Clan Cultivation: Starting from Beast Taming-Chapter 654 - 336: The Curtain Falls on a Generation [Subscribe Requested]_2

Chapter 654: Chapter 336: The Curtain Falls on a Generation [Subscribe Requested]_2

However, as long as people could return alive, these were minor issues for the Zhou Family.

After letting go of this concern, Zhou Chun’s spirit was revived, and he began dealing with various family affairs with renewed energy, no longer studying the white jade bead inside his body.

In the following five years, the situation in Jingguo Country and the Zhou Family remained relatively stable.

The Tianjing Sect probably also needed time to digest and integrate those personnel and forces that had defected to them, and they did not make any surprising moves during this time.

Of course, Zhou Chun preferred to believe that the True Person of Tianjing needed time to settle in and familiarize himself with the power of the Nascent Soul Stage.

And the war on the Fengguo side did not turn into a full-scale war as Zhou Chun had initially thought.

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Zhengyang Palace seemed to treat the Corpse Demon Sect as an entity to temper their disciples, sending many disciples to participate in the war in Fengguo, but they did not aim to conquest territories, they were merely seeking out Corpse Demon Sect cultivators to fight.

The Jingyang Sect also seemed to have other plans, not showing urgency in conquest either, but instead, they were said to be expanding their ranks aggressively, with a significant increase in the number of sect members.

In Zhou Chun’s view, the reason these two forces chose to oppose the Corpse Demon Sect was purely for profit, not out of any genuine desire to expel demons and protect the path of righteousness!

Perhaps seeing this as well, the Elixir Li Family and Formation You Family that were previously restless became quiet and well-behaved again.

As for the Zhou Family, two new Foundation Establishment cultivators were added in the span of five years, they were Zhou Xindie and Xu Fu.

Both of them succeeded by taking the Foundation Establishment Fruit, with Xu Fu’s fruit being a special reward from Zhou Chun that did not count against the Zhou Family’s exchange quota.

Where there’s success, there’s also failure.

Of the four Foundation Establishment Fruits that Zhou Chun put out for the Zhou Family members to exchange, three were exchanged in five years, but apart from Zhou Xindie’s success, the other two failed.

The luck of these two failed individuals was extremely poor; neither were able to keep their lives, as they died directly in the closed-room retreat.

This state of affairs truly shocked many Zhou Family cultivators.

In these years, because the Zhou Family could always exchange for Foundation Establishment Pills, many Zhou Family cultivators did not view the risks of Foundation Establishment seriously, believing that with the help of supporting Foundation Establishment spirit items, even if they failed, they could still save their lives.

However, with two people consecutively dying during the Foundation Establishment Stage, they finally realized the difficulty of Foundation Establishment and no longer dared to be as optimistic as before.

At the same time, the number of Zhou Family cultivators willing to lend their good deeds to others to exchange for Foundation Establishment spirit items also rapidly declined.

After all, nobody could guarantee whether those borrowing their good deeds would live to come out of the retreat chambers or succeed.

As a result, with a large decrease in the number of cultivators willing to lend their good deeds, the difficulty for other Zhou Family cultivators to exchange for Foundation Establishment Fruits and Pills increased significantly, which, in turn, eased the supply difficulty of these supporting spirit items for Foundation Establishment.

On the other hand, just as Zhou Chun had initially thought.

The success of Xu Fu’s Foundation Establishment provided a tremendous incentive to the Zhou Family death warriors—they were now completely committed to staying in Longxing Valley, all aspiring to carve out a future for themselves like Xu Fu had.

Zhou Chun also restarted the training of the family’s death warriors and began gathering mortals with Spirit Root Aptitude once again.

However, this time, these people would be directly sent to Longxing Valley for cultivation.

And in these five years, Xu Fu and the others at Longxing Valley had charted the map of the surrounding area within a fifteen hundred li radius.

Disregarding the migratory and wandering Demon Beasts, as long as one followed the map, even a few Qi Refinement Realm cultivators could survive in the wasteland for several days.

This progress was not much different from the efficiency of the frontier base in Yunzhou.

Meanwhile, during this period, Xu Fu and his team also discovered a Spirit Jade Mine.

This mine could produce several types of Spirit Jade with different uses, and its value was quite significant.

Unfortunately, the location of the mine was too far from Longxing Valley, with a straight-line distance of over eight hundred li, and surrounded by treacherous territories where third-order Demon Beasts lurked.

This made Zhou Chun and the Zhou Family temporarily dare not harbor any designs towards it; they could only mark the location and plan for the future.

Nevertheless, Zhou Chun still instructed Xu Fu and the others to scout for a new base location in the direction of the Spirit Jade Vein.

Longxing Valley was still a bit too small, and the surrounding resources were not particularly abundant, having been nearly exhausted.

Therefore, it had become imperative to search for a better place to establish a base.

Fortunately, with Zhou Xindie’s successful Foundation Establishment, her skills in formations had also greatly improved. Although she could not yet arrange a Forbidden Formation like the “Five Directions Mirlo Array” all by herself, ordinary formations no longer posed any difficulty for her, which was sufficient for her to play a role in establishing a new base.

Moreover, thanks to the ample resources gathered from the Wasteland Territory, the Zhou Family’s development in the areas of elixirs, artifacts, talismans, and beasts was rapid.

Not to mention low-level elixirs like Beast Spirit Pills, even Demon Spirit Pills, which could improve the cultivation level of second-order Demon Beasts, had been produced in several batches. This allowed Zhou Chun and other cultivators with second-order Demon Beasts to have a taste of them.

As a result, Zhou Chun had also received seven or eight Demon Spirit Pills, all of which he invested in the Silver Lightning Python, Baibai.

Now, his own cultivation level was very close to the late Foundation Establishment phase, while Baibai was still quite far from advancing to a high-grade second-order Demon Beast. Zhou Chun had to focus on cultivating it.

Apart from Zhou Chun, other elders of the Zhou Family also benefited from the improvement in the family’s foundation, each obtaining substantial gains.

Zhou Jiarui, who was the first to succeed in Foundation Establishment, had already advanced his cultivation level to the mid-Foundation Establishment phase. Zhou Jiahe and Zhou Jiapeng were close behind.

Furthermore, the Blue Feather Fire Kite egg exchanged by Zhou Jiahe had now grown into a high-grade first-order Demon Beast. With a supply of Demon Spirit Pills, it was only a matter of time before it would advance to the second order.

As for the Qi Refinement Realm cultivators, they were even more comfortable.

The variety of Demon Beasts provided by the Zhou Family for these clan members under contract could not be compared to what was available in the past. The various elixirs and magic artifacts they could exchange from the family had also become much more plentiful than before.

It might be difficult to find someone as outstanding as Zhou Chun was back then among them, but their overall strength was much greater than that of the Zhou Family’s Qi Refinement Realm cultivators at that time.

With sufficient resources for cultivation, now any Zhou Family cultivator with at least a mid-grade Spirit Root Aptitude, as long as they were diligent and hardworking, could mostly reach the 12th layer of the Qi Refinement Realm before the age of fifty.

Some, with the support and care from their elders, even had the prospect of reaching this realm by the age of forty.

Unknowingly, the ones who had taken up the mantle of the Zhou Family were now the “Zheng” generation cultivators and the “Xin” generation cultivators.

The older generation of the “Jia” generation cultivators had mostly passed away, while the new “Si” generation was growing strong.

One day, the arrival of an invitation made Zhou Chun feel a surge of emotion after reading it.

The letter was delivered by an emissary from the Wang Family of Hongyao Valley, which had good relations with the Zhou Family. It said that the Wang Family’s previous Clan Leader, Wang Zhixiong, had already passed away.

This reminded Zhou Chun of the first time he met this man.

Back then, the first time he met Wang Zhixiong was when the Zhou Family had just taken root in Jiufeng Ridge. They had done everything they could to join the circle of the Wang Family, earning the right to participate in the joint magic combat competition of the five major cultivation families.

At that time, in Wang Zhixiong’s presence, even Zhou Daoyi, the Clan Leader of the Zhou Family, had to be exceedingly humble.

But as times change, over the course of sixty to seventy years, Zhou Daoyi had long become a Purple Mansion Phase Cultivator, and Zhou Chun had already achieved Foundation Establishment. The Zhou Family’s strength had far surpassed the Wang Family many times over.

And now Wang Zhixiong, the once vigorous Clan Leader of the Wang Family, had exhausted his lifespan and passed away.

“With Taoist Friend Wang’s departure, the Wang Family has lost a powerful figure. I heard that Elder Wang Guangping’s life is also nearing its end. The Wang Family, which has a history of nearly a thousand years, could it really be on the verge of decline?”

Zhou Chun sighed softly, filled with sentiment.

Perhaps this is the destiny that every power is unable to avoid.

If successors capable of taking over do not appear, the decline of a power becomes inevitable once the incumbents pass away.

The difference may just be that some major powers still have the chance to recover after a normal decline, while smaller powers might disappear completely after their fall.