Cultivating Immortals in the Family: Rising from Beast Familiarity

Chapter 169 Zhou Chun's Condition 【Subscription】

The rat plague in Cangzhou actually has a long history.

There are many mountains and mines here, which can be described as a paradise for golden rats.

Rat infestation occurs every few years.

There have even been instances in history where the third-order mouse king led 10,000+ gold-eating mice to capture mine veins.

That time, 10,000+ gold-eating rats dug out most of the spirit gold ore in a vein in just a few days.

And because the third-order rat king is extremely sensitive to danger, and is proficient in earth escape and gold escape techniques, even a few Jindan stage monks could not hurt even a single hair on it.

Later, it was the monks of the Nascent Soul Stage who personally took action and used their supernatural powers to kill the third-level rat king and many second-level rat monsters, and only then did the rat plague be quelled.

Compared to that big incident, the appearance of the second-order mutant Gold-eating Mouse King this time is nothing at all, and it will not alarm the Nascent Soul stage monks.

At this time, after listening to Hu Changyou's words, Zhou Chunlue pondered for a while, then looked at the other party and said, "It's not a big problem to invite Zhou to exterminate rats, but how do you plan to calculate the reward?"

Hu Changyou heard the words, and immediately replied: "The reward is easy to say, as long as Zhou Daoyou can kill the second-order mutant gold-eating rat king, he can get two thousand spirit coins as a reward, and the rest of the gold-eating rats will be killed according to the previous plan." Pay like a rat quest."

When Zhou Chun heard his answer, he shook his head and said, "No, the reward is too low. It's the second-order mutated gold-eating rat king. His corpse alone is worth hundreds of spirit coins!"

"Fellow Daoist Zhou misunderstood. This time, as long as Fellow Daoist Zhou can kill the mutated Gold-eating Rat King, its corpse will also belong to Fellow Daoist."

Hu Changyou hurriedly explained.

But Zhou Chun continued to shake his head and said: "That's not okay, Zhou is not interested in doing such a thing where the risks and rewards are not equal."

After speaking, President Hu might persuade him again, so he continued: "Besides, Fellow Daoist Hu must also know Zhou's true identity. A mere two thousand spirit coins is not a huge sum of money to Zhou."

After hearing what he said, Hu Changyou was also silent.

In the past few days, he has inquired in Fangshi, and has a basic understanding of the Zhou family's situation.

Naturally, he knew that Zhou Chun was now the deputy head of the Zhou family, and he was the kind of person in power worthy of his name.

Listening to Zhou Chun's words now, it is obvious that he is dissatisfied with the remuneration offered by Cangzhou and wants a higher remuneration.

At that moment, he could only nod his head and said: "Okay, then Hu Mou will go back and convey the meaning of Zhou Daoyou first. I wonder if Zhou Daoyou has anything else that Hu Mou wants to convey?"

Zhou Chun heard the words, after thinking for a while, he said in a low voice: "You can say, Hu Daoyou, that Zhou doesn't really lack spirit coins, but instead lacks some spirit objects that can help spirit pets advance to the second level. If you can provide earth spirit stone milk, Zhou can go there immediately for spiritual objects such as rank five earth spirit mushrooms, earth dragon fruits, or related news."

"Okay, Hu Mou remembers what Zhou Daoyou said, so Hu Mou will leave first."

After Hu Changyou finished speaking, he took a deep look at Zhou Chun, turned around and left.

"Hu Dao is friendly, let's go."

Zhou Chun replied, and soon returned to the family gate.

He is not in a hurry. If the plague of rats can be eliminated so easily, it will not be a plague of rats.

Once the rats multiplied, the number would be quite astonishing.

The condition that restricts the reproduction of this kind of organism is often food.

Once a monster like the golden rat is allowed to reproduce, there is no problem with having two babies a year.

Therefore, if the rat problem cannot be eliminated in time, as the rat population grows larger, in order to survive, they will inevitably steal the spirit gold ore in the mine veins and devour them.

At that time, the loss will be many times greater than what Zhou Chun is asking for now.

Sure enough, Zhou Chun and Hu Changyou separated for less than a month, and Hu Changyou came to Lanzhou again, and he came straight to Jiufengling.

"Your Daoist Zhou agreed to his request. As long as you can eliminate the rat plague, they can give you a bowl of earth spirit stone milk."

On the Pagoda Peak, after the two met again, Hu Changyou directly explained the purpose of coming.

"Is it just a bowl of earth spirit stone milk?"

Zhou Chun frowned, as if a little dissatisfied with the reward.

Seeing this, Hu Changyou couldn't help explaining: "One bowl is already quite a lot. Generally, the milkstone that produces earth spirit stone milk can produce about one basin in a hundred years, and it is less than ten bowls!"

"Moreover, this item has a wide range of uses. It is generally taken and used at any time, and it is difficult to find easily."

Zhou Chun frowned when he heard this.

Then he looked at him and said, "Then fellow Daoist Hu, tell me first, who is the employer this time?"

Hu Changyou heard the words, and immediately replied: "This time the rat trouble is mainly caused by the mine lode occupied by the Zhao family in Cangzhou. It’s a lot of money, so we can’t just sit back and watch those gold-eating rats ruin the vein.”

"The Zhao family in Cangzhou, I remember there are Golden Core stage monks, can't even the Golden Core stage monks of their family be able to catch the mutated Golden Rat King?"

Zhou Chun's face was surprised, and he couldn't help showing surprise.

Although it is said that there are specialties in the art industry, Jindan stage monks are not good at everything.

However, with the abilities of a Jindanqi monk, whether it is finding a rat's nest or cracking the ground, it should not be too simple at all.

"This is the most troublesome place. The nest of the group of gold-eating rats happened to be built at the node of the vein near the Yaojin iron vein."

"If the Jindan stage monks destroy the rat's nest with the supernatural power of splitting the ground and opening mountains, it will definitely destroy the earth veins, and the impact on the mine veins will definitely not be worse than the losses caused by the raging gold-eating rats."

"And if it is impossible to crack the ground and open mountains, the rat's nest hidden in the ground two or three hundred feet deep, even a Zifu period monk who has practiced the technique of earth escape, will not be easy to escape to that depth."

Hu Changyou told the truth helplessly.

As far as the forces with Jindan stage monks were concerned, if they hadn't just encountered such a thing that high-ranking monks couldn't get their hands on, how could they be willing to let go of their arrogance and ask others for help.

After Zhou Chun heard him tell the reason, he also nodded clearly and said: "So that's the case, Zhou understands."

Then he cupped his hands at Chief Hu and said, "Then please wait for Daoist Hu first, Zhou will go and explain the situation to the elder of the family, and hand over the family affairs to the head of the clan."

"It should be, Fellow Daoist Zhou will go on his own."

Hu Changyou responded, and waited in the hall for guests.

After Zhou Chun went to see the Supreme Elder Zhou Mingde, Zhou Mingde, who had a clear understanding of the situation, did not object to his trip.

He just looked at him and said, "Since the Zhao family in Cangzhou is a Jindan family, I think nothing will happen to you on this trip, but just in case, you'd better take the Vulcan jackal for self-defense!"

"Yes, junior, thank the Supreme Elder for his kindness."

Zhou Chun thanked him and settled the matter.

Then they rushed to Cangzhou with Hu Changyou.

Because Hu Changyou had to be taken care of on the way, Zhou Chun could only slow down, fly and stop with him, and rest and meditate at several monk gathering places along the way to recover his mana.

The two flew for five or six days before arriving in Cangzhou.

Immediately afterwards, under the leadership of Hu Changyou, Zhou Chun followed him and flew in Cangzhou for more than a day before arriving at the location of the Zhao family's Yaojin iron ore vein.

Then the two soon met the Zhao family's Zifu monk who was in charge of dealing with the rat infestation inside.

"Senior Zhao, this junior has already invited Fellow Daoist Zhou Zhengchun here."

In a stone house, after Hu Changyou entered the room, he immediately saluted an old man in Tsing Yi sitting at the head, and introduced Zhou Chun's identity to him.

Then he stretched out his hand and introduced Zhou Chun: "Friend Zhou, this is Senior Zhao Deyan from the Zhao family!"

Seeing this, Zhou Chun immediately bowed his hands to the old man in Tsing Yi and said, "Junior Zhou Zhengchun, pay my respects to Senior Zhao."

"You are welcome, Fellow Daoist Zhou. The two fellow Daoists have worked hard all the way, so please sit down and have a cup of tea first."

The old man in Tsing Yi waved his hand, motioning for the two to sit down.

"Thank you senior."

Hu Changyou and Zhou Chun thanked again, and then sat down next to each other.

After the two politely took a sip of tea, the old man in Tsing Yi looked at Zhou Chun and said, "You Daoist Hu should have explained the situation to You Daoist Zhou. How confident is Daoist Zhou in eradicating this rat plague?"

Zhou Chun heard the words, and immediately replied: "If the Mutated Gold-eating Mouse King's cultivation is really only a second-rank inferior, Zhou should be [-] to [-]% sure, and if the cultivation is higher, then only [-] to [-]% sure."

With the same cultivation base, no matter how strong the Mutated Gold-eating Mouse King is, he can't stop him from doing a few moves in vain, and it's hard to escape.

But if the cultivation level is higher, its earth escape technique can give it a great escape ability, and it may not be able to keep it in time for nothing.

So Zhou Chun dare not speak too much.

But his answer already surprised Zhao Deyan.

He quickly said: "The Mutated Gold Eater Mouse King is a low-rank monster of the second rank, this old man can guarantee it."

After speaking, he also personally promised: "If Fellow Daoist Zhou can really kill this beast, I promise you that a bowl of earth spirit stone milk will definitely not miss a drop of Fellow Daoist!"

"Junior, do your best!"

Zhou Chun nodded, but still didn't dare to say anything.

After a short rest, Zhou Chun followed a Zhao family's Foundation Establishment cultivator to the location of the Golden Rat's lair.

Before he came, the Zhao family had already found the rat path leading to the nest, but they couldn't destroy the rat nest through the narrow rat path
"That's it. We have tried many monks who have tamed monsters before, and one of them is a fellow Taoist who has tamed a second-level low-grade demon fox."

"But even that blue-eyed Firefox was injured by the mutated Gold-eating Mouse King after it went down, and almost couldn't come back."

In front of a mouse hole with a diameter of nearly two feet, the monk of the Zhao family who led the way pointed to the mouse hole and explained the situation to Zhou Chun.

Zhou Chun, who heard his words, was not surprised at all.

Although the golden mouse is weak, if such a weak monster can be promoted to the second level, it will usually master some amazing spells.

What's more, it was a mutated gold-eating mouse.

As a mutated monster, even if it is the original natural enemy monster, most likely it will not be its opponent.

If the silver lightning thunder python was not a powerful dragon-born monster in vain, and he still had the trump card of "Ancestor Resurrection", Zhou Chun didn't dare to say that it would definitely be able to win against the mutated gold-eating rat.

Especially when the battlefield is still underground.

"Thank you, Fellow Daoist Zhao, for telling me that Zhou will make the pet be careful."

He responded with a sentence in his mouth, and immediately stretched out his hand to pat the storage bag on his waist, and released the silver lightning thunder python in vain.

The monks of the Zhao family were not surprised to see him release a second-order monster snake.

After all, the monks who can be specially invited by the elders of the Purple Mansion must have some skills.

But when he saw the silver lightning thunder python go in and Zhou Chun was about to get into the rat hole, he was surprised.

Hastily shouted: "Friend Zhou, what are you doing?"

"What does Fellow Daoist Zhao mean by that? Of course Zhou wants to go down and kill the Mutated Gold-Eating Rat King!"

Zhou Chun glanced at the other party in surprise, and answered the other party's question as a matter of course.

Hearing his words, the monk of the Zhao family frowned immediately, and said a little angrily, "Do you know the danger of going on like this, fellow Daoist Zhou? There's not even room for you to stand up inside. Once you are attacked by a swarm of rats , you can't fight back at all, and you may even be cut off by the rats, and you will die inside!"

If it was feasible to enter the rat hole and kill the mutated gold-eating rat king, the Zhao family would have sent someone to do it long ago.

But the problem is, if the people who go down have too high a cultivation level, the Mutated Gold Eater Mouse King will run away immediately.

Those who go down have low cultivation bases, and once the escape route is cut off, they will almost die.

Zhou Chun asked the spirit pet to go down and have a try, of course it was no problem.

Anyway, even if something big happened, that is, if a spirit pet died, at most the Zhao family would compensate him with some spirit coins.

But if I go down in person, once I die, as a person invited by the Zhao family, if the Zhao family doesn't pay a large sum of compensation, it will be unreasonable.

As soon as Zhou Chun heard what he said, he also understood what he meant.

Immediately looked at him and said: "If Fellow Daoist Zhao is worried, you can report the situation to senior Zhao Deyan. Zhou is willing to sign a life and death certificate. Once you go down, life or death has nothing to do with the Zhao family!"

Hearing the words, the monk of the Zhao family was also surprised by his courage.

After taking a deep look at him, he nodded his head and said: "Okay, since Fellow Daoist Zhou said so, then Fellow Daoist, please wait for a while, and Zhao will go to ask the elders for instructions!"

Then report it.

After a while, Zhao Deyan rushed to the scene in person.

After Zhao Deyan arrived at the scene, he first glanced at Bai Bai with his spiritual consciousness, and a look of surprise flashed in his eyes, as if he recognized Bai Bai's roots.

Then he stared deeply at Zhou Chun again and said: "Since Daoist Zhou is from the Beast Master family, he probably knows better than Zhao the danger of facing the underground rat swarm alone!"

"In that case, then Zhao will prepare a banquet at the residence and wait for the good news from Fellow Daoist Zhou!"

But there was no mention of Zhou Chun signing the life and death certificate at all.

It's not that he believes that Zhou Chun will not be in danger.

Rather, he is confident that even if Zhou Chun can't come back, his words can give the Zhou family an explanation, and he is not afraid that the Zhou family will blackmail the Zhao family.

This is the confidence of the Zhao family as a Jindan family!

"This junior will definitely live up to what Senior Zhao expected."

Zhou Chun clasped his fists together and saluted, Dang Li, under the watchful eye of Zhao Deyan, burrowed into the mouse hole together with the silver lightning thunder python in vain.

　Second update today!

　　
　
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