Clan Cultivation: Starting from Beast Taming

The snow roared down, turning everything white.

This was a blizzard the likes of which Zhou Chun had never seen before.

The snowflakes falling from the sky were bigger than goose feathers, fluttering down like maple leaves.

There he stood on the snowy plain, motionless, letting the falling snowflakes settle on him, slowly turning himself into a snowman.

Under such a heavy snowstorm, the naked eye could no longer see anything, only Divine Sense could replace the eyes to see everything clearly around.

Zhou Chun now stood still in body, his Divine Sense spreading out to monitor the snowy ground for several miles around, waiting for the Snow Crystal Worms to appear as if he were waiting for rabbits to hit a tree stump.

Indeed, waiting for rabbits to hit a tree stump.

According to information provided by many cultivators who had caught Snow Crystal Worms, the best way to catch them under normal circumstances was just to wait patiently like this.

This method also relied on luck, but it was more useful than wandering aimlessly trying to get lucky.

And the stronger a cultivator's Divine Sense, the higher the chances of success with this method.

Fortunately, Zhou Chun's Divine Sense had always been stronger than that of most cultivators at the same stage as him.

But in the end, it was all down to luck!

Just like today, Zhou Chun had been waiting in the blizzard for most of the day, the heavy snow almost burying him several times, yet he still hadn't caught anything.

If Snow Crystal Worms were so easy to catch, the Snow Essence Palace wouldn't have offered such a high reward for them.

And this was already Zhou Chun's third day on the snowy plains hunting for Snow Crystal Worms.

For three days, he and most of the other people on the plains searching for Snow Crystal Worms had been following the steps of the blizzard.

Wherever the blizzard fell, there were the shadows of those searching for Snow Crystal Worms.

Just in these three days, Zhou Chun had seen at least five instances of other cultivators clashing with each other for various reasons.

The snowy plains were now in utter chaos.

"It seems I'll have to change my approach, this way of hoping for luck to find Snow Crystal Worms is too time-consuming, not to mention my goal is the Snow Crystal Worm King!"

On the snowy plains after the snowstorm, Zhou Chun shook off the snow that had accumulated on him and rose into the air, looking towards the white snow-covered ground, a new idea forming in his heart.

He had already inquired from disciples of the Snow Essence Palace, who said that the Snow Crystal Worm King only appeared where there were large numbers of Snow Crystal Worms; if it hid motionless in the snow, even a Golden Core Stage cultivator wouldn't be able to detect it.

It had been over three hundred years since someone from the Snow Essence Palace had last caught such a creature.

It was precisely because Snow Crystal Worms and Snow Crystal Worm Kings were so hard to catch that the Snow Essence Palace had made such a grand effort to capture these Demon Insects.

It's no exaggeration to say that half the Loose Cultivators and small-to-medium-sized Family Cultivators from Yang Kingdom had come to the snowy plains hoping for luck, and cultivators from neighboring countries had also started to come here after hearing the news.

If it weren't for the current situation where the Snow Essence Palace was the dominant force in Yang Kingdom, other sects would definitely have condemned such actions by the Snow Essence Palace and not allowed them to mobilize cultivators en masse.

Yet although Zhou Chun had resolved to change his method for finding Snow Crystal Worms, he hadn't yet figured out what would be a more effective approach.

Originally, lures would have been a good choice, but unfortunately, even the people from the Snow Essence Palace didn't know what kind of food Snow Crystal Worms liked.

Moreover, since the Snow Essence Palace had yet to successfully domesticate Snow Crystal Worms, this indicated that these Demon Insects were not easy to tame.

Zhou Chun felt that he needed to obtain more detailed information before he could find a more effective method for hunting Snow Crystal Worms.

To know more about Snow Crystal Worms, he could only start by approaching the cultivators from the Snow Essence Palace.

After all, the gate of the Snow Essence Palace was on these snowy plains, and these disciples often came here to look for Snow Crystal Worms, so they surely knew more.

However, to get access to this non-public information would obviously cost him a certain price.

And Zhou Chun was certainly willing to spend the necessary resources.

Once he had decided on a direction, he did not hesitate to use a low-grade second-order Magic Artifact as compensation to exchange information with an old cultivator of the Snow Essence Palace who had lived for nearly two hundred years.

According to the old cultivator, he had caught seventeen Snow Crystal Worms in his lifetime and thus had noticed some patterns in their appearances.

If one followed the old cultivator's personal experience and summed up views, the places where Snow Crystal Worms were found more frequently were not the snow-heavy peaks, but rather areas closer to the mid-mountain lines.

Additionally, this old cultivator had once found three Snow Crystal Worms in a valley after snowfall and managed to catch two of them in one go.

If that were all the news, of course, it wouldn't be worth a low-grade second-order Magic Artifact.

So the old cultivator also provided another useful piece of information.

He mentioned that a Purple Mansion Phase Cultivator from the Snow Essence Palace once discovered an ice cave on the snowy plains and found Cold Jade Veins deep inside it. At that time, many Snow Crystal Worms were found, and it was even said that among them might be the presence of a Snow Crystal Worm King.

It's said that the Cold Jade Veins previously found by the Snow Essence Palace on the snowy plains often had Snow Crystal Worms.

From this, one could conclude that wherever Cold Jade Veins exist, it's highly likely that a large number of Snow Crystal Worms might be present.

It is also apparent that Snow Crystal Worms not only appear on the snow-covered ground but may also be found inside the ice caves and ice holes that are everywhere in the snowy plains.