"Brother Liu, Brother Yang, please go slowly, when the celebration of the foundation building of Xiaojiu is held, please also be sure to patronize the two of you. ”

"It must be, other people's foundation building celebrations can not be missed, Zhou Xiaoyou's foundation building celebrations, we will definitely not be absent. ”

Outside the Zhou family's residence on Jingming Peak, Zhou Yang and Zhou Minghan's ancestors and grandchildren personally sent them out of the courtyard after discussing with the visiting Liu Qingsong and Yang Xingyan for nearly an hour.

Looking at the smiling faces of several people, it is obvious that they are having a good conversation and have reached some kind of agreement.

After bidding farewell to the visiting Liu and Yang, Zhou Minghan and Zhou Yang returned to the quiet room, and talked about the previous agreement with Liu and Yang.

Zhou Minghan first said with a worried face: "I don't know if it's right for us to do this, if this matter is not led by the Liu and Yang families, the old man really doesn't dare to think about it, this is a tiger's mouth!"

When Zhou Yang heard his words, he shook his head and said, "Great-grandfather's words, please forgive my grandson for not agreeing!"

He looked at the old patriarch with a worried look on his face, and said calmly: "Yang Xingyan is right, we are doing this, for the Chen family, it is a matter of harmony and mutual benefit, the Baisha River Oasis needs our strength to help protect it, and the Chen family can't eat up the scattered cultivation resources here." ”

"Our move may make some monks of the Chen family uncomfortable, but with the wisdom of Old Ancestor Chen, we should be able to see our determination on this matter and the importance of this matter to our families. ”

"If the Chen family refuses to give up even this little benefit, it means that they don't treat us as allies at all, but regard us as enemies that threaten their Chen family's status, so why should we use our own family's resources to help them rebuild Fang City?"

When Zhou Minghan heard him say this, the worry on his face became even worse, and he couldn't help but sigh heavily: "Hey, Xiao Jiu, the old man also understands the truth, although my Zhou family is now no longer lacking in high-end combat power because of your father and son building a foundation successively, but the number of Qi cultivation period cultivators below has lost a lot, and it is difficult to replenish it in a short period of time." ”

"We, the families linked by blood, in order to avoid the situation where the guest is strong and the master is weak, after all, we can't absorb outsiders like the sect, if we want to increase the scale of the family as quickly, the Chen family's [Fengyue Tower] model is the only choice. ”

"It's just that the old man looks at Liu and Yang, if the Chen family doesn't agree to the request of the three of us to open a family branch in the Baisha River Oasis this time, I'm afraid they will really join forces to open a fang market and compete with the Chen family for scattered cultivation resources, where should our Zhou family go when the time comes?"

Where should the Zhou family go?

Zhou Yang looked at the old patriarch with a worried look on his face, and wanted to say that this question still needs to be asked?

But that would be too disrespectful to answer.

He could only smile helplessly: "Great-grandfather, you think too much, if the Chen family doesn't even agree to our small request, even if we don't work with the Liu and Yang families, we have to find another backer, in short, the Chen family, who refuses to pull out even a dime, is definitely not a suitable object to follow!"

Zhou Minghan was stunned.

He looked at Zhou Yang with a stunned expression, his brows furrowed as if he wanted to say something.

But when he saw Zhou Yang's young face, he suddenly came to his senses, as if he understood something, and couldn't help but smile bitterly: "Xiao Jiu, you're right, if the Chen family refuses to even agree to our request, it means that they don't want to see our family grow, so why do we need to follow them anymore? The old man understands what to do!"

He figured it out, Zhou Yang was not him, he was already old, and as long as he saw that the Zhou family could be passed on in his own hands, he would be very satisfied for the rest of his life.

But a young man like Zhou Yang must have ambitions and want to lead the family to develop and grow, and once upon a time when he was young, he also had this kind of ambition.

This time, the matter planned by the Liu and Yang families was a risky move in his opinion, and if he was not careful, he would attract the suppression of the Chen family, the Zifu family.

But in the eyes of the ambitious Zhou Yang, this is a great opportunity to test the Chen family, if the Chen family does not tolerate people, then the Zhou family under his leadership will definitely not follow behind the Chen family.

As for the subsequent suppression of the Chen family, everyone is so far apart, at most, the Zhou family monks will no longer set foot in the Baisha River Oasis, can the Chen family still be able to expedition to the Yuquan Lake Oasis to destroy the Zhou family?

As long as the ancestor of the Chen family did not lose his mind, it would be impossible to do this.

"It seems that I am really old, even Liu Qingsong, an old guy with half a foot in the ground, is still ambitious, but I just want to be a dog that guards the success, thanks to Xiao Jiu you today, otherwise my Zhou family will miss a big opportunity!"

Zhou Minghan, who wanted to understand, shook his head gloomily, very discouraged.

It is not terrible for people to be old, but what is terrible is that the mind is aging, especially for a person in charge of a family, once the mind is old, the whole family will be affected by itself and decline.

Seeing this, Zhou Yang hurriedly comforted: "Great-grandfather is just old and heavy, the burden of the entire Zhou family was on you before, of course you don't dare to take a risk, if you don't support the family, your grandson and father may not be able to build a foundation safely, your contribution to the family, everyone can see, why do you have to blame yourself for this matter." ”

Zhou Minghan is so shrewd, how could he not hear his words of comfort, after hearing this, he couldn't help but glare: "Okay, you kid don't comfort the old man, the old man is wrong, and he won't dare to admit it, and when he returns to the family this time, the old man will hand over the position of patriarch to you, and then be a free man with peace of mind, and enjoy the blessings." ”

When Zhou Yang heard this, he immediately became anxious, and hurriedly shook his head and said, "How can this be done? Great-grandfather, you are a good patriarch, and your grandson is still far from being qualified in terms of cultivation, how can you take on such a heavy responsibility?"

"The old man is the patriarch, the old man said that you can do it, so it was decided!" Zhou Minghan seemed to have really been hit, but he didn't listen to Zhou Yang's advice at all, and decided to pass on the position of patriarch to him after he went back.

Ren is how Zhou Yang can be eloquent, and he is helpless in this situation.

It's not that he is reluctant to take over the position of patriarch, but that should be after the old patriarch Zhou Minghan sits down.

Now that Zhou Minghan suddenly said that he would pass on the position of patriarch to him, it was no wonder that he was not in a hurry.

Not to mention that once he takes over the position of patriarch, it will inevitably delay his cultivation, just say that the old patriarch Zhou Minghan still has decades to live, and it is easy to cause gossip if he passes on the position of patriarch to him.

When people who don't know hear about this, most of them will say that he and his father Zhou Xuanhao teamed up to force the palace and forced Zhou Minghan to give way to him in advance.

This will have a great reputation for him, his father Zhou Xuanhao, and even the reputation of the entire Zhou family, and Zhou Yang doesn't understand how the old patriarch, who has always been shrewd, could suddenly be so unwise.

"This is very bitter, it seems that I can only wait until I return to the family, and ask my father to persuade the old patriarch. ”

He secretly complained in his heart, and he could only pin his hope on his father Zhou Xuanhao and other family elders, hoping that these elders would be able to persuade the old patriarch to retract his decision at that time.

On this day, as if it had been discussed in advance, the patriarchs of the Liu family of Chixia Mountain, the Yang family of Jinquan Valley, and the Zhou family of Yuquan Lake suddenly boarded the white hump of the Chen family together, and directly asked to meet Chen Laozu to discuss important matters.

Except for the foundation building monks of the Chen family, no one knew what the patriarchs of the three families discussed with Chen Laozu, and the other families on Jingming Peak, only knew that after the patriarchs of the Liu, Yang, and Zhou families came back from the White Hump, everyone had an uncontrollable look of joy on their faces, and they returned to the family with the clansmen after they returned.

The Baisha River Oasis and the Yuquan Lake Oasis were thousands of miles apart, and in order to take care of Zhou Xuantai and other Qi cultivation period monks, Zhou Minghan and Zhou Yang, the two foundation building period monks, could only ride the Shatuo Beast with them.

The five-headed sand beast was ridden by Zhou Xuantai and them at that time, and it has been stored in the Chen family's beast garden to raise, and it was lucky to survive the chaos in the attack of the sand bandits, and the two sand beasts that Zhou Yang and Zhou Xuanyu rode at the beginning were slaughtered by the two of them when they escaped from Jinxia Mountain.

In addition to the material losses worth thousands of spirit stones in the "Yuquan Building", there are also Zhou Xuanyu, Wu Tao, Luo Meiwei, Zhou Yuanxia, Zhou Ping, Zhou Qi and other six people missing, if you add Zhou Yun, Zhou Qi, and Zhou Xuanjing who died under the mouth of the demon beast, it is equivalent to the entire Zhou family's monk team has been reduced by two percent.

The loss of nine family monks at one time was the first time in nearly a hundred years that the Zhou family had lost it.

Zhou Yang could already predict how sad the clansmen who were waiting in the family would be when they learned the news.

It's just that since you have embarked on the path of cultivating immortals, you will inevitably encounter this situation, and this is the price of pursuing immortality!

The way home was very long, and Zhou Yang didn't want to be idle for a month or two, so while rushing on the road, he and the old patriarch Zhou Minghan learned the "Imperial Sword Technique" that only monks in the foundation building period could practice.

The so-called "Imperial Sword Technique" does not refer to a single spell, but refers to the magic of the Imperial Flying Sword in general.

The real name of the "Imperial Sword Technique" collected by the Zhou family should be called "Flying Star Sword Technique", this sword technique is divided into three layers, and the first layer can be practiced to turn into a sword light and flying sword, if you use the sword technique to control the flying sword in battle, it can greatly increase the power of the flying sword, and derive various changes.

Generally, monks in the foundation building period can only learn the first layer of the "Flying Star Sword Technique", and only those who are particularly talented can learn the second layer of the "Flying Star Sword Technique" in the foundation building period.

As far as Zhou Yang knew, the reason why Chen Ping'an of the Chen family was able to kill the third-order high-grade demon beast "Golden Swallowing Toad" with one sword was that in addition to the fact that the flying sword in his hand was a fourth-order magic weapon, another reason was that he had already cultivated the Chen family's sword magic to the second level.

The first layer of the "Flying Star Sword Technique" is not difficult to learn, according to the old patriarch Zhou Minghan, it took him about a year to learn the first layer of the sword technique.

And Zhou Yang benefited from the surge of divine consciousness after building the foundation, coupled with the old patriarch's words and deeds to him along the way, when the team just returned to the Yuquan Lake Oasis, he successfully practiced the first layer of the sword technique.