"Brother Liu, Brother Yang, please go slowly. When the Xiaojiu Foundation Building Celebration is held in the future, I ask you both to pay your respects and patronize."
"Absolutely. You don't have to go to other people's foundation-building celebrations. We will definitely not be absent from Zhou Xiaoyou's foundation-building celebrations."
Outside the Zhou family's residence on Jingming Peak, Zhou Yang and Zhou Minghan's grandson and grandson, after discussing with the visiting Liu Qingsong and Yang Xingyan for nearly an hour, personally sent them out of the courtyard.
Judging from the smiles on their faces, it was obvious that they were having a great time talking and had reached some kind of agreement.
After bidding farewell to the visiting Liu and Yang, Zhou Minghan and Zhou Yang returned to the quiet room, set up a soundproof barrier and talked about the things they had agreed with Liu and Yang.
Zhou Minghan first said with a worried look: "I don't know if what we did is right or not. If the Liu and Yang families weren't taking the lead in this matter, I really don't dare to think about it. This is a tiger's mouth grabbing food!"
When Zhou Yang heard what he said, he shook his head and said, "My grandson, please forgive me for not agreeing with what my great-grandfather said!"
He looked at the worried old patriarch and said calmly: "Yang Xingyan is right. What we do is a matter of mutual benefit to the Chen family. Baisha River Oasis needs our strength.
Help protect the resources here, and even the Chen family can't finish them all."
"Our move may make some monks of the Chen family uncomfortable, but with the wisdom of Patriarch Chen, we should be able to see our determination on this matter and the importance of this matter to our families."
"It's better to block this matter than to let it go. If the Chen family refuses to give up even this little benefit, it means they don't treat us as allies at all, but as enemies who threaten their Chen family's status. Then why are we still there?"
Do you want to use your own resources to help them rebuild the city?"
When Zhou Minghan heard what he said, the worry on his face became even more serious. He couldn't help but sigh heavily: "Hey! I understand what you said, Xiaojiu. Although my Zhou family is now because of you and my son,
After building foundations one after another, there is no longer a shortage of high-end combat power, but the number of monks in the Qi training period below has been lost a lot, and it will be difficult to replenish it in a short period of time."
"In order to avoid the situation where the guest is strong and the master is weak, our families, which are tied by blood, cannot recruit outsiders to join like a sect. If we want to increase the size of the family quickly, the Chen family's [Feng Yue Tower] model is the only option.
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"I just look at Liu and Yang. If the Chen family doesn't agree to our three families' request to open a family branch in the Baisha River oasis this time, I'm afraid they will really join forces to open a market to compete with the Chen family for casual cultivator resources.
Where should our Zhou family go when the time comes?"
Where should the Zhou family go?
Zhou Yang looked at the old patriarch with a worried look on his face and wanted to ask, should he still ask this question?
But that answer would be too disrespectful.
He could only helplessly smile and said: "Great-grandfather, you think too much. If the Chen family doesn't even agree to this small request of ours, even if we don't work with the Liu and Yang families, we will have to find another backer. In short, we won't even get a cent."
The Chen family who refuses to give up is definitely not a suitable person to follow!"
Zhou Minghan was stunned.
He looked at Zhou Yang in astonishment, his brows furrowed as if he wanted to say something.
But when he saw Zhou Yang's young face, he suddenly woke up and seemed to understand something. He couldn't help but smiled bitterly and said: "Xiaojiu, you are right. If the Chen family is not even willing to agree to our request,
, it’s like making it clear that they don’t want to see our families grow, so why do we need to follow them anymore? I understand what to do!”
He figured it out, Zhou Yang was not him, he was already old, and for the rest of his life, he would be satisfied just to see that the Zhou family could be passed on in his own hands.
But a young man like Zhou Yang must have great ambitions and want to lead the family to develop and grow. He also had such ambitions when he was young.
This time, what the Liu and Yang families planned was a dangerous move in his opinion, and if he was not careful, he would attract pressure from the Chen family, the Zifu family.
However, Zhou Yang, who has great ambitions, sees this as a perfect opportunity to test the Chen family. If the Chen family does not have the capacity to accommodate others, then the Zhou family under his leadership will definitely not follow the Chen family anymore.
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As for the subsequent suppression of the Chen family, we are so far apart. At most, the monks of the Zhou family can no longer set foot in the Baisha River oasis. Can the Chen family still go on an expedition to the Yuquan Lake oasis to wipe out the Zhou family?
As long as the ancestor of the Chen family didn't lose his mind and go crazy, it would have been impossible to do this.
"It seems that I am really old. Even Liu Qingsong, an old guy with half of his feet in the ground, still has his ambitions, but I just want to be a mature dog. Thanks to Xiaojiu, you are here today, otherwise I
The Zhou family will miss a great opportunity!"
Zhou Minghan wanted to understand, and shook his head with a gloomy look, feeling very discouraged.
Aging is not scary, but the scary thing is that the mind ages with it. Especially for a family leader, once the mind ages, the entire family will be affected by it and decline.
Seeing this, Zhou Yang quickly comforted him: "Great-grandfather is just old-fashioned and prudent. In the past, the burden of the entire Zhou family was on your shoulders. Of course you didn't dare to take any risks. If you hadn't supported the family with all your strength, your grandson and father might not have been able to survive."
You can build the foundation safely, and your contribution to the family is obvious to everyone, so why should you blame yourself for this matter."
Zhou Minghan is so shrewd, how could he not hear his comforting words? After hearing the words, he couldn't help but glared and said: "Okay, you kid, don't comfort me. If I am wrong, I am wrong. I won't dare to admit it. Wait.
After returning to the family this time, I will hand over the position of clan leader to you, and then you can peacefully be a free man and enjoy your happiness."
When Zhou Yang heard this, he immediately became anxious and hurriedly shook his head and said: "How can this be done? Great-grandfather, you are a good leader of the clan. Your grandson is still far behind in terms of cultivation and qualifications. How can you take on such an important task?"
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"I am the leader of the clan. If I say you can do it, you can do it. That's the decision!" Zhou Minghan seemed to be really shocked. He actually didn't listen to Zhou Yang's advice at all and decided to pass on the position of clan leader when he returned.
give him.
No matter how eloquent Zhou Yang is, there is nothing he can do in this situation.
It is not that he is unwilling to take over the position of patriarch, but that should be done after the old patriarch Zhou Minghan passes away.
Now Zhou Minghan suddenly said that he would pass on the position of clan leader to him. It's strange that he is not in a hurry.
Not to mention that once he takes over the position of patriarch, his cultivation will inevitably be delayed. If the old patriarch Zhou Minghan still has decades to live, passing the position of patriarch to him will easily cause gossip.
When people who don't know hear about this, most people will say that he and his father Zhou Xuanhao teamed up to force the palace to force Zhou Minghan to give up the throne to him in advance.
This would bring great disrepute to him, his father Zhou Xuanhao, and even the reputation of the entire Zhou family. Zhou Yang did not understand how the always shrewd old patriarch could suddenly be so unwise.
"This is very painful. It seems that I can only wait until I return to the family and ask my father and others to persuade the old patriarch."
He secretly complained in his heart, and could only place his hope on his father Zhou Xuanhao and other family elders, hoping that these elders could persuade the old patriarch to take back his decision.
On this day, as if they had discussed it in advance, the patriarchs of the Liu family in Chixia Mountain, the Yang family in Jinquan Valley, and the Zhou family in Yuquan Lake suddenly climbed onto the White Camelback of the Chen family and directly requested to meet Old Ancestor Chen for discussion.
Important things.
Except for the foundation-building monks of the Chen family, no one knows what the patriarchs of these three families discussed with Patriarch Chen. The other families on Jingming Peak only know that the patriarchs of the Liu, Yang, and Zhou families were very happy after they came back from White Camel Peak.
Shangdu couldn't help but be happy, and when he came back, he took his clan members back to his family.
The Baisha River Oasis and the Yuquan Lake Oasis are thousands of miles apart. In order to take care of Zhou Xuantai and other Qi-training monks, the two Foundation-building monks, Zhou Minghan and Zhou Yang, could only ride with them on the Shatuo Beast.
The five Shatuo beasts were ridden by Zhou Xuantai and the others at that time, and they had been kept in the Chen family's animal garden. Fortunately, they survived the attack by the sand bandits, but the two Shatuo beasts that Zhou Yang and Zhou Xuanyu originally rode were in the
When he escaped from Jinxia Mountain, he was painfully slaughtered by two people.
This bandit attack caused considerable losses to the Zhou family. In addition to the loss of materials worth thousands of spiritual stones in the "Yuquan Tower", six people including Zhou Xuanyu, Wu Tao, Luo Meiwei, Zhou Yuanxia, Zhou Ping, and Zhou Qi were missing.
Including Zhou Yun, Zhou Qi, and Zhou Xuanjing who died at the mouth of the monster, the entire Zhou family's monk team has been reduced by 20%.
It was the first time in the past century that the Zhou family lost nine family monks at once.
Zhou Yang could already imagine how sad the clan members who were waiting for him would be when they heard the news.
But since you have embarked on the path of cultivating immortality, you will inevitably encounter this situation. This is the price of pursuing immortality!
The way home was long, and Zhou Yang didn't want to be idle for a month or two, so while rushing on the road, he and the old patriarch Zhou Minghan learned the "sword-controlling technique" that can only be practiced by monks in the foundation-building period.
The so-called "sword control" does not refer to a specific spell, but generally refers to the method of controlling flying swords.
The real name of the "Sword Controlling Technique" collected by the Zhou family should be "Flying Star Sword Art". This sword art is divided into three levels. After practicing the first level, you can turn the sword into light and fly with the sword. If you use the sword art to control it in battle,
Flying swords can greatly increase the power of flying swords and derive various changes.
Generally, monks in the foundation-building period can only learn the first level of "Flying Star Sword Art". Only those foundation-building monks with particularly outstanding talents can learn the second level of "Flying Star Sword Art" in the foundation-building period.
As far as Zhou Yang knows, the reason why Chen Ping'an of the Chen family was able to kill the third-level high-grade monster "Golden Swallowing Toad" with one sword was not only because the flying sword in his hand was a fourth-level magic weapon, but also because he had already killed Chen Ping'an.
My family's sword-controlling skills have reached the second level.
The first level of "Flying Star Sword Art" is not difficult to learn. According to the old patriarch Zhou Minghan, it took him about a year to learn the first level of the sword art.
Zhou Yang benefited from the sharp increase in consciousness after establishing the foundation, and the old patriarch taught him by words and deeds along the way. When the team just returned to the Yuquan Lake Oasis, he successfully mastered the first level of the sword technique.