Clan Cultivation: Starting from Beast Taming-Chapter 718 - 366: Searching for Treasure in the Wild, Golden Sword Bamboo [Subscribe Requested]_2

Chapter 718: Chapter 366: Searching for Treasure in the Wild, Golden Sword Bamboo [Subscribe Requested]_2

This Spirit Bamboo was so unique that a single glance left a deep impression.

Zhou Chun also quickly recognized their origin.

“It’s actually Golden Sword Bamboo, and given the height of this bamboo, I’m afraid it has grown for over a thousand years!”

With a face full of surprise, Zhou Chun gazed at the Spirit Bamboo with both shock and joy.

Golden Sword Bamboo is a very rare type of Spirit Bamboo.

This bamboo naturally grows on its own accord, not flowering, fruiting, or producing shoots, and cannot be artificially cultivated.

The most unique feature of this peculiar bamboo is that it possesses a very rare dual attribute of metal and wood, with the metal attribute being stronger than the wood attribute.

However, in classification, this odd bamboo is designated as a wood-element Spiritual Object.

For some cultivators at the Golden Core Stage who practice wood-element cultivation techniques, Golden Sword Bamboo is one of their favorite materials for forging lifebound Dharma treasures.

Especially when used to forge flying swords, they are not only intrinsically tough and sharp, but also integrate well with materials such as Iron Essence, Gold Essence, and Silver Essence, which enhance the flying swords’ power, allowing these metal spirit materials to perfectly merge with the natural material of the sword without any rejection.

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It’s well-known that wood-element cultivators at the Golden Core Stage face tough choices when forging their lifebound Dharma treasures.

In the cultivation world, there are many Dharma treasures and spirit materials suitable for wood-element Golden Core Stage cultivators, and ninety-nine percent of them are various types of Spirit Wood.

Except for some special kinds of Spirit Wood, most are subdued by the metal and fire attributes, and their natural materials are hard-pressed to withstand the slash of metal-attribute flying swords or the scorching of fire-element Divine Skills at the same level.

Thus, Dharma treasures forged by wood-element cultivators at the Golden Core Stage are often known for their Divine Skills transformations, aiming to avoid direct confrontations between the treasures themselves.

This is actually a choice made out of necessity!

But if the Dharma treasure could be forged with a wood-element Spiritual Object like the Golden Sword Bamboo, the outcome would be completely different.

Wood-element Dharma treasures or flying swords forged from Golden Sword Bamboo, while being as tough and sharp as metal-attribute flying swords, harmonize perfectly with the wood-element cultivators’ own mana, maximizing resistance to being overpowered by an opponent.

In such cases, the Millennium Golden Sword Bamboo, barely suitable for use as a Dharma treasure material, would be extremely valuable.

If there’s a Golden Core Stage cultivator urgently in need of such spirit materials, selling this Golden Sword Bamboo for two or three hundred thousand Spirit Coins wouldn’t be a problem.

With such a precious treasure right in front of him, how could Zhou Chun not be immensely tempted?

“The classics say that Golden Sword Bamboo is extremely domineering; plants in the surrounding area would be killed by the Golden Qi it emits, no wonder I can’t see even a single weed near this huge stone forest!”

Zhou Chun, looking at the Golden Sword Bamboo under the huge stones and scanning the barren ground around it, reassured himself that he hadn’t misidentified the treasure.

Then he fell into thought for a moment before slapping his Storage Pouch at his waist, and conjured a golden long knife Dharma treasure.

After opening his Purple Mansion, those second-grade magic artifacts he used to use could no longer match his current cultivation level and status, so he refined three third-grade magic artifacts.

This golden long knife, seemingly unremarkable, was actually a genuine mid-grade third-grade magic artifact.

Given the hard nature of Golden Sword Bamboo, even with this mid-grade third-grade magic artifact in hand, Zhou Chun was not fully confident that he could sever it at the roots.

If he couldn’t do it, he’d have to return and find another way.

But just as Zhou Chun was about to use the Dharma treasure to cut the bamboo, suddenly a flash of silver light erupted from below the earth, sending the golden long knife flying.

Immediately afterward, a badger-like Demon Beast burrowed out from beneath the ground.

This Demon Beast was not very large, about the size of a lioness, covered in a thick and dense coat of silver fur, with boar-like tusks growing from its mouth.

The aura it emitted suggested that it was a third-grade lower-class Demon Beast.

Zhou Chun looked at this oddly-shaped Demon Beast, unable to recognize its origins.

But judging from the silver light just now, this beast should also be a metal-attribute Demon Beast.

With that in mind, Zhou Chun glanced back at the Golden Sword Bamboo.

Indeed, upon closer observation, it was discovered that some bamboo leaves on certain branches were conspicuously missing, and the lengths of leaves on other branches were irregular.

It made him realize, all of a sudden, that the Demon Beast must have eaten the leaves of the Millennium Golden Sword Bamboo as food.

The leaves it had ingested surely benefited the creature’s own growth, which was why it chose to make its lair near the Millennium Golden Sword Bamboo, so it could guard the remarkable bamboo at all times.

Perhaps sensing that Zhou Chun was a formidable opponent, the Demon Beast did not immediately attack upon showing itself. Instead, it kept a wary eye on him, growling “huff huff,” reminiscent of an agitated wild cat.

At the same time, as soon as the Demon Beast appeared, the Wood Charm transformed into the Azure Deer got so scared that it fled deep into the nearby forest, not daring to confront it.

“Good, I have yet to fully engage in battle with anyone since opening my Purple Mansion. Today, I’ll use you, beast, as practice!”

Zhou Chun met the Demon Beast’s gaze, his eyes immediately revealing his desire to fight.

Demon Beasts are very sensitive to such hostility. As soon as Zhou Chun showed his intent to engage, the Demon Beast knew a fight was inevitable and preemptively attacked.

A silver rainbow light was expelled from its mouth, shooting towards Zhou Chun like a Flying Sword.

In the very instant the rainbow light left its mouth, its body turned into a streak of silver lightning, pouncing towards Zhou Chun.

But while its attack was fast, Zhou Chun was not slow either.

A thick Golden Qi burst forth from within him as he shouted. Shaped like a mountain broad at the base and tapering at the top, this mass protected him inside it.

From a distance, Zhou Chun looked as if he bore a mountain of gold on his back.

This was the “Unassailable as a Golden Mountain” spell, which came with the success of the second chapter of his Golden Cauldron Profound Art.

The silver rainbow light that struck the golden mountain caused a great tremor, as if a giant hammer had hammered down on it, but it couldn’t inflict any substantial harm on Zhou Chun inside.

At this moment, Zhou Chun fixed his eyes on the Demon Beast charging towards him. Lifting his right hand slightly, a clump of golden light formed in his palm, condensing into a gleaming Golden Light Blade.

With a swing of his arm, the Golden Light Blade slashed towards the Demon Beast, which was just an arm’s length away, swinging its claws aggressively at his protective golden mountain.

The swishing sound of the blade tore through the air, reaching the Demon Beast in the blink of an eye.

This Demon Beast also had some tricks up its sleeve; its dense, silver fur could link up to form a layer, like wearing a suit of soft armor.

The Heaven-Splitting Blade spell borne from Zhou Chun’s technique only managed to slash through a clump of its fur and leave a not-so-deep bloodstain, having been dissipated by nearly half its force.

But this minor injury seemed to only enrage the Demon Beast further. Silver light danced over its swiping claws, and in the blink of an eye, it slashed wildly dozens of times, shredding Zhou Chun’s protective golden mountain in an instant—remarkably ferocious.

Seeing this, Zhou Chun, being cautious, immediately took another item from his Storage Pouch, summoning a Low-Grade, Third-Order Defensive Dharma Artifact.

A yellowish-brown Inkstone Platform Dharma Artifact was waved into action, and propelled by mana, a dense cloud of yellowish-brown mist, thick as ink, spurted out, quickly forming an Aureole Barrier around him.

Then, with a thought, the golden long blade artifact in his hand exploded with radiance, aggressively chopping down on the Demon Beast.

The Demon Beast, seemingly aware of the danger of the golden blade, did not dare to clash with its edge again, and its body flickered with a silver shimmer, instantly splitting into three figures and moving away from its original spot.

Although Zhou Chun could quickly distinguish the true from the fake with his powerful Divine Sense, the slight delay was enough for the Demon Beast to make its escape several hundred feet away.

Just as he was about to pursue and eliminate the Demon Beast, he saw it suddenly burrow into the ground, quickly digging a deep hole and disappearing underground in the blink of an eye.

“Giving up so soon?”

Zhou Chun was slightly stunned, not expecting the Demon Beast to give up so decisively.

He tried to extend his Divine Sense along the hole to track the Demon Beast but found the tunnel blocked, making it impossible for his Divine Sense to penetrate the thick earth and stone to follow.

Seeing this, he had no choice but to let it go.

“Forget it, if it has escaped, it has escaped. Let’s chop down this Millennium Golden Sword Bamboo first!”

Shaking his head, Zhou Chun then urged the golden blade to strike at the bamboo’s base.