On this day, Zhou Chun, who was meditating and practicing Qi in the cave, suddenly opened his eyes and his face showed joy.
"Did you finally succeed?"
He murmured to himself, and his attention suddenly fell on the incarnation far away in the wilderness.
In the ice cave where the incarnation was, a powerful force of extreme cold suddenly burst out, and at the same time there was a loud roar of frogs.
But it turned out that it was the third-level high-grade [Ice Moon Toad] that swallowed the [Moon-Watching Ice Toad] demon pill. Finally, it successfully digested the fourth-order mid-grade demon pill and was promoted to a fourth-order monster.
The monsters broke through the fourth level, and there was a lot of movement. However, because they were in an ice cave deep underground, and this place had been run by Zhou Chun for many years, and was covered by many formation restrictions, there was no movement on the ground.
However, the [Sky Frost Bees] raised here were somewhat affected, and all flew out of their nests uneasily, forming a cloud of insects to guard under the giant thousand-year-old cold jade.
But in an ice room not far next door, four cocooned [Six-winged Ice Silkworms] were transformed, but they were not affected in any way, and no movement was heard.
Zhou Chun appeared now and was sitting outside the ice room where the [Ice Moon Toad] was sleeping.
Zhou Chun didn't say anything about signing a contract with the two [Ice Moon Toads] sent by Ice Prison Gate.
Because he only needs the essence and blood in their bodies to cultivate secret magic powers, and there is no big need in other aspects.
However, these [Ice Moon Toads] have been raised by Feixue Palace for thousands of years and have long understood human nature. Relatively speaking, they are not as wild and untamable as those wild monsters.
Zhou Chun's incarnation is made of snow charm, which naturally makes them feel close and fearful, and they dare not resist his orders.
But the premise of all that is based on the fact that [Ice Moon Toad] only has a third-level monster cultivation level.
It's hard to say whether this fourth-level [Ice Moon Toad] will still be so honest and obedient.
Therefore, after realizing that the aura of the monster inside had stabilized, Zhou Chun turned around and directly opened the door to the ice room.
Whoosh!
As soon as the door of the ice room opened, a ray of white ice light shot towards Zhou Chun's body, giving him a real power to attack.
Fortunately, he was prepared for this.
Immediately he opened his mouth and spat out, and the same white cold air hit the white ice light like a sharp arrow, instantly defeating it and scattering it.
Then he didn't even look at the condition of the [Ice Moon Toad] inside. He directly transformed into the form of a one-horned white snake and plunged into the ice chamber.
After a while, Zhou Chun's one-horned white snake, who had transformed into a white snake, tightly wrapped around the [Ice Moon Toad], which had become so confident after advancing, and made it become honest again.
After defeating the [Ice Moon Toad] that had just successfully advanced in this way, Zhou Chun turned around and carefully looked at the monster beast.
After being promoted to the fourth level, the [Ice Moon Toad] is already three to four points similar to the "Taiyin Moon Toad" that he transformed into, and his size has also become much larger.
Judging from the situation of the fight just now, its strength is also very good among the fourth-level low-grade monsters, and it can rank among the middle and upper reaches.
It's a pity that Zhou Chun now has four fifth-level demon king spiritual pets, so of course he looks down on this newly promoted fourth-level low-level demon beast.
After looking at it, he unceremoniously took some blood essence from his body, then threw down a few pills to restore his vitality and temporarily left the ice cave.
Soon after, the essence and blood of those fourth-level [Ice Moon Toad] were delivered to Zhou Chun's true body through the hands of the Zhou family monks at the Caiyu Mountain stronghold.
He immediately used these blood essences as materials to practice the secret method of "Nine Transformations of the Holy Spirit: Moon Toad Chapter".
It turned out that this effect was slightly better than the fourth-level [Ice Moon Toad] essence and blood he had exchanged from Feixue Palace before.
This made his face darken, and he couldn't help snorting coldly: "Humph, the people from Feixue Palace are indeed not good birds. The blood essence and blood given to Zhou was actually inferior!"
After discovering this, the little apology he had for forcing the Ice Prison Gate to steal the [Ice Moon Toad] was immediately gone.
It's just that the [Ice Moon Toad] has just been promoted to the fourth level. At present, it is not easy to draw blood from it frequently. If Zhou Chun wants to practice "Nine Transformations of the Holy Spirit: Moon Toad" to the level of Dacheng, he will definitely have to do it in a short time.
There is no chance.
It is best to cultivate the remaining third-level mid-grade [Ice Moon Toad] to the fourth level, and exchange blood between the two, which can greatly shorten the time for the completion of the secret technique.
At present, it seems that this matter will not be a particularly difficult matter.
Thanks to the great increase in Musang's ability to ripen elixirs, and the fact that they had previously obtained some elixirs suitable for monster beasts from Yuling Sect and Yuling Sect inheritance, the Zhou family now has elixirs suitable for third-level monsters.
, there is more than one kind of [Guchen Pill].
If Zhou Chun needs it, all these elixirs will naturally be supplied to him first.
Perhaps the only troublesome part is how to promote the third-level high-grade [Ice Moon Toad] to the fourth level.
After all, he does not have the second demon pill of the fourth-level mid-grade demon beast [Moon-Watching Ice Toad] in his hand.
But there is no solution.
Don't forget, the golden-winged tiger has not yet passed through the thunder tribulation of heaven.
If he successfully survives the Heavenly Thunder Tribulation in the future, Zhou Chun can use some "Emperor Ooze" to feed [Ice Moon Toad] to help him.
Zhou Chun had already planned this and had a plan in mind.
However, his good mood due to the promotion of [Ice Moon Toad] to the fourth-level monster was soon washed away by another heavy incident.
Lin Hongyu is about to die!
Yes, this old man who was once the first Golden Core monk in the Zhou family is now approaching the end of his life.
As the former protector of Hualong Cult, Lin Hongyu is older than Zhou Mingde.
Her Zhou Daoyi only celebrated his 800th birthday a few years ago, but she has actually already passed 900!
In the past hundred years, she has deliberately reduced the number of public appearances, seemingly deliberately downplaying her influence in the Zhou family.
Because Zhou Daoyi has to worry about family affairs, she often travels alone to experience all kinds of life in the world.
In the past twenty or thirty years, she even went to Tuyunling to live alone, raising flowers and birds and enjoying the rest of her life quietly.
Now that her life is coming to an end, she has informed her family of the news one or two years in advance.
After Zhou Chun learned about this, his heart inevitably became much heavier.
It's not that he has a deep relationship with Lin Hongyu, but from Lin Hongyu's today, he has already seen the tomorrow of Zhou Mingde and Zhou Daoyi, the two closest elders to him!
Zhou Mingde is only less than a hundred years younger than Lin Hongyu. Since Lin Hongyu is leaving, it means that his life span is not long.
Even if Zhou Chun had given him a [Jiazi Longevity Pill] before, it would have only extended his life for a period of sixty years at most.
By then, he and Zhou Daoyi may both pass away within just a few decades!
Although this kind of birth, aging, illness and death are unavoidable for anyone who cannot truly live forever, Zhou Chun has also experienced the death of relatives and friends long ago.
But when he thought about the fact that his two closest elders might have passed away within a hundred years, he couldn't feel better.
Many low-level monks, and even mortals, have a misunderstanding in their thinking.
I feel that high-level monks have lived for hundreds or thousands of years and have seen a lot of everything. They have experienced too many life and death matters, and they will take emotions very lightly, and they will take life and death lightly.
actually not.
Nascent Soul stage monks like Zhou Chun naturally have a very indifferent view of the life and death of other irrelevant outsiders, and even the descendants of ordinary families.
After all, he was not very familiar with these people. Even if he had some dealings with them before, it was just out of the support of the elders to the younger ones, without any personal feelings at all.
But if they are relatives and friends who have a very deep connection with themselves and have established deep feelings for hundreds of years, then they are actually the same as ordinary people when facing the death of relatives and friends, and they may even be more emotional.
All those who look down on life and death are just not caring!
Regarding the life and death of those who care about them, and the safety of those they care about, even if they are a real person in the Yuanying stage or a venerable person in the Transformation stage, they will still feel sad and cry for them!
In some sense, the emotional desires of immortal cultivators are actually much stronger than those of ordinary people, and high-level monks are also much stronger than low-level monks!
"Uncle, do you still have any unfulfilled wishes? If so, you can just say so. As long as this junior and Zhou family can do it, they will definitely try their best to fulfill it for you!"
On Tuyun Ridge, Zhou Chun, who came to visit the elder Lin Hongyu after hearing the news, also expressed his sincere greetings.
At this time, Lin Hongyu was already pale, her face was wrinkled, and her complexion looked very poor.
But her mental state is very good, her eyes are not cloudy and her consciousness is still very clear.
After listening to Zhou Chun's words, she just shook her head slightly and said: "What else can I wish for? I can live to be more than nine hundred years old in this life, see the vastness of the entire world of immortality, and witness with my own eyes the real people in the Nascent Soul Stage and the fifth level."
The Demon King became enlightened, and with your respect and care, I have lived a more wonderful life than most of the golden elixir stage monks, and it has been worth it for a long time!"
Speaking of this, she looked at Zhou Chun with emotion and said: "When I first met you, Zhengchun, I could never have imagined that that little Qi-training monk would actually become Wan Xiu.
Respected Master Yuanying Stage!"
As he spoke, he couldn't help but smile and whispered to Zhou Daoyi who was accompanying him: "Being able to be associated with the Zhou family in this life is my greatest opportunity and blessing, and it is also the most correct decision I have ever made in my life!"
Finally, she nodded slightly to Zhou Chun and said: "If I really have any last wish, it is also my sincere hope that the Zhou family will get better and better. I hope that you, Zhengchun, will have a smooth journey and reach a higher level of cultivation."
Floors up, truly reaching the pinnacle of a world!”
"Yu'er, you..."
Zhou Daoyi, who also had gray hair, couldn't help but reach out and hold his wife's hand. He was also deeply moved by his wife's sincere words.
The union between the two of them could be said to be a bad relationship at the beginning, and the road was full of ups and downs.
But after walking through wind and rain and getting along stumblingly for hundreds of years, the relationship between the two has become deeper and deeper. They have already opened their hearts to each other and accepted each other.
Now seeing his Taoist companion who has been with him for hundreds of years about to die, and hearing his heartfelt words of gratitude, how could Zhou Daoyi not be moved and shed tears by him!
Seeing this, Zhou Chun silently exited the cave.
In the next two years, Zhou Daoyi also put aside family affairs and devoted himself to accompanying his wife through the last journey of his life.
The family affairs were entrusted to the elder Zhou Xinyan to take care of them.
It is said that after these years of accumulation, or after some severe beatings, Zhou Xinyan has finally come to understand some reality, and no longer feels as high-spirited as when he first succeeded in forming the elixir, and feels that his future is bright.
His talents and qualifications can be said to have been fulfilled after he successfully formed the elixir.
The resources available to the Zhou family for Jindan monks to improve their cultivation were relatively small to begin with. There were also Zhou Zhiying, Xu Fu and his daughter competing with him, and then there was another Zhou Zhiqian.
This made it impossible for him to think about getting some usable spiritual objects and elixirs from the family from time to time to improve his cultivation like he did when he was cultivating in the Zifu period.
On the other hand, after he traveled and experienced the vast world outside, he realized that both his talents and abilities, as well as his magical powers, were only at the normal level of a golden elixir-level monk in a major force, and there was nothing particularly outstanding about him.
In fact, a monk like him in the golden elixir stage may not be able to reach the late golden elixir stage, let alone transforming elixirs into infants.
And he also has the most fatal flaw, that is, the "Jiamu Xuan Gong" he practices will suffer the disaster of "turning into wood" in the golden elixir stage.
This calamity of "Wood Transformation" usually occurs in the middle or late stages of the Golden Elixir. Once it occurs, it will be difficult to survive on your own, and you must have the help of elders and protectors with higher cultivation levels.
So after returning to the family in recent years, he quietly began to devote his energy to the family's internal affairs, helping Zhou Daoyi share a lot of things.
Zhou Chun didn't care about this, and just asked him to learn from Zhou Daoyi. If he really had any difficulties in the future, he would naturally help him.
After all, after Zhou Daoyi, the Zhou family really needs someone who can hold up the situation to succeed him.
And neither Zhou Zhiying, Xu Fu, nor Zhou Zhiqian is obviously a suitable candidate.
The sun rises and the moon sets, the sun sets and the moon rises, and two years go by in a flash.
On a rainy night, Lin Hongyu passed away peacefully.
In compliance with her personal wishes, the Zhou family did not hold a grand funeral for her. Instead, the elders of the Zhou family and the core clan members accompanied Zhou Daoyi to bury her remains in the Zhou family tomb.
In fact, according to the rules of the Zhou family, any female or male monk who has never had a child with a Zhou family monk cannot be buried in the family tomb.
But after all, Lin Hongyu had an extraordinary status and had done a lot of hard work for the Zhou family. It was normal to make an exception for her.
After the news was made public, some members of the Zhou family who had been favored by Lin Hongyu spontaneously took the time to come to the family tomb to pay homage to him.
Lin Hongyu also became the first golden elixir monk to pass away naturally after the Zhou family was rebuilt.