Clan Cultivation: Starting from Beast Taming

Just as the Silver Lightning Python started preparing the "Thunder Strike" spell, and the clouds charged with lightning had just gathered in the sky, Zhou Chun immediately perceived the potency of this spell.

His expression grave, he reached to slap his Storage Pouch at his waist and pulled out a stack of the lowest-ranking first-level inferior "Fire Bullet Talismans" to activate.

Then, forming a hand seal, he cast the Fire Controlling Technique, instantly merging more than a dozen fire bullets into one, transforming them into a massive fireball and launching it towards the gathering clouds in the sky.

Boom!

With a tremendous explosion of firelight, the newly formed clouds in the sky were blasted apart by a direct hit.

And Baibai, the spellcaster, also suffered a backlash due to the forced interruption of the spell, immediately experiencing a weakened aura.

Zhou Chun observed the scene and his eyelids twitched, feeling that this was going to be a tricky situation.

However, tricky as it may be, Zhou Chun still didn\'t think he would lose.

"Hmph, I want to see how much mana you have to keep up this drain with me!" he snorted inwardly, and quickly had the Silver Lightning Python attack the hunchbacked old man with other Thunder Element Spells, while he himself started using Talismans to enhance the offensive.

Their battle caused quite a commotion, not only causing immense destruction to the mountain forests below but also quickly drawing the attention of some surviving trial participants.

Both of them were well aware of this fact.

So, after fighting fiercely for a quarter of an hour, seeing that none of his various methods could do anything to Zhou Chun, and his mana was depleting much faster than Zhou Chun\'s, a sense of urgency began to grow in the hunchbacked old man\'s heart.

The Spirit Spice produced by the Fragrant Musk Deer was extremely important to him. Had he not encountered it, he might have let it go, but now that he had, he was reluctant to give up the chance.

But the strength of Zhou Chun he had witnessed was indeed not something he could easily defeat.

If the two continued to wear each other down, even if he eventually won, it would likely be a Pyrrhic victory, potentially advantaging those who had come upon hearing the news.

Naturally, he was unwilling to accept this outcome.

Thus, after hesitating for a moment, he looked at Zhou Chun and said in a deep voice, "Youngster, what do you say to both of us taking a step back? I will only take the Spirit Spice you just collected; the Fragrant Musk Deer remains yours!"

He made this offer very reluctantly, feeling he had made a significant concession.

However, Zhou Chun immediately rejected the notion without a second thought, "Don\'t even think about it!"

The Fragrant Musk Deer was something he had discovered and hunted first; how could Zhou Chun possibly accept the hunchbacked old man\'s so-called "taking a step back," when it was clearly him who would have to take two steps back?

"You\'re courting death, youngster!"

The hunchbacked old man roared in fury.

He felt he had given enough ground, yet Zhou Chun rebuffed him, embarrassing him and making it difficult for him to save face.

Following his roar, the hunchbacked old man immediately slapped his Storage Pouch and took out a Talisman glowing with a reddish aura.

"A second-level Talisman!"

Zhou Chun\'s heart skipped a beat when he saw the Talisman in the hunchbacked old man\'s hand, recognizing its origin.

He quickly also slapped his Storage Pouch to retrieve the second-level Talisman rewarded to him by Clan Leader Zhou Daoyi.

Just then, the hunchbacked old man had already poured a large amount of mana into the Talisman in his hand, activating it.

A flaming Fire Dragon suddenly manifested in the sky, roaring and diving down as a streak of firelight towards Zhou Chun below.

However, at that moment, Zhou Chun also activated his Talisman, instantly forming a thick layer of emerald radiance around himself.

Boom!

Amid a violent explosion, the fierce firelight and emerald radiance clashed and grated against each other until they both dissipated, resulting in mutual destruction.

Pfft!

Zhou Chun\'s body swayed and he spat out a mouthful of fresh blood.

The emerald radiance indeed shielded him from over ninety percent of the explosion\'s might, but since his cultivation level was so meager, the remaining ten percent of the shockwave still caused his internal organs to reverberate, resulting in some internal injuries.

However, these injuries were minor to him, not enough to affect his strength.

At this moment, the hunchbacked old man in the sky wore an extremely ugly expression.

He had never anticipated that even after deploying an exceptionally precious second-tier talisman, he would still fail to eliminate this seemingly under-forty young man.

With an ugly look on his face, he hesitated as he watched Zhou Chun, then suddenly his eyes bulged with rage as he bellowed, "Damn it! You\'ve forced my hand!"

Before the words were finished, he swiftly took out several golden needles and stabbed them into various acupoints on his body, then pinched a seal and chanted a spell, preparing to cast some sort of self-harming secret technique.

Zhou Chun, upon seeing this, felt his heart sink and then, with a fierce glint in his eyes, he too made a certain resolution!

The moment he willed it, the Silver Lightning Python Baibai spat out a silver-white lightning dharma sphere at the hunchbacked old man.

As expected, the lightning dharma sphere was still absorbed by the green bronze cauldron hovering above the old man\'s head.

The interior of this several-foot-long green bronze cauldron seemed to contain another world, no matter how many spells it absorbed, it would never fill up.

But Zhou Chun had learned some of the cauldron\'s secrets after the previous spell exchange; he knew it could only absorb one spell at a time.

So, as the lightning dharma sphere was being absorbed, Zhou Chun immediately raised his hand and unleashed a Xinjin Sword Qi stored within his Greater Yin Lung Meridian.

The sharp white-gold sword qi tore through the air with a piercing whistling sound, causing the hunchbacked old man in the sky to be terrified.

He hurriedly divided his attention to activate a life-saving magic artifact on his body, releasing a white air shield to protect himself.

But to his greatest astonishment, the white air shield, which was supposed to withstand a first-tier superior spell attack, was instantly shattered by the strike!

With a spurt of blood, a flower of blood burst forth from the hunchbacked old man\'s chest, followed by the pain of being sliced by the golden qi that made him scream in agony.

Furthermore, under the influence of the rampaging golden qi inside his body, the secret technique he was in the midst of casting abruptly failed, resulting in a backlash.

With this combination of internal and external injuries, his body suffered a serious blow.

Because he had to devote most of his Mana and mental effort to suppress the golden qi inside his body, he could no longer maneuver the bronze yellow crutch or the fiery red copper sphere artifacts as attentively as before.

This allowed Zhou Chun to quickly manipulate the Twin-Pronged Flying Fork artifact to knock down the bronze yellow crutch, then shifted the target and stabbed directly towards the hunchbacked old man.

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He then activated the golden bottle artifact, launching several golden light swords to slash at his formidable enemy.

At the same time, the Silver Lightning Python Baibai unleashed the "Chain Lightning Technique" at the hunchbacked old man.

Faced with the opportunistic attacks by Zhou Chun and his servant, the hunchbacked old man was momentarily terror-stricken.

He had no choice but to muster his remaining strength to prompt the green bronze cauldron to defend, while gritting his teeth, he released another first-tier superior defensive talisman to guard himself.

But although the green bronze cauldron could absorb spell attacks, it was helpless against the actual body of an artifact like the Twin-Pronged Flying Fork.

Barely absorbing the serpent-shaped split lightning that reached it first, the hunchbacked old man was then ferociously hit by the following Twin-Pronged Flying Fork and golden light swords.

Ah—

A scream of agony echoed as the hunchbacked old man was easily punctured by the combined forces of two first-tier superior artifacts, creating a ghastly wound on his body.

"Come down!"

With a loud shout from Zhou Chun, the Twin-Pronged Flying Fork, having made its mark, swept across the hunchbacked old man and forcibly brought him crashing down from the sky.

Before his body could even touch the ground, sharp rock spikes drilled out of the earth and immediately impaled him through and through upon landing!

"I, I cannot..."

The impaled hunchbacked old man, hanging on the stone spikes, looked up at Zhou Chun approaching with eyes full of unwillingness, then his head slumped, and he breathed his last.

"So what if you\'re not content?"

Zhou Chun, looking at the corpse hanging on the spikes, displayed no hint of sympathy and simply said coldly, "Remember, don\'t be too arrogant in your next life!"

He didn\'t rush to collect the hunchbacked old man\'s belongings but instead cast a sharp gaze toward a specific area in the woods.