When flying through the oasis passage formed by twenty-five artificial oases, Zhou Yang saw scenes that he had imagined in his mind a long time ago.

Just like the service areas on the highways in his previous life, with twenty-five man-made oases as a base, a large number of monks who explored the sand sea went in and out of those oases, or sold the spiritual objects they obtained when they explored the sand sea to the shops opened by the Zhou family on the oasis, or bought elixirs such as Bigu Dan, Detoxification Pill, and Muscle Building Hemostatic Pill and various consumable spirit runes from the shop.

Low-level monks are not as easy as foundation monks to explore the sand sea, their storage bags have limited capacity, and the various food and water they can hold at a time can only supply them to consume in the sand sea for a few months or half a year, so they must calculate and control the depth of exploration and reserve the consumption when they return.

Moreover, there are many demon beasts in this undeveloped sand sea, once they encounter a battle, unless they encounter the kind of first-order demon beasts that can be crushed, otherwise fighting with demon beasts of the same level will consume some spirit runes and spirit pills in the hands of some monks.

Once all these elixir runes are exhausted, they must return to the twenty-five oasis strongholds to replenish them, otherwise they will easily die in the sea of sand if they encounter a strong enemy.

And these supplies are on the twenty-five artificial oases, all of which can only be provided by the Zhou family.

There were also some shrewd low-level monks who discovered this business opportunity and peddled similar things at slightly lower prices like the merchants in the mortal realm, but they could only drink a sip of soup from it after all, and the Zhou family earned the lion's money.

At the same time, Zhou Yang also saw two teams of migrating mortals, the mortals in these two teams were sitting on the sand camel cart, pulled by the sand beast to advance towards the Rhino Horn Continent, and there were more than a dozen Zhou family Qi cultivation period monks in the team to participate in the escort.

One of the teams had already gone a quarter of the way, and the number of personnel had been reduced by nearly 10%, and most of the people in the team had a tired look on their faces, and many of them were full of worry and regret in their eyes, as if they were worried about this bumpy journey and regretted embarking on this road of no return.

The latter team had just set off and had not yet arrived at the first man-made oasis, and the people in the team were full of energy, their eyes full of yearning and expectation for the legendary rhino horn continent with fertile land, and fantasizing about a new life after arriving there.

Endless white flour steamed buns, endless fresh white milk, fragrant roast mutton......

These scenes were taken into Zhou Yang's eyes, but they could no longer make his mood fluctuate.

With more than 200 years of life experience, he has become accustomed to life and death, and his heart has become as hard as iron.

Those who are on the move may be pitiful, but those who die on the road are even more innocent.

But so what?

This world is so cruel, if you want to live well and live more comfortably than others, you have to work harder and pay a greater price than others.

The monks of the Zhou family did not use false propaganda to deceive these mortals, if they could reach the Rhino Horn Continent alive, those beautiful fantasies would be realized.

The richness and fertility of the Rhino Horn Continent are enough for them and their descendants to eat and drink for a hundred or two hundred years.

And if they stay in their original places, they still have to live a rationed life, and they have a strict quota of food, drink, and clothing, and they are distributed according to their work.

The path is their own choice, whether it is life or death, and they can only fight it themselves.

Even if Zhou Yang's current cultivation mana is already the top handful of people in the Boundless Sand Sea Immortal Cultivation Realm, he can't help these people in this matter.

After flying all the way for more than ten days, Zhou Yang rushed to Chihu Mountain.

"Nephew (apprentice) to meet the ninth uncle (master)!"

"Nephews and nephews meet Elder Taishang!"

On Chihu Mountain, Zhou Guangxiang and Liu Xuanxuan, who learned of Zhou Yang's arrival, had already led a group of Zhou family elders to wait for him.

This time, the Zhou family held a family meeting, except for Zhou Guangxiang and Pang He, the two foundation-building monks, who each needed to sit in the Rhino Horn Continent and the Yuquan Lake Oasis, the rest of the Zhou family's foundation-building monks rushed to Chihu Mountain.

At this time, the number of Zhou family monks gathered on this Red Tiger Mountain has exceeded eight hundred.

Because of the large number of participants, Zhou Guangxiang urgently ordered people to demolish the original meeting hall in the past few months and build a larger and grander new meeting hall that can accommodate thousands of people.

Zhou Yang's eyes swept over the group of junior clansmen who came to greet him, and a trace of satisfaction flashed in his eyes.

Today's Zhou family is really talented, and there are foundation building monks in every generation, and there is more than one person.

And all this is thanks to him.

It was he who single-handedly led the small family whose inheritance was facing the crisis of severing to today's scale.

Now seeing these most outstanding talents of the Zhou family gathered together to welcome his arrival, he can be regarded as having a little experience of the feeling of starting a sect and being an ancestor.

For the Zhou family, although he is not the patriarch of the Kai faction, he is the real ancestor of Zhongxing.

His prestige in the Zhou family, his merits to the Zhou family, have long surpassed any ancestor, including the ancestor of Zhou Yuquan, who founded the Zhou family.

Even if he is not visible to people in retreat all the year round, and is not in the Zhou family, his legends are everywhere in the Zhou family.

"Hehehe, everyone get up, this seat will go to the ancestral hall to worship the ancestors first, and then talk to you in detail. ”

Zhou Yang smiled and waved his hand lightly, even if he greeted these juniors.

His seniority and cultivation are there, and he doesn't need to be polite with these juniors at all, too politeness will make these juniors uncomfortable, and it is not in line with the personality of his family's "ancestor" in the hearts of the clansmen.

Next, as he said, Zhou Yang first went to the ancestral hall to worship the ancestors of the Zhou family, and then went to the cemetery to worship the graves of his parents and close elders such as Zhou Minghan and Zhou Xuanyu.

In this process, only Zhou Guangxiang accompanied him to serve.

After the graves of the elders were cleaned, Zhou Yang called Zhou Guangxiang to the top of Chihu Mountain for questioning.

"Guangxiang, you already know the reason for holding the family meeting this time, how did you do that?"

"Back to Uncle Jiu, after fifteen years of mining, nearly half of the [Forbidden God Stone] mine has been mined, and the ore obtained is enough to build the treasure house. ”

"As for the nephew himself, the [Bloodline God Forbidden] nephew has also understood most of it, and it will be able to completely grasp it in two or three years at most, and use it in the treasure treasury protection array. ”

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Silent.

After Zhou Yang listened to Zhou Guangxiang's words, he was silent for a while and did not speak.

After a long time had passed like this, he asked faintly, "Do you think it's right for Uncle Nine to do this?

"My nephew doesn't dare to say anything about this!"

"But no matter what you want to do, Uncle Nine, your nephew will resolutely agree with and implement your decision. ”

"Nephew believes that no matter what you do, Uncle Nine, your starting point must be for the good of the family and the good of all the clansmen!"

Zhou Guangxiang looked at Zhou Yang with a respectful face, and his words were full of trust and admiration for Zhou Yang.

And Zhou Yang seemed to have known that he would say this, and there was no joy on his face after hearing this, but he shook his head with a complicated face, and sighed: "Hey, Uncle Jiu, I know that this decision is actually not beneficial to the family, and it may even end up with the infamy of splitting the family!"

"But Uncle Nine, I understand better that as the family continues to grow, if the current system is continued, once Uncle Nine and I are absent from the family for a long time, you or your successor will not have the strength and prestige to suppress the whole clan, and then as long as there is an introduction, the family will fall into civil war and split. ”

"Rather than passively suffering a split civil war in the future, it is better to take the initiative now, at least the initiative is still in our hands, with the prestige of Uncle Nine and me, we can also suppress all voices of resistance and let them honestly follow the rules we have formulated. ”

"In the short term, this change will bring some damage to the family and reduce the cohesion of the family. ”

"But in the long run, with the increase of various branches of the family, even if we are no longer there in the future, even if our main vein becomes a branch, the Zhou family is still the Zhou family, and it will not perish because of civil strife and division!"

Zhou Yang muttered to himself, and the look in his eyes gradually became firm.

He was convinced that the decision he had made was not a bad one.

Whether it was the thousand-year-old families he knew in his previous life, or the various Jindan families and even the Yuanying family that he knew about in the Liuyun Continent Immortal Cultivation Realm, they were not like the current Zhou family, where there was no distinction between priority and priority, and they all relied on a family ancestor like him to maintain the existence of the family.

Half a month later, the Zhou family's family meeting was officially held.

The monks who participated in the meeting this time were all monks of the Zhou family, with a total of 821 people, including Zhou Yang and Zhou Guangxiang, two Zifu monks, Zhou Yuanyao, Zhou Guangqing, Zhou Tongyao, Zhou Tonghua, Zhou Tongmin, and Zhou Fuyun, as well as seven deacon elders and hundreds of other people.

At the beginning of the conference, Zhou Guangxiang, the patriarch, first inquired about the family's personnel and finances.

Zhou Yang just listened.

"At present, there are 927 monks in the family, 489 monks from relatives, and 143 monks from Hakka Qing. ”

"Among them, there are three Purple Mansion monks, ten foundation building monks, one hundred and twenty-five Qi cultivation ninth-level monks, three hundred and thirty-seven late Qi cultivation monks, and ...... mid-Qi cultivation monks."

"The number of secular mortals in the family is about 4.2 million, and the number of mortals with foreign surnames is about 860,000!"

"At the same time, the family now has seven vassal Zhuji families, namely the Huang family, the Ma family, the Guo family, the He family, the Yu family, the Xie family, and the Luo family, and the nine vassal Qi families, namely the Lu family, the Li family, and the Lin family......"

"These vassal families have a total of eight foundation building monks, including two from the Huang family, and five hundred and ninety-seven Qi cultivation monks, all of whom can be driven by my Zhou family!"