Chapter two hundred and seventy-two: receiving gifts only
Chihu Mountain Oasis.
After "Liuyunfang" was completed and put into use, Zhou Yang returned to Chihu Mountain and handled various family affairs.
Because there are only a few months until his Zifu celebration is held, many casual cultivators and small family cultivators who heard the news came all the way to join in the fun. The arrival of these people is bringing popularity to the Chihu Mountain Oasis
At the same time, it also caused a lot of trouble.
For example, if two immortal cultivators with grudges met here, they would probably start fighting on the spot.
However, according to the public security regulations compiled by Zhou Yang, immortal cultivators are strictly prohibited from fighting in battles on the Chihu Mountain Oasis, because this will not only make other immortal cultivators here feel insecure, but will also easily damage the oasis environment.
Therefore, after such a security incident occurs, the monks from the Zhou family's security hall must go over to maintain security and persuade or expel the two parties involved in the fight.
There are also some immortal cultivators who came to the Chihu Mountain Oasis and saw that the place was vast and sparsely populated, and there were not many people stationed in the various spiritual mountains. They would inevitably have some thoughts of roosters and dogs.
Once such people are discovered, it will be troublesome to deal with them, and they cannot be killed directly.
Of course, these are still minor matters. As long as the person arrested does not involve other immortal cultivating families, the Security Hall and the Punishment Hall can deal with it. At most, the results of the handling can be reported to the clan leader Zhou Yang.
But some things still need to be handled by Zhou Yang himself.
For example, after the establishment of Fang City, some foundation-building families within 10,000 miles nearby had heard about the situation and had sent foundation-building monks to visit him to discuss purchasing a store. There were also some casual foundation-building monks who came and heard about Ma Shaoyang and others.
He also wanted to visit him and request to establish a family by relying on the Zhou family.
Only he, the clan leader, can decide these matters, and even Zhou Guangxiang, who he chose as his successor, cannot replace him.
It was easy for him to deal with these matters. People who bought the store always excused themselves by saying that they were only renting the store and not selling it. They could rent the store for free, but the ownership of the store still belonged to the Zhou family.
He is not stupid. At this time, the market has just been established. Even if the store can be sold, how much can it be sold for?
If you really want to sell the store, of course it will be more cost-effective to sell it after Defang becomes popular.
As for those foundation-building monks who wanted to attach themselves to the Zhou family, Zhou Yang also declined them politely.
Although the Zhou family is not small now, they will still be stretched if they eat too much.
The more Foundation-Building Monk vassals you have, the better. After all, the obligations of vassals are mutual. If you accept too many Foundation-Building Monk vassals at once, the Zhou family may not be able to handle it.
After months of such busy work, the day of the Zhouyang Zifu celebration finally arrived as scheduled.
On this day, the sky was clear and cloudless.
The entire Chihu Mountain, including the Yuquan Peak where the Zhou family started, is decorated with lanterns and colorful red silks that represent celebrations.
Lingshan Mountain, which had previously seen few people, was now crowded with people, as many as two to three thousand people gathered.
These people are all cultivators of immortality, including those in the Zifu stage, those in the foundation-building stage, and those in the Qi-training stage.
There are the Zhou family's own immortal cultivators, and there are also immortal cultivators who came to congratulate.
"On behalf of Huangshamen, Mr. Zhang and his wife, the head of Huangshamen, presented a congratulatory gift, a fourth-level elixir [Millennium Blood Ginseng]!"
"The Chen family of Baituoling presented a congratulatory gift, a piece of fourth-level spiritual object [Taiyi Fine Gold]!"
"The Nie family of Jinyang Mountain presents a congratulatory gift, a fourth-level spiritual object [Fire Essence Stone]!"
"Huang Shamen monk Ma Jingtao presented a congratulatory gift, a third-level high-grade thunder talisman!"
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The sound of singing "Nai" resounded through most of the Red Tiger Mountain.
Every time the name of the treasure comes out of the singer's mouth, it will cause a burst of exclamation from the crowd watching the ceremony.
The monks in the Zifu stage will give fourth-level spiritual objects, and the monks in the foundation-building stage will give third-level spiritual objects. These are standard gifts.
However, there is a big difference in value between the fourth-level spiritual objects and the third-level spiritual objects. Through the value of the gifts given by the visitors, many people can judge their relationship with the Zhou family through this matter.
Those who are close to the Zhou family, or who want to please Zhou Yang, will of course try to choose gifts of the same level with higher value when giving gifts.
On the other hand, those who have a normal relationship with the Zhou family will try to choose something of average value when giving gifts.
However, regardless of whether they are close to the Zhou family or not, no foundation-building monk would give a second-level spiritual object when giving a gift, because it would be better not to give it at all.
Of course, there will also be people who, in order to show their loyalty, will give heavy gifts that exceed their own level of cultivation.
"The Ma family in Yangquanling presented a congratulatory gift, a fourth-level elixir [Earth Fire Ganoderma]!"
hiss!
As the singer's voice fell, the whole audience couldn't help but gasp.
Everyone looked at the monk who presented the gift, Ma Shaoyang, the foundation-building monk who had just joined the Zhou family.
No one expected that this seventh-level foundation-building monk could actually come up with rare elixirs such as "Earth Fire Ganoderma".
You must know that "Ground Fire Ganoderma" is not ordinary. This thing can only grow in volcanic craters where magma flows through, or on the edge of underground fire pits.
Due to its special growing environment, this plant is extremely difficult to cultivate artificially, so its value is particularly high.
Generally, the century-old "Earth Fire Ganoderma" is only a third-level elixir. Only the "Earth Fire Ganoderma" that is more than 500 years old can be regarded as a fourth-level elixir.
"Fellow Taoist Ma is interested, please come and take a seat."
After Zhou Yang was stunned for a moment, he immediately nodded with a smile and said hello, letting Ma Shaoyang sit at a table closer to the main table.
Originally, Ma Shaoyang was certainly not qualified to sit at such a front table, but a "Ling Zhi" tree gave him the qualification.
However, there are definitely only a few people like Ma Shaoyang who are willing to use the fourth-level elixir to open the way.
Even if a fourth-level spiritual object cannot be used, it can be sold for a very rich price. Now if it is used as a gift to give to others, or if it is given during a celebration, it is very likely that it will end up making a profit at a loss.
Among the many monks present, few had such courage.
After all, giving gifts in private and in public have very different meanings.
Because there were too many people invited to the Zifu celebration this time, and some casual cultivators who had not received the invitations but after hearing the news, brought their own gifts and came to congratulate them, the gift presentation session lasted for most of the day.
The time has just ended.
Fortunately, the immortal cultivators are a group of very patient people. In addition, during this gift-giving session, you can witness all kinds of spiritual objects in the immortal cultivating world. No immortal cultivator will be bored by this. On the contrary, most people are.
I enjoyed watching it with gusto and wished it could last longer.
Many people even watched and secretly estimated the value of the gifts Zhou Yang received this time.
The result left many people speechless.
According to their estimates, even if they take a low value, the total value of the gifts Zhou Yang received for this Zifu celebration is at least 150,000 spirit stones!
One hundred and fifty thousand spiritual stones!
This is no small sum!
Many foundation-building families cannot collect so many spiritual stones even if they include the value of fixed assets such as the family's spiritual mountains.
And now Zhou Yang has received so many spiritual stones just for receiving gifts.
There is a saying: you can see the whole leopard by looking at one spot.
How influential the Zhou family is now can be seen from this gift.
Hearing with the ears is false, seeing with the eyes is reality.
Some casual cultivators who had only heard about how powerful Zhou Yang was and how prosperous the Zhou family was before could truly see Zhou Yang's influence this time.
After these casual cultivators saw this, some secretly decided to stay in the Chihu Mountain Oasis for a while to see if it was worth staying here.
In this way, Zhou Yang's purpose of holding the Zifu celebration was undoubtedly successfully achieved.
Therefore, after the gift-giving session, he stood up with a smile on his face, bowed his hands to the thousands of guests below, and said loudly: "Not only Zhou Yang, thank you all Taoist friends for taking time out of your busy schedule to attend Zhou Yang."
For the celebration of the Purple Mansion, I would like to express my gratitude to all the fellow Taoists for the gifts just now, and now I would like to invite all the fellow Taoists to take a seat, so that Zhou can fulfill his friendship as a landlord."
How can a celebration be complete without eating and drinking?
Of course, the person who gave the gift cannot get his money back through a meal and drink, but the guests who came from afar without giving a gift all hope to earn back their money by having a good meal.
This is a Zifu celebration, and the food and drinks prepared must be good, right?
This is indeed the case.
In order to successfully organize this Zifu celebration, the Zhou family stopped selling "Golden Pearl Rice" a few years ago, and instead transported the spirit grain to the Chihu Mountain Oasis to store it for consumption in this celebration.
At the same time, the various spiritual wines brewed by the Zhou family stopped being sold to outsiders and consumed within the clan as early as Zhou Yang's success in opening the Zifu. Only in this way can the amount of spiritual wines be enough for thousands of immortal cultivators to drink for such a event.
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In terms of dishes, in addition to the meat of spiritual animals such as red turkeys and tinder rabbits domesticated by the Zhou family, most of the monster beasts killed by the monks of the Zhou family when cleaning up the Chihu Mountain oasis over the years have also been preserved for consumption.
Some of it was stored for consumption during this celebration.
But this is not enough.
In order to enrich the dishes, the foundation-building monks of the Zhou family also personally went to several families that had domesticated other types of edible spirit beasts and purchased a batch of goods. In addition, they also purchased a lot of edible and medicinal low-level elixirs for use.
As green vegetables.
There is wine, vegetables and rice, and of course spiritual fruits are also indispensable.
However, there are not many types of spiritual fruit trees in the boundless sand sea cultivation world, and the yield is not large. Many of the spiritual fruits produced by the Zhou family are used to make wine.
So in the end, with Zhou Yang's consent, the Zhou family spent another five thousand pieces of low-grade spiritual stones to purchase various spiritual fruits to ensure that each monk at the celebration could get at least one spiritual fruit.
Calculated in this way, the Zhou family spent at least more than 70,000 low-grade spiritual stones just to prepare food, drinks, and spiritual fruits for the celebration!
If calculated on average, the amount of spiritual stones spent on each monk attending the banquet would reach twenty or thirty spiritual stones.
With such a sumptuous meal, it’s no wonder why some casual cultivators traveled thousands of miles to eat and drink.
Not only can you eat and drink as much as you want, but after you have eaten and drank enough, you can also listen to the sermons and teachings of senior monks. It can be said that you have food, drink and food.