Chapter 187: Golden-winged Tiger, Purple-striped Golden Peach Tree
Not to mention how Qinglian Temple and the Zhou family reacted when they learned that Zhou Chun was in the Golden Dragon Division.
However, it was said that Zhou Chun and the other three Golden Dragon envoys escorted sixty-seven new members of the cult and marched in the wilderness for nine days before finally successfully arriving at the Golden Dragon sub-altar.
Along the way, probably because their team was relatively large, and the route they took was also a route that had been explored earlier, they encountered not many attacks, and there was no reduction in personnel.
It can be said that the task was successfully completed.
"Yes, you have completed this mission well. This is your reward."
In the Golden Dragon Hall, the Great Protector Guan Cheng received the three people who had returned. After learning that the mission was successfully completed, he nodded with satisfaction and distributed rewards to the three people on the spot.
The reward Zhou Chun received this time was not spiritual coins or sect contribution points, but two dragon blood spiritual items.
When handing these two dragon-blooded spiritual objects to Zhou Chun, Guan Cheng also looked at him with deep meaning and said: "Zhou Jiao makes your "Secret of Dragon Transformation" a matter of practice to the second level as soon as possible.
In this way, the Protector and the Hall Master can rest assured to leave more important tasks to you, do you understand?"
"Yes, I obey."
Zhou Chun lowered his head slightly and responded respectfully.
"Then please retreat. If there is another mission, I will send someone to notify you."
Guan Cheng waved his hand and dismissed a few people.
But in fact, only Zhou Chun and the Yang envoy actually resigned, while the Song envoy returned shortly after retreating.
Then he reported the process and results of the day's testing to Guan Cheng.
After listening to what he said, Guan Cheng's eyes moved slightly, and he couldn't help but nodded thoughtfully and said: "It seems that this protector is a little too worried."
After saying that, he said to Professor Song: "Mr. Song, please go back as well. Remember to keep this matter strictly confidential and not let more people know about it. Do you understand?"
"Yes, I will definitely not betray the trust of the protector!"
The Song envoy responded and immediately exited the Golden Dragon Palace.
After he left, Guan Cheng's face darkened and he murmured to himself again: "You passed the test this time. I hope your next performance will be as good as this time!"
Besides, after Zhou Chun returned to his residence, he had a good sleep first.
After he woke up, he took out the two dragon-blooded spiritual objects that Guan Cheng gave him and began to meditate.
In the early stages of training in the "Secrets of Transforming Dragons" of the Dragon Transformation Sect, one is extremely dependent on external objects.
Without the support of a sufficient number of dragon-blooded spiritual beings, no matter how outstanding the qualifications are, it will be difficult for a skilled woman to build a cake without straw and it will be difficult to practice this secret technique to a higher level.
Therefore, Hualong Cult also relies on monopolizing dragon-blooded spiritual items to make ordinary believers obediently work for the sect.
After all, the improvement of the strength of ordinary believers in this secret technique is visible to the naked eye. Once you taste the benefits, it will be difficult to give up.
But Zhou Chun knew that the more advanced he practiced this secret art, the harder it would be to break away from the shackles of the Hualong Cult.
Therefore, he was somewhat undecided as to whether he should practice this secret skill to the second level as soon as possible.
"That's it! I can't trap the wolf if I don't want to give up the child! Now that we've entered the wolf's den, let's dance with the wolf!"
Zhou Chun gritted his teeth and finally made the decision to dance with wolves.
He quickly took a dragon's blood ginseng that was over 200 years old, and then began to practice the exercises of "The Secret of Dragon Transformation".
Time passed slowly, and soon more than two months passed.
During this period, Zhou Chun refined two dragon-blood spiritual objects, and his progress in practicing the "Secret of Dragon Transformation" increased visibly to the naked eye.
During this period, he finally mastered the "Flowing Golden Rainbow" secret technique that he had been practicing diligently and failed to achieve.
Zhou Chun used the time when he was out hunting for tiger cubs to quietly test the power of the "Flowing Golden Rainbow" secret technique outside.
The result made him very satisfied.
Although he has just started practicing this secret technique, there are still many obstacles in using it, but the power is very extraordinary.
Zhou Chun especially likes the effect it produces on escaping.
Wrapping himself in this golden rainbow and escaping can increase his speed several times in a short period of time, reaching a flying speed comparable to that of a monk in the Zifu period.
Although this escape distance is not too long, it can currently only fly dozens of miles at a time.
But at some point, it was enough to save his life.
After seeing the powerful power of this secret technique, Zhou Chun became more interested in practicing this secret technique. Even if he decided to major in this secret technique in the future, he would first practice it to the limit.
However, the thing that made Zhou Chun most happy during this period was not the cultivation of the secret technique of "Flowing Golden Rainbow", but the growth of the little tiger cub.
Half a year after its birth, the tiger cub finally successfully awakened its bloodline and officially became a first-order low-grade monster.
During this awakening, it was confirmed that it was born a mutant.
Not only did he awaken the wind-moving spells "Wind Blade Technique" and "Wind Control Technique", but he also awakened the gold-moving magic spells "Rapid Metal Technique" and "Gold Loss Technique".
At this time, the little tiger cub has shiny golden hair and two sharp saber teeth in its mouth, showing the majesty of a king.
With such an attractive appearance, the name Winged Tiger is no longer enough to describe its majesty, so Zhou Chun gave it a new racial name - Golden-winged Tiger.
After officially becoming a first-level low-grade monster, the golden-winged tiger can be put into the spirit beast bag, which saves Zhou Chun a lot of trouble.
Moreover, the golden-winged tiger can already be weaned at this time, and will only need to be fed raw meat in the future, which also saves Zhou Chun a lot of trouble.
However, the good times did not last long. Zhou Chun had been cultivating with peace of mind for less than three months, and Guan Cheng arranged a new task for him.
"There is a purple-striped golden peach tree outside the altar. The golden peaches on it are about to mature. Otherwise, the monster guarding the spiritual peaches will eat the mature spiritual peaches. Two teachers are needed to take turns guarding them. Zhou Jiao asked you to go with
Let’s take on this responsibility together, Master Yang!”
In the Golden Dragon Hall, Guan Cheng looked at Zhou Chun and Yang Chi, who had been summoned, and spoke in a deep voice about the content of this mission.
"I obey my orders."
Zhou Chun and Envoy Yang responded and immediately accepted the order and left the hall.
Then the two of them took the map given by Guan Cheng and left Fentan Mountain Gate. They walked for more than 700 miles in the wilderness before arriving at the location marked on the map.
It was a seismic canyon. The bottom of the canyon was thirty or forty feet above the ground. There was sparse vegetation inside and there were reddish-brown stones and soil everywhere.
The purple-striped golden peach tree Guan Chengkou mentioned is located on a cliff in the middle of the canyon.
This peach tree is less than two feet tall, its bark is purple-red, and there are seven huge golden peaches hanging on the tree.
After Zhou Chun and his two eyes lingered on the spiritual peach tree for a while, they both looked at the canyon ground under the tree.
On the reddish-brown gravel ground, a venomous snake with the same color as the ground was hiding among the gravel, secretly guarding the spiritual peach tree on the cliff.
"The second-level low-grade monster, the rusty-spotted poisonous python, cannot guard those seven spiritual peaches with its strength. No wonder the protector asked us to take turns taking care of them."
Yang Chi withdrew his gaze from the poisonous snake and said calmly.
Zhou Chun also said at this time: "Since there is this rusty-spotted poisonous python guarding the spiritual peach tree, we can take it easy. When the spiritual peach is really about to mature, it will not be too late to get rid of it."
"Good idea, Yang thinks so too."
Yang Chi nodded and agreed immediately.
So the two agreed to change the tree every three days, and a different person would come to guard the peach tree every three days.
It changes every three days. Zhou Chun doesn't know what Yang Chi will do. Anyway, he doesn't stay there honestly.
Although these three days were not enough for him to contact the outside world, it was still enough for him to explore the area around the Golden Dragon Branch and collect elixir resources in the wilderness.
In the area where the Golden Dragon Branch Temple is located, there are many kinds of elixirs in the wild.
Those elixirs that are one to two hundred years old are everywhere, but if you look carefully, they are not difficult to find.
Perhaps ordinary missionaries of the Hualong Sect would look down upon this common elixir that can be found everywhere.
But Zhou Chun is different.
He himself can't use this thing, but the Zhou family can!
Collecting these things and finding an opportunity to hand them over to the Zhou family can be regarded as a contribution to the Zhou family.
Not only does the elixir resource not go unnoticed, Zhou Chun will also catch all the monster eggs when he occasionally discovers some monsters laying eggs. These things are also of great use to the Zhou family.
It's all money!
In this way, using his time away from guarding the purple-striped golden peach tree, Zhou Chun collected more than 200 elixirs, more than 20 low-level monster eggs, and many more in just five months.
Common spiritual fruits that can be used to make wine.
Most of his storage bag was filled with these things, making him feel like a hard-working little squirrel.
On this day, Zhou Chun, who had just returned to the vicinity of the Earth Fissure Canyon from outside and was preparing to hand over to Yang Chi later, suddenly discovered that the rusty-spotted poisonous python that had been hiding on the ground of the canyon had climbed to the tree at some point.
On top of the golden peach tree with purple stripes.
Although the name contains the word "python", the rusty-spotted poisonous python is actually not that big.
It is only a little over ten feet long and almost as thick as Zhou Chun's arm. It is a larger snake.
But this snake contains extremely poisonous poison, and the poisonous cloud it spits out can kill even the foundation-building monks.
During the five months that Zhou Chun had been squatting here, he saw it spit out poisonous arrows many times, and the poisonous cloud easily killed the first-order monsters that came to steal the fruit.
"Are the purple-striped golden peaches about to mature?"
Zhou Chun looked at the rusty-spotted venomous python coiled in the tree, and felt enlightened, as if he understood why it suddenly climbed up from the canyon floor to the treetop.
So when Yang Chi rushed over to take a shift with him, Zhou Chun hurriedly told his guess.
After listening to his words and seeing the rusty-spotted venomous python that had indeed climbed up the tree, Yang Chi quickly nodded and said: "Yang also agrees with Professor Zhou's guess, so let's not change the next shift and solve it first.
This rusty-spotted poisonous python, let’s wait for the spiritual peach to mature together!”
"As it should be."
Zhou Chun responded and immediately discussed with Yang Chi how to lure the rusty-spotted poisonous python down from the peach tree.
After such discussions, Zhou Chun, who was still in the early stages of foundation building, took on the responsibility.
There is no way, if Yang Chi, who is in the middle stage of foundation building, comes over, the rusty-spotted poisonous python may realize that it cannot hold the spiritual peach, and will eat or destroy the spiritual peach on the tree in advance.
No matter which situation occurs, Zhou Chun and the others cannot accept it.
So Zhou Chun, who was in the early stages of foundation building, could only enter.
I saw Zhou Chun striding towards the top of the cliff where the spiritual peach tree was located, and immediately alerted the rusty-spotted poisonous python on the tree.
In an instant, a snake hissed and a reddish-brown poisonous arrow was shot towards Zhou Chunzan.
Zhou Chun had already seen the power of this poisonous arrow, and he did not dare to underestimate it. He immediately raised his hand and shot out a golden light sword energy to intercept it.
After the poison arrow and the sword energy collided in mid-air, they immediately turned into a ball of poisonous water and fell to the ground.
Anywhere the poisonous water touches, whether stones or vegetation, will be instantly dissolved into red poisonous water!
After such a burst of sword energy dispersed the poisonous arrow, Zhou Chun did not wait for the rusty-spotted poisonous python to attack again, so he took the lead and condensed the "Golden Cauldron Xuanguang" into a golden sword and slashed at it on the treetop. It seemed as if he was going to connect it to the snake.
All the trees were chopped with one sword.
This moment angered the rusty-spotted poisonous python.
It opened its mouth, and immediately spit out a highly condensed venom water arrow and hit the golden sword, directly dissolving the golden sword in mid-air.
Then the snake's body moved, and it quickly rose into the air from the tree and flew towards Zhou Chun.
It's now!
A cold light flashed in Zhou Chun's eyes, and he immediately used the "Flying Dragon Seizing" magic weapon to attack the rusty-spotted poisonous python that jumped into the air.
At the same time, he raised his hand and patted the spirit beast bag on his waist, and the recovered silver lightning python appeared in vain!
The poor rusty-spotted poisonous python finally realized that he had been fooled.
But it was too late.
The poisonous cloud it spit out was easily penetrated by the red gold flying claws, and it was grabbed hard on its body, and the sharp claws directly penetrated its body.
Immediately afterwards, a silver-white lightning fell on it, knocking it to the ground.
In just a few strokes, the rusty-spotted poisonous python on the ground turned into a dead snake.
Yang Chi, who had retreated and watched from a distance, saw this scene, and his expression suddenly changed slightly.
He had also heard of Zhou Chun's name before and knew that Zhou Chun's strength was no worse than that of a monk in the middle stage of Foundation Establishment.
But since I haven't seen it with my own eyes, I naturally have doubts in my heart.
Now that I have seen with my own eyes the strength of Zhou Chun's master and servant, I actually feel that the rumors may have underestimated Zhou Chun's strength.
"Jiaozuo Zhou is really powerful. Even if Yang takes action himself, I'm afraid it will be difficult to kill this rusty-spotted poisonous python in such a short time!"
When he came closer and looked at Zhou Chun who was skinning the rusty-spotted poisonous python to extract its bile, he suddenly sighed from the bottom of his heart.
"Mr. Yang is overly praised. He was able to win so quickly. It's just that Zhou took advantage of his calculations intentionally and unintentionally."
Zhou Chun responded and quickly disposed of the body of the rusty-spotted poisonous python.
This kind of venomous snake only has skin, gallbladder and fangs, and its venom sac is useful to cultivators. The rest of its flesh and bones may contain toxins and have little use value.
Therefore, after taking down the useful things, Zhou Chun burned the body, then looked at the spiritual peach tree on the cliff and whispered: "I don't know when this purple-striped golden peach will be truly mature. I hope it will be mature by then."
Don’t cause any more trouble!”
"It should be here in the next few days!"
Yang Chi said something uncertain, and then he and Zhou Chunyi guarded the purple-striped golden peach tree on the cliff.