After receiving the assurance of Yinyue True Person, Xuanzhen True Person felt he could finally give an account to Zhou Chun.

On the other side, after Zhou Chun learned of Yinyue True Person's words from Xuanzhen True Person's mouth, he did not insist on having the person make an oath in front of him.

Because he knew very well that Xuanzhen True Person had already done a lot by helping up to this point, valuing his potential future and not wanting to overly offend him because of past matters.

If he wasn't clear on this and tried to overstep his bounds, he would only invite trouble for himself.

As for whether Yinyue True Person would really keep his promise, it didn't actually matter.

After this incident, if the stronghold in the Wasteland Territory suffered another attack, Zhou Chun would have every reason to wage war against the Moon Wheel Sect.

By that time, Xuanzhen True Person would absolutely not intervene in the war between the two sides!

After expressing his thanks to Xuanzhen True Person, Zhou Chun returned to his family.

Following this, the Zhou Family also took various measures in response to the attack on the Wasteland Territory's stronghold.

They first carried out a thorough check for internal spies, and then made adjustments to the personnel at the Wasteland Territory's stronghold, no longer sending important family members over there, only assigning some clan members who had lost potential to manage that area.

What annoyed Zhou Daoyi was that it seemed the spy had received advance notice from the Moon Wheel Sect and had left the Zhou Family on some pretext before Hongye Hermit and others made their move, now with whereabouts unknown!

As expected, the spy's identity was a female cultivator from the Zhou Family's external relations with a late Foundation Establishment cultivation.

This woman used her seductive techniques, fascinating her partner during dual cultivation, unknowingly charming him into revealing the secrets of the Wasteland Territory's stronghold.

If she hadn't fled on her own after her plot was exposed, and the Zhou Family had discovered that her partner showed signs of enchantment, they might not have figured out how she learned these secrets!

This led Zhou Chun and Zhou Daoyi to make another decision, requiring all family members above the Foundation Establishment cultivation level to practice a Clear-Hearted and Focused Spirit secret technique to prevent similar incidents from happening again.

"Constant vigilance against thieves is never enough; the best way now is for us to plant spies within the Moon Wheel Sect as well. The loose cultivator clan members sent into the Moon Wheel Sect by the family in secret are almost at the Foundation Establishment level, the family can give them a push to help them progress further!"

In the cave residence, Zhou Daoyi expressed his opinion in a deep voice.

Zhou Chun nodded slightly at this, replying, "Uncle Ancestor, what you say is reasonable. In this aspect, our Zhou Family indeed needs to invest some resources so that we are not always blindsided and on the receiving end!"

Both of them understood that you could never catch all the spies.

Those who aren't spies now might become spies in the future due to certain temptations.

Therefore, they could only proceed by raising the level of secrecy and cultivating spies in the reverse.

In a family like the Zhou Family, which is a cultivator family, there would certainly be numerous external relations, providing space for others to corrupt and entice.

Conversely, a cultivation sect like the Moon Wheel Sect, which recruits disciples on a large scale, makes it easier for external forces to insert spies.

The Zhou Family is currently at its peak, even overshadowing the Moon Wheel Sect in terms of influence. If they are willing to invest resources, cultivating spies with certain status and position within the Moon Wheel Sect won't be very difficult.

However, Zhou Chun knows very well that these tactics aren't dignified solutions and can't have a significant impact.

The truly effective method is to utterly crush the Moon Wheel Sect's will to resist, forcing them to cower within their mountain gate and dare not come out!

Indeed, Zhou Chun had already conceived a murderous intent!

The repeated provocations of Yinyue True Person had left him feeling frustrated.

He had begun considering the idea of finding an opportunity to dispose of the opponent!

However, Yinyue True Person is ultimately a Nascent Soul Middle Stage cultivator, and killing him would not be an easy task.

Zhou Chun was still quite a ways off.

But if he could cultivate another Spirit Pet to the fifth order, assembling the Heaven Extinction Four Symbols Formation composed of four fifth-order Demon Kings, it might be feasible.

Currently, the Golden Winged Tiger's foundation was inadequate and needed further accumulation.

The only suitable candidate for cultivation might be Mu Sang the Wood Charm.

Mu Sang had long since saved up enough; it was only because it knew that its Heavenly Thunder Tribulation would be extremely difficult to survive that it had never attempted to transcend it.

Over these years, it hadn't wasted time, diligently practicing inner skills and increasing strength.

Now, with Zhou Chun's unfailing support, it had refined sixteen Fourth-Grade Heavenly Wood Path Soldiers using sixteen Fourth-Grade Spirit Wood.

The Dao Soldier formation composed of these Heavenly Wood Path Soldiers was enough to withstand several attacks from a Nascent Soul Stage cultivator.

But even with all these preparations and the Dharma Treasures provided by Zhou Chun, its chances of surviving the Heavenly Thunder Tribulation were still less than fifty percent.

After all, compared to Silver Dragon Monarch and Fushan Monarch, its biggest disadvantage was the lack of a powerful physical body.

This would place it at a significant disadvantage when crossing the tribulation.

What was worse, its Heavenly Thunder Tribulation was the most powerful type!

Zhou Chun had not pressured it to act hastily before because he worried that if Mu Sang tried and failed the tribulation in haste, it would cause an irreparable loss.

Given that even now, Mu Sang could bring substantial benefits to him and the Zhou Family.

But in the face of complex external situations, Zhou Chun felt he needed to develop some sense of urgency instead of being complacent as before.

He wanted to bide his time to improve his strength and outlive some opponents, but they wouldn't just watch him progress!

Besides, if a great war between the Human Clan and the Alien Race truly broke out someday, even Nascent Soul Stage cultivators would be in great danger without Great Cultivator-level battle power.

"If only we could obtain the Qinglian Transformative Armor from the Green Lotus Temple. This rare defensive Spiritual Treasure would be the best tribulation treasure for a spirit monster like Mu Sang, who lacks a physical body. With it, at least its success rate for the tribulation could be boosted by thirty percent!"

After carefully reviewing the strategies for Mu Sang's tribulation, Zhou Chun couldn't help but sigh, recalling this renowned Spiritual Treasure.

Over the years, the three major forces of Jingguo Country never gave up searching for this Spiritual Treasure.

Unfortunately, the hidden lineage inheritors of the Green Lotus Temple were very cautious, never revealing any methods of the Green Lotus Temple, and it was confirmed they weren't in Jingguo Country or surrounding countries.

This rendered their search akin to finding a needle in a haystack, yielding nothing.

At this point, Zhou Chun was just considering it.

In reality, he carried some precious Spirit Wood materials and secretly traveled to the Westernmost Cultivation Realm to meet Liehuo True Man of the Heaven Fire Sect, entrusting him with the refinements for several wood-attribute high-grade magical treasures.

As it lacks a physical body, Mu Sang cannot endure Thunder Tempering during the tribulation, so it can only use Dharma Treasures as consumables to withstand the first and second rounds of tribulation thunders.

Therefore, Zhou Chun planned to prepare more high-grade magical treasures matching its nature, attempting to conserve its strength for more fearsome tribulation thunders later.

Liehuo True Man's artifact refining skills, of course, couldn't compare to the late Grandmaster Yan Cang.

Zhou Chun had prepared materials sufficient to refine more than ten high-grade magical treasures, but only three were successfully refined through his hand, two of which succeeded due to the use of Fifth-Grade Spirit Wood.

Yet Zhou Chun had no harsh criticisms, as the fact that Liehuo True Man was willing to help with artifact refinement was already a great favor.

When Zhou Chun returned to the Zhou Family with the refined Dharma Treasures, someone whom he had been quite interested in was already waiting for him.

This person was Wu Yuzhu, who had previously gone to the Demon Element Realm with Zhou Yuanlian!

Now, Wu Yuzhu had successfully reached Core Formation.

When she left for the Demon Element Realm with Zhou Yuanlian, her cultivation level was only at the Middle Stage of the Purple Mansion.

This clearly showed that her gains from the Demon Element Realm must have been substantial.

Her return from the Demon Element Realm was also accompanied by news that Zhou Chun had long wished to know, the truth about Zhou Yuanlian's demise!

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