Beast-controlling fairy clan.

Chapter 65: Store Crisis, Qinglian Gate Opens
The two magical instruments that Zhou Daoyi rewarded to Zhou Chun had the imprint of the previous owner's spiritual consciousness erased from them beforehand, so after Zhou Chun returned to Baozhi Peak, he quickly sacrificed and refined the two magical instruments.

In this way, he now has four first-grade top-quality magical weapons in his hands.

Honestly speaking, with his current magical power, it is almost impossible for him to control four first-grade top-quality magical instruments at the same time.

Especially the magic weapon [Xiao Qianshan Seal], which consumes too much mana.

So under normal circumstances, he should use the two magic weapons [Moon Blade Meteor Wheel] and [Mingxia Pei] as commonly used magic weapons. Only in certain circumstances, will he use the two magic weapons [Xiao Qianshan Seal] and [Lock Gold Ring] which have special uses.

Of course, while Zhou Chun has gained great benefits himself, he will not forget Liu Shiyun's contribution.

After all, the medicine valley was discovered by someone else, so they should have some credit.

It just so happened that he also had several discarded magical weapons that needed to be disposed of, so he gave the silver dagger and copper gourd magical weapons he had used before to Liu Shiyun, and also waived the more than one hundred spirit coins he had previously paid to help her "redeem" herself.

These two first-grade mid-quality magic weapons are of good quality. If handled well, the gains can be more than a hundred spirit coins, which is not considered unfair to her.

As for Liu Shiyun, she was just leading the way for Zhou Chun this time. Apart from helping to collect herbs later, she did not put in any effort throughout the whole process.

Zhou Chun was able to give her one-fifth of the income from Yaogu, which made her very surprised and satisfied.

She would only feel grateful and thankful for this, and would not have the slightest dissatisfaction.

In this way, the two of them stayed in the Zhou family of Jiufengling for more than a day, and then rushed to Hongyafang Market together.

Due to Liu Shiyun's presence, Zhou Chun had to travel in a normal way for more than a day before returning to the market with her.

After returning to Lingshouzhai, Zhou Chun followed the teachings of the clan leader Zhou Daoyi, began to keep a low profile and practice meditation.

Because Liu Shiyun helped to look after the store, Zhou Jiasheng didn't pay much attention to him. He only let him come out to watch the store when he was not in the store.

Zhou Chun also used his connections with Liu Qingshan to find several independent cultivators who often came to the market town. He placed long-term orders with them to supply him with monster meat, which would allow him to get one or two batches of fresh monster meat every month.

Of course, he would not forget to go to the street market every day to see if he could get some valuable elixirs.

Now Zhou Chun still has a lot of spiritual medicines in his hands that he has not found an opportunity to sell. If he sells them all, he will make a lot of money.

Time passed slowly, and soon another half a year had passed.

During the past six months, Zhou Chun hardly ever left the market town, and his cultivation level was steadily improving with the help of elixirs.

However, the Qiyun League, which had caused a lot of commotion in Lanzhou before, was suddenly disbanded.

Among them, the elite were led by the three leaders and deputy leaders to Lingzhou to join the "Tianjing Villa". The remaining independent cultivators became rootless and did not even dare to mention the fact that they had once joined the Qiyun League.

At the same time, the red iron ore mined by the five major immortal cultivation families has begun to be supplied to buyers from all sides, continuously and steadily earning a large amount of spiritual coins for the five major immortal cultivation families.

For the Zhou family, this Chiyao iron ore vein is not only the family's most profitable source of income, but also the basis for the alliance with the other four major immortal cultivation families.

After the battle with the Qiyun League, the Jiufengling Zhou family has now made a name for itself and gained recognition from more local forces in Lanzhou, so its foundation has been consolidated.

Next, as long as they continue to build solid relationships with the other four major immortal cultivation families and establish connections with more local forces, within 20 to 30 years, no one will care where the Zhou family came from.

But there was one thing that made Zhou Chun and Zhou Jiasheng, two Zhou family cultivators in the market, quite unhappy.

Just over a month ago, Lingshou Villa, which was also spun off from Sanjue Gate, finally opened a store in Hongya Market, and used a name similar to Lingshou Zhai, "Lingshou Pavilion".

Because of the emergence of the "Spirit Beast Pavilion", the business of Lingshouzhai has been affected to some extent, and the turnover has been visibly decreasing day by day.

This is because the "Spirit Beast Pavilion" not only sells various secret medicines owned by the Spirit Beast House, but also sells many special products that the Zhou family of Jiufengling does not currently have.

For example, the honey produced by the Jade Bee, the goat milk produced by the White Jade Sheep, and the velvet antlers produced by the Blood Sun Deer...

These things were originally high-quality spiritual objects found and cultivated by the ancestors of the Zhou family and the predecessors of the Sanjue Sect. They were once one of the key products of the Sanjue Sect's foreign trade. However, as the Sanjue Sect was split up, these spiritual bees and spiritual beasts originally domesticated by the Zhou family monks were forcibly taken away by Yu Jinghua, a traitor, and taken to the Spiritual Beast Villa.

Now it has become the featured product of their Spirit Beast Villa, used to suppress and seize the market share of the Spirit Beast Zhou family.

How could Zhou Chun and Zhou Jiasheng not be furious at such behavior? They cursed Yu Jinghua's entire family countless times in secret.

"One third! Compared to before the Spirit Beast Pavilion opened, our store's revenue this month has dropped by one third!!"

Inside the Spirit Beast House, after Zhou Jiasheng finished calculating the new January's turnover, his hands holding the account book were shaking and his face turned ashen.

Zhou Chun listened to his words with a sad face and remained silent.

Zhou Chun didn't have any good solution for this.

After all, in the world of cultivating immortals, products are the foundation of a store.

Now all products of Lingshouzhai are sold in Lingshou Pavilion, and from time to time they will release some rare items that they don’t have to retain popularity. What can they use to compete with others?

In the end, he could only sigh: "This is not our fault. After the clan leader and the clan members know the details, they will surely understand us and will not blame us!"

"I'm not afraid of being blamed by the clan leader, I just don't want to accept it!"

"Those things originally belonged to our Zhou family, but now they are being used to dig into our Zhou family's corners and cut off our Zhou family's roots!"

"It's really, really pissing me off!!"

When Zhou Jiasheng said this, he slammed the account book onto the table with a loud bang, looking extremely angry.

Zhou Chun felt the same way as he said and felt angry.

After all, Zhou Chun now truly considers himself a member of the Zhou family and sincerely wants the best for this family.

However, he was not as angry as Zhou Jiasheng. At least he could control his emotions and not lose his composure.

After a brief pause, he said, "For now, if we want to compete with them for customers, we can only think of ways to launch our own unique products to attract customers, and they must be products that are difficult for them to copy!"

"So, nephew Zhengchun, do you have any ideas?"

Zhou Jiasheng immediately looked at him and asked with anticipation in his eyes.

"This is not available at the moment."

Zhou Chun shook his head and gave a reply that disappointed him quite a bit.

Seeing this, Zhou Jiasheng couldn't help but sighed and said, "Well, let's think about it more. I will also report this matter to the clan leader and ask him to mobilize the cultivators in the clan to think about it together!"

However, before the Zhou family could think of a good way to regain the lost market share, something major happened in Lanzhou, or several southern states of Jingguo.

It turned out that the Qinglian Temple, which actually ruled over several southern states of Jingguo, was preparing to open its doors to recruit disciples, and the number of disciples to be recruited this time was half more than before.

Large sects like Qinglian Temple would usually recruit disciples on a large scale only every twenty to thirty years, and every time they opened their doors to recruit disciples, it would be a grand event in the world of immortal cultivation.

For example, this time, it is said that the number of disciples recruited at one time will reach more than 700.

Based on past examples, the number of monks who can actually enter Qinglian Temple is almost one-tenth of the number of monks who meet the registration requirements.

One out of ten, this is the value of a disciple from a big sect!
As a result, Zhou Chun received an eagle message from the clan leader Zhou Daoyi, asking him if he was interested in signing up for this event.

(End of this chapter)