Chapter 387: The hidden dangers of the Zhou family!
With extremely complicated feelings, Zhou Yang returned to his family alone.
Xu Song didn't know how much time it would take to study the underground ruins guarding formation. Naturally, he couldn't spend it with him in that kind of place. Moreover, Xu Song told him to collect some of the materials needed to study the formation, which he also needed to collect after returning to his family.
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After he returned to his family, he only told a few insiders about finding the location of Zhou Xuanyu's mother and daughter, and then ordered people to collect the materials Xu Song needed.
After nearly a year passed, all the materials were collected and he personally delivered them to the underground ruins.
After delivering the materials, Zhou Yang went to the new oasis where Zhou Guangxiang and others were, and used the empty row boat to carry all the monks to the next new oasis construction site to continue building the second new oasis.
As for the new oasis that has been built, monks from the Zhou family rushed there to take over and garrison it.
A new oasis like this one that has just been built is still very fragile. Immortal cultivators need to cast rain from time to time to maintain the vitality of the vegetation on the oasis.
Later, after the ecological environment on these new oases stabilizes, the Zhou family will migrate some mortals to build small towns and villages on the oases.
When the time comes, the work of maintaining the oasis ecological environment can be taken over by these mortals.
After the monks returned to Zhou's home after transporting materials and building a new oasis, Zhou Yang officially began to retreat.
At this time, eight or nine years had passed since he returned to the Zhou family. During these eight or nine years, he had been busy with various things, and his cultivation had inevitably slowed down a lot.
Now that everything is over, he also plans to take a good retreat to improve his cultivation and prepare for the battle of Rhinoceros Continent more than twenty years later.
Time in retreat always passes quickly. In the blink of an eye, Zhou Yang has been in retreat for eight years.
Eight years have passed, and his cultivation has not reached the fifth level of the Purple Mansion, but it is not far away. He can succeed in another one or two years at most.
The reason why he came out of seclusion was because Zhou Guangxiang's cultivation had reached the ninth level of foundation building and he was preparing to open the Zifu.
Zhou Guangxiang is a high-grade spiritual root monk, and his cultivation speed is very fast. Because the Zhou family has Xiao Ying, a fourth-grade low-grade alchemist, there is no shortage of various third-grade spiritual pills.
After taking some elixirs, he was easily promoted to the ninth level of foundation building and began to open up the Purple Mansion.
"Have you really decided? If you don't use [Purple Heart Chalcedony], even if you have high-grade spiritual root qualifications, the success rate will not exceed 20%!"
"And if you fail, even if there is a magic pill to help you recover, you will have to rest for at least ten years before you can attack the Zi Mansion again!"
In Qianyang Cave, after Zhou Yang came out to meet Zhou Guangxiang who came to visit, he was also shocked by his nephew's words.
He had already prepared the "Purple Heart Chalcedony" needed for Zhou Guangxiang to open up the Zi Mansion. However, when Zhou Guangxiang came to visit this time, he told him that he should try to attack the Zi Mansion without relying on the "Purple Heart Chalcedony".
This really surprised him.
Of course, he was surprised. In view of Zhou Guangxiang's previous precedent, Zhou Yang immediately realized that this child wanted to pave the way for his sister Zhou Guangxiang.
The Zhou family now has a total of four foundation-building monks, including Zhou Guangxiang. However, the two new foundation-building monks, Zhou Guangtai and Zhou Guangqing, are only at the second level of foundation-building, and they are still far away from opening up the Purple Mansion.
However, Zhou Guangxiang is already at the sixth level of foundation building. Based on his age, he has enough time to reach the ninth level of foundation building before he is two hundred years old, and he will still have a chance to attack the Zi Mansion.
When the time comes, the "Purple Heart Chalcedony" in Zhou Yang's hands will definitely be used on her.
"My nephew has thought clearly. My nephew is still young. He is only one hundred and twenty-one years old this year. Even if he fails to open up the Zi Mansion this time, he will still have several opportunities to try in the future."
"And my nephew is not afraid to tell Uncle Jiu that he is actually prepared for failure this time. Only by learning from this failure will he be more confident in attacking Zi Mansion next time."
"After all, you also know that [Purple Heart Chalcedony] is not as helpful to my nephew in opening the Purple Mansion as the Foundation Establishment Pill is to establishing the foundation!"
Zhou Guangxiang looked at Zhou Yang with a firm look on his face and said, having already prepared his words.
Zhou Yang suddenly fell silent when he heard what he said.
Although he believed that Zhou Guangxiang was paving the way for his sister Zhou Guangxiang, he had to admit that Zhou Guangxiang's words also made sense.
When monks in the foundation building stage use "Purple Heart Chalcedony" to assist in opening the Purple Mansion, it can only increase the success rate by more than 30% at most. Zhou Guangxiang uses this item to assist in opening the Purple Mansion. The success rate is indeed not as good as the original foundation building. He can use the Foundation Establishment Pill.
Increased to more than 90%.
And as the saying goes, a child can’t help his mother.
Zhou Guangxiang is now over a hundred years old, and has been the head of the Zhou family for decades. Since he has made a decision on matters related to his own path, Zhou Yang, as the elder, forcibly objecting will only hurt the two of them.
The affection between them.
"Okay, now that you have made your decision, Uncle Jiu can't object to it. There is also a [Purple Cloud Pill] here, which can provide you with some help. In addition, this [Ghost Tears Stone] can improve the monks."
Divine consciousness, you should also take it and refine it!"
After Zhou Yang looked at each other for a long time, he nodded slightly and agreed to his choice. Then he raised his hand, took out two spiritual objects and handed them to him.
The "Purple Cloud Pill" was refined by Xiao Ying. A total of four pills were refined at the beginning. One pill was sold at the auction and he still had three pills in his hand. Now that he has given one to Zhou Guangxiang, he still has two pills.
As for the "Ghost Tears Stone", this thing was obtained by him from killing evil spirits in the "Demon Sealing Cave". The resentment of the evil ghosts inside had already been purified by Xu Song. The immortal cultivators refined this thing.
It can slightly increase the strength of the consciousness.
However, Zhou Yang's own spiritual consciousness is very strong, so this object is of little use to him.
The people who can really make the most of this thing are the ninth-level monks like Zhou Guangxiang who are about to open up the Purple Mansion.
As long as refining this object increases the strength of one's own spiritual consciousness, it is equivalent to a disguised increase in the success rate of opening the Purple Mansion, which is permanent.
Zhou Guangxiang is also a knowledgeable person. After hearing Zhou Yang talk about the function of "Ghost Tears Stone", he immediately realized the preciousness of this item.
He held the treasure given by Zhou Yang in his hand, and a look of emotion flashed on his face. He immediately knelt down and kowtowed heavily to Zhou Yang: "Nine Uncle's kindness, my nephew can't repay it, please accept my nephew's kindness."
Pay homage!"
"Get up. Don't worry, just go to seclusion. I will help you take care of the affairs of the clan."
Zhou Yang waved his hand, not wanting to put too much pressure on Zhou Guangxiang, and sent him directly to retreat.
Zhou Guangxiang went into seclusion to open the Zi Mansion. The responsibilities of the head of the Zhou family could only be performed by Zhou Yang. It was naturally impossible for him to continue to go into seclusion.
It just so happened that he had not been in charge of family affairs for some years, so he simply summoned a few deacons and elders to come over and inquire about the current situation of the family.
After more than ten years, most of the original deacons and elders of the Zhou family have been replaced, and several of the new ones are monks of the "Tong" generation.
"The Supreme Elder Mingjian, there are currently 467 monks of our own clan in the clan... 42 monks of the "Fu" generation, 191 monks from foreign relatives, and 43 monks from guest families."
The monk who serves as the elder of the Zhou family has been replaced by Zhou Guangjian, a monk of the "Guang" generation, a "young man" who is less than ninety years old.
After he took over as the elder of Chuan Gong, this was the first time he was so close to Zhou Yang, a legendary figure of the Zhou family. Facing Zhou Yang's inquiry, he was somewhat nervous. Fortunately, the data reported was quite accurate and no big embarrassment occurred.
"The population of monks has increased by more than a hundred in the past ten years. Isn't this a bit too much? What's going on?"
Zhou Yang's eyes flashed with surprise, but he didn't care about the change in this junior's expression. His attention was completely attracted by the number reported by the other party.
Although the Zhou family's mortal population has grown rapidly over the years, the growth rate of hundreds of monks in more than ten years is still a bit alarming, and he has to express concern.
"The Supreme Elder clearly knows that the reason for the huge increase in the monk population is mainly due to the surge in the number of daily visitors to [Feng Yue Tower] in the half year before and after the last big auction."
"In addition, the number of mortals in the family has increased sharply, and the number of babies with spiritual roots detected every year has also increased to seven or eight."
"In the end, the monks of the Guangzi and Tongzi generations, who have the largest population in the family, spread their branches and gave birth to many offspring with spiritual roots."
Zhou Guangjian did a solid job in his homework. Faced with Zhou Yang's questions, after experiencing the initial panic, he quickly calmed down and explained to him the reasons for population growth in detail.
After Zhou Yang heard this reason, he didn't know what he thought of. He suddenly changed the voice transmission and asked: "Then do you know how many monks are from [Fengyue Tower] among all the monks in the family now? Take all the monks within three generations of our ancestors.
Count it in!”
Hearing him suddenly ask this question, Zhou Guangjian's expression changed, as if he had realized something.
But facing Zhou Yang's serious eyes, he could only quickly suppress the terrible thoughts in his heart, calmed down, carefully reviewed various data, and continued to answer: "In reply to the Supreme Elder, according to the latest statistics half a year ago,
According to the data obtained, the current number of monks in the Zhou family in [Feng Yue Tower] is 264, of whom 26 are from [Feng Yue Tower] for their ancestors and 30 are from [Feng Yue Tower] by their fathers."
"Are nearly three-fifths of the people from [Feng Yue Tower]?"
Zhou Yang thought to himself, but he realized a problem that he almost ignored.
That is the purity of family blood!
In the past, the Zhou family's monk population was very small and the family's power was weak. In order to increase the number of monks in the family and increase the chance of talented monks appearing, he strongly agreed to open the "Feng Yue Tower" to increase the family's monk population.
But now, the number of monks born in "Feng Yue Tower" actually accounts for three-fifths of the total number of monks in the Zhou family, and it is expected that the proportion will become larger and larger in the future.
This made Zhou Yang feel scared.
You must know that although the monks born in "Feng Yue Tower" also have the blood of the Zhou family, they are all from the maternal line.
And to be honest, most of the secular women of the Zhou family who are willing to go to "Feng Yue Tower" are people whose ancestors have never produced immortal cultivators for more than four or five generations. The blood of these people and the blood of the monks of the Zhou family are far apart.
Already.
However, the current main leaders of the Zhou family, such as Zhou Yang, brother and sister Zhou Guangxiang, and Zhou Guangqing, are all pure descendants of Zhou family monks, and their bloodline is closest to that of Zhou Yuquan, the ancestor of the Zhou family.
The Zhou family is still on the rise, and perhaps no one is aware of the hidden dangers.
However, after the Zhou family occupied Rhinoceros Continent and the family power gradually reached its peak and could no longer rise, the contradiction between the monks from "Feng Yue Tower" and the original monks from the Zhou family would definitely be exposed.
No matter how many reasons Zhou Yang has to explain, the fact that there is only one "Feng Yue Tower" among the monks in the foundation building period will become a thorn in the hearts of the "Feng Yue Tower" monks whose population already accounts for the vast majority of the Zhou family monks.
Wherever there are people, there will be fights, and where there are interests, there will be conspiracy.
The population of monks from "Feng Yue Tower" accounts for the vast majority of the Zhou family's total population, but there are only a few high-level monks. When the time comes to compete for profit resources within the family, this matter will definitely become a flash point.
Zhou Yang confirmed this very much.
And now he has another level of worry, which is about the "bloodline divine ban".
Zhou Guangxiang is already a third-level mid-level formation mage. When he is promoted to a fourth-level formation mage, he can deploy formations with the "Bloodline Divine Forbidden".
When the time comes, the Zhou family will definitely establish a secret vault guarded by the "Bloodline Divine Forbidden".
Then here comes the problem.
When the time comes, what kind of bloodline information of the Zhou family monks should be entered into the secret vault guarded by the "Bloodline God Forbidden"?
If the bloodline information of Zhou Yang and other monks from the Zhou family's authentic lineage were entered, then it would be almost impossible for most of the monks from "Fengyue Tower" to access the secret vault guarded by the "Bloodline Divine Forbidden".
If the bloodline information of all Zhou family monks is entered, the protective effect of the "Bloodline Divine Forbidden" will be out of the question.
"What should we do? What should we do about this matter? How can we perfectly solve this hidden danger?"
Zhou Yang's mind was racing with thoughts, and his eyes showed a rare look of anxiety.