Zhou Yuanchen lowered his sword light and looked at Lingshan Mountain in front of him, which was covered by formation clouds and mist. The look in his eyes was indescribably complicated.
Of course it's not his first time here, but every time he comes here, his mood is very different.
The last time he came to Chihu Mountain was when Zhou Yang held the Purple Mansion Celebration. At that time, when he came here to participate in Zhou Yang's Purple Mansion Celebration, he felt happy and mixed with pride.
He is happy that the Zhou family has been promoted to the Zifu family, and he is also proud of being a member of the Zifu family.
But this time when he came here, his mood was completely different.
"Husband, why did you stop? Didn't we already send a message to the clan leaders in advance to inform them that they are coming to recognize their ancestors and return to their clan today?"
Next to Zhou Yuanchen, a woman in a white dress who was practicing at the ninth level of qi cultivation was holding a two or three-year-old boy in her arms. She looked at the Taoist monk with a puzzled face and asked questions.
It turned out that this woman was Zhou Yuanchen's new Taoist companion who had been in Huangshamen for a few years, and the little boy in the woman's hands was their first child.
According to the agreement reached by the Zhou family when they funded Zhou Yuanchen's foundation building, after Zhou Yuanchen succeeded in building the foundation, he must marry a wife, have children and leave descendants, and then let his descendants recognize their ancestors and return to the Zhou family.
So Zhou Yuanchen came here today to do this.
At this time, Zhou Yuanchen, who heard the questions from his Taoist companion and looked a little dazed, sighed softly in his heart. He couldn't help but shook his head and said: "It's nothing, I just suddenly remembered something. Okay, let's go up the mountain now!"
After saying that, he immediately sent a transmission note to the monk on the mountain, and then he held the Taoist monk's hand and walked up the mountain.
On Chihu Mountain, after receiving the news, Zhou Yang quickly walked out of the cave and went down to the mountainside to greet Zhou Yuanchen and his wife.
"Brother Yuan Chen is here, why don't you notify me in advance via Feijian? It's better for me to go out and receive your eldest brother and sister-in-law!"
As soon as Zhou Yang saw Zhou Yuanchen and his wife, he complained half jokingly and half seriously.
Although he knew that Zhou Yuanchen and his wife would come to recognize their ancestors today, and he had ordered people to prepare the ritual items, it was impossible for him to walk down the mountain in person early in the morning and wait for Zhou Yuanchen and his wife to come, right?
When Zhou Yuanchen heard what he said, he was very moved and quickly explained: "I heard that Ninth Brother, you have been practicing in seclusion in recent years. Why bother you in advance for such a trivial matter?"
Zhou Yang may not look down upon him because of his status as a monk in the Zifu period, but he has to take into account the gap in cultivation between the two parties.
Asking a monk from the Zifu period to wait for him outside the family, Zhou Yuanchen asked himself that he was not qualified yet, and it would be about the same if Zhang Yunpeng and his wife, the heads of the Huangsha Sect, came here.
When Zhou Yang heard this, he shook his head and looked at him seriously and said, "Brother Yuan Chen is wrong. As the clan leader, of course I have to personally handle such a big matter as recognizing my ancestor and returning to my clan."
Zhou Yuanchen was speechless for a while, and could only cough twice and nod his head to admit his mistake: "Ahem, Ninth Brother is right, it was the eldest brother who was rude."
After saying that, he was afraid that Zhou Yang would get entangled in the matter again, so he took the little boy from the arms of the Taoist companion beside him and said to him: "Guangde, good boy, this is your Ninth Uncle. Quickly salute Ninth Uncle and say hello."
The little boy was very obedient and immediately shouted to Zhou Yang: "Hello, Uncle Jiu, I am Zhou Guangde, I have a broad mind, benevolence, righteousness and morality."
"Guangde, you are such a good boy. Let Uncle Jiu give you a hug."
A smile broke out on Zhou Yang's face, and he reached out his hand and took the little boy handed over by Zhou Yuanchen.
The little boy Zhou Guangde was in his arms, his eyes flashed with golden light, and he quickly saw the little boy's spiritual talent through the "Lihuo Golden Eyes".
Since his parents are both monks, and his father is also a foundation-building monk, the little boy Zhou Guangde's spiritual root qualifications are quite good. Although he is not a high-grade spiritual root, he has a middle-grade spiritual root qualification that is biased toward earth and wood.
With this qualification, as long as he practices hard in the future and his father Zhou Yuanchen, who is a monk in the foundation building stage, devotes his efforts to cultivating it, the little guy will have a great chance of building a foundation in the future.
At that moment, Zhou Yang personally carried the little boy Zhou Guangde and Zhou Yuanchen and his wife to the ancestral temple.
After the Zhou family moved its foundation to Chihu Mountain, it built an ancestral temple here that was more majestic than the one on Yuquan Peak. The spiritual tablets of the ancestors in the ancestral temple on Yuquan Peak were also moved to
here.
As Zhou Yang said, recognizing one's ancestors and returning to the clan is a major family matter.
After Zhou Yang received a message from Zhou Yuanchen a few days ago, he summoned all the "Yuan" generation monks on the Chihu Mountain Oasis and some "Guang" generation monks in the late stage of Qi training to come back to watch the ceremony. The monks on the mountain, regardless of their age,
They all gathered together in the ancestral temple to witness this event.
In this way, witnessed by hundreds of tribesmen, Zhou Yuanchen took his son Zhou Guangde's hand and kowtowed one by one in front of the spiritual tablets of the deceased elders of the Zhou family in the ancestral hall, offered incense, and finally Zhou Yang, the patriarch, personally took out the memorial tablets.
The original genealogy adds Zhou Guangde's name to the monks of the "Guang" generation.
From now on, Zhou Guangde is a member of the Zhou family in the true sense, and will have nothing to do with Huang Shamen in the future.
"This time Guangde came back to recognize his ancestors and return to the clan. I also took a leave of absence from the clan. In the next five years, our husband and wife will stay in the family to take care of Guangde. Ninth brother, if there is anything you need me to do,
But it doesn’t matter.”
After the ceremony of recognizing the ancestor and returning to the clan, Zhou Yuanchen asked the Taoist monk to take his son for a walk in the mountains to familiarize himself with the environment. However, he and Zhou Yang went to a secluded place behind the ancestral temple and explained his plan.
"This is a good thing. Brother Yuanchen, it's rare for you to stay in the family for such a long time, and you can just connect with the clan members."
"As for what you want Brother Yuanchen to do, if you are free, Brother Yuanchen, you might as well go to the Baiyi Hall to instruct the family monks on the talisman-making skills, and help the family make some third-level talismans."
Zhou Yang nodded slightly and arranged a task for Zhou Yuanchen without any courtesy.
When Zhou Yuanchen heard what he said, he immediately agreed: "No problem, I will definitely not be stingy in passing on my experience and knowledge of making talismans to the younger generations of the family."
After saying that, he reached out and patted the storage bag, took out a jade slip and handed it to Zhou Yang and said: "In addition, here is a handbook of talisman making techniques that I have summarized and written over the years. Ninth Brother, you can also include it in this book."
Let’s keep it in the family scripture cave for the clan members to study!”
Zhou Yuanchen is now a third-level mid-level talisman maker. His talisman-making instructions, although they do not involve some of Huang Shamen's secret talisman-making techniques, are still of great research and learning value.
Zhou Yang immediately took the jade slip with both hands and said solemnly: "Brother Yuan Chen, don't worry, I will definitely let the clan members know your contribution to the family!"
In order to express the importance he attached to Zhou Yuanchen, Zhou Yang gave him another remaining first-class cave on Chihu Mountain to stay temporarily. At the same time, he also allowed those members of the Zhou family who had learned the art of making talismans or were interested in the art of making talismans.
, seize this opportunity to ask for advice on talisman making skills.
Even he himself set aside some time to listen to the professional classes given by Zhou Yuanchen to those Zhou family talisman makers.
That's right, after much thought, Zhou Yang decided to put the second art of cultivating immortals on the art of making talismans.
He no longer needs to consider alchemy. Taoist companion Xiao Ying is an extremely good alchemist, and formation mage is recognized as the most time-consuming and energy-consuming profession, so there are actually not many professions for him to choose from.
For him, choosing the Talisman Making Technique has several benefits.
First of all, he can use spiritual talismans to make up for his shortcomings in spell practice. To this day, many of his spells are only at the stage where he can use them but is not proficient in them, and cannot be used in actual combat at all.
If he learns the art of making talismans, he can use talismans to make up for this shortcoming, making his ability to fight enemies more comprehensive and able to deal with various complex and dangerous situations.
Secondly, he is the one with the highest cultivation level in the Zhou family now, and it will probably be the same in the future. If he can learn the talisman making technique and upgrade it to the fourth level, he can leave many fourth-level talismans to the family as trump cards.
Even if he has something to travel, he doesn't have to worry that a random Zifu monk or monster will destroy the Zhou family.
Third, the talisman-making technique does not have high requirements for materials. In addition to talisman pens, whether it is blood ink, spiritual ink, or talisman paper, they can all be made from the spiritual blood and animal skins of monsters. There is no need to go to alchemy.
, refining weapons also takes a lot of time to find certain materials.
The Zhou family does not lack the materials needed to make talismans. Whether it is blank talisman paper or blood ink, the Zhou family has a large amount of storage. Of course, it is limited to first-level and second-level materials. Although there are also third-level materials, they cannot be as low as these.
Grade materials can be handed over to any Talisman Maker for use.
Zhou Yang learned the Talisman Making Technique with his cultivation level in the Zifu period, and with a sufficient supply of various materials, he was in a high position and could not progress too fast. In just three months, he had upgraded the Talisman Making Technique to the second level.
After another two months of hard training, he successfully produced the first third-level low-grade spiritual talisman.
However, after becoming a third-level Talisman Maker, it would be impossible for him to rapidly increase the level of Talisman Making Technique as before.
The Zhou family's current third-level talisman-making materials are limited, and it is impossible for him to waste them as he likes with low-level materials.
Furthermore, the difficulty and technical requirements for making third-level spiritual talismans are far greater than those of second-level spiritual talismans. Even he would have to spend a lot of time studying and practicing to master them.
And now he can't allocate all his time to the Talisman Making Technique. Whether it's the second-level practice of "Dayan Sword Art" or the practice of "Qianyang Divine Thunder", the order in his heart is higher than that of Talisman Making.
technique.
After all, he will soon be traveling far away, and will have to pass through dangerous places like the Duanyun Mountains. If he encounters danger then, the only thing that can save his life is these two powerful magical powers, not in the
A third-level talisman-making technique that is completely useless at the Zifu level.