Decades have passed, and Zhou Yang's face is still the same, still so handsome and handsome.

And Zhou Tongyue and Li Hong, who had just passed middle age, were already gray-haired at this time, and they didn't have much longevity.

The difference in life between Zhou Tongyue and Li Hong is only one year old, and decades have passed, both of them have already built a foundation and cultivated at the ninth level, and in a place like Cangyuan Immortal City, they can be regarded as not too big and not too small.

However, at this time, these two masters who were quite famous in Cangyuan Immortal City were kneeling down in front of a young man with excitement on their faces, and there were faint tears in their eyes.

"Hey, I've really suffered you all these years, and I've caused you a lot of trouble!"

Zhou Yang looked at the two emotionally excited juniors in front of him, sighed, and personally stepped forward to grab the shoulders of the two and helped them up.

"Ancestor, don't say that! If it weren't for you, Ancestor, we would have sat down a hundred years ago, how could we have succeeded in building a foundation, and how could we live for a hundred more years?"

"We have suffered a little over the years, but my grandson dares to swear that there is absolutely no resentment of the ancestor, and your favor to our juniors, the juniors will never dare to forget!"

Zhou Tongyue's face was excited, and he swore on the spot.

When Zhou Yang saw this, he felt even more sorry in his heart.

He really didn't have any thoughts about the family branch here in the Far West over the years, if it weren't for the chance encounter with the "Heavenly Demon Corpse King" in the "Death Sand Sea", if it weren't for Yin Hanguang wanting to borrow Guo Jinhong's head to establish power, he might not come to the Far West again for hundreds of years.

After all, before this, whether it was the "Heavenly Demon Corpse King" or Guo Jinhong, they were enemies that he couldn't face and solve.

If he appeared in the Far West before he could marry a baby and let these two enemies know, what awaited him would be an endless pursuit.

At that time, not only could he not take care of the Zhou family branch here, but he would also cause them to be exterminated.

Fortunately, God opened his eyes, allowing him to return to the extreme west through the way of "saving the country with a curve", and use Yin Hanguang's power to seek justice for the grievances he suffered at the beginning.

It also allows him to make some amends to the clansmen who are still holding on here.

At this moment, he looked at Zhou Tongyue, who was full of excitement, and said lightly: "Your loyalty, Ancestor, I know, this time Ancestor and I will come to the Far West, and I will also give you an explanation and some compensation." ”

"Now, you tell the ancestor about the situation of the family here, and let me have a number in my heart. ”

When Zhou Tongyue heard his words, he immediately scratched his chin and beard with some embarrassment and said, "Let's let Brother Li introduce you to the ancestor, the situation of the family, he knows better than me, the nominal head of the family." ”

Zhou Tongyue is a monk of the Zhou family, and Zhou Fuyun, a Taoist of Li Hong, is a monk of the Zhou family.

However, the two of them are close in age and have worked together for many years, Li Hong is a powerful person with quite a few means, Zhou Tongyue has a lot of places to rely on him in governing the family, so he has always deliberately ignored this, and only refers to him as a brother, so as not to embarrass Li Hong.

Fortunately, Zhou Yang himself is not the kind of old-fashioned person, and he did not pursue this kind of trivial matter, but just took the opportunity to look at Li Hong, who had never said anything.

After feeling Zhou Yang's gaze, Li Hong immediately bowed to him, and opened his mouth to talk about the situation of Cangyuan Immortal City, a branch of the Zhou family.

"Ancestor Mingjian, the family branch here in Cangyuan Immortal City, after decades of development, now there are twelve monks in the foundation building period, one hundred and eighty-seven monks in the qi cultivation period, and more than eighty-eight secular clansmen!"

"At the same time, the family currently has a total of one third-order upper grade spirit mountain, two third-order lower grade spirit mountains, four second-order upper grade spirit mountains, and three shops in Cangyuan Immortal City!"

"Because of the lack of sources of income, in order to prevent sitting on the mountain, most of the monks in the family work in various industries in Cangyuan Immortal City to earn cultivation resources, and most of the foundation building monks in the family also serve in the guards of Cangyuan Immortal City,"

Before Xiao Ying and Zhou Guangxiang left the Extreme West, they had left dozens of Zhuji Pills and some third-order spirit pills in their hands to Zhou Tongyue and Li Hong according to Zhou Yang's instructions, so as to fulfill Zhou Yang's original promise to those monks who came to the Extreme West.

Later, Zhou Yang returned from the Kunxu Realm and also gave them a few fourth-order demon pills and some high-level magic weapon spirit runes for their family development.

Therefore, the Zhou family on the side of Cangyuan Immortal City will have an abnormal situation of more than ten to one in the number of monks in the foundation building period and the number of monks in the qi cultivation period.

It is also because of this obviously abnormal situation that they are now being spied on from all sides.

If it weren't for Li Hong's vigilance and the help of Li Mubai's strength, he arranged all the monks of the Zhou family to work in the official industry of Cangyuan Immortal City, and used this tiger skin to deter those who snooped, I am afraid that the disaster of the Zhou family would have come long ago.

Of course, the most critical point is that although there are many monks in the foundation building period of the Zhou family, there have been no monks in the Purple Mansion period, which keeps them from entering the eyes of those really powerful forces.

Otherwise, I'm afraid that there would have been a Jindan period monk who would have kidnapped people and used soul searching to find the reason.

It's just that the shortcomings of relying on the foundation building Dan to blast a large number of foundation monks are also obvious, that is, they can only let people build the foundation, but they can't afford to support these foundation building monks.

During the Qi cultivation period, immortal cultivators only need to build a foundation, but after building a foundation successfully, they have to think about the next realm.

And the branch of the Zhou family on the side of Cangyuan Immortal City obviously didn't have the strength to help those foundation building monks continue to climb up.

Once a family is unable to provide spiritual assistance to the upper echelons of the family, then except for a very small number of monks who are very grateful and willing to help the family selflessly, most people will choose to leave the family and find their own way out.

You must know that even Zhou Yang, when the Zhou family is unable to provide him with other cultivation resources, often takes a large amount of spirit stones from the Zhou family's treasure house for his own personal use.

"According to what you said, since the family's financial situation is so difficult, how did you get those family foundation building monks to continue to serve in the family?"

Zhou Yang looked at Li Hong with a look of surprise on his face and asked, he was indeed extremely curious about this question.

The so-called Qiao woman is difficult to cook without rice, even if Zhou Yang, who single-handedly brought the Zhou family to this point, and Li Hong is in a different place, he will not be able to do this.

"It's up to the grandson to solve the ancestor's confusion!"

When Li Hong wanted to speak, Zhou Tongyue suddenly took the first step to speak for him.

After snatching the conversation this time, Zhou Tongyue didn't look at Li Hong's complicated and incomprehensible face, and arched his hand at Zhou Yangyi with a straight face: "Ancestor Mingjian, in fact, over the years, there have been a total of twelve monks who have successfully built the foundation of the Zhou family, but one of them was killed when he went out halfway, and the murderer has not been found so far, and the other two were executed by Sun Er himself!"

"The two people who were executed by their grandson at the beginning were the first monks in the family to build a foundation, because the family couldn't provide them with many cultivation resources after the foundation was successfully built, they wanted to leave the family and join other families, this kind of behavior is tantamount to betrayal!"

"They don't want to think about it, if they don't have a family, with their qualifications, how can it be so easy to get the Zhuji Dan to build the foundation? Their ancestors followed the ancestor to go to this extreme west, and exchanged their loyalty to the family and their own lives for them in exchange for the Zhuji Dan, not to let them abandon the family and climb another high branch after they succeeded in building the foundation!"

"So after the incident, Sun Er first sold a fourth-order demon pill left by Old Ancestor, in exchange for a few [Nether Blood Contracts], and forced the remaining family foundation building monks to sign blood contracts one by one, vowing never to betray the family!"

After that, the younger generation used a trick to deceive the two betrayers, and then led all the foundation building monks of the family to besiege them, and the Ming canon killed them on the spot in the wilderness. ”

"Since then, as long as the Qi cultivation period cultivators in the family have successfully built the foundation, they need to sign a blood contract to swear allegiance to the family, and it has continued until now!"

I should have thought of it a long time ago!

Zhou Yang secretly smiled bitterly in his heart, and then stared at Zhou Tongyue, who had a clear conscience, and did not speak.

Using the "Nether Blood Pact" to force people to be loyal, this kind of thing has been done before, to be honest, although this can forcibly bind people's loyalty, it can't make people really do things for the family.

So after the Zhou family gradually became stronger, he never did this kind of thing again.

In fact, the real big powers would never do such a thing.

Because the backlash is too great.

Especially when encountering the kind of ruthless character who is very good at forbearance, it is easy to be deceived by the other party signing a blood contract first, and then he finds an opportunity from the inside to risk death to launch a fatal blow to the forces that enslave him.

If it was the Zhou family cultivating in the Boundless Sand Sea Immortal Realm, whoever dared to do such a thing without their consent, Zhou Yang would definitely impose heavy penalties on them, or even abolish their cultivation.

But the situation of the Zhou family here in the extreme west is too special.

Zhou Yang also believed that as long as there was a little way, if he was not forced to a dead end, Zhou Tongyue would definitely not want to do such a chilling thing to the monks of his own clan.

He could even imagine Zhou Tongyue's mood at that time.

The two juniors who he cultivated single-handedly suddenly betrayed the family and left, this betrayal was undoubtedly two stabs in Zhou Tongyue's chest, which made him painful and angry.

And because of the betrayal of these two juniors, the other juniors are also fluctuating and ready to move. dm

In the face of this situation, if Zhou Tongyue does not use ruthless means to stabilize people's hearts, I am afraid that the family that has finally improved will fall apart immediately.

"Actually, the person who gave you this idea is Li Hong!"

"Although you Zhou Tongyue are bold, you have grown up in the family since you were a child, how could you think of such a vicious idea all of a sudden?"

"You said that you killed those two traitors with your own hands, I believe it, but if you say that these ideas are your own thoughts, you are fooling my ancestors, my wisdom!"

After Zhou Yang stared at Zhou Tongyue for a long time, his eyes turned to Li Hong with a complicated face on the side, and he sneered and told the truth of the matter.

"No ......"

Zhou Tongyue lowered his head, and wanted to try to quibble.

But Li Hong had already knelt on the ground with a "poof" at this time, and kowtowed to Zhou Yang to plead guilty: "The ancestor is as wise as a torch, this matter is indeed the idea of the younger generation to the head of the family, and those two traitors are also designed by the younger generation to let their relatives deceive them, if the ancestor wants to punish the crime, please also punish the younger generation, don't wronged the family master!"

Seeing this, Zhou Tongyue's face changed, and he also knelt on the ground and kowtowed: "Ancestor Mingjian, although the idea was made by Li Hong, it was also implemented with the consent of his grandson, and if he wants to be guilty, his grandson also has a share!"

When Zhou Yang saw this scene, he was both pleased with the brotherhood of the two, but also a little annoyed by the cleverness of the two.

How could he not know what Zhou Tongyue meant, now the Zhou family branch here in Cangyuan Immortal City is Zhou Tongyue and Li Hong are in charge, if he abolishes these two people and imposes heavy penalties, it will not only be of no benefit to the Zhou family branch on his control side, but may expose his own existence.

Of course, it doesn't necessarily mean how bad the two of them are in doing this, it's just human nature to want to protect themselves.

Thinking of this, Zhou Yang couldn't help but shake his head, waved his hand, and played a wave of mana to help the two of them up, and then said:

"Get up, Ancestor, I didn't say I was going to punish you. ”

"Your approach to this matter is indeed inappropriate, but according to the situation at the time you said, it cannot be said that it is wrong to choose this approach, you should do extraordinary things in extraordinary times, and I am not an unreasonable person. ”

"But since I'm here, Ancestor, this practice will not be practiced in the future. ”

Hearing his words, Zhou Tongyue and Li Hong were relieved in their hearts, knowing that this pass had finally passed.

In fact, after they did this kind of thing, they discussed together how to deal with the interrogation of the family side in the future, and in the end, Li Hong concluded that as long as Zhou Yang, the ancestor of the family, was present, they would definitely not be severely punished for this incident.

Now it seems that everything is as expected, which makes Zhou Tongyue admire this long-time partner even more.

"But Ancestor, if you don't use this approach, how can you make those family juniors loyal to the family with all their hearts? The family here can't offer any lucrative conditions to win them over, and the situation here is also different from the Boundless Sand Sea Cultivation Immortal Realm, after they leave the family, there are many better choices!"

Li Hong looked at Zhou Yang with blazing eyes and said, he seemed to have realized something, and his eyes were full of anticipation.

Seeing this, Zhou Yang couldn't help but smile faintly and said: "You don't have to worry about this, since I have come to see you, Ancestor, I naturally have a way to solve this matter, and you don't have to be tied up in the future, you can completely let go of your hands and feet to do things, and do things openly under the banner of the Zhou family!"

What the?

Although when Zhou Yang summoned the two of them to come over to meet, Li Hong already had some conjectures in his heart, and at this time, he was also shocked when he heard Zhou Yang's domineering words.

He looked at Zhou Yang with a shocked expression, and couldn't help but ask: "Didn't the ancestor find a way to cancel the wanted notice for you by the [Backlight Alliance]?" Just forgive the juniors for being rude, the wanted warrant for you by the [Backlight Alliance] was issued by Guo Jinhong's old monster himself, with his identity, no one should be able to force him to cancel the wanted warrant, right?"

Because of Zhou Yang and Guo Jinhong's holiday, over the years, Li Hong has also paid special attention to inquiring about some news about Haoyangzong and Guo Jinhong.

Although due to the level of cultivation, he couldn't find out any really secret news, judging from the news he learned, he also knew that Guo Jinhong would definitely not take the initiative to cancel the "wanted warrant" for Zhou Yang.

And although he was smart, he would never have imagined, or dare not think that Zhou Yang would be able to kill Guo Jinhong, a Yuanying monk!

Regarding the killing of Guo Jinhong, before the matter was implemented, Zhou Yang would definitely not reveal anything to Li Hong and the others.

So in the face of Li Hong's inquiry, he just waved his hand and said: "I have my own way to do this, you don't need to inquire, at most two or three years, you can stand up and walk openly." ”

"Yes, juniors understand. ”

With a pang in his heart, Li Hong hurriedly stopped inquiring about the matter.

He is a smart person, and he has realized from Zhou Yang's words that there will be a big change in the far west next, and this kind of big change is not something that a little shrimp like him can participate in.

Zhou Yang liked a sensible person like him who knew how to advance and retreat, and couldn't help but nod with satisfaction when he saw this, and then changed his words and said: "You have been in Cangyuan Immortal City for a long time, do you know what is the current situation of Cangyuan Sanren Li Cangyuan? How long can he live?"

Before he was caught by the "Heavenly Demon Corpse King", he knew that the remaining life of Li Cangyuan, the "Cangyuan Sanren", was only less than a hundred years, and now more than 80 years have passed, and I am afraid that this person will run out of oil and dry up.

If it hadn't been for the original incident, maybe he would have taken over the ruling power of Cangyuan Immortal City from the hands of Li Cangyuan, the "Cangyuan Sanren", and made the Zhou family officially a member of the Far West.

"Back to the ancestor, the situation of Senior Li has been tightly sealed by the Li family, and no one knows how long he will live, or if he has been seated!"

"In recent years, because of this incident, there has been an undercurrent surging in the entire Cangyuan Immortal City, and the monks of the deputy city lord Geng Zhong's family have begun to seize the properties and positions that originally belonged to the city lord's family of monks, and our Zhou family has been driven out of some industries by them because of walking with Li Mubai's predecessors, and even a few people have been injured by them!"

"What's even more worrying is that we haven't seen Li Mubai's predecessors for half a year, and we have been blocked by the Li family's people several times to see us, and some of the elite children of the Li family and some talented juniors have already left Cangyuan Immortal City and don't know where to go!"

While answering Zhou Yang's words, Li Hong cautiously peeked at Zhou Yang's face, and stopped talking.

After Zhou Yang found out about his small action, he couldn't help but smile at him and said, "If you have anything to say, you don't have to hold it in your stomach." ”

"Yes, Ancestor Mingjian, the younger generation thinks that if our Zhou family can walk openly and openly in the extreme west in the future, there will always be a piece of our own fundamental land, and the Cangyuan Immortal City, which is in turmoil and facing a change of master, isn't it just right?"

"Of course, this matter has to be decided by you, Ancestor, Geng Zhong is now a third-layer monk of Jindan, if there is no Ancestor, these little shrimps of ours are not enough for him to slap in the face!"

After Li Hong finished his thoughts in one breath, he couldn't help but look at Zhou Yang expectantly, his eyes full of eagerness.

He is an ambitious and capable person, even if there is not much longevity left in the rest of his life, he still wants to develop the Cangyuan Immortal City Zhou family into a powerful family while he is still alive, and let his spirit card after death occupy a prominent position in the family ancestral hall here.

If the Zhou family could enter Cangyuan Immortal City while he was alive and become the master of this land that he had struggled for hundreds of years, he would really die without regrets!

"How dare you think of it!"

"A ninth-layer foundation building monk, a foundation building family, and a Jindan period monk, and also dare to plan for the position of the city lord of Cangyuan Immortal City, aren't you afraid that you will take too big a step and get to the egg?"

Zhou Yang looked at Li Hong, who was looking at him with an eagerly expectant face, and couldn't help laughing, but he also admired this guy's courage.

This reminded him of the first time he saw Li Hong, when Li Hong was still a ninth-level monk who practiced qi, and he came for the "Treasure Hunting Conference" held by the Zhou family, and his performance in the martial arts competition at that time was also full of courage, courage and strategy.

When Li Hong heard what he said, he immediately knew that he was not unintentional, and hurriedly flattered him and said: "If you didn't come, the younger generation would naturally not dare to have this guts, but since the ancestor is here, the courage of the younger generation will also come out." ”

After patting Zhou Yang like this, he had the courage to say: "What's more, Ancestor, I'm afraid you also know that when Aunt Guangxiang's grandmother and Li Mubai's predecessor became a Taoist couple, it was the advice given to her by the juniors, if it weren't for Guo Jinhong's old monster inserting a lever, Ancestor, I'm afraid you would have led our Zhou family to become the master of Cangyuan Immortal City!"

When Zhou Yang heard this, he couldn't help but smile and said: "Well, since you have talked about this, I will not hide it from you, this time I came to the extreme west, Ancestor, I do have the idea of helping you enter Cangyuan Immortal City, and in order to be famous, this time Ancestor I brought Guangxiang and their brothers and sisters." ”

When Li Hong heard this, he couldn't help but say loudly with joy: "In this way, it will be a big thing!"

Looking at Zhou Tongyue again, he was also ecstatic, with a happy look on his face.

"Don't be busy with happiness first, Guangxiang her relationship with Lao Zu and me, Guo Jinhong and Geng Zhong are all clear, so now she can't appear in public to let people know, the next thing you have to do is to help her cover up and hide her identity, and find out the real situation of Cangyuan Sanren from Li Mubai. ”

"If the Cangyuan Sanren have really been seated, then you must persuade Li Mubai and Guangxiang and his wife to leave Cangyuan Immortal City, and then temporarily give up everything and move to another safe place to take refuge for a period of time, and when the matter on my side is done, when I can help, I will take you back to Cangyuan Immortal City!"

Zhou Yang calmly poured cold water on the two of them, explaining the specific situation clearly, afraid that the two of them would be too excited and ruin the big thing.

Hearing his words, the two of them really calmed down a lot.

Then the two glanced at each other, and when Li Hong said loudly: "Ancestor rest assured, this matter will be handed over to the juniors to handle it, and the juniors will definitely assist Aunt Guangxiang and Grandmother to handle this matter well, and wait for the day when the ancestor will make a move!"

"Do this well, and give you a chance to storm the Purple Mansion!"

Zhou Yang stared at the two of them and said something that surprised and delighted the two.