Clan Cultivation: Starting from Beast Taming

"Yes,"

Zhou Chun nodded slightly, generously admitting to the matter.

Seeing this response, the old man’s face initially burst with excitement, but quickly as if recalling something, his expression darkened as he said in a low voice, "If you can truly rescue the children of the Ji Min household, this old one can arrange for them to leave Zhou City and never return!"

Upon hearing this, Zhou Chun seemed to breathe a sigh of relief as he spoke softly, "It seems you are indeed a wise man. I thought you would ask me to help you stand against the She Family!"

The old man who heard this, however, let out a bitter smile and said, "I am not wise, just aware that it’s difficult to defy the greater trend!"

"Even so many Cultivator Clan Members of my Zhou Family were only able to abandon their ancestral property and flee far away, just showing how formidable the She Family and the forces behind them really are!"

"We Mortals, if we submit to the rule of the She Family for now, still have a chance to survive and continue the bloodline of the Zhou Family!"

"If we foolishly try to take revenge or resist, I’m afraid the number of dead at the end would be countless times what it is now!"

This lucid expression of words and the underlying pain and helplessness moved Zhou Chun as well.

Looking at the old man in front of him, he suddenly said, "I know you can’t completely trust what I say, but I must tell you, the Corpse Demon Sect behind the She Family is now the biggest Cultivator force in Fengguo, and for the time being, they are invincible!"

"So if you truly can’t bear the oppression of the She Family anymore, you should scatter and flee towards Jingguo Country. Even if you die on the run, it’s better than being arbitrarily slaughtered here!"

After speaking, he did not wait for the old man to respond, quickly vaulting over the courtyard wall and leaving the yard.

Following that, Zhou Chun chased the wedding procession all the way to a newly-built mountain fortress over twenty miles away from Zhou City, the main settlement of the She Family’s Mortals.

The household that was forcibly marrying off Zhou Jimin’s daughter, Zhou Yudie, also held some status within the She Family. Their family could trace back three generations to an elder who is a current Foundation Establishment Cultivator of the She Family.

By the time Zhou Yudie was brought inside the She Family’s large courtyard, Zhou Jimin’s son and younger daughter were brought before her by people from the She Family.

"You little wretch, watch carefully. If you dare act out in the slightest, not only will you be joining the Third Young Master, but your brother and sister will be on their way with you!"

A woman from the She Family whispered a warning next to Zhou Yudie, and then led her towards the ancestral hall.

Yes, the ancestral hall.

Even though it was supposed to be a day of great joy, the groom had long been a dead body, and his corpse had been kept for many days.

However, the She Family had their own methods to preserve a corpse, so now the body in the coffin was made up with a groom’s makeup and dressed in bridal clothes.

At that moment, as the bride entered the ancestral hall, under the manipulation of a She Family Cultivator, the corpse inside the coffin suddenly stretched out both hands from within and straightened up to sit upright!

Ah!!

Witnessing this scene for the first time, Zhou Yudie couldn’t help but shout in horror, reflexively trying to back away.

But her hand was tightly grabbed by the woman next to her.

"What are you afraid of? He’s your husband!"

The woman, with a ferocious look on her face, stared at Zhou Yudie and scolded her in a low voice, seemingly unphased by the resuscitation of the corpse.

However, this was Zhou Yudie’s first time seeing such an event, and she was hardly able to cope.

She had known before that the She Family wanted to marry her off to a corpse and that she would be killed for a ghost marriage.

But she had never imagined that the She Family would actually make her go through a wedding ceremony with a corpse!

"Behave yourself!"

"Think about your brother and sister outside; they’re still counting on you to live!"

The She Family woman warned the girl in a low tone, holding her shoulders from behind, preventing her from moving.

Upon hearing this warning, the girl’s struggling visibly lessened.

In the meantime, the groom’s corpse had completely emerged from the coffin and approached the girl.

Seeing this, the girl was so frightened that she closed her eyes tightly, not daring to look any further.

But just at that moment, a strange laughter suddenly filled the ancestral hall.

"Hehehe, a spirit girl born on an inauspicious day, inauspicious month, and inauspicious hour, this is truly fine material for Corpse Refinement, ah, the She Family really has good fortune indeed!"

"However, since it’s me who has stumbled upon this opportunity, then this fortune shall belong to me!"

As the laughter began, several beams of golden light suddenly shot into the ancestral hall, instantly killing the Qi Refinement Cultivators of the She Family on the spot.

Then a wave of black poison smoke poured into the courtyard, quickly poisoning all the Mortals of the She Family to death.

By the time the black poisonous smoke had dispersed, the other mortals from the She Family who had rushed to investigate upon seeing the commotion, only saw pools of blood; not a single body was to be found.

The incident soon alarmed the cultivators within the gates of the She Family, and a Foundation Establishment Cultivator promptly arrived at the scene to investigate.

This She Family Foundation Establishment Cultivator’s face instantly darkened with displeasure when he learned from a mortal who had heard that strange laughter what had been said.

"What a bunch of damn fools!"

"With their paltry skills, they also deserve to use a spirit girl born at an inauspicious time to refine a corpse?"

"Serves them right, they deserved to die!"

After cursing furiously that they got what they deserved, the She Family Foundation Establishment Cultivator had no further interest in investigating the matter and directly returned to the She Family to report.

What else was there to investigate?

A spirit girl born during an inauspicious year, month, and hour is an excellent rare material hard to come by for corpse refinement.

Since she had been discovered and taken by others, they certainly wouldn’t linger in the vicinity.

Moreover, after Zhou Chun had acted to rescue them that day, he quietly took the three mortals he had saved back to the wilderness outside Zhou City.

His original intention was to leave the three there for the young girl Zhou Yudie’s parents to take them away to a far-off place.

But to his surprise, when he shared his plan, Zhou Yudie suddenly knelt down before him.

"I beg Immortal Master to take me as your disciple. I am willing to be your slave and servant for life, serving at your side!"

In the wild mountains, the young girl knelt on the ground littered with stones and dead branches, and with a head banging motion, she quickly split her forehead open and blood flowed out.

Yet, she seemed utterly indifferent to it, merely repeating herself constantly.

This scene utterly took Zhou Chun by surprise.

He frowned and, without hesitation, waved his sleeve to unleash a pulse of mana that dragged the young girl away from her self-destructive actions.

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Meanwhile, the little girl beside them finally snapped out of her daze and couldn’t help but rush forward to embrace her sister and cry, "Boo hoo hoo, sister, you’re bleeding."

Seeing this, the little boy hurriedly stepped forward and said, "Sister, get up, I’ll wipe it for you,"

and then waved his sleeve as if to help clean her up.

"It’s nothing, you two be good and go play over there!"

Zhou Yudie, looking at her younger brother and sister who had come up to her, comforted them softly before pushing them away.

Then she looked eagerly at Zhou Chun and said, "I know Immortal Masters do not like to take disciples lightly, but please believe in my sincerity and determination, Immortal Master. As long as you are willing to take me as your disciple, I will do whatever you ask without a second word!"

"You’re adamant about becoming my disciple, but what is your purpose? To take revenge on the She Family later?"

Zhou Chun asked the girl in a calm tone.

Upon hearing his question, the girl nodded without hesitation, "Yes! I want to take revenge, for brother Huzi, brother Qiangzi, aunty Chunhua, uncle Youcai, and all the clan members who were killed by the She Family!"

"Commendable courage!"

Zhou Chun commented lightly.

He then looked at the girl with a profound gaze and said, "But do you know how powerful the She Family is? Do you know how arduous and difficult cultivation is?"

"Even if you cultivate for ten years, a hundred years, in comparison to the massive power of the She Family, you would be like a moth to a flame, overestimating your own abilities!"

He wasn’t trying to scare the girl; he was stating facts.

It wasn’t just the girl on her own; even for the entire Zhou Family, the chances of catching up to the She Family within a hundred years were slim. Experience new stories on empire

After all, the She Family currently possessed vast resources. With these resources at their disposal, it’s hard to say whether they won’t produce a Golden Core Stage Cultivator or even several Purple Mansion Phase Cultivators within a hundred years.

Not to mention that their family currently had a fourth-grade Corpse Refinement to bolster their foundation!

However, faced with his words that would dishearten anyone, the girl replied without losing heart, "I know I can’t confront the She Family alone, but as long as I learn the immortal’s Divine Skills, I will be able to intervene and stop the She Family’s mortals from harming the other Zhou Clan members!"

"Naive!"

Zhou Chun shook his head and simply replied with these two words to the girl.