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Chapter 437: Shadow of Evil Appears [Subscribe]

The form of warfare has changed again, and a new phase has begun.

Soon, after the "Corpse Demon General" Jiang Zhongye massacred five immortal cultivation families, news of more evil cultivators sneaking into Jingguo to cause chaos spread like wildfire.

Moreover, not only Yunzhou, which was adjacent to Fengguo, was attacked by the evil monks, but even the areas controlled by Yanyang Sect and Yuelun Sect also saw the evil monks roaming around and killing people.

It seemed as if overnight, the evil cultivators had spread all over Jingguo!

For a time, all the immortal cultivation families in the entire Jingguo territory were in a panic, and they all activated the mountain protection formation to seal off the mountains and protect themselves.

Some immortal cultivation families even began to arrange retreat routes directly, arranging some members of the family who had good qualifications but low cultivation to seek refuge in other countries in the rear.

Such things are undoubtedly a slap in the face of the Tianling Legion.

Therefore, the Tianling Legion quickly launched a large-scale offensive against the Yuanmo Legion, forcing the Yuanmo Legion to be unable to spare many manpower to sneak into the rear to cause trouble.

At the same time, the Tianling Alliance also offered a reward to those demon cultivators who sneaked into Jingguo and even other countries. Any cultivator who killed these infiltrating demon cultivators would receive double the reward.

If one can kill one of the "Seven Demons of Yuanmo", he will be directly rewarded with a spiritual object that can assist in forming the elixir!
As the saying goes, there must be a brave man under a heavy reward.

After the Tianling Alliance offered a high bounty, the fear of demons in various places was finally alleviated a little. Many Jindan family cultivators with Jindan stage cultivators in charge were eager to go down the mountain to eliminate the demons.

At the same time, major forces like the three major sects also sent disciples from their mountain gates down the mountain to eliminate demons and maintain order.

"By killing the cultivators in the 'Seven Demons of the Yuan Demon', we can obtain a spiritual item that helps us to form a pill? This is an opportunity!"

In Tuyun Ridge, Zhou Chun couldn't help but be tempted after seeing the bounty reward released by the Tianling Alliance.

Although he already has the [Five Elements Spiritual Fruit], it would certainly be better if he could get one more spiritual object to assist in forming the elixir.

After all, the power of the [Five Elements Spiritual Fruit] does not conflict with many spiritual objects that assist in forming a pill, and they can be combined to increase the success rate of forming a pill.

Zhou Chun's spiritual roots are not that good, so his success rate in forming a pill is definitely lower than that of cultivators like Luo Qingni.

Therefore, in order not to waste such a precious and rare spiritual object as the [Five Elements Spiritual Fruit], it must be successful in one go.

But before Zhou Chun could make any move, the flames of the evil cultivator's rebellion had already spread to the Zhou family.

It turned out that the transport team of the "Zhou Tong Tian Xia" trading company had become the target of looting by the evil cultivators. Within just a few days, many teams were attacked, and even two Foundation Establishment cultivators who had cooperated with the Zhou family were killed.

The Zhou family also lost many members in the Qi Refining stage.

After learning about this, Zhou Chun hurriedly asked branches of the merchant bank in various places to suspend accepting shipments, and all goods that had been accepted but not shipped were returned, and the merchant bank temporarily suspended operations!

As a result, even though Zhou Chun was reluctant to do so, he had to inform the entire clan that all welfare benefits of all clan members would be reduced by 30% in the future to cope with this crisis.

At the same time, the Zhou family, like other families, chose to temporarily close the mountain and notified the cultivators from various families to come back to the family mountain gate if possible. If it was too far, they should seek refuge in the nearby market first.

The first wave of surprise attacks behind enemy lines by the demon cultivators will surely be fierce, so closing the mountain is the best option at this time.

After Zhou Chun arranged all the affairs of the family, he quickly found Zhou Mingde and said, "Tuyun Ridge has the [Nine Palaces Yellow Dragon Formation] and Elder Lin is in charge, so safety should be no problem. However, Jiufeng Ridge only has the Third Elder in charge now, and the guard force is a little insufficient. I want to go there in person, and I hope the Grand Elder will agree."

When Zhou Mingde heard what he said, he immediately shook his head and refused, "That's not appropriate. The demon cultivators are rampant right now. There's no guarantee that there won't be a Jindan-stage demon cultivator sneaking in to attack. It's better for me to go over there and take charge."

"Grand Elder, please don't argue with me. With my current strength, as long as I have the Nine Peaks Ridge formation, I can resist a real Jindan stage demon cultivator even if he attacks. At worst, I can take the Third Elder with me and escape together!"

"And if you go alone, even if someone from the 'Seven Demons of the Yuan Demon' leads a team to attack Jiufeng Ridge, you and the Third Elder alone will not be able to hold on. You should be aware of the consequences!"

Zhou Chun looked at Zhou Mingde calmly and spoke out his true feelings, not caring that his words might offend the elder.

He was very grateful and understood Zhou Mingde's kindness towards him, but to be honest, this kindness was sometimes a heavy burden to bear, and sometimes this kindness was not beneficial to the family.

Just imagine, if it is true as he said, Zhou Mingde went to Jiufeng Ridge to take charge, and then a strong man like "Corpse General" Jiang Zhong also set Jiufeng Ridge as his target, how can Zhou Mingde and Zhou Daoquan resist?
If both of them were killed in Jiufeng Ridge, how great would the blow and loss be to the Zhou family?

How guilty and regretful should Zhou Chun feel?

Obviously, his slightly offensive words still moved Zhou Mingde.

After hearing what he said, Zhou Mingde did not get angry, but frowned and fell into hesitation and dilemma.

Zhou Mingde is not the kind of stubborn cultivator. Instead, he is always able to listen to the opinions of his juniors.

It's just that he had too high expectations of Zhou Chun, and placed all his hopes for the Zhou family's revival on Zhou Chun, so he was particularly concerned about Zhou Chun's personal safety.

Sometimes it becomes a state of worrying about gains and losses.

In fact, he himself knew this, but even though he knew it, he didn't think that he was wrong in doing so.

After all, it’s better to be careful!
In his opinion, even if he was overly suspicious, it was better than anything happening to Zhou Chunzhen.

As for the safety of other cultivators in the Zhou family, when faced with a choice, Zhou Mingde would of course only choose Zhou Chun.

But what Zhou Chun said now was undoubtedly very reasonable.

If the Zhou family loses two Purple Mansion Stage cultivators at once, the blow to the family will be too great, and may even directly affect Zhou Chun's future plans for forming a golden elixir.

After all, if such a thing really happened, the current good situation of the Zhou family would collapse directly, and they would not even be able to keep Jiufengling, the birthplace of the family. They would even be forced to give up many of the interests in the wilderness.

"Well, go ahead!"

In the end, Zhou Mingde could only sigh and agree with Zhou Chun's opinion.

But after agreeing, he also reminded Zhou Chun: "Just Zhengchun, you must promise me that if you really encounter a Jindan stage demon cultivator attacking Jiufeng Ridge, don't think too much, and put your own life first!"

"Don't worry, Grand Elder. I haven't lived enough in this life yet, and I don't want to lose my life so early!"

Zhou Chun smiled lightly and agreed readily.

Next, Zhou Chun packed up and took several spiritual pets to Jiufeng Ridge to take charge.

At this time, Jiufeng Ridge has become the Zhou family's breeding base. Most of the area is used to raise various monsters. Less than one-third of the Zhou family cultivators remain here.

However, this place is still very important to the Zhou family. If this place is lost, the Zhou family's foundation will be cut in half, and this is by no means an exaggeration.

After Zhou Chun arrived at Jiufengling, he first met with Zhou Daoquan to communicate, and then began to inspect the area.

Over the years, Zhou Chun has been concentrating on his cultivation in Tuyunling and has not had much contact with clan affairs. He only knows some data.

However, the text data on paper alone is obviously not as impressive as the on-site inspection.

After inspecting the various monsters raised in Jiufeng Ridge, Zhou Chun was surprised to find that the number of monsters raised by the Zhou family now exceeded sixty!
Among them were the familiar monsters such as the Red Flame King Kong Monkey, Wind Shadow Dragon Snake, One-horned Dragon Lizard, Red-eyed Dragon Vulture, Dragon Scale Horse, Dragon Claw Giant Lizard, as well as some monsters that he had only seen the names of but had never seen before.

For example, there are monsters with extraordinary potential and strength such as the King Kong Pig, the Fire-winged Bird, and the Thunder Falcon.

Most of these monsters are rare species captured by the Zhou family from the wilderness, and many are obtained by the Zhou family members during their adventures.

In addition, the musk deer that Zhou Chun brought back have now grown into a group of musk deer, with a number of eight. The musk deer they produce have become a new specialty of the Zhou family.

It’s a pity that up to now, the Zhou family has not been able to raise a mid-level monster that can be mass-produced.

This is a regret for the Zhou family as a beast taming family!
However, Zhou Chun believed that this regret would be made up after he formed the elixir.

Because he actually knows where to find such intermediate and even high-level monsters that can be mass-produced.

It’s just because that place is too dangerous, and he doesn’t dare to go there again until he reaches the Jindan stage.

"It's a pity that Baibai can't be exposed yet. Otherwise, with Baibai's superior dragon bloodline aptitude, once the dragon nest is built, it shouldn't take more than ten or twenty years for the family to have several more dragon-born monsters through the infiltration of their aura!"

Zhou Chun couldn't help but sigh as he looked at the dragon-born monsters in the zoo.

For the Zhou family, which owns the dragon, cultivating dragon-born monsters is undoubtedly the most cost-effective approach.

As long as the dragon exists, the dragon-born monster's bloodline will not have to worry about degeneration, and it can even be helped to break through to the second level by bestowing the dragon's essence and blood.

Baibai is a person of top-grade dragon bloodline. The dragon-born monster that is transformed by it will not only have its strength greatly enhanced, but will also have a greater chance of breaking through to the second level in the future.

In the future, it is not impossible to cultivate intermediate monsters such as the Blood Flame Dragon Python and the Silver Lightning Thunder Python.

Unfortunately, the current situation makes Zhou Chun dare not do such a thing.

Only when he forms a golden elixir in the future and the Zhou family has two golden elixir-stage cultivators, will they be able to protect Lei Jiao Baibai, a third-level thunder dragon with superior bloodline.

After inspecting Jiufengling, Zhou Chun settled down here with peace of mind.

From then on, although Zhou Chunren was in charge of Jiufengling, he still maintained daily communication with Tuyunling through Eagle News and handled some clan affairs remotely.

And the situation in Yasukuni was as serious as he had judged.

The Yuanmo Realm sent a lot of demon cultivators with strong individual combat capabilities to infiltrate Jingguo to cause trouble. These demon cultivators would even surround a point and attack reinforcements, deliberately setting up ambushes to lure the rescuing cultivators into a trap.

In just two or three months, the land of Jingguo was in chaos, with the evil cultivators causing unrest in the land.

Naturally, the Zhou family was not immune from this situation.

During this period, several groups of demon cultivators also set their sights on the Zhou family. They tried to lure out the Zhou family cultivators from the formation by slaughtering the Zhou family's mortals.

But I didn't expect that doing so would hit a wall!
Zhou Chun directly left Jiufeng Ridge through the stone tunnel of the Golden-Armored Mountain Turtle, then appeared and killed the ambushed demon cultivators near him, releasing the four great spiritual pets to capture all the demon cultivators in one fell swoop.

After destroying several waves of blind demon cultivators, Jiufeng Ridge finally found peace.

But Zhou Chun did not dare to let his guard down.

He knew in his heart that there was no way the demon cultivator would be afraid of the Zhou family.

The evil cultivators are now temporarily quiet, the only possibility is that they are not caring about the Zhou family.

Once all the easy bones have been chewed, the Zhou family may attract the attention of those powerful demon cultivators.

So while Zhou Chun continued to pay attention to news from all sides, he also released Mu Mei and let it go outside to scout the situation around Jiufengling for him.

On this day, Zhou Chun received a piece of news that made him very sad and emotional.

“I didn’t expect that the Wang family of Hongyao Valley couldn’t survive this disaster after all!”

On the Pagoda Peak, Zhou Chun couldn't help but sigh as he looked at the eagle message coming from Hongya Market.

It turned out that the Wang family of Hongyao Valley, which had previously had a good relationship with the Zhou family, had their mountain gate formation broken into by the evil cultivators yesterday. Only one foundation-building cultivator and two children escaped from the entire clan!

Although the Wang family had made some preparations beforehand and arranged for some younger clan members to take refuge in various towns and even in the Qinglian Temple, the family would not be wiped out directly.

But after this disaster, the Wang family was almost as good as being wiped out!

A great clan of immortal cultivators that had been passed down for nearly a thousand years had fallen into complete decline.

"This war is a big reshuffle. Only those who persevere to the end are the winners!"

Zhou Chun looked towards the direction of Hongyao Valley with a deep gaze, and his heart was filled with emotion.

It can be predicted that in this war, many immortal cultivation families and even sects may be wiped out.

And after the war is over, as long as the Tianling Realm has not been occupied by the Yuanmo Realm, those families and sects that persist to the end will be able to share the sacred mountains and resources left behind by the fallen families and sects.

Zhou Chun naturally hopes that the Zhou family can hold on to the end and become the ultimate beneficiary!
The demise of the Wang family in Hongyao Valley seemed to have set a bad precedent. Subsequently, many families that had good relations with the Zhou family received bad news one after another.

Although many demon cultivators were killed during this period, people obviously only cared about the lives and deaths of those they knew, thus seeing the cruelty of war.

It was under such circumstances that Jiufeng Ridge was once again targeted by the evil cultivators.

On this day, the wooden spirit that Zhou Chun had left outside suddenly returned to Jiufengling and told him a piece of news that he attached great importance to.

A group of demon cultivators have been lurking outside Jiufeng Ridge, and among them there are several Purple Mansion cultivators, and there is even a powerful Purple Mansion late stage cultivator who is suspected to be a member of the "Seven Evils of Yuanmo"!

(End of this chapter)