Chu Zheng didn't pay attention to all this, and the turmoil within Truman actually put him in a rather embarrassing situation. He has no feelings for Chumen, and because of the death of his parents and the extermination of his mother's family, there are irreconcilable contradictions with Chu Hong and Princess Chu, and even this is no longer a contradiction, but hatred and mortal hatred. He could only take revenge if he left Truman, so he didn't feel much sad about his father's argument for the ancestral ancestral hall. But when he left Truman, he didn't necessarily want to provoke internal strife in Truman. Chu Hong's idiot didn't know that he was being used, but since he knew about the conspiracy behind the scenes of the Shengtong Chamber of Commerce and the Great Zhou Prince, it was impossible for him to cooperate with them to split Chumen. What's more, in the past few days, many people in Truman have been indignantly supporting him. In the end, Chu Zheng had to avoid everyone's kindness in the name of retreat.

In the blink of an eye, August 28 is coming. On this day, whether it is the Great Zhou royal family or the three major lords, the thirty-six families and the six major sects, the eyes of all the big forces are gathered in Chufeng County, and they are all gathered on this time Chumen to worship their ancestors.

Truman, as a gate valve that has lasted for thousands of years, worships his ancestors on August 28 every year. This day is not the birthday of the ancestor of Trumen, nor is it the birthday of the ancestor of Trumen, this day is the day when the ancestor of Trumen is the day of the establishment of the mansion, and the establishment of the mansion is equivalent to the establishment of the Chu family at that time. It has been more than 3,300 years. In previous years, it was a small sacrifice, a big sacrifice every five years, and today coincides with the five-year festival, and Chu Tianqing, the king of Chu, will only be allowed to leave Yujing City at this time.

Chufeng County has an oval valley in the center, and outside the valley is the county seat of Chufeng County, and ten miles south from the county seat of Chufeng County is the entrance to the valley. The entrance to the valley is flanked by a cliff thirty zhang high, and on the cliff is a famous Chumen guard with a long sword hanging from his waist, with a serious face. These hundred guards are only half-step innate, but the leader of them is the clan elder who has refined qi, but the clan elder rarely has the road, maybe sitting nearby.

In the center of the cliff is a white jade gate ten zhang high and eight zhang wide. At the entrance, people come in and out, which is very lively, but only those who go out can enter.

From the gate to the inside of the canyon is the canyon, out of the canyon is oval long 3,000 zhang wide 2,000 zhang, in the middle of the valley is a lake covering an area of 100 acres. With the lake as the center, it is surrounded by rows of two-story bamboo buildings, and there are three circles of bamboo buildings, which is the place where the ordinary people of Chumen live. Walking across the lake and inward is a square bluestone square with a diameter of fifty zhang, which is where the young children of Chumen cultivate.

In Truman, both men and women, they have to practice from the age of five. Every day, before the sun rises, these young children come to this square and practice their bodies until the end of the day.

At the end of the day, they will drink a bowl of broth and eat a piece of roasted meat. After the meal, sit down in the bamboo forest next to it, and there is a teacher from Truman to teach knowledge. At the beginning of noon, these young children would go to the square to practice until after noon, when they had lunch, and then their cultivation would be over. They start at the age of five and end at the age of ten. During this period, if there is a person who shows talent, he will be taken to the square at the foot of the mountain on both sides for training. If you still don't show talent after the age of ten, you will be taught other subjects.

But today, there are no young children of Trumen who are practicing here, on the contrary, tens of thousands of people are gathered here to sit side by side silently. Everyone raised their heads slightly, looking up at the stone house halfway up the mountain opposite, and the bluestone platform in front of the stone house.

On the platform of more than 10,000 people, there was only the sound of gentle breathing, but not a single person whispered.

At this time, the sound of neat footsteps came from behind, and the first person was Chu Tianqing, the king of Chu, who was dressed in a robe, and two columns of more than 300 people slowly walked forward behind Chu Tianqing.

More than 300 people walked across the square along the mountain path to the platform in front of the stone house halfway up the mountain, and then everyone sat cross-legged facing the stone house.

There are only three types of people who can sit on the platform halfway up the mountain. The first is a Jindan or Qi refining Chenggang or above cultivation, the second is a man within five generations of the main lineage, and the third is a Trumen bloodline disciple who has advanced to the foundation building or innate within the age of thirty. Among these people, Chu Zheng and Chu Hong and Chu Yi are also among them.

The morning light gradually appeared in the misty valley, and tens of thousands of people silently looked at this stone house, whether halfway up the mountain or at the foot of the mountain.

This stone house is the ancestral shrine of Truman. There is only one statue of the ancestor of Truman in this ancestral hall, which looks very simple. But bypassing the statue is Trumen's road to heaven, and on the road to heaven, you can comprehend the artistic conception of the various spells and exercises left by Trumen's ancestors. However, even though Truman has a large number of people, only a few people are qualified to break through the road to heaven every year.

The first rays of sunlight shone on the ancestral shrine halfway up the mountain. More than 300 people on the halfway platform stood up and turned around, and sat cross-legged again, this time looking at the oval-shaped valley of this important place of Truman.

Truman's sacrifice does not need to be impassioned, nor does it need to sing the praises of the great deeds of the ancestors.

Sitting cross-legged and looking at the ancestral shrine, the tranquility of that moment will naturally make people think of what Truman's ancestors have paid for the growth of Truman from generation to generation.

Cross-legged and looking at the valley, this valley is inhabited by tens of thousands of people of Truman blood. The valley is surrounded by mist, the scenery is beautiful, and the environment in which people live is also elegant and luxurious. All this is where Truman lives now, and all this is also the place they need to protect, the life they need to protect. This kind of silent gaze can stimulate the desire of Truman's disciples to grow Truman.

There is no incense to worship the ancestors, and the rule of Trumen worshipping the ancestors has made many people speculate that the ancestors of Trumen are still alive, which is also a deterrent.

In an hour, the solemn and silent ancestor worship ceremony is over, and then the highlight of the year is next.

Under the leadership of Chu Tianqing, more than 300 people on the halfway platform lined up in two teams and walked down the mountainside to the square at the foot of the mountain.

Dozens of teenagers poured in from both sides of the square, each carrying a chair in their hands, four of them carrying a huge rosewood couch.

Put the soft couch in the center, Chu Tianqing sat on it, and dozens of other teenagers placed the rest of the chairs on both sides of Chu Tianqing in the shape of "eight", Chu Zheng and the others walked to the square and turned to face Chu Tianqing, while Jin Dan and the clan elders who had cultivated above Chenggang were sitting on the chairs. The closer people were to Chu Tianqing, the higher their cultivation, eight of them were at least Yuan Ying and Immortal Body cultivators, and the other sixty-five people were Jindan or Qi Refining Chenggang.

After everyone was seated, two more teenagers walked out, carrying a table and a chair on the edge of the figure-eight, a young woman sat on a chair behind the table, and a middle-aged man with a majestic face walked to the front of the table.

"Heavenly punishment, let's begin. Chu Tianqing glanced at the other party and said.

The person known as Heavenly Punishment bowed slightly, and then his cold eyes swept over the tens of thousands of people sitting in the square, and said, "The old man clan elder deacon Chu Tianxing. ”

Chumen has a family head, Jin Dan and Qi Refining Chenggang will become members of the clan elders' association, and the main role of the clan elders will be to remove the head of the family, and if the head of the family makes a decision, two-thirds of the clan elders oppose it, and the decision of the head of the family can be forcibly revoked. The deacon of the Elders' Association performs daily affairs in Chufeng County instead of the head of the family, and is supervised by the Elders' Association. The deacons of the Elders' Association are high and powerful, which is naturally the focus of the competition within Truman. This time, Chu Tianxing, the deacon of the clan elders' association, is Chu Tianqing's third brother and Chu Zheng's third uncle.

Facing Chu Tianxing's cold gaze, many people couldn't help but dodge their gazes, and then Chu Tianxing took out a piece of animal skin and said loudly: "Li Hongming, the side branch of Chumen, successfully advanced to the Jindan stage in May this year, rewarded the low-grade magic weapon Tianhuo Sword, rewarded 100,000 spirit stones, and stayed in the Chumen Ancestral Valley. ”

Sitting below, a middle-aged man with bright spirits stood up with a smile and walked in front of Chu Tianqing, bowing slightly. Chu Tianqing nodded with a smile and said, "Hong Ming, you have been tirelessly pursuing your own avenue all these years, which is admirable. This is a token for the Library, which you can claim later. And I'll give it to you if I have a mansion there. Chu Tianqing pointed to a mansion halfway up the mountain with a smile, and slapped two jade plaques on Li Hongming's palm.

"Thank you, family master!" Li Hongming bowed excitedly.

Halfway up the mountain in the ancestral valley of Chumen is the place with the most abundant spiritual energy, and the scenery is more beautiful, and only the clan elders are qualified to live in the mansion halfway up the mountain. Li Hongming is newly promoted to the Jindan period, and the mansions with abundant aura on the mountainside already have owners, but Chu Tianqing gave away the mansion that belonged to him, although he knew that it was Chu Tianqing's means to win over, but Li Hongming was still very happy.

Chu Tianqing raised his head and said loudly: "Now that Hong Ming has advanced to the Jindan stage, according to the clan rules, he will become the elder of the Chumen clan, but is there anyone who opposes it?"

The elders shook their heads. This is a procedure, and if Li Hongming does something that harms the interests of Truman, or does something that angers the people and resents him, there will naturally be people who oppose it. But Li Hongming, as the son-in-law of the Chu family, has been low-key all these years, and no one will object.

Chu Tianqing took out a jade plaque again and handed it to Li Hongming, stretched out his hand to signal the next young man to move a chair, and Li Hongming became the seventy-fifth patriarch of Chumen.

Chu Tianxing handed the animal skin scroll to the woman sitting behind the table behind her, and the woman quickly made a record on the animal skin scroll. These are archived within the family.

Chu Tianxing took out an animal skin roll again and said loudly: "Chu Junqing, the third-grade deacon of the Chumen Chamber of Commerce, has a good way of working hard, and he will be rewarded with 10,000 taels of silver, and he will be promoted to a second-grade deacon, and the head of the family will be asked to adjudicate." ”

Chu Tianqing looked down at the middle-aged man who stood up a little nervously and nodded with a smile, and said, "But!" After a slight mutter, Chu Tianqing continued: "I heard that your third child's cultivation qualifications are very good, you can bring it over for me another day." ”

"Thank you, master, thank you!" Chu Junqing was surprised and saluted three times in a row.

The next dozen or so items are all about rewards and promotions, and Chu Tianqing is allowed to read each of them, and he will encourage a few words. The solemnity of the sacrifice gradually dissipated, but not many people were happy except for those who received the reward and those close to them. Because everyone knows what the highlight of the day is.