Thanks to Zhou Chun's previous reform measures and the large-scale breeding in the animal farm gradually getting on the right track, the Zhou family's income is now increasing year by year.
And seeing that the family is getting stronger and stronger year by year, and foundation-building monks are constantly emerging, those Zhou family members are becoming more and more confident in the family, and they are more motivated to save money.
Many people have begun to accumulate family good deeds, hoping that one day they can really accumulate 5,000 points of family good deeds and become the foundation building seeds of the family.
The increasingly prosperous family also gave some Zhou family monks the confidence to step out of their homes and go out to find their own opportunities.
In this way, the income is increasing, and the expenses have been reduced. The Zhou family now has tens of thousands of spiritual coins accumulated in their accounts.
So Zhou Chun dared to spend money lavishly at this time.
Moreover, the money is only temporarily leaving the Zhou family. After the items purchased with it are exchanged for a large number of spiritual objects produced by Long Yuanze from Lu Ran, they can be earned back twice as much.
But just when Zhou Chun was about to show off his skills and make a big move, an unusual news suddenly made him smell a hint of crisis.
But on this day, the Zhou family and many immortal cultivating families in Jingguo suddenly received news that the three major sects in Jingguo were preparing to hold a "Hundred Clans Conference" in Yunzhou, and at the same time, a grand trade fair and...
auctions.
This so-called "Hundred Clans Conference", as the name suggests, is to allow all the immortal cultivating families in Jingguo to compete in martial arts to select the top thirty families.
It is said that any Immortal Cultivating Family that will be among the top thirty families will receive a benefit that is difficult for other families to achieve.
As soon as this news came out, it quickly aroused heated discussions throughout the country.
After Zhou Chun learned the news, he immediately went to the Zhou Mingde Cave on the top of the mountain to find the Supreme Elder to discuss the matter.
"Now that Dao Yi is not here, Zhengchun, tell me, what do you think of this Hundred Tribes Conference?"
In the cave, after Zhou Mingde learned the news about the "Hundred Clans Conference" from Zhou Chun, he was slightly surprised, and then immediately asked him for his opinion.
When Zhou Chun heard this, he immediately said without hesitation: "Junior thinks that this so-called meeting of hundreds of tribes should be a mobilization meeting!"
"The three sects suddenly jointly held this kind of conference. Apparently they have already agreed on the conquest of Hualong Sect, and now they are preparing to hold a mobilization meeting to mobilize the Jingguo monks to participate in this war!"
After finishing speaking, Zhou Mingde nodded and said, "Yes, I think so too."
After speaking, he took advantage of the situation and said: "The three sects are certainly powerful in numbers, but the combined power of all the immortal cultivating families in Jingguo cannot be underestimated at all."
"If they want to go into a full-scale war with the Hualong Sect, whose strength is not completely clear, and they want to win a beautiful victory, not a tragic victory where they kill one thousand enemies and lose eight hundred to themselves, they absolutely cannot give up this power!
"
The battle is about population and resources.
And the Yingguo side now has an absolute advantage in terms of population.
When it comes to the number of immortal cultivators, excluding those at the level of Nascent Soul Stage monks, the number of Golden Core Stage monks, Zifu Stage monks, and Foundation Establishment Stage monks they can mobilize are far more than those of the Dragon Transformation Sect.
Naturally, these three sects, Yuelun Sect, Yanyang Sect, and Qinglian Temple, would not let go of this great advantage.
"Then Elder Taishang, do you think our Zhou family will compete for the top thirty families? Can our Zhou family be among the top thirty?"
Zhou Chun looked up at Zhou Mingde and asked a key question.
After hearing his words, Zhou Mingde also fell into deep thought.
After pondering like this for a long time, Zhou Mingde's eyes flashed and he suddenly said: "Of course we must compete, and we must do everything we can to compete for the top thirty!"
Zhou Chun's expression changed slightly when he heard this, and he asked again: "What's the reason? This junior wants to know what the reason is?"
"The reason is very simple. If you want a horse to run, you have to feed it. If the three sects want the various cultivating families to fully support their conquest of the Hualong Sect, they will definitely provide corresponding benefits."
"And even if we don't compete for the top thirty, we may not be able to escape the lack of human efforts!"
"In that case, why not work hard to compete for the top thirty and show your strength!"
Zhou Mingde expressed his opinion in a low tone.
After hearing his answer, Zhou Chun couldn't help but nodded and said: "You are right, the truth is indeed like this."
Then his eyes narrowed and he said in a deep voice: "If that's the case, then we have to inquire about the situation of the various immortal cultivating families in Jingguo. There are so many immortal cultivating families in Jingguo. If our Zhou family wants to enter the top thirty, I'm afraid it won't be possible.
How easy it would be!"
"We need to inquire carefully, but perhaps we can ask the Wang family and the Sun family about this matter. They are both local families that have been rooted in Jingguo for many years, and they should have a good understanding of this aspect!"
Zhou Mingde nodded slightly and expressed his opinion.
"Then I will go and visit the Wang family in person!"
Zhou Chun said, and immediately retreated to take action.
Within a few days, he personally visited the Wang family in Hongyao Valley and spent half a day talking with the head of the Wang family, Wang Zhixiong, and learned a lot about the strength of the powerful families in Jingguo.
To be honest, Zhou Chun felt very heavy after learning from Wang Zhixiong the strength of the powerful families in Jingguo.
Because according to Wang Zhixiong, if the Danyao Li family and the Zhenfa You family, two immortal cultivating families with golden elixir-level monks, are also included, there are five golden elixir-level cultivating families in the four states under the jurisdiction of Qinglian Temple alone.
Dan family.
There are seven Jindan families in the area under the jurisdiction of the Yuelun Sect, and there are also five in the Yanyang Sect.
In this case, the Jindan family alone would account for seventeen of them!
These Jindan families will definitely enter the top thirty.
Then families like the Zhou family can only compete for the remaining thirteen places.
As for Jingguo, there are seventy or eighty cultivating families with Zifu period monks in total!
Among these seventy or eighty immortal cultivating families, at least ten have more than one Zifu monk, and at least ten late-stage Zifu monks!
If you calculate it like this, there are actually fifty or sixty families left competing for the remaining few spots.
Under such fierce competition, Zhou Chun really didn't have much hope that the Zhou family could make it into the top thirty.
In his opinion, even with the green dragon that exposed the patriarch Zhou Daoyi, the Zhou family did not have the strength to win against those powerful immortal cultivating families.
Similarly, when Zhou Mingde learned the relevant inside story from him, he was speechless for a long time.
In the end, he just let out a long sigh: "Hey! Try your best. Even if there is little hope, you can't give up easily. At least we must make our Zhou family's name known in this Hundred Tribes Conference!"
After hearing what he said, Zhou Chun pursed his lips slightly, and then said in a low voice: "I still don't know how the Hundred Clans Conference ranks the rankings of each family, and what the rules are. Maybe it will be done by then.
Maybe there will be rules that are beneficial to our Zhou family!"
"That's true!"
Zhou Mingde nodded, agreeing with his statement.
After waiting for another half a month, the rules of the "Hundred Clans Conference" were announced.
This rule is a mixed blessing for the Zhou family.
Fortunately, according to the rules of the "Hundred Clans Conference", families competing for ranking need to send three teams to participate in the battle.
Among them, the Zifu period monks count as one team, and up to three Zifu period monks can participate in the battle. If you win, you will gain three points.
The foundation-building monks are considered as one team, and up to five foundation-building monks can participate in the battle. A victory will earn two points.
The monks in the Qi Refining Stage are counted as one team, and up to ten monks in the Qi Refining Stage can participate in the battle. A victory will accumulate one point.
In other words, if the Zhou family competes in a ranking match with a family that has late-stage Zifu monks, then even if the Zhou family loses the team of Zifu monks, it only needs to win the two teams of foundation-building monks and Qi-refining monks.
Team, it is still considered a tie.
What is worrying is that according to the rules of the competition, if the points are the same, the judges from the three sects will judge and decide which family wins.
Although I don’t know what the judges’ evaluation standards are, the world of immortal cultivation has always respected the strong. I am afraid that the judges will be more inclined to recognize the family that wins the victory of the Zifu Stage monk team as the winner.
"It's a mixed blessing, but at least it has given our Zhou family a big opportunity. We must seize this opportunity!"
Zhou Daoyi, who had returned to the Zhou family, showed his determination in a firm tone.
After he and Zhou Chongshan stayed in Longxing Valley for more than two months, they had basically finalized the formation plan.
Next, Zhou Chongshan will go over and lay the base of the formation first and complete the most difficult part of the formation.
When the stronghold is actually used in the future, just let people who know the formation complete the second half.
After he came back and learned about the "Hundred Clans Conference", he also firmly stated that he would compete for the top thirty rankings.
Seeing that he attached great importance to this matter, Zhou Mingde then said: "Since we want to fight with all our strength, let's call Daoquan back. If he comes back, it will be difficult for our Zhou family to be among the foundation-building monks.
We have a rival!"
Zhou Chun heard this and immediately said: "There is also the purple-striped golden peach from Lin Hongyu. We don't have the Chiming Liuzhu Pill she wants now, but we might as well ask her for one as a deposit first, and wait for the Hundred Tribes Conference.
After it’s over, let’s see if we can buy what she wants at the trading conference and auction conference!”
"That's it. Taking advantage of the fact that the Hundred Clans Conference will be held in a year, let's mobilize the strength of the whole clan to prepare for this grand event!"
Zhou Daoyi clenched his fist, showing strong determination.
Naturally, the Zhou family is not the only family that is preparing for the war.
Although the other cultivating families didn't know that the three sects had decided to fight the Hualong Cult, they also smelled danger from the "Hundred Clans Conference" that was about to be held suddenly.
At the same time, he is also eager for the mysterious benefits of the top thirty families.
Therefore, any cultivating family that feels that their family is expected to be among the top thirty will open up their family treasure troves one by one and prepare for the war with all their strength.
For a time, all kinds of high-quality magical instruments and talismans became hot commodities, and many monks were buying them.
Seeing this, Zhou Chun, together with several senior officials, simply replaced the magical weapons for the few monks from the Zhou family who were determined to participate in the war, and took advantage of the situation to sell their eliminated magical weapons.
Both Zhou Chun and Zhou Daoyi actually have accumulated many second-level magic weapons in their hands, but there was no reason to give them to others in vain before.
Now the Zhou family needs to prepare for war, and of course they will not skimp on this.
Besides, they didn't take out the magic weapon in vain.
These magic weapons will be subsidized to them slowly every year using the excess spiritual coins in the family's account.
Half a year passed quickly like this.
On this day, Zhou Daoquan, the third elder of the Zhou family, who had been away from home for several years, finally returned to the Zhou family's mountain gate in Jiufeng Ridge after receiving a call from his family.
"Third Elder, please forgive me. I urgently summoned the Third Elder back to the family this time because the family needs the Third Elder's strength. I did not intend to disturb the Third Elder's search for opportunities!"
In the Zhongping Hall, when Zhou Chun saw the returning Third Elder Zhou Daoquan, he immediately stepped forward to express his apology.
At this time, Zhou Daoyi accompanied the second elder Zhou Chongshan to Longxing Valley to set up the formation base, and along the way, he sent the first batch of goods collected by the Zhou family to Long Yuanze and Lu Ran for trading.
"We are all a family, why do we need to explain anything!"
Zhou Daoquan waved his hand and said with a serious face: "As a member of the Zhou family, I am also the elder of the Zhou family. Since the family needs my strength, I naturally have nothing to say!"
"Third Elder, it would be best if you could understand."
Zhou Chun's face relaxed and he replied with a smile.
Then he took Zhou Daoquan to the top of the mountain to meet with the Supreme Elder Zhou Mingde. On the way, he talked about the Zhou family's preparations for the "Hundred Tribes Conference".
"It's good that you're back safely, Daoquan. I think Masachun also told you the reason for urgently summoning you back this time. Is there anything you want to say?"
Inside the cave, looking at Zhou Daoquan who had returned from a long trip, Zhou Mingde's face was also full of smiles.
"This junior has no objections. Since the family has decided to fight, let's fight with all our strength!"
Zhou Daoquan shook his head slightly, having no objection to the family's decision.
He has always been like this, and will not raise any objections unless something seriously contradicts his own views.
At this time, after answering Zhou Mingde's question, he changed the subject again and said: "But after this Hundred Clans Conference, I also want to ask the family to do something for me!"
"Oh, what do you want your family to do for you?"
Zhou Mingde's eyes flashed with surprise, and he looked at Zhou Daoquan in surprise, not expecting him to say this.
"This junior traveled to three countries in total during this trip. In Leguo, northeast of Chengdu, the junior collaborated with others to excavate the tomb of a senior monk, but was intercepted by a local Zifu family.
I almost killed this junior’s spiritual pet, the earth-armored bear, so I have to avenge this!”
Zhou Daoquan's eyes flashed coldly, and he spoke out his request in a deep voice. He actually wanted his family to avenge him!
