Chapter Five Hundred and Thirty Six: Reorganize the Family [Two in One]
Three years after Zhou Yang returned to the world of Immortal Cultivation in the Boundless Sand Sea, his Golden Elixir celebration was held as scheduled.
Because of his instruction, this celebration was not held in the Rhinoceros Island Oasis, which was already regarded as the base camp of the Zhou family, but in the Chihu Mountain Oasis.
When the day of the celebration arrived, the number of immortal cultivators gathered on the Chihu Mountain Oasis exceeded 50,000!
Moreover, almost 80% of the middle and high-level monks in the entire Boundless Sand Sea Cultivation World either accepted the invitation or came here on their own initiative.
The scene of hundreds of Foundation Establishment Stage monks and a dozen Zifu Stage monks gathering together has not appeared in the boundless sand sea cultivation world for more than two hundred years.
The last time such a grand scene occurred was more than 200 years ago when Cao Wenjin, a monk from Huangshamen's Jindan stage, recruited men to launch the Battle of Rhinoceros Continent.
At that time, Zhou Yang was just a young monk in the foundation-building stage. He was just the lowest pawn in that expedition and was inconspicuous at all.
But today, more than two hundred years later, he has become the host of this grand event held specifically for him, attracting everyone's attention and awe.
At this moment, Zhou Yang, who was sitting cross-legged on an altar, looked at the countless monks sitting cross-legged on the ground below waiting for him to open the altar and preached, and looked at the familiar faces closer to the altar, feeling a huge sense of accomplishment.
, arise spontaneously.
Looking carefully, many of the monks sitting cross-legged under the altar today were once beings he needed to look up to.
For example, Chen Ping'an, the head of the White Camelback Chen family who rules the world of immortality in the Baisha River Oasis.
Zhou Yang still remembers that when he first left the Yuquan Lake Oasis to go to the Baisha River Oasis for training, not long after he entered the Baisha River Oasis, he was tricked by Chen Ping'an's son, and was ripped off hundreds of dollars by his tricks.
A piece of low-grade spiritual stone, half of the fortune is gone.
By the way, what is the name of Chen Ping'an's son?
I can’t remember [Long Teng] clearly!
After all, more than two hundred and seventy years have passed since that incident, and the young monk in the Qi-training period who used to trick him has been dead for who knows how many years.
Oh, by the way, that boy later married a sister of his clan and gave birth to a son. However, he and the old clan leader Zhou Minghan were forced to compromise due to pressure from Chen Pingan.
Zhou Yang recalled his involvement with Chen Ping'an and the White Camelback Chen family, and couldn't help but smile lightly on his face, and then stopped caring.
There is really no need to worry about it. He is now a monk in the Golden Core stage. Even if he occasionally recalls the things that happened, he just laughs it off. It is impossible to take revenge for this.
What's more, ever since he opened the Zi Mansion, the feud between the Zhou family and the Chen family has been eliminated.
Then he turned his attention to another person, who was also the most watched figure besides him, Yang Wenxiong, the head of the contemporary Huangsha Sect.
In the previous Golden Elixir celebration, as this person publicly expressed his willingness to rule the boundless sea of sand cultivation world with the Zhou family, an era came to an end, and the era belonging to Huang Shamen came to an end!
From now on, all the immortal cultivators in the Boundless Sand Sea Cultivation World know that there is only one overlord in the Boundless Sand Sea Cultivation World, and that is the Zhou family!
Yang Wenxiong, the head of the Huangsha Sect, will also be recorded in the history of the Immortal Cultivation World in the Boundless Sand Sea because of this important event, and will become a background figure that sets off Zhou Yang and the Zhou family.
Zhou Yang is not Yang Wenxiong, and I don't know what he is thinking at this time, but looking at his calm and composed expression, it seems that he has long been mentally prepared to withstand criticism.
This reminded him of the first time they met.
That was more than two hundred years ago, when he first followed Cao Wenjin, a Golden Elixir monk from Huangshamen, to leave the Immortal Cultivation World of the Boundless Sand Sea and go to the Immortal Cultivation World of Liuyun Continent to purchase the "Jade Liquid Golden Elixir".
At that time, not long after Yang Wenxiong opened the Purple Mansion, he was in high spirits and was about to follow the ancestor of the sect, Cao Wenjin, to travel to the immortal world of Liuyun Continent to gain knowledge.
At that time, although Zhou Yang had already gained some fame in the world of Immortal Cultivation in the Boundless Sand Sea, in Yang Wenxiong's eyes, he was still just a foundation-building cultivator with some potential, and he didn't pay too much attention to him.
It is estimated that Yang Wenxiong could not have imagined at that time that a foundation-building monk from a cultivating family that he did not care about at that time would one day be able to form a golden elixir and let his family replace their Huangshamen and become the boundless sand sea of cultivating immortals.
A new generation of overlords.
Therefore, nothing is more wonderful than this.
You never know whether a pawn who didn't catch your eye at the time will become a big boss that you need to look up to in the future!
In the past, there were pig butchers, but now there are thousands of households. This kind of thing happens in every world.
Zhou Yang looked around at the countless monks who were waiting for him to speak at the Dharma altar today. Except for Chen Ping'an and Yang Wenxiong, two old friends with whom he had a lot of interactions, the rest were not worthy of his attention, even if they were other purple monks.
Monks in the Fu period are no exception.
To him, hundreds of years later, he is still a high-ranking Golden Core monk, or even a Nascent Soul monk.
As for the countless monks below, I don’t know if they can even count those who will still be alive by then!
According to the rules of the world of cultivating immortals, any celebration such as the Foundation Building Celebration, the Purple Mansion Celebration, the Golden Elixir Celebration, and the Nascent Soul Celebration that are held because of the improvement of a certain immortal cultivator's cultivation realm will be accompanied by a sermon.
The generous monks who preach on the altar will share some of their experiences and experiences when they broke through the realm. Even those who are stingy and stingy will share some of their spiritual practice experiences on their special day in order to gain a good reputation.
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Zhou Yang has had similar experiences several times and is quite skilled at this kind of thing.
Moreover, he had already decided on the content of his sermon, and now he just had to preach according to what he had in mind.
He is a quite generous person, and he is determined to show kindness to the monks present through this sermon, and to build up a reputation for the Zhou family to succeed Huang Shamen and become the overlord of the boundless sand sea of immortality. The content of his speech is quite informative.
He held a sermon for ten days and ten nights, divided into three parts. On the previous day, he talked about some simple ways of practice, so that even the monks in the Qi training period could understand what he said.
Then he spent another two days explaining the slightly more advanced way of cultivation, which made the hundreds of foundation-building monks present so fascinated that they were unaware of the passage of time.
After that, Zhou Yang spent another day talking about the profound golden elixir avenue, not letting the dozen or so Zifu monks sit in vain for several days.
In the following days, Zhou Yang successively explained some of his experiences in refining instruments and making talismans, and randomly selected some monks to answer the doubts they encountered during their practice.
Because of this sermon, hundreds of monks were promoted in the following years, including twenty or thirty Foundation Establishment monks and a Zifu monk.
In addition, there are some monks who practice the art of weapon refining and talisman making. They understood certain principles through Zhou Yang's sermons and thus improved their level of weapon refining and talisman making.
These monks who had gained something were naturally very grateful to Zhou Yang, and they also had a good impression of the Zhou family. Out of gratitude, they took the initiative to help Zhou Yang publicize the gains from this sermon, and achieved Zhou Yang's success.
The purpose Yang wants.
After the sermon, as the monks from all walks of life who came for Zhou Yang's Golden Elixir celebration dispersed, the Zhou family's family meeting was also held as scheduled.
This family meeting was attended by monks from all branches of the Zhou family. Nearly a thousand monks from the Zhou family gathered together to listen to the patriarch Zhou Guangxiang describe the family's future development plan.
"This is a standard robe made by my order. It is made of the [Flame-eating Spider] silk produced by the family as the main material. It has the emblem of my Zhou family on it. From now on, every monk of my Zhou family will wear it as an adult.
You can get one for free. If it is damaged, you need to pay the spirit stones to buy it again from the family. From now on, the family monks must wear this robe uniformly within the clan, and try not to take it off when walking outside the clan."
In the main hall, Zhou Guangxiang was holding a fiery red robe in his hand, showing what the robe looked like to all the clan members.
I saw this robe, made entirely of fiery red "flame-eating spider" silk, intertwined with various exquisite moiré patterns, and on the chest, the word "zhou" was embroidered with gold thread, "zhou"
The words are surrounded by clusters of burning golden flame patterns.
The word "Zhou", of course, represents the Zhou family, and the clusters of burning golden flames represent Zhou Yang, the family ancestor who possesses the "Qian Yang Treasure Body".
As long as the monks of the Zhou family wear this kind of robe and see the golden flame pattern on it, they will naturally not forget whose contribution it is to be able to wear this robe today.
"There are currently three types of robes, corresponding to the Qi Practitioners, Foundation Establishment Monks and Purple Palace Monks in the family. The distinguishing mark is the flame pattern, with three clusters being the lowest and nine clusters being the highest!"
Zhou Guangxiang shook the robe in his hand to let all the tribesmen see clearly the nine clusters of golden flames on the robe, and explained in a powerful voice.
The Zhou family originally had a clan uniform, but the clan uniform was just a set of ordinary clothes worn to participate in some ceremonies such as paying homage to ancestors, and was not a legal robe.
And the robe like the one Zhou Guangxiang is holding now not only looks exquisite, but is also equivalent to a second-level mid-grade defensive magic weapon. It is beautiful and practical, and the most important thing is free!
Naturally, no one would object to the good thing of getting a second-level mid-level defensive magic weapon for free, and all the participating tribesmen happily approved the proposal.
This can be regarded as the first benefit given to all clan members after the Zhou family became the overlord of the Immortal Cultivation World in the Boundless Sand Sea.
With a good start, Zhou Guangxiang continued his efforts and made a second proposal.
"Now my Zhou family is the overlord of the Immortal Cultivation World in the Boundless Sand Sea. The family's population and territory continue to expand, and management is becoming more and more difficult. In order to optimize the family's operation and management and enhance the people's awareness of progress, I discussed with my ancestors.
After a while, we decided to reform the family management methods and the status of clan members with different cultivation levels."
"From now on, all the monks of my Zhou family who successfully build the foundation will no longer be granted the position of elder. The original monks who established the foundation can no longer be called elders. Only the monks of the Zifu can hold the position of elder. The supreme elder can only be held by the ancestor.
, the clan leader’s status is similar to that of an elder!”
"At the same time, the original titles such as the elder who teaches meritorious services and the elder who enforces law are abolished. The hall master is used as the honorific title. In private, the title of uncle, nephew, etc. can also be used."
"The master of each hall must be a foundation-building monk."
"The War Hall and the Public Security Hall were merged and renamed the Eagle Lion Hall. At the same time, the Internal Affairs Hall and the General Affairs Hall were merged and renamed the General Affairs Hall. Some functions of the original Internal Affairs Hall were transferred to the Chuangong Hall and the Baiyi Hall."
"The functions of the Foreign Affairs Hall have been upgraded. In the future, matters related to the vassal family will be reviewed and given preliminary opinions by the Foreign Affairs Hall, and then handed over to the clan leader for decision."
"Establish a worship hall to uniformly manage the family's worship of guest monks."
The Zhou family now has an ancestor from the Jindan stage in charge, and several monks from the Zifu stage. The increase in the requirements for elders is not unexpected.
After all, even Huangshamen, which does not have Golden Core monks in charge, still only has Zifu monks who are qualified to serve as elders. It makes no sense that the Zhou family, the new overlord of the boundless sand sea, would still use Foundation-building monks as elders. That would be too much.
No more cards.
As for merging and adjusting various halls and establishing new halls, these matters actually have nothing to do with most low-level monks of the family. There are only a dozen or so family monks who are qualified to compete for those positions.
In fact, not every foundation-building monk is willing to put aside his practice and distract himself from those chores.
Therefore, Zhou Guangxiang's reform proposal was quickly passed, and no one raised any objections.
Next, he proposed a plan to establish an inspection team. Elite monks would be selected from the newly reformed Eagle Lion Hall and the Enshrinement Hall to form an inspection team. They would inspect the sand sea thoroughfare from Rhinoceros Island to Chihu Mountain Oasis in batches from time to time.
Fight against the marauding sand bandits along the way.
When they captured the Red Fox Ridge Oasis, the Zhou family successfully tamed a second-level flying monster, the Flying Fire Bat. Now, more than two hundred years later, the number of such flying monsters that the Zhou family has tamed and cultivated has reached one.
More than a hundred heads.
Each monk in the Zhou family's inspection team can be equipped with a flying fire bat as a transportation mount, which greatly improves the inspection efficiency and the team's combat effectiveness.
In fact, the main purpose of this patrol team is to fight against sand bandits and bandits. The main purpose is to take the opportunity to train the combat effectiveness of the family monks and to show the strength of the Zhou family to outside monks.
Zhou Guangxiang's move is intended to let outside monks know that the Zhou family can become the overlord of the boundless sea of sand cultivation world, not only because of Zhou Yang, the ancestor of the golden elixir period, but also because other monks of the Zhou family are definitely not hiding under the wings of the family ancestor.
The incompetent people below.
Naturally, this proposal to help the family become famous and do justice has also won the support of most of the family monks, especially the younger generation of monks who are the most enthusiastic.
After this incident, the real highlight comes.
When Zhou Guangxiang put forward his proposal to change the family welfare system and establish a direct vassal family, it was no surprise that he was opposed by almost all the monks, including most of the foundation-building monks.
The assessment is face-to-face with all monks. Not only the monks in the Qi training period are included in the assessment, but also the monks in the foundation-building period. However, the assessment time for the monks in the foundation-building period has been appropriately extended.
Only monks at the Zifu stage can be exempted from the assessment. This is the prerogative of elders and clan heads.
"Clan leader, please think twice!"
"It's not easy for our Zhou family to get to where we are today. You all have worked hard for the family over the years. Even if you don't get credit, there is still hard work, right?"
"Now that the family has become the overlord of the boundless sea of sand cultivation world, it is the most powerful time in history. Everyone is thinking that they can relax and enjoy happiness, but you come here like this. This is not, this is not..."
A foundation-building monk from the "Tong" generation of the Zhou family looked at Zhou Guangxiang with excitement, trying his best to speak out for himself and other clan members.
But more monks turned their attention to Zhou Yang, who had been sitting there with his eyes closed and concentrating, without saying a word the whole time.
Everyone knows that the real highest authority of the Zhou family has always been the family ancestor who single-handedly led the family to what it is today.
Although Zhou Yang has not interfered in the Zhou family's family affairs for a long time, his status in the Zhou family has never changed. On the contrary, as his cultivation level has improved, he has become more and more awed by the people below him.
"Your name is Zhou Tongda, right? I think you are not knowledgeable at all!"
Zhou Yang opened his eyes and looked at the foundation-building monk with sharp eyes. When he opened his mouth, his expression changed drastically. He was so horrified that he fell to his knees on the ground, kowtowed and begged for mercy.
"Ancestor, forgive me. Ancestor, forgive me. My grandson knows that I was wrong. Please forgive me, my grandson, for once!"
Zhou Yang ignored him, but looked at the tribesmen whose expressions also changed greatly, and said in a cold tone:
"Zhou Tongda's thoughts are probably your thoughts too, right?"
"It's ridiculous, it's really ridiculous!"
"I'm currently at the Golden Core stage, and I don't dare to neglect my practice. I practice diligently every day. How can you have the face to dare to mention relaxing?"
"You have made a contribution to the Zhou family being what it is today, but the greater contributor is me, your clan leader, and the thousands of family ancestors who have devoted their lives to the development of the family!"
"You are now sitting on the spiritual mountain that our ancestors sacrificed their lives to build, but you don't want to take advantage of the favorable conditions to practice hard. Instead, you want to enjoy peace and happiness. Do you think that doing this is worthy of those who have never been on such a high-level spiritual mountain all their lives?
Family ancestors who have practiced spiritual practice? Are you worthy?"
"Is the family treating you badly? Compare the monks from other families and the casual cultivators to see which family treats members of the Zhou family as well as us?"
"In terms of daily food and accommodation, the family's spiritual grains and monster meat are open to you. You can eat a special medicinal meal every month. The place where you live is also a place with rich spiritual energy, elixirs and magic weapons.
Spirit talismans are also distributed for free!"
"In terms of practice, you can learn the exercises and spells collected by the family, and the elders will answer your questions about practice for free!"
"You have these generous benefits, but you don't think about working hard to repay your family or make progress. Do you think you are worthy of your ancestors who sacrificed their lives to create such favorable conditions for you?"
Zhou Yang glanced at the thousands of people in the hall, but no one dared to look at him. Everyone was frightened by his stern words.
Since he first started the family meeting system, this is the first time he has spoken to everyone in such a stern tone at a family meeting.
And his status as a golden elixir monk and an ancestor of his family meant that no one dared to refute those who were scolded by him, and no one even dared to think of refutation in their hearts. Some were just boundless in fear.
After scanning around like this, Zhou Yang restrained some of the sharpness in his eyes and said in a calm tone:
"Of course, everyone has their own ambitions. If someone feels that the Zhou family is now strong and does not need to work hard to contribute to the family, and wants to relax and enjoy the so-called happiness, I will not force it."
"What I want to tell you is that such people are not worthy of living in the Zhou family under my leadership, and the Zhou family will not support such incompetent people without any enterprising spirit!"
"You can leave the family with the severance package given to you by the family. When the time comes, whether you want to establish a vassal family and enjoy your happiness, or whether you want to wander around the world of immortality on your own, it's up to you!"
After finishing speaking, Zhou Yang turned his eyes again, looked at Zhou Tongda who was still kowtowing on the ground and said: "You should get up first. The speaker is not guilty. This is what I said personally when I established the family meeting system.
Although your idea disgusts me, I will not use it to punish you!"
When Zhou Tongda heard what he said before, he felt happy and thought he had escaped disaster.
But when I heard what he said next, I felt a chill in my heart, and my face instantly turned ashen.
When Zhou Yang, the ancestor of the family, said something disgusting about his thoughts in front of the entire clan, even if his thoughts actually represented the thoughts of many family monks, he was finished!
Zhou Yang may not blame him for his speech, but he knows that other tribesmen will definitely remember what Zhou Yang said today, and then avoid him like a snake or a scorpion, so as not to be regarded as his "accomplice".
"I'm so stupid!"
"It is said that the first rafter dies first. Knowing clearly that the patriarch dared to put forward such a proposal that offended all the monks in the clan, he must have obtained the approval of the ancestors in advance, why are you rushing to take the lead and be the killing chicken?
Where is the chicken that the monkey sees?”
Zhou Tongda stood up and retreated to his original position with an ashen face. Looking at the compatriots around him who were calmly keeping some distance from him, he felt a sense of boundless regret in his heart.
He did not dare to blame Zhou Yang, the ancestor of the family. He only complained that he was stupid and blind, and did not even understand such a simple truth.
It's a pity that there is no regret medicine in the world. This "chicken" that came to his door became the example Zhou Yang used to intimidate the monkeys.
Sure enough, after seeing a monk like Zhou Tongda in the foundation period who said he was sacrificed by Zhou Yang, and coupled with the influence of Zhou Yang's previous harsh words, no monk from the Zhou family had the courage to raise objections to the new reform.
Already.
Smart people all know that Zhou Yang gives them the right to attend the family meeting to discuss family affairs, so that they can speak freely here and participate in the family's decision-making.
Zhou Yang did not give them a chance to speak or the right to object, and none of them could object.
It is true that the Zhou family is the Zhou family of all Zhou family members, but the Zhou family with the ancestor Zhou Yang in charge is the overlord of the boundless sand sea of immortality.
This angered Zhou Yang, the ancestor of the family, and left the family in anger to travel around the world. Do they still want to enjoy peace and happiness? Just dream!