The situation is just like what Zhou Mingde said, the pill Li family and the formation You family are very interested in cooperating with the Zhou family to establish a pioneer base.

Through this war against the Dragon Transformation Sect, after paying a lot of sacrifices, their two families finally made the Qinglian Temple recognize them, and no longer restricted them in all aspects.

However, with only a single pioneer base, the scope of influence is only two or three hundred miles, which may be enough for a great clan of immortal cultivators, but for a Jindan family like them, it is not enough at all.

If they can take the opportunity of cooperating with the Zhou family to get the right to pioneer one more pioneer base, it will undoubtedly be of great benefit to them.

But the two families want too much!

According to them, they can take care of the manpower needed to establish a pioneer base and arrange the formation, but they each have to take a forty percent share of the base.

How could Zhou Chun agree to such harsh conditions.

Even if the Zhou family is not short of money now, he can't agree to this kind of sharing.

The bottom line in his heart is that the Zhou family accounts for 40%, and the two major families each account for 30%.

But how could the two families with the Jindan period monks easily agree to such conditions.

Therefore, the negotiations were frozen for a while, and none of the three wanted to easily give up their interests.

And in order to force the Li family and the You family to make concessions, or to make a preparatory plan, Zhou Chun also took advantage of the situation to spread the news that he was going to find someone to cooperate in establishing a pioneer base, so that interested families could come to the Zhou family to talk to him in detail.

At the same time, Zhou Chun also asked Lin Wan'er to go to the wilderness to explore the places suitable for establishing a pioneer base, and asked the intelligence line in charge of him to start collecting information on scattered cultivation in various places.

I was so busy with all kinds of things, and soon half a year passed.

On this day, Zhou Chun, who was working in the Zhongping Palace, suddenly heard a firework burst from inside the mountain gate.

He hurriedly went out to look, but saw that the fireworks came from the sky above the Xuanfeng Formation.

This made him realize something suddenly, and after his face changed slightly, he only hurriedly explained a few words to the secretary in the hall, and then hurriedly flew to the Xuanfeng.

At the same time, all the elders of the Zhou family who saw the fireworks flew to the Xuanfeng Peak as quickly as Zhou Chun.

When Zhou Chun arrived at the Formation Xuan Peak, he saw that the gate of the courtyard where Zhou Chongshan lived had been opened, and the two Zhou family monks who followed him to learn the formation were waiting outside with anxious faces.

At this time, seeing him and several elders coming, the two hurriedly stepped forward and saluted and explained: "Meet the patriarch, just now Master Venerable suddenly felt that his limit had come, so he ordered us to release the summons fireworks to inform you and the elders. ”

"Got it, you wait outside first, and I'll go see the second elder later."

Zhou Chun nodded, and immediately entered the courtyard with the other elders.

Walking all the way to Zhou Chongshan's bedroom, looking at the slightly hidden door, Zhou Chun paused slightly, then pushed the door and walked in.

When he entered the room, he saw Zhou Chongshan lying on his back on the bed, already dying.

And he only discovered at this time that Zhou Chongshan's cultivation in the late stage of foundation building was passing rapidly visible to the naked eye.

"A monk who sits on his own because of the exhaustion of his longevity will naturally begin to disperse his exercises before he dies, and when his mana is exhausted, it is the time to swallow his breath!"

Beside Zhou Chun, Third Elder Zhou Daoquan muttered to himself, not knowing whether to explain to him the situation of Second Elder Zhou Chongshan at this time, or to touch the scene and think of himself.

"Second Elder, do you have anything else to say? Do you have any other wishes? ”

Zhou Chun looked at Zhou Chongshan who was slightly blinded on the bed, and asked in a low tone.

Hearing him ask, Zhou Chongshan's wrinkled face twitched slightly, opened his eyes halfway with force, looked at him with cloudy eyes and whispered, "I told you what I had to say some time ago." ”

"As for my wishes, I only hope that there will be a clansman with outstanding talent in formation in the family in the future, so that he can inherit my comprehension of formation in this life, so that my hard work can be passed on forever!"

He has never married in his life, has no children and no daughters, and has devoted his whole life to the formation, which is what he cares about the most.

Zhou Chun heard what he said, and couldn't help but nodded emphatically and said: "The younger generation understands, don't worry, in the future, every monk of the Zhou family will have the opportunity to learn the way of the formation, if he really finds that kind of good seedling, the family will definitely support him, and he will definitely not let your hard work be broken!" ”

"Then I'll rest assured, the Zhou family will depend on you in the future."

Zhou Chongshan showed a serene smile on his face, and closed his eyes slightly.

He's still waiting, waiting for the others to arrive.

After waiting for almost a quarter of an hour like this, the other elders who were still in the cultivation state and the two Supreme Elders also rushed over.

When Zhou Mingde saw Zhou Chongshan who was dying on the bed, his eyes were also sour, and he couldn't help but raise his hand to wipe his eyes, and then stepped forward and grabbed Zhou Chongshan's wrist and whispered: "Chongshan, you can go with confidence, the family has an old man and Daoyi in charge, and they will take care of it, and it will definitely get better and better!" ”

"I believe, I believe there will be a day!"

Zhou Chongshan stretched out his hand and grasped Zhou Mingde's palm, and muttered to himself in a low voice.

Then he managed to open his eyes, his gaze swept over the faces of everyone in the room, and finally whispered softly, "Everyone go out, and then let me walk quietly through this last bit of time!" ”

"Listen to Chongshan, let's let him go quietly alone!"

Zhou Mingde said and took the lead out of the room.

In this way, after Zhou Chun and the others waited outside for almost two quarters of an hour, the breath 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 closed.

Seeing this scene, Zhou Chun took the opportunity to ask Zhou Mingde and Zhou Daoyi: "According to the opinion of the two Supreme Elders, what kind of etiquette should be used to mourn when the second elder dies?" ”

Hearing his words, Zhou Mingde and the two couldn't help but glance at each other, and after exchanging voices with each other, Zhou Mingde said in a deep voice: "Recently, many people have passed away in various families, and when the second elder dies, there is no need to disturb others, and the family can mourn for seven days!" ”

"The younger generation understands, and the younger generation will tell the whole clan."

Zhou Chun nodded, and immediately left the formation of Xuanfeng and sounded the death knell.

Winter, winter, winter!

A series of seven heavy bells rang from the peak of the pagoda peak, and soon spread throughout the entire Zhoujia Mountain Gate.

According to the rules of the Zhou family, the bell rang seven times, which means that an important member of the clan elder level has passed away.

Therefore, after hearing this bell, all the monks of the Zhou family who have no task in their bodies must go to the ancestral shrine as soon as possible to visit the departing clansmen.

It didn't take long for dozens of Zhou family members to gather in front of the ancestral ancestral hall of the Zhou family, and the body of the second elder Zhou Chongshan had also been transferred here.

After that, just like the situation after the death of Zhou Mingshan, the great elder of the Zhou family, dozens of members of the Zhou family wrapped white cloth together and recited mantras around his body for seven days.

Seven days later, Zhou Chongshan's body was buried in the tomb of the Houshan clan in the pagoda peak, and he also became the second Zhou family elder buried in the tomb of the Houshan clan.

After Zhou Chongshan's funeral was completed, within two months, Zhou Mingde and Zhou Daoyi left Zhou's house with Zhou Daoquan.

The purpose of their trip was to fulfill their previous promise to Zhou Daoquan, to help him go to Leguo in the northeast of Chengguo to take revenge, and by the way, to see if they could dispose of some of the magic weapons they had obtained before in Leguo and buy some things that could be used.

At this time, the Zhou family was already famous, and the Yasukuni Immortal Cultivation Realm had just suffered a great injury in the previous war, and all the forces were busy licking their wounds, even if the two Purple Mansion monks of the Zhou family were not in the family, they didn't have to worry about anything.

At this time, Zhou Chun also began to practice what he said at the family meeting, and hired some loose cultivators who had passed the investigation and assessment, and hired them to do more work in the Zhou family.

Regarding the fact that the Zhou family was willing to hire loose cultivators to raise beasts and grow medicines in the family, those casual cultivators were naturally happy.

In Zhou Chun's eyes, these jobs are tiring and a waste of time.

However, in the eyes of the cultivators, it is an opportunity to change the fate of themselves and their descendants.

It's really hard to do casual practice!

Many casual cultivators have not mastered any life skills except for a book of immortal cultivation exercises and several spells.

Even if this situation is to wait for their cultivation to reach the late stage of Qi refining, it will not change much.

But every casual practitioner knows the importance of the art of life.

Even if they only know the skill of raising beasts and cultivating medicines, it is possible that they will change the way they make money from now on, from an ordinary hunter who can only rely on finding elixirs and hunting demon beasts, to a craftsman who can make money by skill.

Therefore, not to mention that the Zhou family also issued spirit coins as a reward, even without this reward, many casual cultivators are also willing to do this work.

Of course, the Zhou family will not let people learn skills in vain, and they will run away after learning.

For those who can come to learn these skills, not only must their origins be screened, but they must also sign a service contract and agree on how many years of service they can leave the Zhou family without doing this job.

And the service term of this service contract is at least ten years.

With the addition of these casual cultivators, many monks of the Zhou family were able to liberate their freedom, and they could have more time to leave the family to travel to the immortal cultivation world and try to learn other immortal cultivation skills.

Especially those juniors of the "heart" generation, if they are not interested in learning in the beast garden, they can take this opportunity to learn skills such as the Dan Weapon Rune Array.

Because he had obtained too many alchemy refining talisman materials in the previous war, Zhou Chun waved his hand and allowed each Zhou family monk to use twenty materials for free to practice after detailed preparations.

As long as they can show some talent in this kind of training, they will be able to obtain more materials for further study.

This kind of good thing can only be encountered in the family, and even the three major sects will not have this kind of good thing.

Time passed slowly, and soon three months passed.

One morning three months later, Zhou Mingde and the three of them, who had been away from home for hundreds of days, finally returned.

"Elder Taishang, you can be regarded as back, why did it take so long to go out this time?"

On the pagoda peak, Zhou Chun looked at the three elders who came back, and his face was also full of questions and asked the reason.

Leguo is very far away from Yasukuni, but at the speed of three people, it can be reached in 10 days at most, which is indeed a bit too long.

"I went at just the right time, I participated in an underground auction in a Fang market in Leguo, and it was delayed for almost half a month, and it took some effort to destroy those high-level Tang family leaders, so I came back a lot later than expected."

Zhou Mingde answered Zhou Chun's question softly, and then smiled lightly: "But it's all worth it, Zhengchun, guess what, what did we gain from this trip to Leguo?" ”

"Look at Elder Taishang, you look like this, could it be that you got the Tsukidan?"

Zhou Chun's eyes moved slightly, and he guessed tentatively.

Hearing his words, Zhou Mingde couldn't help but smile at Zhou Daoyi and said, "Look, I said that this kid can guess correctly!" ”

Then he smiled and nodded in response: "That's right, this time at the underground auction in Leguo, we only used 18,000 spirit coins to auction two Tsukidan, and we also bought three bottles of elixir suitable for Tsukiji monks." ”

"And when I destroyed those high-ranking Tang family members, I also got a lot of good things from them, and even got two third-order high-grade magic weapons!"

When Zhou Chun heard this, he was also shocked.

"What? There are two Tsukidans! ”

He looked at Zhou Mingde and Zhou Daoyi with surprise on his face, and he was also surprised and delighted.

This kind of treasure is never too much for the Xiu Immortal family, and it will always be one of the most useful treasures.

Especially the current Yasukuni, because of the previous war, lost too many monks in the foundation building period, and now this kind of treasure is completely priceless and cannot be bought at all.

Now all the immortal cultivation families are waiting for the three major sects to refine the foundation building pill, waiting for the time to use the battle merits to exchange the foundation building pill from the three major sects to build the foundation for the monks in the clan, and cultivate a new foundation building period monk for the family.

But even if the three major sects get a lot of materials for refining the Tsukidan this time, and they can refine a lot of Tsukidan at that time, I'm afraid it won't be enough at all.

In the next 20 or 30 years, the price of Yasukuni's Tsukidan will remain high, and it will be difficult to buy it at the same price as before.

In this case, the Zhou family has now got two Zhuji Dan, which makes Zhou Chun not surprised.

But soon he thought of something again, and couldn't help asking, "By the way, I remember that the Third Elder didn't say at the beginning that there is still a thousand-year-old Yin Lingzhi?" Didn't you get this thing, Elder? ”

"No, that thousand-year-old Yin Lingzhi and some other good things in the mausoleum were sold by the Tang family and replaced with rune treasures, but it took a lot of effort from the old man and Dao Yi to kill that Tang Lao'er!"

Zhou Mingde shook his head, and said the reason in a rather depressed tone.

"That's a shame!"

Zhou Chun sighed lightly, which was also a pity.

At this time, Zhou Daoyi said: "Although it is a pity, it is good to help Daoquan out of this evil breath, and then we will wait for the news from the three major sects, I hope that this time they can release some spiritual objects to assist in opening up the Purple Mansion, so that there will be hope for Daoquan to open up the Purple Mansion!" ”

"Dao Yi is right, as long as Dao Quan's evil breath comes out, it's good to untie the knot, everything else is secondary."

Zhou Mingde nodded again and again, and he was no longer depressed.