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Chapter 527: Heavenly Mirror Grants Treasures, Treasure Map Appears [Subscribe]

Tianjing Zhenren's attitude made Zhou Chun somewhat unsure of what he was thinking.

Originally according to his idea, Master Tianjing would have to find out how Yu Jinghua died, where he hid before his death, and how the Zhou family found him.

But now the attitude of Tianjing Zhenren is so indifferent, as if he doesn't care at all whether Yu Jinghua is dead or alive, and he has no intention of asking about the affairs of this dead person.

Such a calm attitude was really beyond Zhou Chun's expectations.

Is this the state of mind of a Yuanying stage immortal?

Zhou Chun muttered to himself, not wanting to speculate too much.

It’s just a pity that in this case, it is basically impossible to use the hand of Tianjing Zhenren to attack Yuling Gate.

It is likely that this account can only be settled with the Yuling Sect after he has transformed his elixir into a baby in the future!
What he should think about now is how to answer Master Tianjing.

The other party asked him to make his own request, which seemed to be a reward for him offering Yu Jinghua's head, but in fact it was a test for him.

If a lion asks for too much, the impression he makes on the other person will be greatly reduced.

But if he just asked for something casually, regardless of whether he would suffer a loss or not, I'm afraid that Master Tianjing might not really appreciate it. He might just go with the flow and send him away casually, without letting him find any fault with it.

Various thoughts and ideas flashed through his mind, and Zhou Chun finally chose an answer that was very pertinent in all aspects.

He replied respectfully, "In reply to the Immortal, I want a spiritual object that can help me to form the elixir!"

A Jindan spiritual object may look rare, but in fact it is only worth a few hundred thousand spiritual coins. For a Yuanying stage real person, it is not a precious thing at all.

And there is no way that the head of Yu Jinghua, a cultivator in the middle stage of the Golden Core, is not worth even this much.

Therefore, after hearing Zhou Chun's answer, Master Tianjing nodded and said, "This request is not excessive, but I don't have the Dan-forming spiritual item you need at the moment. If you are willing to wait a few more years, I can have someone buy it in exchange!"

Hearing his words, Zhou Chun couldn't help but smile bitterly and bowed to Qi Yi, saying, "To be honest, I have actually applied to the Tianling Alliance to exchange for three parts of Jindan spiritual objects. It's just that the alliance produces a limited number of such spiritual objects, and there are many people who need them at the same time, so I haven't been able to queue up to receive the relevant spiritual objects yet."

"But time waits for no one. One of my elders is now nearly 400 years old. If he delays any longer, he may miss the best age for forming a golden elixir. That is why I want to get him a golden elixir spiritual item as soon as possible!"

This was not an excuse. Compared with a Purple Mansion Stage cultivator, Zhou Daoyi's age was definitely not young.

Moreover, he had been running around for the cause of revitalizing the Zhou family over the years, fighting fiercely with others, and had accumulated a lot of hidden injuries in his body, and his own essence had also been greatly depleted.

If one waits until he is over 400 years old to form the elixir, without the assistance of a precious elixir like the [Holy Spirit Blood Pill], the success rate of forming the elixir is really unimaginable.

Therefore, he must be allowed to enter a state of seclusion and form the elixir within ten years, so that he can have a chance to truly succeed in forming the elixir!
After hearing what he said, Master Tianjing was silent for a while.

After a moment of silence, he sighed and said, "Well, since you don't want to wait any longer, let's change the reward!"

After saying this, he did not let Zhou Chun choose the reward again, so as to avoid such a thing that he could not fulfill from happening again.

He raised his hand and handed a jade box to Zhou Chun. "This talisman inside was made by me when I had nothing to do. Because the sealed source of power is small, there is only one chance to use it. It can probably exert 10% of the power of the magic weapon itself. I will give it to you for self-defense!"

A talisman made by a real person in the Nascent Soul stage?

Zhou Chun's eyes lit up, and he quickly took the jade box, thanking him repeatedly: "Thank you for the reward, thank you for the treasure!"

Unexpectedly, just as he finished his words of thanks, he saw Master Tianjing waved his hand and said, "Well, since you are quite satisfied with this treasure, I will not keep you any longer."

He actually sent the guest away directly.

Seeing this situation, Zhou Chun had no choice but to say goodbye and leave Tianjing Villa.

"I always feel that this Tianjing Master is a little weird. Even if all Yuanying Stage masters have high mental cultivation, they shouldn't be as selfless as him, right? When he first succeeded in forming his infant, he was still very ambitious, wasn't he?"

After returning to his cave on Tuyun Ridge, Zhou Chun reviewed his experience of meeting Master Tianjing and immediately became suspicious of Master Tianjing's personal condition.

Judging from several experiences and the fact that there has been little news about Master Tianjing in recent years, Master Tianjing's condition seems to be somewhat abnormal.

If I had to use one word to describe it, it would be "lying flat".

Master Tianjing now gave Zhou Chun the feeling that he was just lying down, without any desires or requests, and not caring about anything.

However, it is undoubtedly extremely abnormal for this situation to occur in a Yuanying stage True Person, especially one who has just formed the Yuanying stage less than two hundred years ago.

Under normal circumstances, even if you succeed in forming a baby, knowing that you will have almost no chance of making a breakthrough in the future, you will develop desires in other areas.

For example, he loved pleasure, took in many female monks as concubines, ate all kinds of delicious food at every meal, and lived a life of wine and meat, in order to make up for some regrets left over from his single-minded practice for the previous thousand years.

To put it in other words, after practicing for a lifetime, you finally succeeded in forming a fetus, shouldn't you enjoy it a little?
Many of the rare Yuanying-stage cultivators like Tianjing Zhenren would have the idea of ​​establishing a sect, and want to be honored as the founder and patriarch of a sect.

However, Zhou Chun had never heard of any rumors about Master Tianjing taking a concubine, otherwise there would have been many immortal cultivation families rushing to send their female cultivators to Tianjing Villa!

"It seems that the problem still lies in the fact that Qing Xiao Zhenren captured his Nascent Soul alive. Perhaps this high and mighty Nascent Soul Zhenren is not as free and easy as people think!"

Zhou Chun muttered to himself, as if he understood something.

However, even if he guessed why Master Tianjing became like this, there was nothing he could do with it.

So he quickly put aside these speculations and took out the jade box given to him by Master Tianjing to check it.

Inside the jade box was a talisman with a faint golden glow, and on the talisman paper was a pattern of a golden treasure mirror. It should have been made by Tianjing Zhenren using the original power of his own natal magic weapon.

Extracting a small portion of the original power of a magic weapon to make a talisman like this will not cause any permanent damage to the magic weapon. It will only temporarily reduce its power and require nurturing and cultivation before it can be restored.

With Tianjing Zhenren's cultivation level at the Nascent Soul stage, as long as his natal magic weapon has not yet been promoted to a spiritual treasure, it won't take long to nourish and recover.

But even if his natal magic weapon is only a top-grade magic weapon, this talisman that can exert 10% of the power of his natal magic weapon is also a top-quality treasure for an early Jindan cultivator like Zhou Chun.

If used when fighting against others, it would be no worse than a top-grade magic weapon!

The only pity is that this talisman can only be used once. Zhou Chun must make good use of it and not waste it easily.

After inspecting the talisman, Zhou Chun put it away, and then took out the mid-grade magic weapon [Taibai Zhanjiao Sword] he got from Yu Jinghua.

This [Taibai Dragon-Slaying Sword] is a magic weapon used by Zhou Tong, the ancestor of the Zhou family, to kill a fourth-order dragon. It is not his natal magic weapon, but something he obtained by chance outside. It should be the natal magic weapon left behind by a powerful Jindan-stage cultivator.

Originally, this treasure was not called this name. It was only after killing a fourth-order dragon that the sword gained a legendary color in the Zhou family, so it was changed to this name after the ancestor Zhou Tong passed away.

This treasure can be said to be the most precious magic weapon of the Zhou family. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is the treasure of the clan.

Originally, Zhou Chun had the [Wanhua Golden Cauldron], so he didn't have to sacrifice this magic weapon.

But after giving the [Wu Earth Vajra Shield] and [Chiyan Gloves] to Zhou Mingde, he had no second magic weapon to use.

When he needs to supplement his defense, he still has to use the [Wanhua Golden Cauldron] to protect himself.

Therefore, if you sacrifice and refine this magic weapon, there will be more room for error.

Because it was a mid-grade magic weapon, Zhou Chun spent almost a month to refine the [Taibai Zhanjiao Sword].

Then I also knew the magical power of this magic weapon.

This flying sword magic weapon is extremely hard and sharp. It is melted with the rare magic weapon spiritual material [Taibai Jingjin]. It has powerful armor-breaking and shield-breaking effects, and can easily cut through the dragon scales of a fourth-level low-grade dragon.

In addition, the sword body can also store a "Tai Bai Tian Xin sword energy", and when the sword is swung out, the power will be extraordinary.

When besieging Yu Jinghua before, this thief relied on this "Tai Bai Tianxin Sword Qi" to cut through Su Yuzhen's defense with one sword and injured him.

But Zhou Chun felt that the true power of this sword should be more than that, and it should be combined with the sword cultivator's sword-controlling skills to fully exert its true power.

Unfortunately, there are not many true sword practitioners, and those who have reached the Golden Core stage are even rarer. For this sword to fall into the hands of the Zhou family is actually a waste of talent!

But the advantage of magic weapons is that as long as there are people who continue to refine and nurture them, they can still be used even if they are passed down for thousands or even millions of years.

As long as this treasure continues to be passed down in the Zhou family, there will always be a chance in the future for it to meet a mentor who can truly make it shine!
Since Zhou Chun failed to obtain the spiritual objects that could help him form the elixir from Master Tianjing, Lin Hongyu went to the Great Zhou Kingdom first to collect such spiritual objects for Zhou Daoyi. Zhou Chun also gave her several unused thousand-year-old precious medicines and some magical materials so that she could exchange them with some Jindan-stage cultivators.

For many Jindan stage cultivators, the Jindan spiritual objects are just rare spiritual objects that they cannot use. Since they have no need to train successors, they are willing to exchange them for other treasures.

If Zhou Chun was willing to give up a magic weapon, exchanging it for a set of auxiliary pill formation spiritual objects would not be a problem! Of course, such opportunities were still rare.

From then on, Zhou Chun basically focused on practicing in the cave and didn't pay much attention to family affairs, leaving everything to Zhou Mingde.

At this time, the morale of the Zhou family was at an unprecedented high because they had first won the Qinglian Temple in a gambling fight and then cleaned up the family and killed the family traitor Yu Jinghua.

The outside forces were also in awe of the strength displayed by the Zhou family. Apart from those major forces, few families and sects in Jingguo dared not give the Zhou family some face.

All of the Zhou family's businesses suddenly became much more prosperous.

Even some small families began to take the initiative to surrender, wanting to become a vassal of the Zhou family, betting the fate of the entire family on the belief that the Zhou family would become a hegemon in the future!
Most of these small families were passed down for only one or two generations. Their founders strengthened themselves through repeated adventures and eventually built up a foundation.

Because of this successful experience, they are not afraid to take a gamble!
Anyway, there are only a few or even a dozen people in their entire clan!
As for these small forces that wanted to surrender, Zhou Mingde, after discussing with Zhou Chun, decided to refuse to accept this vassal relationship and just give them a gift to thank them for their "kindness".

After all, the Zhou family has already set the tone for low-key development in the future, and there is no need to touch the bottom line of Qinglian Temple on such matters.

The Zhou family's current plan is to support Zhou Daoyi's attempt to form a pill at the top level, discover and train talents at the middle and lower levels, consolidate the family's foundation, and at the same time increase the development of the wilderness.

Anyway, time is now on the Zhou family's side. The lifespans of several Jindan-stage cultivators in their family are still sufficient, so they can just hold on and wait for the situation to change.

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Bingyi Kingdom, on top of a steep snowy peak.

Qing Weizi changed his appearance into a white-haired old man. After coming here based on the intelligence information he had collected, he carefully released his spiritual sense to search.

But no matter how he searched, his spiritual sense could not find anything unusual on this snow peak where the spiritual energy was not particularly strong.

After some attempts, he chose to give up, then took out a special talisman and activated it.

Qing Weizi could only wait patiently as she watched the talisman transform into a white eyeball pattern floating motionlessly in the air after being activated.

After waiting for about a quarter of an hour, his mind suddenly moved and his eyes looked towards a snowy area a hundred feet away.

There was a flash of white light, and then a figure covered in a white robe appeared out of nowhere.

However, Qing Weizi's consciousness was bounced away when it approached the person. With his cultivation level of the middle Jindan stage, he couldn't even see clearly what the other person's cultivation level was. He only knew that it must be a Jindan stage cultivator.

"Could it be that what Daoyou just performed was the Ice Escape Technique?"

Qing Weizi stared at the white-robed monk and asked tentatively.

The ice escape technique he mentioned is actually a rare escape technique, derived from the water escape technique, and can only be used in places with ice and snow.

But the advantage of this escape technique is that after successfully practicing it, you can use it at will in places of ice and snow.

Like the top of the snowy peak where Qing Weizi is now, the ice and snow underfoot are dozens of feet thick. Ordinary earth escape techniques cannot be performed at all, and the same goes for water escape techniques.

But the ice escape technique here can be used just like these two escape techniques, easily flying through the ice and snow.

If a fight were to take place in such an environment, a cultivator who had mastered the art of ice escape would be able to move forward and backward freely and would have a huge geographical advantage.

And 70% to 80% of the land of the entire Bingyi Kingdom is covered with ice and snow!
But at this time, facing Qing Weizi's question, the white-robed monk did not have any intention of responding to him. He just asked in a cold tone: "You came with a token, I think you know the rules of our sect. Who do you want us to deal with?"

After hearing what he said, Qing Weizi knew that it was impossible for her to get close to him.

Therefore, he quickly became serious and said solemnly: "Of course I know the rules. The person I want your sect to deal with this time is a Jindan early stage cultivator who is tens of thousands of miles away from Bingyi Country. His relevant information has been recorded here!"

After saying that, he waved his hands and a jade slip flew towards the white-robed monk.

After the white-robed monk took the jade slip, he did not check the intelligence information inside immediately. He just said coldly: "We need time to investigate the true situation of the target and evaluate the reward for this attack. After the evaluation results come out, we will contact you!"

After saying that, he pinched his hands together and disappeared into the ground right in front of Qing Weizi.

Seeing this scene, Qing Weizi couldn't help but narrow his eyes, and quickly turned around and left.

He still needs to continue waiting in Bingyi Country, waiting for Bingyumen to contact him again to discuss the specific compensation.

This is the rule of the Ice Prison Sect. When the target of assassination is a Jindan-stage cultivator, they will not accept the mission immediately. Instead, they will investigate the situation clearly, determine the target's danger level, and then make a comprehensive quotation based on all aspects of the situation.

If they feel the target is too difficult, they may even refuse to accept the assassination mission.

If they hadn't been so cautious, their sect of assassins would have been wiped out long ago because of some setbacks!

After all, in the world of cultivating immortals, you can’t just hide the sect’s mountain gate in a dark place where no one knows and no one will be able to find you.

For some Nascent Soul cultivators, they only need to collect a little bit of your aura to find your hiding place thousands of miles away.

There are even miraculous divination techniques in the world of immortal cultivation that can directly predict the hiding place of the target person!

……

Zhou Chun, who was concentrating on staying at the family mountain gate, certainly had no idea that Qing Weizi had traveled to Bingyi Country to hire a killer to assassinate him.

The reason why he stayed in the family mountain gate to practice and did not go to the Great Zhou Kingdom was mainly because he was worried that Qinglian Temple would not be willing to accept the defeat in the gambling battle and would secretly make some small moves to deal with the Zhou family.

Besides, he doesn't have any excessive demands on the Great Zhou Kingdom now.

Apart from having to ask Luo Qingni for help in refining the [Dragon Transformation Pill], there was no other reason for him to go to the Great Zhou Kingdom.

The task of collecting materials for refining [Ancient Dust Pill] can be done by asking Lin Hongyu to help, or by asking the family cultivators to do it.

For this purpose, he even asked some of his family's foundation-building cultivators and purple mansion cultivators to travel to various countries to help him collect relevant materials.

If Luo Qingni came out and read the message he left, she would send someone to inform him, so he wouldn't have to go there and wait.

"It's really strange. It's been more than a year since the gambling match ended, and Qinglian Temple hasn't made any moves. Could it be that they are really afraid of making any small moves because of the warning from Master Baiyue? This doesn't seem like the style of Taoist Yi Yang and Qing Weizi!"

That day, Zhou Chun went to Zhongping Palace to check on the family's financial situation. After learning that everything was improving steadily, he couldn't help but feel worried when he came back.

He had already prepared for Qinglian Temple to use commercial means to attack the Zhou family from various places. Given the size of Qinglian Temple, this could still cause considerable trouble to the Zhou family.

Moreover, this kind of sniping is strictly speaking just commercial competition. The Yuelun Cult cannot control how the Qinglian Temple does business!
But what he didn't expect was that Qinglian Temple did nothing. Even the Zhou family store in Hongyafang Market in Lanzhou was still operating normally and was not deliberately targeted.

This unexpected situation made Zhou Chun feel uneasy, like the calm before the storm.

After thinking about it, he issued an order, asking the senior members of the family at the elder level to reduce going out as much as possible in the next few years, or to keep a low profile and conceal their true identities when they go out to avoid any accidents.

For the Zhou family today, as long as there are no high-level cultivators above the Purple Mansion stage who die accidentally, even if a few Foundation Establishment stage cultivators are missing or die, the loss is still within an acceptable range.

After several months passed, Zhou Mingde suddenly came to Zhou Chun's cave to see him in person.

"Zhengchun, do you still remember the treasure map you got from the Jiang family's secret vault after destroying them?"

Inside the cave, as soon as Zhou Mingde saw Zhou Chun, he suddenly asked about an old incident that happened many years ago.

Hearing what he said, Zhou Chun reacted immediately. He looked at him with surprise and said, "Of course I remember. You suddenly mentioned this matter now. Could it be that you found another treasure map that corresponds to it?"

He clearly remembered that the animal skin scroll was only half, a fragment of the picture, but the texture of the animal skin was the skin of a third-level monster.

The treasure map made from the skin of this monster must not be an ordinary treasure, which is why it was collected by the Jiang family and kept in the secret vault.

Zhou Chun remembered that he had placed a copy of the treasure map in the family library many years ago. Any Zhou family cultivator who could enter the library could look through it and copy it for free, and it was noted that there would be a generous reward for anyone who offered the other half of the treasure map.

When Zhou Mingde, who is now in charge of family affairs, suddenly brought up this matter, Zhou Chun realized that the measures taken back then might have been effective.

Sure enough, after hearing his words, Zhou Mingde immediately smiled and said, "That's right. The other day, the younger Zhou Sihan who was traveling outside the clan suddenly returned to the family and handed in the other half of the treasure map. After Xinyi learned about this, he immediately contacted me for a comparison and confirmed that the two treasure maps were exactly the same in terms of material. There is no possibility of counterfeiting!"

Hearing this, Zhou Chun immediately said thoughtfully, "This junior Zhou Sihan, if I remember correctly, should be in the middle stage of foundation building now. After he got the other half of the treasure map, didn't he try to find the treasure?"

“Haha, of course he tried. Unfortunately, that place is located in the territory of Cheng State, and now there are large formations and monsters guarding it. With his strength, it is impossible for him to obtain this opportunity!”

Zhou Mingde chuckled and gave the answer with a smile.

(End of this chapter)