Beast-controlling fairy clan.

Chapter 76: Disrespect for Elders, Honey Flower Tea [First Order Request]

Zhou Jiahui is dead!
But no one will know this news for the time being.

Zhou Zhengkang was very confident in himself and believed that no one would be able to find any evidence.

What disappointed him was that he was unable to find the habitat of the strange fish that produced mucus, although he guessed that place should be in the deep mountains near the place where Zhou Jiahui died.

After repeatedly cleaning the scene and the battlefield, he left the mountains and headed straight for Hongyafang City.

Not long after, Zhou Zhengkang arrived at Hongya Market in a disguised identity, and then handed over Zhou Jiahui's relics to Yu Deguang, a foundation-building cultivator from Lingshou Villa who was waiting in a teahouse box in the market.

"Anyway, this is what happened. Although I haven't found the habitat of that strange fish, I can be sure that it is in that mountain range. You can hire some independent cultivators to look for it slowly, or send people to look for it yourself. If you spend more time, you will definitely find the place!"

Inside the box, Zhou Zhengkang finished talking about what he had gained from this trip, then he picked up the teapot on the tea table, poured himself a cup of spiritual tea, drank it all, and then showed a look of enjoyment on his face.

He couldn't help but murmured in a low voice: "This is the taste! Since coming to Jingguo, I have rarely tasted this honey flower tea again!"

When Yu Deguang heard what he said, a strange look flashed in his eyes, and he immediately smiled and said, "If my dear nephew likes it, I will give the remaining half bottle of tea pills to my nephew so that he can enjoy it slowly."

"Then I won't be polite to you, Uncle Yu."

Zhou Zhengkang's eyes lit up, and he immediately took the jade bottle containing the tea pills on the table and started playing with it.

This tea pill named "Honey Flower Tea" is a kind of spiritual tea which was once the specialty of Zhou Family, one of the Three Great Sects. It is made from tea leaves of spiritual tea trees, pollen of several kinds of spiritual flowers, and honey from [Jade Spirit Bee].

Not only does it taste amazing, it can also slightly improve your magic power and increase the strength of your spiritual awareness.

When he was still in Sanjuemen, Zhou Zhengkang drank a lot of this magical tea.

But after Jingguo arrived, as the Three Absolute Sects were split up, important resources such as the [Jade Spirit Bee] were divided up and occupied by the Spirit Beast Villa.

Only a few people in the Zhou family have some stock of this spiritual tea, and they usually don't dare to take it out to drink.

However, just half a bottle of "honey flower tea" obviously could not satisfy Zhou Zhengkang's appetite.

After playing with the jade bottle for a while, he put it into his storage bag, then looked at Yu Deguang and said, "Now I have done what you asked me to do, and even killed Zhou Jiahui. This has proved my intentions, right? When will you give me the foundation-building pill you mentioned?"

Hearing his words, Yu Deguang immediately picked up the teacup and took a sip of tea, then smiled and said:

"Don't be anxious, nephew. As far as I know, the foundation-building pills that the Li family is preparing to refine will be ready soon. With the resources invested by the Zhou family this time, they can at least get two or three foundation-building pills. With your status in the Zhou family, can't you get one?"

"If you can successfully build your foundation at the Zhou family, the Zhou family will definitely reward you with a lot of things. Then come to our Spirit Beast Villa again. We can also exchange the foundation-building pills we promised you for other resources of equal value. Isn't this better?"

This sounded like there was nothing wrong with it, but Zhou Zhengkang's face suddenly darkened.

He looked at Yu Deguang with an unpleasant expression and said, "You don't need to paint a rosy picture for me. I just want to ask you one question. Do you think that after I kill Zhou Jiahui, I will have no way out and can only let you control me?"

When Yu Deguang heard what he said, he was also stunned. He didn't expect that he would bring up such a thing in person.

For a moment, I was stumped by Zhou Zhengkang's question and didn't know how to answer.

Seeing that he didn't say anything, Zhou Zhengkang's face became even uglier.

"No, no, no, nephew, you misunderstood. I have absolutely no such intention!"

Seeing Zhou Zhengkang's increasingly ugly expression, Yu Deguang finally came to his senses and waved his hands repeatedly to indicate that he had misunderstood him.

Then he looked at Zhou Zhengkang with a sincere expression and explained, "It's just that I really don't have the Foundation Establishment Pill with me. I'm afraid I need to ask Uncle Xiao for permission before I can get it."

After that, he stretched out his hand and pressed Zhou Zhengkang's shoulder, saying earnestly: "In short, my dear nephew, you must believe in our sincerity, believe in Uncle Xiao's appreciation of you, and believe in your own value. We will never give up on such an outstanding genius like you!"

After hearing his explanation and flattery, Zhou Zhengkang's expression gradually became much better.

He has always been proud and conceited. Even among the three unique sects and the younger generation, he was one of those people with outstanding qualifications and talents.

So he is confident that no matter where he goes, he will shine and attract attention.

Yu Deguang's flattery just hit the spot for him, how could he not feel happy and satisfied.

The reason why he was still maintaining a serious expression was that he didn't want Yu Deguang to think that he was easy to bully, and he was also a little too embarrassed to do so.

At this time, he snorted coldly: "Humph, I hope you can do what you said, otherwise don't blame me for turning my back on you!"

When Yu Deguang heard his words, he immediately understood his mentality and nodded repeatedly, "Of course, of course, my dear nephew, just go back to the Zhou family and wait patiently for good news from Yu."

After saying that, he patted the storage bag on his waist, took out a purse filled with a large amount of spirit coins, and placed it directly in front of Zhou Zhengkang.

He said with a smile: "There are more than 800 spirit coins in here. Even if I advance the funds to you first, and after I deal with Zhou Jiahui's relics, I will make up the remaining spirit coins for you, what do you think?"

Hearing this, Zhou Zhengkang's eyes flashed with joy, and then he immediately grabbed the purse and weighed it. Soon his expression completely softened and he nodded at him and said, "That's pretty good!"

Then he put the money bag into the storage bag, picked up the teapot and drank the remaining tea in one breath, then patted his sleeves and stood up and said, "Then I'll go back first. Remember to be quick and don't keep me waiting too long!"

Upon seeing this, Yu Deguang stood up with a smile on his face and said, "Of course, of course, nephew, take care."

After sending Zhou Zhengkang out of the box and closing the door.

Looking at the teapot that had been completely drained, his expression suddenly changed. He waved his sleeves with disgust and snorted, "Humph, what kind of person is this? You are a traitor and you want to use the foundation-building pills from our Spirit Beast Villa to build your foundation? Do you really think that Uncle Master Xiao, a Purple Mansion cultivator, would be interested in a fool like you?"

It is not difficult to hear from his words that his previous dialogues and promises with Zhou Zhengkang were nothing but pretense.

In fact, he didn't like Zhou Zhengkang from the bottom of his heart and was full of contempt and disdain.

After secretly cursing Zhou Zhengkang, he seemed to have remembered something and couldn't help but mutter to himself with a thoughtful look on his face:

"It's Zhou Zhengchun. Although his aptitude is a little lacking, if the news from the Zhou family is true, this boy is indeed worth winning over. If he can be used by me, then my Spirit Beast Villa will have another useful talent!"

……

Zhou Zhengkang naturally didn’t know how unbearable he was in Yu Deguang’s heart.

After he left the teahouse, he originally wanted to go directly back to his family.

But when I passed by Lingshouzhai and looked at the three big characters "Lingshouzhai" on the flag from afar, the words Zhou Jiahui said at that time suddenly emerged in my mind: "You are far worse than Zhengchun."

Then his face suddenly turned cold and he immediately turned and walked into the store.

"Welcome, may I ask your honorable guest..."

In the Spirit Beast House, Zhou Chun heard the footsteps coming from outside the door, and he smiled reflexively and prepared to greet the visitor. But when he saw the face of the visitor, he paused.

"It's Brother Seven. I've met Brother Seven."

Zhou Chun paused, then quickly bowed and greeted Zhou Zhengkang who came in.

Not wanting to face his greeting, Zhou Zhengkang looked at him coldly and questioned, "You are at least a core member of my Zhou family. Do you have to greet any random cultivator in such a humble way? Isn't this lowering your status and degrading yourself?"

This guy must be a fool!
Zhou Chun looked at Zhou Zhengkang in surprise. He never expected that the other party would say such words.

Actually, Zhou Zhengkang understood that harmony is the key to success in business, but it was because he had a preconceived notion about Zhou Chun that he wanted to find fault with him!
Besides, at this moment, all he could think about was Zhou Jiahui's words: "You are far worse than Zhengchun."

In this situation, after seeing Zhou Chun's "humble" appearance, he naturally felt angry and felt that he was not worth it.

Whether he was willing to admit it or not, Zhou Jiahui's words "You are far worse than Zhengchun" did make him very concerned and unhappy.

Fortunately, Zhou Chun was not the only one in the store at that time, but also the shopkeeper Zhou Jiasheng.

At this time, Zhou Chun was stunned by Zhou Zhengkang's words.

Zhou Jiasheng, who was worried that the two would have a conflict in the store, hurried over and said, "We are all brothers from the same clan. How can you say that to Zhengchun? If there is any misunderstanding, please come to the backyard and talk to me first!"

As he said this, he patted Zhou Chun on the shoulder, signaling him to hold back his anger and not quarrel with Zhou Zhengkang in the store.

Then he was about to pull Zhou Zhengkang to the backyard to scold him.

Unexpectedly, Zhou Zhengkang moved his body, dodged his outstretched hand, and said lightly: "No, I have to rush back to the family, I don't have time to talk to you."

After saying that, he ignored Zhou Jiasheng's ugly expression, turned around and left the store.

If it were in the past, even if Zhou Zhengkang didn't have much respect for these so-called elders, he wouldn't show it so obviously.

But now that he had personally killed an elder like Zhou Jiahui, he psychologically developed a sense of superiority over these so-called elders, and felt that he could completely dominate the life and death of these elders.

Secondly, he had already decided to leave the Zhou family, so there was naturally no need for him to humble himself to win the favor of these elders and consider staying in the Zhou family in the long run.

Thirdly, Zhou Jiasheng's obvious action of protecting Zhou Chun just now made him very unhappy, and he automatically regarded Zhou Jiasheng as the same kind of person as Zhou Jiahui, thinking that Zhou Jiasheng valued Zhou Chun more and looked down on him.

All these factors led to the current situation.

At this moment, looking at Zhou Zhengkang's back as he turned and left without hesitation, Zhou Jiasheng's face became terribly gloomy.

He almost gnashed his teeth and growled in a low voice: "He is disrespectful to his elders and slanders my clan brother. I must personally write a letter to the clan leader to explain this matter and severely sue him. I must make him apologize to me and you, Zhengchun, in person! !"

After he finished speaking, he saw that Zhou Chun had not spoken a word. He thought that Zhou Chun was too angry to speak, so he hurriedly comforted Zhou Chun and said, "Zhengchun, don't take it to heart. That kid has been arrogant for a long time. Maybe it's because he heard too many praises from the clan leaders in the family that he got jealous and came to pick a fight. Don't be fooled by him!"

Zhou Chun shook his head upon hearing this and said calmly, "My nephew is fine. Don't worry, Uncle Sixteen. I won't argue with him about this."

Then he said in a puzzled tone: "But if he has a problem with my nephew, the reason you gave can still be explained, but why doesn't he even give you, Uncle Sixteen, face? Isn't this obviously asking for trouble?"

When Zhou Jiasheng heard this, his expression changed and a look of doubt appeared in his eyes.

Zhou Chun was right. When he thought about it, he had not done anything to offend Zhou Zhengkang.

Whenever Zhou Zhengkang met him in the past, he was at least polite and considerate on the surface. It was impossible for him to be as rude and presumptuous as he was today.

But he soon seemed to have thought of something, his face suddenly turned cold, and he said with anger: "I think I know why, he must have known that I was about to succeed in building the foundation, so he showed his true colors without any disguise, what a beast in human form with wolfish ambitions!"

In the end, Zhou Jiasheng himself got angry and started cursing.

Is Zhou Zhengkang about to succeed in building his foundation?

Zhou Chun was also slightly stunned when he heard Zhou Jiasheng's words.

He immediately asked for details.

He only knew that Zhou Zhengkang had broken through to the twelfth level of the Qi Refining Stage half a year ago, but he never thought that he would be able to break through to the Foundation Establishment Stage so quickly.

Facing Zhou Chun's questioning, Zhou Jiasheng hesitated for a moment, then nodded and said, "Zhengchun, you are also a core member of the family, so I won't hide this from you, but you just need to keep it to yourself."

"Don't worry, Uncle Sixteen. I won't tell anyone about this."

Zhou Chun quickly made a promise in a serious tone.

So Zhou Jiasheng told the story of the Zhou and Li families' cooperation in refining the foundation-building pill.

It turns out that the reason why the Zhou family used good deeds instead of spiritual coins as welfare to distribute to the clan members when they just established their roots in Jiufengling was because they concentrated the spiritual coins within the clan to carry out several important events at that time.

One of the things is to purchase spiritual medicines for refining foundation-building pills, and to refine the foundation-building pills together with the Li family.

Now, after several years of preparation, all kinds of spiritual medicines have been purchased, and the Li family can start refining pills.

In the Zhou family, apart from the clan leader, elders and others, only some senior elders such as Zhou Jiasheng knew about this matter.

After listening to Zhou Jiasheng's words, Zhou Chun's heart was also surging, and he couldn't help but have some thoughts about the foundation-building pill that had not yet been produced.

Unfortunately, he also knew that even if clan leader Zhou Daoyi was willing to go against the crowd and give him a foundation-building pill, he would not be able to use it with his current ninth-level Qi Refining Stage cultivation.

Therefore, this batch of foundation-building pills is destined to have no connection with him.

After Zhou Jiasheng revealed this secret, he gritted his teeth and said, "Zhou Zhengkang is the family's foundation-building seed. He will definitely have a share this time. With his high-grade spiritual root aptitude, he will most likely be able to successfully build his foundation with just one root. That's why he is so arrogant now!"

But is this really the case?
When Zhou Chun heard what he said, he felt something was wrong.

Even if Zhou Zhengkang succeeds in building his foundation and becomes an elder of the Zhou family in the future, he is still one generation younger than Zhou Jiasheng in terms of seniority. It stands to reason that he should give some face to his elders when meeting them.

After all, respecting elders is a clan rule issued personally by the family's supreme elder Zhou Mingde.

There is no reason for Zhou Zhengkang to not even do this superficial work and give people the opportunity to criticize him.

Besides, hasn’t he yet successfully established his foundation?

Isn't he afraid that because of what happened today, clan leader Zhou Daoyi will cancel his opportunity to take the Foundation Establishment Pill?
Zhou Chun hid this doubt in his heart, but he did not tell Zhou Jiasheng clearly.

Because Zhou Jiasheng's current attitude is undoubtedly more beneficial to him.

(End of this chapter)