Clan Cultivation: Starting from Beast Taming

Chapter 712: Chapter 363: Time Is Merciless [Please Subscribe]_2

“We could even let Wan’er, a Family Cultivator in Foundation Establishment who rarely shows her face, pretend to be one of the captured, to confuse them,”

“Then the family can pretend to give them the opportunity to buy Foundation Establishment Spiritual Items, but actually have someone sneak in and assassinate them after they get the items and go into closed-door training, creating a scene of death due to Foundation Establishment failure.”

“Or, when some of them are close to accumulating enough Spirit Coins to meet the purchase requirements, let them die at the hands of a Demon Beast while they are out in the wild.”

“This way, without saying too long, within seventy or eighty years, they should at most harbor some suspicions, definitely unable to discern the family’s true intentions!”

“By then, whether the family trains more trustworthy dead soldiers of its own, or sends clan members over, it should be enough to maintain the operation of the base.”

He truly lived up to being the previous Clan Leader of the Zhou Family. As soon as these words were spoken, Zhou Mingde’s eyes lit up.

He immediately clapped his hands and exclaimed, “Brilliant, Daoyi! This plan is quite brilliant, I think we should go ahead with it. It’s certainly worth a try!”

When Zhou Chun heard Zhou Daoyi’s words, he could only sigh at his own naivety.

Zhou Daoyi’s scheme was undoubtedly a venomous plan, exploiting human nature to its extreme.

Once the plan was implemented, most of the captured Bandit Cultivators would be discarded after all their remaining value had been drained from them.

Zhou Chun would very likely never have come up with such a venomous plan.

“This can also be considered fighting evil with evil. Those Bandit Cultivators commit many evils, and they would never expect to face such retribution!”

Zhou Mingde saw that Zhou Chun had been silent all along, as if he understood what Zhou Chun was thinking, and went out of his way to comfort him.

In response, Zhou Chun could only give a wry smile and nod gently, “If it’s just using those Bandit Cultivators for this task, the junior has no objections.”

“Let’s tentatively settle on these ideas for now. Daoyi, when you go to see Taoist Friend Lin, mention this matter to her and see what her thoughts are,” said Zhou Mingde, decisively.

Zhou Daoyi nodded slightly, making a mental note of these things.

Having delivered the good news, Zhou Daoyi quickly returned to the Great Zhou Kingdom.

After receiving the three Foundation Establishment Pills he had reserved from Zhou Daoyi, along with one he himself had traded for at the Snow Essence Palace in the Yang Kingdom, Zhou Chun now had four Foundation Establishment Pills in hand.

He then announced this good news within the family, providing the common clan members, who had been anxious about this matter, with some reassurance.

Having completed these tasks, Zhou Chun personally traveled to the Wasteland Territory.

This was Zhou Chun’s first visit to the Wasteland Territory since he had opened his Purple Mansion.

He wanted to share the good news of his Purple Mansion opening and Lin Hongyu’s success in Core Formation with Zhou Daoquan, the Supreme Elder, and also discuss the establishment of a major settlement in the Wasteland Territory.

As the Zhou Family’s main base in the Wasteland Territory had been relocated to the Jade Mining Mountain Base, Zhou Chun did not visit Longxing Valley after arriving in the Wasteland Territory via the underground waterway. Instead, he directly went to the Jade Mining Mountain Base.

“Indeed, I knew it from the start. Given your talents, Brother Thirteen, the Purple Mansion Phase could not possibly be your limit. Yet I never expected you to succeed so quickly!”

Within the Jade Mining Mountain Base, Zhou Zhengyong was overjoyed to see Zhou Chun, a cultivator at the Purple Mansion Phase, and was sincerely happy for him from the bottom of his heart.

He couldn’t help but click his tongue in wonder and say, “Tsk, tsk, tsk, a Purple Mansion Phase Cultivator in his hundred years. My Zhou Family hasn’t seen such a young Purple Mansion Phase Cultivator in hundreds of years. Brother Thirteen, you have now completely surpassed the other Supreme Elders!”

“Brother Yong, your words are too kind. My rapid opening of the Purple Mansion is all thanks to the efforts of our elders. I dare not claim such things!”

Zhou Chun waved his hands repeatedly, signaling to Zhou Zhengyong not to compare him with the elders, lest he be overheard and accused of being arrogant and disrespectful to his superiors.

Zhou Zhengyong, realizing his slip of the tongue, immediately raised his hand and lightly smacked his own mouth, laughing and saying, “Look at me, I just can’t keep my mouth shut, always blurting out whatever comes to mind. I definitely need to be more careful in the future!”

“Saying whatever comes to mind” fully demonstrates his emotional intelligence, which made Zhou Chun laugh as well.

As the two of them chatted and laughed, they headed straight for Zhou Daoquan’s residence.

But halfway there, Zhou Chun suddenly seemed to remember something and couldn’t help but look at Zhou Zhengyong and ask, “By the way, where is the tenth sister-in-law?”

Hearing this, Zhou Zhengyong’s smile immediately faltered, and the smile gradually disappeared from his face.

Just as Zhou Chun felt a sudden pang of anxiety, fearing something had happened to Sun Yujiao, he heard Zhou Zhengyong sigh softly, “She’s getting old, she missed her home, and she complains that I don’t have time to be with her. She said she’s preparing to spend her last few years at the Sun Family!”

This sigh, filled with helplessness and guilt, also caused Zhou Chun’s smile to quickly fade.

In Zhou Chun’s mind, memories of that gentle and beautiful Sun Family girl surfaced.

Back then, to test Zhou Zhengyong who came to propose marriage, Sun Yujiao’s parents specifically set a task to hunt a first-grade superior Demon Beast, the Purple Flame Marten.

Zhou Zhengyong, eager to marry the woman he loved, specifically came to ask Zhou Chun for help to accomplish this task.

Finally, with their collaborative effort, they successfully killed the Purple Flame Marten, allowing Zhou Zhengyong to win his beloved bride.

Latterly, Sun Yujiao bore Zhou Zhengyong a son, and Zhou Zhengyong even invited Zhou Chun over to check the child’s Spirit Root Aptitude and was even thinking of having Zhou Chun name his son.

All these past events flooded Zhou Chun’s mind at this moment, filling him with a deep sense of nostalgia.

Then he remembered the last time he saw Sun Yujiao, which was before he secluded himself for the Purple Mansion breakthrough. He had specifically gone to that ice cave in the Wasteland Territory to release the Snow Crystal Worms.

At that time, Sun Yujiao was already over a hundred years old, turned into a white-haired old woman.

In fact, Sun Yujiao’s aptitude wasn’t much different from Zhou Zhengyong’s. Had she had the same opportunities as Zhou Zhengyong, she might have been able to succeed in Foundation Establishment.

Unfortunately, at the age when she could have built her foundation, neither the Zhou Family nor her own Sun Family could provide her with treasures like Foundation Establishment Pills.

So now, as she grows old and her remaining days are dwindling, both her companion and her son have successfully established their foundations, having not yet lived even half of their lives.

This was indeed a form of torment for her.

No wonder she no longer wished to live with Zhou Zhengyong, preferring to return to her birthplace to spend the rest of her days.

“Time flies so quickly. There were so many familiar faces back in the day, but now there are few whom I can still see. Time is truly the most heartless!”

Zhou Chun couldn’t help but exclaim emotionally, his heart heavy with feeling.

In the past, he sought higher levels of cultivation and greater strength, not just to better stand his ground in this dangerous world but also to stand higher and see more of the world’s landscape.

He hadn’t been particularly affected by the increase in lifespan after breakthroughs in cultivation.

But now, as he saw one by one his relatives and elders he had met upon entering this world pass away due to the exhaustion of their lifespans, or as they approached their end, he deeply felt the relentless passage of time.

There is no question, compared to cultivators of his generation like Sun Yujiao, he was fortunate.

Since arriving in this world, with his own efforts and the care of his elders, he had faced many hardships, but the rewards had been great, sparing him the worry of an insufficient lifespan.

But the vast majority of cultivators in this world are like Sun Yujiao or even less fortunate than her, fortunate enough to live to their natural lifespan’s limit.

The great Dao is heartless, and the path to immortality is strewn with bones.

Until the day one attains endless life without aging, no one can afford to let their guard down, otherwise, they will inevitably end up like mere mortals, helplessly watching as their lifespan runs out!

Having this realization in his heart, any slight complacency Zhou Chun had felt about opening his Purple Mansion at just over a hundred years old instantly dissipated.

And his journey ahead, it’s still long!