When Zhou Yuanchen rushed to Zhou's house again, his mood was extremely complicated.
Zhou Yuanchen is more than twenty years older than Zhou Yang, and he only celebrated his 200th birthday the year before last. Since he has not suffered any injuries in his life, it should not be a problem for him to live to be more than 230 years old.
However, compared with Zhou Yang's hundreds of years of long life, his remaining thirty years are nothing.
Although his current cultivation level has reached the ninth level of foundation building, he has no illusions about attacking the Zi Mansion.
Without attacking the Zi Mansion, given his physical condition, it is possible for him to live until the age of 240 as a monk in the Foundation Establishment Stage.
And if he attacks the Zi Mansion now, if he fails and his soul is damaged, his current physical condition will most likely end his life span more than ten years early.
That's fine. If he has no other worries now, it might as well give him a try.
After all, he could still tell the difference between the more than ten years of life that may be lost after failure and the more than two hundred years of life that may be gained after success.
But he still has many concerns that he cannot let go of, and these concerns all come from his children and grandchildren.
After Zhou Yuanchen got married and had children, in addition to sending his eldest son Zhou Guangde to the Zhou family so that he could recognize his ancestor and return to the clan, he also had other children who spread their wings in Huangshamen.
Since the children from Huangshamen's side are not included in the Zhou family tree, they naturally have no relationship with the Zhou family, and the Zhou family will not invest a spiritual stone in those people.
Whether those people can live well or not depends entirely on whether Zhou Yuanchen is still alive.
While he is alive, those descendants who have no spiritual roots, and those who have poor spiritual qualifications, will be able to feed themselves as long as he leaks a little benefit from between his nails.
If he dies, even if he leaves a rich inheritance to those people, it will definitely be ruined in a short time if no one takes care of it. Countless examples of this have already been demonstrated to him by his fellow disciples.
There is also his eldest son Zhou Guangde. Zhou Guangde is the one with the best spiritual qualifications and the smartest among all his children and grandchildren, and he is also the one he loves and values the most.
This time he came to the Zhou family for the purpose of establishing the foundation of his eldest son.
"Ninth brother, eldest brother, I know that with my current status as eldest brother, it is not for me to speak out about this matter."
"But brother, I am just a son who has the hope of building a foundation. If I don't speak up about his foundation building, I'm afraid he will blame me for the rest of his life!"
Zhou Yuanchen looked at Zhou Yang with a pleading look on his face, and with a hint of vibrato in his words, he explained the purpose of his visit.
He came here to obtain the Foundation Building Pill for his son Zhou Guangde.
Zhou Guangde is now fifty-four years old, and has reached the ninth level of Qi training for more than five years.
Unfortunately, because Zhou Yuanchen was unable to obtain Zhou family contribution points, it was even more difficult for Zhou Guangde to collect 20,000 family contribution points while practicing, even with the help of many treasures supported by his father Zhou Yuanchen.
So far, he has only collected more than 15,000 family contribution points through various methods. It will take at least ten or eight years to collect the 20,000 points needed to redeem the Foundation Establishment Pill.
Do it.
If other members of the Zhou family could collect enough family contribution points to redeem the Foundation Establishment Pill before they turn eighty, they would laugh out of their dreams.
But Zhou Guangde is different. He has a father who is a foundation-building monk that most Zhou family monks do not have. There is no need for him to wait ten or eight years in vain.
When he was in his fifties, he took the Foundation Building Pill to build his foundation. With his qualifications as a middle-grade spiritual root, the success rate was at least 60%.
But if you wait until you are sixty or seventy years old before taking the Foundation Building Pill to build the foundation, the success rate will drop to more than 50%.
What's more, everyone knows which one has greater potential between the monks who have successfully established the foundation in their fifties and the monks who only established the foundation in their sixties or seventies.
The simplest example is Zhou Guangtai and Zhou Guangqing, two people who successfully established the foundation of the Zhou family during the same period.
Now more than thirty years have passed, Zhou Guangqing has reached the third level of foundation building, while Zhou Guangtai is still at the second level of foundation building.
Moreover, Zhou Guangqing can always practice on Chihu Mountain and accept the guidance of Zhou Yang, the supreme elder, but Zhou Guangtai has to be sent to Chihu Ridge to take charge and cannot leave easily.
These subtle differences in treatment are obvious to all.
Therefore, even Zhou Yuanchen himself did not want to see his son establish his foundation so late.
"Originally, if you ask, big brother, this face-loving boy will give it to you no matter what."
"But brother, do you know what this kid Guangde has done recently?"
Zhou Yang looked at Zhou Yuanchen with a heavy face, and said in an angry tone: "In order to earn family contribution points to exchange for foundation-building pills, this kid actually set up a small casino in the clan, and used the thunder talismans you gave him as rewards.
Lure other tribesmen into fighting in private, and then sit in the bank to extract the family contribution points of the tribesmen who participated in the betting!"
"Based on the information collected by the Law Enforcement Hall here, at least five tribesmen were seriously injured due to participating in the gambling fight organized by him. One person even lost an arm because of it, completely ruining his career!"
"Guangxiang suppressed this matter for the sake of your face, brother, but tell me, brother, if this kid caused such a big trouble and could obtain the Foundation Building Pill from the family to build the Foundation, what would other clan members think?
Where will the family rules be placed?"
boom!
Zhou Yuanchen's mind was immediately confused.
He really didn't know anything about this.
Zhou Guangxiang actually played a trick on this matter, that is, although he suppressed Zhou Guangde's matter, he did not immediately notify Zhou Yuanchen of the results, but left it to Zhou Yang, who handled family affairs on his behalf, to make the final decision.
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It can even be said that Zhou Guangxiang's attack on Zi Mansion at this time was deliberately avoiding it.
After all, the matter involves Zhou Yuanchen, the most senior elder of the Zhou family. It is difficult for him, the patriarch, to handle this matter.
It's better to let Zhou Yang, who is also an elder, handle it. Anyway, with Zhou Yang's prestige in the Zhou family, no matter how he handles this matter, he is not afraid of what the clan members will say.
Zhou Yuanchen practices in Huangshamen all year round, and sometimes he only comes to visit his son Zhou Guangde every few years.
He has always not worried that Zhou Guangde will be bullied by others in the Zhou family, because he knows that whether it is Zhou Yang, Zhou Guangxiang, or other monks in power in the Zhou family, they will take more care of his son for his sake.
Even the reason why he came to Zhou's house as little as possible was because he was afraid that such frequent visits would spoil his son.
But what he never expected was that his son would actually do what Zhou Yang said!
In fact, setting up a private casino is nothing. There is no rule in the Zhou family rules that prohibits members of the clan from gambling. At most, it is morally condemned.
But setting up a private casino to make monks of the same clan crippled in a martial arts competition is a serious crime.
In any family or sect, it is absolutely taboo for members of the same family to kill each other.
Even if the Zhou family members who participated in the gambling fight organized by Zhou Guangde did not attack each other and maim each other out of hatred, in a practical sense, they were indeed killing each other.
As an organizer, Zhou Guangde cannot escape responsibility no matter what.
And as Zhou Yang said just now, if Zhou Guangxiang and the Law Enforcement Hall had tried their best to suppress this scandal for the sake of Zhou Yuanchen, Zhou Yuanchen would not be here begging Zhou Yang for the Foundation Establishment Pill, but
I beg Zhou Yang not to abolish or exile his son.
"How could this happen! How could this happen..."
Zhou Yuanchen murmured to himself with trembling lips, and his face instantly turned pale as snow.
After muttering to himself and losing his composure for a long time, he raised his head to look at Zhou Yang with a pale face, closed his eyes, and then let out a long sigh: "Brother Wei, I understand! Thank you Jiu Di and Guang Xiang for giving Brother Wei this face."
, that little beast was brought back to Huang Shamen for the brotherhood to be kept under strict supervision, and he would never be allowed to step into the family again!"
But he has never mentioned the matter of the Foundation Establishment Pill.
After this happened, Zhou Yuanchen was too embarrassed to stay in the Zhou family anymore. He forcibly knocked Zhou Guangde unconscious that day and took him back to Huangshamen. After that, he was not allowed to step into the Zhou family for decades.
Zhou Yuanchen is undoubtedly very self-aware. Today's Zhou family only has one foundation-building monk like him, and one without him.
If he hadn't been the highest-ranking person in the Zhou family now, and still had some of his thin-faced past, Zhou Guangde's matter would never have been so easy.
So he didn't say anything at all about giving his son a chance to change his ways. Not only would that not help matters, but it would completely ruin the relationship between him and the Zhou family.
He not only has one son, Zhou Guangde, but he cannot harm his other children and grandchildren because of this unsatisfactory son.
Keeping his friendship with the Zhou family, at least he will die in the future. Zhou Yang thought about this friendship and would not let his bloodline be cut off in Huangshamen.
Zhou Guangde's example and lesson also served as a warning to the other foundation-building monks of the Zhou family and some Qi-training monks who knew the inside story, making them more concerned about educating their younger generations.
Zhou Yang can even deal with Zhou Yuanchen's son like this, and even Zhou Yuanchen can come over in person without giving him face, let alone the younger generation like them.
Later, Zhou Yang also used Zhou Guangde's incident to catch up on the Zhou family's family tradition and family discipline. He seriously dealt with some of the Zhou family's children who had corrupted the family tradition and family discipline, and used practical actions to show his attitude toward such things.
Zero tolerance attitude.
After his rectification campaign, the Zhou family's family tradition and family discipline have indeed improved a lot, and they have also won the favor of many outside casual cultivators and small family cultivators.
When Zhou Yang was reorganizing his family tradition, he also had to deal with some of the Zhou family's children who were bullying others.
These Zhou family disciples themselves are not very capable, but they love to use their status as Zhou family monks to dominate and dominate in front of casual cultivators and small family monks, and even seek wealth and death.
It's just that these guys did it secretly. No one had ever come to complain and the Zhou family didn't investigate carefully, so no one knew about these things.
But this time when Zhou Yang was trying to rectify his family tradition, he caught these scum and used the "inquiry technique" to make them immediately confess all the bad things they had done.
But Zhou Yang didn't care who his son or grandson was. He would kill any monk who had done this kind of thing to seek wealth and harm. He would directly kill him with a palm on the spot, and also cross out his name from the family tree, leaving him alone.
After death, the spiritual tablets cannot be entered into the Zhou family ancestral hall.
This kind of thing can be said to be a family scandal, and Zhou Yang did not deliberately publicize it.
But the Zhou family is now at its peak, and countless people are staring at the Zhou family. This kind of thing was seen by many monks of the Zhou family in full public view, and naturally it spread quickly throughout the family.
After hearing this, some monks from the Immortal Cultivation Family who were jealous of the Zhou family would of course have to laugh at the Zhou family's lax family tradition, and even throw dirty water on Zhou Yang.
But for those casual cultivators and small family cultivators, Zhou Yang's actions made them feel extremely happy and relieved. They praised Zhou Yang's act of "killing relatives for justice" and were more willing to deal with the Zhou family.
To put it bluntly, it is not just the Zhou family that does this kind of money-killing thing, other immortal cultivating families and even many casual cultivators themselves will do it if they have the opportunity.
Basically, any monk who has been in the world of immortality for some years knows this.
And Zhou Yang now has the courage to directly kill his own clansman who did such a thing. Whether he is just showing off or really hates evil, he can win the favor of outsiders.
After all, even bad people prefer to deal with good people.
In the eyes of many monks, Zhou Yang represents the Zhou family.