Beast-controlling fairy clan.

Chapter 421: Escape [Subscribe]

Wilderness land, ice cave.

Zhou Chun entered the ice cave again after several years. The queen bee of the "Sky Frost Bee" inside was also a little excited after sensing his breath.

After checking the condition of the bee colony, he showed surprise and joy.

It turned out that two adult demon bees in the bee colony had entered the mature stage, and the young bees had now left the larval stage and entered the growth stage, and could follow the bee colony out hunting.

"It seems that my choice was not wrong. This place is indeed helpful for the growth of the 'Sky Frost Bee'."

Zhou Chun looked at the demon bees that had left their larval stage and looked very satisfied.

As a strange insect on the "List of Strange Insects in Heaven and Earth", the "Sky Frost Bee" itself grows very slowly. Even in an environment that is very suitable for their growth, it will take hundreds of years, or even longer, from the larval stage to maturity.

It has been some years since Zhou Chun got these demon bees. The young bees have only just left their larval stage, which shows how slowly these demon insects grow.

But this is not an intolerable shortcoming.

Because compared to the strength and lifespan of the mature "Sky Frost Bee", these are all worth it.

A mature "Sky Frost Bee" can live for about three hundred years. If there are hundreds of mature "Sky Frost Bees" forming a combat swarm, ordinary Jindan-stage cultivators will have to avoid their edge and dare not take the torrent of cold air they spew out head-on.

Now, as long as he raises these demon bees well, even if Zhou Chun reaches the Dan stage in the future, these demon bees will become an important means for him to fight against the enemy.

"By the way, since these demon bees came, it seems that the snow crystal insects have never appeared again. Could they have eaten them all?"

Zhou Chun glanced around, looking at the ice walls made of thousands of years of ice, with a thoughtful look in his eyes.

He originally released ten snow crystal worms here and was sure that the release was successful.

But later, as the demon bees moved in, he never saw those snow crystal insects again.

Therefore, he had sufficient reason to suspect that it was this group of demon bees that ate the snow crystal worms.

"Just eat it. This snow crystal worm is of no use to me anyway."

Shaking his head, Zhou Chun did not pursue the matter any further. He put the several demon bees in the spirit beast bag into the hive, and after putting several other mature demon bees into the spirit beast bag, he left the ice cave.

In the following two months, Zhou Chun traveled through rivers and lakes in the wilderness, looking for traces of the third-level dragon-born monster.

After some searching, he actually found two third-order dragon-born monsters.

These two dragon-born monsters are a third-level intermediate-grade monster, the Unicorn Crocodile, and a third-level superior-grade monster, the Silver-Armored Dragon Fish. Their strength is much stronger than ordinary monsters of the same level.

However, under the joint siege of Zhou Chun and Bai Bai, the two dragon-born monsters were all beheaded and killed by them.

While hunting the two monsters, Zhou Chun also discovered one thing, that is, the cold air of the "Sky Frost Cold Bee" and the white lightning spell were very useful in preventing the monsters from self-destructing their demon pills.

In the two battles, after the two dragon-born monsters realized that they were doomed to die, they both wanted to mobilize their magic power to detonate their demon pills.

However, both times they were interrupted by lightning spells of paralysis and cold air freezing, giving Zhou Chun the opportunity to kill them before their demon pills exploded.

This discovery was undoubtedly a pleasant surprise for Zhou Chun.

After all, when cultivators hunt third-level or even fourth-level monsters, what they fear most is not how to defeat or even kill the monsters, but how to stop the monsters' demon cores from self-destructing.

The monster's self-destruction of its demon pill is not only an extremely powerful move that will destroy everything, but also a means to make the cultivator's efforts go in vain.

If a Purple Mansion Stage cultivator does not have the means to prevent monsters from self-destructing their monster cores like Zhou Chun, the chance of hunting down third-order monsters and obtaining monster cores is actually not very high.

Many times, even though the monster was killed, the final harvest was reduced by half because the monster self-destructed its monster core.

Therefore, in the teams of Purple Mansion cultivators who form teams to hunt third-order monsters, there is often a cultivator who practices ice-walking techniques or thunder-walking techniques, or prepares such magical instruments and talismans, in the hope of slightly preventing the monster from self-destructing its monster pill at the critical moment.

However, although hunting down two third-level dragon-born monsters was certainly a gratifying thing, Zhou Chun's actions also caused him a lot of trouble.

After he hunted down the third-grade top-grade demon beast, the Silver-Armored Dragonfish, he took Lei Jiao Baibai and prepared to go to the other party's nest to search for treasure, just like he had hunted down the Green-Scaled Dragonfish and the Unicorn Crocodile before.

Unexpectedly, just as they found the entrance to the nest, Lei Jiao Baibai suddenly sensed the breath of a fourth-level monster approaching at a rapid speed.

Zhou Chun was also frightened at the time, and hurriedly asked Bai Bai to release his aura to lead the fourth-level monster away, while he quickly went ashore and escaped.

This decision undoubtedly saved his life at the time.

The fourth-level monster that was attacking was easily led away by Lei Jiaobai, and did not notice the human cultivator who had come ashore.

However, this action resulted in Lei Jiao being chased for thousands of miles by the fourth-level monster. Only after he was chased into Longyuanze did the fourth-level monster stop chasing him.

Bai Bai then followed Zhou Chun's instructions and returned to Lanzhou through the underground sewer after escaping danger.

When Zhou Chun returned to Lanzhou alone and learned the whole story from Bai Bai, he immediately realized the seriousness of the matter.

Before this, he was only blinded by the demon pill of the third-level dragon-born demon beast, but overlooked an important thing.

Many of the third-level monsters in the wilderness are subordinates of a fourth-level monster. Especially after the Dragon Transformation Sect was severely damaged, the fourth-level monsters once again became the masters of the wilderness.

Those dragon-born monsters are powerful in themselves and can easily be noticed by fourth-level monsters and recruited as their subordinates.

Zhou Chun's killing of these third-level monsters would of course anger the fourth-level monsters, causing them to personally take action to avenge their fallen brothers.

After being chased this time, although Lei Jiao Baibai successfully escaped with his life, his identity was exposed in front of the fourth-level monster.

There is no guarantee that the fourth-level monster will not report this matter to the Jiaolong clan later.

By that time, if the Jiaolong clan investigates and finds that there is no such Jiaolong among the Jiaolong clan in Longyuanze, then things will be serious.

Of course, the probability of this happening should be small. After all, if it is just a fourth-level monster, it is not good enough to catch the eyes of the Jiaolong clan.

But even so, this incident undoubtedly sounded a wake-up call for Zhou Chun, making him no longer dare to act recklessly in the wilderness relying on a third-order thunder dragon in his hand.

After all, the wilderness is still the territory of the demon race. If he, a human cultivator, leads the demon race to kill third-level demon beasts there and is really discovered, the impact will be too great.

If not handled properly, it might become a diplomatic dispute and arouse the anger of the dragon clan in Longyuanze.

After all, the third-level monsters that have condensed monster pills can be considered protected animals in a sense. Even those fourth-level monsters will not easily hunt other third-level monsters just to satisfy their appetites.

He was really greedy, just like the black dragon in Longyuanze. He secretly selected those with good qualifications from the second-level monsters and trained them as his subordinates, and then found reasons to kill them and eat them.

What's more, Bai Bai is a four-clawed thunder dragon with superior bloodline. If the dragon clan knew about this, such a superior dragon would be enslaved by a human cultivator in the Purple Mansion period and used specifically to hunt third-level monsters.

That would surely anger those arrogant dragons, making them want to kill Zhou Chun and Bai Bai.

No matter which situation it is, it is undoubtedly a disaster for Zhou Chun.

So after escaping back to Lanzhou this time, he didn't dare to go to the wilderness for a short period of time, and he also asked Zhou Daoyi to try not to ride the Green Dragon when he went there, and it would be best to switch to other monsters that can escape through water.

"Three inner cores of dragon-born monsters are enough to refine three furnaces of 'Dragon Spirit Pills'. Together with the 'Essence Enhancement Pills' and 'Citrine Pills' I prepared, I think I should have enough pills before my cultivation reaches the late Purple Mansion stage!"

In the cave on Tuyun Ridge, Zhou Chunpan silently calculated the various spiritual objects in his hands and decided to call it a day.

I often walk by the river, so how can I not wet my shoes?

He might be able to escape this time, but not next time.

Even if he had to hunt a third-level monster again, he would rather go to places like Dolan Grassland and Black Mist Swamp. At least there, even if the existence of Lei Jiaobai was exposed, he would not provoke a behemoth like the Jiaolong clan.

After making this decision, Zhou Chun took out a "yellow crystal pill" and swallowed it, then concentrated on practicing in the cave.

As a pill given to Purple Mansion middle and late stage cultivators, the efficacy of "Huang Jing Dan" is much stronger than that of "Zeng Yuan Dan".

If Zhou Chun takes this elixir now, he cannot fully absorb and refine all the medicinal effects, and one or two percent of the medicinal power will be wasted.

But even so, the gains he gained from refining a "yellow crystal pill" were equivalent to more than three years of his own practice.

After practicing in Tuyunling for three years and refining three "yellow crystal pills", Zhou Chun vaguely sensed the barrier of the middle stage of Purple Mansion.

Starting from the Purple Mansion Stage, there are realm barriers between each small realm. If a cultivator wants to break through this small realm barrier, there are generally two ways.

One is to loosen the realm barrier through years of polishing the magic power and repeated impacts.

Zhou Mingde broke through to the middle stage of Purple Mansion by using this method.

The second is to take certain pills that help break through the realm barrier and force a breakthrough.

Just like Lin Hongyu, in order to break through the late Purple Mansion as quickly as possible, she took the "Chiming Liuzhu Pill", an elixir specially used to assist in breaking through the realm barrier.

However, this kind of elixir is extremely precious, and it is very difficult to find it in Yasukuni.

If Zhou Chun wants to break through the realm barrier through the power of elixirs, he has to start from the Great Zhou Kingdom.

He calculated the time and found that he and Luo Qingni had been together for six or seven years respectively. With her accumulation and the magical effect of the [Five Elements Spiritual Fruit], it would take him less than ten years to successfully form the elixir.

Therefore, he began to think about going to the Great Zhou Kingdom again.

At this time he walked out of the cave and came to the valley outside.

I saw that the small sapling of purple mulberry tree three years ago has now grown to more than ten feet tall and has produced purple-green mulberry leaves.

At this time, the purple mulberry wood is still in the category of first-level spiritual wood in terms of spiritual power strength, but the rich vitality it exudes is no worse than many second-level spiritual woods.

Zhou Chun estimated that if this continued, the tree would be able to grow into a second-level spiritual tree in less than ten years.

"As expected of a fifth-rank spiritual tree, its foundation is truly incomparable to that of ordinary spiritual trees!"

Zhou Chun nodded, feeling very satisfied with the growth of the purple mulberry tree.

Then he looked at the several spiritual pets in the valley.

It has been some time since the Golden-Armored Rock Turtle Shitou was promoted to the second-level top-grade monster. Now that his cultivation has stopped increasing, he can only seek an opportunity to break through to the third level.

Without its two older brothers to share resources with, the golden-winged tiger's growth rate quickly caught up, and it has now been promoted to a second-tier, top-grade monster.

In addition to his own practice, Zhou Chun’s important task later on was to seek opportunities for evolutionary breakthroughs for the two of them.

"The stone is easy to say. If we can exchange it for Tianzhi Sanren's 'Mountain Soul Pearl', with its talent, it shouldn't be a problem to condense a demon pill with it."

"This fellow, the Golden Winged Tiger, is a bit troublesome. Although its dual attributes of gold and wind make it far stronger than its peers, they also limit its scope of breakthrough. It cannot rely on ordinary spiritual objects to assist in its breakthrough. I guess it will have to start with elixirs!"

Zhou Chun's eyes flashed, he raised his hand to call the golden-winged tiger over, stroked its head, and had some ideas about the evolutionary direction of the two spiritual pets.

He has always been a nostalgic person. These spiritual pets have been following him since childhood, accompanying him in his growth and battles. The position they hold in his heart is probably even higher than that of his Taoist partner Su Yuzhen.

He had already treated them as his own children.

Therefore, as long as there is a chance to help them evolve into high-level monsters, he will definitely do it with all his might.

After playing with a few spirit pets for a while, Zhou Chun sent a message to Zhou Mingde, who was also practicing in Tuyunling, to come into the cave and expressed his intention to travel to the Great Zhou Kingdom again.

This matter was mentioned when he came back, so Zhou Mingde naturally would not object at this time.

After reminding him to be careful about his own safety, he was allowed to go.

So Zhou Chun packed up his things and quietly set out on the journey to the Great Zhou Kingdom.

Since this time it was not urgent, Zhou Chun also took a detour to Yang State to visit Lin Wan'er who was practicing there.

"Patriarch, you have come at the right time. I want to go to the clan in person to report something to you."

In the Hongyu Peak stronghold, Lin Wan'er was extremely surprised when she saw Zhou Chun coming here. She immediately pulled him into her cave and talked about an important matter.

It turned out that after decades of development, Yang State had recovered a lot of its vitality, and the immortal cultivation world here had gradually changed from its original barbaric and disorderly development.

Several major sects of the Yang State, which had suffered heavy losses in the "Thousand Cricket Disaster", are now interested in reviving their sects.

However, these major sects suffered heavy losses in the insect plague. Not only were all the disciples below the fourth level killed or injured, but even the various immortal cultivation families under their original command were all wiped out. It can be said that the gap between the upper and lower levels was extremely serious.

At this time, they wanted to revive the sect, but using the previous method of slowly recruiting disciples and training them was undoubtedly too inefficient, and it would take hundreds of years to produce results.

It may even be impossible to produce any results.

After all, there are not many immortal cultivation families to provide them with high-quality immortal seedlings to become disciples. The number of mortals that Yangguo has recovered now cannot produce many people with spiritual roots.

The most important thing is that their mountain gate and resource points were destroyed in the insect plague, and now they can no longer provide the resources they used to train disciples.

Therefore, these major sects set their sights on the various immortal cultivation families and independent cultivator strongholds that had migrated to the territory of Yang State, hoping to recruit these families and independent cultivators in order to build the basic structure of the sect.

This matter was originally a good thing for those immortal cultivation families and independent cultivators above the foundation-building stage, as it would benefit both sides.

Because in this way, not only will they have a powerful backer to protect them and high-level monks to guide their practice, but they can also form their own faction within the large sect and gain a lot of power.

But for the Hongyu Peak stronghold, this matter is difficult to handle.

After all, the Hongyu Peak stronghold is now being operated under the banner of Lin Hongyu, a Jindan-stage cultivator. The major Yang State sect, Jin Guangzong, which has incorporated the Hongyu Peak stronghold, wants to incorporate both the cultivators of the Hongyu Peak stronghold and Lin Hongyu herself on the condition that Lin Hongyu will be granted the position of elder of the Jin Guangzong.

Although the Jin Guang Sect suffered heavy losses in the insect plague, it still has a Nascent Soul cultivator and several Golden Core cultivators, and its top-level combat power is still there.

Since their order to recruit has already reached the Hongyu Peak stronghold, there are only two paths left for the Hongyu Peak stronghold.

"I understand this matter. Elder Lin, you can pack up and return to the clan tomorrow. I will personally escort you for a while. Since Jin Guangzong wants the Red Jade Peak stronghold, then give it to them!"

After listening to Lin Wan'er's story, Zhou Chun immediately expressed his decision without even thinking.

Neither he nor the Zhou family would allow Lin Hongyu to join the Jin Guang Sect, and he believed that Lin Hongyu would not be able to join it either.

So there is no good choice at all, just pack up and leave.

Anyway, the mission of the Hongyu Peak stronghold had actually ended after the [Earth Crystal Jade] mine was dug out.

No one in the Zhou family would be reluctant to give up this place, except Lin Wan'er, who had lived here for decades.

"Yes, I obey."

Lin Wan'er opened her mouth, but finally lowered her head and agreed.

In fact, she had known that Zhou Chun would make this decision a long time ago, but it was just that she had stayed in this place for decades, and it would definitely not be easy for her to give up just like that.

If Zhou Chun hadn't arrived, perhaps she would have tried to delay time to see if there were any other opportunities.

But now that Zhou Chun had helped her make up her mind, she didn't have much to say.

The next morning, Zhou Chun personally escorted Lin Hongyu out of the Hongyu Peak stronghold just as he had said.

As for the other cultivators in the stronghold, no one is willing to go with Lin Hongyu.

After all, compared with an immortal cultivation family like the Zhou family that doesn't even have a Jindan-stage cultivator, becoming a disciple of the Jin Guangzong, a major sect, is obviously much more tempting.

After escorting Lin Wan'er for thousands of miles, Zhou Chun let her return to her family alone and went to the Great Zhou Kingdom himself.

A few months later, Zhou Chun arrived at Tianyuan Fairy City safely.

The first thing he did after returning to Tianyuan Fairy City was naturally to find out about Luo Qingni.

The result of the investigation was as he expected. Luo Qingni had not yet succeeded in forming the elixir.

So Zhou Chun went to the place where people rented caves in the fairy city again, and rented a cave not far from Luo Qingni's cave, and paid five years' rent at once.

From then on, Zhou Chun concentrated on practicing in seclusion in the rented cave, waiting for Luo Qingni to come out.

Almost two years later, the Dan-forming celestial phenomenon finally appeared in the sky above Luo Qingni's cave residence.

(End of this chapter)