There is no room for two tigers in one mountain, this principle will never go out of style.
The Baishahe Immortal Realm is only that big, and it is more than enough to accommodate one Zifu family, but it is simply impossible to accommodate two Zifu families!
If the Zhou family is promoted to the Zifu family, the Chen family's status will become very embarrassing.
Everyone is a family under Huang Shamen. If the Zhou family is also promoted to become the Zifu family, how can the Chen family make the Zhou family obedient?
When the time comes between the two families, even if the top brass can restrain themselves from taking action, what about the people below?
The Baishahe Immortal Cultivation World is so big and has so many resources. With the Chen family being the dominant one, no one dares to say anything. But if the Zhou family is promoted to become the Zifu family, the problems will become complicated.
Therefore, no matter how good the relationship or friendship with the Zhou family was before, the ancestor of the Chen family must attack or warn the Zhou family in the face of family interests.
For Zhou Yang, if it were the old Chen family, even if he received this warning, he would not take it seriously.
Because the ancestor of the Chen family is not going to live long, as long as he delays it for a few decades and waits until the ancestor of the Chen family dies, the Chen family without the Zifu period monks may not be taken seriously by him.
But things are different now. Now the Chen family has become the only double-Purple Mansion family in the boundless sand sea of immortality, and has Chen Ping'an, a new Zifu monk whose lifespan is less than half of the normal Zifu monks.
Even if the ancestor of the Chen family dies at the end of his life, the Chen family will still be the Zifu family and the overlord of the Baishahe immortal world for hundreds of years to come.
He believed that it was probably because of this that the ancestor of the Chen family dared to warn and beat the Zhou family even though he knew that he and Cao Wenjin had a good relationship.
You must know that the current ancestor of the Chen family is the only fourth-level high-grade alchemist in the entire boundless sand sea. With this identity, as long as he is not so crazy that he personally kills the Zhou family's foundation-building monks, even Cao Wenjin will not do it because of this.
punish him.
"It seems that Patriarch Chen felt that our sale of [Xuanqing Pill] was a bit too high-profile, so he gave us a little slap and told us to recognize the reality!"
"In this case, we will accept the beating and try to be as low-key as possible in the future. As long as no one from our Zhou family has been promoted to the Zifu and does not touch the core interests of the Chen family, he should not be so bold as to attack us directly!
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After Zhou Yang pondered for a while, he expressed his analysis and thoughts calmly.
"Xiao Jiu, what you said is all right, but what I'm worried about now is that since Old Ancestor Chen is jealous of our Zhou family, even if he doesn't take action against us personally, as long as he is a little bit more cautious when hunting the fourth-level monsters,
Let some water go, I'm afraid our lives will be in danger!"
Zhou Minghan looked at Zhou Yang with a heavy expression and expressed his worries with a worried expression.
This matter was what really worried him.
"Great-grandfather, your worries are not unreasonable, but we can also make more preparations for this matter. Didn't Old Ancestor Cao give me 90,000 Huangshamen merit points? We can ask which monks in Huangshamen have fourth-level defenses.
Spirit talisman, and then use merit points to exchange for it at a high price. If you are really in danger, you will just spend a spiritual talisman at the worst!"
"As long as we survive this [Foundation Building Conference], even if we face a direct attack from a fourth-level monster next time, I may not be afraid!"
Zhou Yang thought for a while and spoke in a deep voice his response method.
"That's all it can do!"
Zhou Minghan sighed and nodded in approval of his method.
Losing money to avoid disaster is also a way out.
After the two discussed the matter, they walked out of the cave and went to the newly built meeting hall of the Zhou family.
This meeting hall was specially built to facilitate family meetings. The main hall is located on a hillside below the ancestral temple. It is as grand as the main hall of a palace and can accommodate two to three hundred people to discuss matters.
Xiao Ying also attended the family meeting and sat next to the patriarch Zhou Yang.
Originally, this was the position of the old patriarch Zhou Minghan, but at Zhou Minghan's insistence, she had to sit in this position and accept the salutes of all the Zhou family members together with Zhou Yang.
In a family that cultivates immortality like the Zhou family, the patriarch has the majesty of the patriarch. He can talk and laugh casually without following etiquette. However, in formal occasions such as family meetings, everyone must maintain respect for the authority of the patriarch.
As a Taoist companion of Zhou Yang, Xiao Ying is the patriarch's wife in the Zhou family, so she can naturally share his authority as the patriarch.
"I've met the clan leader."
At this moment, as Zhou Yang walked into the meeting hall and sat down, all the Zhou family monks who had arrived in advance stood up and bowed to him.
"Uncles and brothers, please take a seat."
Zhou Yang waved his hand, and the door of the meeting hall was closed tightly.
Then he glanced at the hundreds of people in the hall, and said in a deep voice: "It has been more than ten years since the last family meeting was held. In these more than ten years, I have not been able to fulfill my duties because I have been away from the clan.
It is the responsibility of the clan leader, so after I came back this time, I wanted to hold a family meeting to help me understand the current situation of the family, and also to discuss and solve some problems encountered by the family, as well as plans for the future development of the family!"
After explaining the reason for convening this family meeting, Zhou Yang turned his gaze without hesitation to Zhou Xuankun, the eldest elder of the Zhou family who was sitting at the bottom of the table and said: "Uncle Eleven, you are now a member of the family.
Great Elder, you are in charge of family affairs, so I will let you report on the personnel matters first, and it is best to give a general introduction to everyone’s cultivation realm!"
At this time, several days had passed since Zhou Yang came back, because when he came back that day, the old patriarch Zhou Minghan said that a family meeting would be held next, and the elders and stewards in the family had been busy preparing for the past few days.
The information is now well prepared.
At this time, when Zhou Yang called his name, Zhou Xuankun immediately stood up and said: "As for the patriarch, my Zhou family currently has 103 monks, big and small, including one monk in the late stage of Foundation Establishment, one each in the middle stage of Foundation Establishment and one in the early stage of Foundation Establishment.
There are 6 ninth-level elders, 5 late-stage qi-training monks, 19 middle-stage qi-training monks, 43 early-stage qi-training monks, 20 innate-level monks, and 7 people who have not yet come into contact with practitioners.”
"In addition, there are 11 monks in my Zhou family, including one in the foundation building stage, two in the ninth level of Qi training, two in the later stage of Qi training, five in the middle stage of Qi training, and one in the early stage of Qi training."
"By the way, there are also five monks from the Lu family who live in my Zhou family, including two in the late stage of Qi training, one in the early stage of Qi training, and two in the innate realm."
"As for mortals, according to the data obtained from the survey a year ago, there are currently 168,432 secular members of my Zhou family, and there are 42,635 mortals with other surnames."
Zhou Xuankun's report was quite detailed, and it was obvious that a lot of effort had been put into it.
This is normal. After going through two family meetings, if there is no progress, then it is really like a dog has lived for a long time.
"Very good. I didn't expect that in just over ten years, the number of monks in my Zhou family would have doubled. This is very good, very good!"
Zhou Yang kept cheering with joy on his face, feeling sincerely happy about this.
The number of clan members with spiritual roots is over a hundred, which has never happened to Zhou Yang before. This proves that the Zhou family is indeed prosperous and prosperous under his leadership.
This alone shows that he is very qualified as a clan leader and has not disappointed the elders who had placed high hopes on him.
"However, it took the Lu family father and son more than ten years to give birth to three offspring with spiritual roots. This is really bad luck. It seems that the two of them have run out of luck in this life!"
Zhou Yang felt quite emotional when he thought of the Lu family and his son who discovered that natural oasis.
The father and son were undoubtedly people by chance, otherwise they would not have found a medium-sized natural oasis after wandering in the sand sea for several years.
However, things like chance and luck will not always accompany someone.
Otherwise, if two people spend more than ten years at home every day, they should not only produce three offspring with spiritual roots!
Zhou Yang shook his head and didn't think too much about this. Zhou Yang immediately looked at his fourteenth uncle Zhou Xuanhe, who was currently in charge of the Zhou family's finances.
"Uncle Fourteenth, you are now in charge of the family's property. Has the family's financial situation improved in the past ten years or so? How many family contribution points does the family currently distribute each year?"
At the last family meeting, the late elder Zhou Xuanlin, who was in charge of finance, made a big mistake. Zhou Xuanhe fully learned the lesson from that clan brother this time. When Zhou Yang asked about him, he quickly stood up and said:
"The patriarch of the Hui family, the various types of industry in our Zhou family have not changed much compared to more than ten years ago. What has changed is the scale of the industry. Now the family spiritual land has reached 260 acres, with an annual net income of 1,300 acres.
Around the Bailing Stone, the production capacity of the Red Flame Iron Ore has reached its peak, and the annual net income can reach 1,500 Spiritual Stones."
"After Lingguoyuan achieved stewardship, in accordance with the tone set by the patriarch before you left, the family leader boldly divided white jade grapes in large quantities. Although there were many failures, there were more successes. At present, Lingguoyuan
The spiritual wine produced from the white jade grapes can earn an income of three hundred spiritual stones a year!"
"In addition, the flame-eating spider spirit beast domesticated in the family has finished laying eggs again, and the number of eggs it has laid is as many as seventeen. It is expected that this part of the income in the future will double the previous peak period."
"Oh, the number of Shatuo beasts has also increased by eight, and the number of golden blue sheep has increased by four. The output of these spiritual beasts is for the family's own use, and the income is difficult to calculate."
"In general, based on the family's annual net income last year, the current annual net income of the family is about 6,500 spirit stones."
"As for expenses, the family's expenses are mainly the same as mentioned in the last family meeting. What has changed is the special subsidy for cultivating immortals and hundreds of arts. Due to the large increase in the number of monks in the family, and the patriarch, you encourage everyone to learn skills. Now the family every year
The total value of spiritual stones and materials invested in the special subsidy for cultivating immortals and hundreds of arts has reached 1,500 spiritual stones!"
"Let's talk about the issuance of family contribution points. Now the number of monks in the family who meet the standards for issuance of contribution points is increasing year by year. Every year, more than 4,700 are distributed in terms of welfare and offerings alone. In addition to the subsidies given to the stewards, as well as the dangerous and arduous execution,
As a special subsidy for family monks on missions, the contribution points distributed by the family every year have now reached more than 5,200 points!"
"Finally, the family currently has a balance of 15,286 spiritual stones in its account."