Clan Cultivation: Starting from Beast Taming

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Zhou Chun saw his joyful expression and couldn't help but smile slightly, seeming quite satisfied with his reaction.

Then he affectionately patted him on the shoulder and said, "Don't spread the word about this matter for now. Once I return to the clan, I will make it happen for you. If you can cultivate a successor to take your place here in the future, you can return to Lanzhou to serve the family."

"Yes, I will definitely keep it under wraps!"

Xu Fu nodded vigorously, a hint of trepidation appearing in his eyes.

He had thought that Zhou Chun was informing him of a decision that had already been passed by the family.

Yet, to his surprise, it was only an idea in Zhou Chun's mind, not yet a reality.

This filled him with anxiousness.

However, that's exactly what Zhou Chun intended.

The art of managing subordinates puts a premium on rewards and punishments.

Without rewards for achievements, it is difficult to win people over; without penalties for mistakes, it is difficult to establish authority.

When it comes to rewards, there are many strategies involved.

Small favors are best delivered immediately for the quickest effect.

But significant rewards should be delayed. This makes one deeply feel the difficulty of obtaining the reward and cherish it all the more once it's in hand.

For Xu Fu, rising from a mere servant to an Honorary Elder in the family was an enormous honor, akin to ascending to the heavens in a single step.

By delaying this, Zhou Chun would only make him work harder and cherish this status even more in the future.

Zhou Chun addressed the matter no further, turning his attention to meticulously inspecting the base and understanding the situation of all aspects.

In the following months, Zhou Chun stayed at the Jade Mining Mountain Base, focusing on meditation and the cultivation of secret techniques.

Meanwhile, his Spirit Pets like the Wood Charm, Silver-Horned Thunder Python, Golden Winged Tiger, and Golden Armor Rock Turtle were tasked with missions.

The Wood Charm was mainly responsible for searching for Spiritual Medicine, while the other three Spirit Pets acted as enforcers, assisting the accompanying Xu Fu in gathering herbs.

According to Zhou Chun's thinking, now that these Spirit Pets had been trained, they should also know how to work for their cultivation resources.

With the strength of his four Spirit Pets, even when facing ordinary third-tier lesser Demon Beasts, they had the capability to fight without fearing anything going awry in the Wasteland Territory.

In just three short months, the four Spirit Pets brought back over a hundred stalks of Spiritual Medicine for Zhou Chun, including some precious herbs with seven to eight hundred years of medicinal age.

Furthermore, after these three months of diligent cultivation, Zhou Chun had finally mastered the initial stages of the secret technique "United Heart Golden Lock."

The first target he tried this technique on was a third-tier Demon Beast from the Wasteland Territory.

Over a lake, with the Silver Lightning Python and the Wood Charm covering him, Zhou Chun quickly formed hand seals and then let out a shout.

Instantly, a streak of golden light shot out from his hands, transforming into a chain of golden light that shot towards a huge Green-Scaled Dragon Fish hundreds of yards away.

The enormous Green-Scaled Dragon Fish barely had time to evade when it was struck by the chain.

The golden chain then ignored the protective green light and hard Dragon Scale covering its body and penetrated directly into it.

In an instant, it felt as if an invisible shackle had been placed inside it, locking away its Mana and rendering it unable to cast Spells freely.

This caused it to panic, and it immediately tried to dive back into the lake, attempting to escape.

But at that moment, not far away, the Silver-Horned Thunder Python Baibai let out a long hiss. Silver-white electric currents surged on its body, converging towards the lone horn about a foot long on its head.

Following that, a silver-white light flashed, and a blade made purely of silver-white electricity leapt from the horn and fell upon the Green-Scaled Dragon Fish's left gill in an instant, striking like a bolt of lightning.

Then came the rending of flesh and scales, with scale fragments and shattered gill pieces flying everywhere, the aroma of cooked meat permeating the air, and plumes of black smoke rising.

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This "Heavenly Thunder Slash" directly lifted off a huge gash at the left gills of the Green-Scaled Dragon Fish, exposing its fish bones clearly visible within.

However, while the injury was severe, it was not fatal given the Green-Scaled Dragon Fish's strong vitality and recovery ability.

As long as it was allowed to return to the water, it would recover in less than half a year.

Therefore, the assault of the Silver Lightning Python Baibai had not yet ended.

After breaking the Green-Scaled Dragon Fish's defenses with the "Heavenly Thunder Slash" known for piercing armor, Baibai took advantage of the Fish's still locked mana, flicked its tail swiftly, and its figure instantly turned into a streak of silver-white lightning, disappearing into the distance.

By the time it reappeared, it had used "Thunder Flash" to appear beneath the Green-Scaled Dragon Fish.

Then, Baibai raised its snakehead high, using the one-horn on its head as a spear, with thunder and lightning coiling around the horn like a spear of thunder and lightning, it fiercely slammed into the wound of the Green-Scaled Dragon Fish, burrowing half its snakehead into the Fish's body.

This blow almost pierced through the head of the Green-Scaled Dragon Fish, the sharp dragon horn directly penetrating its brain, and the surging power of thunder and lightning completely shattered and charred the Fish's brain.

With such injuries, aside from a few extremely special Demon Beast species, most Demon Beasts would not be able to survive.

Thump! Thump!

Following the sound of two splashes one after the other, the corpse of the Green-Scaled Dragon Fish and the Silver Lightning Python Baibai together plunged into the waters of the lake.

Only then did Zhou Chun actively disperse the secret technique.

Then he began to harvest the corpse of the Green-Scaled Dragon Fish.

Although the Green-Scaled Dragon Fish was only a third-grade low-tier Demon Beast, because it possessed the Flood Dragon bloodline, its dragon scales had excellent defense, and the scales could be used to make third-grade low-tier defensive dharma artifacts.

In addition, the fish eyes were also excellent treasures. After processing, consuming them could greatly enhance sight.

Others like the fins, blood, bones, and flesh were also rare spiritual objects.

And there was its inner core,, which was the most precious of all.

The Blue-Scaled Dragon Fish belonged to water, its inner core was water blue in color, about the size of a chicken egg, radiating an enchanting glow.

Zhou Chun had no plan to sell this; instead, he intended to ask someone to turn it into elixirs when he later went to the Great Zhou Kingdom.

He had seen a type of elixir called "Dragon Spirit Pill" at an auction in the Great Zhou Kingdom, which was greatly beneficial for Purple Mansion Phase Cultivators to advance their mana cultivation level. The most important main ingredient for crafting this pill was a third-grade Flood Dragon bloodline Demon Core.

When the Auctioneer introduced the elixir during the auction, he also casually mentioned the identity of the Alchemy Master who was a well-known Loose Cultivator Alchemy Master in the Great Zhou Kingdom.

Such Loose Cultivator Alchemy Masters would generally take on alchemy jobs to help others craft pills, thereby obtaining materials for free to accumulate alchemy experience while also earning a handsome fee for their alchemy work.

At this time, after carefully placing the Demon Core into a jade box for preservation, Zhou Chun began to process the corpse of the Green-Scaled Dragon Fish.

First, he removed the fish scales and eyes, collected the blood, used his newly acquired Golden Rainbow Sword to scrape off the flesh, cut off some useless spines, and only kept a single spinal dragon bone.

After this initial processing, he put all the spoils of war into his storage pouch.

Then, after a moment of thought, he stepped onto Baibai's serpent back, instructing it to dive to the bottom of the lake and start looking for the Green-Scaled Dragon Fish's nest.

Typically, the habitats of third-grade Demon Beasts are not ordinary places, especially for Demon Beasts with Flood Dragon bloodlines like the Green-Scaled Dragon Fish, known for the saying 'where the phoenix nest, there lies treasure.'

With Baibai's guidance, Zhou Chun did not need to expend much effort to find the nest of the Green-Scaled Dragon Fish, located at the bottom of a cave more than five hundred fathoms deep in the lake.

Upon entering the cave, he quickly discovered that there was a Water Essence Jade Vein hidden here, and he even found dozens of extremely high-quality Water Essence gems and a Water Essence Jade Mother suitable for crafting Dharma Treasures.

"To produce a Water Essence Jade Mother, this Water Essence Jade Vein must at least be a large vein. This is indeed a great find!"

Inside the underwater cave, Zhou Chun looked at the millstone-sized Water Essence Jade Mother in his hands, his eyes filled with joy.

He had only intended to catch rabbits while weeding, to see if he could find any unexpected gains in the Green-Scaled Dragon Fish's nest.

But the gain turned out to be so great; it was truly unexpected!