Huangshamen.

When the news of Zhou Yang's return from forming a golden pill reached Huangshamen, Yang Wenxiong, the current head of Huangshamen, who received the news, stumbled and almost fell to the ground.

He looked at the monk with a shocked expression, and his mouth moved, wanting to ask if the news was true.

But before he could say anything, he stopped again.

He knew very well in his heart that it was impossible for a messenger to talk nonsense about such a big thing.

"I see, you go down first!"

He took a deep breath, forced himself to calm down, and waved his hand for the messenger to leave first.

He is the head of a faction, and he must have the dignity and majesty of the head of the sect, especially now, he must stabilize his mentality, and not let his panic be known by other disciples.

Since Zhou Yang's return from the Jindan has become a fact, there is nothing to change.

The next thing he, the head of Huangshamen, will do is to figure out Zhou Yang's attitude.

In fact, for this issue, when he took over the position of head from the previous head Zhang Yunpeng, the other party had already made an explanation arrangement.

At this time, he forced himself to calm down, and after thinking about it carefully, he instructed the herald disciples who were on call outside: "Come here, send a message to the Zhou family, and say that Yang has something important and wants to invite Zhou Yang's seniors to Huangshamen." ”

According to common sense, when Zhou Yang returned from Jindan, it should be Yang Wenxiong, who has low cultivation, who took the initiative to visit Zhou's family, so as to show his sincerity.

But now he asked Zhou Yang to come to Huangshamen to see him, which is a little ignorant.

However, these are only appearances.

Yang Wenxiong's real intention in issuing this order was to test Zhou Yang's mind through this order.

Normal people know that when Zhou Yang returns from forming a golden pill, the position of the overlord of the Huangshamen Boundless Sand Sea Cultivation Immortal Realm will completely change hands.

So at this time, those in power in Huangshamen must be the most panicked and helpless.

And under the panic, people will inevitably make some unwise actions that are dizzy.

In case Yang Wenxiong and other high-level officials of the Huangshamen were dizzy, they wanted to take advantage of Zhou Yanggang's success in marrying the Dan and his foothold was not stable, to trick him into the mountain gate of the Huangshamen, and then with the help of the power of the Zongmen's mountain protection array, he would use the savings of the entire sect to strangle him.

This scenario is not out of the question.

Yang Wenxiong's unusual invitation to Zhou Yang to Huangshamen is undoubtedly easier for people to think in this regard.

And this is Yang Wenxiong's temptation of Zhou Yang.

"Zhou Yang, Zhou Yang, I hope you don't disappoint me!"

"Otherwise, Yang is fighting for the foundation of the sect, and he will definitely not let your Zhou family have a good time!"

Yang Wenxiong's eyes flashed with haze, but in his heart he had prepared for the worst.

On the other side, nearly a month after Zhou Yang returned to the family, Zhou Guangxiang finally rushed to Lingxi Peak with Taoist Liu Xuanxuan and his eldest son Zhou Tongxuan.

More than sixty years have passed, Zhou Guangxiang's cultivation has also reached the fifth layer of the Purple Mansion, he is only two hundred and sixty years old, according to the calculation of the 480-year life of the monk of the Purple Mansion period, he has just passed half of his life, and it is already very good to have this cultivation at this age.

And his Taoist companion Liu Xuanxuan has also reached the ninth layer of foundation building, and with the cultivation of the foundation building period, he has become a fourth-order lower grade refiner.

Even his eldest son, Zhou Tongxuan, already had a three-layer foundation building cultivation at this time.

When Xiao Ying and Zhou Guangxiang came back from the Far West, they had already informed Zhou Guangxiang of their experience in the Far West, so when they met Zhou Guangxiang, Zhou Yang did not repeat their experiences over the years.

After catching up with his nephew, apprentice, and nephew, he called Zhou Guangxiang to the quiet room alone to talk.

"There is something I need to let you know, Uncle Nine, I went home this time just to calm the hearts of the family, at most in another six or seven years, Uncle Nine I will go to the Liuyun Continent Immortal Cultivation Realm to do a very dangerous thing!"

At the beginning of the conversation, Zhou Yang handed over his old bottom.

And when Zhou Guangxiang heard his words, his color changed suddenly, and he was about to speak with his mouth open.

However, before his words could be spoken, he was stopped by Zhou Yang raising his hand.

"Don't be in a hurry to speak out first, listen to Uncle Nine and I will finish speaking!"

Zhou Yang stopped Zhou Guangxiang's voice, and said calmly: "Although I can only stay for a few years, the matter of my Zhou family becoming the overlord of the Boundless Sand Sea Cultivation Immortal Realm will not change, and the hole cards I left to you Uncle Nine are completely enough to support my Zhou family to deal with all kinds of changes!"

"You have been in charge of the family for more than 100 years, and your understanding of the family situation is much clearer than that of Uncle Nine, so I won't ask in detail about Uncle Nine. ”

"Next, while Uncle Nine is still in the family, you gather the family leaders to make a plan, list all the things that the family needs to do after becoming the overlord of the Boundless Sand Sea Cultivation Immortal Realm, and list some ideas that you want to implement in the family but are not easy to implement before, and then hand it over to Uncle Nine and me for review. ”

"Before Uncle Nine and I leave, I will help you clear all obstacles!"

After Zhou Yang finished speaking, he lightly bowed his head and said, "Okay, what do you have to say, you can say it now." ”

"Nephew wants to know, Ninth Uncle, what is the dangerous thing you have to do when you go to Liuyun Continent to cultivate immortals, do you need the help of the family?"

Zhou Guangxiang looked at Zhou Yang with a worried face, and opened his mouth to ask what he wanted to say just now.

"I don't know, Uncle Jiu, I don't know what it is now, I only know that it is a very dangerous thing, this matter involves the predecessors of the Yuan Infant Stage, and you can't interfere!"

Zhou Yang shook his head, and the words in his mouth made Zhou Guangxiang's face much more worried.

When it comes to the matter of the Yuan Infant Monk, it is indeed not something that he or the Zhou family can interfere with, in front of that kind of existence, the small Zhou family can be destroyed in a snap of a finger.

"My nephew understands, Uncle Nine, your orders, my nephew must do it as soon as possible. ”

He nodded gloomily, did not mention the matter of helping, and responded to Zhou Yang's previous orders in a low tone, and the joy in his heart because of Zhou Yang's return from forming a golden pill has long been dissipated.

Seeing this, Zhou Yang didn't say anything on his face, but he was very relieved in his heart.

He is optimistic about Zhou Guangxiang, that is, he knows how to advance and retreat, knows the general situation, and will not act recklessly, which is a quality that a family leader must have.

And in addition to these qualities, it is even more satisfying and gratifying to know how to be grateful.

"There is one more thing, Uncle Nine, my Jindan Celebration, let's hold it in three years, the venue can be placed on the Chihu Mountain closer to it, and then Uncle Nine will personally take the stage to preach for ten days and ten nights, explaining the mysteries of cultivation to all the participating monks!"

It is a big event to hold the Jindan Festival.

In a small place like the Boundless Sand Sea Immortal Cultivation Realm, the Jindan Stage Cultivator is the top existence, and the significance of the Jindan Celebration is even greater than that of the Yuanying Celebration in the Liuyun Continent Immortal Cultivation Realm.

After the Jindan celebration, the Zhou family could officially replace Huangshamen and become the new generation of overlords of the Boundless Sand Sea Immortal Cultivation Realm.

"Nephew knows, please rest assured Uncle Jiu, my nephew will definitely let all the monks of the Boundless Sand Sea Immortal Cultivation Realm know this news, and let all the patriarchs of the Immortal Cultivation Family participate in this grand ceremony!"

Zhou Guangxiang's spirits perked up, and his voice responded loudly and passionately.

"You do things, I don't worry. ”

Zhou Yang nodded and ended the conversation.

Within a few days, he went to the mountain gate of Huangshamen alone.

Yang Wenxiong's thoughts, Zhou Yang didn't know.

But he has absolute confidence and is not afraid of Yang Wenxiong's tricks.

If Yang Wenxiong really fainted and used the mountain gate array to deal with him, then he would wake up laughing in his dreams.

The original agreement between him and Cao Wenjin was that if Huangshamen did not deal with him and the Zhou family, he would never make a move against Huangshamen.

Yang Wenxiong dared to break this agreement, which was equivalent to helping him untie his shackles, how could he not be happy.

But of course that can't happen.

When Zhou Yang stepped on the clouds and rushed to the mountain gate of Huangshamen, Yang Wenxiong, who had learned the news in advance, had already led all the high-level and disciples of Huangshamen to welcome him out of the mountain gate and waited for a long time.

Seeing him appear, these people bowed down to him in unison, and shouted in unison with great respect: "All the disciples of the Huangsha Sect, welcome the arrival of the Zhou seniors to our sect!"

Looking at their respectful attitude, people who don't know saw it, and thought that Zhou Yang was the Jindan ancestor of their Huangshamen!

And Zhou Yang saw the respectful appearance of everyone in Huangshamen below above the golden auspicious clouds, and couldn't help but remember his first experience of coming to Huangshamen in a trance.

At that time, he had just succeeded in building the foundation, because he had won the meritorious value reward promised by Zhang Yunpeng, the head of the previous Huangshamen, in the battle of destroying demons, and under the pleading of the family elder Zhou Xuanbin, he promised to transfer the meritorious value to his son Zhou Yuanchen to exchange for Zhuji Dan.

That's how we came to Huangshamen.

At that time, he never thought that one day he would lead the Zhou family to trample the Huangsha Gate under his feet, so that the Huangsha Gate that had been cultivating the entire Boundless Sand Sea Immortal Realm for more than 2,000 years would look at his own eyes.

After being in a trance for a while, Zhou Yang came back to his senses and fell into the auspicious clouds, and waved his hand with a smile on his face: "Fellow Daoists are too polite, Zhou and Yang are also old friends, so I really don't need to be so polite." ”

Hearing him call himself an "old friend", Yang Wenxiong couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

At least from the current point of view, Zhou Yang's attitude is quite kind, and there is no sense of aggressiveness, so things may not develop in the worst direction he thinks.

He immediately squeezed out a smile on his face and said: "It is really a blessing for Yang to be able to get acquainted with his predecessors before Zhou's predecessors made their careers, but the rules are the rules, since Zhou's seniors have formed a golden pill, they are our seniors on the path of cultivation, how can Yang break the rules!"

When Zhou Yang heard this, he just smiled, which can be regarded as a tacit acquiescence.

The strong in the world of cultivating immortals are respected, and two monks who have no blood relationship or teacher-inheritance relationship meet, and the monks who cultivate for a lower realm call the monks who cultivate for a higher realm as their predecessors, which is a normal thing, and it is also the "rule" in Yang Wenxiong's mouth.

Zhou Yang has long been accustomed to this kind of "rule", and there is no discomfort.

Next, after Zhou Yang said a few polite words, he was invited by Yang Wenxiong into the main hall for a secret talk.

What the two talked about in the main hall, no third person knew.

Others only saw that after the two talked secretly in the main hall for a long time, Zhou Yang was personally sent out of the mountain gate by Yang Wenxiong with a smile on his face.

"This Yang Wenxiong is quite acquainted, it seems that with Zhang Yunpeng's original lesson, he has clearly recognized the situation, which saves me a lot of effort. ”

"But looking at the way he was prepared, it seems that he has been prepared for this day for a long time?"

"That's right, my Zhou family has been thriving over the years, but his Huangshamen is declining, as the head of Huangshamen, if he doesn't want to go farther, he will be too incompetent!"

On the golden auspicious clouds, Zhou Yang, who had left Huangshamen, remembered the harvest of his trip, and couldn't help but show a satisfied smile on his face.

In the main hall, he and Yang Wenxiong had a detailed discussion about the future situation of the Boundless Sand Sea Immortal Cultivation Realm.

He promised to continue to take care of Huangshamen and would not violate the "Nether Blood Pact" signed at the beginning.

And Yang Wenxiong would publicly state Huang Shamen's decision to lead the Boundless Sand Sea Immortal Cultivation Realm with the Zhou family at his Jindan Celebration.

It is said that they are leading the Boundless Sand Sea Cultivation Immortal Realm together, but anyone with a discerning eye knows that it is actually Huangshamen, the former overlord, who has given up his hegemony, and this is just to leave the last bit of face for Huangshamen, the previous overlord who has ruled the Boundless Sand Sea Cultivation Immortal Realm for more than 2,000 years.

If these things are just false names on the name, then the "Hidden Spirit Fragrance" formula handed over by Yang Wenxiong and some finished "Hidden Spirit Fragrance" are real benefits.

With the formula of "Hidden Spirit Incense", the Zhou family has mastered the passage to the Liuyun Continent Immortal Cultivation Realm, and in the future, the high-level monks of the Zhou family can rely on this spiritual object to help travel to the Liuyun Continent Immortal Cultivation Realm.

This is of extraordinary significance to the Zhou family.

Of course, Zhou Yang did not take the benefits of Yang Wenxiong for nothing.

After he got the formula of "Hidden Spirit Incense", he also took out a spiritual object "Ning Dan Grass" that could assist in knotting Dan as compensation.

He originally wanted to leave this thing for Daoist Xiao Ying to use in the future, but now he has made a decision, and when he goes to Xuanyang Immortal Sect to help Lu Xuanji do things, he makes a small request to the other party, asking the other party to help make a "Jade Liquid Golden Pill" for his Taoist companion Xiao Ying to use afterwards.

I believe that with the kindness of Lu Xuanji and Qingyang Zhenren, they should not refuse his small request.

After returning to Lingxi Peak from Huangshamen, Zhou Yang gave a copy of the recipe of "Hidden Spirit Incense" to Taoist companion Xiao Ying, and then stored the other copy in the family secret vault.

After that, he went into retreat.

In this retreat, Zhou Yang was going to take the "Enlightenment Xuan True Fruit" to assist him in cultivating the second layer of the "Taixu Refining Divine Technique".

It was something he finally decided on after thinking about it.

He only had less than ten years to cultivate, and in such a short period of time, even with the help of the "Enlightenment Xuan True Fruit", it was impossible for him to cultivate any kind of supernatural power in his hands.

And although he has now obtained the full version of the "Great Yan Sword Technique", because he does not have a matching fifth-order flying sword, even if he quickly cultivates the third layer of the sword technique with the help of the "Enlightenment Xuan True Fruit", he will not be able to improve his strength much.

What's more, although he didn't know what Lu Xuanji and Qingyang Zhenren wanted to help him, he also knew that he definitely didn't need to fight by himself.

In this way, whether he cultivated supernatural powers or cultivated sword techniques, it actually didn't help much.

On the other hand, the "Taixu Refining Divine Technique" is different, this secret technique improves the divine consciousness of immortal cultivators, and it is a choice that will never be wrong.

Two years have passed in a flash.

With the help of the "Enlightenment Xuan True Fruit", it took Zhou Yang a little more than two years to successfully cultivate the second layer of the "Taixu Refining Divine Technique", and the strength of his divine consciousness increased by one percent again.

At this time, his divine consciousness strength was even stronger than that of ordinary Jindan ninth-layer monks, and only weaker than those Jindan ninth-layer monks who had also practiced the secret method of enhancing divine consciousness.

"In the future, I have to find an opportunity to find a profound divine consciousness to attack the divine power cultivation, otherwise my powerful divine consciousness will be wasted!"

In the retreat room, Zhou Yang withdrew the divine consciousness that had been released, and the essence in his eyes flashed.

Although after the immortal cultivators opened up the Purple Mansion, they had a great ability to resist Divine Sense attacks, but this did not mean that Divine Sense attacks were useless for monks above the Purple Mansion stage.

Some advanced divine consciousness attacks supernatural powers can also be effective against Jindan stage monks, and even Yuan Infant stage monks.

However, this kind of profound supernatural power is rarely spread, and the monks who have it are all secret, and whether they can get it is also a matter of chance.

During the two years of Zhou Yang's retreat, Zhou Guangxiang had already done what he had told Zhou Guangxiang about.

As soon as he came out of the customs, he received the development plan of the Zhou family that Zhou Guangxiang had spent a year or two making.

"Unifying the costume and the family emblem will help enhance the collective sense of honor of the family monks, and make it easier for outsiders to identify the identity of my Zhou family members and generate awe. ”

"Changing the welfare offering system and assessing the cultivation of all family monks will help improve the progress of family monks and save some unnecessary expenses. ”

"The establishment of a direct vassal family will help expand the influence of the family and send more outstanding elite children to the family. ”

"Forming a patrol team to fight sand bandits and thieves can not only exercise the actual combat ability of the clan, but also win a good reputation for the family. ”

"Optimizing the structure of the family hall and dividing the internal hierarchy can improve the efficiency of the family's operation and motivate the clansmen to progress. ”

In the cave, at the request of Zhou Yang, Zhou Guangxiang explained the plans and projects he made one by one.

He has been in charge of the Zhou family for many years, and his understanding of the internal situation of the Zhou family is unparalleled, and the plans and projects he has made are also formulated according to the actual situation.

Originally, if it wasn't for Zhou Yang's instructions that day, he might have slowly implemented these plans in the future.

But since Zhou Yang was ready to use his unparalleled influence in the family and Thunder Sweep to clear all the internal obstacles within the family for him, he didn't have to think so much, and he was done.

"Very good, just follow your plan, and after the Ninth Uncle and my Jindan celebration is held, I will convene a family meeting to implement these plans!"

Zhou Yang nodded with satisfaction, put down the plan made by Zhou Guangxiang, and made a decision on the spot.

When Zhou Guangxiang heard him agree, he was relieved and excited at the same time.

These reforms, if not supported by Zhou Yang, the ancestor of the Jindan period family, even he, the patriarch of the Zifu period, would not be able to withstand the huge pressure from within the family and forcibly implement them.

You must know that if you really reform according to his plan, the interests of all the monks of the entire family from the bottom to the top will be touched, and I don't know how many family monks will suffer because of his reform.

This kind of thing that offends the monks of the whole clan is only Zhou Yang, the family ancestor with unparalleled prestige in the family and who has not left any descendants so far, dares to do it and has the courage to do it.

"This is the ninth uncle I admire and respect!"

Zhou Guangxiang looked at Zhou Yang with reverence, and his heart was agitated.

Since he was a child, he has taken Zhou Yang as his target example to learn, and now although he is a monk in the Purple Mansion Period and the patriarch of the Zhou family, his admiration for Zhou Yang, the clan uncle, has never changed.

Immediately, he left the cave with joy and enthusiasm, and went down to prepare for the Zhouyang Jindan celebration.

And Zhou Yang looked at his departing back, and then looked at his plan, but he fell into a deep groan.

It can be seen from this plan that Zhou Guangxiang has great ambitions.

If these reform plans were really implemented according to the plan he had made, over time, even if the Zhou family did not have him, the ancestor of the Jindan period, no one would be able to shake the position of the overlord of the Boundless Sand Sea Cultivation Immortal Realm.

But as Zhou Guangxiang feared, when these reform plans are implemented, they will inevitably encounter unprecedented resistance within the family.

Not to mention the others, just saying that the change of welfare offerings and the assessment of family monks are enough to arouse the opposition of eighty or ninety percent of family monks.

Originally, the Zhou family's current welfare offering system, as long as the children of the family reach the age of twenty after reaching the cultivation period, they can always receive the benefits of the corresponding cultivation until they are sixty years old.

However, according to Zhou Guangxiang's reformed welfare offering standards, if the children of the family want to receive the corresponding welfare offerings every year, they must pass the assessment standards set by the family.

For example, if a family cultivator has reached the third level of Qi cultivation this year, he can receive forty family contribution points every year, then if he does not improve his cultivation after five years, the family contribution points he receives will be halved, and if he has not made progress for ten years, he will be suspended from issuing family contribution points.

On the other hand, if you can be promoted to the fourth level of Qi cultivation within five years, then the family will be rewarded with an additional hundred family contribution points.

With this one alone, I don't know how many clansmen who have neglected their cultivation will have a big loss of income because of this.

Especially for those clansmen with low-grade spiritual root qualifications, it is difficult for them to pass this assessment if they don't practice hard and diligently after their cultivation has reached the middle stage of Qi cultivation.

If they fail to pass the assessment, these people will be cut off from a regular source of income, and if they want to obtain cultivation resources in the future, they can only take on family tasks or go out on adventures like casual cultivation.

This is the reason why Zhou Guangxiang's reform will touch the interests of all family monks.

In order to give these monks who failed to pass the assessment a reliable way out, there was another reform plan proposed by Zhou Guangxiang.

Establish a direct vassal family!

What is a direct vassal family?

It is to eliminate some family monks who are not qualified and do not want to make progress every few years, give them a considerable severance pay, and let them leave the family to establish their own small family.

The small families established by these people are nominally based on the Zhou family and are counted as branches of the Zhou family, but in fact, the Zhou family will not provide them with any actual material assistance, and their descendants will not be included in the Zhou family tree, just to provide them with a layer of protective umbrella.

If they want to get practical benefits from the Zhou family, there is only one way to go, that is, to transport the descendants of the small family with good spiritual root qualifications to the main family, and obtain the words given by the main family, which will be included in the family tree and enjoy the treatment of the main family monks.

As long as the small family sends one high-grade spiritual root qualification monk to the main family, or accumulates five middle-grade spiritual root qualification monks, they can get a reward of Tsukidan.

As long as there is a foundation building monk in the small family, it can officially become a branch of the main family, and the descendants of the clan will be re-included in the Zhou family tree.