Cultivation Begins From The Desert

When flying through the oasis channel formed by twenty-five man-made oases, Zhou Yang saw scenes that had been imagined in his mind for a long time.

Just like the service areas on the highways in his previous life, with twenty-five man-made oases as bases, a large number of monks who explored the sand sea came in and out of those oases, or sold their own exploration of the sand sea to the shops opened by the Zhou family on the oasis. The spiritual things obtained at the time, or buy bigu pills, Jiedu pills, Shengji Zhixue pills and various consumable magic symbols from the store.

Low-level monks are not as easy to explore the sand sea as the foundation-building monks. Their storage bags have limited capacity, and the various food and water they can hold at one time can only supply them for a few months or half a year in the sand sea, so they have to calculate Control the depth of exploration and reserve the required consumption when returning.

Moreover, there are many monsters in this unexplored sand sea. Once a battle is triggered, unless you encounter a first-order monster that can be crushed, otherwise, fighting with monsters of the same level will consume some magic symbols in the hands of the monks. and panacea.

Once these elixir talismans are all used up, they must go back to the twenty-five oasis strongholds to replenish them, otherwise they will easily die in the sea of ​​sand when they encounter strong enemies.

And these supplies are on the twenty-five man-made oases, and only the Zhou family can provide them.

There are also some shrewd low-level monks who found this business opportunity and sold similar things at a slightly lower price like the peddlers in the mortal country, but they could only drink a sip of soup from it after all, and the Zhou family made the most of it.

At the same time, Zhou Yang also saw two migrating mortal teams. The mortals in these two teams were all sitting on camel carts on the sandy ground, pulled by the Shatuo beast and heading towards Xijiao Island. There were more than a dozen Zhou family practitioners in the team. Qi period monks participated in the escort.

One of the teams has traveled a quarter of the distance, and the number of personnel has decreased by nearly 10%. Most of the people in the team have tired faces, and many people's eyes are full of worry and regret. , seems to be worried about this bumpy journey, and regrets embarking on this road of no return.

The latter team has just set off and has not yet reached the first man-made oasis. The people in the team are full of energy, and their eyes are full of yearning and expectations for the legendary Xijiao Island with fertile land. They fantasize about arriving A whole new life after there.

The endless white flour steamed buns, the endless fresh white milk, the delicious roast lamb...

Zhou Yang saw these scene after scene, but they couldn't make his mood fluctuate in any way.

With more than two hundred years of life experience, he has become accustomed to seeing life and death, and his heart has become as hard as iron.

The mortals who are migrating may be very poor, and the mortals who died on the road are even more innocent.

But so what?

This world is so cruel. If you want to live well and live more comfortably than others, you have to work harder and pay a higher price than others.

Cultivators of the Zhou family did not use false propaganda to deceive these mortals. If they can reach Xijiao Continent alive, those beautiful fantasies can be realized.

The richness and fertility of Xijiao Continent can completely allow them and their descendants to have no worries about food and drink for a hundred or two hundred years.

But if they stayed in their original place, they would still have to live a life of rationing, with strict quotas for food, drink and clothing, and distribution according to work.

The road is their own choice, whether it is life or death, and they can only resist it by themselves.

Even if Zhou Yang's current cultivation base and mana already belong to the top group of people in the world of cultivating immortals in the boundless sand sea, he can't help these people in this matter.

After flying all the way for more than ten days, Zhou Yang rushed to Chihu Mountain.

"Nephew (disciple) pays respects to Uncle Nine (Master)!"

"Nephew and grandnephew pay respects to the Supreme Elder!"

On Chihu Mountain, Zhou Guangxiang and Liu Xuanxuan, who had learned of Zhou Yang's arrival, had already led a group of Zhou's elders to wait for him.

This time the Zhou family held a family meeting. Except for Zhou Guangxiang and Pang He, two foundation cultivators who needed to sit in Xijiao Island and Yuquan Lake Oasis, the rest of the Zhou family foundation cultivators rushed to Chihu Mountain.

At this time, the number of Zhou family monks gathered on Chihu Mountain had exceeded 800.

Because of the large number of participants, Zhou Guangxiang urgently ordered people to demolish the original meeting hall in the past few months, and built a larger and more magnificent new meeting hall that can accommodate thousands of people for meetings.

Zhou Yang glanced over a group of junior clansmen who came to greet him, and a trace of satisfaction flashed in his eyes.

Today's Zhou family really has a large number of talents, and there are foundation-building monks in every generation, and there are more than one of them.

And all this is due to him.

It was he who single-handedly led the development of the small family that was facing the crisis of severing its inheritance to the scale it is today.

Now seeing the most outstanding talents of the Zhou family gathered together to welcome him, he could feel a little bit of the feeling of establishing a sect and respecting him as the ancestor.

To the Zhou family, although he is not the founder of the sect, he is the real ancestor of Zhongxing.

His prestige in the Zhou family and his contribution to the Zhou family have long surpassed any ancestor, including the ancestor Zhou Yuquan who founded the Zhou family.

Even if he has been in seclusion for many years and is not visible to others, and he is not in the Zhou family, there are still legends about him everywhere in the Zhou family.

"Hehehe, everyone, get up, I will go to the ancestral hall to worship the ancestors first, and I will talk to you in detail later."

Zhou Yang chuckled and waved his hand lightly, as if he had greeted these juniors.

With his seniority and cultivation base there, there is no need to be courteous with these younger generations. Excessive politeness will make these younger generations uncomfortable, and it does not conform to the personality of his family's "ancestor" in the hearts of the people.

Next, as he said, Zhou Yang first went to the ancestral hall to worship the ancestors of the Zhou family, and then went to the cemetery to visit the graves of his parents, Zhou Minghan, Zhou Xuanyu and other close elders.

During this process, only Zhou Guangxiang accompanied him and served him.

After sweeping the graves of the elders, Zhou Yang called Zhou Guangxiang to the top of Chihu Mountain for questioning.

"Guang Xiang, you already know the reason for holding the family meeting this time, how is your matter going?"

"Returning to Uncle Jiu, after fifteen years of mining, nearly half of the [Forbidden God Stone] mine has been mined, and the ore obtained is enough for the construction of the treasure house."

"As for the nephew himself, the [Bloodline God's Forbidden] nephew has already understood most of it, and he will be able to fully grasp it in two or three years at most, and use it in the treasure house protection formation."

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silence.

After Zhou Yang listened to Zhou Guangxiang's words, he was very silent for a while and did not speak.

After passing like this for a long time, he quietly asked: "Do you think Uncle Jiu is right to do this? Is it really necessary to use the blood of the strong to distinguish the main house and the side branches?"

"My nephew dare not speak nonsense about this matter!"

"But no matter what Uncle Jiu you want to do, my nephew will firmly agree with and implement your decision."

"Nephew, I believe that no matter what you do, Uncle Ninth, the starting point must be for the good of the family, for the good of all the clansmen!"

Zhou Guangxiang looked at Zhou Yang respectfully, his words were full of trust and admiration for Zhou Yang.

And Zhou Yang seemed to have known that he would say this a long time ago. After hearing the words, there was no joy on his face, but he shook his head with a complex expression, and sighed: "Hey! Uncle Jiu, I know, this decision is actually For the family, there is no benefit, and it may even cause the infamy of splitting the family!"

"But Uncle Jiu, I understand better. As the family continues to grow, if we continue to adopt the current system, once Uncle Jiu and I are away from the family for a long time, you or your successors will not have the strength and power to subdue the whole family. Prestige, as long as there is an introduction at that time, the family will fall into civil war and division."

"Instead of passively suffering the split and civil war in the future, it is better to take the initiative now. At least the initiative is still in our hands. With the prestige of Uncle Jiu, I can suppress all resistance voices and let them honestly follow the rules we set."

"In the short term, this change will bring some damage to the family and reduce the cohesion of the family."

"But in the long run, with the increase of the branches of the family, even if we are no longer here, even if our main branch becomes a branch, the Zhou family will still be the Zhou family, and will not perish due to internal strife!"

Zhou Yang was talking to himself, and the expression in his eyes gradually became firm.

He firmly believed that the decision he had made was not a wrong one.

Whether it is the thousand-year-old families he knew in his previous life, or the various Jindan families and even Yuanying families he learned about in the world of cultivating immortals in Liuyunzhou, they are not like the Zhou family now. The ancestors of the family to maintain the existence of the family.

Half a month later, the Zhou family's family meeting was officially held.

The monks who participated in the meeting this time were all monks from the Zhou family, a total of 821 people, including Zhou Yang and Zhou Guangxiang, two Zifu monks, Zhou Yuanyao, Zhou Guangqing, Zhou Tongyao, Zhou Tonghua, Zhou Tongmin, and Zhou Fuyun. Elder Ji, seven deacon elders and hundreds of other clansmen.

At the beginning of the meeting, the patriarch Zhou Guangxiang first asked about the family's personnel and financial situation.

Zhou Yang was just listening.

"Currently, the family has a total of 927 monks of the same family, 489 monks of foreign relatives, and 143 monks of guest friends."

"Among them, there are three cultivators in Zifu, ten cultivators in foundation building, one hundred and twenty-five cultivators in the ninth level of qi training, 337 monks in the late stage of qi training, and mid-stage qi training..."

"The number of secular mortals in the family is about 4.2 million, and the number of mortals with foreign surnames is about 860,000!"

"At the same time, the family now has seven vassals of the Jianji family, namely the Huang family, Ma family, Guo family, He family, Yu family, Xie family, and Luo family, and nine vassals of the Qi training family, namely the Lu family and the Li family. ,Lin……"

"These vassal families have a total of eight foundation-building monks, including two from the Huang family, and 597 Qi-training monks, all of whom can be encouraged by my Zhou family!"

This chapter has already explained Zhou Yang's decision to establish a main line and a branch line in the Zhou family, which is similar to the division of long houses and concubine houses in ancient aristocratic families.

Of course, the difference between the main vein and the branch veins is definitely not as big as the difference between the ancient long house and the concubine house, and there are not so many restrictions. For the specific content, you can read it later when I write it down. I explain here that I am afraid that some people may not read it all. Just start spraying...