Clan Cultivation: Starting from Beast Taming

The Zhou Family already had specific rules regarding the use of Foundation Establishment Pills.

One either needed to possess superior Spirit Root Aptitude, make significant contributions to the family, or accumulated five thousand merit points.

Therefore, if someone couldn't meet even one of these three criteria, even if they were the biological children of a Purple Mansion Phase Cultivator of the family, they couldn't obtain a Foundation Establishment Pill from the family for their Foundation Establishment.

Nowadays, the Zhou Family still had three Foundation Establishment Pills that no one had used, which was a sufficiently large number.

Even if one were reserved for Zhou Xinyan, who possessed superior Spirit Root Aptitude, there would still be two pills available for other clan members to use.

But even if Zhou Chun was the Clan Leader of the Zhou Family, he couldn't overtly break the family rules and arrange for a certain clan member to use the two Foundation Establishment Pills.

Therefore, even though he believed Zhou Xinlan and Zhou Xindie both had the potential to be cultivated for Foundation Establishment, he could only create more opportunities within the rules for the two to earn family merit points.

Luckily, both were still relatively young, around forty or so, with plenty of time to accumulate merit.

In the four years that followed, Zhou Chun and the Zhou Family were wholly dedicated to internal development and diligent practice.

After four years of secluded cultivation, Zhou Chun finally made a breakthrough in optimizing the bloodline of the Jade Spirit Bees.

After numerous experiments, he had completely mastered the method of evolving a first-order Bee King into a second-order one.

Under his personal supervision, he successfully cultivated the Bee King from the Zhou Family's bee colonies to the second order.

Once the Bee King evolved to the second order, just as Zhou Chun had read in the Thousand Spirit Sect's classics, almost all the insect eggs it laid hatched into Demon Insects.

From then on, the last obstacle preventing the expansion of the Zhou Family's bee colonies no longer existed.

With the existence of this second-order Bee King and a sufficient supply of flowers to sustain it, the Zhou Family's bee colonies would soon grow to thousands, greatly increasing the production of Spirit Honey.

If the evolution of the Bee King was the first piece of good news, then Zhou Mingde's cultivation level breaking through to the middle phase of the Purple Mansion was the second piece of good news for the Zhou Family during these four years.

Zhou Mingde had initially opened his Purple Mansion some sixty or seventy years ago, so his breakthrough to the middle phase of the Purple Mansion was a natural progression.

Now at the middle phase of Purple Mansion, along with his third-order mid-grade Demon Beast, the Fire Divine Jackal, even when facing late-phase Purple Mansion Cultivators, he was capable of putting up a fight.

Of course, for the Zhou Family, which was experiencing changes year by year, there were many more joyful events.

For instance, the Windshadow Dragon Serpents that had been cultivated a few years ago had, after years of cultivation, successfully reproduced two clutches of eggs and hatched over a dozen Windshadow Dragon Serpents.

With this, the Dragon Descendant breed of the Windshadow Dragon Serpent had effectively taken root within the Zhou Family.

Furthermore, Lin Hongyu, who had gone far to the Yang Kingdom, sent Lin Wan'er back on a trip; according to Lin Wan'er, Lin Hongyu had successfully taken over the area where the Earth Origin Crystal Jade veins were and began to organize people to mine the veins in secret.

Lin Wan'er returned to ask the Zhou Family to find sales channels, to avoid being tracked down to Lin Hongyu by others following the clues.

This matter was quite tricky for Zhou Chun.

Because once Earth Origin Crystal Jade was sold on a large scale, it would inevitably become known that the Zhou Family owned such a vein.

Although with the current strength of the Zhou Family they were not likely to be directly robbed because of it, it still posed unnecessary risks.

After consulting with Zhou Mingde, Zhou Daoyi, and several other Supreme Elders, they decided to instruct Lin Hongyu to accumulate the mined Spirit Ore for the time being and later dispose of it in a few large transactions, to avoid attracting trouble.

In fact, the Zhou Family no longer needed the share of profits from the Earth Origin Crystal Jade veins.

Another benefit from the joint cultivation competition held by the Zhou Family before was that their Demon Beast Eggs and Demon Beast Cubs became more marketable.

Many Cultivators who had sparred with Zhou Family Cultivators now believed that owning a Spirit Beast Pet was much more cost-effective than acquiring one or two high-quality Magic Artifacts. Stay updated via My Virtual Library Empire

Therefore, they were willing to spend the Spirit Coins intended for purchasing Magic Artifacts on buying Demon Beast Eggs and Demon Beast Cubs.

And once they had a Spirit Pet, Zhou Family's Spirit Beast Feed and Beast Spirit Pills, sold as a package deal at a discount, naturally became items they had to purchase as well.

This, in turn, drove the sales of other complementary products.

The matter currently bothering Zhou Chun related to Demon Beasts was due to the Zhou Family's various types of Demon Beasts increasing in number, leading to an overburdened Beast Garden.

To put it more broadly, the area of Jiufeng Ridge where the Zhou Family was established could no longer accommodate so many Cultivators and Demon Beasts.

The place of Jiufeng Ridge was originally a stronghold established collectively by several Foundation Establishment Stage Loose Cultivators, not exactly an excellent Spirit Mountain blessed land.

When the Zhou Family chose this place to establish their sect, it was because they had just arrived and didn't want to offend the local powers.

Past events have proven that the choice to establish a sect base here was a correct one for the Zhou Family.

However, times change, and with the increasing number of Clan Members and Demon Beasts, the area of Jiufeng Ridge became somewhat insufficient.

To resolve this issue, one would have to expand the scale of the Mountain Protection Array and claim more land.

This was not a difficult thing to achieve; although no one in the Zhou Family was capable of altering the Five Directions Mirlo Array, the You Family was fully capable of providing assistance in this aspect.

But the harsh reality was that the concentration of Spiritual Energy outside the current mountain gate simply did not meet the standards inside.