Cultivating Immortals in the Family: Rising from Beast Familiarity

Chapter 436 Reappearance of the barrier, a new stage of war 【Subscription】

Time flies, and another six years have passed in a blink of an eye.

Six years have passed, and the intensity of the war between the two worlds of cultivating immortals has obviously heated up, and monks at the golden core stage have begun to participate in the battle and fall.

At the same time, the second batch of recruiting targets was distributed to each cultivating family a year ago.

This time, the Zhou family had more indicators than last time. The Zhou family needed to send a Zifu period monk and three Foundation Establishment monks to serve in the Tianling Legion.

However, Zhou Daoquan and Zhou Jiapeng, who had served for 15 years, successfully retired and returned to the family.

As for Zhou Zhengyong, the foundation-building monk of the Zhou family who replaced Zhou Jiahe, he still needs to continue serving for 15 years before he can retire.

Speaking of which, it was Zhou Chun's decision to choose Zhou Zhengyong to replace Zhou Jiahe.

At that time, many Zhou Family Foundation Establishment cultivators were greedy for the unredeemed rewards and military exploits left by Zhou Jiahe, and wanted to take a risk.

And Zhou Zhengyong's cultivation base is the highest among them, and he is also the one with the strongest will.

Zhou Chun knew that Zhou Zhengyong was not greedy for the rewards and military exploits, but wanted to make a bright future for his son Zhou Xinlan.

He himself admitted this frankly, and begged him to help facilitate it.

Although Zhou Chun himself didn't want this good brother of the same clan to take such a risk, but in the end he couldn't stand the other party's begging, so he could only agree to the matter.

As a person with advantages in terms of seniority and cultivation, once Zhou Zhengyong participates in this competition, other monks of the Zhou family's juniors will naturally not be able to compete with him.

At that time, those monks of the Zhou family who lost the competition naturally did not expect that the second batch of recruiting indicators would come down after only a few years.

This time, even if they didn't want to go to the battlefield, they couldn't do it at all.

So after some discussions and disputes, Zhou Daoyi led Xu Fu, Zhou Xinyan, and Zhou Xintie, three Zhou Family Foundation Establishment monks, to Fengguo.

To be honest, this final decision was made after a long time of disputes among the senior members of the Zhou family.

At that time, Zhou Mingde and Zhou Daoyi first ruled out the option of Zhou Chun together, and then both of them were competing to go to the battlefield, and each had their own reasons.

Zhou Mingde is using Lin Hongyu and Qingjiao Qingqing as an excuse, saying that Zhou Daoyi's stay in the family is more important than himself.

Zhou Daoyi used Zhou Mingde's status as an excuse, thinking that Zhou Mingde, as the number one person in rebuilding the Zhou family, should not have any accidents, otherwise it would be a huge blow to the Zhou family.

And he thinks that with the third-order dragon body protection, it is easier for him to survive on the battlefield than Zhou Mingde.

In this way, after several disputes between the two, no one could convince the other. In the end, Zhou Chun felt that Zhou Daoyi's statement was more reasonable, and supported Zhou Daoyi to go.

What is worth mentioning is that after 16 years, although the Zhou family lost Zhou Jiahe, an elder who practiced in the late stage of Foundation Establishment, they also added two Foundation Establishment monks.

The two newly added Foundation Establishment cultivators are Zhou Sijun and Zhou Sihan.

Among them, Zhou Sijun succeeded in building the foundation by exchanging "Building Foundation Pill", while Zhou Sihan succeeded in building the foundation by relying on "Building Yuanguo".

Perhaps because they felt the pressure of the war, when the two Zhou family monks chose exercises, one chose top-level exercises and the other chose fighting exercises.

It was Zhou Sijun who chose to practice the top-level kung fu. He chose to practice a top-level kung fu called "Black Water Xuan Gong".

It is relatively simple to get started with this kind of top-level cultivation method, you only need to find some rare water-type spiritual objects and prepare a special spiritual liquid to assist in the practice.

But this top-level skill is easy to get started, but difficult to master.

In the future, monks who practice this technique will need to condense a special kind of real water called "Xuanyin Black Water". Only by condensing the amount of this special real water to a certain amount can they break through the small realm of cultivation.

And condensing "Xuanyin Black Water" is not only very time-consuming, but also works best in places with strong water attribute aura.

Therefore, the cultivation speed of monks practicing "Black Water Xuan Gong" is actually not as fast as that of monks who really practice other top-level exercises. This kind of exercise is relatively mediocre.

On the other hand, Zhou Sihan, a monk of the Zhou family, is the first one among so many foundation-building monks of the Zhou family who chooses to practice fighting skills.

He has the aptitude of ice-type alien spirit root, and the exercise he chooses to practice is called "Xuanbing Jue". When practicing, he needs to use the thousand-year-old Xuanbing as an auxiliary spirit.

It just so happens that there are a lot of these things in that ice cave in the wilderness.

And once this "Mysterious Ice Jue" is successfully cultivated, it will be able to obtain two powerful magical powers, and a body of mysterious ice mana will also have a great bonus when casting ice magic.

In fact, the changes in Zhou Sijun and Zhou Sihan's choice of exercises are the feedback of the changes in the power of the Zhou family.

When the Zhou family was weak in the past, most of the newly promoted foundation-building monks chose to practice the kind of kung fu that quickly improves mana cultivation, which can improve the cultivation level faster and requires less resources.

Up to now, the Zhou family has a huge power and a deep foundation. With enough Zifu monks and foundation-building monks standing in front of them to shelter from the wind and rain, and the ability to collect various rare spiritual objects, the new foundation-building monks will naturally be happy. With more options.

This is also another sense that the predecessors planted trees and the descendants enjoyed the shade.

On this day, in the cave on Tuyun Ridge, after Zhou Chun woke up from meditation practice, feeling the magic power in his body, which was difficult to penetrate, he couldn't help muttering to himself: "I finally touched the realm barrier in the later period of Zifu. The Supreme Elder has been stuck in front of this step for more than 20 years, and there is no hope of breakthrough so far, how long will I be stuck with it?"

However, after 16 years of practice, with an average of one elixir per year, he has pushed his cultivation base to the peak in the middle stage of Zifu as originally expected, and got stuck in front of the small realm barrier in the later period of Zifu.

Having had the experience of being stuck in front of the barrier of the small realm in the middle stage of the Zifu last time, Zhou Chun certainly knows that it is not easy to break through this barrier.

The last time he spent nearly ten years polishing his mana, he finally broke through the barrier with water grinding.

If you still choose to use this method this time, I'm afraid it will take longer.

The key is that it may not be effective!

For example, Zhou Mingde, the Supreme Elder of the Zhou family, has been stuck in front of the barrier in the late stage of the Zifu for more than 20 years, and he has not seen the hope of breaking through until now.

In fact, the later in cultivation, the more obvious this kind of thing becomes.

For example, it is not uncommon for the ancestors of the Su family and their Golden Core stage monks to be stuck by this small realm barrier for 200 years.

Even some golden core stage monks have difficulty breaking through this small realm barrier in their entire lives!

"It's a pity that I touched this barrier a year late, otherwise I should have been allowed to go to Fengguo instead of my uncle, and then use my military exploits in exchange for the elixir that can help break through the barrier!"

Thinking about it this way, Zhou Chun knew in his heart that even if he really touched the late-stage barrier of the Purple Mansion a year earlier, Zhou Mingde and the others would not go directly to the battlefield by themselves.

But now that his cultivation base is difficult to advance when encountering the barrier of the realm, he no longer needs to practice hard every day like before. He only needs to take a little time every day to polish his mana.

In this way, he can have more time to practice secret techniques and deal with family affairs.

Now that the intensity of the war between the two major cultivating worlds has increased, in order to supplement various consumptions, the Tianling Alliance has also issued various production task indicators internally.

For example, the Zhou family was ordered to provide the alliance with ten well-trained monster mounts every year, as well as related animal skin talisman paper, animal blood talisman ink and other spiritual objects.

The purchase price given by the Tianling Alliance for these things is not high, and it can barely be said that it will not lose money, and it is impossible to make money.

And because a large number of casual cultivators went to the Fengguo battlefield, many businesses of the Zhou family and other families were affected, and their income generally declined severely.

Even the income of the "Zhoutong Tianxia" firm has been greatly affected.

The impact of war on the economy is universal.

Even Zhou Chun has no good way to deal with this kind of thing.

The situation of the Zhou family is doomed to make it difficult to make war fortune.

At this time, those who can make war fortune are those who refine magic tools, medicine pills, and magic symbols, because the frontline battlefield consumes a lot of these things.

Especially magic weapon.

In the past, there was a surplus of magical artifacts in Yasukuni and even neighboring countries, but in order not to disturb the market, no one resorted to selling magical artifacts to make money.

But with the advent of the war, especially the magic monks are generally good at the means of filth and corrosion of the magic weapons of the immortal cultivators, which caused the damage of many magic weapons of the immortal cultivators to be very serious.

In the past, a suitable magic weapon could be used for decades, or even passed on for several generations.

But now it might not last for three years!

This made the magic weapon business extremely booming, and those families that passed on the craftsmanship of refining weapons, such as the Zhu family that the Zhou family cooperated with in the Yanyangzong area, made a lot of money.

Even some magic weapon materials have increased in price a lot.

The rest of the pills and talismans are also bestsellers, and many forces are hoarding them to buy them.

The Zhou family is undoubtedly far behind in these aspects.

Now Zhou Xintie, who is the best craftsman in the Zhou family's crafting, can only forge a second-order medium-grade magic weapon, and the success rate is not very high.

In terms of alchemy, Zhou Zhengyuan and Zhou Xinlan were pretty good. The inheritance of alchemy they got from the Jiang family back then greatly improved the Zhou family's background in this area.

Coupled with the large amount of elixir that the Zhou family collected from the wilderness to train the alchemists in the family, the inheritance of alchemists in the Zhou family is now very sound, and now they can often release some elixirs to the market to generate income for the family.

It's just that in terms of competitiveness, it is still far inferior to the Li family of Danyao, which really relies on this skill to make a living.

The same is true for making talismans. Although there are several foundation-building monks who have dabbled in the production of second-order talismans, there is no such talent.

Moreover, during this period of war, every family does not have too many magic talismans, and it is impossible for Zhou Chun to sell a large amount of the family's strategic reserve magic talismans in order to earn spirit stones.

To make matters worse, due to the impact of the war, the sales of monster beast eggs and monster beast cubs that Zhou's family sold well in the past are completely bleak now.

During this period of war, the cultivators give priority to improving their cultivation and fighting the enemy.

Spiritual pets that need to invest resources and time to cultivate are definitely not considered by most monks during this period.

Today, after Zhou Chun checked the family's financial accounts, he shook his head again and again, and couldn't help sighing: "This is not going to work. Now the family's various expenses are not small. Once the income fails to keep up with the expenses, the old family will not be able to stand up." It will be eaten up in a few years!"

Hearing his words, Zhou Jiarui, who had been handling family affairs for him, finally found a chance to vomit his bitterness, and immediately sighed and complained: "Isn't that so? Nowadays, due to the impact of the war, several main sources of income for the family have shrunk. Many, especially the rent of the training room and the sale of monster cubs, have shrunk by half!"

Speaking of this, he also made a tentative suggestion: "In my opinion, if the situation of shrinking income cannot be improved as soon as possible, we can only reduce the treatment of the clansmen first. In this special period, the clansmen will understand it if they come. That's it!"

Zhou Chun couldn't help but frowned when he heard the words, and didn't respond immediately.

In fact, Zhou Chun also knows that many families are indeed like what Zhou Jiarui said, tightening their belts and reducing the welfare benefits for the clansmen, and calling on the clansmen to overcome the difficulties together.

But he didn't want the Zhou family to do the same.

Because once this is done, it means that the Zhou family has fallen into a financial crisis, and it will be a big blow to the morale of the people.

"This matter still needs to be carefully considered. It is not a last resort, and this method is not feasible."

In the end, Zhou Chun decided to discuss the matter after the adjournment, and was not in a hurry to make a decision so quickly.

In this way, after separating from Zhou Jiarui, Zhou Chun, who returned to the cave, looked at the vigorous purple mulberry tree in the valley, and thought about ways to alleviate the financial crisis of the Zhou family.

After thinking about it for a while, he suddenly recalled a matter that had been put on hold for a long time.

"Looks like I have to go to the Scaled Frog Tribe again!"

He muttered to himself, and quickly explained his whereabouts to Zhou Mingde who was practicing in Tuyun Ridge, and went to the wilderness alone.

Not long after, Zhou Chun brought the Ukuru high priest of the scaled frog race and some scaled frog warlocks and warriors to appear above a lake in the wilderness.

This lake is the place where he killed the blue-scaled dragon fish and discovered the vein of water essence jade.

"This is the place, Fellow Daoist Ukuru, go down with Zhou to check the situation first, and then let these juniors try to see if they can go down."

Above the water area, Zhou Chun casually pointed to the lake below, and said his arrangement.

Hearing his words, Ukuru High Priest immediately nodded and said: "No problem, you can make arrangements, Fellow Daoist Zhou."

So Zhou Chun patted the spirit animal bag on his waist, summoned the Thunder Python that had been transformed into a third-order Thunder Python using the "Hundred Illusory Orb" in vain, and rode it into the water.

It may be the nature of the race. After seeing the third-level thunder python, the high priest of Ukuru immediately showed fear and fear.

But he also knew that this was Zhou Chun's spiritual pet, so he quickly adjusted his mentality and followed into the water.

One person and one frog dived straight into the water, and soon arrived at the lair of the blue-scaled dragon fish.

Years later, this place was once again occupied by monsters in the lake as its own lair, but it was only a second-order high-grade mud dragon monster.

After this demon suddenly sensed the white breath of Lei Python, it was also frightened to death, and hastily used its natural supernatural powers to sneak into the mud and rocks at the bottom of the lake and escape from the lair.

Zhou Chun didn't bother to care about these little monsters, so he directly led Ukuru High Priest into the lair.

Then pointing to the exposed water essence jade ore, he said: "This is here, fellow Daoist Ukuru, what do you think? Can your ordinary people come here to mine the water essence jade ore here?"

"Ordinary tribesmen may find it difficult, but some strong tribal warriors may be able to stay here for a while, and first-level warlocks should be able to reach this place without any hindrance!"

After the high priest of Ukuru felt it carefully, he whispered his own opinion.

This is actually not much different from Zhou Chun's conjecture.

So he looked at him quickly and said, "In this case, let the people you brought over, Fellow Daoist Ukuru, come and have a try."

Naturally, Ukuru would not object to this, and soon he returned to the surface of the water and brought the tribesmen he had brought to the Demon Nest.

After testing, the situation is roughly the same as that of Ukuru.

A strong warrior of the Scaled Frog tribe can probably last for an hour underwater, while a first-order warlock can stay for more than three hours.

Seeing this situation, Zhou Chun quickly looked at the high priest of Ukuru and said: "In this case, let's proceed according to the cooperation plan we discussed before. The scaled frogs are responsible for mining the water essence jade mine, and my Zhou family will pay the corresponding value. What do you think, Fellow Daoist Ukuru?"

"No problem, Ukuru and the Scaled Frog Clan have always believed in the reputation of Zhou Daoyou and the Zhou family, so please rest assured to leave this matter to Ukuru!"

High Priest Ukuru agreed without hesitation.

So Zhou Chun asked Ukuru to go back to recruit miners by himself, and then returned to the family himself, ordering the family's refiners to make suitable mining tools for the scaled frog miners.

Soon after, the mining of the water essence jade mine was officially on the right track.

However, just when Zhou Chun thought that he could use the new source of income from the water essence jade mine to alleviate the financial crisis of the Zhou family, what he had been worrying about finally happened!
On this day, a piece of explosive news suddenly spread throughout the major cultivating families in Jingguo.

But it turned out to be Yunzhou on the border with Fengguo. Five immortal cultivating families were massacred overnight, including a famous cultivating clan!

And it is said that the person who did such a great thing was Jiang Zhong, the "General Corpse Demon" in the "Yuanmo Qisha"!
This "General Corpse Demon" Jiang Zhong himself practiced a top-level technique of the Corpse Demon Sect, "Ground Zombie Mysterious Art". When performing this technique, his body was comparable to zombies of the same level, and he could also drive a group of corpses.

The reason why he is called "General Shisha" is because he alone can command and control hundreds of corpses, and has the ability to form an army with one person.

It was also because of this that he was able to slaughter five cultivating families overnight.

"Has it finally started? What I have been worrying about has finally happened!"

In Tuyun Ridge, after reading the urgent news from Yunzhou Intelligence Station, Zhou Chun's complexion instantly became extremely solemn.

He knew in his heart that with the "Corpse General" Jiang Zhongye's massacre of the five great immortal families, the war had entered a new stage!

(End of this chapter)