Chapter Twenty-Six: Harvest, Tournament
Red Peach Ridge.
By the time Zhou Chun and Zhou Zhengyong got together again, it was already after Zhou Jiapeng brought Zhou Daoquan, the third elder of the Zhou family, over.
It is said that Zhou Jiapeng rushed back to the Monkey Valley at that time, and was also surprised to see Zhou Chun and Zhou Zhengyong missing, and the red-tailed monkeys went and returned.
Fortunately, it was the third elder Zhou Daoquan who came with him this time, and soon found the two people hiding in the mountains according to the breath deliberately left by Zhou Chun and the others.
It's just that compared to Zhou Chun, who only had too much mana loss, Zhou Zhengyong was a lot more miserable.
He was hit head-on by the flames spewed by the red-tailed monkey king, and many blisters burned all over his body, and even his face did not escape.
In the end, he was able to escape, thanks to the fact that he encountered a river and dived under the water to get rid of those red-tailed monkeys.
At this time, looking at Zhou Zhengyong, who was covered with injuries and brought back by Zhou Daoquan, Zhou Jiapeng was also full of annoyance and blamed himself: "I was careless, I should have stayed at that time and let the two of you go back to find the elders!" ”
Hearing his words, Zhou Zhengyong, who was lying on the ground, said in a low voice of relief: "Uncle Peng doesn't have to blame himself, originally Uncle Peng, it is the most suitable for you to go back to the family to find the elders, no one can blame this matter, only the two of us are unlucky, who would have thought that those red-tailed monkeys actually have a King Kong monkey as a backer!" ”
Hearing him talk about the King Kong monkey, Zhou Chun next to him couldn't help but look at the open space on the side.
I saw that in the clearing, several demon monkeys, including the red-tailed monkey king and the King Kong monkey, were now lying unconscious on the ground and falling asleep.
After driving away Zhou Chun and Zhou Zhengyong, probably to thank the King Kong monkeys, the red-tailed monkeys also held a banquet in the Monkey Valley for them, offering all kinds of wild fruits and elixirs such as yellow essence and Ganoderma lucidum for it to eat, and even let two female monkeys accompany it.
As a result, after Zhou Jiapeng brought Zhou Daoquan over, Zhou Daoquan directly used means to capture them and stunned them with secret medicines.
"These monkeys! It just so happened that the family was preparing to rebuild the beast garden, and when the time came, they would all be thrown into the monkey park to slowly grind away their ferocity! ”
Zhou Jiapeng also swept his eyes at the demon monkeys on the ground, hating and scolding.
"Okay, the old man has seen it, the injuries on this kid Zhengyong only look serious on the surface, in fact, he can recover after a month or two of recuperation, this time you can also be regarded as a great contribution to the family, and the patriarch will definitely not treat you badly."
Zhou Daoquan waved his hand, signaling that there was no need to dwell on these things anymore.
Then he first took out a spirit beast bag and took in all the unconscious demon monkeys, and then began to transplant the Zhuyang fruit.
It is worth mentioning that although the spirit beast bag can accommodate living creatures such as demon beasts and spirit pets, the premise is that the demon beasts will not resist.
Like Zhou Daoquan, who directly accepts demon beasts that have not been subdued by contract, he must ensure that the demon beasts do not wake up halfway.
Otherwise, as long as the awakened demon beast struggled to attack, it would be easy to break the spirit beast bag from the inside and escape.
At this time, Zhou Chun was also seriously watching the third elder Zhou Daoquan transplant the Zhuyang fruit tree.
I saw that he first took out a flower pot-shaped magic weapon from the storage bag and put it on the ground, and then pinched the magic trick in his hand, and used a special method of gathering spirits to gather the surrounding Yimu spiritual qi and turn it into cyan spiritual water and sprinkle it on the Zhuyang fruit tree.
After waiting like this for almost half an hour, after the Zhuyang Fruit Tree absorbed a large amount of spiritual water containing the aura of Yimu, the vitality was extremely vigorous.
Zhou Daoquan used the magic weapon to break through the stone wall, and under the precise control of his divine sense, he dug it out without harming the root system of the Zhuyang fruit tree, and then put it into the flower pot magic weapon.
At this time, Zhou Daoquan quickly took out a jade bottle artifact from the storage bag and poured a large amount of spiritual water stored in it into the flower pot.
The spiritual water in this jade bottle is somewhat similar to the hydroponic nutrient solution in Zhou Chun's previous life, which can provide growth nutrients for spiritual plants when transplanting spiritual plants, improve the survival rate of transplanting, and its formula can be regarded as a family secret.
After this set of transplanting processes was completed, Zhou Daoquan raised his hand and moved the flower pot containing the Zhuyang fruit tree to the back of his flaming crane spirit pet.
Then he waved his hand at Zhou Chun and the others: "The old man wants to protect this Zhuyang fruit tree, so he won't take you back with me, you can return to the family by yourself!" ”
When the three of them heard this, they hurriedly responded: "The junior sends off the elders." ”
After seeing Zhou Daoquan go away, Zhou Chun thought that Zhou Jiapeng would propose to find the vajra monkey's lair to see if there was anything else to be gained.
didn't want to think about it, but as if he didn't expect this stubble at all, he nodded directly at Zhou Chun and Zhou Zhengyong and said, "Let's go, let's go back to the family too." ”
But at this time, Zhou Zhengyong, who has always been arrogant, actually thought of going with Zhou Chun, and looked at Zhou Jiapeng one step ahead of Zhou Chun and said, "Uncle Peng, aren't you looking for the nest of the King Kong monkey?" Maybe there's something else to gain! ”
Hearing his words, Zhou Jiapeng's face suddenly sank, and he looked at him angrily and said: "You kid, half of your life is gone, and you still worry about these things, you really forget the pain if the scar is not good!" ”
After speaking, he shook his head and said: "Don't think about this kind of good thing, the King Kong monkey itself is a different species in the monkey group, it likes to wander everywhere, and the four seas are its home, and it is impossible to find good things in its temporary lair." ”
Speaking of this, he looked at Zhou Zhengyong with some hatred and said: "And the top priority is to send your kid back to the family to recuperate, anything else, no matter how good the thing is, does it matter if it can have your life?" ”
was reprimanded by him one after another, how dare Zhou Zhengyong speak more, and Zhou Chun saw Zhou Jiapeng's attitude, and he didn't dare to hit the muzzle of the gun and mention the matter again.
So he took the initiative to propose to make a stretcher, and he and Zhou Jiapeng carried the injured Zhou Zhengyong away.
In this way, when the three of them returned to the Zhou family in Jiufengling, it was already three days later.
After returning to the family, because the third elder Zhou Daoquan, who returned early, had already said the relevant situation, the patriarch Zhou Daoyi also quickly gave a reward after meeting the three of them.
For Zhou Zhengyong, who has paid the most and made the greatest credit, he was rewarded with a [Blood Spirit Pill] that is useful for low-level demon beasts to purify their bloodlines and break through the bottleneck, as well as a hundred family good deeds.
For Zhou Jiapeng and Zhou Chun, they were rewarded with eighty good deeds and fifty good deeds respectively.
Compared with the previous rewards Zhou Chun received, this reward can only be said to be ordinary.
But this is also normal, after all, he was supposed to help out of personal friendship this time, and it stands to reason that he shouldn't even get a reward from the family.
Now they will reward him for good deeds, also because they indirectly caught a rare King Kong monkey and a group of red-tailed monkeys for the family.
Zhou Chun's biggest gain from this trip should be Zhou Zhengyong's favor and Zhou Jiapeng's friendship as an elder.
Sects and families are like this, it is easier to find someone to help you with something, and it is easier to make friends who are more at ease.
Zhou Chun helped Zhou Zhengyong this time, as long as he opens his mouth next time, Zhou Zhengyong will definitely help, otherwise it will be difficult to mix in the family anymore, and all family members will stay away from this kind of person who only takes advantage and refuses to pay.
And after he showed his good family strength and wisdom by helping Zhou Zhengyong, he also won the appreciation of Zhou Jiapeng, an elder.
The relationship between the two has also changed from a verbal relationship between uncles and nephews to close acquaintances.
In this way, if he needs to ask Zhou Jiapeng for something in the future, the probability that Zhou Jiapeng is willing to help will undoubtedly be very high.
At the same time, if Zhou Jiapeng needs help with anything in the future, it will be easier to think of him.
All in all, cultivating immortals is not only about fighting and killing, but also about practicing behind closed doors, and the sophistication of human feelings is also a very important aspect for immortal cultivators.
After returning to the family in this way, Zhou Chun's life returned to its original state, but he went to visit Zhou Zhengyong, who was recuperating at home, and asked for advice on the experience of cultivating spiritual pets, and got closer to Zhou Jiapeng, the twenty-seventh uncle.
Such days soon passed for more than three months, and Zhou Chunxiuwei, with the assistance of [Chunyang Dan], was also moving forward steadily.
On this day, when Zhou Chun went to visit the twenty-seventh uncle Zhou Jiapeng again, he suddenly learned a piece of news from his mouth.
"A few days ago, the patriarch called me over, saying that in another half a year, the Zhou family and several local immortal cultivation families in Lanzhou will jointly hold a fighting competition between Qi refining period cultivators, and then they will be divided into two groups: the youth group and the elite group."
"Zhengchun, if you can reach the eighth layer of the Qi refining stage before that fighting competition, with the magic weapon in your hand and that rock and soil turtle, you may not be able to compete for the top ten places in the youth group."
In Zhou Jiapeng's residence, when Zhou Chun was about to say goodbye and leave, he suddenly looked at Zhou Chun and said the news.
This made Zhou Chun also slightly stunned.
After he was stunned for a while, he looked at Zhou Jiapeng with curiosity and said, "Uncle Peng, can you tell me more about this matter?" ”
When Zhou Jiapeng heard what he said, he shook his head and said: "The specific patriarch didn't tell me, but I just knew that the Wang family of Hongyao Valley, the Mu family of Biyun Mountain, the Sun family of Jinfengling, and the He family of Qingzhu Mountain had this exchange activity, and it would be held every ten years, but this time our Zhou family was also able to join it." ”
"More details, I'm afraid we won't know until the patriarch announces this news."
Is the Mu family in Biyun Mountain also there?
Hearing the name of this family again after more than half a year, Zhou Chun also felt a little emotional in his heart.
In fact, in the past half a year, he has also inquired about the situation of the Mu family many times with those scattered cultivators and Zhou family members who came to the Zhou family to cultivate.
However, the news on the side of Wild Wolf Ridge seems to be very tightly blocked, and the news that Zhou Chun learned from the investigation did not dare to guarantee the authenticity, and the only thing that can be determined is that the Mu family and a loose cultivation organization called "Qi Yun League" had a fierce conflict, and there were low-level monks on both sides who were killed or injured.
Now the Wild Wolf Ridge seems to have been occupied by the "Qi Yun League".
Zhou Chun didn't know what the Mu family was thinking, but this matter was obviously not something he could get involved in now, so he hadn't paid attention to the Mu family's situation for a while.
At this time, after walking for a while, Zhou Chun also quickly came back to his senses, and saluted Zhou Jiapeng and said, "Little nephew understands, thank you Uncle Peng for telling me." ”
Seeing this, Zhou Jiapeng also patted him on the shoulder and said, "Prepare well, if you can really get a good ranking in this exchange meeting, it will definitely not be a problem to become an elite clan member in advance, and the patriarchs and elders will definitely have other rewards." ”
"Yes, the little nephew will definitely try to seize the opportunity."
Zhou Chun nodded vigorously, and really took this matter to heart.