Chen Ping'an's cave is located in the area near the top of White Camel Peak, and further up is the cave of the ancestor of the Chen family.
This cave is divided into two floors, the inner and outer. The cave inside the mountain is where Chen Ping'an lives alone and practices. The palace loft built on the mountain outside covering an area of dozens of acres is where his descendants live and where he lives every day.
A place for hospitality.
After the three Zhou family members followed Chen Pingan into his cave residence on the ground, their eyes suddenly froze and they couldn't help but look at several of Chen Pingan's descendants standing in front of a large hall.
"Seventh sister, why are you here? Since you haven't died, why don't you return to the family?"
Zhou Yang looked at the woman who had her head lowered and did not dare to look at the three of him with a surprised look on his face, and his voice was slightly annoyed.
It turned out that he was familiar with two of Chen Pingan's juniors standing in front of the hall.
One of them is Chen Ping'an's son Chen Fangping, who cheated him out of Baisha River Oasis with a meal when he first arrived at the Baisha River Oasis. The other is the Zhou family woman who disappeared when the bandits attacked the Baisha River Oasis.
Monk Zhou Yuanxia.
But now, these two people he knew well were actually standing hand in hand. Zhou Yuanxia even held a little boy of four or five years old in her hand.
Seeing this situation, Zhou Yang still didn't understand the relationship between the two people now.
Zhou Yuanxia didn't disappear, but she climbed up the ladder and became Chen Ping'an's daughter-in-law. No wonder she didn't want to return to the Zhou family.
At this moment, when she heard Zhou Yang's angry question, Zhou Yuanxia's delicate body trembled. She didn't have the courage to answer at all, so she just tightly grasped the palm of Chen Fangping next to her.
Seeing this, Chen Fangping couldn't help but patted the Taoist monk's palm to express comfort, then stepped forward with a smile and cupped his hands towards Zhou Yang and said: "Senior Zhou, please calm down and let Yuan Xia stay in the Chen family.
If you want to fight or punish this junior's idea, I will follow it up with all your strength."
"What does Senior Chen mean?" Zhou Yang ignored Chen Fangping, but looked directly at Chen Pingan, who had a calm expression on the side. He knew that Chen Pingan must have made a plan when he called the three of them here.
When Chen Fangping saw Zhou Yang ignoring his words, the smile on his face couldn't help but froze, not to mention how uncomfortable he felt in his heart.
This is really thirty years in Hedong and thirty years in Hexi.
Once upon a time, in front of him, Zhou Yang was still a child of a small family who dared not fall out no matter how much he teased him.
Now, just a few years have passed, and the little Qi-training monk who just left home has grown to the point where he can be ignored and has become a Foundation-building monk like his father who was his backer.
This feeling cannot be understood by someone who has not experienced it personally.
"Chen didn't know about Xia'er and this kid being together beforehand. By the time Chen knew about it, their children were already three years old. Even if Chen could beat them up and break them up, he couldn't.
You don’t even want your grandson, right?”
Chen Pingan glanced at his son calmly, and first told the whole story to express his attitude.
Then he looked solemnly, looked at the three people of the Zhou family with a serious face and said: "We are all family monks, so Chen will not talk about those hypocritical nonsense, and just tell the three of you about Chen's decision."
"Your Zhou family has only been established for a short period of time, and you have not produced a third-level formation mage. I am afraid that the [Bloodline Divine Forbidden] has not yet been able to be deployed. This is the basis for the two of us to reach a compromise on this matter."
"So Chen can give you two choices now. One is that Chen will give you a third-level elixir recipe to your Zhou family as an apology. The other is that Chen can owe you Zhou family a favor. In the future, you Zhou family only need to use this
Favor can allow Chen to do something within his power."
The three people in the Zhou family looked at each other, not expecting Chen Ping'an to say this.
The faces of the three of them were not very good-looking.
This is not to say that the conditions offered by Chen Ping'an are not good, on the contrary, whether it is a third-level elixir prescription or the favor of a ninth-level monk from a big family like him, they are both hard-to-find things.
If Zhou Yuanxia, a fifth-level Qi practitioner with low-level spiritual root qualifications, could exchange for either of these two things, it would be a huge profit for the Zhou family.
But the account cannot be calculated that way.
No matter how poor Zhou Yuanxia's qualifications are or how low her cultivation level is, she is still a monk of the Zhou family.
The fact that she married and had children with an outsider without notifying the family has constituted a de facto betrayal to the family. As the patriarch and supreme elder of the family, if Zhou Yang and the others condone this kind of betrayal, how will they be able to lead the family in the future?
And if outsiders knew that the Zhou family married a female cultivator into the Chen family, what would they think of them?
Those who know the inside story may understand their difficulties, but those who don’t know may think that the Zhou family is selling their daughters for glory, and they do this because they want to gain access to the Chen family!
All in all, this matter is really difficult to deal with. As the current patriarch of the Zhou family, Zhou Yang really didn't know how to deal with this matter for a while.
Fortunately, at this time, the experienced Zhou Minghan once again used his experience to help Zhou Yang solve this problem.
Zhou Minghan's eyes suddenly widened, he stared at Zhou Yuanxia and asked: "Yuanxia, what's your choice? If you are willing to go back to the family with me, you will be at odds with Brother Chen today, and I will take you back to the family!"
Hearing what Zhou Minghan said, Chen Pingan narrowed his eyes and said nothing.
Chen Fangping looked at the three people of the Zhou family in great astonishment, with a look of disbelief flashing in his eyes. He never expected that the three people of the Zhou family would really dare to deny his father face.
The person involved, Zhou Yuanxia, also looked up at Zhou Minghan with a shocked expression, her eyes full of panic.
Chen Fangping swore to her that as long as Chen Pingan was here, Zhou Minghan and others would never dare to take her away by force, so she dared to show up.
What she didn't expect even more was that Chen Pingan, who she and Chen Fangping relied on as a supporter, narrowed his eyes at this time. Instead of showing any displeasure at Zhou Minghan's rude words, he looked at her with a friendly face and said: "
It's okay, Xia'er, you can rest assured to answer Brother Minghan, if you really want to return to the Zhou family, your father will not stop you."
"I, I don't want to be separated from Xin'er." Zhou Yuanxia held her son's little hand tightly and expressed her choice in a trembling tone.
As soon as she finished speaking, Zhou Minghan said angrily: "Okay, since you said that, don't blame me for being rude."
After saying that, he stared at Zhou Yang and said loudly: "Zhou family monk Zhou Yuanxia eloped with others and betrayed the family. As the first supreme elder of the Zhou family, I asked the clan leader to expel her from the clan and never restore her.
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"Zhou Xuanhao, the second supreme elder of the Zhou family, seconded the proposal." Zhou Xuanhao also came to his senses at this time and seconded Zhou Minghan's proposal.
Seeing this, Zhou Yang also took a deep look at Zhou Yuanxia, whose pretty face turned pale over there, nodded slightly and said: "Since the two Supreme Elders have made this suggestion, and after verification and confirmation, it is indeed true, I will
As the head of the Zhou family, I agree to this proposal and implement it immediately."
After saying that, in front of several members of the Chen family, he took out a copy of the family genealogy directly from the storage bag and erased the three characters "Zhou Yuanxia" on the spot.
When Chen Ping'an saw this scene, he couldn't help but nodded slightly and said: "From now on, there will only be Chen Xia'er of the Chen family, and there will no longer be Zhou Yuanxia!"
"Brother Chen, say goodbye!"
"Guys, go slowly!"
After leaving the Chen family, Zhou Yang and the others temporarily returned to the "Yuquan Tower" in Ping'anfang City.
"Father, why did you send a message earlier to tell me not to choose the elixir? Although Chen Ping'an's favor is valuable, the third-level elixir is related to your breakthrough as a third-level alchemist. This should be more important to our Zhou family now.
right?"
In "Yuquan Tower", after Zhou Yang and the others settled down, he immediately expressed his doubts and confusion to his father Zhou Xuanhao.
Of the Zhou family's various skills in cultivating immortals, only weapon refining has a complete inheritance of level three or above. The rest, such as formations, making talismans, alchemy, spiritual planting, and animal taming, etc., all only have level two inheritance.
The third-level formation "Gutu Jinge Formation" in "Haoyang Cave" is not a complete inheritance, because the old man Zhou Qian who refined this formation passed away right after refining the formation, and he did not have time to stay.
The relevant inheritance was removed, leaving only a broken formation diagram that even a second-level high-grade formation mage could hardly understand.
Therefore, in Zhou Yang's view, if his father Zhou Xuanhao can break through to the third level alchemy master with the third level elixir given by Chen Ping'an, it will definitely be ten times more important to the Zhou family than him breaking through to the third level weapon refiner.
Great thing.
"Yang'er, you are still young, so it's normal that you don't understand this. You just don't ask about this matter. As a father, I have to explain it to you in detail!"
Zhou Xuanhao sighed softly, and then told the reason with a wry smile on his face.
"Do you think your father, who is an alchemist, doesn't want third-level elixir recipes? But you don't know at all that the spiritual herbs and elixirs that can be used to refine common third-level elixirs near the Baisha River Cultivation World are basically used by the Chen family
Hehuang Salmon has a monopoly, and only those spiritual herbs and elixirs that they cannot use will be leaked out and obtained by others."
"So the elixirs Chen Ping'an is willing to come up with are either useless elixirs whose materials are hard to find and impossible to assemble, or they are off-the-shelf elixirs that are of little use."
"It is true that our Zhou family lacks a third-level alchemist, but we are not so sick that we need to seek medical treatment urgently. There is no need to be fooled by him!"
Zhou Yang stopped talking now.
He is a weapon refiner, not an alchemist. He really has no say in alchemy matters.
Since his father Zhou Xuanhao said so, it must not be wrong.
At this time, Zhou Minghan, who had been silent, also nodded and said: "Xuan Hao is right, we can slowly plan the matter of the third-order elixir recipe in the future. On the contrary, it is Chen Ping'an's favor that is now being invaded by the demonic monks."
Under certain circumstances, you may not know which day you will be able to play a big role.”
After saying that, he smiled slightly and said: "Yuan Xia's incident, on the surface, seems to be an embarrassing thing for my Zhou family, but in fact it just shows one thing. With Xuan Hao and Xiao Jiu, your father and son have built a
Ji Chenggong, with the invasion of demonic monks, our Zhou family, in the eyes of the Chen family, has changed from the dispensable and unimportant follower to an important ally worthy of their attention and win over."
"Otherwise, with the power of the Chen family, they can hide Yuan Xia from us, so why would they take the initiative to expose it and let us know about it? Why would they use this as an excuse to give us benefits?"
When Zhou Yang heard this, he couldn't help but nodded in agreement: "My great-grandfather was right. The Chen family is really anxious now. In the battle at Jinxia Mountain, they lost three foundation-building monks. This time they fought against the demon cultivators.
Another foundation-building monk has died. Last time they used three foundation-building pills, only one person succeeded in building the foundation. In addition to Chen Pingzhi who died earlier, now only counting the foundation-building monks, their Chen family only has eight people.
Already."
"That's it. The Chen family's foundation-building monks are short of manpower. In the future, they will definitely rely more heavily on us, the foundation-building monks of allied families. Some third-level treasures that were not released to us before and whose quantity was strictly controlled will probably have to be taken freely this time.
He’s out to win people’s hearts, which is definitely a great thing for our Zhou family!”
Zhou Minghan stroked his beard and smiled, his face full of joy.
"It is indeed a good thing. After all, our Zhou family is too short-lived. In terms of family heritage, let alone compare it with Zifu families like the Chen family, it is also compared with the Liu family in Chixia Mountain and the Yang family in Jinquan Valley. They have inherited five to six hundred years.
Compared with the foundation-building families of 2000, they are all inferior."
"Now our Zhou family has three foundation-building monks. It is the most prosperous time since the founding of the clan. It also coincides with the invasion of demon cultivators and the turmoil in the world of immortal cultivation. If we do not seize the opportunity at this time and accumulate some foundation for the family, in the future
When the situation stabilizes, it will not be that simple to achieve leapfrog growth in the family heritage."
Zhou Yang was also aware of his family affairs. Before Foundation Establishment, except for treasures such as Foundation Establishment Pills, he felt that the Zhou family was lacking in everything and had everything they wanted.
But after he established the foundation, he realized that the Zhou family's self-sufficiency could only be achieved by low-level monks. For the Zhou family's foundation-building monks, the only useful things the family could provide for them were magic weapons.
Besides, basically everything is missing.
This is just like those countries in his previous life. Some small countries can feed their own citizens behind closed doors, but they can only feed their own citizens. If those citizens who have escaped from the desire to be full want to use high-tech products, they basically have to
Can only be purchased through import.
To give a simple example, after Zhou Yang succeeded in building the foundation, he never took a third-level elixir to increase his cultivation level. From this, we can see how poor the Zhou family is in terms of family heritage.
For example, the Liu family of Chixia Mountain does not have a third-level alchemy master in the family. However, because every generation of the family has someone building foundations, there are always many third-level elixirs stored in the family treasury. The foundation-building monks use elixirs.
Stones can be exchanged for elixirs from the treasure house at a preferential price.
The Liu family used family public funds to purchase high-priced elixirs and put them in the treasury for the family's foundation-building monks to redeem them at a fair price. It seemed that the family's finances were in deficit, but in fact, it stabilized the hearts of the family's foundation-building monks and improved the family's foundation.
The monks have a sense of identity and cohesion in the family.
And as long as the family's foundation-building monks continue to stay in the family and serve the family, won't those elixirs that were redeemed at a fair price still stay in the family in another way?
People are all realistic. If a family can no longer provide spiritual help to the family's high-level monks, then the family's high-level monks will gradually stop caring about the family. After all, they can live well without the family. At that time, the family did not care about the family.
On the contrary, it has become a burden for them, and if they have a choice, no one wants to carry the burden forward.
Zhou Yang can guarantee his loyalty to the family, and also believes in the loyalty of the old patriarch Zhou Minghan and his father Zhou Xuanhao to the family, but loyalty cannot be eaten.
The three of them have gone through difficult times in their family and have received kindness from many senior monks in the family. They can "generate electricity with love" to help the family, but their descendants, those younger generation monks who grew up in the family's prosperity, can still act like
Are they equally "powerful with love" and loyal to their family?
Zhou Yang's experience in his previous life told him that it was absolutely impossible!
Therefore, in order to prevent the family from losing talent in the future, he, the patriarch, must improve the family's heritage before the younger generations of monks grow up.