Clan Cultivation: Starting from Beast Taming

The Jade Spirit Bees from the Zhou Family were enlisted to pollinate the Spiritual Medicines for the Wang Family, and afterwards, the Wang Family would also receive a share of the Spirit Honey.

This kind of favor delivered right to their doorstep was naturally something Wang Zhixiong wouldn't refuse.

He didn't even haggle with Zhou Chun over the quantity of Spirit Honey to be returned as a gift, and quickly agreed to the arrangement.

With that matter settled, Zhou Chun completed his mission and returned to his clan.

By that time, he had already secured the Protection Pulse Pill and the Nourishing Pulse Pill, with only the Golden Spirit Qi Balming Powder left to acquire.

However, the formula for the Golden Spirit Qi Balming Powder was recorded in the Golden Cauldron Profound Technique, so Zhou Chun was not particularly anxious about it.

He simply had people purchase the relevant materials, and if worse came to worst, he would find someone to help with the refinement.

Thus, upon returning to his clan, Zhou Chun devoted himself to organizing the various initiatives decided upon at the Elders' meeting.

First was the matter of forming the security team.

After discussing with the individual in question, Zhou Chun decided to appoint Zhou Jiapeng, a newly advanced Foundation Establishment cultivator of the Zhou Family, as captain of the security team. He then selected six late-stage Qi Refinement cultivators from the clan to serve as team members, forming the initial security squad.

The security team would patrol the hundred-mile radius of Jiufeng Ridge at irregular intervals every day, combating any instances of cultivator brawling or killing within that territory.

This was specially announced at the Zhou Family Mountain gate to the Loose Cultivators passing by, and a batch of communication flares specially made by the Zhou Family was distributed for free.

Any Loose Cultivator within a hundred-mile radius of the Zhou Family Mountain gate could attract the attention of the security team by setting off a communication flare and receive aid.

Once the security team began patrolling, Loose Cultivators would daily see the Zhou Family security team swiftly traversing the forested mountains on the Octagonal Aquatic Deer, inspecting the surroundings.

With the endurance and speed of the Octagonal Aquatic Deer, they could easily cover several hundred miles without needing any rest.

Loose Cultivators residing near the Zhou Family Mountain gate felt much reassured upon seeing this and spoke highly of the Zhou Family's initiative.

These righteous Loose Cultivators were not afraid that the Zhou Family would covet their modest possessions and tarnish their own reputation over their few belongings.

Otherwise, they would not have chosen to live so close to the Zhou Family.

Now that the Zhou Family was willing to establish a security team to patrol their dwelling areas, it greatly enhanced their security.

With the security team up and running, Zhou Chun then turned his attention to organizing a nursery and the Family Academy.

The Family Academy was easy to manage. Zhou Chun enlisted an elderly clan member from the "Family" generation to take charge, whose sole responsibility was to teach the clan's uninitiated youths about common knowledge in the Cultivation World through storytelling.

Zhou Chun was acutely aware of the importance of educating and guiding the youth.

Therefore, although he only allocated one cultivator as a teacher for the Family Academy due to the number of teachers and students, he undertook several other initiatives.

For example, he gathered material from some elderly clan members and asked them to compile and embellish it, creating over twenty stories depicting the Zhou Family Cultivators' unity and cooperation in overcoming adversities, to foster a love for the clan in these young Clan Members from an early age.

Periodically, Family Cultivators would arrange battles between the youths and wild beasts, allowing several young Clan Members to work together against beasts far more powerful than themselves.

This method was used to cultivate their fighting courage and sense of unity.

Due to safety concerns, the nursery for raising the direct descendants of the Family Cultivators could only be built within the mountain gate.

After inspecting various sites, Zhou Chun started construction in a secluded area within the gate, building it in the style of a walled compound.

They even built street and shop models inside to help the children get accustomed to the lives of Mortals in the future.

The young mothers and middle-aged women chosen from the mundane clansfolk took on the role of teachers, responsible for the care and upbringing of the children sent to the nursery.

When those children reached the age of six or seven, specialized teachers would instruct them in literacy and martial arts until they turned sixteen and were sent into the Mortal world to establish their own families and careers.

The Zhou Family already had many cultivators who had raised some children by their side.

Once the nursery was completed and operational, it suddenly housed a group of children, both big and small, nearly thirty in total.

After witnessing the living conditions of the children in the nursery firsthand, several Zhou Family Cultivators who were originally somewhat concerned quickly set aside their worries and took the initiative to express their desire to take concubines and have children to Zhou Chun, the Vice Clan Leader.

In just half a year's time, five Zhou Family Cultivators took concubines, with each choosing several at once.

That day, Zhou Chun visited the Beast Garden to inspect the situation.

It turned out that a doe among the Octagonal Aquatic Deer being bred in the Beast Garden had recently given birth to a fawn, and two more were pregnant.

In the Zhou Family's Beast Garden, these Demon Beasts enjoyed better food and drink than in the wild, though with less freedom.

With extensive experience in beast husbandry, the Zhou Family had at one point purposefully sought out and selected several types of Spirit Grass rich in nutrients to cultivate these herbivorous Demon Beasts.

Once the seeds of these Spirit Grasses were sown in places where Spiritual Energy was rich, they would grow into Spirit Grass imbued with Spiritual Energy within two to three years with little maintenance required.
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Several pastures had been established by the Zhou Family across Jiufeng Ridge to plant these Spirit Grasses.

Because of the value placed on the Octagonal Aquatic Deer, they were fed a sumptuous meal of Spirit Grass three times a month.