The third-level mid-level monsters occupying the Xianglou Wood Forest are two giant black birds that look like owls, but their faces are more like lion faces.
This bird's name is "Lion Faced Wither", it can control and cast a kind of black strange wind, and its strength is quite extraordinary.
Zhou Chun and Zhou Mingde took action personally, and together with the third-level mid-level demonic beast Vulcan Jackal, they were able to drive away only two demonic birds.
Then, under the protection of the two men, Mu Mei directly began to absorb the power of the wood spirit contained in the entire Xianglou Wood Forest.
In particular, the Xianglou tree in which "Lion-faced Wither" builds its nest is over five thousand years old and is a rare third-level spiritual tree.
Since Mu Mei was born, she has never enjoyed such a sumptuous meal.
Under the protection of Zhou Chun and Zhou Mingde, it only took seven days to absorb all the wood spirit power contained in many spiritual trees, and then fell asleep and digested it in Zhou Chun's spirit beast bag.
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According to the thoughts it conveyed before falling asleep, there will be no problems in advancing to the third level this time.
This is the power of spirits such as Wood Spirit and Stone Spirit. As long as they have enough resources to support them, there will be almost no bottleneck before they reach the fifth level.
Only when they are promoted from the fourth level to the fifth level, they will encounter the thunder tribulation of heaven like the monster beasts, and then there will be the possibility of failure and death.
And during the few days that Mu Mei absorbed the power of the wood spirit, Zhou Chun and Zhou Mingde also found a lot of elixirs that were hundreds of years old from the Xianglou Wood Forest, so their efforts were not in vain.
At this time, the goal was achieved, and the two of them stopped staying any longer and left the place quickly. Then Zhou Chun sent several "Sky Frost Bees" in the spirit beast bag back to their nest, and then returned to the family mountain gate.
After returning to Jiufengling Mountain Gate, Zhou Chun and Zhou Mingde put all the hundreds of years of dragon-changing grass into the family treasury for exchange by the family's core monks, giving priority to a few elders who had cultivated dragon-born monsters.
Until now, except for a few newly promoted foundation-building monks, the other veteran foundation-building elders of the Zhou family have accumulated a lot of good family deeds.
At this time, when they saw something useful to them appear, they all exchanged it for those Dragon Transformation Grasses without hesitation.
Soon all the 400- and 500-year-old Hualong grasses were sold out, and the only 600-year-old Hualong grass was exchanged by Zhou Jiarui.
Zhou Jiarui can be regarded as one of the earliest monks in the Zhou family to tame dragon-born monsters.
It's a pity that he was unlucky. The red flame dragon python he tamed back then was never able to advance to the second level.
This time he spent 3,000 points of family merit in exchange for the 600-year-old Dragon Transformation Grass, preparing to help this old man one last time.
Others, like Zhou Zhengyong, Zhou Xinlan and others who had also tamed dragon-born monsters, also exchanged Dragon Transformation Grass to help their pets reach the second level.
Less than half a year passed like this, and the Zhou family had five more second-level dragon-born monsters.
For example, Zhou Jiarui's Red Flame Dragon Python, Zhou Zhengyong's Red-Eyed Dragon Vulture, Zhou Xinlan's Wind Shadow Dragon Snake, Zhou Xintie's Flame Dragon Lizard, and Zhou Zhengqing's Dragon Scale Horse have all been promoted to intermediate level monsters.
The breakthrough in the bloodline of these demonic beasts not only means that their own strength has reached the second level, but also has the opportunity to mate with the original demonic beasts of the same race and directly produce offspring of intermediate-level demonic beasts.
This is a happy event worth celebrating for the entire Zhou family.
However, under Zhou Chun's special instructions, these people chose to keep a low profile and did not announce the happy news of their spiritual pets' successful advancement together. They planned to release the news slowly in the future.
This way it won't be so noticeable.
After all, everyone knows that the Zhou family now has a third-level dragon, and in the past few years, dragon-scaled horses have been promoted to intermediate monsters on their own.
If a second-level monster is cultivated after a while, it would not be too strange.
During this time, Zhou Chun was writing a plan for the future development of the Zhou family and planning two major events that had been planned for a long time.
On this day, Zhou Chun was discussing certain matters with several deacons of the Zhou family, when he suddenly heard a report that a casual cultivator in the foundation-building period had come to pay him a visit, claiming that he had received favors from him.
"This is strange, I don't remember any favors I have given to any foundation-building casual cultivator!"
Zhou Chun's face flashed with surprise, and after pondering for a while, he asked the guests to be brought to the guest hall to entertain them, and then continued busy with family affairs.
After almost half an hour passed like this, Zhou Chun finished his work and then went to the guest hall to meet the casual cultivator who came to pay homage to him.
When he entered the guest hall, he saw a young man with an elegant face sitting alone on a chair with his eyes closed and meditating.
At this time, he seemed to notice someone coming in, and the person suddenly opened his eyes and looked at the door.
When he saw Zhou Chun, his eyes suddenly flashed with surprise, and then he hurriedly stood up, bowed to Zhou Chun and saluted: "Zhang Liang, a Sanxiu cultivator from Shen State, pays homage to Senior Zhou!"
Zhou Chun was still thinking about where he had interacted with this person. At this time, when he heard him announce his family name, the past memories suddenly came to his mind and he understood the whole story.
It turned out that this person was none other than the young monk in the Qi Refining Stage who had told him the news about Mu Mei.
After thinking of this, his face immediately softened, and he nodded with a smile and said: "It turns out it's you, a junior. I thought who would come to see me in the name of repaying a favor. I didn't expect you to be lucky.
The foundation building was actually successful!"
After saying that, he signaled that he didn't need to be polite, and then he sat down beside him.
Although Zhang Liang was a casual cultivator, his demeanor was quite extraordinary. Zhou Chun asked him to sit down, and he actually sat down half his body after thanking him. He did not have the tactful habit of ordinary casual cultivators.
After he sat down, he immediately continued Zhou Chun's words and complimented him: "It is said that it is thanks to the senior. Ever since I received the treasure given by the senior and separated from the senior, the junior's luck has begun to improve.
, a few years ago, I was very lucky to get an auxiliary foundation-building spiritual object, and the foundation-building was successful!"
"I also traveled to Jingguo this time. After hearing about the reputation of Senior Zhou, I realized that the benefactor who saved this junior had already successfully opened up the Zi Mansion, so I made a special trip to express my gratitude to Senior."
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Zhou Chun and his silver lightning thunder python spiritual pet are indeed quite famous in the Jingguo immortal world. If you use this clue to ask people, it is indeed not possible.
It is difficult to know his true identity.
Therefore, Zhou Chun was not surprised after hearing what Zhang Liang said.
However, the other party's approach of repaying his kindness was indeed quite in his temper.
At that time, he did not disclose the origin of his name, and he only met the other party once.
However, after the other party successfully established the foundation, he was willing to travel abroad to look for him and thank him for his life-saving grace. This kind of kindness is indeed very rare.
After seeing all kinds of ugly sides of human nature in the world of immortality, such a person who repays kindness is indeed worth cherishing.
Zhou Chundang smiled and waved his hands and said: "You can succeed in building the foundation because of your own luck. Zhou doesn't dare to be greedy for this merit."
When Zhang Liang heard this, he said solemnly: "What happened back then may not be worth mentioning to the seniors, it was just something they did casually, but to the juniors, it is a debt of gratitude that must be repaid!"
After saying that, he raised his hand and patted the storage bag on his waist, took out a long wooden box and handed it to Zhou Chun: "The junior also knows the cultivation and status of the senior, ordinary spiritual objects are difficult to see, but this six hundred
The 'Dragon and Snake Root' that has been used as medicine for many years is a token of gratitude from the younger generation, so please accept it, senior!"
Given Zhou Chun's cultivation status, a mere 600-year-old "Dragon Snake Root" elixir is indeed not a rare thing. A similar elixir can be obtained by taking Mu Mei to the wilderness for a day.
Collected.
However, given Zhang Liang's cultivation status, this level of elixir is almost the most precious elixir he can obtain.
Therefore, Zhou Chun did not despise the value of his gift, but rather admired and valued his character of repaying kindness.
At that moment, he first raised his hand to take the wooden box, and then responded solemnly: "Okay, Zhou accepted your gift."
"Thank you, senior!"
Zhang Liang seemed to have let go of a certain burden, and expressed his gratitude to Zhou Chun again with a sigh of relief.
The two of them then started chatting, mainly Zhou Chun asked about Zhang Liang's experience and what happened to the Huang family after he took away Mu Mei.
Zhang Liang didn't think Zhou Chun could covet anything on his body, so he answered all Zhou Chun's questions, and the two of them had a very pleasant exchange.
By asking Zhang Liang, Zhou Chun found out that after he took away Mu Mei half-heartedly, the Huang Family Zi Mansion monk became angry and spread the news that he had taken Mu Mei away.
But he had already fled far away from Yang Country at that time, and the other party did not know his name, and did not even see his spiritual pet, so they could only rely on the characteristics of his skills to spread the news.
As a result, it is naturally difficult for people to believe the truth of the matter.
Even if someone believed it, there would be no useful reference clues to find him.
So after a few years, no one mentioned this matter anymore.
Zhang Liang's experience is quite exciting for a casual cultivator.
Almost every casual cultivator who can successfully build a foundation has a lot of opportunities.
After hearing him tell his story, Zhou Chun suddenly looked at him and asked: "Then what are your plans next? Are you going to work with others to find a place to establish a loose cultivator stronghold, or are you going to marry a wife and take concubines and build it yourself?"
A family that cultivates immortality? Or choose to be the supreme elder of a small family and accept offerings?"
Hearing Zhou Chun's words, Zhang Liang was stunned for a moment, with a look of confusion in his eyes. It was obvious that he had not thought about this problem.
But this is indeed an issue he must consider in the future.
The points Zhou Chun is talking about now are the choices made by most casual cultivators after they succeed in building a foundation.
After he was stunned for a while, he realized something. He immediately saluted Zhou Chun and said, "Junior has not thought about this yet. Can Senior Zhou give me some pointers?"
Seeing this, Zhou Chun said unceremoniously: "If you don't have any ideas yet, you can come to my Zhou family to get a job. At least you can have a safe and stable place to practice, and a decent salary.
take!"
"Does the senior mean to let the junior join the Zhou family?"
Zhang Liang's eyes flashed with hesitation, and his tone became a little lower, as if he was not very willing.
"It's not what you think, it's just like hiring you to work for the Zhou family for a long time. If you don't want to work anymore, just say it in advance!"
Zhou Chun shook his head slightly and explained briefly.
After hearing his explanation, Zhang Liang didn't know that he meant to take care of him. He immediately stood up and bowed to Zhou Chun and said: "Senior has a kind heart. I have misunderstood my senior. Please forgive me."
"It doesn't need to be like this. So you agreed?"
Zhou Chun waved his hand, indicating that he didn't mind his little question just now.
At this point, if Zhang Liang still didn't know how to answer, he would have lived so many years in vain.
Immediately, he responded: "Thanks to the care of the seniors, the juniors naturally have no reason to refuse!"
"Very good, then you can stay here in Jiufengling for now. Zhou will tell you what you want to do later."
Zhou Chun said, and asked Zhang Liang to be taken down first, and arranged to live in an independent courtyard.
In fact, although he took Zhang Liang in because he admired his character and did it on the spur of the moment, it was indeed related to the two things he was going to do next.
Since the Jingguo Immortal Cultivation World has now begun to stabilize, and the Zhou family has reached his own standards in terms of personnel and the number of domesticated walking spirit beasts, Zhou Chun is preparing to launch two new money-making businesses.
Of these two businesses, one is the messaging business and the other is the delivery business. To put it bluntly, they are delivering letters and express delivery.
At present, in the world of immortal cultivation, the communication methods between various families and sects are relatively simple. For ordinary monks in the Qi Refining Stage to contact their friends, they must either do it themselves, or ask a familiar relative or friend to deliver the message on their behalf.
The Foundation-Building monks or the Zifu-stage monks will give the letters to their juniors in the form of tasks and let them do it for them.
But in fact, because the pay for the task of delivering letters is very low, in many cases no one is willing to take it, so they can only be forcibly assigned to some monks with low cultivation levels to do it.
As for casual cultivators, they basically can only deliver the messages themselves, and occasionally they can help carry the messages through certain caravans.
This obviously contains huge business opportunities.
Zhou Chun had actually seen this business opportunity a long time ago, but he had not dared to intervene in the matter due to limited conditions.
Now that the conditions are ripe, he is naturally not ready to continue wasting business opportunities.
He wants to use the Zhou family's large number of traveling spirit beasts and a sufficient number of clan members to develop Jingguo's express delivery business.
The goal is to establish transfer and distribution points in various Dafang cities in Jingguo, and then deliver letters and goods to various cultivating families and the majority of casual cultivators in need!
With the current reputation and strength of the Zhou family, this matter is now very promising.
Moreover, Zhou Chun is also planning to bring in the Jiangzhou Su family to expand the business of several states under the Yuelun Sect.
Casual cultivators like Zhang Liang in the foundation-building period are the regional "general managers" he plans to recruit, responsible for the recruitment and management of couriers around each city.
In the future, some low-level casual cultivators with good moral character will be recruited as couriers to be responsible for the delivery business.
This matter is not limited to casual cultivators. When the time comes, even some foundation-building cultivators from cultivating families will be able to be made regional "general managers" by the Zhou family.
In this way, the express delivery business can not only bring a new income growth point to the Zhou family, but also allow the Zhou family to master a lot of intelligence information about immortal cultivators. This intelligence information can sometimes be of great value!