The spiritual vein level on Jinxia Mountain is a third-order high-grade, which is one level higher than the Zhou family's Yuquan Peak spiritual vein, even if the place where the "Yuquan Tower" is located is not the spiritual eye of the spiritual vein of this mountain, the spiritual energy environment is completely enough to supply Zhou Yang for a cultivator in the Qi cultivation period to break through the small realm.

After only nine days of retreat in the retreat room in the backyard of the "Yuquan Building", he successfully broke through the cultivation barrier that had trapped him for more than a year, and successfully broke through to the ninth layer of qi training, becoming the first ninth-level Qi cultivation monk under the age of forty in the Zhou family in more than two hundred years.

It was also after breaking through to the ninth layer of qi cultivation that Zhou Yang Fang understood why only the Zhou family could only hold the position of family elder by the ninth layer of qi cultivation.

He didn't know what the situation was with others, anyway, after he broke through from the eighth layer of Qi cultivation to the ninth layer of Qi training, his mana increased by two times, and his divine sense also doubled, and the range of divine consciousness released reached a distance of three hundred meters!

This kind of mana divine sense was enough for him to use four or five second-order high-grade magic weapons to fight with people for half an hour at the same time, and his combat power was not the same as before.

According to the family rules of the Zhou family, as long as the Zhou family's cultivator broke through to the ninth level of Qi cultivation and reported to the family, the old patriarch Zhou Minghan would grant him the position of family elder on behalf of the family.

If Zhou Yang broke through to the ninth layer of Qi cultivation in the Yuquan Lake Oasis, it was estimated that he would be able to become the ninth elder of the Zhou family that day.

The reason why he is the ninth elder is because after his father Zhou Xuanhao successfully built the foundation, after the foundation building ceremony was held, the old patriarch Zhou Minghan granted a higher level of the position of Taishang Elder on behalf of the family, thus making the ninth elder of the Zhou family vacate a position.

In principle, the Supreme Elder and the family patriarch are on an equal footing, and even the patriarch does not have the right to give any direct orders to him, and even when the family patriarch makes a big mistake and causes great losses to the family, the Supreme Elder has the right to convene the elder group to vote to remove him from the position of patriarch.

However, in fact, under the family system, the status of the elder is still lower than that of the patriarch, to put it mildly, the elder is a noble position with a high status but not much real power, as long as the patriarch does not make mistakes and does not provoke the clansmen to complain, the elder Taishang can only be a mascot, leading the high offering to practice with peace of mind.

For those who have a strong desire for power and control, of course they don't like to be a Supreme Elder who seems to be noble but doesn't have much real power, but there are not many such people among immortal cultivators.

Therefore, the actual situation in the immortal cultivation world is that the high-level cultivators among the major forces often like to be the supreme elders who only receive offerings and do little work, and are unwilling to waste their precious cultivation time to deal with those sect chores.

Anyway, the great power of the immortal cultivator belongs to himself, as long as his own cultivation is still there, even if he is an idle Supreme Elder, no one dares to ignore his existence because of this.

Therefore, Zhou Yang was actually extremely envious of his father Zhou Xuanhao becoming an elder.

It's a pity that he only has envy, as the next patriarch of the Zhou family, even if he succeeds in building the foundation, he doesn't want to be an idle elder, and he can only be at the helm of the ship of the Zhou family in the future.

"Ninth brother, ninth brother, the family caravan is back, the sixth uncle and the eleventh uncle have returned to Fang City with the caravan!"

On this day, when Zhou Yang was looking at the books of the Strange Things he bought on the third floor of the "Yuquan Building", Zhou Xiong, who was originally entertaining guests downstairs, suddenly broke in with a shout, his face full of excitement.

"Caravan, Uncle Sixth and Uncle Eleven, wait...... Are you saying that the caravan that went to Huangshamen with the Chen family caravan to pay tribute and trade a few years ago has returned?"

After Zhou Yang muttered a few words to himself along with the words of his clan brother, his face suddenly froze, and the expression in his eyes instantly became solemn.

Whether it is the Chen family or the Zhou family, they are all families affiliated with Huangshamen, and every ten years, the surrounding families attached to Huangshamen will jointly organize a caravan to carry a large number of spiritual objects to the location of Huangshamen's mountain gate to pay tribute and trade.

This caravan is generally led by the Chen family's foundation building period monks, and the rest of the foundation building families such as the Zhou family are each sent a few Qi cultivation period monks to join it, and then form a camel team together to set off from the Baisha River Oasis, traveling more than 20,000 miles to reach the giant oasis where the Huangshamen Mountain Gate is located.

As far as Zhou Yang knew, more than two years ago, the sixth uncle Zhou Xuanjing, the elder of the family, and the eleventh uncle Zhou Xuankun, who had an eighth-level cultivation of Qi cultivation, took two monks from the Zhou family and three descendants of the "Yuan" character to follow the caravan to Huangshamen.

A family monk like Zhou Xiong, who had an ordinary status, only knew that this time the caravan went to Huangshamen to pay tribute and trade as before.

However, Zhou Yang knew that this time the caravan went to Huangshamen, in fact, there was another task, that is, to retrieve the last few auxiliary spiritual objects for refining Zhuji Dan that had been booked long ago for the Chen family's Chen Yaohui Ancestor.

Now that the caravan has returned, it means that the "Foundation Building Conference" that the old patriarch Zhou Minghan said to him is about to be held.

Sure enough, when he met with his sixth uncle Zhou Xuanjing and his eleventh uncle Zhou Xuankun, he immediately saw an invitation written by the ancestor of the Chen family from the sixth uncle, inviting Zhou Minghan, the old patriarch of the Zhou family, to gather at the ancestral land of the Chen family in Baihuling half a year later.

"Xiao Jiu, the old patriarch must have told you about the [Foundation Building Conference], right? Since you have broken through to the ninth layer of Qi training, our Zhou family must get a Zhuji Dan no matter what happens this time, you must stay in the Fang City for the next period of time, and don't leave!"

In the "Yuquan Building", Zhou Xuankun looked at the junior in front of him who had surpassed his uncle in cultivation, and his face was full of relief and envy.

His age was nearly twenty years younger than Zhou Yang's father, Zhou Xuanhao, and if Zhou Yang hadn't broken through to the ninth layer of Qi cultivation, after the Zhou family purchased the Zhuji Dan, he would have had some opportunities to take it.

It's a pity that although he is also a middle-grade spiritual root qualification, because of an injury to a fighting method in his early years, he has delayed his cultivation for several years, so that until now, his cultivation has remained at the eighth layer of qi cultivation and has not broken through, and this time he has completely lost his chance with Zhuji Dan.

"Lao Eleven is right, Xiao Jiu, you need to have more snacks at this time, no more attention is paid to everything outside than in the family. ”

Zhou Xuanjing glanced at the clan brother next to him with a complicated face, and also looked at Zhou Yang meaningfully and advised.

"Two uncles, don't worry, at this time, unless the old patriarch personally orders, the nephew will definitely not take half a step out of the city!"

Zhou Yang understood what the two clan uncles meant, they were worried that after he left Fang City, he would be persecuted, so that he would miss the opportunity to build a foundation, this kind of thing was unprecedented in the past.

After all, even if the ancestor of the Chen family refines the Zhuji Dan, the number is definitely not much, and if the Zhou family gets one, it means that someone from other families will return empty-handed.

In this case, in order to reduce a competitor, it is only natural that some families secretly persecute the "foundation building seeds" in the other family, which are expected to build a foundation.

The old patriarch Zhou Minghan had specially explained these situations to Zhou Yang when he left the family, so since he came to Fang City, he has never left Fang City for a single step.

As long as he is in the Fang City, there is the Chen family who endorses his safety, and whoever dares to hurt people in the Fang City is equivalent to being the enemy of the entire Chen family.