While flying through the oasis passage formed by twenty-five man-made oases, Zhou Yang saw scenes that had long been imagined in his mind.
Just like the service areas on the highways in his previous life, with twenty-five man-made oases as bases, a large number of monks exploring the sand sea came in and out of those oases, or sold their own exploration of the sand sea to the shops opened by the Zhou family on the oasis.
You can obtain spiritual objects at that time, or buy bigu pills, detoxification pills, shengji hemostasis pills and other spiritual pills and various consumable charms from the store.
It is not as easy for low-level monks to explore the sand sea as it is for foundation-building monks. The capacity of their storage bags is limited. The various food and water they can carry at one time can only supply them for a few months or half a year in the sand sea, so they must calculate
Control the depth of exploration and reserve the necessary consumption when returning.
Moreover, there are many monsters in this unexplored sand sea. Once they encounter a battle, unless they encounter a first-order monster that can be crushed, fighting the same-order monster will consume some of the spiritual talismans in the hands of the monks.
and elixir.
Once these elixirs and talismans are all exhausted, they must return to the twenty-five oasis strongholds to replenish them, otherwise they will easily die in the sea of sand when encountering powerful enemies.
Only the Zhou family can provide these supplies in the twenty-five man-made oases.
There were also some shrewd low-level monks who discovered this business opportunity, and like the salesmen who walked the streets in the mortal realm, they sold similar products at slightly lower prices, but in the end they could only take a sip of soup from it, and the Zhou family made the majority of it.
At the same time, Zhou Yang also saw two migrating mortal teams. The mortals in these two teams were sitting on camel carts on the sand, being pulled by Shatuo beasts towards Rhinoceros Island. There were also more than a dozen Zhou family practitioners in the team.
Qi period monks participated in the escort.
One of the teams has already walked a quarter of the way, and the number of people has been reduced by nearly 10%. Most of the people in the team have a look of exhaustion on their faces, and many people's eyes are full of worry and regret.
, seems to be worried about this bumpy journey and regrets embarking on this road of no return.
The latter team had just set off and had not yet arrived at the first man-made oasis. The people in the team were full of energy, their eyes full of yearning and expectations for the legendary rhino horn continent with fertile land, and they fantasized about arriving.
A new life after there.
Endless white flour buns, endless fresh white milk, fragrant roast mutton...
These scenes were seen by Zhou Yang, but they could no longer make his mood fluctuate.
With more than two hundred years of life experience, he has become accustomed to life and death, and his heart has become as hard as iron stone.
Those mortals who are migrating may be pitiful, and those who die on the road are even more innocent.
But so what?
This world is so cruel. If you want to live well and live more comfortably than others, you have to work harder and pay a greater price than others.
The monks of the Zhou family did not use false propaganda to deceive these mortals. If they could reach Rhinoceros Continent alive, those beautiful fantasies would be realized.
The richness and fertility of Rhinoceros Continent will allow them and their descendants to have food and drink for a hundred or two hundred years.
And if they stay in the original place, they will still have to live a life of rationing, with food, drink, and clothing strictly rationed and distributed according to work.
The road they choose is their own, and whether it is life or death, they can only resist it themselves.
Even if Zhou Yang's current cultivation level and magic power are as high as those of a small group of people at the top of the world of Immortal Cultivation in the Boundless Sand Sea, he cannot help these people in this matter.
After flying like this for more than ten days, Zhou Yang arrived at Chihu Mountain.
"My nephew (disciple) pays homage to Uncle Jiu (master)!"
"Nephew, grandnephew pays homage to the Supreme Elder!"
On Chihu Mountain, Zhou Guangxiang and Liu Xuanxuan, who had learned about Zhou Yang's arrival, had already led a group of Zhou elders to wait for him.
This time the Zhou family held a family meeting. Except for the two foundation-building monks Zhou Guangxiang and Pang He, who each needed to be stationed at Rhinoceros Island and Yuquan Lake Oasis, the rest of the Zhou family's foundation-building monks rushed to Chihu Mountain.
At this time, the number of Zhou family monks gathered on Chihu Mountain has exceeded 800.
Because there were so many people attending the meeting, Zhou Guangxiang urgently ordered people to demolish the original meeting hall in the past few months and build a larger and more magnificent new meeting hall that could accommodate thousands of people.
Zhou Yang glanced at the group of descendants who came to greet him, and a trace of satisfaction flashed in his eyes.
Today's Zhou family is really full of talents. Every generation has a foundation-building monk, and there are more than one.
And all this is thanks to him.
It was he who single-handedly led the small family, which was facing the crisis of being cut off, to the scale it is today.
Now that he saw the most outstanding talents of the Zhou family gathered together to welcome him, he had a little taste of the feeling of establishing a sect and being honored as an ancestor.
To the Zhou family, although he was not the founder of the sect, he was the real ancestor of ZTE.
His prestige in the Zhou family and his contribution to the Zhou family have long surpassed any ancestor, including the ancestor Zhou Yuquan who founded the Zhou family.
Even though he has been in seclusion all year round and is not in the Zhou family, there are still legends about him everywhere in the Zhou family.
"Hehehe, everyone, please get up. I will go to the ancestral hall to worship our ancestors first, and then we will talk with you in detail."
Zhou Yang chuckled and waved his hand gently, saying hello to these juniors.
With his seniority and cultivation level there, there is no need to be polite to these juniors. Being too polite will make these juniors uncomfortable, and it will not fit in with the persona of his family's "ancestor" in the hearts of the people.
Next, Zhou Yang did as he said, first going to the ancestral hall to pay homage to the ancestors of the Zhou family, and then going to the cemetery to pay homage to the graves of his parents, Zhou Minghan, Zhou Xuanyu and other close elders.
During this process, only Zhou Guangxiang accompanied him and served him.
After the memorial ceremony and sweeping of the graves of the elders, Zhou Yang called Zhou Guangxiang to the top of Chihu Mountain for questioning.
"Guangxiang, you already know the reason for holding this family meeting. How did you do that?"
"Back to Uncle Jiu, after fifteen years of mining, nearly half of the [Forbidden God Stone] mine has been mined, and the ore obtained is enough to build the treasure house."
"As for my nephew himself, he has already understood most of the [Bloodline Divine Forbidden]. It will take at most two or three years to fully master it and use it in the treasure house protection formation."
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silence.
After Zhou Yang heard what Zhou Guangxiang said, he was silent for a while and didn't speak.
After a long time passed like this, he asked quietly: "Do you think Uncle Nine is right to do this? Is it really necessary to distinguish the main branch from the side branch based on the bloodline of a strong person?"
"My nephew dare not speak nonsense about this matter!"
"But no matter what you want to do, Uncle Jiu, my nephew will firmly agree and implement your decision."
"My nephew believes that no matter what you do, Uncle Jiu, your starting point must be for the good of the family and the good of all clan members!"
Zhou Guangxiang looked at Zhou Yang respectfully, his words full of trust and admiration for Zhou Yang.
Zhou Yang seemed to have known that he would say this for a long time. There was no joy on his face after hearing this. He just shook his head with a complex expression and sighed: "Hey! Uncle Jiu, I know that this decision is actually
It won’t be of any benefit to the family, and it may even lead to the infamy of splitting the family!”
"But Uncle Jiu, I understand better that as the family continues to grow, if we continue to adopt the current system, once Uncle Jiu and I are absent from the family for a long time, you or your successor will not have the power and ability to subdue the entire family.
Prestige, as long as there is an introduction, the family will fall into civil war and division."
"Instead of the family passively suffering from the civil war of division in the future, it is better to take the initiative now. At least this way the initiative is still in our hands. With my prestige as Uncle Jiu, I can also suppress all voices of resistance and let them act honestly according to the rules we set."
"In the short term, this change will cause some damage to the family and reduce the family's cohesion."
"But in the long run, as the branches of the family increase, even if we are no longer here in the future, even if our main line becomes a branch, the Zhou family will still be the Zhou family, and will not perish due to civil strife and division!"
Zhou Yang muttered to himself, and the look in his eyes gradually became firmer.
He firmly believed that the decision he made was not the wrong one.
Regardless of the thousand-year-old families he knew in his previous life, or the various Jindan families or even the Yuanying family he learned about in the immortal world of Liuyun Continent, they are not like the current Zhou family, with no distinction between priorities and all relying on him.
The ancestor of the family to maintain the existence of the family.
Half a month later, the Zhou family's family meeting was officially held.
The monks participating in the meeting were all monks of the Zhou family, a total of 821, including two Zifu monks, Zhou Yang and Zhou Guangxiang, and six monks, Zhou Yuanyao, Zhou Guangqing, Zhou Tongyao, Zhou Tonghua, Zhou Tongmin, and Zhou Fuyun.
Elder Ji, as well as seven deacons and elders and hundreds of other clan members.
At the beginning of the meeting, the patriarch Zhou Guangxiang first inquired about the family's personnel, financial and other situations.
Zhou Yang just listened.
"Currently, the family has a total of 927 monks from the same clan, 489 monks from relatives, and 143 monks from guests."
"Among them, there are three Zifu monks, ten foundation-building monks, one hundred and twenty-five ninth-level Qi-training monks, 337 late-stage Qi-training monks, and mid-stage Qi-training monks..."
"The total number of secular mortals in the family is about 4.2 million, and the total number of mortals with other surnames is about 860,000!"
"At the same time, the family now has seven vassal foundation-building families, namely the Huang family, the Ma family, the Guo family, the He family, the Yu family, the Xie family, and the Luo family, and nine vassal Qi-training families, namely the Lu family and the Li family.
,Lin family..."
"These vassal families have a total of eight foundation-building monks, including two from the Huang family, and 597 Qi-training monks, all of whom can be driven by my Zhou family!"