Clan Cultivation: Starting from Beast Taming
Chapter 1107 - 488: Entering the Secret Realm [Subscribe Please]

Chapter 1107: Chapter 488: Entering the Secret Realm [Subscribe Please]

The return of Zhou Daoyi and others provided the Zhou Family with considerably more manpower.

Zhou Chun tasked Zhou Zhengyong, who had just established his Purple Mansion, to take charge of Jiufeng Ridge, and sent Lin Wan’er to preside over the Jade Mining Mountain Base in Wasteland Territory.

Zhou Daoyi, on behalf of the Zhou Family, led the formation of a joint Demon-Slaying Squad together with cultivators from Tianjing Villa and other forces, responsible for eliminating the remaining Demon Cultivators in Lingzhou and Lanzhou.

As the Zhou Family was willing to subsidize the members of this joint Demon-Slaying Squad with Spirit Coins, and slaying Demon Cultivators also garnered rewards from the Alliance, some cultivators were still keen to join the battle.

At this point, the Jingguo Country Cultivation Realm had largely resumed normal operations.

Aside from the depopulation due to the large number of cultivators who died or fled during the war, all other aspects of production were not much different from before the war.

Each Cultivator Family had begun post-war recovery and reconstruction efforts, with commerce and trade gradually reviving.

However, the significant loss of cultivator population meant that a return to pre-war levels would likely take decades or even a century.

A matter that has recently given Zhou Chun quite a headache is the number of families coming forward with proposals of marriage and offering daughters in marriage.

The vigorous momentum of the Zhou Family was evident to those who paid attention.

Thus, many families sought to establish marital connections with the Zhou Family while Zhou Chun had yet to reach Core Formation, hoping for a ready channel to seek help from the Zhou Family in the future.

Zhou Chun was not opposed to such marital politics.

However, despite no longer being stretched thin, the Zhou Family still wasn’t in a position to marry off their daughters just anywhere.

Be it Zhou Chun or others like Zhou Mingde, they were more inclined towards internal pairings between male and female cultivators within the family.

For a large family like the Zhou Family, its bloodline had been passed down for countless generations, with a population of several hundreds of thousands mortals and a well-established family tree to check genealogy.

Intermarriage among clan members with the same surname, becoming Dao companions, was neither rare nor taboo.

Of course, as clan members with the same surname and usually addressed as siblings since childhood, it could be even more difficult for romantic feelings to arise.

This made internal match-making even more challenging.

After all, a forced union is never sweet, and without mutual affection, Zhou Chun, as the Clan Leader, cannot whimsically matchmake.

On the other hand, the families eager to establish marital ties with the Zhou Family must have already persuaded their female cultivators.

For them, as long as the Zhou Family was willing to arrange for a clan member to take the bride, they could simply marry their daughters into the Zhou Family.

And for some ordinary members of the Zhou Family, marrying a female cultivator cultivated by another Cultivator Family could be an attractive idea.

As long as the female cultivator had decent looks and stature, her character could largely be overlooked by these men.

After all, the Zhou Family was the dominant party, and any female cultivator from a minor household joining them would have to adapt to being a dutiful wife and good mother, regardless of her previous disposition.

If their own behavior couldn’t tolerate a shrewish woman, neither would the family rules of the Zhou Family!

In brief, Zhou Chun, overwhelmed by all these troubles, eventually had no choice but to host a large matchmaking event every three years.

At that time, any Zhou Family female who wished to find a husband could sign up for the matchmaking event.

Meanwhile, cultivators who sought to marry a Zhou Family daughter or establish residency through marriage with them could prepare gifts in advance and sign up for the event.

They could then attract attention from the Zhou Family female cultivators by offering treasures and displaying their talents, hoping to win the ladies’ hearts.

In fact, this is a common strategy employed by many Golden Core lineages.

Time slowly passed, and before long, another two years had gone by.

One day, Zhou Chun suddenly received terrible news from Zhou Zhengyong at Jiufeng Ridge.

After consuming the Green-Crested Gibbon Demon Core, the Green Wood Spirit Ape ultimately failed to evolve successfully despite the power of the Demon Core.

Luckily, it had good fortune on its side, as it did not perish from a body burst due to the immense Demon Core power; instead, it just suffered some backlash and internal injuries from the failed forced breakthrough, potentially needing a few years to recover.

"It failed? It seems that a Demon Beast’s breakthrough to the Third Order is indeed no easy feat!" Zhou Chun muttered while shaking his head slightly after reading the urgently delivered news.

In fact, for a Second Order Demon Beast to advance to the Third Order is far more difficult than for a Foundation Establishment cultivator to open their Purple Mansion.

Otherwise, Zhou Daoquan would not still lack a Third Order Spirit Pet, and neither Zhou Mingde nor Zhou Daoyi would focus solely on cultivating one Spirit Pet, rather than obtaining more like him.

Zhou Chun’s success in cultivating several Spirit Pets to the Third Order was largely due to choosing the right methods, obtaining suitable Spiritual Objects, and the excellent innate potential of the Spirit Pets themselves.

The attempt of the Green Wood Spirit Ape to use a Demon Beast Demon Core of the Third Order for a forced evolution was purely a dangerous gamble, a last resort.

Naturally, the failure rate is much higher than the success rate!

Regardless, from that point on, Zhou Chun and the Zhou Family owed the Green Wood Spirit Ape, the venerable elder of the family, nothing more.

After all, the value of a low-grade Third Order Demon Core was only slightly less than that of an object aiding the opening of the Purple Mansion.

Following this, Zhou Chun personally visited the Green Wood Spirit Ape and even left the Wood Charm at Jiufeng Ridge to tend to its recovery, as a way to express gratitude for its past care.

While he was there to quietly visit Luo Qingni, who was in secluded cultivation at the ridge, she suddenly turned to him and asked, "Taoist Friend Zhou, I have almost finished studying the Alchemy Recipe of the Holy Spirit Blood Pill. Are you ready to start the alchemy process now?"

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