The Mu Family in Biyun Mountain

Chapter 15 The Mu Family in Biyun Mountain

Lanzhou, Biyun Lake.

Biyun Lake is a famous lake in Lanzhou, Jingguo. Its water is as blue as jade and its scenery is as beautiful as a painting. It is a place that many literati and poets like to visit.

On the west bank of Biyun Lake, there is a range of mountains called Biyun Mountain.

There is an area in the mountains that is shrouded in mist all year round. If a traveler accidentally wanders into it, it often takes several days to get out, and he will fall seriously ill afterward.

Over time, no one dared to enter it easily anymore.

Those mortals, of course, did not know that the area within Biyun Mountain covered by water mist was the location of the mountain gate of the Mu family, a cultivation family in Lanzhou.

The Mu family of Biyun Mountain inherited their lineage from the Qinglian Temple, a major sect of the Jingguo School. Their ancestors were outer disciples of the Qinglian Temple, and many members of the family have successfully entered the Qinglian Temple to cultivate over the generations.

The Mu family now has three Foundation Establishment cultivators of its own, and two Foundation Establishment clansmen in the Qinglian Temple, one of whom is a disciple of a Golden Core cultivator in the Qinglian Temple.

Therefore, within the entire Lanzhou region, the Mu family is considered a relatively well-known cultivation family.

However, the Mu family is, after all, a relatively new family with a history of only three hundred years. Although they have been lucky enough to produce some Foundation Establishment cultivators, in terms of accumulated foundation, they are ultimately no match for those old families that have produced high-level cultivators or have a history of thousands of years.

The four major skills of immortal cultivation—alchemy, artifact crafting, talismanic arrays, and magic arrays—are relatively easy to obtain. Given the Mu family's connections within the Qinglian Temple, acquiring some basic inheritances wouldn't be difficult.

However, even within the Qinglian Temple, there is not much tradition in the art of beast taming.

Moreover, this path is different from the four paths of alchemy, artifact crafting, talisman formation, and array crafting, where one can easily experiment with materials to gain experience.

So when the Zhou family approached the Mu family, offering to help cultivate talent skilled in beast taming in exchange for their friendship, they...

The Foundation Establishment cultivators of the Mu family agreed to the matter after less than half a day of consideration.

Five days after Zhou Chun accepted the mission, he spent five days preparing on Baozhi Peak. Today, he was personally escorted to the Mu family of Biyun Mountain by Zhou Daoquan, the third elder of the Zhou family.

"Fellow Daoist Zhou, this is the place of cultivation that our Mu family has arranged for you. If you have any instructions or needs in the future, you can tell Ziying. Ziying lives in that courtyard over there."

Inside the scenic Biyun Mountain, outside a detached courtyard, Zhou Chun and two Mu family cultivators stood at the gate, looking around at the place where they would be living for the next three years.

By this time, Zhou Daoquan, the third elder of the Zhou family, had already left. He had met several Foundation Establishment cultivators and some core members of the Mu family, so he had made an appearance in the Mu family.

The Mu family cultivator who was explaining the situation to him was Mu Yunshan, a core member of the Mu family.

Beside Mu Yunshan stood a beautiful young woman in a purple dress, who was the "Zi Ying" he mentioned. She was also one of the Mu family members whom Zhou Chun was going to teach the art of beast taming.

After taking a look around, Zhou Chun nodded slightly to Mu Yunshan and said, "Thank you for your help, Fellow Daoist Mu. I am very satisfied with this place."

Upon hearing this, Mu Yunshan smiled slightly and said, "I'm glad Fellow Daoist Zhou is satisfied. Then we won't disturb Fellow Daoist Zhou's rest any longer. Farewell."

Then he left with Mu Ziying, the female cultivator from the Mu family.

Upon seeing this, Zhou Chun immediately entered the courtyard, closed the gate, and then patted the spirit beast pouch at his waist, releasing the rock tortoise that was sleeping inside.

"Stone, this is your new home from now on. Remember not to run away from home, or you'll be subjected to torture!"

Seeing the rock tortoise on the ground, which was still timid and reserved after arriving in an unfamiliar place, shrinking its head and not daring to show its whole body, Zhou Chun first gave it a stern warning.

He had no choice but to do this; back in the Zhou family, this guy had once chewed up his courtyard gate and run around outside having fun.

This isn't the Zhou family's place anymore. If this guy runs away and gets discovered by the Mu family's cultivators, he might be treated as a demon and killed.

Sure enough, upon hearing the words "spicy torture," the rock tortoise immediately shrank its head, completely retracting into its shell, clearly frightened.

Although it can eat and digest almost anything, that doesn't mean it's immune to harm from certain foods.

A small fruit called "Spicy Fruit," which is several times spicier than the spiciest chili pepper in Zhou Chun's previous life, became the best thing for Zhou Chun to punish and frighten the rock turtle.

Just feed this little thing a few "spicy fruits," and it will be so spicy that it will dive into the water and gulp down water, even though it doesn't like being near the pool.

So use this to warn it, and it always works.

And so, Zhou Chun quickly settled down at the Mu family's place.

Compared to the Zhou family, he was actually much freer in the Mu family.

Aside from teaching Mu Ziying and five other Mu family cultivators for two hours each day, he has the rest of his time to himself. He can even request Mu family cultivators to accompany him to visit nearby mortal cities.

It's a pity he can't enter the Mu family's library, otherwise it would be even better.

With more free time, Zhou Chun simply used his spare time to practice magic in addition to his daily cultivation.

There are many kinds of spells in the cultivation world, but most of them are inseparable from the five elements of metal, wood, water, fire and earth, and the three wonders of wind, thunder and ice.

Depending on each person's cultivation level, spiritual root attribute, cultivation technique attribute, and comprehension, the speed at which they can cultivate spells varies greatly.

With his mid-stage Qi Refining cultivation, Zhou Chun is currently only suitable for cultivating first-tier low-grade and first-tier mid-grade spells.

At the same time, because his spiritual root attributes are biased towards the three elements of metal, earth, and wood, he will find it easier to cultivate metal-elemental spells, earth-elemental spells, and wood-elemental spells than to cultivate spells of other attributes, and the power of his spells will also be enhanced.

Zhou Chun has now mastered about twenty or thirty spells, but most of them are low-grade first-tier spells with very weak power.

When he came to the Mu family to assist in teaching, the clan chief Zhou Mingde probably guessed that he would have a lot of free time, so he specially gave him a copy of "Experiences in First-Order Spell Cultivation" before he left.

It contains over a hundred methods for cultivating first-tier spells, as well as the experiences and insights of senior cultivators on cultivating these spells.

Now that Zhou Chun had some free time, he naturally wouldn't let down the clan leader Zhou Mingde's good intentions. He immediately selected several powerful spells with excellent practical effects as his training targets and began to cultivate them diligently.

In the blink of an eye, Zhou Chun had spent half a year at the Mu family in Biyun Mountain.

On this day, Zhou Chun was diligently cultivating a first-tier mid-grade spell called "Wooden Armor Technique" in the courtyard of his residence when suddenly the courtyard gate was banged on from the outside, and at the same time, the anxious shouts of Mu Ziying, a female cultivator from the Mu family, could be heard.

This startled him, and he quickly stopped cultivating, opened the door, and let the person in.

"Something terrible has happened! Fellow Daoist Zhou, you must go and see! The [Ink-Scaled Steeds] in the Beast Garden have all suddenly collapsed and are spitting blood!"

As soon as the door opened, Mu Ziying, looking panicked, grabbed Zhou Chun's arm tightly and pulled him out.

Upon seeing this, Zhou Chun frowned slightly but didn't say anything more. He simply followed her and ran towards the Mu family's animal garden.

Compared to the Zhou family's diverse array of spirit beasts, the Mu family's beast garden has very few, only a handful of species.

The "Ink-Scaled Steed" that Mu Ziying mentioned is the most important spirit beast to the Mu family.

This [Inkscale Steed] is a spirit beast used for transportation, tamed and improved from a first-tier demon beast.

This beast has the body of a horse and the head of a donkey, but its size is larger than any fine horse. It is 16 feet long and more than 7 feet tall. Its four hooves and above are covered with black scales, making it look incredibly tall and mighty.

【Inkscaled Steed】is fierce and alert, can eat both meat and grass, can traverse mountains and rivers, can travel a thousand miles a day, and is avoided by jackals, wolves, tigers and leopards.

If it can be cultivated to a first-grade superior quality, it can awaken the "Wind Control" talent, at which time its four hooves will create a gust of wind when it gallops, and it can travel three thousand miles a day.

If cultivators have such spirit beasts to travel with when they go out, they can travel quickly without consuming their own magical power, and they can even provide a significant warning function.

The Zhou family originally tamed twenty or thirty [Ink-Scaled Steeds], but when the Three Absolutes Sect split, those [Ink-Scaled Steeds] were taken away by the Spirit Beast Manor lineage, which has led to the Zhou family members now having to travel on their own two legs, which is ironic.

As Mu Ziying arrived at the beast enclosure, Zhou Chun saw that all eight of the Mu family's [Ink Scale Steeds] had collapsed inside the enclosure, their bodies convulsing and spitting out blood.

Several core members of the Mu family who rushed to the scene upon hearing the news, as well as Mu family members responsible for taking care of these [Inkscale Steeds], were all extremely anxious, sweating profusely.

Upon seeing Mu Ziying bring Zhou Chun, Mu Yunshan, a core member of the Mu family who had previously received Zhou Chun, immediately stepped forward and grabbed his shoulder, saying, "Fellow Daoist Zhou, you've finally arrived! Your Zhou family are experts in beast taming; do you know what ailment these [Ink-Scaled Steeds] are suffering from?"

"Fellow Daoist Mu, please don't be in a hurry. Let me take a look first."

As Zhou Chun spoke, he pushed away Mu Yunshan's arm and walked into the animal pen with a solemn expression to check.

(End of this chapter)