Clan Cultivation: Starting from Beast Taming

The Elixir Li Family and the Formation You Family, both Golden Core households, received invitations, and were allowed to bring as many as twenty people each to the gathering!

This special treatment seemed to send a certain signal.

Time passed quickly, and before long, the day of the "Tianjing Conference" was upon us.

That day, Zhou Daoyi personally led the team, and members of the Zhou Family took to the skies, all flying towards Tianjing Villa together.

In the sky, Zhou Daoyi flew ahead by controlling his Qi, while Su Yuzhen and Zhou Chun rode together on the back of a Golden Winged Tiger. Zhou Jiahe and Zhou Zhengyuan each tamed a Red-Eyed Dragon Sparrow, each carrying a Qi Refinement Realm junior, while the remaining three Qi Refinement juniors shared another Red-Eyed Dragon Sparrow.

This squadron flying through the air also attracted the attention of some cultivators along the way.

Upon seeing the Golden Winged Tiger and the Red-Eyed Dragon Sparrows, any cultivator who had heard of the Zhou Family instantly recognized the group's origin.

"So it's the Clan Leader of the Zhou Family, Zhou Zhengchun and his wife traveling. No wonder it's such a grand spectacle!"

"Red-Eyed Dragon Sparrows, with Flood Dragon blood running through their veins, capable of carrying three to five people, can travel three thousand miles in a day — such fine creatures indeed!"

"The Zhou Family from Lanzhou, celebrated for Beast Taming. With three members in the Purple Mansion Phase, a Flood Dragon, and a Jackalwolf, they are the number one family under the great clans—truly living up to their reputation!"

From Lanzhou to Lingzhou, every cultivator who saw the Zhou Family's convoy was engaged in fervent discussion, filled with admiration.
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Although they had been in Jingguo Country for less than a hundred years, the name of the Zhou Family had already spread far and wide throughout the country.

Especially in the states governed by the Green Lotus Temple, when speaking of the Zhou Family from Jiufeng Ridge in Lanzhou, there were few cultivators who were not aware of their fame.

By the time the group arrived outside Tianjing Villa in Lingzhou, many cultivators who had interacted with the Zhou Family in the past took the initiative to come forward to pay their respects and greet Zhou Chun.

At this moment, Tianjing Villa had become the most dazzling place in Jingguo Country.

Cultivators from hundreds of cultivation families from various states such as Lingzhou, Lanzhou, Yunzhou, Lianzhou, Cangzhou, and others in Jingguo Country, all gathered here.

The liveliness was only second to the "Great Assembly of a Hundred Clans" previously organized by the three major powers.

And with the influx of numerous cultivators, Tianjing Villa, originally quite spacious, suddenly felt extremely cramped and compact.

"Have you heard? It's said that among the people sent by the three major powers this time, not a single one is at the Golden Core Stage. Instead, several core disciples at the Purple Mansion Phase led the teams, bringing with them a group of Foundation Establishment cultivators to participate in the conference!"

In a small courtyard within Tianjing Villa, while Zhou Chun and a few Clan Leaders of cultivation families were meeting, someone suddenly spoke in a mysterious tone, prompting Zhou Chun and many other Clan Leaders to listen intently.

Turning his gaze, he noticed the speaker was a small old man with a late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivation, short in stature and somewhat sleazy in appearance.

It was a bit surprising to see such a person selected as the Clan Leader of a family.

However, Zhou Chun realized he did not recognize this person, who likely was not a cultivator from Lanzhou, Lianzhou, or Yunzhou.

As Zhou Chun pondered whom to ask about this person's background, suddenly another cultivator spoke up gravely, "How the senior sects decide to proceed is their own consideration; it would be wise for us to speak cautiously."

Zhou Chun did recognize this speaker— he was the Clan Leader of a direct-line family under Qingyun Temple.

Given his status, once he made this statement, the others refrained from discussing the matter further.

However, everyone couldn't help but ponder the implications of what the small old man mentioned.

If it were true, the motives of the three major schools were certainly intriguing.

Soon another two days passed, and on the day the "Tianjing Conference" was to be held, Zhou Chun and other cultivators were led by the staff of Tianjing Villa to a green stone plaza located deep within the villa.

The green stone plaza was circular, with a diameter of five hundred zhang, and at the center stood a round stone platform with a diameter of three zhang, towering thirty zhang high.

Around the circular stone platform, the plaza was scattered with thousands of smaller stone platforms.

There were three types of these smaller platforms: twenty-four of them had a diameter of one zhang and were ten zhang high; three hundred of them had a diameter of seven feet and were seven zhang high; and several thousand of them had a diameter of three feet and were three zhang high.

According to the cultivators from Tianjing Villa, these three types of stone platforms corresponded to the Golden Core, Purple Mansion, and Foundation Establishment cultivators respectively.

Since there were not enough Foundation Establishment cultivators, Qi Refinement cultivators were also allowed to ascend the smallest platforms.

This perhaps was an awkward spot for Tianjing Villa.

After all, they were not forces like the three major sects. Even though they had previously been protected by Tianjing True Person and gathered over a hundred loose cultivators at the Foundation Establishment stage, they still fell far short compared to the three major sects.

This was evident now, as the plethora of platforms prepared for cultivators of corresponding levels could not be fully filled.

Of the twenty-four prime platforms, only a mere eight Golden Core cultivators were seated, mostly rulers of Golden Core families like the Elixir Li Family, which did not have deep ties with the three major sects.

On the three hundred secondary platforms, only over sixty Purple Mansion Phase cultivators were seated, including more than ten who were actually from Tianjing Villa.

On the rest of the tertiary platforms, fewer than four hundred true Foundation Establishment cultivators were present.

This visible awkwardness, yet the Tianjing Villa cultivators managed to seat themselves on the appropriate platforms based on their cultivation level without changing their expression.