Since the Zhou family decided to recruit outstanding talents from the outside world to serve as the family guest secretary, they have graded the position of guest secretary, which has three levels: A, B, and C, and the rights and benefits of each level of guest worship are also different.

Among them, only the monks of the foundation building period can serve as first-class guest secretaries, and this kind of first-class guest secretary can sit on a third-class cave on Chihu Mountain, or open a cave to live on other third-order spiritual mountains of the Zhou family, and can receive two hundred spirit stones from the Zhou family every year.

The monks of the Zhou family, in addition to the seven deacon elders and the Zhuji elders, all had to salute and greet the first-class guest secretary when they saw it, and the first-class guest secretary could also instruct the Zhou family's qi cultivator to help him do some errands and chores.

And the Zhou family's requirement for these first-class guest secretaries is that they must complete a task for the Zhou family every five years free of charge, and if there is no task in a five-year period, the number of times will be accumulated.

If you complete your own task within five years and receive a second task, you can get a rich reward after completing the task, which can be a third-order elixir, a spirit rune, a magic weapon, or a large number of spirit stones.

At the same time, if the Zhou family is attacked by foreign enemies, the Keqing worshippers must fight unconditionally to defend the family.

The treatment of first-class guest secretaries is excellent, and the Zhou family's requirements for recruiting first-class guest secretaries are also very high, and no one has been valued by the Zhou family at present.

Compared with the first-class guest, the treatment of the second-class guest is undoubtedly much worse, not only can only receive eighty low-grade spirit stones every year, but the place of residence is only an independent courtyard located on the Red Tiger Mountain, and the status in the Zhou family is only the same as that of ordinary Zhou family Qi cultivation late-stage cultivators.

The most important thing is that the second-class guest secretary needs to complete a related task arranged by the Zhou family every year, and the number of times can also be accumulated.

As for the worst third-class guest, he didn't even have the qualifications to live on Chihu Mountain, he could only live on those third-order and second-order spirit mountains, and he only received fifty low-grade spirit stones every year, but the number of tasks he completed every year increased to two.

However, these treatments are not immutable, if there is a second-class guest secretary who successfully builds a foundation after joining the Zhou family, he can be automatically promoted to a first-class guest secretary without examination.

For every ten years of service in the Zhou family, the C-class guest secretary can apply to the family for a promotion assessment, and if he passes the assessment, he can be promoted to the second-class guest secretary.

The Zhou family has also adopted hierarchical management measures in the management of these guest secretaries, among which the first-class guest secretary is directly under the management of the patriarch, and when recruiting, in principle, only through the consent of Zhou Yang, who is about to step down as the patriarch of the Zhou family, can he be granted the status of a first-class guest secretary.

The recruitment of second-class and third-class guest secretaries only requires the consent of the patriarch, and the daily management is also entrusted to the management and leadership of the foreign elders.

Knowing this, it is not difficult to understand why Luo Qiang was so enthusiastic about recruiting talents from outside the Zhou family to join the Zhou family after succeeding as the external elder.

Liu Xuanxuan's refining talent is beyond doubt, but after all, she is only a twenty-one-year-old girl who has cultivated the third layer of qi, even if she can really get a foundation building pill from Zhou Yang in the future, before she builds the foundation, it is impossible for the Zhou family to award her a first-class guest secretary.

It's actually a way to protect her.

If the Zhou family awarded her a first-class guest secretary, not only the clansmen in the family would question this matter, but if outsiders heard the news, it would be difficult to guarantee that they would not have any bad intentions.

The Zhou family is already big and difficult to control, and there are definitely not a few people who don't want the Zhou family to produce another genius like Zhou Yang.

It is precisely because of these that Zhou Yang did not show any special attention to Liu Xuanxuan after the end of the assessment, let alone stay to personally intervene in this matter.

Only by not letting people know how much he attaches importance to Liu Xuanxuan, Liu Xuanxuan can live a more stable and safe life in the Zhou family in the future.

This is the same reason that Qingyang Zhenren obviously valued him very much at the beginning, but he only gave him a piece of "Xuanyang Order" and did not take any other actions.

Zhou Guangxiang may not know Zhou Yang's thoughts, but he has an advantage, that is, he will never question and speculate on Zhou Yang's intentions, and will faithfully carry out Zhou Yang's orders.

So when Zhou Yang listened to his report afterwards, he smiled with satisfaction.

According to Zhou Guangxiang's arrangement, not only did Liu Xuanxuan live in the courtyard arranged by the Zhou family for the second-class guest, but her grandfather Liu Changhe was also left in her courtyard as a family member to practice.

Then Zhou Guangxiang arranged for her to enter the Zhou family's Baiyi Hall to do things, so that she could learn part of the Zhou family's alchemy inheritance in it openly, and get paid by completing the refining tasks in the Baiyi Hall.

There is no specific number of tasks that the Zhou family has to complete every year for the second-class guest qing, which can be a battle demon eradication task, or a refining and alchemy task.

As long as Liu Xuanxuan enters the Baiyi Hall, and Zhou Guangxiang secretly takes care of her, she will be able to pass the test as long as she completes the refining task every year in the future, so that the Zhou family does not have to worry about her going out to perform tasks when her cultivation is low.

And within two months of Liu Xuanxuan joining the Zhou family, the things that Zhou Yang had been waiting for finally had good news.

Under the cultivation of the Zhou family at all costs, Xiao Ying finally succeeded in refining a furnace of third-order high-grade elixir, becoming the first third-order high-grade alchemist since the establishment of the Zhou family.

At this time, Xiao Ying's cultivation had only reached the seventh layer of foundation building for a few years, and she was only ninety-seven years old.

To be able to become a third-order high-grade alchemist at this cultivation and at this age, there is no doubt that his talent in alchemy is strong.

Because he knew that Zhou Yang was anxious to go out and travel, and because he was also full of expectations for returning to the Liuyun Continent Immortal Cultivation Realm, Xiao Ying only rested for two months after being promoted to a third-order high-grade alchemist, and then officially began to refine the Zhuji Dan.

Refining Tsukidan is a big deal!

When Xiao Ying was refining the Zhuji Dan, Zhou Yang stopped everything and concentrated on guarding the alchemy room in the cave to protect the Dharma for the Daoists.

After several days of refining in this way, Xiao Ying finally lived up to her expectations and successfully refined the first furnace of Zhuji Dan in her life.

Because it was the first time to refine the Tsukidan, although the refining was successful in the end, there were only three Tsukudan.

Even if it is calculated according to the calculation of 20,000 lower grade spirit stones for a Zhuji Dan, refining this furnace Zhuji Dan, the Zhou family has lost tens of thousands of lower grade spirit stones in the material cost.

This is the reason why, under normal circumstances, the third-order lower-grade spirit pill like the Zhuji Dan is handed over to the fourth-order alchemist or even the fifth-order alchemist to refine it.

However, Zhou Yang knew that for the Zhou family, this account could not be counted like this.

First of all, the fourth-order demon pill and the "Earth Yuan Spirit Milk", the main materials of the Zhuji Dan, can be obtained by the Zhou family themselves, so that if they only buy the rest of the auxiliary materials, one or two thousand spirit stones can be completely completed.

Secondly, Zhuji Dan is a valuable thing in the Boundless Sand Sea Immortal Cultivation Realm, even if it is purchased at the market price in the Liuyun Continent Immortal Cultivation Realm, there are many restrictions, so its value cannot be calculated with a simple 20,000 lower grade spirit stones.

For example, if Zhou Yang was selling the Zhuji Dan to all the cultivators and families in the Boundless Sand Sea, even if he priced 50,000 lower grade spirit stones, there would still be many people rushing to buy them.

Third, Xiao Ying has just been promoted to a third-order high-grade alchemist, and it is the first time to refine the Zhuji Dan, it is normal to have three pills, and when she refines the Zhuji Dan a few more times in the future, and is familiar with the refining of the Zhuji Dan, the number of pills will definitely increase to four or even five.

At that time, refining Tsukidan will definitely not lose money.

"Ying'er, you've worked hard, take a good rest first, and let your husband handle the rest. ”

Outside the alchemy room, after Zhou Yang received the three freshly baked Zhuji Dan from the hands of Daoist Xiao Ying, he immediately gently hugged the Taoist into his arms with a look of pity, picked him up, and directly carried him to the bed in the boudoir and told him to rest well, and then he left the cave with Zhuji Dan.

Leaving the "Qianyang Cave" where he practiced, Zhou Yang immediately issued an order to convene all the elders and deacons of the Zhou family to open and close the door to Chihu Mountain.

In the past few days, after Zhou Xuanhao, who was sitting in the Red Fox Ridge, arrived, Zhou Yang took out the Zhuji Dan refined by Xiao Ying and talked about the purpose of convening this meeting.

"As you can see, the three Tsukidans contained in these three jade bottles were personally refined by Elder Xiao Ying a few days ago!"

In the main hall, as soon as Zhou Yang and all the other participants arrived, they directly took out the three jade bottles containing the Zhuji Dan and placed them on the stone table in front of them, and said the name of the pill in the jade bottle in a deep voice.

Rumble!

Like a thunderbolt exploding, after hearing Zhou Yang's words, all the Zhou family elders and deacons and elders in the main hall were stunned.

Then the next moment, in the empty hall, there was a sound of rapid breathing "whirring".

You don't need to look at Zhou Yang to know that this voice must have come from the seven deacon elders who were still in the Qi cultivation period.

As Qi cultivation period cultivators, and as the deacon elders of the Zhou family who are now in real power, these people and their descendants are definitely more likely to obtain Zhuji Dan than others.

Now that I suddenly saw that the Zhou family suddenly had three more Zhuji Dan, and it was also refined by the elders of their own families, it would be strange if these people could still maintain their composure.

But if he knows what he should warn these people, he still has to say.

I saw that he waved his hand lightly, and then put away the three jade bottles containing Tsukidan, and then looked at the seven deacon elders with sharp eyes and said coldly: "You don't want this gesture either, the family rules can't be easily changed, so no matter how many Tsukidan you have in your family, you should use the contribution points to exchange, or you can only use the contribution points to exchange, don't think that the family will make a special exception for someone who does not meet the regulations!"

Swept away by his fierce and cold gaze, and then hearing his words with a strong sense of warning, the seven Zhou family deacons and elders suddenly regained their consciousness in their hearts, and then these people glanced at each other, and they all responded in unison: "The patriarch's teachings, we must keep them in mind." ”

"It's good that you know, let me tell you the reason why I summoned you here today, that is, I am ready to officially step down as the head of the Zhou family, and the new position of patriarch will be taken over by Guangxiang, do you have any opinions?"