Beast-controlling fairy clan.

Chapter 310 Zhou Chun who spent a lot of money [Subscribe]

After returning from seeking Buddhist scriptures from the ancestor of the Su family, Zhou Chun followed his instructions and visited the numerous immortal cultivation families in Lanzhou, Yunzhou and Lianzhou one by one.

With the Zhou family's current reputation, these great immortal cultivation families may not necessarily accept his invitation readily, but they will certainly not turn him away.

Originally, Zhou Chun wanted to invite the Li family who specialized in elixirs and the You family who specialized in formations as well.

But after receiving guidance from the Su family's ancestor, he immediately gave up this idea.

The reason why the three families split up in the first place was because Qinglian Temple would not allow a force with three Jindan-stage cultivators to appear under its command.

If we invite the Li family and the You family over now, it may arouse suspicion from the Qinglian Temple, which would be bad.

And things turned out just as Zhou Chun had thought. In response to his invitation to visit, few of the great immortal cultivation families agreed on the spot.

Those with a better attitude said they would discuss with the tribe’s higher-ups before making a decision.

Those with worse attitudes simply refused with various reasons.

Seeing this, Zhou Chun was not discouraged. He just went back to his family to sort out the results of the trip, listed the families that he felt might be invited, and then studied how to persuade them.

In the following year, Zhou Chun, in addition to his original busy tasks, focused all his energy on planning the joint fighting competition.

After a year of hard work, this matter has finally made good progress.

"Fragrant spirit musk, dragon scale horse cub, blue lotus fruit, water-repellent beads... Zhengchun, you are really willing to spend money!"

Inside the cave, Zhou Mingde was slightly surprised when he saw the list of prizes for the joint fighting competition handed over by Zhou Chun.

The prizes on this list can be said to be some of the Zhou family’s most rare spiritual objects, and they are rarely sold under normal circumstances.

Especially the fragrant musk, which the Zhou family has been hoarding, only preparing to use it to exchange for some precious spiritual objects in the future.

This time, Zhou Chun actually wanted to take out three or two taels of silver as the first prize for the event. He really spent a lot of money.

"There's nothing we can do. If we don't offer these extremely attractive things as prizes, how can other families be willing to send their outstanding children to participate in the martial arts competition?"

Zhou Chun spread his hands and explained the whole story somewhat helplessly.

Most of the immortal cultivators are people who will not do anything without benefits. No one wants to waste time doing things that do not bring any benefits.

It seems that in the eyes of the leaders of other families, the joint fighting competition that the Zhou family is going to hold is nothing more than an opportunity for the Zhou family to show its influence and make their own family a supporting role.

Their relationship with the Zhou family is not that deep, so naturally they don't want to be a supporting role willingly.

Therefore, at the beginning, Zhou Chun’s lobbying of these families was not very successful.

But later, a conversation with the head of a family made him suddenly realize where he should focus his efforts in order to succeed.

So there is this list of prizes in Zhou Mingde's hands now.

After explaining the whole story to Zhou Mingde, Zhou Chun also said, "With these things as rewards, the younger generations of the family will pay more attention to this martial arts competition. I think they definitely don't want to see their treasures being taken away by others!"

"I hope it's really as you said. If this can really inspire the younger generations, then these things won't be wasted!"

Zhou Mingde sighed softly and agreed to Zhou Chun's list of prizes.

"Most definitely!"

Zhou Chun replied confidently and immediately went back to work.

Sure enough, when he went to lobby again with this sincere list of prizes, things went much more smoothly than before.

Many families that have been interested have begun to discuss with him the rules of the fighting competitions.

In this way, after another half year of hard work, Zhou Chun finally finalized the joint fighting competition.

After his repeated lobbying, excluding the Zhou family and the Su family, there were sixteen immortal cultivation families willing to participate in this joint fighting competition. Among them, there were six large immortal cultivation families with Purple Mansion stage cultivators in charge, and ten other large and small families.

Among these sixteen families, four families, such as the Wang family of Hongyao Valley and the Sun family of Jinfengling, were families that had very good relations with the Zhou family in the past.

The other families are those that have established relations with the Zhou family over the years.

What is different from the rules of the joint fighting competition among the five major families is that the rules of this fighting competition are much simpler.

According to the rules, the Zhou family, as the host, will send thirty clansmen to defend the ring, while the other families will serve as the attackers.

There is no limit to the number of attackers, but the battle will be one-on-one.

The more Zhou family cultivators the attacker defeats in this kind of battle, the higher the points will be. However, if the same Zhou family cultivator is defeated by multiple cultivators from the same family, he will not score repeatedly.

In other words, even if a family defeated all of the Zhou family's defending monks, the maximum they could get was only 30 points.

Finally, the ranking of this joint fighting competition will be determined according to the number of points scored by each family, and relevant prizes will be distributed.

It is worth mentioning that only those with a score of 25 or more can receive the first place reward prepared by the Zhou family, and even those who come in last will receive a consolation prize that will make their trip worthwhile.

After the rules of the joint fighting competition were finalized, the specific time was also quickly decided, just one month later.

During this month, the Zhou family will also hold a martial arts competition to select thirty monks to defend the arena.

As Zhou Chun expected, when the joint fighting competition was officially announced, it immediately caused a strong response within the Zhou family.

Among them, the younger generation of monks in the family who are under 30 years old are the most active and enthusiastic.

When these people really started to step into the world of cultivating immortals, it was after the great war with the Hualong Sect, so they had never participated in such activities, nor had they fought for honor for their family on the battlefield.

This makes many of them often feel regretful when they listen to their family elders talking about past events, and they wish they were born 20 or 30 years earlier.

Now the news that a dozen immortal cultivation families are jointly organizing a magic battle competition, led by the Zhou family, has spread, which undoubtedly gives them hope of becoming famous.

If they could represent the Zhou family and fight against more than a dozen cultivators of the same level from the immortal cultivation families and prevent them from taking away the treasures belonging to the Zhou family, then they would definitely become well-known figures in the Zhou family, and it would not be difficult for them to successfully build their foundation in the future.

After all, the notice said that as long as the defending monks defeated an attacking opponent, they would receive varying levels of merit rewards based on the opponent's specific cultivation level. On the contrary, if they failed to defend the ring, only half of the merit would be deducted.

According to the fifty points of good deeds reward for a ninth-level Qi Refining Stage cultivator, as long as he defeats one hundred opponents of this level and remains undefeated in each match, he will be able to collect five thousand points of family good deeds.

Such a reward was so tempting that not only the young cultivators whose minds were not yet fully mature, but even the Zhou family cultivators who were in their fifties or sixties were deeply tempted.

You should know that this time, as the defending party, the Zhou family can relax the age limit for cultivators to 70 years old, while for the attacking party, the age limit is 60 years old.

"With me, Zhou Xinlan, here, no one can expect to gain any benefit from my Zhou family during this martial arts competition!"

On a certain mountain peak, a tall, strong, dark-faced young man looked up at the sky and uttered a bold statement. Next to him stood a golden-haired, red-tailed giant monkey that was a head taller than him.

On top of the Xuanfeng of the Zhou Family Formation, a woman in a blue dress with a fluttering blue skirt blinked her beautiful eyes and whispered to herself, "It's been more than 20 years. Whether I can have another chance to build my foundation in this life depends on this time. Zhou Xindie, oh Zhou Xindie, you must seize this opportunity and let the clan leader see your ability!"

Soon, the fighting competition held within the Zhou family began.

This martial arts competition is hosted by Zhou Chun himself. All Zhou family cultivators of appropriate age who are in the middle stage of Qi Refining or above are welcome to sign up and participate.

The reason why the registration requirements are set so low is because among the thirty defending monks, ten monks in the middle stage of Qi Refining are needed.

The main reason for doing this is to take care of those weaker families, so that the contestants sent by their families will not be able to win even a single game.

Because the registration threshold was lowered, a total of 124 Zhou family cultivators finally participated in the registration.

To be honest, before this fighting competition actually started, Zhou Chun didn't know the specific strength of those family monks.

After all, the Zhou family hasn't held this kind of event for many years, and the strength of the Qi Refining cultivators will be different every few years.

Therefore, after actually hosting this internal family fighting competition, he was quite impressed by some of the outstanding performances of the clan members.

In Zhou Chun's opinion, perhaps no one among these clansmen could be as powerful as he was when he was in the Qi Refining Stage, but they were definitely much stronger than those members of the Zhou family who participated in the joint fighting competition of the five major immortal cultivation families at that time.

This shows that the Zhou family has been very qualified in talent training over the years.

This result also made Zhou Chun personally feel very satisfied and relieved.

Now he looks at these rising stars of the family, just like an old farmer looking at the crops growing well in the field, with his heart full of anticipation for the future harvest.

After three days and many fierce battles, thirty monks who would represent the Zhou family to defend the arena were finally selected.

Most of them are young and middle-aged people under the age of 50, and only four are over 60.

After these people were selected, they were immediately gathered together to listen to the teachings of Zhou Chun, the clan leader.

"I have seen your performance over the past three days. There is no doubt that the fact that you are able to stand here now proves that you are the most outstanding among all the cultivators of the same realm in my Zhou family. You are the true elite members of my Zhou family!"

"As the head of the Zhou family, I am very pleased to see that the Zhou family has such outstanding members like you."

In the square in front of Zhongping Palace, Zhou Chun looked at the thirty clansmen gathered there and began to praise them generously.

When those clan members were enjoying his praise with joy on their faces, he changed the subject and continued, "However, the previous duel was just an internal duel of my Zhou family behind closed doors. Your excellence is only relative to other cultivators of my Zhou family."

"Whether you are really excellent, whether you can really bring honor to my Zhou family, whether you can make me look up to you, still needs to be verified by outsiders!"

"This joint battle competition among the eighteen immortal cultivation families is the most grand event that our Zhou family has hosted independently since we came to Jingguo. Its importance is no less than having another Purple Mansion Stage cultivator in the family!"

"You are all the most outstanding members of my Zhou family. Whether this joint fighting competition can be successfully held, and whether other families can truly see the strength of my Zhou family, recognize the strength of my Zhou family, and accept the fact that my Zhou family is respected, all depends on your performance!"

At this point, Zhou Chun paused, and suddenly looked at all the clansmen with a deep gaze and shouted, "Answer me now, can you live up to my and my clan's high expectations?"

"Junior can definitely do it!"

"I will definitely live up to the clan leader's high expectations!"

The Zhou family cultivators responded loudly one by one, and many of them immediately felt their blood boiling and their faces turned red.

"Okay, I will remember your words today. It all depends on your performance from now on!"

Zhou Chun nodded slightly, looked at everyone with encouragement in his eyes and ended his speech.

He has said everything that needs to be said, and now all he needs to do is see how these tribesmen perform.

If these clansmen perform very well, it will naturally bring honor to the Zhou family and greatly enhance the family's reputation and morale.

If these tribesmen were defeated and taught a lesson, it would help to wear down their arrogance and serve as a tempering tool.

No matter what, the prizes given by the Zhou family will not be wasted.

One month passed quickly.

As the agreed date approached, the families that had agreed to participate in this joint fighting competition also arrived at Jiufengling one after another.

Most of the eighteen immortal cultivation families this time are local families in Lanzhou. Excluding the Su family in Jiangzhou, there are only four families from other places.

However, although there are only four foreign families, all of them are large immortal cultivation families with Purple Mansion stage cultivators in charge.

They are the Yu family of Lianzhou, the Xie family of Lianzhou, the Wen family of Yunzhou, and the Li family of Yunzhou.

Add to this the Wang family of Hongyao Valley and another great immortal cultivation family of Lanzhou, the Qin family, there are exactly six great immortal cultivation families.

And because it was just a martial arts competition for the younger generation in the Qi Refining Stage, the Purple Mansion Stage cultivators from several large immortal cultivation clans did not bring their teams here. They only sent the clan leaders and foundation building elders to bring their people to participate.

By the last day of the gathering, all the members of various immortal cultivation families had arrived, and the total number of people exceeded two hundred!
When the Zhou family cultivators who were representing the Zhou family in defending the ring saw this, their originally full confidence suddenly began to waver.

Facing opponents that outnumber them by eight or nine times, can they really hold on?
Ah! Someone came to pay New Year's greetings again in the afternoon, wasting two hours of my time, otherwise I would have been able to update twice today! Now I start writing the second update, I will post it if I can finish it, if not I will post it tomorrow, anyway I will definitely make up for the chapter I took leave for the day before!



(End of this chapter)