Elder's Guidance, The Flower-Seeking Treasure Mirror

Chapter 62 Elder's Guidance, The Flower-Seeking Treasure Mirror

For a Foundation Establishment cultivator, extinguishing an ordinary wildfire with a burned area of ​​less than 10,000 mu is not difficult.

Less than half an hour after Zhou Chun and his group returned to the market, the Taoist in blue robes found the Spirit Beast Shop by sensing its location.

With Liu Qingshan taking the initiative to take responsibility and Zhou Jiasheng vouching for him, Zhou Chun was successfully exonerated and was not treated as an accomplice to arson.

However, Liu Qingshan and his daughter were each sentenced to work in the market for five years, or each pay a fine of three hundred spirit coins.

Liu Qingshan and his daughter certainly didn't have that much fine money on them; they only managed to find 154 spirit coins in total.

It was Zhou Chun who, being a good person, helped them by giving them 146 spirit coins, thus saving Liu Shiyun from punishment.

However, Zhou Chun was powerless to help Liu Qingshan with the fine.

At Liu Qingshan's request, Zhou Chun and Zhou Jiasheng discussed it and agreed that Liu Shiyun would work in the shop as a shop assistant at the Spirit Beast Shop, while also cultivating her skills.

Of course, this is only a temporary measure. If the Zhou family arranges for another employee to come over during this period, Liu Shiyun will definitely have to make room for him.

Zhou Chun wasn't doing this for nothing; he had his eye on the medicine valley that the Liu father and daughter had mentioned.

Putting aside the immense value of the numerous wild medicinal herbs in the Medicine Valley, the group of Emerald Crown Flying Serpents alone would be excellent potential spirit beasts for the Zhou family.

The Emerald Crown Flying Serpent is a type of demonic beast that is somewhat weak individually, but if multiple serpents can be tamed at once, it can greatly enhance the combat power of a cultivator.

Moreover, these monsters are small in size, and after being tamed by contract, they can even be hidden in one's sleeve, which can often have a surprise effect.

Most importantly, these social monsters have always had a good reproductive ability. If the Zhou family can cultivate them well, many clansmen can contract one or two for self-defense in the future.

Therefore, Zhou Chun had to "redeem" Liu Shiyun so that she could take him there to catch snakes and collect herbs.

However, Zhou Chun alone certainly couldn't catch snakes and collect herbs.

Even if he invited Zhou Zhengyong and Zhou Jiapeng, who were close to him, it would still be difficult to accomplish this.

Therefore, he planned to report this matter to the Third Elder, Zhou Daoquan, as a way of thanking the elder for helping him hatch the Silver Lightning Python.

Do it when you think of it.

After Zhou Chun explained his plans to Liu Shiyun and obtained her consent, he asked Zhou Jiasheng for leave and returned to his family alone.

With his current cultivation level, he can easily enter and exit the Red Rock Mountains on his own.

In just over a day, Zhou Chun returned to the Zhou family in Jiufengling.

Upon returning to his clan, he neither disturbed the clan leader Zhou Daoyi nor went back to his residence on Baozhi Peak. Instead, he went directly to Feishi Peak to pay his respects to the Third Elder, Zhou Daoquan.

To his surprise, after listening to his report, Zhou Daoquan pondered for a moment and then looked at him and said, "If I were to handle this matter, most of the captured Emerald Crown Flying Serpents and the spiritual herbs in the valley would end up in the clan's possession. The benefits that would ultimately fall into your and that young girl's hands would probably be less than 20%!"

Upon hearing this, Zhou Chun was momentarily confused, wondering why he had said such a thing.

But he quickly replied, "Of course I know that."

After saying that, he shrugged with a wry smile and said, "But without the elders' help, I might be able to invite a few clansmen to help eliminate the snakes and gather herbs, but capturing those emerald-crowned flying snakes and bringing them to the clan for taming is absolutely impossible!"

Upon hearing this, Zhou Daoquan calmly replied, "Actually, if it's just about capturing those Emerald Crown Flying Serpents, there's no need for me to personally take action. There are others who are more skilled in this than I am, and they won't be sharing as many benefits with you!"

Ok? ? ?

Zhou Chun looked at Zhou Daoquan with a puzzled expression, not understanding who the person he was talking about was.

Seeing his reaction, Zhou Daoquan could only offer further guidance: "Aren't you quite familiar with that old ape in the library? Don't you know its specialty is catching snakes?"

That's it!

Zhou Chun finally understood and completely grasped Zhou Daoquan's meaning.

Although the Green Wood Spirit Ape stayed with the Zhou family, it didn't have a master and wasn't entirely considered a member of the Zhou family. Its relationship with the Zhou family could be described as a mutually beneficial partnership.

If Zhou Chun asks it to help him catch snakes and gather herbs, then all he needs to do is offer it a reward.

But what benefits could the [Green Wood Spirit Ape] possibly want?

Zhou Chun only needs to go to the market to buy some spiritual fruits and wine and send them to it, and it will be very satisfied.

But why is this Third Elder, Zhou Daoquan, so kind to me?

He had absolutely no reason to give me pointers on this kind of thing!

Zhou Chun glanced at Zhou Daoquan, but ultimately kept the question to himself.

He quickly and respectfully replied, "This junior understands, thank you for your explanation, Elder."

After speaking, he bowed deeply to the elder and said, "I have no way to repay the elder's kindness in guiding and mentoring me. I will keep it in my heart and repay him in the future!"

Upon hearing this, Zhou Daoquan rolled his eyes and said, "If I didn't find you somewhat pleasing to the eye, I wouldn't bother talking to you. Among the younger generation in the family, there are really very few I find agreeable!"

After saying that, he waved his hand and said, "Alright, I'm going to meditate and cultivate now. You may leave."

Zhou Chun was already used to his way of speaking by this time. He knew that although the elder was old, he still had a childlike nature and did not like too much formality.

Unfortunately, family etiquette must be observed, otherwise Zhou Chun really wanted to become close friends with this elder despite the age difference!

After leaving Zhou Daoquan's cave dwelling, Zhou Chun immediately went to the library to meet the [Green Wood Spirit Ape].

There was no need for Zhou Chun to play any tricks with this "Old Ape," so he simply told the truth and explained the relevant details.

After hearing his words, the blue-haired giant ape lowered its head slightly, just like a human, and showed a thoughtful expression.

After thinking about it for a while, the blue-haired giant ape looked at Zhou Chun and nodded, agreeing to help.

"Thank you, Elder Ape!"

Zhou Chun was overjoyed and immediately clasped his hands in a respectful bow.

Then he led the giant blue-haired ape directly to Pagoda Peak to inform the clan leader Zhou Daoyi of the matter.

"It's your skill to persuade it to leave the family with you. I just hope you'll be careful and not let anything happen to it or yourself!"

Inside the Zhongping Hall, after hearing that Zhou Chun was going to take the Green Wood Spirit Ape away from the family for an adventure, Zhou Daoyi was first surprised that he could persuade the old ape to help him. Then he readily approved the matter and did not ask Zhou Chun what he was going to do.

Faced with Zhou Daoyi's admonitions and teachings, Zhou Chun solemnly replied with a respectful attitude, "Yes, this junior will certainly keep the clan leader's teachings in mind."

After obtaining Zhou Daoyi's special permission to leave, Zhou Chun borrowed a few more things before leading the blue-haired giant ape away from Jiufeng Ridge.

Once outside, the giant blue-haired ape originally intended for Zhou Chun to sit on its shoulder and be carried along.

However, Zhou Chun felt that this would be disrespectful to the "Old Ape," and he also didn't want to be too ostentatious.

So he asked the giant blue-haired ape to sleep in the spirit beast bag first, and then ask it to come out and catch the snake when he arrived at the place.

The giant ape itself didn't care whether it walked or slept in the spirit beast pouch. Since Zhou Chun thought it would be better for it to sleep in the spirit beast pouch, it naturally wouldn't object.

After storing the giant blue-haired ape in an empty spirit beast pouch, Zhou Chun used his flying magic weapon to head to the market.

In order not to arouse Zhou Jiasheng's suspicion that he had returned too quickly, Zhou Chun took a long rest after arriving outside the Red Rock Mountains, and also took stock of the spoils from killing Guo Dahu and the others.

Since he and the Rock Tortoise had killed the people, Liu Qingshan was naturally embarrassed to accept the spoils, so he gave all the belongings of the three of them to him.

Although Zhou Chun destroyed several magical artifacts belonging to the three people with the [Moon Blade Meteor Wheel], he still managed to obtain two mid-grade first-tier magical artifacts and three low-grade first-tier magical artifacts in the end.

The other three also had several collected spiritual herbs, some monster hides and claws, some commonly used low-level magic talismans, as well as various cultivation techniques, miscellaneous books, healing and detoxifying medicines, and a total of 177 spirit coins in their storage bags.

Leaving aside the magical artifacts and talismans, the only thing in the three people's storage bags that Zhou Chun truly valued was the "Flower-Seeking Treasure Mirror" he found in He Sangu's storage bag.

The meaning of "seeking flowers" here does not refer to any flowers or plants, but rather to certain female cultivators with special physical characteristics.

This book records more than twenty methods for identifying female cultivators with special constitutions, but it only contains the methods of identification and does not explain what benefits each type of female cultivator's constitution has, which is probably intentionally omitted.

When Zhou Chun saw the illustration and description of the "Mysterious Yin Charming Bone" physique, his expression immediately turned strange. He stared at the illustration for a while before turning the page.

On the last page of this book, "The Treasure Mirror of Seeking Flowers," there are two secret techniques. One is a technique that teaches people how to replenish yin and yang, or replenish yin and yang. The other is a technique that teaches how to use the state of spiritual and sexual union during dual cultivation to slowly influence and control the mind of the dual cultivation partner, making them gradually become one's servant.

Neither of these secret techniques is anything good; they can be called evil arts.

Zhou Chun decided to keep the item himself, lest some Zhou family cultivators succumb to the temptation to cultivate it in the future.

After taking stock of his harvest, and estimating that he should have had enough time, he returned to the market.

"Since you have Elder Ape accompanying you, I won't say anything more. Just go and come back quickly, the shop can't do without you right now."

Inside the Spirit Beast Hall, Zhou Jiasheng was taken aback when he learned that Zhou Chun had actually returned to the family and brought out the [Azure Wood Spirit Ape]. He looked at Zhou Chun with a surprised expression, seemingly wanting to say something but holding back.

After hesitating for a long time, he finally didn't ask any more questions or say anything more. He only told him to "go and come back quickly" and then granted him and Liu Shiyun permission to leave the shop temporarily.

I'm in a pretty good mood. My book ranking on the new book list is getting higher and higher. I'm working hard to save up chapters and waiting for the book to be released so I can update it all at once!

(End of this chapter)