At night, the moon shines brightly and the stars shine.

The brightly lit Zhou family's mansion seems to be calm, but it is destined to be an uneven night.

During the day, Zhou Yue forcibly broke into the East Courtyard and was beaten by Zhou Chen, which has spread throughout the Zhou family.

Among the younger brothers of the Zhou family, Zhou Yue, who is only a three-vein martial artist, is nothing at all, almost at the bottom.

But the person who defeated Zhou Yue was considered to be the residue of martial arts, and Zhou Chen, who had been cultivating for two years and was still stagnant in the Qi Sense Realm, which surprised everyone!

Zhou Yue is not in a good situation, it is also a three-vein martial artist, and it is impossible to lose to Zhou Chen, who is only in the Qi Sense Realm.

This is the essential gap, just like an egg and a stone, even if a three-vein martial artist has not cultivated any fighting martial arts, with only a strong internal qi, it is not something that a Qi Sense Realm martial artist can do.

But it was Zhou Yue who was defeated, and he was beaten extremely miserably, and he was simply inhuman.

This shows that Zhou Yue was not only defeated, but also completely defeated, and it can be said that he had no power to fight back.

However, this does not show how powerful Zhou Chen is, after all, what kind of character Zhou Yue is, everyone knows it, although he has the cultivation of a three-vein martial artist, but in real battle, if he is not even a second-vein martial artist.

If someone else defeated Zhou Yue, it would not be surprising.

The most important thing is that it was Zhou Chen who defeated Zhou Yue, and after two years of cultivation, he was just a martial arts residue of the Qi Sense Realm.

Although Zhou Yue is not worth mentioning, if Zhou Chen wants to defeat him, he must have penetrated a qi vein and become a martial artist.

Only in this way, under the precautions, Zhou Yue, the second ancestor, would be beaten so badly.

At this critical moment, Zhou Chen actually broke through, is it a coincidence, or is it intentional?

Many people in the Zhou family are secretly guessing in their hearts.

However, the effect was still there, and several elders who supported Zhou Longyue originally faced the pull of the Great Elder and made those promises, which made them a little shaken in their hearts and favor the Great Elder, but when they heard the news, they became in a dilemma again.

"Let's act when the time comes!"

Many elders secretly said in their hearts that they knew what kind of storm would happen next.

Although Zhou Chen's breakthrough now is not necessarily useful, the Great Elder is bent on pulling Zhou Chen down from the position of the first heir of the future family master, and he is well prepared, but Zhou Longyue, as the head of the family, is not the first master.

After such a fuss, although Zhou Chen was at the center of the storm and attracted attention from all sides, if the Great Elder wanted to target him and use secret moves, he had to be cautious, and it was easy to be caught.

Although on the surface, if Zhou Chen is deposed as the heir to the future head of the family, Zhou Feng, the second son of the Great Elder, is the most likely to win the position of the successor of the future head of the family, but people's hearts are complicated, especially among wealthy families, intrigue is everywhere, who is thinking in their hearts, and who can see it clearly.

Perhaps, there are people who are waiting for the head of the family and the great elder to lose both, and get the benefit of the fisherman.

The Zhou family is one of the three wealthy families in Lanjiang City, and has stood in Lanjiang City for more than 300 years.

For more than 300 years, more than ten generations of people have been striving for self-improvement and hard work, which has developed into a wealthy family in Lanjiang City, which controls at least 20% of the trade in the city, and sends hundreds of people to collect rents in small counties and villages and towns outside the city every year.

The depth of the heritage is eye-catching.

The Zhou family mansion covers an area of thousands of acres, in addition to the Senate, the east courtyard, the south courtyard, the north courtyard and the west courtyard for the Zhou family to live, among which the courtyard is heavy, Qionglou Yuyu, countless palaces.

The library of books and scriptures, the lecture hall, the school field of martial arts, the garden pond and ......

The whole mansion is like a city within a city, and ordinary people will definitely get lost when they walk in.

In the absence of the head of the family, the daily affairs of the Zhou family were presided over by the Great Elder.

In the center of the mansion, there is a large council chamber that glows softly in the moonlight.

The walls of the council hall are all made of white marble bricks, and there are two rows of tall white marble pillars carved with powerful creatures with turtle bodies and snake heads.

This is Xuanwu, a god in the water.

Lanjiang City, built by the river, is born by water, and the black water true recipe practiced by the Zhou family is also a water attribute exercise, Xuanwu is a god in the water, and the Zhou family respects Xuanwu as a matter of course.

Not only the Zhou family, but also the other two major families in Lanjiang City and the people in the city, there are many objects based on 'Xuanwu' in their homes, and even every three years Lanjiang City will hold a Xuanwu Festival to worship Xuanwu.

The triennial Xuanwu Festival is a rare event in Lanjiang City.

On each side of the hall there was a row of chairs, six in each row, corresponding to exactly the twelve elders.

The twelve seats, all made of precious rosewood, exude a fragrance and have the effect of calming the mind, and some of the seats are carved with flowers, birds, insects and beasts, all of which are edged with pure gold, which is extremely luxurious.

Just such a seat is worth hundreds of taels of silver.

In front of the meeting hall, there is also a wider seat, the whole seat is made of sandalwood rosewood, known as the king of rosewood, the sandalwood emitted by the sandalwood, in addition to having the power of expelling distracting thoughts and calming the mind, it also helps to cultivate, and the operation of the mind is smoother, which can improve the cultivation speed of Yicheng.

Only the head of the family is qualified to sit on this throne.

If the rest of the people dare to sit around, they are deviant and rebellious.

According to the family rules, not only will he be abolished for his cultivation, but he will also be punished by the division of five horses.

However, now that the head of the family is not there, the Great Elder temporarily assumes the power of the head of the family, and Zhou Longhai sits in the position of the head of the family.

After all, in the most golden hour, they are all contributing to the martial arts, and they only know how to cultivate, Zhou Longhai only married a wife when he was in his forties, and now he is over the age of six.

I saw that he had gray hair, and he was sitting there with his eyes closed, motionless, breathing evenly, and he could feel the majestic martial arts cultivation from his body.

Each of the twelve elders of the Zhou family was a master who had surpassed the Qi Martial Realm and reached the Yuan Martial Realm.

There are three small realms in the Qi Martial Realm, the Qi Sense Realm is a martial artist, the Qi Pulse Realm is a martial artist, and the one who reaches Qi Gang is a warrior.

And above the Qi Martial Realm, there is the Yuan Martial Realm, and there are also three small realms.

Condensing qi into a yuan, turning the gang gas into a true element, this is the first realm of the true yuan level.

When you reach the True Yuan level, you can be called a martial artist.

A martial artist is qualified to be a teacher, establish a martial arts hall, and teach students.

Looking at Lanjiang City, the martial artists of the True Yuan level can be said to be masters, with a lot of status and respect.

If it is in a small county town in a remote area, or in a village or town, the True Yuan-level martial artist is definitely standing at the top of the pyramid.

As the great elder of the Zhou family, Zhou Longhai has a strong cultivation, and he is even more than an ordinary true yuan-level martial artist.

"Master, the little beast that Zhou Chen killed that day, he was so vicious, Yue'er was about to be beaten to death, and he is still unconscious, this matter must not be calculated so easily, if you don't retaliate back, who will take you seriously in the future...... spread it, I thought you were afraid of Zhou Longyue. ”

At the bottom of the hall, a beautiful woman in her thirties and forties, still charming, cried there.

Beside her, there was also a stretcher, on which lay a man covered in bandages.

His head, in particular, is bigger than a pig's head.

As soon as the beautiful woman's words fell, Zhou Longhai opened his eyes suddenly, like a male lion waking up, his eyes were terrifying, full of majesty and domineering, making people dare not look directly.

"Okay, don't think I don't know what's going on, you took it upon yourself to let Yue'er force your way into the East Courtyard to find trouble with Zhou Chen, but this mud is not as good as people, and he was beaten up violently, not even as good as waste, it's not a shame. ”

Zhou Longhai snorted coldly, looking like he hated iron but not steel.

Zhou Chen was called waste before, and Zhou Yue was no better, he was a complete gentleman and caused trouble everywhere.

"Master, Yue'er is your bloodline, how can you say that. The beautiful woman cried: "Even if there is something wrong with Yue'er, it is not Zhou Chen's turn to teach ...... lesson."

"Okay! I'll take care of that. Zhou Longhai waved his hand and said: "Although this matter is Zhou Yue's fault, Zhou Chen has indeed gone too far, and he should be taught a lesson, but the most important thing at present is to abolish Zhou Chen's status as the first heir to the future head of the family through the Council of Elders, and the rest of the things will be postponed first, so as not to cause any extraneous branches." ”

"Master, are you sure?, three of the twelve elders are still on Zhou Longyue's side, and two are neutral, even if you are only seven, there is still one vote missing. ”

Zhou Longhai nodded and said: "These days, in addition to disturbing these elders, I also visited the Senate, among which many clan elders are also quite complaining about Zhou Chen, the martial arts residue, the Zhou family must not let the martial arts waste inherit, even the father is not good to say anything at this point, Zhou Chen is his grandson, is Zhou Feng, Zhou Lei, Zhou Qing and others not his grandson?"

"As long as it is beneficial to the family, whoever inherits the position of head of the family is the same. ”

"As soon as Zhou Longyue comes back from the national capital, a council of elders will be held immediately, and when the time comes, there will be a clan elder with a very high rank to come forward, and then the two elders with a neutral attitude will naturally change their minds and take him off guard. ”