Beast-controlling fairy clan.

Chapter 507 Zhou Mingde's Dan Formation [Subscription Request]

Zhou Jiapeng's passing marks the end of another generation of the Zhou family.

In view of the contributions he made to the family during his lifetime, Zhou Chun, the clan leader who had reached the Jindan stage, personally read the eulogy for him and ordered all the cultivators in the clan to wear white clothes for three days to pay tribute to the old man.

As for Zhou Jiapeng's descendants, Zhou Chun did not give them any special care or preferential treatment.

As the patriarch of the clan, he has to be fair in this regard. Otherwise, with the current number of Foundation Establishment cultivators in the Zhou family, how will he be able to take care of them in the future?

Moreover, Zhou Jiapeng is a cultivator in the late Foundation Establishment stage and has participated in many wars. The wealth he has accumulated is not much less than that of an ordinary Purple Mansion stage cultivator.

The wealth he left behind was enough for his descendants to build their foundation many times over.

If he is unable to train a foundation-building cultivator, it is enough to prove that his descendants are not worth cultivating, and there is no need for Zhou Chun to waste family resources on this.

The only thing Zhou Chun could do for Zhou Jiapeng was to let the family support his golden-winged iron-feathered eagle so that he could live a peaceful retirement life in the Zhou family!
Of course, with this bird's lifespan, it is not yet time for it to truly retire.

Its next task is to leave as much of its own excellent bloodline as possible and give birth to more excellent demon bird pets for the Zhou family.

It just so happened that the golden-winged eagle that Zhou Chun asked the golden-winged tiger to train was a female eagle!
If these two kinds of avian monsters can be successfully bred, they might be able to add a new intermediate-level monster species to the Zhou family!
Coincidentally.

Just half a year after Zhou Jiapeng passed away, the Golden-winged Eagle finally surrendered after years of training by the Golden-winged Tiger and was willing to sign another contract with the human cultivator.

Zhou Chun asked Zhou Zhengyong to take it in as a spiritual pet and mount.

Speaking of which, Zhou Zhengyong was also a bit unlucky.

The red-tailed monkey that he had as his spiritual pet at the beginning had already died because it was unable to break through to the second level due to exhaustion.

Later, he contracted a red-flame golden monkey and a red-eyed dragon eagle.

As a result, both of these spiritual pets died in the war!
This dealt him a heavy blow, and he simply decided not to contract a spirit pet anymore!

But as a Purple Mansion Stage cultivator of the Zhou family, wouldn’t he be laughed at if he couldn’t even produce a second-level monster to show off?

That's why Zhou Chun directly gave him the contract of the Golden-Winged Eagle, a second-grade superior monster, to save his face.

Time passes day by day.

On this day, many monks who were practicing in Tuyun Ridge suddenly discovered that the spiritual energy of heaven and earth that had been gathered by their own practice of martial arts suddenly all flowed uncontrollably towards another place, and no matter how hard they tried, they could not gather it again.

This situation immediately made many people's faces change slightly. They hurriedly stopped practicing and walked out of the training room to check the situation, trying to find out the reason for the dissipation of spiritual energy.

Then a majestic voice rang in the ears of all the cultivators in Tuyun Ridge.

"Our clan's supreme elder Zhou Mingde is in the process of forming a pill. All cultivators must stop absorbing spiritual energy and practice immediately. Leave Huanglong Peak!"

It’s the patriarch’s voice!

Many Zhou family cultivators recognized the identity of the owner of that voice, and then consciously and quickly left the vicinity of Huanglong Peak.

Some independent cultivators who came to Tuyunling to practice quickly arrived at the edge of the mountain gate exit under the arrangement of the Zhou family cultivators.

If it were in the past, perhaps these people would be allowed to leave the family gate directly to avoid any accidents.

But now that Tuyunling has two Jindan-stage cultivators in charge, there is no need to worry about this. Leaving them to watch the Jindan-stage celestial phenomena can actually bring good reputation to the Zhou family.

The sky began to be covered with dark clouds, and a large amount of spiritual energy from heaven and earth poured into Zhou Mingde's retreat.

"Tsk tsk tsk, the Zhou family is truly incredible! Before, the clan leader Zhou Zhengchun returned from forming a golden elixir, and now the elderly supreme elder has triggered the auspicious sign of forming a golden elixir. This is truly the blessing of destiny and the blessing of heaven and earth!"

"Isn't that right? I heard that the cultivator from the Jiangzhou Su family who had reached the Jindan stage a few years ago was also the dual cultivation partner of the Zhou family leader. If you count it, that means there are three people who have reached the Jindan stage!"

"It was said before that the head of the Zhou family was a man with great luck, but I thought they were just flattering themselves. Now it seems that this may be true!"

"If the Zhou family's Grand Elder succeeds in forming a golden elixir, then wouldn't the Zhou family have three golden elixir cultivators? Is there any other family in Jingguo that has three golden elixir cultivators?"

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Even inside the Zhou family mountain gate, with many Zhou family cultivators nearby, it couldn't stop those wandering cultivators from gossiping about Zhou Mingde's Dan formation.

At this moment, the attention of all the Zhou family cultivators was focused on the Huanglong Peak. Even if some people heard some disrespectful remarks about the family, they had no time to pursue the matter.

Everyone knows that being able to trigger the signs of Dan formation is only half the success of Dan formation.

Only after waiting for the signs of pill formation to dissipate on their own and the spiritual energy of heaven and earth returns to calm, can it be considered a successful pill formation.

At this level, you can only move forward and there is no turning back. Failure will result in your body exploding and death. There is no third option!

Therefore, even Zhou Chun was a little nervous at this moment.

[Holy Spirit Blood Pill] can restore the energy and blood of an old person to their peak state. After all, this is only recorded on the pill recipe. Zhou Chun cannot guarantee whether it is really that magical.

If the effect is not as good as recorded in the recipe, then this stage will be very dangerous for Zhou Mingde!

Fortunately, what Zhou Chun worried about did not happen.

After lasting for quite a while, the dark clouds in the sky gradually dissipated, and the abnormal agitation of the spiritual energy of heaven and earth gradually subsided.

All this shows that Zhou Mingde has successfully overcome the difficulties and succeeded in forming the elixir!

However, Zhou Chun knew that with the technique Zhou Mingde practiced, even if he succeeded in forming a pill, the time required to consolidate his foundation would be much longer than that of Su Yuzhen. Don't expect him to come out and meet people in a short period of time.

Therefore, after the result was confirmed, he quickly spoke again: "Huanglong Peak is temporarily designated as a family forbidden area. No summons are allowed. No clan members are allowed to enter. All caves in Tuyunling that are rented out to the outside are temporarily suspended!"

This order was naturally intended to allow Zhou Mingde to practice in peace and consolidate his cultivation.

After giving this order, Zhou Chun quickly went to visit Lin Hongyu.

The reason for this visit was simple. Lin Hongyu was asked to leave Tuyunling in the name of traveling and go to Caiyu Mountain in the wilderness to practice.

Tuyunling is such a small place, it cannot accommodate three Jindan stage cultivators.

Even the two Jindan stage cultivators seemed crowded!
It was also because Zhou Chun did not change his cultivation method and basically did not meditate and practice much, otherwise he would not have allowed Zhou Mingde to form a pill here!

Lin Hongyu understood this very well, but she had no intention of going to Caiyu Mountain to practice. Instead, she wanted to travel outside for a while.

Speaking of which, ever since she successfully formed the elixir, except for a period of time when she went out to collect materials for refining her own magic weapon, the rest of her time was spent in the wilderness, staying with the Zhou family, and fighting on the front lines.

As a cultivator who has been in the Jindan stage for hundreds of years, she has never really traveled outside.

Now that the situation is stable and the Zhou family has had two Jindan-stage cultivators, Zhou Chun and Zhou Mingde, she no longer needs to stay at the mountain gate all the time to protect the Zhou family.

Naturally, she wanted to go out and travel.

Not only her, but even Zhou Daoyi, who had already broken through to the late Purple Mansion stage, had this idea.

Zhou Chun was not an unreasonable person. After learning about this situation, he immediately agreed to let the couple go out traveling.

But I also made an agreement with Lin Hongyu that the time spent traveling should not exceed ten years.

Because by that time, the results of Taoist Qingchen's infant formation in Qinglian Temple should be revealed, and the situation in Jingguo might change as a result. Lin Hongyu must come back to face it together.

Lin Hongyu and Zhou Daoyi naturally agreed to this.

So after making some arrangements, Lin Hongyu and his wife rode on the green dragon and left Tuyunling as Zhou Chun watched.

After seeing off Lin Hongyu and his wife, Zhou Chun returned to his cave to rest in peace.

In the following period of time, various congratulatory letters poured into the Zhou family like snowflakes.

Just like what a certain casual cultivator said that day, three golden elixirs in one family, this is the first case in Jingguo!

A general medium-sized sect, such as the former Three Absolute Sect, would only have a few Jindan-stage cultivators like this.

What’s more important is that when people carefully checked, they found that the three Jindan stage cultivators of the Zhou family had successfully formed the elixir one after another within a period of more than one hundred years.

Among them, the time between Zhou Chun and Zhou Mingde's successful Dan formation was less than twenty years apart!
This situation is truly shocking!

You know, even for a big sect like the Yuelun Sect, it is very rare in history to have two Jindan stage cultivators appear in succession within twenty years.

If we can produce one every fifty years, that would be great!
This inevitably caused many cultivators to wonder whether the Zhou family had obtained some kind of miraculous spiritual object that could greatly increase the success rate of forming a pill.

Such rumors were deliberately spread by someone. I don’t know if they were trying to test something or simply wanted to bring hatred to the Zhou family.

However, these monks who spread rumors may be disappointed.

Because the top leaders of major forces such as the Moon Wheel Sect all knew that Zhou Chun had obtained a lot of Jindan spiritual objects in previous wars.

Therefore, although they were very surprised that the Zhou family could produce two Jindan-stage cultivators in succession and they marveled at the good luck of the two members of the Zhou family, they did not really think that the Zhou family had obtained some miraculous spiritual object that could help people successfully form a golden elixir.

Let’s not talk about whether there is such a heaven-defying spiritual object in the world of immortal cultivation. Even if there is, it is unlikely to be obtained by Zhou Chun before he reaches the stage of Dan formation.

Of course, this is based on the premise that no one in the Zhou family will succeed in forming a pill in the next period of time.

Otherwise, even a strong man like Master Baiyue would probably doubt whether the Zhou family had obtained spiritual objects such as the [Five Elements Spiritual Fruit] tree.

In fact, after learning that Zhou Mingde had successfully formed a golden elixir at the age of more than 450, Master Baiyue had sent someone to inquire about the details. Zhou Chun also knew that this matter would arouse people's curiosity, so he generously presented the [Holy Spirit Blood Pill] recipe to Master Baiyue, explaining why Zhou Mingde was able to form a golden elixir at such an advanced age, and at the same time expressing his loyalty.

As for whether the Moon Wheel Sect could find another strange insect like the "Holy Spirit Blood Leech" and refine the "Holy Spirit Blood Pill" to cultivate Jindan-stage monks, that was none of his business.

Anyway, the Zhou family and the Yuelun Sect are not competitors. The fact that the Yuelun Sect has a few more Jindan-stage cultivators has little to do with the Zhou family.

Zhou Chun even hoped that the Yuelun Sect could successfully refine this elixir.

In that case, those Jindan stage cultivators who succeeded in forming the elixir with the help of the [Holy Spirit Blood Pill] would definitely have a favorable impression of the Zhou family who offered the elixir recipe.

In short, with the current strength of the Zhou family, as long as they do not arouse suspicion from big sects like the Yuelun Sect, a few rumors will not affect them at all.

Therefore, Zhou Chun didn't bother to pay attention to those rumors and just asked Zhou Xinyi to start planning for the second Golden Elixir Ceremony, which could be held after Zhou Mingde came out of seclusion.

Holding two Golden Elixir Ceremonies consecutively in a short period of time actually made it difficult for the invited families and monks, because they would have to present a valuable gift.

But it is impossible not to hold the Golden Elixir Ceremony.

Therefore, Zhou Chun planned to wait for Zhou Mingde to come out of seclusion and then discuss with him so that those families and cultivators who came to attend the Golden Elixir Ceremony would no longer need to bring expensive gifts. They could just prepare a small gift and come to participate to liven up the scene and atmosphere.

He believed that with Zhou Mingde's broad mind and magnanimity, he would not object to his proposal.

For other cultivators of the Zhou family, Zhou Mingde's success in forming the elixir is even more motivating and confidence-boosting.

After all, Zhou Chun and Lin Hongyu both succeeded in forming their elixirs outside, and none of the Zhou family cultivators witnessed or experienced it with their own eyes at the time, so they lacked a sense of participation.

In addition, Zhou Chun's personal experience is so legendary that it is impossible to imitate or replicate it. Although many members of the Zhou family regard him as an idol and are full of admiration and worship for him, they dare not think that they can become the second him.

But Zhou Mingde is different.

He succeeded in forming the elixir inside the Zhou family mountain gate, and the signs of the elixir forming were witnessed by many Zhou family cultivators. Many Zhou family cultivators witnessed the process of his successful elixir forming.

This sense of participation can be said to be very fulfilling, and the impression it leaves on people is also very deep.

Another thing is that Zhou Mingde has never been a genius.

It took him more than 200 years to successfully open up the Purple Mansion, and he did not practice any top-level techniques. He could be said to be a true template of an ordinary cultivator, except that he had better luck than an ordinary cultivator.

But he was able to successfully form the elixir at the age of over 450!
This is of great motivation to the vast majority of Zhou family cultivators.

Because many of them are not worse than Zhou Mingde in terms of conditions, and are even much better than Zhou Mingde!
In this case, since Zhou Mingde can successfully form the elixir, why can't they?
Once this idea came into being, it lingered in the minds of many Zhou family cultivators and planted a seed of ambition in their hearts.

Driven by this seed of ambition, many of them worked harder in their cultivation and tried harder to find ways to earn resources for their cultivation.

An atmosphere of involution unknowingly grew within the Zhou family.

When Zhou Chun learned about this situation, he felt very relieved.

As someone who has experienced it, he knows very well how much positive impact this involutionary atmosphere has on the family.

In fact, the thing that a big family fears most is that its members begin to be content with enjoying themselves and stop striving for progress.

A family that does not strive for progress will surely be eliminated with the passage of time, no matter how glorious it was in the past.

Therefore, in order to keep these people motivated, Zhou Chun specially set up the "Breakthrough Award".

Depending on one's spiritual root qualifications and the techniques one practices, if one can break through to a certain realm before a certain age, one will be rewarded with a considerable amount of merit by the family.

This idea came from the scholarship system in his previous life, and after modification it was made more suitable for this world.

The functions they play are somewhat similar, which is to help some monks who come from poor backgrounds but work hard enough to go further!

But at this moment, Zhou Xinyi reported to him some bad news.

That means the Zhou family’s finances are tight again!

"Nowadays, the markets in surrounding countries are shrinking and consumption has dropped significantly. Business in all our Zhou family stores is generally not doing well, and our income is much lower than before."

"But the number of monks in our family is still growing rapidly. The expenditure on good deeds distributed to our family members is increasing year by year, and the gap between income and expenditure is widening day by day."

"Besides, the family's rush to buy strategic materials emptied out most of the inventory of spiritual objects, and the Golden Elixir Ceremony also consumed a large amount of spiritual coins. Now the number of spiritual coins remaining in the account is less than 200,000!"

"If we can't find a way to increase the family's income, the family account will be in the red in five years at most!"

In Zhou Chun's cave, Zhou Xinyi came with a bunch of account books and reported the family's financial situation to Zhou Chun with a serious expression.

He is now replacing Zhou Chun as the housekeeper. Normally, he will not come to report unless the matter is particularly important.

Because Zhou Chun would go to Zhongping Hall in person every once in a while to inquire about and handle clan affairs.

However, financial matters were of great importance. After discovering the tight financial situation in the new round of statistics, Zhou Xinyi did not dare to delay for a moment and immediately came to meet Zhou Chun in person with the sorted account books and information.

After listening to his story, Zhou Chun said calmly, "Don't worry, let me take a look at the account book first."

After saying that, he raised his hand and opened all the account books. His powerful spiritual sense read through multiple account books at the same time.

The Zhou family's account books are full of detailed records, and every expenditure of money is clearly recorded. When checking the accounts, every entry must match.

Zhou Chun would often check the account books to make sure that no one dared to embezzle family property directly from this aspect.

As for certain profit-making behaviors using personal power, Zhou Chun also knew that it was impossible to completely eliminate them. As long as they were not too excessive or too conspicuous, and he knew about it, he could only turn a blind eye.

After flipping through all the account books, Zhou Chun closed his eyes and digested the many numerical data he had just seen in his mind. Relying on the powerful mental arithmetic ability of a Jindan stage cultivator, he checked every account in a short time.

Of course, the reconciliation result is exactly the same!

If there were to be any mistakes in this aspect, Zhou Xinyi would not be qualified to manage the family on his behalf.

He opened his eyes, looked at Zhou Xinyi and said, "I checked and found that the family account still has more than 270,000 kilograms of [Water Jade] ore, more than 60,000 kilograms of Red Blood Jade ore, more than 70,000 kilograms of Black Pattern Jade ore, more than 120,000 kilograms of Flawless White Jade ore, more than 160,000 kilograms of Black Corundum ore, more than 50,000 kilograms of Amethyst Jade ore, and more than 570,000 kilograms of Black Iron ore!"

"If these ores were sold at the market price before the war, how many spirit coins would they be worth?"

The ores that Zhou Chun mentioned were all obtained by the Zhou family from mining in the wilderness over the years.

Because they were not affected by the war, even when the fighting between the Yuanmo Legion and the Tianling Legion was the most intense, the Zhou family's mine in the wilderness still did not stop mining.

However, due to the impact of the war, the mined ores could no longer be sold and could only be stored in warehouses.

Although the Zhou family can also process and consume some ore, compared with the huge amount mined, these consumptions are undoubtedly insignificant.

So after decades of accumulation, we have so much inventory today.

After hearing Zhou Chun's words, Zhou Xinyi quickly estimated in his mind the value of the minerals he mentioned.

After making such an estimate, he replied softly: "I have estimated that if calculated based on the market price before the war and taking into account the price fluctuations caused by bulk trade, these ores are worth about 280,000 spirit coins!"

"Then let's count it as 280,000 spirit coins!"

Zhou Chun nodded, and then said: "I will buy all the ores at this price, but the ores will still be temporarily stored in the family treasury."

"This……"

Zhou Xinyi looked at Zhou Chun in surprise. He didn't expect him to say that.

"Why? Do you think it's wrong?"

Zhou Chun glanced at him and asked lightly.

"No, I dare not. Chief, you are a man of high character. I admire you from the bottom of my heart!"

Zhou Xinyi shook his head repeatedly, then looked at Zhou Chun with admiration to express his respect.

How could he not know that this was Zhou Chun's intentional blood transfusion for the family, to help the family overcome the difficulties.

This act of paying out of one's own pocket to subsidize the family fully demonstrates how deep Zhou Chun's feelings for his family are.

If you don't love your family deeply, you would never do such a thing!
Zhou Chun waved his hand and said, "Even if I pay out of my own pocket to supplement the family finances, it can only be a temporary solution. If we really want to resolve the family's financial crisis, we have to solve it from the root."

"Later, please notify all the cultivators in the family who have the foundation building level or above, and ask them to come back to the family when they are free, so that everyone can work together to discuss how to make money."

"Also, some of the family's rules may be a bit outdated. They should be revised in a timely manner to adapt to the current changes in the family!"

At this point, Zhou Chun shook his head again and said, "Forget it, let's tell those people what we want to discuss first, so that they have time to think carefully. As for the time of the discussion, let's wait until the Supreme Elder comes out of seclusion before deciding!"

"Yes, junior, I obey."

Zhou Xinyi responded respectfully and left first.

Time passed, and soon three years had passed since Su Yuzhen successfully formed the elixir.

After three years of seclusion, she has consolidated her own cultivation level and took the initiative to come out.

And as she came out of seclusion, the Golden Elixir Ceremony held for her by the Su family was soon held.

(End of this chapter)