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Chapter 499 Golden Elixir Ceremony [Subscription Request]

"Humph, Yu Jinghua, this evil villain, actually dared to sell out my Zhou family's inherited secrets to other sects. His crime is truly unforgivable!"

In Tuyunling, when Zhou Chun had some free time from his busy schedule, he told Zhou Mingde, Zhou Daoyi and other senior members of the Zhou family about his trip to the Great Zhou. Upon learning that he had discovered Yu Jinghua's whereabouts, Zhou Mingde became furious and started shouting at him.

If we were to ask who among the current Zhou family cultivators hates Yu Jinghua the most, it would definitely be Zhou Mingde.

If he didn't have the ability, he would never hesitate even if it meant that he and Yu Jinghua would die together!

So when he learned that Yu Jinghua actually dared to sell the Zhou family's inherited secret skills to the Yuling Sect in exchange for the Yuling Sect's protection, anger instantly filled his chest and made his hair and beard stand up.

Zhou Daoyi also had a gloomy expression and shouted angrily: "Yu Jinghua deserves to die! If this villain is not eliminated, it will not be enough to comfort our Zhou family ancestors and those clansmen who died because of him splitting the family!!"

Zhou Chun listened to the words of the two elders and immediately responded with a serious face: "You two elders are right. Yu Jinghua is a traitor and a heinous criminal. If we don't get rid of him, we won't be able to set a good example and calm the public anger!"

After saying that, he changed the subject and continued, "But this thief is not only protected by the Yuling Sect, but has also broken through to the middle stage of the Golden Core. He also has several magic weapons on him. If we want to get rid of him, we need to make a long-term plan!"

"It would be best if you, the Supreme Elder, could also successfully form a golden elixir. Then we can gather the strength of all the Jindan-stage cultivators in our Zhou family and invite other friendly Jindan-stage cultivators to help us get rid of this evil villain together!"

Hearing his words, Zhou Mingde raised his eyebrows, as if he had some intention.

But remembering that before Zhou Chun formed the elixir, the Zhou family had not produced a Jindan-stage cultivator for hundreds of years, he could not help but sigh and said, "Of course, I also want to form the elixir, but whether this can be successful or not, it all depends on God's will!"

Upon hearing this, Zhou Chun immediately said, "Everything depends on human effort. God is now looking after our Zhou family. You will definitely succeed!"

"That's right, Zhengchun is right. Everything depends on human effort. We all have confidence in you!"

Zhou Daoyi also nodded repeatedly at this time, showing his support with a serious face.

In this way, Zhou Mingde also has a reason to break through the Jindan stage if he still wants to kill the traitor personally!
As for Zhou Chun’s gains on the secret island, because those elixirs were too precious and high-level, Zhou Mingde and others thought that he should keep them for himself and use them without having to consider other family members.

In the end, what he left for his family were the third-grade top-quality talismans and healing pills that Luo Qingni had prepared for him, as well as some beast eggs obtained from the great wizard of the Multi-Winged Tribe.

Among these beast eggs, there are four eggs of intermediate-level demon beasts, which are considered rare and valuable. Zhou Chun directly put them on the family treasury for exchange by the Zhou family's foundation-building cultivators and purple mansion cultivators. The merits required to exchange each beast egg are as high as 30,000 merits.

The remaining animal eggs were also marked with corresponding prices.

The several pill recipes obtained from Luo Qingni were also handed over to the Zhou family's alchemist.

It is worth mentioning that Zhou Zhengyuan, who originally had the best alchemy skills in the Zhou family, also took the [Purple Dust Pill] to impact the Purple Palace during the years when Zhou Chun left the family.

Unfortunately, he did not have Zhou Zhengyong's will and luck, and ultimately failed in opening up the Purple Palace, and suffered serious injuries.

Now he only has ten years or so left to live, and it is impossible for him to make another breakthrough to the Purple Palace. He can't even start refining pills.

Basically, he could only use the next ten years or so to summarize his lifelong experience in alchemy and train other younger alchemists.

Now the Zhou family's important task of refining pills falls entirely on Zhou Xinlan and Zhou Simiao, two Foundation Establishment cultivators.

However, according to what Zhou Chun learned from Luo Qingni, unless these two can cultivate to the Golden Core Stage in the future, it is basically impossible for them to become alchemy masters with their alchemy talent.

Therefore, the hope of the Zhou family's alchemy lineage must be discovered and sought among the younger generations of cultivators.

Zhou Chun was quite open-minded about this.

Anyway, he could ask Luo Qingni for help in refining high-end elixirs. Given their current friendship, Luo Qingni would never refuse.

As long as Zhou Xinlan and others can refine pills suitable for Foundation Establishment and Qi Refining cultivators, it will be enough to benefit most of the family members.

At the same time, Zhou Chun also believed that with the alchemy inheritance completed and no shortage of alchemy materials, an outstanding alchemy master would definitely appear in the Zhou family in the future.

On this day, Zhou Siyu, a foundation-building cultivator of the younger generation of the Zhou family, was summoned to Zhou Chun's cave residence in Tuyun Ridge to pay a visit to the family patriarch.

That’s right, although Zhou Chun has now successfully formed a golden elixir, he is still the patriarch of the Zhou family.

According to Zhou Mingde, at present, the Zhou family does not have any outstanding descendants who can succeed him as the patriarch.

So instead of letting a mediocre person serve as the clan leader, it would be better for Zhou Chun to continue to hold the title of clan leader and continue to use other people to do things.

In fact, this is because Zhou Mingde is a bit too picky. He always likes to use Zhou Chun's standards to compare later comers.

With this comparison, it is certainly difficult to find someone who can satisfy him.

Although Zhou Chun knew this, he had no intention of forcibly resigning.

Anyway, with the Zhou family operating model he transformed, even if he continues to be the patriarch, he will not delay his own cultivation too much because of family affairs.

He will have plenty of time to slowly discover and cultivate his successor later.

After Zhou Siyu entered Zhou Chun’s cave, she saw a golden-winged tiger fighting a golden-winged eagle as soon as she entered the cave.

Inside the valley, a giant golden-winged eagle with a wingspan of over five meters was being beaten violently by another giant golden-winged tiger.

He just slapped the golden-winged eagle away with one claw, breaking many of its feathers. Then, his figure flashed and he instantly appeared behind the flying golden-winged eagle. He slapped it back with another claw, just like a person playing volleyball!
The poor golden-winged eagle, although also a second-level top-grade monster, was no different from an ordinary rooster facing a tiger in front of the golden-winged tiger. It had no ability to fight back at all.

Zhou Siyu was deeply shocked when she saw this scene.

She knew very well that if she were to face the golden-winged eagle, she would be killed by its claws within ten moves.

But such a powerful monster is now being played around with like a toy by Zhou Chun's pet. How powerful must the true strength of Zhou Chun, the clan leader!

Invisibly, her awe of the clan leader deepened.

Of course, the golden-winged tiger is not really bored and wants to play the tiger catches the eagle game.

This is the task assigned to it by Zhou Chun.

The Golden-winged Eagle is a second-grade superior-quality monster. It was hatched and raised by the great wizard of the Multi-Winged Clan since childhood, and has a very deep affection for its old master.

If you want to tame it and use it for your own benefit, you must first completely destroy its will!
Zhou Chun himself did not have the time to train the eagle, so he gave the task to the Golden Winged Tiger and Thunder Dragon Baibai, asking them to perform mixed doubles every day to destroy the will of this unruly monster bird.

Anyway, even if he is injured, Mu Mei can heal him.

Only when the golden-winged eagle is beaten into submission and is willing to accept its new master can it get rid of this beating.

After watching the golden-winged tiger beating the golden-feathered eagle for a while, Zhou Siyu remembered why she came, so she hurried to Zhou Chun's residence to pay a visit.

"Siyu pays respect to the clan leader."

Inside the cave, Zhou Siyu glanced at Zhou Chun who was sitting cross-legged at the top, then hurriedly knelt down and paid homage.

Seeing this, Zhou Chun immediately waved his hand and said, "No need to be so polite. I called you here today just because I want to ask you something."

As he spoke, an invisible force lifted Zhou Siyu up.

Hearing his words, Zhou Siyu quickly responded respectfully: "Yes, I will tell you everything I know."

"A few years ago, I issued a task within the clan, asking the clan members to help me find a suitable place to build a dragon's lair. This time, I came back to check on this matter and found that you also accepted this task and seemed to have made some discoveries."

When Zhou Chun said this, he looked at Zhou Siyu calmly and said, "Tell me your discovery in detail and I will see if it meets my requirements."

"Yes, junior, I obey."

Zhou Siyu responded and immediately told him everything she had discovered in detail.

It turned out that when she first discovered the mission issued by Zhou Chun, she wanted to please him, so she personally spent several years traveling all over Jingguo looking for a place suitable for building a dragon's lair.

After searching like this, I naturally found several good places.

Among them, there was one place that she felt was the best, and after returning, she reported it to her family as a priority in order to seek credit.

Zhou Chun had previously checked the locations reported by various tribesmen, and he thought the one Zhou Siyu had found was the best, so he specially called her over to ask about it in person.

According to Zhou Siyu, the place she discovered is located in a lake in Yunzhou. It is the largest spring in the lake and the core of the water vein.

The concentration of spiritual energy inside the spring is no less than that of Jiufeng Ridge, and it is completely sufficient to support a third-level dragon.

Moreover, the lake is large enough for a level three dragon to swim freely in the water.

But that lake now has an owner!

The lake is occupied by the Zeng family, a major immortal cultivation family in Yunzhou. They use the spiritual energy emitted by the spring water to raise several kinds of aquatic spirit beasts.

Although the Zeng family’s main source of income is not here, it is still a source of wealth and territory for their family.

If Zhou Chun wanted to occupy this place and build a dragon's lair, people might not agree.

Of course, with Zhou Chun's current cultivation strength and the Zhou family's current power and status, if he really wanted that place, as long as he was willing to offer enough benefits, the Zeng family would most likely not refuse to make friends with a Jindan family.

Therefore, after listening to Zhou Siyu's story, Zhou Chun pondered for a while, then nodded and said, "I know the situation. You did a good job on this matter. I will ask Xinyi to give you a reward."

Then he let Zhou Siyu leave first. Next, Zhou Chun hid his cultivation status and went to Yunzhou to inspect the lake in person.

After some observation, he had to admit that the environment here was indeed very good, much better than the dragon's nest of Zhou Daoyi's green dragon.

However, due to the long distance and the fact that the place already had an owner, Zhou Chun was not in a hurry to make a decision.

According to his own thoughts, it would be best to wait until he had refined his own magic weapon, or even until Lei Jiao Baibai was promoted to the fourth level, before doing such a thing.

Otherwise, once the dragon's lair is exposed, and he and his spirit pet are practicing in separate places, if someone wants to harm the Thunder Dragon, he may not be able to rush to rescue it in time.

So Zhou Chun put this matter on hold for the time being.

Anyway, Lei Jiao Baibai himself was not very urgent about building a nest, so there was no need for him to make a decision so hastily.

In the following days, Zhou Chun first quietly went to the wilderness and put all the "Sky Frost Bees" back into the ice cave. By the way, he showed his Jindan stage cultivation to the high priest Ukulu of the Scaled Frog alien race, so that these alien races would be more in awe of him and the Zhou family.

Then he went to the Yuelun Sect in person to visit Master Baiyue, and presented the dragon spirit blood that had just been taken from Lei Jiao Baibai and some tributes, as a token of loyalty, indicating that the Zhou family would not dare to have any ill intentions towards the Yuelun Sect just because he succeeded in forming the elixir.

After accepting his offering, Master Baiyue also gave him a sugar pill.

This hinted that as long as he could offer sufficiently precious treasures in the future, he would be able to do as the Su family of Jiangzhou did and ask the head of the Moon Wheel Sect to use his magical power of [Moonlight Purification] to purify the body and mind of a certain cultivator.

Generally speaking, the families that enjoy this kind of treatment are all loyal families that are vassals of the Moon Wheel Cult.

The fact that the Zhou family can enjoy such treatment also indirectly shows how much Master Baiyue values ​​the Zhou family.

Zhou Chun also understood this in his heart, so he looked very grateful and kept thanking the master, expressing his loyalty.

However, what Master Baiyue didn't know was that, except for being unable to purify the soul, the "Pure Spirit Water" that Zhou Chun had now condensed through the [Purifying Heaven and Earth Divine Jar] was not much worse than the [Moonlight Purifying World] in terms of its effect on the physical body.

So his sugar pill is actually not that sweet.

Now that Zhou Chun is already a Jindan-stage cultivator, some of the functions of the [Purifying Heaven and Earth Divine Jar] no longer need to be hidden from outsiders as before.

He had already made a plan in his mind. After a few years, he would take out the "Pure Spirit Water" to help some Zhou family monks purify the poison in their bodies, or even the "turbid evil energy" that they had accidentally contaminated.

If he could transform the elixir into a fetus in the future, then he could use the [Divine Pot of Purifying Heaven and Earth] to treat others in a legitimate way, and it would not be a big deal at all.

Before leaving the Moon Wheel Sect, Zhou Chun also visited his aunt Su Yunniang and gave her some rare flower seeds that he brought from the secret island.

He also took the opportunity to visit the Zhou family children who were sent to the Yuelun Sect a few years ago to check if they had been abused.

Time passed day by day, and soon a year had passed since Zhou Chun returned to the family.

At this time, there were only a few months left until Zhou Chun's Golden Elixir Ceremony, and preparations for the ceremony had already begun in advance on Tuyunling, where the ceremony would be held.

On the main peak, which has been renamed "Huanglong Peak", many weeds and trees have been cleared away, and spiritual trees and flowers transplanted from various places by the Zhou family monks have been planted.

Those plants that were not removed were trimmed to ensure they looked pleasing to the eye.

Some cranes and deer, which represent certain auspicious meanings, were also released into the mountains in advance to acclimate themselves to the environment, and there are special people to follow and look after them.

In addition, nine Zhou family foundation-building monks put aside their own cultivation and worked hard for a year to practice the magic performances in order to make the magic fireworks for the celebration look good!

To put it bluntly, except for Zhou Chun and Lin Hongyu, two Jindan-stage cultivators, all the cultivators of the Zhou family were busy preparing for this Jindan Ceremony.

The most tired person among them is probably Zhou Xinyi, who handles clan affairs on behalf of Zhou Chun.

He had to deal with family affairs, and he had to participate in many things of this Golden Elixir Ceremony.

The closer it gets to the Golden Elixir Ceremony, the busier he becomes.

He was also very clear that he must not make any mistakes in this Golden Elixir Ceremony, otherwise not only would Zhou Mingde not forgive him, he himself would not be able to forgive himself either!

"Can this amount of spiritual wine be enough for a thousand people to drink for seven days? Not enough, not enough. Send more people to buy more. Go abroad and buy more. It should be enough for two thousand people to drink for ten days at least!"

"Not enough spiritual vegetables for the meals? Buy them! Arrange someone to buy them immediately. No matter how expensive they are, we must buy enough!"

"What? A batch of spiritual fruits we bought were hijacked by demon cultivators? Quick, arrange for someone to re-purchase them immediately. Make sure to stockpile enough of them before the grand ceremony!"

In the Zhongping Hall, Zhou Xinyi sat on a chair, watching all parties sort out the documents and materials submitted, constantly giving instructions and issuing expedited orders.

At this time, because the size of the Zhou family's staff has greatly increased, the number of family monks who assist in the daily office work in the Zhongping Hall has reached more than a dozen, and there are more than thirty mortal clerks sitting behind the desks constantly copying and recording various documents.

Without the assistance of these people, not to mention Zhou Xinyi who had just reached the Foundation Establishment Stage, even Zhou Chun who was already a Golden Core Stage cultivator would be too busy to even think about practicing.

Although Zhou Chun did not participate in the preparations for his own Golden Elixir Ceremony, he saw all the busyness of his clansmen and was quite moved.

He could see that most of the clan members who were busy preparing for their Golden Elixir Ceremony were doing it happily, not because they were doing it to get rewards for the family's good deeds.

These people all know one thing: the stronger and more prosperous the Zhou family is, the more help they can get from the family in their future cultivation.

Therefore, they were all truly happy that someone in the family could break through to a higher level.

People’s hearts are available!

This was how Zhou Chun felt as a bystander.

He had no doubt that if he called on his clansmen to donate spirit coins to do something big for the family, there would definitely be many clansmen willing to respond to the call and support.

This is what a prosperous and growing family should look like.

As long as everyone can benefit from the family's development, everyone will support the family and its leadership from the bottom of their hearts.

Even though they may encounter some unfair treatment in daily life and be harassed by some people of poor moral character, it will not really affect their support.

As a leader, Zhou Chun feels a sense of accomplishment and pride when he sees such a united family.

After all, he has made the greatest contribution to the Zhou family’s prosperity and the family members’ unity!
"How can you not love such a family!"

Zhou Chun sighed softly, withdrew his spiritual sense, and looked at the things in front of him.

The thing in front of him was some tea leaves, which he picked from the fourth-level spiritual tea tree on the secret island.

There is a big difference between the spiritual tea in the world of immortal cultivation and ordinary tea. Some spiritual teas need to be tanned with special techniques and other materials added to exert their maximum spiritual effects.

Some tea leaves cannot be tanned and can only exert their maximum effect by being picked directly and soaked in water, or even put directly into the mouth and chewed.

Sometimes even the different quality of water used to make tea can affect the effects of the tea.

Zhou Chun has tried the effects of chewing directly and soaking in water. Although it can slightly enhance his spiritual awareness, the effect is not very good for him who is in the Jindan stage.

He could feel that these two methods did not bring out the maximum effectiveness of the spiritual tea.

So he began to try other tanning methods to see if he could find the best way to bring out the effects of this magical tea.

Doing so would consume some spiritual tea, but it would not be completely wasted, because even if the tea was not very effective, it could be sent to several Zhou family Purple Mansion stage cultivators to help them increase their spiritual awareness.

In this way, after trying more than a hundred different methods and consuming half a pound of tea leaves, Zhou Chun finally found a good way to make tea.

First, stir-fry the tea leaves three times and then air-dry them to make dry tea. Then boil it together with morning dew. When the tea leaves are cooked, drink them together and swallow them together with the leaf residue. This can greatly enhance spiritual awareness.

Zhou Chun didn't know whether this method was the best way to bring out the effect of the spiritual tea, but it was indeed the best method he could try at the moment.

So he made most of the spiritual tea in his hand into dry tea, and then gave some to several Zhou family Purple Mansion period cultivators. He also gave more to Lin Hongyu, Zhou Mingde and Zhou Daoyi. In the end, he had about five taels of dry tea left in his hand.

He planned to take out one or two ounces of the liquor from the Golden Core Ceremony to entertain the distinguished guests who were Golden Core Stage cultivators, and drink the rest slowly by himself.

Time flies, and soon there are only three days left before Zhou Chun’s Golden Elixir Ceremony.

At this time, many guests who came from afar had already checked into Tuyunling, or stayed in nearby markets and immortal cultivation families.

Inside the gate of Zhoujia Tuyunling Mountain, there are already lights and decorations, and all kinds of lanterns, ribbons and other items representing festivity are everywhere in the mountain.

On the day of the real Golden Elixir Ceremony, the gate of Tuyunling was wide open. Any cultivator who came to congratulate could go in and ask for a free cup of spiritual wine. Those who were in the late stage of Qi Refining or above could stay and participate in the banquet by simply giving a spiritual coin as a gift.

Therefore, the number of immortal cultivators attracted to this Golden Elixir Ceremony will be very large.

In order to prevent any accidents, Zhou Mingde gathered more than 20 foundation-building cultivators of the Zhou family together. He looked at them with a serious face and said in a stern voice: "The importance of this Golden Elixir Ceremony does not need me to mention it any more. In the next few days, you must patrol the area within a hundred miles day and night. On the day of the ceremony, no interference with the ceremony is allowed!"

"Yes, I understand!"

Zhou Xinlan and other Zhou family foundation-building cultivators all responded loudly with stern expressions.

So in the next few days, the Zhou family's patrol teams rotated one after another, patrolling the area within a hundred miles around Tuyunling day and night, prohibiting all cultivators from fighting in this area.

In the blink of an eye, three days passed quickly.

That morning, as the sky broke, melodious and brisk bell sounds began to ring from Tuyun Ridge, ringing twenty-four times in a row!
(End of this chapter)