Obviously, Chen Ping'an and Yan Nantian's worries have become a reality.
Although their two juniors also successfully defeated their opponents and entered the top five among the top five, they both suffered some minor injuries while defeating their opponents.
Then when they competed for first place, both Chen Yunsheng from the Chen family and Yan Shuanghua from the Yan family were defeated by Li Hong.
After the top three rankings were finalized, Li Hong took first place, Yan Shuanghua took second place, and Chen Yunsheng took third place.
Since then, the first "Treasure Hunting Conference" held by the Zhou family has officially come to an end.
"First of all, congratulations to fellow Taoist Li for winning the first place in this treasure hunting competition. At the same time, I have another good news to tell you. I, Zhou Yang, the supreme elder of the Zhou family, made a bet with several other Taoist fellows from the Zifu period. I was optimistic that you would win the treasure hunt.
Winning the first place, now that fellow Taoist has truly lived up to the expectations of the Supreme Elder and won first place, in addition to the reward that fellow daoist should have received, he can also get four more third-level treasures as rewards!"
At the competition ground, Zhou Guangxiang, the head of the Zhou family, was personally awarding awards to the top twenty monks in the "Treasure Hunting Conference" on behalf of the Zhou family.
And when he started awarding rewards to the 20th placer and finally awarded the first place award, he told Li Hong, the first place winner, about the previous bet with a smile on his face.
When he heard that in addition to the rewards of the Foundation Establishment Pill and the third-level magic weapon that he was supposed to receive, he could also obtain four more third-level treasures. Li Hong, who had been able to suppress the excitement in his heart, his eyes suddenly flashed.
He couldn't help but show surprise and ecstasy.
He was also a smart man, so he immediately turned around and bowed in the direction of the stands where Zhou Yang and others were, saying, "My junior Li Hong, thank you for your grace and the gift of this treasure!"
Seeing this, Zhou Guangxiang nodded with satisfaction, and then secretly sent a message: "The Supreme Elder also has something to tell you. If you are willing to marry into my Zhou family and swear to never betray, it will be your failure to use this foundation-building pill."
, my Zhou family can also give you another foundation-building pill to help you build your foundation!"
What!
Li Hong was shocked and looked at Zhou Guangxiang in shock, almost suspecting that he heard wrongly.
"You can think about it carefully. This promise will remain valid until you leave the Chihu Mountain Oasis!"
Zhou Guangxiang nodded slightly with a smile in his eyes, said nothing more, and handed a storage bag directly to Li Hong's hand.
Next, Zhou Guangxiang didn't even look at Li Hong, who was walking down the field with a worried look, and directly announced the start of the second Zhou family's internal "Treasure Hunting Conference".
There are more than 900 monks in the Zhou family. There are only 400 to 500 people who meet the requirements of the "Treasure Hunting Conference". Unfortunately, among them, there are only about 270 middle-stage and late-stage qi-training monks who can actually fight.
Therefore, this second "Treasure Hunting Conference" does not need to last as long as the first one. One day is enough to get the result.
Of course, there are fewer people and fewer people returning. In terms of momentum, the fight between the monks of the Zhou family is much more exciting than the first one.
Thanks to the heritage of the Zhou family's weapon-refining family, any monks of the Zhou family who are above the middle stage of Qi training can produce more than two second-level high-grade magic weapons in their hands.
Some monks who were willing to invest capital, even in the past few years, reluctantly exchanged their hard-earned family contribution points from the family treasury for big killers such as the second-level high-grade puppet beast, as well as some other second-level weapons.
High-grade spiritual talisman.
Therefore, after the actual battle, the fighting power displayed by these monks was much stronger than those of the previous battle.
However, in this intra-family "Treasure Hunting Competition", the people who really stood out were the monks from the Zhou Family Battle Hall.
The Zhou family's war hall gathers a group of monks who are the most capable of fighting in the entire Zhou family. Although their number is less than a hundred so far, every one of them has the power to easily defeat ordinary monks of the same level.
Not to mention anything else, two of the top twenty people in the previous "Treasure Hunting Conference" were monks from the Zhou family's war hall, and five of the top sixty people came from the Zhou family's war hall.
This is because the "Treasure Hunting Conference" has an age limit for participants, and most of the monks in the Zhou family's war hall are over sixty years old, otherwise there would definitely be more people who could get the rankings.
These war hall monks usually give priority to the supply of various training resources, and they are dedicated to practicing fighting skills. Not only are they good at spells, their ability to use magic weapons is not comparable to that of ordinary monks.
Even though they were both Zhou family monks, after they appeared on the stage, their opponents were easily defeated without much resistance.
Naturally, the outstanding performance of these monks also aroused great curiosity and attention from the monks watching the battle from the outside.
"I have heard about the name of the monks of the Zhou Family Battle Hall for a long time, but when I saw it today, it turned out to be a well-deserved reputation!"
On the high platform where a group of Zifu period monks were sitting, Chen Ping'an looked at the two fighting monks on the platform with bright eyes. To be precise, he looked at the monk who was wearing a full set of golden battle armor, battle helmet, and combat boots. His face was filled with tears.
He exclaimed in surprise.
In just a hundred years, the Zhou family has grown from a foundation-building family to the number one family in the world of immortality in the boundless sand sea. Of course, other families will inevitably study the reasons for the rapid development of the Zhou family to see if they can find out what is beneficial to their own families and imitate them.
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Regarding the functions of the Zhou family's nine clan members, they have naturally been known to the patriarchs of various families for a long time. Many families have even imitated them, and those who followed the example of cats and tigers have also carried out relevant reforms.
As the head family that the Zhou family once relied on, the Chen family naturally paid more attention to the Zhou family, and was also the first family to imitate the Zhou family.
However, the family situation is different. Chen Ping'an did not completely copy the Zhou family. He only borrowed from the Zhou family's seven deacons and elders' ruling system, subdivided the family's internal power structure, and then increased the requirements for the clan members to learn to cultivate immortality.
Baiyi subsidy intensity.
In Chen Ping'an's opinion, there is no need to spend resources to imitate and build a monk armed force like Zhantang that exists specifically for war.
Large-scale wars between monks rarely occur in the boundless sand sea of immortality. Even the Huangshamen are not willing to spend resources to form an army of monks.
Only the Zhou family, which was experiencing rapid expansion and lacked a sense of security, was willing to spend so much resources to build such an army of monks who were not engaged in production.
And due to limited knowledge, even a Zifu stage monk like Chen Pingan does not think that a group of Qi training stage monks can defeat the foundation building monks by joining forces and training together.
He and most of the clan leaders of the cultivating families thought that instead of spending a lot of resources to cultivate an army of monks, it would be better to concentrate resources and cultivate a few more foundation-building monks.
At least the foundation-building monks, in terms of longevity, strength and influence, are far superior to a group of Qi-training monks who are not even foundation-building.
However, despite thinking this way and doing this, Chen Ping'an was still filled with envy after seeing the fighting prowess displayed by the monks from the Zhou Family Battle Hall in the competition arena.
He still didn't think that a group of Qi-training monks could fight against the Foundation-building monks.
But he had to admit that without the Foundation Establishment monks and Zifu monks taking action, the Zhantang monks trained by the Zhou family with a large amount of resources did have the strength to sweep away most of the Qi training period monks from their Chen family.
From this aspect, the Chen family has really fallen behind the Zhou family in all aspects, which makes him feel really uncomfortable.
"These war hall monks are really powerful, but it's a pity that they consume too much resources. Only a family like the Zhou family, with a big business and a master of weapon refining like Daoyou Zhou, is willing to invest so many resources in cultivating a group of people!"
The head of the Yan family, Yan Nantian, also watched the battle on the field with bright eyes, and expressed his opinion with envy on his face.
He actually wanted to follow the example of the Zhou family and set up a war hall, even if the number of people was smaller, just twenty people.
But when he took a closer look at the equipment worn by the monks of the Zhou Family Battle Hall, he had to put off this idea.
They are also second-level high-grade magical weapons. The golden battle armor worn by the monks of the Zhou Family Battle Hall are all special products mixed with third-level materials, and the magical powers attached to them are also quite mysterious. You can tell at a glance that they are from third-level or above weapon refiners.
The hand of the teacher.
Even if he was willing to put in the same materials, the weapon refiners of the Yan family would not be able to refine such a battle armor, let alone Zhou Yang's self-created magic weapon "Yuan Yang Shield" that is unique to the monks of the Zhou family's war hall.
Zhou Yang listened to Chen Pingan and Yan Nantian's words and said nothing on the surface, but he was extremely satisfied in his heart.
He insisted on setting up the Zhou family's war hall, and he also specially approved the investment of resources.
He had different ideas from Chen Ping'an and others. In his view, setting up a war hall meant raising troops for a thousand days and using them for a while.
At present, the Zhou family is not very useful in using war hall monks, but who knows whether they will be used in the future?
Now set up a war hall, establish a regular army of monks, and pass it on from generation to generation, forming an institutional inheritance.
In the future, we will encounter a large-scale monk war. With such an army of monks in hand, whether it is offensive or defensive, it will be many times more effective than those temporary monk teams.
What's more, the real investment in this war hall is not as big as outsiders imagine. It mainly consumes a lot of resources to purchase a full set of magic weapons and equipment for the first batch of monks. However, as long as these magic weapons and equipment are not damaged or lost, as the war hall monks die,
They will be recycled by the war hall and distributed to new monks.
The Zhou family has its own weapon refiners and various mineral veins. The total amount of spiritual stones consumed to purchase a set of magic weapon equipment will not exceed two thousand low-grade spiritual stones, which is completely within the affordable range.
"My Zhou family will not always be trapped in this boundless sea of sand. If we go out in the future, if we want to develop and grow, we must be like those family sects in the Immortal Cultivation World of Liuyun Continent, competing with other forces for spiritual veins and mineral veins!"
"If we don't have an army of monks that can fight at that time, how can we compete with those forces that have Taoist soldiers?"
Zhou Yang's eyes flashed, and when he thought about the area where the Great Light Immortal Palace was about to depart, he became more determined to vigorously promote the establishment of a large-scale monk army.