Clan Cultivation: Starting from Beast Taming-Chapter 462 - 245: Sudden Shift in the Situation, Zhou Family Crisis [Subscribe Requested]

Under the advice of Zhou Daoyi, Zhou Chun ultimately succeeded in staying behind.

Also left behind were eighteen Qi Refinement Realm cultivators from the Wang Family and Yang Family total, along with Zhou Xinlan from the Zhou Family.

From this personnel arrangement, it was not hard to figure out what the three Purple Mansion Phase cultivators, including Zhou Daoyi, were really up to.

After deciding to stay, Zhou Chun did not immediately lead his men to clear out the Demon Beasts that had infiltrated the inland areas, but continued digging pits to bury corpses, interring the bodies of beasts scattered throughout the mountains into ice caves.

However, the corpses of these Demon Beasts were not all acquired by the Zhou Family, so some had to be divided with the Wang and Yang families afterward.

As for the Loose Cultivators who had also contributed, they had already filled their Storage Pouches, naturally, there was no need to give them any additional benefits.

It was only after burying the corpses of thousands of Demon Beasts that Zhou Chun led his men to clean up the beasts that had escaped deeper inland.

He dispatched the dozen or so Qi Refinement Realm cultivators under his command to the nearest towns, instructing them to make contact with local mortal authorities. Wherever there was news of Demon Beasts, he would personally rush over to eliminate them.

In just two short days, Zhou Chun had slain twenty-three Demon Beasts that had killed and harmed people.

But good times never last long, and before long Zhou Chun received news that the Beast Tide’s main force besieging Master Qingling’s stronghold had split off another two thousand low-level Demon Beasts heading towards the inland.

These low-level Demon Beasts were moving in groups of three to five, and their routes were entirely different; it was simply impossible to intercept them as before.

Clearly, these low-level Demon Beasts were deliberately released to scatter the forces of Jingguo Country Cultivators.

If Master Qingling ignored these beasts, then once they roamed into the hinterlands of Lanzhou, many mortals would perish under their claws.

Yet, if they really split their forces to clear out these beasts, the strength of the stronghold’s defense would weaken.

Therefore, Master Qingling set his sights on the cultivation clans of Lanzhou, demanding that each clan, whether by drawing more of their own cultivators or by hiring Loose Cultivators with money, must form teams to clean up these Demon Beasts.

As a result, the Zhou Family was assigned fifteen quotas, which included the quota for one Foundation Establishment cultivator.

"This is outrageous!"

Even Zhou Chun, who was usually very mild-tempered, felt somewhat angered after learning of this.

All the combat-ready Qi Refinement cultivators of the Zhou Family totaled less than one hundred and thirty.

With half of the manpower already drawn away, asking the Zhou Family for another fifteen people was akin to squeezing people to death, pushing them towards a dead end!

"No, I need to return to the family first!"

After much consideration, Zhou Chun decided he must immediately return to his family’s stronghold.

Using the need to recover his mana as an excuse, he instructed the Wang and Yang Family cultivators to form larger teams and slowly clear out the stray Demon Beasts, while he secretly returned to Jiufeng Ridge.

After flying for several hours, he finally arrived back home with the family.

And as he had anticipated, Zhou Mingde, who was overseeing the family, was also deeply troubled by those fifteen quotas.

"Zhengchun, it’s good you are back. What do you think we should do about this?"

"As it stands, the family simply cannot spare that many people. If something goes wrong, the losses to the family will be severe. Yet the order has not only been received by our Zhou Family. If we do not comply, we’ll likely be unable to justify it!"

Zhou Mingde frowned as he looked at Zhou Chun, stumped by the situation.

He had never imagined that he, a Purple Mansion Phase cultivator and the powerful Zhou Family, would be flummoxed by such a seemingly insignificant issue.

Fortunately, Zhou Chun had already pondered over the matter during his journey.

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Now facing Zhou Mingde’s inquiry, he immediately responded, "In the junior’s opinion, we can only resolve this by hiring Loose Cultivators!"

Upon hearing his answer, Zhou Mingde couldn’t help but frown and said, "But most of Lanzhou’s Loose Cultivators have already gone to the front lines. Those who remain either do not wish to participate in this war, or their strength is so weak that they cannot be part of such a conflict!"

"Those Loose Cultivators who do not wish to participate in the war are merely afraid of danger. As long as we are willing to spend the money, distribute ten first-grade high-quality Talismans to each of them, and promise a first-grade high-quality Magic Artifact as a reward afterwards, plus pay them more than Green Lotus Temple does, there will always be people willing to take the risk!" Zhou Chun said, gritting his teeth, "If we still can’t gather enough people that way, then we’ll have to also include some early-stage Qi Refinement Loose Cultivators to make up the numbers. In any case, we cannot allow anyone to find fault with our numbers!"

"Alright, we’ll do as you say, Zhengchun. I’ll immediately send Jiahe, Jiapeng, and Zhengyuan to the nearby Individual Cultivator strongholds to recruit people," Zhou Mingde said, clenching his teeth, knowing this was the only feasible solution and immediately arranging for three Zhou Family Foundation Establishment cultivators to recruit people.

However, Zhou Chun could not wait to see the results; he didn’t even make time for rest and immediately left his family to return to his previous position.

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Luckily, with the promise of a generous reward, the Zhou Family still managed to hire fourteen Qi Refinement Loose Cultivators of varying cultivation levels, led by Zhou Jiahe to the appointed location for assembly.

But the good news was short-lived. Within a few days, Zhou Chun received news that made his face change drastically.

The Misty Swamp frontline stronghold had fallen!

It was said that a fourth-rank mid-grade Demon Beast, the Burrowing Earth Dragon, had appeared within the Beast Tide. The creature attacked from underground, and under the cover of the main Beast Tide force, it used its Innate Divine Ability to sever the Earth Vein on which the stronghold stood, causing the Spirit Vein to crumble and disrupt as well, affecting the Guardian Great Formation’s effectiveness, eventually leading to the formation being forcefully breached!