Beast-controlling fairy clan.

Chapter 83 New Foundation-Building Monk, New Position [Subscribe]

"I really didn't expect that this [Jade Spirit Bee] would be able to return to the Zhou family one day!"

On Baozhi Peak, dozens of Zhou family cultivators, including Zhou Chun, were gathered outside a newly built beehive, looking at the giant bees flying up and down, getting familiar with their new home, and everyone's face was filled with emotion.

I saw that those giant bees were about the size of sparrows, with green patterns all over their bodies. Even their wings were carved from jade, and they exuded faint fluctuations of magical power.

This is the [Jade Spirit Bee], an extremely rare and precious demon bee.

As a demon bee, the [Jade Spirit Bee] has strong combat effectiveness when gathering into a swarm, but its greatest use to cultivators is to produce spiritual honey.

The honey brewed by the Jade Bee is not only sweet and delicious, but also an excellent nourishing spiritual substance.

This kind of spiritual honey has a wide range of uses. It can be drunk directly with water, made into honey tea, or used as an additive in elixirs.

The spiritual power and nutrients contained in the spiritual honey are very easy to be absorbed and refined by cultivators.

The known uses of spiritual honey include improving cultivation, regulating internal injuries, replenishing qi and blood, and prolonging life.

Zhou family cultivators like Zhou Chun, when they were young and just started practicing, would more or less suffer from "stuck in the side" and damage their meridians due to improper practice.

Generally, when a cultivator encounters this situation, he can only rest for ten days or half a month before continuing his practice.

However, as long as the Zhou family cultivator drinks a spoonful of spiritual honey, he can recover as before within three days and continue to practice.

It is precisely because these [Jade Spirit Bees] are so rare and precious that Zhou Xia, the ancestor of the Zhou family who discovered and brought back these spirit bees, although his cultivation level remained at the foundation-building stage throughout his life, still left his name and meritorious deeds on the wall of merit in the Zhou family ancestral temple.

The ancestor of the Zhou family, named Zhou Xia, actually only brought back less than a hundred [Jade Spirit Bees].

Later, it was the entire Zhou family's dedicated efforts to cultivate and pass down the bee colony from generation to generation that made it grow stronger. To date, its population has more than increased tenfold!
Unfortunately, when the Three Absolute Sect was split up, these [Jade Spirit Bees] were forced to stay in the Spirit Beast Villa by Yu Jinghua, and the Zhou family was not allowed to take any of them away.

At that time, many Zhou family cultivators even thought that they would never see this kind of spiritual bee reappear in the Zhou family in their lifetime.

Unexpectedly, only a few short years had passed and the family leaders had successfully brought this kind of spiritual bee back to the Zhou family.

This incident also made those members of the Zhou family who were unaware of the inside story, greatly respect and admire the clan leader Zhou Daoyi and the supreme elder Zhou Mingde who accomplished this.

This also invisibly diluted the impact of the news that Zhou Zhengkang disappeared later.

After the incident with Zhou Zhengkang ended, Zhou Chun was not able to return to the market.

Zhou Daoyi arranged a new position for him, the clan leader's personal clerk, responsible for assisting the clan leader in handling clan affairs.

In addition, the task of collecting the poisonous spiny fish mucus that was originally assigned to Zhou Jiahui was also assigned to him.

It was also because of this position as the clan leader's personal clerk that Zhou Chun suddenly came into the sight of all the Zhou family cultivators and became a prominent figure in the Zhou family.

Everyone knows that before Zhou Chun, the clan leader Zhou Daoyi did not have any clerks by his side, and all clan affairs were decided by the clan leader alone.

Now, clan leader Zhou Daoyi has specially set up a clerk position for Zhou Chun to assist in handling clan affairs.

Even a dumb person can see what the plan is.

At this time, all the contributions Zhou Chun had made to the Zhou family in recent years were made public.

When they learned that Zhou Chun was now ranked second among the Qi Refining cultivators in the family in terms of the number of good deeds he had done, those Zhou family cultivators who had objected to him being favored and cared for by the clan leader Zhou Daoyi all fell silent.

Although the number of good deeds cannot fully represent a person's ability, it can represent the contribution a person has made to the family.

For the family, a monk who has made great contributions to the family should be given superior rights and treatment.

Besides, Zhou Chun is just a clerk beside the clan leader, not the clan leader.

So in this situation, after the news of Zhou Zhengkang, the family's foundation-building seed, disappearing outside was reported, the impact was once again suppressed a lot.

After just a few months, few people mentioned this matter anymore.

One day, Zhou Chun was sorting out account books in the "Zhongping Hall" when he suddenly heard excited laughter coming from the mountain.

This made him startled for a moment, and he immediately stopped writing, stood up and walked out of the hall.

When he got outside the hall, Zhou Chun looked up and easily saw a man in gray clothes floating in the air and laughing.

Suspending in the air is a way of using magical powers that cultivators in the Qi Refining Stage naturally master after successfully building their foundation. It can also be called an innate magical power.

Flying with Qi, True Essence Shield, Foundation Building True Fire...

These ways of using mana, big and small, are all magical powers that cultivators can only master after reaching the foundation-building stage and their mana has transformed.

But generally speaking, no cultivator in the Foundation Establishment Stage would get so excited about having mastered this ability.

There is only one exception!
That is what Zhou Chun is seeing now, a Qi Refining cultivator using these abilities for the first time after successfully building his foundation.

That’s right, after seeing the man in gray in the sky, Zhou Chun immediately recognized his identity.

That is Zhou Jiarui, a core member of the Zhou family who has been in seclusion in the secret room on Pagoda Peak for more than three months to build his foundation.

Ever since the Li family sent the two foundation-building pills that should have been distributed to the Zhou family more than three months ago, Zhou Jiarui and Zhou Jiacheng, who had already been determined to take the two foundation-building pills, took the pills directly into the seclusion room on Pagoda Peak to break through the foundation-building level.

Now it seems that at least Zhou Jiarui has successfully established his foundation.

Zhou Chun was stunned for a moment, then he immediately bowed and congratulated loudly: "My nephew congratulates Uncle Eleven on his success in building his foundation and prolonging his life."

The blessing of "longevity and longevity" will never go wrong when used by cultivators when they are breaking through the realm.

Because the original intention of cultivating immortality is to pursue longevity.

Every major breakthrough in the realm of cultivation will significantly extend the lifespan of the cultivator.

Therefore, after hearing Zhou Chun's congratulations, Zhou Jiarui in the sky laughed even more happily.

He is the eleventh child in the "Jia" generation and is seventy-six years old this year, over 70 years old.

If he fails to build his foundation successfully, he will only have forty years to live, and may not even live to that age.

But now that he has successfully built his foundation, his life span has been extended to more than two hundred years. At his age, he is still considered young among cultivators in the foundation-building stage, and his future has unlimited possibilities.

"Hahaha, my nephew Zhengchun is so polite."

He laughed loudly, then flew into the air and landed in front of Zhou Chun.

At this time, attracted by his laughter, the supreme elder Zhou Mingde and clan leader Zhou Daoyi, who were originally practicing in the cave, were also drawn out.

"Not bad, not bad. Jiarui, if you can successfully build your foundation, it will be worth the family's cultivation of you!"

Zhou Daoyi looked at Zhou Jiarui who had successfully built his foundation and was the first to praise him.

Facing his praise, Zhou Jiarui immediately bowed to him with a grateful look on his face and said, "I am where I am today because of the cultivation of my family, and the love and attention of the Supreme Elder and the Clan Leader. I will never forget the cultivation of my family!" Hearing his words, Zhou Mingde couldn't help but nod and applaud, "Very good, I hope you can always remember what I said today in the future, and don't let down the trust that the family and I have placed in you!"

"Yes, I will never forget!"

Zhou Jiarui's face turned grim and he made a promise loudly.

Next, as per custom, the Zhou family held a foundation-building ceremony for Zhou Jiarui, and most of the Zhou family cultivators attended the ceremony to congratulate him and presented him with various gifts.

Some independent cultivators who had good relations with the Zhou family also participated in the celebration.

Amidst this bustle, another cultivator, Zhou Jiacheng, who had failed in building his foundation, also came out quietly.

One foundation-building pill can increase the success rate of foundation-building for a cultivator in the Qi Refining Stage by about 30%, so taking a foundation-building pill does not necessarily mean that one will succeed in building a foundation.

Zhou Jiacheng is one of those unlucky people with bad luck.

Although he took the Foundation Establishment Pill, he did not succeed in establishing his foundation. He only relied on the medicinal effects of the Pill to preserve his life and cultivation.

Before this, he had never dared to come out and face his people.

It was not until Zhou Jiarui successfully built his foundation and held a celebration banquet for his guests that the last bit of hope in his heart disappeared.

I could only leave quietly with great helplessness and shame.

However, even if he leaves quietly, he must give an explanation to his family.

Therefore, after he came out of retreat, he did not return to the cave, but knelt outside the family's ancestral temple and faced the wall.

When clan leader Zhou Daoyi returned from attending Zhou Jiarui's foundation-building ceremony, he easily spotted Zhou Jiacheng kneeling outside the ancestral temple.

In fact, Zhou Jiacheng's failure in building his foundation was no secret to Zhou Mingde and Zhou Daoyi.

However, the two knew that Zhou Jiacheng was deeply traumatized by this incident, and they wanted him to figure it out and get over it on his own, so they pretended to be ignorant.

Seeing that Zhou Jiacheng finally came out by himself, Zhou Daoyi was actually quite relieved.

He slowly walked behind Zhou Jiacheng who was kneeling on the ground, and sighed softly, "Hey! It's normal that he didn't succeed. Foundation building is not guaranteed to succeed. Being able to save his life and cultivation is not bad at all!"

"But it's hard for me, the younger generation, to forgive myself!"

"The Grand Elder and the clan leader trust me so much that they gave me the foundation-building pill that countless clan members have been longing for to use in building my foundation. What a trust this is!"

"It's a pity that I am so incompetent. I have failed the trust of the great elders and the clan leader, and I have failed the cultivation of the family!"

"I have committed serious crimes. I am too ashamed to see you two elders again. I also have to say goodbye to all the clansmen!"

By the time Zhou Jiacheng finished speaking, he was already sobbing.

He is over 60 years old and has seen a lot of ups and downs in his life. He will not cry easily over something.

However, building the foundation is the biggest thing in the life of a cultivator in the Qi Refining Stage.

It was with the help of his ancestors and his own hard work that Zhou Jiacheng was able to obtain the foundation-building pill bestowed by his family to build his foundation.

Under normal circumstances, he should have successfully established his foundation, lived up to his family's cultivation of him, and lived up to the high expectations of his elders.

But he failed!
This failure not only let down the high hopes of my family and elders, but also made me feel ashamed of my late grandfather who had brought me so much influence.

This kind of blow is hard to bear even for a man over sixty like him.

"The fact that you think this way shows that I and the Supreme Elder are not wrong about you!"

"The family has strict standards for deciding who to give the Foundation Establishment Pill to. The fact that you were chosen means that you were better than others at the time."

"And no one has ever said that anyone who takes the Foundation Building Pill will definitely succeed, and no one has ever said that anyone who fails to build a foundation after taking the Foundation Building Pill will be a sinner of the family!"

"If you succeed, then of course it's cause for celebration. Even if you fail, it's just because you were unlucky."

"The Grand Elder and I will never blame you for this, and the other members of the tribe will gradually understand you!"

Zhou Daoyi comforted Zhou Jiacheng in a gentle tone and did his best to enlighten this self-pitying younger generation of the family.

Since the loss is irreversible, a motivated cultivator at the twelfth level of Qi Refining would naturally be more useful to the family than a self-pitying cultivator at the twelfth level of Qi Refining.

As the patriarch, even if Zhou Daoyi considers this aspect, he must comfort and enlighten Zhou Jiacheng.

With his comfort and guidance, Zhou Jiacheng's condition gradually improved. He stood up and dared to face him.

He turned around and looked at him, then he wiped away the tears with his sleeves, bowed to him and said, "Thank you for your guidance, Patriarch. I know what I should do now. I will do my best to serve the family for the rest of my life to repay the family for their kindness in nurturing me!"

Seeing this, Zhou Daoyi smiled with satisfaction and said, "That's right. You are still young. As long as you work hard for the family, you may have the opportunity to challenge the foundation again in the future!"

These suggestive words quickly ignited hope in Zhou Jiacheng's eyes.

He immediately stated firmly: "Thank you for your teachings, Chief. I will never let you down again!"

After watching Zhou Jiacheng leave Pagoda Peak and go down the mountain, Zhou Daoyi shook his head slightly and turned back to the cave.

Now that Zhou Chun is helping him deal with family affairs, he has a lot of free time, and his time for cultivation has obviously increased a lot.

In this way, Zhou Chun got some training and he also had more time to practice, which can be said to be a win-win situation.

Well, at least it’s a win-win for him!
As for Zhou Chun, he will definitely not suffer any loss.

As the clerk of the clan leader Zhou Daoyi, he is not only exempted from all other family chores, but also able to practice on the Pagoda Peak where the spiritual energy is rich.

Not only will it not interfere with one's own cultivation, but one can also get access to many secrets of the Zhou family and obtain a lot of first-hand information.

For example, when another batch of [Beast Spirit Pills] were refined at Baiyao Peak, how many of them were placed in the family treasury for the clan members to exchange and use.

Few people would know it earlier than him.

In this way, if he needs it, he can seize the opportunity to exchange it.

Moreover, he is by the side of the clan leader Zhou Daoyi every day, so no matter if he has any questions about cultivation or training of spirit pets, he can ask for advice and get guidance at any time.

This is also a treatment that ordinary members of the Zhou family do not have at all.

It can be said that, except for the fact that he is currently out of reach of the Grand Elder, Zhou Chun’s current treatment is not much different from that of Zhou Zhengkang back then.

Although he has not yet been listed as the family's foundation-building seed, he has actually begun to enjoy that treatment.

Oh, typing is so exhausting that I forgot to say Happy Mid-Autumn Festival to my fellow book friends yesterday! I also forgot to report the first order situation! Here is a report, the first order is over 900 points, and the current high order is growing well, the results are not bad, better than expected, the next step is to roll up my sleeves and work hard, the first goal is to reach one million words!
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