Clan Cultivation: Starting from Beast Taming-Chapter 495 - 261: Zhou Zhengyong’s Foundation Establishment, Breaking Through the Mid Phase of Foundation Establishment [Subscribe Requested]

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Good things come in pairs; two months after Zhou Mingde and his entourage returned, the Elixir Li Family and Formation You Family also relaxed their stance once again.

Although they still did not agree to the Zhou Family taking a forty percent share, they also no longer insisted on securing a forty percent share for themselves.

Eventually, after some discussion, all three parties agreed to each take a thirty percent share, with the remaining ten percent to be handed over to Green Lotus Temple as protection fee.

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At the same time, the Li Family and You Family also promised that if the Zhou Family needed any Elixirs or Formation setups done in the future, as long as the materials were prepared, they could seek assistance from their families, who would offer the lowest possible price.

Zhou Chun saw this and was not the least bit courteous; he quickly took out the high-age Spiritual Medicine plundered from the Dragon Transformation Sect and asked the Li Family for help in refining some Elixirs to enhance the mana of cultivators in the Foundation Establishment Progression Phase.

Now, the Zhou Family had seven cultivators at the Foundation Establishment Stage, and there might be one or two more emerging soon.

The demand for Elixirs to enhance mana for cultivators in the Foundation Establishment Progression Phase would be considerable for the Zhou Family in the future.

As for Formations, after Zhou Chongshan’s death, the Zhou Family indeed lacked anyone capable in this area, and they would have to rely on the You Family for any future needs.

Once the cooperation agreement was in place, Zhou Chun informed the Li Family and You Family of the location selected by Lin Wan’er, tasking them with the construction of the new stronghold.

Of course, for the benefit of the Zhou Family, Zhou Chun still sent Zhou Jiarui, who had just recovered from his injuries, with four Zhou Family Cultivators to assist and assert the Zhou Family’s presence.

Then there was the issue of distributing the two Foundation Establishment Pills.

There were nearly twenty cultivators in the Zhou Family whose cultivation level remained at the twelfth level of the Qi Refinement Realm; even excluding those whose lifespan exceeded eighty years, there were still ten eligible for the Foundation Establishment Pills.

Too many monks and not enough porridge; it was not easy to distribute these Pills.

It was only because the news of the Foundation Establishment Pill had been kept secret that cultivators from the Zhou Family had not yet worn out Zhou Chun’s threshold with their pleas.

But holding onto the Elixir without using it was also not ideal; the sooner it was used, the sooner the family’s strength could be fortified.

Therefore, after much consideration, Zhou Chun made a decision.

First, he found Zhou Zhengyong, who had the closest relationship with him, and entrusted him with several precious Spiritual Objects to offer to the family in his own name, in exchange for family merits.

Zhou Zhengyong, having served many years as a Steward for the Zhou Family and supported by his spouse Sun Yujiao, had already accumulated close to two thousand family merits.

At this time, with Zhou Chun’s hint, he presented several precious Spiritual Objects and gained over three thousand more family merits.

With over five thousand family merits now at his disposal, Zhou Zhengyong undoubtedly met one of the Zhou Family’s own rules.

Any cultivator in the Qi Refinement Realm with family merits exceeding five thousand would automatically be promoted to a "Foundation Establishment Seed," prioritized to receive a Foundation Establishment Pill.

At this point, Zhou Chun used his own family merits to reclaim the precious Spiritual Objects and announced the existence of two Foundation Establishment Pills within the family.

As expected, the announcement set the entire Zhou Family astir.

Cultivators in the Zhou Family at the eleventh and twelfth levels of Qi Refinement came to Zhou Chun to inquire about the distribution of the Foundation Establishment Pills.

Even some Elders, considering personal feelings, came to ask about the matter.

Zhou Chun was well-prepared for this, providing everyone with the same answer: the two Foundation Establishment Pills would be allocated strictly in accordance with family rules, given to the family’s "Foundation Establishment Seeds."

Given the absence of any cultivators with high Spirit Root Aptitude within the Zhou Family and none having made significant contributions to the family like Zhou Chun did during his Qi Refinement Realm, there were naturally no true "Foundation Establishment Seeds."

So if anyone truly wanted a Foundation Establishment Pill, they would have to accumulate merits, reaching over five thousand points to automatically become a "Foundation Establishment Seed" of the family.

But as the Zhou Family Cultivators were each pondering how to quickly raise their family merits to five thousand points, suddenly someone had redeemed one of the Foundation Establishment Pills by spending all their family merits.

This certainly surprised the rest.

However, when they found out that Zhou Zhengyong had exchanged for the Pill, many fell silent.

No one was a fool; it was clear how Zhou Zhengyong came to have so much family merit, especially to cultivators in the Zhou Family who knew of his relationship with Clan Leader Zhou Chun.

And even if it troubled them inside, they could not fault Zhou Chun or Zhou Zhengyong for this.

After all, it was Zhou Chun’s personal decision to exchange his own savings for family merits for Zhou Zhengyong, which was none of other people’s business.

If they could not criticize that point, could they really object to the method Zhou Chun used to allocate the Foundation Establishment Pills?

That would be cutting off their own path to obtaining a Foundation Establishment Pill!

Indeed, Zhou Chun’s effort to help Zhou Zhengyong in this way was already him trying to maintain fairness within the family.

Any Zhou Family Cultivator with some sense of the bigger picture understood this clearly.

So after the initial discomfort passed, the remaining Foundation Establishment Pill became the target of other Zhou Family Cultivators’ aspirations.

At this time, only loans could quickly accumulate the five thousand points of family merits needed.

But there were longstanding rules in the Zhou Family that cultivators in the Foundation Establishment Stage were prohibited from lending their family merits to those in the Qi Refinement Realm.

And to imitate the actions of Zhou Chun and Zhou Zhengyong, not just any Elder could afford to do so.

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