Chapter 383: Don't forget your original intention!
Both parents died, and the mortal relationship was over.
If it were those monks of the sect who encountered this situation, they could safely return to the sect's cave to practice cultivation and pursue the great path wholeheartedly.
To be honest, when Zhou Yang looked back on his life in front of his parents' graves, he had similar thoughts.
After all, after Zhou Xuanhao passed away, he really no longer had any blood relatives in the Zhou family. Now the monks in the Zhou family, the people closest to him in blood, are at least seven or eight generations apart.
Moreover, the things he has done for the Zhou family in his life are completely worthy of the Zhou family's cultivation of him. Even if he leaves, he will not have any psychological barriers.
However, everything in this world cannot be measured by the word "profit".
What the Zhou family is today is inseparable from Zhou Yang's efforts. He has worked hard for this family for hundreds of years, and single-handedly led the development of a small family with three or two big cats and kittens into a boundless sand sea cultivator with a population of several hundred monks.
The largest cultivating family in the immortal world.
This family has been soaked in his hard work and has been deeply imprinted on him. He has lived in this family for most of his life.
If you want him to leave this family behind and travel far and wander alone, he can't do it and he can't do it!
Although this description is very inappropriate, the actual situation is that to Zhou Yang, the Zhou family is like his children.
Over the past hundred years, he personally raised this child who was so thin that he was about to starve to death bit by bit, watching him grow into a mighty and majestic adult, and watching him step by step become a giant existence that others need to look up to.
Now if he suddenly pulled away and left, this mighty and majestic adult man would fall down as if his backbone had been ripped out, and he would never be able to stand up again.
This is obviously something he absolutely cannot accept.
If that happens, what's the point of his struggle and perseverance for hundreds of years?
"Father, mother, and the old patriarch, please rest in peace. As long as the child is alive, we will never let the Zhou family decline, and we will never let our hard work go to waste!"
In the Zhou family cemetery, Zhou Yang, who had been here without sleep for three days without eating or drinking, suddenly knelt down on his knees facing his parents' tombs, kowtowed three times in a row, and stood up in a deep voice.
Made a vow.
Then he got up and left the cemetery, and began to take charge of the funeral and funeral arrangements.
After a month of such busy work, Zhou Xuanhao's funeral was finally completed.
It was just that the monks of the Zhou family, who had been busy for a month, could not get any rest, and immediately threw themselves into the preparations for the big auction.
Zhou Yang attaches great importance to this big auction. He wants to imitate the big auction in Xianyang City and hold a big auction every thirty years in the future.
In order for this grand auction to become as influential as the Xianyang City Grand Auction, it is particularly important whether the first one is held successfully.
Only if the treasures auctioned in this big auction are satisfactory, will the next big auction arouse people's expectations and yearning.
To this end, Zhou Yang not only plundered his and the Zhou family's savings, but also prepared a series of treasures for the grand auction that could be used from the Qi training stage to the Zifu stage. He also personally refined weapons and talismans, and refined a
A batch of high-quality third-level magic weapons and third-level magic talismans are used as auction items.
In addition, Xiao Ying and Zhou Guangxiang also specially refined some third-level elixirs and third-level formation plates with unique medicinal effects specifically for the monks in the foundation-building stage.
Time passed quickly, and soon it was less than three days before the big auction scheduled by the Zhou family. The monks from all parties who came to participate in the auction all moved into the palace specially built by the Zhou family outside Liuyunfang City.
Of course, if someone doesn't care about getting a spiritual stone, they can still live in the Fairy Inn run by the Zhou family in Fang City.
At this time, in Liuyunfang City, due to the arrival of a large number of monks, all the shops in the city took out the high-quality treasures that had been prepared for this big auction, hoping to get a share of this grand event.
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The Zhou family also timely set aside a large area in the square west of Fangshi as a temporary trading market. Anyone who only needs to pay a low-grade spiritual stone can set up a stall there for a day.
At the same time, an apprenticeship ceremony was being held on Chihu Mountain where the Zhou family was located.
When Zhou Yang accepted Lu Xuewei as his apprentice a few years ago, he said that he would use the popularity attracted by this grand auction to invite monks from all over the world to witness the ceremony. Naturally, he will not break his promise now.
Two or three years later, Lu Xuewei has grown into an eleven-year-old Tingting girl.
At this time, after several years of studying in the Zhou Family Academy, she had realized what an honor it was to become Zhou Yang's first apprentice.
In order to let people know that she can bear this honor, she has been preparing for today's apprenticeship ceremony for a long time. She has practiced the process countless times in advance. She is very afraid that if she makes a mistake at the ceremony, she will lose Zhou Yang's face.
, let others make irresponsible remarks.
"Xuewei, do you now know what a blessing and honor it is to be able to worship Senior Zhou?"
"From now on, you must be obedient and sensible under Senior Zhou, and you must learn to respect your teacher. Do whatever the master tells you, and you must not go against the master's orders!"
"If so, if you can build a foundation in the future, no one in our old Lu family will dare to bully you again!"
On Chihu Mountain, the head of the Lu family, who had come all the way to watch the ceremony with several children and grandchildren, took advantage of the fact that the apprenticeship ceremony had not yet begun, and took his daughter with him with joy on his face and gave him instructions diligently, his eyes full of eager anticipation.
Over the years, not only Lu Xuewei has tasted the benefits of being Zhou Yang's apprentice, but the Lu family has also tasted enough sweetness.
First of all, the various families that had oppressed the Lu family no longer dared to say anything. Not only did they not dare to say anything, some of the people who had offended their family too much even sent people to the door to apologize.
The little Lu family has never had such an honor, being able to ask the Ji Zhu family to apologize to them!
At the same time, after the news spread that Lu Xuewei had become Zhou Yang's founding disciple, the attitudes of the casual cultivators and families who had looked down on small families like them, the Lu family, changed completely.
In the past, when the Lu family monks went out to do business and sold the spiritual grains, spiritual herbs grown in their own spiritual mountains, or other materials obtained from hunting monsters, the prices would always be reduced in various ways.
Now as long as they identify themselves, many stores are rushing to collect their goods.
Where all these changes come from, the head of the Lu family knows very well.
Originally, he had always been unhappy about sending his daughter to the Zhou family.
But now, he is more worried than anyone else that there will be problems when his daughter becomes Zhou Yang's savior.
"Okay, okay, dad, don't worry, these daughters understand. You have told me so many times."
After all, Lu Xuewei is still a young girl who is not familiar with the world. In addition, today's grand occasion has put a lot of psychological pressure on her. Her father's nagging advice sounds a little annoying to her ears, and her words can't help but feel a little unhappy.
Got up.
"Hey, you kid, I'm doing this all for your own good, don't you..." The head of the Lu family sighed and wanted to say something else, but at this time, Zhou Guangxiang, who was presiding over the apprenticeship ceremony, had already called out Lu Xuewei
name.
Seeing this, he could only remain silent and watch his excited daughter walk towards Zhou Yang holding the apprenticeship ceremony.
It is a very important thing for a cultivator to accept a disciple, and the ceremony of apprenticeship is equally important.
First of all, the disciples must kneel down three times and kowtow to the master three times, and swear to the Heavenly Alliance that they will not betray the master, deceive the master, kill the master, etc., and then recite a "Disciple Rules", which is nothing more than the following
Some words about respecting teachers and being friendly to fellow disciples.
At the same time, as a master, when a disciple becomes a disciple, he will emphasize some of the rules of his sect. The disciple must answer affirmative words such as "can" and "yes" without hesitation.
After all the procedures were completed, Zhou Yang stood up from the Taishi chair, walked to Lu Xuewei who was kneeling in front of him, reached out to take the apprenticeship ceremony she was holding and placed it on the table beside him, and supported her with a serious look.
He stood up and solemnly said: "Since you have decided to worship me as your teacher and are willing to abide by my rules, today I will ask fellow Taoists from all walks of life to bear witness. Today, I, Zhou Yang, accept Zhou Guangwei as my great disciple, passing on the mantle and announcing it to everyone."
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"Disciple pays homage to Master!"
Lu Xuewei (Zhou Guangwei) knelt down again, kowtowed heavily, and from then on, the relationship between the two of them as master and disciple was completely established.
Their status was certain, and the monks who were watching the ceremony came up to congratulate them one by one according to their status.
"Hahaha, congratulations to fellow Taoist Zhou for your wonderful disciple. His disciple is extremely talented. In the future, the Purple Mansion will be promising, the Golden Elixir will be promising, and there will be a successor to the Zhou family!"
Zhang Yunpeng, as the leader of the Huangsha Sect and a ninth-level monk of the Purple Mansion, is naturally the highest-status person among the monks who watched the ceremony. When the apprenticeship ceremony was completed, he was the first to step forward and congratulate him with a loud smile.
Looking at the smile on his face, those who didn't know the inside story would really think that he was happy that Zhou Yang had accepted an extremely talented disciple.
But those who actually knew that Huang Shamen had also had an idea for Lu Xuewei were all laughing secretly in their hearts at this time.
These people were also envious and jealous of Zhou Yang for accepting such a talented disciple as Lu Xuewei, but if they were given a choice, they would rather give Zhou Yang an advantage than Huang Shamen.
For these people, the stronger Huang Shamen is, the harder their lives will be in the future.
In recent years, as the power of the Huangshamen has been reduced and declined, all the immortal cultivating families have fully tasted the benefits. No one wants to see the Huangshamen who once dominated the entire boundless sea of sand cultivating world reappear.
With the decline of Huangshamen, it is necessary to win over these immortal cultivating families and provide them with benefits in order to stabilize the situation.
If Huangshamen were as strong as when Cao Wenjin was around, they and other cultivating families would be like before. With an imperial edict, they would have to send the family’s pillar-building cultivators to serve and obey orders. Even if they knew they were going to die, there would be nothing they could do.
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The Huang Shamen, the largest sect in the Immortal Cultivation World of the Boundless Sand Sea, and the Zhou Family, the largest Immortal Cultivation Family in the Boundless Sand Sea Cultivation World, are at odds with each other. This is what all the other Immortal Cultivation families want to see.
Even in order to facilitate this, many cultivating families knew clearly the purpose of the Zhou family's grand auction and were still willing to bring treasures and spiritual stones to participate.
In their thinking, the more prosperous the Zhou family's auction is and the more spiritual stones they earn, the more jealous and jealous they will be from Huang Shamen, which will cause irreparable rifts in the relationship between the two parties.
Up to now, the signing of the "Netherworld Blood Contract" between Zhou Yang and Cao Wenjin is still a top secret among top secrets. No one knows about it except the three parties involved, namely him and Zhang Yunpeng and his wife.
Therefore, the provocations of those with ulterior motives are destined to be impossible to achieve any real gains.