Immortal Clan: I have a Tree of Creation

The alligator meat wasn't finished yet.

Even more impressive black bear meat has arrived.

The meat of the Black Bear King contains more than ten times the spiritual energy compared to the meat of the Alligator Dragon.

There's no way around it; mortals simply cannot absorb such immense power.

Besides Zhou Chengnan, only Zhou Yuanshan, a martial artist, could eat bear meat in the family.

Moreover, with Shan'er's current strength, she can only eat a small piece at most each time; eating even one more bite will cause her blood and qi to flow in reverse.

It was this small piece of black bear king meat that made Shan'er advance by leaps and bounds, and he was about to reach the perfection of the Bone Refining Realm.

Great stuff, truly great stuff!

A surge of ambition welled up in Zhou Chengnan's heart. He was determined to ensure that his family could eat real "spirit beast meat" and the legendary "spirit grain" in the future.

Most of the Black Bear King's flesh and blood ended up in Zhou Chengnan's stomach.

This was the first time I had ever tasted meat so full of vitality; the feeling was absolutely wonderful.

The spiritual energy that you ingest is very easy to refine.

Zhou Chengnan's cultivation speed increased instantly, almost doubling.

It used to take more than half a month to condense a strand of Azure Yuan Spiritual Power, but now it can be condensed in about ten days.

The benefits that the Zhou family received from this peculiar black bear king were beyond their wildest imagination.

The loss of the fish in the backyard stream is already negligible.

As for the 'Snow Lingzhi' found in the Black Bear King's stomach...

Zhou Chengnan didn't mind at all; this was a rare find that money couldn't buy. After washing it clean, it looked brand new!

According to the book, the best first-tier spiritual plants should be refined into pills or powders to achieve their best effects.

Unfortunately, Zhou Chengnan is currently a complete novice and has no knowledge of alchemy or medicine making.

The only way is to eat it raw, using the most primitive and simplest method!

Snow Lingzhi is a pure crystal of earth spirits and is non-toxic.

However, out of caution, he still very carefully cut a piece of Ganoderma lucidum the size of a fingernail and tried to take it.

Even though he was extremely cautious, he still experienced the bitterness of having no teacher or guidance.

A piece of snow lingzhi the size of a fingernail releases an extremely large amount of spiritual energy, which can even be described as terrifying.

It instantly filled my dantian and permeated all the meridians in my body.

Zhou Chengnan exerted all his strength to circulate the "Qingyuan Nourishing Qi Technique," but he still couldn't keep up with the speed of spiritual energy release.

The end result was that the body's meridians were impacted by the burst of spiritual energy, causing damage in multiple places.

For an ordinary Qi Refining Level 1 cultivator, such damage to the meridians would be considered a fundamental injury.

Fortunately, Zhou Chengnan is not only a cultivator, but also a very powerful martial artist.

Under the guidance of the Qingyuan Qi Cultivation Technique, his martial arts skills improved day by day.

He has now gradually reached the perfection of the Marrow Refining Realm and is about to break through to the Blood Refining Realm.

The Blood Refining Realm is the ultimate goal of a martial artist's internal cultivation, the pinnacle of acquired skills. This means that over 90% of Zhou Chengnan's flesh and blood have already been tempered, and he only needs to complete the final step of refining the marrow and entering the heart to achieve great success.

His meridians are much stronger and have a much better recovery ability than those of ordinary cultivators.

It only took about two days for the damaged meridians to recover completely.

This burst of spiritual energy also brought many benefits.

After just one cultivation session, two more streams of spiritual energy appeared in his dantian.

That's terrifying.....

Zhou Chengnan usually condenses his spiritual energy in months.

Keep in mind that this was only a tiny piece of "Snow Spirit Mushroom" the size of a fingernail.

According to his estimate, most of the 'Snow Lingzhi' could be divided into at least a hundred slices of this size.

In other words... if he can refine all the remaining 'Snow Spirit Mushrooms', he can obtain two hundred strands of spiritual power.

—To complete the first level of Qi Refining, only one hundred strands of spiritual power are needed!

"We can't make a fuss about it, we'll keep it quiet and make our fortune..." Zhou Chengnan's eyes gleamed with excitement.

No one knew better than him how difficult it was to cultivate a spiritual root.

That is why a mid-grade first-level spiritual plant is all the more precious.

He is now just a half-baked cultivator, barely stronger than other martial artists of the same realm thanks to the support of a dozen or so spiritual energies.

Only by cultivating fifty strands of spiritual power can one display the demeanor befitting a cultivator.

Zhou Chengnan was filled with a desire to seek the Dao. If the first level of Qi Refining was already so powerful, what kind of magical power would the second, third, or even higher levels of Qi Refining possess?

Perhaps if one cultivates to a high level and becomes a true great cultivator, one can indeed move mountains and overturn seas.

From that day on, the Zhou family returned to peace, and Jinyang Village also temporarily returned to tranquility.

Most of the black bears were killed by Zhou Chengnan, and the rest probably wouldn't dare to come to Jinyang Village to cause trouble again.

Later, he went to the pit on the east side.

The black bear that fell to its death is still there, frozen stiff, covered with a thick layer of snow.

To avoid attracting attention, Zhou Chengnan deliberately chose a dark and windy night to drag the black bear home.

There were three in total, none of them were very big, and perhaps they had been starving for a long time, some of them were even emaciated.

However, the Zhou family had too much meat, so they weren't lacking in bear meat.

When the children got tired of stewed meat, Wang Shuzhen asked her husband to select some of the best bear meat, cut it into minced meat, mixed it with some black pork, and stuffed it into sausages.

My father-in-law used to be a cook, and his children have all learned a good skill from him.

The remaining bear skins were all intact.

The second son, Zhou Yuanyu, was eager to try making clothes for his father and eldest brother using the bear skins.

The coat, made of genuine black bear skin, naturally has excellent cold resistance.

Three black bear skins, plus one bear king skin, can make more than just two garments.

Zhou Chengnan and his wife discussed making a lining for each child, as well as several pairs of gloves and leather hats.

With this equipment, no matter how fierce the blizzard, the children won't get cold.

Unlike the bustling scene at the Zhou family's home.

In Jinyang Village, outside the village, many villagers live in anxiety.

Nobody knows when this blizzard will stop.

Admittedly, by selling their land to the Zhao family, everyone was temporarily out of danger.

But each family has a limited amount of farmland. What will happen next once all the land has been exchanged?

The bigger problem is, once this blizzard is over, where will everyone go from here?

Many farmers have had their livelihoods taken away by the Zhao family.

What most people don't know is that Jinyang Village wasn't the only one affected by the disaster.

Amid the blizzard, the surrounding villages and towns, Anshan County, and even the entire northern part of Liang Kingdom were plunged into an unprecedented disaster.

When will this kind of life end...?

The following month, Zhou Yuanshan practiced his skills on the roof as usual.

He was used to wind and snow, and a little cold not only did not affect his practice, but was actually more beneficial.

He felt a surge of heat rising from his body, and a faint, clear light seemed to emanate from within.

It's almost here... This is a sign that the bone refining process has been completed.

Just then, a faint rumbling sound suddenly came from the sky.

Is it going to thunder?

Zhou Yuanshan subconsciously looked into the distance.