Clan Cultivation: Starting from Beast Taming

Not long after, another Zhou Family clan member gathered the required five thousand points of family merit and successfully exchanged for a Foundation Establishment Pill from Zhou Chun.

Zhou Chun was quite familiar with this clan member, who was none other than Zhou Jiafei, a "Jia" generation family cultivator who had led him back to the Zhou Family.

By then, Zhou Jiafei was already in his sixties, and in order to gather the five thousand points of family merit, he had begged and pleaded everywhere, even going as far as to take concubines and father six or seven children.

After obtaining the Foundation Establishment Pill from Zhou Chun, he did not wait even a moment longer and quickly entered the seclusion chamber at Pagoda Peak to begin his closed-door cultivation.

However, it was unknown whether his overly anxious state of mind contributed to his downfall.

Just over three months later, Zhou Jiafei emerged from his seclusion chamber with a face that was as ashen as death, having failed at Foundation Establishment.

Consuming a Foundation Establishment Pill and failing was not unheard of in the Zhou Family, but Zhou Jiafei was the first to fail after going into debt to exchange for the pill.

This failure not only meant that he had almost no chance of successfully establishing his foundation in this life, but he would also have to work tirelessly to repay his debts in the years to come.

The road of cultivation is just like that, often one step from heaven and one step from hell.

Only those who are continuously successful can travel far on this path.

The failed Zhou Jiafei quickly became a cautionary tale, prompting other Zhou Family Cultivators who were desperately seeking to exchange merit for Foundation Establishment Pills to think carefully about the consequences of potential failure.

If they were to fail, it would mean a lifetime of being unable to turn their fortunes around!

Not long after Zhou Jiafei's failure at Foundation Establishment, Zhou Chun's third spirit pet, the Golden Winged Tiger, reached a critical point in its advancement.

The Golden Winged Tiger, being an intermediate-level Demon Beast, faced no obstacles when breaking through from the first tier to the second tier.

Therefore, once it had accumulated enough strength, Zhou Chun fed it the seven-hundred-year-old Golden Ginseng he had purchased to aid its advancement.

Perhaps it was due to the potent medicinal power of the Golden Ginseng, or maybe the fact that the Golden Winged Tiger had accumulated sufficient strength on its own.

After consuming the Golden Ginseng, it took less than four months for the tiger to successfully advance to a lower-grade second-tier Demon Beast.

Following the advancement to a second-tier Demon Beast, the Golden Winged Tiger's formidable innate gifts truly began to manifest.

At this point, the Golden Winged Tiger, from head to tail, measured over twelve meters in length, with a wingspan exceeding six meters. Its size had increased dramatically, surpassing the Golden Armor Rock Turtle to become Zhou Chun's largest spirit pet.

But it wasn't just the size that increased; the Golden Winged Tiger's strength also saw a significant boost.

A natural mutant of the gold and wind attributes, the Golden Winged Tiger mastered the most spells among Zhou Chun's three spirit pets after ascending to a second-tier Demon Beast.

It possessed second-tier Wind Walking Techniques such as "Storm Shredder Bullet," "Hurricane Barrier," "Wind Wing Technique," and "Slaughterous Wind," as well as second-tier gold attribute spells including "Armor-Splitting Golden Light," "Armor Piercing Golden Needle," and "Golden Light Roaring Bullet."

With these seven second-tier spells at its disposal, the Golden Winged Tiger's strength caught up to the Golden Armor Rock Turtle, which had its breakthrough almost ten years earlier, shortly after its own advancement.

Moreover, in one-on-one combat, it defeated the Vajra Spirit Monkey that Zhou Chun had called over for sparring.

Such performance also left Zhou Chun, its master, exceedingly delighted, making him feel that the beating he had endured at the Dragon Transformation Sect was not in vain.

Now, as a lone cultivator commanding three spirit pets, all of which were second-tier Demon Beasts, with only his Foundation Establishment cultivation level, Zhou Chun thus became the first in the Zhou Family to achieve this in five hundred years.

In the past five hundred years, Zhou Chun was the only one who had accomplished this feat in the Zhou Family.

At this time, excluding the two Supreme Elders of the family, Zhou Chun had indeed become the best within the Zhou Family in the aspect of rearing spirit pets.

Good things come in pairs. Just two months after the Golden Winged Tiger's breakthrough to the second tier, Zhou Daoquan, who had been in seclusion for several years, finally completed his cultivation and emerged!

With the assistance of both the Mysterious Heart Purple Return Pill and the Ghost-Faced Soul Mushroom, Zhou Daoquan successfully opened his Purple Mansion, becoming the third Purple Mansion Cultivator in the Zhou Family.

With three Purple Mansion Cultivators in one family, the Zhou Family finally regained the stature of a Golden Core family that it once had!

"Congratulations to the Third Elder on opening the Purple Mansion, with the Golden Core within reach!"

Upon receiving the news, Zhou Chun hurried to Flying Rock Peak, where he saw Zhou Daoquan, now a Purple Mansion Phase Cultivator, and immediately expressed his joy and congratulations with a full heart.

He and the Third Elder Zhou Daoquan also had a profound relationship. Initially, it was with Zhou Daoquan's assistance that he acquired the exceptional spirit pet, the Silver Lightning Python.

Late, to facilitate his smooth transition to cultivate the Golden Cauldron Profound Technique, Zhou Daoquan accompanied and escorted him on distant journeys several times.

Therefore, upon seeing Zhou Daoquan successfully establishing his Purple Mansion, Zhou Chun sincerely felt happy for him, even from a personal emotional standpoint.

When faced with Zhou Chun's congratulations, a joyful Zhou Daoquan repeatedly waved his hands and said, "Clan Leader, you give me too much credit. Just being able to establish my Purple Mansion in this life is a wish fulfilled for me. As for the matter of Core Formation, I have never even dared to dream of it!"

Zhou Daoyi had once told Zhou Chun that even for a cultivator from a cultivation family like theirs, establishing one's Purple Mansion was considered complete fulfillment.

Regarding the Golden Core Stage, most of the time, people only dared to think about it, never believing it could be achieved.
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Although Zhou Daoquan had now successfully established his Purple Mansion, he still didn't dare to entertain the thought of forming a Golden Core.

Of course, Zhou Chun was simply offering a felicitous saying at that moment and did not actually believe in his heart that Zhou Daoquan had the potential for a Golden Core.

Seeing Zhou Daoquan reply this way, he too chuckled and smoothly changed the subject.

Subsequently, one after another, the arriving Zhou Family Elders also conveyed their congratulations to Zhou Daoquan, with Zhou Mingde and Zhou Daoyi, the two Supreme Elders of the Zhou Family, arriving in the end.

After such a round of congratulations, Zhou Mingde also spoke up on the spot to propose, "Daoquan's successful establishment of his Purple Mansion is the most celebratory event for our Zhou Family in recent years. We should specially hold a Purple Mansion celebration for him, inviting guests from all quarters to congratulate him and thereby magnify the prestige of our Zhou Family!"

"The Supreme Elder's words are very true. Such joyous events should indeed be announced far and wide to enhance the family's prestige."

Zhou Chun nodded again and again, the first to respond to Zhou Mingde's proposal.

For a cultivation family, a cultivator in the Purple Mansion Phase is the most elite existence. Having one more pillar of such caliber in the family justifies celebrations of any magnitude.

However, Zhou Daoquan himself declined, "This doesn't seem appropriate. When Brother Daoyi established his Purple Mansion successfully, the family did not hold a Purple Mansion celebration for him, so how can we do this for me!"

By age, Zhou Daoquan was more than ten years older than Zhou Daoyi and was considered the second-highest in terms of seniority in the Zhou Family.

Now that both individuals were Purple Mansion Cultivators, the term "younger brother" came naturally to him, and he felt free of any psychological burden.

Upon hearing this, Zhou Daoyi responded with a light smile and a dismissive wave of his hand, "Brother Daoquan, there's no need to be like this. My situation back then was special, and I had no other choice."

Then, with a serious look on his face, he said earnestly to Zhou Daoquan, "Moreover, although the Purple Mansion celebration is nominally to congratulate you, Brother Daoquan, in reality, it is to promote our Zhou Family's renown, and it must be done!"

"Daoyi speaks wisely. Daoquan, there's no need to decline and be polite anymore. Let's settle the matter this way!"

Zhou Mingde also spoke again, firmly making the decision.

Hearing them speak like this, Zhou Daoquan found it hard to insist any longer and could only agree.

At that moment, Zhou Mingde raised his hand and patted his storage pouch, taking out an object.

It was a white Demon Beast egg adorned with dark red patterns.

"This Bloodflame Dragon Python egg, obtained previously on the battlefield, is now that you, Daoquan, have successfully established your Purple Mansion, I shall entrust it to you for nurturing," said Zhou Mingde as he spoke and handed the Demon Beast egg to Zhou Daoquan.

In fact, when he returned to the family and learned of the death of Zhou Daoquan's Spirit Pet, the Earth Armored Bear, Zhou Mingde had thought about giving this Demon Beast egg for Zhou Daoquan to hatch.

But considering Zhou Daoquan's advanced age and his preparation for assaulting the Purple Mansion, Zhou Mingde held back. After all, if Zhou Daoquan failed to reach the Purple Mansion Phase, he might be left with only thirty to forty years of life. In that case, it would be somewhat wasteful to let him hatch the Bloodflame Dragon Python egg.

Now that Zhou Daoquan had lived up to expectations and successfully established his Purple Mansion, it was more than appropriate for him to hatch and nurture the Bloodflame Dragon Python egg.

All of this was unbeknownst to Zhou Daoquan.

At that moment, seeing the mid-grade Demon Beast egg he had long coveted appear before him, he was both shocked and overjoyed.

He couldn't help but murmur, "Is this, is this really for me?"

"Besides you, Daoquan, there is no one in the family more suitable to nurture it," Zhou Mingde said with a smile, placing the Demon Beast egg into Zhou Daoquan's hands.

This time, facing something he genuinely liked and cared about, Zhou Daoquan did not decline any longer.

He held the Demon Beast egg with both hands and nodded vigorously, "Please rest assured, Supreme Elder, I will definitely take good care of it."