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Chapter 588 Six-winged Ice Silkworm [Subscribe]

Now that it was confirmed that Wu Yishan had fallen, it was impossible for Zhou Chun to go to the vast ice field to look for a corpse that he didn't know whether it still existed.

However, if Zhou Chun told Wu Yuzhu the truth directly, he was worried that she would be unable to get over it.

So he decided to find someone to cooperate in acting out a play and tell a white lie so that Wu Yuzhu could continue to live.

Almost a month later, Zhou Chun returned to Wu Yuzhu's home again.

"Senior Zhang, you...my father..."

In the yard, when Wu Yuzhu saw that Zhou Chun was the only one who came back, she suddenly staggered and fell to the ground.

"Unfortunately, Zhang was unable to recover Fellow Daoist Wu's body. He only found some things that he left for you before he died!"

Zhou Chun whispered something, raised his hand and waved, and several things appeared in front of Wu Yuzhu.

These things were indeed old items that Wu Yishan had owned before, but they were all sold before he set out.

Zhou Chun also sought help from the Jindan-stage cultivator in the market town, and it took him a lot of effort to collect them back.

The "photo bead" mixed with these things was a relic of Wu Yishan that Zhou Chun deliberately forged.

When Wu Yuzhu activated the "Photo Bead" under Zhou Chun's suggestion, he saw Wu Yishan, with blood on his clothes, sitting in an ice cave, recording his last words into the "Photo Bead".

"Yuzhu, my poor daughter, I may never see you again in this life!"

"I can't imagine how you would deal with the fire poison that erupted in your body without my help. I can't imagine how painful it would be for you!"

"I feel guilty for not being able to take care of you until the end, and not being able to see the day when you completely eliminate the fire poison in your body!"

"But Yuzhu, if you are really destined to read these words I left for you, I hope you will stay strong and live well!"

"Only if you can survive can it prove that your mother and father's sacrifices are meaningful and worthwhile. Otherwise, all the sufferings your father and you have endured over the years will be in vain!"

"Because of the fire poison in your body, Daddy was willing to go to the Ice Country even at the cost of breaking up with the family. I really feel ashamed of the family's cultivation and the elders in the family who trusted me. This is the thing that Daddy regrets the most besides your mother's death!"

"As the saying goes, a son pays for his father's debt. Since I, your father, can no longer repay the family's kindness in cultivating you, Yuzhu, if you can survive and if you can achieve success in cultivation in the future, I hope you can help me repay the family's kindness in cultivating you and allow my spirit tablet to return to the family ancestral temple!"

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At the end of the video, a roar of a monster suddenly broke into the video, and then Wu Yishan's face changed drastically and he hurriedly ended the filming process.

After watching the entire video, Wu Yuzhu burst into tears.

Seeing this, Zhou Chun did not rush to comfort her, but just let her cry and vent.

The image in this photo bead was naturally forged by Zhou Chun.

He used the [Hundred Illusion Pearls] to transform himself into Wu Yishan and recorded this video on the ice field in order to persuade Wu Yuzhu to live.

Because it was just a photo, and with the collected items used by Wu Yishan during his lifetime as evidence, Zhou Chun believed that it would be difficult to tell the authenticity of Wu Yuzhu now.

As for when she comes to her senses and figures out the truth, she probably won't blame him for lying to her.

A white lie that persuades people to live should not be blamed!

After waiting for a while, until Wu Yuzhu was exhausted, Zhou Chun slowly said, "Fellow Daoist Wu must have been chased by a monster, so he could only leave these things behind in a hurry."

"You have read his last words. Even before he died, the one he was most worried about was you, Xiaoyou Wu!"

"If Zhang were you, Wu Xiaoyou, I would never let his sacrifice go to waste, and I would never disappoint his last wish. I would definitely work hard to practice and fulfill his last wish!"

Having said that, Zhou Chun didn't say anything more. He just turned around and left.

"I will come again in three days. If you have figured it out by then, you can leave Bingyi Country with me and practice with me in the future. This is the last thing I can do for Fellow Daoist Wu!"

Zhou Chun's calm voice echoed in Wu Yuzhu's ears, and the figure quickly disappeared in the yard.

At this point, Zhou Chun has done his utmost.

If Wu Yuzhu really wanted to die, he would have nothing to say.

Three days later, Zhou Chun appeared outside the Wu family courtyard again.

And Wu Yuzhu seemed to have been waiting for him for a long time.

As soon as he made some noise, the door opened.

"Very good, it seems that you have figured it out. In that case, please leave with me!"

Zhou Chun looked at the female cultivator in front of him who was wearing white mourning clothes, nodded slightly, turned around and walked out of the market town.

Seeing this, Wu Yuzhu just followed him silently, and then looked back at the small courtyard behind him every few steps until it could no longer be seen!

After leaving the market town, Zhou Chun let the golden-winged tiger out for transportation, letting it carry himself and Wu Yuzhu on their journey.

Not long after, the two arrived at another market town within the Bingyi Kingdom, which was also the largest market town in the country.

It turned out that Zhou Chun had learned before that in two months, a large-scale auction would be held in this market, and many rare items from the ice field would appear at that time.

For Zhou Chun, who now needs to collect materials for alchemy and refining, there is no reason to miss this auction now that he has come across it.

"I come from a family of immortal cultivators far away from Bingyi Country. After you follow me back to my family, you can temporarily serve as my maid. The Ten Thousand Poisons Sutra that you practice has already been practiced to the Purple Mansion Stage by someone in my family. You can ask her for advice on practice. You can also obtain relevant practice resources from my family!"

"Of course, while you are training beside me, you must also do what you can for me or my family."

"Once you have cultivated to the point where you are no longer threatened by the fire poison in your body, you can decide for yourself whether to stay or go!"

In a small courtyard newly rented by Zhou Chun, he looked at Wu Yuzhu who followed him here, and told her in a deep voice some information about his own background and his plans for her.

For Zhou Chun, the reason he took in Wu Yuzhu was simply because he felt sorry for her life experience and because he felt a certain guilt towards Wu Yishan.

He didn't say that he wanted to use her to do something, nor did he really want to take care of her food and drink for the rest of her life.

Therefore, taking care of the other person so that he is not threatened by the fire poison in his body and can live alone outside, we have already done our best.

After listening to Zhou Chun's words, Wu Yuzhu bowed deeply to him and said, "Senior Zhang, I have no way to repay your kindness. Meeting you is the greatest blessing in my life!"

"It is a great honor to have the protection of the senior. I dare not ask for more!"

This answer made Zhou Chun very satisfied. He was afraid that Wu Yuzhu had no sense of propriety, did not know when to stop, and wanted to rely on him from then on.

In that case, he would have to think carefully about whether he really wanted to take the other person back to the Zhou family.

He nodded and said, "Then you should practice well. If you have any questions about practice, you can ask me when I am free."

In the next two months, while Zhou Chun was waiting for the auction to be held, he also wandered around the market town, preparing to buy a batch of Bingyi country's specialty spiritual objects before leaving.

Because Bingyi Country gathers a large number of practitioners of ice-attributed skills, there are also many special spiritual objects that are hard to find elsewhere.

For example, there are magical instruments suitable for practitioners of ice-attribute techniques, elixirs that can improve cultivation, and some ice-attribute monsters.

The Zhou family also has some cultivators who practice ice-attributed techniques, and there will continue to be cultivators who practice this type of techniques in the future. Therefore, after Zhou Chun discovered that there were some special spiritual objects in the Bingyi Kingdom that were suitable for these clansmen, he prepared to purchase more and bring some back to put in the family treasury for the clansmen to exchange.

This is what the top leaders of their family would do when they travel outside.

On this day, when Zhou Chun was strolling in the free trade zone in the market town, he suddenly felt that the [Sky Frost Bee] in the spirit beast bag became unusually agitated, as if it had been stimulated by something.

This made him stop in his tracks, and with a look of surprise on his face he used his spiritual sense to communicate with these evil insects.

After communication, Zhou Chun realized that the reason these evil insects suddenly became abnormally agitated was that they sensed the breath of a natural enemy.

You should know that the [Sky Frost Bee] is a strange insect listed on the "List of Strange Insects in Heaven and Earth".

The existence that can make these strange insects restless and regard them as natural enemies must be much stronger than them!

This immediately aroused great curiosity in Zhou Chun.

He glanced at the free trade zone and found that he was the only Jindan-stage cultivator here, and the highest-level cultivator was only an early-stage Zifu cultivator.

So he did not hesitate any longer, and immediately quietly released his spiritual sense to scan the stalls. With the huge difference in their cultivation realms, no cultivator could detect Zhou Chun's spiritual sense.

After several scans, he locked onto some suspicious objects and then walked closer to check them one by one.

After some investigation, Zhou Chun stopped in front of the stall of a bearded man who was in the middle stage of foundation building.

The big man was wearing a warm leather coat commonly worn by monks from the Bingyi Nation. It looked like it was made from the skin of a demon wolf with ice attributes.

On the stall in front of him were some claws, fangs, furs and skins of monsters, as well as minerals, wood and elixirs, all of which were probably second-tier items.

Seeing Zhou Chun, whose cultivation level he could not fathom, standing in front of his stall and not moving for a long time, the big man's face changed slightly, and he took the initiative to say: "Senior, if you have anything you like, I am willing to sell it to you at the market price, and I will not be greedy for a penny more!"

Hearing the big man's words, Zhou Chun narrowed his eyes, then looked at him with a half-smile and said, "Do you really think so? Aren't you afraid that you might miss some treasures and let me pick them up?"

Hearing his words, the big man's heart skipped a beat, and he quickly replied with a serious face: "I dare not deceive you, I have carefully checked these things many times before selling them. If there are really any omissions, it means that I am not destined to have them. You should pick up the leak and make a fortune!"

"Interesting, you are quite good at talking, young man."

Zhou Chun smiled faintly, then patted the storage bag on his waist, took out a second-grade high-quality defensive magic shield that he had obtained from somewhere, and threw it on the stall, "I'll give you everything you have for this magic shield, do you think it's enough?"

"That's enough! That's enough! Thank you for the gift, Senior!"

The big man's face lit up with joy and he nodded repeatedly to express his gratitude. Then he swiftly took out a spare storage bag and packed up all the things on the stall. He then held the storage bag in both hands and handed it to Zhou Chun.

Seeing this, Zhou Chun didn't hesitate and took the storage bag and left.

Looking at Zhou Chun's departing back and then at the magic shield on the stall, the big man felt both melancholy and happy.

He knew in his heart that he must have made a mistake and missed some treasure.

But he knew even more clearly that if he raised the price arbitrarily, or simply closed the stall and stopped selling, the consequences would be very bad!
And to be able to exchange these things, which were not even worth a second-level low-grade magic weapon in total, for a second-level high-grade defensive magic weapon, he has already made a lot of money, and he should indeed be happy.

The big man was able to cultivate to his current level of cultivation as a casual cultivator, so he was naturally very clear about the way of making choices, and he had seen many examples of people losing their lives due to being too greedy!

On the other side, after Zhou Chun returned to his temporary residence, he took out everything he had obtained from the big man’s stall.

He threw those monster materials aside without even looking at them, and only placed the minerals, wood and spiritual medicines in front of him. He then took out a [Sky Frost Bee] from the spiritual beast bag and let it approach those things.

By using the fear conveyed by the [Sky Frost Bee] to point out, he quickly identified the target.

The target was a piece of yellowed spiritual wood, which might be some kind of spiritual wood that was a specialty of Bingyi Country. Zhou Chun couldn't recognize the species, but judging from the spiritual power contained in it, it should be the core of a second-level spiritual tree, about five feet long.

Zhou Chun concentrated his consciousness and scanned the piece of spiritual wood with all his strength. After examining it carefully over and over again, he finally discovered the mystery behind it.

He suddenly raised his finger and gestured for a while, and the piece of spiritual wood was cut into several pieces. Finally, only a palm-sized piece was left and placed in front of him.

Then he lit a piece of spiritual wood and brought the flame close to the palm-sized spiritual wood to burn it. Soon, he saw a faint white transparent cocoon appearing on the wood!

This cocoon is only the size of a thumb and is stuck to the spiritual wood like an ordinary silk cocoon.

If it weren't for the burning flames, it would be impossible to see it with the naked eye, and the spiritual consciousness would completely ignore its existence!
Even though he had seen it at this moment, Zhou Chun's spiritual sense was unable to penetrate this thin layer of cocoon and observe the appearance of the creature inside.

This shows how magical this thing is!
"What kind of insect cocoon is this? My late Jindan consciousness can hardly see through its invisibility effect, let alone penetrate its thin layer of cocoon silk to see what's inside!"

Zhou Chun looked at the cocoon in front of him with shock, and instantly recalled the introductions of all the strange insects on the "List of Strange Insects in Heaven and Earth" in his mind.

However, even though he looked through all the information records on the "List of Strange Insects in Heaven and Earth", he did not find a matching object.

If you think about it, this doesn't seem so strange.

After all, the Qianling Sect, which compiled the "List of Strange Insects of Heaven and Earth", is located very far away from the Bingyi Kingdom, and has never had a Nascent Soul cultivator there.

It is very normal that we did not include any information about these strange insects that may have originated from the ice field.

Even whether the cultivators from Bingyi Country know about this strange insect is still unknown.

Zhou Chun hesitated for a while as he looked at the cocoon in front of him, but did not immediately open it to check what was inside. Instead, he put the wooden block into a jade box and put it back into the storage bag.

He planned to collect some relevant information in Bingyi Country first. If he really couldn't find any records about this strange insect, he would open the cocoon.

Over the next dozen days, Zhou Chun went to many bookstores in the market town and consulted various books about the unique monsters and insects of Bingyi Country, but he could not find any records about that strange insect.

This forced him to put the matter on hold temporarily and focus on the auction.

Not long after, the auction was officially held and Zhou Chun entered the reserved private room early.

In this auction, Zhou Chun made three bids in total and won two kinds of magic weapons and spiritual materials and a special spiritual pill [Ice Soul Restoring Pill].

Among them, the [Ice Soul Restoring Pill] can be said to be an unexpected surprise. It is actually a rare spiritual item that can make up for the original nature of the soul!

Although this item can only restore and make up for the lost essence of the soul and spirit, but cannot strengthen it, it is also a very rare elixir.

Zhou Chun also spent a full 550,000 spirit coins to win this item from a group of competitors!
Fortunately, he didn't have to pay for these spirit coins. They were directly deducted from the spiritual materials for the magic weapons he sent for auction.

That’s right, when Zhou Chun participated in the auction, he also sent in most of the materials from the Ice Crystal Demon Wolf and the Moon-Gazing Ice Toad that he had killed previously.

These high-end magic weapons and spiritual materials will not be sold at a low price just because they come from their place of origin. Instead, they are easier to sell at a high price than in other places, because the Bingyi Kingdom itself has gathered a large number of ice-attributed practitioners from other places.

After all, not every Jindan stage cultivator has the ability to hunt down fourth-level monsters on the ice field!
However, Zhou Chun did not take out the most precious demon pill.

Although the Zhou family does not have a decent ice-attribute monster, high-level monster pills themselves are a kind of hard currency.

Whether it is used to exchange with others in the future for fourth-level demon pills suitable for spiritual pets such as Lei Jiao Baibai, or to exchange for some other precious treasures, it is an excellent bargaining chip.

After leaving the auction and returning to his residence, Zhou Chun quickly took the [Ice Soul Restoring Pill].

Seven days later, Zhou Chun opened his eyes and had completely absorbed the medicinal power of the [Ice Soul Restoring Pill].

"The spiritual power that was lost when I used the [Netherworld Soul Contract] has been restored by half. In the future, as long as I can find another spiritual object like the [Ice Soul Restoring Pill], I should be able to fully make up for it!"

He murmured to himself, and was quite accepting of the result.

The power of the soul is extremely important to cultivators, especially when breaking through to a higher realm.

Since Zhou Chun's original spiritual power is stronger than other cultivators, he will have a better chance of success than other cultivators when he transforms the elixir and forms a fetus in the future.

If he cannot make up for the lost spiritual power before that, his advantage will no longer exist and may even become a disadvantage.

Therefore, if he encounters spiritual items like the [Ice Soul Restoring Pill] that can restore the power of the soul in the future, he will definitely do his best to get it.

According to Zhou Chun's original plan, he would leave Bingyi Country after the auction.

But in order to find out the origin of the cocoon, he decided to stay for another half a year and find more people to communicate and inquire.

So he asked Wu Yuzhu to practice in the yard he rented, and he went to various places alone to check relevant information and books, find people to communicate with, and find out about the cocoon.

Hard work pays off. After more than five months of investigation, Zhou Chun finally got some useful information from a late Purple Mansion cultivator who came from the Ice God Palace, a major sect in the Ice Barbarian Kingdom.

According to what the late Purple Mansion cultivator said, he once saw a record of a strange demon insect that originated from the ice field in the Ice God Palace's Scripture Library by a senior Ice God Palace cultivator.

According to the records left by the senior monk of the Ice God Palace, there exists a special monster insect on the ice field that looks like a spring silkworm and has six wings. He calls it the Six-Winged Ice Silkworm!

This kind of demon insect possesses a powerful ability to hide itself, and the silk it spits out also has an invisible effect. It is difficult to be scanned by spiritual consciousness and is extremely tough.

The senior monk from the Ice God Palace was able to see through the six-winged ice silkworm's invisibility because he had cultivated a powerful spiritual eye ability.

According to the records he left behind, he once witnessed a six-winged ice silkworm strangling a fourth-level ice claw giant bear, which was famous for its thick skin and flesh, into a pile of minced meat with its silk in an almost playful manner!
Having witnessed the power of the six-winged ice silkworm with his own eyes, the senior cultivator of the Ice God Palace, despite having reached the late Jindan stage and being able to see through its invisibility, still did not dare to fight it. He chose to stay away from it and recorded the incident to warn the younger generations of the sect.

"So this thing could be a six-winged ice silkworm?"

In the quiet room, Zhou Chun looked at the cocoon in front of him that was invisible to the naked eye, his eyes filled with solemnity.

After hesitating for a while, he still did not choose to take action in the market, but went straight out of the market and entered an uninhabited deserted mountain.

Afterwards, Zhou Chun opened up a stone chamber in the mountain. He first used the "Secret of Transforming into a Dragon" to condense silver dragon scales to protect his body. Then he activated the [Moon Toad Orb] to bless himself with the "Taiyin Body Protective Immortal Clothes" magical power. He also used the [Mountain Shield] to defend himself. Finally, he even used the [Wanhua Golden Cauldron] to transform it into a golden armor and put it on his body.

After setting up several layers of defense in succession and making sure that even a late Jindan cultivator holding a top-grade magic weapon would find it difficult to break through these multiple layers of defense with one strike, Zhou Chun activated the Taibai Zhanjiao Sword and began to cut along the edge of the cocoon.

(End of this chapter)