Chapter 417: Treasure Hunt [Second Update]
After the implementation of the Zhou family's separation policy, the first batch of main veins and branch veins were officially determined.
Not to mention the main vein, Zhou Yang's vein is currently the only one, Zhou Guangxiang's vein has already had four people, and over the years, Liu Xuanxuan has given birth to two more offspring, both of whom are monks with lower grade spiritual root qualifications.
There are a few branches, but there are a lot of people.
Zhou Yuanyao is in the same vein, and she has also given birth to five children one after another over the years, two of whom have spiritual roots, and one of the baby boys is still a medium-grade spiritual root.
And Zhou Guangqing's lineage, including Zhou Guangqing, there are already eight people, including his two grandchildren of the next generation.
The rest, such as Zhou Tongyao and Zhou Tonghua, after successfully building the foundation, married wives and concubines and gave birth to four or five descendants with spiritual roots.
They are all foundation-building monks of the Zhou family, and as long as the news of the concubine is released, naturally there are many female cultivators in the Qi cultivation period and female cultivators from small families rushing to get started, so there are not many monks with spiritual roots among the descendants.
Only Zhou Tongmin has only been building the foundation for a few years, and there are no descendants yet, but since he wants to open up a branch, he must also marry wives and concubines in the future to leave descendants.
However, in general, the people of the several main veins and branch veins are still very small compared to the Spirit Mountain they occupy, so if they want to develop the Spirit Mountain they occupy, they have to spend money to hire other Zhou family monks to help.
Of course, these are happy troubles after all.
With a third-order spiritual mountain as a territory, at least for a few generations, the living standards of these branch cultivators can be greatly improved.
It's definitely unrealistic to want everyone to exchange for Tsukidan, but as long as you work hard and gather the strength of the whole family, you can still cultivate a Tsukiji monk.
That's right, Zhou Yang divided the branch veins and made the founder of the branch vein the head of the family, in fact, he also had the idea of stimulating domestic demand.
Many times he will miss the Zhou family when he first took over, at that time, the Zhou family, the whole clan of monks did not have too much selfishness, they were all working hard to keep the family inheritance, and the clansmen usually did not have much entanglement of interests, and the relationship was very harmonious and harmonious.
At that time, the Zhou family, in the face of the crisis of severing the inheritance, really achieved the strength of one and the heart of one place.
However, as the Zhou family gradually grew and expanded, and as the territory and population doubled and doubled, there was no longer the harmonious and harmonious atmosphere that it used to be.
In order to compete for a steward position, in order to compete for the family's contribution points in exchange for Tsukidan, the clansmen can use their own means to defeat competitors.
Someone is busy walking relationships and looking for connections!
Someone ran to the family elder to report the unknown mistakes made by the opponent in the past!
There are also people who deliberately set up their opponents, wanting to seize the opponent's handle and force the opponent to give up automatically!
Even if Zhou Yang has great ability, when facing these things, he can't solve them.
So this time he split up, he actually wanted to make an attempt, to see if after the separation, those branch monks could reproduce the atmosphere of unity and friendship of the Zhou family under the sense of honor of the small family crisis.
According to the rules he set, after the branch line-building monk sits or falls, if there is no new foundation building monk for a hundred years, the branch lineage monk will be reduced to an ordinary monk.
With this crisis, will those branch line monks be willing to take the initiative to give up their own path and pave the way for their brothers, sisters, uncles, uncles and nephews in the same branch lineage, just like those Zhou family ancestors did at the beginning!
Whether this attempt succeeds or fails, it is beneficial to the Zhou family.
If it succeeds, the Zhou family will have more foundation building monks, and the strength of the family will be further strengthened.
Even if he failed, he achieved his original intention of reducing the contradictions between people of different origins.
Moreover, the main vein monks and branch vein monks benefited, and Zhou Yang did not treat those ordinary family monks badly.
After the topic of dividing the family, he looked at the eight hundred Zhou family monks in the hall and said loudly: "In five years, it will be the 400th anniversary of the Zhou family's founding clan, so this seat has decided to hold a treasure hunting conference, all the monks belonging to my Zhou family, as long as they are under the age of sixty, can participate in the treasure hunting conference, and take the top 20 to reward many treasures!"
"The Treasure Hunt Conference is divided into two sessions, one is only open to the registration of monks within the family, the registration age is limited to under sixty years old, anyone who wins the top three places in the Treasure Hunt Conference will be given a Zhuji Dan by the family, and a third-order magic weapon will be rewarded, and those who win the top ten and top twenty will also have corresponding rewards issued by the family. ”
"Another treasure hunting conference is to accept all the family relatives monks, Keqing monks, and other vassal family monks, friendship family monks, and even casual cultivators, the registration age is also limited to under sixty years old, the first place is also rewarded with Zhuji Dan and third-order magic weapons, and the rest of the top twenty also have corresponding rewards issued by the family. ”
Taking advantage of the 400th anniversary of the founding of the clan to hold a treasure hunting conference, this is Zhou Yang's plan for a long time.
However, his original idea was to let the monks of the Zhou family have a fighting exchange with all the monks from the outside world to test the combat power of the family monks, and at the same time, he also wanted to use the power of outsiders to grind the arrogance of these young people in the clan.
Now he has just made some small changes to this plan according to the situation, and has taken out some more treasures to reward the monks within the family to reassure people's hearts.
It was clear that his purpose had been achieved.
Hearing that the top three in the Treasure Hunting Conference could directly receive the Tsukidan reward, the eyes of those Qi cultivators under the age of sixty in the Council Hall instantly turned red.
Nine out of them who were present would not have been able to scrape together enough to exchange for Tsukidan's family contribution points before the age of sixty, or even in their entire lives.
In other words, they were originally hopeless in this life.
But now, Zhou Yang has given them a hope, a hope that seems to be within reach!
As long as they enter the top three in the family's internal treasure hunting conference, they can get the Tsukidan worth 20,000 family contribution points, and they can realize their dream of building the foundation!
"Supreme Elder Shengming!"
I don't know which young monk of the Zhou family suddenly shouted in a fanatical tone, and then the cheers of those young Zhou family monks resounded in the entire hall.
"Supreme Elder Shengming!"
"Supreme Elder Shengming!"
"Supreme Elder Shengming!"
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The cheers resounded throughout the hall, if it weren't for the fact that the entire hall was closed by the soundproof formation when the family assembly was held, it was estimated that most of the people in Chihu Mountain would be able to hear this kind of earth-shattering cheer.
Some people cheered excitedly, and naturally some people were speechless.
These speechless monks were naturally those of the Zhou family who were over fifty-five years old, because because their age exceeded the limit, this opportunity would never be with them.
"I can't wait to be born five years late!"
A Zhou family qi cultivator closed his eyes tightly, two lines of tears slipped down from the corners of his eyes, and his voice was full of unwillingness and helplessness.
He was just sixty years old this year, and he had reached the ninth-level cultivation of qi cultivation as early as four years ago, and his subordinates had killed a ninth-level sand bandit and several second-order high-grade demon beasts.
If he can also participate in the Treasure Hunt, then he will definitely be a strong contender for the top three.
And at this moment, there are not a few monks in the council hall who beat their chests and lamented that they were born at the wrong time.
The word chance is sometimes so helpless.
Zhou Yang didn't deliberately target them, it was because they didn't have enough chances, so they could only cry out in vain.
After talking about holding the treasure hunting conference, Zhou Yang announced the adjournment of the meeting and left the hall first.
Next, the news about the Zhou family's separation and the holding of the treasure hunting conference soon spread throughout the entire Zhou family, and then spread throughout the boundless sand sea cultivation immortal realm.
And in the months that followed, discussions about these two matters became the talk of various families and parties.
One of the things that attracted the most attention from these people was naturally the Treasure Hunt Conference.
The first place in the Treasure Hunting Conference can be rewarded with Tsukidan and third-order magic weapons, which is extremely attractive to all Qi cultivation stage cultivators, and for those casual cultivators, it is an opportunity worth their lives in exchange.
In normal times, the helpless casual cultivators don't want to use the Zhuji Dan to build the foundation at all, even if the Zhou family sells the Zhuji Dan at a big auction every thirty years, it is not something that the casual cultivators in the Qi cultivation period can afford.
But now, a once-in-a-millennium opportunity has emerged.
As long as you participate in the treasure hunting conference held by the Zhou family and win the first place, you can directly get a Tsukidan reward, which is not a big temptation.
Although everyone knows that the odds of fighting out of the thousands of troops to win that first place are definitely not better than risking the foundation of the foundation.
But this still did not prevent those monks who heard the news from making the decision to go to the Zhou family to participate in the treasure hunting conference.
The reason for this is not complicated, taking the risk of impacting the foundation building period, once it fails, it will be the end of nine deaths and one waste, and participating in the treasure hunting conference, even if it fails, the foundation building monks of the Zhou family will come to the rescue, at most they will be injured.
What's more, even if you can't win the first place, as long as you enter the top twenty, you can get the rewards of the Zhou family.
With the current background of the Zhou family, this reward will definitely not be too bad!
However, these outside discussions did not affect Zhou Yang who was on Chihu Mountain in the slightest.
After he set the general direction, he left these things alone, and left everything to Zhou Guangxiang, the patriarch, and the family elders to handle.
At most, after the charter is finalized, it will be handed over to him for review and confirmation.
Now, he was in the place with the highest defense level on Chihu Mountain, an independent medicine garden with only the "Ning Yuan Fruit" tree planted.
After careful calculation, it has been thirty or forty years since Zhou Yang brought this "Ning Yuan Fruit" tree back to the Zhou family to plant it.
After so many years, after the hard work of Zhou Jialing's planters, this "Ning Yuan Fruit" tree has long adapted to the new environment and has bloomed.
"When did this flower bloom?"
Under the fruit tree, Zhou Yang looked up at the white spirit flowers on the tree, and asked a Zhou family spirit planter behind him with a happy face.
This Zhou Jialing Planter was just a ninth-level Qi cultivation cultivator, and he was not the caretaker of the "Ning Yuan Fruit" tree, but a caretaker, who specialized in guarding the situation of the fruit tree nearby.
Once he found any abnormal changes in the fruit tree, he would immediately notify the family higher-ups, and then pass the news to Xiao Ying, who was currently the highest in the Zhou family's spiritual planting skills, and Xiao Ying would personally come over to deal with it.
At this time, hearing Zhou Yang's words, this Zhou Jialing planter hurriedly replied respectfully: "Back to the words of the elder, the buds on the tree were formed about ten years ago, and at six o'clock last night, the younger generation smelled the fragrance of the flowers and stepped forward to check, and the buds of the tree were all in full bloom!"