In the far west, above a certain barren mountain.

As a golden ray of light descended from the sky, Zhou Chun, carrying an old man named Du in yellow clothes, landed on a desolate stone mountain.

This place is thousands of miles away from the Sea of ​​Flowing Fire and Sand, and during Zhou Chun's time, he transformed into a moon toad and traveled hundreds of miles across a section of the river.

Even if a real person from the Nascent Soul Stage really catches up afterwards, without being able to lock his soul, it should be difficult to track his whereabouts with just his breath.

So Zhou Chun was ready to stay here for half a day to recover his mana and deal with some things.

Time was running out, so Zhou Chun didn't open any temporary caves as usual. Instead, with a quick sweep of his consciousness, he found a natural cave, drove away the few beasts living inside, and then released the golden-winged tiger to protect the cave outside.

Inside the cave, Zhou Chun was sitting cross-legged, holding a piece of spiritual crystal in each hand to absorb the spiritual power and meditating to restore his mana. The unconscious old man in yellow clothes named Du was thrown aside.

After meditating like this for almost two hours, and recovering 30 to 40% of the almost exhausted mana in his body, Zhou Chun suddenly opened his eyes and put away the spiritual crystal in his hand that had been severely depleted of spiritual power.

Then he glanced at the old man named Du in yellow who was still in a coma, and without hesitation immediately put his hand on his head and started searching for his soul forcefully.

The old man in yellow surnamed Du is a monk in the middle stage of Jindan. Although his strength is not that good in Zhou Chun's eyes, he is in the same realm as him after all.

If it were an ordinary mid-stage golden elixir monk, there would be no chance of successfully searching its soul.

However, Zhou Chun's spiritual consciousness is powerful and he has reached the late stage of Jindan, so he can give it a try.

After such an attempt, Zhou Chun himself turned pale in the battle with the soul and will of the old man in yellow surnamed Du, his back was soaked with sweat, and he looked like he was exhausted.

But fortunately, he still managed to obtain the information he wanted to know after consuming a lot of spiritual power.

I saw him casually shooting a ray of golden light through the Purple Mansion Consciousness Sea of ​​the old man in yellow surnamed Du, wiping out his soul and consciousness. Then he lowered his head and thought about the information he had just obtained.

Because the old man in yellow surnamed Du had a strong sense of resistance, Zhou Chun's soul search was very unsatisfactory. After all the hard work, he only got some scattered useful information.

According to the information obtained from the soul search, the old man in yellow surnamed Du is indeed a casual cultivator who was recruited by the Holy Fire Sect. He often helps the Holy Fire Sect to go to the Flowing Fire Sand Sea to exchange for various training resources, and helps them kill Zhou Chun.

A golden elixir-level monk who traveled from afar.

At the exchange meeting that day, this person sent a message to Zhou Chun to meet him, and he was indeed instructed by Xue Yan.

However, the information about the "Emperor's Liquid" mentioned by the other party at that time was not purely fictitious!

According to the information obtained by the old man in yellow surnamed Du, there is a fourth-level high-grade monster [Binghuo Shencrow] in the Holy Fire Sect that is ready to survive the thunder tribulation of heaven, and the Holy Fire Sect also intends to help this monster successfully survive the tribulation.

If this demon really survives the Heavenly Thunder Tribulation, then the vision of the God-given "Emperor's Ooze" will naturally appear. At that time, it will be easy for the Yuanying Stage Real People of the Holy Fire Sect to intercept part of the "Emperor's Ooze" and fall into their hands.

Things.

This "Emperor's Liquid" is a real wonder of heaven and earth. It has a great nourishing effect on fifth-level demon kings. If monsters below fourth-level can refine some of this kind of spiritual object, the possibility of breaking through to fourth-level will be greatly increased.

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Even level four monsters can have various benefits by refining such spiritual objects.

The biggest benefit is that you have the opportunity to use the power of "Emperor's Liquid" to refine the bones in your throat and gain the ability to speak human words.

In addition, "Emperor Ooze" can also make monsters wiser and increase their spiritual intelligence.

Unfortunately, even if he knew this information, Zhou Chun seemed to have no chance of obtaining the "Emperor's Liquid".

Let's not talk about whether [Binghuo Divine Crow] can successfully survive the thunder tribulation of heaven. Even if it successfully survives, a large part of the "Emperor Ooze" dropped from the sky will definitely be refined by it and used to lay the foundation of its fifth-level demon king.

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Even if part of the rest is intercepted, it will probably fall into the hands of those Nascent Soul Stage real people from the Holy Fire Sect.

Judging from the behavior of the Holy Fire Sect, not to mention that Zhou Chun has offended this sect to death, even if he has not and successfully exchanged other treasures for the "Emperor Ooze", I am afraid that he will still be blackmailed later!

"After all, my cultivation is not strong enough!"

Shaking his head, Zhou Chun sighed and stopped thinking about the "Emperor's Liquid".

He quickly burned the body of the old man in yellow surnamed Du to ashes with a ball of fire, then rode on the golden-winged tiger and left the place.

A few days later, Zhou Chun arrived at a large market and settled there to rest.

In a secret room, Zhou Chun was sitting cross-legged, with several storage bags placed in front of him, which were the relics of the two Golden Core monks he had killed before.

However, he was not in a hurry to check these relics, but first took out the [Tiangang Thunder Sword] for inspection.

In the previous battle on the Flowing Fire and Sand Sea, this sword showed great power and helped him defeat powerful enemies, showing that he was as good as the best magic weapon!

But after its glory, this sword now looks a little dull.

After the thunder dragon demon soul sealed in the sword exploded and accumulated, it can no longer be awakened and stimulated. It will take time to accumulate before it can regain its strength.

If Zhou Chun is a monk with thunder attribute skills, he may be able to recover in ten or eight years with careful cultivation.

But unfortunately he is not.

Then this sword may not be able to exert such power again for twenty or thirty years.

Fortunately, with Zhou Chun's current strength, the situation where he needs to activate the Thunder Dragon Demonic Soul should be very rare, and he also has the [Moon Toad Orb], so there is no need to care too much about this gain or loss.

After checking it at this time, he put the sword into his body and slowly cultivated it.

Then Zhou Chuncai picked up the storage bag on the ground and cracked it open one by one to inspect the treasures inside.

After some inspection and counting, Zhou Chun's harvest was calculated.

In this battle, he killed two middle-level Jindan monks and a fourth-level middle-level monster.

A total of five complete magic weapons were harvested, including three mid-grade magic weapons, two low-grade magic weapons, and a fourth-level mid-grade earth attribute demon pill!

Among the three middle-grade magic weapons, two are natal magic weapons.

One is the yellow gourd magic weapon used by the old man in yellow surnamed Du, which is called [Wutu Divine Sand Gourd]. The "Wutu Divine Sand" inside is refined and cultivated through secret rituals. It integrates offense and defense, and is very mysterious.

If he hadn't encountered the [Tiangang Thunder Slashing Sword], a high-grade magic weapon, it would have been really not easy for Zhou Chun to capture and kill this man alive.

It is a pity that after the death of the old man in yellow surnamed Du, he did not use his own skills and secrets to refine the "Wutu Sacred Sand". In the future, the sacred sand in the gourd will be reduced by one. After using up, this treasure will basically be regarded as useless.

It's useless, and its power is probably not as powerful as ordinary low-grade magic weapons.

Another natal magic weapon comes from a beautiful woman in red. It is a fiery red hairpin magic weapon. This magic weapon is a flying sword type. Its power is not bad, but its style may not be liked by some male cultivators.

The last remaining medium-grade magic weapon also came from the beautiful woman in red. It was a fiery red chain. It should be a binding magic weapon. I didn't see it being used at that time, maybe because I didn't find the opportunity to use it.

Unexpectedly, she was instantly killed by Zhou Chun before she even had a chance to use this magic weapon.

As for the two low-grade magic weapons, one came from a beautiful woman in red, and it was a bronze dressing mirror. Its power was mediocre, and she had never been seen using it.

One piece came from an old man named Du in yellow clothes. It was a khaki stone stick magic weapon that had been used to attack the Fire Phoenix of Hell.

In addition to these magic weapons, two golden elixir-level monks also contributed four fourth-level magic talismans to Zhou Chun, including a fourth-level mid-level defensive magic talisman, eight magic weapons and spiritual materials, a dozen thousand-year-old elixirs, and a dozen third-level magic talismans.

Utensils and various sundries.

Generally speaking, there are not many things in their storage bags, which is somewhat inconsistent with their middle-stage Golden Core cultivation.

I guess he was either really poor, or he deliberately cleaned his storage bag before going out and didn't bring some important things with him.

Zhou Chun didn't pay too much attention to it. Anyway, he had gained a lot from getting a few magic weapons, and the others were just tacks on.

Speaking of which, the number of various unused magic weapons that Zhou Chun has accumulated in his hands is now close to ten. Except for a few magic weapons that are ready to be replaced by Zhou Mingde and Zhou Daoyi, most of the magic weapons can be disposed of.

So now he looked at these magic weapons in his hands and quickly had some ideas in his mind.

After resting in Fangshi for more than half a month, Zhou Chun set out on his way home again.

On the way back to Jingguo, Zhou Chun did not try to cross the Nieling Canyon again, but preferred to spend two or three more months taking a long way around this dangerous area.

By the time Zhou Chun returned to Jingguo, nine years had passed since he left the family!

After returning to the family this time, Zhou Chun no longer concealed the fact that his cultivation level had reached the middle stage of the Golden Core.

It has been more than a hundred years since he successfully formed the elixir. Although it is surprising that his cultivation has reached the middle stage of the golden elixir, considering that he formed the elixir in his early 200s, it is not too bizarre. It just makes people envious of his luck.

That’s all.

And with Zhou Chun's current cultivation strength, as long as he doesn't attract the attention of real people in the Nascent Soul stage, he doesn't have to worry about what other Jindan stage monks think of him.

Whether he is envious or jealous, anyone who dares to provoke him will only regret it in the end!

Although Zhou Chun had been away from the family for nine years, because he had been in seclusion and going out for many years before, the Zhou family members were not surprised by this, and there was no disturbance caused by his return.

After all, with his current status and cultivation, he is already at a completely different level from the majority of middle and low-level tribesmen. Whether he is in the family or out, he will not affect the lives of these middle- and low-level tribesmen. Anyway, he usually does not

There will be intersection.

Just like those countries in his previous life, no matter whether the head of state is at home or visiting abroad, it has nothing to do with ordinary people. In any case, it is difficult for the two to intersect.

However, nine years is a long time after all, and the changes that have taken place in the Zhou family and even Jingguo are not small.

Among them, the Zhou family has added two new monks from the Zifu period, namely Zhou Zhiying, Zhou Chun's disciple, and Zhou Simiao, a member of the "Si" generation.

The success of these two people in opening up the Zifu also broke the embarrassing situation where there were no monks in the Zifu period in their respective generations.

And with the success of these two people in opening the Zifu, including Zhang Liang and Xu Fu, the number of Zifu monks in the Zhou family has reached ten!

Ten monks of the Purple Mansion Stage, this number is considered a just right number for the Zhou family.

If there are too many Purple Mansion monks, it will not actually improve the overall strength of the family very much, because the Zhou family currently does not have much land to accommodate these Purple Mansion monks, and it is easy to form a "surplus talent" phenomenon.

As for maintaining this number of Zifu-stage monks, we can select two or three monks who are expected to form elixirs among them and focus on training to see if we can cultivate another Jindan-stage monk for the family.

This method of concentrating resources to cultivate outstanding geniuses is the best way for a cultivating family to ensure the inheritance of their family. It is also an advantage that family monks have over most sects of monks.
To be continued...