Clan Cultivation: Starting from Beast Taming

After two years of observation, Zhou Chun discovered that, although Zhou Xinyan is not as adept or thorough in handling affairs as the deceased Zhou Xinyi, he at least meets the basic requirements.

Moreover, matters of family management inherently rely on experience; as experience grows, proficiency naturally increases.

Another point is that the Zhou Family, having evolved to its current state through multiple optimizations of its management structure at various levels, can now operate normally without major issues as long as those at the top don't engage in foolish actions.

Thus, the management skills required of top leaders are not as demanding as they used to be.

Even without an Acting Clan Leader, Zhou Chun, as the Clan Leader, actually does not have to worry about every detail as he did before.

Besides, Zhou Mingde is always keeping an eye on things!

After more than nine years of secluded cultivation, Zhou Chun has made significant progress in several secret art divine techniques.

Among them, the third layer of the "Slaying God Technique" has been successfully broken through. Currently, three "Slaying God Swords" have been condensed, and when used simultaneously, even a Golden Core Middle Stage Cultivator would find it overwhelming.

Additionally, the first layer of "Little Five Elements Banishing Brilliance" has been thoroughly cultivated.

Indeed, this secret art divine technique is incredibly intricate; even the barrier-breaking brilliance produced by its first layer poses a great threat to the Zhou Family's Jiufeng Ridge's "Five Directions Mirlo Array".

If one possesses Purple Mansion Late Stage cultivation level, combined with this barrier-breaking brilliance, it is entirely possible to forcibly break into and out of this great array!

This makes Zhou Chun look forward even more to the effects of the second layer of the secret art.

Unfortunately, in over nine years, the Zhou Family has only helped collect one of the five spiritual objects needed, still lacking one earth attribute spiritual object to complete the collection of five.

Meanwhile, after more than nine years of cultivation, Zhou Chun has also gained substantial insights into the "Fiend Essence Studies" secret technique, having already condensed within his body a "Fiend Essence Drill" based on Golden Fiend Energy, which only needs to continually absorb Golden Fiend Energy via the secret technique to enhance its power from now on.

Other techniques like "Geng Metal Splitting Sky Thunder" and "Beast Spirit Fusion Technique" have also seen their respective advancements, yielding considerable gains.

Yet, although these advancements are indeed gratifying, the bottlenecked cultivation level introduces a hint of unease into Zhou Chun's heart.

Lin Hongyu, who succeeded in Core Formation long before him, has also been stuck at this barrier for quite some time, still not seeing any breakthrough opportunity.

Two years ago, news from Luo Qingni came that after consuming the "Jade Dew Golden Halo Pill", she did not achieve breakthrough success.

Adding to this the Ancestor of Su Family and Li Jingxuan, the Supreme Elder of Li Family, who have been stuck for hundreds of years, Zhou Chun finds that he might have indeed underestimated the difficulty of the barrier post-Golden Core Stage.

No wonder among the many Golden Core Stage cultivators he has encountered, the ratio of Golden Core Middle Stage cultivators and Golden Core Late Stage cultivators is so small.

It might just be as the Ancestor of Su Family said; without some special opportunity, most Golden Core Stage cultivators might stay at the Golden Elixir Early Phase for their entire lives.

And given how challenging the Golden Core Stage already is, Zhou Chun hardly dares to imagine the difficulty of breaking through the realm barriers of the Nascent Soul Stage!

This also makes Zhou Chun regard those barrier-breaking spirit pills, like "Four Spirits Barrier-breaking Pill", with more importance.

Since the Golden Core Middle Stage barrier is already so difficult to break through, the future Golden Core Late Stage barrier will be even harder.

By then, he will have to rely on such barrier-breaking spirit pills to succeed in breaking through the realm.

On this day, Zhou Chun received news that Baiyue True Person, the Sect Leader of Moon Wheel Sect, intends to retreat and make an attempt at the Nascent Soul Stage, and plans to host the ceremony for the transition between the past and new Sect Leaders!

This news is somewhat surprising and yet not surprising at the same time.

As the only known superior spiritual root aptitude cultivator in Jingguo Country's public face, Baiyue True Person has already been a Golden Core Late Stage cultivator for quite some time.

However, even top-grade spiritual root aptitude does not offer much advantage over ordinary aptitude cultivators when in the process of transforming elixir and forming an infant.

Thus, even with Baiyue True Person reaching Golden Core Late Stage perfection before the age of six hundred, he did not rush into transforming elixir and forming an infant at that time but waited for more than two hundred years.

Until now, witnessing his lifespan approaching nine hundred, should he not undertake the transformative elixir challenge, the lifespan issue would hinder his success rate, prompting him to finally decide on this all-out attempt.

In fact, Zhou Chun also knows an internal matter: a Nascent Soul Stage Supreme Elder of Moon Wheel Sect has little lifespan left.

If Baiyue True Person can break through to the Nascent Soul Stage before this Supreme Elder's sitting and transforming and passing, Moon Wheel Sect can still maintain absolute advantage in the number of Nascent Soul Stage True Persons.

But should this Supreme Elder transform first, Moon Wheel Sect, having lost a Nascent Soul Stage cultivator due to a Fifth Order Thunder Flood Dragon's self-explosion, would now be left with only two Nascent Soul Stage True Persons seated.

This number already equals the number of Nascent Soul Stage cultivators of Sunflame Sect.

Thus, even if Moon Wheel Sect's overall strength remains superior to Sunflame Sect, in terms of top-tier cultivator influence, it will inevitably lose quite a bit and give Sunflame Sect hope for overtaking!

So, whether Baiyue True Person chooses to retreat to challenge the Nascent Soul Stage because of ageing or due to sect needs is truly unknown to outsiders.

This matter can be considered neutral for the Zhou Family; whether Baiyue True Person succeeds or fails doesn't greatly affect the Zhou Family.

Several months later, Zhou Chun joined the Ancestor of Su Family and other leaders of important subordinate families under Moon Wheel Sect, gathering at Moon Wheel Sect's mountain gate to witness the ceremony of the Sect Leader transition.