Beast-controlling fairy clan.

The Su family's ancestor initially disagreed with the idea of ​​making up a story about Su Yunniang and telling others about it.

Because family disgrace should not be made public, he didn't want this matter to get out and become a big joke!

But after some persuasion from Zhou Chun and Zhou Mingde, and after they promised that people would not associate the characters in the story with the Su family and Su Yunniang, he reluctantly agreed to give it a try.

The next thing was simple. Zhou Chun found some experts in romance among the family monks and ordinary people, told them the story of Su Yunniang, and asked them to think about how to break the impasse and have the best of both worlds.

After a group of "experts" put forward suggestions, they did come up with several solutions that seemed to be quite feasible.

In Zhou Chun's opinion, there are two most likely ways to do it.

One is to frame the Moon Worshiper and make him reveal his true identity. After Su Yunniang sees his true thoughts, she will naturally no longer think about becoming the headmaster's wife.

But this is not an easy task, especially since it is difficult to control the degree. Once you use too much force, you will severely offend the Moon Worshiper, and both the Su family and the Zhou family will have a hard time in the future.

Another way is to exert force on Master Baiyue and discuss a play with him, so that Su Yunniang knows that even if the Su family and the Zhou family are brought in for help, they cannot force Master Baiyue to marry her as his Taoist partner immediately, thus achieving the purpose of delaying time.

Of these two methods, the former cures the problem permanently, but if not handled properly it can backfire.

Although the latter cannot cure the root cause, it is safer and has a higher success rate.

As for the final right of choice, Zhou Chun gave it to the ancestor of the Su family and let him make the choice.

He originally thought that this would make the Su family's ancestor embarrassed for a while.

But what was unexpected was that the ancestor of the Su family directly chose the second method without any hesitation.

"I will go and discuss this with Master Baiyue, but in order to increase our leverage, you and Fellow Daoist Zhou will have to jointly sign a letter to me!"

The ancestor of the Su family stated his choice with a heavy face.

Hearing his words, Zhou Chun and Zhou Mingde looked at each other and quickly nodded in agreement.

The two Jindan-stage cultivators of the Zhou family immediately presented a letter to Su Yunniang in person, in which they earnestly requested Master Baiyue to work together with the Su and Zhou families to persuade Su Yunniang to give up the idea.

In short, it is a statement that the Zhou family and the Su family will work together on this matter.

After receiving the letter, the ancestor of the Su family finally felt a little relieved, and then he led the team back to the Su family the next day to handle the matter.

However, what happened next was far beyond Zhou Chun's expectations.

He had already made preparations. At that time, several Jindan-stage cultivators of the Zhou family would go to the Yuelun Sect together to visit Master Baiyue to show Su Yunniang the Zhou family's sincerity. Then they would just go through the motions with Master Baiyue.

But in fact, there is no need to go this far.

No one knew what the Su family ancestor discussed with Master Baiyue. In any case, less than a month after the Su family ancestor left the Zhou family, he received the Nascent Soul Decree from the Yuelun Sect.

This Nascent Soul decree came from True Man Yin Yue, ordering the ancestor of the Su family to be confined to the mountain gate for a hundred years and not to leave the Su family mountain gate even a step without being summoned!

Strictly speaking, this is not an excessive punishment.

However, having a Yuanying Stage True Person personally issue a decree to carry out the punishment indicates that the ancestor of the Su family has offended the Yuanying Stage True Person in some way. The signal this sends to the outside world is very worth pondering.

Su Yunniang, who had originally wanted to become the headmaster's wife, was suddenly at a loss as to what to do by this sudden change.

He hurried to find Master Baiyue to inquire for details.

However, she didn't expect that Master Baiyue suddenly announced that he would go into seclusion for a short period of time and refused to see her.

This made her even more panicked.

So he quickly returned to the Su family to ask the ancestor of the Su family.

The Su family patriarch was of course well prepared for this. Facing Su Yunniang's question, he sighed softly with a gloomy face: "Hey! Yunniang, this time it's really not that I don't want to help you, but there is really no room for maneuver in this matter!"

"I just went to talk to the fellow Taoist of the Qu family about this matter, and I angered Senior Yin Yue Zhenren because of it. Do you think that the few people from our Su family and Zhou family can really influence Senior Shangzong's thoughts?"

At this point, he also advised earnestly: "We cultivators should focus on cultivation. All the names and power are just empty names. Why bother to risk our lives to force it!"

However, Su Yunniang did not seem to react to his words. She just replied calmly, "I understand what you said, ancestor. But I know even more clearly that with my aptitude and talent, I may not be able to break through even in the middle stage of the Golden Core in the future. I will probably be stuck in the early stage of the Golden Core for the rest of my life like you. So why should I be so anxious about cultivation!"

He waved his hand and said, "Anyway, I have my own plans for this matter, so don't say any more!"

Seeing this, the Su family ancestor shook his head helplessly and said, "Forget it, you have also lived for hundreds of years as a Jindan stage cultivator. There is really no need for me to teach you these principles. I just hope that you will not be too extreme in doing things. Think more about how difficult it is for you to cultivate to this point, and think more about how difficult it is for Yu Zhen and the family to get to this point today!!"

"I can do it, and this time I made the ancestor suffer the punishment for me!"

Su Yunniang nodded slightly, bowed deeply to the ancestor of the Su family to express her apologies, and then left without staying in the Su family for long.

When the Su family's ancestor saw her like this, he knew that she had not given up yet.

But as long as she doesn't resent himself and the Su family because of this matter, the ancestor of the Su family will be satisfied.

As for what she would do next, the Su family's ancestor really couldn't control it, nor did he want to get too deeply involved.

Now that Su Yuzhen is continuing the family heritage and the Zhou family is a reliable ally outside, the Su family's ancestor is not worried that the Su family will fall into the ranks of the Jindan family after his death in the future.

Under such circumstances, he naturally did not want to gamble the fate of his family for Su Yunniang's own selfish reasons.

Zhou Chun heaved a sigh of relief after knowing that the problem had been temporarily resolved. He then continued to calmly work on his efforts to reach the middle stage of the Golden Core.

Two years passed like this, and Zhou Chun had gathered all the five elements spiritual objects needed to practice the second level of "Small Five Elements Breaking the Forbidden Mysterious Light". He then took the opportunity to practice the second level of this secret technique.

The cultivation of the second level of "Small Five Elements Breaking the Prohibition of Mysterious Light" is much more difficult than the first level. Even after Zhou Chun gathered all the auxiliary materials and had the first level as a foundation, it still took him three years to get started.

However, once the second level is achieved, the power of the forbidden mysterious light will be extremely powerful.

If Zhou Chun uses all his strength, even a truly forbidden formation like the [Nine Palaces Yellow Dragon Formation] can weaken most of its power, and then forcibly break through the formation!
According to this calculation, when he perfects the second level of "Small Five Elements Breaking the Profound Light", he may be able to quietly break through the barrier of the forbidden formation like the "Nine Palaces Yellow Dragon Formation" without alerting anyone.

This discovery also made Zhou Chun surprised and happy. He valued the value of the secret magical power "Small Five Elements Breaking the Prohibition of Mysterious Light" even more. He directly listed it as the highest inherited secret art of the family, which only Jindan stage cultivators could consult and practice!
At this time, the realm barrier that had blocked Zhou Chun for many years was already covered with cracks and was about to be completely shattered.

Seeing this, he immediately announced that he would go into seclusion and make an all-out effort to reach a higher level.

Boom!

About two years after seclusion, when Zhou Chun once again attacked the invisible realm barrier with all his strength, it was like a flood finally breaking through a dam, making a loud roar.

Then an extreme sense of exhilaration surged up from his heart, and he felt that there was a vast ocean and sky ahead, allowing him to roam freely.

At the same time, the spiritual energy of the nearby heaven and earth surged and rushed into his body. He also took out several bottles that stored pure gold energy in a timely manner and released all the gold energy inside, which was originally enough for him to practice for several years.

After several months of silent practice, Zhou Chun finally consolidated his state of being in the middle stage of the Golden Core Realm.

Although he had just made a breakthrough not long ago, his total mana has increased by nearly 50% compared to his level before the breakthrough, and it is expected that it will easily double in the future.

Naturally, the quality of mana is far beyond what it was before. The same amount of mana used to activate a magic weapon can exert the power of two previous amounts of mana!

At the same time, although he has never compared himself with others, based on his own experiments, the coverage of his spiritual consciousness has exceeded eighty miles!

And according to the information he had learned from previous exchanges with other Jindan-stage cultivators, unless a Jindan-stage cultivator had practiced some particularly powerful secret technique to enhance his spiritual awareness, the range of his spiritual awareness would only be sixty to seventy miles!

As for ordinary early Jindan cultivators, the range of their spiritual awareness may only be around thirty miles.

Such a powerful spiritual awareness not only allows Zhou Chun to have an attack range far beyond that of cultivators of the same level when fighting with others, but also greatly increases the power of the "God-Slaying Technique" he practices.

At the same time, the stronger the spiritual consciousness, the easier it will be to practice certain secret techniques and supernatural powers.

After Zhou Chun consolidated his cultivation, he did not rush to come out, but immediately began to comprehend the "Golden Escape Technique" that he had been unable to master.

as predicted!

With the breakthrough in his cultivation, he was able to master the "Golden Escape Technique" which he had been unable to master before, this time he was able to master it smoothly.

Zhou Chun in the cave was seen making hand gestures and casting a spell. His figure instantly turned into a ray of golden light and escaped from the cave, appearing beside a creek somewhere in the back mountain of Tuyunling.

This place is more than thirty miles away from his cave!
"Ignoring terrain and most restrictions, this 'Golden Escape Technique' is indeed the most difficult and most powerful escape technique among the Five Elements Escape Techniques!"

On the river bank, Zhou Chun looked up at the direction of his cave, and couldn't help but curl up the corners of his mouth slightly, revealing a proud smile. He was undoubtedly very satisfied with the effect of the "Golden Escape Technique".

Except for being difficult to perform in fire, the "Golden Escape Technique" can be performed freely no matter whether you are underground, in the air, or in water. It is definitely a superior magical power for self-defense, saving lives, and fighting.

As for the fact that he could only escape thirty miles at a time, Zhou Chun was not very worried.

As his mastery of this magical power deepens, this distance will definitely continue to increase.

What he needs to worry about is the consumption of mana by this magical power.

With his current deep and pure magic power, it would consume almost 2% of his magic power to perform this magical power once. With the full magic power, he could only perform this power about fifty times!

In this case, if you want to use this magical power to escape, it may not be enough. You must also pay attention to saving mana when using it in battle.

Seeing that realm breakthrough had such great benefits for practicing secret arts and magical powers, Zhou Chun turned back and continued to practice other secret arts and magical powers, while not forgetting to strengthen and refine his natal magic weapon [Wanhua Golden Cauldron].

After such practice, except for the special "Beast Spirit Fusion Method", the power of secret techniques like "Gen Gold Sky-Splitting Thunder", "Evil Yuan Drill" and "God-Slaying Method" have greatly improved. Even "Small Five Elements Breaking the Prohibition of Mysterious Light" feels a lot easier.

This finally made Zhou Chun understand why all cultivators wanted to break through so much.

Sometimes it’s not that you don’t work hard enough or that you don’t have enough talent, but that your realm of cultivation is not high enough, which causes your efforts to have no effect at all!
In addition to the secret magic power, Zhou Chun's innate magic weapon [Wanhua Jinding], which was melted by the broken top-grade magic weapon [Xuansha Soul-Destroying Spear], also greatly increased in power, and gained an extremely powerful killing magic power.

In this way, Zhou Chun's personal strength has skyrocketed!

But after suffering a loss before, Zhou Chun learned his lesson this time.

The news of his breakthrough to the middle stage of the Golden Core was not known to many people except for a few of his closest people. Even many of the Zhou family's Purple Mansion elders were unaware of it.

As long as he doesn't meet other Jindan stage cultivators, he doesn't have to worry about others seeing through his abnormal cultivation.

"Zhengchun, you want to travel to Bingyi Country? Why? Is it because of the assassination attempt by the Ice Prison Sect assassin?"

In Zhou Mingde's cave, after hearing the purpose of Zhou Chun's visit, he couldn't help but be stunned. He was a little overwhelmed by Zhou Chun's sudden decision.

"Investigating and understanding the Ice Prison Sect is just a side job. The real reason for me to travel to the Ice Barbarian Country is to find the bloodline of the demon beast Taiyin Moon Toad. I want to obtain its blood essence to practice the secret technique of the Nine Transformations of the Holy Spirit - Moon Toad Chapter and fully unleash the power of the Moon Toad Orb!"

"And if I stay in the family, I'm afraid I won't be able to keep the fact that I've broken through to the middle stage of the Golden Core a secret forever. Traveling outside can help me avoid exposing this matter too early!"

Zhou Chun calmly stated his plan, looking as if he had been prepared.

He had indeed planned this matter a long time ago. He had not even thought that he could break through the barrier of the middle stage of the Golden Core so quickly. Therefore, his initial plan was to help Su Yuzhen overcome the "Desire Tribulation" and then set off.

It was only after he practiced dual cultivation of spirit and soul that he discovered an opportunity for a breakthrough, and he changed his plan and prepared to break through his realm first.

After his cultivation broke through to the middle stage of the Golden Core, when he used the "Spiritual Treasure Technique" to sacrifice the [Moon Toad Pearl] again, he vaguely discovered the incompatibility between himself and this spiritual treasure. He realized that it was because he had not practiced "Nine Transformations of the Holy Spirit·Moon Toad Chapter", which resulted in his inability to truly exert the power of this spiritual treasure.

Otherwise, with the power of a complete spiritual treasure, even if he could only exert one or two percent of its power due to his insufficient cultivation level, it should still be far superior to the incomplete top-grade magic weapon [Two Dragons Overturning the Sea Bottle]!
In view of this, for Zhou Chun, finding the bloodline of the monster [Taiyin Yuechan] has become the top priority now.

If one could successfully practice "Nine Transformations of the Holy Spirit: Moon Toad Chapter", relying on the power of the secret technique itself and the power of the spiritual treasure [Moon Toad Orb], even an ordinary late Jindan cultivator would have a chance to kill him!
At that time, there would be no need for him to be afraid of killer organizations like the Ice Prison Gate.

After all, it is almost impossible for a Yuanying stage cultivator to come and assassinate him, a Jindan stage cultivator!

There is no need to say more about these to Zhou Mingde, so as not to increase his worries.

We just need to let Zhou Mingde know that he didn't make this decision on impulse.

Sure enough, after listening to Zhou Chun's explanation, Zhou Mingde did not try to persuade him any further.

Zhou Chun's strength had long surpassed his, and now his cultivation level had also surpassed his. He thought that he had nothing to teach Zhou Chun and would no longer easily interfere with Zhou Chun's decisions.

In the end, he just nodded and said, "In that case, go ahead if you want to. I will watch over the family side."

"Then I'll trouble you to take care of everything on this family side!"

Zhou Chun bowed and saluted, and set out on his journey a few days later.

However, before setting off, he still went to the wilderness and brought with him the [Sky Frost Bee] which he had not used for a long time.

Places like Bingyi Country might be where these strange insects could be useful.

After years of reproduction and growth, the population of [Sky Frost Bees] has now exceeded 500, and the number of mature [Sky Frost Bees] has reached more than 150.

If an ordinary cultivator in the early Jindan stage encounters such a large group, he will suffer a serious setback if he is not careful!
After leaving Jingguo, Zhou Chun did not go directly to Bingyi Kingdom, but instead went to Dazhou Kingdom first.

"I didn't expect that I was stuck in front of the barrier for a long time, but Fellow Daoist Zhou took a step and walked in front of me. It's really incomparable between people!!"

In "Qingni Residence", Luo Qingni looked at Zhou Chun, who was visiting as a guest with the cultivation level of middle Jindan stage. Her emotions were in turmoil for a moment and she sighed with a lonely look on her face.

She formed the golden elixir many years earlier than Zhou Chun, and touched the middle stage barrier of the golden elixir earlier than Zhou Chun. She also had the opportunity to take the [Jade Dew Golden Cloud Pill] to impact the realm barrier.

As a result, all her preparations failed, while Zhou Chun succeeded quietly and surpassed her in cultivation.

How could she not feel extremely complicated as she had witnessed Zhou Chun's growth all the way!

But this was just her case. Zhou Mingde and Zhou Daoyi, who had long been accustomed to this situation, were no longer surprised by Zhou Chun's rapid breakthrough in cultivation. They simply felt that it was natural, because they had been surprised too many times before.

Zhou Chun naturally wouldn't be as casual with her as he was with the two elders. He immediately waved his hand modestly and said, "Brother Luo, you are too kind. I was just lucky at the time and got the chance to break through. In terms of talent and aptitude, I am far inferior to you!"

He looked at Luo Qingni with a serious face and said, "And with your talent and aptitude, Brother Luo, you will definitely not be trapped by this mere middle Jindan realm barrier. I think it won't be long before we can hear the news that Brother Luo has successfully broken through!"

But Luo Qingni just thought it was just his humble words to comfort herself and didn't take it seriously.

At this time, with his emotions agitated, he couldn't help but look at him and asked, "Fellow Daoist Zhou, can you tell me how you achieved the breakthrough?"

After saying that, he quickly added: "Of course, if you feel embarrassed, just pretend Qingni never said that!"

"Well, it's not that I can't tell you, but even if I tell you, Brother Luo, you may not be able to learn it!"

Zhou Chun said this with an embarrassed look on his face, and then told him about how he had seen an opportunity for a breakthrough because of his "dual cultivation of spirit and soul" with his Taoist partner.

He did not mention the "robbery" incident because it involved Su Yuzhen's own privacy and was irrelevant to the topic.

But even so, when Luo Qingni heard that he got the breakthrough opportunity by "cultivating both spirit and soul", she couldn't help but blush, and she knew why he said that he couldn't learn it.

Not to mention that she is still Yunying and has no dual cultivation partner.

Even if one really wants to break through the realm barrier and find a Jindan stage cultivator as a dual cultivation partner, it may not be possible to enter the mysterious state of "dual cultivation of spirit and soul"!
"I see. It was Qingni who was rude. Please forgive me, Brother Zhou!"

After all, he was a successful Jindan stage cultivator. Luo Qingni quickly calmed down and bowed to Zhou Chun to apologize with a serious face.

"You are too polite, Brother Luo. Let's talk about something else!"

Zhou Chun waved his hands, indicating that he didn't care, and took the initiative to change the subject.

He just raised his hand and patted the storage bag on his waist, took out the recipe of the [Four Spirits Barrier Breaking Pill] and handed it to Luo Qingni.

"This is……"

As soon as Luo Qingni picked up the recipe and took a look at it, she looked at Zhou Chun with her mouth wide open in surprise, her eyes full of shock.

This expression was the same as when Zhou Chun gave her the recipe for the Jade Dew and Golden Cloud Pill.

Zhou Chun also admired her rare shocked expression before saying with a smile: "This is what I gained from participating in the Canglan Sect's grand ceremony. It is also due to your contribution, Fellow Daoist Luo."

After that, he revealed another explosive piece of information, "Moreover, the original owner of the materials above has already collected two main medicines and multiple auxiliary medicines. In the future, we only need to collect some of the remaining materials, and we can try to make the elixir!"

As he expected, after hearing what he said, Luo Qingni's eyes widened even more.

Then he just stared at him with wide eyes for a while, and then he said in one breath: "Fellow Daoist Zhou, you are really a blessed person!"

As he spoke, he shook the recipe in his hand and said, "This level of recipe is hard to find even for sects and families that have never produced a Nascent Soul cultivator, even if they have been passed down for thousands of years. Yet, you have come up with two in just a hundred years, and both come with some alchemy materials!"

After saying that, she couldn't help but tease Zhou Chun and said, "If Qing Ni didn't know your background, and knew that your family is not good at alchemy, I'm afraid she would have suspected that your family had once produced an alchemy master and left behind a complete master's inheritance!"