Chapter 1732: Chapter 649: Two Out of Three, Secluded Cultivation Away from Home
This news not only caused a stir within the Zhou Family, but also sparked some discussions outside, especially among older Purple Mansion Phase Cultivators, who felt as if they were reliving a dream from two hundred years ago.
More than two hundred years ago, it seemed the Zhou Family also experienced such events where core formation happened in succession.
At that time, Zhou Chun first formed his core outside and returned, publicly announcing that the Zhou Family had returned to being a Golden Core family.
Then Zhou Mingde succeeded in forming his core at the age of over four hundred, which caused a sensation in the Jingguo Country Cultivation Realm.
Now, the Zhou Family has first seen Zhou Yuanlian succeed in core formation, and now another Zhou Xinyan has emerged. How similar the situation is to back then!
However, at that time, the Zhou Family was just a Golden Core family on the rise, whereas now it has become the third largest force in Jingguo Country, with Nascent Soul Stage Cultivators as its backing. Openly, it has as many as five Golden Core Stage Cultivators!
In the next month or two, various congratulatory letters were sent to the Zhou Family from all over Jingguo Country, many from factions that originally had no connection with the Zhou Family.
Obviously, as the new generation of Golden Core Stage Cultivators emerged within the Zhou Family, the term "nouveau riche" was no longer applicable to them.
If within a certain period, a few genius individuals appear from a generation, leading a family to develop and grow, one might use "nouveau riche" to describe the family.
But if, after hundreds of years, this family continues to produce Golden Core Stage Cultivators, then no one can use "nouveau riche" as a measurement against them.
Thus, faced with the now prominent Zhou Family, many factions, despite being geographically distant, were willing—for the sake of making more friends—to extend goodwill and seek alliances.
On the contrary, the Moon Wheel Sect and Sunflame Sect didn’t seem to pay much attention to the successive core formations in the Zhou Family, just sending a Purple Mansion Phase Cultivator with a congratulatory letter as a formality.
And Zhou Chun was quite pleased with this.
He was more afraid of the two sects overestimating the Zhou Family rather than underestimating them.
Of course, the reason the two sects didn’t pay attention also had its reasons.
Because over the years, both sects also had successive core formations, largely due to the great benefits they gained during the previous Beast Tide.
With talents emerging within their own factions, the high-levels of the two sects had no reason to worry about a mere Zhou Family posing any threat.
As long as the Zhou Family didn’t produce Nascent Soul Stage Cultivators, the more Golden Core Stage Cultivators appeared, it was actually a good thing for the high-levels of the sects.
It could at least alleviate the pressure their sect cultivators faced from the Yunzhou Demon Clan, allowing the Zhou Family to also arrange Golden Core Stage Cultivators to participate in rotations.
Thus, time slowly passed, and soon another year had gone by.
Discussions around Zhou Xinyan’s successful core formation had long quieted down, and even within the Zhou Family, no one talked about it anymore.
Under such circumstances, the area where Xu Fu was secluded suddenly showed an abnormality in nature’s spiritual energy, followed by the appearance of a visible Nascent Soul Heavenly Phenomenon.
The Zhou Family had someone successfully form their core again!
Looking at the Nascent Soul Heavenly Phenomenon in the sky, many Zhou Family cultivators were left stunned.
Even Tianjing True Person, training in his cave, glanced at the spot where the Nascent Soul Heavenly Phenomenon appeared.
"Could it be that the Zhou Family is truly favored by the heavens? Such successive successful core formations cannot be simply explained as good luck!"
Murmuring to himself, he was greatly astonished internally.
Upon seeing the Nascent Soul Heavenly Phenomenon, Zhou Chun also sighed with relief.
He couldn’t help but speak to Zhou Zhiying beside him: "Ying’er, you see, your father succeeded. Now you can rest assured."
Hearing this, Zhou Zhiying was both joyful and sorrowful, quietly lamenting: "It’s a pity that mother couldn’t see this day!"
"The family might get a bit busy now. You should stay away for a while. After your father exits seclusion, I’ll let him go to Jiufeng Ridge with you to hold a funeral for your mother!"
Zhou Chun glanced at his dejected disciple, softly expressing his plan.
"Yes, disciple understands."
Zhou Zhiying responded softly without objection.
And just as Zhou Chun mentioned, when the news of another successful core formation in the Zhou Family spread after more than a year, the entire Jingguo Country Cultivation Realm was stirred!
Not only in Jingguo Country Cultivation Realm, but in the entire cultivation world, achieving Golden Core Stage was the highest pursuit for most cultivators in their lifetime.
Nascent Soul Stage Cultivators are extremely rare; some small countries might have one appear only once in a thousand years. Without a top-grade Spiritual Root Aptitude or a significant background, one wouldn’t dare dream of the marvel of transforming elixir and forming infant.
Thus, in merely thirty years, having three people in the Zhou Family succeed in core formation is truly astonishing.
Even a major sect like the Moon Wheel Sect, with thousands of years of heritage, has only seen such occurrences a few times!
Therefore, many people couldn’t help but suspect whether the Zhou Family had some special Nascent Soul Spirit Material, such as a tree of Five Elements Spirit Fruit, or some extraordinary secret technique that increases the success rate of core formation!
Such speculative remarks quickly circulated in the Jingguo Country Cultivation Realm, and even within the Moon Wheel Sect and Sunflame Sect, many cultivators— including Golden Core Elders of these two factions—held suspicions.
In this context, both major sects began investigating the backgrounds of those who had formed their cores while also sending Golden Core Elders to the Zhou Family to offer congratulations.