Beast-controlling fairy clan.

Chapter 607: The Name of Flying Tiger, Wilderness Crisis [Subscription Request]

The golden-winged tiger broke through to the fourth level. Not only did its magical powers increase greatly, but it also refined the transverse bone in its mouth and was able to speak. This was a huge gain.

When Zhou Chun heard its voice, which sounded like that of a young boy, his face was filled with surprise and joy.

Logically speaking, he had already had face-to-face conversations with fifth-level demon kings like Chongxuan Demon King before, so he shouldn't be so surprised.

But the Chongxuan Demon King is still in human form after all, and the two are not familiar with each other.

The golden-winged tiger is in real animal form, and was adopted by Zhou Chun when it was still a cub.

Now that the spiritual pet that he had raised for hundreds of years could suddenly speak, how could Zhou Chun not be surprised.

He was staring at the giant winged tiger in front of him with a sharp gaze, and the more he looked, the happier he became.

Then he couldn't help but reach out and touch the tiger's nose which was bigger than his head and said with a smile: "Good, good, good, my tiger has made progress and can even speak human language!"

Hearing his words, the golden-winged tiger's eyes also showed a look of joy.

Then he looked at him with wide eyes and said, "Master, Xiaohu has something to ask of me. Please agree to it!"

"What's the matter? Just tell me!"

Zhou Chun was slightly stunned, then responded with a smile.

Seeing that he agreed, the golden-winged tiger quickly opened his mouth and said what he wanted, "Little Tiger wants the master to give Little Tiger a name!"

Among Zhou Chun's several spiritual pets, Baibai the Thunder Dragon, Shitou the Golden-armored Mountain Turtle, and even Mu Mei Mu Sang, all had been given names by Zhou Chun early on.

The only difference is that although the golden-winged tiger is the third spiritual pet to follow him, it has never been named.

Zhou Chun might not care about this matter, but in the mind of the now intelligent Golden Winged Tiger, this is undoubtedly a big deal.

Therefore, the first thing it asked for after breaking through the fourth level was to ask Zhou Chun to give it a name.

After hearing its request, Zhou Chun quickly understood what it meant.

He immediately looked at it with a guilty look on his face and said, "I was negligent about this matter. In that case, I will come up with a good name for you, Little Tiger!"

As he spoke, he lowered his head and pondered.

Got it!

Soon after, Zhou Chun's eyes lit up and he already had a plan in mind.

He immediately looked up at the golden-winged tiger that was looking at him expectantly and said, "How about naming you Zhou Feihu? From now on, all of you should take my surname!"

"Thank you for the name, Master. From now on I will be called Zhou Feihu. I have a name now!!"

There was a flash of joy in the golden-winged tiger's eyes, and it roared with delight, scaring away countless nearby birds and beasts.

After cheering wildly for a while, it finally got over its excitement and immediately knelt down and bowed to Zhou Chun, saying, "Flying Tiger greets the master!"

"Well, Feihu, get up first and tell me about your current magical powers."

Zhou Chun smiled and waved his hand, then asked the golden-winged tiger to stand up and tell him the details of its magical powers.

After a detailed discussion with the golden-winged tiger, Zhou Chun had a detailed understanding of its magical powers after breaking through the fourth level.

In terms of strength, it is difficult to confirm whether the fourth-level golden-winged tiger is stronger than the Thunder Dragon Baibai and the Flame Prison Fire Phoenix.

Because each of the three has their own strengths, if they really fight to the death, anyone has a chance to win.

But in general, the Golden Winged Tiger's spatial magical power [Space Blade] completely surpassed other spiritual pets in terms of the upper limit of attack power, even Zhou Chun who used the spiritual treasure!
The magical power of space is originally a very mysterious magical power. It is basically difficult for cultivators below the Nascent Soul stage to master this kind of magical power.

Even for cultivators in the Nascent Soul stage, most of them do not have other attack-type spatial magical powers except the "teleportation" magical power that they automatically master after the Nascent Soul leaves the body.

Therefore, if the Golden Winged Tiger's [Space Blade] is used well, theoretically even a real person in the Nascent Soul Stage can be injured or even killed!

But this is only in theory after all.

In fact, although the space magic power is powerful and can be said to be invincible at the same level, it is not really completely unstoppable.

The defensive magical powers of a cultivator in the Nascent Soul stage, or even the best magic weapons, may be able to block the [Space Blade] released by a fourth-tier golden-winged tiger.

Moreover, with the Yuanying stage Zhenren's ability to perceive danger and powerful flying speed, it would be difficult for the Golden Winged Tiger to hit the opponent unless it suddenly attacked from close range.

However, if we exclude the Yuanying stage cultivators, within the Jindan stage, in the absence of top-grade magic weapons and magical talismans, I am afraid that 99% of the Jindan stage cultivators will find it difficult to directly block the attack of the [Space Blade]!
This kind of magical power with spatial attributes is almost the same as the rumored "space crack". It can cut through space and temporarily cut open the void that blocks one's own items!

To block such an attack, either the treasure itself contains the power of space, or the material is extremely hard and of high grade, or the magical power itself is powerful enough to temporarily offset the cutting of the power of space!

At the Jindan stage, very few cultivators can do these things!
With the Golden Winged Tiger's current cultivation and magical power, he can probably cast the [Space Blade] three times, and there must be a quarter of an hour between each cast.

Nevertheless, if these three [Space Blades] are used well, they can definitely lay the foundation for victory in the battle!
In addition to the [Space Blade], its "Air Flash" ability can now flash a hundred feet, and it is no problem to use it dozens of times in a battle.

Even the magical power of the "space bag" has been strengthened. The storage space inside is now comparable to the storage bag used by Zhou Chun. It can be used as a storage bag and as a spirit beast bag!

All in all, the magical power of the fourth-level golden-winged tiger is worthy of the hard work and efforts Zhou Chun has put in to help it break through.

After Zhou Chun understood the situation clearly, he was very satisfied.

However, before returning to the base, he specifically reminded Golden Winged Tiger not to reveal the fact that he could speak in front of anyone other than himself, not even in front of his apprentice Zhou Zhiying!
Before he possesses the strength to truly threaten a Yuanying stage cultivator, Zhou Chun does not want to expose to Jingguo the fact that he possesses strength far exceeding that of a late Jindan stage cultivator, so as to avoid attracting vigilance and suppression from certain parties.

Therefore, even the fact that the Golden Winged Tiger had broken through to the fourth level had to be kept secret as much as possible and not spread out.

The same is true for Stone, the golden-armored mountain turtle, who broke through to the fourth level.

But Zhou Mingde certainly couldn't hide it, and Zhou Chun also wanted to reassure him, so he brought the Golden Winged Tiger to meet him.

After seeing the golden-winged tiger successfully break through to the fourth level, Zhou Mingde gained more confidence in his old friend's breakthrough.

The foundation of the Fire God Jackal itself is actually not that bad, it's just that under normal circumstances, breaking through the fourth level depends a lot on luck.

Now with the help of rare treasures such as "Emperor Liujiang", the probability of a successful breakthrough is actually not low.

Sure enough, just over half a year after the Golden Winged Tiger successfully broke through, the Fire God Jackal also successfully broke through to the fourth level on Tuyun Ridge!

It is said that the sky above Tuyun Ridge was filled with flames and a fire almost broke out on the mountain.

This is the second fourth-level monster to successfully break through to the fourth level in Tuyunling, following Lei Jiao Baibai.

This incident greatly boosted the morale of the Zhou family cultivators, especially those who devoted themselves to cultivating spiritual pets, and made them more confident about the future path.

If Zhou Chun's Lei Jiao Baibai was able to break through, it was because its quality was superior and difficult for others to imitate.

Then the Fire God Jackal’s breakthrough to the fourth level is a successful example that many Zhou family cultivators can emulate and follow.

After all, Zhou Mingde's general experience in training this spiritual pet had long been written into a book and placed in the family's scripture library, and any core member of the family could read it.

Originally, the Fire God Jackal was of the bloodline of a mid-level demon beast. He looked for the corresponding spiritual object based on the experience summarized by the senior cultivators of his family to help him achieve a successful breakthrough.

Now that he has trained the Fire God Jackal to the fourth level, verifying the correctness of this path, how could this not greatly boost the morale of the family!
Now that they have the Thunder Dragon Baibai and a fourth-rank Fire God Jackal, the Zhou family's reputation as a beast-taming family is completely established.

From now on, anyone who says that the Zhou family’s reputation as a “family of beast tamers” is unworthy of its reputation is ignoring the facts and is simply spreading rumors and slander.

This is also an important reason why Zhou Mingde chose to let the Fire God Jackal break through at Tuyunling.

And because he did not conceal the news, Zhou Mingde soon received congratulations from various forces. He even held a breakthrough celebration for the Fire God Jackal and openly displayed this fourth-level monster.

Unlike Zhou Chun, he was an early Jindan cultivator with a blocked path ahead, so even if he cultivated a fourth-order spirit pet, he would not arouse fear.

At the same time, the strength of the Fire God Jackal itself is mediocre. Even if it has broken through to the fourth level, its strength is only equivalent to that of an ordinary Jindan early stage cultivator. It cannot produce dragon blood spiritual objects or cultivate dragon blood monsters like the Thunder Dragon Baibai. It is not enough to make some big forces wary.

Zhou Chun also attended the celebration and confirmed that the Fire God Jackal did not have the same great fortune as the Golden Winged Tiger, successfully refining the horizontal bone and speaking human language.

From this we can see that even if one has the same opportunity, differences in one’s own foundation will still lead to differences in the final results.

According to Zhou Chun's original intention, he wanted to go to the Great Zhou Kingdom to find Luo Qingni to make the elixir after attending the breakthrough celebration of the Fire God Jackal.

But what he didn't expect was that on the day the celebration ended, Xu Fu in the wilderness sent someone to deliver an urgent intelligence.

After reading this information, Zhou Chun had to temporarily give up the idea of ​​going to the Great Zhou Kingdom and immediately rushed back to the wilderness.

"What exactly is going on? How did the Longxing Valley stronghold suddenly get exposed?"

In the Caiyushan stronghold, after Zhou Chun hurried back there, he immediately called Xu Fu, the person in charge, to his side to inquire about the situation.

It turned out that the urgent intelligence he had received before was about the Zhou family’s first pioneering outpost in the wilderness being attacked by a group of monsters.

According to the intelligence, the Longxing Valley stronghold was suddenly discovered by monsters for some reason, attracting several third-level monsters and a large number of first- and second-level monsters to attack!
The Zhou family has been secretly pioneering in the wilderness for a hundred or two hundred years, and this is the first time they have encountered such a thing, so they must pay attention to it. Zhou Chun naturally rushed over to understand the situation as soon as possible.

In response to his question, Xu Fu replied in a low voice with an unpleasant expression: "I don't know why Longxing Valley was exposed. I only know that the base has been captured and all the cultivators inside have lost contact. I guess, I guess..."

He didn't say what it was, but Zhou Chun understood it.

This wilderness is the world of monsters and beasts. Now that Longxing Valley has been exposed and razed to the ground by monsters and beasts, the fate of those Zhou family cultivators will certainly not be good.

But now is not the time to talk about this, nor is it the time to blame Xu Fu.

Zhou Chun quickly asked with a heavy face: "What is the situation in other places now?"

"There is no news about a silver sandstone mine near Longxing Valley, but the other mines can still be contacted!"

Xu Fu quickly explained the situation in a low voice.

Hearing his answer, Zhou Chun felt relieved.

Then he looked at him and ordered, "Send a message to all places immediately, and tell them to stay in their bases and mines. They are not allowed to go out and wait patiently for the next instructions from the family."

"Yes, I'll do it right away!"

Xu Fu hurriedly responded respectfully and went to handle the matter immediately.

Zhou Chun hesitated for a moment, then released Mu Mei Mu Sang and asked it to investigate the situation in Longxing Valley first.

But before he could find out the situation in Longxing Valley through Mu Mei and Mu Sang, Xu Fu came over to report another matter.

"Reporting to the clan leader, I just received several reports saying that many places where mortals gather have been attacked by groups of monsters in the past few days, with countless casualties!"

Ok?
Zhou Chun's eyes focused, and he keenly caught an important piece of information. He immediately stared at Xu Fu and asked, "You just said that you were attacked by a group of monsters? Were they a group of the same kind of monsters?"

Hearing his words, Xu Fu replied with some embarrassment: "I don't know about this either. The people who sent the message were some Qi training cultivators, and they didn't mention the matter in detail."

"Then arrange for someone who is good at investigation to investigate immediately. I need more detailed intelligence!"

Zhou Chun gave the order in a cold tone.

"Yes, I will do it right away. I will do it right away!"

Xu Fu couldn't help but raise his sleeve to wipe his forehead, and hurriedly retreated again.

After waiting for most of the day, it was Mu Mei Mu Sang who came first and reported its findings to Zhou Chun.

According to its investigation, the Longxing Valley stronghold had indeed been completely razed to the ground, and there was not even a single corpse at the scene!

However, there are no third-level monsters there now. There are only three second-level monster wolves and hundreds of first-level monster wolves lurking there, and they seem to be planning to settle down there.

However, Mu Mei and Mu Sang discovered as many as five hidden third-level monsters and a fourth-level badger monster within hundreds of miles nearby!
It is obvious that these monsters are fishing, trying to catch more human monks!

"It seems that the sudden attack of these monsters on the Longxing Valley stronghold was not a spur of the moment attack, but was premeditated!"

"Is it because everything has gone smoothly over the past one or two hundred years that people have lost their vigilance?"

Zhou Chun muttered to himself, feeling a little heavy-hearted.

The loss of Longxing Valley was not a serious matter for the Zhou family, even though two foundation-building cultivators died there!
However, if the monsters in the wilderness become aware that there are other human cultivators in the wilderness, and begin to purposefully clear out the human cultivators’ strongholds and ambush and kill the human cultivators, it will be a huge blow to the Zhou family!

To take it to the extreme, the Zhou family might even have to temporarily withdraw from the wilderness to avoid being traced back to their lair.

"I hope it won't come to that!"

Zhou Chun sighed, but sent Mu Mei and Mu Sang out again, asking them to continue investigating around the Caiyushan stronghold to see if there were any abnormal situations here.

Since those monsters were able to discover Longxing Valley, there is no guarantee that they will not discover Caiyu Mountain. We must be on guard!

In the following days, more and more information was gathered to Zhou Chun, which gradually gave him a new perspective on the attack on Longxing Valley.

Judging from the intelligence, although the attack by monsters on Longxing Valley was premeditated, it was probably an unexpected disaster!
Because according to the intelligence summarized by various parties, the number and population of monsters are increasing rapidly in the vast area of ​​wilderness near Yasukuni.

Many species of monsters migrated from other distant areas, and there were fourth-level monsters driving and leading them behind them.

In addition, the number of third-level and fourth-level monsters is also increasing rapidly, and there are even cases where different types of fourth-level monsters coexist in a blessed land.

All these signs point to one word - beast tide!
Zhou Chun had reason to suspect that the one pushing all this behind the scenes was a fifth-level demon king, and he should be from the dragon clan!
Calculating the time, it has been almost a hundred years since King Lei Jiao died in Jingguo.

Such a fifth-level demon king died in Jingguo, and even the legendary powerful existence like the Golden Horned Dragon King suffered a great loss in Jingguo. This feud can be said to be huge!
Given the vengeful nature of monsters, how could they not want to retaliate!

Not long after the fall of the Dragon Transformation Sect, Zhou Chun discovered that many groups of monsters had migrated from the depths of the wilderness, and he suspected that a monster tide might erupt in the future.

Now, after hundreds of years of development, the monster tribes have indeed grown stronger.

Now that a large number of monsters have migrated here again, and as a result, Longxing Valley has been exposed and destroyed, Zhou Chun is basically certain that a beast tide will break out in the near future.

Moreover, from the fact that the Jiaolong clan endured for a hundred years before launching their revenge, we can know that this beast tide will definitely be a large one, and it is questionable whether Jingguo can withstand it!
Of course, those are things for the future.

Now Zhou Chun is faced with an important decision: whether to evacuate the relevant personnel in time before the Caiyushan stronghold is exposed!

You must know that after one or two hundred years of continuous development and investment, the number of cultivators driven by the Zhou family in the wilderness has now reached hundreds!

Even if Longxing Valley was destroyed and dozens of people were lost, there are still hundreds of people here.

If these people do not withdraw, and the Caiyushan stronghold and those small strongholds are discovered again, repeating the fate of the Longxinggu stronghold, the Zhou family will suffer heavy losses, absolutely serious damage.

But if we withdraw people at this time, let alone how to resettle these people and how to ensure that they will not leak secrets after returning to Jingguo, the blow to the Zhou family’s finances alone will be enormous!
It should be noted that the fiscal revenue contributed by the wilderness has now reached 20% to 30% of the Zhou family's overall fiscal revenue, and this does not include the part of trade with the alien scaly frogs!

If the Zhou family completely abandons the strongholds and mines here, the fiscal deficit will soar rapidly, and the situation of expenditure exceeding income will be inevitable, and it will be almost impossible to find other ways to alleviate it.

This huge consequence made Zhou Chun dare not make such a decision easily.

After thinking for a long time with a heavy face, he called Xu Fu to his front and ordered: "So, temporarily abandon the several mines and strongholds that are in line with Longxing Valley, and withdraw the relevant personnel secretly. I will let my pet help cover them secretly."

Then he released Mu Mei and Mu Sang to help with the evacuation.

Then he went to the Scaled Frog tribe in person and met with Bahar, the high priest of the Scaled Frog tribe.

Through the conversation with Bahar, Zhou Chun learned that the situation in the waters of Longyuanze is still relatively stable and not much different from usual.

This made him realize that the Jiaolong clan was probably not fully prepared yet, and the beast tide would not break out within two or three years!

This also made him secretly relieved, knowing that he still had time to weigh the pros and cons.

He immediately asked Bahar to help monitor the situation in the waters and notify the Zhou family in time if there were any unusual movements.

Then he returned to the Caiyushan stronghold with a heavy heart.

A few days later, when Mu Mei and Mu Sang successfully escorted the withdrawn monks back, Zhou Chun let it stay temporarily around the Caiyushan stronghold to provide vigilance, while he himself returned to Tuyunling first.

After returning to the family, Zhou Chun immediately explained the situation to Zhou Mingde who was waiting for news, and discussed whether to completely evacuate the wilderness.

"I'm afraid it's not realistic to completely evacuate the personnel there at the moment!"

"Firstly, our family has no place to accommodate so many unfamiliar monks. Secondly, every extra year they hold out will give our family's finances an extra year of buffer!"

"Besides, the family has invested a lot of resources there over the years. If we abandon them all, the loss will be too great!"

Inside the cave, after listening to Zhou Chun's proposal, Zhou Mingde quickly frowned and expressed his opposition.

He has been supervising the family on behalf of Zhou Chun for these years and is very clear about all aspects of the family. He is well aware of some serious consequences that Zhou Chun has not considered.

After expressing his objection at this time, he quickly continued, "My opinion is that we should first abandon some unimportant mineral veins and strongholds, and at the same time give up the search for wild resources, and increase the manpower invested in mining the remaining mineral veins!"

"On the other hand, those clan members with good potential and even the family's loyal warriors can be withdrawn first to prevent them from dying there."

"Finally, the family should start communicating in advance and slowly cut unnecessary expenses in various aspects in a planned manner, reduce the welfare and offerings of the family members, and stockpile war supplies!"

At this point, he seemed to have thought of something, and quickly added: "In addition, the family must also prepare a retreat in advance, and arrange some young people in the family to go out first. In case they really can't hold on at that time, the family will still have a chance to make a comeback!"

"What you said makes a lot of sense, so let's make preparations according to what you said!"

Zhou Chun nodded thoughtfully, and quickly agreed to his suggestions.

Oh! This is ridiculous. I woke up this morning and found that there was a power outage in the community. The power was not restored until 7pm. Although I made a detailed outline for today's writing during the day, I could only write 6,000 words in four hours!

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