Clan Cultivation: Starting from Beast Taming

Among them were some Foundation Establishment Stage loose cultivators.

Before Zhou Chun arrived in Fengguo, the Green Lotus Temple had arranged a stand-in for him, who, as a newly advanced Foundation Establishment loose cultivator, had been active in certain areas of Fengguo for a year or two, writing down all of his experiences and compiling them into a record that was handed over for Zhou Chun’s review.

Now that he had reached the place, he met up with the stand-in first, and started moving around within the territory of Fengguo as a loose cultivator himself.

According to the plan, he was to personally move around within Fengguo for a few months as an adaptation period.

During this time, the Green Lotus Temple would not interfere with him in any way; he was free to act as he pleased.

Since he could act according to his own ideas, Zhou Chun did not constrain himself and soon arrived near the territory where the Sanjue Sect was originally located.

He first went to the outside of the former Sanjue Sect’s gate to observe the mountain from a distance.

Perhaps due to deep sentiment, not wanting to destroy their homeland, or perhaps for fear of provoking the victors with any acts of destruction.

When the Sanjue Sect abandoned their sect, aside from taking away the spiritual objects and resources that could be moved, they did not cause much damage to the sect’s gates.

So, now, as Zhou Chun looked out from a distance, the external view he saw was not much different from what he remembered.

Obviously, the new occupants had taken over smoothly, with no instances of fighting over the Spirit Mountain for its possession.

According to intelligence gathered, the power that now occupied this Spirit Mountain was a cultivating family, the She Family, which was a vassal to the Corpse Demon Sect, one of the major forces in the recent power shuffle at the top tiers of Fengguo.

Speaking of the Corpse Demon Sect, many cultivators would feel utter revulsion.

For the foundational technique of the Corpse Demon Sect was Corpse Refinement and Corpse Manipulation Technique.

And the material for refining corpses was the bodies of deceased cultivators.

Every cultivator of the Corpse Demon Sect could be said to have no good end!

Even those who passed away within the sect due to the exhaustion of their lifespan would feed their Vital Essence Qi to the powerful refined corpses within the sect before they died, thereby enhancing the strength of those corpses.

It was by such cruel internal exploitation that the Corpse Demon Sect had now cultivated several fifth-stage refined corpses that were comparable to Nascent Soul Stage cultivators.

And if they could be so cruel internally, one could imagine the brutality of the Corpse Demon Sect outwardly.

Not only would they secretly hunt other cultivators to obtain high-quality corpse refinement materials, but they would also pay a high price for fresh and intact cultivator bodies, inciting cultivators to slaughter one another.

The recent reshuffle of the upper echelon powers in Fengguo was originally triggered by the Corpse Demon Sect’s brutal actions, which ignited emotions among Fengguo’s two major sects, numerous minor powers, and even loose cultivators. The accumulated grievances prompted them to attack the Corpse Demon Sect in anger, preparing to unite and eliminate this evil power.

But to everyone’s surprise, after many years of covert cultivation, the Corpse Demon Sect had already raised as many as five fifth-stage refined corpses!

Five fifth-stage refined corpses, along with two Nascent Soul Stage elders from the Corpse Demon Sect, constituted a force equivalent to seven fifth-stage combatants.

And the two leading sects who initiated the action had, together, only five combatants at the fifth stage.

What was even more terrifying was that the Allied Forces, who thought they had a significant advantage in fourth-stage combatants, were barely ahead.

The Corpse Demon Sect had secretly accumulated dozens of fourth-stage refined corpses.

They even formed a Corpse Army completely composed of second-stage refined corpses, numbering over three thousand!

As a result, what was expected to be a sure victory for the Allied Forces ended in a crushing defeat.

Not only did the two leading sects suffer heavy losses, with each having a Nascent Soul Stage cultivator killed by the Corpse Demon Sect, but other participating sects and families also sustained severe casualties.

The end result was that the two headlining sects were forced to bow their heads to the Corpse Demon Sect, ceding countless benefits in search of peace.

And forces like the Sanjue Sect, being medium-sized, were mostly sold out to the Corpse Demon Sect!

Luckily, at the time, the Sanjue Sect mostly just shouted slogans and didn’t actually send many cultivators to fight.

Moreover, their sect’s location was quite far from the Corpse Demon Sect’s gates, with many forces that had participated in the battle serving as shields in front of them.

Thus, when the Corpse Demon Sect began a large-scale settlement with those forces, the Sanjue Sect was able to pack up their belongings and flee in time.

Now, the Corpse Demon Sect was the number one power in Fengguo and held an absolute dominance.

Those smaller powers that had previously attached themselves to the Corpse Demon Sect naturally saw their status rise as they benefited from the overall power surge.

It’s like the She Family, now occupying the Spirit Mountain of the Sanjue Sect, doesn’t even have a single Cultivator at the Golden Core Stage, only a fourth-order corpse refined to the equivalent level of a Golden Core Stage practitioner.

Such trash, yet they occupy the gate of the Sanjue Sect’s mountain which previously required several Golden Core Stage Cultivators to hold.

From this, one can glean a hint of the situation.

At this moment, Zhou Chun gazed mournfully at the mountain gate of the Sanjue Sect from afar then quickly turned and left.

His destination was Zhou City, where the mortal commoners of the Zhou Family used to gather.

Although the Zhou Family had relocated a batch of mortals to Jingguo several times, the vast majority of the commoners still lived in their old homes in Fengguo.

Upon arriving in Zhou City, Zhou Chun discovered that many of the Zhou Family’s commoners had also scattered, and the place no longer possessed its former prosperity.

After the She Family took over the mountain gate of the Sanjue Sect, they attacked the commoners left behind by the three surnamed families to clear space for their own clan members.

Those Zhou family commoners who had fled could no longer bear the She Family’s tyrannical and abusive behavior, and had no choice but to abandon their homeland and flee to other places.

As Zhou Chun walked through Zhou City, with his powerful Divine Sense, he easily heard many of the Zhou Family commoners secretly cursing the She Family.

For instance, to establish a site for Corpse Rearing, the She Family forcibly took over the Zhou family’s large graveyard, where generations had been buried, even exhuming graves and relocating coffins, moving all those buried within the last twenty years to the Corpse Rearing site.

Another example was the She Family forcibly taking the Zhou family’s young women as concubines to expand their own clan, not sparing even married women! n/ô/vel/b//jn dot c//om

There were also heinous acts like seizing the houses of wealthy Zhou family members and taking over the Zhou Family Ancestral Hall, which were too numerous to list.

Hearing these words, Zhou Chun felt very bitter inside.

Among them, many included curses at the Cultivators of the Zhou family who fled Fengguo, condemning them for abandoning their ancestral foundation and failing to protect their clan members.

These were all true words, and thus all the more hurtful.

But as much as it pained his heart, Zhou Chun was unable to say or do anything.

With the Zhou Family’s current strength, they could not even deal with the She Family, let alone the even more colossal Corpse Demon Sect that stood behind them.

Now, by ignoring these mortals, they might live a hard and humiliating life, but at least they can survive.

On the contrary, if the Zhou Family truly came to help them, it would be the mortals who would suffer when cultivators fought.

Therefore, after walking around Zhou City, Zhou Chun was already prepared to leave.

But just as he was about to exit through the western city gate, a noisy wedding procession suddenly made its way into the city and marched towards a narrow alley not far from the city gate.

Strangely though, despite being a wedding procession, there was no sight of the groom, only a big red bridal sedan chair.

Moreover, the procession included many soldiers clad in armor and wielding weapons, and Zhou Chun even faintly noticed two Cultivators mingling among them.

"What a sin! Using a living person for a marriage to a dead one, this She Family really has no conscience! Poor Ji Min’s girl is indeed unfortunate in all her three lives!"

"Hush, Uncle Qi, keep your voice down, don’t let them hear you…"

"What if they hear? There’s not much left in this old frame of bones; if I could use my life to exchange for Yudie’s, I would die a hundred times! Such a good girl!"

As Zhou Chun’s attention was caught by this strange wedding procession, the Divine Sense he projected outside overheard the blood-pressure-raising conversation.

His expression suddenly darkened as he directed his gaze toward the two Zhou Family mortals, an old man and a child, in the corner of the alley.

At this moment, many Zhou Family mortals came out from various places, standing on both sides of the alley, their eyes full of anger and resentment as they watched the approaching wedding procession.

Some of the younger men clenched their fists tightly and bit their lips hard.

Next to them, some middle-aged men and women tightly grabbed their arms, gazing at them with a sorrowful look and shaking their heads repeatedly, signaling them not to act rashly.

"Don’t be reckless, haven’t the many lessons before been enough?"

"They dare to come in so brazenly to snatch people because they surely brought Cultivators with them!"

"Moreover, Yudie’s family has to use her in exchange for the lives of her two younger siblings, don’t be impulsive!"