Clan Cultivation: Starting from Beast Taming

Having received Lin Hongyu's assurance, Zhou Chun also felt a sigh of relief within his heart.

To seize the Millennium Dragon Transformation Grass, Lin Hongyu, this Golden Core Stage cultivator, was an indispensable link.

And the risk she was taking was not small either.

If she were unwilling to help, Zhou Chun really had no way to find another person to take her place at the moment.

While Lin Hongyu went north to Yang Kingdom to sell Cold Jade Veins to Snow Essence Palace, Zhou Chun took her place and began to oversee the Jade Mining Mountain Base.

Several years had passed, and this Jade Mining Mountain Base had also been established with a semblance of respectability.

Most of the Loose Cultivators who were captured had accepted the reality that they could not escape and began settling down here as the Zhou Family had anticipated.

However, Zhou Chun felt a slight regret that the Foundation Establishment Fruit he had previously given to Xu Fu did not create another Foundation Establishment Stage cultivator; instead, the person who consumed it died in the secret chamber after failing in their Foundation Establishment effort.

In fact, Spiritual Objects like the Foundation Establishment Fruit undoubtedly had effects.

But their true purpose was to provide cultivators at the Foundation Establishment stage with confidence.

Confidence was extremely important.

If there were no Foundation Establishment Spirit Items to assist, facing the dire consequences of Foundation Establishment failure, which ranged from death to serious injury, hardly any cultivators would muster the courage to attempt Foundation Establishment.

This was even more evident among the cultivators from family sects.

In the Cultivation World, those Loose Cultivators who had successfully established their foundations did not have Foundation Establishment Pills or other supportive Spirit Items; their success was truly a combination of the determination to succeed or die trying and luck.

Behind every successful Loose Cultivator, there were many unseen failures.

And the majority of these failures often ended with their souls annihilated.

Of course, from the perspective of a high-level family cultivator like Zhou Chun, he certainly did not want his Family Cultivators to risk their lives for a one-in-ten chance at Foundation Establishment.

After all, it was not easy for the family to cultivate these Clan Members, who had grown to be of use after great effort, and nobody would want to see years of investment go to waste.

For a family, as long as the family's income was stable enough, it was basically possible to secure a steady supply of Foundation Establishment Pills and ensure successful Foundation Establishments.

There was absolutely no need to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs by letting Clan Members risk a fatal attempt at Foundation Establishment.

A Qi Refinement Realm cultivator at the twelfth level who is sixty years old, if he does not attempt Foundation Establishment, will generate tremendous wealth for the family in the remaining decades of his life.

Therefore, unless a family was so decayed that it could not produce Foundation Establishment cultivators through normal means, no normal cultivation family would advocate for self-initiated Foundation Establishment, nor would they instill this idea in their Clan Members.

Zhou Chun did not even want to instill this idea in the Zhou Family Death Warriors, lest these painstakingly trained family warriors seek their own death.

One day, as Zhou Chun was patrolling the Jade Mining Mountain Base with Xu Fu, the topic of conversation unknowingly drifted to this externally-affiliated Foundation Establishment cultivator: "I didn't expect you to break through to the mid Foundation Establishment Stage so quickly, Xu Fu. It seems that the advantage of having a superior Spirit Root Aptitude really does make a significant difference compared to ordinary ones."

Hearing his praise, Xu Fu replied with great humility, "Clan Leader, you flatter me too much. My advancement in cultivation level has been so rapid mainly because the family has provided an excellent cultivation environment and bestowed precious pills to aid my practice."

Zhou Chun waved his hand and said, "You're being too modest. When it comes to the cultivation environment and resources, none of the elders in the Zhou Family is worse off than you, and many of them are not as busy as you, yet none of their cultivation levels have increased as quickly as yours."

After finishing, he looked at him with a hint of emotion and said, "Speaking of which, Elder Lin Wan'er is still at the mid Foundation Establishment Stage, yet you, her former subordinate whom she had personally cultivated, have already caught up with her in terms of cultivation level!"

Upon hearing this, Xu Fu quickly bowed and said, "I am terrified and do not dare to compare myself with Elder Lin!"

"There's no need for that. Although there is a difference in status between us, I have always seen you as a junior, and I have seen and remembered your performance over the years," Zhou Chun said as he personally helped Xu Fu to his feet, then looked at him seriously and asked, "If I were to offer you the position of an Honorary Elder in the Zhou Family like Elder Lin Wan'er, would you be willing?"

Apparently not expecting Zhou Chun to say this, Xu Fu was visibly startled upon hearing these words.

Then he answered with a face full of joy, "That would be my greatest honor; how could I possibly refuse?"

His voice was slightly trembling with excitement.

Indeed, as the Commander of the Zhou Family Death Warriors, becoming an Honorary Elder of the Zhou Family was undeniably a huge elevation in status.

Although the Death Warrior Commander was a position of high authority in the Wasteland Territory, he was still a death warrior of the family who couldn't make public appearances; even many Zhou Family Cultivators might not know of his existence.

But to become an Honorary Elder of the Zhou Family, that was something to be announced to the entire clan, and all Zhou Family Cultivators would know of him.

Furthermore, when walking around Zhou Family Mountain, all those Qi Refinement cultivators from the Zhou Family would have to salute him, and even the Foundation Establishment Elders could no longer openly bully him.

As for other benefits, they were even more abundant.

All of this was what Xu Fu had only dared to daydream about.

Now that his dream had come true, even he, who had faced life-and-death crises numerous times and was extremely resolute, could not help showing his joy, feeling an overwhelming happiness he had no one to share with.