Beast-controlling fairy clan

In fact, if Lin Hongyu did not come to Tianyuan Immortal City, Zhou Chunben also planned to find time to go back to the family and send back the Foundation Establishment Pill in his hand.

But now that Lin Hongyu has arrived at Tianyuan Immortal City, Zhou Chun naturally doesn't have to waste time traveling there.

After handing the Foundation Establishment Pill to Lin Hongyu, he wrote a few letters home on the spot and asked her to take it back to his elders and relatives before saying goodbye and leaving.

After returning to the cave, Zhou Chun took out the letters from home that Lin Hongyu had brought over and read them one by one.

There are three family letters in total, written by Zhou Mingde, Zhou Daoyi and Su Yuzhen.

In Zhou Mingde's home letter, he was mainly concerned about Zhou Chun's cultivation situation, and incidentally talked about some of the more important things that have happened in the Jingguo and Fengguo immortal worlds in the past ten years.

Zhou Daoyi's family letters were ghostwritten by him. They mainly explained the detailed changes in the development of the Zhou family over the years, including various data, etc. The content was the largest, with tens of thousands of words.

Su Yuzhen's family letter is the real family letter. The letter describes the longing for the Taoist companion and some changes in the Su family.

The first thing Zhou Chun read was Su Yuzhen's family letter.

This family letter omitted the words of longing, concern and advice. There were two most valuable pieces of information. One was that Su Yunzhen's aunt Su Yunniang had successfully formed an elixir and became a golden elixir elder of the Yuelun Sect.

Because of this incident, the status of the Jiangzhou Su family suddenly became even higher, and they were vaguely known as the number one immortal cultivating family in Jingguo.

After all, no other Jindan family has two Jindan monks.

One is that the Su family held a celebration ceremony to celebrate the success of Su Yunniang's elixir formation, and invited monks from the Zhou family and other in-law families to participate. They also had the younger generations of each family compete in a martial arts competition, which resulted in a lot of luck.

Among the Zhou family's Qi-refining period juniors, a junior named Zhou Sizhen actually won the first place in the Qi-refining period and took away the "Foundation Building Pill" prize prepared by the Su family.

For this reason, the ancestor of the Su family felt a little shameless, so he severely reprimanded the younger generations of the Su family, and privately scolded Zhou Chun in front of Su Yuzhen.

Su Yuzhen just wrote this matter as an anecdote, saying that the ancestor of the Su family actually did not mean to blame the Zhou family, but just hated it for not fighting.

"I didn't expect that my aunt Su Yunniang actually successfully formed the elixir. This is really a happy event!"

"There is also this boy Sizhen. If I remember correctly, he seems to have the same wind attribute spiritual root qualifications as Xu Fu, but his spiritual root level is not quite the same. He is only a middle-grade spiritual root. I didn't expect that he would be able to shine this time. !”

Zhou Chun put down the letter from home and remembered the contents, and a faint smile appeared on his face.

After all, he and Su Yuzhen were Taoist lovers. Su Yunniang, Su Yuzhen's biological aunt, successfully formed the elixir, which meant that he had another elder at the golden elixir stage, which was naturally a good thing.

And Zhou Sizhen, a junior, won the first place in the same period in the martial arts competition organized by the Su family, which not only greatly increased the Zhou family's reputation, but also really won a big benefit for himself. As the patriarch, Zhou Chun also benefited from it. feel happy.

Next, Zhou Chun checked the family letters of Zhou Mingde and Zhou Daoyi.

After looking at this for who knows how long, Zhou Chun finally pulled out his consciousness, leaned back on the chair with a slightly solemn expression, closed his eyes and began to think.

A lot of things will indeed happen to a family in more than ten years, both good and bad.

In the past ten years or so, the Zhou family has generally shown an upward momentum of development.

Especially with the full expansion of the express delivery business, the Zhou family has made great progress in both income and reputation.

But maybe they saw that the Zhou family was developing too fast, and some forces were unhappy about it.

In recent years, there have been more attacks on the Zhou family's couriers and transportation teams, causing the Zhou family to lose a lot of manpower and money.

But these are nothing. Now the "Zhou Tong Tianxia" trading company has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. Even if the letters and cargo are lost due to certain attacks, as long as the compensation is in place, many monks will choose to understand.

Even if someone wants to use this to cause trouble and damage the reputation of the Zhou family, it will be difficult to achieve success.

This is the advantage of being first.

But the two things mentioned in Zhou Mingde's letter made Zhou Chun feel uneasy.

One thing is the actions of Qinglianguan.

Just five years ago, Qinglian Temple suddenly announced that it would form a joint patrol team to crack down on bandit cultivators within the territory.

The top leaders of this joint inspection team are all monks from the Qinglian Guanzi Mansion, but the inspection team members are all drawn from various major and aristocratic cultivating families.

The Zhou family was also allocated two patrol team spots.

And according to Qinglian Temple, the patrol team has the right to recruit monks from the Immortal Cultivation Family under its command to coordinate operations when enforcing the law.

This approach is tantamount to using people from various immortal cultivating families to form a standing army for Qinglian Temple, and the command power is completely in the hands of Qinglian Temple.

The key is that Qinglian Temple does not cost a penny, and each family needs to provide additional subsidies to the monks who go to the inspection team.

In Zhou Chun's view, Qinglianguan's move can be described as killing two birds with one stone.

Not only did they spend a penny to obtain a mid-level combat force that could be mobilized to anywhere at any time, but they also weakened the development potential of the large and aristocratic cultivating families.

After all, with a limited number of foundation-building monks, if a few are dispatched to the patrol team at a time, the remaining foundation-building monks will have to share the tasks among these few people, thus reducing their own training time and time to go out and look for opportunities.

That's all. In addition to the foundation-building monks, the Zhou family also has many second-level monsters that can be used, so they will not be greatly affected by this.

But Qinglian Temple will definitely not do such a thing for no reason.

Since they are doing this now, it means that there is another intention behind this matter.

Thinking of the fact that Master Qingxiao's life is running out, Zhou Chun feels that Qinglianguan's move may be to prepare in advance for the possible turmoil after Master Qingxiao's death.

The second thing that made Zhou Chun feel uneasy came from Fengguo.

The Corpse Demon Cult of Feng Country was originally at an absolute disadvantage due to the joint attack of Zhengyang Palace and Jingyang Sect. Seeing that the throne of the largest force in Feng Country was about to become unstable.

But who would have thought that now a force would suddenly intervene and enter Feng Country to help the Corpse Demon Sect.

This force that helps the Corpse Demon Sect is not a righteous force, but a large force called the "Blood and Bone Sect".

It is said that the disciples of the "Blood and Bone Sect" like to sacrifice and refine magical weapons such as blood knives, blood swords, blood banners, and bone war puppets. These magical weapons have the ability to grow after being refined by the special secret methods of the "Blood and Bone Sect" , can grow by absorbing the essence, blood and vitality of monks, and can even grow into magic weapons!

After receiving this help, the Corpse Demon Sect not only withstood the offensives of Zhengyang Palace and Jingyang Sect, but even had a tendency to counterattack.

According to the information revealed by Zhengyang Palace, the "Blood Bone Sect" is a force in the Yuan Demon Realm in the west of Fengguo. The inheritance of the Corpse Demon Sect also comes from the Yuan Demon Realm. They believe that this is the influence of the Yuan Demon Realm on the Tianling Earth Realm. Invasion.

It is said that they have begun to convene the Nascent Soul stage masters from various Tianling countries to discuss, and request that they jointly send troops to eradicate the two major scourges of the "Blood Bone Sect" and the Corpse Demon Sect, and completely cut off the minions of the Yuan Demon Realm that extend into the Tianling Realm.

This is also the first time Zhou Chun has heard of the world of immortality, the Yuan Demon Realm!

According to what Zhou Mingde said in the jade slips, the Yuan Demon Realm is not directly adjacent to the Tianling Realm. The two sides were originally separated by a Jueling Desert that was tens of thousands of miles long. Almost only Golden Core Stage monks could cross that land. area.

Precisely because of the barrier of the Jueling Desert, many monks from Fengguo, which is adjacent to the Jueling Desert, do not know the existence of the Yuan Demon Realm.

But no one expected that the Yuan Demon Realm, which had been at peace with the Tianling Earth Realm for many years, would suddenly invade the Tianling Earth Realm.

Moreover, the inheritance of the Corpse Demon Sect also comes from the Yuan Demon Realm, and now it can be said that it has become the leader of the Yuan Demon Realm!

"This is really a constant cutting and chaos, and the water in Feng Country is getting muddier and muddier!"

Zhou Chun couldn't help but sigh, feeling troubled.

Although Fengguo is currently in chaos, everyone knows that if the Yuan Demon Realm really wants to invade the Tianling Realm, then Jingguo, which is adjacent to Fengguo, will definitely not be able to escape.

Not to mention Jingguo, Chengguo and Shenguo, countries that both belong to the realm of heaven, spirit and earth, cannot escape.

After all, the war capability of one side of the Immortal Realm far exceeds that of a sect like the Hualong Sect.

"I hope the war won't come too soon and I can be given another few decades to prepare!"

Zhou Chun said silently, but did not dare to have high hopes.

But in this case, the few things he wanted to do when he came to the Great Zhou Kingdom should be completed at a faster pace.

If the elixirs are well prepared, even if a war does break out, he can still look for opportunities to take the elixirs to improve his cultivation.

There are also magic weapons and spiritual materials such as "Huanglong Stone". If enough quantities are collected to successfully complete the forbidden formation of the [Nine Palaces Yellow Dragon Formation], the Zhou family will truly have an unbreakable mountain gate, and they will not have to fear during the war. Enemy personnel harassed us behind enemy lines.

In view of this, Zhou Chun thought for a moment before heading to Luo Qingni's cave to visit.

"You want to ask me to help exchange for magic weapons and spiritual materials like [Huanglong Stone]?"

In "Qingni Residence", Luo Qingni was slightly stunned after learning Zhou Chun's intention, and was surprised by his request.

After all, she is only a master of alchemy, not a master of weapon refining. Shouldn't it be more appropriate to find those masters of weapon refining when looking for magic weapons and spiritual materials?

Seeing the change in her expression, Zhou Chun knew that this matter was a bit embarrassing, but he still said: "Zhang also knows that this matter is a bit difficult, but Zhang is really anxious to exchange for this thing now. If Fellow Daoist Luo can help, Zhang There will definitely be a heavy reward!”

"Okay, since Fellow Daoist Zhang has said so, Qing Ni will give it a try. It's just that [Huanglong Stone], a magic weapon and spiritual material, has many uses, and those who possess it may not be willing to exchange it easily. Fellow Daoist Zhang must give enough Only things that touch people will do!”

Luo Qingni looked at Zhou Chun, and after pondering for a while, she agreed.

"Thank you so much, Fellow Daoist Luo!"

Zhou Chun bowed slightly and gave a deep gift to express his gratitude.

Then he immediately took out a prepared exchange list and handed it to Luo Qingni.

On this list, he listed various things he had in his hand that could be exchanged, including many elixirs produced by ancient ruins.

If he takes these things out and exchanges them with others, it may easily arouse suspicion.

But if it is exchanged with others through the hands of Luo Qingni, a master of alchemy in the golden elixir stage, there will be no doubt.

Luo Qingni should have already seen through the core of the spirit wood that he had obtained the opportunity in the ancient ruins, so after reading the items on the list, he just looked at him deeply, nodded and accepted the list.

However, Zhou Chun did not put all his hopes on Luo Qingni, so after leaving "Qingni Residence", he went to "Tianzhi Tower" again and purchased the high-end auctions that were to be held in major cities in the Great Zhou Kingdom. He gathered information about meetings and exchange meetings, and was prepared to try his luck at auctions and exchange meetings in case Luo Qingni's side failed.

Originally, he could have gone to the well-known chambers of commerce in Tianyuan Fairy City to make an appointment to order [Huanglong Stone], because sometimes these magic weapons and spiritual materials would indeed be revealed on the market.

However, considering his cultivation in the middle stage of Zifu and the persistence of the weapon refining masters in the city for refining magic weapons, he gave up the idea.

If he really wants to compete in the Chamber of Commerce store, he will definitely not be able to compete with the masters of weapon refining and the monks of the golden elixir stage.

At this time, the benefits of Zhou Chun's choice to befriend Luo Qingni, a master of alchemy in the golden elixir stage, became apparent.

As Luo Qingni helped him start collecting [Huanglong Stone] from his network of contacts, he received three responses in just three months.

"Put away these two pieces of [Huanglong Stone], Fellow Daoist Zhang. As for the Xiahou family's request, it's up to Fellow Daoist Zhang to decide whether he wants to agree to it or not!"

Inside "Qingni Residence", Luo Qingni waved her hand, and she handed the two exchanged [Huanglong Stones] to Zhou Chun, and explained the exchange process.

It turned out that out of the three responses she received, two accepted the treasure exchange in the list given by Zhou Chun.

However, there was a family of cultivators, the Xiahou family, who did not want to exchange treasures. Instead, they asked Zhou Chun to help them kill a bandit cultivator from the Zifu period in exchange for [Huanglong Stone].

Luo Qingni couldn't make the decision on his own, so he could only let Zhou Chun decide on his own.

"Zhang understands. Thank you again, Fellow Daoist Luo, for your help!"

Zhou Chun bowed again to express his gratitude, and then returned to his cave with his things.

After returning to the cave, Zhou Chun took out three pieces of [Huanglong Stone] and compared them, and found that the amount required for the [Nine Palaces of Yellow Dragon Formation] was still one-fifth apart.

This feeling of being just one step away from success is really uncomfortable.

Zhou Chun held the three pieces of [Huanglong Stone] in his hands and inspected them over and over again. Finally, he could only put them down and sighed helplessly: "Why is it so small? It seems that I really have to be a thug. Got it!"

He is not a collector, but collecting [Huanglong Stone] is indeed very important to the Zhou family.

Especially under the current situation, this matter cannot be ignored.

For this reason, even if he was used as a thug, he would have no choice but to admit it!

Immediately, Zhou Chun made up his mind and went to the "Tianzhi Tower" again to purchase a piece of first-class intelligence information about the Xiahou family.

Otherwise, the Great Zhou Kingdom is the Great Zhou Kingdom!

Before this, Zhou Chundu had never heard of the name of the Xiahou family.

But after reading the intelligence information of "Tianzhi Tower", he discovered that this was a golden elixir family with a history of more than 2,000 years. The family once had three golden elixir monks at the same time.

It's just that now the Xiahou family has fallen into decline. There is only one Jindan monk who can barely support the Jindan family.

According to the information provided by Luo Qingni, the bandit cultivator that the Xiahou family wanted to ask someone to help hunt down was a late-stage cultivator from the Zifu.

That guy was also so daring that he used the method of harvesting yin and replenishing yang to kill Xiu Jian, a female Xiu Jian from the Zi Mansion who was a top-grade spiritual person with the potential for a golden elixir, and made it known to everyone.

Think about it, the Xiahou family is also a Jindan family with a heritage of more than 2,000 years, and is also a well-known force in the local area. How can they endure such humiliation!

Therefore, the Xiahou family did not hesitate to use their knowledge this time, taking out many of the family's treasures and offering a reward to hunt down the bandit cultivator.

But that man was really capable. He had escaped pursuit several times, and now he had escaped into the black mist, causing the Xiahou family to lose track of him.

"Hei Wuze, that's really fate!"

Zhou Chun narrowed his eyes slightly and gradually had an idea in his mind.

He quickly went to Luo Qingni, got a letter of introduction from her, and handed her the two dragon-born monster inner elixirs in her hand, letting her figure out what to do.

Then he took the letter of introduction and rushed straight to the mountain gate of the Xiahou family.

Before leaving, in order to prevent himself from being trapped by this matter for a long time, Zhou Chun also deliberately renewed the rent of the cave for a few more years, and left a message to the evolving stone that he had something to go out to prevent him from seeing it when he woke up. Don't see yourself and run around in a hurry.

About half a month after leaving Tianyuan Immortal City, Zhou Chun arrived at the mountain gate of the Xiahou family.

As a Jindan family with a heritage of more than two thousand years, the Xiahou family's Shanmen residence is quite good. Not only does it occupy a large area, but it also has a high concentration of spiritual energy.

After Zhou Chun came to the door with Luo Qingni's letter of introduction, he was quickly received by Xiahou Bao, the golden elixir monk of the Xiahou family.

The pillar of the Xiahou family is a middle-stage Jindan monk. Judging from his age, he must be quite old, with gray hair already growing on his head.

After reading Luo Qingni's letter of introduction, Xia Houbao looked at Zhou Chun with confusion and asked, "Is Fellow Daoist Zhang planning to hunt down that traitor Murong Luo himself? Do you know that he is a late-stage cultivator in the Zifu?"

After hearing his words, Zhou Chun immediately replied calmly: "Senior Xiahou, I understand your concerns, but since I dare to take on this task, I naturally have my support."

Hearing this, Xia Houbao couldn't help but look at Zhou Chun deeply, then nodded and said: "That's fine, since Fellow Daoist Zhang is so confident, I will naturally not refuse."

Seeing his agreement, Zhou Chun immediately clasped his fists and saluted and said, "Thank you, Senior Xiahou, for your understanding. It's just that I am bold and want to see the size of the [Huanglong Stone] in Xiahou's family first. I wonder if Senior Xiahou can be accommodating?"

"This is a trivial matter. I will ask someone to bring something for Taoist friend Zhang to inspect."

As Xiahou Bao spoke, he gave instructions to a foundation-building monk from the Xiahou family who was waiting nearby, asking him to bring the [Huanglong Stone] to his cave.

In less than two quarters of an hour, a Zifu monk from the Xiahou family took out the [Huanglong Stone] from the treasure house and brought it to the cave.

And Xiahou Bao was also very cheerful. He directly raised his hand and photographed the [Huanglong Stone] in front of Zhou Chun: "Fellow Daoist Zhang, please see, this is the [Huanglong Stone] collected by my Xiahou family."

Zhou Chun looked at it intently. This piece of [Huanglong Stone] should be the largest piece he had ever seen. It was even larger than the piece he had exchanged for at the Tianzhi Sanren exchange meeting.

Xia Houbao also introduced it at the right time: "This piece of [Huanglong Stone] is very heavy. If you are refining some smaller magic weapons, it is enough to be refined three times. It is also for refining heavy magic weapons such as mountain and river seals and Qiankun Bricks. It’s completely sufficient and can be sold at least two to three hundred thousand spirit coins at auction!”

Zhou Chun knew that he was not bragging.

Although [Huanglong Stone] is not considered a top spiritual material, it is widely sought after by golden elixir-level monks who practice earth-attribute techniques because of its universality.

In addition, many forbidden formations also need to use this object to carve the formation plate and suppress the earth veins.

Therefore, it is really not easy to collect enough of this item.

After Zhou Chun looked at it for a while, he nodded and praised: "It is indeed a good treasure!"

Then he said in a deep voice: "Then let's make a spiritual contract. Later, I will set off to the Black Mist Lake to find Murong Luo!"

After hearing what he said, Xia Houbao immediately said: "There is no problem in making a spiritual contract, but I want to remind you, Daoist Zhang, that although Murong Luo's cultivation is only in the later stage of Zifu, his actual methods are extraordinary. There may be some of his accomplices hidden, but if something happens to you, it has nothing to do with our Xiahou family!"

"This is natural. If something happens to this junior, you can only blame yourself for not being as good as others!"

Zhou Chun replied in a very firm tone.

So Xia Houbao immediately took out the talisman paper and wrote Zhang Lingqi, imprinting it with his own magic mark.

This kind of reward spiritual contract does not need to be duplicated, nor does it require Zhou Chun to leave his own magic mark.

Even after he completed the mission, he did not need to come to the Xiahou family again. He only needed to inform him, and the Xiahou family would send someone with the agreed treasure to exchange for Murong Luo's body.

This approach also protects those who complete the task.

Therefore, after receiving the spiritual contract, Zhou Chun left Xiahou's house and went straight to Black Mist Ze.

On the way, Zhou Chun also took the time to read the jade slips given to him by Xia Houbao, which recorded some intelligence information about the bandit cultivator Murong Luo.

As for his appearance and magical aura, after he obtained the spiritual contract, Xiahou Bao had shown it to him through a photographic magic weapon, and he also remembered that aura.

The mountain gate of the Xiahou family is not very far from Heiwuze, and Zhou Chun arrived at Heiwuze in only three days.

According to the information of the Xiahou family, the bandit cultivator Murong Luo probably joined the bandit cultivator organization in Black Mist Ze.

It is said that the bandit cultivator organization has a secret base in Black Mist Lake, which contains formations that can purify spiritual energy and poisonous barrier energy.

But this matter is just a rumor, and no one has been able to really find the secret base.

But what is certain is that the leader of the bandit cultivator organization is a Golden Core cultivator!

So this made it more difficult for Zhou Chun to kill Murong Luo, and it was also the reason why Xia Houbao didn't think highly of him.

However, it all depends on the human effort. Zhou Chun believes that as long as he finds Murong Luo, he will definitely have a chance to kill him.

At the same time, he was also prepared for a protracted war in Black Mist Lake.

In order to lure out Murong Luo and his accomplices, after Zhou Chun entered the Black Mist, he did not release the thunder dragon to lead the way. He only flew and wandered around inside by himself, pretending to be a monk adventurous in search of treasure.

Those bandit cultivators were so bold that they dared to attack the Zifu period cultivators outside, let alone inside the Black Mist.