Time flies, and another six years have passed in a blink of an eye.

Six years have passed, and the intensity of the war between the two major immortal cultivation realms has increased significantly, and there have already begun to be Jindan stage monks participating in the war and falling.

At the same time, the second batch of recruitment targets also reached the various immortal cultivation families a year ago.

This time, there are more indicators for the Zhou family than last time, and the Zhou family needs to send one Purple Mansion Stage monk and three foundation building monks to serve in the Heavenly Spirit Legion.

Zhou Daoquan and Zhou Jiapeng, who had served for 15 years, successfully retired and returned to their families.

As for Zhou Zhengyong, the monk of the Zhou family who originally replaced Zhou Jiahe, he still needs to continue to serve for fifteen years before he can retire.

Speaking of which, it was Zhou Chun's decision to choose Zhou Zhengyong to replace Zhou Jiahe.

At that time, many monks of the Zhou family were greedy for the unredeemed rewards and exploits left by Zhou Jiahe, and wanted to take a risk.

And Zhou Zhengyong's cultivation is the highest among them, and it is also the strongest will.

Zhou Chun knew that Zhou Zhengyong was not greedy for the rewards and exploits, but wanted to have a future for his son Zhou Xinlan.

He himself admitted this and begged him to help make it happen.

Although Zhou Chun himself didn't want this good brother of the same clan to take such an adventure, in the end, he couldn't stand the other party's hard work, so he could only agree to the matter.

As a person who has advantages in seniority and cultivation, once Zhou Zhengyong participates in this competition, other junior monks of the Zhou family will naturally not be able to compete with him.

And those Zhou family monks who failed in the competition at that time naturally didn't expect that just a few years later, the second batch of recruitment indicators would come down.

This time, even if they don't want to go to the battlefield, they simply won't.

So after some deliberation and dispute, Zhou Daoyi led Xu Fu, Zhou Xinyan, and Zhou Xintie, three Zhou family foundation building monks, to Fengguo.

To be honest, this final decision was also made after several high-level executives of the Zhou family argued for a long time.

At that time, Zhou Mingde and Zhou Daoyi first ruled out Zhou Chun's option together, and then both of them had to fight to go to the battlefield, and they also had their own reasons.

Zhou Mingde's side used Lin Hongyu and Qingjiao Qingqing as a reason, saying that Zhou Daoyi's stay in the family was more important than himself.

Zhou Daoyi used Zhou Mingde's identity and status as a reason, believing that Zhou Mingde, as the number one person in rebuilding the Zhou family, could not have an accident no matter what, otherwise the blow to the Zhou family would be very huge.

And he thought that he had the third-order dragon protection, and it was easier for him to survive on the battlefield than Zhou Mingde.

In this way, the two of them had several disputes, but no one could convince anyone, and in the end, Zhou Chun felt that Zhou Daoyi's statement was more reasonable, and supported Zhou Daoyi to go.

It is worth mentioning that sixteen years have passed, although the Zhou family has killed Zhou Jiahe, an elder who cultivated in the later stage of foundation building, two more foundation building monks have also been added.

The two newly added foundation-building monks are named Zhou Sijun and Zhou Sihan.

Among them, Zhou Sijun succeeded in building the foundation by exchanging the "Zhuji Dan", but Zhou Sihan succeeded in building the foundation by "Zhuyuan Fruit".

Probably because they felt the pressure of the war, when these two Zhou family monks chose exercises, one chose the top-level exercises, and the other chose the fighting exercises.

It was Zhou Sijun who chose to practice the top-level exercises, and he chose to practice a top-level exercise called "Black Water Xuangong".

The introduction to this kind of top-level exercise is relatively simple, you only need to find some rare water-attribute spiritual objects to concoct a special spiritual liquid to assist in cultivation.

However, this kind of top-level exercise is easy to get started, but difficult to achieve.

In the future, cultivators who practice this kind of exercise need to condense a special kind of true water called "Xuanyin Black Water", and only by condensing the amount of this special true water to a certain amount can they break through the small realm of cultivation.

And condensing the "Xuanyin Black Water" is not only very time-consuming, but also has a good effect in places where the water attribute aura is strong.

Therefore, the cultivation speed of the monks who cultivated the "Black Water Xuangong" was actually not as fast as that of the monks who really cultivated other top-level exercises, and this kind of exercise was relatively mediocre.

On the other hand, Zhou Sihan, a monk of the Zhou family, is the first monk in the Zhou family to choose to practice fighting exercises among the many foundation-building monks in the Zhou family.

He is an ice attribute alien spirit root qualification, and the exercise he chooses to cultivate is called "Xuan Bing Jue", and when he cultivates, he needs to use a thousand years of Xuan Ice as an auxiliary spiritual object.

It just so happens that there's a lot of it in that ice cave in the wilderness.

And once this "Xuanbing Jue" is successfully cultivated, you will be able to obtain two powerful spells, and a body of Xuanbing mana will also have a great bonus when casting ice spells.

In fact, the changes in the choice of exercises between Zhou Sijun and Zhou Sihan are the feedback of the changes in the strength of the Zhou family.

In the past, when the Zhou family was weak, most of the newly promoted foundation building cultivators chose to practice the kind of exercises that quickly refined their mana cultivation, so that they could improve their cultivation realm faster and have less resource requirements.

Now, the Zhou family has a huge power and profound heritage, with enough Purple Mansion monks and foundation building monks in front of them to shelter from the wind and rain, and the ability to collect all kinds of rare spiritual objects, the new foundation building monks naturally have more choices.

This is also another sense of the predecessors planting trees, and the descendants enjoying the shade.

On this day, in the cave mansion on the Tuyun Ridge, after Zhou Chun woke up from meditation and practice, he felt the mana in his body that was difficult to enter, and couldn't help muttering: "The realm barrier in the late stage of the Purple Mansion has finally been touched, Elder Taishang has been stuck in front of this step for more than twenty years, and there is no hope of breaking through so far, how long will I be stuck by it?" ”

However, after sixteen years of cultivation, with an average of one pill per year, he had already pushed his cultivation to the peak of the middle stage of the Purple Mansion as he had originally expected, stuck in front of the small realm barrier in the late stage of the Purple Mansion.

Having had the experience of being stuck in front of the small realm barrier in the middle of the Purple Mansion last time, Zhou Chun certainly knew that it was not easy to break through this barrier.

Last time, he spent almost ten years polishing his mana, and finally broke through the barrier with the help of water grinding.

If you choose to use this method this time, I am afraid that it will take longer.

The point is, it doesn't necessarily work!

is like Zhou Mingde, the supreme elder of the Zhou family, who has been stuck in front of the late barrier of the Purple Mansion for more than twenty years, and has not seen any hope of a breakthrough until now.

In fact, the further back in the cultivation, the more obvious this kind of thing becomes.

It's like the ancestors of the Su family, and their Jindan stage monks, it is not uncommon for them to be stuck by this kind of small realm barrier for one or two hundred years.

Even some Jindan stage monks would find it difficult to break through this small realm barrier in their lifetime!

"It's a pity that I touched this barrier a year late, otherwise I should have been asked to go to Fengguo instead of my uncle at that time, and then exchange it for an elixir that can help break through the barrier with my military exploits!"

Thinking about it this way, Zhou Chun knew in his heart that even if he really touched the barrier of the late stage of the Purple Mansion a year in advance, Zhou Mingde and the others would not go directly to the battlefield by themselves.

However, now that it is difficult for his cultivation to encounter the realm barrier, he no longer needs to cultivate every day like before, he only needs to take a little time every day to polish his mana.

This would give him more time to practice the secret methods and deal with clan affairs.

Now, because of the increased intensity of the war between the two major immortal cultivation realms, in order to supplement various consumptions, the Heavenly Spirit Alliance has also issued various production task indicators internally.

For example, the Zhou family was ordered to provide the alliance with ten trained demon beast mounts every year, as well as various spiritual objects such as related animal skin rune paper, beast blood rune ink, etc.

The purchase price given by the Heavenly Spirit Alliance is not high, and it can barely be said that it is not a loss, and it is impossible to make money.

And because a large number of scattered cultivators went to the battlefield of Fengguo, many businesses of the Zhou family and other families were affected, and their income generally declined seriously.

Even the income of the "Zhoutong Tianxia" commercial bank has been greatly affected.

The impact of war on the economy is universal.

Even Zhou Chun, in the face of this kind of thing, there is no good way.

The situation of the Zhou family is destined to be difficult to make war money.

At this time, the people who can make war money are those who refine magic weapons, pills, and magic talismans, because the frontline battlefield consumes these things very much.

Especially ritual instruments.

In the past, there was a surplus of magic weapons in Yasukuni and even in neighboring countries, but just in order not to disrupt the market, no one adopted the situation of a large-scale sale to sell magic weapons to make money.

However, with the advent of the war, especially the demonic cultivators, who were generally good at polluting and corroding the magic weapons of immortal cultivators, many immortal cultivators' magic weapons were seriously damaged.

In the past, a suitable ritual instrument could be used for decades, or even generations.

Now it may not even last three years!

This made the magic weapon business extremely popular, and those families who had inherited refining skills, such as the Zhu family that the Zhou family cooperated with in the Yanyang Sect region, made a lot of money.

Even some magic materials have risen a lot.

The rest of the pills and magic talismans are also bestsellers, and many forces are hoarding and rushing to buy them.

And the Zhou family is undoubtedly much behind in these aspects.

Now Zhou Xintie, who has the best refining skills in the Zhou family, can only refine second-order middle-grade magic weapons, and the success rate is not very high.

In terms of alchemy, Zhou Zhengyuan and Zhou Xinlan are not bad, and the alchemy inheritance obtained from the Jiang family has greatly improved the Zhou family's heritage in this regard.

Coupled with the large number of elixirs that the Zhou family scavenged from the wilderness for these alchemists in the clan to practice, the alchemist inheritance of the Zhou family is now very sound, and now they can often release some elixirs to the market to generate income for the family.

It's just that when it comes to competitiveness, it's still far inferior to a family like the pill Li family that really eats with this skill.

The same is true for talisman making, although there are also a few monks in the foundation building period who are involved in the production of second-order talismans, but there are no particularly talented ones.

And there is such a thing as a talisman, in this kind of war period, there are not too many in each family, and it is impossible for Zhou Chun to sell a large number of the family's strategic reserve talismans in order to earn spirit stones.

What's worse is that because of the impact of the war, the Zhou family used to sell good monster eggs and monster cubs, but now the market is completely bleak.

In this kind of wartime, the priority of the immortal cultivators is to improve their cultivation and the means of fighting the enemy.

Spiritual pets, which require an investment of resources and time to cultivate, are certainly not on the radar of most monks at such times.

On this day, after Zhou Chun checked the family's economic accounts, he shook his head again and again, and couldn't help sighing: "It's not okay to go on like this, now the family's expenses are not small, once this income can't catch up with the expenses, the family's old bottom can't withstand it for a few years and will be eaten up!" ”

Hearing his words, Zhou Jiarui, who had been handling clan affairs for him, finally found an opportunity to vent his bitterness, and immediately sighed and complained: "Isn't that so? Now, due to the impact of the war, several of the family's main sources of income have shrunk a lot, especially in terms of the ground rent of the cultivation room and the sale of demon beast cubs, which have shrunk by half! ”

Speaking of this, he also made a tentative suggestion: "In the old man's opinion, if we can't improve this shrinking income situation as soon as possible, we can only reduce the treatment of the clansmen first, and in this special period, I think the clansmen will also understand this!" ”

When Zhou Chun heard this, he couldn't help frowning, and did not respond immediately.

In fact, Zhou Chun also knows that many families are indeed as Zhou Jiarui said, tightening their belts to reduce the welfare benefits given to the clansmen, and calling on the clansmen to overcome the difficulties together.

But he didn't want the Zhou family to do the same.

Because once this is done, it means that the Zhou family has fallen into a financial crisis, and it will be a big blow to people's morale.

"This matter needs to be carefully considered, and this method should not be used unless it is absolutely necessary."

In the end, Zhou Chun decided to postpone the matter and not rush to make a decision so quickly.

After separating from Zhou Jiarui, Zhou Chun, who returned to the cave mansion, looked at the vibrant purple mulberry tree in the valley, and thought of a way to alleviate the Zhou family's financial crisis.

After thinking about it like this, a matter that had been put on hold for a long time suddenly came back to him.

"Looks like we're going to have to go to the Scaly Frog tribe again!"

He muttered to himself, and quickly explained his whereabouts to Zhou Mingde, who was practicing in Tuyun Ridge, and went to the wilderness alone.

Soon after, Zhou Chun appeared above a lake in the wilderness with the high priest of Ukuru of the Scaly Frog Alien Race and some warlocks and warriors of the Scaly Frog Clan.

This lake is the same place where he killed the blue-scaled Arowana and discovered the water spirit jade vein.

"This is the place, fellow Daoist Ukuru, you will go down with Zhou to find out the situation first, and then let these juniors try to see if they can go down."

Above the waters, Zhou Chun casually pointed to the lake below and said his own arrangement.

Hearing his words, the high priest of Ukuru immediately nodded and said, "No problem, Zhou Daoyou, you can arrange it." ”

So Zhou Chun patted the spirit beast bag on his waist, summoned the thunder python that used the "Hundred Illusion Beads" to transform into a third-order thunder python in vain, and rode it into the water.

Probably by the nature of the race, the High Priest of Ukuru suddenly showed a look of fear and fear after seeing the third-order thunder python.

But he also knew that this was Zhou Chun's spiritual pet, so he quickly adjusted his mentality and followed him into the water.

A man and a frog dived straight underwater, and soon arrived at the location of the nest of the blue-scaled arowana.

Many years have passed, and this place has been occupied by the demon beasts in the lake and has become its own lair, but it is only a second-order high-grade mud dragon demon.

After this demon suddenly sensed the white breath of the thunder python, he was also half frightened to death, and hurriedly used his natural powers to escape from the lair by burrowing into the mud and rocks at the bottom of the lake.

Zhou Chun didn't bother to care about such a little demon, and directly took the high priest of Ukuru into the lair.

Then he pointed to the bare water spirit jade ore and said, "This is it, what do you think, Ukuru Daoyou?" Can you ordinary people come here and mine the water spirit jade ore here? ”

"It may be a little difficult for ordinary clansmen, but some strong tribal warriors may be able to stay here for a while, and first-order warlocks should be able to reach this place completely unhindered!"

High Priest Ukuru took a closer look and whispered his opinion.

This is not much different from what Zhou Chun guessed.

Therefore, he quickly looked at him and said, "In that case, let the people you brought with you come and try it first." ”

Naturally, Ukuru would not object to this, and soon returned to the water in person and brought those people he brought to the demon lair.

After testing, the situation was more or less the same as Ukuru's.

A strong Scaly Frog warrior can hold out underwater for about an hour, while a first-order warlock can stay for more than three hours.

Seeing this situation, Zhou Chun quickly looked at the high priest of Ukuru and said: "In this case, let's follow the cooperation plan that we discussed before, the Scaly Frog Clan is responsible for mining the water essence jade mine, and my Zhou family will exchange the corresponding value of the pill and magic weapon, what do you think?" ”

"No problem, the credibility of Zhou Daoyou and the Zhou family, Ukuru and the Scaly Frog Clan have always believed in it, so don't worry about leaving this matter to Ukuru!"

High Priest Ukuru agreed without hesitation.

So Zhou Chun asked Ukuru to go back to recruit miners by himself, and then returned to the family himself, ordering the refiners of the family to make suitable mining tools for the miners of the Scaly Frog Clan.

Soon after, the mining of water essence jade ore was officially on the right track.

However, just when Zhou Chun thought that he could alleviate the financial crisis of the Zhou family with the new source of wealth of the Water Spirit Jade Mine, what he had been worried about finally happened!

On this day, a powerful news suddenly spread all over the major immortal cultivation families in Yasukuni.

But it turned out to be Yunzhou, which borders Fengguo, and five immortal cultivation families were slaughtered overnight, including a famous immortal cultivation family!

And it is said that the person who did such a big thing was Jiang Zhong, the "corpse general" in the "Yuan Demon Seven Evils"!

This "corpse general" Jiang Zhong himself cultivates a top technique of the Corpse Demon Sect, "Earth Zombie Xuangong", and when he runs this skill, his physical body is comparable to that of zombies of the same level, and he can also drive a group of corpses.

The reason why he is called the "corpse general" is because he can control hundreds of corpses by himself, and has the ability to form an army by himself.

It is also because of this that he can have the ability to slaughter five immortal cultivation families in one night.

"Is it finally beginning? What I had been worried about for a long time finally happened! ”

In Tuyunling, after Zhou Chun finished reading the news from the Yunzhou Intelligence Station, his face instantly became extremely solemn.

He knew in his heart that with the incident of this "corpse general" Jiang Zhongye slaughtering the five great immortal cultivators, the war had entered a new stage!

(End of chapter)