Chapter 260: Zhou Chongshan sits down and gets the foundation building pill again
The situation is just like Zhou Mingde said, the Danyao Li family and the Formation You family are very interested in cooperating with the Zhou family to establish a pioneering stronghold.
Through this war against the Hualong Sect, after their two families made a lot of sacrifices, they finally got Qinglian Temple to recognize them and no longer restrict them in all aspects.
However, the scope of influence of a single pioneer stronghold is only two to three hundred miles, which may be enough for a large clan of cultivators of immortality, but it is not enough for a Jindan family like them.
If they can take advantage of the opportunity of cooperating with the Zhou family to obtain the right to develop an additional pioneering base, it will undoubtedly be of great benefit to them.
But the two big families want too much!
According to them, they can take care of all the manpower and arrangement of formations required to establish a pioneering stronghold, but they must each occupy 40% of the stronghold.
How could Zhou Chun agree to such harsh conditions?
Even if the Zhou family is not short of money now, he cannot agree to such a share.
The bottom line in his mind is that the Zhou family accounts for 40%, and the two major families each account for 30%.
But how could the two major families with golden elixir stage monks easily agree to such conditions.
Therefore, the negotiations were at a standstill for a while, and none of the three parties wanted to give up their interests easily.
In order to force the Li family and the You family to make concessions, or to make a preliminary plan, Zhou Chun also took advantage of the situation and spread the news that he was looking for someone to cooperate in establishing a pioneer stronghold, and asked interested families to come to the Zhou family to discuss with him in detail.
At the same time, Zhou Chun also asked Lin Wan'er to go to the wilderness to explore places suitable for establishing a pioneer stronghold, and asked the intelligence line he was responsible for to start collecting information on casual cultivators everywhere.
Being so busy with various things, half a year passed quickly.
On this day, Zhou Chun, who was working in Zhongping Hall, suddenly heard the sound of fireworks coming from inside the mountain gate.
He hurriedly went out to take a look, but saw fireworks coming from the sky above Zhenxuan Peak.
This made him realize something immediately. After his expression changed slightly, he only hurriedly gave a few words to the secretary in the palace, and then hurriedly flew towards the Formation Xuan Peak.
At the same time, all the elders of the Zhou family who saw the fireworks flew to Zhenxuan Peak just like Zhou Chun.
When Zhou Chun arrived at the Formation Xuan Peak, he saw that the gate of the courtyard where Zhou Chongshan usually lived had been opened, and the two Zhou family monks who followed him to learn the formation were waiting outside with anxious faces.
Seeing him and several elders coming over at this time, they hurriedly stepped forward to salute and explain: "Greetings to the clan leader. Just now, Master, he suddenly had a premonition that his time had come, so he ordered us to release fireworks to inform you and the elders."
"I know, you guys wait outside first, I'll go see the second elder right away."
Zhou Chun nodded and immediately entered the courtyard with the other elders.
In this way, he walked all the way to the outside of Zhou Chongshan's bedroom. Looking at the slightly opened door, Zhou Chun paused slightly, then opened the door and walked in.
When he entered the inner room, he saw Zhou Chongshan lying on the bed, dying.
And it was only then that he discovered that Zhou Chongshan's late-stage foundation-building cultivation was rapidly passing away visible to the naked eye.
"A monk who sits down on his own because his life span is exhausted will naturally start to dissipate his kung fu before he dies. When all his magic power is dissipated, it is the time when he dies!"
Next to Zhou Chun, the third elder Zhou Daoquan murmured to himself. He didn't know whether he was explaining to him the situation of the second elder Zhou Chongshan at this time, or he was hurt by the situation and thought of himself.
"Second Elder, do you have anything else to say? Do you have any other wishes to confess?"
Zhou Chun looked at Zhou Chongshan, who was lying on the bed with slightly sleepy eyes, and asked in a low tone.
Hearing his question, Zhou Chongshan's wrinkled face twitched slightly, he forcefully opened his eyes halfway, looked at him with cloudy eyes and whispered: "What I should say, I told you some time ago."
"As for my wish, I only hope that there will be a clan member with outstanding talent in formations in the future, so that he can inherit my lifelong understanding of formations, so that my hard work can be passed down!"
He never married, had no children, and devoted his whole life to the formation. This was the thing he cared about the most.
After hearing what he said, Zhou Chun couldn't help but nodded heavily and said: "Junior, I understand. Don't worry. From now on, every monk in the Zhou family will have the opportunity to learn the art of formation. If such a good idea is discovered,
, the family will definitely support him and will not let the inheritance of your hard work be interrupted!"
"Then I can rest assured, the Zhou family will be up to you from now on."
A peaceful smile appeared on Zhou Chongshan's face, and he closed his eyes slightly.
He is still waiting for the others to arrive.
After waiting like this for almost another quarter of an hour, other elders who were still cultivating and the two Supreme Elders also stopped their efforts and rushed over.
When Zhou Mingde saw the dying Zhou Chongshan on the bed, he also had sore eyes. He couldn't help but raise his hand to wipe his eyes, then stepped forward and took Zhou Chongshan's wrist and whispered: "Chongshan, you can go with ease, there are old men and women in the family."
With Daoyi in charge and Zhengchun and the others taking care of it, it will definitely get better and better!"
"I believe, I believe there will be such a day!"
Zhou Chongshan stretched out his palm to hold Zhou Mingde's palm, and murmured to himself in a low voice.
Then he tried his best to open his eyes, glanced at everyone in the room one by one, and finally whispered softly: "Everyone, please go out, and then let me finish the last bit of time quietly!"
"Listen to Chongshan, let's let him go quietly!"
Zhou Mingde said, taking the lead and walking out of the room.
In this way, after Zhou Chun and others waited outside for almost two quarters of an hour, the aura in the room finally completely dissipated.
Then everyone entered the room again and saw that Zhou Chongshan had passed away peacefully with his eyes and mouth tightly closed.
Seeing this scene, Zhou Chun took advantage of the situation and asked Zhou Mingde and Zhou Daoyi: "In the opinion of the two Supreme Elders, what etiquette should be used to mourn the death of the second elder?"
Hearing his words, Zhou Mingde and Zhou Mingde couldn't help but look at each other. After communicating with each other, Zhou Mingde said in a deep voice: "Many people have passed away in various families recently. If the second elder dies, there is no need to disturb other people.
If he is dead, the family will be in mourning for seven days."
"This junior understands, then this junior will tell the whole clan."
Zhou Chun nodded, immediately left Zhenxuan Peak and sounded the death knell.
Winter winter winter!
Seven heavy bells rang in a row from the top of Pagoda Peak, and soon spread throughout the Zhou Family Mountain Gate.
According to the rules of the Zhou family, if the bell rings seven times, it means the death of an important member of the clan at the elder level.
Therefore, after hearing the sound of the bell, all the monks of the Zhou family who do not have any missions will immediately go to the ancestral temple to see the deceased clan members.
Not long after, dozens of Zhou family members gathered in front of the Zhou Family Ancestral Temple, and the body of the second elder Zhou Chongshan had also been transferred here.
Afterwards, just like what happened after the death of Zhou Mingshan, the eldest elder of the Zhou family, dozens of Zhou family members wrapped themselves in white cloths and chanted sutras and mantras around his body for seven days.
Seven days later, Zhou Chongshan's body was buried in the Houshan Clan Tomb at Baota Peak. He became the second Zhou Clan elder buried in the Houshan Clan Tomb.
After Zhou Chongshan's funeral was completed, within two months, Zhou Mingde and Zhou Daoyi took Zhou Daoquan and left the Zhou family again.
Their trip was to fulfill their previous promise to Zhou Daoquan, to help him seek revenge in Leguo, northeast of Chengguo, and also to see if they could dispose of some previously obtained magic weapons in Leguo and buy some useful things.
At this time, the Zhou family is already well-known. In addition, the Jingguo Immortal World has just been seriously injured in the previous battle, and all forces are busy licking their wounds. Even if the Zhou family's two Zifu period monks are not in the family, there is no need to worry.
What.
At this time, Zhou Chun also began to practice what he had said at the family meeting, and hired some casual cultivators who had passed the investigation and assessment, and hired them to do more work in the Zhou family.
Naturally, those casual cultivators were very happy that the Zhou family was willing to hire casual cultivators to raise animals and breed medicine within the family.
In Zhou Chun's eyes, these tasks are tiring and a waste of time.
But in the eyes of casual cultivators, it is an opportunity that may change the fate of themselves and their descendants.
It is really difficult to practice casual cultivation!
Many casual practitioners have no mastery of any life skills except for a book of immortality cultivation techniques and a few spells.
This situation will not change much even if they reach the later stage of Qi refining.
But every casual cultivator knows the importance of life skills.
Even if they only know the art of raising animals and breeding medicine, it is possible that they will change the way they make money from an ordinary hunter who can only rely on finding elixirs and hunting monsters to a craftsman who can make money with their skills.
Therefore, not to mention that the Zhou family also offered spiritual coins as a reward, even without this reward, many casual cultivators would be willing to do this job.
Of course, the Zhou family will not let people learn skills in vain and then run away.
All casual cultivators who can come to learn these skills must not only be screened by origin, but also sign a service contract, agreeing on a minimum number of years of service before they can leave the Zhou family and stop doing this job.
The service period of this kind of service contract starts at least ten years.
With the participation of these casual cultivators, many cultivators in the Zhou family have been able to gain freedom and have more time to leave the family to travel around the world of cultivating immortals and try to learn other techniques of cultivating immortals.
Especially the juniors of the "heart" generation, if they are not interested in studying in the Beast Garden, they can take this opportunity to learn skills such as alchemy, talisman formations and so on.
Because he had received too many materials for alchemy, weapon making, and talisman making during the previous war, Zhou Chun waved his hand and allowed each Zhou family monk to use twenty materials for free after detailed preparation.
As long as they can show a certain talent in this kind of practice process, they can obtain more materials for further study.
This kind of good thing can only be encountered in the family, not even places like the three major sects.
Time passed slowly, and soon three months passed.
One morning three months later, Zhou Mingde and his three friends finally returned after being away from home for hundreds of days.
"Supreme Elder, you are finally back. Why did it take you so long to go out this time?"
On the pagoda peak, Zhou Chun looked at the three elders who had returned, and asked the reason with doubts on his face.
Leguo is far away from Jingguo, but at the speed of three people, it can be reached in ten days at most. A hundred days is indeed too long.
"The time I went there was just right. I participated in an underground auction in a city in Leguo. I was delayed for almost half a month. It also took some effort to kill the senior officials of the Tang family, so it was time to come back.
Much later than expected.”
Zhou Mingde answered Zhou Chun's question softly, and then smiled softly and said: "But it's all worth it. Zhengchun, guess what we gained from this trip to Leguo?"
"Looking at you, Supreme Elder, you are like this, could it be that you have obtained the Foundation Establishment Pill?"
Zhou Chun's eyes moved slightly and he tentatively guessed.
Hearing his words, Zhou Mingde couldn't help but laughed at Zhou Daoyi and said: "Look, I think this kid can guess right!"
Then he smiled and nodded in response: "Yes, this time at the underground auction in Leguo, we only used 18,000 spirit coins to buy two Foundation Establishment Pills, and also bought three bottles suitable for Foundation Establishment monks.
The elixir.”
"And when we eliminated the senior officials of the Tang family, we also got a lot of good things from them, and even got two third-level high-grade magic weapons!"
Zhou Chun was also surprised when he heard this.
"What? There are actually two Foundation Establishment Pills!"
He looked at Zhou Mingde and Zhou Daoyi with surprise on his face, and he was also surprised and happy.
Treasures like the Foundation Establishment Pill are never too much for a cultivating immortal family, and they are always one of the most useful treasures.
Especially in the current Jingguo, because too many foundation-building monks were lost in the previous war, this kind of treasure is now completely priceless and impossible to buy.
Now each cultivating family is waiting for the three sects to refine the foundation-building pills, waiting to use their military merits to exchange the foundation-building pills from the three sects to use them to build the foundations of the monks in the clan, and to cultivate new foundation-building monks for the family.
But even if the three sects got a lot of materials for refining Foundation Establishment Pills this time, they would be able to refine a lot of Foundation Establishment Pills by then, but I'm afraid it wouldn't be enough.
For at least the next twenty to thirty years, the price of Jingguo's Foundation Establishment Pills will remain high, making it difficult to buy them at the same price as before.
Under such circumstances, the Zhou family has now obtained two foundation-building pills, which makes Zhou Chun not surprised.
But soon he thought of something again and couldn't help but ask: "By the way, I remember that the third elder didn't say that there was still a thousand-year-old Yin Ganoderma lucidum? Didn't you, Supreme Elder, get this thing?"
"No, the thousand-year-old Ganoderma lucidum and other good things in the mausoleum were sold by the Tang family and exchanged for talismans. It took a lot of effort from me and Dao Yi to kill Mr. Tang!"
Zhou Mingde shook his head and told the whole story in a rather depressed tone.
"That's such a shame!"
Zhou Chun sighed lightly, which was also a pity.
At this time, Zhou Daoyi said: "Although it is a pity, it would be nice to help Daoquan get rid of this bad breath. Next, we will wait for the news from the three sects. I hope they can release some auxiliary personnel to open up this time.
If the spiritual beings from the Zi Mansion come, then there will be hope for the Dao Spring to open up the Zi Mansion!"
"Dao Yi is right. As long as Dao Quan's bad breath is released, it will be good, and the knot in his heart will be untangled. Everything else is secondary."
Zhou Mingde nodded repeatedly and was no longer depressed.
