Ruby Peak Stronghold.

Although Zhou Chun discovered the problem in time, he also took measures to retain him.

But the temptation of the Foundation Establishment Pill is too great.

Many young casual cultivators who still had some thoughts did not want to miss this rare opportunity, so they set out on the road to the snowfield regardless of their attempts to stay.

The departure of these people undoubtedly had a great impact on the stronghold.

Because of their departure, the remaining monks will have to take on more arduous tasks and will never return to their original relaxed life.

Therefore, it is very necessary for Zhou Chun to provide monthly spirit coin subsidies to everyone.

Without this "overtime pay", these casual cultivators would definitely not be willing to spend a lot of time guarding the "Jingling Pavilion" every day.

"Pay attention to the news and see why Xuepoku Palace suddenly issued such a reward, and then increase the salary for recruiting people. As long as new people join the stronghold, they will be subsidized from the first month, and an additional ten spirit coins will be subsidized after half a year.

currency!"

In the meeting hall, Zhou Chun frowned and gave orders to Fu Changqing and the others.

After the three people retreated, he began to search for information about snow crystal insects.

Han Yuan of Qianling Sect has been cultivating in Yang Kingdom for many years, and has research records on snow crystal insects that exist in the snow fields of Yang Kingdom.

Zhou Chun quickly found this kind of monster information from the monster illustration he left behind.

According to the explanation in the illustration, snow crystal insects are a special kind of monster insect unique to the snowfield environment. They look like earthworms and are white in color. They like to move in snow and ice. They can only be found when a blizzard falls.

May appear on snow.

This kind of monster has no fighting ability, but its ability to escape is very powerful.

They can easily burrow their bodies into thick snow or ice just like wood charms blend into trees. Moreover, when they are hidden in the snow and do not move, even the spiritual consciousness of the Zifu period monks cannot detect the abnormality.

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Therefore, it is very difficult to catch this kind of monster insect. Basically, you can only try your luck in blizzard days.

This is also the reason why the mountain gate of Xue Po Palace is obviously in the snowy field, and it has tens of thousands of inner and outer disciples, so why is it still necessary to issue a reward order to purchase this kind of monster insect.

But even Han Yuan, who is very knowledgeable about demon insects, does not know what precious and unknown uses snow crystal insects have.

After all, Han Yuan's main ambition is to cultivate a monster insect with powerful combat capabilities, and the snow crystal bug can only survive and move on the snowfields and ice fields, so it is destined to be difficult to attract him to conduct in-depth research on this monster insect.

"I hope this matter can be over as soon as possible!"

With a slight sigh in his heart, Zhou Chun put away the classics and stopped caring about this matter.

Less than two months later, Lin Wan'er returned to the Hongyu Peak stronghold safely and brought back a letter from home to Zhou Chun.

The family letter was written by Zhou Jiarui. It mainly tells about various things that happened to Jingguo and his family during the more than a year since he left the family.

There are only three things here that deserve Zhou Chun's attention.

One is that the monks of the Zhou family in Longxing Valley have moved to the new stronghold "Caiyu Mountain", and the mining of Lingyu veins has been put on the agenda.

The second is that Zhou Zhengbai, a foundation-building monk of the Zhou family, married a female cultivator of the Dan Yao Li family. This was the first marriage between the two families after they moved to Jingguo.

This matter was also approved by Zhou Mingde.

The third is that Qinglian Temple suddenly issued a "tax collection order", requiring all the immortal cultivating families in the three states under its command to pay a tax to Qinglian Temple based on the number of monks in the family.

The amount of this tax is not very high. Each monk in the Qi Refining Stage needs to pay ten spiritual coins. Each monk in the Foundation Establishment Stage only needs to pay a hundred spiritual coins. Monks in the Purple Mansion Stage are exempt from tax.

Based on this calculation, given the size of the Zhou family, they would probably have to hand over more than 4,000 spiritual coins.

To be honest, this kind of "recruitment order" is nothing new. Many sects will sometimes conscript the Immortal Cultivation Family under their command.

But Qinglian Temple has not done this for hundreds of years, and now that it is suddenly recruiting people, it is hard not to think too much.

Zhou Chun still has no idea what Qinglian Temple wants to do, but as Zhou Mingde said at the time, no matter what happens, the Zhou family can only go with the flow and cannot change.

So after reading the letter home, he didn't think too much.

And Lin Wan'er's return allowed him to return to his previous living conditions, without having to worry too much about things at the stronghold.

Time passed slowly like this, and more than five months later, the patient battle between Zhou Chun and Mu Mei finally came to fruition.

After more than two years of torture, Mu Mei finally couldn't bear the torture and chose to surrender and admit defeat.

Zhou Chun was able to conclude a contract with it and made it his fourth spiritual pet.

As Mu Mei was successfully subdued, Zhou Chun finally settled a worry and gained freedom in action.

He couldn't wait to take Mu Mei to the deep mountains and forests of Dayun Country to test Mu Mei's ability to find medicine and magical powers.

After returning to the forest, Mu Mei was also very excited.

After being tortured by Zhou Chun for more than two years, it suffered a severe loss of vitality. After returning to the forest, it immediately restored its vitality by absorbing the vitality of those ancient trees.

The older the ancient trees in the forest are, the more vigorous and powerful they will be as long as they are not infested by diseases or insect pests.

Mu Mei is born with the ability to absorb the vitality of ancient trees to heal her wounds.

For it, this pure vegetation is more effective in healing than any panacea.

In less than half a day, most of the energy it had lost due to Zhou Chun's damage was restored. This speed of recovery also shocked Zhou Chun.

Zhou Chun then began to order Mu Mei to use his talent to find elixirs for himself.

Perhaps because he had suffered enough in the past, or perhaps because of this hard-won freedom, Mu Mei did not have much resistance to Zhou Chun's order, and quickly acted according to his order.

As a result, in just half a day, it found for Zhou Chun a 300-year-old ginseng plant, five 200-year-old Polygonatum ginseng, ginseng and other miraculous herbs, and there were also ten other 100-year-old miraculous herbs.

Five plants.

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! These elixirs are almost all the high-grade elixirs that can be found within a radius of a hundred miles.

This result also made Zhou Chun very satisfied.

Because he knew very well that the forest he chose was not a blessed land, and it must have been visited by many casual cultivators over the years.

Under such circumstances, Mu Mei was able to find so many elixirs in half a day, which fully demonstrated her powerful ability in finding elixirs.

"It's really good, it's really good. It's not in vain that I spent so much effort to conquer you. Lu'er, you are indeed a treasure-hunting deer!"

After patting Qinglu's head with satisfaction, Zhou Chun smiled and put all the elixirs into his storage bag.

He is just testing Mu Mei's ability to find elixirs now. It will be time to show off his talents after he returns to the Zhou family.

With the existence of Mu Mei, those elixirs in the wilderness that are difficult for ordinary people to find will be invisible to him in the future!

Next, Zhou Chun asked Mu Mei to demonstrate various magical powers and spells he knew.

The magical spells that Mu Mei knows are all wood-related spells, covering many fields such as attack, defense, trapping enemies, transformation, concealment, evasion, and treatment.

But being able to do everything means there is no specialization.

In terms of attacks, Mu Mei's lethal spells are not too powerful, especially those that directly attack the air.

Defense and trapping enemies are much stronger than attacking, especially in a forest environment, where you can get great home support.

In terms of transformation and treatment, Mu Mei can only be said to have related spells, but in fact they are not used much.

Escape and Stealth are its two strongest talents, and Zhou Chun has long seen how powerful these two talents are.

In addition, Mu Mei also has a special magical power, which is the kind of magical power that Zhou Chun has seen before that can greatly improve its cultivation level.

That magical power is called "Gift of Life", and it is a magical power that can only be used under special circumstances.

As a child of the forest, Mu Mei is favored and blessed by the forest, and she also has the responsibility to protect the forest.

When the forest is threatened by destruction, or when the wood charm itself is in danger of death, the spiritual consciousness of the vegetation in the forest will transfer its original vitality to the wood charm at the expense of itself, improving the wood charm's cultivation strength.

, allowing it to gain the power to protect the forest and itself.

Judging from the description and actual effects, the "Gift of Life" magical power is undoubtedly extremely powerful. It will not even cause the strengthened monsters to suffer from weak sequelae like "Ancestral Resurrection" does, and the duration is also comparable.

long.

Unfortunately, the prerequisites for activating this magical power are a bit too difficult.

First of all, if Mu Mei or Zhou Chun actively creates a disaster that destroys the forest, it will definitely not be able to trigger the conditions. Instead, the spiritual consciousness of the plants and trees will abandon Mu Mei, making it unable to even perform spells such as the Wood Escape Technique.

Letting Mu Mei fight head-on with the enemy and put them in danger of death is also a dance on the edge of a knife. If you are not careful, Mu Mei may actually die.

Therefore, although the magical power "Gift of Life" is powerful, it cannot really be used as a regular combat force.

To sum up, in view of Mu Mei's special ability, Zhou Chun positions it as an auxiliary spiritual pet. It can be used to control the field and strengthen defense during battles. It can also be used to treat other injured spiritual pets after the war, and it can be directly used to fight head-on.

It's no longer necessary.

After staying in the deep mountains and old forests of Dayun Country for a few days to fully recover Mu Mei's energy, Zhou Chun took it back to the Red Jade Peak stronghold.

As soon as he returned to the Hongyu Peak stronghold, Zhou Chun learned a piece of news that surprised him.

"What are you talking about? Xue Po Palace is now even willing to give out the elixirs to help open the Purple Mansion as a reward?"

Inside the stronghold, Zhou Chun looked at Lin Wan'er in surprise, shocked by what the other party had just said.

It turned out that during the few days he went to Dayun Country, the bounty in Xue Po Palace changed again.

This time, Xue Po Palace offered another kind of bounty, saying that if anyone could pay the Snow Crystal Insect King, one reward would be exchanged for a [Snow Soul Pill] that would help open up the Purple Mansion.
To be continued...