Beast-controlling fairy clan.

Chapter 504: Meteoric Gold [Subscription Request]

Lingzhou, somewhere in the desolate mountains.

I saw that this barren mountain and wilderness, which even Qi Refining cultivators would not easily visit in the past, today attracted many immortal cultivators who were searching for something here.

"Search carefully, the demon has been severely injured by the commander, he must still be hiding in this mountain range!"

In the sky, Xu Fu stood in the air, with a solemn expression on his face, and loudly gave orders to his many subordinates to search the mountains below.

At this time, more than ten years had passed since he was transferred back to Lingzhou to serve in the Demon-Extermination Squad.

In the past ten years, he has made great contributions, and with the background of the Zhou family, he has finally become the deputy commander of the demon-hunting team.

A few days ago, the Lingzhou Demon-Extermination Team found a clue that a demon was hiding in a stronghold of independent cultivators, secretly murdering the independent cultivators in order to practice his magic.

Afterwards, the leader of the Lingzhou Demon-Extermination Brigade led Xu Fu and others to the stronghold of the independent cultivators and engaged in a fierce battle with the demon and his minions.

After a fierce chase, the devil used a secret technique that resulted in mutual destruction of both sides, and fought with the leader of the demon-hunting brigade, both sides suffered heavy losses. The devil then broke through the encirclement and escaped into the mountains.

The leader of the demon-hunting brigade was seriously injured and had demonic energy entering his body, so he had to return to a nearby stronghold to meditate and heal his wounds. So he gave the task of hunting down the demon to Xu Fu.

This is both a challenge and an opportunity for Xu Fu.

After so many years of hard work, his accumulated military merits have exceeded 70,000 points.

If he can lead the team to defeat the demon this time, he will have a good chance of saving enough to exchange for a spiritual item to assist in opening up the Purple Mansion.

With his superior spiritual roots and the strong will tempered by hundreds of battles, as long as he has the help of a spiritual object, the success rate of opening up the Purple Mansion will definitely be 50% to 60%!

Therefore, he was more active than anyone else in searching for the devil.

Perhaps because he was hurt too badly, the devil's hiding place was found soon after.

The two Qi Refining cultivators who approached were caught by this devil and had their blood sucked dry on the spot!

"Here, the devil is here!"

A terrified voice rang out from the top of a mountain. After hearing the cry, Xu Fu in the sky immediately rushed over with seven or eight Foundation Establishment cultivators.

Afterwards, these Foundation Establishment cultivators, led by Xu Fu, formed a battle formation and fought against the demon.

Because the demon himself was seriously injured and his strength was only one tenth of what it was. At this moment, facing the battle formation formed by Xu Fu and other foundation-building monks, he was unable to do anything to these younger generations for a while.

Finally, after a hard and fierce battle, Xu Fu and his side successfully killed this Purple Mansion Stage Demon Cultivator at the cost of the deaths of two cultivators in the early stage of Foundation Establishment!

Xu Fu became famous for being a Foundation Establishment cultivator who killed a Purple Mansion Stage demon cultivator, even though the cultivator was severely injured.

And because he was born into the Zhou family, his superiors did not dare to take too much of his credit and basically reported his achievements normally.

So after some calculations, Xu Fu finally accumulated enough military merit to exchange for a spiritual object to assist in opening up the Purple Mansion.

As for the spiritual coins needed to exchange spiritual objects, he had already accumulated enough after fighting for so many years.

Therefore, as soon as he reached the required level of military merit, he immediately applied for redemption.

According to the rules of the Tianling Alliance, Qi Refining cultivators have priority in exchanging Foundation Establishment Pills and Foundation Establishment spiritual objects, and Foundation Establishment cultivators have priority in exchanging spiritual objects to assist in opening up the Purple Mansion.

So even though the Zhou family still had two [Xuanxin Zihuan Dan] in the queue, Xu Fu only had to wait for a few months before he got a spiritual item to assist in opening up the Purple Mansion.

After obtaining the spiritual object, he immediately asked for leave and went into seclusion in the base.

As the honorary elder of the Zhou family, the news that Xu Fu had obtained assistance in opening up the Purple Mansion spiritual objects and was in seclusion soon reached Zhou Chun's ears.

At that time, Zhou Chun was still busy smelting [Mother Earth's Black Gold]. After hearing the news, his eyes narrowed slightly.

After he ordered someone to look up Xu Fu's recent intelligence, he couldn't help but mutter to himself, "This boy has a lot of luck. It seems that after he comes out of seclusion, I have to call him back to the family immediately!"

Xu Fu participated in the entire process of the Zhou family's development of the wilderness and knew many of the Zhou family's secrets.

Zhou Chun would never allow such a person to leave the Zhou family and become independent.

As the Zhou family becomes more powerful, the interests of the wilderness become more important to them.

Once the layout of the wilderness is exposed, the impact on the Zhou family will be much greater than before.

Therefore, these outsiders who know the secrets of the wilderness must be more strictly controlled!
Ever since Zhou Chun succeeded in forming his elixir, he has begun to comprehend and practice the "Soul Controlling Technique". Now, after several years of practice, he has achieved some results. If he is given another two or three years to practice, he should be able to successfully perform this secret technique.

Compared to the previous method of locating and tracking threats by relying solely on the "Secret of Transformation into a Dragon", the "Soul Control Technique" is undoubtedly much stronger in controlling people.

This method is similar to the secret technique of "Dragon Soul Heart Seed" that the Hualong Sect uses on its followers above the guardian level. It can plant a "soul seed" from the Jindan stage cultivator's consciousness within the soul of the recipient.

If there is no Jindan stage cultivator who has planted the "soul seed" to help stabilize the "soul seed" within a certain period of time, the "soul seed" will automatically explode, causing the soul of the recipient to be destroyed or seriously injured.

Naturally, practitioners of the "Soul Control Technique" can also actively cast spells to detonate "soul seeds" and eliminate those who dare to betray them thousands of miles away!

However, the disadvantage of the "Soul Control Technique" is that the practitioner must have a higher level of cultivation than the recipient, otherwise the "soul seed" will not be able to threaten the opponent at all and will be easily wiped out.

Furthermore, if a cultivator whose spiritual awareness is much stronger than that of the caster comes to help, the "soul seed" can be erased with the active cooperation of the recipient.

From this aspect, the "Dragon Soul Heart Seed" is undoubtedly more sophisticated and powerful than the "Soul Control Technique".

Unfortunately, although the Zhou family has a method to practice the "Dragon Soul Heart Seed Technique", that method can only be used after practicing the fourth level of "The Secret of Dragon Transformation". Only after the recipient has practiced "The Secret of Dragon Transformation" to the third level can the "Dragon Soul Heart Seed" be successfully planted. And Zhou Chun did not practice this method with the bloodline of the Green Dragon!

After the technical requirements are met, smelting [Mother Earth's Black Gold] is actually a hard job like working on an assembly line.

Zhou Chun uses his own golden elixir fire to smelt the ore every day, removing the impurities bit by bit, and what is left is [Mother Earth's Black Gold].

At his rate, it would take about two years to smelt all the collected [Mother Earth Mysterious Gold] ore.

It is not difficult to understand why it took Lin Hongyu several years to refine his natal magic weapon.

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Jiufeng Ridge, Baozhi Peak.

However, after Zhou Xinyan successfully obtained the snake gall of the second-level fire-scale python, he returned to his family to complete the task and then rushed directly to Jiufengling. He then let his pet, the Red Flame Dragon Python, swallow two snake galls and a three-hundred-year-old dragon grass to begin its evolution.

The reason why he came to Jiufengling was also due to psychological reasons.

Many cultivators of the Zhou family now believe that Jiufeng Ridge is the family's blessed land, and that it would be easier to succeed in retreat here, or in allowing spiritual pets to break through and evolve, than in other places.

Zhou Xinyan was one of them, so he specially chose Baozhi Peak where the clan leader Zhou Chun once lived to allow his pet to break through and evolve.

Even the place he chose was not far from Zhou Chun's original courtyard.

I don’t know if there is really such a thing as destiny, but after waiting on Baozhi Peak for only more than three months, Zhou Xinyan’s pet, the Red Flame Dragon Python, successfully evolved to the second level and became a mid-level monster.

The Red Flame Dragon Python that evolved to the second stage not only grew red snake scales like dragon scales on its body, but also had a bulge on its head similar to the one on the Silver Lightning Python Baibai, and it was obvious that it was growing a dragon horn.

At this moment, it could perhaps be called a Fiery Dragon Python!

Zhou Xinyan was extremely happy after successfully training his spiritual pet Red Flame Dragon Python into a Fiery Dragon Python.

He has always regarded clan leader Zhou Chun as his idol and goal, and wanted to become as strong as clan leader Zhou Chun.

So even though he already had the intermediate-level demon beast Blue-Feathered Fire Kite, he still contracted to cultivate a Red Flame Dragon Python, dreaming that one day he would be able to cultivate it into a dragon.

Now that the Red Flame Dragon Python has evolved into the Fiery Dragon Python, it has taken an important step on the road to becoming a dragon. Needless to say, the joy in his heart is beyond words.

To celebrate this event, he specially held a banquet and invited many monks of the same race to his residence to celebrate, and showed them the majestic appearance of the evolved Flame Dragon Python.

Zhou Chun happened to send out his spiritual sense to scan various places in Tuyunling, and happened to see the celebration scene at Zhou Xinyan's residence.

He secretly observed the state of Zhou Xinyan's mana aura, and then observed the newly evolved Fiery Dragon Python, and nodded slightly: "Well, Xinyan is not bad. If he can successfully open up the Purple Mansion, he can be considered for cultivation as a golden elixir seed in the future!"

With top-grade spiritual roots and practicing top-level skills, this kind of cultivator is qualified to become a candidate for the Golden Core Seed even in a large sect.

Of course, there is no shortage of geniuses in the big sects. If you want to truly become a golden elixir seed and gain access to sect resources, it depends on your personal background and performance.

However, for a cultivation family like the Zhou family, geniuses of this level are rare. Once they appear, as long as they are not the kind of people with bad character and who are not worth cultivating, it is generally easier for them to be cultivated as golden elixir seeds by the family.

This is also one of the important reasons why some talented members of some immortal cultivation families are willing to stay in the family.

To put it bluntly, there is no shortage of geniuses in this world.

Take the Zhou family as an example. Among the cultivators of the family, there are now two cultivators with superior spiritual roots, Zhou Xinyan and Zhou Yuanyuan. In the future, there will surely be more cultivators with superior spiritual roots.

In addition, there are two foreign cultivators, Zhang Liang and Xu Fu, who also have top-grade spiritual root qualifications.

This does not include Lin Hongyu and Su Yuzhen, two cultivators with top-grade spiritual roots.

Therefore, if you think that you have superior spiritual roots, you will be cultivated by major sects with all your strength, that is completely wishful thinking.

Zhou Chun didn't care what other cultivators thought. His own experience had already shown that resources were more important than qualifications!

If the resources are good enough, a cultivator like him with middle-grade spiritual roots can succeed in forming a pill in one go.

If resources are not sufficient, it is not uncommon for cultivators with superior spiritual roots to fail in forming a golden elixir.

Therefore, as the controller of resources, he would never easily invest resources in a certain tribe member just because he has excellent spiritual roots and qualifications.

Unless he has the legendary top-grade spiritual root qualification! Time passed slowly. When Zhou Chun was concentrating on smelting [Mother Earth Mysterious Gold], the Zhou family held several skill competitions according to his request.

Because the prizes were generous and anyone could sign up to participate, many Zhou family cultivators signed up to participate.

Although the competitions consumed a lot of family resources, they did discover several talented members of the family.

The most talented member of the tribe is a young man with the character "Zhi" in his name, Zhou Zhixiong. He possesses a very high talent in talisman-making. Although he has only reached the third level of Qi Refining Stage, after three years of learning the art, he has been able to make more than a dozen first-grade low-quality talismans, and his success rate has reached more than 30%.

After Zhou Chun learned about this, he immediately asked the second-level talisman maker in the clan to guide him and give him preferential support in terms of elixir resources.

Nowadays, the best talisman maker in the Zhou family is Zhou Daoyi, who can make third-level low-grade talismans.

But according to him himself, this is basically the limit of his talisman-making skills. Unless he can successfully form a pill, it will be impossible for him to make more advanced talismans.

Zhou Zhixiong's talent for talisman making, as shown by his current age and cultivation level, is obviously much stronger than Zhou Daoyi's. If he can successfully open up the Purple Mansion in the future, he will most likely have the opportunity to become a third-rank, top-grade talisman maker.

If we could train a talisman maker of this level, it would be enough to greatly enhance the family's foundation.

In addition to Zhou Zhixiong, the talisman-making genius, there was another person whose performance in the skills competition caught Zhou Chun's attention.

That person turned out to be the monk Zhang Liang, a relative of the emperor.

This cultivator with superior spiritual roots, who had formed a relationship with Zhou Chun and then married into the Zhou family, turned out to have a very good talent for formations.

During the years he and his Taoist partner Zhou Xindie, a formation master, lived together, he also discovered his own talent in this area. With the Zhou family's more complete formation inheritance and training, he has surpassed his Taoist partner Zhou Xindie in attainments in formations.

In this Zhou family's skills competition, he was the chief examiner for the formation.

With his current attainments in formation, he is almost comparable to Zhou family's second elder Zhou Chongshan.

It is said that he is now comprehending the diagram of the [Five-Directions Miro Formation] that the You family sent at the Zhou Chun Jindan Ceremony.

If he could truly comprehend this formation diagram thoroughly and arrange the [Five Directions Miro Formation], then his attainments in formation would completely catch up with Zhou Chongshan.

"If this person can really set up the [Five-Direction Miro Formation], we might as well support him in opening up the Purple Palace. Then he might be able to become the first formation master of our Zhou family!"

"And this can also serve as a great bargain for a horse's bones!"

Zhou Chun secretly made a note in his little notebook. The names written in this notebook were all talents in the family that he thought could be observed and cultivated.

This took nearly two years, and Zhou Chun finally smelted all the [Mother Earth's Black Gold].

As soon as this important matter was accomplished, Zhou Chun went to the Su family in Jiangzhou first.

His Taoist partner Su Yuzhen has now begun to retreat to condense the "Xuddan", and the progress is very good. It is estimated that he will be able to succeed within one or two years.

After understanding the situation, Zhou Chun did not disturb his fellow Taoists any further and left.

Then he headed straight towards the Great Zhou Kingdom.

Several years have passed, and Luo Qingni should have recovered from her research on improving the pill formula. Zhou Chun wanted to find her and use her connections to gather the spiritual herbs to refine a furnace of [Ancient Dust Pill].

In addition, he has asked his family to collect auxiliary materials for several batches of Foundation Establishment Pills in the past few years, and it is time to ask Luo Qingni to refine them together.

He also had to collect the [Taiyi Xuanjin Qi] from the Tianbao Pavilion first to prevent the shopkeeper Sun from diverting the goods he had reserved to other people.

At the same time, I also have to see if I can meet the puppeteer that I mentioned to Luo Qingni last time.

By the way, let’s find out more about Yu Jinghua and see what this old man is doing recently!
After entering the Golden Core Stage, traveling between the Great Zhou Kingdom and the Jing Kingdom became extremely convenient. Zhou Chun no longer had to think twice before making any arrangements like he did before.

But what Zhou Chun didn't expect was that when he entered Tianyuan Fairy City and went to look for Luo Qingni, he found nothing.

It was from the shop where Luo Qingni placed her order that I learned that she was invited by a sect in a country outside of the Great Zhou Dynasty to go there and make elixirs for that sect for three years. She has been there for two years now.

"This is strange. With Luo Qingni's personality, it's fine to ask her to make pills, but it's almost impossible to ask her to come to your house and be a full-time alchemist! Could it be..."

Zhou Chun suddenly thought of something and shook his head, not thinking about it anymore.

If it was really as he thought, and a Yuanying stage immortal came out personally to invite him, then it would be difficult for Luo Qingni to refuse.

After all, strength is respected in the world of immortal cultivation. If a Nascent Soul cultivator comes forward to invite a Golden Core cultivator to help with something, as long as the request is not too demanding, it will be difficult for the Golden Core cultivator to refuse and he dare not refuse!

Since Luo Qingni can't come back for the time being, asking her to make the elixir will have to be postponed.

Zhou Chun immediately went to Tianbao Pavilion to collect the reserved [Taiyi Xuanjin Qi].

Sun Yuanjing of Tianbao Pavilion was indeed acting in accordance with the contract, and Zhou Chun easily obtained the [Taiyi Xuanjin Qi] that he had collected in the past few years from him. If things could go so smoothly in the future, it would not be difficult for him to collect the gold energy he needed in about 20 years.

After the exchange of gold energy, Sun Yuanjing suddenly looked at Zhou Chun and said, "By the way, have you collected all the magic weapons and spiritual materials that Fellow Daoist Zhang mentioned last time? In recent years, I have learned who has one of the spiritual materials, and that person is willing to use it to exchange for other treasures. If Fellow Daoist Zhang is willing, I am willing to act as a matchmaker for the two of you and facilitate a deal!"

"Oh, I wonder what kind of spiritual material Fellow Daoist Sun is talking about?"

Zhou Chun's eyes lit up and he immediately became interested.

"It's a piece of [Meteoric Gold], weighing more than 700 kilograms, which should be more than enough for you, Daoist Brother Zhang!"

Sun Yuanjing smiled slightly and gave the answer.

"It's actually [Meteoric Gold]!"

Zhou Chun's gaze focused, and a look of surprise suddenly appeared in his eyes.

The list of magical weapon spiritual materials he gave to Sun Yuanjing before was the materials needed for the complete version of the [Wanhua Golden Cauldron].

But in fact, when refining the [Wanhua Golden Cauldron], you only need a few kinds of materials at the beginning.

The same goes for the natal magic weapons of many Jindan stage cultivators. At the beginning, you only need to gather the core refining materials to start refining.

For example, the core refining materials of [Wanhua Golden Tripod] are [Earth Mother Black Gold], [Millennium Black Iron], and [Heavenly Black Gold Sand]. As long as you gather these materials, you can refine the basic version of [Wanhua Golden Tripod].

If you get materials such as [Gold Essence], [Gen Gold], and [Venus Stone] later, you can still add them to the magic weapon and smelt them into it to increase its power and growth rate.

However, if you add the melted materials into the magic weapon in the middle of the process, you will need to use secret methods to nurture the magic weapon for a period of time, which will waste some practice time.

If Zhou Chun could gather all the materials for the complete version to refine the [Wanhua Golden Cauldron], then after the successful refining of this treasure, not only would its power be much stronger than the basic version, it would also save a lot of effort later on.

Therefore, if possible, he still wanted to collect as many materials as possible to refine the [Wanhua Golden Cauldron], saving the effort of slowly smelting and nurturing it later.

The [Meteorite Gold] that Sun Yuanjing is talking about now is exactly one of the materials needed for the [Wanhua Golden Cauldron], which is one of the more difficult to collect materials.

Now that there is news about this thing, how can Zhou Chun not be happy.

He immediately clasped his fists to Sun Yuanjing and said, "Manager Sun, you are so thoughtful. I'll leave this matter to you, Manager Sun!"

"It's easy to talk about."

Sun Yuanjing smiled slightly and agreed readily.

He is willing to do such things, of course, not because he is willing to help others, but because doing such a favor can expand his own circle of contacts and show favor to others.

Today he helped Zhou Chun to make connections. Regardless of whether the deal was successful in the end, Zhou Chun and the cultivator who possessed the [Meteoric Gold] would both be indebted to him. In the future, whether they were selling spiritual objects or purchasing them, they would definitely think of him first.

Wouldn’t that bring in business?
Jindan-stage cultivators have a wide range of activities. Their Tianbao Pavilion may be very competitive in Tianyuan Fairy City and the Great Zhou Kingdom, but this may not be the case in other places.

If he could develop Jindan-stage cultivators from other places into regular customers through these favors, it would also be helpful for Sun Yuanjing to improve his own status in Tianbao Pavilion.

In this way, with the help of Sun Yuanjing, Zhou Chun soon met the cultivator who possessed the [Meteoric Gold].

There is no doubt that the other party is also a Jindan stage cultivator, and a middle Jindan stage cultivator.

Moreover, this person does not need any magic weapon or spiritual material, he just wants to use [Meteorite Gold] to exchange for two relatively rare thousand-year-old precious medicines.

"I only have one plant of Golden Ring Polygonatum that meets Daoist's requirements. This elixir is over 3,600 years old and is extremely precious!"

"If you are willing to exchange, I can also add a 2,000-year-old herb!"

In Tianbao Pavilion, after inspecting the [Meteorite Gold] that the other party took out, Zhou Chun gave his most sincere offer.

It was impossible for him to exchange two thousand-year-old precious herbs for a piece of [Meteoric Gold], because although this [Meteoric Gold] was hard to find, it was not as hard to find and necessary magical material as [Mother Earth's Mysterious Gold].

Even if he can't get it now, he still has a long time to collect it slowly in the future.

And he will need this thousand-year-old elixir in the future.

There is no doubt that Zhou Chun's offer was right on the other party's bottom line.

The other party guessed that he needed [Meteorite Gold] to refine his own magic weapon, and he also knew that the other party wanted a thousand-year-old precious medicine to refine an elixir to reach the late stage of the golden elixir.

Neither party can take the initiative by relying on the other party's needs.

So after several twists and turns, Zhou Chun added two ordinary thousand-year-old spiritual herbs as bargaining chips and still exchanged them for the [Meteorite Gold].

Although this piece of [Meteorite Gold] weighs more than 700 kilograms, it is actually only the size of a goose egg. It looks black and inconspicuous.

After reaching the deal, Zhou Chun thanked Sun Yuanjing again and went to Tianzhi Tower to inquire about Yu Jinghua's news.

(End of this chapter)