Chapter 534: Family Situation! [Two in One]
With the end of the huge welcome ceremony, the news of the return of Zhou Yuanyang, the elder of the Zhou family, as a golden pill, quickly spread to the entire boundless sand sea cultivation immortal realm at a speed faster than the wind.
This is a Jindan monk!
Since Cao Wenjin of Huangshamen sat down, there has been no Jindan stage monk in the Boundless Sand Sea Cultivation Immortal Realm for more than a hundred years.
There is a huge immortal cultivation world, and there is not even a Jindan stage monk, which is also poignant.
And now Zhou Yang has returned from Jindan, which has finally filled this gap.
This is of course a good thing for the entire Immortal Cultivation Realm.
For the Zhou family, it is a great thing.
The Zhou family has a Jindan stage monk in charge, and the only Jindan stage monk in the Boundless Sand Sea Immortal Cultivation Realm, from now on, the throne of the first force in the Boundless Sand Sea Immortal Cultivation Realm will be as stable as Mount Tai, and no one can challenge it anymore, not even Huangshamen!
And with a Jindan period ancestor to take care of them, the future cultivation path of the younger monks of the Zhou family will undoubtedly be much smoother than that of the monks of other sect families.
The Jindan period monk has lived for a thousand years, and Zhou Yang is only three hundred years old now, even if he cultivates in the Jindan period in the future, he can still take care of the Zhou family for seven hundred years!
Every monk of the Zhou family understands what this means.
Therefore, although Zhou Yang, the Jindan ancestor, only showed his face after he came back and no longer appeared in front of people, the discussion of the Zhou clan about this family ancestor has not decreased at all.
With Zhou Yang's current status as a cultivator, of course, he wouldn't care about what these low-level people thought of him.
A few days after he returned to the family, except for a few close people such as Zhou Guangxiang and Lu Xuewei who could see him, the rest of the monks who had not been summoned by him had no chance to meet him.
In the past few days, Zhou Yang has spent all his time accompanying Taoist companion Xiao Ying, telling her about his experience of being calculated by Guo Jinhong, being detained by the Heavenly Demon Corpse King, and how he escaped and entered the Kunxu Realm.
As for what happened between himself and Jiang Fengxian, he did not hide Xiao Ying, and said it as it was.
This matter can't be hidden, after all, his Yuanyang has been lost, as long as Xiao Yingxiu cultivates with him in the future for the promotion of the Jindan period, he can easily find out about this matter.
When the time comes, if he explains again, no matter how perfect the explanation is, it will definitely make Xiao Ying sad and sad for a long time, and even leave a lifelong knot.
So he didn't think to hide it from the beginning.
The result was not what he expected, after knowing that the first double cultivation object of the couple was not himself, Xiao Ying was indeed uncomfortable and shed tears.
After all, the two of them have been guarding Yuanyang and Yuanyin for so many years, just because of Zhou Yang's agreement with her.
Now that Zhou Yang has violated the agreement first, even if it is not out of her own heart, it is also a very heart-wrenching thing for her.
Therefore, it is not surprising that he cried out in a moment of sadness.
But crying is crying, sadness is sadness, Xiao Ying didn't resent Zhou Yang and Jiang Fengxian because of this.
This is the biggest reason why Zhou Yangken confessed to her as soon as he came back.
The two have been together for more than 200 years, and both know each other very well about each other's personalities.
Zhou Yang knew that Xiao Ying would definitely not blame herself for her loss, and Xiao Ying also knew that Zhou Yang definitely did not hide anything from her in this regard.
A pair of immortal cultivators who have been living together for hundreds or even thousands of years, trust is more important than anything else.
If even Daoist couples can't believe it, then what else is there to trust in the immortal cultivation world?
"Then husband, how do you want to arrange that Fengxian sister?"
After she cried for a while, she didn't forget the "business", and Pear Blossom looked at Zhou Yang with rain and asked about it.
No matter how kind-hearted and kind she is, it is impossible not to care about this aspect.
Zhou Yang heard her words, but he didn't rush to answer, but looked at her with a soft face and asked, "If I take Fengxian over to live with us, Ying'er, will you object?"
"No!"
Xiao Ying shook her head lightly and replied without hesitation at all.
"I knew Ying'er, you wouldn't object!"
Zhou Yang stretched out his hand to help the Taoist priest wipe the tears on his face, and then shook his head with a wry smile and said: "It's a pity that Fengxian is arrogant and stubborn, and she is used to a free and easy life, and she is not willing to be by my side like you and be a good wife and mother!"
After speaking, his face turned straight, and he said: "You don't have to worry about this matter, I won't fail you, nor will I fail her, this is my promise to you!"
Being able to say this kind of thing openly to Taoist fellows, Zhou Yang is also powerful enough.
Thanks to this is in a polygamous Xianxia world, in the world where he lived in his previous life, if he dares to say such things in front of his wife, he may be added to the kitchen knife immediately, chopped and rushed into the sewer!
And now, after listening to his words, Xiao Ying didn't mean to be surprised or blamed at all, but nodded obediently and said, "The concubine believes in her husband!"
And sure enough, there was no further mention of it.
After appeasing the Taoist couple and stabilizing the backyard, Zhou Yang had the heart to understand and deal with the family's affairs.
At this time, Zhou Guangxiang, the patriarch of the Zhou family who sat in the Chihu Mountain Oasis, was still on the way to the Rhino Horn Island Oasis, and Zhou Yang could only learn about the situation of the Zhou family from his niece Zhou Guangxiang.
Zhou Guangxiang and Xiao Ying came back more than ten years earlier than him, and both of them are very clear about the current situation of the Zhou family.
"Not counting the family branches over there in the Far West, if you only count the several main vein branches of our Zhou family in the Boundless Sand Sea Cultivation Immortal Realm, our Zhou family now has one Jindan stage monk, three Zifu stage monks, seventeen foundation building stage monks, and one thousand three hundred and forty-nine Qi cultivation stage monks!"
"At the same time, the foundation building family that is vassalized with our Zhou family has reached eight, and there are thirty-four small Qi cultivation families, and they have a total of ten foundation building period monks and more than 870 Qi cultivation period monks. ”
"In terms of finance, the family now has hundreds of spiritual mountains, 10,000 acres of spiritual fields, dozens of mineral veins, and various incomes that can be provided to the family every year, in addition to expenses, the remaining spiritual objects are converted into more than 70,000 spirit stones. ”
"At the same time, the total amount of spirit stones that the family has accumulated and stored now has reached a total of 670,000 lower grade spirit stones! There are also resources worth more than 400,000 lower grade spirit stones, among which the two resources of spirit valley and ore are the most!"
In the cave, Zhou Yang sat cross-legged on the jade bed, listening to Zhou Guangxiang's introduction of the Zhou family's current fundamentals with a calm face.
When he took Zhou Guangxiang and others to teleport to the Extreme West to cultivate the immortal realm, he determined the future development direction of the Zhou family.
For more than 60 years, the development direction of the Zhou family has generally followed the plan he set, carried out in an orderly manner, and only made adjustments in some subtle ways.
So he doesn't need to ask about the process, he just needs to know the result.
On the whole, he was satisfied with this result.
His eyes flashed, and Zhou Guangxiang, who glanced down, said: "Let's talk about the difficulties, what are the difficulties that the family is currently facing?"
Naturally, there are difficulties.
Although in the entire Boundless Sand Sea Immortal Cultivation Realm, the Zhou family is already a well-deserved overlord, this does not mean that the Zhou family is free of difficulties.
"There are two main difficulties, one is the lack of spiritual objects to assist in opening up the Purple Mansion, the family now has more than a dozen monks in the foundation building period, but none of them can assist in opening up the Purple Mansion, resulting in even a top-grade spiritual root monk like Xue Wei has been trapped in the ninth layer of the foundation building for many years, and has not been able to open up the Purple Mansion successfully!"
"The second is the shortage of Tsukidan, when we left the Far West, we left most of the Tsukidan in our hands to Tongyue according to your instructions from Uncle Nine, so as to fulfill your original promise to those Qi cultivation clansmen who voluntarily went to the Far West. ”
"On the contrary, on the family's side, the Tsukidan you left behind at the beginning is now only three left, and it won't be long before it will be consumed. ”
"And although the family's [Ning Yuan Fruit] tree has passed the flowering period and produced spiritual fruits, it will take at least fifty or sixty years for it to mature and fall fruit!"
"So in the past fifty or sixty years, in order not to cause fluctuations within the family and among those vassal families, the family must obtain at least ten Tsukidan through other methods to stabilize people's hearts!"
After Zhou Guangxiang finished speaking, he silently bowed his hand to Zhou Yang, and then said no more.
The two difficulties she mentioned were actually not the difficulties of the Zhou family, but the difficulties faced by all the forces in the entire Boundless Sand Sea Immortal Cultivation Realm.
Even if it was the Huangshamen, which had two Jindan period monks in charge at the beginning, the difficulties in this regard also existed, and the difference was that it was not as serious as the Zhou family is now.
"I don't have the spiritual objects to assist in opening up the Purple Mansion for the time being, but I have a lot of fourth-order demon pills in my hands that are needed to refine the Zhuji Dan, and I can ask Ying'er to open the furnace alchemy to fill the vacancy of the Zhuji Dan for the family. ”
Zhou Guangxiang's eyes suddenly lit up.
She noticed that Zhou Yang used the word "a lot".
She is familiar with her ninth uncle's personality, and she knows that this ninth uncle never brags about family affairs.
Since the word "a lot" was used, it means that the number of fourth-order demon pills in his hand is really a lot!
That's just the way it is.
Zhou Yang was in the Kunxu Realm, and he had killed twenty or thirty fourth-order demon beasts together with Jiang Fengxian, and he had found a lot of demon pills in the storage rings of those Jindan monks who had been killed by them, and now there were six fifth-order demon pills in his hand alone, and the number of fourth-order demon pills was as many as thirty-eight!
With so many fourth-order demon pills, if all of them were to refine the Zhuji Dan, with Xiao Ying's current alchemy, at least more than two hundred Zhuji Dan could be refined!
Of course that's not possible.
Not to mention that the Zhou family doesn't need so many Zhuji Dan at all, even if they can use it, it is difficult to find the auxiliary alchemy materials for refining so many Zhuji Dan at once after searching the entire Boundless Sand Sea Cultivation Immortal Realm.
Moreover, the Zhou family now has more than one or two Purple Mansion Stage monks, and while taking care of those low-level monks, they also have to consider these Purple Mansion Stage monks.
The fourth-order demon pill is the main material for refining many kinds of fourth-order spirit pills, and it is necessary for the Zhou family to take out a part of the demon pill to refine the kind of fourth-order spirit pill that can improve their cultivation, and give these families Purple Mansion period cultivators to practice.
"Okay, I will solve these difficulties, your task is to manage those juniors well, don't let them ruin the good reputation that our Zhou family has accumulated so hard, do you understand what I mean?"
With a wave of his hand, Zhou Yang took care of the difficult things by himself, and then stared at Zhou Guangxiang, and reminded her with deep meaning.
"Uncle Nine rest assured, my niece knows what to do, and I will definitely control this matter with my eldest brother when I turn around, and I will never disappoint Uncle Jiu!"
Zhou Guangxiang's heart sank, and he hurriedly responded.
Of course, she understood what Zhou Yang meant.
With the return of Zhou Yang to form the Jindan, the Zhou family will completely replace the original Huangshamen, the overlord of the Boundless Sand Sea Cultivation Immortal Realm, and become the new generation of overlords of the Boundless Sand Sea Cultivation Immortal Realm.
At this time, among the more than 1,000 family monks of the Zhou family, it was difficult to say that there would not be some fools who would take the opportunity to do something that ruined the reputation of the family.
In the past, if these guys did this kind of thing, it would be enough for the Zhou family to be able to deal with it fairly afterwards.
But now, once this kind of thing happens, it will make people feel that the Zhou family has completely swelled, which will bring great harm to the family's reputation.
If the boundless sand sea immortal cultivation realm is compared to a country, the Zhou family has just ended the troubled times and become the new masters of this country, and those clansmen of the Zhou family are the courtiers of the country.
At this time, if the courtiers under the command of the new master of the country are engaged in corruption and cause bad effects, the people of the country will definitely miss the previous master and become disgusted with the new master of the country.
Although the country will not change its owner because of the people's disgust, the people's disgust will definitely affect the country's subsequent development.
Therefore, all the kings who founded the country will seriously rectify all kinds of unhealthy tendencies after the founding of the country to reassure the people.
What Zhou Yang wants Zhou Guangxiang to do now is the same.
And after sending Zhou Guangxiang away, he called his big apprentice Lu Xuewei, whom he valued very much, into the cave.
"I've suffered you all these years, since the teacher has come back, the matter of opening up the Purple Mansion will be wrapped up in the teacher, at most in another ten years, the teacher will definitely help you open up the Purple Mansion!"
In the cave, Zhou Yang looked at the female apprentice who was still as beautiful as a girl below, and a trace of guilt flashed in his eyes.
Lu Xuewei had taken Xiao Ying's refined "Fixing Face Pill" at the beginning, and her appearance had always remained the same as when she was a girl in her twenties.
However, in fact, she is already one hundred and fifty-three years old this year!
As early as more than forty years ago, her cultivation had reached the ninth layer of the foundation, but because she did not have the assistance of the "Purple Heart Chalcedony", she opened up the Purple Mansion twice and failed.
The failure to open up the Purple Mansion twice in a row obviously dealt a big blow to this genius girl, making her doubt many times whether she was suitable for cultivation.
At this time, when she heard her most beloved master mention this matter, she couldn't help crying "wow" in a stirred mood.
"Don't cry, don't cry, Xuewei doesn't cry, the master will call the shots for you, and everything will be left to the master. ”
Zhou Yang stepped forward to help the apprentice who was sitting on the ground and crying bitterly, and comforted him with a soft voice full of pity on his face.
He has told Lu Xuewei many times that he is very optimistic about his future path, saying that he has the capital of Jindan.
These words had a great motivating effect on the young Lu Xuewei at that time, and they were one of the sources of motivation for her hard work.
In fact, Lu Xuewei did not live up to his praise, with the qualifications of the Ice Spirit Root, in a place that was completely unsuitable for the cultivation of ice cultivators in the Boundless Sand Sea Cultivation Immortal Realm, it only took a little more than a hundred years to cultivate to the ninth layer of the foundation.
This speed of cultivation is not fast.
Because of this, Lu Xuewei has always been regarded as a role model by all the younger monks of the Zhou family, and has enjoyed countless honors and praises.
But with her failure to open up the Purple Mansion twice in a row, and her cultivation for more than forty years has not made an inch, it is inevitable that there will be some rumors behind her back.
Her cultivation that she had worked so hard to gain in exchange for her cultivation had improved rapidly, and she had been slandered as a complete accumulation of pills and spiritual objects.
All her efforts are regarded as being supported by her master Zhou Yang.
But she can't refute these slanders!
Does she want to say that all her achievements are the result of her own hard work, isn't it because she has a good teacher?
If she really wants to say that, not to mention whether her own conscience can get by, even Zhou Guangxiang and other high-ranking officials of the Zhou family are afraid that they will disgust and reject her because of this.
So over the years, she's really under a lot of pressure.
When Zhou Yang was communicating with Taoist Xiao Ying before, he heard some news from Xiao Ying's mouth, so there was a separate conversation between master and apprentice today.
He knew that for Lu Xuewei, all the comfort was not as good as helping her to open up the Purple Mansion successfully.
As long as the Purple Mansion is successfully opened, those criticisms of it will naturally be self-defeating.
Moreover, with the help of many spiritual objects he had received from the Kunxu Realm, coupled with the fact that he had decided to use the "Qianyang Immortal Light" to help the high-level cultivators of the family practice in the future, Lu Xuewei's forty years of delay could be completely compensated for by the help of the elixir spiritual objects in the future!
He will let everyone know that he said that Lu Xuewei has the capital of Jindan, and he is definitely not a casual remark.
Lu Xuewei naturally believes in Zhou Yang, the master, even if she has borne a lot of criticism because of Zhou Yang over the years, she has never had any resentment towards Zhou Yang.
Therefore, when she heard Zhou Yang's comfort and promise at this time, she just nodded vigorously, her eyes full of joy.
After appeasing the apprentices in this way, Zhou Yang began to meet with the Zhou family foundation building monks who were practicing on the Rhino Horn Continent, or who were practicing in the nearby oasis and had already arrived at the Lingxi Peak.
More than sixty years have passed, and the number of foundation building monks of the Zhou family has increased a lot, and many new faces have appeared that Zhou Yang has not seen or is unfamiliar with.
As for those old faces he was familiar with, such as his sister-in-law Zhou Yuanyao, she had passed away more than ten years ago because of the exhaustion of longevity.
The longevity of the monks in the foundation building period is up to two hundred and forty years old, and Zhou Guangqing, the only surviving foundation building monk of the Zhou family's "Guang" generation, is already two hundred and twenty years old, and in a few years, in addition to Zhou Yang and their high-level monks, the middle and low-level monks of the "Guang" generation should all sit down and pass away.
And now the newly-born baby with spiritual roots in the Zhou family has already used the word "Rong", and in another twenty or thirty years, the monks of the "Sheng" generation will appear.
Yuhua Mingguang, Xuanyuan Guangtong, Fuze Rongsheng, evergreen, this since the first ancestor of the Zhou family, Zhou Yuquan, founded the Zhou family when the sixteen characters, now most of them have been used, and in another one or two hundred years, the Zhou family will continue to add new characters in the back.
Probably the Yuquan ancestor who established the Zhou family never dreamed that the Zhou family would one day be able to become the overlord of the boundless sand sea immortal cultivation realm.
Because of the division of the main vein and branch veins of Zhou Yang, six of the seventeen foundation building monks of the Zhou family have established family branches outside, and they rarely return to Lingxi Peak where the main vein is located.
Therefore, there are only five monks of the Zhou family who are now gathered on Lingxi Peak, and most of them are those young juniors.
Among these five people, in addition to Lu Xuewei, Zhou Fuji, and Zhou Futong, there are also two foundation building monks, namely Zhou Zerui and Zhou Zexin.
At this time, except for Lu Xuewei, who was not present, the four foundation building monks saw Zhou Yang who was sitting on the cold jade bed, and hurriedly knelt down and saluted: "Grandson Zhou Fuji...... Meet our ancestors. ”
For these monks of the "Fu" and "Ze" generations, Zhou Yang of the "Yuan" generation is definitely the ancestor of the family in the true sense.
"Get up, let you wait here today, I just want to be close to you, and you don't need to be restrained. ”
With a wave of his hand, Zhou Yang helped the four of them up with an invisible force, and then comforted the four of them with a smile on his face.
He could understand the nervousness of the four of them, and he was just as nervous when he first met the Jindan Monk.
Sure enough, after hearing his words, the tension in the hearts of the four of them was immediately relieved a lot.
After all, this is the ancestor of his own family, not an outsider, as a junior, as long as there is no mistake in etiquette, even if there is a gaffe and gaffe, there will definitely be no disaster.
These four people understood this, and in the next conversation with Zhou Yang, they let go a lot.
Zhou Yang talked with the four of them for about half an hour, gave them a few treasures suitable for several people, and cleared up some doubts about their cultivation for a few people, and then ended the summons.
His cultivation and identity are there, and it is already a great honor for these young juniors to be summoned by him, but there is no need to spend some effort to encircle these juniors and teach them lessons as before.
After summoning a few foundation building monks in this way, Zhou Yang waited for Zhou Guangxiang, the patriarch of the Zhou family, to come over with peace of mind.
During this period, he went to the Zhou family's secret vault on Lingxi Peak, and stored some of the treasures he had obtained from the Kunxu Realm into the secret vault to benefit the descendants of the Ze family.
During the trip to the Kunxu Realm, Zhou Yang's net worth has increased greatly, and now only in terms of net worth, it is estimated that there are few people in the Jindan period who can compare with him.
Not to mention anything else, just to say the high-grade spirit stones, there are as many as eighty-nine in his hands!
The rest of the fifth-order magic weapons, spirit runes, rune treasures and other treasures obtained, as well as various demon beast materials obtained by killing demon beasts, the collected spirit grass elixir and spirit gold spirit ore, the total value of these things is at least five million or more lower grade spirit stones!
With such a large amount of wealth, if all of it was realized, he would basically no longer have to worry about the lack of spirit stones at the stage of the Jindan stage.
It's just that he is more than one person, and there is a family behind him.
Those things that he didn't need but that his family could use were naturally impossible to sell.
What's more, if he really lacks spirit stones, isn't there still a spirit stone mine that has not been mined?
Now that he has returned from the Golden Pill, it is a medium-sized spirit stone mine, it is a large spirit stone mine, and there is no need to worry about anyone daring to snatch and destroy it in this boundless sand sea cultivation immortal realm!