Cultivating Immortals in the Family: Rising from Beast Familiarity Chapter 261: Zhou Zhengyong builds the foundation, breaks through the middle stage of foundation establishment
Chapter 261: Zhou Zhengyong builds the foundation, breaks through the middle stage of foundation establishment
Good things come in pairs. Just two months after Zhou Mingde and the others came back, the Danyao Li family and the Formation You family also let go again.
Although they still disagreed with the Zhou family's 40% share, they no longer insisted that they must occupy 40%.
Finally, after some discussions, the three parties agreed to each take a 30% share, and the remaining 10% was handed over to Qinglian Temple as protection fee.
At the same time, both the Li family and the You family also promised that if the Zhou family needs elixirs and formations in the future, and they want to refine some elixirs and arrange some formations, they can ask their family for help as long as they prepare the materials.
Lowest discount price.
Seeing this, Zhou Chun was not polite at all. He quickly took out the old elixirs he had plundered from the Hualong Sect and asked the Li family to help refine some elixirs that could improve the mana cultivation of the monks in the Foundation Establishment Period.
Now there are seven monks in the foundation-building stage of the Zhou family, and one or two more may appear next.
This kind of elixir, which improves the magic power of monks in the foundation-building period, will be in great demand from the Zhou family.
As for formations, after Zhou Chongshan's death, there really will be no one in the Zhou family who can be good in this area. When needed in this area in the future, they can only rely on the You family.
After negotiating the cooperation agreement, Zhou Chun informed the Li family and You family of the location selected by Lin Waner, and asked them to be responsible for the construction of the 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 monks to help and show the presence of the Zhou family.
Then there is the issue of the distribution of the two Foundation Establishment Pills.
There are currently nearly twenty monks in the Zhou family who are at the twelfth level of the Qi Refining Stage. Even excluding those monks whose life span exceeds eighty years, there are still ten who are qualified to use the Foundation Establishment Pill.
There are too many monks and too little porridge, so this Foundation Building Pill is not easy to divide.
That is to say, the news about the Foundation Establishment Pill is still hidden, otherwise the Zhou family monks who came to Zhou Chun to plead for mercy would have broken the threshold long ago.
But it's not a problem to keep the elixir in your hands all the time. Use it as soon as possible to enhance the family's strength as soon as possible.
Therefore, after much thought, Zhou Chun made a decision.
He first privately found Zhou Zhengyong, who had the best relationship with him, and gave him several rare spiritual objects that he owned privately, asking him to dedicate them to the family in his own name in exchange for the family's good deeds.
Zhou Zhengyong himself has served as the deacon of the Zhou family for many years, and with the support of his Taoist companion Sun Yujiao, he has accumulated almost two thousand good deeds for himself.
At this time, he was prompted by Zhou Chun to offer several rare spiritual objects, and gained more than 3,000 points of good family merit.
In this way, with more than 5,000 points of family good deeds, Zhou Zhengyong has undoubtedly fulfilled a clan rule previously set by the Zhou family.
Any tribesman in the Qi Refining Period who has more than 5,000 points of family merit will be automatically promoted to become the family's foundation-building seed and have priority in taking the foundation-building pill.
At this time, Zhou Chun used his family's good deeds to exchange for those rare spiritual objects, and at the same time announced the news that his family had two foundation-building pills.
As expected, once the news was announced, the Zhou family was in a state of excitement.
Those members of the Zhou family who were at the eleventh and twelfth levels of Qi refining stage came to Zhou Chun one by one to inquire about the distribution of the Foundation Establishment Pills...
Even a few elders came over to inquire about the matter out of favor.
Zhou Chun was naturally prepared for this. No matter who came over, he would just answer that these two Foundation Building Pills would only be given to the family's "Foundation Building Seeds" in accordance with family rules.
Since the Zhou family currently does not have any monks with high-grade spiritual root qualifications, nor any Qi-refining monks who have successively made great contributions to the family like Zhou Chun did, there are naturally no "foundation-building seeds" in the true sense.
Therefore, if you really want to obtain the foundation-building pill, you have to accumulate good deeds, let your good deeds exceed 5,000 points, and automatically be promoted to become the foundation-building seed of the family.
But just when the Zhou family monks were thinking hard about how to increase their family's good deeds to five thousand points as soon as possible, they suddenly learned that someone had consumed all their family's good deeds and exchanged for a foundation-building pill.
This may surprise others.
However, after learning that it was Zhou Zhengyong who redeemed the Foundation Establishment Pill, many people became silent again.
No one is a fool. How could Zhou Zhengyong suddenly have so many good deeds in the family? All Zhou family monks who know the relationship between him and the patriarch Zhou Chun know it all clearly.
But even if they felt uncomfortable about it, they couldn't blame Zhou Chun or Zhou Zhengyong for it.
After all, Zhou Chun is willing to exchange his personal savings for Zhou Zhengyong's family's good deeds. This is his own business and no one else has the right to comment.
If they couldn't blame this point, could they still blame Zhou Chun for the way he distributed the foundation-building pills?
That doesn't mean that you have cut off your own way to redeem the Foundation Establishment Pill!
In fact, Zhou Chun was able to help Zhou Zhengyong in this way, which was already trying his best to maintain the justice of the family.
All Zhou family monks who have a sense of the overall situation know this clearly.
So after that bit of discomfort passed, the remaining Foundation Establishment Pill became the target for other Zhou family monks to compete for.
At this time, the only way to collect the five thousand points of family good deeds as quickly as possible is by borrowing money.
However, the Zhou family has long stipulated that monks in the foundation-building stage are not allowed to lend their good skills to monks in the Qi-refining stage in such matters.
And if you want to follow the practices of Zhou Chun and Zhou Zhengyong, it is not something that ordinary elders can afford.
After all, the few treasures given by Zhou Chun were all high-quality products that ordinary foundation-building monks could hardly obtain.
Under such circumstances, if you want to borrow so many good deeds from many family Qi-refining monks, it is still a great test of your personal communication skills and character.
But this is not something Zhou Chun needs to worry about.
He has arranged this important matter, and there are not many things in the family that he needs to worry about. He can finally calm down and improve his cultivation.
The rules of the Zhou family, or the rules of all sects and families, are like this.
Because the sect leaders and clan leaders put in a lot of energy in taking care of the sect and family affairs, they can receive priority in receiving support and care from the family on those elixirs that improve mana.
Therefore, most of the mana-enhancing elixirs that Zhou Mingde and others obtained from Leguo went into Zhou Chun's hands.
And Zhou Chun himself still had a lot of pills that he had obtained through various methods before.
This made him practice very comfortably.
Other monks in the Foundation Establishment Stage may take several years to take a pill that improves their magic power, and even several years may not be able to take such a pill...
However, he was able to take an elixir every three or four months while minimizing the impact of erysipelas.
And the pure gold energy he needs for cultivation has already been collected in large quantities through external purchases.
In this way, once he calms down and enters the state of cultivation, Zhou Chun's cultivation will improve quickly.
Half a year later, Zhou Zhengyong succeeded in building the foundation by taking the Foundation Establishment Pill and became the eighth Foundation Establishment monk of the Zhou family. This filled the vacancy when the second elder Zhou Chongshan passed away.
"Congratulations to Brother Yong for successfully building the foundation!"
On the Pagoda Peak, after Zhou Chun saw Zhou Zhengyong who had successfully emerged from seclusion by building a foundation, he immediately congratulated him with a smile on his face.
Hearing his words, Zhou Zhengyong's smile that originally covered his entire face suddenly faded.
Then he bowed to him with a grateful face and said, "Thirteenth brother, I have no way to repay my kindness to my brother. I can only express my gratitude to you in this way!"
After finishing speaking, he raised his head and looked at Zhou Chun without waiting for Zhou Chun's response, and said with a serious face: "From now on, as long as the clan leader gives orders, Zhengyong will never frown even if he goes up the mountain of swords or down into the sea of fire!"
Judging from his words, we can see how grateful he is to Zhou Chun in his heart.
He knew very well that without Zhou Chun, Zhou Zhengyong would never be where he is today.
No matter what he did, it would be difficult for him to repay Zhou Chun's kindness to him.
Therefore, at this time, Zhou Zhengyong felt that he could not listen to anyone in the Zhou family, but he could never hesitate at all about Zhou Chun's words.
As the saying goes, a scholar dies for a confidant. If Zhou Chun is really honest one day,
He was willing to use his own life to repay Zhou Chun's kindness to him!
After hearing Zhou Zhengyong's words, Zhou Chun looked at the serious-looking Zhou Zhengyong in front of him, and his heart was filled with emotion.
Mu Yong had no doubt that when he and Zhou Zhengyong got close, he did have the intention of taking advantage of each other.
But after so many years, he has truly regarded Zhou Zhengyong as his brother and family member.
In fact, given his current status in the Zhou family and his status in the hearts of the elders, having one more Zhou Zhengyong supporting him, or one less Zhou Zhengyong supporting him, will not shake his status in any way.
But when he got the two foundation-building pills, he thought of Zhou Zhengyong first.
This is brother!
Zhou Chun would not deliberately hide his brotherly love for Zhou Zhengyong.
A smile flashed on his face, he stepped forward and held Zhou Zhengyong's hand and said, "Brother Yong, you are serious. The main thing is that you strive for success on your own. You succeeded in building the foundation in one go."
As someone who has experienced it, Zhou Chun certainly knows the difficulty of building a foundation.
He even failed to build the foundation once!
Zhou Zhengyong was able to successfully build the foundation in one go, whether it was because he had better luck than before, or not, it was indeed a great achievement.
At least this way, no one would have any objections to Zhou Zhengyong exchanging a Foundation Establishment Pill.
Next, Zhou Chun also personally held a foundation-building celebration for Zhou Zhengyong to celebrate his success in foundation-building.
Zhou Zhengyong's success in foundation building undoubtedly gave other monks in the Zhou family's Qi refining stage a lot of stimulation, making them even more eager for the remaining foundation building pill.
As the clan leader, Zhou Chun can clearly know which monks of the Zhou family are gradually approaching the 5,000-point mark for their good deeds...
What is more interesting is that several Zhou family monks have raised their family's good deeds to more than 4,000 points through borrowing.
But the remaining few hundred points are difficult to borrow.
Because behind these people with more than 4,000 points, there are several monks with more than 3,000 points and more than 2,000 points of good deeds.
Zhou Chun did not interfere in this matter. Anyway, these people have similar cultivation levels and similar qualifications. Whether they can succeed after taking the Foundation Establishment Pill depends entirely on God's will. It doesn't matter who takes it.
Time passed slowly, and soon another two years passed.
On this day, with a surge of mana in his body, Zhou Chun finally succeeded in breaking through to the middle stage of foundation building.
This year, he was forty-eight years old.
Establishing the foundation at the age of thirty-six, and breaking through to the middle stage of foundation-building at the age of forty-eight. This speed is not unpleasant!
It should be known that even those monks who practice fast techniques to improve their mana, without taking elixirs, will have to practice hard for forty or fifty years before they can break through to the middle stage of foundation building.
Even if Zhou Chun has practiced the top-level technique "Jinding Xuan Gong", his cultivation speed is no worse than those techniques that can quickly improve his magic power. This is still a very amazing speed.
After all, he does not have a high-grade spiritual root qualification, but only a middle-grade spiritual root.
But in Zhou Chun's opinion, this is normal.
Ever since he started practicing "Golden Cauldron Xuan Gong", he has almost never been short of elixirs for improving his magic power, and the types of elixirs are also different.
According to this calculation, in just six or seven years, he took at least twenty-six or seven pills.
Each of these pills, which are suitable for monks in the foundation-building stage to improve their magic power, is almost as effective as one or two years of normal meditation practice.
All in all, he has actually been practicing for fifty or sixty years.
So it is normal for him to have this level of cultivation at this age!
At this time, after several years of feeding by Zhou Chun, the golden-winged tiger has become a first-order high-grade monster. Even the silver lightning python Baibai has been promoted to the second-order mid-grade after being fed by the demon spirit pill that the family preferentially supplies.
The monster is getting closer and closer.
When it is promoted to the second-level mid-level monster, and Zhou Chun, who is in the middle stage of foundation building, joins forces, and master and servant join forces, it will be difficult to have an opponent in the realm of foundation building.
A few days later, the news of Zhou Chun's cultivation breaking through to the middle stage of foundation building spread throughout the Zhou family.
After learning about it, many monks from the Zhou family came to congratulate him.
A forty-eight-year-old monk in the middle stage of foundation building, at Zhou Chun's rate of progress in cultivation, he might not have a chance to reach the Zifu stage before he turns 100.
By this time, all fools know what Zhou Chun's status is in the family.
But Zhou Chun hadn't been happy for a few days because of his breakthrough in cultivation, when a trouble came to his door.
"You said that a black crystal mine was discovered at the border of our Zhou family's stronghold, and there was a conflict with the Jiangzhou Su family? Someone died?"
On the pagoda peak, Zhou Chun looked at Zhou Jiarui, who came to report the news in person, and his expression changed.
It turns out that since Zhou Jiarui took four Zhou family monks to the wilderness to pioneer with the Li family and the You family, it only took less than two years to establish a pioneering stronghold, and then began to focus on the stronghold.
A pioneering search of the surrounding areas began.
Although no particularly rare treasures were obtained in this wave of pioneering raids, some two to three hundred year old elixirs, some spiritual trees, spiritual fruits, and monster eggs were also obtained, all of which were harvested by the three families.
A lot of stuff.
This also made the three monks become more and more energetic.
Just half a month ago, the You family suddenly discovered a black crystal mine at the border of the stronghold.
Originally, this was a good thing. After all, black crystal stone is a very good tool-refining auxiliary material. It can increase the hardness of magic tools, and its sales have always been very good.
But when the three families sent people to explore the size of the black crystal mine, they were accidentally discovered by the neighboring Su family stronghold.
Then, because the Su family said that the Xuan Jing stone vein was in their territory and should be owned by them, the two sides quarreled and eventually started fighting.
In that case, once a fight begins, it will be difficult for both parties to control their emotions and attack strength.
So after a fierce fight, several Qi Refining Stage monks died on both sides, which made the matter a big deal!
Since the Su family was also a Jindan family, the people of the three families in the pioneering stronghold no longer dared to make their own decisions, so Zhou Jiarui returned to the family to report to Zhou Chun.