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Absolute desert.

After stepping into the Jueling Desert again with the Jindan stage cultivation, Zhou Chun's discomfort became even stronger.

The spiritual energy here is too thin. The more advanced the cultivator is, the more uncomfortable he will feel here.

Because the higher the cultivation level of a cultivator, the greater his dependence on the spiritual environment.

It is difficult to raise a dragon in shallow water. This is the reason.

Fortunately, Zhou Chun doesn't need to stay here permanently.

After determining the direction, he flew straight towards the abyss canyon where the [Mother Earth's Mysterious Gold] ore was stored.

With his current level of cultivation, he reached the outside of the abyss canyon in less than half a day.

"Shitou, it's up to you. Work hard and find all the [Mother Earth Mysterious Gold] ores underground here. When the [Ancient Dust Pill] is refined, I will let you taste it first!"

Above the canyon, after Zhou Chun released the golden-armored mountain turtle stone, he immediately gave it some encouragement and promises, asking it to work hard at mining.

Although these pets obey his orders 100%, sometimes giving them appropriate rewards and promises can also increase their enthusiasm for work.

A typical example is Mu Mei.

Now the wood spirit is hiding in the purple mulberry tree in Zhou Chun’s cave, sleeping and evolving. When it wakes up, it will definitely be a top-grade third-level monster.

When it followed Zhou Chun, it was just a second-level upper-grade monster.

In just a hundred years, its cultivation level has risen three levels. Its loyalty to Zhou Chun is no less than that of a spiritual pet like the golden-winged tiger that it has raised since childhood.

Even if Zhou Chun lets it go free now, I'm afraid it may not be willing!
Sure enough, after receiving Zhou Chun’s promise, Shi Tou instantly became full of energy.

It has now been promoted to a third-rank medium-grade monster, and its strength has improved compared to before. It immediately escaped into the ground to look for the [Mother Earth's Black Gold] ore.

After half a day, Shitou found more than a dozen pieces of [Mother Earth's Black Gold] ore of various sizes for Zhou Chun.

After bringing up all the [Mother Earth's Black Gold] ore that he could bring out within his ability, Shitou used the earth escape technique to take Zhou Chun to those gold-hidden places that were beyond his ability to reach.

Compared with Zhou Chun's current Jindan stage cultivation strength, its strength as a third-order intermediate-grade monster is indeed much weaker.

Zhou Chun used the [Moon Toad Orb] to perform the "Taiyin Body Protection Fairy Clothes" to easily enter those dangerous places that it could not break into and bring out the [Mother Earth Black Gold] ore.

In addition to the [Mother Earth Mysterious Gold] ore, Zhou Chun also discovered some extremely high-quality refined gold ores, which he also dug up and took away.

You should know that the magical material gold essence is made by refining pure gold.

If Zhou Chun's natal magic weapon [Wanhua Golden Cauldron] is successfully refined, a large amount of gold essence can be added to it in the future to enhance its power.

Therefore, he would never have too much of the magical material such as gold essence.

To be realistic, Lin Hongyu will definitely have no hope of forming a baby in the future. Unfortunately, she is a cultivator of fire-attributed skills, and the condensed alchemy fire is most suitable for refining magical materials such as gold essence and iron essence.

As long as Zhou Chun collects enough refined gold ore, he can ask her to use some of her spare time to help him refine the gold essence in the future.

Even if Zhou Mingde succeeds in forming a golden elixir in the future, he can do this kind of thing!

After staying in the Jueling Desert for almost seven days, Zhou Chun finally collected all the [Mother Earth's Black Gold] and high-quality refined gold ore that the Golden Armored Mountain Turtle Stone could find, and then returned to Tuyunling with satisfaction.

The amount of [Mother Earth's Mysterious Gold] ore collected this time is extremely large. The amount of [Mother Earth's Mysterious Gold] obtained after smelting is completely enough for Zhou Chun to refine his natal magic weapon [Wanhua Golden Cauldron], and there will even be a lot left over.

At that time, he can also use this item to exchange for top-grade spiritual gold such as [Geng Jin] and [Tian Yi Xuan Jin] to enhance the power of his own magic weapon.

However, in order to smelt [Mother Earth's Mysterious Gold], one must have the cultivation base of the Golden Core Stage, and this matter is more or less related to refining equipment.

Therefore, Zhou Chun began to take some time to practice the art of refining weapons.

When he refines his own magic weapon later, he also needs to improve his weapon-refining skills to the point where he can at least refine a second-level magic weapon. At this time, it can be said that he has two uses for one thing.

As Zhou Chun practiced the art of refining with the cultivation level of the Golden Core Stage and had free access to materials, his progress was naturally very rapid.

In just two years, he was able to refine a second-grade intermediate-quality magical weapon.

At this point, smelting [Mother Earth's Mysterious Gold] was no longer a difficult task for him, and he immediately began to smelt this top-grade spiritual gold.

At the same time, after more than two years of seclusion, Zhou Xinlan also successfully opened up the Purple Mansion and broke through to the Purple Mansion stage.

The fact that both father and son have purple palaces is considered a good story in the Zhou family and Jingguo, and it has also attracted the envy of many clansmen.

Zhou Chun was naturally not stingy with this younger generation who was relatively close to him. After Zhou Xinlan came out of retreat, he summoned him and gave him the third-grade top-grade defensive magic weapon [Xuan Gang Zhu] that he had used at the time.

After Zhou Xinlan's cultivation level broke through to the Purple Mansion Stage, his alchemy skills also improved, and he reached the level of Zhou Mingshan, the former great elder of the Zhou family.

This can be regarded as making up for the losses caused by Zhou Zhengyuan's failure in opening up the Purple Mansion.

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Yunzhou, Thousand Snake Ridge.

Qianshe Ridge is located on the border of Yunzhou and used to be the dividing line between the wilderness and Jingguo.

After Jingguo's southern expedition to the Hualong Sect was victorious, the territory was expanded by a thousand miles and this place was incorporated into Jingguo.

However, because the Thousand Snake Ridge is densely populated with poisonous snakes and there are snake caves everywhere under the mountain, few families and forces dare to set up branch bases here.

Therefore, this place has become an adventure destination for some independent cultivators.

After all, the snake demon is full of treasures. Whether it is the materials on its body such as snake scales, snake eyes, snake gallbladder, snake blood, or snake eggs, they are all very easy to sell.

And where such monsters gather, there will naturally be the presence of Zhou family cultivators.

On this day, Zhou family's Foundation Establishment cultivators Zhou Xinyan and Zhou Xinchen personally led a team of twenty to thirty people into Thousand Snake Ridge.

They came here for a snake's nest. Someone found two second-order fire-scale pythons and a large area of ​​fire snake grass in the nest.

Zhou Xinyan contracted two monsters, one was the Blue-Feathered Fire Kite, a mid-level monster that his family had rewarded him with, and the other was the Red Flame Dragon Python.

Among them, the Blue-Feathered Fire Kite was hatched when he was in the Qi Refining Stage and its foundation was good enough, so it has now been cultivated by him into a second-level intermediate-grade monster.

However, the Scarlet Flame Dragon Python was a spiritual pet that was hatched after he successfully built his foundation. It itself has the blood of a low-level monster and is still at the level of a first-class upper-grade monster.

With Zhou Xinyan's potential and cultivation, he certainly couldn't tolerate his Red Flame Dragon Python remaining at the first level. Over the years, he had been planning to help it break through and advance.

The two second-order fire-scale pythons discovered this time were what he identified as opportunities for spiritual pets to break through.

When the Fire Scale Python reaches the second stage, a trace of Fire Dragon blood will awaken in its body. If one could take its snake gall and mix it with a 300-year-old Dragon Grass and feed it to the Red Flame Dragon Python, there would be a 60 to 70 percent chance that the Red Flame Dragon Python could evolve and break through to the second stage.

However, the two second-order fire-scale pythons were extremely powerful, and they were also the kings of a fire-scale python clan. Although Zhou Xinyan's cultivation was only one step away from the late stage of foundation building, he was not sure that he could defeat them alone.

So after some thought, he reported his needs to his family and asked for help.

Therefore, after consulting Zhou Chun, Zhou Xinyi arranged the Thousand Snake Ridge training operation, letting Zhou Xinchen bring a group of young cultivators from the Zhou family to assist Zhou Xinyan in completing the task of destroying the snake cave.

"Most of the demon snakes of the Thousand Snake Mantis are extremely poisonous. Although we are well prepared this time and have niece Xiaolian to help detoxify, you must not be careless and do not fall into their trap easily!"

"You should know that when you go out to train alone in the future, no one will be there to help you detoxify!"

After entering Thousand Snakes, Zhou Xinyan gave instructions to the accompanying personnel with a serious look.

This operation was mainly to help him, so he absolutely could not let anything happen to anyone.

Otherwise, let alone whether he can do it from a conscience perspective, he will have to pay for the pension and compensation out of his own pocket.

Although he had superior spiritual roots and received a lot of preferential treatment in the family, he actually had no blood relatives to help him like Zhou Zhengyong and others. After he successfully built his foundation, he had to rely entirely on his own efforts.

At least in terms of assisting in the development of the Purple Mansion spiritual objects, the family can no longer give them to him for free like they did with the Foundation Establishment Pill, and he will have to exchange them with his own good deeds.

Fortunately, these Zhou family cultivators were educated in the academy since childhood, and they are very obedient. Zhou Xinyan's cultivation status can also intimidate them. At this time, they are all very obedient and no one dares to mess around.

In this way, on the way to the nest of the fire-scale python, Zhou Xinyan and Zhou Xinyi would specifically look for some first-level demon snakes for these younger generations to practice with, so that they could first adapt to the life-and-death struggle with the demon snakes.

But after observing for a while, Zhou Xinyan frowned and couldn't help but whisper to Zhou Xinchen: "Although our family is famous for the art of taming beasts, how can these young people sharpen their fighting spirit by simply using the contracted beasts to fight these monster snakes? Shouldn't they be allowed to face the monsters directly?"

He had personally participated in the previous war against the invasion of demon cultivators, and had personally killed many demon cultivators on the battlefield, including three in the Foundation Establishment Stage. He could be considered a man with rich combat experience.

So when he saw that the younger generations of the Zhou family only dared to hide behind the contracted monsters and fight against the monster snakes, while he was just a bystander, he immediately couldn't stand it.

After he mentioned it, Zhou Xinchen also realized the problem in this regard. After thinking for a while, he nodded slightly and said, "Well, Brother Yan, what you said makes sense. With the two of us taking care of it, I don't think there will be any problems."

After the two reached a consensus, they followed Zhou Xinyan's instructions and asked the younger generations to keep the contracted monsters with them and fight the monster snakes directly. As a result, the younger generations who were able to crush the monster snakes of the same level were suddenly beaten by the monster snakes and most of them had to rely on the two foundation-building cultivators to rescue them.

There were even several people who accidentally got poisoned by snakes and had to take detoxifying pills to get rid of the poison, which was quite a pain.

But there are also some outstanding performers among them.

That person is the poison cultivator Zhou Yuanlian!
I have to say that the "Ten Thousand Poisons Sutra" is a very powerful technique.

Zhou Yuanlian's spiritual root aptitude barely reached the threshold of middle-grade spiritual roots, but after she switched to practicing this technique, only a dozen years have passed and her cultivation has reached the ninth level of the Qi Refining Stage, making her a cultivator in the late Qi Refining Stage.

At this rate, even though she had wasted ten years of cultivation time, it should not be a problem for her to establish a foundation before she turns forty.

As a test subject of Zhou Chun, Zhou Chun would definitely prepare for her the foundation-building pills she needed to build her foundation.

And with her poison skills that have reached the late stage of Qi Refining, the venom of those demon snakes not only cannot hurt her at all, but can also be directly refined by her to enhance the power of her poison skills!
She just made a hand gesture and a blue-gray water arrow shot towards a first-grade top-quality demon snake.

This water arrow that looks like the "water arrow technique" is actually the "poison arrow technique" which is much more powerful.

As soon as the arrow hit the demon snake, it immediately turned into poisonous water that corroded its scales and skin, and the toxin instantly entered its body.

After only a few breaths of time, this demon snake, which was already extremely poisonous, died directly from Zhou Yuanlian's mixed toxins!

Seeing this scene, Zhou Xinchen's face changed slightly, and he couldn't help but say to Zhou Xinyan: "No wonder the clan leader values ​​Xiaolian so much. The power of this "Ten Thousand Poisons Sutra" is indeed strange and powerful. When she succeeds in building her foundation in the future, I'm afraid that you and I, with our realm advantages, may not be able to be her opponent!"

There was some envy in his words.

But Zhou Xinyan replied calmly: "This is what she deserves. Think about the pain she went through when she was practicing. Who of us can bear it?"

He is also a person who has practiced the top-level martial arts "Jia Mu Xuan Gong" and knows that these powerful martial arts all require equal effort and reward.

As for himself, when he broke through to the middle stage of foundation building, he almost went crazy and died.

It was precisely because of that experience that he was not so anxious to break through to the late stage of foundation building. He wanted to hone his magic power as much as possible and prepare some auxiliary spiritual objects to reduce the probability of going astray before breaking through.

In terms of danger, "The Book of Ten Thousand Poisons" is even more dangerous than the "Mysterious Art of Jiamu" that he practiced!

There is a reason why the true poison cultivation inheritance in the world of immortal cultivation is so rare and few in number.

Although Zhou Xinchen did not practice the top-level martial arts, he also knew this principle and the general process of Zhou Yuanlian's practice of "The Book of Ten Thousand Poisons".

Therefore, after hearing what Zhou Xinyan said, he no longer envied anything and accepted the reality with peace of mind.

In this way, they walked and stopped, and after walking among thousands of snakes for several days, they finally arrived near the snake nest of the fire-scale pythons.

After several days of training, the mental outlook of the younger generations of the Zhou family suddenly changed.

This is one of the benefits of being a family monk.

They can receive systematic education and training from an early age and avoid taking detours.

After growing up and having achieved success in their training, they can be taken out by the elders of the family to gain experience, learn how to behave in society, and learn the art of fighting.

On the other hand, those independent cultivators, whether they have a master to teach them or not, certainly do not have such good treatment as the family cultivators.

The fire-scale python's nest is not located deep underground like many snake nests, but in a rocky valley.

The rocky valley here is overgrown with weeds and has jagged rocks. Where the rocks are connected, there are many gaps and caves where snakes can hide.

The fire-scale python usually hides in the valley during the day and goes out to look for food at night.

Zhou Xinyan had already formulated a plan to deal with the Fire Scale Python.

He first released his spiritual pet, the Blue-Feathered Fire Kite, and let it hover over the Rocky Valley as a predator, looking for an opportunity to prey on the Fire Scale Pythons in the valley, in order to force the two second-level Fire Scale Pythons out.

I saw a blue-feathered fire kite with blue-black feathers circling over the rocky valley. After a while, it swooped down with a fierce roar, and instantly flew into the rocks and grabbed a three-meter-long fiery red python.

The python's head was grabbed by the Blue-Feathered Fire Kite, and its body was pierced and caught by the sharp eagle claws. The snake kept twisting its body to try to break free from the restraints.

But the Blue-Feathered Fire Kite had a firm control over its snake body, and its eagle claws had even gripped its spine, so no matter how it struggled it was useless.

Not long after, the Blue-Feathered Fire Kite grabbed the Fire Scale Python and flew in front of Zhou Xinyan.

Upon seeing this, Zhou Xinyan immediately chopped off the snake's head with a sword, took out the snake's gall and fed it to the snake.

After eating the snake gall containing the essence of the Fire Scale Python, the Blue-Feathered Fire Kite let out a satisfied hiss, then flapped its wings and took off, continuing to hover over the Rocky Valley.

As the saying goes, it can happen once but not twice, it can happen twice but not three times.

Previously, a Fire Scale Python was captured by the Blue-Feathered Fire Kite. It could also be said that two second-level Fire Scale Pythons did not notice it and were successfully ambushed by it.

At this time, it came over again in a short period of time, obviously not taking the entire group of fire-scale pythons seriously.

How could the two second-level fire-scale pythons, which had already gained some intelligence, not be angry?

So when the Blue-Feathered Fire Kite swooped down again, two second-order Fire Scale Pythons suddenly flew out from their hiding places, spitting fireballs at it.

What a beautiful blue-feathered fire kite!
At that time, facing the pincer attack from two second-order fire-scale pythons, it quickly made a "U" shape and rushed upward, avoiding the bombardment of two fireballs in the blink of an eye.

Boom! Boom!
The two fireballs that fell into the air exploded in mid-air and turned into fiery red fireworks.

The Blue-Feathered Fire Kite flapped its wings, and dozens of blue-white flaming arrows were shot at one of the smaller second-order Fire Scale Pythons.

When the fire-scaled python saw this, it quickly gathered its strength and emitted a fiery red light from its body, forming a protective light.

But as the blue-white flaming arrows fell on it and exploded, the powerful force instantly tore through the protective aura, leaving many burnt scars on its body.

Although it is also a fire-attributed monster, it is obviously not immune to the innate monster fire of the Blue-Feathered Fire Kite, whose cultivation level is one small realm higher than its own.

This injury completely enraged it and the other Fire Scale Python. The two pythons immediately flew into the air and pounced directly towards the Blue-Feathered Fire Kite like two fire dragons.

On the other side, seeing that the two fire-scale pythons had been lured out of their cave by the Blue-feathered Fire Kite, Zhou Xinyan and Zhou Xinchen immediately rode their light of escape and rushed towards the battlefield.

Zhou Xinyan had a high level of cultivation, great strength, and was even faster. He transformed into a streak of green light and flew to the battlefield first.

He raised his hand and slapped the storage bag on his waist, and a blue-black sword light shot towards a fire-scale python.

At the same time, a small green flag quickly appeared in his hand. As he waved it, he released a number of green wooden swords that slashed towards another fire-scaled python.

When the Blue-Feathered Fire Kite saw its master coming, it no longer hid its ability and immediately opened its mouth and spit out a ball of light blue flame which turned into a fireball and blasted towards the giant Fire Scale Python.

This time, the master and servant joined forces and produced miraculous effects instantly.

The two second-order fire-scale pythons were seriously injured by the joint attack of master and servant, and each let out a painful scream.

However, the monsters had strong vitality, and even though the two fire-scale pythons were seriously injured, they did not lose their combat effectiveness on the spot.

They opened their mouths and spit out a fiery red poisonous mist which rushed towards Zhou Xinyan and Lanyu Huoyuan. Then the two pythons immediately fell to the ground, trying to hide in the snake's nest.

But Zhou Xinyan had already been prepared for this move of theirs, so how could he let them succeed!
He let out a low shout, and a green light emerged from his body, forming a green shield that protected him and took the attack of the fiery red poisonous fog.

At the same time, he waved his hand and threw out a purple-black rope magic weapon, which immediately tied up the giant fire-scaled python.

Zhou Xinchen, who had lagged behind before, also arrived at the battlefield at this moment. Seeing that the Fire Scale Python was about to escape, he simply waved his hand and summoned a khaki short stick magic weapon to hit the little Fire Scale Python, knocking it away with one blow.

After failing to escape, the two second-level fire-scale pythons immediately hissed and called for help from the clan.

Soon, the figures of fire-scale pythons appeared on the ground below, and then fireballs spewed out from the mouths of those fire-scale pythons and bombarded Zhou Xinyan and the others.

Looking down from a high altitude, there were fiery red pythons swimming around in the rocky valley. There were probably at least hundreds of them at a glance!
However, the attack of the first-order fire-scale python was of no harm to the two foundation-building cultivators.

They easily dodged the fireballs while attacking the two second-level fire-scale pythons with all their strength.

After about half a quarter of an hour, the Blue-Feathered Fire Kite swooped down and pecked the giant Fire-Scaled Python in the vital spot. Then Zhou Xinyan took the opportunity to pierce the python's neck with a sword. The master and servant teamed up to achieve the first victory.

After the death of the more powerful Fire Scale Python, the remaining second-order Fire Scale Python also surrendered quickly.

After killing two second-order fire-scale pythons, Zhou Xinyan and the others asked younger generations such as Zhou Yuanlian to enter the battlefield and use the remaining first-order fire-scale pythons as whetstones to sharpen themselves.

With two elders in the Foundation Establishment Stage looking after them on the spot, the younger generations of the Zhou family were all in high spirits and drove their spirit pets towards their targets.

For them, this is a very rare opportunity. Not only can they gain experience in life-and-death combat without much danger, but they can also harvest materials from the monsters they kill.

Therefore, the correct approach for them is to take advantage of the fact that their elders are watching over them while they are participating in the training missions, and to kill as many monsters as possible to earn good deeds and spiritual coins, so as to add some foundation for their future training trips alone.

(End of this chapter)