Clan Cultivation: Starting from Beast Taming

Yunzhou, Yunyue Mountain Range.

After Zhou Family triumphed over the Golden Core noble Zheng Family in the Foundation Establishment Venue, they also narrowly defeated the Zheng Family in the subsequent Qi Refinement Venue competition.

Following this battle, the Zhou Family became the clan with the most momentum in Group C; almost no one doubted their ability to advance into the top six anymore.

And indeed, that was the case.

After a series of fierce battles, the Zhou Family's Foundation Establishment and Qi Refinement Venues were only defeated once.

The defeat was unavoidable; they faced another Golden Core noble clan.

To prevent their records from being tarnished by Zhou Family, they dispatched four late-stage Foundation Establishment Cultivators and one mid-stage Foundation Establishment Cultivator.

With such a lineup, unless Zhou Chun employed the "Ancestral Resurrection" secret technique, there was no chance of victory.

And naturally, Zhou Chun wouldn't waste his sole opportunity on these preliminaries.

As for the defeat in the Qi Refining Realm, it was because the opposing clan released four top-tier, first-order Spirit Pets, and had two Qi Refining twelfth layer Cultivators with strength not inferior to those troublesome Cultivators Zhou Chun encountered during the "Heavenly Spirit Trial."

Facing such formidable opponents, defeat was, of course, a natural outcome.

By the time the competition in Group B concluded, the Zhou Family advanced to the finals with the second-highest total points.

"It's finally over!"

"There should be more than half a month before the finals, everyone take a good rest, heal, and prepare for the final battle!"

As the dust settled, Zhou Mingde, who had fought alongside everyone for dozens of matches, also let out a sigh of relief, looking exhausted as he told the members of Zhou Family to rest and recuperate.

Truthfully, he was the one who had the most unfortunate experience in these group matches.

While the Zhou Family's Foundation Establishment and Qi Refinement Venues were on a winning streak, his performance was a mix of wins and losses, which wasn't particularly impressive.

If he encountered a mid-stage Purple Mansion Cultivator, he could at best only manage a draw.

But since his own cultivation level was lower than his opponents', if he continued to drag out the battle, it was highly likely he would lose.

Therefore, whenever there was such a deadlock, the referee would directly declare him the loser.

And as for the early-stage Purple Mansion Cultivators he faced, they weren't willing to concede easily, each one fighting hard to prove their strength before finally accepting defeat with reluctance.

With such frustrating losses and hard-won victories, it's no wonder that Zhou Mingde's mental state was anything but good.

Seeing their Supreme Elder so worn out, the other members of Zhou Family, even if they were excited and thrilled by securing the second place in the group matches, held back what they wanted to say at this time and, as advised, proceeded to take a rest first.

After sleeping for more than ten "two hours," the members of Zhou Family looked significantly more spirited and also had time to watch the battles of Groups D and Shu.

Meanwhile, Zhou Daoyi, Zhou Chun, and a few others also had time to discuss and research tactics to contend with the seventeen clans that had already emerged from the three groups.

In this type of collaborative combat, tactics are an important element in determining victory or defeat.

When the gap in strength between both sides isn't insurmountable, tactics can potentially help the weaker party turn defeat into victory.

Especially in the five-person team battles of the Foundation Establishment Venue, eliminating just three of the opponents is tantamount to defeating the entire team.

This makes it difficult for Cultivators with outstanding personal strength to lead their teams to victory by themselves.

In this regard, the Zhou Family also had its weaknesses.

Zhou Jiarui and Zhou Jiapeng, both at early-stage Foundation Establishment, had practiced speedy Mana cultivation techniques, so their personal strength was not particularly outstanding.

If they encountered a powerful team aiming to target them as the breakout point, there was a fair chance of quickly eliminating the two of them.

If those two were eliminated early, the pressure on the remaining three, including Zhou Chun, would be immense.

Because if the opponents could manage to eliminate just one more of them, they would clinch victory outright.

Considering this, after discussing, the Zhou Family decided to have Zhou Chun's Golden Armor Rock Turtle and Zhou Daoquan's Earth Armored Bear protect the two of them in the upcoming matches, to avoid them being prematurely eliminated by their opponents.

As time slowly passed, after thirty-nine days of relentless Group matches at the "Hundred Clans Conference," the top thirty were finally determined among the five groups.

From the initial one hundred seventy or more family clans that registered, over one hundred forty were directly eliminated.

The remaining thirty clans were without exception illustrious Cultivation families from Jingguo Country's various states.

Prior to this event, local Cultivators might have had some inaccurate assumptions about the strengths and weaknesses of local Cultivation families.

But now, after the "Hundred Clans Conference," it became crystal clear which local Cultivation family was stronger.

That's why these Cultivation families strive to obtain a good ranking at the "Hundred Clans Conference."

No one wants their family to be seen as weaker compared to other families; they would only accept this after the competition.

And the convening of this "Hundred Clans Conference" provided them with this opportunity and stage.

Take the Zhou Family, for instance.

This time, among the various Cultivation families of Lanzhou, only the Zhou Family and another family with the surname Xu made it into the top six of their respective groups.

This meant that from now on, when discussing the local Cultivation families, they would be ranked at the forefront in Lanzhou.

If the Zhou Family could advance into the top thirteen in the finals while the Xu Family failed, then the Zhou Family would become the strongest Cultivation family in Lanzhou's Cultivation World, aside from the Golden Core noble families!