Clan Cultivation: Starting from Beast Taming
Chapter 912 - 435: The Barrier Reappears, A New Phase of War [Subscribe]_2

After sixteen years of cultivation, he had, as initially anticipated, pushed his cultivation level to the peak of the Middle Stage Purple Mansion, right before the barrier to the Late Stage Purple Mansion.

Having previously been blocked by the barrier at the Middle Stage Purple Mansion, Zhou Chun certainly knew that breaking through this barrier would be no easy feat.

Last time, it took him nearly ten years to polish his mana before he eventually managed to break through the barrier with perseverance.

If he were to use the same method this time, it would likely take even longer.

And it might not even be effective!

Take Zhou Mingde, the Supreme Elder of the Zhou Family, for example, he had been stuck before the Late Stage Purple Mansion barrier for over twenty years, with no sign of breakthrough to this day.

In fact, the further one progresses in cultivation, the more evident this kind of situation becomes.

For Golden Core Stage cultivators like the Ancestor of the Su Family, being stuck at these minor realm barriers for a hundred or two hundred years is not unusual at all.

Some Golden Core Stage cultivators even find it difficult to break through these minor realm barriers in their entire lifetime!

"If only I had reached this barrier a year earlier, then I should have been the one to go to Fengguo in place of my granduncle, and then I could have exchanged battle merits for elixirs that assist in breaking through barriers!"

As much as he thought this, Zhou Chun was clear in his heart that even if he had reached the Late Stage Purple Mansion barrier a year earlier, Zhou Mingde and the others would not have let him go directly to the battlefield.

However, now that his cultivation level had encountered a barrier that was hard to advance beyond, he no longer needed to cultivate as arduously as before, merely needing to polish his mana a little every day.

This way, he could have more time to practice secret techniques and handle family affairs.

Due to the intensification of the two major wars in the cultivation world, the Heavenly Spirit Alliance had also issued various production task targets internally to supplement various consumptions.

For example, the Zhou Family had been ordered to provide the Alliance with ten trained Demon Beast mounts each year, as well as various Spiritual Objects such as Beast Skin Talisman Paper and Beast Blood Talisman Ink, among others.

The prices paid by the Heavenly Spirit Alliance for these items were not high, barely enough to say they were not losing money; turning a profit was out of the question.

Because of the influx of Loose Cultivators to the Fengguo Battlefield, many businesses of the Zhou Family and other families had been affected, with a severe general decline in revenues.

Even the "Worldwide Circle" trade network's income had suffered a significant impact.

The impact of war on the economy is universal.

Even Zhou Chun had no good solution when faced with such a situation.

Given the circumstances of the Zhou Family, profiting from the war would be very difficult.

Those who could profit from the war were those involved in refining Magic Artifacts, Elixirs, Talismans, because the frontlines consumed a vast amount of these items.

Especially Magic Artifacts.

Previously in Jingguo Country and even in neighboring countries, there had been a surplus of Magic Artifacts, but to avoid disrupting the market, no one resorted to fire sales to make money.

However, with the coming of war, especially since Demon Path cultivators are generally adept at corrupting and damaging cultivators' Magic Artifacts, many cultivators find their Magic Artifacts severely damaged.

A Magic Artifact that used to last for decades, even generations, now might not even last three years!

This has made the Magic Artifact business extremely hot, and those families with Artifact Refinement Skills passed down, such as the Zhu Family, with whom the Zhou Family cooperates in the Sunflame Sect territory, have made a full pot of profits.

Consequently, the prices of some Magic Artifact materials have also risen considerably.

Other items like Elixirs and Talismans were also best sellers, with many forces hoarding and snapping them up.

But the Zhou Family was undoubtedly lagging in these areas.

Currently, Zhou Xintie, the best Artifact Refiner in the Zhou Family, could only refine mid-grade second-order Magic Artifacts, and his success rate was not very high either.

In terms of Alchemy, Zhou Zhengyuan and Zhou Xinlan were both fairly competent; the Alchemy Inheritance acquired from the Jiang Family had greatly enhanced the Zhou Family's foundation in this area.

Moreover, with the massive amount of Spiritual Medicine that the Zhou Family had gathered from the Wasteland Territory for their family alchemists to practice with, the Zhou Family's Alchemy Inheritance was now quite solid; they could occasionally send some Elixirs to the market to generate revenue for the family.

However, in terms of competitiveness, they were still far behind families like the Li Family, who truly relied on this craft to make a living.

The same was true for Talisman Making, although several Foundation Establishment cultivators had also ventured into second-order Talisman making, no particularly talented individuals had emerged.

Moreover, in such times of war, every family could never have too many Talismans, so Zhou Chun was not about to sell a large number of the family's strategic reserve Talismans just to make Spirit Stones.

What was even worse, due to the war, the previously well-sold Demon Beast Eggs and Demon Beast Cubs had completely plummeted in the market.

During times of war, cultivators prioritized increasing their cultivation levels and methods of combating enemies.

Spirit Pets that required investment of resources and time for nurturing were obviously not considered by most cultivators during such times.

One day, after going through the family's economic accounts, Zhou Chun shook his head repeatedly and couldn't help sighing, "This won't do; the family has considerable expenses, and if income fails to keep up, the family's savings will be depleted in just a few years!"

Upon hearing his words, Zhou Jiarui, who had been handling family affairs for him, finally found an opportunity to voice his grievances and immediately followed with a sigh of lament, "Isn't that the case? Nowadays, due to the war, many of the family's main sources of revenue have shrunk considerably, especially the rent from the cultivation rooms and the sale of Demon Beast Cubs, with the latter's income halved!"

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