Thanks to Zhou Jiapeng's confession, Zhou Chun had half a year to prepare in advance.

He first specifically found Zhou Jiahe, the peak master of Baozhi Peak, and inquired about the rules of the relevant fighting and martial arts competitions.

Soon he learned from his mouth that in general, in order to test the fighting methods of the junior monks, they are either not allowed to use magic runes, or there are restrictions on the number and grade of magic runes used.

As for the spirit pet, it will definitely not be restricted, otherwise even the magic weapon will be restricted from being used.

Therefore, if you want to achieve a good ranking in this kind of fighting competition, in addition to your own cultivation realm, you must work the cultivation of magic weapons, spirit pets, and spells.

Zhou Chun's current magic weapon configuration is actually quite good, and it can be regarded as an upstream among the Zhou family's mid-stage Qi refining cultivators, but it doesn't have much advantage.

As for spell cultivation, the registration for the youth group is limited to monks under the age of thirty, and everyone is about the same age, so it is estimated that the difference will not be too big.

If you really meet someone who is talented in spell cultivation, you can only blame yourself for being unlucky.

Needless to say, if it weren't for a family like the Zhou family that used the art of beast control to pass on the family, it would be impossible for most Qi refining period cultivators to be able to afford to raise a spirit pet and raise a good spirit pet.

Therefore, after thinking about it, Zhou Chun thought about it, in addition to ensuring that he was promoted to the eighth layer of the Qi refining period before participating in the fighting martial arts competition, he also tried to get a first-order high-grade magic weapon for himself.

In this case, as long as the top ten in the youth group were not all cultivators above the tenth level of the Qi refining period, he should have a good chance of entering.

And to get a first-order high-grade magic weapon, Zhou Chun only has two ways to go, one is to go to Hongyafang City to buy it, and the other is to exchange it from the family.

Although the Zhou family does not issue spirit coins to the clan as welfare offerings, the family good deeds issued every year can still be exchanged for things from the family treasury.

However, the first-order high-grade magic weapon is extremely precious, and the market price is at least three hundred spirit coins or more.

The Zhou family has only been implementing the good deeds system for more than two years, and Zhou Chun, as an ordinary clansman, can receive 20 benefits every year.

In this way, even if he counted the good deeds he had obtained from his previous trip to Red Peach Ridge, it was far from enough to be used to exchange for first-order high-grade magic weapons.

Fortunately, even if the good deeds are not enough to exchange, he can use spirit coins to make up for the shortcoming.

So Zhou Chun checked his net worth and found that thanks to the compensation he received from the previous trip to the Mu family, he still had nearly eighty spirit coins on him.

In this case, he only needed to gather another hundred or so spirit coins, and he could exchange them for a first-order high-grade magic weapon from the family treasury.

As for how to get together a hundred spirit coins, Zhou Chun's first thought was to borrow money.

When you buy something you need and don't have enough money, ordinary people think like this.

But after Zhou Chun thought about all the people he could borrow money from, he hesitated again.

Now the Zhou family has a good relationship with him and there are not many monks who can borrow money.

And the few monks who could lend him money seemed to be able to sign up for this martial arts competition.

Now if Zhou Chun goes to them to borrow money, unless they don't plan to participate in the event, whether they borrow it or not, it seems that it will affect the relationship between the two parties.

"Let's get to the bottom first, tell them the news first, and if they're going to participate, then don't ask for money."

Zhou Chun thought of this, and immediately visited them one by one.

The result was the same as he thought, after learning that the five immortal cultivation families were going to jointly hold a martial arts competition, Zhou Zhengyong and several others said that they wanted to sign up to participate in it and win glory for the family.

There are two people who are not ready to sign up because they are too old or know that their cultivation is low.

But when Zhou Chun talked about borrowing money, the two got together and only gave him less than thirty spirit coins.

It turned out to be the spirit coins on their own bodies, which were also used to buy pills and other things that were consumed.

Seeing this, Zhou Chun was embarrassed to take out the little emergency spirit coins left on them, so he gave up the idea of borrowing money.

Since the family couldn't borrow spirit coins, Zhou Chun had to call the idea to the Fang Market.

He has a few magic weapons on his body that can be sold in the Fang Market and exchanged for spirit coins, if he takes a little risk and uses purifying spiritual water to purify a century-old elixir and sells it, the gap of more than 100 spirit coins can be completely filled.

After making up his mind in this way, Zhou Chun practiced with peace of mind, and planned to wait for his cultivation to reach the eighth level of the Qi Refining Period before going to Fang City to implement the plan.

Almost a month later, the matter of the five major families jointly holding a fighting competition was finally officially notified to all the Zhou family members, and the relevant rules were announced.

According to the rules, all monks participating in the fighting martial arts competition can only bring five magic talismans into the arena each time they fight, and only one of the first-order high-grade magic talismans is allowed.

And each family group can only send ten people to participate in this fighting competition.

In other words, even if all the qualified monks of the Zhou family signed up, they could only send a total of twenty family children from the elite group and the youth group to participate.

Because of this restriction, the Zhou family has to hold a selection competition first.

The time for the selection competition has also been set, which is one month before the official start of the event.

With the announcement of this news, the monks in the Zhou family who were eligible to participate in the event were all gearing up to prepare for the battle.

As long as the Zhou family monks have some brains, they know that this joint activity of the five major families will be an important performance after the Zhou family has established itself in the realm of cultivating immortals in Lanzhou, Yasukuni.

If they can represent the Zhou family to achieve a good ranking in the event, they will not only be able to get the prizes prepared by the five major families for the event, but also gain the favor of the patriarchs and elders, and the benefits will be countless in the future.

In this case, Zhou Chun soon learned a piece of news that was very bad for him.

That is, most of the remaining first-order high-grade magic weapons in the family's treasure house have been replaced, and the remaining few are the kind of goods that no one wants.

"It seems that the family can't count on it, and now they can only find a way from the Fang Market."

With a flash of gloom in his eyes, Zhou Chun couldn't help but shake his head and gave up his plan to exchange magic weapons from the family.

Time passed slowly, and when Zhou Chun also took the eighth [Chunyang Pill], his cultivation finally broke through to the eighth layer of the Qi Refining Stage as scheduled.

At this time, his twenty-fourth birthday had passed less than two months.

A twenty-four-year-old eighth-layer cultivator in the Qi refining period, this cultivation speed can be regarded as a relatively fast group among the many clansmen of the Zhou family.

Zhou Zhengyong, who was a few years older than Zhou Chun, had just broken through to the eighth layer of the Qi Refining Period in his cultivation, and he also relied on pills to help break through.

However, Zhou Zhengyong's spirit pet red-tailed monkey has been successfully promoted to a first-order high-grade demon beast after taking the [Blood Spirit Pill], and his strength has increased greatly.

And after Zhou Chun's Rock and Earth Turtle had taken all three bottles of [Beast Spirit Pill], now his cultivation was worthy of equaling his master.

If he only relied on the cultivation of the eighth layer of the Qi Refining Period and a first-order mid-grade demon beast Rock Earth Turtle, facing those late-stage Qi refining cultivators of other families who participated in the fighting method competition, Zhou Chun's probability of winning was really not high.

After all, the late-stage Qi refining cultivators of other families participating in the fighting martial arts competition will definitely have a first-order high-grade magic weapon in their hands.

In view of this, after cultivating to break through to the eighth layer of the Qi Refining Period, Zhou Chun went to the Pagoda Peak to meet the patriarch Zhou Daoyi, and made it clear that he was going to go to Hongyafang City.

"There are fish and snakes outside Hongyafang City, bandits are rampant, if you want to go to Fang City, it is best to find someone to accompany you, and you should be more careful when you come out, don't let people follow and ambush."

In the "Zhongping Palace", Zhou Daoyi looked at Zhou Chun in front of him and muttered for a while, but still did not refuse his application to go out, but only warned him to be careful when going out.

After Zhou Chun listened to his words, he also responded solemnly: "The younger generation must keep in mind the patriarch's teachings. ”

Then he left Jiufengling and rushed straight towards Hongyafang City.

Zhou Daoyi's admonition, Zhou Chun naturally would not ignore it, but what he was going to do this time was really not suitable for the Zhou family monk to follow him.

I saw that after he left Jiufeng Ridge about a hundred miles away, he changed his outfit, and then sacrificed his flying magic weapon and hurried away.

In this way, every time he flew out for one or two hundred miles, Zhou Chun would stop and meditate for an hour to recover his mana.

After spending more than half a day like this, Zhou Chun came to the outside of the Hongyan Mountain Range.

Standing on the periphery of the mountain range, looking in the direction where Hongyafang City was located, he couldn't help but remember the first time he came here more than three years ago.

At that time, when he went to Fang City, he was frightened step by step, and his heart was terrified to the extreme.

But this time, that won't happen again!

I saw that Zhou Chun first found a place to meditate and recover his mana, and when his mana was fully recovered, he poured a large mouthful of purifying spiritual water, and then flew the flying magic weapon to a height of more than three hundred zhang, and then propped up the shield and flew directly towards the location of Hongyafang City.

This move undoubtedly exposed him to the sight of many immortal cultivators in the mountains below.

But as soon as they saw the flight altitude, the bandits gave up the idea of making a move.

At such a high flight altitude, they can't lock on to the target at all, and they will also expose their location.

Moreover, people with flying magic weapons will somewhat make them jealous of their roots, and they will not easily make reckless moves.

In this way, until Zhou Chun flew outside Hongyafang City in one breath and fell, he had never encountered any attacks.