Beast-controlling fairy clan.

Capture a mid-stage Jindan cultivator alive?
When Zhou Mingde heard what Zhou Chun said, he was also shocked.

He didn't know how powerful the Ice Prison Gate killer was, but he had personally participated in the siege of a mid-stage Jindan cultivator not long ago.

Therefore, he had a good idea of ​​how powerful a mid-stage Jindan cultivator was.

Previously, in order to kill the traitor Yu Jinghua, five Jindan-stage cultivators besieged him together, but they almost let him escape.

Now Zhou Chun actually said that he wanted to capture a mid-stage Jindan cultivator alive. How could Zhou Mingde not be shocked?

"This...can this work? Zhengchun, are you sure?"

He looked at Zhou Chun with a look of surprise and doubt, and for the first time he doubted Zhou Chun's ability.

It’s not that he doesn’t believe Zhou Chun, it’s just that this matter is too sensational.

After all, capturing a mid-stage Jindan cultivator alive is something that even a late-stage Jindan cultivator wouldn't dare to boast about.

In the battle between Jindan stage cultivators, it is relatively easy to defeat the opponent, but it is very difficult to kill the opponent, and it is even more difficult to capture the opponent alive.

Not to mention that Zhou Chun still had to capture a middle-stage Jindan cultivator alive with his early-stage Jindan cultivation level!
If Zhou Chun hadn't mentioned this matter, Zhou Mingde wouldn't even dare to think about it.

If someone else said this to him, he would just think that person was crazy!

Facing Zhou Mingde's doubt, Zhou Chun said calmly: "As for how confident I am, I dare not boast, but with this secret talisman given by Yuanying Zhenren of Yuelun Sect, I think I can give it a try!"

"So this is ah……"

Zhou Mingde suddenly realized, then frowned and said: "But even if you can really capture him alive, what are you going to do?"

“This is exactly what the younger generation is worried about and hesitant about now.”

Zhou Chun's face flashed with sorrow, and he couldn't help muttering, "If I really capture that killer alive, even if I force him to swear an oath not to reveal that I have a magical treasure, and force the Ice Prison Sect to agree to give up the assassination attempt on me, after I let him go, there is no guarantee that he won't find another way to harm me!"

Hearing what he said, Zhou Mingde nodded repeatedly and said, "That's true. A killer sect like Bingyu Sect cannot be judged by common sense. What if they want to complete the mission even if it means sacrificing a Jindan killer for the sake of their so-called reputation? Capturing that killer alive will only anger them even more!"

"Yes, this kind of assassin sect is most likely afraid of power rather than virtue. If you don't really threaten their fundamental strength, it will be difficult for them to fear and respect you!"

Zhou Chun sighed with emotion.

Then both of them fell into silence for a while.

After a period of silence, Zhou Mingde's eyes suddenly lit up, and he clapped his hands and shouted, "Got it, I've got a solution!"

"Oh, what good idea did you come up with?"

Zhou Chun's eyes fixed, and he looked at him with some surprise.

Zhou Mingde looked at him with a smile and asked, "Zhengchun, think about it. Would anyone dare to believe that you, an early Jindan cultivator, or a few early Jindan cultivators from our Zhou family, could capture a mid-Jindan cultivator alive?"

"This...should not happen."

Zhou Chun thought about it and shook his head slightly.

Zhou Mingde clapped his hands and shouted, "Isn't that right? If that's the case, as long as you, Zhengchun, can really capture that Jindan-stage killer alive, and then seal him away so that the people from the Ice Prison Gate can't find him, but know that he's not dead yet, what do you think they will think?"

"Will they believe that it was us who did it?"

"If they don't believe that it was us who did it, then which strong man helped our Zhou family capture the killer alive?"

"Is there someone in the Nascent Soul Stage protecting our Zhou family?"

Zhou Mingde couldn't help but smile when he said this: "As long as they can't figure this out and find the killer who was captured alive, they will definitely not dare to easily accept the employment of Qinglian Temple and continue to send late Jindan killers to deal with the Zhou family!"

After hearing what he said, Zhou Chun's eyes lit up, and he nodded vigorously in response: "Yes, your analysis makes sense, and the facts are indeed like this, it is indeed the truth!"

Then, as if he had thought of something, he frowned and said, "But where should we seal the captured person? There should be a Yuanying Stage Master in the Ice Prison Gate, and the killer must have left his blood essence and soul tablet inside the Ice Prison Gate. If the Yuanying Stage Master of the Ice Prison Gate comes to look for the killer in person, how can we make him return empty-handed?"

This question immediately stumped Zhou Mingde, and the smile on his face quickly disappeared.

One of them frowned, and the other lowered his head, both of them were thinking hard about a solution.

After thinking for a long time, Zhou Chun slowly said, "If you want to make a Yuanying Stage real person return empty-handed, you can either block his search method with some means, so that you can't find his specific location, and naturally you can't find him!"

"Or we can place the target in a dangerous place that even Yuanying Stage True Persons are unwilling to easily set foot in, so that he will not be willing to take risks for a Jindan Stage junior!"

At this point, he shook his head and said, "The first method is basically impossible to achieve. Our Zhou family doesn't have that kind of foundation yet!"

Hearing what he said, Zhou Mingde realized something instantly and couldn't help but look at him and said, "Zhengchun, do you mean to send the people to Longyuanze?"

For a dangerous place that even a Yuanying stage True Person would not easily set foot in, Zhou Mingde could only think of Longyuanze.

Sure enough, Zhou Chun quickly nodded and said, "From the current perspective, Longyuanze should be the most suitable place!"

"But how can you imprison him? After all, he is a Jindan-stage cultivator. If you destroy his cultivation, he will soon die due to insufficient lifespan. If you don't destroy his cultivation, I'm afraid you won't be able to stop him from escaping!"

Zhou Mingde expressed his concerns with a worried look on his face.

"Among the magic skills that I got from those magic cultivators before, there is a secret skill called "Soul Sealing and Corpse Suppression Art", which is the secret skill used by the Corpse Demon Cult to suppress the consciousness of fourth-level psychic zombies."

"I have seen this technique before. If we can use a magical instrument like the Soul Sealing Coffin, even a cultivator in the late Purple Mansion period will have a chance to suppress the consciousness of a fourth-order psychic zombie!"

"With my spiritual power, combined with the Soul Sealing Coffin, I think it should be enough to suppress the consciousness of that Jindan-stage killer, causing him to fall into a deep sleep and be unable to move!"

Zhou Chun said with some relief, "Fortunately, I still have one of the Soul Sealing Coffins. I originally wanted to have more ways to deal with powerful zombie monsters in the future, but I didn't expect it to come in handy now!"

He had killed a lot of people on the battlefield between immortals and demons, killing more than a dozen Purple Mansion Stage demon cultivators and seizing countless magical weapons of all kinds.

He handed over most of the magical weapons to the Tianling Legion at that time in exchange for military merits.

Those magical instruments he chose to preserve could either be barely usable by immortal cultivators, or had special uses like the Soul-Sealing Coffin.

But after hearing his method, Zhou Mingde was still a little worried and couldn't help reminding him: "Since it is a secret technique to suppress zombies, Zhengchun, are you sure it will work on cultivators? Moreover, the consciousness of a fourth-level psychic zombie is completely incomparable to that of a Jindan-stage cultivator, not to mention that the person is a Jindan-stage cultivator with a strong mind and will!"

"It should be fine. If it really doesn't work, then we can inject corpse qi and corpse poison into his body and transform him into a half-corpse. That will definitely work!"

When Zhou Chun said this, a fierce light flashed in his eyes.

Since the killer dared to be hired to assassinate him, no matter how he treated him, it would not be excessive. He just wished he could not kill him!
After hearing his analysis, Zhou Mingde no longer had any doubts in his mind, and he nodded and said, "Well, if that's the case, then the only thing left to consider is how to prevent people from suspecting that the killer's disappearance is related to you, Zhengchun!"

After that, he added, "And after this is done, Zhengchun, you have to leave the family and stay out of the spotlight, so that the other party won't come to you directly!"

"I understand, and you'd better forget what happened today, so as not to be tricked into confessing!"

Zhou Chun nodded solemnly and reminded Zhou Mingde of one thing.

After reaching the Golden Core Stage, it is not difficult to erase one's short-term memory through some secret methods.

But it is generally not necessary, and no one is willing to lose their memory.

After all, if the memory is erased, even if it is only the memory of a day or two in the short term, it will make people feel uncomfortable, as if they have lost something.

But what the two discussed today was too important. If it were leaked, the consequences would be disastrous.

Zhou Chun could only let Zhou Mingde bear with it for a while.

Zhou Mingde was a man who knew the importance of things. After hearing this, he was not displeased at all. Instead, he immediately said, "I will cast a spell to erase today's memory!"

After saying that, he cast a spell in front of Zhou Chun to erase his memories of the past two days.

After he finished casting the spell, he opened his eyes. His eyes were blank and confused for a while, then he suddenly looked at Zhou Chun and asked in surprise: "Hey, Zhengchun, why are you in my cave? Didn't you go to open the treasure?"

His memory really stopped at the day when Zhou Chun left his family and went to Chengguo to open the treasure. He had no memory of what happened afterwards.

Seeing this, Zhou Chun immediately reminded him, "The treasure has already been opened. You just erased the memory of the past two days."

"I erased my memory of the past two days?"

Zhou Mingde's expression changed and he realized something instantly.

His expression changed for a moment, and then he nodded to Zhou Chun and said, "I understand. Zhengchun, you should be careful!"

However, he understood that since his memory had been erased, it meant that the matter was of great importance, so he did not ask Zhou Chun for details out of curiosity.

"Don't worry, I have the protection of an expert, nothing will happen to me!"

Zhou Chun smiled slightly and spoke in a calm tone.

Blessing from an expert?

Zhou Mingde was stunned for a moment, then nodded thoughtfully, without asking the so-called expert for more information. Next, Zhou Chun shared with him what he had gained from the secret treasure, and told him about his own arrangements and plans. The two of them discussed how to deal with the secret treasure.

After finalizing the disposal of the secret treasure, Zhou Chun returned to his cave to study and ponder the secret art of "Sealing the Soul and Suppressing the Corpse".

The killer's natal flying sword was injured by the talisman given by him by Tianjing Zhenren. It would take at least two or three years of nursing to recover. He took this time to study and practice the secret art of "Sealing the Soul and Suppressing the Corpse".

According to Zhou Chun's arrangement, in the following period of time, the news that the Zhou family had found a secret treasure house was quietly spread.

Rumor has it that the Zhou family discovered a large amount of mineral spiritual resources in that secret vault.

There are also rumors that the Zhou family obtained some rare elixirs in the secret library.

There are even rumors that the Zhou family discovered dozens of sealed Foundation Establishment Pills in a secret vault!
In short, there are all kinds of rumors.

Regardless of whether these rumors are true or false, they seem to prove one thing, that is, the Zhou family has indeed found a secret treasure trove.

Basically, those big forces only need to inquire around to find out that the Zhou family was indeed looking for a treasure map before, and it is easy to confirm the authenticity of the news.

Afterwards, the Zhou family began to arrange people to sell the ore everywhere, which completely confirmed some rumors.

This incident soon became a hot topic, making many people envious of the Zhou family's luck.

Some unscrupulous monks seemed to have seen an opportunity and immediately fabricated various fake treasure maps for sale, taking the opportunity to make money.

Some individual bandits even use fake treasure maps to trick people into coming and then kill them!

This caused chaos in the Jingguo cultivation world for a while.

But the lives and deaths of these low-level cultivators are naturally not cared about by high-level cultivators and various forces.

The world of cultivating immortals is so cruel in itself. Greed that does not match one's own cultivation strength will always be the biggest cause of death for cultivators!

Zhou Chun was only concerned about how much profit the Zhou family made from the large-scale sale of various resources, and whether the family's financial situation had improved.

What reassured him was that after this large-scale sale of resource minerals and various spiritual objects, plus the spiritual currency subsidies he had previously received from Yu Jinghua's storage bag, the Zhou family's financial situation had finally been alleviated.

As long as nothing happens that causes a sharp reduction in the family's financial income, the Zhou family, with this money as a cushion, will be able to truly breathe a sigh of relief and completely overcome this financial crisis.

Of course, Zhou Chun did not forget the stone chamber in the deepest part of the treasure house, and had been paying attention to the progress of Zhang Liang and his wife in breaking the self-destructive ban.

He could roughly guess what was inside the stone chamber. If he could obtain everything inside, both he and his family would definitely benefit greatly!

Time flies like this, and in the blink of an eye, a year has passed since Zhou Chun was attacked.

After waiting for a year, he did not receive any good news from the secret treasure house, but he received another piece of good news.

After decades of waiting, the first of the three spiritual items he had exchanged for the Jindan Formation was finally delivered. According to his request, it was a bottle of [Extreme Yang Fire Spirit Liquid].

In addition, he also received the last of the three [Xuanxin Zihuan Dan] that he had exchanged.

After getting these two items, Zhou Chun directly gave the [Extreme Yang Fire Spirit Liquid] to Zhou Daoyi. In this way, Zhou Daoyi only needed to wait for Lin Hongyu to find the spiritual object that could help him form the elixir and then return. Then he could go into seclusion and form the elixir.

As for the [Xuanxin Zihuan Pill], Zhou Chun also released the news and formulated the rules for competing for the pill.

According to the rules he set, in the next ten years, among all the Zhou family's late foundation-building cultivators whose lifespan is under 200 years old, whoever has obtained the most merits through family missions or by donating certain treasures will be the one to take this elixir!

This rule will also include those cultivators who have broken through to the late foundation building stage within these ten years.

It is also worth mentioning that the donated treasures cannot be obtained by borrowing from other tribesmen, but can only be obtained from outside or already owned by oneself. Violators will be disqualified directly!
At the same time, in order to give these people something to do, Zhou Chun launched more than 20 material collection tasks with high rewards, so that these people can accumulate good deeds by completing the tasks.

As the news spread, the three late-stage foundation-building cultivators in the Zhou family who met the requirements, as well as the other four clansmen who were expected to break through to the late-stage foundation-building stage within ten years, were all suddenly excited like they were injected with chicken blood.

Almost within seven days after the announcement of the news, those Zhou family cultivators who met the requirements received their missions and left the family to fight hard for their own Purple Mansion opportunities.

However, just when these Zhou family foundation-building cultivators were working hard for the Purple Mansion opportunity, a Purple Mansion opportunity fell into the hands of Zhou Sihan, who had previously presented the treasure map.

In order to reward him for presenting the treasure map, Zhou Chun gave him the remaining [Kai Ling Dan].

This matter was not made public to avoid causing trouble for Zhou Sihan.

After obtaining the [Kailing Pill], Zhou Sihan, who was only in the middle stage of foundation building, also took action secretly, preparing to spend all his family wealth to buy himself pills and spiritual objects that could improve his cultivation, so that he could break through to the late stage of foundation building as soon as possible.

Another half a year passed, and Zhang Liang and his wife finally made a breakthrough in their research on the self-destruction restriction in the secret stone chamber, and came up with a way to crack it.

According to Zhang Liang himself, it is simply impossible to break the self-destructive restriction by simply studying outside with his current level of cultivation and attainments in formations.

Even if Zhou Chun found a few more formation masters to help him, it would still take at least ten to twenty years of research to achieve this.

Therefore, if the Zhou family does not want to wait for a long time, they can only use abnormal cracking methods.

Zhang Liang's method was to first completely dismantle the protective formation outside the secret library, and then set up a formation that could absorb a large amount of spiritual energy, first consuming most of the spiritual energy in the spiritual vein where the secret library was located.

When the spiritual energy there has been consumed to a certain extent, the formation suddenly increases the speed of absorbing spiritual energy, and Zhou Chun needs to force through the stone chamber protection of the secret library as soon as possible.

By then, due to insufficient supply of spiritual energy, the activation of the self-destruction restriction inside may be slower, which can give Zhou Chun some time to collect the treasures inside!

This plan is undoubtedly very risky. Once the plan goes wrong and the self-destruction ban is activated, all the treasures in the secret stone chamber will surely be destroyed.

However, after reading the plan submitted by Zhang Liang, Zhou Chun agreed without much hesitation.

His idea was simple. Anyway, the treasure in the secret vault was a free find for the Zhou family, and they had already made a lot of money.

Rather than taking all kinds of risks and arranging manpower to guard there, it is better to take a risk and give it a try.

Even if nothing is gained in the end, the Zhou family can just consider that they have no chance of getting those treasures!
After agreeing to Zhang Liang's plan, Zhou Chun asked his family to collect and allocate materials for setting up the formation and transport them to the secret library for them to set up the formation.

Only after the formation has been truly set up will Zhou Chun go over to complete the final task of obtaining the treasure.

But before Zhang Liang could finish setting up the formation, a letter that specifically asked Zhou Chun to open it was forcibly stuffed onto a Zhou family foundation-building cultivator who was away, and then fell into his hands.

"Within half a month, we will have a life-and-death battle at the Nine Ridges Snow Peak of Shen State! If you dare to break your promise, all the Zhou family cultivators who are away will be killed!"

When Zhou Chun opened the letter in his hand, he saw these murderous words.

His expression suddenly became gloomy.

"What a madman!"

Zhou Chun suddenly let out a low roar, and the letter in his hand was instantly burned to ashes.

He expected that the Ice Prison Gate killer would come back again and use some means to force him out.

However, he did not expect that the other party would be so arrogant as to directly deliver a declaration of war and even threaten him with the lives of all the cultivators in the Zhou family!
It's simply too arrogant!

But from this it also seems that the Ice Prison Gate killer is not worried that the Moon Wheel Church will send experts to deal with him, otherwise he would definitely not be so arrogant.

But after being angry for a while, Zhou Chun quickly calmed down. "It seems that I still underestimated this person. It has only been more than a year, and he has recovered the damage to his natal flying sword. It is really unexpected!"

There was a cold light flashing in his eyes, and he couldn't help but raise his hand to take out a silver-white jade talisman and began to rub it.

This silver-white jade talisman was given to him by Master Baiyue for self-defense and life-saving. It was a secret talisman made by a Yuanying stage master of the Yuelun Sect, and it sealed a defensive magical power of the person.

In terms of value, this item is even more precious than an inferior magic weapon.

Whether Zhou Chun can defeat the Ice Prison Gate killer and resolve the crisis of being assassinated depends entirely on this treasure.

After touching the secret symbol of magical power and pondering for a long time, Zhou Chun quickly made a decision.

Seven days later, Zhou Chun informed Zhou Mingde that he was going to the Su family in Jiangzhou to visit his Taoist partner Su Yuzhen.

Then he left the Tuyunling Mountain Gate alone.

After going out, Zhou Chun did not use his pet for transportation. He directly controlled the sword light of the [Taibai Zhanjiao Sword] and rushed towards the Jiuling Snow Mountain of the Shen Kingdom.

But just as he entered the territory of Shen Kingdom and was less than a hundred miles away, the [Moon Toad Pearl] in his body once again gave him a warning.

This time Zhou Chun did not hesitate at all. The moment he received the warning, he directly activated the magical power of "Taiyin Body Protection Fairy Clothes" and also used his own innate magical power [Qianyuan Jinxia].

Sure enough, just after he displayed two protective magical powers, the invisible flying sword appeared silently, directly tore through the golden rays of light, chopped on the silver-white fairy clothes, and finally bounced itself out.

"This shouldn't be the case! How on earth did you find out where I was?"

In the sky, the Ice Prison Gate killer who had failed in his sneak attack showed up on his own initiative this time, and growled at Zhou Chun with a tone full of shock and anger.

He couldn't understand how his concealed sneak attack technique, which was difficult for even a mid-stage Jindan cultivator to detect, could be discovered twice in a row by Zhou Chun, an early-stage Jindan cultivator.