Clan Cultivation: Starting from Beast Taming

The Zhou Family’s perilous financial status made it difficult for them to support such a plan in the short term.

However, if Zhou Zhengyuan wasn’t lying, the benefits of supporting his successful Foundation Establishment would be substantial.

For Zhou Family Cultivators at the Foundation Establishment stage, Demon Spirit Pills like these were extremely important.

Especially for Zhou Chun himself, once both of his Spirit Pets had advanced to the second tier, his need for such Spirit Pills would be significant.

Therefore, supporting Zhou Zhengyuan’s Foundation Establishment was hugely beneficial for the high-ranking members of the Zhou Family.

Zhou Zhengyuan must have also realized this, which is why he dared to ask for support directly from the family’s higher-ups.

"Then let’s give him a hand, it’s helping ourselves as well!"

Zhou Chun’s gaze flickered, and without delay, he went to the mountain peak to report the matter to the cave dwelling of Zhou Mingde, the Supreme Elder.

Before long, Zhou Chun returned to the Central Peace Hall.

Zhou Mingde agreed to support Zhou Zhengyuan’s Foundation Establishment, but not right away.

The Zhou Family needed to keep a low profile and bide their time for a while.

They could only start to act freely without any reservations after Clan Leader Zhou Daoyi had a breakthrough to the later stages of Foundation Establishment and his Spirit Pet, the Sky Azure Cloud Python, had completed its transformation into a Flood Dragon.

So Zhou Zhengyuan could only wait for now.

Time flew by, and before anyone realized it, more than three months had passed since the Silver Lightning Python Baibai had swallowed the Dragon Blood Ginseng and fallen asleep.

One day, as Zhou Chun was working in the Central Peace Hall,

suddenly he seemed to sense something and became alert.

He hastily left an instruction for the Scribe inside and rushed out of the Central Peace Hall to return to his residence.

Arriving at his courtyard, he saw the Silver Lightning Python Baibai already awake and shedding its skin.

Ever since becoming a top-tier first-order Demon Beast with Dragon Scales like a Flood Dragon, the Silver Lightning Python Baibai had not shed its skin.

But this advancement to the second tier, which essentially meant it had come of age, required the shedding of its skin.

Its body constantly rubbed against the metal stakes, and the Dragon Scales that were once incredibly hard began peeling off due to the friction.

These shedding scales were dull in color and bereft of Spiritual Power.

The essence of these scales had been absorbed by the newer, embryonic scales before shedding was initiated.

Thus, the scales and skin shed naturally during this process held little value.

The whole process of shedding and scale replacement lasted about two hours.

Once the old skin and scales had fallen off, a brand-new, silvery-white Silver Lightning Python appeared before Zhou Chun.

At this moment, because it had just advanced, silver-white lightning danced over its body; this was a sign of its overflowing power that it could not yet control.

Zhou Chun knew upon seeing this that the Silver Lightning Python Baibai would need some time to adapt to controlling the power of a second-tier Demon Beast.

After praising it for a while, he brought it a large amount of food to eat.

Unlike Human Cultivators, Demon Beasts grew in size every time they made a breakthrough, so their need for food would skyrocket.

Zhou Chun had long prepared a food reserve for Baibai’s post-breakthrough consumption.

After it gulped down a thousand jins of Demon Beast meat and its belly swelled round, Zhou Chun smiled and patted its head, telling it to slowly adapt to the changes in its own strength before turning around and heading back to the Central Peace Hall to continue his duties.

Two more months passed, and the condition of the Silver Lightning Python Baibai finally stabilized.

The Silver Lightning Python had now grown nearly seven zhang in length, its size comparable to the Sky Azure Cloud Python when it was a second-tier mid-level Demon Beast.

And yet, its growth had not ceased; it was certain to grow even more.

Along with its size, its strength was naturally increasing as well.

Perhaps because of its genuinely powerful bloodline or the efficacy of the three hundred-year-old Dragon Blood Ginseng, as soon as it broke through to the second tier, Baibai had three of its innate Spells strengthened and advanced.

One was the "Lightning Technique," which, after being enhanced, allowed every bolt of lightning Baibai spat out to carry the destructive force of a second-tier Spell, and also integrated the "Chain Lightning Technique" it had previously mastered.

The other was the second-tier Thunder Element Spell "Heavenly Thunder Strike," an advanced form of "Thunderstrike Technique," which could directly invoke heavenly thunder to strike down mighty foes, more powerful than "Thunderstrike Technique" and without the need for a preliminary charge.

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Another was a second-order Thunder Element Spell, "Floating Light Thunderclap," which evolved from the "Thunderstorm Technique."

This spell was powerful. The Silver Lightning Python could gather orbs of lightning around its body in advance and then launch one or several of them at the enemy at will.

Exactly how many lightning orbs it could suspend around itself depended on the Silver Lightning Python’s own mastery of the spell.

Because for each additional orb it formed, it had to divide its focus to control and maintain its existence.

Besides these three spells that evolved from its innate talents, after its breakthrough, the Silver Lightning Python Baibai also awakened a new second-order innate spell, "Lightning Flash."

This was an Escape Technique class spell, which could allow the Silver Lightning Python to approach its enemies at incredibly high speeds or to flee.

And the evolved form of this spell was the renowned "Thunder Escape Technique."

It could be said that, after the evolution was complete, the actual combat strength of the Silver Lightning Python Baibai had completely surpassed Zhou Chun, its master.

Even setting aside Zhou Chun, not even the other Zhou Family Foundation Establishment cultivators who had started practicing different cultivation techniques could match the Silver Lightning Python Baibai.

Perhaps only those Foundation Establishment cultivators who had practiced combat techniques could barely manage a solo fight against the Silver Lightning Python.

This was where the strength of some Demon Beasts with powerful bloodlines lay.

As long as they reached a certain tier, they could become the powerhouses within that tier.

But it was a case of success and failure both being due to their bloodlines.

While bloodlines granted Demon Beast immense strength, they also limited their potential for advancement.

For intermediate Demon Beasts to grow into second-tier superior Demon Beasts and then advance to the third tier to become advanced Demon Beasts, the difficulty was many times greater than that of low-level Demon Beasts evolving into intermediate ones. Nôv(el)B\\jnn

In the Zhou Family’s history of over seventeen hundred years, the number of Demon Beasts that truly evolved from intermediate to advanced level hardly totaled up to twenty, making it an extremely rare occurrence.

"Impressive, Baibai,"

"Your master’s safety will depend on you from now on!"

On the Foundation Establishment cultivators’ exclusive spellcasting grounds of the Zhou Family, Zhou Chun, after personally assessing the present strength of the Silver Lightning Python Baibai, was also full of surprise and heavily praised his Spirit Pet.

Not only was its attack power tremendous, but its speed was also astonishing.

Even its defensive capabilities were exceptionally strong.

At the very least, the second-order low-grade Magic Artifact Zhou Chun used found it hard to break through the dragon scale defenses of the beast.

If it weren’t for the fact that the Silver Lightning Python still had the body of a python, without Dragon Claws or a Dragon Horn, Zhou Chun would have suspected it to be a Flood Dragon.

But speaking of Flood Dragons, Zhou Chun couldn’t help but glance at the top of the Silver Lightning Python’s head.

At that moment, there was a slight bulge on the top of the Silver Lightning Python’s head, as if something was being nurtured inside it.

So, should he try that secret technique now?

Zhou Chun’s gaze flickered, seemingly eager to test it.

Several years had passed, and the Ancestral Resurgence secret technique he had chosen to cultivate had been successfully practiced to its initial stages. Having personally hatched and raised the Silver Lightning Python Baibai, it naturally wouldn’t resist his use of the technique.

However, powerful as the Ancestral Resurgence technique was, the side effects were also quite severe.

The treated Demon Beast, at the very least, would find it hard to recover to its peak state for at least six months, during which its cultivation would be virtually stagnant.

Therefore, Zhou Chun was also somewhat undecided at the moment about whether to try it or not.

"Baibai, do you want to try transforming into a Flood Dragon once?"

In the end, Zhou Chun gave the choice to the Silver Lightning Python Baibai, asking for its opinion and informing it of the potential side effects.

Hiss~hiss!

The Silver Lightning Python Baibai nodded its snake head lightly, its eyes filled with excitement as it agreed to the proposition, clearly not caring about those side effects at all.

Indeed, the inexperienced young are fearless!

Seeing this, Zhou Chun immediately stopped hesitating.

"Alright, then let’s give it a try!"

He nodded his head and immediately began to form hand seals and cast spells, starting to execute the Ancestral Resurgence secret technique.

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