Beast-controlling fairy clan.

After using a top-grade magic weapon to completely clarify the ownership of the token for entering and leaving the secret island with Luo Qingni, Zhou Chun was able to put aside a worry that had been weighing on his mind for a long time.

After that, he did not disturb Luo Qingni from refining the elixir and offering the magic weapon too much, and soon took the initiative to say goodbye and left.

After leaving Luo Qingni's cave, Zhou Chun followed the information she had provided and visited each of the monks who might possess spiritual objects that could help a mid-stage Jindan monk improve his cultivation.

Unfortunately, after all these visits, Zhou Chun actually gained nothing.

It’s not that those people don’t have the spiritual objects he needs, but that they simply don’t like what he takes out.

And it was impossible for him to exchange his top-grade magic weapon for such consumable spiritual objects.

Therefore, Zhou Chun could only put the matter aside with regret for the time being and turn to seek the spiritual object for Danjie.

Among the younger generations of the Zhou family, Zhou Yuanlian, Zhou Xinyan, Xu Fu and others all have the hope of reaching the Golden Core Stage.

Although Zhou Chun had never promised to help others get the Dan spiritual object except for the one he made to Xu Fu.

However, as the person with the highest cultivation level in the family, he would definitely help these younger generations in this regard if he has the ability.

After running around like this for almost a year, Zhou Chun successfully exchanged for two portions of [Extreme Yang Fire Spirit Liquid] and one portion of [Extreme Cold Ice Marrow Liquid], as well as a [Xuan Yi Qi Combination Pill] that would help him combine the pills.

Being able to achieve this, Zhou Chun felt that he had done his best for his juniors.

After all, he is not those people's parents, so he doesn't have to prepare a complete set of Dan-forming spiritual objects for each of them.

If there are not enough spiritual objects for forming the elixir, then these people can only look for opportunities on their own.

When Zhou Chun returned to Tianyuan Fairy City and found Luo Qingni to receive the pills that she had entrusted him to refine, and was about to say goodbye to Zhou Daoyi, he suddenly heard a piece of news from Zhou Daoyi that someone had come to Zhou's Mingde Trading Company and asked to see Zhang Liang under the name of "Zhang Liang".

Since Zhou Daoyi knew that Zhou Chun traveled around the world of immortals and often used this pseudonym, he knew that the man was actually looking for Zhou Chun.

After Zhou Chun learned about this, he decided to meet that person.

On this day, he asked the people in the business to contact the man in advance, and then waited for the other party to arrive in the backyard of the business.

When the man came over, Zhou Chun saw through his disguise at a glance. He immediately smiled at Bai Zhiqing, who was disguised as an old woman, and said, "It turns out to be Mr. Bai. What a rare guest!"

The old lady in front of him was none other than Bai Zhiqing, a disciple of the Tianhuo Sect in the Far West.

When Zhou Chun was a guest at Tianhuo Sect, the other party helped him collect many specialties from the immortal cultivation world in the Far West, and the two of them became acquainted because of this.

At that time, Bai Zhiqing learned about the prosperity of the Great Zhou Kingdom's immortal cultivation world through chatting with him, and she also felt a yearning for it and expressed her desire to come and travel.

At that time, Zhou Chun was not very optimistic about the other party's plan, because it was still difficult and dangerous for someone with the Purple Mansion Stage to achieve this.

But looking at Bai Zhiqing, who had already reached the late Purple Mansion stage, Zhou Chun understood that she had finally chosen to take the risk, and it seemed that she had succeeded.

At this time, after Zhou Chun revealed her true identity, Bai Zhiqing simply stopped hiding it and immediately put away her disguise to reveal her true face. She bowed respectfully and said, "Junior greets Senior Zhang. I am sorry for disturbing your meditation by coming here. I hope you will forgive me."

"You are welcome, Mr. Bai. It is a great pleasure to have friends coming from afar. I am very happy to meet a foreign friend like Mr. Bai in the Great Zhou Kingdom."

Zhou Chun waved his hand and said with a smile.

After hearing his words, Bai Zhiqing's anxiety immediately dissipated a lot, and she immediately complimented him: "Senior Zhang has a broad mind and is magnanimous. I sincerely admire him."

Zhou Chun just smiled faintly at the compliment, not taking it seriously. He then looked at Bai Zhiqing and said directly, "Little friend Bai, with only the cultivation level of the Purple Mansion Stage, has come to the Great Zhou Kingdom across thousands of miles. This perseverance is truly admirable. I wonder how Zhang can help you?"

But he knew in his heart that Bai Zhiqing came to Mingde Trading Company to find him because she must have something to ask for.

Sure enough, after hearing his words, Bai Zhiqing immediately replied respectfully: "I dare not deceive Senior Zhang. The reason why I took the liberty to come to your door and ask for your help in exchanging Dan-Jie spiritual objects with others."

"Oh, what you mean, Mr. Bai, is that you have already found a replacement candidate, but you are just worried about accidents during the exchange process?"

Zhou Chun's expression changed, and he looked at the other party thoughtfully and asked.

"Yes, that's exactly what I'm worried about."

Bai Zhiqing nodded and admitted it directly.

Seeing this, Zhou Chun did not refuse, and nodded happily and said, "Okay, if that's the case, I'll do you a small favor. Little friend Bai, please explain the situation to me in detail."

"Thank you, Senior Zhang. I am very grateful for your kindness."

Bai Zhiqing looked delighted and thanked him profusely, then explained the relevant situation.

After Zhou Chun understood the situation clearly, he quickly asked Bai Zhiqing to contact the other party and personally made an exchange for him.

With the help of the elder Zhou Chun, the exchange was successfully completed. Bai Zhiqing also rented a cave in Tianyuan Fairy City and prepared to go into seclusion to form the elixir.

After doing this, Zhou Chun returned directly to his family.

After returning to the family, Zhou Chun did not publicly put those Jindan spiritual objects on the shelves, but only privately revealed some information to a few younger generations with good potential.

This was not because he was selfish, but because he did not want the family elders to ruin their relationship with each other because of these Jindan spiritual objects, or even do things that were detrimental to the unity of the family.

If Zhou Chun did not directly announce the news of these Jindan spiritual objects, some elders in the Purple Mansion Stage who originally had little hope might not have any ideas and just wanted to live the rest of their lives in peace.

If he announced this news, I'm afraid everyone would be tempted and want to spend all their wealth to give it a try.

This is actually not a good thing for either them or the Zhou family.

Because if they fail in their attempt, not only will they lose their lives, but their years of savings will also be destroyed.

For the family, the failure of these people not only caused the family to lose an elder, but also wasted the hard-earned spiritual objects for forming the Dan.

Therefore, unless the family has too many spiritual objects for Dan formation, or unless he succeeds in Dan transformation and infant formation in the future, Zhou Chun will definitely not easily release such treasures for people to exchange.

At the same time, the elders of the Zhou family who received Zhou Chun's hint suddenly became full of motivation, and their whole spirit and energy were different.

Jindan and Zifu seem to be only separated by one realm, but there is a huge difference in their status, strength, and lifespan.

Only the Jindan stage cultivators can truly be called high-level cultivators.

Only by becoming a Jindan stage cultivator can one truly enter the core circle of the Zhou family and become the decision-maker.

Two years passed quietly, and the four little insects that were almost given up by Zhou Chun finally ushered in the crucial third metamorphosis!
After the four little insects underwent their third metamorphosis, they finally grew a pair of crystal clear ice wings.

The pair of wings were as broad as butterfly wings, and they could carry small insects into the sky with a flap of their wings, and at a fairly fast speed.

After this transformation, not only has the insect's stealth ability been further enhanced, it can also spit out silk threads as a means of attack.

The silk threads they spit out are extremely tough and cannot be broken even by a first-grade, top-quality monster with brute force. They also contain an extremely icy aura.

Once tied up by this thread, the cold air emitted by the thread alone would cause blood circulation to be blocked, making it difficult for the target to exert the strength to break free.

Zhou Chun let them out to fight with some first-grade top-quality monsters raised by the Zhou family, and found that even in a one-on-one fight, no first-grade top-quality monster could be their opponent.

Even many monsters cannot detect them when they are invisible!

This result surprised Zhou Chun, but also basically confirmed their true identities.

It is most likely the legendary six-winged ice silkworm!
After discovering this, Zhou Chun's attitude towards the four six-winged ice silkworm larvae suddenly changed, and he really cultivated them with all his heart. Not only did he change the food he fed them to various high-level monster flesh and high-level spiritual tree leaves, he even killed some "Sky Frost Bees" that were about to die and fed them.

The result was similar to what Zhou Chun had guessed. The six-winged ice silkworm larvae, which did not seem to have much effect when eating the flesh and blood of high-level monsters and the leaves of spiritual trees, had their aura visibly enhanced after eating the strange insect "Sky Frost Cold Bee".

Obviously, for strange insects like the six-winged ice silkworm, only by eating strange insects with the same properties as the "Sky Frost Bee" can their growth rate be accelerated.

However, Zhou Chun did not feed all the "Sky Frost Bees" to the six-winged ice silkworms because of this.

Because he knew very well that even if he fed all the "Sky Frost Bees" to these four larvae, he might not be able to let them enter the mature stage and have the power to kill Jindan stage cultivators in seconds.

In this case, it is better to let them grow naturally while they are still in their infancy, when their growth rate is relatively faster than in the future.

When they enter adolescence and even adulthood, their growth rate becomes extremely slow, so slow that it can be counted in hundreds of years. Then they are fed large amounts of "Frost Bees" to promote their faster adulthood and maturity.

While Zhou Chun was concentrating on his cultivation, the Zhou family, after decades of recuperation, began to show its influence.

In the newly built Beast Market in Lianzhou, an auction that the Zhou family had been preparing for many years was held.

The Zhou family had been preparing for this auction for nearly ten years, and they had even started hyping it up on the "Tianling Morning Post" a year in advance. The news had even spread to other nearby countries.

Because a partial list of auction items was released during the warm-up period, including precious items such as Foundation Establishment Pills and spiritual objects that assist in opening up the Purple Mansion, it attracted many interested cultivators.

On the day of the auction, there were five Jindan-stage cultivators from the Wanshoufang Market alone, and there were so many other Zifu-stage cultivators and Foundation Establishment-stage cultivators that there were not enough private rooms in the auction hall.

After all the monks participating in the auction entered, Zhou Mingde personally appeared on the auction table with a fourth-level fire god jackal to escort the auction.

The person in charge of hosting this auction was Zhou Yuanyuan, the elder of the Zhou family.

"Welcome all the seniors and fellow Taoists who have come from afar to participate in this auction at the Hundred Beasts Market. On behalf of the Zhou family, I would like to express my sincerest gratitude to all the seniors and fellow Taoists."

On the auction stage, Zhou Yuanyuan first looked around and made a polite opening speech. Then, without any delay, she patted her storage bag, took out a pill bottle and held it in her hand, saying loudly: "The following is the first treasure of this auction, a foundation-building pill. The starting price is 8,000 spirit coins, and each bid must not be less than 100 spirit coins!"

As soon as the words fell, the eyes of those Qi training cultivators who were not strong enough to enter the private room suddenly turned red.

They all looked at the pill bottle in Zhou Yuanyuan's hand with eager eyes, wishing they could put it in their pockets immediately.

For cultivators in the Qi training stage, the most precious treasure is always the Foundation Establishment Pill.

Even if they were asked to exchange their magic weapons for the Foundation Establishment Pill, they would be willing to do so.

After all, they cannot use magic weapons, but the Foundation Establishment Pill can give them a great chance to successfully establish the foundation, thus taking the most important step on the road of cultivation.

For a while, various bidding sounds came one after another, making it very lively.

In the end, this Foundation Establishment Pill was auctioned for a high price of 14,500 spirit coins!
At the subsequent auction, the Zhou family's various special spiritual objects became the main products of this auction.

From small items like [Demon Spirit Pills] that can improve the cultivation level of second-level monsters, to the musk produced by the fragrant spirit musk deer, to the eggs of the young monsters of intermediate-level monsters such as the Cloud-Stepping Dragon Colt and the Green-Striped Water Turtle, and even the blood essence of a fourth-level dragon, all of them were taken out for auction one after another.

In addition, Zhou Chun took out various thousand-year-old elixirs and magical weapons, which attracted the Jindan stage cultivators to take action.

The final treasure is actually a low-grade magic weapon!
Daring to put low-grade magic weapons up for auction undoubtedly demonstrated the Zhou family's extraordinary background to the outside world.

After all, for the vast majority of Jindan families, having too many magic weapons is never too much.

Even if there are so many that even the Jindan-stage cultivators in the family cannot control them, they can still be transformed into "pseudo-magic weapons" or refined into talismans.

The Zhou family now dares to put the magic weapons up for auction. If they are not trying to show off, it means that they already have a stable channel to obtain magic weapons, or they have so many magic weapons that they don't need one or two more.

No matter which situation it is, it shows that the Zhou family is no longer on the same level as ordinary Jindan families.

Therefore, after this auction, many cultivators who participated in the auction couldn't help but look up to the Zhou family even more in their hearts.

Perhaps they have not yet truly regarded the Zhou family as a Nascent Soul force and acknowledged that the Zhou family is a powerful force, but they certainly do not dare to regard the Zhou family as an ordinary Golden Core family anymore.

But this auction is only part of the Zhou family's display of its own strength.

Because shortly after the auction, the Zhou family gathered all the families and independent cultivators in Lanzhou and Lianzhou to hold a monster hunting event.

The purpose of this monster hunting activity is mainly to sweep and kill the monsters that occupy the mountains and lakes in the two states, even including several third-level monsters!

You must know that in these years, although the monsters occupying Yunzhou have never invaded Lanzhou, Lingzhou and other places on a large scale, there are often small-scale groups or lone monsters entering these Jingguo territories from Yunzhou.

The border patrol teams, which are more symbolic in nature, are simply unable to stop the entry of these monsters.

Therefore, even though decades have passed, the threat of monsters in several states in the central and southern parts of Jingguo has not been eliminated.

When some low-level Qi training monks go out, they have to take a detour when they encounter deep mountains and old forests, for fear that some monsters will suddenly jump out and take them as prey.

But this time the Zhou family is serious!
More than two hundred Zhou family cultivators brought their spiritual pets, which were several times their number, and also brought cultivators from various vassal forces who were summoned. A total of five to six hundred people were divided into dozens of teams to conduct a dragnet search and hunting, clearing out the monsters in the two states.

Many monsters usually hide very deeply, either staying dormant during the day or coming out at night, or they hide when they smell the scent of cultivators, so that they have escaped some previous clearing operations.

But this time, the Zhou family's teams brought along monsters that were good at tracking. They used monsters to find monsters, and immediately made those cunning monsters nowhere to hide.

This massive monster hunting activity lasted for more than three months before it ended.

During this monster hunting activity, none of the Jindan stage cultivators of the Zhou family took action, and not even a fourth-level monster was sent out.

But even in this situation, there were three third-level monsters killed by the Zhou family, more than fifty second-level monsters, and more than 20,000 first-level monsters!
However, the number of cultivators who died in the event was less than fifty, and less than half of them were from the Zhou family.

It can be said to be a very successful monster hunting activity!

After this monster hunting activity, the monsters in Lanzhou and Lianzhou were basically eliminated, and the safety level was restored to the level before the monster tide broke out.

The execution ability demonstrated by the Zhou family in this event, as well as the personal strength displayed by the Zhou family cultivators, greatly shocked the vassal forces that participated in the war.

There is no harm without comparison!
In the process of hunting monsters together with the Zhou family members, compared with the strength and means displayed by the Zhou family cultivators, the cultivators of the vassal forces could not help but feel inferior.

After this event, the cultivators from these vassal forces were full of awe when they talked about the Zhou family.

Only then did the cultivators from these forces realize that they were not as good as the Zhou family, not only because they did not have a Jindan-stage cultivator in charge, but also because they themselves were not at all as good as the Zhou family cultivators of the same realm!

Once this understanding was formed, they were filled with awe for the Zhou family, the dominant force.

On the other hand, this monster hunting activity is also an assessment and test of many members of the Zhou family.

The tribesmen who performed well in the monster hunting activities received various material rewards from the family afterwards. Some outstanding ones even caught the eyes of the family elders and even the supreme elders, and won the favor of the real rulers of these families.

All of these outstanding tribesmen were personally received and rewarded by Zhou Xinyan.

"Zhou Yuanxin, um, your father is Zhou Gaoping? Not bad, not bad. Your performance in this monster hunting activity can be regarded as a case of a good father and a good son!"

"This Thunder Lizard Beast egg is the family's reward for your outstanding performance this time. I hope you will not let the family down and cultivate this beast well so that you can advance to the second level, or even the third level, together with it in the future!"

In the Zhongping Hall where the clan leader holds office, Zhou Xinyan patted the shoulder of a round-faced young man in front of him with an encouraging smile. After some encouragement, he distributed the prepared reward to the other party.

After receiving the jade box containing the beast eggs, the round-faced young man could not hide his joy and immediately hugged the jade box tightly. He bowed deeply to Zhou Xinyan and said, "Thank you, Elder Zhou Yuanxin, for the reward. I will work hard to cultivate and serve the family loyally, so as not to disappoint the family's cultivation and the elder's love!"

I’m speechless. I could have finished writing 6,000 words, but my family called me for an hour at night urging me to get married. I was so exhausted!