Clan Cultivation: Starting from Beast Taming

With him taking the lead, the other guests also took turns to stand and toast to Zhou Daoquan with words of congratulations, creating quite a lively atmosphere.

After going through this necessary ceremonial process, the crowd let go of their reservations, started drinking and eating, and truly began to enjoy the celebration.

Many Cultivators usually practiced alone, and their daily meals were often replaced with Fasting Pills, so opportunities for communal feasting were rare.

Therefore, during the celebration, everyone stopped restraining themselves and took advantage of this rare opportunity to let loose and reward themselves.

After a bout of feasting and drinking, the celebration came to a joyful conclusion with both hosts and guests thoroughly pleased.

But for the Zhou Family, the end of the celebration was just the beginning of their ascent.

With three at the Purple Mansion level, the Zhou Family's rise to power was undoubtedly clear.

Anyone who paid attention to the Zhou Family knew that as long as they didn't encounter any major setbacks, they were sure to soar.

Seeing the Zhou Family's prosperity beyond imagination, certain individuals were moved by it.

One day, Family Elder Zhou Jiahe suddenly approached Zhou Chun, saying he wished to take him to meet someone.

Out of trust for this Family Elder, Zhou Chun did not ask many questions and quickly left the Zhou Family Mountain with him, heading to a small town a hundred miles away where the Zhou Family's Mortals resided.

It was in this small town, within a courtyard, that Zhou Chun met another Foundation Establishment Cultivator.

She was an old crone with a mid-stage Foundation Establishment cultivation level, her hair silver and her face marked by wrinkles like fish tails, appearing to be of considerable age.

Upon seeing the old crone, Zhou Chun was puzzled, not understanding why Zhou Jiahe had brought him to meet this person.

Without much ado, upon seeing him, the crone looked him over, then sighed lightly and said, "Ah, to be young is wonderful. Decades have passed, and little Chun still looks almost the same as before, so young and handsome!"

From her words, it was clear she knew Zhou Chun.

But Zhou Chun, looking at the old crone, genuinely couldn't recall ever meeting her.

So, he could only look towards Zhou Jiahe and asked, "Aunt Jiahe, who is this...?"

Hearing him speak, Zhou Jiahe was also momentarily stunned, then instead of replying right away, she hurriedly explained to the old crone who had been cold-shouldered and was now somewhat embarrassed, "Aunt Yu, please don't take offense. When they parted ways all those years ago, Zhengchun was still very young and did not see you many times."

As she spoke, she communicated through a secret message to Zhou Chun, "This is Aunt Zhou Yu. She has aged so quickly because she used a type of life-shortening forbidden magic."

Aunt Zhou Yu?

A look of realization flashed through Zhou Chun's eyes, and he instantly remembered the old crone's background.

It turned out that this silver-haired crone was also a member of the Zhou Family, but when the Zhou Family had split, she went to live at Spirit Beast Manor with her partner.

If we consider seniority, this silver-haired crone was from the same generation as Zhou Daoyi and was even a few years older than Zhou Daoquan.

Having recalled these details, Zhou Chun also had a rough idea of why the silver-haired crone, through Zhou Jiahe, had invited him to meet here.

He immediately bowed to the silver-haired crone and said, "So it's Great-aunt. I was disrespectful just now. I apologize to Great-aunt here."
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Seeing this, the silver-haired crone's embarrassment eased somewhat, and she smiled and replied, "Little Chun, you are too polite. The ignorant are not guilty. It's perfectly normal that you did not recognize me after so many years apart."

"Thank you, Great-aunt, for your understanding. However, if Great-aunt wished to see me, why didn't you visit at the Zhou Family Mountain gate? If the Supreme Elders knew of Great-aunt's arrival, they would surely be overjoyed to come out and meet with Great-aunt!"

Zhou Chun looked at the silver-haired old woman in front of him and knowingly asked.

Hearing his words, the old woman's smile immediately stiffened, and her expression became very unnatural.

She couldn't help but turn her gaze towards Zhou Jiahe, only to see that Zhou Jiahe had already lowered her head slightly, avoiding her gaze.

It was clear that by helping to invite Zhou Chun out, Zhou Jiahe had already done as much as she could.

This couldn't help but cause a sigh in the old woman's heart.

There was a time when she was the closest elder to Zhou Jiahe, but now, just a few decades without contact, the girl who used to follow her around and call her aunt had become someone who desperately avoided her.

But as much as she sighed, she also knew that times had changed, and she no longer had the capital to act superior as an elder.

If she continued to play the elder's card, she feared that the last bit of affection would also vanish.

So, after slightly adjusting her mindset, she slowly said to Zhou Chun, "Xiaochun, you are a smart child, or else Daoyi and the others wouldn't have chosen you to be the Clan Leader of the Zhou Family. Why I invited you here, I believe you already have an idea."

"That's right, looking at it now, at the time of the family division, we indeed made a mistake. Senior Yu's ideas were too one-sided and had no chance of becoming reality!"

"Now with Senior Yu in seclusion healing, control of Spirit Beast Manor has fallen into the hands of Xiao Lingyan and those people. Our old members of the Zhou Family have had our expenses deliberately reduced and our dissenters are suppressed. Life gets more difficult by the day, and it's too miserable to speak of!"

At this point, her face turned sorrowful, and she couldn't help but mock herself with a bitter smile, "I know that after hearing this, Xiaochun, you probably won't feel any sympathy, and might even laugh at us, thinking it serves us right, thinking we brought it upon ourselves."

"Of course, that we have ended up like this is indeed our own doing, and we can't blame anyone else!"

"But no matter what, as Cultivators of the Zhou Family like me, we still have Zhou blood flowing in our veins, and we haven't forgotten our origins, nor our Zhou family ancestors."

At this, her expression suddenly turned solemn, and she looked at Zhou Chun with a serious tone and said, "The mistakes of the past, we are willing to spend the rest of our lives making amends, but the things of our Zhou Family must not be ruined by those outsiders!"

"Xiaochun, now that you are the Clan Leader of the Zhou Family, you are responsible and obliged to protect those things our ancestors left for us, their descendants. You must not allow the treasures bequeathed by our forebears to fall into the hands of outsiders and be wantonly desecrated!"

By the end, the silver-haired old woman's words were forceful, conveying a sense of righteous indignation.

Clearly, for those former Zhou Family Cultivators, seeing the treasures that once belonged to the Zhou Family being possessed by others, unable to use them themselves, was a very unpleasant feeling.

And now, relying on themselves, they no longer had the strength to take those things back, so they could only come to seek assistance from the Zhou Family of Jiufeng Ridge, hoping the Zhou Family would lend a hand to help them retrieve those items.

But, just like the self-mockery of the silver-haired old woman before, their current situation was all self-inflicted.

History would record everything. The betrayal they committed against the Zhou Family would not be forgotten by any of the Cultivators of Jiufeng Ridge Zhou Family.

Zhou Chun would not forget either.

So, even though she spoke persuasively, Zhou Chun remained unmoved at this time.

He simply looked at her with a calm expression and said, "Great-Aunt, you seem to have misunderstood something. I am indeed the Clan Leader of the Zhou Family, but only of the Zhou Family of Jiufeng Ridge. The affairs of Spirit Beast Manor, you should go to Senior Yu or Zhou Zhenkun. It doesn't make sense for you to come to me!"

No sooner had he spoken these words than the old woman, as if triggered, immediately launched into a furious tirade, "Zhou Zhenkun is ungrateful, and has long since colluded with that harlot Xiao Lingyan. He's the one who bullies us the most. We wish we could eat his flesh, drink his blood!"

After such an outburst, perhaps realizing it was useless, the silver-haired old woman quickly regained her composure.

Then she looked at Zhou Chun with a sincere face and said, "The past mistakes were indeed our doing, but now we have realized them, and we want to do some things for the family to make up for those mistakes. Xiaochun, please help us, plead with Uncle Mingde and Daoyi, Daoquan on our behalf, so they might give us a chance to redeem ourselves!"