Beast-controlling fairy clan.

Chapter 489 Entering the Secret Realm [Subscription Request]

The return of Zhou Daoyi and others made the Zhou family much more manpower-sufficient.

Zhou Chun asked Zhou Zhengyong, who had just opened up the Purple Mansion, to take charge of Jiufengling, and asked Lin Wan'er to go to the Caiyushan stronghold in the wilderness to take charge.

Zhou Daoyi was led by the Zhou family and formed a joint demon-hunting team with cultivators from Tianjing Villa and other forces, which was responsible for clearing out the remaining demon cultivators in Lingzhou and Lanzhou.

Because the Zhou family is willing to subsidize the members of this joint demon-killing team with spiritual coins, and because killing demon cultivators can also be exchanged for rewards from the alliance, there are still some cultivators willing to join the joint demon-killing team.

At this time, the Jingguo cultivation world has generally returned to normal operation.

Apart from the fact that a large number of monks were killed, injured and fled due to the war, which made the population seem a little deserted, all production operations were not much different from before the war.

Each of the immortal cultivation families began post-war recovery and reconstruction work, and commercial trade was slowly recovering.

However, because the population of immortal cultivators has been lost so heavily, it will probably take dozens or even hundreds of years to restore to the pre-war level.

One of Zhou Chun's biggest headaches lately is that many families have come to him to propose marriages or marry off their daughters.

Anyone with a keen eye can see the current momentum of the Zhou family.

Therefore, many families wanted to establish a marriage relationship with the Zhou family before Zhou Chun succeeded in forming the elixir. This way, they would have a ready-made way to ask the Zhou family for help in the future.

Zhou Chun didn't object to this kind of marriage.

However, although the Zhou family is no longer short of manpower, it is not to the extent that they can marry off their daughters freely.

Whether it is him, or Zhou Mingde and others, they are more inclined to absorb the male and female monks within the family.

For a large family like the Zhou family, their bloodline has been passed down for countless generations, with hundreds of thousands of ordinary mortals, and a relatively complete family tree available for reference.

It is not uncommon or impossible for people of the same surname to marry each other and become Taoist couples.

Of course, because they are from the same clan with the same surname, they have been calling each other brothers and sisters in school since childhood, which sometimes makes it more difficult for love between men and women to develop.

This makes internal digestion a difficult task.

After all, a forced melon is not sweet. If there is no love, Zhou Chun, as the patriarch, cannot randomly match people up.

On the other hand, those families that wanted to form a marriage relationship with the Zhou family must have already persuaded the female cultivators in the family in advance.

For them, as long as the Zhou family is willing to arrange for the monks to receive them, they can directly marry them over.

For some ordinary members of the Zhou family, marrying a female cultivator trained by a family of immortal cultivators seems to be a good choice.

As long as the female cultivator has a decent appearance and figure, her personality can actually be ignored by them.

After all, the Zhou family is the powerful one, and those female cultivators from small families who marry into the family, no matter how bad their personalities are, have to be good wives and mothers.

Otherwise, if they themselves tolerate those shrews and evil women, the Zhou family rules will not tolerate them either!
In short, Zhou Chun had too many things to deal with and finally had no choice but to hold a marriage-recruiting conference every three years.

At that time, any girl from the Zhou family who wants to get married or find a husband can sign up for the marriage conference.

Those monks who want to marry a girl from the Zhou family or marry into the Zhou family can prepare gifts in advance and sign up for the marriage conference.

Then they can attract the attention of the Zhou family's female cultivators by presenting treasures and showing their talents to see if they can win the beauty's heart.

In fact, this is also a common method used by many Jindan families.

Time passed slowly, and in the blink of an eye, another two years had passed.

On this day, Zhou Chun suddenly received bad news from Zhou Zhengyong on Jiufengling.

After taking the Green Hair Ape Demon Pill, the Green Wood Spirit Ape was ultimately unable to successfully break through and evolve by relying on the power of the demon pill.

However, its luck was good. Its body was not blown up by the huge power of the demon pill due to its failure to break through. It just suffered some internal injuries due to the backlash of the failed forced breakthrough. It may need to rest for a few years to recover.

"Failed? It seems that it is not that easy for a demon beast to break through the third level!"

Zhou Chun looked at the urgent message in his hand and couldn't help but shake his head and sigh.

In fact, it is much more difficult for a second-level monster to advance to the third level than for a foundation-building cultivator to open up a purple mansion.

Otherwise, Zhou Daoquan wouldn't have been without a third-level demon beast pet until now, and Zhou Mingde and Zhou Daoyi wouldn't have only focused on training one pet and not trained more pets like him.

The reason Zhou Chun was able to train several of his spiritual pets to the third level was mainly because he took the right route, obtained suitable spiritual objects, and his spiritual pets themselves had a very good foundation.

Taking the third-level demon beast's demon pill to force a breakthrough like Qingmu Lingyuan did is purely a risky gamble and there is no other way.

The failure rate is naturally much higher than the success rate!

But no matter what, Zhou Chun and the Zhou family no longer owed Qingmu Lingyuan, the family elder, any merit from then on.

After all, the value of a third-grade low-grade demon pill is only slightly less than a spiritual object that assists in opening up the Purple Mansion.

Next, Zhou Chun went to visit the Qingmu Spirit Ape in person, and asked Mu Mei to stay in Jiufeng Ridge to help it recuperate, as a way to thank it for taking care of him in the past.

Just when he was visiting Luo Qingni who was cultivating here, he saw her suddenly looking at him and asked, "Fellow Daoist Zhou, Qingni has almost finished researching the formula for the Holy Spirit Blood Pill. Do you want to start refining the pill now?"

"Oh, it's over so soon?"

Zhou Chun's eyes narrowed slightly, and he looked at Luo Qingni with some surprise.

He still remembered the recipe of the [Dragon Spirit Pill]. The other party had studied and comprehended it for a long time before he dared to start refining it.

Moreover, even after studying and comprehending for so long, the success rate of refining is not high at the beginning.

"The recipe for the Holy Spirit Blood Pill is actually not particularly complicated. It's just that the ingredients used to make it are extremely rare. In addition, Qing Ni's alchemy skills have improved over the years."

As if she understood the meaning in Zhou Chun's eyes, Luo Qingni immediately explained some more details.

Seeing this, Zhou Chun hurriedly said, "Daoyou Luo has misunderstood. I don't mean to distrust you. It's just that the [Holy Spirit Blood Pill] is extremely important to my Zhou family, and there is only one copy of the material. I still hope that Daoyou can take action when you have the best chance of success!"

After hearing what he said, Luo Qingni did not argue with him anymore, but just nodded slightly and said: "Okay, since Fellow Daoist Zhou is not in a hurry, then I will wait for Fellow Daoist Zhou to bring that thing over, and then I will start to refine it!"

"Yes, that's the best!"

Zhou Chun nodded repeatedly, agreeing with what she said.

As the saying goes, if a worker wants to do his job well, he must first sharpen his tools.

For an alchemist, a good alchemy furnace is more precious than any magical weapon.

The magic weapon-level alchemy furnace can provide great help to the alchemist in the process of alchemy, both in terms of the success rate of alchemy and the quality of the pills.

"In one year at most, I will be able to set off for the Great Zhou with Fellow Daoist Luo!"

Before leaving Jiufengling, Zhou Chun also gave Luo Qingni a definite travel date.

In the following year, Zhou Chun, in addition to practicing, began to prepare for the journey to the Great Zhou Kingdom.

Although he estimated that it might not take too long for him to form the elixir, if it was fast, three to five years would be enough.

But don’t be afraid of ten thousand, just be afraid of the unexpected.

In case he can't return to the family so soon, some things need to be arranged in advance.

More than seven months later, during a meditation session, Zhou Chun discovered that he could no longer refine the spiritual energy of heaven and earth into his own magic power.

The magic power accumulated in his dantian has reached his personal limit, and it is difficult to make any more progress!
At this point, apart from condensing the golden elixir, he could no longer improve his magical powers by even a little bit through practice.

"Has the power finally reached its limit?"

Zhou Chun looked inward at himself, seeing the golden lake of magic power in his dantian, and felt a little excited.

After counting on his fingers, he found that he had lived for over 200 years, so he should be 204 years old this year.

It has been one hundred and seventy-eight years since I came into this world!

Now we have finally come to this step.

Once the golden elixir is formed, one can live for up to a thousand years, master immense magical powers, and completely enter the upper echelons of the immortal cultivation world, becoming a truly high-level cultivator.

If he were a casual cultivator, after forming the golden elixir, as long as he was careful not to provoke those big sects, he could basically live freely for a thousand years.

As a family cultivator, once he forms the golden elixir, the Zhou family will immediately be promoted to a golden elixir family, and as long as he lives, the family's status will not decline.

Even for most of the monks from the major sects in this world, the Jindan stage is the final destination of their life journey!

Transforming the elixir into a baby is something that many Jindan-stage cultivators from major sects dare not even think about.

Because only when you reach their level will you know how difficult this step is.

A simplest example.

No matter how poor the aptitude of a Qi Refining cultivator is, in theory, as long as they never give up practicing and have enough time to practice, they can basically practice to the twelfth level of Qi Refining and have the qualifications to impact the foundation building stage. Note that it is qualifications. However, among the Jindan cultivators, five or six out of ten have no chance of practicing to the late Jindan stage!
Among the few remaining cultivators who can cultivate to the late stage of the Golden Core, there may be only one who is finally qualified to move on to the stage of transforming the core into a baby, or even none at all!

In fact, unless one has extraordinary talent or has a great opportunity, it is impossible for most Jindan stage cultivators outside of the major sects to cultivate to the late Jindan stage.

In this case, the Jindan stage is truly the biggest goal in the minds of more than 90% of cultivators in the world of immortal cultivation.

"With my preparation, it won't be difficult to form a golden elixir. However, after forming a golden elixir, given the Zhou family's situation, they are destined to be unable to help me with anything. So if I want to not stop at the Golden Elixir stage, I must have a great opportunity!"

"It just so happens that there is such an opportunity in front of me now. I must cherish this opportunity, work hard, and make a fortune!"

Zhou Chun opened his eyes, a gleam in his eyes, and he had already made up his mind.

A few days later, Zhou Chun quietly went to the wilderness and took most of the adult and almost all the mature "Sky Frost Bees" with him.

As a famous strange insect on the "List of Strange Insects of Heaven and Earth", once the number of "Sky Frost Bee" reaches a certain level, it will still pose a great threat to Jindan stage cultivators.

Zhou Chun has been raising this group of "Heavenly Frost Bees" for nearly a hundred years. The number of bees in the colony has now reached more than 300, nearly twice as many as when he first tamed the bee colony.

Among them, the number of demon bees that have entered the mature stage has reached thirty-eight, which is more than one-tenth.

Generally speaking, during the most prosperous period of a bee colony in nature, the number of mature demon bees will not exceed one-third of the population, unless they encounter an environment that is particularly suitable for the growth of the population.

The habitat that Zhou Chun created for these demon bees is very good. Not only does the cold environment meet the standards, but there are also abundant food resources around.

In addition, he also feeds some spiritual objects that are beneficial to the growth of the bee colony from time to time. It should not be a problem to increase the number of mature demon bees in the colony to over 30% in the future.

At this time, he collected most of the adult and almost all the mature demon bees at one time, which would have a huge impact on the growth of the bee colony.

Therefore, when leaving, Zhou Chun specifically instructed the Zhou family's foundation-building cultivators at the Longxing Valley stronghold to come here every month to put frozen monster meat into this cave, so that the remaining adult monster bees could just bring the growing monster bees over to carry the food without having to risk going out hunting.

After returning to Tuyunling, Zhou Chun went to visit Lin Hongyu again, took the magic weapon [Wu Tu Vajra Cover] from her and carried it with him.

If he succeeds in forming the elixir in the secret island, Zhou Chun will definitely not have enough time to refine his own magic weapon. Then the blue-black flag magic weapon he got from the ancestor of the Su family and this [Wu Earth Vajra Cover] magic weapon will become his most important support for grabbing treasures in it.

After everything was ready, Zhou Chun publicly announced that he was in seclusion on Tuyun Mountain to form the elixir, but secretly he used the [Hundred Illusion Pearls] to disguise himself and left Tuyun Mountain.

Luo Qingni, who was on Jiufeng Ridge, had left there more than a month in advance and was now waiting for him in the territory of Shen State.

After Zhou Chun arrived in the territory of Shen State, the two of them reunited and were immediately led by Luo Qingni to rush to the Great Zhou State at full speed.

Less than half a month later, Zhou Chun and Luo Qingni returned to Tianyuan Fairy City after being away for decades.

After entering the city, the two went straight to Luo Qingni's cave in the city.

Ever since Luo Qingni successfully formed her elixir and decided to reside permanently in Tianyuan Immortal City, her original cave "Qingni Ju" was given to her by the Tianyuan Immortal City officials to live in for free.

This is also a special benefit provided by Tianyuan Immortal City to these Jindan-stage master craftsmen.

After all, the lifespan of a Jindan-stage cultivator is as long as a thousand years. If they are willing to reside in a certain market town and accept commissions from other cultivators to make alchemy and refine equipment, it will bring a lot of popularity to the market town.

A big part of the reason why Tianyuan Immortal City can become the number one immortal city in the Great Zhou Kingdom is that they have retained a large number of weapon refining masters and alchemy masters to refine weapons and elixirs for people.

After bringing Zhou Chun back to his cave, Luo Qingni quickly looked at him and said, "We will rest in Tianyuan Immortal City for a few days. After Qingni finds someone to find out the situation, I will personally escort Brother Zhou to Muli Lake!"

"No problem. I will follow Brother Luo's arrangements!"

Zhou Chun nodded readily and agreed without hesitation.

In the following days, Zhou Chun lived in the guest room inside Luo Qingni's cave residence and did not go out to stay in an inn.

While Luo Qingni was collecting intelligence, he also stopped by several shops in the city and took out the fifteen Foundation Establishment Pills that Lin Wan'er had originally reserved.

At the same time, I also asked about the market conditions.

Sure enough, as he expected, as inflation in the Tianling world gradually emerged, the prices of spiritual resources such as the Foundation Establishment Pill in the Great Zhou Kingdom also rose slightly, and bundled sales measures began to appear.

If you want to purchase strategic spiritual resources such as Foundation Establishment Pills in bulk, you must also purchase a batch of other types of pills or talismans.

This is also a disguised price increase!
But the good news is that the prices of magical instruments have not been affected too much.

Zhou Chun now has accumulated many third-level and second-level magic weapons. The number of these magic weapons is enough to arm ten Purple Mansion Stage monks!
There is no way the Zhou family would be able to use so many magical weapons in the short term.

Therefore, he planned to sell most of the magical weapons in exchange for resources.

However, with his current Purple Mansion stage cultivation, it is not safe to sell third-level magic tools in such a large scale, so he plans to wait until he reaches the Dan stage before selling them.

After staying in Tianyuan Fairy City for eight days, Luo Qingni finally finished gathering intelligence and confirmed that nothing special had happened on the Dolan Grassland recently. She could take Zhou Chun to the secret island in Muli Lake.

This time when they went to Muli Lake, the monsters that took them by car were Zhou Chun's two spiritual pets. The Golden Winged Tiger and the Thunder Dragon Baibai took turns carrying them on the journey.

Among them, Lei Jiao Baibai even used the [Hundred Illusion Pearls] to conceal his true identity.

Compared to the second-grade top-grade six-winged flying lizard last time, Zhou Chun's two pets are undoubtedly much more powerful in terms of speed and endurance.

Moreover, even if they encountered magicians from the "Multi-Winged Clan" and other grassland monsters on the road, these two spirit pets were more than enough to shake them off with their speed, or even kill them on the spot.

In less than a month, Zhou Chun and his friends arrived at the shores of Muli Lake again.

The water is the home turf of the Thunder Flood Dragon Baibai. After getting into the water, Zhou Chun and Luo Qingni rode on its back and headed to the secret island under Luo Qingni's guidance.

Not long after, the two men and the dragon arrived outside the secret island.

"This is the place. Brother Zhou, please ask your pet to stop!"

In a deep water area at the bottom of the lake, when the Lei Jiao Baibai that was moving forward circled back to its original place twice, Luo Qingni decisively asked Zhou Chun to stop Lei Jiao Baibai.

Then she looked at Zhou Chun and said slowly, "Fellow Daoist Zhou, have you really decided to try to form a pill in there?"

"Yes, Zhou Chun is ready!"

Zhou Chun nodded and responded in a firm tone.

"In that case, Qing Ni will not persuade you anymore!"

Luo Qingni sighed softly, then looked at Zhou Chun with a serious face and said, "It's just that Qingni wants to ask Brother Zhou to promise Qingni that before forming the elixir, you should try your best to see if you can get the treasure that Qingni needs, so as to avoid that if Brother Zhou succeeds in forming the elixir, he will trigger the forbidden method inside and be teleported out!"

Hearing her words, Zhou Chun also responded with a serious expression: "Of course, before I form the elixir, I will definitely try my best to take risks and try it out!"

"Qing Ni still believes in the character of Daoist Brother Zhou, so Qing Ni will not ask Daoist Brother to make any oath to protect his inner demons. Daoist Brother Zhou, please keep these things!"

Luo Qingni nodded slightly, and handed a storage bag to Zhou Chun, which contained the fourth-order low-grade puppet she had prepared and some talismans and pills.

Finally, she raised her hand and patted the storage bag on her waist, and a jade talisman of ancient style appeared in her hand.

"This jade talisman does not need to be sacrificed. As long as you use your own magic power to activate it, it will automatically make the [Qian Kun Reversal Formation] here sense and teleport you, Daoist Brother Zhou, into the island. Qing Ni has also recorded the method of leaving the island in the storage bag I gave you!"

Zhou Chun raised his hand to take the storage bag and the jade talisman. After taking a quick look at the jade talisman in his hand, he nodded to Luo Qingni and said, "Don't worry, Brother Luo. If I can successfully obtain the treasure before the pill is formed, I will notify you first. Otherwise, Brother Luo, please wait patiently for me to come out!"

Hearing this, Luo Qingni nodded slightly and said, "Qingni understands. I wish you all the best!"

"Then Zhou will go first."

As Zhou Chun spoke, he put the Thunder Dragon into the spirit beast bag, then held the jade talisman and slowly injected magic power into it.

After a moment, the white light released by the jade talisman wrapped Zhou Chun's whole body. He moved forward and soon disappeared from Luo Qingni's sight.

When Zhou Chun's vision returned to normal, he had already appeared on the bluestone square that Luo Qingni had mentioned.

"What a rich spiritual energy!"

On the bluestone square, Zhou Chun looked around and was amazed by the rich spiritual energy of heaven and earth here.

Even in the Moon Wheel Sect's mountain gate where he had been, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth in most places was not so rich.

But it is normal if you think about it. After all, this is the cave of a cultivator in the Nascent Soul stage.

Zhou Chun was not in a hurry to explore this place. He immediately put away the jade talisman in his hand, opened the storage bag given by Luo Qingni, and checked the things inside.

The storage bag contained a fourth-level low-grade giant ape puppet and a replacement spirit crystal, as well as three fourth-level magic talismans, including a fourth-level mid-grade magic talisman.

In addition, there are as many as ten third-grade high-quality talismans.

In addition, there is a bottle of [Dabu Yuan Dan] which can greatly restore mana. There are five pills in total. Taking one pill can restore Zhou Chun's mana by 50% to 60%.

At the same time, there is also a [Explosive Yuan Pill] that can temporarily increase Zhou Chun's mana. After taking it, his mana can be temporarily increased by 30%.

But the price of taking this pill is weakness for at least a year!
Zhou Chun will definitely not take this pill!
The last one is a jade slip, which contains not only all the experiences of Luo Qingni's several explorations of the secret island, but also a rough map of the secret island and how to leave the secret island.

After checking everything, Zhou Chun first identified the fourth-grade inferior puppet as his master while studying the information in the jade slip.

Oh no, I have to leave my hometown tomorrow. I helped my family with a lot of things today and I don’t have time to finish writing 8,000 words. I only wrote 6,000 words. I will record 2,000 words first!

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