Cultivating Immortals in the Family: Rising from Beast Familiarity

Chapter 27

Thanks to Zhou Jiapeng's report, Zhou Chun has half a year to prepare in advance.

First, he specifically found Zhou Jiahe, the peak master of Baozhi Peak, to inquire about the rules of martial arts competitions.

It was soon learned from his mouth that generally such martial arts competitions for the purpose of testing junior monks are either not allowed to use magic talismans, or there are restrictions on the number and grade of magic talismans used.

As for spiritual pets, there will definitely be no restrictions, otherwise, even magic weapons will be restricted from being used.

Therefore, in order to get a good ranking in this kind of martial arts competition, in addition to one's own cultivation level, one must also work hard on magic weapons, spiritual pets, and spell cultivation.

Zhou Chun's current magic weapon configuration is actually quite good, and it can be regarded as an upper class among the monks in the Zhou family's mid-stage Qi refining, but it can't be said that it has much advantage.

As for the practice of spells, the registration for the youth group is limited to monks under the age of 30. Everyone is about the same age, and there is probably not much difference between them.

If you really meet someone who is talented in spell cultivation, you can only blame yourself for being unlucky.

Needless to say about spiritual pets, if it wasn't for a family like the Zhou family that inherited the art of controlling beasts, it would be impossible for most monks in the Qi refining period to be able to afford spiritual pets and raise them well.

So after thinking about it, Zhou Chunsi decided that in addition to ensuring that he was promoted to the eighth level of the Qi Refining Stage before participating in the martial arts competition, he also had to try to get himself a first-level high-grade magic weapon.

In this case, as long as the top ten of the youth group are not all monks above the tenth floor of the Qi refining stage, he should have a great chance to enter.

However, Zhou Chun had only two ways to obtain a first-order high-grade magic weapon. One was to buy it in Hongyafang City, and the other was to exchange it from the family.

Although the Zhou family does not distribute spiritual coins to the clan members as welfare offerings now, the family good deeds issued instead every year can still be exchanged for things from the family treasury.

But the first-order high-grade magic weapon is extremely precious, and the market price is at least three hundred spirit coins.

The Zhou family has only implemented the good deeds system for more than two years now. As an ordinary clan member, Zhou Chun can only receive twenty points of good deeds every year.

In this way, even counting the good deeds he got during his previous trip to Hongtao Ridge, it was far from enough to exchange for a first-order high-grade magic weapon.

Fortunately, even if the good deeds are not enough to exchange, he can still use the spirit coins to make up for the lack.

So Zhou Chun checked his net worth, and found that thanks to the compensation he received from the previous trip to the Mu family, he still had nearly [-] spirit coins on him.

In this case, he only needs to collect about a hundred more spirit coins, and he can exchange them for a first-tier high-grade magic weapon from the family treasury.

As for how to get together a hundred spirit coins, Zhou Chun's first thought was to borrow money.

This is what ordinary people think when they don't have enough money to buy something necessary.

But after Zhou Chun thought about all the people who could borrow money, he hesitated again.

There are actually not many monks who have such a good relationship with Zhou's family that they can borrow money.

And those few monks who can lend him money seem to be able to sign up for this martial arts competition.

Now if Zhou Chun asks them to borrow money, unless they don't plan to participate in the event themselves, it seems that whether they borrow money or not, it will affect the relationship between the two parties.

"Let's find out first and tell them the news first. If they are going to participate, then don't ask to borrow money."

Thinking of this, Zhou Chun immediately started visiting the houses one by one.

The result was exactly as he had expected. After learning that the five immortal cultivating families were going to jointly hold a martial arts competition, Zhou Zhengyong and several others expressed their willingness to sign up to win honor for the family.

There are two people who are not ready to sign up because they are too old or know that their cultivation is low.

But when Zhou Chun talked about borrowing money, the two of them got together and only got him less than thirty spirit coins.

It turned out that it was the spirit coins on their own, which were also used to buy medicine pills and other things before and were consumed.

Seeing this, Zhou Chun felt ashamed to take out the remaining emergency spiritual coins on them, so he gave up the idea of ​​borrowing money.

Since the family could no longer borrow spirit coins, Zhou Chun had no choice but to transfer his idea to Fangshi.

He has a few magical artifacts that can be sold in the market and exchanged for spirit coins. If he takes a little more risk to purify a hundred-year-old elixir with purified spirit water and sell them, the gap of more than 100 spirit coins can be fully filled .

After making up his mind in this way, Zhou Chun began to practice with peace of mind, and planned to go to Fangshi to implement the plan after his cultivation reached the eighth level of the Qi refining period.

In this way, almost a month later, the five major families jointly held a martial arts competition, and finally all Zhou family members were officially notified, and the relevant rules were announced.

According to the rules, all the monks participating in the martial arts competition can only bring five magic talismans into the venue each time they fight, and they are only allowed to bring one first-level top-grade magic talisman.

And each family and each group can only send ten people to participate in this martial arts competition.

In other words, even if all the qualified monks of the Zhou family signed up, they could only send a total of [-] family members from the elite group and the youth group to participate.

Because of this restriction, the Zhou family had to hold a selection contest first.

The time for the trials has also been set, which is one month before the official start of the event.

With the announcement of this news, those monks in the Zhou family who are qualified to participate in the event are gearing up to prepare for the battle.

Any thoughtful Zhou family monk would know that this joint activity of the five major families will be an important performance for the Zhou family after they established themselves in the world of cultivating immortals in Lanzhou, Yasukuni.

If they can represent the Zhou family and get a good ranking in the event, they will not only be able to get the prizes prepared by the five major families for the event, but also gain the favor of the patriarchs and elders, and there will be countless benefits in the future.

Under such circumstances, Zhou Chun soon learned a piece of bad news for him.

That is, most of the remaining first-tier high-grade magical artifacts in the family's treasure house have been replaced, and the remaining few are the kind of goods that no one wants.

"It seems that there is no hope for the family, and now we can only find a way from Fangshi."

A gloomy look flashed in his eyes, Zhou Chun couldn't help shaking his head, and gave up his plan to exchange the magic weapon from the family.

Time passed slowly, and when Zhou Chun took the eighth [Chunyang Pill], his cultivation finally broke through to the eighth level of Qi Refining Stage as scheduled.

At this time, his 24th birthday had just passed less than two months.

A 24-year-old eighth-level monk in the Qi refining period, this cultivation speed is considered to be relatively fast among the many members of the Zhou family.

Zhou Zhengyong, who is a few years older than Zhou Chun, has just broken through to the eighth level of the Qi Refining Stage, and he also broke through with the help of pills.

However, Zhou Zhengyong's spiritual pet, the red-tailed monkey, has been successfully promoted to a first-rank high-grade monster after taking [Blood Spirit Pill], and his strength has greatly increased.

And after Zhou Chun's rock and earth turtle took all three bottles of [Beast Spirit Pill], his cultivation level is now only comparable to that of his master.

If he only relied on the eighth-level cultivation of the Qi refining period and a first-level middle-grade monster rock soil turtle, Zhou Chun's chances of winning against the late Qi refining monks from other families who participated in the martial arts competition were really not high.

After all, late Qi refining monks from other families participating in martial arts competitions will definitely have a first-order high-grade magic weapon in their hands.

In view of this, after breaking through to the eighth level of the Qi Refining Stage, Zhou Chun went to the Pagoda Peak to meet the patriarch Zhou Daoyi, and explained his plan to go to Hongyafang City.

"Fish and snakes are mixed outside Hongyafang City, and bandits are rampant. Zhengchun, if you want to go to Fangshi, you'd better find someone to go with you. Be careful when you come out, don't let people follow you in ambush."

In the "Zhongping Hall", Zhou Daoyi looked at Zhou Chun in front of him and pondered for a while, but he still didn't reject his application to go out, but warned him to be careful when going out.

After Zhou Chun listened to his words, he also solemnly responded: "The younger generation must keep the patriarch's teachings in mind."

Then he left Jiufengling and rushed straight to Hongyafang City.

Zhou Chun naturally would not ignore Zhou Daoyi's warning, but what he was going to do this time was really not suitable for Zhou family monks to follow.

After he left Jiufengling for about a hundred miles, he changed his clothes, sacrificed his flying magic weapon and started on his way.

In this way, every time he flies one or two hundred miles, Zhou Chun will stop and meditate for an hour to recover his mana.

After spending more than half a day in this way, Zhou Chun arrived outside the Red Rock Mountain Range.

Standing on the outskirts of the mountains, looking in the direction of Hongyafang City, he couldn't help but think of the first time he came here more than three years ago.

When he went to Fangshi at that time, he was frightened every step of the way, frightened to the extreme.

But this time, that situation will definitely not happen again!
I saw that Zhou Chun first found a place to meditate to restore his mana. After his mana was fully recovered, he poured a large mouthful of purified spiritual water, and then sent the flying magic weapon to fly up to an altitude of more than 300 feet, and then propped up the shield and directly He flew towards the location of Hongyafang City.

This move undoubtedly exposed him to the sight of many immortal cultivators in the mountains below.

But looking at the flying height, the bandit cultivators gave up the idea of ​​taking action one after another.

At such a high flying altitude, they can't lock the target at all, and they will expose themselves.

Moreover, people with flying magic weapons will make them more or less afraid of their origins, and they will not easily act recklessly.

In this way, until Zhou Chun flew out of Hongyafang City in one breath and landed, he never encountered any attack.

(End of this chapter)