Chen Ping'an's cave mansion is located in the area of the white hump near the top of the mountain, and further up, it is the cave mansion of the ancestor of the Chen family.

This cave is divided into two layers, located in the interior of the mountain, is Chen Ping'an's solitary practice, outside the mountain built a palace attic covering an area of dozens of acres, is his descendants live, but also the daily hospitality.

After the three members of the Zhou family followed Chen Ping'an into the outer mansion of the cave mansion on the ground, their eyes suddenly froze, and they couldn't help but look at a few Chen Ping'an's juniors standing in front of a large hall.

"Seventh Sister, why are you here, since you haven't fallen, why don't you go back to the family?"

Zhou Yang looked at the woman who didn't dare to look at the three of her with her head lowered with a suspicious face, and her voice was slightly annoyed.

It turned out that there were several Chen Ping'an juniors standing in front of the hall, and two of them he was familiar with.

One of them is Chen Fangping, the son of Chen Ping'an, who used a meal to pit him with hundreds of spirit stones when he first arrived at the Baishahe Oasis, and the other is Zhou Yuanxia, a female monk of the Zhou family who disappeared when the sand bandits attacked the Baishahe Oasis.

And now, these two people he knew well were actually standing hand in hand, and Zhou Yuanxia was even holding a four or five-year-old boy in his hand.

Seeing this situation, Zhou Yang still didn't understand what the relationship between the two was now.

Feelings Zhou Yuanxia did not disappear and fall, but climbed to Gao Zhi to become Chen Ping'an's daughter-in-law, no wonder she didn't want to return to Zhou's house.

Hearing Zhou Yang's angry question at this moment, Zhou Yuanxia's delicate body trembled, and she didn't have the courage to answer at all, but just grabbed Chen Fangping's palm next to her.

Seeing this, Chen Fangping couldn't help but gently patted the palm of the Taoist companion to show comfort, and then took two steps forward with a smile on his face and arched his hand to Zhou Yangyi and said: "Senior Zhou calms his anger and lets Yuanxia stay in the Chen family, it is all the idea of the juniors. ”

"What does Senior Chen mean?" Zhou Yang didn't pay attention to Chen Fangping, but directly looked at Chen Ping'an, who had an indifferent face on the side, he knew that Chen Ping'an must have already made plans for calling himself and the other three over.

Chen Fangping saw that Zhou Yang directly ignored his words, and the smile on his face couldn't help but stiffen, not to mention how uncomfortable it was in his heart.

This is really 30 years in Hedong and 30 years in Hexi.

Once upon a time, Zhou Yang was still a child of a small family who didn't dare to turn his face no matter how he teased him.

Now, just a few years have passed, and the young Qi cultivation period monk who had just left home at the beginning has grown to the point where he can ignore him and become a foundation building period monk like his father.

This is a taste that people who have not experienced it personally like him, and they really can't understand it.

"Chen didn't know about Xia'er and this kid together, and by the time Chen knew about it, their children were already three years old, even if Chen could beat the mandarin ducks and break them up, he couldn't even have a grandson, right?"

Chen Ping'an glanced at his son indifferently, and first explained the whole story of the matter, indicating his attitude.

Then he looked at the three members of the Zhou family with a straight face and said: "Everyone is from a family monk, so Chen won't talk about those hypocritical nonsense, just tell the three of them about Chen's decision." ”

"Your Zhou family has been in the clan for a short time, and there has never been a third-order array mage, [Bloodline God Forbidden] is afraid that it has not yet been arranged, which is the basis for our two sides to reach a compromise on this matter. ”

"So Chen can give you two choices now, one is that Chen takes out a third-order pill and gives it to your Zhou family as an apology, and the other is that Chen can owe your Zhou family a favor, and in the future, as long as your Zhou family uses this favor, you can let Chen do what he can. ”

The three members of the Zhou family looked at each other, but they didn't expect Chen Ping'an to say this.

The faces of the three of them are not very good-looking.

This is not to say that Chen Ping'an's conditions are not good, on the contrary, whether it is a third-order Dan Fang or a ninth-layer foundation building monk from a big family like him, it is something that is hard to find.

Zhou Yuanxia, a fifth-level Qi cultivator with a low-grade spiritual root qualification, can exchange for either of these two things, which is a big profit for the Zhou family.

But that doesn't work out that way.

No matter how poor Zhou Yuanxia's qualifications are, no matter how low her cultivation is, she is also a monk of the Zhou family.

The fact that she married and had children with outsiders without informing the family has already formed a de facto betrayal of the family, as the patriarch and elder of the family, if Zhou Yang and the three of them condone this betrayal, how will they lead the family in the future?

And if outsiders know that their Zhou family married the family nun into the Chen family, what would they think of them?

Those who know the inside story may understand their hardships, but those who don't know still think that their Zhou family is selling women for glory, and they want to cling to the Chen family to do so!

In short, this matter is really difficult, Zhou Yang, as the current patriarch of the Zhou family, really didn't know how to deal with this matter for a while.

Fortunately, at this time, the experienced Zhou Minghan once again used his experience to help Zhou Yang solve this problem.

I saw Zhou Minghan's eyes suddenly widen, and he stared at Zhou Yuanxia and asked, "Yuanxia, what is your choice?" If you are willing to go back to the family with the old man, today you will have a bad relationship with Brother Chen, and the old man will also take you back to the family!"

Hearing Zhou Minghan say this, Chen Ping'an's eyes narrowed and he didn't speak.

Chen Fangping looked at the three members of the Zhou family in astonishment, and an incredible look flashed in his eyes, he didn't expect that the three members of the Zhou family would really dare not give his father face.

And the person concerned, Zhou Yuanxia, also raised her head to look at Zhou Minghan with a shocked face, her eyes full of panic.

Chen Fangping swore to her that as long as Chen Ping'an was here, Zhou Minghan and others would never dare to forcibly take her away, so she dared to come out and show up.

What she didn't expect was that she and Chen Fangping relied on Chen Ping'an, who was the backer, and after narrowing their eyes at this time, instead of being displeased with Zhou Minghan's unkind words, they looked at her with a pleasant face and said: "It's okay, Xia'er, you can answer Brother Minghan with confidence, if you are really willing to go back to the Zhou family, your father will not stop you." ”

"I, I don't want to be separated from Xin'er. Zhou Yuanxia held her son's little hand tightly, and said her choice in a trembling tone.

As soon as her words fell, Zhou Minghan said angrily: "Okay, since you said so, don't blame the old man for being polite." ”

After speaking, he glared at him, and said loudly to Zhou Yang: "Zhou Yuanxia, a monk of the Zhou family, eloped with someone and betrayed the family, and the old man, as the first elder of the Zhou family, asked the patriarch to expel his clan and never recover!"

"In the next week, Zhou Xuanhao, the second elder of the family, seconded the proposal. Zhou Xuanhao also came back to his senses at this time, and then seconded Zhou Minghan's proposal.

Seeing this, Zhou Yang also took a deep look at Zhou Yuanxia, who was pale and pretty, and nodded lightly and said, "Since the two Supreme Elders have this proposal, after verification and confirmation, this matter is indeed true, I will agree to this proposal as the head of the Zhou family and implement it immediately." ”

After speaking, in front of several members of the Chen family, he directly took out a copy of the family tree from the storage bag, and erased the three big characters "Zhou Yuanxia" on the spot.

When Chen Ping'an saw this scene, he couldn't help but nod lightly and said: "From now on, there will only be Chen Xia'er of the Chen family, and there will be no Zhou Yuanxia!"

"Brother Chen, farewell!"

"Slow down!"

Leaving the Chen family, Zhou Yang and the three temporarily returned to the "Yuquan Building" in Ping'anfang City.

"Father, why did you ask me not to choose the Dan Fang before? Although Chen Ping'an's favor is valuable, the third-order Dan Fang is related to your breakthrough to the third-order alchemist, which should be more important to our Zhou family now, right?"

In "Yuquan Building", after Zhou Yang and the three of them settled, he immediately expressed his doubts and incomprehension to his father Zhou Xuanhao.

Of the Zhou family's immortal cultivation arts, only the refining weapon has a complete inheritance of more than the third order, and the rest of the skills, such as formation, talisman making, alchemy, spirit plant, and animal taming, are only second-order inheritance.

The third-order formation "Shutu Jin Ge Array" in the "Haoyang Cave" is not a complete inheritance, because the old man Zhou Qian, who refined this set of formations, died after refining the formation, and he didn't have time to leave the relevant inheritance, leaving only a broken formation diagram that was difficult for second-order high-grade formation mages to understand.

Therefore, in Zhou Yang's opinion, if his father Zhou Xuanhao can break through the third-order alchemist with the third-order pill given by Chen Ping'an, it will definitely be a good thing for the Zhou family that is ten times more important than his breakthrough to the third-order refiner.

"Yang'er, you are still young, it's normal that you don't understand these things, you just don't ask about this matter, and your father will talk to you in detail!"

Zhou Xuanhao sighed lightly, and then said the reason with a wry smile on his face.

"Do you think that as an alchemist, you don't want a third-order elixir? But you don't know at all that the spirit herbs and elixirs that can refine common third-order elixirs near the Baisha River Immortal Cultivation Realm are basically monopolized by the Chen family and Huangshamen, and only those spirit herbs and elixirs that they can't use will flow out and be obtained by others. ”

"So the Danfang that Chen Ping'an is willing to take out is either the kind of waste Danfang that is difficult to find and can't be put together, or it is a partial Danfang that has no use for the sideways. ”

"It's true that our Zhou family lacks a third-order alchemist, but it hasn't reached the level of rushing to the doctor, so there's no need to fall for him!"

Zhou Yang stopped talking now.

He is a refiner, not an alchemist, and he really doesn't have much say in this aspect of alchemy.

Since his father Zhou Xuanhao said so, it will definitely not be wrong.

At this time, Zhou Minghan, who had not spoken, also nodded and said: "Xuan Hao is right, the matter of the third-order Danfang, we can plan slowly in the future, but it is Chen Ping'an's favor, in the current situation of the invasion of demon monks, maybe it will be able to play a big role one day." ”

After speaking, he smiled slightly: "Yuan Xia's matter, on the surface, it seems to be a shame for my Zhou family, but in fact, it just shows one thing, with Xuan Hao and Xiao Jiu, your father and son have successfully built the foundation, and with the invasion of the demon monks, our Zhou family, in the eyes of the Chen family, has changed from the dispensable and unimportant little follower in the past to an important ally worthy of their attention and wooing." ”

"Otherwise, with the power of their Chen family, they can hide Yuanxia from us to find out, so why take the initiative to expose it and let us know, why use this as an excuse to give us benefits?"

When Zhou Yang heard this, he couldn't help but nod his head in agreement: "Great-grandfather is right, the Chen family is indeed in a hurry now, in the battle of Jinxia Mountain, they fell three foundation building monks, this time in the battle with the demon cultivator, they fell another foundation building monk, and last time they used the three foundation building pills, only one person succeeded in building the foundation, plus Chen Pingzhi, who fell before, is now only a foundation building monk, and their Chen family is only eight people." ”

"That's the case, the Chen family's foundation building monks are understaffed, and in the future, they will inevitably rely more on us as the foundation building monks of the alliance family, some third-order treasures that were not released to us and strictly controlled the number before, this time I am afraid that they will have to open their mouths and take them out to buy people's hearts, this is definitely a great thing for our Zhou family!"

Zhou Minghan stroked his beard and smiled, his face full of joy.

"It's really a good thing, our Zhou family is too short after all, not to mention the family heritage compared with the Zifu family like the Chen family, but compared with the Liu family of Chixia Mountain and the Yang family of Jinquan Valley, the two foundation-building families that have been inherited for five or six hundred years, they are all inferior. ”

"Now our Zhou family has three foundation building monks, it is the heyday since the establishment of the clan, and it coincides with the invasion of demon cultivation and the turmoil in the immortal cultivation world, if you don't seize the opportunity at this time, accumulate more foundation for the family, and wait for the situation to stabilize in the future, if you want to let the family heritage grow by leaps and bounds, it is not so simple. ”

Zhou Yang also knew his own family affairs, and before he built the foundation, except for the treasure of Zhuji Dan, he felt that the Zhou family lacked nothing, and he wanted anything.

But after he built the foundation, he realized that the self-sufficiency of the Zhou family could only be achieved by low-level monks, and for the monks of the Zhou family's foundation building period, the useful things that the family could provide for themselves were basically lacking in everything except magic weapons.

This is like those countries in his previous life, some small countries can feed their own citizens behind closed doors, but they are only limited to feeding, and those citizens who have been freed from the desire for satiety can basically rely on imports to buy high-tech products.

To give a simple example, after Zhou Yang successfully built the foundation, he did not take a third-order elixir to increase his cultivation, which shows how bad the Zhou family is in terms of family heritage.

Like the Liu family of Chixia Mountain, even if there is no third-order alchemist in the family, but because there are people in each generation of their family to build a foundation, there have always been a lot of third-order spirit pills stored in their family treasury, and the foundation building monks can exchange the spirit pills from the treasure house at a preferential price if they use spirit stones.

The Liu family used the family's public funds to buy high-priced elixirs and put them in the treasure house for the family foundation building monks to exchange at a parity price, which seemed to make the family finance deficit, but in fact, it stabilized the hearts of the family foundation building monks and enhanced the family foundation building monks' sense of identity and cohesion for the family.

And as long as the family's foundation building monks continue to stay in the family and serve the family, won't those elixirs that were exchanged for parity still stay in the family in another way?

People are realistic, if a family can no longer provide cultivation help to the high-level monks of the family, then the high-level monks of the family will gradually not care about the family, after all, they can live well without the family, the family has become a burden for them at that time, and if they have a choice, no one is willing to carry the burden forward.

Zhou Yang can guarantee his loyalty to the family, and he also believes in the loyalty of the old patriarch Zhou Minghan and his father Zhou Xuanhao to the family, but loyalty cannot be eaten.

The three of them, who have experienced the difficult times of the family and have received the kindness of many family seniors, can help the family with "power generation with love", but can their juniors, those who grew up in the prosperity of the family, still be loyal to the family with "power generation with love" like them?

Zhou Yang's experience in his previous life told him that it was impossible!

Therefore, in order to prevent the family from losing talent in the future, he, the patriarch, must improve the family heritage before those junior monks grow up.