Beast-controlling fairy clan.

Chapter 562: Skywind Thunder Eagle, Sword Cultivator Zhiqian [Subscribe]

Bamboo Leaf Island.

When Zhou Chun saw the gift that Zhou Daoyi gave to Zhou Zhiying, he was also slightly surprised.

It stands to reason that when elders meet outstanding juniors, they should give some gifts.

However, the gift Zhou Daoyi gave now has already gone beyond the scope of the word "gift".

Even Zhou Zhiying could tell that the monster egg in the jade box was extraordinary, so at this moment he felt that the thing was a little hot and could not help but look at Zhou Chun for help.

Although she was young, she was no longer ignorant. What she had seen and heard in the past six months had made her deeply understand how hard it was to obtain cultivation resources.

So when she saw this "Senior Yi" in front of her giving her such a valuable gift, her first reaction was that he was being too nice to her for no reason, he must be a traitor or a thief!
He must have something he wants to ask his master for help with, which is why he would give such a valuable gift!

After having this idea, she naturally didn't want to put her teacher in an unfair position because of her momentary greed.

From this perspective, Zhou Chun's teaching of her undoubtedly had an effect.

Therefore, when Zhou Chun saw her pleading eyes, he felt relieved and smiled at her immediately, saying, "Since it is a kind gesture from Friend Yi, Ying'er, you should accept it."

After saying that, he looked at Zhou Daoyi meaningfully and said, "Fellow Daoist Yi, please tell me what kind of monster egg this is!"

How could Zhou Daoyi not understand what he meant? He immediately laughed and said, "Haha, this thing was obtained by Yi at an exchange meeting. It is the egg of a high-level monster beast, the Sky Wind Thunder Eagle, which is native to the Dolan Grassland. It is said that the Sky Wind Thunder Eagle sometimes lays two eggs, but is only willing to raise one offspring to grow up. Therefore, they often feed the weaker egg to the newly born chick to replenish its essence and strengthen the chick's bloodline!"

“However, once the multi-winged mages on the Dolan Grassland discover this situation, they will seize the weak eagle eggs to hatch into spiritual pets, or exchange the eagle eggs laid by their own spiritual pets for spiritual objects. That’s why Yi has the opportunity to exchange for this item!”

The Skywind Thunder Eagle is a kind of monster beast endemic to the Dolan Grassland. It is born with the ability to control wind and thunder. It is an extremely rare monster beast with dual attributes of wind and thunder.

This monster is famous in the Great Zhou Kingdom for its flying speed. It is said that the flying speed of a third-grade top-grade Sky Wind Thunder Eagle is so fast that even a cultivator in the early Jindan stage cannot catch up with it!
Moreover, because this kind of monster possesses the attributes of wind and thunder, its fighting ability is also very powerful and can compete with dragons of the same level.

It can be said to be a powerful monster with almost no obvious weaknesses!
There have been many records of auctions of Skywind Thunder Eagle eggs at various auctions in the Great Zhou Kingdom. Each auction would attract some Jindan stage cultivators to bid, and the price could often be driven up to several times that of the eggs of other high-level monsters.

After all, most high-level monsters, even if they are cultivated to the third-level upper grade, are of no use to Jindan-stage cultivators.

However, the Sky Wind Thunder Eagle can rely on its powerful flying speed to provide the early Jindan cultivators with an extra trump card to chase the enemy and escape.

There are people willing to do this even if it costs hundreds of thousands of spirit coins.

Zhou Daoyi obviously took great pains to find this treasure, and no one knows how much he paid for it!
Zhou Chun knew that he wanted to use this method to thank him for his help in Danjie, and also wanted to use this method to support the family to form future generations.

So he couldn't say much, let alone let Zhou Zhiying refuse.

At the moment, he could only look at Zhou Zhiying and say, "You also heard what Fellow Daoist Yi said. This is a treasure that is worth a fortune. You must train this pet well in the future. Don't forget Fellow Daoist Yi's kindness!"

After hearing what Zhou Daoyi said, Zhou Zhiying's heart was already blossoming with joy. She held the jade box even tighter with her hands and was extremely happy about this gift.

When he heard Zhou Chun's words, he nodded like a chicken pecking at rice and said, "Disciple, I understand. I will definitely treat it well."

Then, she bowed to Zhou Daoyi from the bottom of her heart and said, "Thank you very much, Senior Yi, for your kindness. Ying'er will definitely take good care of this Skywind Thunder Eagle and live up to your kindness!"

"Hahaha, as long as you like it and are satisfied."

Zhou Daoyi smiled heartily and was very satisfied with Zhou Zhiying's performance.

Next, Zhou Chun personally guided Zhou Zhiying to help the Tianfeng Thunder Eagle recognize its master.

Previously, because Zhou Zhiying herself was too talented, Zhou Chun felt that the monsters in the family did not have species that could match her speed of growth in cultivation, so he did not let her contract any monsters.

After all, the Zhou family’s tradition is that if they are to cultivate a monster through a contract from a young age, they will do their best to support it as long as they can help it grow.

Zhou Zhiying is guaranteed to be able to successfully form a pill in the future, so there is really no need for her to contract a mid-level monster cub.

Even if it was a dragon-born monster with the potential to transform into a dragon, Zhou Chun didn't think it was necessary.

Not to mention the huge amount of resources required to cultivate a dragon, the dragon itself is actually a double-edged sword. In the absence of a Nascent Soul cultivator in the Zhou family, cultivating too many dragons is actually not a good thing.

Not only would it easily provoke hostility from the Jiaolong clan, but it would also inevitably be taken advantage of by sects like the Yuelun Sect and the Yanyang Sect to release their blood and exploit them.

Zhou Chun didn't want his apprentice to go through the same frustrating things as he did!

Zhou Daoyi obviously understood his thoughts, which was why he painstakingly searched for a Heavenly Wind Thunder Eagle Egg and gave it to Zhou Zhiying to help her resolve the embarrassing situation of not having a spiritual pet.

As a cultivator of the Zhou family and Zhou Chun's only disciple, he doesn't even have a high-quality spiritual pet to accompany him. This is really unacceptable!

However, judging from the current situation, Tianfeng Leiying can only accompany Zhou Zhiying for a few hundred years. Her future path is destined to be different from that of other Zhou family cultivators.

When she goes to that secret island and inherits the mantle of the great monk in the late Nascent Soul stage, she will definitely devote herself to the Tao and focus on her own practice. She will not devote her energy to cultivating a spiritual pet like Zhou Chun did.

After all, since a great monk in the late Nascent Soul stage has taken the initiative to arrange the affairs of the successor, he will certainly not let the successor be distracted by external things. Whether it is magical weapons and supernatural powers to protect himself or herself, or elixirs to help break through the barriers of realm, he must have prepared them!

What Zhou Zhiying needs to do at that time is to practice step by step to the Nascent Soul stage, completely inherit all the mantle of the great monk in the late Nascent Soul stage, and strive to fulfill the other party's last wish one day and reach a higher realm to see the scenery above!

But these are things for the future. Now that she is a cultivator of the Zhou family and a disciple of Zhou Chun, she naturally has to follow the Zhou family's style.

Besides, after Zhou Daoyi met Zhou Zhiying, his inner wish was fulfilled. After spending two days with Master and Apprentice Zhou Chun on the lakeshore, he returned to Tianyuan Fairy City with satisfaction.

Zhou Chun then took Zhou Zhiying into the stronghold on Zhuye Island, inspected it casually, encouraged and rewarded the clansmen who were guarding the border for the family, and then returned to the family.

After returning to the family, Zhou Chun taught his disciples while commanding the Zhou family monks in the wilderness to expand outward, expand resource exploration and collection, and handed the matter over to Xu Fulai to lead.

At the same time, at the request of Xu Fu, Zhou Chun also agreed to expand the establishment of mortal settlements.

After years of reproduction and growth, the mortals in the wilderness who originally took shelter under the Zhou family have now expanded to dozens of tribes, with a population of more than 500,000!

Now, every year, there are as many as four or five children with spiritual roots discovered among the children born to these mortals.

With the addition of these people, the Zhou family no longer needs to capture and extradite monks from Jingguo to be incorporated into the Death Squad. They can directly train a large number of Death Squad members from there in a self-sufficient manner.

It was after Xu Fu saw this that he proposed the idea of ​​expanding the settlement area for mortals.

According to what he said, now that the Dragon Transformation Sect has been completely destroyed, there are no longer any human forces in the wilderness that the Zhou family needs to be wary of.

Therefore, even if those mortals were allowed to expand their tribes and attract attacks from monsters and beasts, the Zhou family would not be implicated.

At most, the number of casualties among mortals expanding outward will increase greatly!

But this can also be said to be their own choice!

It is always better to choose to expand the living area outward and make sacrifices than to implement birth control internally and stifle the reproductive instinct.

However, although Zhou Chun agreed to this matter, he also sternly warned Xu Fu that the Zhou family must never become enemies with some high-level monsters in order to protect those mortals.

Zhou Chun knew from his previous experience of hunting high-level monsters in the wilderness that most of these monsters were connected to fourth-order monsters. If the Zhou family cultivators became enemies in order to protect mortals, they would report the matter to the fourth-order monsters, which would then reach the ears of the Jiaolong clan.

Even if the Zhou family itself is not implicated, it will bring a devastating disaster to the family's stronghold in the wilderness.

Therefore Zhou Chun would not allow this to happen.

In addition to large-scale development in the wilderness, Zhou Chun is also planning internal industrial upgrades.

Now the Zhou family is not only full of talented people, but also has a large number of talented people. The four major mainstream immortal cultivation skills of alchemy, weapons, talismans and arrays have all made great progress and improvement.

In terms of alchemy, Zhou Xinlan, Zhou Simiao and others can already refine elixirs that can improve the magic power of cultivators in the Foundation Establishment Stage, and the number of successful pills is quite good. They can also refine many varieties of other elixirs such as those for healing and detoxification, and the effects are no worse than those bought outside.

In terms of weapon refining, Zhou Mingde's success rate in refining second-grade upper-grade magic weapons has now reached 80%, and it is expected that he will be able to refine third-grade lower-grade magic weapons in the near future. Several other Zhou family foundation-building cultivators who are learning weapon refining techniques are also able to refine second-grade lower-grade magic weapons and second-grade mid-grade magic weapons.

The best-selling magic weapons in the market are always first-level magic weapons. These people are fully qualified to open a weapon refining shop specializing in refining and selling magic weapons.

There is no need to say much about talisman making. Not to mention the talisman-making master Zhou Daoyi, even among the younger generation of cultivators, there is a talented younger generation like Zhou Zhixiong who has outstanding talent in talisman making. Now that he is only in the initial stage of foundation building, he is already able to make a second-order mid-grade talisman!

There were four or five other Zhou family cultivators who could make second-level magic talismans. In terms of formations, Zhang Liang and his wife were both experts. Zhang Liang could be said to be a master of formations. Both of them had the ability to refine formation plates and flags for sale, and they could sell some of the finished formations to earn profits.

The Zhou family's traditional strength, beast taming, is now much stronger than before.

Not to mention other things, just talking about the dragon-born monsters, after the "Wind Thunder Dragon Lizard", "Dragon Scale Water Deer" and "Wind and Lightning Dragon Colt", Lei Jiao Baibai relied on his own powerful bloodline power to transform into two dragon-born monsters, the "Thunder Dragon Crocodile" and the "Thunder Dragon Bird".

The original form of the "Thunder Dragon Crocodile" is a low-level monster, the Black Scale Crocodile. After the mutation, a group of silver-white lightning runes appeared on its head, which could release lightning spells. The number of scales on its body also increased dramatically, covering the entire body. There were also faint silver lines on the black scales.

This alienated black-scaled crocodile has extremely strong combat capabilities in water, and its amphibious abilities have been enhanced to the extreme.

The original form of the "Thunder Dragon Bird" is the Thunder Feather Bird. This low-level monster that Zhou Chun brought back from the mountain gate of the Dragon Transformation Sect's headquarters finally lived up to his expectations and successfully transformed into the dragon-born monster in his mind.

Compared to the ordinary thunder-feathered bird, the "Thunder Dragon Bird" is one or two times larger, like a giant eagle, and has dense silver-white dragon scales growing on the soft part of its abdomen to protect this weak part.

At the same time, the power of his lightning spells has also been greatly enhanced. He has mastered several lightning spells that he had never mastered before. The chance of evolving into a second-level monster in the future has greatly increased.

Once these two powerful dragon-born monsters reproduce in population in the future, they will surely become the first choice combat pets for many low-level cultivators in the Zhou family, and will be able to greatly enhance their combat effectiveness!

In addition, the second-grade top-grade golden-winged eagle that Zhou Chun had given to Zhou Zhengyong had also been successfully paired with the golden-winged iron-winged eagle, producing a hybrid monster "golden-winged iron-winged eagle" with greater potential and strength.

Zhou Chun judged that after this "Golden-winged Iron-feathered Eagle" grew into a second-grade superior monster in the future, as long as it had the opportunity to swallow a third-grade inferior monster pill with the same attributes, it would have a high probability of breaking through to the third level and being promoted to a high-level monster!

Nowadays, the Zhou family owns more than a dozen dragon-born monsters and dozens of practical and powerful monsters. As long as the cubs of some beautiful and practical monsters are born, they will be quickly exchanged by the family's cultivators or reserved by outside cultivators.

The various magical beasts produced by the "Spirit Beast Zhou Family" have become a golden signboard, and monks from other places often come to place orders!

Under such circumstances, Zhou Chun naturally came up with the idea of ​​"industrial upgrading" and planned to rely on the golden signboard of "Spirit Beast Zhou Family" to drive the sales of other types of family products.

First up is a bundle sale!
If cultivators want to order the famous monster beasts from the Zhou family, they must also purchase a certain amount of matching monster rations and elixirs, as well as saddles, vests, horseshoes and other animal tools and magical instruments refined and produced by the Zhou family!
As we all know, once a monster gets used to eating a certain kind of food, it will only like to eat this kind of food and will develop a dependence on it.

Then there is the lottery to get the spot!
If you want to buy the popular monsters from the Zhou family, you need to buy magic tools, talismans and other items in the store opened by the Zhou family. You need to spend a certain amount to get a chance to draw a lottery. Only after you get a purchase spot in the lottery can you buy the designated monsters from the Zhou family.

Finally, there is group sales!
The purchase quota for some special monster cubs is not open to the public. If you want to get a purchase quota, you can only get it by inviting people to buy other ordinary monsters from the Zhou family. Only cultivators who have attracted a certain number of people can finally buy the monster you want!

When Zhou Chun decided to implement these sales methods, some elders and core members of the family were worried that it would cause disgust and backfire.

But the reality proved that their worries were in vain.

When the purchase of Zhou family's rare species of monsters such as the Cloud-Walking Dragon Colt, the One-Horned Wind-Chasing Colt, the Horned-Winged Snake, and the One-Horned Dragon Lizard was released, many monks from sects and families came to inquire about the prices.

Even after learning about the Zhou family's method of selling these monsters, many people still seemed interested and wanted to get one.

This is human nature!
For some people, the rarer something is, the more they can show off their abilities after getting it.

They were not afraid that it would be difficult to meet the Zhou family's requirements to purchase the monster cubs, but they were afraid that the conditions set by the Zhou family would be too easy, allowing many people to buy them and not being able to show their own abilities.

Most of the Zhou family's senior executives have experienced hard times, so it is naturally difficult for them to understand these people's thoughts.

But Zhou Chun knew it clearly.

After Zhou Chun's integration, Zhou's shop has enjoyed a second spring, and sales have increased visibly.

But the real reason why Zhou Chun was engaged in "industrial upgrading" was that he wanted his family to consume more of the raw materials obtained from the wilderness.

He would rather sell some finished magic weapons and elixirs at a discount than sell the raw materials at a low price.

That day, after Zhou Chun finished his daily practice and walked out of the secret room, Zhou Zhiying suddenly reported to him that Zhou Zhigan, a core member of the Zhou family, had been waiting outside for several hours.

According to the rules set by Zhou Chun, unless he specifically allowed someone to do so, the family's foundation-building cultivators could only visit him or other Jindan-stage cultivators once every five years to ask for advice on cultivation.

Apart from this, unless there is something extremely important that needs to be reported to the clan leader Zhou Chun individually, ordinary Foundation Establishment cultivators are not allowed to come and disturb his practice.

"Zhou Zhiqian?"

Zhou Chun's mind flashed, and information about this junior suddenly emerged.

He didn't have much dealings with the younger generation with the surname "Zhi". He only knew that Zhou Zhigan also had top-grade spiritual roots, successfully established his foundation at the age of 38, and then practiced the Zhou family's fighting technique "Golden Evil Sword Sutra", and seemed to have embarked on the path of sword cultivation.

To be honest, Zhou Chun didn't quite understand Zhou Zhiqian's choice.

With his superior spiritual roots, Zhou Chun felt that it would be no problem for him to practice a top-level martial arts technique, but he chose the fighting technique.

Zhou Chun had read the "Golden Evil Sword Manual" in his spare time before. The speed of practicing it could be said to be very slow, and he couldn't even improve his cultivation through ordinary magic power-enhancing elixirs!
Zhou Zhigan chose to practice this technique. Even though he had a superior spiritual root aptitude, Zhou Chun did not think he had much chance of opening up the Purple Palace, let alone forming a pill.

If Zhou Chun had not always disliked interfering in the choices of his family's younger generations, and if the Zhou family no longer had the same desire for cultivators with superior spiritual roots, he would definitely not have allowed him to practice this technique!

And as far as Zhou Chun knew, Zhou Mingde had tried to persuade this junior at first, but the other party was determined and he had no choice but to agree.

After going over the information about Zhou Zhiqian, the younger generation, in his mind, Zhou Chun nodded and said, "Master, I understand. Go and bring him in!"

"Disciple, I obey."

Zhou Zhiying responded obediently, and soon brought a long-faced middle-aged man with a fierce aura into the cave.

"Zhou Zhiqian pays his respects to the clan leader. Thank you for receiving me."

After Zhou Zhigan, who had a thin and stern face, came in, he just glanced at Zhou Chun, then bowed meticulously and bowed deeply to express his gratitude.

Zhou Chun saw this, but he didn't want to greet him. He looked at him and asked directly: "Zhiqian, you came to see me today. What doubts do you have to ask me?"

Hearing his question, Zhou Zhiqian also answered very straightforwardly: "In reply to the clan leader, I came to see the clan leader today to ask for only one thing, that is, I want to ask the clan leader to give me the sword sharpening stone!"

"You have already mastered the second level of the "Han Guang Sword Technique"?"

Zhou Chun's face was slightly startled, and he looked at the junior in front of him with some surprise, somewhat shocked by what he said.

As for the sword-grinding stone that Zhou Chun had obtained from Shen Jianxing, the late Jindan sword cultivator, he did not put it into the family treasury, but placed it in the private treasury in his own cave.

However, he had noted the standard for observing the sword whetstone on the second level of the "Han Guang Sword Art" that he had obtained from the Great Zhou cultivator Yuchi Fei, which was to practice this sword art to the second level.

Now that Zhou Zhiqian came to see him and made this request, it was obvious that he had met the standards he set.

Sure enough, after hearing his words, Zhou Zhiqian immediately responded: "Yes, I have already mastered the second level of the "Han Guang Sword Art" half a month ago."

"In that case, you can show me your sword skills!"

Zhou Chun's expression moved, and he immediately became interested. He looked directly at the junior in front of him and stated his request.

"Yes, please forgive me for the offense!"

As Zhou Zhiqian spoke, he slapped the scabbard behind him, and a light golden flying sword immediately came out of the scabbard.

He just made a slight gesture of sword manipulation, and the light golden flying sword suddenly flashed with sword light, shooting towards Zhou Chundong like a golden thread, as fast as lightning!

However, when the sword flew to within a foot of Zhou Chun, Zhou Chun suddenly grabbed it with his hand and it could not move.

This scene immediately made Zhou Zhigan's face change, but when he thought that the person in front of him was a Jindan stage cultivator, he was relieved and his mind quickly returned to calm.

Seeing this, Zhou Chun immediately looked at him with admiration and nodded, praising him: "Not bad, not bad, is this the killer move 'Han Guang Yi Xian' recorded in the 'Han Guang Sword Art'? It really has some meaning of 'Turning the Sword into Silk'!"

"You are only at the initial stage of foundation building, but you can strike out with a sword that is comparable to that of a cultivator in the late stage of foundation building. It seems that you do have some talent in sword cultivation!"

After saying that, he loosened his fingers that were holding the flying sword, and then shook his head slightly and said: "Although you have mastered the second level of the "Han Guang Sword Art", if you want to observe the sword grinding stone, it is not the right time yet!"

Well, I will update normally today and find out the status!

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