Beast-controlling fairy clan.

The alchemy inheritance that Zhou Chun passed on to Luo Qingni contained too much knowledge. Even an alchemy master like Luo Qingni would not be able to comprehend it thoroughly in a short period of time.

Moreover, once an alchemy master like her obtains this kind of profound inheritance that she has never been involved in, it will be easy for her to gain insights from it and come up with the idea of ​​applying what she has learned to other situations. She will not be able to resist starting to refine the elixir to verify some of her own gains.

This will also take a lot of time.

So Zhou Chun waited in Tianyuan Fairy City for nearly three years before Luo Qingni sent him an invitation.

After receiving the message, he quickly went to visit "Qing Ni Ju".

After being welcomed into the cave by Luo Qingni, the two exchanged some pleasantries. Zhou Chun looked at Luo Qingni's expression and asked with a smile, "It's been three years since we last met. I wonder what you have learned, Brother Luo?"

“The harvest is naturally huge!”

Luo Qingni sighed softly and said with emotion: "The alchemy inheritance that Qingni originally learned was completely mastered shortly after Qingni formed the elixir. For the later Grandmaster level, there is no practical and useful content to learn from!"

"Later, I received two precious pill recipes from Brother Zhou, as well as the alchemy notes he gave me. After communicating with other alchemy masters and grandmasters, I finally gained some understanding of the grandmaster realm and vaguely found a direction!"

At this point, she couldn't help but glance at Zhou Chun, and then said again: "This time, I am grateful for the trust and love of Master and Disciple Zhou, who gave me the profound alchemy inheritance that leads to the realm of the Grand Master of the Dao of Alchemy. After careful study and verification, Qing Ni finally found her own path to becoming a Grand Master and understood where she was lacking!"

"If nothing unexpected happens, Qing Ni only needs to refine some more high-level pills to verify her newly learned skills. She should be able to reach the level of a grandmaster!"

At the end of her speech, a strong sense of self-confidence was revealed in her words.

As a self-employed alchemy master and a female mid-stage Jindan cultivator, Luo Qingni also has her own pride.

She has extraordinary qualities both in terms of spiritual aptitude and talent in understanding alchemy.

Otherwise, she wouldn't have been able to successfully form an elixir as a casual cultivator without relying on any forces, and become an alchemy master before she even succeeded in forming an elixir!
Her talent in alchemy is actually very outstanding. If she had joined a sect early on and received training from a powerful sect, she would probably have been a well-known alchemy master by now!

This time Zhou Chun gave her a complete set of alchemy inheritance, allowing her to make up for her shortcomings in the alchemy inheritance. Her alchemy skills, which had been difficult to make great progress due to the limitations of the inheritance, suddenly made a leap forward.

The realm of Grandmaster is right before our eyes!

This is how skills are, understanding and inheritance are more important than anything else.

If you have both insight and heritage, and have no shortage of opportunities to put theory into practice, you will progress very quickly.

On the contrary, if one’s comprehension is not good enough, even if one has the complete inheritance in hand, it will be like reading a heavenly book and one will never be able to learn it!

There is no shortage of geniuses in the world of cultivating immortals, but there is a shortage of geniuses with extraordinary comprehension!

A genius with extraordinary comprehension can sometimes bring about tremendous changes to the entire world of cultivation!

Zhou Chun had no doubt about Luo Qingni's words. He had always known that this good friend was a true genius in alchemy.

In the past, I was limited by the inheritance of knowledge and was unable to fully explore my own talents.

Now that he has made up for his shortcomings, with his talent in alchemy, it is only natural for him to step into the realm of alchemy grandmaster.

Therefore, he smiled and said, "Then Zhou would like to congratulate Brother Luo on his great progress in alchemy in advance, and wish that Brother Luo can reach the level of a Grandmaster as soon as possible."

After saying that, he slapped the storage bag on his waist, took out a piece of white paper with the names of several elixirs written on it and handed it to Luo Qingni.

At the same time, he said: "I have the main ingredients and important auxiliary medicines for the above pills. The remaining auxiliary medicines are not rare and it is easy to collect them all. If you, Luo Daoyou, want to reach the Grandmaster level, these pills should be a great opportunity to practice!"

“As for the [Four Spirits Barrier Breaking Pill], let’s wait until Brother Luo truly reaches the Grandmaster level before we start refining it!”

Upon hearing this, Luo Qingni immediately reached out to take the white paper and took a look. The several kinds of elixirs on it were exactly the recipes passed down by [Master Xuanfeng].

She seemed to have expected this in her heart and did not feel shocked at this time.

He just said to Zhou Chun calmly: "Since Brother Zhou trusts Qing Ni so much, Qing Ni will naturally not let you down!"

Hearing her agree so readily, Zhou Chun felt relieved and promised: "Don't worry, Brother Luo, after the pills above are refined, I can share the pills that are beneficial to your cultivation with you in half. I will never let you suffer a loss!"

But Luo Qingni shook her head and rejected his kindness: "There's no need to split it in half. Qingni has already received great kindness from Master and Disciple Zhou. How can I have the nerve to take such a generous reward!"

"Besides, Qing Ni has already promised Fellow Daoist Zhou that in the future, whenever Fellow Daoist Zhou asks me to make pills, Qing Ni will not charge a penny!"

Although she is a casual cultivator, she also has her own principles and bottom line.

Zhou Chun gave her the alchemy inheritance, which was something she could not refuse, so even though she knew that she would owe him a huge favor, she had no choice but to accept it for the sake of her own path.

However, things like elixirs for improving cultivation were not necessary for her, so she naturally did not want to owe more favors to others and go against her previous promise.

In fact, this is also an important reason why Zhou Chun admires her very much!
Zhou Chun himself is a person with strong principles and bottom line, so he will naturally have a better impression of cultivators who also possess such qualities, and they will appreciate each other.

Therefore, Luo Qingni's attitude of rejection at this time was not unexpected to Zhou Chun, and it only made him feel more that he had not made a mistake in choosing the right person.

Therefore, he immediately smiled and said, "Then just think of it as Zhou lending it to fellow Daoist Luo first. When fellow Daoist Luo reaches the realm of alchemy master and breaks through the late stage of alchemy, he will definitely attract a large number of fellow Daoists to come and ask for help in alchemy. At that time, you can return it to Zhou with other elixirs or spiritual medicines!"

At this point, he saw that Luo Qingni seemed to be interested, so he immediately waved his hand and said, "It's decided. If Brother Luo is polite again, you will treat me as an outsider!"

"Then Qingni is ashamed to accept it!"

Luo Qingni opened her mouth, but finally nodded slightly and agreed.

But I didn't feel too happy in my heart. Instead, I was a little worried. I didn't know how to repay the favors I owed in the future!

Maybe this is the trouble of happiness!
Next, Zhou Chun handed a portion of alchemy materials to Luo Qingni and left without further ado.

He would put the remaining elixirs with Zhou Daoyi, and when Luo Qingni needed to refine other pills, she could go directly to get them.

However, Zhou Chun would not stay in Tianyuan Fairy City for long, and soon returned to his family in Qinglian Mountains.

When Zhou Chun returned to Jingguo, the ancestor of the Su family had already passed away.

When he learned about this, he hurried to the Su family's mountain gate to burn incense and mourn for the deceased elder.

And in the following months, Zhou Chun also stayed in the Su family's mountain gate to accompany his Taoist partner Su Yuzhen, comforting his Taoist partner who was feeling a little depressed.

Fortunately, the ancestor of the Su family had passed away due to normal old age, and all arrangements had been made long before his death. The Su family did not experience any turmoil due to his death.

Zhou Chun's high-profile appearance at the Su family was also intended to allow the Su family to use his reputation to intimidate both the inside and outside of the family.

He stayed in the Su family for several months, and after fully demonstrating his attitude, he returned to the cave in the Qinglian Mountains to practice in seclusion.

While Zhou Chun was practicing in seclusion in the Qinglian Mountains, the Zhou family suddenly became lively because of the large amount of resources he brought back.

In addition to the spiritual medicine that Zhou Chun needed, Zhou Zhiying also brought back some fourth-level and third-level spiritual fruits with extraordinary effects from the secret cave, as well as a number of spiritual teas and spiritual medicines similar to the "Bi Bo Xixin Tea".

He kept half of these things to distribute to the Jindan-stage cultivators in the family, and put the remaining half into the family treasury for exchange by those family members whose cultivation level was below the Jindan-stage.

After Zhou Xinyan found out about this, he quickly made a proposal. The Zhou family took out some fourth-level spiritual fruits and third-level spiritual fruits, as well as some other rare spiritual objects, to hold a "fruit appreciation conference" and invited all the forces under their command to participate.

At that time, the Zhou family cultivators will rank together with these subordinate forces through martial arts competitions. The top-ranked cultivators can enjoy spiritual fruits of different grades and effects according to their rankings.

This type of martial arts competition can, firstly, help to increase the enthusiasm of the cultivators within the family, secondly, it can also be an opportunity to observe the talent pool of the vassal forces under one's command, and thirdly, it can rally the hearts of the vassal forces, which can be said to kill multiple birds with one stone.

Therefore, once Zhou Xinyan proposed it, it was quickly approved by Zhou Mingde.

So, only half a year later, the elites from various immortal cultivation families and independent cultivation bases in Lanzhou and Lingzhou gathered in the Qinglian Mountains.

On this day, when the "Fruit Appreciation Conference" officially began, Zhou Chun also appeared in person and delivered a speech.

Then the participating monks, who had been preparing for half a year, began to take the stage one after another.

What was different from the usual martial arts competitions held by the Zhou family was that this time, because the spiritual fruit Zhou Chun brought out was of such high quality, even some Purple Mansion Stage cultivators signed up to participate in the competition.

Therefore, they had to be divided into three groups according to their cultivation level: one group of Purple Mansion cultivators, one group of Foundation Establishment cultivators, and another group of Qi Condensation cultivators.

The first to go on stage were naturally the cultivators in the Qi training stage.

"The reward for the Qi training group this time is [Essence Building Fruit]. The first place winner will receive two [Essence Building Fruits]. The second to tenth place winners will each receive one [Essence Building Fruit]. The tenth to thirtieth place winners will each receive a second-level spiritual date!"

As Zhou Xinyan loudly announced the rewards for the Qi training group, hundreds of Qi training cultivators who had registered began to take the stage to compete.

Due to various reasons, only two-thirds of the Zhou family's Qi training cultivators participated in the competition.

However, when the results of the entire Qi training group's competition came out, the Zhou family's cultivators took the top ten places, and among the top thirty there were only five Qi training cultivators from outside the Zhou family.

None of the monks who watched the martial arts competition were surprised by this result.

Because the Zhou family cultivators do have a huge advantage!
Almost all of the Zhou family cultivators who won the prize had powerful and gifted spirit pets accompanying them, and their own magical instruments were also extremely excellent. Even if some cultivators from other forces also brought spirit pets, it was still difficult for them to compete with them.

The reason why the five Qi-training cultivators outside the Zhou family were able to win was because three of them had also tamed the dragon-born monster pets produced by the Zhou family, which were themselves the foundation-building seeds cultivated by their own forces!

You know, with the breakthroughs of Lei Jiao Baibai and Qing Jiao Qingqing to become fourth-level monsters and building nests in the Qinglian Mountains, the Zhou family's dragon-born monster species have increased by several more.

For example, there is the [Thunder Dragon Carp] which has thunder and water attributes, the [Wind and Fire Dragon Wolf] which has wind and fire attributes, the [Thunder Flame Fire Ape] which has thunder and fire attributes, and so on.

It is almost certain that in the future, each of the Zhou family's foundation-building cultivators will have a second-level demon beast in his or her hands.

By that time, the golden signboard of "Spirit Beast Zhou Family" will truly become a major feature of the entire Tianling world.

After the Qi training group is the foundation building group. Almost all the Zhou family's foundation building cultivators who are still in Jingguo have signed up to participate in this martial arts competition, even those in the early stage of foundation building are no exception.

Because even if they don't win a ranking, they can take this opportunity to see the gap between themselves and others, and by the way, show up in front of the real top leaders of the family such as Zhou Chun and Zhou Mingde.

According to the latest statistics, the Zhou family now has a total of seventy-six Foundation Establishment cultivators, including some in-laws.

Except for the seven or eight foundation-building cultivators in the wilderness who did not come, and excluding some foundation-building cultivators who left Jingguo to travel, the number of Zhou family foundation-building cultivators present today exceeded fifty.

Zhou Chun was somewhat interested in these backbone members of the family and took a look at them.

"The next match is between Zhou Yuanxin and Zhou Gaolong!"

As Zhou Xinyan, the elder of the Zhou family who was presiding over the duel between the Foundation Establishment cultivators, spoke, two Zhou family Foundation Establishment cultivators stepped onto the stage together.

Zhou Yuanxin was a young man in white who had just successfully established his foundation, while Zhou Gaolong was a square-faced middle-aged man whose cultivation was close to the middle stage of foundation building.

After the two of them came on stage, Zhou Yuanxin, the younger generation, immediately bowed to the square-faced middle-aged man and said, "My nephew greets my uncle. I hope you can show some mercy in the next fight."

Upon seeing this, Zhou Gaolong immediately laughed and said, "Hahaha, my dear nephew Yuanxin, you don't have to be polite. Just put what you have learned into practice. You and I are at the same level of cultivation, so there may be a chance that you can defeat me, your uncle!"

From his words, it was obvious that he did not regard Zhou Yuanxin as an opponent of the same level, and still believed that he would win as the elder.

But when the two released their spirit pets, his expression changed.

Zhou Yuanxin on the opposite side slapped the spirit beast bag on his waist and released two spirit pets, a colorful pheasant and a thunder lizard.

The reason why Zhou Gaolong's face changed drastically was because of the colorful pheasant.

Because this demon bird has actually already reached the level of a second-grade lower-grade demon beast!

"How is this possible! It's only been less than seven years since you successfully established your foundation. How could you train this spirit pet to the second level so quickly?"

Zhou Gaolong was so shocked that he couldn't help but scream out loud, and he no longer looked relaxed.

Although he also had a second-level low-grade spiritual pet, it was a fire-winged wolf.

Although the Fire-Winged Wolf itself is a good race among the intermediate monsters, it is obviously no match for the Five-Colored Pheasant that has awakened the Fire Phoenix bloodline. Even its fire-attribute spells can be restrained by it.

Sure enough, the subsequent fight between the two quickly confirmed his inner worries.

In the battle between the Fire-Winged Wolf and the Five-Colored Pheasant, the Wolf was completely suppressed by the other side.

No matter the fire spells he mastered or the evil fire that was born in his body, it was difficult for them to pose any threat to the five-colored pheasant.

However, the Fire Phoenix bloodline of the Five-Colored Pheasant makes its fire spells several times more powerful than those of the Fire-Winged Wolf. The five-colored demonic fire it spews out also has a trace of the power of [Lapis Lazuli Pure Fire].

What surprised Zhou Gaolong even more was that Zhou Yuanxin, who succeeded in building his foundation more than 20 years later than him, was not at all inferior to him in a one-on-one fight, and even made him quite flustered.

The reason for this is that the other party is practicing a top-level fire-attributed technique!
In this situation where both himself and his spirit pet were at a disadvantage, the fight between the two lasted less than two quarters of an hour and ended with Zhou Yuanxin's victory.

"This five-colored phoenix-tailed pheasant looks pretty good. There are only a few dragon-born monsters in the family that have such strength!"

In the stands, Zhou Chun witnessed the five-colored pheasant suppressing the fire-winged wolf throughout the battle, and nodded slightly, feeling quite satisfied with the strength of this monster.

Hearing his words, Zhou Mingde nodded first, then smiled bitterly and said, "Not bad, but it's a little difficult to breed. Now, after several decades, the number of colorful pheasants in the family is less than two palms!"

"There's nothing we can do about this. The Phoenix Blood Monster Beasts don't reproduce as fast as the Dragon Blood Monsters. Now we can only wait for them to slowly multiply and expand their population."

Zhou Chun shook his head slightly and said helplessly.

The more powerful the monster, the slower its reproduction rate. This is due to the rules of heaven and earth.

Otherwise, the world would have been full of dragons and phoenixes!

Although beast-taming families like the Zhou family have ways to promote the rapid reproduction of low-level monsters through drugs and secret techniques, human intervention methods are not completely ineffective for mid-level and high-level monsters, but the effects are also weak.

Therefore, the only effective way is to try to prevent accidental deaths among members of a certain monster race, and then increase the number of the race by expanding its base.

After about two days, the results of the foundation-building group's competition came out.

The top ten are still all occupied by Zhou family cultivators, and the number of non-Zhou family cultivators in the top twenty has been further reduced to only three!
The first place in the foundation-building group will be rewarded with a fourth-grade spiritual fruit, the top ten will be rewarded with third-grade upper-grade spiritual fruits, and the tenth to twentieth will be rewarded with third-grade lower-grade spiritual fruits.

Compared with the large number of Qi training group and foundation building group, the number of Purple Mansion stage cultivators participating in the competition is very small. Including Zhou Xinyan, there are only twelve in total.

Only the top five can receive a fourth-level spiritual fruit as a reward, and the rest can enjoy a third-level lower-quality spiritual fruit later.

However, although they had the smallest number of people, the battle in the Zifu Group was the most exciting.

Especially Zhou Zhiqian, who has already cultivated to the middle stage of Purple Mansion.

He was alone with only a sword, without any spiritual pet, but he fought all the way to the final round.

If Zhou Xinyan had not trained his intermediate monster Flame Dragon Python into a third-level intermediate-grade monster Flame Horned Dragon Python, and if he himself had not reached the late Purple Mansion stage, he would not be able to defeat him!
But in fact, even Zhou Xinyan didn’t know that if it really was a life-and-death fight, Zhou Zhiqian definitely had the strength to die together with him!
Because for sword cultivators, some truly powerful killing moves are often life-threatening methods, where either the enemy dies or one dies, and they are not suitable for use in arena competitions at all.

Therefore, when the competition for the top spot in the Purple Mansion Group ended, even Zhou Mingde couldn't help but sigh: "If this boy doesn't die prematurely in the future, his chances of successfully forming a pill will be the highest among all the Purple Mansion cultivators in the family now!"

Hearing this, Zhou Chun also nodded and said, "Zhi Qian's performance is indeed good. This time, we can give him one more of those fourth-level spiritual pears!"

The fourth-level spiritual pear he mentioned was the same kind of spiritual fruit as the fifth-level spiritual apricot he had taken before, and could be used directly to improve the magical powers of cultivators.

If he took this thing, each pill could save him almost a year of practice time.

For a Purple Mansion stage cultivator, taking one pill can be equivalent to ten to twenty years of hard training!
Spiritual fruits like this are extremely rare in the world of immortal cultivation. Generally, they are only available in large forces with a long history. Moreover, often before the fruits are ripe, the person who will take each one has already been reserved!
At the same time, the growth cycle of this kind of spiritual fruit is often very long, often hundreds of years!

According to the communication between Mu Mei and Mu Sang and the spiritual fruit tree, it takes nearly a thousand years for the fifth-level spiritual apricot fruit to mature from flowering!
However, the advantage of this spiritual fruit tree is that even if the spiritual fruit is ripe, as long as it is not picked, it can often remain on the tree for a thousand years!

With Zhou Chun in charge, the "Fruit Appreciation Conference" held by the Zhou family was a complete success.

After this grand event, Zhou Chun devoted himself to his cultivation behind closed doors.

It was not until five years later that the celestial phenomenon indicating that Zhou Yuanlian had successfully formed a pill appeared, allowing him to walk out of his cave.

"Very good! From today on, the Zhou family has one more Jindan stage cultivator!"

On the Qinglian Peak, Zhou Chun watched the Jindan phenomenon above Zhou Yuanlian's retreat cave gradually dissipate, and a look of genuine joy appeared on his face.

This news quickly spread throughout the Zhou family and caused some discussion within Jingguo.

It’s just because the times are different now, and with the current size of the Zhou family, the emergence of a new Jindan stage cultivator is not a new thing.

This can only prove one thing, that the Zhou family has the continuous blood-producing ability of a Jindan-stage cultivator, and in this respect has gradually moved away from the scope of a Jindan family.

Perhaps it was Zhou Yuanlian's success that inspired some people. Zhou Xinyan, Xu Fu and Zhou Yuanyuan, who were no longer young, also began to retreat and form the elixir one year after his success.

The three of them were in seclusion and had consumed most of the Jindan spiritual objects that Zhou Chun had brought back, making it difficult for them to gather a complete set of Jindan spiritual objects.

Fortunately, among the entire Zhou family, currently, only a few of them need spiritual objects for forming elixir to reach the Golden Core Stage, so Zhou Chun does not need to rush to look for spiritual objects for forming elixir.

At the same time, in the third year after Zhou Yuanlian formed the Golden Core, after Zhou Chun took the last [Huanzhen Pill] and refined it, he finally touched the barrier of the late Golden Core stage and his cultivation reached the peak of the middle Golden Core stage.

He also tried to break through the barrier of the late Jindan period, but found that his own accumulation was far from enough to shake that barrier.

Without the help of other spiritual creatures, he might be trapped by this barrier for hundreds of years, or even his entire life!

After all, his own qualifications are not that outstanding.

Fortunately, he had been mentally prepared for this. After discovering that it was impossible for him to break through the realm barrier in a short period of time, he immediately went to the Great Zhou Kingdom to find Luo Qingni to refine the [Four Spirits Barrier Breaking Pill].

(End of this chapter)