Clan Cultivation: Starting from Beast Taming

Chapter 517: Chapter 271: Mysterious Heart Purple Return Pill, Baibai’s Breakthrough [Subscribe Please]_2

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After several days within the Moon Wheel Sect, Su Yuzhen finally returned to the Zhou Family and relayed the information she had gathered to Zhou Chun.

“Zhou Chun understands, and I express my deepest gratitude to Miss Su for this crucial information for the Zhou Family. Thank you, Miss Su.”

Within his own residence, Zhou Chun received the news about the Mysterious Heart Purple Return Pill from Su Yuzhen and immediately showed his gratitude with a deep bow.@@novelbin@@

“Taoist Friend Zhou is being too polite. This was but a small effort that does not warrant such courtesy,” said Su Yuzhen with a slight smile, not taking credit for her efforts.

Seeing this, Zhou Chun’s expression shifted slightly, and he nodded in acknowledgement without saying anything further.

Now that they knew a Mysterious Heart Purple Return Pill could be exchanged for ten thousand Battle Merits, the Zhou Family naturally had to prepare in advance.

Alone, no one in the Zhou Family could come up with ten thousand Battle Merits.

However, the combined Battle Merits of Zhou Mingde and Zhou Daoyi had already exceeded that number.

So, the two immediately went to the Green Lotus Temple and transferred the Battle Merits from Zhou Daoyi to Zhou Mingde, amassing the required ten thousand points.

As time passed by, half a year quickly went by.

More than four years after the war ended, the three major sects finally made public the list of treasures that could be exchanged for Battle Merits.

Just as the Zhou Family had previously uncovered, the three sects released a total of ten Mysterious Heart Purple Return Pills that could assist cultivators in opening their Purple Mansion, each priced at ten thousand Battle Merits.

This was also the most valuable item on the list of treasures.

In addition to the Mysterious Heart Purple Return Pills, the three sects also released one hundred Foundation Establishment Pills, each exchangeable for one thousand Battle Merits, with a limit of two pills per cultivation family.

Of course, one hundred Foundation Establishment Pills were far from enough for the many cultivation families and Loose Cultivators of Jingguo Country.

Therefore, in addition to Foundation Establishment Pills, similar Spirit Items like Spirit Ascension Fruits and Foundation Establishment Fruits were also nearly two to three hundred in number, each requiring three to five hundred Battle Merits to obtain.

Moreover, there were many Spirit Pills released that helped cultivators of the Purple Mansion Phase and the Foundation Establishment Progression Phase in advancing their mana cultivation.

At the same time, the three sects also offered many fine Magic Artifacts and Talismans for exchange.

Since Battle Merits could only be exchanged for items from the three sects, the cultivation families had no other choice but to spend all they could, regardless of whether the items wholly satisfied them or not.

The Zhou Family acted very swiftly, and as soon as the list of treasures was made available, Zhou Mingde immediately went to the Green Lotus Temple and successfully obtained a Mysterious Heart Purple Return Pill.

Zhou Chun, who arrived later, also exchanged for two Foundation Establishment Pills on behalf of the family.

Having exchanged for the three most important Spirit Pills, the other Elders of the Zhou Family with Battle Merits to spare all began an intense exchange spree, trading their merits for various elixirs, Magic Artifacts, and Talismans.

In less than seven days, the items that the three sects had prepared for numerous years were exchanged away, more than eighty percent of them.

By this time, the families that had obtained valuable items began making arrangements to assimilate their new acquisitions.

For instance, in the Zhou Family, after Zhou Mingde brought back the Mysterious Heart Purple Return Pill, Zhou Daoquan entered a closed-door meditation chamber with the pill and the previously acquired Ghost-Faced Soul Mushroom to begin his intensive retreat, aiming to establish his Purple Mansion.

Meanwhile, the two Foundation Establishment Pills that had been exchanged sparked quite a stir within the Zhou Family.

With the knowledge that one Foundation Establishment Pill had yet to be allocated and now with two more in their possession, how could the Zhou Family Cultivators still in the Qi Refinement Realm not be agitated?

Many Zhou Family Cultivators who met the requirements for Foundation Establishment but were unable to amass the five thousand family merit points necessary approached Zhou Chun, both openly and covertly, pleading their case in the hopes the family would make an exception and give them a chance.

But in Zhou Chun’s view, the requirement of five thousand family merit points was already quite low, and the arrangement even allowed for them to borrow merit points from each other.

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“If they still can’t meet the standard,” he said, “it only means that their contributions to the family are not sufficient.”

Therefore, no matter how many people came to him with their complaints, he always adhered to this standard and could not possibly change it.

However, to appease these clan members, Zhou Chun also conveniently implemented some new policies.

First, he introduced a fertility subsidy policy. Any Zhou Family Cultivators who gave birth to offspring with Spirit Root Aptitude would receive merits from the family based on the level of their children’s Spiritual Root. In addition, until their children came of age, they would receive extra merit subsidies each year.

According to this standard, even if you gave birth to a child with the lowest tier of Spirit Root Aptitude, you would still receive a one-time award of two hundred merits, and for the next eighteen years, you would receive an additional thirty merits per year.

By this calculation, if a Zhou Family Cultivator were to have ten children with Spirit Root Aptitude, even without any other deeds, they could accumulate five to six thousand merits in eighteen years, instantly becoming the family’s “Foundation Establishment Seed.”

This unprecedentedly generous fertility subsidy from the Zhou Family sent shockwaves throughout the clan.

Many Zhou Family Cultivators, already in their sixties or seventies, were enticed by this tempting subsidy, considering a final attempt to contribute.

After all, the main hardships of childbirth typically fell upon women.

These male cultivators just needed to be more diligent, to find more people to ‘sow their seeds’ with, and having eight or even ten children a year would not be difficult for them.

This was also Zhou Chun’s intention behind launching such a generous fertility policy.

He wanted to take advantage of the remaining fertile years of the older family cultivators, allowing them to contribute one last time to the family, and ensuring they could watch their lifelong efforts passed down through their own descendants.

In addition to the super fertility subsidy, Zhou Chun also optimized some of the existing family mission rewards, increased merit awards for certain external missions, and introduced new tasks with experienced cultivators leading novices. He hoped that these seasoned Zhou Family Cultivators would take their less experienced peers outside for training.

The results of these actions were quite evident. In less than half a year, dozens of clan members from the Zhou Family had taken concubines, some even several times over, and instances of one person taking seven or eight concubines at once had occurred!

Furthermore, many young Zhou Family Cultivators had left their home under the guidance of the family elders, beginning to truly encounter and understand the Cultivation World.

One day, a long, mournful howl suddenly rose from Pagoda Peak, quickly spreading throughout the entire Zhou Family Mountain.

It turned out that Zhou Mingde’s Spirit Pet, the Fire Divine Jackal, after successfully assimilating a 3rd-grade mid-tier Demon Core, had advanced to become a 3rd-grade mid-tier Demon Beast.

The successful leap in rank for the Fire Divine Jackal was naturally a joyous occasion for the Zhou Family.

Ever since the foundation of the Zhou Family, this Demon Beast had earned its keep with outstanding battle merits.

Now, seeing its successful advancement, not only its master Zhou Mingde but also Zhou Daoyi, Zhou Chun, and other Zhou Family Cultivators were genuinely delighted for it.

And as fortune would have it, barely two months after the breakthrough of the Fire Divine Jackal, Baibai, Zhou Chun’s Spirit Pet Silver Lightning Python, also successfully broke through to the mid-tier 2nd grade, catching up once again with its master’s cultivation level.

As a mid-tier 2nd-grade Demon Beast, the Silver Lightning Python Baibai’s strength had greatly increased, and had it transformed into a Thunder Flood Dragon, even late-stage Foundation Establishment Cultivators would be no match for it.

Even a practitioner like Su Yuzhen, who had cultivated top-level techniques in the late stage of Foundation Establishment, might not be able to defeat Baibai with certainty.

At this time, with Purple Mansion Phase Cultivators not intervening, Zhou Chun had undoubtedly become one of the strongest figures within the Foundation Establishment Stage.

Fortune seemed to keep favoring the Zhou Family.

Just as Zhou Chun was rejoicing over his Spirit Pets’ advancements in cultivation levels, the Zhou Family Beast Garden relayed more good news.

After four to five years of domestication, the broodmares from the Dragon Scale Horses seized from the White Dragon Branch had finally started to show signs of pregnancy.

The appearance of pregnant mares in the herd indicated that the Dragon Scale Horses had truly adapted to life within the Zhou Family Mountain, had developed trust in the Zhou Family Cultivators tending to them, and had begun to procreate.

This also meant that the Zhou Family had officially acquired a new breed of Mount Beasts.