Cultivating Immortals in the Family: Rising from Beast Familiarity

Chapter 535 Two years in a hurry 【Subscription】

Having obtained a set of master-level alchemy inheritance, and obtained [Yulu Jinxia Pill] and other fourth-order alchemy formulas, Luo Qingni naturally responded to some of Zhou Chun's requests.

She happily gave Zhou Chun the green light to help mobilize contacts to collect materials for refining [Guchen Pill] at Zhou Chun's request.

At the same time, the two quickly reached an agreement to jointly collect materials and refine [Yulu Jinxia Pill].

After everything was settled, Luo Qingni first went to refine [Dragon Transformation Pill] for Zhou Chun.

And Zhou Chun also took advantage of the opportunity to rent a cave in the city as a place to shelter in the future.

Not long after, Luo Qingni left the customs and handed over the successfully refined [Hualong Pill] to Zhou Chun.

After getting the elixir, Zhou Chun didn't delay, and immediately went back to Jingguo in secret, sent the elixir back to Zhou's family, and handed it to Zhou Daoquan.

As for whether Zhou Daoquan's spiritual pet blood flame dragon python can successfully evolve into a third-order flood dragon through this [Dragon Transformation Pill], it can only depend on its own luck.

After Zhou Chun returned to the Great Zhou Kingdom, he took the letter of introduction that Luo Qingni had given him, and went to the gate of the Yuan Puppet Gate.

Before that, he felt that his own strength was not enough, so he didn't dare to go to the sect gate where the "Master of Thousand Machines" was located, lest the other party develop malicious intentions and assassinate him.

Now that his own strength is comparable to that of a mid-stage Golden Core cultivator, Zhou Chun dared to go to buy a fourth-order puppet.

The Yuan Puppet Sect used to be a great sect with Nascent Soul Stage monks sitting in it, but now that there is a gap in the Yuan Soul Stage monks in the door, this faction has shrunk its power and kept a low profile.

However, as one of the few sects capable of refining fourth-order puppets, even if the Yuan Puppet Sect has declined now, ordinary people and forces would not dare to make plans with them.

After all, no one knows how many fourth-order puppets are hidden in the mountain gate of the Yuan Puppet Gate, let alone whether there are fifth-order puppets hidden in it that are equivalent to Yuanying stage monks!
And as a force that started with puppet art, the Yuan Puppet Sect recruits no one like other sects in terms of recruiting disciples. Instead, it prefers to lack rather than abuse, and only recruits those monks who are talented in manipulating puppets or refining puppets.

Of course, if it is a top-grade spiritual root qualification, then Yuan Puppet Sect will also consider it.

All in all, the number of disciples in this sect is very small, and the total number of disciples in the entire sect is less than a thousand!

Fewer people means that the overall demand for cultivation resources is less, so Yuan Puppet Sect now only guards its own mountain gate to live, and there is only one market controlled by the sect outside, which specializes in selling some low-level puppet artifacts .

It is worth mentioning that, the puppets below the fourth level do not need to use spirit crystals as energy to drive, but can be powered by a special refined "spiritual orb" produced by the Yuan Puppet Sect.

This "spiritual source bead" itself is a kind of energy storage instrument, which can store one-third of the mana of a monk in the corresponding realm according to the different ranks.

For example, the "Spirit Origin Orb" of the third-tier top grade can store one-third of the mana of the late-stage monks in the Zifu.

Once the mana in the "spiritual source bead" is exhausted, it needs to be recharged by the immortal cultivator before it can be used again, and the mana in the "spiritual source bead" cannot be preserved for a long time, and will gradually fade over time.

If only this is the case, the "Lingyuan Orb" would be a great invention.

But the biggest flaw of this kind of energy storage magic weapon is that it can only store the mana of the magic weapon owner.

And because the cultivator's own mana attribute is seriously biased, if a "spiritual source bead" that stores full metal mana is used to drive a puppet that is good at fire attribute means, the efficiency will be very low, and it will also cause serious damage to the puppet itself. Big damage.

These kinds of restrictions make it rare for immortal cultivators to use puppets below the fourth rank in the world of immortal cultivation. Only the disciples of the Yuan Puppet Sect will use them as a means of fighting against the enemy.

After Zhou Chun's hidden cultivation came to Fangshi under the control of Yuan Puppet Gate, out of curiosity, he also bought a few second-order puppet artifacts and matching "spiritual source beads" for research.

He found that although the "Spiritual Origin Orb" was also a magic weapon, it basically didn't take up much of the monk's consciousness, let alone mana, when he used the puppets to fight.

The spiritual consciousness paid by a cultivator to envoy a second-tier high-grade puppet is roughly equivalent to the envoy's envoy a second-tier high-grade magic weapon and a second-level low-grade magic weapon.

And the combat power of a second-tier high-grade puppet can steadily suppress a middle-stage foundation-building monk without consuming its own mana.

In this way, even an ordinary late-stage foundation-building monk can use a second-tier top-tier defensive magic weapon to protect himself while he is using two second-tier high-grade puppets to fight.

After the mana of the "spiritual source orbs" in the two second-tier high-grade puppets is exhausted, they can also give up the two puppets directly, and then use their full state to deal with the enemy.

"It's a pity that the price is too expensive. A second-tier high-grade puppet equipped with a 'spiritual source pearl' is almost equivalent to a third-tier low-grade magic weapon!"

"Apart from Yuan Puppet Sect's own disciples, or those from rich families who are not short of money, there are a few monks who can equip themselves with two puppets of the same level!"

Zhou Chun shook his head, put a few puppets into the storage bag, and gave them to some family members as protection in the future depending on the situation.

Afterwards, he went to visit Yuanpuppet Mountain not far away in person, and handed over a letter from Luo Qingni, specifying that he wanted to visit the "Master Qianji" by name.

Because Zhou Chun revealed the cultivation level of the golden core stage, the Zhike disciples of the Yuan Puppet Sect were very efficient. Not long after, a man with a mid-stage cultivation level in the Zifu who claimed to be a disciple of "Master Qianji" came to welcome Zhou Chun.

After following this person to an elegant courtyard deep in the Yuan Puppet Gate, Zhou Chun saw the "Master Qianji" he was going to visit.

The puppet master looked old, with grizzled hair and wrinkled face. It seemed that his lifespan was running out, and his cultivation was still in the middle stage of Jindan.

After exchanging a few words with Zhou Chun, he looked directly at Zhou Chun and said, "The wreckage of the puppet that Fellow Daoist Luo sent over really inspired me a lot. The more complete wreckage of the puppet, I wonder if I can let the old man have a look?"

"of course can."

Zhou Chun nodded, and then took out the basically intact bow and arrow warrior puppet from the storage bag.

"It really is a puppet from the same source!"

As soon as he saw the shape of the bow and arrow warrior puppet, Master Qianji's eyes lit up, and then he beckoned to take the puppet in front of him and inspected it carefully.

After this inspection, he got a little carried away, as if he didn't feel the passage of time at all, and he also forgot the existence of Zhou Chun, an outsider.

And Zhou Chun didn't want to disturb him hastily, so as not to make him unhappy, and let the matter of exchanging the fourth-order puppets become a thing of the past.

So, after Zhou Chun waited for half a day, Master Qianji came back from the state of full devotion, and suddenly found that he, an outsider, was here.

"I'm getting old, I always forget things so easily, I'm sorry for the long wait, Fellow Daoist Zhou."

He patted his head, apologized to Zhou Chun with an apologetic face, and then looked at Zhou Chun and said: "This puppet, Zhou Daoyou, is indeed well preserved, and it still has the possibility of restoration. I don't know if you want to use it. What can I exchange this thing with this old man?"

"Zhou wants to exchange a fourth-order puppet with Master!"

Zhou Chun stated his intentions without hesitation.

Hearing his words, Master Qianji immediately nodded and said: "Well, this request is not too much. I happen to have a few puppets in my hand for exchange. You can choose one yourself, Fellow Daoist Zhou!"

After speaking, he took out three puppets from the storage bag and put them in front of Zhou Chun for him to choose.

These three puppets are ape puppets, wolf puppets, and turtle puppets, representing different emphases.

Wolf puppets are better at attacking, turtle puppets are more defensive, and ape puppets are more balanced.

After Zhou Chun thought about it, he chose the ape puppet.

He came to exchange the fourth-order puppets, not for himself, but to strengthen the foundation of the Zhou family.

Compared with the other two puppets that are more partial, the ape puppet is undoubtedly more in line with his requirements.

"Since Fellow Daoist Zhou has made his choice, this puppet belongs to Fellow Daoist. If the puppet is damaged in the future and needs to be repaired, Fellow Daoist can contact our sect, and we will charge a fee according to the difficulty of the repair."

Master Qianji said, and put away the other two puppets.

"Zhou understands, thank you master for fulfilling it."

Zhou Chun was overjoyed, and immediately thanked him with a salute, and then put the ape puppet away.

He didn't expect that things would go so smoothly.

This master of thousands of machines didn't seem to care where he got the bow and arrow warrior puppets, or that he followed the rules of the world of cultivating immortals very much, but asked about the origin of these items.

After this goal was achieved, Zhou Chun didn't stay in Yuan Puppet's family for too long, and quickly left.

When returning to Tianyuan Immortal City, Zhou Chun was still very cautious, worried that the Master Qianji would deliberately paralyze him and kill him secretly.

But it turned out that he seemed to be thinking too much. He came back very smoothly all the way without encountering any trouble.

This made him sigh, there are still normal people in the world of cultivating immortals!

After returning to Tianyuan Immortal City, Zhou Chun tried his best to collect the elixir for refining [Guchen Pill].

Zhang Liang's identity has also been operated for tens of hundreds of years in Tianyuan Immortal City, and he has met many monks.

Zhou Chun also spread the word at this time, and even went to the "Tianyuan Palace" to place an order to collect elixir. Soon, many Zifu monks and Jindan stage monks in the city knew that he had collected some elixir at a high price.

Doing this will definitely allow those who have the relevant elixir to take the opportunity to raise prices, but it will indeed be able to raise relevant elixir for Zhou Chun faster.

Anyway, he is not short of spirit coins now, and he has stockpiled a lot of ordinary millennium elixir, even if it is a premium transaction, he can accept it.

Now Zhou Chun has only one idea, and that is to raise a spirit pet to the fourth rank as soon as possible!

Facts have proved that as long as the golden core stage monks are willing to spend the capital, except for the thousand-year-old medicine and some rare and rare magical materials that are difficult to get in a short time, most of the thousand-year-old medicines can still be obtained.

Zhou Chun paid a premium of [-]% to [-]% higher than the normal price to buy it at a premium, plus the elixir he already had in his hand, and in just two years, he made up two batches of [Guchen Pill] s material.

At this time, Luo Qingni was still practicing while studying the alchemy inheritance that Zhou Chun had given her, and only opened the alchemy several times at intervals.

After Zhou Chun collected all the materials, she immediately helped Zhou Chun refine [Guchen Pill] without saying a word.

Maybe it's because of practicing two more times, or maybe it's because of the improvement in alchemy skills. Luo Qingni refined two furnaces of [Guchen Dan] this time, and produced a total of fourteen pills.

After obtaining the fourteen [Ancient Dust Pills], Zhou Chun immediately distributed them.

Lei Jiao got six spirit pills in vain, Golden Armored Mountain Turtle Stone got six spirit pills, and the remaining two were given to Golden Winged Tiger.

According to his distribution arrangement, after the three-headed spirit pet swallows all these spirit pills, Lei Jiao will definitely be able to break through to the third-order high-grade monster beast. Yaodan, likewise, will definitely be able to break through to the third-rank top-rank.

The reason why Zhou Chun didn't concentrate all the [Gu Chen Pills] for a monster to swallow was because he didn't want to be too partial, and because if he took too much of this pill one after another, it would also develop resistance.

And in the future, he will continue to collect and refine the elixir of [Guchen Pill]. If he is willing to spend money, it should not be a problem to gather the materials for a batch of elixir in five or six years.

Just when Zhou Chun was looking forward to the breakthrough of a few spiritual pets, Zhou Daoyi followed Lin Hongyu to Tianyuan Immortal City.

It turned out that Lin Hongyu had already exchanged for a kind of alchemy spirit that was helpful for forming alchemy, and this time he brought Zhou Daoyi to retreat for alchemy.

At the same time, the two also brought Zhou Chun a piece of good and not bad news.

Zhou Daoquan's spiritual pet, the Blood Flame Dragon Python, failed to evolve into a Blood Flame Dragon after taking [Dragon Transformation Pill].

But also because the medicinal power of [Dragon Transformation Pill] helped purify his blood, so he broke the shackles of his blood and broke through to become a third-order monster blood flame dragon python.

In terms of strength and potential, the third-level monster Blood Flame Dragon Python is naturally much worse than the third-level Blood Flame Dragon, but it is definitely not worse than Zhou Mingde's Vulcan Jackal.

Zhou Daoquan himself was not disappointed about this, so he specially asked Zhou Daoyi to help him to thank Zhou Chun.

Another thing that reassures Zhou Chun is that the Zhou family has been generally stable in the past two years and has not been harassed.

This proves that his approach has taken effect. The ice prison gate may be concerned about the masters behind the Zhou family, so they restrained themselves for the time being and did not take any further actions.

In fact, this is also normal. Although the killer sect of Ice Prison Gate has a high completion rate in the past, it is not without failure experience.

And the killers they sent were killed or captured, and it was often because there was a strong person behind the target.

For this kind of situation, the Ice Prison Gate usually investigates the situation first to see if the target is easy to mess with.

If the target's own situation is investigated clearly and it is easy to grasp, the Ice Prison Gate will naturally gather killers to uproot it.

But if the target is really powerful and has the protection of Nascent Soul stage monks, most of the time the Ice Prison Gate can only admit defeat.

After all, they are not so strong that they are only allowed to assassinate others, and they are not allowed to kill them instead!
It is very irrational to offend a Nascent Soul cultivator for the sake of a Jindan stage killer!

Although Zhou Chun didn't fully understand the method of the Ice Prison Gate, he could roughly guess that the other party would have some scruples if he couldn't find the missing killer and fully understood the details, and would not easily attack the Zhou family again.

As for Qinglian Temple, after learning of the disappearance of the Ice Prison Gate Killer, they would feel apprehensive and dare not attack the Zhou family easily.

Zhou Chun only needs to procrastinate now. After decades of procrastination, he will be able to have the strength not to be afraid of the Ice Prison Gate Killer and Qinglianguan.

The next thing is easy to handle, Lin Hongyu and his wife went to rent a cave to form alchemy, Zhou Chunming is still someone who has nothing to do with them, but he is actively collecting related elixir in Tianyuan Immortal City.

On this day, Zhou Chun was practicing in the cave, when he suddenly received a message from Sun Yuanjing, the treasurer of Tianbao Pavilion, asking him to come to Tianbao Pavilion for a talk.

Because of the purchase of [Taiyi Xuanjin Qi] at the beginning, and the purchase and refining of [Ancient Chen Dan] panacea in the past few years, the friendship between Zhou Chun and Sun Yuanjing has steadily improved.

At this time, the other party sent a message to invite him. Although he didn't explain what it was, he didn't neglect it, and went to Tianbao Pavilion after receiving the work.

"Sun Daoyou suddenly invited Zhang to come here today. Could it be that he has found the elixir that Zhou needs again?"

In the elegant room of Tianbao Pavilion, as soon as Zhou Chun saw Sun Yuanjing, he half-jokingly asked him why he invited him to come.

But Sun Yuanjing shook his head and said: "That's not true, inviting Zhang Daoyou over today is also entrusted by others."

As he spoke, he lowered his voice and said, "You Daoist Zhang, do you still remember the fellow Daoist Zeng who asked you to help get rid of the stubborn illness? This time, Fellow Daoist Zeng asked Sun to invite Daoist Zhang to come over and want to meet with fellow Daoist Zhang privately!"

"Is that so..."

Zhou Chun looked at Sun Yuanjing, couldn't help lowering his head and pondering, thinking about the intention of that monk surnamed Zeng.

The deal he made with the monk surnamed Zeng was just a deal, and he didn't even know the real name of the other party.

Now that the other party suddenly said that he wanted to meet with him in private, he must be asking for something.

From the point of view of his heart, Zhou Chun certainly didn't want to cause extra complications.

But he also knew that since the other party entrusted Sun Yuanjing's relationship, it meant that he would not give up easily.

If he refused at this time, it would be secondary to saving Sun Yuanjing's face, I'm afraid it might not be able to really dispel the idea of ​​the monk surnamed Zeng.

So after thinking about it for a while, he still nodded lightly to Sun Yuanjing and said, "Since it was Daoist Sun who spoke, Zhang naturally wants to give fellow daoist some face, so please arrange a place for fellow daoist!"

Hearing his words, Sun Yuanjing suddenly laughed and said, "Hehehe, so Sun will thank you Zhang Daoyou first."

Then he confessed: "Zeng Daoyou has already said something beforehand, if Zhang Daoyou agrees to meet, you can go to the private room of Tianzihao in the Green Bud Teahouse in the city to meet!"

"Green Bud Tea House? Zhang understands."

Zhou Chun nodded slightly, bid farewell to Sun Yuanjing, and then went to the green bud teahouse.

This Green Bud Teahouse is a high-end teahouse in Tianyuan Immortal City. It only deals with the business of high-level monks. Only the monks of the Zifu period can book private rooms in it, and the price is very high.

Zhou Chun has been here several times before, and he is also deeply impressed by the several unique spiritual teas in this teahouse.

At this time, when he arrived at the teahouse, after reporting the owner's surname, a beautiful woman came to welcome him.

Zhou Chun still had some impressions of this beautiful woman, but it was the person who welcomed him and Sun Yuanjing into the Zeng monk's cave. If he remembered correctly, his surname should be Wei.

After the woman saw Zhou Chun, she immediately bowed respectfully and said: "I have met Senior Zhang, my master has already prepared tea in the private room and is waiting for Senior."

"You Daoist Wei are too polite, please lead the way."

Zhou Chun said, and followed the woman to the Tianzihao private room in the teahouse.

After entering the private room, Zhou Chun saw the real face of the monk surnamed Zeng.

At this time, the monk surnamed Zeng was not wearing a mask. His real appearance was a rather handsome man, probably between thirty and forty years old.

Judging from the aura of the person, it is obvious that the stubborn disease in his body has been completely cured, and he has returned to normal.

Seeing this situation, he immediately bowed his hands to the other party and said: "Zhang has met Mr. Zeng, congratulations Mr. Zeng getting rid of his old illness and regaining his health."

When the monk surnamed Zeng heard the words, he immediately smiled heartily and said, "Hahaha, Zeng was able to recover, thanks to fellow daoist Zhang, please take a seat, fellow daoist."

After speaking, he raised his hand to invite Zhou Chun to take a seat, and asked the beautiful woman who was a concubine to serve Zhou Chun tea and water.

Immediately after seeing him holding a cup of tea, he saluted Zhou Chun: "It is Zeng's impoliteness to invite fellow Daoist Zhang here. Zeng first replaced the wine with tea, and apologized to Fellow Daoist Zhang."

"You Daoist Zeng, you are being polite."

Zhou Chun responded, and returned the other party with a cup of tea.

After exchanging pleasantries like this, a monk surnamed Zeng said to Zhou Chun apologetically: "Back then Zeng was suffering from a chronic illness and had to hide his identity as a last resort. I hope Fellow Daoist Zhang will not blame you."

After finishing speaking, he introduced himself: "Actually, Zeng's name is Zeng Tai, and he is the elder of the Yuanyang Sect of the Great Zhou Kingdom!"

"It turns out that Fellow Daoist Zeng is the elder of Yuanyang Sect, what a disrespect and disrespect!"

Zhou Chun's face froze, and he quickly bowed his hands politely.

He has heard of the name of Yuanyang Sect a long time ago. This sect is a powerful sect ranked in the forefront of the Great Zhou Kingdom, and its power background is no less than that of the Nine Yuan Sword Sect.

The contemporary elder of the Yuanyang Sect, "Master Yuanyang", is a great monk in the late Yuanying period who is famous in the Zhou Dynasty, and his strength is unfathomable.

In addition to the Supreme Elder, Yuanyangzong also has another monk in the middle stage of Yuanying and two monks in the early stage of Yuanying.

Zeng Tai is actually the elder of Yuanyang Sect, no wonder Sun Yuanjing would secretly show his favor to this person in every possible way!

But Zeng Tai looked at him with piercing eyes and said: "Zeng Daoyou Zhang is clear about his origin now, I wonder if Zhang Daoyou can tell me about his own origin now?"

He had asked someone to investigate Zhang Liang before, but found that he could not find out the specific details of Zhang Liang, only knew that he was a monk outside the Great Zhou Kingdom.

When it comes to forces outside of the Great Zhou Kingdom, even if Zeng Tai is the elder of the Yuanyang Sect, it is impossible to investigate the origin of a fake Golden Core Stage monk in so many countries.

That's why he came here to meet Zhou Chun after he learned that Zhou Chun was active again in Tianyuan Immortal City.

When he heard him ask about his origin, Zhou Chun immediately became vigilant, and immediately shook his head and said: "Zhang was born in a small family in a remote place, but there is nothing to say."

"So Zhang Daoyou is a family monk?"

Zeng Tai nodded thoughtfully, and then stopped biting, and immediately smiled slightly: "You don't need to worry too much, fellow Daoist Zhang, Zeng has no ill intentions towards fellow daoist, and I just want to invite fellow daoist to come over today. It’s all about making a deal with fellow daoists!”

(End of this chapter)