Clan Cultivation: Starting from Beast Taming

Chapter 702: Chapter 358: Securing the Snow Crystal Worm King【Subscribe Please】_2

By the time he could no longer find a single Snow Crystal Worm, the number he had caught in this ice cave had astonishingly reached as many as seventeen!

Such a quantity of Snow Crystal Worms, if placed half a year ago, would have been enough to exchange for five or six Foundation Establishment Pills from the Snow Essence Palace.

Zhou Chun couldn’t say he wasn’t satisfied with this harvest.

That day, he returned to the ice wall at the end of the cave.

“Let’s set a limit of one month, if there are no discoveries by then, it can only be said to be fate!”

Murmuring to himself, Zhou Chun immediately summoned a Flying Sword Talisman and began to attack the ice wall.

Attacking such hard ice was also not small damage to the Magic Artifact itself, Zhou Chun didn’t want his commonly used “Sun Glare Wheel” to get damaged here, so he had specially refined several of the acquired Magic Artifacts for use as tools for paving the way during this period.

Moreover, Zhou Chun was not excavating alone, after his mana was exhausted, he would release the Golden Winged Tiger to help with the digging.

After such daily excavation, on the twenty-eighth day, Zhou Chun, as usual, threw a Sun Glow Stone into the dug-out ice cave for lighting.

Then, to his surprise, he found that through the ice layer yet to be excavated, he could vaguely see the dark cave on the opposite side.

This discovery greatly surprised him, and his somewhat weary spirit was instantly invigorated.

Having spent another five days, Zhou Chun successfully breached the ice wall and reached the cave on the other side of the ice wall.

By then, two of the Magic Artifacts used for digging had already been ruined, and the third in his hand was also severely worn.

Compared to the ice caves he had passed before, the cave on the other side of the ice wall was much wider.

After resting for several hours on the opposite side of the ice barrier, he set off to explore this place; he had walked less than half an hour when he suddenly found up to three Snow Crystal Worms.

In the process of moving forward, Zhou Chun seemed to have arrived at the lair of the Snow Crystal Worms, spotting them every distance he walked.

In just half a day’s time, he had caught up to twenty-one Snow Crystal Worms!

What a rich harvest this was!

Zhou Chun had already realized that he might have really found the nest of the Snow Crystal Worms.

And the legendary Snow Crystal Worm King, perhaps this time he might truly meet it.

Like a joyful squirrel, Zhou Chun went deeper, capturing Snow Crystal Worms along the way.

When the number of Snow Crystal Worms in his hand reached fifty, Zhou Chun, who was scanning ahead with his Divine Sense, suddenly encountered a sight that made his breathing stop.

Right in front of him, in the ice cave several miles ahead, there were hundreds of Snow Crystal Worms gathered on a patch of ice.

And in the midst of those Snow Crystal Worms, a nearly seven-foot long giant Snow Crystal Worm stood out prominently, like a crane among chickens.

The Snow Crystal Worm King!

The moment Zhou Chun spotted that giant Snow Crystal Worm, he immediately confirmed it to be the legendary Snow Crystal Worm King.

At that moment, his breathing stopped, as if he was afraid that even his breath would startle the Snow Crystal Worm King.

Yet his heart was filled with immense excitement.

The target was right in front of him; capturing it meant obtaining a “Snow Soul Pill.”

Zhou Chun stood motionless on the spot, and it took nearly a quarter of an hour for him to completely calm down his emotions and return to the coldest state of mind.

Now was not the time to be happy; only after truly capturing the Snow Crystal Worm King would it be time to celebrate.

Although Zhou Chun did not know what capabilities the Snow Crystal Worm King had, given the current situation, capturing it would not be easy.

Because in the cave separating him from the Snow Crystal Worm King, there were also seven or eight regular Snow Crystal Worms.

If he failed to properly catch these few Snow Crystal Worms and made noise that startled the Snow Crystal Worm King, it would certainly flee immediately.

By then, whether the Snow Crystal Worm King would appear again was known only to the heavens.

So at this moment, there was no room for carelessness at all.

After much deliberation, Zhou Chun suddenly slapped his storage pouch at his waist, and a third-grade talisman appeared in his hand.

The talisman in his hand was a lower-tier third-grade talisman named “Profound Light Immobilization Talisman,” an auxiliary talisman that could immobilize the target, rendering them incapable of movement.

However, the prerequisite for the talisman to take effect was that the immobilizing profound light unleashed after activation had to touch the target’s body.

Cultivators, unless caught completely off guard, would never allow an unidentified attack to make direct contact with their bodies.

Therefore, this talisman didn’t have much of an effect in combat against cultivators, and it could only be used against Demon Beasts that preferred close-range attacks.

Speaking of which, Zhou Chun had been carrying this talisman for at least a few decades, as it was something that the Zhou Family had seized in the Southern Expedition War many years ago.

The Snow Crystal Worm King was too important; his opportunity might only come once.

After weighing his options, Zhou Chun decided to capture the Snow Crystal Worm King in the most secure way possible, putting his best effort where it counted the most.

Clenching the talisman in his hand, he prepared himself carefully before slowly moving towards the void ahead.

When he was less than thirty feet away from the first Snow Crystal Worm, Zhou Chun suddenly triggered the “Flowing Light Golden Rainbow” secret technique, instantly flying toward the depths of the ice cave with extreme speed.

This was a very risky move, as the ice cave had limited height and was not a straight passage. With the velocity of flight in the “Flowing Light Golden Rainbow” state, it was easy for Zhou Chun to crash into the wall.

If that happened, he might not be seriously injured, but he would definitely startle the Snow Crystal Worm King.

Yet, confident in his flight technique, Zhou Chun went ahead with it anyway.

If there had been onlookers at that moment, they would have seen a golden rainbow light flashing at high speed within the ice cave, barely two fathoms tall, tracing beautiful arcs as it swiftly turned several sharp bends.

The wonderful blend of arcs was even more gorgeous and exquisite than the curve balls kicked by superstars on the football field.

Thus, at peak flight speed, Zhou Chun covered a distance of several hundred feet in just a few short moments, appearing next to the Snow Crystal Worm King at the fastest speed he had ever achieved.

Then, before the Snow Crystal Worm King and the other Snow Crystal Worms could react, a dazzling white light shot out from Zhou Chun’s hand, instantly landing on the Snow Crystal Worm King.

At that time, the Snow Crystal Worm King’s body had already merged into the ice layer below.

But since the ice layer offered little resistance to the immobilizing profound light, it was still hit by the light and became fixed within the ice.

Seeing this, Zhou Chun did not bother with the other fleeing Snow Crystal Worms and immediately triggered the “Flowing Light Golden Rainbow” secret technique again. He released all the golden spirit light he had condensed in his body, transforming it into a sharp golden sword rainbow that struck the ice surface.

Under such an unrestrained assault, the hard ice surface was quickly shattered, cracking open.

Zhou Chun then took out the Sun Glare Wheel and slashed through the ice layer, swiftly excavating the immobile Snow Crystal Worm King.

“What a Snow Crystal Worm King! Zhou has had a hard time searching for you!”

Looking at the long white worm in front of him, a smile of joy finally escaped Zhou Chun’s face.

He quickly reached into his storage pouch, took out several sealing talismans, and stuck them on the Snow Crystal Worm King before placing it into a large box with an outer shell made of three layers: Sunflame Wood, Profound Iron, and Cold Jade.

This large box was specially made by Zhou Chun to capture the Snow Crystal Worm King, and each layer of the box was covered with sealing talismans.

After stuffing the Snow Crystal Worm King into the box, Zhou Chun, not feeling entirely assured even after closing all three layers, took out the Embroidered Handkerchief Magic Tool and transformed it into a Silver Thread Net, enveloping the box and holding it in his hand.

With such multiple layers of protection, if the Snow Crystal Worm King still managed to escape, Zhou Chun would concede to fate.

Then, holding the net, he turned his gaze towards the ice surface below.

The fact that this place was a gathering spot for the Snow Crystal Worm King and many Snow Crystal Worms meant that the ice surface below was extraordinary.

Zhou Chun could feel that the cold air here was incredibly pure and powerful, no less so than the Cold Spring where he had previously found the mysterious Jade Bead.

He even suspected that this was originally a Cold Spring!

However, he was not a cultivator who practiced ice-based cultivation techniques; even though he recognized that this might be a treasure trove for cultivators who practiced ice-based techniques, he didn’t pay it much mind.

At this moment, even the fleeing Snow Crystal Worms didn’t interest him anymore. All he wanted was to leave with the Snow Crystal Worm King as soon as possible to exchange it for the Snow Soul Pill at the Snow Essence Palace.

After searching the vicinity and confirming that there were no other treasures to be found, Zhou Chun didn’t linger and started heading back towards the passageway from which he had come.

He needed to return to the surface and find the place where he had originally fallen in.