The level of the spiritual veins on Jinxia Mountain is the third level, which is one level higher than the Yuquan Peak spiritual veins of the Zhou family. Even if the "Yuquan Tower" is located in a place that is not the spiritual eye of this mountain's spiritual veins, the spiritual energy environment is completely sufficient.
It can be used by monks like Zhou Yang who are in the Qi training period to break through to small realms.
After only nine days of retreat in the retreat room in the backyard of "Yuquan Tower", he successfully broke through the cultivation barrier that had trapped him for more than a year, successfully broke through to the ninth level of Qi training, and became a member of the Zhou family for more than two hundred years.
Here comes the first ninth-level qi-training monk under the age of forty.
It was only after he broke through to the ninth level of qi training that Zhou Yang understood why only monks at the ninth level of qi training could serve as family elders in the Zhou family.
He didn't know what the situation was like for others. Anyway, after he broke through from the eighth level of Qi training to the ninth level of Qi training, his mana tripled, his spiritual consciousness doubled, and the range of his spiritual consciousness reached 300 meters.
Far!
This kind of magical power and spiritual consciousness is enough for him to use four or five second-level high-grade magical weapons to fight with people for half an hour at the same time. His combat effectiveness is incomparable to before.
According to the family rules of the Zhou family, as long as a monk of the Zhou family breaks through to the ninth level of Qi training and reports it to the family, the old patriarch Zhou Minghan will confer on him the position of family elder on behalf of the family.
If Zhou Yang breaks through to the ninth level of Qi training in Yuquan Lake Oasis, he will probably become the ninth elder of the Zhou family that day.
The reason why he is the ninth elder is because after his father Zhou Xuanhao successfully completed the foundation building ceremony, the old patriarch Zhou Minghan awarded him the higher-level position of Taishang Elder on behalf of the family after holding the foundation building celebration.
This left a position vacant for the ninth elder of the Zhou family.
In principle, the Supreme Elder and the family patriarch are equals. Even the patriarch has no right to issue any orders directly to him. Even when the family patriarch makes a big mistake and causes heavy losses to the family, the Supreme Elder still has the right.
Convene the elders to vote to remove him from the position of patriarch.
However, in the family system, the status of the Supreme Elder is still lower than that of the clan leader. To put it bluntly, the Supreme Elder is a noble position with high status but little real power. As long as the clan leader does not make mistakes and does not offend the clan members,
There are so many complaints that the Supreme Elder can only be used as a mascot, leading the high priests to worship and practice peace of mind.
For those who have a strong desire for power and control, they certainly don't like to be a supreme elder who looks noble but does not have much real power, but there are not many such people among immortal cultivators.
Therefore, the actual situation in the world of cultivating immortals is that high-level monks among major forces often like to be supreme elders who only receive offerings and do little work, and do not want to waste their precious cultivation time on dealing with sect chores.
Anyway, the great power of immortal cultivators belongs to themselves. As long as their own cultivation is still there, no one dares to ignore their existence even if they are a leisurely elder.
Therefore, Zhou Yang was actually extremely envious of his father Zhou Xuanhao becoming the Supreme Elder.
It's a pity that he can only be envious. As the almost default successor of the Zhou family, even if he succeeds in building the foundation, he will never be able to become a leisurely supreme elder. In the future, he will be the only one to steer the ship of the Zhou family.
"Brother Ninth, Brother Ninth, the family caravan is back. Uncle Sixth and Uncle Eleven are following the caravan back to Fangshi!"
On this day, when Zhou Yang was reading the books on rare objects he bought on the third floor of "Yuquan Building", Zhou Xiong, who was entertaining guests downstairs, suddenly barged in with a loud shout, his face full of anger.
The color of excitement.
"Caravan? Uncle Six and Uncle Eleven? Wait...you mean the caravan that went to Huangshamen for tribute trade with the Chen family caravan a few years ago is back?"
After Zhou Yang murmured a few words to himself following the words of his clan brother, his face suddenly condensed, and the look in his eyes instantly became serious.
Both the Chen family and the Zhou family are families affiliated with Huangshamen. Every ten years, the surrounding families affiliated with Huangshamen will jointly organize a caravan to carry a large number of spiritual objects to Huangshamen.
The mountain gate is the site of tribute and trade.
This caravan is usually led by a monk in the foundation-building stage of the Chen family. Other foundation-building families like the Zhou family will have a few monks in the qi-training stage to join it, and then they will form a camel caravan starting from the Baisha River Oasis, a two-day journey.
It takes thousands of miles to reach the giant oasis where Huangshamen Mountain Gate is located.
As far as Zhou Yang knew, more than two years ago, the sixth uncle Zhou Xuanjing, the family elder, and the eleventh uncle Zhou Xuankun, who had the eighth level of Qi training, brought two monks who were relatives of the Zhou family and three juniors with the word "Yuan"
Followed the caravan to Huangshamen.
An ordinary family monk like Zhou Xiong only knew that this time the caravan went to Huangshamen for tribute and trade as before.
But Zhou Yang knew that this time the caravan went to Huangshamen, it actually had another mission, which was to retrieve the last few auxiliary spiritual objects for refining the Foundation-Building Pill that had been scheduled for the ancestor of the Chen family, Chen Yaohui.
Now that the caravan is back, it means that the "Foundation Building Conference" that the old patriarch Zhou Minghan and he talked about is about to be held.
Sure enough, when he met with his sixth uncle Zhou Xuanjing and his eleventh uncle Zhou Xuankun, he immediately saw an invitation written by the ancestor of the Chen family in the hands of his sixth uncle, inviting the patriarch of the Zhou family Zhou Minghan to gather at the ancestral site of the Chen family in Baituoling in half a year.
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"Xiao Jiu, the old patriarch must have told you about the [Foundation Building Conference], right? Since you have broken through to the ninth level of Qi training, this time our Zhou family must get a Foundation Building Pill no matter what.
Yes, you must stay in Fangshi during the next period of time and never leave!"
In the "Yuquan Tower", Zhou Xuankun looked at the junior in front of him who had surpassed his uncle in cultivation, with both relief and envy on his face.
He is nearly twenty years younger than Zhou Yang's father, Zhou Xuanhao. Originally, if Zhou Yang had not broken through to the ninth level of Qi training, he would have had some chance to take the Foundation Building Pill after the Zhou family purchased it.
It's a pity that although he also has middle-grade spiritual root qualifications, he was injured in a martial arts fight in his early years and delayed his practice for several years. As a result, his cultivation is still at the eighth level of Qi training without a breakthrough. This time, he is completely and foundation-building.
Dan is out of luck.
"Old Eleven is right. Xiaojiu, you need to be more careful at this time. Outside the family, you have to be more careful about everything than inside the family."
Zhou Xuanjing glanced at the clan brother next to him who had a complicated expression, and looked at Zhou Yang with meaning and gave some instructions.
"Don't worry, two uncles. At this time, unless the old patriarch personally orders it, my nephew will definitely not step out of Fangshi!"
Zhou Yang understood what the two clan uncles meant. They were worried that he would be persecuted after leaving Fangshi and miss the opportunity to build a foundation. There had been precedents for this kind of thing in the past.
After all, even if the ancestor of the Chen family refined the Foundation Building Pill, the quantity would definitely be small. If the Zhou family got one, it would mean that someone from other families would leave empty-handed.
Under such circumstances, it is natural for some families to secretly persecute the other family's "foundation-building seeds" that are expected to build a foundation in order to reduce one competitor.
Zhou Minghan, the old patriarch, specifically told Zhou Yang about these situations when he left the family, so he has never left Fangshi since he came to Fangshi.
As long as he is in Fangshi, the Chen family will endorse his safety. Anyone who dares to hurt anyone in Fangshi is equivalent to becoming the enemy of the entire Chen family.