiritual coins invested in the early stage add up to a huge amount. It is definitely not as simple as you think!"

"Besides, you also know that those independent cultivators are a bunch of misers. A newspaper costs one spirit coin, and more than a dozen people can pool their money together to buy a copy to read. If more people follow suit in the future, the profit will not be as much as you see now!"

What he said was also well-founded and not fabricated.

The Su family's ancestor couldn't deny it for a while.

I could only look at him and shake my head slightly, saying, "Zhengchun, I don't deny what you said about the ancestors, but it's easy for you to convince me, the ancestor, but it's hard to convince others! Others may not listen to your difficulties, they will only see that you are making money now!"

At this point, he simply opened up and said, "Old Ancestor, I'll tell you the truth. It's not my own intention to ask you to discuss this matter today, but some elders from the Moon Wheel Sect spread the news through Yunniang and wanted to get involved!"

"You also know that the reason why the Zhoutongtianxia business was able to gain a foothold in all the states under the Moon Revolving Sect was not because my Su family was that capable, but because we had connections with the Moon Revolving Sect!"

"Now your Zhou family's newspapers are sold through the branches of the company, and the profits are so amazing. The benefits we gave them in the beginning are no longer enough to satisfy them!"

As if afraid that Zhou Chun might not believe him, he immediately continued, "I think it's not just me. There will probably be people from the Zhu family of Yanyang Sect who will come to talk to you about this matter!"

Finally, he comforted Zhou Chun: "Don't blame them for their ugly appearance. It's like this everywhere in the world. After all, it's these two families that have the final say in Jingguo!"

Having said this, the Su family's ancestor also let out a sigh full of helplessness.

However, to his surprise, he thought Zhou Chun would argue after hearing his words, but Zhou Chun was silent for a moment, then said calmly: "Now that you put it this way, I understand. It's nothing more than having money can't beat having power!"

Hearing Zhou Chun's words, the Su family's ancestor slapped his thigh and shouted, "That's right! The lives of the elders of those big sects are not as easy as ordinary cultivators think. The welfare offerings issued by the sects can only maintain their own decent lives. If they want to go further, they have to take risks and find ways to make money!"

"Normally, if our families want to open a mine or something, they can't restrict us. But for your 'Tianling Morning News' and business, it would be too easy for them to mess with it. They can just stop us from opening the store!"

Zhou Chun has a deep understanding of this.

Probably because I had experienced too many similar things in my previous life.

Even if you open a small shop, you still have to take care of several aspects. If the shop business is good, then management is even more indispensable!
However, there are always subtle differences between the situations in the two worlds.

In the previous life, any few people in uniform could have come and accepted his filial piety.

In this world, only those who are truly powerful can receive this money!
And he doesn't have to be too servile like those small bosses in his previous life.

After all, this is a world where all great power belongs to oneself. In terms of strength, Zhou Chun is no worse than those Golden Core Elders of the Moon Wheel Sect who want to accept his tribute!
He pondered for a while, then looked at the Su family ancestor and nodded, saying, "How about this, ancestor, please help pass on the message and arrange for me to meet with those people in person to discuss this matter. As long as they are willing to take money and the price is not too outrageous, I will not break the rules!"

"This is easy to handle. You just wait at the Su family for a few days. I, the ancestor, will personally send a letter to invite them to come to the Su family for a meeting!"

The ancestor of the Su family nodded repeatedly and agreed on the spot.

Then the two continued to discuss some other things.

As he was talking, the Su family ancestor suddenly looked at Zhou Chun and said, "I heard that you, Zheng Chun, recently accepted a younger member of the Zhou family as your apprentice and taught him in person. Could it be that this child is very talented?"

It’s no wonder that he suddenly asked about this matter, it’s really a bit strange.

Among the several Jindan stage cultivators of the Zhou family, Zhou Chun is the youngest and has the greatest potential. Logically, he should concentrate on cultivation and strive to reach a higher level.

Even if he really wanted to support and train the younger generation, Zhou Mingde and Lin Hongyu could do it for him. There was no need for Zhou Chun to do it personally.

But now Zhou Chun is the one who does this personally.

How could this not make the Su family's ancestor feel uneasy?

And he was not an outsider, so he took the opportunity to ask the doubts in his mind.

When Zhou Chun heard him ask about this, he didn't show any strangeness, but just replied softly: "As for talent, it's naturally good. Ying'er has the talent of a top-grade wind attribute spiritual root. In terms of talent, it is the best talent in my Zhou family in the past few hundred years!"

"However, the reason why I accepted Ying'er as my disciple is because Ying'er's father had previously offered me a treasure that would be of great use to me. In addition, Ying'er herself has excellent aptitude, so I want to cultivate another future golden elixir seed for the Zhou family!"

This answer cannot be said to be perfect, but it is enough to deal with the ancestor of the Su family.

After all, even if the relationship between the two parties is really special, you can't ask all the questions to get to the bottom of everything.

Then he nodded slightly with a look of sudden realization and said, "I see. I didn't expect you to start thinking about this kind of thing now. You really have a long-term vision!"

Next, while waiting for the Jindan elders of the Yuelun Sect to come, Zhou Chun also went to the bottom of Suzi Lake outside the Zhoujia Mountain Gate to visit Baibai, the thunder dragon that was released there.

After much consideration, Zhou Chun finally decided to release the white-bellied thunder dragon into Suzi Lake.

Firstly, this place is just outside the Su family's mountain gate, and with the Su family's ancestor and Su Yuzhen looking after it, there is no need to worry about anyone targeting Bai Bai.

Secondly, the environment of Suzi Lake is also quite suitable for the Thunder Dragon to live.

At the deepest part of the lake, which was hundreds of feet deep, there was a huge palace made of black copper.

This palace is fifty or sixty feet long, more than thirty feet wide, and more than twenty feet high!

There are thirty-six copper pillars inside the palace, which are used to support the weight of the palace and provide a place for Lei Jiao Baibai to live.

In addition to Lei Jiao Baibai, there were also some low-level monsters domesticated by the Zhou family, such as the Green-Striped Water Turtle, the Iron-Armored Crocodile, the Black-Scaled Python, the Thunder-Feathered Bird and other monsters!

These low-level monsters are raised here, exposed to the breath of dragons day and night, in the hope that they can undergo benign mutations and become dragon-born monsters.

However, this is not so easy to do. Most of the time, these monsters will die because they cannot withstand the pressure of the dragon's breath and the psychological pressure is too great.

Or when the mutation occurs, the bloodline collapses and the body explodes and dies!

In fact, the Zhou family was able to build such a huge palace thanks to the discovery of a black copper vein in the wilderness.

Otherwise, the black copper ore needed to build this palace would be worth more than 100,000 spirit coins in total!
After Zhou Chun entered the waterless palace, the thunder dragon Baibai, which was originally coiled on a copper pillar, immediately swam down along the pillar, came straight in front of him and put its head close to him.

To be honest, this action is more like those of snakes. But Lei Jiao Baibai was originally evolved from a python, so it is normal for him to retain some of his past snake habits.

Zhou Chun did the same as before, reaching out his hand to stroke his pet's eyes and forehead, then took out some spiritual beast food that Lei Jiao Baibai liked to eat from the storage bag and fed it to it.

As Lei Jiao Baibai was promoted to the fourth level, the spiritual beast rations of the Zhou family had no effect on it. At most, they could only satisfy its appetite.

Moreover, if it wants to improve its cultivation in the future, it can basically only rely on its own practice step by step.

Fortunately, it has awakened its bloodline inheritance and has the most suitable demon technique for itself, the "Thunder Dragon Sutra", to practice. Its future growth and progress should not be much slower than Zhou Chun's.

At this time, after kissing for a while, Lei Jiao Baibai groaned in pain, and a piece of dragon scale on his body fell off and flew in front of Zhou Chun.

This is also one of the reasons why Zhou Chun came to visit it today.

Eighty-one complete dragon scales need to be handed in over a hundred years, which means that it sheds a dragon scale almost every year, and Zhou Chun has to come and collect it once a year.

Looking at his beloved pet that looked a little listless after losing its dragon scales, Zhou Chun felt very uncomfortable, as if someone was cutting his flesh.

After he put away the dragon scales, he immediately took out a 600-year-old red blood ginseng that replenished Qi and blood and fed it to Lei Jiao Baibai. Then he gently patted his beloved pet's head and comforted him, "Good Baibai, you will have to work hard in the next few years. Don't worry, what we offer now will be returned to them double in the future!"

After staying with his pet in the underwater palace for several hours, Zhou Chun finally returned to the Su family's mountain gate.

A few days later, five Moon Wheel Sect Jindan elders were invited by the Su family's ancestor to visit the Su family's mountain gate.

After Zhou Chun had a frank discussion with the five Moon Wheel Sect's Golden Core Elders, the two sides finally reached a consensus.

In the future, half of the proceeds from the sales of the "Tianling Morning Post" in the Yuelun Sect's territory will be handed over to these five Yuelun Sect's Jindan elders, and they must greet the heads of the various towns and markets of the Yuelun Sect and provide the Zhou family with various conveniences within their authority.

Another most important point is that if the Zhou family encounters external oppression in the future, they must use their power as elders to write a letter to the head master to advise him to protect the Zhou family!

Although this kind of petition with suggestions has no binding force, if several elders jointly submit a petition with suggestions, theoretically speaking, the head monk will generally give them some face.

It can also be regarded as Zhou Chun's preparation for the next step of the Zhou family's future.

It is not known whether the Su family’s ancestor was right, or whether the Yuelun Sect leaked the news to the Yanyang Sect.

Less than half a month after Zhou Chun returned to the family from the Su family, Zhu Wuya, the Jindan ancestor of the Zhu family in Yanzhou, indeed came to visit Tuyunling and talked about the fact that some Jindan elders of the Yanyang Sect wanted to receive benefits.

Generally speaking, the Jindan elders who can demand benefits from a Jindan family like the Zhou family will not be those who have just formed a Jindan, but those who are in the middle or even late Jindan stage. At the very least, they must be those old-school early Jindan cultivators who have formed a Jindan for hundreds of years.

Otherwise, in large sects like the Yuelun Sect and the Yanyang Sect, there are more than a dozen Jindan-stage cultivators. If everyone has a share, no one will have anything to eat.

For example, the five Golden Core elders of the Yuelun Sect, according to the agreed share, each of them can probably get a dividend of five to six thousand spirit coins every year. If a few more people are added in, the dividends received will be much less.

But the Yan Yang Sect is not the Yue Lun Sect after all. Not to mention that the Zhou family is not a vassal of the Yan Yang Sect, the Yan Yang Sect is not as powerful as the Yue Lun Sect, and it will not help the Zhou family when faced with threats from external forces.

Therefore, when talking with those people from Yanyang Sect, Zhou Chun was much tougher. Once the other party asked for too high a price, he would show an attitude that he would just give up this business.

With Zhu Wuya's mediation, in the end the Zhou family only needed to give one third of the profits from the "Tianling Morning News" in the Yanyang Sect area to the Yanyang Sect.

After dealing with these guys who were sucking blood from the Zhou family, Zhou Chun finally calmed down and focused on training his apprentices.

Zhou Zhiying is now over eight years old. Since she was a child, she has been fed some spiritual objects that are beneficial to her physical growth and the development of her spiritual intelligence. She also has the help of a Jindan-stage cultivator to use his magic power to cleanse her marrow and open up her meridians. Not only is she as tall as a girl of fourteen or fifteen years old, but her character and wisdom are also far superior to those of her peers.

When she was less than seven years old, she had already memorized the locations of the meridians and acupoints in her body and could practice meditation.

And with her top-grade spiritual roots and the help of the spiritual power accumulated in her body from the spiritual objects she had taken since she was a child, she had already reached the fourth level of the Qi Refining Stage after only practicing for less than two years!

Such a speed of cultivation is the first in the history of the Zhou family.

Zhou Chun even specially gave her a magical instrument that could help to restrain her aura, so that to outsiders it would appear that she was only at the second level of the Qi Refining Stage.

"Master, the mulberries outside are ripe. I asked Master Mu Sang to pick some for me, but he insisted on your approval. How stingy!"

That day, after Zhou Chun came out of the practice room, he had just made himself a cup of tea and was about to drink it when suddenly a young girl in green rushed in from outside the door, ran up to him with a pouting mouth and started to complain.

This young lady in blue is Zhou Zhiying.

Zhou Chun has always regarded his spirit pets as companions, so as his only disciple, Zhou Zhiying should naturally call these spirit pets "master uncle".

After hearing the little girl's complaint, Zhou Chun immediately reached out and gently knocked her head and said, "Little girl, that purple mulberry tree is already a fourth-level spiritual wood. How can you eat the mulberries on it? Your spiritual power will overflow and burst your stomach!"

"Ah, no way, Master, you really are not trying to scare me?"

The young girl in green turned pale and stared at Zhou Chun with wide eyes full of shock.

"Now you know you're afraid?"

Zhou Chun glanced at the little girl, and then said: "If you know you are afraid, then practice hard. When you reach the late stage of Qi Refining, you should be able to eat one!"

"Like this?"

The young lady in green tilted her head and looked at Zhou Chun. Then, as if she had thought of something, she pouted and said, "But by that time, the mulberries should have fallen!"

Upon hearing this, Zhou Chun smiled, touched her head and said, "Don't worry, as long as you cultivate to the late stage of Qi Refining within five years, there will be mulberries left for you to pick!"

"Okay, then I'll wait until I reach the late stage of Qi Refining before I go pick mulberries to eat!"

The young lady in green nodded, then picked up the tea on the table and handed it to Zhou Chun, saying, "Master, have some tea. I will go and practice."

Then he strode towards his bedroom.

Looking at her back as she skipped away, Zhou Chun couldn't help but shake his head, his heart filled with emotion.

It is difficult to advance from the fourth level of Qi Refining Stage to the ninth level of Qi Refining Stage in five years, even for a cultivator with superior spiritual roots, unless one takes elixirs and fruits with very good effects.

But for a cultivator like Zhou Zhiying who has excellent spiritual roots, it is an easy task.

Only those who have personally witnessed the cultivation speed of cultivators of this caliber will understand how such cultivators are favored by heaven!

Zhou Zhiying reached the fourth level of Qi Refining in less than two years without taking any elixirs during this period. And because of her young age, she was not as hardworking as the adult cultivators in her cultivation.

But even so, she still cultivated to this level in such a short time!
This may be due to the blessing of the rich aura environment in Zhouchun Cave, but most of the reason is undoubtedly that his own qualifications are too outstanding.

If she continued like this, Zhou Chun estimated that she would be able to successfully build her foundation before she turned 20, without any problem at all.

It's impossible not to envy such a gifted person!

Zhou Chun seemed to understand why the owner of the secret island had to make it so that only cultivators with the best wind-attribute spiritual roots could inherit his legacy.

Perhaps he believed that only a person with such talent could, after inheriting his mantle, complete his lifelong unfulfilled goals and reach a higher level for himself to see the scenery above!
However, Zhou Chun is not the kind of person who only believes in spiritual roots.

He always believed that spiritual root qualifications could not determine the upper limit of a cultivator's achievements. Even if one had low-grade spiritual root qualifications, as long as the opportunity was sufficient, it might be possible to form an infant or even become a god!
Even a cultivator with superb spiritual roots may not be able to eventually form a baby or even become a god!

He himself is proof of this.

Who could have imagined that he, a cultivator with only a mid-level spiritual root aptitude, could successfully form a pill, and he did it at the age of just over 200!
If he succeeds in conceiving a baby in the future, it will further verify this truth and show that his idea is correct.

The sun rose and the moon set, and in the blink of an eye another three years had passed.

On this day, a cultivator in the middle stage of Purple Mansion came all the way from the Great Zhou Kingdom and delivered a letter to Zhou Chun.

The sender of the letter was Luo Qingni. According to her, she had already found out about the 3,000-year-old golden thread herb and invited Zhou Chun to the Great Zhou Kingdom to discuss the refining of the [Jade Dew Golden Cloud Pill].

After reading the letter, Zhou Chun couldn't sit still anymore.

Whether or not he could successfully refine [Jade Dew and Golden Cloud Pill] was related to his promotion to the middle stage of Golden Pill in the future, so he had no choice but to pay attention to it.

Therefore, after explaining everything, he set off again for the Great Zhou Kingdom.