Chapter five hundred and ninety-ninth: rebuilding the genealogy
Although it had been decided that Zhou Guangcheng would be apprenticed to Master Qingyang, because the little boy had just been born, Zhou Yang and his wife were not worried about letting him stay in the Xuanyang Immortal Sect.
Therefore, the two of them made an agreement with Master Qingyang for another sixteen years. They agreed to raise the little boy for sixteen years and fulfill their parental responsibilities before sending him to the Xuanyang Immortal Sect to receive the teachings of Master Qingyang.
After everything was settled, Zhou Yang and his wife returned to Chongxuan Mountain with Zhou Guangcheng.
The master and his wife were happy to have a son, and the disciples on Chongxuan Mountain, especially those of the Zhou family, were all very happy.
No one in the Zhou family dares to care about the affairs of Zhou Yang, the ancestor of the family, but privately, the discussion in the family of hoping that his ancestor will leave a descendant has never stopped.
All Zhou family monks know that only Zhou Yang, the ancestor, has left a blood descendant in the family, and his affection for the Zhou family will not weaken as time goes by.
Therefore, even though Zhou Yang himself did not advocate anything, the disciples on the mountain still held a big banquet because of this incident and spontaneously celebrated it for them.
At any rate, thanks to the disciples' kindness and the fact that he was in a really good mood now, Zhou Yang did not lose his joy and attended the celebration with his wife and children with a smile.
Because of the birth of little Zhou Guangcheng, Zhou Yang's plan to continue practicing in Changguan was naturally cancelled.
He didn't want his son to recognize him as his father when he came out of seclusion.
For the family, he can also adopt a herding strategy, but for his own son, he cannot do this under any circumstances.
At least until his son grows up and becomes sensible, he will always be by his side.
Therefore, he revised his plan, turning the original plan of practicing in seclusion to practice magical powers and improve his cultivation into studying the art of weapon refining, with the goal of raising the art of weapon refining to the fifth level before his son reaches adulthood.
Zhou Yang's weapon refiner has been at the top level of the fourth level for many years. Over the years, he has rarely practiced weapon refinement due to his frequent retreats, and his skills can be said to be a bit rusty.
However, his foundation was still there after all, and after refining the weapon a few times, he regained his touch and became more proficient.
Under normal circumstances, for a fourth-level high-grade weapon refiner to reach the realm of a fifth-level weapon refiner, it is best to use the inspiration of "God's Enlightenment" brought by self-created magic weapons to improve the level of weapon refinement.
When Zhou Yang originally created the second-level high-grade magic weapon [Yuanyang Shield], he also obtained a "Heavenly Enlightenment" and gained a lot.
However, creating your own magic weapon is too time-consuming, and it also involves a lot of luck. This time Zhou Yang becomes a fifth-level weapon refiner and does not intend to follow the path that countless monks have taken.
He wants to have the luxury of directly refining the fifth-level magic weapon to attack the fifth-level weapon refiner.
Ordinary weapon refiners don't have such arrogant capital, but he does.
Over the years, Zhou Yang has accumulated a large amount of fifth-level weapon refining materials through the materials obtained by killing monsters and looting the trophies obtained from the monks who died under his command.
Because he himself is a fourth-level high-grade weapon refiner, he has collected these weapon refinement materials and has not sold them.
Now the total of these materials is enough for him to try sixty or seventy times.
Zhou Yang asked himself that he was still talented in the art of refining weapons. If he still failed to succeed after sixty or seventy attempts, there was no need for him to learn the art of refining weapons.
Of course, it would be better if less material could be wasted.
Therefore, he did not take advantage of his wealth to become lazy. He would try his best every time he made a weapon, and he would also carefully sum up his experience and lessons after failure.
And every time after the weapon refining failed, teasing little Zhou Guangcheng became the most common thing Zhou Yang did to relieve stress.
Because of his profound foundation and rapid physical and brain development, young Zhou Guangcheng began to practice spiritual practice under Zhou Yang's teachings at the age of three.
Of course, the top skills such as "Xuan Yang Treasure Book" can only be practiced after establishing a foundation. Therefore, the skills Zhou Yang used to lay the foundation for little Zhou Guangcheng's practice were the "Innate Purple Yang Skill" given to him by Master Qingyang.
This "Xiantian Ziyang Kung Fu" is one of the top ones among the many basic techniques collected in the Xuanyang Immortal Sect.
It is most suitable for monks with fire attribute spiritual roots to practice. It is also very difficult to practice. Only high-grade fire attribute spiritual root monks will choose to practice it.
The characteristic of this exercise is one word, pure.
The magical power of monks who practice "Innate Purple Yang Kung" is generally much purer and deeper than that of monks who practice other techniques.
According to Master Qingyang, if a high-grade fire-attribute spiritual root disciple of the Xuanyang Immortal Sect practices this technique, he or she will be able to successfully build a foundation in fifty years at the latest, and they do not need to take a foundation-building pill.
And with Xiao Zhou Guangcheng's talent, he successfully built the foundation within thirty years without any problems.
This is also true.
After practicing for less than two years, Xiao Zhou Guangcheng entered the Qi training stage at the age of five and officially became a Qi training stage immortal cultivator.
As for the registered disciples on Chongxuan Mountain, most of them have just come into contact with practice at this time, or have not yet come into contact with practice.
It was this year that Zhou Guangxiang came to Chongxuan Mountain again.
Surprisingly, the person who came with her this time was Zhou Tongxuan, the head of the Zhou family. At this time, Zhou Tongxuan was already a second-level monk in the Purple Mansion.
When Zhou Yang left the boundless sand sea to cultivate immortality, he gave three copies of [Purple Heart Chalcedony] to three Zhou family foundation monks. Zhou Tongxuan also relied on the family contribution points left to him by his father Zhou Guangxiang and aunt Zhou Guangxiang and spent twenty
The Wan family contribution points were redeemed for a copy of [Purple Heart Chalcedony] for use.
Now decades have passed, and the four monks who attacked the Zi Mansion successfully succeeded in two, namely Zhou Tongxuan and Zhou Shengfan, whose body was tempered by Zhou Yang with "Qianyang Immortal Light".
In addition, during the years when Zhou Yang was in seclusion, another female cultivator named Zhou Shenghan in the Zhou family also redeemed a copy of [Purple Heart Chalcedony] and successfully opened the Purple Mansion.
So now, including Zhou Guangxiang's brother and sister, the number of Zifu period monks in the Zhou family has reached five.
Also on the Chongxuan Mountain side, Zhou Ronghua's cultivation has reached the ninth level of foundation building. Zhou Yang has already given him the [Purple Heart Chalcedony]. It won't be long before he retreats to attack the Zi Mansion.
And Zhou Shengyu, a high-grade spiritual root monk, has also reached the fifth level of foundation building, and is expected to be able to attack the Zi Mansion in another fifty or sixty years.
As usual, this time Zhou Guangxiang and Zhou Tongxuan came, and they also brought several descendants of the Zhou family with them.
Now that these Zhou family descendants have come, they no longer need to walk as Zhou Yang's registered disciples.
Zhou Yang has already made a plan. When little Zhou Guangcheng grows up and joins the Xuanyang Immortal Sect, he will move all the mortals and monks of the Zhou family on Chongxuan Mountain to Daoxuan Kingdom. From now on, the Zhou family will live in Liuyun Continent.
The ancestral land of Shanmen in the world of immortality is located on a fourth-level high-grade spiritual mountain in Daoxuan Kingdom.
At that time, the Zhou family can also try to get some of the family's children to worship Xuanyang Immortal Sect to consolidate and deepen the relationship between the family and Xuanyang Immortal Sect.
Zhou Yang would never have done this before, taking the initiative to send family members into the sect.
But the situation now is very different from before.
In the past, the Zhou family lacked talents and backbone. Any mid-level spiritual root monk was a valuable asset to the family. Of course, he did not want these precious assets to flow to others.
But things are different now. Now the Zhou family has become a super big family in the boundless sand sea cultivation world. There are only one or two middle-grade spiritual root cultivators in the family who are detected every year.
If these people all stay in the Zhou family, it is impossible for the Zhou family to have so many foundation-building pills for them to take. So it is better to give them a chance to enter the Xuanyang Immortal Sect and have a try within the sect.
If they can get ahead in the Xuanyang Immortal Sect, it will be a great thing for the Zhou family.
Zhou Yang even had an idea, that is, since Zhou Guangcheng will definitely become the top leader of Xuanyang Immortal Sect in the future, he will definitely need to guide a group of people within the sect to act as his confidants.
If this is the case, in line with the principle that the wealth does not flow to outsiders, those Zhou family disciples who are in the Xuanyang Immortal Sect will definitely be given priority and receive special care.
This is something allowed within the rules. Even if Master Qingyang and others see this, they will not deliberately stop anything.
A top sect like the Xuanyang Immortal Sect is already full of factions. Even if there is one more Zhou family faction in the future, it will not matter.
Anyway, the sect's rules are there. No faction can do anything that seriously violates the sect's rules, otherwise it will definitely be boycotted by other factions.
Therefore, there is no need to worry about monks with family origins stealing from their own families and transferring a large amount of sect resources to families outside their sect.
At this time, Zhou Guangxiang came with the clan leader Zhou Tongxuan. For Zhou Yang, he came at the right time, and he just happened to share these ideas with them.
When Zhou Guangxiang learned that Zhou Yang and Xiao Ying had given birth to a child, he was also sincerely happy for them.
As a junior, she now has many children and grandchildren, but the elders Zhou Yang and Xiao Ying have never had any offspring. Whenever she thinks of this, she feels strange.
Now that Zhou Yang finally left behind descendants, she was naturally happy.
But while she was happy, she was a little embarrassed because in terms of seniority, Zhou Guangcheng, who was only five years old, had to call her sister.
And she is already over 400 years old this year. Although she has great beauty skills and her face is still the same as that of a young woman in her thirties, the gray hair that has begun to appear shows that she is not young at all.
At this age, it would be strange for her not to be embarrassed to be called sister by a five-year-old child.
It's just that this kind of embarrassment is always unavoidable.
Zhou Yang is her elder, and he has taken care of her since she was a child. He is the elder she respects the most.
Even if she was embarrassed, she would never dare to mess up the hierarchy and ask Xiao Zhou Guangcheng to call him something else.
Fortunately, she was not the only one who was embarrassed. The person who was more embarrassed than her was Zhou Tongxuan, because in terms of seniority, Zhou Tongxuan had to call him uncle Zhou Guangcheng and had to salute respectfully.
In the end, Xiao Ying took care of the two of them and took little Zhou Guangcheng away with a smile, leaving them to talk to Zhou Yang alone.
"Uncle Jiu is very happy to have a son. I wonder if I should take Brother Cheng back to the family to worship Uncle Xuan Hao and Uncle Yu Ting? If this happy event is spread back to the family, the clan members will definitely be very happy."
Zhou Guangxiang looked at Zhou Yang and spoke about this matter first.
Having a child is a big event. When the monks of the Zhou family have offspring, they often go to the family cemetery to pay homage to their deceased fathers and ancestors.
It can be said that it is reasonable for Zhou Guangxiang to mention this matter at this time.
However, Zhou Yang knew that when his niece mentioned this matter, she did not fail to remind him of his intention to let Zhou Guangcheng go back to find his roots and recognize his ancestors.
After all, for now, the roots of the Zhou family are still in the Immortal Realm of the Boundless Sand Sea. Important members of the Zhou family like Zhou Guangcheng should go there to find their roots and recognize their ancestors, and understand their origins.
Knowing that Gui Gui knew, he did not expose his niece's little thoughts, but shook his head slightly and said: "Cheng'er will definitely go back to pay homage to his grandparents in the future, but not now. I have already taken care of this matter, so you don't want to
Worry."
Zhou Guangxiang's face changed slightly when he heard this, and then he quickly apologized and said: "My niece was reckless. Since Uncle Jiu has already made a plan, my niece can naturally rest assured."
Zhou Tongxuan saw that his aunt was embarrassed. At this time, in order to relieve his aunt's embarrassment, he also quickly changed the subject and said: "Old ancestor, I wonder what kind of qualifications Uncle Cheng has? The younger generation sees that he now has a level of Qi training. Could it be that he also
Are you as high-grade spiritual root as my grandmother?"
In Zhou Tongxuan's heart, the qualification for high-grade spiritual roots is already a very good qualification.
If he had high-grade spiritual root qualifications, he might not have used up two copies of [Purple Heart Chalcedony] to successfully open the Purple Mansion.
As for the spirit body, there has not been a spirit body monk in the boundless sand sea in the past two or three thousand years. He really didn't dare to think about it.
You can also imagine how surprised and shocked Zhou Guangxiang and Zhou Tongxuan were when Zhou Yang revealed that Zhou Guangcheng had the qualification of [Xuanyang Spirit Body].
And when they learned that Zhou Guangcheng had become a disciple of Master Qingyang and would become a disciple of Xuanyang Immortal Sect in the future, their expressions changed even more.
"Uncle Nine..."
Zhou Guangxiang looked at Zhou Yang with wide eyes and hesitated to speak.
Zhou Yang looked at her with an unchanged expression and shook his head slightly: "I know what you want to say, but this matter is a foregone conclusion. You don't need to think too much, just listen to my plan!"
Immediately, Zhou Yang told the two of them the exchange of terms and agreement between himself and Master Qingyang, and at the same time, he also revealed his plans for the future development of the Zhou family.
After hearing what he said, the expressions of Zhou Guangxiang and Zhou Tongxuan, the aunt and nephew, suddenly changed and they fell into deep thought.
From a fundamental point of view, as Zhou family members, the two of them certainly did not want Zhou Guangcheng to join the sect.
That was a spiritual monk, the first spiritual monk since the founding of the Zhou family, the first spiritual monk in the boundless sea of sand cultivation world in thousands of years!
Such a genius, no cultivating family would want him to leave the family.
Not to mention, Zhou Guangcheng is the first child and probably the only child of Zhou Yang, the guardian of the Zhou family. This identity is even more important to the Zhou family than his identity as a spiritual monk.
But reality and ideals are often two different things.
From their perspective, for the sake of the family's interests, they certainly hope that Zhou Guangcheng will stay with the Zhou family, but from Zhou Yang's perspective, when considering the interests of the Zhou family, they must also consider Zhou Guangcheng's own interests.
And from the perspective of two Nascent Soul stage monks, Master Qingyang and Master Lingxiao, how could they be willing to let a baby carrying the [Xuan Yang Spirit Body] wander outside?
Both my aunt and nephew are parents, so they naturally understand how strong every parent's psychological desire is to "hope that their children will succeed."
Of course, the more important point is that it is an established fact that Zhou Guangcheng becomes a disciple of Master Qingyang, and it is useless no matter how much they object.
The Zhou family does not have the strength to play with a Nascent Soul monk, not even the family ancestor they most admire and respect, Zhou Yang.
So after a long moment of silence with an uncertain expression, Zhou Guangxiang forced out a smile and said: "That's good. If Brother Cheng can worship Master Qingyang as his teacher, the future will be smooth sailing. If he can form a Yuan Yuan in the future,
Ying's words are a great good thing and a blessing to our Zhou family."
After Zhou Tongxuan heard what his aunt said, he came back to his senses and said quickly: "Auntie is right, Uncle Cheng is extremely talented and will become a real Yuanying Master in the future. When the time comes, my Zhou family will definitely become famous in Liuyun Continent and rank among the top
Become a real big family in the immortal world of Liuyun Continent!"
"Haha, you can just think about it. Do you have any comments to add to my plan?"
Zhou Yang smiled noncommittally, then changed the topic and asked the two of them for their opinions.
Zhou Guangxiang and Zhou Tongxuan are the actual leaders of the Zhou family. In a sense, their opinions can represent the opinions of the entire Zhou family.
"Uncle Ninth's plan is very good. If we can really have a foothold in Daoxuan Kingdom as the foundation of our family, it will obviously help our family to get out of the boundless sea of sand and cultivate immortality."
"And if you can become a disciple of a top sect like Xuanyang Immortal Sect, there will definitely be many people in the family who are very willing. I'm afraid we will have to formulate some strategies to prevent the loss of a large number of family talents!"
Zhou Guangxiang said, looking at his nephew Zhou Tongxuan.
Zhou Tongxuan is the patriarch of the Zhou family, and this is a good opportunity for him to show off in front of Zhou Yang, the ancestor of the family. Of course, Zhou Guangxiang will not steal the limelight from his nephew, so he only said a few words and stopped.
When Zhou Tongxuan received the hint from his aunt's eyes, he calmed down and said quickly: "The younger generation also believes that the ancestor's plan is actually a mature strategy for the country. The number of monks in the family is increasing year by year, and the family resources consumed every year are already huge."
"In view of the limited production of the family's foundation-building pills, many clan members are unable to take the foundation-building pills to try to build a foundation. Over the years, almost every one or two years, a family monk has died in the foundation-building level, which is really regrettable!"
"If we can give them another way to go, it will not only reduce the burden on the family, but also reduce some tragedies, allowing more tribesmen to have further opportunities on the road."
"Very good. Since you all think this plan is feasible, you can convene the entire family of monks to discuss this matter after you return, and continue to speed up the progress of the family monks immigrating to the Immortal World of Liuyun Continent."
Zhou Yang nodded with satisfaction, and was also very satisfied with the two juniors' "profound understanding of righteousness."
Then he looked at Zhou Guangxiang and said: "As for your worries Guangxiang, there is no need for it. A top sect like Xuanyang Immortal Sect is not so easy to enter. The middle-grade spiritual root is only the minimum entry standard. If you really want to get started,
, you need to have some extraordinary abilities, and they only recruit a group of outer disciples every ten years. If you want to join their sect, sometimes you need a certain amount of luck."
"Uncle Jiu is right, my niece understands what to do."
Zhou Guangxiang responded, and the matter was settled.
Only then, after seeing that Zhou Yang had nothing else to say, did she signal her nephew Zhou Tongxuan with her eyes and ask him to explain the purpose of his visit.
After receiving the signal from his aunt, Zhou Tongxuan immediately bowed to Zhou Yang and said: "Ancestor Mingjian, this time I came to Liuyunzhou Cultivation Realm with my aunt to meet my ancestor. There is an important matter that I want to ask my ancestor to decide."
"Oh, what's the big deal?"
A look of curiosity flashed on Zhou Yang's face, and he looked at him.
After Zhou Tongxuan felt his gaze, he said respectfully: "It's about determining the generation names for the monks born in the family. The sixteen generation names originally set by Patriarch Yuquan have now been used for the Qing generation.
The generation of new monks born in a few decades has not been determined yet, so I would like to ask the ancestor to personally add a new generation in the family tree for the younger generations to determine the seniority and inferiority of the family!"
Yuhua Mingguang, Xuanyuan Guangtong, Fuze Prosperity, and Eternal Green. This is the sixteen-character generation order that Zhou Yuquan, the ancestor of the Zhou family who founded the Zhou family, personally drew up for the family.
Now that the Zhou family has been established for more than six hundred years, the sixteen generation names are indeed about to be exhausted.
And this matter of adding a new name to the family cannot be avoided no matter what, Zhou Yang, the ancestor with the highest seniority and cultivation level in the Zhou family.
For a family of immortal cultivators tied by blood ties, the role of the character generation is needless to say.
Even for Zhou Yang, formulating a new generation name for the family's descendants is something that needs to be taken seriously.
"This is indeed a big deal, let me think about it carefully."
He nodded slightly, then lowered his head and began to think deeply.
Although he has never done such a thing, Zhou Yang also knows that when formulating a name, the meaning is first of all, and then whether it is catchy, easy to remember, and easy to match with other words to form a good name.
And now that he is continuing to the next generation, he still needs to consider the issue of continuity with the previous sixteen generations.
Therefore, after thinking carefully for an hour or two, he said: "Since the ancestor of Yuquan originally set sixteen generations, in order to maintain respect for him, I will also set sixteen generations for the family.
Bar!"
"Loyalty, integrity and integrity, filial piety and righteousness are passed down to the family, kindness is always celebrated, and honesty comes first. What do you think of these sixteen characters?"
He spoke out the sixteen generation names he had drafted in one breath, and looked at Zhou Guangxiang and Zhou Tongxuan, asking for their opinions.
These sixteen characters may not be so consistent with the previous sixteen characters of the Zhou family, but they all have their own meanings, and it is easier to match other characters to choose a name.
"Ancestor is indeed an ancestor. Each of these sixteen characters has a profound meaning and is catchy. There is no better choice than this!"
Zhou Tongxuan raised his head and looked at him with admiration, and his words were full of praise.
"My niece also thinks that the sixteen characters chosen by Uncle Jiu are very good." Zhou Guangxiang nodded in agreement.