Ruby Peak stronghold.

Although Zhou Chun discovered the problem in time, he also took measures to retain it.

But the temptation of Tsukidan is too great.

Many young cultivators who still had some thoughts did not want to miss this rare opportunity, and they embarked on the road to the snowfield regardless of their retention.

The departure of these people undoubtedly had a great impact on the stronghold.

Because of their departure, the remaining monks will have to take on even more onerous tasks and will never return to their former easy life.

Therefore, it is also necessary for Zhou Chun to give everyone a monthly subsidy of spirit coins.

Without this "overtime pay", these casual cultivators would definitely not be willing to spend a lot of time guarding the "Pure Spirit Pavilion" every day.

"Pay attention to the news, see why the Xueluo Palace suddenly issued such a reward, and then increase the treatment of recruits, as long as the newcomer joins the stronghold, it will be subsidized from the first month, and an additional ten spirit coins will be subsidized for half a year!"

In the conference hall, Zhou Chun frowned and gave an order to Fu Changqing and the others.

After the three of them retreated, he began to look for information about the snow crystal insects.

Han Yuan of Qianlingmen had been cultivating in the Yang Kingdom for many years, and he had also studied the snow crystal worm, a demon insect that existed on the snow field of the Yang Kingdom.

Zhou Chun quickly found this kind of demon insect information from the demon insect illustrated book he left behind.

According to the annotation above, the snow crystal insect is a special kind of demon insect unique to the snow environment, they look like earthworms, the body is snow-white, like to move in snow and ice, only when the snowstorm falls, it may appear on the snow surface.

This demon insect doesn't have much combat ability, but its escape ability is very powerful.

They can easily burrow into thick snow or ice like wood charms blend into trees, and when they hide in the snow and do not move, even the divine consciousness of the Purple Mansion period monks can hardly detect the abnormality.

Therefore, if you want to catch this demon insect, it is very difficult, and you can basically only try your luck on a blizzard day.

This is also the reason why the mountain gate of Xueluo Palace is obviously in the snow field, and it is clear that it has tens of thousands of inner and outer disciples, so why should a reward order be issued to reward the acquisition of this demon insect.

But even Han Yuan, who was very interested in demon insects, didn't know what unknown precious uses the snow crystal insects were.

After all, Han Yuan's main ambition was to cultivate a demon insect with strong combat ability, and the snow crystal insect could only survive and operate on the snow and ice fields, which was destined to be difficult to attract him to conduct in-depth research on this demon insect.

"Let's hope this thing gets over soon!"

With a slight sigh in his heart, Zhou Chun put away the classics and didn't care about this matter anymore.

In the past two months, Lin Wan'er returned to the Hongyufeng stronghold safely, and also brought back a letter to Zhou Chun.

The family letter was written by Zhou Jiarui, mainly telling about the various things that happened in Yasukuni and the family in the more than a year since he left the family.

There are only three things in this that deserve Zhou Chun's attention.

One of them is that the monks of the Zhou family on the side of Longxing Valley have moved to a new stronghold "Jade Mining Mountain", and the mining of spiritual jade veins has been put on the agenda.

The second is that Zhou Zhengbai, a foundation-building monk of the Zhou family, married a female cultivator of the Li family of the pill, which was the first marriage between the two families after they migrated to Yasukuni.

This matter was also agreed to by Zhou Mingde.

The third is that Qinglian Guan suddenly issued a "levy order", requiring all the immortal cultivation families in the three states under his command to pay a tax to Qinglian Guan according to the head of the family monks.

The amount of this tax is not very high, the monks in the Qi refining period need to pay ten spirit coins each, and the monks in the foundation building period only need to pay one hundred spirit coins each, and the monks in the Purple Mansion period can be exempt from taxes.

According to this calculation, with the size of the Zhou family, it is probably more than 4,000 spirit coins handed over.

To be honest, this kind of "levy order" is nothing new, and many major sects sometimes levy taxes on the Xiu Immortal family under their command.

But Qinglian Guan has not done this for hundreds of years, and now it is suddenly levied, it is difficult not to think about it.

Zhou Chun can't figure out what Qinglian Guan wants to do now, but just like Zhou Mingde said at that time, no matter what happens, the Zhou family's volume can only go with the flow and is powerless to change.

So after reading the family letter, he didn't think too much.

And Lin Wan'er's return allowed him to return to his previous state of life, and he didn't have to worry too much about the affairs of the stronghold.

In this way, time passed slowly, and after more than five months, Zhou Chun and Mu Mei's patience contest finally came to an end.

After more than two years of torment and torture, Mu Mei finally couldn't bear the torture and chose to surrender and admit defeat.

Zhou Chun was able to conclude a contract with it and adopted it as his fourth spirit pet.

With the successful subduing of Mu Mei, Zhou Chun can be regarded as a matter of care, and his actions have also been liberated.

He couldn't wait to take Mu Mei to the deep mountains and old forests of the Great Cloud Country to test Mu Mei's medicine finding ability and supernatural skills.

After returning to the forest, Mu Mei was also very excited.

After being tortured by Zhou Chun for more than two years, it suffered a serious loss of vitality, and after returning to the forest at this time, it immediately recovered its vitality by absorbing the vitality of those ancient trees.

The older the old trees in the forest, as long as they are not attacked by pests and diseases, the more vigorous and powerful their vitality becomes.

And Mu Mei is born to absorb the vitality of ancient trees to heal wounds.

For it, this pure vitality of plants and trees is more useful than any panacea in terms of healing effects.

In less than half a day, most of the vitality it had been tortured and lost by Zhou Chun had recovered, and this recovery speed also shocked Zhou Chun.

Zhou Chun then began to order Mu Mei to use his talent to find an elixir for himself.

Maybe it was because he had suffered enough in front of him, or maybe it was for this hard-won freedom, Mu Mei didn't have much resistance to Zhou Chun's order, and quickly acted according to his order.

As a result, only half a day passed, and it found a three-hundred-year-old spiritual ginseng for Zhou Chun, five two-hundred-year-old yellow essence, ginseng and other elixirs, and the remaining hundred-year-old elixirs also had fifteen strains.

These elixirs were almost all the high-grade elixirs that could be found within a radius of a hundred miles.

This result also made Zhou Chun very satisfied.

Because he knew very well that the forest he had chosen was not a blessed land of spiritual mountains, and he must have been patronized by many scattered cultivators over the years.

In this case, Mu Mei was able to find so many elixirs in half a day, which fully demonstrated his strong ability to find elixirs.

"It's really good, it's really good, it's not in vain that I put so much effort into subduing you, Lu'er, you are really a treasure hunting deer!"

Touching Qinglu's head with satisfaction, Zhou Chun smiled and put all those elixirs into the storage bag.

He was just testing Mu Mei's ability to find the elixir now, and when he returned to the Zhou family, it was time to show his skills.

With the existence of wood charms, those elixirs in the wilderness that are difficult for ordinary people to find will have nothing to hide in front of him in the future!

Next, Zhou Chun asked Mu Mei to show off the various magical spells he knew.

The magic spells that Mu Mei will know are all wood attribute related spells, covering many fields such as attack, defense, trapping enemies, transfiguration, concealment, retreat, healing, etc.

But knowing everything means not having a specialization.

In terms of attack, Wood Charm's lethal spells are not too powerful, especially those that attack directly against the air.

Defending and trapping the enemy is much stronger than attacking, especially in the forest environment, and it can get a great home blessing.

In terms of transmogrification and healing, Mu Mei can only be said to have related spells, but in fact, it is not used much.

Escape and concealment are its two strongest talents, and Zhou Chun has already seen its two great talents.

In addition, Mu Mei also has a special supernatural power, that is, the kind that Zhou Chun has seen before, which can greatly improve its cultivation to mana supernatural power.

That kind of supernatural power is called "life gift", and it is a supernatural power that can only be used under special circumstances.

As a child of the forest, Mu Mei is favored and blessed by the forest, and also has the responsibility to protect the forest.

When the forest is threatened by destruction, or when the wood charm itself is in danger of death, the spiritual consciousness of the plants and trees in the forest will transfer its own origin vitality to the wood charm at the expense of itself, improve the cultivation strength of the wood charm, and let it gain the power to protect the forest and itself.

Judging from the description above and the actual effect, the "Gift of Life" supernatural power is undoubtedly extremely domineering and powerful, and it will not even make the strengthened demon beast fall into the sequelae of weakness like "Ancestor Resurgence", and the duration is quite long.

It's a pity that the prerequisites for this supernatural power to be activated are a little too difficult.

First of all, the Wood Charm or Zhou Chun took the initiative to create a disaster to destroy the forest, which would definitely not be able to trigger the conditions, but would make those grass and wood spiritual consciousness abandon the Wood Charm, so that it could not even cast the spells of the Wood Escape Technique.

And letting Mu Mei go to the enemy to fight hard and make him fall into the danger of death is also a practice of dancing on the tip of a knife, and if you don't pay attention, you may really let Mu Mei die.

Therefore, although the "Gift of Life" is powerful, it cannot really be used as a conventional combat power.

To sum up, in view of Mu Mei's special ability, Zhou Chun positioned it as an auxiliary spirit pet, which can be used to control the field and strengthen defense in battle, and other spirit pets that are injured after the war can also be treated, so there is no need to directly hit the hard.

After staying in the deep mountains and old forests of the Great Cloud Country for a few days, and after recovering all the vitality of the Wood Charm, Zhou Chun took it back to the Red Jade Peak stronghold.

And as soon as he returned to the Red Jade Peak stronghold, Zhou Chun learned a news that surprised him very much.

"What do you say? Xue Luo Palace is now willing to even take out the pill to assist in opening up the Purple Mansion to reward? ”

In the stronghold, Zhou Chun looked at Lin Wan'er with a surprised expression, shocked by what the other party had just said.

It turned out that in the few days that he had been on his way to the Great Cloud Country, the bounty of the Snow Soul Palace had changed again.

This time, the Snow Spirit Palace issued another kind of bounty, saying that if anyone can pay the Snow Crystal Insect King, one can be exchanged for a [Snow Soul Pill] that assists in opening up the Purple Mansion.

As soon as this reward was announced, Fu Changqing from the Red Jade Peak stronghold immediately reported to Lin Wan'er that he had gone to the snowfield.

And Lin Wan'er also knew that she couldn't stop the other party, so she reluctantly agreed to the matter.

"What kind of use does this snow crystal worm have, it can make the Snow Spirit Palace so bloody!"

Zhou Chun muttered to himself, and his eyes couldn't help but show a heartbeat.

The elixir that assisted in opening up the Purple Mansion was exactly what he couldn't ask for at the moment!

"Patriarch, if you want to go, then go, the concubine here in the stronghold can handle it alone."

seemed to see Zhou Chun's inner thoughts, Lin Wan'er immediately spoke softly and supported him.

After hearing this, Zhou Chun's eyes flickered, and then he nodded and said, "Then there is Elder Laurin." ”

Now that the decision was made, Zhou Chun did not delay, and set out on the road after a little rest for half a day.

In the previous "Thousand Absolute Cricket Plagues", the snow field in the northwest of Yang Country is the only place that has not been harmed by the "Thousand Absolute Ant Crickets", and it can be said that it is the last pure land of Yang Country.

The Xueluo Palace, which tied the mountain gate on the snowfield, was able to preserve the power of the sect and became the most well-preserved sect in the Yang Kingdom after the war.

On the way from the Red Jade Peak stronghold to the snowfield, Zhou Chun also bumped into many fellow travelers, including Qi Refining Period Cultivators, Foundation Building Period Cultivators, and even Purple Mansion Stage Cultivators.

The latest reward order issued by Xueluo Palace is full of attraction for monks who have cultivated below the Jindan stage.

Even for a Purple Mansion Stage cultivator, if he caught a Snow Crystal Insect King, he could net at least 100,000 spirit coins.

In order to facilitate the acquisition of snow crystal insects, it is said that the Snow Soul Palace has now sent hundreds of inner disciples who have cultivated during the foundation building period to set up acquisition points all over the snow field.

As long as someone catches the Snow Crystal Worm, they can go to the nearest acquisition point to find a Xueluo Palace disciple to exchange for rewards.

Xueluo Palace has even prepared very intimate information on the living habits of snow crystal insects, which can be received by anyone for free.

All of these practices are indicative of their current thirst for snow crystal insects.

Zhou Chun almost traveled for three days before arriving on the snowfield, mainly because there were too many people on the road, and he didn't dare to change trains too publicly.

After all, Yang Guo is not Yasukuni, and if he is too public, if he attracts the attention of a certain Purple Mansion period monk, it will be in big trouble.

This is not the first time Zhou Chun has climbed a snow-covered snow-capped mountain in this world, but it is indeed the first time he has come to the snowfield.

The snow field of Yangguo is very large, much larger than the four states under the jurisdiction of Qinglian Temple before, and the altitude is also very high, with an average altitude of more than 1,800 zhang.

Most of the area is covered with snow, and there are endless glaciers everywhere.

It is only in certain low-lying valleys that vegetation grows, birds and animals are active, and humans settle down.

There are countless valleys of vegetation that are dotted on the snowy fields like lakes on the ground.

The largest of them can support hundreds of thousands of mortals, and the small ones are only the size of a hundred acres of land.

The disciples sent by the Snow Spirit Palace to buy the Snow Crystal Worm stayed in the various snow valleys.

And after Zhou Chun arrived on the snow field, the first thing he did was to go to these people to get intelligence information about the snow crystal insects.

The first one is sent!

(End of chapter)