Two main veins and five branch veins. After the implementation of the Zhou family's family division policy, the first batch of main veins and branch veins were officially determined.
Leaving aside the main lineage, Zhou Yang currently only has one person in his lineage, while Zhou Guangxiang’s lineage already has four people. In the past few years, Liu Xuanxuan has given birth to two more offspring, both of whom have low-grade spiritual root qualifications.
of monks.
There are a lot of people in several branches.
She is of Zhou Yuanyao's lineage, and she has given birth to five children in succession over the years, two of whom have spiritual roots, and one of the baby boys has a middle-grade spiritual root.
As for Zhou Guangqing's lineage, there are already eight people including Zhou Guangqing, including two of his grandson monks.
The rest, such as Zhou Tongyao and Zhou Tonghua, both married wives and took concubines after successfully building the foundation, and gave birth to four or five descendants with spiritual roots.
They are all foundation-building monks of the Zhou family. As long as the news of taking concubines is released, there will naturally be many female casual cultivators in the Qi training period and female cultivators from small families rushing to get started, so there are not many monks with spiritual roots in the descendants.
Only Zhou Tongmin has only established the foundation a few years ago and has no descendants yet. However, since he wants to open up a branch, he will probably marry many wives and take concubines in the future to leave descendants.
But in general, the number of people in the main and branch lines is still very small compared to the Lingshan they occupy. Therefore, if they want to develop the Lingshan they occupy, they may have to spend money to hire other Zhou family monks to help them.
arrive.
Of course these are happy worries after all.
With a third-level spiritual mountain as their territory, the living standards of these branch monks can be greatly improved within at least a few generations.
It is definitely not realistic for everyone to redeem the Foundation Establishment Pill, but as long as you work harder and gather the strength of the whole family, you can still cultivate Foundation Establishment monks.
Yes, Zhou Yang branched off branches and let the founder of the branch call himself the head of the family. In fact, he also had the idea of stimulating domestic demand.
Many times he misses the Zhou family when he first took over. At that time, the monks in the Zhou family did not have much selfishness and were all working hard to preserve the family inheritance. There were usually not many conflicts of interest among the clan members.
, the relationship is very harmonious and harmonious.
At that time, the Zhou family, facing the crisis of severing their inheritance, truly managed to work together and unite their hearts.
However, as the Zhou family gradually grew and grew, and as its territory and population doubled and doubled again, the harmonious and harmonious atmosphere before was no longer there.
In order to compete for a stewardship position and to compete for family contribution points to exchange for foundation-building pills, clan members can use various methods to defeat competitors.
Some people are busy looking for connections!
Someone went to the family elders to report the unknown mistakes their opponents had made in the past!
There are also people who deliberately set traps for their opponents, hoping to seize the opponent's advantage and force them to give up automatically!
Even if Zhou Yang is extremely capable, he still has no solution when faced with these things.
So this time, he actually wanted to make an attempt to see if after the separation, the offshoot monks could recreate the atmosphere of unity and friendship that existed in the Zhou family under the crisis of honor in the small family.
According to the rules he set, after a branch-line foundation-building monk dies or dies, if no new foundation-building monk appears within a hundred years, the branch-line foundation-building monk will become an ordinary monk.
Given this crisis, will those branch monks be willing to take the initiative to give up their own path, like the ancestors of the Zhou family, to pave the way for their brothers, sisters, uncles, nephews and others in the same branch?
Whether this attempt succeeds or fails, it will be beneficial to the Zhou family.
If it succeeds, the Zhou family will have more foundation-building monks, and the family's strength will further grow.
Even if he failed, he still achieved his original intention of reducing conflicts between people of different origins.
Moreover, the main line monks and branch lineage monks benefited, and Zhou Yang did not treat the ordinary family monks badly.
After the topic of family separation was over, he looked at the eight hundred Zhou family monks in the hall and said loudly: "In five years' time, it will be the 400th anniversary of the founding of the Zhou family. For this reason, I have decided to hold a treasure hunting competition.
All monks belonging to the family, as long as they are under the age of sixty, can participate in the treasure hunt competition, and the top twenty will be rewarded with many treasures!"
"The Treasure Hunting Conference is held in two parts. One of them only accepts registrations from monks within the family. The registration age is limited to under sixty years old. Anyone who gets the top three places in the Treasure Hunting Conference will be given a Foundation Building Pill by the family.
, and will be rewarded with a third-level magic weapon, and those who rank in the top ten or twenty will also receive corresponding rewards from the family."
"The other Treasure Hunting Conference accepts registrations from all family monks, monks from guest families, monks from other vassal families, monks from friendly families, and even casual cultivators. The registration age is also limited to under sixty years old, and the first place is the same
Foundation-building pills and third-level magic weapons will be rewarded, and the remaining top twenty will also receive corresponding rewards from the family."
Taking advantage of the 400th anniversary of the founding of the clan to hold a treasure hunting conference, this was Zhou Yang's long-standing plan.
However, his original idea was to have the monks of the Zhou family compete with all outside monks in a battle to test the combat prowess of the family monks. At the same time, he also wanted to use the power of outsiders to temper the arrogance of these young people in the clan.
Now he just made some minor modifications to this plan based on the situation, and took out some more treasures to reward the monks within the family to reassure people.
Obviously, his goal was achieved.
When they heard that the top three in the Treasure Hunting Conference would directly receive the Foundation Establishment Pill reward, the eyes of the Qi-training monks under the age of sixty in the meeting hall instantly turned red.
Ninety-nine percent of those present here would not be able to gather enough family contribution points to exchange for the Foundation Establishment Pill before the age of sixty, or even in their lifetime.
In other words, they originally had no hope of building a foundation in this life.
But now, Zhou Yang has given them a hope, a hope that seems within easy reach!
As long as they enter the top three in the family treasure hunt competition, they will be able to obtain a foundation-building pill worth 20,000 family contribution points, and they can realize their dream of foundation-building!
"The Supreme Elder Shengming!"
I don't know which young monk from the Zhou family suddenly shouted in a fanatical tone, and then the whole meeting hall rang with the cheers of those young monks from the Zhou family.
"The Supreme Elder Shengming!"
"The Supreme Elder Shengming!"
"The Supreme Elder Shengming!"
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Cheers resounded throughout the entire meeting hall. If it hadn't been for the family meeting, when the entire meeting hall was sealed off by a soundproof formation, it is estimated that most of the people in Chihu Mountain could have heard the deafening cheers.
Some people cheered excitedly, while others were naturally speechless.
These monks who were speechless were naturally those monks from the Zhou family who were over fifty-five years old. Because they exceeded the age limit, this opportunity would never come to them.
"I wish I could have been born five years later!"
A Zhou family qi-training monk closed his eyes tightly, and two lines of clear tears fell from the corners of his eyes. His voice was full of unwillingness and helplessness.
He is just sixty years old this year. He reached the ninth level of Qi training four years ago. His men once killed a ninth-level Qi training bandit and several second-level high-grade monsters.
If he can also participate in the Treasure Hunting Conference, he will definitely be a strong contender for the top three.
At this moment, there are many monks in the meeting hall who are beating their chests and lamenting that they were born at the wrong time just like him.
The word opportunity is so helpless sometimes.
Zhou Yang didn't deliberately target them. It was because they didn't have enough opportunities, so they could only do nothing.
After talking about holding the treasure hunting conference, Zhou Yang announced the adjournment of the meeting and left the meeting hall first.
Next, the news about the separation of the Zhou family and the holding of a treasure hunting conference soon spread throughout the entire Zhou family, and then spread throughout the boundless sand sea and the immortal world.
And in the following months, discussions about these two matters became a hot topic among various families and casual cultivators.
Among them, the thing that attracts the most attention from these people is naturally the Treasure Hunting Conference.
The first place in the Treasure Hunting Conference will be rewarded with a foundation-building pill and a third-level magic weapon. This is very attractive to all monks in the Qi training period. For those casual cultivators, it is a reward worth their lives.
of opportunity.
Normally, helpless casual cultivators should not even think about using Foundation Establishment Pills to build foundations. Even if the Zhou family sells Foundation Establishment Pills at a big auction every thirty years, it is not something that casual cultivators in the Qi training period can buy.
Affordable.
But now, an opportunity that can be said to be rare in a thousand years has appeared.
As long as you participate in the treasure hunting competition held by the Zhou family and win first place, you can directly receive a foundation-building pill as a reward. This temptation is not small.
Although everyone knows that the chance of fighting out of thousands of troops to win the first place is definitely not greater than taking risks to attack the foundation.
But this still did not prevent those monks who heard the news from making the decision to go to the Zhou family to participate in the treasure hunt competition.
The reason for this is not complicated. If you venture into the foundation building stage and fail, you will end up with a narrow escape. And if you participate in the Treasure Hunting Conference, even if you fail, the foundation building monks of the Zhou family will come to the rescue, and you will only suffer some injuries at most.
What's more, even if you can't win first place, as long as you enter the top twenty, you can get rewards from the Zhou family.
With the current background of the Zhou family, this reward will definitely not be too bad!
However, these outside discussions did not affect Zhou Yang who was on Chihu Mountain at all.
After he set the general direction, he ignored these matters and left everything to the patriarch Zhou Guangxiang and the family elders.
The most that can be done is to wait for the articles of association to be finalized and then hand them over to him for review and confirmation.
Now, he was in the highest-defense place on Chihu Mountain, an independent medicine garden where only "Ning Yuan Fruit" trees were planted.
After careful calculation, thirty or forty years have passed since Zhou Yang brought this "Condensing Yuan Fruit" tree back to the Zhou family and planted it.
After so many years, after the diligent care and maintenance of the Zhou Jialing planters, this "Ning Yuan Guo" tree has long adapted to the new environment and bloomed.
"When did this flower bloom?"
Under the fruit tree, Zhou Yang looked up at the white spirit flowers all over the tree, and with a happy face asked the husband of the Zhou family behind him about the situation.
This Zhou family Ling Zhifu is just a ninth-level qi-training monk. He is not the caregiver of the "Condensing Yuan Fruit" tree, but a caretaker who specializes in keeping an eye on the fruit tree nearby.
Once he discovers any abnormal changes in the fruit trees, he will immediately notify the family's senior management, and then pass the news to Xiao Ying, who currently has the highest spiritual planting skills in the Zhou family, and Xiao Ying will personally handle it.
Hearing Zhou Yang's words at this time, the Zhou family Ling Zhifu quickly replied respectfully: "Returning to the Supreme Elder, the flower buds on the tree were formed about ten years ago. At 6:00 pm last night, the junior smelled the fragrance of the flowers and came forward to check.